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KJlt THE PATRIOT. To DI NNN SMELT, Esquire Lu i m i)er cj Cong > es* Sir. CONFIDING i your judge ment, rectitude und patriotism, I voted lor yni hs a Member of Congress, to acr for the general good, and to in- the guardian of a/I tlie chic rights anti miertsts o/ y iur feliotv.citizens. ‘1 o protect tin? country from external injury, and to defend the freedom of our government, are the ttvo great section* of your tin tv. You (antiot of right exercise any power subversive of civil li berty : you cannot abolish tii il by jury, nor the habeas corpus. To seize a free man,-in time of peace and held him in con linemcMt during pleasure ; to pu nish him with lorciide transport ation, without trial bv jury, ami viihout being accountable, is to exercise tlio right es a master over a siav n : it is tyranny. To pass a law giving such power in a live government, is to ingraft despotism on freedom ; to erect tyranny utr the basis of civil liber tv. ’i i'ese observations will lead your wind back to the lat<t,adm!_ liistration,’ when a l-iherticuk- law >! this nature was framed, and re ceived, by signature, the appro!),>- ton of our then President ; and tile journals of last session info; ni tts that young Mr. Adams, brought forward a similar uefanous act, 1 dative to Yrnjo. What !—Are we to make laws subversive of liberty in this free country, because an atnbvisa dnr behaves impel tinentiy I—Or are some families among us so in fected w ith ling's evil,. s *rarn enemies -to. freedom, as to seize every prefcKt for its destruction ? Was this a scheme in aid England by plunging us into the cxpeiiccs and horrors of war a gainst .her enemies ? Or was it a snare laid for our wise and patri otic President, which happily proved abortive ? Is the spicndor of h.’.s talents and bis vutues so offensive to the blinded Owls of Jhynbvj as neve, it be endured ? Oi’it laws are comneicht If* punish felony or breach of the peace in Yrujo or bis suite, as well as in other persons, This doctrine is not new.—if it v.e; e otherwise, an ambassador and attendants might go about committing lyk) y and assault with impunity —a right that we should refuse to Ids mas ter! And we.could cite a:i instance, in the laws of nations, cl an am bassador ■- beinur executed fur a rt . . cniiie, without waiting for tiie.con sent of his “court. The .Secretary of the Spanish ambassador, was imprisoned and tried for forgety, in Pennsylvania, and was sentenced by the court, to such punishment as one. ol our own cit zens would have been for it like offence. JT is indeed a rule among rations that ambassadors (and their suite under certain circum stances) are exempt from civil process , Put cur laws do not screen thvtn freni answering for assault or feionv i that would be giving the'country up to plunder and massacre ! The law, therefore, which was proposed, in the case of Yrujo, was unnecessary ; aid it is easy to prove it futile 3f an ambassador behaves id, hut in stich a manner that our laws cannot lav hold of him, our executive may cease to receive or correspond with him, and Com plain to his government, who will doubtless sup* rsede him, il they wish to he on good toms with ns. * • Scppose Yrnjo shipped c{T as a prisoner in one ot cur public vessels; would lie not have an action of damages for false im prisonment against the ship a id u-.ople,* on hrs ariival ? would 3101 punishment indicted by Spsm on out officers and men, tor obey* ji U , ti,e oulers oi our government, n.ake war necessary ; or a shame. Ya avowal on our gait, that um law ‘t'.-d otrduct iiaU bi t u fouiul ance. This would be in as wreiclicti a luit-ilv o could wish/ WiiAT r.re we to think of a statesman, who would be instru mental in bringing on such public disgiace ? Is he wise, or is lie a aiudmao ? Is he laying traps for our government ? Is lie plotting mischief against bis ebumry ? If the impertinence of an ambassador should throw tts off our guard, and incite us to make laws subversive of civil liberty, we shall never want despots and their agents to stimulate our foilv : a free government is their aversion. Satisfied ihat you •will watch with heart and understand ing for the happiness ol your country'. 1 remain, Sir, With the greatest respect Ami esteem, Your lellow-eitiren. r (jt tin. y ust (pence/ cm/for sole, in Bry onstreet, near the Mctrket, gp, pesitethe late residence of Messrs Mein and Ivhtckay. A MOST Ellegant afTort ment of Ladies BONNETS, and other articles in the Mil linery and Dry Goods line, too tedious to mention.— Al so, expects per (h it arrival*an additional itipplv. Sewing done in the neatest manner. October-27. 95. FOR SALE. A HOUSE situated at the ror- I ncr of Jefferson <st St. fulia.n Streets, with a small shop aitjoin nig; the house is at present occu pied by Peter xtinard. A L S O. A smart active negro bov used to house work, shaves and dresses well for particulars erunnre of o. scot r, On the premisses. October I - ,, ts yy REMOVAL, JOHN EOFFS, RESPECTFULLY ][nkorm* the public, that ha, has removed to the corner of r tfrrfen or-,J Jlryan Streets, in the boufe formerly occupi ed by Mr. Janies Plait, where he intends carrying on the Boot & Shoe making Business as formerly, and hopes to me til a (hare of the public pa tronage. N. 15. Two apprentices want, ed t* ti e above bismess. October 20. 3t. 98. SHERIFF’* SALES. On the fir It Tuesday in Nov. next, at the Coutf-hottie in the city of Savannah, WILL BE SOLD, At the usual hours, FOUR negroes viz. Syi, via. jenney, Hetlor and Sa ke v, seized and to be fold under and by virtue of an execution grounded on a mortgage, John Peipoll 9 ‘vs. James Smith. H. W. Williams, and. s c. An guff 4• 77- NO TICE. Nine months after date, ap plication will be made to the honorable court of ordinary of Tatnal county for leave to fell a uatl of land containing 190 acres on the Altatriahaw river, m laid county adjoining Mar in Harden, alio 202 i-i a cres in Wilkin lon County, in tiie fecorni uillrict Tot No. I I o, the property of John Sharp fen. deceased, to he told lor the benefit of the heirs and creditors. JOHN SHARP, Ai.ministrai.Qr. Sept. 1. S3. . ‘ t Alt kind ts Ti inks, For Sole at this Office, NEW-YORK, Oct. 13. Py the ship Rdbert Burns, capt. Waite, from Liverpool and Ire land, and schooner'! lsnlct, apt. Henry from Bordeaux, the editors of ?ha N< w-\ ork Gazette have re ceived London papers to the ttt'li of August, Cork to th*• 27'h, Paris . to tiie 30t li, amt Bordeaux papers j to the 4iii September. 1 The captain and passengers of j the Hamlet icport, that the A ega- | ciat ions for Pence between C> eat- t Jlrita n and Eunice were broken c sand that cn (he <2Sih of August Lard Lauderdale demanded Jus passports to return. Ihe Paris papers, hereiner do net mention this fad. ‘I he Paris Artrns of the 30th August say* —'“ We do nor share the opinion ot the Journalist oft -ou don, upon ihe effect which some fresh triumph .. of their navy would produce. It is not upon any point oftheoreantb.it trie grand con test subsisting between France and England can. be henceforth decided. The question hitherto was, w hetlief Great-Britain should preserve trie dominion of her in fluence upon the Continent : this | first and principal point Iras been i irravocaby cLlemiiued in tire plains of Austerluz. The second question that remains to be re solved, and which is an inevita ble consequence of die former, is, j how long tiie nations of the Con- j linent shall remain excluded from j the common domain of tiie sea, j and submit trd to the “yoke which j England imposes upon their com- j ■ merce and their industry. This I second conquest is, it is true, not I yet performed ; but ail nations tre ! interested in it as welt as the j •French, and all Europe is ready rc undertake it. BE AL, August 24. Thchon. Mr. Erkine, Min ifier to the United State* of j America, his lady and two children, expert to Lii this day, in the Avon sloop, capt = S ark, lor Amei ica. NF.W-ORLEANS, Sept. 18. 1 We arc sorry to give a detail ot the unfortunate gale, which happened on the night of the 16th 1 inst. The morning, before the ; rising of the sun, seemed to por tend this dreadful calamity, the sky being heavily charged, and bearing every‘appearance of ati approaching storm, which was more fully confirmed by the con tinual ancl unusuil heat of the dav. After sun-set the weather became unusually heavy, indi cating both rain and wind ; about 10 in the night the wind rose and blowed very hard from the south ward, with a heavy rafn, it kept increasing during the night; a bout 2 in the morning it hauled round to the eastward, and drove I such vessels as had parted their fasts and moorings far up the liver. The Plantations above and be low the city have suffered con siderably, die canes being beat down, tiie negro huts destroyed, and the sugar works much da maged.; such agate has not been experienced in these parts this thirteen years. Almost all the barges and boats in the river, were either stove or sunk. At day break the prospect in the river was dreadful, hales of cotton, barrels ol flour, and every description of merchandize afloat or sunk, vessels dismasted, and veil much injured, trees torn up by the roots, a proof the violence os the wind, which did not fail till a little before noon. A List of Vessels sunk ;,i the Hurricane. Schooner Alligator, Casteres, of-New-Orleans ; schooner Eliza, Tice, of Bhila'atifhia, main mast carried awt,y, part of her deck gone to pieces, and the vessel agfou.tid; schooner Nancy, Gios, Siurk with a part of her cargo , ship Robert Murray, Swiusou, aground but little damaged ; brig Roxalana, aground damaged, rud dv.r broken ; schooner Felicity, • Aleyranne, has sustained some considerable damage ; echocaer ‘Tsflgfr, of EaUimare, aground with do ; brig Matgaret.oi Ntw* Orleans, do. do ; brig Helena, ot New-Orleans. do. do ; schoorset Beniamin, of Campeachy, dis masted, do. do , brig Fail” Ame rican, Iznard, aground do ; s-hip Felicity? Fernandez, do. do ; bug Sophia, of New-C'rieans, at an chor in the stream, dismasted, the people employed at the pumps since dav-light, and having a s.g uni cf distress ; brig Arkansan, aground ; brig Iris, Rohin. vvi.h considerable damage ; brig North Star, Lachapella, unround ; brig John Adams, of Portland, do; brig Adventure, Lagau, do ; ship Franklin, l.aure, do ; schooner Voltaire, of Charleston, do ; ship Mac, do ; brig Neptune, ot St. Bartholomews, do. A boat from liapide? was sunk, Vrifti a cargo of peltries and cotton ; two other boats leaded fur the upper coun try were sunk; ship Brutus, of Portland, aground:; schooner William Wright, of Philadelphia, dtove an the point with the lo3s of her main-mast and bow-sprit. A large brig sunk opposite judge J Provost s, name unknown. September 23. Extract of a letter dated Alexan dria, CPapidsJ Sept. 7, to a gentleman in this city. There is no manner of danger from the Spaniards, j There are.between 6 and 700 | regulars at Natchitoches— 2oo ) volunteers from this county, | 1 * \ and I hope an equal number j from the neighboring counties so that the Dons will surely be captured unlcfs they retreat beyond die Sabine, on the ap proach of our tioops. The French, with a few exceptions turned out surprisingly, Che valier Foirret and Cyprian La Cour, are two of the vo lunteer companies. We are all well a Helled here and unani mous. Volentine is making exertions among the Indians, on the hide of the U. St-stes: the) ?re all perfectly friendly, and the Caddos highly refent the cutting down the Ame rican flag, by the Spaniards, in their towns. We feel ourlelves (rcure here as if at Lancas ter.” Odsber 2. The letters received by this day’s mad from Natchez and Fort Adams, Hate that every preparation is making to meet ami repel Spandli encroach., meins. All the remaining re gular force that was left by Col. Kingsbury atEort Adams, have marched under the com mand of Capi. Sparks, for Natdiitoches.-—Major Ferdi nand L. Ciajborne was hourly ex petted when the mail left Foil Adams, with Capt. Far rar’s tioop of dragoons, and a handFome detachment of mili tia, on their march to Natchi toches, via. Rapids—no doubt now e?.ilLs but blood will be Ihed unlcfs the Spaniards fall back. 0 tobei ’ s. A gentlci’.ian just arrived from Apejoufee, has obliging favored the Editors with- the following authentic informa ; don reipecting that couutry : “On Tuc-fday, the 23d J Sept, iart, his Excellency Go | vernor Claiborne, accompani j cd by Mr. Hopkins, ‘arrived j at Camp Hamilton, from Nat ; chuoches. In obedience to | orders previously received j by Col Thomldn, the militia I ol Apeloulee county were niufleied, and the necessity pointed out to them, by the general orders, of either vo lunteering their Cervices, 01 j fubmiiting to the humiliating j ntccsJ*y of being dialled.— I 1 lie irrit coinpany 10 whom ibis intelligence was convey* cd ccnsified rff perforis, ot w'k-.m t weni\ - e ;,.'P^ iniiantly volunuered lelves in the fcivice of ; t country ; of ani ther ( C ,J ny; double as numeion... ly fourteen peilcns (lit.; # themselves, wlo were r ica ns, and who have ncu (~■*! got the motto ol tl.i ir L j UI ■■ Conqueror Perish.” 1 ‘‘ Capt. Laden had org En ized a troop (,! Horse, gztitly uniformed, which ::i , Ifantly prepared for lervice. •“ The gautd left by u ft I Brtwer in charge of ‘ Ca n ,J Rt Hamilton, bad received or: kI ders to march on Ftiday, > 2 6th Sf pt em her ; and tj- e ni j_ iitia, ’Cavalry and lnfaiii n l| were to follow them the fco • day. B “ Governor Claiborne j, H expected in tcwma-nioriT H BALI’tMOItE. Oct. 10. I, Arrived, schooner Henriet-K ta.Fearfbn, 15 days lrom Si, Bs l Bartholomews. Left, a Haiti. B “more schooner, Drane, mat. w* er, arrived the day before; to J 1 other American vcffel. Spoke B’ nothing on the pa Rage : law r;y. K tbinig in the bay. Two ijpß previous to his failing, capt. F, ■ saw a letter from bt. (fating that a gale of wind tcduß place about ten days bfore&H had dellroyed aH'theveffyl.. iy. ■ ■ir,g in the hat hour of R oullesu, ■ Sc alio in St. Pierres and l uaß Royal, Martinique; that bill of tb.e town cf Kouifcau deitroyed, arid 300 perlons per. B • ifhed on board of the vdiel.-, I Heatd of n© Americans L’ mg ■ 1011. ‘1 be fame letter add;, that Miranda bad eii< Cku 1 second landing at a place, (the name of which is not recolkti ed bv the captain) a fiiort dill taticetotl e windward of La guira; that be Rood his ground, and would be able to do so, until the arrival of .lie Penelope, a Chip of the line, with other reinforcements from Jamaica, w hich bad certainly (aiied feme time before, and then it was expected there would be an infurreedion in his favor, particularly among the natives. NASSAU (n.i\) October 7. YYe much lament the having to recoiu another severe gait, (accompanied with a heavy rain) which visited this place on Sun day evening, more violent tbs that experienced here on the i st August, or that of the 14 huh. It commenced about 10 o’clock, lrom the northward and east ward, and. continued with in ‘ creased i'ury until about 2 oclotk cn iVlorlday morning, when gradually abated. Though 1 number of vessels were driven from their anchorage, and cast on shore, yet we are happy 10 find they w ill be got off without sustaining much injury-, except* j ing the brig Sheerwatcr, belong ! ing to Messrs- Fcrbes, Monroe, and Forbes, which lies {on sho e stove ta pieces, near the Yt atsr Battery. The Jnhii'ing vessels mere drives from their anchorage : Ship John, capt. Taylor ; brig Stork, belonging lo capt. -se*'- comb ; brig Black U ainnt, cap'* Sheffield ; brig William, caotam Hobble ; schr. Charlotte, the pn-* perty of capt. Geo. Johnson, schr. Venus belonging to l!i ----same ; tchr. Swift, the prop of Mr. Burton Williams; sch-- Lyme, the property oi M. Lora schooner Jason, the property y’- Paul Liglubourn ; sloop Search er, the property oi Mr. Barter, ■ Sen. sloop RoXana, the property of ivies Jr*. Henry and j Wood. B'ank Manifests , 111 ale t; this OUtcc s