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Georgia & Carolina Gazette. Volume x.] TER M S OF THE GEORGIA & CAROLINA GAZETTE. 1. Price to Subicribers, three dollars per annum, half in ad vance. 2. Ad/ertllements for the fir ft infection feventy-five cents per square, and fifty cents for *. cac Iv'cunt i ion. ; ——Aym > ‘ 1 ■ N+ R.- Gentlemen who . iee;/ 7 o obliging as to obtain Sub scribers for this Paper , w/7/ con fer an additional favor by for warding a flatement of the names to the Editors as jock as conveni ent . From the (Del.) Mirror . Having by accident, laid my hand on a late number of th.e Providence Gazette, an obfeure tool of federal; fin, printed in the state of Rhode llland, I was particularly attra&ed by the fol lowing paragraph.—Captain Towers, arrived at Baltimore in 14 days from St. Pierre’s, Marc, informs, that ‘ a great number of Aitierican vdfils have lately been sent into Tortola by the privateers whofpare none! Even the enervated Spaniards are per mitted to plunder our merchants with impunity. But these things according to the democratic idea are ‘ trifles light as air ;* and while the darkened optics of cer tain politicians will not permit them to fee that they militate, in the least againfl the dignity of cur national government—* to those who are blefled with inte lie dual vision, it must obvi ously appear diat they are unfa vorable to its finances, and tend to abridge the funds and de press the spirits of our enterpri sing merchants, and their han dv friends the underwriters.” Had the writer of die forego ing, been endowed with a rea sonable share of the “ intellectu al vijiotiy, which he speaks of, the community had not been at tin's time Jo largely his debtor. — Every one, the least conversant in Welb-India affairs, knows that the majority of those pri vateers which infeft that coast, are the exciufive property of private individuals, uniicenfed by their government, and fitted out for the dired purpose cf indiferiminate plunder. It is true that many American vetlcls have been captured and thele too by French governmental pi i v alters, but I would aik, what were the ciicumlbnces under \% hich these captures were made ? Were they nor. taken in the ve ry act of contravening a public decree of the French govern ment, which explicitly forbids •mil mnertourfe of neutrals with the-blacks cfS&. Domingo? If merchants* lured by the temp s OI i* * # il** \r U d'j ?- i i? i* PETERSBURG :— (Georgia) — Printed my BURKE & M‘DONNEI.L. the fame time aware cf the riilc they run, v/iil ib.il purfuc tins lucrative though hazardous traf lie, then does ail rdponfibility rest uoon themfclvcs. I have a , never seen, and I challenge; this paragraphic to produce a (cilia ry inttance wherein the piracies by him complained of • have been lanflioned by the French government. And yet he fads not to make this a pretext lor bellowing *TrliTs: yunmerited and Jicer.tio'uo itfbufe- do the* prefect executive;; * It is certainly afto niihing with what avidity thele men grasp a: any thing which may afford them the flighted: ground for indulging hi their iil-natuied remarks upon the government c f our country.- I hey express a grt at concern for iX the dignity of the country f* at the fame time that they are pursuing the very tneaiures ior poftrating that dignity, by en deavoring to blacken the cha racters of the officers 01 that go vernment m the eyes of die whole, and to alienate the affec tions of the people from them, thereby vainly hoping to gratify their private ends, and facr.fi-. cing therefor truth, honor and integrity. VERITAS. —-=s*iSieiiS)oiS>iPi gl —” - From the Ecu rlburg Intelli gencer. ■ The Editor of the National Intel ligencer hails the Anmverjary of American Independence , in the following correct and im prejfive language. The anniversary of our ex<- iftcnce as a free and independent people again returns, and natu rally awakens a crowd of proud and interdhng recollections o t\ pad events and feelings. These who, coeval with the revolution, hailed it with enthusiasm, who 1 hastened the enfis to which it led i who, by their zeal routed the latent energy ot their coun tryrm i , and kept up thrir spirits and their exertions, until they were crowned with a glorious ; success, have now the joy of contemplating all their hopes realifed in the happiness, the freedom, and the reputation of their country. They have like . wife the happiness of beholding I that country not ungrateful to ’ their services and virtues. For | at no period of time, has re volutionary merit Food higher than at the present day. Anew race has grown up, among whom are many citizens \of great ta lents and eminent virtue; bub noiwuhftandmg their just pre tentions 10 popular favor, the affection of the nation dings with a kind of idolatry to those | who rifqutd their lives and for tunes in founding the empire of their rights. Long may this veneration continue ! May it be i the hftace of every revolution- ! ary ftatefinan or hero un tl his j \ raft hour; and map its ur.decay- T H U R S D A TANARUS, August i, 1805. ed cojnfmuance in future times be the ncbleft monument railed to departed merit* The United States present at this moment the proudest lpec tack upon earth. Whatever little animofnies exist among us, cr whatever competitions ihcre may be for power, oppreftion is not known within our bor ders, and peace reigns through ! outthcland. Our governments ! are administered with vviidom j arid juflicc, and every mah with I perfect freedom, purlues the trait preferibed by his judg ment or inclination. Induftiy in every department of business inlures a decent competence* and* connected, with moderate intelligence, fddom fails to m iure wealth. What is there wanting to ren der our situation as exempt from evil as it can fall to the lot of human institutions to be ? No thing but a fecunty that it will continue. Whence is this to be derived, but from the virtue and know ledge of the great body o l the people. To render them vir tuous and well informed, then, I ought to be the leading objeits of their friends; of thole, who, fiiiccreiy believing that human 1 happiness depends upon free < government, viufh to give im- ; mortality to the principles on which they; can alone be efla biifhed. Let us hope that this great objed. in the present pro pitious season of peace and i prosperity, will be earnestly and unremittingly,, pursued. This is a point in which we may all unite. How delightful, then amidst our ctafelels contests on other topics, to go forward heart and hand in the furtherance of this great objed. Our govern ment is, in all its departments, | ekdive. The people pofllfs ail power.- From their will there can be no appeal. How important then, that that will be enl : ffhtcr.ed 1 That it be com petent to the choice of the best men for rulers ; and qualified to determine with justice the good nel's or badness of their mea lures. Thus, and thus only, may vve exped the perpetuation of free governments, and all the exclusive bkflings that flow from them. For in this coun try, as in all ethers, there will life among us ambitious and unprincipled men, who wiy, by -force or fraud, attempt to Tub vert, the liberties of the nation. Nor can imagination conceive an antidote to their intiigues, other than that which wid be found in the virtue and intelli gence of the people. On'this day, devoted toglad nefs, let us n pj.ee in the hap py profped before us; let us with becoming gratitude offer our thanks to the Ru ler of the un veife, for the un- \ rivaled bk flings be flowed upon | in ; kt us r.K be unmindful cf ’ the services of thole who have been the moil efficient instru ments of our felicity ; and let us resolve forever to adhere to the luminous principles on which our libertits are founded. — From the Quebec Mercury. We fome time past, menti ! oned in our paper, the fate of j a miser who penfhed in the fire at St. Thomas, and whole fke - , leton was laid to be found ex tended over his iron chefl. At tached to fome St. Croix Ga zettes, we have received from a friend, a narrative of that fire in M S. Here follows an ex tract : “ Amongst those who have loft their lives was an old Ge r man, who had been many years a resident, and by the dint of his usurious fehemes and illegal traffic, had accumulated much wealth i when living he was a very bad neighbor, a (hocking unmerciful maftcr, and no mans friend. ~ When any needy wretch unfortunately fell into his clutch es, he always dealt with him moft unfeelingly to increase hia pdf, for “ His Gcd was gold , and his re ligion thejt ” ts An hour before the fire extended to his house, one of his white companions told him that if he would Cruft his bags of gold and dollars to his house, he might fend them with his ne groes and that they fhuuld be iafe, but this he refufed to d0,., Frcfently after, as the fire was approaching he was reqnefltd * by the fame man to unbind one of his Caves, whom he had chained to a poll for fome mis demeanor, and this he alio re fufed to comply with, bur. {of fered him to be burnt to aloes. “ The reptile foul, whoje reckon ing powers were pent , IVithin the logic bounds of Cent per Cent ” Would trust no man, white Or black, but (luck close to his chests in the midst of the flames, Till reduced to a fkdeton; no doubt he had no power before or at the last gasp to beg for mercy; vve are informed that the last exclamations of the sor did, fouiiefs, cankered wretch, were, “ O my dollars ! my dollars ! my darling dollars ! “ The jire is consuming me—A dieu ! adieu ! adieu !” “ Next day among the im tnenftty of ruins ex poled after such awful devastations, his bones were found close by a large iron chefl, with the key of It clinched fafr to die parched bones of his wrist. No less than bo,ooo dollars were found, which were lodged in the fort, to be appropriated to the rci.ef of the icai l’u defers.. lirar tins, ail ye inifers, and tremble ; •• of all the filthy, carnivorous animals of Gods orating, ye are the mofldcteii l.w/. ; M.td iii .is c*, es. [Number 9.