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a detign to reduce them under absolute <te&pQlisnuJt jslhei r right, i? is thfcir duly, to throw off such government, and. security. Such has been the patient suf ferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them . to alter their former systems of govorn meat. The history ^of the present King of Great-Britain is a history of repeated injnrirs andeisnrpations, all having in di-. rect object the establish ment of an abso lute tyranny over these states, To prove ill is, let facts be submitted to a candid vorW. . , He has refused }|bie assent to laws, the ? innsr wholesome and neofcssary for the public good* ? ? i ' - He has forbidden his Governor to pass laws of immediate and pressing import ? anc^ unless iub^cnded in their operation, till his assent should be obtained : and, when so sm;Sfen^t he hasutterly neglect He has refused to pass ^other laws, fat the accommodation of large districts of people, unless ttape people would relin ft quish the right Jl refiescntation in the Legislature ? a right inestimable to them, and formidable 4o tyrants onlf% * He has calle<^togethcr legislative bodies, at places unusual, uncomfortable, a::d dis tant from the depository of their public] record*, for the tote purpose of fatiguing^ them into compliance with his measures. . * He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firm ness, his invasions on the r?ghts of the people. 0 lie has refused, for a long time after such dissolution*, to ' cause others t* be ^elect< .?d ; whereby the legislative powers* incapable of annihHation, have returned^ to the people at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining in , the mean* time, ex posed to all> t^ie danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within. Jtie has endeavoured to, prevent the * pulation of these states ; for that purpote obstructing (he law* for naturalization of foreigners j refusing to pass others, to. en* *&uwtge their migration hither, and rais in# the conditions o I new appropriations of l'- q&M? ^ | : ; tie, has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing fcts assent ?1aws,iei r estaMishing Judiciary Pjbwers; Jj He has made iuddHRpendenVon his will alone, for the tenure of th?r offices, and the amount and payment of ti? laries. He Jis? elected a multitude of new ofi| 1 fices, aftdsem hither swsrms of officers^ to h&rrass, p< : j|fl| eat out tjj/M 1^ ? II m i . i n ? i I ? ? - ? m ? I. ? I ? ? I ? He has kept aipong us, in times ti? peine* standing armies, without the conj quartering among u* protecting them, '#?V Tf JunUhment fur any muidi imposing f fiiiiL -v* j l or tr*i led fov i and declaring ufrn poftr,. to legislate I m soever. ^JpNehaa abdicated ^declaring u. outo armies of (breign mercenaries, to com plete the works of <1eatli>. desolation, and Wtnny, already begum with circum * etwees of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and ~Iffl?Hy unworthy the head of a Civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citiaens, taken captive on the high seas, to b-ar arms again* their country, to become the executioners of their friends And brethern, I oilio fall themselves by tfirir hands. He hat excited domestic insurrection* [ , .1 . ^ amongst us, anil has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the me re ilea* lnc.ian savages, wliosat known rule ot wrtiiVtte tm undistinguished dcs? traction of all ag**, sex.es, and conditions. in every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress, in the most Smble terms : our repeated petitions ve been answered only \)J repeated in j|ny. _A prince whose, character is raark od, by every act, wfocjb may define a ty? rant, ia, unfit to be the ruler of^a free pco r The court l,<! *j in session two wly gone tbroV n continued in not been intci> ru^Vyth^llnew CM* of importan business of rtneral i ledge that th<) abolitioaof the ala it not only, a wise, humane and I jti Mite, but actqaMw, promotive of tl Crests? neVerthetaaa they declai ? determination never to recognUe tl rof the mother country to interfe i their internal government ; or to ti Entfthout their consent ; and they v bill, a* an attempt ? the part of i tish government to exercise such "(ionveniigns of the legbiative aui have generally hewn held, and rest . espressive of the '?tatfaMiBnf t nics, have been adopted. Their Is L and sentiments are and spirit* ?To the po r the British here ye|te? ie editors ot monster #h^i?^^artfiage#a) and Morales, two Spanish Generals, on the 39th of April, attacked the indepen dent army and was defeated i 400 of their soldiers deteried during the engagement,! and went ovet to the partfiot cause. | ? ' / k A ? * - - ? Mej. William House is appointed by the! President, commissioner for receiving sub -| script ions to the lltnk of tjte U* States in i Charleston. XUes stales in hia^Registgr, that the cul tivation of the cang-h' ' * undertaken upon the *er? in Louisiana, where Itot'are vast bo dies of public land, suitable for its growth* At Natchitoches, J| yields from 3500 to 3000 pounds of sugar per arpent? one acre of $ane being equal in value to three acres of cotton, and less expence In cui Lpr wiH~brrnme the yrand sUplo of the [Tfcei riWfr country. ? <~n r? v> ? A FmrmtTy" on the subject of an elec >n for Sheriff of Lancaster District is re- . Tbe principle of tUU paper are * avcrs^t? the meddling with electioneerings Contests. __ ? r '.i ERRATA.? In the lati uqmbcr M cWttT" in the communication from South Amcnca, owt ytto ^iliprulty of the hand writing: of minor ? ? of coorf?( ^ tft the last paragraph* ad of -? opinion*" read Africans. " la the account of the lata epidemic com I last week for confoundcd read ua . l| sd. col line 60, for untar foot read con tagioae ; 5sd. lie# for they are read they were. fj^rrvfmr MARRIED, last evening, by the Rev. Reid, Mr.Aw>K tw G. M Kenzi f., to _ rsit, all of this place. Also, in London* England on the sd. May last, Leopold Frederick, Sal eld, an adventurer, the son of a German eccentric Miss Caaa just a Guelpu, a descendant German family. Mr. Salfield, ^ slyr in the space ot six I British a torn L-iAiUUlM-i* suth? tr the matrimonial knot iA to be a General in the ?""iwed in Lon<k? on~th* J >*#??.##. **.<? ?Ml ? the direction 0fl>>c Rcv> Mr. K heir names arc , . .SHERIFF SJL&-; ~ ftyx'irtrm of an Ot dcr of The honorable emir!' vf Common Monday and Tuesday in August next , 6e? yore* the Court House in Camdenj within ike rj^HREE LO* situate in the X Town of Camden, fronting on Broad street^ known in llia pfautof said town by No^? 147, 148? and 164 ; one Lot fronting on lUn?-str. adjoining tl\e lot on, which thi Court House stand?, numbered 34, and one* "fiaJFof a lot fronting on Yoik-street, No.? 640 Acres land, niuie ur less, situate the main road to Salisbury) 8 mites fro* Camden ; 3l 1 acres land, mortf or less^fr situate on the waters of Cranny's quarter Cm* lr , <tor a ? ? ?wt iess situate 35 acres of land &eek; 307 Acre* HP Hanging JJock more or ' '? or ?lt?l?^HHuJUo?iti:iindcn ? maifiHrnn?1 VulS?k*v.... ah r* . ? ?e mairapad to Sa IflRhe pro] dower clai widow of said and to make ry ?All of the * Wflftiam and forder to sari* Joanna Pat Pavktr, >L6n amoutr the Conditions . ? Six months credit will U given for one halt oi the pul chase monty , and on the Wance 12 months, purchasers giving approved security, or a mortgage of the property and payment for Shff. titles. . F? 8. MvEf ttf.JT. D. N otice dcr Ingram? K Kirklin ? L?W keeker | P. J. 1 4 *UW :? Moor* John Mims, ilmattad njMgyShache1 Stover, Thomas ,L. S>tnart, Mr?. ISAAC SMITH. P. M