The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-04-15 00:00:00, page 1

He has also for SA L E,
The materials inirely compleat, lately imported
by particular direction, for a vessel of 160 tons
burthen, viz. ^co weight of sheathing copper,
and nails answerable, 2 pair copper rudder bands
With nails, , pair of ruo'der irons, 1 cable of 120
fathom, ii, inched,l dittoio| ditto, hawser 1 6
ditto, main and fore fm cuds, main Hay and collar,
foie and back H^,, topmast flays, mizen and fore
topmad Shrouds', ^ ?*H °f main tacks, main and
fore meets, n afa ?md foretopfail sheets, buoy ropes,
runners several coils of laniards, ditto running rig
gimp 9, 12 a^d 1f thread ratline, spun yarn
and bolt ropes aborted, hammerline; koufeline and
marline, deep sea, hard apd log lines, fail twine,
tarpawling and hiatus for putting about the cables,
sheathing pSper,—And a fufficient quantity of fail
duck, from No. f, to 8.
To be SOL D,
At our AUCTION-ROOM,
Ori FRIDAY next, the 16th instant,
~ Precisely at 12 6'Clock, for CASH,
TH E Brigantine MAY, Captain David
Jackson, now lying at Motte's Wharf, with
all her Materials, a (launch Bermuda built Vessel,
burthen about ibo Puncheons of Rum. The Ves
sel and Inventory may be seen at any Time before
the Sale, on Application to
Cudworth & Waller.
Russell W Jenkins;
RETURN their most grateful thante
to their friends lor the attention paid them
during the Ihort period they have behn in bufinch.
They now beg leave to inform them, that
Mr. FRANCIS FAWSON
r,33 joined them in the FACTORAGE BUSINESS;
which they hill continue, under the firm of
RuHell, Jenkins, & Co.
and for the conveniehcy of those who may in future
notice them, they now inform the .Merchants, that
they have taken Greenwood's Wharf. Thole
Gentlemen who may order their vessels there, mav
be affixed no exertions will be wanting to promote
their Entered; and as it will be in their power to
forward dfotch, they hope to meet every encour
agement attention merits.
N.B. They have furnifhed tbemfelves with three
Vessels, calculated for the Coasting Business. Those
gentlemen who please to favour them with the dil
pofal of their crops, need never to be at a loss for
ve& Is to convey their Rice, &c. to market.
They have aifo for Sale, Rum, Wine, Gin, Su
gar, Sait, &c, which they will retail in such quan
tities as will belt fait thG firtymßances of their
GQuntry friends ~ -
TJA VANNA So
gars, white and
brown, in cases
Russia and Holland'f&il
duck
Ravers duck
Flemish linens
Tick Jenburg ditto
Check ditto
Durants
Iron and brass wire
Several calks of Beflem
knives
Bohea Tea in chests &
quarter chefs
DANIEL BOURDEAUX,
Has to dispose of by WHOLESALE, at his
Store No. zf, Tradd street,
THE
GAZETTE
OF THE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON: Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. i oo , Meeting-street.
Janafon, cdngo, and
hyfon teas in cheffs
and quarter clefts
German Heel
Tin
A few pieces of scarlet
broad cloths
Red and black sealing
wax
Dutch quills
Rhenish wine in chefls
of doz. each
Superfine flour, and.
,A few bundles of Sar
saparilla.
THURSDAY, APRIL i 5, 1784.
LONDON.
e January i 2, 1784.
IN the powers granted by his majesty to Mr.
Hartley, to sign the definitive treaty with Ame
rica, the Americans have received the appellation
of our most good friends the United States of Ame
rica.--^,,, might they not with greater propriety,
after the example of France, be failed our dear
friends!— for they have ccft us very dear indeed!
1 " a "" s > we hear, wear, a very heavy afpe& in
Ireland. The Volunteers talk with the geateft
reledtment of the intemperate conduct of the house
of commons, and the general opinion is, that this
circumfcance will unite them more than ever, and
even increase their numbers.
/Extras of aftter frofa Montreal, 04. IT.
t : '.-.,',he situation of this numerous co'ony is at
this moment very precarious. Chained down by
the peace, trade vegetates in the la gour of inerty.
,?^ Americans do not seek to unite themfclve with
us, to barter theii commodities with ^rs. From
this dereliction {prides the ardent define of iqdepen
dv nee on the borders of the river. St. Laurence.
Pppteffed by the lords, the colonies, Who, these
^ cv , years pall, have teen employed in grub ing up
,220 j acres of land distributed to them on their ar
rival,, are obliged to pay, when they enfoy the
fruits of 'heir labour, a 6urrhenfome tythe of all the
produce cf the field which they have fertilized.
, he only leverage we can get,s the weak liquor of
the fepipl. When Fiance governed us, the wines
and the brandy cost Infinitely lef^than they do now ;
o We could, after the excels of labour, recruit our
enervated length with those liquors; bit at this
"n^every .^ng seems to conspire our ruin :, we
demanded a charter for liberty to tradepromifcucufly
with the Englim and French colonies,' and with the
,maritime towns of the thirteen United States; and
that charter does not arrive ; , the evacuation of
New York flill meets with difficulties, The savages
propose to poby preference to the markets of.the
American!, who will bay tl;eir furs, and give them
in exchange the liquors of Europe, the arms and
the hatches, ^ they like best, We know not yet
what wilfbecome of our corn of tso 4 sfyeir; our salt
filh, ^r iron, our timber, our hemp, and our fans,
heaped up in our waYehonfes; .every vent being
interdicted. On die one part the charges of govern
ment are b,bentpine to the metropolis, which the
fubfidiei from Canada have never emiched. On
the other, thte American government suits odrpre
fent fituatidn : united to that people, who would
communicate their energy to us, it would be easy
for us to make an exchange of our commodities with
the merchants of the Chefipeak and the Delaware,
Whith would difperle among us a great part of the
Iweets and copyeniencie, of life. It is inYpoffible
that half a century ffiould elapfe,or even twenty five
years, before the revolution of our re-union to the
democracy, of the new independents. Qur manners,
pur connections, our charters, the itieceffity of hav
ing with our neighbours tome commercial intef
courfe; the dilgult which the British crown must
experience in governing a vast colony, which will
hot fend over to it one tingle guinea, all announce
a period much nearer than is imagined, the event
of our alienation from the Englilh government and
our independence under the laws of the Congress of
Philadelphia."
TorZvCITIZENS of^
UNITED STATES.
, ( Concluded from our last.)
BUT there is yet a more, plausible argument in
favour of Great Britain. Cincinnatus, a writer we
have quoted more than once, after a flourish against
the Adembly of Maryland, Hates our dependence on
Europe to be the difference between the imports and
exports of th las <„ar, the former of which he
makes precisely ten times greater than the latter^
If this is true, we are indeed in a dependent and
eplorable condition : there is, however, a species
,f copfolation in reflecting that this cannot hold,
because the funds of the richest merchants in Europe
f wiH not enable them to supply America with te^
times more goods than she can pay for. Cincinnatus
is unfortunate in having chosen the imports and ex
ports of the last year to support the dodrine of A
.merican dependence. ^ Those nations that must fell,
are as # dependent as t^ofe who must buy; but fuck
reasoning aside, several causes, operated to augment
,he imports of last year over the exports. Foreign
ers and adventurers thought this country exhausted of
goods by the war, and poured them in upon us in
an unufiial quantity., ^ The great finking also of the
prices of goods in Europe, in consequence of the
peace, and the idea that prevailed of goods being
scarce in this country, induced those who had large
flocks on hand to fend confignmen'ts to these markets.
To all which importations were added those made
by our own provident merchants.. L^ft year there
fore cannot be taken as the scale of our exports and
imports, being a fingular,cafe, and one which may
not occur again in our day; of course, the propoh
,o^s and conclusions founded on them must be treated
as fallacious and illusive.,
1 'rinov not really what could have led .this writer
into such a drain of reasoning. Commercial truths
cannot be Ipng concealed, and fi&ion soon loses its
.influence. 1 will, not believe him more in the in
teert of, Great Britain than America, which I fop-j
pole is his own country, merely because he has
embraced the political creed of her ministry. One
cannot help however being flruck with the refem-'
blance between his petitions and theirs They, tell
u s ^ that the capi al part, or at lta(t farjf/bfy of
the importations from Europe Into the American
ates, were at all limes made upon credit: and that
nearly as many 'fifth' 9! the American importations
be made from Great Britain.", This Hater, ent
L lef f. hu ,bling though not more true than that given
by Cincinnatus.^ A little, reflexion however, and a
recurrence to experience will teach os the falfity of
such speculative calculations. Previous ta the non
importation agreement, the operation of which
brought this country considerably in debt to Great
Britain, cur exports were on a level with our imports,
or in other words, the one paid for the other. For
the truth cf this assertion I appeal.ro the merchants
pf the United States, to declare, whether their ex
ports did not one year with another pay for,their
imports. The trade with England was Against
America; but , with other .countries it was in our
favor, and with the balances we received from tbefa
we acquitted, the balance we owed to Great Britain_
put ministry themselves will support he in this fa&
In the second edition of their pamphlet, where the*/
undertake to fatisfy the English merchants, how A/
merica is to . pay them for their goods, they arc'
tonftrained to acknowledge “ that if the erpoftr
from the United States to this country are not fuffi
cent to pay for the Br tifh manufactures they may want
they mis pay the difference as they u fd to 'dofor
m.rly in bills of exchange upon Spain and other:
countries, which they will get for their lilted
Hour and other articles of export to those plates."
This 1 conceive to be decisive that our exports
equalled our imports in past years; and may we
poc, for instance, pay to Holland and other coun
tries for the goods we may want, the difference
that our exports to these countries leaves unpaid
ar Qe ufid to do formerly to England in bills of
exchange., 3
. But I imagine the change in our fixation will
"""eh our abll "y '9 import beyond past years
Ift. Became we ffiall get more for t bfl um total of
our exports than we used to do formerly when the
British market ingulphed nearly the whole, zdly
We shall have more articles to export, having i
greater commerce and a greater country. And
lastly, we shall pay lets for the aggregate of our
! m ' ™ s . ^^ '3^° *° w£ r e obliged toiakc them
No. 2198.