The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1782-03-09 00:00:00, page 3

JACKSONBURG 11, MARCS 1, 1782.
WE have the pleasure of informing the good citizens of
this ft>te, that the General Assembly, which had been for hx
weeks fitting in this village, was on Tuesday lad adjourned
to Monday the yth day of August next, ader having puffed the
following weighty and interesting laws, viz.
ift. An A& for the better regulation of the MJcU. .'
2d. An Adt to procure recruits, and ', : aA^ 'A+on.
3d. An Adt for furnifhing fupyies f+ . emv, ro the
value of 373,598 Mexican dob ?s, being tin qum? miigntd to
this fiate, of the Continent better MA - mri-mt'^'v.
4th. An Ad to vest in the.Con,,As of 0 ;' ^ d dates, a
power to levy dutie of 5 per cent', ^ ^ ^ ^, on certain
goods and merchandize, import dimo this five ma o i ze . |
and prize goods, in the c mrt of Admiralty of tids fatd, a; ./
for appropriating rhe feme.
sth. An Aft for holding crr„ of Oyer and Terminer in
the federal diftrifts of this date, ;md for jra;.ng oip.a new
jury lift.
6th. An Aft for repealing the law which make ,wc err-1
rency or bills of credit, a legal tender in payment of d-'••sin
this Rate.
7th. An AR to prevent the n nnmence—mr ' foils'?- the
recovery of debts, for the time and on the cm: Elions therein
mentioned.
Bth. An AR to fiifpend the opr.arm <d'th " ; * .„ 4ft.
9th. An Aft for ditpofing of craTo: jres, mr earning
certain persons therein mentioned.
loth. An AR for amercing ecu fa pas - ,- men
tioned.
iith. An A& for pardoning she pc. r - ..dtferibed,
on the conditions therein mention.a.
12th.. An Aft to cmpowercw.cn ; 1 ; mws therein
mentioned, to purchase an estate e theV << ten th miand
guineas, in trust, and for the use of the ' nonrabic Malor
General Nathaniel Greene.
13th. An AR to revive and continue such laws, as have
expired since the fitting of the last ik m ral Qfftmhly, or will
expire with the preftnt session.
14th. An Aft for fettling the qua e riots of the electors
and the elected in the next General AfLmbly.
15th' An Act for the better 'fence and security of this
state, during the recess of the Gen .d idem' >l y.
16th. An ordinance for repeal: an AR of the Ceof
Assembly of this state, commonly cdied the Admiralty ft;
and for empowering the court of Admiralty ^ this state, to
proceed to a final sentence and decree in al! caf^ in the said
court, without the intervention of a Jury.
The following State officers ia-w fcn so et^.d parfcart to
the (bfretiri vie.
His Excellency John Mathews I fry (; verrour.
His Honour Richard lin'd , .f;; J,hutem;m Governour.
The Honourable Criftopher < diden Edward Rutledge,
John Lloyd, Benjamin Guera \ damn 1 Smith', Richard Be
resford, Morton Wilkinson and ?'- coquet, Zfqires, Mem
bers of the Privy Council.
The Honourable John Rutledge, k ph zard, Arthur Mid
dleton, John Lewis Gervais r . D<d Ramsay, Inquires,
delegates in Congress.
Edward Blake and William P Ter, Lfuire% Treasurers.
It must afford the highest pleasure to every well wither to,
his country, to be informed, thu durng'the whole of this
important session, in which a gi it pw of the business, al
though the manifeft deflate of for ; nJLy, Cpuld not but be
distressing to the feelings of humafw, and fix m its nature
was irritative and inflamatory, the m o st perfect harmony,
moderation and temper were conspic uous.
. The day after the adjournment, his Excellency 'he Gover
nour and Honour the Lieutenant-G, vernow the Council,
and the two branches of the legislature, timed together in
publick. If this convivial entertainment fell fhart in the ele
gance and refinements of Luxury, the want ofthern was amp
ly compensated, bv the f c>quifite fa ^fa^To flowing from the
confeioufnefs of IT rty wnich every guest fed in his own breast,
and the locial mirth, pleasantry and good humour which dis
tinguished the day.
The American cm;f is now so well maintained by the sword)
-that it requires not the feeble support of the press; but the
printer cannot avoid on this occ^on, opposing a few stubborn
fads, to all the feurrinty, ta'fe hoods and forgeries, with which
almost every news-pay 1 of the , nemy teems.
It is an incontrovertible truth that'a General Assembly, le
gally and regularly constituted, has been fitting fix weeks un
molested, within 36 miles of cur capital, all our civil depart
ments are rclpeTably filed, ana we have the utmost reason to
expert that our line of Continental troops will very soon be
complete.
It is equally certain, that an impartial history of the war for
the year pah, would be one continued tale of Great-Britain's
disg r m e , an d flat she cannot lay claim to a brilliant a&, du
r? :a r period, to rescue her from the most fovereigh con
temot.
!' is no less evident, to any person in the smallest degree ver
sed in tne politicks of Europe, that she has not the fainted prof-
I^t of procuring a single ally.
e mudinppofe the Empress of Russia, to have fallen from
thy wghe% pinnacle of wisdom, into the lowest depth of idio
tum, once to entertain a thought, that ffie will expose her in
CHARLESTOWN, March 13.
WE are informed by a person from the southern parts of
this Province, that Major Dcveaux of the Royal Militia,
who failed some time ago from Stono river, vith a party of
soldiers on board three small veirels, had landed on Beanfort-
Jfland, and destroyed two gallies which theer^y were fitting
out there; that Mr. John Barnwell, the Brigadier of thar
diftrid, being unable to resist the progress of Ma or weanx,
had retreated Acrol's the ferry to the main ; and that his : ro.her
Col. Barnwell, having been ordered by General Wayne to
destroy some provisions on Hulchifon'r Island, was f rorild at
Wright's Eluff, before he accomplished the bufinef he was
sent about, by a detachment of troops from Savannah, who
killed 5 or 6 of his party, and took about as many prifcners.
The fame person adds, that Col. Barnwell not 1 a^ng obeyed
literally the inftrudions of Gene d Wayne, to wi ?h circum
fiance the failure of the enterprise, and his being fa: pried are
attributed, is. now under arrest, and will be tried by a Court-
Martial for disobedience of orders.
A small schooner arrived here this day from New Provi
dence, after a tedious passage; she left that place on the fame
day with the schooner Myers, Matter, and confe
quntly brings nothing new. —
The Rebels in the country, among their other devices, have
contrived at length to publish something which b.ar the
likeness though not the name of a news, paper.—We would not
wish to conceal from the inhabitants of osr capital, anything
which concerns them so materially, as a lift of the n'ts and
ordinances by which their neighbours in the country are go
verned; nor would the Young Liwyef take it kindly if fre
fliould refufe to communicate to the world is important politi
cal difquihlions which ferv&to eke out the laboured fhect. We
/ball therefore faithfully reprint the wWe of thi\ jaclYonburgh
publication, and if any of our correspondents deem it worthy
of comment or answer, we shall be happy to infcrt.it in our
next paper. 1 1
MARRIAGE. Captain Norman M'Lf.od, ofthe Provin
cial Light-Infantry, to Miss K itharine Campbell, daugh
ter of Alexander Campbell, Esq; of Balole, North-Britain ; an
amiable young Lady.—Mr. Nicol Primerose, Merchant, to
Miss Katharine Livie, daughter of the late Alexander
Livie, Esquire.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORD IN ARY from Phi-
LADELPHI A.
The following Books are in the press there, and will spee
dily be published :
A Treatise on Bills of Exchange, with observations on protests,
according to the newest and most approved methods, by
Robert Morris, Esq; Financier to the United States.
A dissertation on the difference betwixt Mexican and Spanifli
milled dollars, by the fame.
Killing . Tories no murder. Embellished with a beautiful fron
tifpieci, representing the death of Mr. Dawkins, and dedi
cated, by permission, to his Excellency General Greene, by
Col. Wade Hampton.
The sacred obligation of a military parole dated and illustrated
by Brigadier-General Pickens.
Ways and ineans for the year 1782, By a member of the As
sembly at Jackfonburgh, with a supplement, by John Rut
ledge, Lfq; on the advantages of converting indigo into
paper certificates.
A topographical description of the northern parts of South-
Carolina, betwixt Peedee aud Santee, illustrated with a map,
wherein are accurately delineated all the thickets and
Cramps in that country, from an actual surrey by Brigadier-
General Marion.
Seleß manoeuvres for cavalry; to which are added practical
observations on the most soldier-like manner of fwimmiug
rivers in a route, by the fame.
Description of the strong brick castle at the Eutaws, by Gene
ral Crer e.
There will be a Subfeription Ball, on
Thursday Evening, at the State-House.
"PUBLIC K JU CTION.
TO-MORROW, the 14th inst.
WILL BE SOLD,
At his Office, No. 43, Bay.
IBy JO HN MORRIS,
Jamaica and Weil-India Rum in puncheons
Mufeovado Sugar in hogflheads
40001 b. of bed purple Indigo
A quantity of excellent Sea Coal
40 barrels of fuperfinejtiln dried Flour
Carubricks, Jewellery, Linens, &c. &c.
* -| At ONE o'^oef at the Exchange,
™ Brigantine SAMUEL,
Prize to his Majesty's ship Santa Margaretta, Elliot
r ^jr Salter, Esq; Commander; a fine flout Britilh built
. ^TiWvelfcl, about 200 tons burthen, and is well found in
materials.
~fc^ A LS ° 4
sys The Sloop ELIZ A, .
Ari I \A Prize to his Majesty's ship Grana, Chichefter Tor
q<r?&T., tefeue, Ffq; Commander; burthen about 506 bar-
T.—dlA=^ r '-ls of flour, fails fail, and is well found.
LIKEWIS E,
/f™? r™'x L' b 'rmi„fon of the Honourable Edward Savage, Esq;
,/ rAi b%A judge r j bis Mujeflys Court of Vice* Admiralty, &f.
The beautiful privateer'
Brigantine CHAC E,
Prize to'his Majesty's ship Ostrich, Sir Jacob Wheate, Bart. Com
mander, and Duc de Chartres, John C. Parvis, Esq, Commander.
This fine vessel is only fix months off the flocks, fails uncommonly
faft, is well found in every neceiiary material for a cruize, and may
be sent to sea at a small expence.
AN D,
A Bermudian SLOOP,
1/4% About 14 tons burthen, lately repaired in order to
carry passengers to St. Auguftiue, will do exccllent
'"^ ly for that purpose, or a fifhing vefl'cl. Inventories
to be seen at my office. I JOHN MORRIS.
CbarleJloiun, Igth March, 1782.
dor Savannah and St. Augufline,
rf= The Schooner TWO FRIENDS,
.Samuel Iverson, Master;
VQ Now lying at Greenwood's wharf, will fail in fix
° a Y s ' '°r freight or passage, apply to Mr. Jen
nings, No. 6, Stoll's-Allcy, or to the master on
- board . %March 13, 1782.
On Thursday the 4th da, of Ap r< l, will be Sold, at publick
Sale, before the Exchange, between twelve and one o'clock.
A. VERY valuable BUILDING on Greenwood's wharf,
consisting of three good ftoreS and two cellars, with two fail
lofts, the whole being in front from east to weft 6z| feet, and in
depth from north to south 52 feet, with a died about 3 o feet' by 10
fubjed to a ground rent 'of 601. per annum, and one year and eleven
months of the lease unexpired, with power to remove or dispose of the
buildings at the expiration of the lease; late the property of Kershaw
" ,' DD f, seized on execution and fold by order of the Board of
Pohce Also at the fame time and place, a quantity of SALT, late the
property of the said Kerfhaw and Riddel. TOHN DAVIFS
Cbarlfown, 12th March, 1782. Sheriff'
JANE STEWART,
Begs leave to inform the Publick in general, and her friends
, in particular,
Thatfhe is removed from the Bay, to No. 39, Meeting-fl reet,
^ e P ur P° fes having ready at all times, Collared
VV Beef and Pork, pickled oysters, &c. will undertake the ma
nagement of any private or publick entertainments; also making
up Itores for gentlemen going to fea.|
THE Miss STEWARTS intend openinga genteel SCHOOL,
where will be taught all kinds of plain and fine needle-work,
reading, dec. A few young ladies may be accommodated with day
or constant boarding, andjheir friends may depend on every Proper
attention fliewn them. b, '* '
Mor is it mare rational to imagine, that the Emperor of
Ge many, will break afund'er the ties of consanguinity, and
mvote iu formidable , power of the House of Bourbon, for
he purpose A recovering a territory, of little or no importanc
to tho&npirc; which has been fairly conveyed away, and all
Lim to it long since relinquished. But, even fuppoling that
this may be the Case, Great-Britain fprely cannot promise her
fel. any fubftaidial advantage, from an alliance with a power,
which has no' a tingle ship of the line, while the contest is for
the foverAgnty of the sea.—As interest, that Pole-Rar of na
tions, forbids the interference of every other power in Europe,
her expectations from any other quarter mull be equally ill
founded.
fant marine, wheih rtieha^ been fettering with so much care,
tothe danger of eg crushed in embrio, by madly efpoufing'
'lie cause oT/A ai:>
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
House of Commons, IVednefda,, November 28.
The fifth REPORT of the Commissioners appointed to exa
mine, take, and state, the Publick Accounts ofthe kingdom.
To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgees, in Par
liament trembled.
[Concluded from our Last.]
1,,"° '"^ procured the knowledge of the services, and of
A A the niode of receiving from the Exchequer, and of issuing mo
ney oi each service; it remained, in order to find out the component
r 3 to compare the funis received,for these services,
the """ '""'' an ' '" wb at remained in the hands of the Pay
maker-General under each head: but the manner in which the ac
counts in tins office are now, and have been kept from time imme
fuch an investigation hardly practicable.
r thc ,Y master General passes an account before the Auditor
of the Inipreft he charges himfelf therein, with the money he has
' ° f ^ Exchequer, during the period of that account, in
one groisfum; he verifies the charge by the Imprefl Roll, which fpe
*l|'si"ile '" ni ^ he has received in each memorial, and the terms in
Which he received them, but not for what services; all that is requir-
Lie "' ^ Lender an account for what ferries he has expended
he hun unprefted to hi,; to do this confidently with order and me
thod h:s Foments must be arranged under diftinC fodsof service ;
" "7 eC ^' y ^ makin ^ the Eke arrangements of his re
char^ f °f'°"^°: the '"" y ^ a varie[ y of articles in his
° n * ^ h °? e$ a " fwe " fullas ^ all P^pofes
h t CCO "T ^ a vlcw to this > is forked the
^" ^ k T accouii ts of hit payments are underle
'" hea " ?' ,""' bHt he haso he cash account;
though in one memorial to the Treasury, he often a .fc s for feverai
i^hAclm nT 6 ''""' E^d' of service, yet he enters the receipt
in his Cash Book, as one entire s um , received that day at the ExchL,
aS A ° ne A" ^ th ~ Kin ^' 3 account current in hi^
Ledger . to have found 0,, therefore, the firings in his hands, under
ct h h T d °" e 7% he muff have examined every memorial pre
lented by him to the Treasury for the thirteen years he has been in
office, and l,ve extracted from thence, and collected together, all
.f u ™ s has r " ei . v f d f ° r th " service, in' order to compare them
with the iffucs, And here too arose another difficulty: in thi c office
a payment for any service made in a fubfequem , c a t , is entered i^
th ' ~""' ° f '"'X"' in whlca the sum was voted for that service
unless luch account is made up, and then it is entcredin the next open
year s accou,; hence these accounts are ufuaily kept open, until
they are reaay to be pafled by the Auditors of the Impreft; which
time not being yet come for the accounts of the Paymaftcr-General
, office, not one of his Ledgers are yet made up; he conld not there
fore have given us the iffaes for any one service, without making up
.he account of that service, m every year's Ledger, fi. ce he has
in office.
Thinking ourselves by no means warranted to take up the time',
and perhaps impede the current buhnefs of this office, at so bufv and
important a period, by employing them in so laborious, and, Inlets
for this particular purpose, so useless a talk; we had recourse t c such
other circum&mees in evidence before us, as migiu l ca d us to a de-
Cihon Upon the point we are pursuing.
From th^ ar^ngeme, we have made, of the sums received
the Pay,aft,-General from the Exchequer, it ap p ears , that the ba
|V" S K ha ^"U c °, nfi ^ of a ny fwns comprehended in the
hrft elafs; because of them he very soon issues all he receives, nor
is it probable, that sums tn the second elafs can conilitute any very
considerable part of it;,„fe it is not to be presumed, that officers
of any denomination ,11 faffer their pay to continue long without
applying for it, either by themfelvcs or their agents.
A con tii,al receipt and issue, implies a balance continually in hand
there mull be the like continual balance where there are intervals be'
tween the receipt and iflue. and a frefh supply always comes'in before
the issue, as m the case of every Bank; but our enquiry s after a
sum more pcni,en, a sum that remains long unapplied to any ser
vice, and which, if otherwrfe disposed of, would occasion no inter
rupt, n in the regular course of paying the army services; for fuel,
a balance, in the hands of the Pa,matter-Genera! we must look
^ n ^ , th e fum j f ° r "' fervic " " amed in die ^ird dais, where 1^
iilues lels than he receives.
Under the denomination of fubfiftehec for the forces at home he
receives more than that subsistence amounts to, with an intent of
procuring thereby a fund for certain payments not fpecifically applied
for by him, and therefore ,h,wife unprovided for: he receives lub,
lift, ice upon the full ef^bhfhment of the no, commissioned officers
^ I'c Bi!":" 1 f ° rc " in North-America and part of
tne, est-Indies and of the foreign troops; but as these regimens
must be mcomple,, and the deputy Paymasters there issue fubfibence
according to the strength only of the regiment, he does not remit to
them the whole he receives, but so much only as, from the laQ ac
c o ,ts they fend him of the state of the balances in their hands, he
4^" W ^ t 0 ^^ le them to carr Y ° n th e publick service.
This unused lubfiftence of the British forces in the Weft-Indies and
North-America continues in his hands till the accounts of the feverai
regiments are made up, when it falls into the clearings, and is issued
to the agents; b, this, not till fifteen or fifteen months after they
bee,, due Ihe umffued fubf^ence of the foreign troops remains
with him till their arrears are paid to the agents; which time seems
from the account of the issues received from the Treasury generally
to be about two years alter they are due. ' ° '
He receives the whole sums voted for garrisons, ftaff, and hospital
abroad; but the officers in these departments, named in the certifi
cates from rhe War-office, do not exhaust the whole sum voted
Hence arises a fund composed T these savings, out of which he
issues for certain ferric,, and defrays certain expences, without
making any fpecihc application for them to the Treasury -these are
the allowance to widows; some of the payments to which the poun
dage is made applicable by the King's warrants; and the mifteha
neous head of contingencies
To demands for these services, and to no other that we can difeo
ver (except such claims for the pay of the general and ftaff officers,
and officers of the garrisons and hospitals abroad, and of the reduced
officers, as remained unfatisfied,) was this balance liable on the day of
^ d i"' ^ a ,°", of these demands at that time?
Nothing had been issued for the allowance to widows in the year
1780; for enough remained of former receipts, in the hands of the
Paymaster of the widows pensions, to carry .on that service- and
therefore this balance was not liable to be reduced by any issue under
the head of allowance to widows. We could not have the accounts
of the payments out of the poundage and hospital, and for the con
tmgencres in the year 17 80, because some of the warrants had not
been produced for payment, and therefore the accounts could not I e
made up; but finding, that where the establishments are nearly the
lame, there is no conuderable difference between the payments riiade
epon them two heads, in one year and another; we applied to th^
Pay-Office for an account of the payments made by the Paymaster-
General^ out of the deductions of twelve-pence in the pound and
one day s pay; and for an account of the payments made by him for
the contingent expences of his Majesty's forces, for the last year in
which these accounts were made up at the office. The accounts trans
mitted to us, pursuant to this requisition, are of the year 1778- and
^ the y?„p r ° b ^ do . ^ ot , vary much from thufe of the year
they will foetus, with fufficient accuracy, the amount of the de
mands for these two heads of service upon the balance now before us
The payments out of the poundage and one day's pay, consist of fala^
ries to officers, Exchequer-fees, returned poundage, and Chelsea
Hospital; the whole amount of which, for this one year, is one
hundred, fourteen thousand, two hundred fixty-five pounds ten Shil
lings and two-pence The articles of Exchequer fees, returned poun
dage, and Chelsea Hospital, though placed to this account, are not
demands upon this balance. The Exchequer fees for every sum are
al T y V at '^ Exchequer out of the sum, at the time it is recei
ved; the Paymaster-General debits his cash with the whole sum he
applies for, and credits it for the fees; and therefore the only alter
ation made in his cash is an increase by the sums he asks, deducting:
the Exchequer-fees. Fhe other two fences being applied for under
their fyecifick heads, he receives a sum with one hand, and issues it
with the other; and therefore these three articles, amounting to