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For the GiO'gia f.
FeI.L TIvCiTIZEK*,
“i iA V Qpr'cli ion re r -•
feot v.’nr was no uru xu< dt - : . , J
whi h is me ‘•> : • latneni 1 ha*
re b i- dreaded c u> u A ob
iStvadons as may aid in ftrei gfhen-
Lg the timid, and caufng the un
wary to wa:ch. That tuere tre
Briti h friends in America,
none will d*my—that fume of them
h ive le(s criminal t ian ot: rs,
adipg only Tom tnifguided judge
ments, lam will!-g to rltuu ; b;.ft
charity kno*s no apology fur ap
portion at this h*c period. Am
rca contending for the refpeft of
the Jaws of nations has heretofore
b-rn complained of ; if now, pro
v,red to waft, fhe flhould enquire
into, and cfpcciaMv if flic den-,
old prerogatives of Britain, it w'il*,
I fuppoh*, amount to facribgcj but
if, in the eflublifhment of national
Law, rules have neaped the Nati
onal Convention more cvnfonani ro
the local filiation of England, than
ripsAful of the rights of other na
tion* or of man, and if time has ex
ploded, in-America, the regal oe
lief “ that regulations once entered
into t* e ever binding” —tod we
thus fee that fundamental errors,
tho’ of long Handing, become not
everlaHing ; furely t Americans
whom I sundress this will not fttro a
iacrilfgtous writing.
I mean, fellow-cuizens, to deny
the Britifb “mpoffihhty of exf atria *
turn. The mod prepoflcrous pie
fumption of all prepofterom king
doms is that of binding, fubj -£U to
owe allegiance during life: and the
sfllimptien equally prepotlerous to
require of other nations reff-Vt of a
rule that they themfelves talk more
of as a waiter for their local conve
niency* than as a law regarding th*
rights of man, As well nrght Bri
tain preferibe bound* to our Re
public in morerepreherfi.de terms,
as to fay we fliuuld not (in the mu ft
hopeful exert if* of our character)
open the foftering befom to p
-preffed man; or having extended
to and received the needy—-declare
in the energetic language of acti
on—a kind of fnatch, r catch as
catch can—it is ours to make prey
of what you have made Citizens.—
That the claimed r : ght to the alie
gjance of fubjeft* is as unnatural as
it is unufiia) will fuMcicittiy appear
by a view of the untaught brutes—
toe hiftory of the human family—
and by the realities of all moral law,
\vc difeover the courje of nature (.
the human 2s in the brute) puriuing
her young no longer than they can
ukfc care of thetniclves—and if foe
command at all, it is by the right 01
(duty in the parent, to fupport the
offspring till capable of fell govern
ment. Thus from fmail to great
things—the kingdom of Britain, if
Hie had the right of parental go
vernment, has only the limitced
i ight t# detain the ftbjelf that the
tamer has to detain the J'tn 3 and that
right for the nation’s conveniency
to do her fubjeßsz fervEe—and not
for the favorite conveniency cf her
fubjetts* fervice exalted. Widely !
indeed how widely different from
Briiifh debauchery ot national or
natural rights that pervertion of
Law which I, an American citizen,
am wiiib g to dilrtgard. And fiiaii
America forever, thus, be (horn of
that Ber.efirnt Character which fhe
Las long fine in aebghted words
pnr rrvrd—
“ H*t fir angers from e tboufand
Jh j r cs
m fell'd by tyranny to roam,
Sha V find a*r ; dfr abundant fores,
nobler anti a hay pier homed’
f 1 ’ *V h• ; ‘ bf TV- ft .•,*Orn*C:U l'?
’t is the betf in a Rs-.OWi -
fin Government. M?V t not ra
ther hope*r may we <jc even cv.-
p**cl > r pt-lerit diF*renpe, to
ob:>ge the old Kegb - *Gover.-ie)‘:r.t
of Britain not ogly to reftutt fu h
icitio. al rules qs a>c rea ! ly right - ,
but to convince h r that /uch
absurdities as her re 1 i flytnet i.i
natiot.nl *s may have f ii ‘d,
are n 1 ‘ j legally right, ad w If n o r ,
r anc lorg*r be reg diy re -
girded* M’ch Hs been fi and by
fi -it fh friends in As rrica of French
tr 6 jc in our b•. laracion of war
agiinft EcgUnd. The firnple fa 6k
betng known to F ance of
for a long titpe having confc'cl to
urjuft and ma-.h-, and umreritetd
outrages f ‘.ai Bri*a : m, will certain
ly fall (hurt In ■ ■ Ang on France
the criminally* of li*ch Urj :i\ de
mands, fuch unmetitted cc\rages.
Neither w*U the circumftatice of
France ( n the rhsrr^trr ef a Dic
tator) fugg.fti's o America the
v.trriftty ©f her r-fiftancs to'Bfkilh
depredation’s (a* it wUI fu a fh c©
joftfi ‘atiui for fr'k -depredation*)
bt any apology to the late Mafi'-
chufett* mcmoriai.fts, and fuch pru-
©pp ft - -.mi as feem
ingly, much r-t'her fight the e.cmy
of Brraio, than the enem? r.f Am;-;-
irict, Such int-real rpprfi k>n
known in the Rcvolut on u ider the
chara&cr of Toryifm—under the
re'gn of Adam*, w:; (ee tberr, affum
ing the name f>i F*deralift—under
the Bri f fti rt.’iftson of Hrary to fe
ver this e.” in, we fee th-*fln addred
ed The Er :r,ds of Br.tafn in A-*
mfrica;” and in the prefent war,
as juft as dv? K’ olunor, the o?
tn procure* the o(h r to fscure t he
freed*?* of man ~~w have -.sem in
this (j!?nc Bririfli chari&er by no
meant inferring c -irf-*T the
fadioa then gave crpcfirmn in tljflr
firugfe tc get, a id ate r,ow noify \n
the exertion ro keep, the free and
baafted character of America.—
That there fhould b“ rnund, in a
Pickering and in a Randolph, a
difpofttien ro ‘govern with unLmit
ted power, h not fbrprifc^g—bat
that fuch ambitious of a faSiion fhould
Ibccced in making a i Inferior Ta
lents believe it is r-ght Er thetn to
be governed as fubj ;6ts is indeed
aftOiiiftiing. fiuch delufory igno
rance i*, m i.he American character
however, to be lamented, aqd is the
more to be lamented, as it is uaftsr
tunate in a Republican Govern
ment. Bur, FfUow Citizens, tire
moft pleafing rtfi htion is, rha* tho’
we have nor. go and fenle exough ru
ban fn, eternally , from cur land iuca
Jeeis of dijfcntion, we have yer e
oougH to check trie growth of fuch
evil weeds, and render abortive ail
produftinn. Roufe then Ameri
can* ! be yeurfelvts 1 *;d ail we
have to dread fretr< ftich oppefifton
is an additions* ler£th of i he wa*- —
we have nothin* :□ ft*r sroiti their
number, and far left from the jujlice
of their dejtgvs.
CIl iZEN OF GEORGIA.
Extra?? of a letter from capt. Cooper
to Charles K. Mallory , cfa. lieute
nant Governor of Virginia.
“ I was yefterday in Hampton
with my troop, tazt place having
been evacuated in the mornteg by
the Rritifh — kST’ My blood ran cold
at what lJew and heard, Tce fe ot
diftreffttd inhabitants rinnicg up in
every dire&ich to coog up te us;
tcrv.s were (hrddiag ir. r; iy cor
ner—the infamous mof
fters, defiroyed even thing but the
homes, and (my pen is -iiidft un
willing to deterge it,) the women
were lavijhed by the abendy -< i jfi
arts. Great God ! my Ckar frit,
tan ymi fig jre jo ysUrjfcSf oir
H lm'pton females it z.-d * ;d rfse
ed w.th violence by thof* no; r is,
a ul'not a folirary American arm
prefent to a verge the hr w r -gs
T can lay no more of this.**
From the Britifib Fleet.
Whether the foHowmg article be
ftmi.-cfn :!a! or nor, do not know.
It has at kas an a’ • of authority a
bout it. It comes from what has been
deemed ( r, m.;h matters) art au
thentic'fource, and we mule hope*
for the honor of humanity, that it
tmzv be true. —Nat Intel.
From the Georgetown Federal Rep <.k -
licon.
The flatement of tire women of
H irnpton being violated by tne
Britifti, turns cut to be falfe. \
cotrefpodeaceupon tbar ftibje-51 a- 1
the pillage aid to n; vc been coxv- -
mwxd there, hss taken pla e b?
tween General Taylui zr J’Admiral
Warren. Sum- plunder appears to
hae been commit ted/ but it v?
confined to ;he Freiich tro ps - ro -
ployed. Adi Warren camp/rds*- -
h part of the Americafl ccntinu
ing to fire upon the ftrugglfrig cr-w.s
of ihc barges after th.-y were ftmk.
lc is fii-i, that it was the will ojf
molt of the land officers to rive uo
Crzncj but the ouircrs of
the navy determined to defend it at
all hazards. The Britifti aopear to
have been grofslv rn ft iformed as to .
the probable reft fiance cf iht pi .c*-,
plfia ihev mad attack.
Tbe*Britiffi carried away all the
hoifcs irom Hampton they cou'd
Cplleft, fur the purpofe of d;awing
rheir artillery, aa ;s laid
ma.** /!,)■ -
geUkgia M.rt£sv' 7 ’’ f
A'!'HEN 3, July sje
A d, m
The Ho life of Re prefent alive s has
faffed a Bill for Authorizing VK*
budding of a number of Badges, or.
Row Galleys } for the defence of lho”
(bores and watert’hfibe United titatrs.
and Bill for cutting eff the FdWe 11
intercourse now exiting With the ene
my has pajj and the Senate, and is now
bsfert the Houfe of Rep* efentafives.
The Bill for laying and colleSUng a
DireSt Tax within the United da * *
h*s faffed the Houfe of Representa
tives. This Bill propefes a DireSl
Tax of three millions of dollars to he
apportioned among the States refteSfa
tively. The quota of Georg a is
54 936 dollars 49 cents.
‘ibe Bills fo* Hying the Taxes are
its a train of iifeuffion.
Nothing new from the Creek Net-*
tion this week. A company cf Vo
lunteers is ralfing in 4ug tifia for the
purpofe cf going again fi the ba, Hie
Indians, and will be comp let e in $ few
days.
JVe uvdsrfiand , fays the Augufia
Mirror , that Col. Jack has ordered
the company of men at Bath, under
the command of enpt. Cunningham, to
march to Fort Hawkins. IVe alfo
learn that fever al companies from be
low arc ordered to that place immedi
ately. The Augufia Volunteer Ran
gers have made a tender of their fir
vices to the Governor , and art ready
to march at a moment's warding'.
The hilled on board she Chef ape ake
in the action wtth the Shannon, a
r.tou'ited to 47 — wounded 99 —13 of
whom Juice dead.
Ap- R ate Utter, received in this
Fty ;-R.-r * . . ,
that Sir J:cmts Tco ,us >.. .. ..
Itngy i'> c■’ r :k: n /
the /.akti *b*J -rrenroaStt
11 ■ ‘t*?'** ,-’f £.'• rp i,‘
t ngs i and ‘ts <n, • , ■■
proceed !i
l J* • • *•
new frigate <. sred tpfeii.
’ V I ;‘L : -* f ft,
C.,fef a letter ‘ >/;r <Tm a l
Dearborn i-S* -cfet.-.rv if V'dr
dated Hen ad . e- . Ears Gw i:
. yt-c 25.
slß—l have ■*u ;fi , f
is..: . nrng you (R >t ft y. : ;c Br
unaccoumaliHe c - v-nicg u— t3f J
red yeft^rday. Jd - •, — 1 al
vening, Leir. (fd. B * T ‘ , w: h
570 men, -infantry; ,rt, caval
ry and rifiemen, in...due re-:,;:,
was ordered to march cv v..iv 0 f
to a r.h & caikri * the
Beaver Dams, on the Ir.pA gn vF,
s'.'rtut eight cf t ,k; ftiiles fr a
Q'fccni.'j ,i. rc-/d;ipe’ ft a body ci
tne yievpfi the--- Gr ihc
r Tuofr p r o-. unrig provy(|om? arid
nerry < in a..aits whs> re
t ui'.fi-d e rt;;i if e .*> j■’ ?0 ■d * Uri 1 l
Stales. I ne~* ;; *r*v ßlXkt
inofi di,r t& n,i; r y : - Vi ..- j
cf one ccftvu'a:-'..* •? • fi-. h t
roetit above 1 i.- t. :-)
to aco mimv-, <■■ t 60
lid -ins. Ac $ >fi\ ...
uiorffing, - ; >uc ivq
mil: s of the B-?.yer < vr dt
tac.hrjient ;vq a*i2 i re-i rv? 1 —a am—
Jbulc id.- ; - in.r feen dro* -he ?*.
mv ditt ce . - •eri^'b
and then/ tired to a e ? • ftJ i,aud
-L. . . iti c i. ' ’ ■ t.a. ‘-.ic. ■ ,
lay nf ;r v ..is. nts peu
tihn 5 ;il - and, a |C?nfurce*
Kienr of coo t . chrd immedi-
* s riv uc.ee f'-e (ouxttim! cf Cob
Idin.L ; ntr./,.- --flying a: (fiiqtsi
\f vb received 2,0-
’ .tCf.*t:C ifiAicrtijitia•• ,r.2t Lieut. C-iS.
Bae ffih 3 b ’ cfin m a- and hd
nrfcyrttrtu (q r! - ear my, and the
.re-.e: W fo camp.—
A man to- n•• ‘ a -j. q
earpS of moureed . r.&:~
Vie-p, ,jn whs
ft ate* rfia t ‘: he .. . - r-. _, ■ i ,f
our cjetaAhm'cn’’ rh> r r *,
general avtack*—<s- c-t.. : - <‘cp
fought my:re thyn ;e ; b ; ; ur-lil
the ardHery fad c zfr..-..vs tne
w.i ‘lr eft its m a -,y rt the a
fu: rendered ;ani at theft ctic me
furfend'.r :t in'orrhasi: in
efcape, , VT'iy jc hare tpea
uueuied prop r,to jeauain fc cr*i
hours in a pop ft . with
woeai with.*;- .-other r {king a de
cur- - a£ti m .0* efF.cling 3 retreat
rema. .s t* or accrun cd fas well
as the pH: T cf ait.ng for a rein-
Er xfnen: Asm a diftaace 0: ft teen
or ft:;teen a; I t.
N -j irtt - '*T!>aran been receiv
ed of the k?!Id or * uuocd. The
cherry*s fi x has arrived in
cur net* A.u ooodf
Wt:a re I :& and c (Uem, tam
Sir, outs, &c.
H. DEARBORN.
Hon. F:bn Armfironf.
Secret try off Var.
FROM THE NORTHWEST*. * ■ ’
ar Mr.
PRIVATE raHEIo^NDIHC’
Comp Meigs, June 23, 1 i ..
Information has reached us, ny
two men whe efcaped from D x-oie,
that Col. Prohor intends to befiegc
this place, again, a.d that w>m~<
exp-ft hi'. with xco ngi -l*rs ana
4000 Indians the ft it Tic wind.—•
The relult cannot d'Vv-:T _as
•,vc have repaired dx fo>uiicaEL*