from the 63d and 71st, under the command of major Carden, were also cut up, driven from their encampment with the entire loss of baggage, &c. and, in the course of this action, captain Kinlaw, with a squadron of Tarleton's legion arrived from RockyMount, made a desperate charge on the militia, was repulsed by them and fied to Camden, without attempting to renew the combat. In this, as well as other actions, it ought to be remembered, how many field-officers, brave captains and other officers, as well as valuable citizens fell, or were wounded, while another nation had to regret in this action alone, the loss of upwards of 800 men. "PASSING by a number of important and considerable conflicts which took place between the British regulars and the southern militia, still unsupported by regulars of our own army, I come now to mention the attack which was made in the neighbourhood of Winnesborough, while lord Cornwallis lay in that town, upon the South-Carolina militia, by a British regular force under majors Weyms and M'Carthy, supported by two troops of cavalry, the whole corps drawn together and formed for the purpose, after various charges made by the infantry and cavalry, and after repeated repulses, the enemy was totally repelled, their commanding officer wounded and taken, together with a number of hi corps, and the rest were dispersed. kind. The republic of the United Provinces, is as much enfeebled by its debts, as either Genoa or Venice. Is it likely, that in Great-Britain alone, a practice which has brought either desolation or weakness into every other country, should prove altogether innocent? "THE system of taxation established in those different countries, it may be said, is inferior to that of England. I believe, it is so: bút it ought to be remembered that when the wisest government has exhausted all the proper subjects of taxation, it must in cases of urgent necessity, have recourse to improper ones. 1 "WHEN national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at all, has always been brought about by a bankruptcy; sometimes by an avowed one, but always by a real one, though frequently by a pretended payment." Smith's wealth of nations-vol. 1. FINI S. port of our national independence--a support fully effectual without a recurrence to a standing army. These few cases, and it is stopping very short indeed of what the merits of the southern militia deserve, tend to shew that the charges brought against the militia generally are as unfounded as they are cruel to their feelings; while at the same time they demonstrate, that if an invasion (which is a contingency by no means likely to happen) should actually take place, we may rely with confidence on the manly exertions of the militia, to meet the attack, and to resist every effort, at least for such a period as until more effective aid shall be drawn down to their support, and more permanent measures adopted." (q) THE trite observation, that "Statesmen and priests devised religious terrors, more easily to subject the people to their tyranny," could have been vented only by profound ignorance or cruel deceitfulness. HISTORY proves by an accumulation of evidence, that the original creed of mankind was this-that men are the creatures of a supreme being, w THE Editors regret they are not able to publish a complete list of their subscribersmany subscription papers to which they have heard numbers have affixed their names, have not yet come to hand. Subscribers Names. MASSACHUSETTS. Richard Cutts, esq. M. H. R. U. S. CONNECTICUT. Joshua Stow, Middletown. William Judd, esq. Farmington. John Welsh, esq. Elisha Hyde, esq. Norwich. Pierpont Edwards, esq. New-Haven. William Bristol. NEW-YORK. Aaron Burr, esq. Vice-President of the United States, 3 copies. George Clinton, esq. governor of the state. Rev. Samuel Miller, Edward Miller, M. D. Silvanus Miller, De Witt Clinton, esq. |