The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1782-03-16 00:00:00, page 1

General Post-Office.
Charlestown, >3tb of March, 1782.
A MAIL for England,
By his Fajefty's packet-boat Halifax, Capt. BolDerson,
will be made up at this office in a few days.
G. ROUPELL, D. P. M. G.
THE Inhabitants are hereby informed, where any quarters
are occupied without a billet signed by Mr. Andrew Ro
bertson, the present Billet-Master, or where any non-com
missioned officer or soldiers wives (not being entitled to billets)
are quartertd, by applying at the Billet-Office, such persons
will be immediately removed. JOHN M'MAHON,
Barrack-Maftcr.
The A NNIVERSARY
Of the Incorporated
SOUTH-CAROLINA SOCIETY,
YTTILL be held at Mr. Strickland's tavern, Broad-street,
VV on the second day of April (being Tu flay in Easter week)
where the Members are desired to attend precisely at eleven o'clock,
for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and other material
business of the Society. A dinner will be provided and on the table,
at hAlf past two o'clock. By Order of the Society,
t JOHN MCAEL, jun. Clerk.
TO BE SOLD,
On TUESDAY, the 26th inst.
At our Vendue-ftore in Broad-Street,
A TWO year and five monihs LEASE of a convenient and
well-situated HOUSE, opposite the Lower Market, now in
the poffeflion of Mr. Dalziel Hunter; the house is to be removed or
taken at a fair appraifement at the expiration of said term; it fronts
on the Bay so feet, and on the Market 23^ feet, is built of, the best
materials, with a dry cellar fix feet high. The terms of payment
will be made known at t'e day of sale, by COOKE & WEBB.
Cbarlefaun, lotb Mcrch, 1782.
WHEREAS, a large brick HOUSE and LOT in Broad
ftreet, No. 44, said to be the property of Sampson Clarke,
is taken on execution by James Brisbane, Esquire, Sheriff and ad
vertised to be fold on Thursday the 4th of April next, I DO HERE
BY GIVE PUBLICK NOTICE, that Sarepfon Clarke has no legal
title to said house and lot, which appears to he the property of Peter
Bocquet, and he being largely indebted to Mefirs. Greenwood and
Higginfon of London, I as their attorney, do forbid the. file thereof.
Cbarleftn, aotb March, 17^. CHARLES OGILVIE
FOR SAL E,
TWENTY-FOUR NEGROES, viz., twelve fellows, a
mongst whom are some good sawyers, and a very good job
bing carpenter; four wenches; the others are children and handy
boys and, girls.
If the purchaser chufes, he may have a quantity of provisions, at a
reafonabie price.
For further particulars, enquire at No. 4, Price's Alley.
TO BE LE T,
AN excellent HOUSE in a very publick part of the town;
also, a few NEGROES to be hired. Enquire of the
Printer.
lOST between Char^eftown and the Camp at the Quarter
u House, about ten days ago, a ?ed Morocco Pocket- Book, w(th feme
instruments and papers. Whoever will bring it with all its contents
to the Printer, have THREE DOLLARS reward;
THE VESTRY of St Philip's parifli, by order of the Com-
I mandant, haying applied to me to recover the sums due by the
inhabitants of Charlestown, on the last poor tax lift: These are
therefore to certify to whom it may concern, that if the several sums
by them refpe&ively due are not paid on or before the 25th inftaut,
they will after that day be positively put in suit, by
JOHN TROUP, J. P.
ALT, persons in Charleftown, who are inclined to take out
. licence to follow the trade or occupation of a Butcher in the
Upper or Beef-Market in this town, for the ensuing year, are desired
to meet ,he Commissioners on Monday theist of April next, at the
house of Mr. James Strickland, from the hours of ten to two
o'clock on the f id day, as no person whatever will be allowed to
carry on the said occupation after that day, without anew licence ,
WILITAM GREENWOOD, 1
TAMES COOKE, (,
GEORGE DUNCAN, ( Commiflioners.
JOHN FISHER, )
Cbirbftozvn, 16th March, 1782.
To be fold for Cafo, or approved Bills of Exchange on 1 ondon,
A VALUABLE Plantation,
A House and Lot on the Bay,
Some thousand Acres of Land in different Trads,
Good Bonds and Notes of Hand,
Negroes and Houfhold Furniture,
The property of a person and family who do intend for Europe,
and will be fold a great bargain. JACOB VALK.'
trid to be let, on a Five Year's Lease,
A House and Lot, with a good Garden, agreeably situated.
TO BE LET,'
The HOUSE, No. 46, Queen-Street,
For particulars enquire at No. 105, Meeting-Street.
To be Sold on Tuesday, the igth da, of March, before the
Exchange, bettveen tivelve and one o'clock.
TW O very valuable NEGROES, late the property of
John Brockington, seized on attachment, and fold hv order of
the Board of Police. JOHN DAVIES,' Sheriff.
Cbarlfoavn, 26th February, 1,8%.
On Tuesday the 26th of March, ^ill be fold, at publick jale,
before the Exchange, between Tnuelve and One o' Clock,
THAT commodious HOUSE in King-street, N 0.50, having
fix good rooms, cellar and necessary out-buildings in good re
pair ; the lot contains 28 feet front on King-street and 108 feet deep,
pow occupied by James Carmichael, seized on execution, and fold
by Order of the Board of Police. JOHN DAVIES, Sheriff.
Cbathfran, if March, 1782.
ROYAL
Vol. 11.
SOUTH-CAROLINA: Printed by R. WELLS & SON, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
From SAT (JR D AY, March i 6,
LITERARY ARTICLE.
Estraß from a PAMPHLET, latel published by Dr. Tuck
er, the cel brated Dean of Gloucester, entitled " Cui Bono?''
being aferics oj betters addressed to inonfeur NECKAR, on the
fulfil of the present Mar.
LETTER VI.
WE are now to reverse the feenr, and to suppose, that America,
with the afTiltance of her great and good allies, shall reduce
England to the mod abject ftatg of poverty and want. America,
grateful America, triumphs over kef lormet Prote&refs, and exults on
her ruins. She isarifing empire, without bishops! without nobles!
Without Kings! I bis. Sir, you know is the language of that celebrated
republican Dr. Price. But perhaps you have never yet been told the
name cf the original author of that prophetick sentence: It was vour
own predecefler, the late Monsieur Turgot. In a letter of his dated
I arts I^ll of February 1777, and sent to Gloucester, under a molt
patriotic^ cover, he fays, fefair des Feux pour la Liberte des Amcri
"?",. F arce ?" e ce f' ra le Premier Example d'un grand Pestle, que n'ait
Ross, ni N&bbfc. Bur however that may b% as Dr. Price, when
7 went to Paris, conversed with Monfeur Turgot, it is probable,
t.yat he learnt this excellent aphorilni from him. For in his famous
pamphlet in favour of America, he adopted this very expression,
with a little embcllifhment of his own, without bishops. But to
return: England being thus laid low, and humbled to the dull, and
the American stripes interlaced with the hllies of France, every
"where triumphant;— What is next to come to pafs?—Why truly,
',"5 "' total leparation, the n;,fs of the people 011 the other fide
of the Atlantic, will begin to awake out of their golden dream,fand
reflect on their present fituatiorf, by comparing it with the pall.
Ihey will do this the sooner, because all their fears and dreads about
that fell monger, the tyrannical power of England, will then be at
an end; and the hob-gobling florins of racks and chains, and tor
tures, and deaths, and raw heads, and bloody bones, will affright
no longer. Consequently being totally at eafi from that quarter,
they will turn their eyes to another, and will not fail to recollect the
fine things that had been promised them by their artful leaders, in
order to engage them in this quarrel.
Great indeed, and glorious were the things that had been pro
mised! They were to be the happier cf all happy people, provided
they would shahs off the galling yoke cf Britain, and assert their
unalienable birthrights, their native independence. When that hap
py day should come, all grievances, and all complaints world cease for
e^cr. Ihe people of America were to be blelled with a Lockian
Government, the only jud one, the only free one upon-earth : Con
sequently the only one fit and proper for a free people, such as the
Americans, to make choice of: Because every man would be his own
legillatoi, his own judge, anti his own director, in such an equal,
and free republick: And then no man wou'd be compelled to pay
more taxes, or other taxes, than he himfelf fl ou!d previously agree
to.—ln 4 word, all jealousies, and discords, and factions, would be
banished from such a state; and harmony and concord, peace and
friendship, every where prevail These honours and bleffm^s
were reserved tor America! °
Well, the heavy yoke of Britain being thus thrown off, it is natu
ral to aik, what have these revolters gained by their long-wifhed-fcr
change, after so much parade and binder?=.They have gained, what
necdlariiy follows, the breach of promises never intended to be ful
filled; they have gained a general disappointment, mixt with anger
and indignation. For now they find, that all the fine fpceches and
alluring promises of their patriotic leaders, meant nothin, at all
but to^mufe and to deceive. Now they feel, that the little finders'
of tneir newfangled Republican Governours are heavier than the
whole body of the limited, and mild Constitution of Old England:
And as they despised and , rejeded (like the frogs in the fable)
the government of one King Log, they are now obliged to Submit
to the tyranny of an hundred King Storks.
Hence discontents, complaints, and clamours will, and must a
rise from every quarter, as long as the disappointed have tongues to
speak, or voices to be heard. And as the example of the former
malcontents, when under the English Government, with their pre
tended lift of grievances, will be frefh in their memories; they
will avail themfelvcs of such precedents, by turning their own
artillery upon them, and attacking them with their own weapons.
Indeed nothing can be more just, than such a Species of recriminati
on ;—cfpecially when it is further considered, that the provocation
in this latter case, will be, on all accounts, infinitely greater than in
the former ; tor make the nioft or the evils, which the Americans
fuffered when under the English Government, and caricature them
as mochas you plcafe,—ftill, what were they? mere dwarfs and
pigmies in comparison to those tyrannies and oppreflicns of a gigan
tick Size, which the mass of the people have already felt, and will
continue to feel under their new matters. And the reflection, that
the very men, who formerly pretended to be their deliverers and
defenders, have pulled off rhe mafic, and are at fall become their real
tyrants and oppressors, will add a peculiar Sting to this general in
dignation.
Hence we may piPly conclude, that the American patriotic ora
tors, who are to figure away in future times at their liberty-trees,
ano other places of punlick rendezvous, will declaim, and exclaim
mod vehemently somewhat to the following effect.
When this devoted country was under the protection of Eng
land, A protection alas! never to be obtained any more,—our Go
vernments were as free a, the nature of man, and our peculiar Situa
tions would admit. We had no refrraints laid on us, but such as
our Parent State thought to be unavoidable, such as She deemed ne
cessary; by way of coinpenfating in some degree for those manifold
benefits, favours, and protections, we received from her, without
our contributing a farthing towards the general charge. Nay more,
the restraints tnemfclves were chiefly nominal: For you all know,
that we continually evaded them, when it was our interest so to do•
And our indulgent Mother-Country kindly winked at these evasions:
so that in reality they were no restraints to us. But now. Oh! fad'
reverse, how are we changed? And what are we now come to? we
are actually become the Slaves < f our fellow fubje&s, who have duped
ano cheated us mod egregiously, and norv laugh at our credulity.
They now rule us with a rod of iron, and make us know and feel,
that their restraints, orders and regulations, are not like the former
ones, to be dispensed with at pleasure, or to be evaded with impu
nity; but to be rigorously enforced, and pun&ualij obeyed.—Woe
be to the man that shall tranferefs: Fiaes, and imprison merits, cor
poral puniShments, and even'death itfelf may be his portion. As to
the promises of a free and equal republick, and the blefiitms of a
Lockian Common-wealth ;—they are all forgot, and out of date:
Indeed it now plainly appears, that they were never intended to be
remembered any longer, than whilst they might serve as footftools
to our present rulers, to mount into power. For now we are grave-,
ly told, that the times will not bear so lax a system, as that every'
man should be his own legislator, governour, and controller; The
times require, that the reins of Government Should be held with a
tighter, and a Stronger hand than heretofore: And that whosoever
Shall presume to take undue liberties with these Rising States shall
find to his cost, ^ at they bear not the sword in vain. ° '
n, cmce it comes to pass, that we now hear from them, for the
hrlt time, that it is our duty to rcSpeC t the Government under which
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THE
GAZETTE.
to WEDNESDAY, March 20, 1782.
we live; and that neither the liberty of the press, nor the liberty of
speech Shall be indulged to that degree, as to be injurious to the pub-
Ick Safety;—meaning thereby, their own power and dignity. Thus
do Liefc men, who heretofore never ceased to Speak evil of dignities,
<mi to invent and prorogate thousands of lies and calumnies, againlh
the best and niildelt of Governmehts; —thus do they now refufe us
the poor conloiatiori of complaining against their unjust and tyran
nical proceedings. The word Inimical to America, so often in their
mouths, and in the mouths of their runners and informers, is a new
coined word, unknown to our ancient laws, and utterly unknown to
us, till the black reign of these republican inquifiters.—They indeed,
after the example of their bloody predecessors, the inquisitors of-
Spain, have ere&ed it into a kind of State heresy, which is to Signify"
whatever they please; and therefore to serve them as a commodious
engine for wreaking their malice on all, whb dare to oppose, or evea
to censure their wicked deed#.
" Formerly it was pretended, that we Should have had no Farions
and divisions among us, were it not for thpfe falfe brethren, who
were • continually endeavouring to enslave us wit!) the chains of Eng
land.— I hole chains are broken asunder ;—never to be joined again.
But arc our animosities therefore at an end?. And are there no factions
and jealousies reigning among us at this juncture? —So far from it,
that the evil spirit of difeord was never id rife, as it is at present.
It has infected every part of America from one end to the other.
We for instance, the fubje&s forfooth, of this free and equal repub
l:ck, have just cause t,o complain: Bccaufe we have been cheated;
bubbled, and betrayed. But as to our imperious mailers, the au
thors of our ruin, what kind of complacency, or concord do they en
joy among thcmfelves ?—None at all:—For we know, rhat they arc
jealous of each other's power: We know, that they are planning
schemes to supplant, and circumvent:—ahd that they make nfe of
every engine whether of force or fraud, of bribers or terror. T prac
ticable, in order to compass their ends, and erufh their rivals. And
as to that id-blood, and those antipathies which formerly subsisted
between the northern, and southern co!onks:=Ari:they cooled?
Aie they aflwaged and moderated since our late revolution? No,
thy arc not: On the contrary ail former dislikes and aversions are
so heightened and inflamed, by this very meufure, and by crimina
tions, and recriminations ih cbnfequcncc thereof, as to threaten a.
civil war. Nay more, it is well known, that most of our ftate^ had
force claims upon each other, and that they frequently Complained of
mutual encroachments, and reciprocal usurpations (which neVerthe
lefs were retrained within bounds, and prevented from breaking out:
into open viohmee, by the awe of the Mother-Country); Therefore
how is the case at present? Why truly, now that such reffraints arc
removed, these dormant claims have broken out afreffi, and every,
reproach is renewed with redoubled rancour, and a greater thirst of
revenge : —So that in fad, we are little better than in a date of war
though we seemingly wear the appearances of peace.
“ In short, our Native Country is by no means become deferable
even to ourlclvcs, much less tel others. It was once an asylum to the
red of the world. But now it is not a place of fafety even to its na
tural-born inhabitants. Already great numbers have left it, to return
to Lurope, tne country of their fore-lathers; And will greater have
migrated into the dittant back countries, bordering on the lakes
therc to commence new fettlenrnts, and new governments. Thia
they fay, they have as good a right to do, as we had to break loose
from the Government of England, which had so long protected and
defended us:—Yes, they add, and much better, on account of those
Inperior obligations, which we had been under to the milded ?nd
most beneficent Government upon earth. And to ffiew that the y are
in earned, they set us at defiance; and even threaten to invade ua
(according as an English patriot had long ago foretold) with a nu
merous body cf cavalry, after the manner of Afiatick and European
Tartars:—Well krowing that we are net able to invade them.
“ Among the many blessings we formerly enjoyed, one was, th%
we might Heep peaceably in our beds, without fear of being preffc'd
either to the land, or lea service in defence of our own coup
" y againfl the for ces of Fiance or Spain, br any other foreign powers
The Parent State having kindly undertaken to do all these things for
us, at an cipetce cf blood and treasure, really aftouilhing.—So that:
unlcf # military life was our owil choice, and agreeable to our own
inclinations, not a man of us was compelled to leave tils farm hfe
trade, his lilheries, or his merchaadife, to commence a sailor, or a
soldier, for the publick service. But now we mud be enrolled in.
the Militia, whether we will or no; and take the field at the word
of command. The fame hardships attend ns in the fa service: Wr'
arc no longer dur own masters even in our own houses, and in ottr
own beds. # The language now is, that each republick mu? ptov.de
a proportionate numbers of drips of war, frigates, cru fer., and
gu3,da-cbftas fur its ovn prote.cfhon. These are new de&r^es to use
Americans: We never heard them before these bieffed rimes.
“ The freedom and encouragement of trade was another grand
pretence for engaging us in the late revolt. In this affai , as in all
others, we were made to believe strange things, which Experience:
now tells us had no foundation: For now we know and feel when
it is too late, that the Parent State wasfo far front planning frhemesi
lor our impoverishment, that, on the contrary, & e was continually
sJevdmg ways and means for our enrichment, even sometimes to her
own lofs,—by granting us several monopolies against Forfeit For
example, she laid heavy duties on the. iron of other countries
(though a raw, and necessary material for her maimfiaures) and
exempted America from paying any. She did the lame by foreign
hemp, and even added a very great bounty for the growth and im
portation of ours. The fame cburfe she took refpeding our pitch
and tar, and indico, and lumber, and several other articles: So that:
whilst foreign materials were loaded and difeoura wd with heavy du
ties, ours were fed and nursed by generous and great bounties. And
as to tobacco, ihe granted such an absolute monopoly of it to Amer•
ca, as not only to prohibit the tobaccos of foreign growths, but even
'° so.-bid the cultivation of tobacco at home. Moreover, in regard
to cur fisheries, and all the produce thereof, she granted us almofk
every favour and indulgence, which she had granted to het own peo
ple ; —and rfdhe had considered our advantageous situation, perhaps
more than she herfelf would have intended.—But to fay the truth at
once, when we were united to her, she regarded us as her favourite
children, for whom she thought she touid n wer do enough, and
therefore treated us with a peculiar, and diftrngnifhed fohdnef', be
cause we were so distant from her. In one word, in almost ever,
iilkance, where the interests of .England, and of America seemed to
ciafh, she gave America the preference.
" Yet, my fellow citizens of America, this was the tyrant, the
Noddy and cruel tyrant, whom we were taught to regard, as.'piot
""!{ °ur ruin and deflru&ion : — I his was foe, who Was reprefen ed
to us under the nnft odious colours, and in the word of characters!
How fatal have bcen<ut mdlakes! and what pun fhment do these
men deserve for leading us into them !—They never let us know the
truth of fads, till it was too late: But used us as trools to stab our
best friend and benefa&refs,—becalife she flood in the way of their
usurping greutnefir—And alas! in being tobis to them, we have
committed a kind of felf-murder on ourselves!
'' Will our ggeat and good allies the French now compensate for
these wrongs and losses? Will they give bounties and draw-backs,
exchifive privileges, and monopolies in our favour, and to t! eir own
hurt. No, they will not. For now their own ends are answered
in denwhfhing the power of England, by our assistance, hey have
no further need of our help and service. And wejnay fhift for our-
Numb. ii&