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The following appeared in the Georgia Courier, and was republished, some days ago, by the Intelligencer. We were not disposed to give currency to this reported insult on the part of Americans, to the flag of the Union, until the particulars were understood. We append the explanation of Captain Dubois below:

"Is it possible! Can it be believed! In the face of the community, the Wm. Seabrook. Captain Dubois, with Governor Hamilton on board, on leaving our wharf on Saturday morning last, hoisted the United States Flag, Union down, with the revolutionary tri-color flying over it! The indignation we feel in common with an insulted community, does not allow me to speak another word concerning such an outrage."-Georgia Courier of 31st ult.

Charleston, Jan. 2d, 1833.

To the Editor of the Mercury:

" I noticed with mortification, a paragraph in the Georgia Courier of Monday last, in which it is stated that the community of Augusta have felt themselves greatly outraged by the American Ensign being hoisted Union down, on board the steam packet W'm. Seabrook, which I have the honor to command, on leaving Augusta on Saturday last. I now beg the favor of you to insert the following explanation of that circumstance:

The blunder was committed by one of the men in hoisting the flag, but was immediately corrected, on discovery, and before the boat was out of sight of the city.

Neither myself or any one connected with that boat are capable of offering an indignity to the American flag. I regret exceedingly that the mistake should have attracted so much notice, or been the subject of such great miscon struction"

WALTER DUBOIS.

The part of the flag called the Union, is that quarter of blue in which the stars are set.- This, which occupies the highest place on the staff, it seems was inverted, and the Captain says, by a blunder. He gives, however, no explanation of the most important circumstance stated by the Courier, that the United States flag was hoisted " Union Down, with the revolutionary tri-color flying over it." If the last fact be true,-and it is not denied by captain Dubois,-we cannot believe that the occurrence was accidental and more especially when we consider the name of the vessel, called after one of the leading nullifiers, and further, that she was bearing our mimic Caesar, General Hamilton, across the Rubicon.