The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-04-22 00:00:00, page 2

creftfallen Britain, that after perpetrating every
enurmiy difgrac< ful to humanity, and which (hocks
even in the recital —after being granted a Peace,
when to the deepest pitch of abjefinefs humiliated
—they now infidioully endeavour to obftru& our
riling Marine;' on the advancement of which na
tional GrandeurMepends, and to cramp our Com
merce by prohibitory Edicts, calculated to mono
polize the carrying-trade. Is it not confegnently
incumbent on every well-wiffier to our Liberty,
Empire and Opulence, to found the Alarm, and
by all possible means counteraftthefraduient inten
tions of a Nations whose principal Charafteriltic,
is and &r ^as th*: of being favile; cringing,
and replete With conations when rejolutely oppfed,
arrogant, domineering; and. opprefaewhen fab
fritted to.—Our Affiliation at this day, we con
cede a dutiful Daughter, Springing from the
Womb of her Mother Necessity.—As Americans,
as Men we are determined ever.td persevere Anti-
Britannics, until (Events we despair of) " the
Ethiopian changes his ski n , and the Leopard his
fpots'— until Britain, as a Nation, evinces herfelf
puffed of Generality, Honour and Political
Probity,
CT The firft part of the RULES in our next,
ana to be weekly continued.
LO N DO N.
Ai Letter from Colonel Simeon Thompson, in
the County of Kerry ( Ireland), to Mr.
George Barry Douglas, late bf Fowey, in Cornwall,
but now in London, has the following remarkable
eccoutt of a matter to which he was both an eye
and ear witness.—-Last Friday I ordered two men to
go down to the bottom of a well which I Was linking
^t a little (Footing place I call, 'Do as you plerfe.
It was dug above lixty feet perpendicular, but no
vater appeared. It was refolyed, however, to go
on with it, and try how far I could penetrate before
a Spring was found: We dug accordingly forty
€'©'" feet farther, when femething like a vapour
coring out, We drew out the men, and defined for
about an hour, when the finoke cea^ng, the two
tr.en Again defeended, and penetrating about three
feet more, they found on the North-east fide a
hollow way, arched over in a very curious - banner
with (ticks and clay; they had courages to ehter,
for there was room Efficient for a man to watt
almoilupright, and they proceeded for about ten
yards in an oblique direction, when they heard A
noise somewhat like the chattering of a number of
jays. This affrighted them so much that they
returned, and we drew them up. I then defeended
with ffiy brother Stephen, and we went through
this fubterraneods passage into a large (pace, where
day a mod curious done coffin of an enormous size.
With some difficulty we got off the lid, and fawa
human form 12 feet 11 inches and three quarters
lang, all but the head and neck tightly swathed
in a pitched skin of some large animal. Gn touch
ing the face with my finger it fell into a kind of
yellowilh alhes, and foatated near the sternum.
The rest remained firm, We returned in amaze
ment, got up in the bucket, lent the men down,
had the bottom of the well widened so as to- admit
seven people, and then, by the assistance of pullies'
&c. we raised the coffiq and got it up. 'When it
came into the air,, the Ptin in which the body was
eloathed, became by degrees from a black to a
perfect white colour. We opened it, arid the body
and arms of a woman appeared quite perfeft and
found. On the thumb ot the right hand was a very
curious cornelian iu the foim of A ring, and on it
as well as inside the lid of the doffin', were these
,P he ,t 0 ; 0. 0. X. 0. x . X X. W e have put the
body in (pints of wine, and intend to fend it to
Dublin as a present to the University. \Y e could
never difeover, nor can we form any conjecture
from what cause the noise which the two men h^ard
arose, except it was what their fears created. There
are many traditionary dories of giants in this part
of Ireland, and this difeovery makes them all fad
among the common people, who arc defeending and
Sending the well from fun rife co fun set everv
day. y
According to late advices from Venice +hat re
public for some time part has been putting'her navy
upon a refpe&able footing, from the apprehension,
that if a naval war (liquid take place between the
Empress and the Porte, the Hates may be involved
in the quarrel.
„ week died, in great agonies (from a crffl
and barbarous flab it received the night before) the
constitutionl of Old England, to the 'ft
of all true Englishmen. It Was at firft rumoured
that a natural decay was the cause of its death-
: he s°[° ner ' s in q u ^ being taken, the ji,y, com
posed of the most relpedable members of the H e
^77' r°°' b ' r "'* ™ di& fa ^ T »^ r
against one G— —— e K g, L. a T
Jen—n, and others unknowns
bee. 10. Yesterday after the Eaftlndia bill had
been read the firft time in the House of Lords, the
following petition from the Eart India Company
was brought up and read.
Tie the Right Hon. Lords Spiritual and Temporal
Par ^ 7H '", afo^led, the humble peteion of
Be. United Company of Merchants of England
trading to the Eafi Indies, -
Bhenceth,-
'' That a bill is now depending before your
Lordships, intitled “an Adfor etfabhfhing certain
Regulations for the better Management of the Ter
ritories, Revenues, and Commerce of this Kingdom
an the Eart Indies." B
I hag the laid bill deftroyi the constitution, and
wholly fub^rtsufie Lights arid-privileges granted to
your petitioners by charter, made for valuable con
^derations, arid confirmed by divers acts of Parlia
ment; and empowers certain perfaris therein named,
as Diretlors appointed by the said bill, to seize and
take poßHhon of ail the lands, tenements, houses,
ware houses, and other buildings, books, records,
charters, letters arid other papers/fttps, veffeE,
goods, wares, merchandizes, money, securities for'
money, ard all other effects belonging to your Peti
tioners; and without charging your Petitioners with
any fp( Cl n C delinquency, or bating any just grounds
upon which their righto, capacities, and franchifes
ought to be forfeited, or their property seized, a
proceeding contrary to th? most flcred privilege of
£rtti(h fubjetfs, that of being tried and convicted
upon a fpecifc charge before judgment is parted
Against them in any case whatsoever.
“ Moreover, the said bill empowers and autho
ri.es the laid Diredors to carry bo a trade with the
property of your Petitioners, and at their rift, with
out taeir content or consul, f or the cbnfequences
whereof your Petitioners are exceedingly alarmed,
and therefore they most humbly crave leave Solemnly
to protek against the fame.
" "y° ur Por^ips Should think that any reason
or neceffitres of state may warrant so harsh a mea
sure as that of diverting you Petitioners of. their
franchiles and property, y our Petitioners entertain
^e most perfed confidence i n your Lordihips wis
dom as well as justice, that the actual exigence of
fu^n State ricce&ties or other reasons, will be firft
teftabliffied by . the c l ear est; arid folleft evidence.
And your Petitioners humbly presume to refer your
Lordihips to the example of all former times in
which every encroachment upon the sacred rights of
private property, or private franchife, has been
anxiously comptniated by the witdom and jutiice cf
the legislature.
« Your Petitioners therefore most humbly
that they may be ;eard by themselves, or their
Council against the said bill, and that your Lord
(hips in your juitice will pretea their rights privi
leges and property, against this most unprecedented
measure, subversive of your Petitioners confutation,
divclting them of their rights and privileges, seizing
their property, and continuing a trade at their rift,
but without their consent or controul.
“ And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.
house of L O R D S,
Monday, Dec. 15, 1783.
, , east India bill.
THE Earl of Ahf,i G DON argued, that the
House was called upon by the voice of the
nation, and the feelings of their honor, to exercise
that function with whiclithe constitution bad en
trusted them—that of holding the balance between
the King and the people. For that reason he would
lay a motion before the Hdufe previous to poind
ibto the India bill. ° °
, Earl Sandwich arose, and interrupted His
Lordihip observed, that as Council was ordered rd
the Bar ' lc *°uld be irregular to proceed
until they were heard,'
The Earl of Abingdon proceeded—.The bill he
said, came before their Lordihips in a three fold
n ,? n e r —Frtf, in address and appeal io them in
their legiflatwe capacity. Secondly, in address and
appeal to them as the fopreme Court of Judicature
Ihirdly, to their filiation, as a mean between the
King and his pebple—He would confine his argu.
merit to the third point, and upon that he would
^ m ^ [he Principles of the bill. A bill chat had
for its fubjeft matter a proposition fatal to the just
prerogative of the Crown, and ruinous to the li
- berths and properties of the fubjeft. P ropo firffy
as big with ambition and mifehief a 3 those which
°f Cronnvel) , and brought Charles
the, Ift to the block; nay, they were ten times more
violent, for they had neceffit), the plea of tyrants
" „°, h ™' Wbat was the P lea of the Crom-'
,|.° fthj3 bh } ? at the company was bankrupt,
^nd in support of this he produced a falfe flatemerit.
But, admitting the truth, where was the necessity of
Subverting the constitution of the country, by p!ac
fj he ""°" ve power of.the government in the
^.^ of a ^unutak, who hzd declared he w^s
^be Snifter of the King, but of the People.
" """ ° f a c °" upt m 'j<>rit 7 of the House
of Commons not of the people, as when ne mount.
Th ^ s ^'°"'" Garden ai ^ Wettmmrter Hall.
”°c '" hl , s ,°P lniQn > increase, but lefl en
the influfr of the Crown; It was against
,r^u ve _p 0 ^ 0 ^ to the fi g h£ s fy d }
h u people—A ould it be realonable to suppose
that thole who retrenched by reform the revenues of
the Crown, would invert u with new revenues?
7he creed ^ the party alluded 0, w ^ s in prin , ^
a book entitled, “ Thoughts on the present dikon
tenu —a deed which, while it pulled do^n .he
Crown kt up one ten ti mes w o u_e influence
of Anftociaty, of an Oligarchical junto, in the two
Houles of Parliament. The parties of this creed
were to be found on the Journals of the 17th of
February last—a day of connexion /f wicked prin
cipies, not of ifo fentire de repuß/ica—a con
nation which his M.jeliy refined lix weeks with a
fortitude of mind that would addlultie to hisfo
thus was this theory reduced to practice. His L&d
#hip then fated his motion, ^ That the Judges
may be femmoned to attend the House, in order to
give their^vice in point of law, upon the bill
now depending m Parliament, for verting, & c .
, His Lordfllip then dated ftral quefoons, in La
opinion, proper to be put toft judges, Grip rung
thepropriety of each by argument and quotation.
(To be Conefaded in bar next J
Extract cf a letter from a'Cert/eman tit
NewAork, to bis friend in the 7er/e\%
' dated March 8, 1784.
" qpHiS week the diferiminating Bill
X will be brought before the house
cf Afferholy; where I have no doubt but
it will pais; but am Confident it. will be
,'J' ''^e' 'by the frnate. Perhaps you
laugh at cut frupinenefs, and think we are
all in TORY pay, becaule we do net extir
pate those parricides from airiong us, (tho ?
I inoft confefs you have room) far we have
been deceived, and led to behove that
every thing Would go according to our
Wishes; but our patience is erihaOffed, and
we mean, if this bill is not passed, to
kindle such a blaze in this city as will
aftoniih the continent, and strike terror in
to Tories and their abettors.—ls au/ho
ri:y does not do it, the dernier resource
of a free people will be 11 ft armis."
Extract of'd letter from New-Yoyri, dated
March 12.
" When I look around me and fee the
cohtraft between the Whigs and tones I
am hardly able to contain myflf ; those
despicable beings are bafkirig themlelveS
in the funffiine ot affluence arid case, whilst
these who have been wafting their confu
tations and (pending their fortunes in the
service of their country, have hardly been
able to support theinfelves with the neccf
faries of life during the winter. The
distresses that have been exhibited here
Within the three last months are firkins
proofs of my affertioh. °
“ The difcrimiriation bill will soon, verf
fooh, be laid before the house of affenibly,
when there is not the least doubt cf its
palling, if so take care torjes, th ; s is the
most despicable character in the world.
1 believe the fury and violence of
the whig, (especially those who have fuf
fered much) will not be over in a day, as
they feein the mort determined people in
the world."
Whilst the writer of ftridures upon the
Cincinnati was engaged in the knight er
rantry of fufoicion, we are furprized he
did not make patricians and nobility grow
out of our councils or upper houfa, wliich
are certainly branches of aristocracy, taken
from our former councils, which were
similar in their political rights to the house
of lords in Great Britain. W e so
have conjectured such an observation from
the/% and agitation of temper, which
charaderifes the prudufticns ^bhis ye&.