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uiFers at difterfnt times. He offer ed Mr. H imes sco dollars and a hattdiomc prefent to vote for the bill, a few minutes before he voted on the firft enabled claufe ; to Mr. Cole he off red 300 dollars to vote for it. Martin’s free and voluntary examination taken before Jullice Merchant, and Juftice Cai field, was aifo given in evidence ; that at the instance and requelt of —he had made corrupt overtures to no i-efs than fix members of the AlFem bly including Me firs. Holmes ad Cos!;. Mr. Foot his counfd feized on the circumftance ftated by the witnefics &c alfo in the examination, that Martin proraifed the offers, with ft if they could fee it right to vote for the bill then they fhould receive the emoluments he held our,” and he infifted that this quali fication prevented the offers from being criminal. He alfo contended that members of the Legfhture were not inhibited from voting in cafes where they expcCted to derive an intereft from their votes, and he inveighed againft former inftances cf equally improper conduct in members and others; he relied much on the exemplary piety and mor ality ef the defendant, as proved by feveral of the witnefies. [!!!] Mr. Woodworth, who aClcrd in behalf of the ftate, denied the poii tions, and confidcred the ca r e too plain for difcuflwn. I he charge of the prefidiug judge was full and decided ; he ftated to the jury the heinioufnefs of the of fence, that it (truck at all our fccu riry far life, liberty and proper v } that the qualification of the pr ff. r of bribes “if they could fee it right,” was a mere device to gild the hair, that a bribe thus ffred was equally corrupt, becaufe the re ward eld out was the very mean to make the party attempted to be bribed, fee it right * and that it pro duced the fame effect in influencing the vote of members; that the two witnelfes were unimpeached, cor roborated by the defendant’s volun tary ccnfeflion, and that if the jury believed the witnefies and the de fendant’s own confcffion, they could not htfitate. That the defendant’s former goodnefs of character would not avail him againft thefe united proofs; and that if the defendant was to be believed, he had been (educed to the perpetration of the (Fences, but if fo, he was equally ameanablc to the law. The jury retired, and in abou* 15 minutes returned with • verdidt of GUILTY. A full report of rhis interfiling trial is expelled to be laid before the public. It is the fi ft convic tion u > rr the of the yih of Apr?! 1805. Louisville, (Ken ) April 17. Indian Heflilities —at our doors l! Mr. Hinton, who lived a few miles below Vallonia, or the place long known by the name of the ct French Store,” n Driftwood, fork of White river, (I. TANARUS.) went out on Thurfday morning (7th inft.) after his horfe—rNot returning as Toon as was expefted, his brother and brother in-law went in quell of him, and difeovered horfe and Indi an tracks—they returned, gave the alarm, raifed a party, went out, and explored the woods until Saturday morning, when they found the b-dy cf Mr. Hinton King in the river, he having fceen (h t thro* the head, tomahawked, icalped and ftiipped. Two vour g men by the name of Rrogrrs, mifli g from the fame neighborhood, were fuppofed to have (hared a fimdar fate, but have fince returned. Col. Bnrhoiomew and a company of upwards of fort/, have gone f;om Ch:. reft on, and major or capt. Beck, ?.nd his com pany from Harrifon county, out to Driftwood. Col. Robifon, [fuc cefifor of col. Bartholomew, rtlign ed,] has received orders from Gbv. Harrifon to hold the militia in rra dinefs to march at a moment's warning.—Maj. Brown will leave Charirfton on Monday next, for Fort Knox—-he has accepted a lieu tenancy in capt. Barker’s company of Rangers, who arc ro range from Fort Knox to Fort Harrifon. By a gentleman dire# from Vin cennes, on whom reliance ma) be placed, we have the following infor mation :—An exprefs arrived to Gov. Harrifon on Sunday morning, with the intelligence that (he Indians, had recently burnt a houfe on the N. W. fide of the Wabafh about 30 miles from V ocennes.— * The exprefi ftated, lavs our infor mant, that a young man who lived about the houfe was fe'-n murdered in the yard. The family, which confided of women and children, were gone, not known whither— perhaps taken pnhirers. He like wife adds, ‘hat on his re turn (Monday lafl,) he met an tx prefs going on to the Governor, with intelligence, that a man was lately Fund killed aud attempted to be thrown into Driftwood, fork of White river, but wa* longed, and that two men were m fling out of the fculemenr, who had not been heard of for three davs. * “GFOKGLA^RHKiS" I3 '” TjmE?Ts,TuNiy ,J ~ WE are informed, by a gentle man who arrived in this neighbor hood laft week, that a few weeks pad, as Arthur Lott, Eq was on his wav to B g*v , he was inhuman ly MUDERED by a party of Creek ind ; ans, who were in ambufh befide the road. Mr. Lott was an agrd and rcfpeCtabie citizen of this ftate, and has been, feveral years a member of our Lrgiflarure. Our informant adds, that Col. Hawkins had fent in to Gov. Mitchell fur aid -—as the Indians had become fo ve ry troublefome, it was nectfLrv to quell them by force—friendly mea fures having failed cf the dtfired tffcCt. WE are plt aitu to witnefs the very honorable manner in which the Grand Jury of this county have noticed the Univerfity of this date. We think it a duty, which every friend to Literature owes his fellow citizens, to circulate the fenciments of Grand Jury as extenfiwely as pi Bible—for this purpofe, we would requeft our Typographical brethren to infert the Prefentment relating to this inftitution—as we can allure them, from our own knowledge, that the ftacement is not exaggerat ed. Qfj* THE Nortitem Mail had mi arrived when this paper was put to pre/s. PRESENTMENTS Of the Grand Jury for the county of Clarke . WE the Grand Jury for the coun ty of Clark, do make the follow ing Preferments, to wit: 1. We find upon examination of the countv Funds, as ftated by the Comm fli >ners, the fura of Two Thoufand Eight Hundred & Nine ty Eight Dollars Ninety Five and one foarth Cents, due the county from Different perlons, and we re commend to the Inferior Ccurt to take the mod fpeedy method to colic# the fame. •2. Wt prefcr.t as a grievance, that the feveral Solicitors hereto fere (ag r ecabiy ro a report of the Comm (Boners to infpedt the Coun ty Fundi) have negl died ro profs cute the feveral pedons impeached in behalf of the State, by which the county funds are not mcreaied according to the true intent and meaning of the law. 3 We pry fent Gersrge Harper and Sherwood Harper for flopping the road leading from this co M‘- Fall’s Ford, on the Middle Oconee —Wirnefffs, James Haves, James Langford, W liiam Dyfon, and Richard S. Eafley. 4. We prefect as a grievance that thr laft Lcg-flature did pafs a law, aurhonfing the Inferior Court of this county ro levy a tax for the purpofe of building bridges, and regret that the Inferior Court did levy or authorise the collection of the fame, and hope that the extra tax will be placed to the credit of the rax cf next year. 5. Ii is with the greatfft fatisfac tion vnreir gnize the great utility the Univc fiiy of this ftate is like to be to our country —the number of Students has cordiderably in creafed of la'f, notwithftanding the prrfiure of tne times—from cum in n report, & the knowledge fume o f us have of the ftcdl and dili gence of the P'cfident and Profef fors, from the Arid rules of moral ity obferved ad inculcated in col legfi from the zral with which the prefenc Board of 1 ruftees appear to enter on the duties of their office, together with the tftabiiflied char acter of the fuuaiion, in point of heaFh, we flatter ourfdves that the inflitution, in a (Fort time, will vie with any on the Continent and we hope the enfuingLegifisrure will patronize the Inflitution in a way that may place it in circumttancc3 Ratable to Its great uritity. HOPE HULL, Foreman . May 28, 1812. 6. Came Peter Williamfon, Efq. perfonally before us, and defired us to recommend fume proper and fit perfon in his place, as commiflion er t© examine the ftate of the coun ty funds—in conformity thereto we have recommended co his Honor Judge Greflum to appoint John H. Lowe. We highly approbate the con duct of his Honor Judge Grdham during the prefrnt Term. We alfo requeft that thefe our Prelentmeats be publifhed in the Georgia Exprefs. 1. Hope Hull, Foreman , 2. Wdi amfon C. Reefe, 3 John H. Lojve, 4. Peter Randolph., 5. Warren Stone, 6. Ifaac Suttles, 7. Richard W. Oats^ 8. Thomas Booth, 9. Richard Cox, 10. Richard S. Eafley, jf. James Langfard, 12. Stevens Thomas, 13. James Hayes, S4 John Smith, R. H. 15. Richard Stewart, 16. William M'tchell, 17. Roderick Eally, 19. Harrifon Jones, 10. Jofeph Eaft, 21. Benjamin M‘Cree. PROTEST. WE, whofe names are hereunto annexed, being members of the Grand Jury, do Protest againft the Prefentment that rclpefts the tax laid on this county, for the burpofe of building Bridges—believing that it is not in the pewer of the court to refeind their own order, or ap propriate the monies already col itcicd, 01 mat ft.a;, cci.tdlcd, ft*-- that exprefs purpole, in any other way than as the law direds. 1. Hope Hull, 2. Thomas Booth, 3. Stevens Thomas, 4. Ifaac Suttles, 5. Jofeph F.aft, 6. William Mitchell, 7. Hanifon Jones, 8. WilliamlonC. Reefe, 9. James Largford, 10. Richard Cox, A true copy from the Minutes—Gi ven under my band at office t this 2%tb cf May y 1812. STERLING ELDER, C. S. C. C. C. * PR OFO S ALS For Publifhing by N. Childers, fo Miiledgeville, a Pamphlet, to be entitled, Arguments , for and again and the RIGHT OF INSTRUCTION, By the Legiflatures of the feveral flutes to their Senators in Con grefs—Read before the Le giflature of Virginia , at the Seffion of By Benj. Watkins Leigh, and Chas. Fenton Mercer, E(qs. Members of the Virginia Legiflature . The importance of the prin ciples canvaffed in the pages cf this work, and its vital connexion with the genius of the Rcprcfcntatsve Syftem, is the beft opology for of fering it to the patronage of the public.—To facilitate an inveftiga fion of its merits, by exhibiting m a ccndenfed view, the arguments pro and con , is the object of the Publilher in ifiuing thefe propnjals. Proceeding upon the axiom, that all legitimate power is derived from the People, as the Political Sove reigns of the Nation—-and that, that power !s by them delegated to their immediate Representatives In the State Legiflatures, in return for civil and political protection—it is obvious, without argument, that the conftitucional exprefTion of rhe will of the Legiflature, is ipfo fatte an expreffion of the People's Will. “ Out of this principle in the poli tical compa#, ariles the following important queftions: I—-Have1 —-Have the Legiflatures of the feveral States, the right, on any oc caflony to inftru# their Senators in Coi grefs? 2 —Are the Senators, thus i’nflruc ted, bound to obey ? Thefe queftior-s are ablv difculT* ed in the production before us.— The arguments on either fide, are deduced from the mod approved authorities on government —arrang- ed with order and pcrfpicuity—a id the conclufions inferred therefrom, ingenioufly and logically drawn. The Legiflature of Virginia, a ware of their refponfibtlity to their conftituents, were fo forcibly im prefled with the importance of the fubjeCt, that they adopted the prin ciple and aCted upon it. The prin ciple is equally important to every ftate in the Union. If they have the right, ccnfti'cutionally guaran teed to them, it is their duty to ex ereife it when occafion require!—if they have not the right, it is impor tant to them to know it. The work will be potto Prefafo foon as a fuffioient number of Sub feribers are obtained to defray the expences of publication. It will contain about forty pages, oCtavo— will be printed on good paper, and on fmali type, and delivered tofub feribera at FIF i Y CENTS per copy. (Cjr* Subjcripiions for the above re* crivib at this office.