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FRIEND & MONITOR, ■ -• i .. 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. ! - - ..... . ; 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