The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-04-22 00:00:00, page 1

For EDENTON,
'N-RTH CARSLINA, to Sail in a fav days,
1 HE Brig ALLIANCE, John Collins, Mas-
J ter, now lying at Prioleau's wharf, and will
be ready to take in to morrow. For Freight or Paf
'ag- apply to the Commander on Board, or to
Daniel Bourdtaux.
Smiths, befanffure & Darrell,
HAVE Removed their COUNTING
HOC SE to No, 83, 7 radd-ftreet, and
have for Sale, high proof Jamaica Num in pun
cheons and small calles, the latter fit forimmedi
ate use, very best Jamaica Sugar in hhdsa and
barrels, a large quantity of Cordage, ' olland
Sail Duck, Seine and Sewing I wine, a Cale of
Saddlery, and C(p,er^s in hogsheads.
Ado a ondon made Riditig Chair, and two
Chairs with Harness compleat.
For Sale, or Freight
To any Port within the STREIGHTS,
qpNE Ship QUEEN CHARLO I TE, Charles
Hendtrfon, Mailer, Fiench built, fnea hed
with Copper, about 2<d tons burthen, and a re
markable fall Sailor. For terms apply to
Smiths, Def^ffure, & Darrell.
To be HIRE b,
A Negro BO Y, uted to all kinds of Notify
Work. No.' 101, Mecting-ftreet.
ABSENT ED from the ^uFfcriber, on Thurs
day evening the ißth inst. a Negro Woman
named MARYANN, also her daughter named
LUCY, about 14 years of age, well grown— both
had on when they went away, a blue cloth jacket
and petticoat: were formerly the property of Mrs.
De Lahowe, and are well known in this city. A
Reward of five Dalian will be given for each, to
any person who will apprehend the Lid Negroes,
and deliver them to the Warden of the Sugar-house,
All performs are hereby forbid harbouring or car
rying the laid Negroes out of the State, as they
may depend on having the law put in force. A
genteel reward will be given to any person who will
give information where they are harboured, 011
tonvidion of the < finder.
A. E. Van Branm Houckgeeft.
Charlefon, April 15, 1754.
For Private Sale,
For CAS Ft. or Two Ye^rS CREDIT.
EVEN valuable NhGROES, ore of whom
O is a very handy Waiting Boy, Sold for no
fault.
Cudworth & Waller.
WANTS EMPLOY,
A Young Gentleman, who writes an excellent
hand, and has been used to a Store. A line
dire&ed to J. and left with the Printer, will be
duly attended to.
WANTS EMPLOY,
A Person capable of taking care of a Store,
J A keeping Accounts, and tianLdicg Business,
for either Inhabitant, or other forein, bierchant or
Trader. Enquire of the Printer.
OF THE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON: Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. 100, Meeting-street.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1784.
^ His EXCELLENcr
benjamin guerard, Esquire,
Governor and commander in chief
In and over the
^TATE of SOUTH-CARQLIN A,
May it Pfedfeyour Excellency,
WE, the underwritten, citizens of this Stat^
beg leave to addref; your Excellency, on a
hiatter which, to us, feerns highly interesting to
the ornament arid fafety of this cityin particular, and
of this State at Urge—7 he growth of luxury, pro
fuhon and dissipation is too conlpicuous in this and,
not to give the aloft serious alarms to the feelings
of aI men, who with well to the growth of that
true Republican spirit. which now, (after the long,
but actually declining Reign of Ariftrocracy) seems
to be initiant, and about to Bud among us. To
countenance these excesses, by a Public Ad of
Magiftra y, in any House, but more efpec aily ip
the State Houje of this Capital, the Mansion of cur
Legislature, the Repository of bur Public Docu
ments and Records—so expose that noble Pile,
and the Books and Papers contained therein, to
the casualties of Eire, so incident (as we of late
have seen) to places of such tumultuary Resort as
those frequented by I) seeing- dffemblies, —would,
we humbly hope, meet every discountenance from
your Excellency's Known Prudence, and Official
Author ty, even had this dutiful Address, against
such idque of public concernment, not been prelent
ed to you
We, therefore; flimir fy by the pUreft mo
tives of Pulse i rircipie, in our own rams, and
in behalf of the generality of our fellow citizens,
whole sentiments, we are confident, coincide with
Durs, mod earneftiy request of four Excellency;
that, as the firtt Magistrate of this State, and faith
ful and vigilant guardian of the people's morals, And
property, your Excellency will not fandion any
Public Dances; or disputing Feasts, at the State
House, nor tolerate; that the GrR and noblest
fbuAure of this commonwealth, —-the receptacle
of our most valuable Records, be exposed to those
dangers, wh ch (under the fame carele/'s attendants,
infimilar citcunlftancesß have, not long since, con
sumed the Play House and its environs.
We have the Honour to be
Your Excellency's most Obedient
and very Humble Servants.
„ Signed by a great number of Refpedable Inha
bitants.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
CHARLESTON, April 15,1784.
GeNTLEMen,
AS well from the Application of a number of
Citizens, as from that contained in the
Address you presented to me lad evening, I would
have excused myfclf to the Gentlemen Managers of
the Dancing Aflemblies, in refuting them the State
Hou e (in wlrch as is objerved are cepclited the
Archives of the Commonwealth, and in which are
the venerable Houles of Legiflatare and sacred Seats
of Justice, with several important public Offices) for
the put pole of dangerous evening entertainments,
had notthe Senate, at ?he dole of the last Sefiions,
revived on
such ul. of their honourable Boide when to that
end requested.
^0 pay every attention in my power to your
wishes, i have addrefied letters on the fabjed to
the President of the Senate and Speaker of the
House of R eprefentatives—A Copy of which is here
to annexed.
I am Gentlemen,
Your obedient, and most
Humble Servant
(Signed) BENJAMIN GUERARD.
To JOSEPH BEE, Esquire, and the Gentlemen
who presented with him an Address to the Gover
nor on Wednesday Evening, the 14th inftanu
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
' CHARLESTON, April 15, 1784.
HAVING received individually and by Ad
dress the exceptions of many Citizens to
having Evening Entertainments in the State House,
I lubmit and recommend it to you to have them
cilewhere—left the animosity, revenge and party
wo k, seemingly (unhappy for us) kindling in the
< ity, might thereat, incrcafe and mount into a
blaze, (odious in (he eyes of all good men) not
easily to be got under and Rifled, and which a
little well timed prudence would have prevented.
I am so thoroughly fatisfied of the impropriety,
that I shall not requelf your permission to make use
of the State Ho de to repeat the public dinner, on
the 4th of July next.
I am Sir,
Your most obedient, and
most Humble Servant
(Signed) BEN. GUERARD.
Addressed to the President of the Senate and
Speaker of the Hufe of Representatives tingly.
W-HMF „,,. Y ,ty ¥ «ta&^tQQQft
Mrs. TIMOTHY,
As the intentions of the Marine dhti-Bri tannic
Society, and the tendency of its Institution, have
been in luftrioufl, misrepresented by the .riftocra
tical Gentry ; you are requeued to give our Rules
a place in your Free Press.
An ANTI-BRITANNIC.
RULES drawn up and digested by Henry
Peronneau, Esq; Doßor James Fallen, Captain
Sims White, .Lieut. 1 ho. Commander Russel, and
Mr. Beniamin Cudw/rth, (t he Committee appoint
ed for that purpose) which were palled and confirm
ed by the MARINE ANTI-B RITANNIC
SUCIE TY, on Saturday April 17, 1784)
Preamble.
CONNECTED by those congenial ties which
aflimilate men of coincident principles, actu
ated by those motives which firft impelling Ameri
cans to quit domeflic Ea'e, inspired them with an
animated Resolution to encounter every Danger
incident to a military life, governed by the principles
of common luftice, of common Equity, audibly pro
claiming that the common Enemies of mankind's
common Rights fliould be ever opposed, and impiefled
with a due lenfe, a thorough conviction, that the vir
tuous pr ofaf ee Repubic ought, by an intimate
Connection, to Associate, and Coalesce into bile fra*
ternal Band ; —We, whose Names are hereunto an
nexed, do agree and resolve to cohfider ourselves
as a Soc ety, convening from time to time and in the
capacity of Citizens, to contribute our utmost en
deavours, exerting every faculty, draining every
Ne^ve for the purpose of confervating) pure and
unmutilated, privileges which, being obtained
through the dint of a long arduous, and bloody
Coafiitt with a cruel perfidious and unrelenting fee,
cannot be viewed , with too jealous an Eye, or fire
us with too sacred an ardour. The hardy Revoluti
onists-t this State feel themselves infepatab y united
by a fimitarity of fufferings.—no spur, no incentive
can be wanting, to rouse them from supineness, and
exhibit in the e modern ages a patriotic Phalanx,
excelling the ancient Macedonian one, 'in a degree
the more sublime, as the defenders of freedom are
to be eltimated beyond the Invaders of those blef-,
lings, to maintain which Nature herfelf starts up
in Arms.
The Britifo fee lies prostrate at our feet; but
has he therefore ceased to be yet ourfoe ? Success
invariably blunts the edge of revenge, while difap.
pointment renders it still more keen. The Injured
will sooner forgive than the Injurer• , becauie the
latter, confeious of his own malignity, cannot sup
pose the injuries he has committed, will be for
gotten by those who fuffered from them. Such at
present is jhe refentful, fallen vindiflivenqs ts
No. 2199.