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t.i l TO AUGUSTA. Otf.' let us seek the rural mead, Where Shepherds tune their vocal reedy And ev'.ry plant and ev'ry tree, Shall give its treasures, Love, Uthtti ' ' f '''''' Oh I let us Jly the noisy scene, And wander o'er the spangled ' green - Together eull the sweets of May, ' All along the Jlowry way. " "" And I'll compare the iPlets blue, . That's freshen' dbythi morning's dewp Oh ! I'llcompare it to the dye . . " . . Which sparkles in your azure eye I And when the blushing tender roset Soft-blooms of nature shall disclose,. Oh I I'll compare U to the Up Georgia . the appropriations was according ly made in .due time. . . The claimants at first view were unwilling to accept of the small, pittance of the 5,000, 000 which, by the convention between the United States were allowed to give for the compromise ; but when they considered that without the consent of congress the Indian title could not be by them extinguished, and without the extinguishment they would not be allowed to settle on their-lands, they felt disposed to accept what -was in the power of -the-United States to give, Whose juice is nectar, Love, to sip t The lily, too, tvliosc leaf is pale, . ' The fairest of the fragrant vale, Oh! I'llcompare its native glow , To thy fond bosom's brightest s.no-0. mm -T'ir7 '. DUELLING. A greater degree of ridicule was never thrown upon duelling, than by the following story : " " Colonel Guise, going one .campaign to Flanders, observed a young raw officer in the eame vessel with him ; and, with his usual humanity, told him that he would take care of him, and conduct him to Antwerp," where they were both going ; 'which he accordingly did, and then took leave of him. " The young fellow was soon told by some arch rogues whom he happened to ..fall, in With, he must signalize himself by fighting some man f known courage, or else he wouldoon be despised in the regiment. The younrman said he knew no one but Colonel Guise and he had received great obliga tions from him. " It is all one for that," said they, " in these cases. The Colonel is the . fittest man in the world every one knows h'13 bravery." - " Soon afterward, ip. comes the young officer to Col. Guise, ..as he was ..walking up and do w V in the coffee-house; and began," in- a hesitating manner, to tell him how much obliged he had been by hint, and how sens;, ble he was of his obligation. . ' Sir," replied Co). Guise, "I have done my da:y by you, 'and no more." " But Colonel," added the vmmrr officer, faullerine, I -am told' I must fight some pentlcman of known resolution, and who has killed several persons ; and that nobly" "O! Sir", replied the Cojoncl, u your friends do me much honor: but there is' a gentleman (pointing to a huge, fierce looking black fellow, that was sitting at one of the tables) who has kdbd a regiment." So up goes the officer tohim, and tells him he is well informed of his bravery and that, for tint reason, hi must fight him. "Who, I, Sir I" replied the gentleman : "why I-am i'cate, the apothecary!" From the Columbian Cent inch Circular Lf.ttfr from Tas Hon. MATlilW LYON, 'lo his Constituents, Washington, .Kirch 4, 1305. ' .The time for which the eighth congress was chosen, in which I have been honored with a seat by the free suffrages of my fcl- lu.r-citizensof the first congressional district In 1803, a law passed confirming the con vention between the United States and Geor gia in which the claims of the purchasers were again recognized, and they invited to a compromise and to record ithe evidence of their claims, which has been done at a vast expence ; and to further this object, the pre sident (who in a previous message to -congress recommended a compromise as mea sure preliminary to the settlement of the country) was authorised to appoint commis sioner to hear and report the offers of compromise which should be made, with their opinion thereon. Those commissioners, namely, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and the aitorriey general ap pointed by the president Jefferson, after a full examination of the nature of the claims and the attending circumstances, reported to con gress in favor of a compromise with the claim ants, stating that the interests of the nation, together with certain equitable considera tions in favor of the claimants, rendered a compromise in their opinion desirable. The subject of the compromise was accor dingly brought forward in the first session of the eighth congress, for all legislative sanc tion (as I considered") under the most favora ble Auspices. . I felt deply interested in the compromise, not that I ever-bought, sold or owned a foot ef the land, or ever expected to I own any of it, but I looked forward with plea- j sure to the time when by this compromise, j every objection to the extinguishment of the Indian title would be removed, and the coun try lying between the country I represtnt, as well as our neighbouring state of Tennes see, and the waters of the Asabtimar, the Tombigbee, and the other rivers running in to the Mobile bay, might he settled,, arwl .our. country by tharmeSns have a nw and more convenient channel and course of commerce than any she now has. I know of no object so important to the people of the Western country generally, as the settlement and po pulation of this contested country, not oniy on the score I last mentioned, but because the road from Natchez to Nashville, for near 400 miles lies through it, that road on which all our people must pass who return by land, alter carrying down to New-Oilcans and Natchez the produce of the labor of the peo- : pie of Tennessee, Kentuckey, Ohio, andthe I v csici n pins i; i v irinit ami i eiinsTivnnin, ! where many of them are robbed, some mur dered, and .all have to suffer humrcr and ! want or the comforts of life in a wilderness, ; which will ever remain a wilderness, while the contest continues, as the eovernrnent are sensible the claimants under the Georgia 1 grants cannot he kept out of possession of j their lands one moment after the Indian ti- ; tie is extinguished. I have reason to believe they will not extinguish the Indian title whilst : the contest continues. . ...I wish I could be convinced that this fire of contention has not , been blown up by some envious politician, i me tit to keep back the grnth of the Western j count 'it tn acn'.iismon to the stri-uirlh of which, by the Eastcrti owners throwing at j I once a large share of the Mirphis population, in Kentucky, having expired, and the second 1 iK;r industrious farmery into the best part session closed l.st evening ; agreeable to my promise, and what I consider my duty, T now jrive you a surr.nnry account of the pro ceedings of that. session, the fist part of which had been dull, formal, quiet, and un tmportnnt ; the middle turbulent and boiste rous, the last almost whoMy occupied by the trial of Judge Chase. 'ltbehoves me to eiphln myself with re prd to the transactions of the middle part of tliesvssion,hy the following narrative. ' In the year 1795. the government of the ' stitc of Georgia sold . jo certain companies, 35 ooo.OvW of acres ofihcir western lands, re ' ceived th pi ire agreed on, ar.d gave ample conve yaiices of the property n the faith of which the' first purchasers sold lo second prch iscra, they to others, and so on. A succeeding legislature, in I7?6, it seems Vn l not like the birgain nude by their pnde ceor, I hey-declared it founded in fraud, k without bnni;iiig one of these concerned in what thrv called Iraud. to ttial, they reclaim ed the property and offered to sell apart of their western territory to the United States. The p rchascrs frnn Georgia remonstrated a vnst the proposed sale to the United Suu-s, vl n-i'ifiei the president oT their claim, its vultditv fc'U estent. C'lOress. however,, by I i t.auvh nisedthe prcsidtr.t of the United Ji.4t.rs o a:cep the cesio-i of the territory p i, )si.d to hi cede I by Georgia, which in. il'iUs, U.oj j.oi) of sens more than the k f m m a i.rl rc tntntiuned rntrsbascs, at the amsj time mVio ; a provision for a compromise iili th Irctsi4 tUimnts. Sin time af ter tSis a convents i wit agreed on between the United Suus i iVGcor?ti, by which the Uni'ed S-atts hrrame lound to pise fof I te I in I ceded to them by Georgia, l,3JD,fK)0 dollars en ofth vdsrf the silts f the st.- lnd. In this convention the eaaspe r4'f!U'.con;'ians caused lobe inserted a tlau ln.itmHto s 013 000 tr acre, the nfmt of wnjn wiihm Mild Sho!!.! be liable to Ket'1 allthe Uimants by the way nfcgro. proo e, whifh, if not appropriated for that j)urioic wiMHH year, snouia rtverl to of the Western country, would by no means be pleasing to the great tobarco and cotton planters of the South, who, every day look for ward with terror for the time when they will be undersold by the western people belicv. in as I do, that no subsequent act of Gear. could have any effect on the title given by that state in 1795, and seeing the claim ants p wscssad of papers shewing a right as well authenticated as any I know of, to which papers every man placing faith in the go vernmcntal transactions of this country, has an ml u'Hcd right to give credit. I should have hut illy discharged my duty to my con slituents had I withheld any cITort in my power to get this compromise, so interesting to the Western country, completed. 1 '4 it very much surprised last year, to see Mr. John Randolph oppose this reasonable and necessary compromise with all the zenl of an enthusiastic, , honest, inexperienced young man, and a great orator. After the principle had been settled by a considerable' in&jority of the house, his cloqurnce prevail ed in favour of a postponement until the then next session. The subject has been again revived in the house -of feptesentatives by an application on the part of the claimants for I law to be passed, authorising a trial on the imrusoi me Claim ; inty at ine same umc ilctlarrd that they would be satisfied with any reasonable compromise. This arplifs'ion was on the motion, of the same Mr. Ran dolph, referred to the committee of claims t they repotted in iavor of compromise ; that Trpmt passing through the eommiuet tf the whole house, with little or no opposition, 1 fancied we were going to get through with this perplcsing boslntsiin an easy way, ho nor al ilc and satisfactory to the nation. In lHs 1 was extremely disappointed. Mr. Randolph in his opposition, added lo the teat, oratory and eloquence he manifested thcyear he fore, viryttnet, lntctixt,tttulantt ondcJym r, riXUI.IAK TO HIMSELF, sucn as wir (mid hatt been tovnttntnttd in the nafon A.4i if ttt,ttuiotiti i eit ma tnha teat fiet fauuriJ fj ftlj pttjudnt, fJtiaJilj and local attachment ? he ha been ttu)ed io re flect most severely on the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and the attor-. ney-general : , he has been allowed to charge the najority Of the house of representative, to their, faces,, with an intent to commit the most audacious and flagrant robbery :. he has charged the head of one of the departments of government with corrupt ing the members, and one of the. members of the house with at tempting to corrupt another :. When that officer called for an investigation ol the charge, Mr.Randolp's -friends, as if to streen him from the odium that must be attached to such unfounded charges, opposed the investigation requested by, that officer and the member who was your representative. , t On no subject has there been more pains., taken,-by inflammatory speeches, bacchanal ian toasting, &n& lying newspaper publica tions, to mislead the public mind, than on the Georgia claims. It seemed to be intended to represent the majority of congress as a bout togive away to a parcel of unprincipled speculators a whole region, a large section of the United States, a property of great nation al consequence, while the truth is, the ma jority of congress, for the peace and honor of the nation, have hcen willing' to .suffer a set of men (mostly from the eastern states, who, if they are speculators,' have always promo ted the settlement of every country they have been concerned in, by setdinglt, not with poor wretched tenants, but with those who own the soil and till it with industry) to hold about one eighth of a property they .honestly purchased and paid for loti before the Uni ted States had any claim to it ; a purchase the United States made without paying a cent for it, or being obliged to pay, but out of tHe avails of the sales of the iame proper ty ; a purchase made with an avowed in tentien of making the compromise. The tumult occasioned by the violence of the minority who opposed the compromise, aided by a determination to attend in a body and hear the trial of Judge Chase, in the Se nate chamber, has caused a postponement of this important business. It-has not been done as last year, by vote of the house, on every vote.leading to the merits of the ques tion there has'been a decided majority for a compromue, and live bill for that purpose has given way only' to The billr generally-'agreed" upon to be necessary or indispensable. In rny circular-letter last year I observed, " I have never been sawell convinced of the benefit of a second deliberative and collective branch of the legislature as in the course of the hist session. The calm temperate re flection of the Senate, has in many respects, checked the progress of scUinients, which, if adopted, would have been dangerous to the nation." I now repeat my confidence in the Senate, notwithstanding the attempt at the prostitution oj thexr independence, by an intro duction of a resolution for altering the con stitution, in a late nocturnal session in the house of representatives. The alteration I mean would authorise the state legislatures to rccal the senators at pleasure. This re solution is referred to the next session, and is another evidence of the improper ascendancy ofrjti and capricious leaders, disappointed in , their vengeance, have had over inexperience, .and honest submission, under the name of AD IILRKNCK to PARTY. .1 was one of those who voted for the impeachment of Judge Chase, in all its stages ; it was. however, my duty to submit to the decision of the senate a constitutional number of .that body acquit ted him ; I acquiesce. 'It was a question of great moment. Had they declared him guil ty, I shou'd have .acquiesced with the same cheerfulness. '1 his resolution for the amend ment of the constitution was PROFESSED LY to PUNISH the SENATE for having, according to their solemn oath, given the iudgincifl. their conscience dictated. Publications in the Aurora are probably ludtd f ?. , "BALI 1 MORE, April 1 2 1 5. . Ttsierdav fsavs the New-York Commer- cial Advertiser of-Tuesday last)- tint-country. scat belonging to the late General Hamilton, called the Grange, situated at Hacrlcm, was sold t public auction, at the Tontine Coffee House, and purchased by Archibald Gracie, Esq. for the sum of 30.500 dotUt s. Extract of a letter to a gentleman in Phila delphia, dated Marcguanc, March 9. " I have the pleasure to inform you of my safe arrival here from Santa Domingo, which place I Icf". surrounded by the negroes, within musket shot of the walls. Though they are numerous, the city will be able lo hold out as- long as they have provisions. 1 he garrison is strong say C000 men, panish and French, determined to se ll the place as dear as possi ble. There arc now no vessels to take them off: of course they may as well perish in combat, as be butchered by the negroes, which wouU doubtleis be the case should the city fall. Extract of a letter from the Supercsrpo of the schooner 1 icVler, to his owners in this port, dated from Cape Francoit, the 1 3th March. 1805. " A brig brlongint? to NewburytVirt ; the sch'r Jleautv. cant. West, of BalWftrf.rr , with three gunsj the sch'r , capfTWebb, of Philadelphia, and the Tickler, capt. frost, all went from here the day be lore yestcrdav, bound to leeward. They were not out more than three hours before 7tk Mathtn came across them. The Newbur) port brig heing dull sailer was left behind, Inconsequence . of which made her escape back ta lLe Cipe nd brought the news that alt thrteofthe schooDcrs were chsstd intt Port Frincoii, where they were alltaUem KexrmevRiY.j early capt. Webb arrived here in his bew, . and informed uj that his schooner an4; the " Beauty were taken, but that capt. Frost beat off the privateer and had run his sth'i1 ashore, took out all the cash and some other articles ; after which he wa determined to atick'to the Tickler. He could get only lour of bis own men to join him ; but being joined by the crew of the Beauty, (who saved them selves in their boat) went iS8ard again, and having got the schooner offvind loading hit gun (only one,) with double charges of grape, shot, was determined to save his vessel which he did, and arrivtd safe at Port de Paix ; the privateer was at one time within a ttone throw of poor Frost, and fired 3 eighteen, pound shot through and through the vessel, but not a man was hurt. The prirateer had ten guns and eighty men, with one,, or fvo eightt;n pounders. He carried off the other two schooners. I can assure you the Bight is full of piivateers, and every other place la the island. . The Tickler has arrived at Gonaives since the date of the above letter. The following has been received by the ecl? tors of the American as a translation of the recent edict of General I'.errand. Though as a translation.it mav be incorrect, it is -not doubted that it is in snbstunce authentic, as the source from which it comes is respectu- L.1- r i L. FERRAND. General of brigade, commander in chief of St. Domingo, acting as captain-genera!, and a member of the legion of honor. Experience has, for too long time, taught the general, that all kinds of regard und Mo dification towards those scoundrels,"'' v. ho -maintain the rebellion in Ilispuniola, by fur nishing every thing necessary to the rebels, against the will and approbation of their re spective governments, and who, by those act of cupidity dishonor the fiai;s they sail under. and finding the necessity of putting a slop to "rapacity, and to treat them pirates, has. .proclaimed and proclaims. Article I. All individuals, whomsoever found on board of any vessel or vesselsTellit or neutrals, bound to any port in Ilispatiola, occupied by the rtbcls, shall suffer death. Those found on board of anyvesset," aUics or neutrals, coming out . of any port ir. llis paniola, occupied ty the rebels, shall t.uf!"ci death. . . , Those found at two leagues distance, froni' any port of the coast of Hispaniola, occvpitd ov me reoeis. on douvu oi allies or nn-i ra s. J ' F chall suffer death." Art. 2. The General informs, that all pri soners made in those different cases, sjiall be . l i . - S)t JaV Drougni into one oi me ports in msrvMota, occupied by the French, to be tried tary commibsion, which is to pionoi tence. Art. S. This proclamation shall brj execution on the 1st I'brcal, (21st until that time all the proceeding pi tions in order to prevent all kinds ofcv nication with the coust of Hispaniola, occu pied by the rebels, -shall be strictly executed. i Art. 4. Of this present proclamation, tt gist ere d at the Colonial Inspection, one hun dred copies are printed, published and posted up in all the chief places, round the east part of Hispaniola imd all necessary steps shall Le taken to its publicity in all the UlutidO;d continent of America. ' Done at head-quarters of the General of St. Domingo, the 16th Pluvioc, year the 13th (eth February, I80i.) The general commander in chief, acting as captain-general and member oi the legion of honor. (Signed) L. FERRAND. Captain Allyn, of the bri; Aurora, from Martinique, was informed by a respectable Ame.ican gentleman at St. Picrres that he had seen a letter from Dominique dated the 9th of March, which mentioned that Ameri can vessels were allowed to carry away from that Island, in payment for their cargoes, rum.suL'ar and cVffce, of each one third : and the captains are required to make oath that they witl not take from the island more tl.aa 901. currency in specie. Commercial Adv. Rapid disorgamiation of the human bouy, ' A letter to general William Shrphetd contains icformation, that on the night cf the 10th day of March, IS02, in one of the towns of the state of Massachusetts, the body, of an elderly woman evaporated and disap peared from some internal and unknov-n cause, in the duration of about one hour and an half. . Part of the family ha gone to bet1, and the rest were abroad. The old woman remained awake to take care of the house By and by one of the grand-children came home, and discovered the floor near the hearth to be on fire. An ahrm was made, a light bro't, and means taken to extinguish it. While these thirds were doing, some singular appearance, was observed on the hearth and the contiguous fioor. 'I here was, a sort of greasy soot and ashes, with temains of a human bedy, ind an unusual imc It in the roomtAIU,,e htln were con.umcd j and Ihegrand-imilber was misting. It was at first supposed she had, in attempting to light her pipe of tobacco, fallen into the fire, and been burned to death. But on considering how small the fire was, and, that so total a consumption could scarcely have happened if there had been ten times as mech, there is more reason to conclude that this is anothe r case of that spontaneous decomposition of the human tody, of which live re are social Instances on record. It is to be rerreiud I, the particulars bare not been more ca:eful! u r.eted. ( Vmi.U r i&cn- I V ' Vila-
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