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the Uft to ftir up a party fpirit at
this p r c‘tnt moment, but in propor
tion as we will avoid this, we will
repel any fuch charges agair.ft our
felves, and will ever (peak of the
advocercs fsr Britain as they deferve,
and the advocates for fubvtijjhit to
Britain, in whatever maleic they
attsmpt to hide.— Lex. Reft
Frozn the City Gr.zette.
UPPER CANADA.
By the latcjt accounts we have re
cc oed, it appears that Gen. Hull, n't
allive and experienced officer , has
embodied an army c ato 5,000 ef
fiSi ive men, completely armed and
and fciplined, who wait only for orders
to march and take pajfcjfion of Upper
Canada. IVc prefume tens will he the
firjl territorial blow that will he [track,
again fl Great Britain, and from its
deficiency i.i psint .ft military Jlrengib,
it will fall an ecify prey to the activity
and %'gilance of theU. States troops.
Ft om the contiguity of fituation be
tween Upper Canada and the country
/• ooited by varLus tribes of fivages,
j: ono the difpofitioK evidenced by the
Britifh in furniflAng arms and ammu
nition to theft remorjelefs wretches ,
And from the co-operation which las
lately been ft; reded them in their late
inhuman murders, it becomes an oh jell
cf imperious nccejjity that the United
Stales foould take immediate meafures
to poffefs themfdves cf this portion of
Briajh Colonies in North America.
A flour t typographical defer ip: ion of
Upper Canada will mi be conjidered
ufelefs at the prefent crifis. Canada
•was divided into Upper and Lower
Provinces, by an aj of Parliament,
in the 14 th year ef Geerge 111. Up
per Cana&u is bounded to the ea ft ward
by tie United States , in a line from
the 45 th degree latitude, along
the middle of the river Iroquois into
Lake Ontario , and fo in various lines
to Lakes E ie, Superior, Huron, Long
\,ake, Lake of ive Woods, from the
north-weft ern point cf which it takes a
a well war and dire 11 ten to the river
Mffiffippi. to thg wefward and to
the northward, weft of the Miffiffippi,
its bouxdanes hate been vaguely de
fined. To the north ward it is bound
ed by Hudfen's Bay the \<)tb parallel
of north latitude , extending due weft
indefinitely. Upper Canada is ccnfi
dered the moft temperate climate as
well as the moft fertile foil, belonging
to the Brilfjb in that quarter. The
rapid improvements in agriculture and
the advancement of manufactures, are
jutly attributed to the atlivity and
enter prize of the American farmers j
who, from grants of Crown Lands,
have been induced to fettle in great
numbers in that Province Indeed
Upper Canada would be configured as
a territory belonging to the U. States,
from the hnmenje difference which ex
ifts between the ir.duhy of its inhabi
tants and tbofie from Lower Canada
from their manna s, habits and ap
pearance—and from the value of their
farms and the luxurious appearance of
their crops. Several Scotch fettle
on ents are found there, vthofe farms
are in a high ft ate of cultivation. —
Upper Canada is divided into nineteen
counties. Fork the feat of govern
ment, is in about 43 degrees and 33
niiMU.ee of north latitude. It is hand
fome/y laid out , and has an excellent
harbor, which difebarges its waters
from the Don and Humber into Lake
Outvie, within 1 miles of the city. —
Fork is furnijhed with commodious
Block Houfes, Arjenal, BSc. which are
principally built cn a peninfula called
Gibraltar Point. Vejfels of all fixes
may be built here. Several Britifb
vrfils of war have already been finijb
ea at this point, which navigate On
tario.
Kingston, di the beau of the Si.
Lawrence, may be cotifidered as the
next important town in Upper Canada.
It is fituated in 44 degrees and eight
minutes of north latitude, and in 75
degrees 44 minutes of weft longitude.
It has a barracks for treeps, with
feveral ftere and block houfes. The
King’s fljips winter at this place, and
like wife all the batteanx which navi
gate the St. Lawrence and convey
military fteres from Montreal. In
1804 the Briiifh had but three or
four vejfels of war, carrying from 10
to 10 guns ; the number we believe is
in creeled to ten, the command cf which
h given to a Commodore, Ihe mili
tary force and power of Upper Canada
ers objects of the leafl attention .—
Toff effing no important point or key to
the province, the forts and olkr* ar
mkments are fca'lered in various di
rections ; and tons of them pojffts ,‘uf
ficicnt ftrenglh and importance to hold
out a gain ft a fuperitr and active force,
fort Malden is the fir ft point of any
‘importance to which the activity and
coin ago of the Americans will be di
rected. Fort George and the fort at
Niagara are in a like manner weak
and inefficient . Tofubdue Upper Ca
nada with little loft, will demand an
effectual force, whole operations king
directed to many points, will have to
be prompt and deciftve to injure Juc
cefs. All enterprises wherein the
Subjugation of a country is contemplated
fhculd be carried on with little or no
delay, when once undertaken. Milt
ta y operations if correctly planned,
wiil generally prove faccsfsfil ; and
from the Situation of Upper Canada,
no dab / exijls falling immediately into
our hands, ‘if the fora is of Sufficient
magnitude and conduced by experi
enced officers. It is effenCtally necef
jary that Upper Canada font Id be the
firJi cbjctl of attack, in order to exter
minate, at ene bold, determined cud
dec'five blow, the horde ft remorfelrfs
favages and their inhuman abettors,
whefe muff acres and barbarous mar
decs have lacerated the feeling heart ,
and aroufed the vengeance of an injured
country.
From the N. T. Public Advsrtifcr.
TRUCKLING BASENESS.
It appears from a letter which has
been received by 1 federal gentle
man in this city, per the fouthern
maiT this morning, that
On Friday cvenirg laft the fede
ral members of congrcfs held a
caucus j when after deep delibera
tion, they made a formal communi
cation to Mr. Filler, the Britilh
ir.inifter.
The purport of the difgrarefu!
mrlngr is unprecedented by al) the
former truckling? of federaiilm to
England; it humbly rcqudb the
Briiifh minifti.-i avc the Bniifti
flßinifter, to come forward without
delay, if he hss any means in his
power, to avert the calamity of
war ?
That if he did not, they {houid
be reduced to the ncccffiry of fup
porting the government of the U.
States—and that iv it was obliged to
rciort to a war, they would be com
pelled to affent to the meafure and
give it their fupport.
The minority, at the fame time
declared, that there was no fuch
thing as a Britifh party in Congrefs.
To all which, Mr. Fofter was moft
graciouflr pleafed to reply—That
he Ihould think of what could be
done for them immediately. And,
in the ufual courteous ftvie of hy
pocrify and intrigue, he was pleafed
to give them an explanitory eluci
dation of the prince regent’s de
claration
Cumment on the preceding is un
neccffary. Indignation muff out
ftrip all explanation. The feelirgs
and the voice of the nation will in
the event elicit an anfwer and a pu
nifhmect for the degeneracy of the
?.£t, which will correfpcod with the
magnitude of the infamy which nuift
forever furround it. It is contrary
to the ccnftitution—it is di/srace
ful to the fpirit of cur laws—-it is
unwarrantable as it is an afiumption
of the presidential functions—it a
rr.ounts to a ftrong fufpicion of
treachery to the country, 2nd z
breach of legiflative truft—& how
ever they may affcf! a ‘denial cf
partiality to England, it proves the
exiftenre of a dangerous body cf
men, who loft to every feeling of
patriotifm, would facrifice the pub
lic good to petty paltry psfßons and
Britifh ioterefts.
GEORGIA EXPRESS.
athehsTj ULYT7.
THE prHcn Number completes
the 4fh Volume of the Georgia
Express. The Editors, while they
return their grateful thanks to thofc
of their iubicribera who have been
punctual in difehargmg their fmr.ll
dues, would bs doing injuflicc 10
thofe fijbfcribers, and to theafelvcs,
were they to omit noticing defaul
ters. The fmall amount due from
ra-.h fuhfcribir, would not, we
fondly hope 3 lubjeft him to any in
convenience by the difeharge of it—
wnilft, thofe fmall pittances, taken
in the aggregate, would be of efiend
al itrvic* to the Editors, and ena
ble them, in cneir turn, to meet
pr effing demands which are gain ft
the no. Fur cur Paper Sc Ink, we are
obliged to advance the CASH—in
Gdt, they car.notbr gotten without.
We truft, therefore, that we ihall
not fubjtct ourfelvrs to the impu
tation of being tight on our Debt
ors, when we earr.eftly entreat them
pay us our money, with as much
dfpatch as rheir own convenience will
permit —as rrc can allure them that
our necejfities are great, alrnoft in
the extreme. (Cfft Thnfe gentle
men who live at a di?.ence, and will
probably vifi Athens at Commence
ment, arc rslpcdiLlly informed,
that their accounts wdl be made out
on cr before that time—when we
anticipate the plecfure ©f rcceif :• g
them.
In the prefect fuuation of our
country, it is that the Peo
ple firm'd be put in pcflVffion of
the ear lit ft and nr ft corredl infor
mation, both with refpedt ro our Fo
re’gn and Dcmeftic Affairs. To
accomplifh this defrablc end, fhall
be the conftant and ardert endeavor
of the Editors—and in fo far as we
are fuccefsful, we hope for the con
tinued patronage cf a generous pub
lic. When our endeavors to ad
vance the beft inte'efts of the Re
public fhall ce&fe, then we fhall not
expert to receive , neither fliall we
crave, (as we (houid deem ©urfeives
undderving) the patronage of Free
men.
Major Hyde, of Jarkfen
county, who paflcd through Wat
kinfville cn Saturday laft, direct:
from Eaft-Florida, informs, that
the American Army before Auguf
tsne were in fisc fpirits, and that
he had not the fmalleft doubt but
that that Fort had, e’tr this, fur
rendered to American valor.
SIGNS oFtHE TIMES.
ON Tbitrjdty the ytb inf. tbs Mi
litia of Oglethorpe county vsere pa
raded, for the fu r pojs of furnifloivg
Ibsir quota of the 100,000 called for
by the General Government. fVe are
injormed, (and with plea jure we ft at s
it) that a Majority of the Captains
Companies furnijhed more than three
times the number required-—feme of
•which Volunteered cn mafic— But, cs
our informant tbferved, it ought not
to be left unrecorded, that one or two
of the companies were deficient in nia
pifefting their Patriotifm, and fub
mitled to a Draft \-~lVe would not,
by any nears, he underfeed by the a
b*vc, as infinuaiingfkat the county ofh
Oglethorpe is dtfcier.t in palriotiftat—
on the contrary, we would cite, in
ccntradidiion to ary fuch irfin nation,
the uni for n> ly Re 9 uL! ica n V 6 legati
on which that county has returned to
cur Stale Leffilature. But tic will,
and we believe jiifily too, attribute this
lack f Fat not! fm, at this particu
lar time, to the indv.ftry with which
the enemies of Re public a Ayr. have]
circulated repsrts (LIES’ rather) as
to the views and intentions of the
G suer cl Go vent incut .
On Saturday laft, the Militia of
this county convened at VGctkirfivillr,
fir the fame purpoje as thofe of Ogle
thorpe Our fil/jcv citizens in this
county ted, exhibited a degree of Pat
riotifm worthy of Freemen. Theref
was NO DRAFT, except for the’
furptfe of after taming who fhculd
remain. The Regiment was drawn
up in proper order——when the purple
of the Cotrscntisn was made known t*
tbs Ssldisry by the commanding Off
ers-—and cn th: word being given, fer
theft who intended to Volunteer
their fcrvices, to advance fix paces ,
a large proportion of them were /ten
in motion. The fie Hags ft thofe wb*
kept their pdfs, ere beft known ta
themfdves —-as for thofe who for
ward hi vindication of tkar country's
rights , we prefume they felt , in all
its fervor,, the warm glow cf real
Patriotifm.
The fcUowirr rsntkmen tatrietical
ly Volunteered their Services, as Cam
man ders :— ■ Captains, Starnes, Ref
fetcr, Cabell, Boyle, Steward, Eafly
Martvndele. Lieutenants, Cary and
Trammell — Enfigns, Rabcrtfen and
Weed. Starnes, Cary and Rebcrtfon
were cheftn.
A Correspondent tveuld h gratified
tc knew, what was thf Experien e
riven in Ly William J. Hobby , tn hip
late ccaverftrm from TORYISM w
PAT RIOT DM ? It L cuft&mary
with theft nvbe leave off Sir, and em
brace Chrifemtv, te make known,
publicly, (be stufts which baDe in
duced them to the change If Mr.
Hobby does not give good andJvjficitnt
reaftvs fir renouncing his 1 DRY
principles id embracing the TRUTH
it is to be feared that bis converfian it,
not REAL.
THE IVAR BEGAN.
New-York, June 29.
A BATTLE—By the fafter.gers in
a packet which arrived here yefterday
morning from Rhode Ifiand, we have
received the pleafing intelligence, that 1
a Battle tcck place or Tuefdety after
neon, cjf the Vineyard, between fix
cr eight vejfels ft kVar, which la fled
two and a half hours ; after which a
frigate with the loft cf all Free mofts?,
was headed fir Newport, R. /. which
we have ns doubt is the Bdvidere, as
that vejfel, with a brig ft war, ana
an American Trip, perhaps th; Gene
ral Gates, their prize, were eft
Sleek Ifiand, on Men day.
It is a fa£t, honor;- je to Com
modore Rogers and his crew, thac Y
on receiving his orders he fuenmon
neal them, and informed them that
War was"declared agvrft England
—m the fame time adding, that if