The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-06-17 00:00:00, page 2

daily if the truncations you are describing be
'trivial: it will then give them an air of im
portance. Illis is conformable to the maxim in
epic and dramatic poetry, of railing the di&ion at
times to cover the poverty of the fabjeff.
“ In your firlt official letter you draft ingraft a
tolerable number of French words, though there
be English ones equally a propos, to 'give people
an idea of your military talents: but then you
Should take care to keep up the fame fyir{t of
writing, otherwise they may imagine, that your
abilities and year language are exhausted together.
" if upondctvice you have any ladies in your
camp, be vacant in your conversation before: them.
'lh^re is Nothing pleases the ladies more than to
hear of Forming breaches, attacking the covert
way sword in hand, and such like martial exploits.
This however 'I only recommend at night over the
bottle: it cannot be expected that you fhouM be
so valiant and blood-thirfly, upon mature deliber
ation, the next morning; that, indeed, would 'be
murder in cold blood.
“ Nothing is so commendable as generdfity to
an enemy. To follow up a vi&ory, would be
taking the advantage of his diftrefri It will be
buhmert therefore for youto shew, that you can
bear with .him when -you think proper. Betides,
giving vour enemy too severe a drubbing,may put
an end to the war, before you have feathered your
rich ham jomcly, apd provided for relations ' and
dependents.
" When you have occafon to put into winter
quarters or cantonments in an enemy's country,
youJbotdd place your.word troops, or those you
can Tab ueycrai upon, in themuAboftk: fev if the
enemy ihouht farmdtic heirti of cutting them off,
tuougn he wculd.be the I tore likely .to lucceed in
it, yet the fob you know, .-is -,ch thel2ls conse
quence to your army.
" When an inferior .general is to Tia detached
upon an e/xpedhiory be lure to fend the most igno
rant and inexperienced;- for he hands the molt in
need of a leTon.
" You mud always act openly and fairkv both
ruth friends and foes. Never therefore Ikai a
march., or bin in ammrik : neither should you fire
upon or attack your enemy in it . night. Ifyou
bav - read lope's tramlation of womer, you may
remember what Hrflor days, when about to fight
with Apx:
.—Open be our kykq and bold each blow,
J deal no conqued from a coble foe.
-" It vou arc purging a retreating enemy, let
bun geta dev dans march a-hcad, to Ihew him
that you Five no doubt of being able to overtake
him, when you 'fet about it: and who knows but
this proceeding may encourage him to stop ? Af
ter be has retired to a place of Security you may
toon' go in quNf of him with your whole army.
" It will be voir own Emit, if you do not make
a fortune in the courie of your command. When
you come home, you have nothing to do but to
enjoy o!:i^n cum dignity. I would have vou
buna a villa. r and, in mutation of the great duke
or iviarlborougo, call it by the name ol the mod
considerable victory you have gained. If you have
gained no victory, you may perhaps have taken
tome town without ramparts or garrison to defend
it ; which, 'if it has but a founding name, the pub
lic will give you as much credit for, as they would
for Like, or ^ergen-op-Zoom;
" It you should ever be called into the service
again, you will be too wife from your pad expe
rience to go, and expofc your old bones in Ger
many, America, or the Indies. So I would ad
vile yo i to. get the command of a camp or diAriel
in Old England; where you may enjoy all the
pomp and parade of war, and, at the fame time,
be tolerably secure from thole hard knocks, which
your necedities impelled you to rilk in your young
er days."
Mrs. TIMOTHY,
Madam,
11 ffR. Miller, to whom the following vindica
-IVA tion of Mr. de Gyzclaar's character, (which
he had traduced) was duly conveyed, having re
fufed to publish it, I request you to give it a place
in your next Gazette. A Subscriber.
Mr. Miller,
Sir,
Whether you be no more than the miferablc
und erßrapper of a part^ or butthe servile Diredor
and Fool of your own Ireis ; —whether you and
your friends are the provokers or the provoked in the
many controversies^ you and they have lately been
so unfuccefsfully involved in ;—Whether the libe
rality ot language, .which you at firft pledged
yourET to Support, has net knee been violated by
a Scurrility of Style unbecoming the pen of a gen
tleman:—whether or not you.be the identic man
you at firft announced vourfeT; —or whether you
are or are not actually engaged, to fad- (a feeble
prop) the interests of biitain,in Lis country,
(all which are very gerrady believed of you) it is
not mine to determine: Certain, however t is. that
you are a yrit@ by forth, by education, and by
principle, (time will tell whether you are not an
^^^7?) and your hostility to 'Mr. de Gyzelaar,
the Feniionary of rlolkmd, —that revered Patriot
of his own country, animated friend to this, and
embitte^d foe to its fcte oppreltors, (your country
men) is proof indent, that the allies and.advocates,
the abettors a^ friends of America, poffeis nb
rgreat share in yMur good graces.
I he critenon-of this day, by which^a Tory may
be designated—is more generally ascertained from
bus violentaverfion to the drench, Dutch and Swedes,
(he prefect allies of America) his love of'the
does, and abhorrence of the friends of this coun
(D than from any overt eSt or declaration agairift
its Independency: this is so hrmly elbblifhed, that
directly to revile it would be dangerous.- -4o,oppold
if a vain effort. Themalice which fonreoth 'from
^ifappointment,,will be, however, aCtive in one
instance or another; it must betray itfelf. The
Tory dare ret Ipeak in America^ aga:nft a govern
ment which may punish him; but he will utter on
every occehon, his rooted detestation against all
thole who have, in any signal marker, contributed
to efhabhflr it, and to humble Britain. Whether
this oblervaticn be applicable, in the prelent in
stance, I leave it to your ownfa&n feelings to
determine.
1 will not enumerate zhe motives, which ought
to deter so public a savant of this Commonwealth,
as the State printer, ^however fecretk hefcilc he
may be to the Sovereignty of the date) from asper-
Eng the characters of nations „i her Alliance, oi of
the Mirtfers of thufe nations; but when the State
Printer is an Engh/hman, newly arrived,—an Eng-
Inhinan too, whole attachment to the interests of
America, is yet but toykerrcditcd by the people —•
he should, (for his own lake at leal) be very cir
cumfycA row he reviles. America's earhefl friends,
tho' it r>e to please the malignity of his (rmtiples.
tour invective agamft Mr. de Cyzclaar, that
virtuous kenfionary of Holland, and Ready friend
of Araefica, (when in ft.published in your Gazette)
was generally thought to have been intended, not
so much a reflection on him, as a fatirc on a cer
tain worthy Member of Congress, whole character
you were rf reded to afpcrle, through that of ihe
venerable Penfionaiy. Although I had, at that
time, considered the reflection (be it of your own
invention, Sir, or a tranfeript from a Paris gazette,
, or what is more probable, tue ii^faderous compo
fiti.cn of an TafySfleaun) 6s a downright forgery
ano lie ; yet, ruth you had difolaycu your own,
or your friend's fixed inveteracy, to loth, or either
of thufe patriots, by a Second publication, I felt
myfelf difpoled to couhder it only, as a paragrapli
defined to fill a crevice in your gazette,—or an
efluhon of wit, msou to V?ub;tanN—or a tcu d'ej'pnt
of the day, calculated for that meridian of low
abuse, in which you have been long a 'ftationarv.
But now, hr, your malice to the Fen,unary, and.
to the lionarable Member, already allude d to. becomes
(from your renewal of the fender) unequivocal,
and the paragraph indisputably your own.' So far
as it reflects the Member, I believe it a faifhood, —•
so far as it refers to the Penftonary, I am convinced
it is a he. I know the latter gentleman, and know
him incapable of exposing his character as a gen
tleman, and Superior to the rudene/s of behaviour
with which you reiteratcly brand him. His manners
are courtly, —his education finifhed and elevated—
and his republican principles without blemish.—•
lie is no pander to thegreat—no echo to a Eritifh
conspiracy—no doubletifaged patriot—no thistle
down in politics, the miserable wingling of every
breeze. He flies not from his country in the hour
or peril. He returns not to his country after all
peril hath subsided. Should his country be ever
invaded by the BritiJh, he will not in such case be
so mucli theirjecret friend, as not to have his pro
perty plundered, rifled and defyoiled. He is an
acknowledged Whig in his own land—nor will he
ahociate with, much less patronize a Tory relative.
Craft is his abhorrence ;—nor will he ever deft end
so low, as to become the concealed cowardly calum
niator of any man.
Such calumny may be pardonable in a Fritift
fubje& against the virtuous Gyzelaar, whom Britain
hath long considered as her avowed foe: —but not
in the citizens of America, (as you a£c& to call
yourfclf) for whose rights Gyzelaar has ever been
-an impaihened advocate, and who is, beside, one
of Wefirft ministers of her Ally. Being by birth,
and extralhon a Dutchman, 1 conceive myielf bound
to vindicate the injured honor of my venerable
countryman. He is, in his own Ihnd, revered by
every patriot; and his polish of education is inch,
as at all times, to enable him to regulate his de
portment by the flri&eft rules of decorum. Had
you not published the dander a found time, I
fnould not have condefeended to notice it.—but
your repetition of tile abhfc, indicated of a marked
inveteracy, that (unaccustomed to writing as I am)
I was constrained to contradict.it. As your paper
hath riihemn,ated the poison, your paper ought allo
to dibble the antidote: It is therefore expelled and
required, that you will so far exhibit your candor,
as to give our publication to my apology, after
having given tu^to ; our own flandercus acct iation.
A EAIAVE^N.
CHARLESTO N,
J UNE 17, 1784.
AN Sundry;night the schooner Amelia, Capt.
M% he ~,> , f >° ni North-Carolina, met with
a ^avy iqaall o. wind, about 23 learned to t'-e
northward of Charlton Bar, attended with ^ °
thunder and lightning, by which she received forr^
fy;h to hull ^ the lfai%; one A
was killed, And two more IBuck fenfetefs at the
lame time, out have since recovered.
°?. the i Gt! ]flJunc was apprehended In North
Carmin, byjohn Walker, Efa; Richard Savage,
on board Ot ateak tchooncr, cNlcd die Botfey
to be commanded by one Dekay, who made
his ricape. Ihefchofo abound from Charles
ton to Georgetown, Ahtw. taken by Delany i^o
Wilmington, where he dtpofed of the o ?cat}t
part of the cargo, and from thence intended to go
,> 1 roftce, in RhodeJtad. The Schooner
is expected here shortly.
, Last Thursday evening Mr. Adam Gihh,iß, o f
New-York, was married io MiGHetty Budd, 'the
younged daughter of Dr. John Budd, of this city.
The fime evening was married, M r . Thomas
™ S ' j ^mass Parish, to Mbs Eliza
beth Duke.
Sunday last departed this life, after a long and
tedious dinels, in the 67-th year of his a^ the
Don. Ifairy Middleton, Esq; v s this city.
r °,)''? n Friday ^k; ht 14 '( Mrs. Henrietta Locuck
d tins city.
Itaftweek died at Ediftn, Mr. Jeremiah Eaton.
Several persons died suddenly on Saturday and
ounday lafl, owing, it is supposed, to the intense
heat of the Weather.
wa NTS EMPLOYMENT,
NA 'pfo^ ^fc m a long residence in Greece,
''"(': ,'" the fonth of france, is befcri iu the
mitun 0) Silk ana the \ ineyard, which macbe car
mei on ?y old people ©id children in this fata, to
greaf advantage. Tie vMerfunds the laying cut of
draft of lands, farming, Nd °
^^^^ c, ice-houfes,fo v %y efcotid: in warm.
climates. IDs demands will be modemoe, ^nd he
flutters h^jrif, that fam his knowledge If
he %kt make hinffriable to a stfrnMd^y
in ttie< ountry. Please to addrgfs to 4 ^ at the
Printer's. .
LEASES and RELEASES, to be Sold
at the Printing-Office.
A A NDS for SAL E.
HAT valuable treeS called Rice Hope, on
JL Santee- River, three miles bdoto E, wkh Can fe
way, containing about 1 ace ^res of high lard, and
near 500 of the rickeft hide Swam,, a conkderable
part of which is cleared, and the ^hole under bank.
On the perrifa arc a fraTconvenient dwelling house
and out-houfa, a good harm and founding machine.
A navigable creek runs within a few yards of the barn
door; both the p rice and terms of payment will be
made eaf, to ike purchaser, dor particulars apt, in,
Charlefonto LOBERT' NORRIS & Co.
Hort & VVarley,
Have for Sale, at their Store the Coiner of Elliott
flrect and the Bay,
Tri-IE following AR LICLES, just im-
L ported from Bordeaux, in the Sloop Alpha,
Capt. Ikomas White, viz.
Excellent Claret )
Cooiac Brandy I D cases, each containing
homini^c and f three dozen bottles.
G ine dt Graave l
Belt Sailed Oil \
Prunes
Capers (treffi and in good order, ia
Olives and f final! cases lor families.
Anchovies
Coniac Brandy in Casks. tbetf.
NOT ICE °
A EC persons to whom th°eflctc of Andrew Brough
tou, fen. deceased, is indebted, are once mere
requeued to fend in afate ok their rejpecrive demands,
properly attend, by the 20th of fofy, otherwise iky
wi II he excluded from payment.
funeßoth, JOHN FABIAN, Akf. Ex.
To be Hired,
IO ^ the Month or Year, two Negro ,vomen,
used to all kind cf house work, tending chil
dren, &c. Enquire of the Printer.
S„T R AY E P
ABOUT two months, a white Cow, with
. several brown spots about the neck, marked
W. W. Whoever will deliver her at No. 100,
Mceting-kreot, will receive a fuitablq reward.