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RALE I G H, October 8, 1799.; In confluence of the late Governor having gi'cn information to the officers of lUte. in this city, that they were to confidcr Benjamin Smith, efq. Speaker oL the Seriate, as exercifing the powers of Governor, from the 12th ultimo,, he arrived to thia city yeftetday morning, . for the difpatch of public buhhefs, where he will retaain (we are told) during the exifting neceh fity. . . t f. .. jUf-,l -nUr!n nfn-" med, that the board of commiflioncrson American clai m s, a r i fi ng u nder the Brit ifa treaty J has difconti nued thtir fittings; fo that all hopes of indemnity for lolTes fuftained by depredation on our trade, mult now vanilh, at lead, for fome timc, This very important and highly interefting intelligence, comes fully authen ticated, from a quarter, to which every degree of credit rr.ullbe attached. It is faid ' the comu.ifliuners on our part will return to this country, as all p'rofped of the difference - befng fpeedily accomodated is at an end. " "TlTiTcifcu m'l ance has arifen from, the co.mrnifGoners on the Britilh claims having ecafed their fun&ions in Philadelphia. ' So that weare now as , we were for, in treaty with England is now ali in the wind." - Bofton paper. ExtracV of letter from capt. thvid Baldwin of Sto . . 1 . tr' a x t nrflgtbn, to Bis orotner, aatca xvinguon yiuun.; "T Joly 21, 1799. : ...J,!.-' . . . .": The times are bad the Englim and French art 6 capturing Wonle, pftrl:'?.16" ."y W American veffcls in this port, c i were fent anUbroiighT in by Britifh cruiicrsaud thew cargoes have been con demned." ' : . :t ' Mr.' BoriAif, 1 TT7" HEN EVER men or Diincltles become offen- tirrnmet then the dt'tY of Actuated alone from this principle, t am induced to rr. : : r-rt---r- , . I ,- rrpreieni to you ano uic wouu, ic puum. '"u-" marl who aflumei to himfelf the direction cf the peo pie. - Mr. S. a Representative in Congrefs from fbme eoiintles iri Hillfb'roUgh diftria, is the perfon on whom 1 call the public attention The great tribunal df the people never tf.il to correct immoral ana punn n frrrH frm Falfp rcDrefrntations. Th niatfy V'kl o " V y . tibnj this manproftrCs to yoo all the diff.rent relii ons which the refpe&ive focitties in his dUlri& poffefs, .altefhatcly the one in cxclufon to the otl.tr. I bis u, the than, who with an air of hypocracy, chaunts hymns, fpeiituil foni, and with religious fcrvrr ir fjjirtd with fanfttktfm, dc'lude the ijnoant into a belief, that he . is truly the . pious. man. I appeaUa alLthe religious 'eorigregations for the truth of this, and to you gen tlemen Quakers, if-he.fcu not in torn given you pro: fcffionS of" the inward works, snd in ftionc terms oi gravity, intimate his inclination of around hat, bruad back c6ut, &e. This he has'done and more too to become i member of Congrtfs ; and when'at CongrtG, ' -. MnroAcr xef i if is as I have understood from men whofe minds are capable of difcernment, JKj eorhancy. Here I will appeal .to his colledguesr if he 'is' not th It perfon who is counted amongthe rubbiih ; :' 6ne'"whd: is ftleemed to pofTtfs no principle or fentiment. v When at Congrefs, his tirne is chiefly fpent in wtitinij ftditious letters to his cocjUrnts, afpfrfmg the go- vernment with infamyandrcoriuptiQn---rt goycrnment, j the principles and.f ration of which he is'as ignor : as a fchopl boy. WKat right .has a man to judge f all aBs of a governu ent, when he has never inform ed )&ttfelf of the hiftory pf - mankind and of. riatious ? . Jfls, true that cviry nun has the right qS his own tho't about things with which he is familiar, ytt 'he flwuid ' 'itbt Be arrogant in affuming the riht to judge of that iKi-K fn infiirmjthin. talents and abilities are uot 'r jidapted $ Jii II as impertinent is it as a man who af- inmei tnc KnowjcujrcTJr "niry mi ut'ivii"i,... ht is unacquainted - Mr. S. may be a Latin and ' ''Greek fcholar for what I know or care ; yet .men of :frrTat;nn far' that' he is without, parts and geaeraf k'nowVge, fuch as politics, hiftory &c.&c. Read .polit ical letters we find that they are iuvcaives a- gainft every mefnrc that is adopted, afpertiuns of the. vileil nature, and yet noreafon afliid or facl adduc. : ed in fupport of them? What idea mull we foim of man, who thus llanders without afiigning fads or laying down pTincipKS to fupport Cuth a . torrent of a-: ' fcufc ? Would not every candid mind fay that he is a - . . t . . 1 .ir J Tt J I .. If .t" .11 1 . 1. f. 1 t Xw rV Art Citi V J " ivly fellow countrymen, what refpecYis due to a liglorv and politicsnd pfLftitiltes the dignity; of t)ie human mind , to ,mere".fycophancy ? VVho' is actuated from no otheV motive than maely to obtain a feat in r,nT-rr ai4 th. r nn f.ii-h diflionourable terms. -Can W 41 ' I -' - - - on al, thus ading the playfoT.e whimiies of .monkies in human lhape. It it a public calamity that fo- ref peclable a Qiitric as this man reprefc fits, have never paid that attention to him as td judge tightly of his merit. I mean not to detract trem Mr. S. that which is due him, and if -1 could difcover wiat that merit is, 4 I would mention it. I am not act uate'd, from fpleen or any improper motive,, but merely from the avertion 1 nave in leemg ignorance ana impertinencg pear aown plain fenfe and common eaToa. . I mean. nothing more than to correct the cvila which injure the the comrriu-; nityr-which become iranotss: to ones country, and that patriotic zeal which mould warm the breaft of ,tvery man ; and actuated from this I llcp forward in itscanfc . A Citizen of Hillborough pijrifo . Mejrt. HoDGl ttf Boruv, . . . . T Cannot help regretting the degeneracy of human nature, when 1 look around tne. and uerccivt thofe perforis with whom wc have intruded the moil impor tant' avocations of goverument 1 whom wc have fclect ed from among burfelves; in whom we have conterred offices both of honour aad profit ; and to whom in the preient precano us ttate;.QU.ttar.pa"91l, yP1 upTor guidance and protedlion, as child en ib a fathei . linriarTnar btljrTTffrettiiig I fayj that thefe very men mould be the molt iftive. and fedulous in deftre'yinj that peace and harmony which fo mild and To Brm 1 government is capable of offoiding, ancl which we haife enjoyed,' and mould Mill enjoy, were it not for the bafe and vilainous comhrcYof 'thofe' wlio inftealof pfomot-' iiiff the welfare of their country, take every opportu- their power to fratter the ferda oLuiJcorJ and Lift of Lctterseymaihing on hand at the Poll Office in Fayetteville, Odober 1 , 1 799, which it not taken out bef ore the fim4ay of January next, will be fent to the General' PcnTOffice,as de , John Boydj carpenter. Favettevile ; Francis B rice, cfq. near Fayetteville ; Edward Byrdj efq. fen. Martin eounty. ' . " .. . ' John Calvin, efq. New Hanover county ; Samuel Colly or Colby, Shcepfcat river ; Mifs Rachael-Cleri- -ton, Sampfon county ; Daniel Campbell, Little river. tMbtrianti wurity --v-7 '-,.;-r r-m ' Abfolam Davis, Robe Ton county ; Daniel DouglaCi Richmond county.. , . v.. t David Evans, .near. Fayettevilic, , ? : " . ' , "7 John Fergufon Cumberland county ; CapU Ifrpel Folfom, Ciirnberland Couuty ; Alex. Fergufon; Meri (hsnt. Fayettenillc j Charles Fredric HuguerieO Fay- :iu ' ... , William Gutthrie, Bladen couDty,.T 4 i Charles Hendry, -New Hanover county, care of P. Mullen William ; Hendry, New Hanover cpunty. Col. Gabriel, Holmes, near Fayetteville; j George "Hlghtewer, Kobefoti Tceunty. . s i , Pomtmck Jordan, Fayetteville j Jtue jackfon, Cirrri-- bctland county . I .Mrs; Zilpha Laflitefr i6 .mile .ahovc Fayetteville I I Kenan Lp7e near Fayettevilic j Rev. Collin Lind fay, near Fayetteville. . ,.'.' , . Jacob Matthews, near Fayetteville Dan. M'Dou gel, Cumbetlnd county, i ; John Murphy, jiitt. Cumberland County ; Findley Murphy', New Hanover comity, care of Pvter Mallett , Margaret M'Artbur, Cumberland county ; Charles M4.llcltcr, New-Hati nitv in ' i . - . . . . . r t 1 r r .1 '. f I diimion..vn4fc4nwdaLt!at low-citizens, who havnt Jiot in the:r power to dcte Arfam-Fa'vrttt-ville : Geor?e Morifcv. t-fn. nr Fair. , . , j , . . p - -j te caafide in fuch a. man who .vonld feU.hMs mind and i-'inity for a Angle vjtc ?If Jt yalaeis fo' low. priced rre. what' Will be the terms in Fhfladelohiavt What g n "b e1 tfry v ft fee ,")ofit'rpep) ehtwMrgnhasuc founds ? What muft be the public character forrnedoail, a people,-, who have faceted htm for wifdorn and virtue -i iai who-4ijtnia.hMnfafith "the name ofa rati. thtir dettflablc maUiination. I am led 10 thefe obhrvas ions, from an undoubted piece of information which l.have icceived rtlpeding an exenrfion taken by the.T.eprefntattvc from Hillfbo rough diftrid, into ft vaal t;f the weftern counties, jot the onrDofo as he orctet d to lav, of merely rnbuiring Iritb The' politics of his rtate rhut iris"too plarn- (and- more h the pity) that his motives are ot a Paler Kino, la n.ir rrnvf Tiimi-ht rorrnntcil ? Ate l he oriilciDles of our public olhcers vitiittd ? Is -our--chic-f rnagiitrate partial? Arc any of the late aftaof Congrefs intended to enflave th ceople ? If n t, us ir. evident, what can in- d'.iceMr. S. to nr.ake fu : unwrranied inrinuatioiis ? Wh;Vt but the moil nnhcar'd. jf audacity. Uh a (hame ; It is a difince to the (ta, to chpofe a mafi to rcpre. fent them in fo honourjble and fo important an ciricf, who i fo Utterly drficient i'v aU' the characlcridTcs of -a rrpreferiTative of a free p? op!e. He (hould be arrefted in his iniquitous; progrtfs and as it. is evident, that he is a Cvb of the old Lyon, he ought to be chained .down to fome occ't!p?.;on .Utter foiled to his capacity, and lefs liable to be injurrd by hia vicioufrfefs, and there to enjoy, and fufiftr o be enjoyed, thofe blcffin which ouf.govcrnmtnt, if unmoleflcu by fuch political bcalls would ccttain'y afford hs. My motive for addrelTinvr yon fo particularly on this fubjeft, is to-put yoti and vouf ftUow-citixens onjoyr guard agflinll fo trtcheroin and fo vile an incendiary ; for J am informed tht his tour is not y."t compleated, apd that he intends (Wtly to pay you a viCt, and if he does, that you may cive him a receptiotrwhich may faew him. the puii.ty r f your principles and the bafe liefs of his own, is the finctre tvifh of a : - ; FEDERALIST. TThe author of th above has left his namc.1 Lift 0 Letters femai-Jng in the Pii-Offite, at Raleigh Oftiber I, 1709. r - JOHN Kcnnor., 2 ; Abner Page, 8tcphen Gibs, The Clerk of Wakr, James Liaef, Lieut John Wilkinfon, Major A. D. Moore, John Pair, Boiling Hobbs, Robert Burton; William Hinton, John Hay wood, efq. Lewis Green, Dread Jons, Bryfon Dob bins, Hon. Alfred Moore, Littleberry May, William Norwood, fen Thomas Spain; Samuel Moody, Jacob. $dams, Etheidfead, Jones, Thomas Cogbell, Jofiah WfFE)4wardl, r"Be'njfninTempIey.:';WilJiam Anderfon Fovler,. J(aac Jones, John Whitaker, efq. William Hinton, Principal AfTeflor of Wake, Samuel High efq. The Principal AfTeflor of Wake County. STATE OF GEORGIA.! PERSONALLY Washington -CduNiV. j X appeared before fne Micajah Fulgham, one of the Jddices of the Peace for faWf county, lofiah Taylor and Miles Langley, and beiiicr diilv fworn, Saith, that in the month of Dei cember in the date of 1706, they, fet out from the county of Tohnilon In "North-Carolina, in company with a certain fob Cobb, allliound-fot-the-5tate of Georgia ; and the deponents' fnfther fay, that the faid Cobb continued with them until they arrived in the faid State of Georgia, where he is at prefent a citizen, and underwood character i they further lay, thatthfy liave lately peeniniprmea inai accnaiti liipmis rncc of the aforefiid cOHOty of Johnfton, Ihortly after the deponents left thraforcfaid county, publicly reported that the atoreiaia jio vuo pyoucij wuippcu iu the Town of FayrtteviUe or a njilJerrjeanor,, at; a whipping poft, which the deponents do certify to be ia41fVepooeat,iiixici -r - MOSES -.LANGLEY, JOSIAH TAYLOR. Sworn to before me this -19th day of Auguft, 1799. . .LCAJAH FULGHAM,. P. cttevillei Daniel M'MilUri, Cumberland coiJntv : Du gaid M'Phale, Hatter, Faycttevillc ; Peter M'Kellar, near Fayetteville. ( . . . John Nccdharh, Randolph county ; Thomas Nor ment, Duplin coiinty. , Wjlliamjrlaad, clerk jCM'Iaticlbuy IJ- j onn r oDi nion u pun cou nt y -TheShefiff-ofrCumbeTljnd coTinty7"t" Benjamtn Shields, Moore county; ThomaaT ;Scwell, Sampfoa county. ' ;. ' " "' '" . . , fe?J.ob THigpen; Duplin county ; William Tu izvr Fayetteville ; Wiilam Thomas, Adronomer, near FayttteyiKe. , Hugh Wall, care of Robt. Adam, Fayetteville; Benjamin Woods, .campion county.- JJUNCAN M'RAE, P. M. VALUABLE PROPERTY, Within fix miles of the City 0 RaUhk, T! HE fubferiber wiming to move to Cumberland, will fell his traft of .Lani, containiner 74.6 a- cres, with the vhole of his flock confining or foity head ot cattle, 70 head 1 hogs, 15 head of fheep, &c. The land is well improved an excellent Apple or chard of 600 treesa Peach orchard of Too trees -a good Dwelling houre, kitchen, out houffs and ftahles ind a well improved garden an excellent well of water and two fpritigs.-r-This Land is well watered and adapted to wheat, corn and tobacco. ' : 182 4 REUBEN HUNTER. SHERIFF'S SALE. V "N the oth of November next, at the Court honfc in Luuiberton, will be fold the following Lands. to fatisfy the tax due thereon for the year 1798, toge ther with the contingent charge not previoufly paid. ico acres on the Big Pccofan, patented by Aaron Strickland, aud faid to be the property of William Hudlar. "'- ' .,.. ' ' ; JO acres lying 00 the head of the Bever Branch, and. eaft fide of thcLlttle Marm, fuppofed to bt the pro perty of JaCoblkner. 200 acres on Carries Mill Branch joining the landi nf Alexander M'Gahav faid to hp tb nrnnrr nF nnm J - - - 2 v VHW ... M-Pnnlfniia. - - - ' : . co acres on both fides of the ten aiile Swamp, Join- - i ng t he 1 an - s of E 1 mend BaxleyandXa !eb Bcggs. .1. ico acies on Duti'a Marlh, joining Forters, or near Hardy Counccls lands,' faid "to be the property of Mul 200 acres oft the Little Mardi, near the Lumber Bridge, faid to be the property of Chriftopher M'Rea. . 50 acres on the waters of Big Rocktffi, faid to It the properly of ffc'&or M'Kennon. , ' loo acresjoining'Brownii lands faid to be the proper-' ty of John Conley. IOO acres on Bir Rockf.lh. the orooertv of Daniel o ' , t . i - M'Kennon. inn ar rri- On I he Rmvm Djm 9 krinrli rtf,T.Pafl' Swamp," faid to be the property ;o-Duncan Smiths 100 acres in the Calbery Swamp, thepiopcrty of tKc heiraof Jou Pernell dtceafed. . t ' The above-mentioned Lands havingnot been givea in agreeable to law. Roleon county, 03. 3. R, HA1LLS, Shf. '. 1 1 rv. WANTED,; At THE TJuiTERSllY orToBTH-'CAROLl'llAf" . r pLWXl-ar-lthtecy-aaiKMtMisiJSMJiexxui sgi.r.t&9 A which a generis pnee will be given by the month. 1 Scpttmlir , - JOHN ROGERS.
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