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A L EI G North-Carolina State 17 It ME G AND Gazette. v- . V FIRE ! i- .-.ur WRINTIWG-OFFICE of T C a t e urhptlv beet, burnt up, will f -oontfor the pretentfcminut ve appearance J .v. DiLinH BiciiTciL. Indeed. 1 Editor had io-agioed iha fufficient Type 5 .u have been prcferved from the wreck u.. minted en f fmail a Publication m at ill oriot S Sheet! thCtimcHZtOD DtU. refeot, he it indebted to Mr. Bt-ylan forth . -m a .a X a ift of hit PnnUr.gtTeis (who voluntarily md kindly offered it, j and any other affiftance ;.i his power) to enable him to pub'.ifh at ill -fear eel y any thing, bvt the iron work of hit ..vn Preft being prelerved. 9.. V aiftance. of. Mr. Da of War- reotoa (to whofe office the E r hat fer.t ipartct hu Hanfls;?ana ty Mr. Bovlsa't Preft until hit o in ufe of is refitted. r a new one procured, he ho; notwith- landing this calamitous eet, tbe able to have the Lawt and Journals of the late feffien of the General Aflemtly printed. and deli vered about the ufuai time, though a part of the printed (keen oi eath, ai well t the type of which a number of the pages were com pofed, have been dettroyed. The friend of the Editor, he doubts not, wHl be anxious t!cirn how this misfortune happened. It wou'J' confiderably relieve the feelinjtof the Suffeijer could he correclly af certain the caufe of the Fire ; but it is eave- loped in uncertainty, ana will probacy ever remain fo. The Office had been occVPied late on Saturday nieht with printing Ipff the Newfpaper ; but the lire was carefullyfcxtin guimed, and two perfom were jin throom the next morning, bit a fhort time befSre the 4axnea broke out, and fv no fire1 It a pof fible, however, that there might be fori em bers of fire ftiil ali ye on the hearth, and that a fleet of th laws which were 'hanging to dry miht have af.'eti or near them that thitfhret night tuvf caught fire, communi cated it to another rh;et wh'ch lay near that, and fo on, until the conagration wat pro duced : But it is extraordinary, that the flamet teemed to proceed from a clofet adjoining the ire.place, where one would fcartely think u jpuiuorc tcey couia o commuiucairu uum uic hearth. In this clefet, there was a (mall toU in the plark, through which fire might have been communicated from the couit-houf lot by an Incendiary. But this would have been fo foul an at, that the Edicr cannot imagine any huir.3n -bciiig in his vicinity a pible af perpetrating it ; He therefore con. tides tlve difalUr mull have been occafion ed by accidret. It took place about io o'clock oa Sunday morning, and in about an hour, (no'wirhftanding every exertion was made by shec.f.rens, and feyeral negraes, who have ihe tduof't warmed thanks the building, Jiictt of the printing materia:, and nearly the whole of the printed and unprinted piper, ete con fumed. The paper being in a lofr, the way to which lay through the clofet which '' n ft e, no attempt could be mad tofave any part of it. 'ihe EdiUr is not able at prefent to afcer tain precifely his lo's -; but he fears 2,000 iol!iis weulci not covf r v.. He need not add, xtader thefe circuroftances, that thofe who itard iiidcb ed to him.will confer ah obliga' tion by making immediate pament. j . j Jan. 28. J Mutual Infurance Society. TN purfuance of the Act pfTcrat the I 1 teffiono the General Affewibiy, for ef late :fta Miming Mutual Inluiance Society for io. furing Buildings, Goods and Furniture in this sMte, irom dtftrr.dicn by Fire, Kocks will ptoa ior the p-trp Je of receding Picpo- for Infurance fin the laid Society, on id Society, on ng places, viz. d Rd Iofephy d Tate axdT 'Nearieiaay next, at the folldwi Kaleigh, by John Haywood Gales : at Moreantob. b7 David H Stevt!7 , at SaViVury, by John Steele and cwunaird; ar HnUborough, by Wrn. Nor. wood and Wm. VVhi ted; at Fayettevillt by !"hn Ecclcs and John Hogg ; at Halifax, by Coodorutn Davis and Abraham Hodge ; at Edenton, by Jofiah Collins, fen. and Samuel Tredweli ; at Newborn, by John Devereux, fid Francis X.. Mariin ; and at Wilrajngton, by jalhuaG. Wright and George Hoper. , Pamphlets eontaining the L aw for inftttut g th,s ticiety, and ja copy of the coaftitution JMs bm hr Society ettablifced in Vtrginta.may "had for Mmii I (. ,..i;..t:.i. t .cjyeitcutioaed Hircdors r " - "CfHktueii iv mv 9( or Jei: And witn lucn aoneer, ne truiis nn tion IS great and gloriOUS in tllelf ; eadtrt will be fatisfied until he can procure b ftm grcalcr arMj more glorious --Typc and Matetials.atrethrtoekof Paper, - s . :!:JLhimfeif i new Office. Forth are the means by which it isob- nu a i w v . - - nk K mi 1 1 1 wdi ? , 1 1 i 1 . i i' ' ! i ; ! 'i ; j . -." i . ouijiana in poffejjion of the United States. F rem the National Intelligencer. American 1 THE event for which we have .11 looked with fo much f nliritiirfi- ,erhu reai-ifed- i.ouir,anv' i uu ui mc uumi. iiic acuuill. tained. In them are developed the energy and juflice of a Republican Government, and its perfect com petency, with the Itaft practicable injury to others, to tedrefs the wrongs, and to fecure the rights of the nation it proteBs. Never have mankind contemplated fo vaft and important an acceflion of empire by means fo pacific and juft, and never, perhaps, has there been a cnang. Gf government fo agreeable :r..u:.Q.,i : t-.. to the fubjeclsof it. May the ex. ample go forth to the wot Id, and teach Rulers the fuperiority of right to violence! To the firm and temperate con duct of the LegiUafure, to the en- y.aeneA an(J enercretir mPafiirnT ijgntenea ana energetic meaiurcs ot tne executive, ana to tne com manding and fupporting fentiment of the Nation, we owe this fplendid aera in the annals of our country. The virtues and talents of thofe who produced it, will receive the admi ration of pofterity": ours they al ready poffefs. This, fellow-citizens, is an ap propriate occafion for'joy. Cold n J ( -.1. . muu dc xae neari mac is not am- mated by the completion of this event. .very doubt has vamlhed ; the country is ours. Our brethren in the weft are exulting in the new ties that unite them to us Let us too rejoice, that' we are free, that we are happv, and that this great event promifes to make them as free and happy as ourfelves. a a . THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE On thitSubiea. To the Senate and Houft of Repre fentatives of the United States. In execution of the aft of the prefent feffion of Congrefs, for taking pofTeffion of Louifia na, as ceded to us by France, and for the temporary government thereof. Governor Claiborne of the rViiffiffippi Territory, and General Wilkinfon were appointed commif fioners to receive poffefiion. They proceed ed with fuch regular troops as had been aflem b'.ed at Fori A darns, from the neareft pft, and with lome militia of the Miffiflippi erri tory, to New-Orleans. To be prepared for any thing unexpected which might arife out pfthe tranfaftion, a refpeAable body of mil itia was ordered to be in readinefs in the ftate of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tenneffee, and a part of ihofe of TennefTee wat moved on ta the Nirchet. No occafion, 'however, arofa for their fervices Our commisfioners, en tneir arrival at New. Orleans, found the oro. .vince alredy delivered by f Spaifl to that of France, over to them on the zcth d as appeart by their declarato vmce alredy delivered by the commiflaiies who delivered it day of December. by their declaratory zA accomoa- nyingthis. Governor Claiborne being duly inverted with the power heretofore exereifed by ihe Geverner and Intendant of Louifiana, afl"umed the government on the fame day, i'id, for the maintenance of Law and order, immediately riTued the proclamation that is now communicated. On this important acq uifi tion fo favourable to the immediate intereftt of our Weftern citizens, fo aulpiciout to the peace and fe curity of the naion in general which adds to our country, territories fo extenfiveand fer tile, and to'our citQent new brethren to par take of the bleffirigs offreedom and felt govern- ' Volo non valcc ; Sper meliora. Monday, Jan u h k v 30. 1804. ment, I offer to Congreft, and our cciutry, ray sincere congratulations. TH. JEFFERSON, Jaa. 16, 1804. New -Orleans, Dec. z. S r,- We have the fatiafattion to announce to you, that the Province'of Louifiana wat this day fur rendered to the United Statet by the Commisfioaer of France ; and to add, that the lag o f our country wat raifed in this city amidft the acclamations of theinhabi taatt. The iacfofed is a copy f an Inftrument of Writing which wat figued and exchanged by the Commisfioners of the two 'Governments, and is defigned as a Record of this interefting tranXaction. Aecept aflurances of our refpeftful confi deratioa. W. C. C. CLAIBORNE, JAS. WILKINSON. - The Hoa. James Madifon, Secre tary of State. City of Wafbingtoa. The underfigned William C C. Claiborne and fames Wilkinfon, commisfioners or a geaxs of the United Statu, agreeable to the full powers they have received from Thomas Jefferfoi, Prendent of the United States, un der date of the 31ft October, 1803, and iwenty eight year oi the independence of the United States of America, (t Brumaire, i"a year of the French Republic) counterfigned by the Secretary of State James Madifon; and Citixen Peter Clement LaufTat, Colonial Pre fect and Commtsfionerfthe French Govern ment for the delivery, in the name ef the French Republic, of the country, territory and dependencies of Louifiana, ta the Com misfioners or Agents of the U. States, con formably to the powers, commisfion and fpe cial mandate, which he has received in the name of the French people, from Citizen Bonaparte, firfxeoaful, under date of the 6th of June, 1S03 (it Prairial, 11 year of the French Republic) counterfigned bythe Secre tary of State Hugues Maret, and by his Ex cellency the Miniftar of Marin and Colonies Decres, do certify hy thefe prefenti, that on this day, Tuefday the aoth December, iKo?, of the hriftian asra (28 Frimaire, i2ycarof the French Republic) being convened in the hall of the Hotel de Ville of New-Orleans, accompanied on both fidos by the chiefs and officers of the army and navy, by the muni cipality, and civers refpeixable citizens of their respective Republics, the faid W. C. C. Claiborne and James Wilkinfon delivered to the laid Citizen Lauffat, their afote faid lull powers, by which it evidently appears that ' full power and authority has been given them jo ntly and fsyerally to take poflfeshon of and to occupy the. territories ceded by France to the U 'States, by the treaty concluded at Pa ris on the 30th of April laft pad (10th Floi rial) and for that purpofc to repair to the faid territojy and there to execute and perform all fuch acts and things touching the premifes, at may be neceflary tor fulfilling their ap. pointment conformable to the faid treaty aud the lawt of the United States, and thereupon the faid citizen Lauffat declared,, that in v'vr. tue ofanlin the terms of ihe powers, com miftion and fpecial mandate dated at Sr. Cloud, 6 h June, 1803 of the chriitiae aera, (17th Prairial, 1 ith year of the French Kepublie) he put from that moment, the faid Commif fi oners of the United Statet in poffeslion f the country, territories and dependencies of Louifiana, conformable to the 1, a. 4, 5th articles of the treaty and the two conventions, concluded and figned tne 30th April, 180, (toth Floreal, nth year ofthe French Re. public) bet w en the French Republic and the U Stairs of America, by Citizen Francis Uarbe Marbais, Minifter of the Public Trea fury, and Meffirs. Robert R. Livingrtoo and James Muoroe, Minifters Plenipotentiary of the U. States, all three furnifhed with full powers, of which treaty and two conventions, the raiificatiors made by the Firft Conful of the French Republic, on the one part, and by the Prendent of the U. States, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate, on the other part, have been exchanged and mu tually received at the city of Washington, the a 1 ft of October, 1803 (18 Vendemaire, ia year of the French Republic) by Citizen Louis Andre Pichon, charge es affaires of the French Republic, to the U States, on the part of France, and by James Madifon, Se cretary of State of the U States, 00 the part of the U. Statos, according to the proces ver bal drawn upon the fame day; and the pre fent delivery ofthe country, is made t them, to the end, that in conformity with the ob ject of ihe faid treaty, the fovereignty and propeerty of the colony or province of Louu fiana may pafs to the U. States, under the fame claufes and conditions as it had been ceded by Spain to Fraoce, in virtue ef the treaty cn- eluded at St. Ildefoofo, on the id ot October, i8ooYo Vendemaire. a yeax) between thefe two laft power a. which has fi nee received its execution by the actual re-entrance of the TtrAaok D.ill! ! M ..Jt.a . ft t . tmVA colony r province. ; j And the faid Citizen Lauffat in confequence at this prefent time, delivered to the faid Commisfioaeri ofthe U .States, in this vuMtc fitting, the keys f the city of New-Orlean, felf, fellow-citiseas, accept a ftacere affu declarine that he difchareer from their oaths ranee, that during my continuance in the fitu- of fidelity towards the French Republic, the ation in which the Prefident of the U. States t citizens aad inhabitants of Louifiana, who has been pleafed to place me, every exertion fhall chufe to remain under the dominion of will be made on my part, to fofter your internal ; . And that it may forever appear, the under figned have figned the proces verbal of this important and folemn act, in the French and cngiiin languages, and have icaiea it with their teals, and have caufed it to be counter figned by theiT Secretaries of Commisfion, the day, month and year above wrtten. W. C; C. CLAIBORNE, (SI ) JAMES WILKINSON, (SI.) LAUSbAT, (SI.) Extract from the orders f Gen. Wilkinfon, given at theCampof the American Troops on the left bank of the Misfisfippi, near the City of New-Orleans, Dec. ij 1803. Parole Columbia. THE operation before us, howe ver Iimpleor late, will require much felf denial aad reftraint, to preferred that regularity, decorum, and or der, which we owe to our reputa tion, to the rights and lenfibilities of thofe whom we an to cherifh4 ana to tne cmrscicr or our country : 1. .1 c e - j the General, thereforr, claims moit earneftly the co-operation ' f the gentlemen of his command, for the maintenance of an uniform fyftem of rigorous fuhordination and difciT pline, without which the confidence of governmsnt may be abufed, the beneficent views of the executive of the United States defeated, and the honor of the whole corps indelibly fullied. In the courfe of politicalevents we behold a poll filed people (ftrangers tx our manners, our laws and our language,) call into our arms. Be it our pride and our glory, to re ceive them in the great family of our nappy cuntrv, witn :oria uiiiuwuii v4 nw luujtu ui embraces, and by the gcaerous hoL opening a navigable canal frorn pitality and folid fympathy which Nanfemond in Virginia, to Ben are every whe-due to the ftranger, net's creek in this .ftate, and frorri . let us difpel the .apprehenfions of Meherrin river to Roanoake river the timid, banifh the fufpicions of inthisilatc the credulous, and confirm the con- In Congrefs, on the tth ult. a hd.-nce of all, in the clemency, the corrmittec.was appointed to reVife wildom, and thejuftice of ihe. A- thc articles of Wif. Amotion was The General will aDolaud the r ... .... it meritorious loldier, who receives the Loufianian as hi? brother ; and he flatters himlelf the fentirnent will be um verfai ; but fhot Id he be dif4 appointed, he will expel from the the corps and mark with infamy the wretch, who may rettft the impui- nuns ui mc iiciicil magnanimous emotions and molt asd affec tions of the human hearrv The perfons and property of he inhabitants of every rank and evety r-: i, u.i j r--i -i oea-and whoever may dare to in. jure the one, or violate the other will be brought to fpeadyand con? dign punifhment. r " i The articles ofwaraie to be read to the troops at morning parade to- morrow. Certified to be conformable to the original, Uy order of the General, D. WADS WORTH, I Aid de Camp pro tem.; Befides thefe papers, the Prefident com muuicated the Proclamation of this event by Goveraor Claiborne, and alfo his Add re ft 10 the citizens of Louifiana , in both which he enjoins the inhabitants to be faithful in their allefiance, aad obedient to the lawt of theU. Sutet, and aifures them, that their viiaBrcc ana agriculture wm oe cnexitaed, aad that they would be protecte . in the en ioyment of their liberty and property, and the 1 reiieionof their choice. The Goveraor alfo J calls on the people to guide the rifing genera- .2m ! m U Mi .U . r..nkliMn Mnntnv anil virtue, and to encourage literature, that they j may duly appreciate the blettiugt they will eajoy under a free government. The Gover-' northna coo eludes hit Addrefs : At for mr. M,rriiiva flMs v cw j w a m j for it is only by fuch means, that I can fecoje A to' myfelf the approbation of thofe great and 1 jutt men wh prefide in the Councils of our J Nation." Raleigh, MONDAY, JAN. 30; . No late foreign news.- ' i-The Editor can feelingly recom mend to the attention of his readers the plan for eftablilhinr a Mutual Infurance Society, no offered to the citizens of this it ate y fuch an inftitution had been in exig ence at prefent, he would now have had a legal claim upon it for the -f u- iaf(wc u crm t,m . . , - j jt ga1ways been convinced of the uuhty oj fuch mftitutions, and de. tcrimned to have his property in- furedthe moment an opportunity offered. The late al of the Le- giflature holds put a'plan tor the purpofe, which he hopes every u n- infured citizen 111 the ftate will a- vail himfeif of ; tor who can fay his property may not be the next victim of the deiiruciive element it guards againft. The Virginia legiilature has ap- pointed acommittee to wait on the legiflature ol this Hate, to enter in- alio in a Hp krr thr nmmi im rY wive i - w m-m-m a - w aw a W 9m W af V ' and means to bring in a bill to diA continue the loan-offices, VWliich, . lay on the table.: On the ijtlv 'the - propriety ot extinguimmgthe Jute- balances was under conlideration, but no decifion was had. f It has been already Hated, thai the motion for impeaching Judges Chafe and Peters was grounded on their conduct in the trial of one Fries, of Pennfylvania, for high treafon. The following are the facts "k? bjr Mr. Smihe, a member irom r enniyivama .: ; " The Judge told the jury and the counfef,- lh" ?" ?ad Bd0 vf what eoaititlltd rrlns. tk ih.a UA T: ""LlTirVr mitted their opinion t writinr,. and that the ' counlel muft therefote confine themfelves to i the faOt in the cafe before tht court, . couafel replied, that they did not difpute thtt faOs, but they were able to fhew that they ditt V not conftitute treafon. The end of the affair was, that the couofel retired from the court and the man was tried withcut cennfe), con vidled and fentencod to death. He wat after wards pardoned by prefident Adams? Died ' .-vir,.'. j At Chapel. Hill, on the 13d inir. of an atpet f7t Mr. Samuel Love, late fte ward I th uaivernty. - A ti i - r ' .
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