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FRIEND & MONITOR,
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FRIDAY, March 24.
The Rev- Mr. Mathews will
preach at Fishing Greek Meeting
Houle, the firft Sunday in next
month, from the following text.—
*’ And the Iron did swim.”
tN *Tis now twelve o\:lock at
nignt : all is silence around me; I |
am just going to bed ; —thefe
thoughts occur. Do 1 expect to
a rife, in the morning, free from
Ir'khefs, and with a mind elate
with blight >xpeolations ? Yes
finppofe Iflioul i die this night —am
I prepared to appear at rh:.: tribunal
or Qrd and his Angels? I never
acted the part of a hyprocrite! I
neve”comniitted murder! 1 never •
defrauded a being of the value of a ‘
fixpsnee- I never was the cause
of another’s fullering—/ never ca
lumniated ! O God this is the
(ting ! I have contributed
to the support of a fellow creature
■as far as my Header circumstances
would admit of; I once filed tears
for my enemy :— Well I can sleep
now.—Beware how you Achmat,
denounce vengeance against Piro
tes*; tho’ he is not seen in the tem
ple, killing the Statues of Outer,
Codajet , Pit ha, and Mahomet ; he
is to be found in the tents, distri
buting Alfes milk to the sick, dri
ving their flock to pasture, and
■milking the Ewes, so that their well
distended udders may not prove
hurtful to them— his prayer is in
the grove ; his dog the only spectator.
Doubts have been exprefied,
whether by the terms of our treaty
with Great Britain, we are not re
quir'ed’to return to the Creek Indi
ans the territory ceded by them to
the Unitea States. An attentive
examination of the 9th article of
Che treaty, wheih relates exclusively
to the Indians, tnuft fatisfy every
one that the Creeks are not inclu
ded among the Indian tribes who
can derive any benefit from the
provisions of that article, because
they had concluded a peace with
our government previous so the ra
tification of the treaty with Great
Britain, who provided for such of
her red allies only as persevered in
‘rhe contefl to the last.
The article above alluded to is in
these words ; “ The United States
of America engage to put an end
after the ratification of the present
treaty to hostilities with all the
tribes or nations of Indians, with
whom they may be-at war at the time
of such ratification ; and forthwith
to reflore to such tribes [that is,
such as we may be at war with at
*he time, of ratifying the treaty,J all
the pofiefiions, rights and privi
leges; which they may have enjoyed
or been entitled to in ißn,previ
f ©us t<? such hostilities,” &c.
* Georgia ’Journal.
Cobb.ett aflerts that the war with
France coil the Britilh Government
more than a thousand millions of
pounds sterling; and that before it
was concluded the Britilh Ministry
bad loft fight of the firft objeft for
which it was commenced!
Ibid.
Col. Hawkins fome time past re
signed his appointment of Agent
* to the Creek Indians. We have
pot learnt who will be his fuccefior.
_ Ibid.
A gentlenrn from Fort Haw
iiiqs informs US? that three wag-
goners (two white meh and a ne
gro,) returning from Fort Mitchell
a few days ago, were fired at by a
party of Indians in ambulh—the
white men efte&ed their escape.
File negro was miffing, fuppoied to
be killed.
Ibid.
c< Beauty and booty.” —Thefe
words, or, m other terms, RAPE
AND ROBBERY, were the Eii
, tifh watch-word and countersign on
their attack of the defences of ©r
leans, on the ever-to be-remember
ed Bth of January. It is a faft,
confirmed by the universal tefii
mony, that it was the design of the
enemy to have given up that rich
city, and its inhabitants, to the lulls
ofafoidiery, unparalleid, and, pos
sibly, never to be equalled, certain
ly, not excelled, for their brutalized
qualities. Their language, man
ners and behavior is inexpressibly
horrible. As observed in another
place, I dare not attempt to de
feribe on paper the leones of bestial
ity that many gentlemen have told
rue they saw, openly done, on board
the fleet late in the Chesapeake
and their common converl’ation is
the moll blafpheirous that can be
imagined. Great God!—and”, u nefe
men, if men they may be cailed,
have been held up as champions of
“ religion and liberty” (> misera
ble perversion of the noblest attri
butes of the great and good!
t£ Beauty and booty ” —rejoice,
virgins of Orleans , that the ravish
ers of Si. Sebastians , and your in
teded spoilers, have peiiflied.—
Praise heaven, that many of them
have gone “ where the wicked
cease from troublingand that
you are unpolluted by the em
braces,, of monsters, reuiorfelefs as
wolves and ravenous as hyneas,
who have robbed the tomb of ‘■booty?
■■ and ruined * beauty * in the sanctua
ry of churches.
Compliment to Americans. —A let
ter from a person of diftin&ion in
Canada is published in a Halifax
paper, in defence of fir George
Prevoft. The following is an ex
: trad :
“ The principal cause of lamen
tation appears to be, that we have
loft more men (in proportion)
here, than in Spain. Is the com
mander of the forces to be blamed
* because the Americans fight obfti
, nately k well; k thawhis is the re
al cause of the difproportionaie
slaughter that has routed the mqr
! bid sensibility and peevishness of
fome, no one here will doubt.—
t The officers oft he army from Spain,
1 who have been engaged in Upper
\ Canada, have acknowledged, that
they never saw such determined
I charges as were made by the A
mericans in the late a£lions.
“ An officer who has been in all
the a&ions on the peninsula, told
me the other day, that he never
witnefiediuch obstinate courage as
they shewed. His singular, but
forcible expressions was, “ they do
not know.“fir, when they are beat
en, they do not know when they
ought to go away.” In the adion
on the 25th July, the Americans
charged to the very muzzles of
our cannon and actually bayoneted
the artillerymen who were at their
guns. Their charges were not
once or twice only, but repeated
and long, and the steadiness of
Britilh soldiers alone could have
withstood them. This, added to
the vvooddy nature of the country
in which the war has been carried
on, and which gave the enemy
great advantage in tiling linemen
(a defeription of force little used in
our army,) will Efficiently account
for the daughter that has taken
place in our ranks.”
Niles’ Register.
The Plantaginet 74 arrived at
the Havannah a little while since,
with the bodies of Packf.nham
and Keane preserved in hoglheads
of rum. Gibbs was buried on the
field. There were on board the
Englilh Blips the ackczvledged a
mount of one thousand wound
ed men, including SO officers.—
And it was notorious that they had
also with them a comptroller , col
lector, printing press and apparatus,
and every thing else that belonged
to the permanent ellablilhtncnt, they
originally designed to have made
at New Orleans. —Wofally have
they been disappointed.
The Britifii army in its attack on
our lir.es on the Bth of January,
was led on by one lieutenant gene
ral and three major-generals—
Packenbam , Keane , Gibbs arid Lam
bert—the three firft are dead, and
the latter is said to have fullered a
temporary derangement, or infini
ty, by the havoc that surrounded
him fib that the troops were led off
by a lieutenant colonel. There is
rio doubt but that the loss of the
enemy is much greater than it has
been estimated by gen. Jackson. —*
In the whole, it may have amount
ed to GOOD men. What a monitor'to
Europe.: — lbid.
Font Mims. —A gentleman be
longing to the forces of the U. S.
in the Creek country, thus vents
his honed indignation at the allied
white and red lavages— *• We look
every day for orders to march and
meet the enemy. lam heartily
willing as one to spend my last galp
for my country. The ruins of fort
Mims, two miles from here, thro’
which I have rode with generals
Winchester, Taylor, and other of
ficers, are enough to * harrow up
■ the foul.” The piles of human bones ,
from aged dscripitucle to the infant at
the breast , bleached by the rains and
winds of Heaven, must arouse a ho
ly rage in every manly bosom. I ex*
ped to hell bounds of Eng
land in a few days. My the God
cf Heaven inspire me with an Ajax
prayer, or of Macduff to the manes
. of a Duncan againfi: Macbeth.”
T\
101
We are ferry to fee, by the trea
ty of Peace and Amity, that G. B.
has not claimed the members of
the “ Hartford Convention.”
We doubt, however, whether they
would be willing to give them a
residence in Botany Bay , fearing
they would corrupt the morals and
destroy the union of thole of their
better fubjeds, who have already
been sent there. . Last war they
sent such fellows to Port Rofmvay.
Their names ought to be engraved
’ on every Mile Stone in New Eng
land—with the finger of scorn
pointing to them ! ! !
| Hartford Mercury.
Those gentlemen who have late
ly gone to Washington, from Maf
facnuletts, Rhode-Ifland, and Con
i nedicut, to demand of the Prefi
! dent a ratification of the doings of
, the Hartford Convention, may,
possibly, obtain his pardon for their
temerity—he having lately pardon
ed the Pirates of B&ataria !— Jb.
AN APPRENTICE,
Wanted at this Office.
to the Pr.o?L~ofWii.iczA
Viewing with regret, the present
jarring of the Executive, Legislative
and Judiciary departments of this
state, refpe&ing the alleviating law*
I cannot withhold, my mite on the
occasion. In consequence of the
natural love and affetlion I bear to
my country and fellow citizes; not
withstanding the present period of
the times will not bear comment
ing on it, yet so far with propriety
we can lay—it is lamentable and
has occasioned much confufion.—
In doing this, nodoubr it has been
pleasant to our common enemy-
Suffice it to fay, may the buds of
difeerd blast in blooming. Ano
ther great question has fugguefted
itfelf to my mind, that is, Whe
ther or not those persons in poweir
have not fallarys higher than ne
cefiary ? Two thousand dollars*
fourteen hundred dollars per an
num and three dollars a day is nb
inconsiderable funis. Pardon me
my friends, they are like the Irifb
man and his wife ; both of the fame’
mind—that is, each wants to be
mailer. I think if their fallary3
were a little curtailed it would
check the distemper that at present
di ft rafts their brain. However, be
this as it may, I resign it to the will
of those in whose hands the power
may fall ; for in just ice to my fell,
my country and my fellow citizens^
I cannot forbear flopping forward
cq the great theatre, and declaring
to the poeple of the county of
Wilkes (from the many foiicita*
tions I have had) that I am a can.,
didate to rep re sent them in our next
state Legillature. Should Ibe e*
le&ed, I pledge myfelf to use every
exertion consonant With my abili
ties lor their good, an'd the general
welfare of our country.
CHARLES IRVIN.
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; Administrator’s Sale.
The following personal property
in Wilkes county, belonging to the
Eftateofl. Butler, will be fold on
the 10th May next to the higheli
bidder, at the residence of the fub
feriber, vis. Horses, Hogs, Sheeps
Cowe3 & Calves—alight
HANDY CARRIAGE ,
with 4 good plated Harnefs—alfo*.
Household and Kitchen Furniture, 1
among the former fome elegant
Mahogany furniture—fay l set di
ning tables—tea tables, fide-board
•—fecrerary and book case with ma
ny other ufeful and ornamental ar
ticles neceflary in ho use-keeping.
Great bargains may be expected at
this sale, as a small portion only cf
this property will be bought in for*’
cr by any of the heirs*
Terms, all funis under 20 dollars
cash—above, credit on approved
personal security until Ift January
next will be given, the amount
drawing interest from date.
Sale will commence precisely at If)’
o’clock.
James Armstrong, Ad'nut
in ’right of the Adm’x.
March 23. (7t.)
COMMUNICATION.
My JACK will Hand the? Spring
Season at my Plahtaton at the redu
ced price of fix dollars the Seafon*-
and eight dollars the insurance.
Produce will be taken in payment
at the Market price.
March 3d 181£. A. LIPHAMk
t- - ■ ■ ■ 1 —— l lL
To Sell or Rent
My house and lots in Walking*
ton, adiojiiing the Printing
David P. W!hus
