The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-12-19 00:00:00, page 3

A DECLARATION, &c.
T-rTHEN in the course of human events it becomes necessary
W for men, in order to preserve their lives, liberties and
properties, and to fechre to themselves, and to their posterity,
that peace, liberty and fafety, to which by the laws of nature
and nature's God they are entitled, to throw off and renounce
all allegiance to a government, which under the insidious pre
tences of securing thole inestimable blessings to them, has
wholly deprived them of any security of either life, liberty, pro
perty, peace or fafety; a decent refpe& to the opinions of man
kind, requires that they ihould declare, the injuries and op
pressions, the arbitrary and dangerous proceedings, which'
impel them to transfer their allegiance from such their oppref,
fore, to these who have offered tobetome their protestors.
We hold these truths to be fclf evident, that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain rights, that among, those, are life, liberty, and the
pursuit of Irppi efs; that to secure those rights, governments
are inhituted ; that whenever any form of government becomes
deftrudive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter
oraholilh it, or to renounce all allegiance to it, and to put them
fclvcs under such other government, as to them shall appear best
calculated and molt hi ely to effect their fafety and happiness;
it is not indeed prudent to change for light and transient causes
• and experience hath ever Ihewn, that men are disposed tq
fuffer much before they can bring themselves to makeachange
of government; but wh.cn a long train of the most licentious
and defpotick abuses, purfning invariably the fame objects,
evinces a design to reduce them under anarchy, and, the dif
traftions of democracy, and finally to force them to submit
to abfblute despotism, it is their right, it becomes their duty,
to disclaim and renounce ail allegiance to such government,
and to provide new guards for their future security.
Such have been our patient fullerings, and such is now the
necessity which constrains us to renounce all allegiance to Con
gress, or to the governments lately eftablilhed by their di
xecticu.
The history of Congress, is a history of continued weakness,
inconhftency, violation of the most sacred obligations of all
publick faith and honour, # and of ufarpation, all having in
direct object the producing of anarchy, civil feuds, and violent
injustice, which have rendered us miserable, and most soon
cfeblifh tyranny over us and qur country.
To prove this let fa@s be submitted to th? candid world.
They have recommended and caused la# e obe palled, the
moil defiruc|ive of the pubtick good, and rummis to individuals.
Availing themselves of our zeal and unanimity to oppose the
claims of the British Parliament, and of our unfufpe&ing con
fidence in their solemn profeffions and declarations, they have
forbidden us to linen to, or to accept any terms of peace, until
their assent should be obtained.
They havefeefufed to accept of, or even to receive proposals
and terms of accommodation and peace, though they knew
the terms offered exceeded what the Colonies in America had
unanimously declared would be fatisfaftory, unless the Crown
would relinquish a right inestimable to it and the whole em
',pire, and formidable to Congress only.
They have excited and directed the people to alter or annul
their ancient conftftutions, under which, they and their an
cestors, had been happy for many ages, for the sole purpose of
promoting their measures.
They have by mobs and riots awed Representative Houses,
repeatedly into a compliance with their resolutions, though de
ftrudive of the peace, liberty and fafety of the people.
They have by their mifeondud, reduced us to all the dan
gers and distress of actual invasion from without, and to all the
horrors of a cruel war within.
They have not only prevented the increase of the popula
tion of these Rates, but by fines, imprisoning and banishments,
with the losses by war, they have caused a rapid depopulation.
They have corrupted all the sources of justice and equity
by their Tender Law, by which they destroyed the legal force ,
: of all civil contrasts, wronged the honest creditor, and defer
ring salary man of his just dues, Gripped the helpless orphan
of his patrimony, and the difcontblate widow of her dower.
They have enacted a multitude of new offices, and have
filled them with men from their own body, or with theircrea
tures and dependents, to eat out the fubftan.ee offhe people;
they have made their officers dependent on their will for the
tenure cf their offices, and the payment of their salaries.
They have raised a ftandihg army and sent it into the field,
without any act of legislature, and have actually rendered it
independent of the civil power, by making it foldydependent
on them.'
They have combined with France, the natural and heredi
tary enemy of our civil constitution, and religious faith, to
render us dependent on and subservient to the views, of that
foreign, ambitious and delpotick monarchy.
They have buffered their troops to live repeatedly on free
quarters on the inhabitants, arid to strip them by force of the
necessaries oflife, and have protested them from either trial or
punishment under the pieaof necessity, which neceflity if real,
was caused by their treacherous views, or unpardonable ne
gligence.
They have ruined our trade, and destroyed our credit with
all parts-of the world.
They have forced us to receive their paper, for goods, mer
chandize, and for money due to us, equal to silver and gold,
and then by a breach of publick faith in not redeeming the
fame, and by a most infamous bankruptcy, have left itin our
hands, to the total' ruin of multitudes, and to the injury of all.
They have driven many of our people beyond sea, into
exile, and have confifcatea their estates, and the estates of
others who were beyond sea before the war, or the exigence of
Cbngrefs, on pretence of offences, and under the fan&ion of
a mock trial, to which the person condemned was neither
cited nor present.
They have abolished the true system of the English constitu
tion and laws, in thirteen of the American Provinces, and efta
Charlestown, December 22.
oINCE our last, a large fleet of navy and arrhy victuallers,
„ store blips and tranfpbrts, under convoy of hjs Majesty's
Rotterdam, Aftrea and Duc de Chartres, arrived here
Portsmouth.
In the fleet came passengers, the Right Honourable the Earl
of Dunmore, Lieut. Col. Thompson, and Capt. Macmahon.
Yesterday arrived here the drip Catharine, Capt. Cookie,
from London —also the flrip Sir George Collier, Capt. Bennett,
from Montego-Bay, in Jamaica ; and the brig Henry-Frede
rick, Alien Penny, master, from Liverpool, but last from Cork
j n 11 weeks. —She left Cork in company with a fleet of 54 fail,
bound for the Weft-Indies, under convoy of the St. Alban's and
Eurydice men of war; from'whom the parted in lat. 26.
Early in the morning yesterday the Henry-Frederick was
attacked by a rebel privateer brig of 16 guns, but escaped by
making for the fleet then at anchor off our Bar.
DEATHS, in the 75th year of his age, Robert Bris
bane, Esq.— Hopkin Price, Esq.—Aster a long illness, Mr.
Robert Muncreef, Merchant.
The following Declaration, prepared at a Place which, for the
Sake of the Person who communicated it, mus be nameless at
present, is intended to be circulated throughout the Continent
in the Course of this Winter.
blifhed therein a weak and factious democracy, and have at
tempted to use them as introducing the fame misrule and
difordcr into all the Colonies on the continent.
They have recommended the annihilating of our charters,
abolishing many of our most valuable laws, and the altering
fundamentally the form of our government.
They have destroyed all good order and government, by
plunging us into the fadions of democracy, and the ravages of
civil war.
They have left our ftas unprotected, fuffered our coasts to
be ravaged, our towns to be burnt, some of them by their own
troops, and the lives of our people to be destroyed.
They have without the consent or knowledge of the legis
latures, invited over an army of foreign mercenaries to support
them and their faction, and to prevent the dreadful feenes of
death and desolation from being elofed by an honourable peace
and accommodation with our ancient friend and parent.
They have fined, imprisoned, banished and put to death
some of our fellow citizens, for no other cause but their attach
ment to the English laws and canftitution.
They have countenanced domeflick tumults and disorders
in our capital cities, and have fuffereebthe murder ofa number
of our fellow citizens perpretrated under their eyes in Phila
delphia, to pass unnoticed.
They firft attempted to gain the fayage and merciless In
.dians to their fide, but failing in making them the presents
promised and expected, have occasioned an undistinguished
deftruCtion to ages, texes, and conditions on our frontiers.
They have involved us jn an immtnfe debt, foreign as well
as internal, and did put the best port and illand on our con
tinent, into the hands of the foreigners, who are their creditors.
They have wantonly violated our publick faith and honour,
and destroyed all grounds for private confidence, or the secu
rity of private property, have not blushed to act in direct con
tradiction to their most solemn declaration, and to render the
people under their government, a reproach and bye word a
mong the nations.
In every stage of these proceedings, they have not been
wanting to throw out before us, specious excuses for their con
duct, as being the result of necessity, and tending to the
publick good.—ln every ftftge since their publick conduct
began to contradict their publick declarations, our minds have
been,overwhelmed with apprehensions; and as our bufferings
have in creased, our tears have flowed in f cret. It has been
dangerous and even criminal to lament our situation in publick.
The unsuspecting confidence which we with our fellow citi
zens repofcdin the Congress of 1774; the Unanimous ap
plause with which their pat/iotifm and firmnefs were crowned,
for having flood forth, as the champions of our rights, founded
on the English cooftitution ; at the fame time that it gave to
Congress the unanimous support of the whole continent, in
spired their successors with vqry different ideas, and embol
dened them by degrees to pursue measures, directly the reverie
of those before adopted, and were rec ommended, as the only
just, constitutional and fafe.—Congrefs iu 1774, reprobated
every idea of a reparation from Great-Britain, and declared
that they looked on such an event as -the greatest of evils.—
They declared that a repeal of certain adts, complained of,
would restore our ancient peace and harmony.—That they
asked but for peace, liberty and fafety. —That they ovifoed not
for a dimunition of the royal prerogative, nor did they solicit
the grant^of an, ne<w right. And they pledged themselves in
the presence of Almighty God, that they <will ever carefall,
and %ea!oufl, 'endeavour to support and maintain the royal au
thori, of Great- Britain over us, and our connection with Great-
Britain; and our councils had been influenced only by the dread
df impending deftrußion.
The a&s complained of have been repealed,,yet how have
Congress given the lie, to these their most solemn profeffions !
In 1774, the, declared themselves concerned Hr the honour *
of Almighty God, whose pure and holy religion, our enemies
were undermining.—They pointed out those enemies, and
the danger in which our holy religion w^s by their complaints
of the eftablifhmenttf the Roman Catholick religion in Ca
nada; they fay, “ It i a religion which has deluged the
“ Bland of Great-Britain with blood, and dispersed impiety,
“ persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of
f the world." We find the present Congress not only claim
ing a new right, and hazarding every thing valuable in life, to
the present and future generations in support of it; but we
also find them, leagued with the eldest son of this bloody,
impious, biggotted and persecuting ' church, to ruin the na
tion from whose loins we sprung, and which has ever been
the principal bulwark in Europe, against the encroachments
and tyranny of that Church, and of the kingdoms devoted to
her: we think it not too severe to fay, that we find them as
intoxicated with ambition of independent sovereignty, as that
execrable Roman daughter,, who drove the wheels of her
chariot over the mangled body of her murdered father, in her
way 10 the capitol.
We* find that all their fears and apprehensions from the
Roman Catholick religion in Canada, have vanished, or funk
to nothing, when put in competition with their political views,
and that they have attempted to seduce the, Canadians to
their fide, by promises of still greater religious eftablifhmepts ;
.and to Hew jhat they were in earnest, have countenanced
this impious yeligiom by attending its ceremonies and wor
ship in a body —We find them at one time boalting of their
patriotick and religious ancestors, who braved every danger
of unknown seas, and coasts, to preserve civil and religious
freedom, and who chose ratfcr to become exiles, and fuffer
every misery that must await them, on a savage and unex
plored coast, than submit to civil, but above all religious in
novations—at anothertime we find them destroying the British
Conftitiftion, the pride of their ancestors, and encouraging
a religion which they held in abhorrence, as idolatrous and
tyrannical.—We find them contending for liberty of speech,
and at the fame time controlling the press, by means of a
mob, and persecuting every one who ventures to hint his
disapprobation of thejr proceedings.
We find them declaring in September 1779, thatto pay off
their paper money, at less than its nominal value, would be
an unpardonable fin, an execrable deed. " That a faithlefs
" bankrupt repubhek would be a novelty in the political
“ world, and appear like a common prostitute among chaste
" and reputable matrons," would be “ a reproach and a bye.
“ word among the nations, &c."
We find the fame Congress in March following, liquidating
Their paper debt at 2% per cent, or 6d. in the pound.
We should fill volumes, were we to recite at large their in
consistency, usurpations, Weaknesses and violations of the most
sacred obligations—We content ourfclves with the above brief
recital of fads known to the world and attested by their own
records.
,We have fufficiently shewn that a government thus marked
and distinguished from every other, either defpotick or demo
cratick, by the enormity,of its excesses, injustice and infamy,
is unfit to rule a free people.
WE therefore, Natives and Citizens of America, appea
ling to the impartial world to judge of the justice of our cause,
but above all to the supreme Judge of the World for the rec
titude of our intentions, do renounce and disclaim all allegi
ance, duty, or submission to the Congress, or to any govern
ment under them, and declare that the United Colonies or
States, so called, neither arc, nor of right ought to be indepen
dent of the crown of Great-Britain, or unconnected with that
empire; but that we do firmly believe and maintain " That
'' the Royal Authority of the Crown of Great-Britain over us,
" and our connection with that kingdom ou^ht to be preferred and
" maintained, and that we will zealotry endeavour t. support
" and maintain the fame ;" and in the support of this Decla
ration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi
dence, we mutually pledge to each other, and to the crown:
and empire of Great-Britain, our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honour. Dated, &c.
To be Let, and PoffeJion given as soon as required,
That very excellent STORE, No. 29,
Broad-street, lately occupied by Mr. Maurice Simons. For particu
lars apply to Thomas Hooper, No. 91, corner of Broad and Church
Streets.|,
^'V "° r LONDON immediately,
^p^fyp^yn Without convoy, or nvith the frf fleet,
^^ls The Shi P ADMIRAL BARRINGTON,
^^^SC George Passmore, Commander;
an extraordinary sass sailer, mounting 20 guns, from 30 to 40 men'-
For freight or passage, pleale to apply to Messrs. Kingsley &'l'ay->
* lor, MATre. Scarbrough & Cook, or to the Master on board.J
SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY.
A Quarterly Meeting of said Society will be held at
Strickland's tavern in Broad-street, on Tuesday the firh day of
January, 1782, where the members are earnestly requested to attend
precisely at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, on business of the utmost
importance. By order of the Society,
JOHN M'CALL, jun. Clerk.
Dinner on the table precisely at Two o'clock.
"ANTHONY WARWICK, & Co.
No. 90, Church-street,
Have jufl imported in the Admiral Barrington,from London,
An Assortment of GOODS,
Corffing of the following Articles, which they will dispose of by
the Package, on ver, reasonable Terms, for Cass, Bills of Ex
change, or Produce, viz.
SEVEN-eighths Irish linens from izd. to 2s. 3d. per yard
Britilh oinaburgs of the bed quality in small bale.
Carolina broad hoes in calks of ten dozen each
Shone's best bottled porter in cases
Single refined loaf sugar in small hoglheads
'Belt calk and jar raisins
Almonds in the shell
Black pepper in calks of loolb. each,
A small quantity of fait petre, &c. &c.^
npHE copartyerfhip of fames McMurray, & Co. being this
& day differed, it is requeued of all persons indebted td
them, to make immediate payment to the fubferiber; and
those to whom they are indebted, will fend in their accounts,
and receive payment. JAMES M'MURRAY.
Charieflown, December xo, 1781.±
WHITE and coloured Plains
Duffil Blankets
Bed Blankets'
Oznaburgs, Checks
Irilh Sheeting and Shirting Li
nens
Broad Hoes
Socket Spades
Printed Cottons, Callicoes and
\ Linens
Bath Coating
A CONSIGNMENT, con
and Silver Watches, and a few .
Piece or Package.
ABSENTED himfelf the 20th of November, a small NE
GRO MAN named Smart, of a yellowiih complexion, speaks
thick, as if his tongue was too large for his mouth, had on a brown
coat, with yellow"buttons, but as he has other cloaths may appear in
a different dress; he is well known in town, being one of my houfe
f-rvants; he has a wife at Mr. Thomas Corbett's. SIX DOLLARS
reward will be paid to whoever will deliver him to the Keeper of
the Sugar-House, or to Mr. William Burt, at No. I, Gibbes
ftreet, South-Bay. Masters of vessels and others are cautioned front
'carrying him off, or any person from harbouring the said slave, as
they may depend on being prosecuted, on a proper information, for
which a handsome reward will be given by
December 3, 1781. WILLIAM GIBBE S.
'N. B. If he returns to his duty, he will be forgiven.|
BROUN, CLARKSON, & Co.
Havejuft imported in the Carolina-Packet, Capt. White, from London
• A GENERAL AND COMPLEAT
ASSORTMENT of GOODS,
Suitable for the present and approaching Season,
Which they will dispose of oh the most rcafcnable Terms, for Cafli,
Produce, or Bills of Exchange, at their Store, No. 88, Broad-street ;
Among a Number of other Articles are.
BLUE, green and white Negro
Cloth
Duffil Blankets
Superfine Broad Cloths and Ker
feymires
White and ftfiped Flannels
Mens great Coats and Cloaks
Scarlet Cloaks and Cardinals
Ladies fafnionable Stays
An Assortment of Irilh Linens
Cambricks and Lawns
Ofnaburgs
Printed Linens
Callicoes and Cottons
Manchester Goods
Loaf Sugar
Bohea, Green and Hyfon Teas
Black Pepper
FOR SALE,.
A few Tierces and Barrels of excellent
Mufeovado and Clayed S'UGARS;
And a Quantity of well-aborted
CORDA G E,
By JAMES BLAIR, and Co. No. 27, Bay. 1:
A general Assortment of GOODS,
Imported in the Ship Britannia, from LONDON,
By the Package or otherwise,
Arnon, tobicb are the following feafouable Articles, viz.
John and Alexander M'lver,
At their Store, No. 100, Broad-street,
HATE FOR SALE,
On VERY REASONABLE Terms,
Mace, Nutmegs and Cloves
Mens fafhionable Hats
Ladies fafhionable Stays
Ditto Shoes, and Pumps
Gentlemens Shoes and Boots
Hogfkin Saddles
Military Shirts
Silk Umbrellas
Queen's Ware
Glass and Tin Ware
Frying Pans
Felling Axes
Brass Cocks
Copper Tea Kettles
Lead and Shot;
Broad Hoes
Soap
London Porter in B arrels, &c.
Broad-Cloths and suitable Trim]
mings
Felling Axes
Broad Axes
Coopers and Carpenter's Tools
Reaping Hooks
Iron Pots and Skillets
Frying Pans
Tin Ware
Nails of all Sorts
Stationary;
lifting of coarse Cloths, Gold
Articles of Haberdashery, b, the