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r' ia" -V s-i" q1' V. '-V ve have not vet learned the cecistoa year. Whereas 'iri times public difliculty and 1 BembJfi rwli ef the laws bf the several States in the Union as have been received during 1 of Ujc Senate the recess, are doposited in the office of the Cr. given ihvlredeil countjffor, JFTectofi Muggins (fed.) 435- Fbraey rep.) MM- vgfTHURSOAYj'' DECEMBER 1 1 808. peru, li is czpcuteni mai inose, wnom arc confided Che care of the national interests and the preservation of the national should be well informed1 of the1 disjwSuioo'and senti-' 'Tftents of tne'peopl6 Vhom thyTeptesent and whereas the present eventful Crisis in the' affairs of the United Stated mberiously "de- Secretary -oi owe.

1 will trespass no longef on your. patience, but will close this communication by wishing ahann session and by observing that the last pagevrill be, found Judge Po wr tercasons forhe opinion he gave of the ca WRn sa7 -ttung aoour right Soldiers had to" vote, (intend. general butin the present the proper education of tie youth of oar coun-J iriandsthau Javim aside itfinof differences of ed for our last paper, but postponed for" want senous state, pt things the country, atid the improf eroem oi.our jmcmai at'ioni are objects of such primary impor-, opinion, all in the Supphr 6f tnc just rights bf their country of room.) sAresnect Jor the opinipn of Judge lu uce iqdc-uic- Potter would make me doubt my own con vie- conwianaer ro cttet urease an army: is csilca into se'rvrce Spirit lions oh this and every occasion but I must: tance as to nave a ursi ciatm io ywr on WILLIAMS Omotidn of Mr. Gaston, the above Mes- Be it therefore resolved, that the Legislature of North-Carol ina, behold, with senti I rrtents of indigrfatibn, the repeated violations 4 t.ir. 1 i -n paiiuiiqj? WKeo place nerjczyip inetc six davs past without av one'candidate obuinfne of the rights of the United States, cohimitted.

iaijo itypf the two bbusei The lat tjaUot Goodwm 6. -Locihart 46, Joeph aajW, 54 ji YJ WIWMUMVW the part of this house, to jMeW. X. Jone? tove, Pearson, RobardV of CiranvUle, Heii- derson. Grist.

Harrison, Ballard, itos- S' tfhs, GMtohtfatehVyAV; Jopej; Owen, r.nadwin. and Johnsloa of Anson. ty the belligerent powers of ELurope their numerous insults to "the national sovereignty and independence and "their hovel nd un-rnahly'mode of waging war, but indirectly a gainst each ether, and directly against Unoffending neutrals. i Resolved That this Legistature du i4. ly appreciating the inestimable value of a na-.

tionalgovernment, and yie necessity ot attorn iug to it that aid and co-otie ration which are In cumbent 'ori ali good cit zens individually and THE BILLSB7lippGHRACnS, '-Piraf day, Mile hea't ffeyJr-. Levi -t BakrVfctod by Ja Col.tShcpSrdi Nlty lUrtcd bay btud colt Dawlanj'a Qaocfc nd ThomaEay'i bay-ittw coh all by Clown. Beti.ey iJak.er won fjr baU Nelly Flaifek wa'i Cond.0awk.ifili Ciance. 3dX-and The. RayVcolt, tK Jilly Flattxit won the 2 i.

tt4ker mm JloM, and tKe tyj Rv' Betsey Baker won the 3d and Uipute wa rivto bnerbythe Jidges. 1 Second day, tuTo mite heat, Mar O'Gilby'i bayaT feyr. Diome'd, hj General Bematt anrTCat. Mooftf Say'Cbev ty Driver. naparte won the first ease, and past the Ba Doe in the first hatf rhiie ot the second l.

at. wjwccuveiy, are prepares. io support us jusi measures wit-unanimity and zeal, and, in the cause of their country, to submit to all the pi vations, to encounter all the inconveniences, and to a resistance to foreign insolence and injustice shall demand of Freemen and Am'eric ns. And resohed further, Thatihis Legislafure fetl the strongest conviction that the sentiments thus solemnly professed, are not peculiar tc themselves, but are cordially "entertain ed by their constituents, the People of when the Bay Doe yielded, and the purse wa tax.en bv persist in saying with the greatest defference to him, that Lam still of. the opinion that the soldiers have not the right to vote and as the precedent is without an example, I think at leasts for the reasotfs 4.

before published, thep shotild have; been prevented But as ft is merely a difference of opinion feel no dis-i' position to 'enter the lists on a subject of such importance, where I must inevitabTe'appear to a disadvantage. Besides I have no desire, to give any cause of interruption io that friendly intercourse and harmony- subsisting between Judge Potter and myself, 0n Monday last, David Stone, Esq of Bertie, was. elected by the Legislature, Governor of this State. Stone 96, the present Gove'nK or Williams 7 6 votes. JX Gofernor Williams was elected iastSes-sioh by the republican members theiederal-ists vottd fur Governor Alexander, whom they supported upon the principle that it was setting a bad example to tt out of office a mn whom the found no other, fault, than that he? haa the independence to sensure a law passed at a previous session.

As no other charge was laid to Gov. Williams Other than being a federalist, the federalists With manyisgpssionate republicans, support- ed him It was therefore not only cruel, but highly iniquitous in the republicans to desert him But it was determined in a grand caucus dif republicans, or more properly speaking Jacobinic club, that Judge Stone should be'" many well meaning men, were dragged reluctantly into the measure, under the fear of being denounced by their leaders. "We had determined to have given an account-of nightly meeting, Urn having lvceiyed a description from a by-stander, (which slrili appear in our next,) defer it for the, present. The samenday ihey elected Leonard Henderson, EsqJjudse of the Superior Courts to fill the vacancy by the death of Tliird iqk three mile TvesoAtvNov. i9.

Lore presented a bill erecting the Was Genjral Benton' i bay" eklinf R'ibicoii," fy Iderraan, and I.Mr, wnet siod, Expecwtioxi, by jix years fcxpeeiafi-on in entering the 3d m'ileol the Arst heat, aiio same out COTj.derably a head. Mr. Kaathrendrew hr? burse, -ahd fhe purse waj fivett toRubiCtfri. It ichiit jJtics to Mr. Ran'a horse, 10 renwrkthai both beiorr and after the heat wit run, thcGeneiar eclared Mr Ran' horse in his opinion, among the best of horsey but entirely iuQ gross tuiua the dis ance for which he wan started.

ABJiaB. BRUCE, Vys The following petitions' were presented, viz Mr. Robards, petition of Miles Bell of Carteret, paying to be divorced from his wife Penelope read and referred; Mr Brown, the petition of Stephen Ster-fmg of Robeson, praying to be secured against the payment of debts contracted by his wife referred. Mr. Pearson, the petition of George Blaze of Rowan, and a bill to restore to credit said' read and referred.

Mr. King, the petition of B. Cartway, praying" the' remission of -a fine for an assault and battery i read and referred. MrVHamson presented a bill to alter the flame of Abner Boy km and to legitimate 'him." Mr. Johnston of Anson, presented a bill to repeal the lib and amexid the 15 sections of the act for the more uniform administration of justice within this State.

This bill con templates the removal of state prosecutions from the seals of the old district courts to the counties where the parties belong. Mr. Gilchrist presented the petition of Young Utley of praying to be divorced from his wife read -and referred. Mr. Arnold, the petition of Rtith Chapel, praying to have certain "property secured to h.r from the claims of her husband read ami referred.

Mr. Terrell, the petition of Micajah Pickett and Susannah Jones, on the of divdrce read and referred. FmuAY, a 5. A message to Senate, proposing tb ballot oil Monday for Governor, and norninatifig Benjamin Williams, David Stone and Robert $urtoni Message from Senate, nominating for Judge Henderson, Robert Williams of Raleigh, Edward Harris, Blake Baker and Hen ty Seawelf. A ballot for imptrbller took pface, when oris in nomination had a majority State Mrth-CarSiino' RpridJfl County.

Court cf Pleas and Quarter- Session's. Jovnjber term," 1J08. V. Alexander Gray and titers, EUneter trrnce, and Mury his -s Petition against Deftruiantj a Guardian of Elita Parlte aif infant. This petiibn ii fiWd for the pu'rOole crttinr tnm being securiue-fur as Guardians ftlita Paike.iniant.asto coroiK.1 deeTxiau 10 giveothef Judge MXay, an'cf which the eouncii stat icr stcuruies anu it appeanm tothe curt r.iat the da ajJAaceliniMibirantsjil is-o'-dereil bv the dou ihat nubllrariim h' marl'o r.f rk West part of Buncombe into a distinct County read and sent to senate.

Mr. N. Jones presented the petition of sundry citirensof Wake, on the subject of laws relating to' mill dams' read arid referred. Resclu.tto'ns submitted to the Striate, fc' ften. Jas.

iHellborne. on Monday, (he 9ih of Jiovem-6er, 180S The (ieneral Assembfy cf North-Catollna, viewing the present situation of the United States in relation to Great- flritafn and France, as being alarmingly as requiring the exercise; of the greatest energy and prudence on the part 6f the Gen'ei al Gevern. ment, and the highest degree of patriotism unanimity amongst the real lrritnit3 of their Country, they are of opinion, that as great clamour has been raised against some of the meas'urt-s lately taken by our which may have led foreign nation's to believe that the pfci -pie of the niftd-States arp a divided people, unable or unwilling to Carfy into effecf any energetic meaures of th-iif go-vernment -it may serve to s'tfengthen the hands' cf those who have the management of our national affairs fur legislative and chei phlic bodies, to pul 'hah an expression of their sentiments on the prt sent situation of "'our relations which the General Assembly of North Carolina do, in the; following resolutions Kesvlvecf; Tliaf we view tfie pretext onered by Great Britain for not making reparation for the acknowledged outrage on our frigate the Raleigh Mmerva tor three Wcefcv for the del'ndaix to appear at court, to be holden'lbi the county of Randolph at the eotart house in shbaidugh, on ihe fiut Monday of Ktb.uary next, and pleai t-iorinsverhe said petition, oth-erwise the same wiU be taken prb ccnfetto agaias' thSm and be heard ex parte, JESSE RPER, c. SHERIFF'S SALE Mr-Johnston of Warren, presented the. WILL BE SOLD at he Court-House, Rich on iriduy jAe-SQM Dtiemttet nrttj thi LASDS, or so much ilwetf us wi i txfa the' bestowed on Blake Baker, Esq.

butement of vote's -Henderson- lui, Baker 65. And the same da Mr. Gales was re-elected Public, Printer without opposition. We mentioned in our iast that MessrsJR. fV.

Goodman and Benj. H. Covington, were elected eng-rossihg clerk. State of the poll- Covington 139, Goodman 95, Brickell73, Hill 75, Fomey Bunn 1 6, J- M-FarUnd son of Duncan, Thomas Gales 14, Harrison 4. On the next ballot Major Brickell was elected.

Campbell, chairman cf the om-niittee, to whom had beta referred so much of the Pre3ideni's message as respects our relations with foreign powers, made, a very lengthy report to Congress on the 2 ad Nov. If appears to be nothing eSie-than a violent philippic against the British jTovernmeiit, and ah apology for the French decrees. After proceeding in a violent strain against the British' orders, he ntxt speaks of the French Uerhi decree. That decree (says Mr. rnight he considered merely as a municipal law, foiSidiling the introduction of British merchandize, and the admission of vessels coming from England.

Under thst aspect, 'andif-confjiietTto that object, neutral rights of America were notlufected by its opetatiun." Great, Britain might be; injured, by such regulations but America had no more right fTtomplain of that part of. the decree, tliah France had 16 object ta the American non-iiri-poitatiori acfo'Vri After proceeding at' great length, occudv- JVrm due on them for Keytar ecres gien in by Fianas 13') io. do. Jjnan Bjwnds. H5dor do.

do. Rictiard Dean. 4Q do, ds. do, Ttiomas Leveretifl .1 25P do. do.

do. S. las Dumas. 5'J24p. d' do.

Cl-riStupher M'ie, Htalor." OHN liAVVFOrtD, Sktrtf. TWENTY DOLLARS HP VV A KD?" I became bail for a man by bf" RO r'T AN, in th9 sum of five huuded jlars 4tid he ha.in ra 1 away also i.itny debt abuui COO dollarj I Mer toe above anyone ho. will have a writ iervd on him in rny lume .1 that amount. Ch4pmu is an Irisii. man, ab.ick hy-t by trad-," sandy half about 53 or 49 years ud.

low but sr. ut mde, florid' complexion, pitirdety tondpl" drink at times'. Her 'He aSa-' nish jiore what is called a rnil's arid colour. ISAAC HILUARD. Halifax County, Nov.

25, 1808. 3 petition of Elizabeth Davis, prayttgto have ceitaiiv property secured to her against thtf' daimof her husband read and referred. Mr. Johnston of Anson, the petition of Lucy Self, stating that her husband had left her, and praying that certain property may be secured tojher read and referred. Mr.

Love presented the petition cf Samuel Murray of Buncombe, praying; to be divorctfd itii and referred. 1 Received from SenaTe a message in these -words -We' do not-agree that the cminum-cation from his excellency the governor on the su'iject of Bartholomew Lightfcot's letter relative to the election of an elector for the district coniposedof the Counties of Orange Chatham and Mobrr, be deferred to a joint cofnim'ittee both houses you proposed. On this shbject we" propose the foRo'wihg re-solutioh r. Whereas it is represecfed to this General 1 Assembly, that the sheriffs of the counties of Orange, Chatham arid Moorr composing dne elecon district for an'electcr to vote for a PreUdeRt and-Vice-President ofjhe United have probably returned atkciitf State of anelettidh in favour of a persbn who has not Urceiyed 'thje 'greatest nunthiir of legal votes, yttrchv? Rtsotvcd, that his Excellency jjhe Governor, be requested to coven Without delay, at the city tf Raleigh, the a' fcresald, th'o are required, to revise kcorveet the certificate heretofore preseiittd by them to the Governor, and empowered to conect llie -sarhe by makuig a new return. nd concurred with.

Chesapeake, by t'ie B.itihh ship of war Leopard, us' unwortliy of a nation bcwsling of a fre and enlightened government. Rcsolvid, That we consider the" de-cfees ahu orders, affcctingfljneutral and tnarted by Great Britain and France as unjust and vexatious, equally cal ated to violate our-ncirtral rights" and nfa tion.il sovereignty. Rtsotved, That vre ihotf cordialfy approve of the frieawes which the President of the United States has taken, in the spirit of moderation and equity, to obtain, both from GreaBi Uam and a repariititin of the' wrofligscommitted against this country, ancT the repe al of those obnoxious acts, decrees 8c' ord-is. though the laws laying an cmbareo have borne hard upon a great part of the citizens of the U. States; the Legislature of North Carolina consider them as the best" means whrh.

could have beeh devised to preserve ur citizens from the devouring rasp- Lands for Sale. TKE subscriber oflers for sale a tract, ol I on bou SKlesol; the Rich La Robeson county, ci ta.i"i.ig 1612 acies, Willi three good plantations an excellent dwt liiij; hou5e, ui houses, ith Apple and I'eack Oichards, and ar excell- nt puce for VAv illerj to large' pastures where Cattle miywimer cli wi boa' fodderVoa cane the is adapted far the culture of Corn, and Ric. Any "pe'rjjii wuhim- ing five columns of a newspaper, he submits 1 to purchase may apply to tlie subscriber living on the pre-- the following resolutions-: iwni.j-sifiii nines oiiui-vvei 01 rayrttevtiie, and welve muesabove Lunbertoar WlXIAM BJWJT, Kox ember 19, 1S08 61 trapllm, 1 NOTICE V'; STRUTTED fro the subscriber-Irvine at" Willie X. solved, That the United States cannot, without a sacrifice of their rights, honor and independence, 'submit to' the late -edicts' of Grciit-Britain and 1 2. Re'dlved, Tliut it is expedient to prohibit, by law, the admission into the ports of the Monday the 5 1st of.

October Ttet 10 or 11 mrhes hrgV 18 yea-sold, with a snip on his ryse and a iur in his forehiad, half ef his mane on thee ff'side roac-id. Any perMNi. dclivcTia' sa.d jitfrst 'nft at Willie Jones', giving infurraati. United States ot all piulic or private, armed or tmarsied ships or vessel belonging to Great Britain of France, or to any other of the bel-. rtgerent powers, having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful and neu uii Miu urc win De sausned oy me; Mr.

Feareon, presented the petition 01 Jonathan Merrill in boliaif his company, Paying to be attached the second regiment of Koarv countf accompanied with to carry the prayer -into effect. RjTlfitlnoHl f.r Jiirlij- afrtf'AiriFtrnllrtr Wlfh tral rights of the -and also the November cf the belligerent Revlvrd, That tho' the citizens of Carolina have felt their full Of the pressure of these lavr, they will cheerfully acquiesce in their coBtinuance, until ji repeal canbe ob-tamod of the unjust regulations which occa sioned them, or in anyoioer measure which Congress may deem fecessary for the maintenance of our rleutrafrighti su6ireilha'n' submit 'to unjust and vexatious restrictions of our commerce, tqjLhe impressment lof our seamen, and to the taxation of the of our vessels at the pleasure of aby Toreign Nation, we will lfvs to Ourselves, aqd have no connection with any unportation ot any goods, wares or knerchn -wt appointing, took up-fmoV: of this Monday, v. is. Judge Stone bting appointed Governor, of fte ante for the ensuing year, the Vas adopted -i THIS is to. give notJce, that the suberibrr tf Rvwatk' county in the staiorth CajpUna hath obtained ftora county pourtVpf pleas ju3 ouarter ssioj.s of a coun- ty Letteriof Afninistiarion on the persona estate' of Sprure Macay, Esq.

fate the aforesaid couuiy otKiiwan, deceased. All persons having Claims against the said de- ctased, -are hen-by warned to exhibit the same with the Voueheri here4 legally aiithtotica'ted, to the i'uh crilxr wi bin the time preserved by iW4. ctherwise they will be barred. Given uader my hand, tbii 9th day September, in the year oi our tyrd one thousand elgfct huiidifd' aod eight. i tttctotved.

That the sneakeH of the two houses 4j Revived, That we value Peace as one of ihze, the growta, prouuee or manufacture of the, dominions of any of the said powers, or importtd trom any plice in. the possession of either. 2. Resoh-ed, That measurr ought be for the country in fhore complete state of defance. The seat of William Edmunds of Northampton, in the Senate, was on.

the ground of hohiiftg the office 6f a new 'writ cf election issued- the elections to be held on'tbe" Lh loth, 12th and- JSth of December." The seat of Mr. Uttltjohri of Ederiton inl JOSEPH CHAMBERS, ad-nt. llie greatest blessirgs which any Nation can enjoy yet, rather; than syrreuder out Liberty and. iodependence, we will surround tke standard of our Country, and1 die in her. de- teace.

i. 'r flPhe at considerable length gu Tuesday, and-adopted by i A ivRP rrtirn WTtrn' WHtREAS Nancy as ffOV bed and neglected e. td.O JL he djrected to' dispatch to houte of David Stone, Esq. of Bertu, inform? JJT hi ra of nii appointment, and requesting" hisimmediate attendance for tbeV purpose of qua'ilying. -f 'V-ii.

The bill to remove the tourts'of -Bronssk from Ixickwood's Folljf jo Smitnvillei vvas read- -the3d lime and ordered to be I thjietjtiort of fllijah' praying to be divorced fraul Ius wife ihy Tcad atvd' referred. Mr, Gaston, after srnne prefatory rem arksi, 5uhntitted the o'oTihg resohations which re cidered toll on thc table until lo-mor- I r1 A the Commons, contested, by Dr. Noi dum, 'was MILfrlA LAWS: nparjlKjea annj'atiabte spirit ot laietviount ii' and aSectiou by lycnrneari I have ten years xpe.itDCd'" al tile hWpiA of a dreaifui puratary i the.ef. ubrjey-cautiolpMpction aainM dir.g vt herur cedtirg he compt jnot ihe my aue ia her own or my anjAerabk, fur any of her caAtrif vacated i' and a wntof election' issuedwthe-elestion to be held on Saturday next. The seat of James Mebane of Orange, iii Seriate, contested by5 DavidrKay7on the or grounds ol his having, previous to his election, acted as Qtunsclkur of Sute orlrcscnt 1 HUAi FfaTCilAKX.

fer tab tkc Minerva cjf.ee' O.ange Ccua.y, Kov.E, 108..