The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-07-04 00:00:00, page 4

EPJECH of his Excellency PATRICK TONY N, Esquire, %
▼'rnour of East-Florida, to the General Assembly of tne
said Province. ;
Honourable Gentlemen,
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Aflembly,
I AM happy that, during my administration of the government of
this province, it hath arrived at such a Rate of affluence and im
portance as to enable me to fulfil his Majesty's most gracious engage
ments, in his royal proclamation of the 7th of October, 1763, by es
tablishing a Provincial Legillature for the purpose of making consti
tutions, ordaining laws, Statutes, and ordinances, as near as may be
agreeable to the laws of .England, under such regulations and reStric
tions as are used in other colonies, for the publick welfare and good
government of this province and its inhabitants.
° To this period his Majesty's Honourable Council have a&ed as a
Privy Council, with refpedl to matters of government; and I am
greatly indebted to that Honourable Board for their ready ailiftance
and the candour they have ever difeovered in giving their opinions on
such points as were laid before them.
From this date they assume the authority and privileges of an Up
per House of Aflembly in a legislative capacity, and you will, Ho
nourable Gentlemen, I am convinced, maintain the fame regard to the
constitution, the fame loyalty to his Majesty, and attention to the
true interest of this province, which hath been your ruling principles
in the capacity of Privy Counfellors.
It Lath-been frequently represented to me, by the Grand Jur es of
this province, that local laws were much wanted, and that a Provin
cial Legillature would be beneficial to the community. 1 laid these
presentments before his Majesty's Council, who concurred with the
Grand Jurors, that provincial laws were wanted; but sensible that
numberless expences and hardships unavoidably attend forming new
settlements, and imagining that it would be expected, the infant a
Provincial Legillature existed, taxation for defraying the expences of
government should be imposed, I thought it more eligible to fuller a
few inconveniences than either to burthen you in an infant Rate, or
disappoint the reasonable expectations of our most gracious Sovereign,
and an indulgent Mother Country, by whose patronage, care, and
support, we have been foftered and protected, at a time of general
revolt, when the untoward behaviour of the other colonies might
have justly induced the most benign Prince in the world to alienate
Ids affection from such contumacious and refractory children, and the
Parliament to withdraw its aid from breeding up others that, like
them, might prove unworthy and ungrateful.
Of late, Gentlemen, the increase of property, from your success
in commerce and planting, has been considerable; and the industry
and judgment of a few may evince to Great-Britain that ample re
turns in produce may be made for money laid out in railing a produce
equally beneficial to the Planter and the Mother Country, in one of
the most healthy and fertile climates upon earth.
These and other motives impelled me to summon the Freeholders
of this province, to eledt Representatives to a& in the House of Af
idmbly, for the purpose of affixing in framing laws, statutes, and or
dinances, for the good government of the province, whose Repre
sentatives, Gentlemen, you are ; and I do aflure you that I Shall most
dispassionately and cordially concur with you in framing such laws
and ordinances as best correspond with the constitution and laws .of
England, and best suit with our local Situation and circumstances,
ana that I am equally zealous of preferring inviolate the liberties of
the subject and the rights and prerogatives of the crown.
My address to you, Gentlemen, upon the present auspicious occa
fon, 'fhall be Short, confident of your loyalty to the King and attach
ment to the constitution, and that you have a perfect knowledge of
the true interests of this colony.
Framing laws for the regulation of the conduct of the members of
a community has ever been a mod momentous and important obje&;
they require the most penetrating difeernment and founded delibera
tions; and particular circumfpe&ion is necessary at this alarming cri
sis of publick affairs and general revolt of the colonies ; a revolt which
I cannot mention without the greatest indignation, and in which they
have so wickedly persevered, that, by their new and unnatural poli
tical alliances, they have facrificcd to their caprices and prejudices
their most sacred rights, religious and civil; renounced their allegi
ance to the mildest and best of Kings, and their attachment to the
most beneficent of Mother Countries; and have attempted to deStroy
a constitution, under which they possessed a freedom retrained only
by the mod wholesome and beneficial laws, and all the sweets of good
government, without feeling the weight of its support and mainte
nance.
The quota you, in your present circumstances, can make, 1 am
sensible will not be adequate to the expences of the provincial govern
ment; but I am confident that such provision, appropriated as I men
tion, will be an additional motive with our most gracious Sovereign
to continue his immediate protection, and to an unprejudiced and li
beral Parliament its bounty, in our progression towards maturity.
In my correspondence with his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
State, I have ever represented the inhabitants of this province loyal
and well attached to his Majesty's person and government, and ready
upon every occasion to assist by their personal services; and I take
this opportunity of returning my thanks to those Gentlemen who
with a manly spirit served in the Militia upon the repeated invafior.s
of the province.
I presume, Gentlemen, I have no occasion to mention, that the
present situation of publick affairs, surrounded as we are on all sides
by foreign and domeftick enemies, demands our attention to the im
portant obje& of defence; and that we may lend our aid in an uni
form and proportioned manner, a Militia A& will be beneficial to
the province.
I have only to intreat, Gentlemen, that you will preserve har
mony and good temper in your deliberations; and be assured I have
nothing 16 much at heart as to concur with you in promoting his
Majesty's service, and the prosperity and true interest of this pro
vince. (Signed) PAT. TONYN.
St.^agufine, 2,b March, I7BT.
To bis Excellency PATRICK TONYN, Efauire, Captain-General,
Governour and Commander in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Pro
vince of East-Florida, Cbaruellour, Pice-Admiral and Ordinary
of the feme ;
The ADDRESS of the Upper House of Assembly.
May it plcafe your Excellency,
WE his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjeCts, the Uppet
House of AnembJy for this province, in General Assembly
met, beg leave to return your Excellency our grateful acknowledg
ments for your most affectionate Speech to both Houses of Assembly.
It affords us a wry Sincere Satisfaction that, under your Excellen
cy's wife and mild administration, this province hath reached that
state of importance and affluence as to enable your Excellency to con
stitute a Provincial Legislature, which we flatter ourselves will be
conducive to the prosperity of this his Majesty's colony, and the suc
cess of its inhabitants ; and in justice to your Excellency's merit, we
do acknowledge, that a con:Hex able increafc of inhabitants has pro-
The result of your deliberations, Gentlemen, will not only be of
consequence to this province, but to his Majesty's government in ge
neral, and it will at lead give a tincture to future Assemblies ; and
as one of the chief reasons aligned for this unnatural rebellion is, the
Colonies refufing to acknowledge the supreme right and authority of
the British Parliament, to prevent, as far as possible, any future con
test upon so just and equitable a point, I hope your good sense and
attachment to the constitution will lead you, in the most publick and
avowed manner, by an a& of the Provincial Legislature, to recog
nize your allegiance to the blessed Prince upon the throne, and the
supremacy" of Parliament, thereby to establish, upon the most solid
foundation, our constitution, liberties, and dependencies.
As the King and Parliament have, with amaftonifhing and unpre
cedented condescension, relinquished their just right of taxation, pro
vided the Provincial Legislature will make due provision for defray
ing a reasonable part of the expences of the government of the empire
at large, and for the internal government of the colony, I trust that
you, Gentlemen, in the firft moment of our existence, will make a
provision appropriated to these Important purposes, more as a mark
of your regard to justice, and affection and gratitude for the govern
ment under which we have been protested, and generously foftered
and maintained, than for any immediate real service our supply can
afford it.'
E A S T-F I, O R I D A.
Thoroughly convinced of the patronage, support, and care, with
which this province hath been, and continues to be foftered, cherished,
and protested, by our most gracious Sovereign and indulgent mother
country, we cannot altogether disappoint their reasonable expectati
ons, and will therefore cheerfully contribute towards the general ex
pences of Government, what on mature deliberation we shall judge
suitable to the circumstances of our constituents, which being well
known to your Excellency, we hope the present smallness of our
quota may not be considered as the measure of our loyalty and affec
tion to the most beneficient Prince in the world, or of our attach
ment to our bountiful mother country; but we find great fatisfa&ion
in the profpe& that, through a continuance of the benevolent affift
tance and attention of the British Parliament, the gradual encreafe
of property amongst us, from the returns of a produce valuable to
the planter, and beneficial to Great-Britain, will enable us in progress
of time to make our proportion of the general supplies an obje& of
more importance than can at present be expe&ed.
We are inipreffed with sentiments of gratitude for your Excellen
cy's assurance that you will most dispassionately and cordially concur
with us in framing such laws and ordinances, correspondent to the
constitution of Great-Britain, as shall be found best to suit with our
local situation; and we promise your Excellency, that, zealous as we
are to preserve inviolate the liberties of the fubjecS, we will ever
hold sacred the rights and perogatives of the crown.
The making laws for a community, at all times deemed a most mo
mentous and important objeft, must now call forth our particular
circumfpeHion, and most serious deliberation, at this alarming crisis
of publick affairs and revolt of the colonies; a revolt which we want
words to express our indignation and abhorrence of, aggravated, if
possible, as it is by their most wicked and flagitious perseverance
therein, and by the most unnatural and detestable political alliances, by
which our rebellious fellow fubje&s seem quite loft to every sense of
gratitude and attachment to their merciful and most gracious Sove
reign and beneficent mother country; haying facrificed to their am
bitious views and misguided prejudices their most sacred rights, religi
ons and civil, renounced their allegiance to the mildest and best of
Kings, and done what in them lay to demolish and overturn a con
stitution and empire, the envy, admiration, and dread, of furreund
ing nations, under which they had enjoyed the sweets of good govern
ment, without feeling the weight of its support and maintenance.
As one of the firft steps leading to this unnatural revolt was a refufal
of the rebel colonies to acknowledge the supreme right and authority
of the British Parliament, to prevent, as far as possible, any future
contest on so just and equitable a point, it will behove us, in the mob
publick and avowed manner, to recognize cur allagiance to the blessed
We esteem our civil and religious liberties dear to us as our lives,
and wish to transmit them inviolate to our posterity, as their best in
heritance ; and humbly conceiving tliat they never can be better se
cured than under the protection and patronage of the Royal House
of Branfwick, and firmly confiding in the wisdom of the British Par
liament, and convinced of the necessity that an absolute, supreme,
and uncontroulablc power, in a state, muff exist Somewhere, we
will most cheerfully concur with the other Branches of the Provincial
Legislature in recognizing our allegiance to the King, and the su
premacy of Parliament.
We Should be void of every sentiment of gratitude not to acknow
ledge the great obligations we are under to our most gracious Sove
reign for the fuccour and protection he hath afforded this province,
especially for that body of brave troops who have, upon sundry oc
casions, Signalized themselves in repelling the united forces of the
French and Rebels, in restoring the neighbouring province to his
Majesty's allegiance, and Securing this from plunder and devaluation;
and we are greatly indebted to your Excellency for that spirit and
vigilance which you have ever exerted for the defence of this govern
ment, and the happiness and prosperity of the people over whom you
preside. By Order of the Upper House of Assembly,
JOHN MOULTRIE, PreEdcht.
Eafi-Florida, Upper House of
Assembly, March gl, 1781.
His Excellency's ANSWER.
Honourable Gentlemen,
^ RETURN you hearty thanks for the expreffons of loyalty and gratitude
to his Majefly, and regard to the constitution, contained in your address.
It is a very particular fatisfaAion to me, that Gentlemen fo, well acquaint
ed with the constitution of Great-Britain fill the honourable fation you hold
in this province.
I art happy that ms Majesty's paternal care of bis people enabled me to
fofteu the difrefrs of the loyal but sorely oppressed Refugees ; and your ap
probation of my conduct, and the favourable opinion you entertain of me, arc
exceedingly pleasing to me. P AT'. T 0 N YN.
To bis Excellency PATRICK TONY N, Effire, Captain-General,
Governour, and Commander in Chis, in and over bis Majesty's Pro
vince of East-Florida, Chancellor, Vice-Admiral, and Ordinary
of the fame ;
The ADDRESS of the Commons House of Assembly.
May it please your Excellency,
WE his Majesty's mod dutiful and loyal fubjeds, the Commons
House of Assembly of East-Florida, in General Aflembly
met, return you our most sincere and cordial thanks for your excel
lent speech on our meeting in the firft Provincial Legifiature con
vened in this colony.
With the most heart-felt fatisfa&ion we congratulate your Excel
lency, that, during your administration of the Government of this
Province, it hath arrived at such a state as to enable your Excellency
with propriety to fulfil his Majesty's most gracious intentions, by the
establishment of a legislative body in this province.
Sensible from experience, of the numberless hardships and heavy
expences which unavoidably attend the forming of new settlements,
we have hitherto cheerfully submitted to such inconveniences as our
situation and circumstances fubje&ed us to; but, from the encreafing
population of the province, the necessity of some local laws in this
infant colony became daily more evident ;' in the making and fra
ming of which, and of such other ordinances and regulations as the
publicly welfare , and good Government may require, it shall be our
study to conform, as far as may be, to the constitution and laws of
Great-Britain, under such reftridLons as have been used in our filler
colonies.
ceeded from that warm and dlftingui&d reception: the frienis of go
vernment who came to this province for an alyluni have met whh.
Your Excellency's zeal for Ids Majesty's fer vice, your constant and
unremitted attention to whatever you thought would contribute to
the advancement of commerce and agriculture, and the candour and
freedom with which your Excellency, on every occasion, laid the bu
duels of the province before the Council Board, were always very
grateful to us, and tended to infpie the fame ardour and liberal'ity
of Sentiment, ingremg our opinions, that actuated your Excellency,
and Simulated us to that zeal for his Majesty's service, and prosperi
ty of this colony, which we hope ever to preserve.
It is our moil earned with and highest ambition to exert our ut
most abilities in discharging the honourable and important trust re
posed in us as an Upper House of Assembly, and we shall in all our
deliberations Strictly adhere to the spirit of that excellent constitution
of government under which we live, and Rudy to model our laws
as near as may be to that justly admired lylteni which hath been
framed by the wisdom of the British Parliament.
Whilst we admire his Majesty's royal clemency, in holding forth
terms of accommodation, and offers of pardon end rerniffion of pad
offences, it is with the deeped concern and affliction that we perceive
our deluded fellow Subjects in the revolted colonies, contrary to their
true interest and the principles of generosity and justice, contumaci
ously persevering in open rebellion against their lawful Sovereign ;
and, as if no terms of accommodation were ever intended by them,
have entered into unnatural alliances with foreign Rates, whom the
experience of pad ages evinces to be enemies to religious and civil li
berty, thereby audaciously attempting to difmerober that glorious
empire which gave them existence, and under whose protection they
arrived at a. degree of affluence and importance which they have li
centiously perverted to the worst purposes.
With the warmest Sentiments of loyalty and gratitude to our most
gracious Sovereign, (whose uniform conduct evinces that he is truly
the best of Kings) we acknowledge to have received his Majesty's
support and protection, when we apprehended the untowardly be
haviour of the other colonies might have led his Majesty and the Par
liament to have withdrawn their aid.
^rir.¥cn the throne and the for r - :3y ,-PTrhumcm
tiblifhihg on the mod lchu fouimauor .dm'cm d .Atut.<"
depadencies. , a °d
We are full of acknowledgment to yonr'Excrilency for the fi v
able repreftouhmis you have made to the Ki r, in roar ,
t ice with Ins Ma city s prmc:pm Secretaries 01 State, of the
and attachment of the people ' of this province to his Madefy,'
fen arid governmem. We trust and are persuaded your ELceilen'°^
favourable reports of us and our confticuents will continue to L'Z
tided, by our readiness on all occaiioiis to alfyt your Excellency '|"
our personal services and otherwise, in the defence of this bis 3,"
ty ^.province; and that, during the present arduous situation of'p)
hex affairs, surrounded as we are by enemies both foreign and uoinf
tick, we may lend nur aid in a uniform and proportioned man;°:
+^rein, a militia raw will demand our early attention, as it will cer
tainly be beneficial to the province.
We cannot omit this occasion of expreffing' our gratitude for von
Excellency's unwearied attention to the interests of "this proving t i
'"' Many's service, and to the dictates of humanity, in the ready
and effectual protection, assistance, and countenance, which your &'
cellency hath uniformly granted to such of the King's good fubic^'
as, driven by the rebels from their habitations and properties in
adjacent provinces, took refuge under your Excellency's wing, where
they have never failed to find Ihelter, and which divers members of
this house have experienced.
. By Order of the Commons House of Affembl,,-
W iLLiAhi BROWN, Speaker
St. Aug-fine, April 2/, 1781.
His Excellency's ANSWER.
Gentlemen,
f.RE TURN you myfincere thanks for the Sentiments of loyalty and dut- to
our most gracious Sovereign, expressed in your very acceptable addrf to ,ne
lam confident that your regard tojufice and the constitution under which
we live, will induce you to fulfil your engagements, by cowrihuting a q uotz
towards the general expences of government proportionable to the circumfonra
of your confidents, which -will accumulate w$ the grozomg produce of tie
colony; such grant will be a motive with his Majesty to continue bis pater
nal care and proteltiori.
It has ever been with the warms, emotions of fympatby, that I have con
itributed all in my power to make this province a happy asylum to th. Gen
tlemen wbefefirm attachment to government led them to relinqu, their pofr
feffons and properties rather than facrifice their allegiance ; and lam con
vinced that I could in no means better fulfil bis Majesty's gracious intentions
towards them, I only regret that it could not be done to the extent of their
merit, and fufferings and d,rffis. PAT. TONYN.
St. Augufine, April 2d, l/01.
IRISH Linens and Sheetings
Russia and German Linens
Scotch Ofnaburgs and Sheetings
Checks and Check Handkerchiefs
Bed Ticks
Aborted Manchester Goods
Ditto printed ditto
Ditto Cambrick, Gauzes and
Ribbons
Muslins, Silks and other Eafr
India Goods
Military & fine Shoes & Boots
Ladies Shoes and Slippers
Threads fine and coarse
Negro Cloathing and Blankets
Superfine & second Broad Cloths
of scarlet, blue and fafhionable
Colours
Kerfeymires, Serges, Baizes,
Flannels, Shalloons, &c.
Perfumery and Turnery
Groceries
Drugs and Medicines
Ironmongery, Hardware and
Cutlery
Bar Iron and Steel
. A LS O,
English and Hollandfe Gin, English and French Brandy, a few
Cases of Taunton and Yorkshire Ale, with a Choice of genuine and
firft Quality Madeira, Port, Sherry, Claret and Calcavella Wines,
in Calks and in Bottles.+
RUN away from the fubferiber's southern plantations, in
the month of June, 1779, the following NEGROES, viz.
Tony Leah, now in town
Ely Kate
Johnny Abel, gone with the French
Ben Brutus, at Mr. Blake's plantation at the Saltketchers.
Billy Stepney, at Mr. Smith's, Pocotaligo
Cain Abraham, a bricklayer, now in Cnarleftown
Primus Neptune
Dublin Cyrus
Bella Jack
The above is a true lift of negroes belonging to the, said fub
fcriber.s
A GUINEA for each negro will be paid on delivery to the Keeper ,
of the Sugar-House in Charleftown, at my plantation at the Horse-.
Shoe, or to the fubferiber at Ediflo.
WILLIAM MAXWELL,
Who desires all persons indebted to him by bond or note, to pay
off the interest, and renew their bonds- \cn.
N. B. A few Pipes of choice Port and Madeira Wines; Lisbon
and Madeira in Bottles; also choice East-Florida Shrub. |A.
WILLIAMSMITH,
No. 33, on the Bay,
Has received by the Ship London, Capt. Rainier, from London,
A large Supply of GOOD S,
Suitable to the Season,
Which he quill fell by the Packages or otherwise, upon the most
reasonable Terms.
The ARTICLES conffing chiefly as follows, viz.
WANTED to rent, a SMALL HOUSE in a good situa
tion for trade. Enquire of the Printers. $
JOHN & ADAM TUNN (),
No. 48, Bay,
Have recerced by the London, Capt, Rainier, from London,
A Quantity of choice GOODS,
, Suitable to the Season,
Which they will dispose of by the Package, upon reasonable Terms :
Amongst which are,
A Large Quantity of Iron
mongery
China, Glass and Earthen Ware
A large Quantity cf Irilh Linens
and Sheetings
Russia ditto and Ravens Duck
An elegantAffortment of printed
and India Goods
RUN away from the fubferiber in January lad, a NEGRO
FELLOW named luberzy, a taylor by trade; he is a th^
small fellow, and well known in Charleftown ; I therefore forbid all
persons whatsoever from employing or harbouring him, as t^j
may depend on being prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law,
and whoever will take him— up, and deliver him to me in Church*
street. No. 22, shall receive the above reward. ;
N B T s he returns cf bis own accord, be" shall be forgery
%f.:, ^SI. p. ' SAMUEL STENT.
Three Guineas Reward.
hosiery well sorted
Ladies and Gentlemens Hats
Medicines
.Tobacco and Scotch Snuff
A few Patterns of the most fa
fhionabie Broad Cloths, with a
Quantity of other Articles too
tedious to mention.
Iron Pots
Iron Wire and Tin Plates
Painters Colours and Oil
Window Glass
Tobacco Pipes
Snuff and fmoaking Tobacco
Tin and japanned Ware
Brass and Copper ditto
China and Queen's Ware
Musical Instruments
Silk and Stuff Mercery
Gloves and Corahs
Gold and Silver Lace, Epaulets,
Hatbands, Loops and Buttons
Uphollkery, Camp Tables and
Dispensaries
Soldier's Shirts
Sallad Oil and Vinegar
Gunpowder and Shot
Solid bored Cannon from 4 to It
Pounders, with Shot and Ap
paratus
Bibles, Prayer Books, &c. &c.
Round and split Peafe
Butter, Cheese, Soap, Candles,,
and Rein Deer Tongues