The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-12-01 00:00:00, page 2

L\3 3 !'. ?.. !&„./&„ September 8.
•° "7I ^feaf. vrccii allure’ our readers, that, wift
fr c.^rfe of tnis wqk, no less than 73,000
,t fj mber, and 2=7,doa,shingles, have $ been
°: T^S \. 'v^h^r. , hi", we I^6' will fhortly.reduce
'b.?:n)H \ rhifan: price of those very necessary ar
: Thu's. flohrva) 3h+.19. On Saturday last his Ex
' r. '& th Surrey reviewed the Militia trpop of Car-
I neen do titfpjwmffll ground, They wade a very fare
fir.m*iri- -anti ^c: through avail voety of manoeuvres on
b. '.O . ' vdcn.fojy with firings, marchings, &c.&c.jvith
m ? e/t&efi agd dexterity that fn^ht du !onovr-to regulars.,
;•.'•> •./?:..<?.:€, <sprefßJ his utmoll fatiTartion at their difei- ,
.^ x iti faidthat a certain account has arrived at the'
fi pc., nlqnhs- of an affiance having taken place between Ruf
£ha dwrest -Britain,,, to which Pprtuga]has alfa accecded;
& 'ft Tn , ri-,3! th. re.was no doubt,but the Emperor-would
w # fwedih &c*hh&lT b en tha limeade-: But we do not
fm''h h ; : wc.<h;irw and mpor/xint intelligence is confirm
ed by< " lift .tlvic^s from London. - ,
^- he^ch feet cordifting-of 2, fail of the line failed from
th- w-ne the rd infant. . „ •-
The ^ nee ihip if the line called L'lntrepid, of 64 gun'ii,
ac- .ch+rd , took fire at Cape Francois, a few days before the
fahra of the fleet; c and was # blown npo The crew were all
fned.
- r N^w-Yorf, November 14.
Contents of a i>hBEL MATL lately'intercepted in Europe.
Silas Frane to bis Brother Simeon Deane.
JT t° is't :: rc Je are of some weight in the general fcaje,
J * an : d nfr'hy improving it bg able, though not to' dic
l^ic. ^^w^friptefy, y.e'f fa olfean such terms of peace, as
'trap fomfe on Jo every rerToirable °wifh,, —But are we fare of
,d^fof g.thi :fame,, when the great contending Powers tired
of the ww, come to fettle their differences by a peace, Drill
d&f-cn fi?donrfewes in.a fitnation to dictate, or to be dic
ta+edtd'V/e have ranged ourfelyes on the fide of France
med %1:T against England, but thall we in a ti eaty of peace,
be confdered'and refpefted as their equal, or iball we be re
,ftifried in ; tbcfettlcmcnt of their accounts as an article to be
uLd in difeount, by either as the balance may fall? This is a
yriousenmrry, and France has already put it in our power to
apfvertbe qneftion; W 4 en Spain offered to mediate between
•France and England, the latter accepted the mediation, on
condition that France withdrew their refcript of March 1778, !
which declared America independent—to this 1 rance repfefl,
That England could p >t with propriety demand of them a
concession at the beginning of a war, the events of which
w re uncertain, which they could only be wrought to grant at
H.h rt close of an unfortunate war. Thi' reply of France fays ;
plainly, that if the war Should be unfortunate -on their part,:
onrm'dpc'dmc' may be given up, and thews in what point
of light 'we are confrlered. —d'he events 6f the' ivar have
'foot Id'hrm been fort ur.ate, on the part of France and Spain,
'Pot have they benn greatly"unfortunate though the Balance;
(w, - 'he yccoTA' now to h- feTedl is agtiinftthem —Future!
even • :fre uncertain, but should France'or Spain unfortunate-.
1/ ' 2 .cjrfi.&ablr. we Td ohr independence, remain as al
'pF *^'c, by F -el^riirim of ^ hichthefr losses will be made up ;:
i- on w other hand, England proves, unfortunate, the ac
know th "^en fr of our independence may fewe them in the
f? ne Read, if the latter proves the case, -as it pofiibly may,
aftw-Trfb,or three wars more of war; what by that time'willi
be our fituafrn?,Cur country .ravished, and exhausted, our
comm-rce de?rovA, an immense internal and foreign debt,
contrnrh-d. th r 'iat; ;eft onlv of which will beta yr ater tax,'
'"than weever hvlarw leaof before this war, 0 which will be
added, the f? wort . ' civil government, as expensive, or more
so than formerly, and the expences of neweOabhfbments, in
te.^-P and externa\fuch as Courts of Admiralty, &c. Boards
"of 'fmde, of llaripp, bf Treafory, &,. &c. o c Ambassadors,
Envoys. ,' nd..a &e. which alone wT amount to more than
all our fr-CT r nublick expepcep, befid^ we mud have a ma
rt ?fot apical, or We eannotexpeft to have our flag refper
-ted n- o 'OCT co'm inafee fccure from imposition—fhall.we&d
/(rr''; s qhel to ri this? Will the inhabitants of America,
taught to '6 -dee, that thev. fought to exonerate themklves.
I.' n mxrsr he contented' under ten times the tax they ever
1 rod - hav : the fame entailed on their-poftcrity ? hr
-#• '?'c rf^vfahfrfi debt, and ddeontent, is it poffilfewe
rn ' lie at the mercy of the vi&o ious, or mhlt fortunate;
p L r - vhich ever it be, at the peace ?If England dilates the
t ms of peace, we mu f + be unconditionally at their mercy; if
' : n.;?ce doe° i',we<halbbe -eqaallyfo at theirs; in this moment
we mav e,n> the longer of lying at the mercy of. ei'her.i
France will ngr be'able to dictate tfchw to England, without
liavrig prerimrily fol'T^inily reduced that power, as to ren
•.<hr it unable to interfere in on behalf, should any, even trie
mos cruel term-, be dictated to us. If this is a inst state of
the cTu an I it appears to me filch,. we may possibly enjoy a
num: ' dinl r^ Tut sovereignty, hut in fad and reality may?
beEmme n' , and that,unconditionally on France ; on the other
hub r m T .f I die war move unfortunate on the p irt of France,
r~m.,c mav a~recablcto their publick declaration Withdraw its,
r, hr ; pt which declared us independent,'and leave us to uncon
ditional fubnf'Tion toTmgland; we-are thus pushed on by the
I co^tinduce of the war towards the ftreights of- Scylla and
Charybdis.but thank'God we have not yet arrived there ; and
if there is any prudence or skill with those who are at the helm
of our publick Blip, we may land fafe and honourably on filid
ground. I have, given you, and that freely, my sentiments on
our pubtick fraction. Though treated with a degree of injuf
< • andingratitude which has Scarce a parallel in history by a
fartion of my countrymens my country and its interests still
IT hearest my heart. I have met with many English, Scotch,,
an " h'di families; 'in the course of my acquaintance in.this
• country, who following the dilates of ccnfcience and what
th°y thought to he their duty, took part with the Stuart a
xn^v, and who in confepnence had been proscribed, and driven
from thfrr conwrv under the loss of title, fortune, &c. I was
at fi r ft ^irprize l to find that these people, though many of
fhem had' hf°h born in France, and inheriting, as one might
fuppnf., th}' fevered: re,ntm;nts ngainft England, still valued
thr of,rive's on the country from which, they and their ancestors
f-hr: peen .expelled, with the^utmoft marks.of cruelty and dif
•grace,, and in a word, in foite of all the.yaynifh and paint that
.. had been laid min the cou r fe of a century in France, the
original canvafi was Fill visible in their sentiments and a&ions.
S ; we T hive been in exile myfelf. my furprize has ceased. (
‘ fin lit is not d^hmfit +0 chan r e climate and country, but that
it isimnoffible for any one that is not either le r s or m.ore than
man, to conquer those 'early attachments and predilections,
which every citizen of a free government has for his country
and its interests -my faying one word on the affairs of America
is one oro^f o' + his, but my letters being filled with scarce any
’'th^g effe, fyewsthat ..whatever refolptbuis 1. have taken to the
contrary. T can. Neither think nor write without touching, and
even dwelling on the fubird, in fa£t, it is the only one, which
lie? down with me at night, and rifeswith me in the morning, it
• ricwmovies me in every circle Whether gay or serious, and
~ often mak pc 'me bHnd anddeaf to every thing else. lam fome
t::.c3 apache Iby prudence, which alks me what I haveto do,
American Intelligence.
though my accounts with vouchers to support my demands
have been readv more than four months, I can find no auditor.
.Congress have been informed near a year since that their audi
tor could not serve, „'et they have not appointed any other,
th®' they knew I was waiting at my own expence to adjust my
account. The cruelty and injoftice of this proceeding is too
v lihle to require my enlarging, on it, I am dilcouraged in
writing to rhen, who consider themselves omnipotent, and
who have among their o'rh'ef attributes taken that of doing in
justice when the/pleafe, and jufrify all by the tyrant's plea,
necelht); out of a balance of more than 300.000 livres, I have
' not beeri able to obtain one milimy, by a prevailing junto in
Congress. I hate been reprinted in America as a defaulter
grown rich at the publick expense ; this was done to prejudice
my countrymen..again ft me, and to covet or juffify their hot rid
ingratitude, and at the fame time to force me on a dangerous
an 1 expensive voyage, to'obtain justice here, where they had
previbufly taken such arrangements, as to counteract me in
pursuit of my right; it is true they appointed in auditor, but
laid him under such restrictions, that they mull have known
at the time, that 110 man of spirit would accept the office, and
on a refusal, they have neglected the naming any other ; does
this /hew them ading like my creditors in earnest for the settle
ment, or like fhuffling evalite debtors, who pah it off, by
every means in their power, to have fame plnibble excuse for
the noh puyn nt of them debs' Thewril will leenine
without hesitation, and I am resolved the cause 11 all be toon
laid before them. I defprir df feeing of any change for the
better,; I have Ion?, th )' impritienriy wri'ed forot, to the al
mift total ruin of mv fortune and profpe&3 in me, and can
any one bhme'me if I lay before the world thew+ory of .that
in'udic? and ingratidude under which I have filtered? and of
those vile ; n + ri~ues and d tellable cabals which have occasioned
the most complicated misery and distress to my country ; I am
confident ro difirterefted or imra: rial man will censure me for
doin ; myfelf Mftice, and for diTouliag the publick with re
- fpe't to certain chandlers And proceedings, at the fame time
that I have amide materials in my hands for doing this. I take
n 1 pleaful'e in the idea. I have put it off as long as possible, but
I cirinof forbear nwchlonger, I hope this letter will come fafe
' to your hand • if so, communicate the contents to fucli of
your and my friends as you judge proper, but let no extracts
or copies be made of it. I have already exhausted your pati
ence. J will therefore add only, that I am, mv dear Brother,
mod affectionately yours, SILAS DEANE,
Simeon Deane; E/h;
Merchant; iVilliamJburgb, Virginia.
Pear Sir, Paris, sane 15th, 1781., ,
-ft ff\ r last was of the 23d February, which went by the Ship
Marquis La Fayette.—My Brother will shew you a long
letter of the fame date with.this; you have in that niy senti
ments of our .present situation,; I am apprehensive fba[titey
will hot coincide with what you in Amenia wilh to be:ieve±
but that is no; my faulL If I wer as fondofm>mesta;y po
pularity as some men are, ,jlh'>i(kl criteria a different dyle,
and by exaggerated accounts of the force and energy of our
friends, and of the exhauded and dihrALd Rate of Great-Bri
tain, endeavour to buoy up the hopes and expectations of my
countrymen, such letters would be fare to be read in all cbm
, panics, and fele& paragraphs printed in the papers, prefaced
with hints to inform the Publick from whom the intelligence
came; but I do not think that any cbnfiderarion can juftify an
American deceiving and misleading his countrymen under their
present extremely critical filiation,, much lets can a man be
he'd innocent in deceiving his friend, 'or even in not laying
before him the true hate of a fairs, in which both the one and
the other are so deeply interested.. I have in my letter to my
Brother, given briefly my way of thinking and reafontng on
the present posture of the American war, and oil what relates
to or is dependent on it ; Jam confident that you know me too
well to impute my sentiments to caprice, difyuft, orinterefted
motives; at the fame time you will not I am hire approve of
or adopt them, nor on the other hand condem' without pre
.vionfly examining them with coolnef: and impartiality.—Few
men are capable.of examining and reasoning iuftly on any com
plex fubfeft while in the heat ofbattle, but after fix years con
test, it is certainly time to breathe and look round us, tQexa
mine what the original object of the war was—whether it is
obtained in part or wholly—what we have expended and facri
riced in the pursuit—what our prefect filiation is—what ra
tional profbe&s we have finally of succeeding, and whether the
fruits of final success and victory, will overbalance the losses
and expence inevitable in the pui-fait. These are important
queflions, they are such as I wished to fee canvassed with that
freedom and impartiality, with which ever, thing that affefts
the liberty and fafety ofa free people demands. The firft ob
jefts of the war are' frelh in every one's memory, they hand
recorded on the Journals of the-firft and fecund Congress, to
be nothing ! efs or more than a repeal of the arts of parliament
injurious to' our rights and liberties ; those arts have been final
ly repealed ; the firft objects are therefore out of the question;
but previous to such a repeal, Congress were forced into a
measure, which they had before unanimonfly declared they
even dreaded as one of the greatc-ft of evils, viz. That of sepa
rating America from Great -Britain, until the ,parliament pro
posed terms of reconciliation, and as a preliminary repealed
the arts complained of, the original objerts of the war remain
ed, and independence became a frefh object neceflary to be
pursued in order to gain the firft.—lndependence was, and is
therefore so far from being a firft objert, that every idea of it
was disclaimed in 1774, and 177^, even afterthe last appeal to
the fivord had been made; Independence therefore, if I may so
fay, was an auxiliary objert to be pursued for obtaining the
primary, and after those were obtained, it became itfelf a
principal, only from our havingbound ourselves by an alliance
with France .to support it, and from a persuasion that the
peace, liberty, and fafety of America, could not any other
wise be so effertually preserved and secured. The objert of
the war has therefore been changed, and is at this hour be
come a question, not for certain constitutional rights, but for
sovereignty only. If America cannot be either free, fife, or
• happy without this sovereignty (at present the sole objert) it
must juftify the prosecution of the war; but if America may
be free, fafe, and happy, without this, and if it is far from
being certain that they will enjoy either peace, liberty, or
fifety, aftgr acquiring it at the expence and facrifices which
must be made previcufly, I think the present proposals or
terms towards an accommodation, ought not to be negierted.
J confefs, that I once thought, that the peace, liberty, and
fafety of America, could no Wav be so effectually secured as
under an independent democratical government, and at the
under mfr circhrnftanees, with the politicks of any country, or
particularly of one more than another. She tells me if 1 have
time to lideu, which I seldom have, that of all men, I ought
not to meddle, that.being fairly on ihore, though after fuffer
irjg? Shipwreck, I have nothing left but to colled what I can
of my fortune, out of the wreck, and make the best of it.
Though j idgmeut pronounces fully in favour of this opinion,,
still I cannot remain indifferent to what affects a country which
I must for ever call mine. I take up my pen almolt every day
to write to some friend or other in America; I determine not
to let any thing political to fall from it, yet before I have fi
nished one page I find myfelf in the full force of a current which
1 cannot escape or relift, but I will be carried on no further by
it in this letter. I promised myfelf with being able to do some
thing in the commercial way. I have been disappointed From
^various causes. I hoped to have finished my accounts soon, and
received the considerable balance due me from Congress; but
fame time I doubted whether the Parliament would content to
repeal the ^rts complained of, but had ho doubt of the abiiit
of France to put ui in the peaceable poflehion of our indepJ
dence; nor did lat the time doubt, but that the temper and
difpolition of America was such in / every part of it, that
such a government would be the easiest and best ; but three
years experience has. convinced me that I was mistaken in
every one of those points on which 1 calculated. I find that
an independent democratical government is not equal to
the securing rhe peace, liberty and fafety of a continent
like America. The discovery indeed is not a new one, f or
every nation in the world that has ever tried the experiment
has found the fame—l find that France is either unable or
unwilling to put us into our willed Rate of independency
and that whilst we are ftrugglmg for it, we are become volum
tarily more dependent on France than ever we were, or can
be confiittitioiially on England, and that the real temper and
difpolition of America is such, that a government of this kind
cannot be Supported lor any length of time at any rate, and
that whilst it may exist, the peace and liberty of the citizen
of America- will be precarious and uncertain, and that under
the name of independence, we Yhall become more dependent
than ever: Though fatisfied of these farts I am open to con.
virtion, but having had more opportunities of feeing and ob
serving what has past, than moftof my fellow citizens have
had, I cannot but hint to my friends my sentiments op our
present Situation, ^ud on the events, which to me, appear
inevitable, if we retufe to listen to offers of an accommodation
and rcfolve to prosecute the war at every rifque—Referring
you to a letter to my brother, of this date, I will only add
to this, that I moll earnestly entreat you to write merthe true
state of our affairs in America, and by feverri veflels, that!
may be sure of receiving at Itaft the certainty by some one of
them, and that you will omit no opportunity of acquainting
me, with the welfare of our friends in general, of your family
in particular. My most affertionate withes are for your, and
fitter Mumford's mutual and lading happiness, and am, with
the nioft sincere attachment and friendship, dear Brother, you
mod obedient, and very humble servant,
To Thomas Mumford, Est; (not Signed)
Merchant, Groton.
Ne<w- York, • November 15. Richard Kempenfelt, Tfq; %„
Admiral of the Blue, is drived on the Weft-lndia hatier,
with a Squadron of Ships of the line.
Mr. John Hanson, a Delegate bcm the province of Mary
land, was on the sth instant chosen Prumeut of the Rcod
Congress.)
On Friday night last, departed this life, after a long and
painful illness, William Moncrief, Esq; late Captain of
the Queen's Rangers, and Brother to Lieutenant-Colonel
Moncrief, of the Engineers; whose merit on fweral occafig^
to the Southward, gained him universal applause.
FOR
'° r/ Antonio, & Si. Atin's,Jamaica,
The Ship LONDuN,
Joseph Richardson, Matter;
To Lil with all expedition. For freight or passage, having excellent
accommodations, apply to said matter .on board, or
+ 'JOHN & ADAM TUNNO.
For B RISTO L,
' The Bl ^ FO X,
Stephen Hunt, Mallet;
'^rri—^ A letter of ma-que mounting 12 four pounders, will
• “^^:fail r ith the firft veflels for England. For freight or
passage, apply to Mr. Neufville, or the Matter on board, at Greo
wood's iviiarf,
,THO HAS FOR SALE,
White and coloured Plains')
Beaver Coating { , ,
Men^ and Womens Shoes ( b Y the pa&a ^
An'Affortment of Slops )
Likewise Milliard in Bottles
Some Mufhroon and Walnut Ketchup
A few Kegs of Vinegar-
A few dozen Bottles of Bristol Beer and Cyder
Some neat Bone Whip?, and
Best black and red Lead Pencils.J
; _
John and Alexander M'lver,
At their Store, No. 100, Broad-greet,
HAND FOR SALE,
On VERY REASONABLE Terms,
A general Assortment of GOODS,
Imported in the Ship Britannia, from L 0 ND 0 A~,
By the Package or otherwise.
Among nubicb arc the j'ot!o%uing fcafonable Articles, viz.
THOMAS HOOPER, & Co.
Have received from ENGLAND,
A Very general and handsome Assortment of neceflary,
A convenient and fafhionable GOODS, confining of Liner®
Woollens, Silks, Millinary, Stationary, Medicines, Perfumery, Sad^
dicry, Hosiery, Ironmongery, Braziery, Haberdashery, Hats, Shoes
Manchester Goods, Turnery, Gloves, Pewter, Plate and plated Ar
ticles, Tin Ware, Gl^fs and other Wares, Chintzes, Calicoes and
Muslins, and excellent bottled Porter, which are now for Sale by the
Package or otherwise, on the most reafonahle Terms, for Cassi, go^
zßdls or Produce, at the Store lately occupied by Messrs. Delap and
TuNNO, No. 9, Corner of Broad and Church Streets.s
Twenty Guineas Reward.
RAN away or was carried off from Savannah in Georgia,
u sometime in August last, and supposed to be taken to Jamain,
or New,Providenee, a Negro Boy named Scrub, about 4 feet 6 or 7
inches high, of a yellowish complexion, round and pretty full visage,
freaks good Englifli, has a mild countenance and his country marks
(confining of two or three f. ratches) down his cheeks, and is rather
inclined to be fat. Any person delivering said negro to the sub
scriber in Savannah, or Alexander Wrigbt, Esq; in Charleftown, o'
giving information so that he may be had again, ball receive &
reward of Five Guineas, and upon conviction of the offender who her*
bouts or carried him off, Tauenty Guineas.
NATHANIEL HALL, Gmmiah, in Georgian
BLUE, green and white Negro
Cloth
Duffil Blankets
Superfine Broad Cloths and Ker
feymi'res
White and striped Flannels
Men- great Coats and Cloaks
Scarlet Cloaks and Cardinals
Ladies fafhionable Stays
An Assortment of Irilli Linens
Camhricks and Lawns
Ofnaburgs
Printed Linens
Callicoes arid Cottons
Manchester Goods
Loaf Sugar
Bohea, Green and Hyfon Teas
Bl^k Pepper.
Mace, Nutmegs and Cloves
Mens fafhionable Hats<
Ladies fafhionable Stays.
Ditto Shoes and Pumps
Gentlemens Shoes and Boets
Hogfkin Saddles
Military Shirts
Silk Umbrellas
Queen's Ware -'
Glass and Tin Ware
Frying Pans
Felling Axes
Brass Cocks
Copper Tea Kettles
Lead and Slwt
Broad Hoes
Soap
London Porter in Barrels, &o,