The Royal South-Carolina gazette — Charles-Town, S.C., 1782-03-28 00:00:00, page 1

At a BOARD of .POLIC E,
Thursday, 21st March, 1782.
THE Board taking into consideration the pre
sent enormous high price of bread, find,
that the middle price of flour, at present, is 35
Killings per hundred weight, and upon exami
nation of feme of the bakers it appears, that one
hundred weight of flour, when wrought up, will
produce one hundred and twenty-eight pounds of
bread, and that the shilling loaf now weighs
about two pounds ; from whence it follows that
out of one hundred weight cf flour, of the value
of one pound fifteen drillings, the baker receives
one hundred and twenty-eight fix-pences, or three
pound four (hillings, which is a profit of near
eighty-three per cent. For remedy whereof, IT
IS ORDERED, that hereafter, all bread baked
in Charleftown, shall be made in loaves of either
one or two pounds weight, and that the prices of
such loaves shall depend upon the current price
cf flour ; that is to fay, whilst flour is at the pre
sent price bf one pound fifteen fhiliings herding
per hundred weight, which is about four pence
farthing per pound, the pound loaf shall be fold
for Four Pence Farthing, and the two pound loaf
for Eight Pence Halfpenny ; and as flour from time
to time rises or falls two fhiliings and one penny
in the hundred, one farthirig shall be added to or
deduced from the price of the pound loaf, and
one halfpenny shall be added to or deduced from
the price of the two pound loaf; agreeable to such
rife or fall ; and that every baker shall make his
bread of good and wholfome flour, and shall put ,
the initial letters of his name upon every loaf he
shall make ; and that every baker making bread
of bad or unwholfome flour, or deficient in the
weight, or without marking the fame as afore
faid; and every person exposing such bread to
sale, or taking more for the fame than the prices
abovementioned, shall not only forfeit the said
bread, but shall also be liable to a fine of five
pounds sterling for the firft offence ; and for the
second offence to the fame forfeiture, and also to'
a further fine of ten pounds sterling ; and for the
third offence, shall from thence forward be ren
dered incapable of carrying on the baking bu
siness in Charleftown. And all Joftices of the
Peace are hereby required to examine into the
above offences, and where any person or persons
shall be convi&ed as aforefaid, before any Justice
of the Peace on the information of one or more
credible person or persons upon oath, such Justice
of the Peace is hereby required to seize the bread
so forfeited, and to fend the fame to the poor
house of Charleftown, for the use of the poor,
firft giving notice to the Church-Wardens of St.
Philip's parish : And the said Judices are alftyhere
-roy -recpiireTrixnfriffT^ /distress and
sale of the offender's goods, and to pay one half of
the fame to such person or persons as shall give
information of the offence, and upon oath, con
tia the offender of the fame, and to pay the other
half to the Clerk of the Board of Police, to be
applied as the Board shall think proper, and to
certify all their said proceedings to the Board at
its firft subsequent meeting. This regulation to
take place on Wednesday next, the 27th instant;
and the Board of Police will, once every fortnight,
enquire into the price of flour and regulate the
price of bread accordingly, and publish the fame.
By Order of the Board,
W. SIMPSON, Clerk.
A C HLAN,
At No. 38-0 B AY,
HAS FOR SALE,
EXCELLENT British bottled Port Wine,
ditto old Sherry, ditto Lisbon, Jamaica Spi
rits, Shone's Porter, Tea and Chocolate, Al
monds and Raisins, dry'd Figs, &c. Weflon's
high and low Toast, and Scotch Snuff, with many
other Articles at as low Prices as possible. ts
l Twenty-five Guineas the Run, per Man,
For TEN SEAMEN,
From this Port to London,
ON board the ship Ariadne, Edward Curtis,
Master, laying off the Market Wharf, and
/ W 11 fail with the firft Convoy.
EDWARD CURTIS,
Charles-Town, March %th, 1782.
South-Carolina
THURSDAY; March 28, 1782.
Charles-Town: Printed by JAMES ROBERTSON, at his Printing-Office, No. 20, Broad-ftrect.
T H E
(BY AUTHORITY)
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
Charles-Town, z^tb March, 1782.
A MAIL for FALMOUTH by his Majesty's
Packet-Boat Halifax, Capt. Bolde rfon, will
be made up at this Office on Saturday evening the
30th instant, at Eight o'clock.
G. ROUPELL, D. P. M. G.
CT—'HE Inhabitants a r e hereby informed, where
X any quarters are occupied without a billet
sign d by Mr. Andrew Robertson, the present
Billet Master, or where any non-commissioned
officer or soldiers wives (not being entitled to bil
lets) are quartered, by applying at the Billet-Of
fice, such persons will be immediately removed.
JOHN M'M A LTONT,
Barrack-Mailer.
To he bad of the Printer, Price §s. Bd. per Bottle,
The Compound Bitter Ti^ndure,
Chiefly prepared from the Peruvian Bark, and the
best Antiseptic Vegetables, calculated to coun
teract the putrid tendency of the Atmosphere in
southern marftiy countries. —Two tea-fpoonfuls
may be taken in a glass of any common liquor in
the morning of at mid-day.
To be Let, and entered Upon immediately ';
TWO ROOMS, and a PANTRY on the
firft Floor of a House in Tfadd-ftreet, near
the Bay, with the Use of a Kitchen., Enquire of
the Printer.
WHEREAS a large BRICK HOUSE and
LOT, in Broad-street No. 44, said to be
the property of Sampson Clarke, and taken
on execution by James Brisbane Esq; Sheriff,
is advertised to be fold on Thuffday the 4th of
April next, I do hereby give public notice that
Sampson Clarke has no legal title to said House
and Lot, which appears to be the property of
Peter Bocquet, and he being largely indebted
to Messrs. Greenwood & Higginfon of London,
I as their Attorney do forbid the sale thereof.
CHA. OGILVIE.
CharlfoWri, March 20th, 1782.
BROWN & MICHIE,
No. 27, Church-Street,
HAVE FOR SALE,
ENGLISH bottled Claret, of superior flavor,
Old Madeira, ]
P° rt ,> WINES,
Sherry,[
Lisbon, J
Shrub and Brandy,
Old Jamaica Spirits,
Calk and bottled Porter,
Hyion and Bohea Teas,
Loaf and Mufcovado Sugars,
Soap, Candles, Mustard, Oil, Pickles,
With sundry other Articles in the Grocery Way.
" F^-L^ERPOO
To fail with the firft Fleet,
The Brigantine
FREDERICK & HENRY,'
Allan Penny, Master:
A flout vessel, mounts 6 carriage guns. For
freight or paiTage apply to the master on board at
Eveleigh's Wharf or to CURRIE &;NORRIS,
No. I, on the Bay. ts
ImACNAIR & MAXWELL,
Have for Sale at No. 4, Tradd-freet, nearly oppofte
to Bedon's-Ally,
A small Q_U ANTITY of choice
/ Old Madeira,
ALS O,
Excellent bottled POR 1 E R,
And an Assortment of
Groceries, Pickles, and Perfumeries,
As usual.
THE CAMP KITCHEN, formerly adver
tised, will be RAFFLED for at Coram's
Long-Room this day the 28th instant, at Twelve
•'Clock.
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GA 7,RTt F.
ROY AL
From the Morning Chronicle,
To the PRINTE R,
" Whate'er is best adminifter'd is beft."—Pope.
SIR,
T' HE above quotation occurred to me in con
sequence of a conversation I had a few days
ago with a gentleman cf feme knowledge, great
integrity, and many virtues, but unhappily tinc
tured with those repubrican notions, which of rate
have prevailed so much in this country, and which
if not checked in a gentle and national manner^
may, in the end, be attended with the most baleful
consequences. I told him that forms of govern
ment were in their own nature, temporary and
fluctuating things ; that the utility of their oper
ations depended on such a variety of circumstances,
as c tSJ be only known by the effects. By a re
publican form of government, I mean a body of
people collected together, who h^ve, in order to
promote the public good, delivered up their na
tural powers into the hands of a few individuals.
But then it rauft be observed, that this form of
government is only calculated for smaller states.
Among the Athenians it was held in adoration,
and yet we find that the learned Greeks were
continually quarrelling with those whom they had
intruded with power. The Roman republic:
changed its form of government so often, that
before the end of the Triumvirate, we scarcely
know by what name to call it. Sylla and Caius
Marius were to the Romans, what Oliver Crom-„
well was to the English. Adventurers without
the fanftion cf public authority, and tyrants
without a law to prescribe rules for their arbi
trary proceedings. It has been the fame in all
republican forms of government ever since; of
which a few may not be unentertaining to such of
your readers as have,- either through negligence,
or from any other cause, neglected the #ndv of
hiftofy.
When the effeminacy of the Romans made way
for innumerable swarms of northern barbarians to
seize on their most valuable provinces, Kingly go
vernment, though under some reftridions, took
place every where. It was necessary it fnou'd be
so; for those brave barbarians, as they were vul
garly called by the Romans, and from whom we
are descended, deputed some power into the
hands of their chief leaders, whom they acknow
ledged as Sovereigns, but at the fame time reserv
ed a large share for themselves. Hence the origin
of our present mixed forms of government, as
they take place at present in Europe ; which leads,
me to take some notice of the origin of those
small republican states which from a variety of
circumstances, rose in troublesome times, and will
be overpowered at last in consequence of their
own pride and avarice.
Pisa, Lucca, and Venice, were among the
firft of these; and now their names, cities, are
only remaining, for they are all swallowed up in
the territories of the Duke of Tuscany The
illegal oppressions of the barbarians who subdued
the Western Empire, gave rife to the state of Ve
nice, and a handful of poor fifhermen, formed a
settlement upon some Roman settlements in the
Adriatic Gulph, which in time became formidable
to all the States of Europe. Coercive power
supported the afiumed dignity of this republic for
some ages, and their c®nquefts were extended
throughout several parts of the Levant: but of
some late years they have been dripped of these
tranfmarine acquisitions, and are now become in
all refpe&s truly contemptible.
The Republic of Genoa has her councils di
rected by the French Ministry. Their conquests
in the Levant, from whence, in conjunction with,
the Venetians, they engrossed the Turkish trade,
and the valuable island of Corsica, are no longer
theirs.
The situation of Switzerland protects it from
foreign enemies, but not from domestic tyrants ;
for the governors of their different bailiwicks,
fleece and plunder the innocent inhabitants, of
the fruits of their labours, nor can they obtain
any redress.
The last I shall mention is Holland, where,
under the prostituted name of liberty, the people
are the most abjeCt slaves. Nor do I know of any
good quality in their political government, except
that they keep their clergy under the best re_
Frictions, This much may be said of Republic
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