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I. • also to repair. Bajadoz ’ nxjru'lv iertified military sta , ihc frontier f Portugal.; V.;>m it* pooition formsa tKrone, 1 point for the d.rect.on ol | [kirn, -.operations thatmay be n,K.I through the different m-o ----„f Spain* ihe hngl.sh n.t.i had signified to the ..pan lilr.nieminent th..t he had been ■ bv bin* court to follow the EL, of the hire;. Min; had been EShrcelona to mocure a sum o ■,,v with which he had returned ■ the- frontier. He Eg (XX) and received without hesf- H c, i.ooo. The royalist forces, I t he squadrons of the faith ap ir to have letired wtthm the nch frontier, where efforts arc kinr to organize them prior to opening of the campaign. Count Yergas is charged with this lin tant mission. Those officers j said, who can neither read nor ‘■ tc, are to serve as privates until ( V * merit restoration to their pla- ■ s i,y gaining the requisite infor* Ilition. . Spain is preparing for the con st by distributing commissions the''command of guerilla parties. Lh officer is charged with the [nnaticn of his own troops, and [ill be independent, and carry on L war at their own expense, ta iag care to receive as recruits all lose soldiers of the Faith who ay not relish the French school iscipline. All the royalist forces id been ordered to retreat to the ie:wh lines. The Spaniards were along arrangements to harass tir enemies where they are most jlnerable—at sea. The Portuguese appear disposed take the most efficient measures aid in the common cause of de ace. At a session of the Cortes i die 22d of February, the minis rof war declared that the regu ■ army could be at once increased 50,000 men ; recommended the slant organization of the national ard for internal protection and fence; and concluded by assu ig Spain of the cordial co-opera li of the Portuguese nation. The Marquis de la Fayette, the triot and soldier of qur revolu n has published a letter in the urnal of Commerce, defending : National guard from the asscr n made in a general order that it alls for a particular character of votion without limits towards the vernmtnt.” The Guard he as ts, was born “ the enemy of des ism, aristocracy and anarchy.” iince the forcible expulsion of M* uuiel lrom the French Chamber id Deputies, a number of young Vendeans, in various disguises had entered Paris, full of indignation at the treatment of their representa tive. • If the ancient saving that “a feather show s which way the wind blows” be correct, then the pulsa tions of the nerve of Paris, may be ascertained by the subsequent arti cle from that place ; “ A sabre has been voted to the sergeant by a number of the inhabitants of Paris, as a testimony of their approbation of his conduct in refusing to arrest the person of M. Manuel .” Barbadoes, Feb. 20. Yankee Ingenuity! —We must conless vve have never yet witness ed a neater trick to escape the Rev enue Duties laid by the Navigation Act than that played off by brother Jonathan the other day. The Act does not provide for dead stock, and well knowing that, filled his vessel up with fresh quarters of Up 1. mutton, and a great variety of poultry preserving them by means of ice—all of which arrived litre on Monday in as good a suite of preservation as the day on which Uie articles were shipped. The schooner is called the Curlew, and i ’ from Bath, United States. The snippers deserve a great deal of cre dit for the invention, and vve hope il may prove a profitable concern to them. f here lias been more punch and “iue drank, vve will venture to say, for the last two days, than the whole (| t the preceding week, in c.onse ;iien,ce ol the quantity of ice dis tributed among, the inhabitants, who me to be seen running with it in all directions. Ibe new settlement at Key M ost, n.i’ been named Allentown, in honor 1” hie hde much lamented Lieut. Al- | on> ,!|l ‘ navy. A national salute j ‘'•* fired on the occasion. j .’Hondiw. •WtW V 2,, \S2‘*V ’l l-,cre are one hundred and sixteen mechanics employed in building the town of Macon. Since the fifth of March last, at which time the first sale of the lots took place, there have been seventeen f rame buildings reared ; se veral of which will soon be ready for (lie reception of tenants. This looks as much like a city in a wilderness asl (any tiling vve have ever seen. / —j It'T™ This is the day appointed for the Judges of the several circuits of this state to meet at Miiledgeviile for i the purpose of establishing rules ofi court by which each judicial circuit will be governed. We hail this as an event that will much improve our in complete system of Judiciary in a point in which it i3, perhaps,in as much, need of an improvement as any other.’ fn its present situation, it is impossi ble for a man to know by what tenure he holds his property, bis liberty or even his life. This will establish one uniform system of practice ; and what is law in one part of the state, will be law in another. We beg the attention of our readers to the correspondence between Com. j Porter and the Governor of Porto Hi- f co, which we commenced in our last,! and conclude in this day's paper. mt+m ” ■ ■■ COMMUNICATED. Mr. Editor —l cannot withheld the! meed of praise when 1 see the aspiring! genius of youth “fearlessly tempt, the height of arts” with success —hut; it is really amusing to see what an air] of importance is given to the “ well- ; meant lucubrations ” of our neighbours ; “ Censor fv Cos.” by the very authors j themselves. Their subjects of cen-1 sure are admirably well-chosen, and] tend greatly to reform the moral world, j Their last number has fallen into i my hands.—l might, perhaps, bestow | on the production a panegyric or two] in prose, if it did not so entirely consist; in a reiteration of praise on a former j number, which I have not had the good ! fortune to peruse. A poetic compli ment to the fraternity, may not, how ever. be objectionable. Dear me ! Mr. Censor, how fluent your strain! But the moral I looked, and look'd for in vain ; Your number has taken astoundingly well Fou assert — don't ring your own knell. j So modest your merit—'twere pity to say Os your fine fancy pieces yoi best feel the worth — Oil fie 1 oil the taste oP the people this way,— A Wamba is wanting to help out a Gurth. Your subjects, a corset, a belle, and a beau ; 0 noble they bo, Messrs. Censor & Cos. So worthy the source whence they all emanate Their censorious merit must meet a just fate. A plume and a cap have their “ mar tial” eclat, So Amazon -looking and et cetera. Your style is bewitching —ambages complete, And the whole consecution is wound up so neat 1 The acumen display’d with so fine an effect, The luminous genius,—(may it never be wreck’d) Find not in a language of English ‘ compos’d An eulogy equal to one you suppos'd. The delicate vein of satirical ore Might even be envied bv a Butler ol yore : And Addison too might have fled with a blush From the presence of one who excel led him so much. In future, good Sir, when you mount vour high broom-stick, For once take advice and hold the reins fast, A charger so furious, ’twere dangerous to ride on. When each breath of ambition, may perhaps be his last. But now to be serious—if your object be fame, Let your subjects bo lofty—no fustian surround ‘em, Anil w hen at the “ Temple” you ofVei your claims ‘Twill be pleasant to think there was nought to confound ’em. CRITIC & Cos. N. 15. We presume Messrs. Censor&, Cos. liav e seen Salmagundi. C. &. Cos. COMMUNICATED. AN EPISTLE ‘TO CENSOR AND COMPANY. fForthy Friends — I do remember a good old proverb that reads sorl-of-like thus—“ God deliver me from iny friends, 1 will protect myself against my enemies.” lam a plain man, and read but little ; but have stored up in my mind a number of (w hat 1 consid er) sound proverbs ; and have often applied them, never doubling their truth, but on reading an article of yours in the Messenger, I must ac jknowTedge that I felt much disposed to call the correctness of the one 1 have mentioned, in question.—But to show why anil wherefore In the last Messenger l read apiece under you; signature, highly compli menting a former number of yours, and speaking freely and boldly of its good effects, real and anticipated. Not ha ving seen the piece spoken of, I turn ed to a tile of the paper, not doubting but I should be “greatly edified” by it. The idea I gathered from both was, that they were a sort-of a hit at the manners and fashions of the times. 1 had formed the idea from my max im that good fashions and good man ners, (as well as every thing else) were able to protect themselves—but from your essays I have learned that there are fliose in this ‘“wicked and per verse generation,’ ” who are so formi dably assailing them, that by your friendly assistance alone, they can be made to “ flounder through” the con test with any thing like a tolerable chance of success. It is not my particular object in penning this epistle to pay an empty compliment or two, or even a heap of them, to you, on the success of your first piece ; but to express my appro bation of the manner of your second ; and to give you some crumbs of en couragement to pursue the great work of reformation you have commenced. 1 have no doubt but your “countenan ces would lower” at any thing like flattery—but that “well meant” praise would be as acceptable as a meal of fresh air to a chamelion. I would observe what you w'ell know —that it has often been the fate of genius to be over-modest—that many for want of confidence in their own abilities have remained forever in the back ground. lam happy to find that you do not lack assurance—no one will accuse you of that frailty which lias destroyed so many promising buds of genius, that reads the following lines in your last essay : “ But in saying that we have recommenced our work, we would not have you or our most credulous readers to deceive yourselves so egregiously as to sup pose we mean labour. By no means. For, although we believe we can great ly edify our neighbours by our well meant lucubrations,and notwithstand ing our philanthropic disposition, if it cost one of us a single effort to write,we fear that our friends and readers would be deprived of our excellent admoni tions.” It is well known that any child could, “ without a single effort” throw ink upon paper, and call it a “ lucubration :” but, this is merely a digressing observation. From such a declaration as this, I think the pub lic have much to expect. A Censor and Company who can write “ without a single effort!” May we not look for ward with pleasure to the time when they shall take the lofty statiou. their declaration entitles them to r and each look down on our vulgar lumps of clay, and say, “ I am Sir Oracle, When I speak, let no dogs bark.” The propriety of speaking in the manner you have of your own sponta neous effusion, (for, to give credit to your words I mustconsider it as such) may be doubted by some stiff-necked people. But upon due consideration, I have concluded that it is often ne cessary for writers not only to ex plain themselves, but to push their works forward to the w’orld. Mankind ever have been, and still are stupid, and blind to merit how many fair flowers of genius have withered by neglect! We have denominated those, ‘ proud spirits,’ w ho, w hen not patron ized, have turned their hacks on the world and starved :—but 1 must ad mire their genius more than their con duct—that is not commendable. If no one will help us, we must help our selves. If no one will cry ‘ God save king Richard,’ let Richard do it him self. To me, it would be a subject of much regret, if you(asmany have been) should be left to struggle against the w orld, w ith a spirit too much inclined to do good to be discouraged by its coldness and indifference. If you are neglected by the world, still you have almost innumerable ex amples in history to show how poster ity will do you justice. How many, (who like you were the benefactors of mankind,)— whose names are now on the scioll of immortality,—yet starv ed ; or lived beggars; or whose lives were but one continued leg hail from the sheriff! Let the justice done their memories encourage you to persever ance. 1 will not venture to attempt to compute the vast length of your im mortality’ beyond six weeks. —Your fame must stand recorded till grey beard ‘Time and envious moths have eaten up the tiles of the Messenger : and long may it be before the world shall he deprived of them ! It has been the practice of some, when they have given the world one production of merit, to abstain from publishing for ever after, for fear that by g um; mis hap they might fall short of their first success. But lam happy to find that you are not thus disposed—-that the world is often to be “highly gratified” by the jumpings of your humour. Go on, —and may your“ lucubrations” continue to “take well”—and the splendour of your fame prove a total eclipse to all that have gone before you. I say again, goon—and be your train of glory blight as the meridian sun, and long as the tail of a comet. SIMON JACKDAW. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Abdication of Yturbide !—One of our Havana papers, (of 20th inst.) contains the follow ing article under the head of New Spain ; bv which it will be perceived that Yturbide has laid down the Imperial power and has determined to leave the em pire of Mexico-—probably for the United States. [ Georgian . The following articles were read in the Mexican Congress, by re quest of his imperial majesty Don Augustin Yturbide, at an extraor dinary meeting held in Mexico on the 19th March, 1823. 1. Congress have recognised and approved the proceedings and acts of Casa Mata , the causes of mv re taining forces in the vicinty of the capital have ceased to exist; and as my’ only view was to sustain and protect that body, the division here tofore existing on my account, is therefore at an end. 2. I accepted the crown with great reluctance, and onlv acquies ced through a desire to serve my country. But from the moment I perceived that to retain it would serve onlv as an excuse or pretext for an intestine war, I determined to abdicate it. I did not conclude ihis course before, because there was not a body to represent the na tion generally recognized ; and 1 considered that any step taken by me, unless there was, would have been both useless and injurious to the country —there now exists one, anti I accordingly absolutely abdi cate. 3. My presence in this country would always be a pretext for dis turbances ; and projects of w’hich 1 have never thought might be attri buted to me. In order, therefore, j to avoid the most remote suspicion I will leave this country and direct my steps to a foreign one. 4. Ten or fifteen days will he suf ficient to regulate my domestic af i fairs, and take the necessary meas- ■ ures to conduct my family and my self away. 5. I will only request of Con gress to pay from the national funds those debts which I have contract- ed with some particular friends, which are not of great considera tion, although Congress left it to ray option to make use of such funds as I thought proper ; but I could not appropriate funds to my private use, when the necessities of the army and other public aries reached my heart. [Thus makes his exit the first American Emperor. ] Observer’s communication shall j have a place in our columns next week. - 1 ■ 1 . ;; Stephen WWWams is a candidate to represent this county in the next Legislature of this State. tV\vYmusU"dVov's Sn\e. On Monday, the 14th July next, WILL be sold at the Cou.it House in Marion, Twiggs County, ,\ parcel oV hand, being \hc real estate of William Pearce dcc’d.— Sold for the benefit es the heirs. Terms made known on the dav of sale CHARM >TTK PE ARC E, Ad m’x. THEO. PEARCE, Adm’r. May 6, 1823. B—tds. VV.ARF. & JEWETT, ?j SAVING lately commenced the a S m ercantile business in this place have on hand a general assortment of GOODS. Among which are Superfine CLOTHS, VESTINGS, NANKKF.NS, BOM BA/.K ITS, GINGIIA MS, CALICOES, MUSLINS, &c. Also —Straw BONNETS ; Men’s and Bovs fine and course HATS; — IJUJTS, SHOES, &c. If ith an assortment of All of which they will sell low for Cash. May 12. Btf amutux SUH.MOXS OFFERS for sale a general assort ment of Groceries, Goods, Crockery, Hats, Shoes, Castings, Iron &c. which lie will dispose of low for Cash only. On Consignment. 10,000 lbs. prime Bacon 10 bbls. Pork 10 “ Mackerel 50 “ Whiskey 20 “ India point Gin 4 “ Rum 30 “ & 2 lihds. Brow n Sugar 6 “ Loaf Do. 15 “ Flour 20 Bags Coffee 1 Tierce Rice 10 Kegs Dupont's Powder 10 “ Nails, assorted 50 qr boxes Spanish Segars Ist qual. 100 sacks Liverpool Salt IGSO lbs. Grindstones * A small lot of Cod-Fish. New Towti, May 12th B—ts. ~ LOST, ON the second day’ of April last, between the ferry in the ’Town of Macon and where l live on the lc.liucconna,a red morocco pocket-book containing one fifty dollar bill, on the Darien or State Bank and a few small bills, the largest not exceeding 50 c’ts. Two Notes of hand for seven hundred and fifty dollars each, on David Shep herd, with Win. Harris and David Ker son security. One of said Notes had credits to a considerable amout, which note was made payable to the subscri ber on the 25th day of Dec. 1820— the other for the same amount, and paya ble to the same, due the 25th day of Dec. 1821. Some receipts not recol lected who from. A reasonable com pensation will be given to any person who may give information so that tiic book with it* route ts may be put in possession of the owner. I forwarn all persons from trading for said notes, or the maker paying them to any other person but tnvself. DAVID CROCKETT. May 6th, 1823. 8 2vv * J Georgia—-Bibb County. i^| ; T lIKREAS, Martha Pace ant! * r James Meuellin applies to the honorable court of ordinary of said county for letters of administration on (the estate of William Pace, late of said county, deceased— These are to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and credit ors of said deceased, to file their ob jections, if any they have, on or be -1 fore the first Monday in July next— I Otherwise letters will be granted to the applicants. Witness, me honora ble Tarply Holt, one of the Justices of : said court, this sth May, 1823. 6wBJ DAVID S. Bt>OTH, c. c. o. Georgia—Alonroe C ount\. In Monroe Superior Court, March Term, 1823. Jonathan Parrish, informer, “) vs. I Sci. Fa. Rerrv Redd. J T appearing to the Court hy the n 3 Sheriffs return in this case, that the defendant is not to he found : On motion of the plaintiff’s attorney, it is thereupon ordered that service be per fected by publication in one of the public gazettes of this state, that the 1 defendant appear at the Superior court to be held in said county, on the fourth Monday in September ne*t,and make his defence, and that this rule be published monthly for three months previous to said court, according to law. A true copy from the minutes. WATKINS HUNT, Clerk. 2Gth March, 1823. m3m—B to 17^ OR the balance of the year, or a 1 shorter time, two FELLOWS who have been accustomed to work on a plantation. Apply to P. WILTBERGER Jr. i New Town, May 12 B—lt. i