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e reo? gia <3 Carolina Gaze^e. Volume i.J TER M 3 OF THE GEORGIA Cfi CAROLINA GAZETTE. t. Price to Sublcribers, three dollars per annum, payable haii yearly in advance. 2. Ad vert; fie meins for the fir ft inferdon levcnty-five cents per square, and fifty cents for •each continuation. 3. Adverdfernents will not be inirretd unlefis previouily paid for. N. B. Gentlemen who have leen so cAmn? as to obtain Sub feribers for this Paper > ‘will con fer an additional favor by for warding a fiat email of the names to the Editors as fcon as conveni ent. The fcllcmng grille men are au thor if cd to r eccivs Subjcri ntions for this Papa\ Me firs Beck & Clark, El bert Countv. Mr. William Woods, Elher ton. Col. Holman Freeman, and Capt. John Freeman, Wilkes •County. Capt. Makes Speer, Greenes borough. Mr. G. T. Watkins, Ogle thorpe County. Mr. D. L. Ryan, Sparta. General Irwin, Sander!Vide. Mr. Michael Burke, Louis ville. Mr. James Hdy, Savannah, Mr. John Calhin, Auguft*. In South Carolina. Mr. Benjamin Glover and Doctor Casey, Vienna. Rev. Moles Waddel, Abbe ville.. “presidents “message . Washington, Dec. 2. This day at noon Mr. Coles, the President’s secretary, pre fented the following Meflage from the Pre fide nt : To the Senate and Ihufe of Repre sentatives of the United States of America. Ac a moment when the nati ons of Europe are in commoti on and arming against each o ther, when these with whom we have piincipai intercourse are engaged in the general contefr, and when the countenance of fome of them towards our peace able country threatens char, even that may not be unaffected by what is palling on the general • theatre, a meeting of the repre ientanves of the nation in both houses of congress, has become more than uiuallv defirabie. — Coming from every iedlion of of our count; y, they bring with them the sentiments and mfor Inario.n of the wh.de, and w.d b. enabled to give a direclion r the public a Traits, which th vviil and wil'd .an of the vvhoi will approve a.t o ill j port. 7. 1, ~v ~ ... . , , ► 0 t'4 r\\ in sli.-w it V .v. ‘ll U* .tt\ *• PETERSBURG : {Georgia) —Printed aj; ALEXANDER M'DONNELL. our country, vve, in the firft place notice the late affliction of tw ol our Cities under the fatal feve; w ’ i ; 'i in latier tidies has, occa fionaliy visited our fhotes.— Providence in his goodness gave it an earlv termination on this oecafion, and leOencd the num b. r of vidtims which have ufiu rdly fallen before it. In the course of the fevrral vifitatioris by this disease, it has appeared that it is Unfitly local, incident to cities and tide-waters only incommunicabie in the country either by per ions under the clif cale, or by goods carried from the diseased places: that its a< - ceis is with the autumn, and it disappears wit the early tr. il Thde rtffid ftions, within nr. row limip time and ipac give even 50 our mar time ulgMuring three-fourr at and to the country ” from these fafits appears linnecefiary ; yet, to fa tisfy the fears of foreign natio , and cautions on their p irt not 1 be complained of in a dang whole limbs are yet unknown to them, I have Unfit iy enjornev on the officers a: tf.e head of the cull ours to certify witli ex act ti udi, ior evt y veii'i iad :np for afoni.-m port, Lie Rate V. J .c t of health relpccting this fever, winch pre vans at the place from wills, ji ic fil is j unucr c\ vry fii >ti ve I. dm chiu acker and outv to certify the truth, I leave no doubt they have faithfully exe ruled this irj'infition. Much real injury has, .er, been luitained ire.u a propenficy to identify with this endemic, and to call by the fame name, fevers of very different kinds which have been known at all times, and in all countries, and never have been placed among thole deemed contagih&s. As we ad vance in our knowledge of this disease, as facts dev dope the lb uric from which individuals receive it, the Rate authorities charged with the care of re public health, and congress wuh that of the general commerce, will become able to regular with effect their refpefitive func tions in these departments. The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad, their efficacy merits examinati tn. Although the health law of the Rates ihould b c found c need no present revlfal by con gress, yet commerce claims that their attention Ihould ever be awake to them. Since our last meeting, the afpefit of our foreign relations as coofiderablv changed. Our ‘alts have been infclted, a our harbors watched by priva armed vcffels, feme of the without commissions, fume wr dlegal com millions, others whh :h >ie of legal form, but com outting pi a ical ads beyond au horm of their ommiffi ns i’hey ho.e captured the very ■ *r* ’ •, f* t 1 f !■ .v-b t* *O, 1 J f II V R S D A 7\ January 2, ißc6. on the high Teas, not only thx 1 1- fie Is .of our friends earning to • radc with us, but our own also. I hey have carried them oft” un deu .pretence of legal adjudica rion, .but not daring to approach a of justice, they have p! uil wd and lunk them by the way iff obi cure places, where no evidence, could arile against them, mal-treated the crews & abandoned them in boats, on the open lea, or on dti'crt fibres, without food or covering.— fhefe enormities appearing to be unreached by any controul of heir fovercigns, I found it ne . flafv to equip a force, to crude •t 1 m our own leas, to arrett ill 1 eflVls of tiiefe deferiprions • ur.J hovering on our coalts, V’ -tun the 1 mils of the Gulph dream, and to bring them m for mal as pirates. 1 he lame fvftem of hoveitng •n our coafis and harbors, under colour ol ieeking enemies, has rtu also can led on by public armed Hups, to the great anno, - a nee and opprcfiian ol our com merce. New principles too •have been intet polated into the law ol nations, founded neither m jullice nor the ufaue or ac kno icdgment nations j ac coiding to these a belligerent t.ikt i tu Kith a commerce with its own enemy, which it denies to a neutral, on die ground of ics tUdn.g ihar enemy nulie war. But rialbn revolts at such an 1 i\. on r*c v -*•—an and 1... .k ut.al having equal right with the b< 1- iigerenc to decide the queltion, the interdls of our conflituents, and the duty of maintaining the authoiky or reason, the only umpire between just nations, impose on us the obligation of providing an t ffe&ual and de termined opposition to a dodtrine so injurious to the rights of peaceable nations. —Indeed the confidence we ought to have on the justice of others, ftdi coun tenance the hope, that a founder view of these rights will of itil-If induce from every belligerent a more coned observance cf them. With Spain our r.egociations for the fettkmentof differences have not had a fatisfaftory lftue. poliations during the former war, for which flic had formally acknowledged hcrfelf refponfi bie, h.ave been refuied to be compenfatetl but on conditions affecting oilier claims in no wile conuedied with tiiem —yet the fame practices are renewed in the present war, and arc alieidy of great amount. On the Mo bile, our commerce puffing through that river continues t<> ■e oblirudttd, by arbitrary du ies and vexatious learches.— Pr ipofnions for adjtilling anu ■ able the boundaries of Louifi a have not yet been accteded o. While the : ght is un-letiled have avoided changing the ft ate of thmgc, by irking new oils, or 11 x r gtlu i.it uk he T *t. r- 1I > < i• , ? r . V f -*i *.A4s. -* UA *r A1 *1 X. t *4 v hope that the other power would not, by a contrary coadufb, ob lige us to meet their example, and conflicts of autho rity the iflue of which may noc be easily condoled ; but in this hope vve may have reason colei fen our confidence—lnroads have been recently madefinto the ter ritories of Orleans and the Mis sissippi j our citizens have been Icized, and their property plun dered in the very parts of the former which had been actually delivered up by Spain, and this by the regular officers and sol diers of thar government. I have therefore found it needfiary at length, to give orders to our troops on chat frontier to be in readinels to protect our citizens, and repel by arms any finular aggrelfions >n future Ocher details necelfiiry for your full information of the state of things between this country and that, lhali be the lubject of another communication. In reviewing thide injuries f;o,n lome of the belligerent powers, the moderation, the firmnds, and the wisdom of the leg’figure will all be called into action. We ought ft ill to hope that time and a more cor re <sl* efi t.rr.ate of interest as well as of cuaradter, will produce tht jus tice vve are bound to expert.—. But Ihould any nation deceive Ffclf by falfe caKulafions, and d-dappoint that expectation, vve i.r.kl jam in the unprofitable cunte'l, of trying which pa r fy can cj the other the mail hai m ; lome of thele injuries may per haps admit a peaceable remedy, where that is competent, it is always the moll defirabie—but fome of them are of a nature to be met by force only, and all of them may lead to it. 1 cannon therefore, but recommend such preparations as circumflanceS’ call for. The firft object is to place our lea-port towns out of the danger of insult. Measures have already been taken for fur 11.filing them with heavy cannon for the lervice of such land bat teries as may make a part of their defence agJnft armed vef iek approaching them. In aid of tbde ti is definable we Ihould have a competent number of gun-boats ■> and the number to be Competent mull be conlide rabie. If immediately begun, they may be m readmefs for ier vkc at the opening of the next featon. Whether it will be ne cellhry to augment our land for ces, will be decided by occur rences probably in the course of your ieffion. In the mean timp you vvdl confiJcr whether i: would not fie expedient, for a ft uc of peace as well as of war, i > to organize or claL ti,e mili tia, as would enable us, on any lud.’cn emergency, to call for tic l< 1 vices of the oung r po, - t oiks, uuiucumbered vich tie ol.< and cji'jfc h-iv • fam fie eR: wa: cl -. of lliicrc i,o brc'l t .0 j - la.; au Jf IS ... v . .... . a. VVI O [Number 27.