The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-05 00:00:00, page 1

[Vol. LXIIL]
On MONDAY August gth,
W ILL BE SOL D,
At No. 5,3, in Church-Street,
The following effects, belonging to the estates of
Timothy and Martha Phillips, dcceafed: The
sale to begin in the morning, 10 o'clock, viz.
MAHOGANY Chairs and Tables, Looking
Glasses; a handsome Book Case, Beds, Bed
steads, &c. &c. A L S O,
Two valuable Negro Wenches, one of whom is
a good Washer, Ironer, &c. &c.
Three good M I LCH CO W S.
And, precisely at 12 o'Clock,
The Houle and Lot, 51^ Feet front, and 127
Feet deep. ELEAZER PHILLIPS, ) Admini-
JAMES WILKINS, $ ftrators.
Conditions of Sale will be declared on the Day.
CUDWORTH & WALLER.'
ROTTerT" DILLON,
AND
AMEDEUS CHIFFELLE,
HAVING entered into Co-partnership, give pub
lic notice to their friends and cufomers, that they
have removed their fare of excellent ' liquors to No. 4,
on Prioleau's wharf; where they will give constant
attendance : they likewise keep ajmallfafo of liquor $
No. 50, Queenfreet. Those who may he p'lcafcd to
employ them as favors, the utmost attention will be paid
to their interef.
N. B. R. Dillon wishes to close his accounts with
his creditors up to this day; begs the favour of those
indebted to him face lift year, to discharge their
accounts immediately. August 1, 1784.
Imported in the Endeavour, direEleyfrom Amferdam,
By]AMES ANDERSON & Co.'
An afortment of India, German and Dutch Goods,
confining of articles adapted for the consumption of
this country; part of which they beg leave to par
ticularize, viz.
Checks,
Haerlem and German stripes,
Warendorps, from No. 9 to 50.
German dimity,
Platilles royalies,
Brown holland,
Russia drafs,
FlemiSh bed t cks, 9/4 to icjfo
Nankeens,
Bandanoe and other handkerchief,
Bell Dutch paper
Bobbins and tape, well asserted,
Bohea and Tonkay teas,
Charfon do. of a superior quality,
Hessian linen,
Narrow Bretagnes,
Oznaburgs,
Russia, Holland and Raven duck;
Gun powder, F.HF. in kegs of 12^ lb. bach,
Which they will dispose of on their usual terms,
for Cash and Credit.
No. 105, Broad-street, Angufl 3, 1784.
For SAL E,
OOHAT valuable pleasantly Situated Plantation
L on John's-Island, fronting Stono-Kiver, nearly
opposite the Cut leading through James Island:
containing 300 acres of land, besides a large quan
tity of hard feeding marsh, lying on a point of land
whe'e a little fence will inclose near the whole.
There is on the premises a new dwelling house, 18
by 3°' w "h every other necessary out-building. Any
perlon desirous of becoming a purchaser, may apply
cn the fret to Thomas Rivers, < r on lanieMflahd to
. Elijah Rivers, whe^e the terms will be made known.
August 2, 1784.
For Private bale,
A NEGRO WOMAN, allowed to be as com
△E plete a Washer and Ironer, plain and p^fhy
(onk as any ofher colour in the date, and fold for no
other fault than because She wishes for anotherowner.
Apply on lames-lfHnd to kU fid SLONE.
August 2, 1784.
T? R. E H 1 R^P^
the Month, a n excellent Washer-Woman.
Enquire of the Printer.
T II E
GAZE T T E
OF THE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLES 1 ON: Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. 100, Meeting-street.
THURSDAY, AUGUST g, 1784.
To the PUBLIC in General,
AND
To Commodore GI LL ON
In particular.
My dear Sir,
J Thank you for your kind favor in this Gazette,
, No. 2214, the many.engaging public notices
tneiein, arc on a double account particularly agree
able: as coming from your honor, all my fellow
citizens raift be convinced they are fncere and cor
dial, and to me, so well timed, both in manner and
kind, and so delicately contrived, that it is the only
thing I could have wished for trom you. I am
fore it mus do me honor beyond any thing else vou
could have obliged me with. lam glad your honor
is so delighted with my last performance. Your
comparison of it " to a Bag of Feathers ript open
in a gale," is pretty and ingenious. Your honor,
lam persuaded, will be still more pleased, when
you come to find (what perhaps has efcajed you)
that the bag I took my feathers from was your own
bag. My contrivance too, for the entertainment
and clearer view of our friends, to. prevent any
feather coming out, but in turn, just as uppermost in
your bag, when adverted to, must, I am sure, afford
your honor an additional agre'ment; as I think it
cannot be displeasing to your honor to follow the
fame method with your present “ bag, I shall
accordingly take notice of the feathers exarily as
they rife. I think it may be fairly gathered from
your honor's own acknowledgment, in your firft
clause, that I am no " Bush fighter, nor or.e that
“ projects under covert:" I wiSh to appear equally
favorable in your honor's eyes, wlien I allure your
honor, that all honest " difeount" will be deemed
good payment: mere compliments, your honor
fees, I have cast up into one sum, and passed the
amount already to your credit.
Unwilling to give Mrs. Timothy the leaf uneasi
ness, I prefled her not to conceal my name from
any person that thought himfelf hurt by either of
my . publications. Have you, fir, and your party,
been as candid and as delicate? No fir; " takin,
to the Bush" and “ projecting under covert," seem
to be your “ principles." You are pleased to fay,
" the world has one thing to learn, that at the
very time I had been busy in meditating, preparing
and digesting my envenomed falfhobds against you,
for the press, I possessed the treacherous duplicity
of calling myfelf your friend.," , The. laft [rivale
interview I had with you, fir, was on the remark,
able 28th of April; what I then said, you cannot
have forgotten, I am fore, supposing you had never
attended to the numberless hints of the fame kind,
that I had given you for months before; and you.
are too difeerning not to have perceived my cool
ness to you ever since. The next week my paper
of the 6th May appeared, which contained noth
ing that you had a right to stomach, yet how. was.
the writer of that paper handled by you, I fay by
you or your tools; and was a “ general notoriety''
wanting to dilcovcr the author of that paper? more
than two months afterthis, my feconH address (which
had not appeared but for the last difturbanccs) was
published. There indeed, on the public account, not
on my own, (formy own feelings, however ftron^
I with to submit always to the' good of the ftate'
on the largest scale,) I endeavoured to delineate in
some degree, your honor's duplicity: from that,
difeount honfly, all you can.—l do not men
tion this as an apology for my "principles." for the
moment I am convinced a man is attempting any
thing dangerous against the public welfare, that
moment I am his opposer with all my might, be he
antecedently ever so near and dear to me.—Alas!
in. I have aflifted to fup^ort you too long, not bein^
A.piling to believe, notwithstanding ftron, appear
ances, you could have acted the part there 'is too
mucli teafon to thinly you have and are anting.
Your “ pity, fir, you know I do not want, and
your “ forbearance," mod valorous, heroic, Ilaugh at.
I must acknowledge there are some highfanu
tzve expreflions, and beautiful rhetorical flourishes
in my last papet, such as “ rascally, Lick-spittle,"
&c. but the reader, I hope, will find that I have
honefly acknowledged from whence I borrowed
them. 14line yatnt Imitati on s, indeed, of your ex
quiftc pattern. I may have attempted in the fame
paper, but alas! my genius is no way equal to the
talk; I must therefore yield the palm, and-confefs
I frauds chance with your honor in the art of embel-
BfNng. How inimitable is the claufelam now upon,
your honor seems here to have outdone your usual
out doings, and to shine in perfect character
altogether en profeffeur;...
Ihe " Land-Office" never came into my head
till I read your honor's favor; however, I am glad
to find my publication came out so opportunely : the
more generally it is dispersed, the better I shall
like it, and still better if the elegant piece, to which
it is a reply, your firft Bag of Feathers" I mean,
was equally dispersed. What pity that mafier piece is
out of print; cannot we have a second edition,
exactly printed as the firft? I am persuaded it
will fell.
, My last paper, and your honor's foft clause of
this letter, I believe, will be fufaient to acquit me
fromfecret slander, with those that do not know me ;
with those that do I am under no pain about the
charge. I have said freely, for some time past,
that I thought your honor had at least a finger in
the pye, with regard to the late famous manoeuvres,
and town proscriptions; and notwithstanding your
express contempt of ." mobs, riots and tumults," I
have believed for months past, what I did not last
year, that there is reason to fufped you held the
wire, and danced the puppets of the frolics at that
time; but, fir, we all know that you are so exquifte
a difeerner f the times, that in the twinkling of an
eye you infinklively per ceive when you muft°“ take
the bush. .
I am now arrived at your 6th " feather;" what
course this and the following feathers take in the
“ gale, I beg the reader will accurately mark.—
His honor fays, " the only passages in your piece,
wh ch shall at this time fall under my notice, are "
. ift.“ Your charge of my having been the author
or abettor of. a performance under the Signature of
a Democratic Gentle Touch."
2d, “ Y our charge of my havingbeeri the revifor
of most of the pieces lately published.
3d. “ Your charge of my having been at the
head of a party you profefs so vehemently to dis
like." ........
,With regard to the firft charge, your honor has
proved nothing to the contrary'; you talk of one
evidence which you Seem ashamed to name: I
fhaifnot put you to the blufa by doing it for you,
and will fnew your honor prefatly, I am still of
the fa me opinion I was about this matter.
i Where do. you find the second charge? point
out the place, give us, Commodore, its bearings
arid.diStance, otherwise this honest quotation, or
whatever else you may call it, will only serve to
trace out the. close connexion and resemblance
between you and the reJpeDable author or authors
of the paper I said you were the line-drawer or
abettor of. ..This fineffe, fir, to get to windward of
me, will not do: no fir, I will not be jostled from
my point. The paper mentioned in the firft
charge, which was printed in this gazette the 13th
May last, No. 220 g this paper, I said in my
l"f' gave a plainer clue to difeover the first
cause of our riots,- than, any other thine o f
paper whatever, that! have Seen., This,, fir, is
the paper I pin you to, and though what I now 'fay,
may not amount to legal proof, (being told for your
honor's comfort, in a note of a late " virtuous"
address, that our Laws 'fare like cobwebs, they
catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break
through,") yet, fir, I shall mention some circum
stances presently, taken from Mr. Gentle Touch's
paper, which, with no more than due .weight,
given to them, when added to what has happened
in Charleston only, since your return amonpft. us,
V/ill incline, I believe, the most candid obfcrver
of these matters, to more than, fufped, that your
honor abetted that paper, and was no franrer to
Some of its contents before publication.'
With regard to the last charge, I am a fyrNßFel
disapprove! of all political parties in our circum
stances, and long to fee ^ parties at all amongst
us, but every citizen Jlriving .to make Fach other
as liappy as he can; ,whicli,were it not for 3 t^y
few men, bf des your honor, I believe, would not
have been very far from the case, at this hour;
liowever, I hope it will not be long before it is so.
l hav e a ftrcmgobje&ion, also, to any political,
meddling, anti-national club of any fort, be their
^rofafam what they may; but, when added to this,
a spirit of tyrannical Severity and implacability, is
glaringly manifeft in their very rules, (the case of
your favourite society) what mifhief may not some
members, under the influence of fah rules, and'
especially when bound befdez by an oath of ferrety.
not attempt? What cruel infara have cot Several
[No. 2217.]