The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 12.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Fayetteville, (N.C.) to his friend in Frederick-Town, dated Jan. 1.

"The Commonwealth of Franklin is no more. Tipton with his party, in the absence of Governor Sevier, surprised the metropolis and carried off all the public offices, records, &c.

By a number of commissions, found amongst those papers, it appears, that most of the officers under Sevier's administration resigned their trust, previous to this fatal catastrophe taking place; whether this will restore peace and good order, on the western side of the mountains, is yet doubtful. Sevier with a corps of 200 riflemen, had taken up his winter quarters in the heart of the Cherokee nation; after burning, killing and destroying all that came in his way. Unmindful and unacquainted with the great revolutions that took place at home, his Excellency, like Charles the 12th King of Sweden, is fond of foreign conquests; while victory crowns his arms in distant parts he loses his own country, and very probably his life at last in the defence of it. Our Assembly is now sitting, and a bill has been brought in the House for calling a new Convention; its fate is yet unknown."