The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-09-13 00:00:00, page 2

From a late Nero-York Paper.
To the PRINTER.
T) KING an old batchelor I dine more frequeht
ly with my friends than I do at home; I
' think it my duty to divert them with feme
thing entertaining: for this end I have got together,
by frequent rea in 4 g and conversation, a large col
lection of jests conundrums, &c. &c. But, as
my stock, you know, cannot last forever, I am
obliged to recr nt with some bagatelle of mv own
invention. Dining the other day at a friend's
house, 'where L usually make my appearance in
the holidays, a young ladv, whether from Wantof
appetite, or obstinacy, I cannot determine, refufed
' her dinner : "after many useless felicitations<m .
'Sides, I addreifed her thus:
_ Hat it if you can
Eat it if you can't
Eat it
Don't eat it.
The whole company immediately teftified remarks
-of surprise ; the lady, who was rather offended,
desired me, if I spoke no more to the purpose, to fay
nothing. I infilled it Was to the purpole, How
can that be? lays my friend; you 'defire my daugh
ter to cat her dinner if (he can; then to eat it if
the cannot ; dnd then, after desiring her to eat it,
you tell her {he mud not eat it: can you call this
unintelligible jargon of contradiction to the pur
pole ? Surely no. I still asserted that What I had
laid was ftruUv fr rne, and to convince the com
pany of the justness of my "affection, told them, that
rm whole conilfted in a small change of the
flops, which, without altering a Angle letter would
convert it into
Eat it if you can eat it
If you can't eat it don't eat it.
Ihe whole company were fatisfied with the ex
planation, and Mifsppleafed with the oddity of the
invitation, eat her dinner with great cliearfulnefs.
All I have to urge in favor of this trifle is. that it
is entirely new ; all that I have to request ds, that
you'll
Print it if von will
Print it if ,0^ won't
Print it
Don't print it._
By complying with the prior part'of the rCqueft
you will oblige,
ABRAHAM FUSTY.
LONDO N, sLfy 14 .
The following^ said to be the answer which
was delivered to the Sheriffs of Dublin, the 6th
infant, when they waited boon the Lord Lieuten
am, to Know whether he would transmit their peti
'ticn to his Majedy:'
" Gentlemen,
At the fame time that I comply with your
request, in transmitting to his Majesty, a Paper
iigned by you, entitled, A petition of the freemen,
freeholders, and inhabitants of the city of Dublin,
I shall not fail to convey my entire disapprobation
of it, as calling unjust reflections upon the laws
ano xaniament or Ireland, and tending to weaken
tne authority of both."
We are informed, the Emperor of Germany
to improve the Scheid as high as Antwerp,
ordered ten lighters of toco tons each, (with
wheels twenty feet high) to be filled, and the
'materials landed every day.
July 16. The Peerage, lift of England has in
crcafed, in the course of a century, during the
reigns of fix successive Sovereigns, in the follow
ing manner:
At the death es King Chafles the second, the
House of Lords confided of 176 members.'
'T Lain of King William the third, it con
fided of 192 members.
At the death of Queen Anne, they amounted to
209 members.
At the death of George the firft, the Peerage
At the deccafe of George the second, it had in
creased to 229 members.
And at the present time (1784) it amounts to 252
Peers, (Lords spiritual and temporal) and is rapidly
inercafing. ( ' 7
The following circumfiance may serve to shew
the folly of sporting with certain danger, especially
when h can answer no other purpose but that of
gratifying falfe emulation: A person at Hull, who
used to catch adders, and boast of his power of
taking away their poison, on the 18th ult. caught
one, and the next day, being in a public houfe'in
company, he curled up the adder, put the greatest
part of it into his mouth, and took it out ayain
unhurt; after this he put its head into his mouth,
when it bithim, and his neck immediately fwelLd
to an amazing thickness, his tongue hangin, out
ofhis mouth, a {hocking focßacle. He lived only
two hours, and died in the greatest agonies. ’
Julyl9. Bv the Dublin papers, which arrived on
Saturday, the mod alarming accounts are given of
the present Rate of affairs in Ireland. On the Lord
Lieutenant's appearance at Smock-allcy Theatre
on Satuiday fe nniglit, very great disturbances
arose; and at hisdepaiture his Grace was followed
by the hilfes and groans of the peepk, to the Caflle
gates, vhere tne Horse guards rufhingout, pro
defied him from farther reproaches. At the fame
Theatre, on Saturday night, “ Chailey over the
water" was lilm-vife played, by a band, s a id to be
equal to th.datghc Commemoration of Handels
^xtraP of a letter f) win Dublin, July 9.
'“ Lhe mob of this city teem determined to pre
vent the wearing any Englilh manufaanres. Every
day somebody is tarred and feathered for dilobeying
their imperious commands, rcripcTing nori-impor
tation, &c. twenty times a day they are bursting
into the Castle (whose gates are obliged to be faft
locked) in order to address the Lord Lieutenant,
on some grievance or other. 4 could hardly get
my hat brushed by an Irish domeflic, because the
felt was English. What these tumults will end in
no man can forefee."
jFy 20, V bat muff be the feelings of a Phi
lofopner, or reading the following advertisement,
winch ,d verbatim, from the South-Carolina
' 1 'GROTS for 'SALE.
" A Ca^ of very hre flout men and women,
in good order nd in fo r immediate service, just
imported from wineward coast of Africa, in
the lhip Iwo 3r< ? crs.'
Extract o: & CT 'er Jrota Dublin, July 12.
" Last Saturday evening, by command of his
Excellency toe Lord Lieutenant, Douglas was per
fotmed at Smock-Alley,in a new way, or rather in a
Serio—Oratori-Cami Taji-Opera-Interlu-Pantomi
-1 arcical manner, which to describe justly, Would
leqniie the unit'd abilities of a Steuart, Gibbon,
Ferguson, John and M'Caulay Graham. Previous
to the entry of the Vice-Roy, and the rising of
the curtain, Landy Pemberton, Esq; appeared in
front of one of the fide boxes, and after being
saluted ivitn a peal .of claps by the galleries, he
admonished the musicians in theorcheftra, tergreet
tne Lord Lieutenant at his entrance with the
olunteer inarch, which immediately after his
Grace came in was played accordingly. The play,
° r ™° re properly the clamor, now began, and
c.&mes of groaning, hULrig, and shouting, with
full accompaniments of claps, cat-calls, whiflles,
"°lf~'°gs, and gelder-horns, all kept in time by
the punk-maker, who, with the firokes of an
elastic faplin on the hollow roof, (hewed prodigi
ous power as Matter dz Capello, thundered through
the house. The Drama was a Pantomime; for
though the matchiefs Siddons was the Lady Rar
uolph,,fhe addreifed in vain " the woods and
wilds; for louder than the roaring storm that
tears the firing rooted oak, 01 the foaming surge
that beats the reeky fhere, the house rofounded.
Lhe Manager was called for, and came forward.
' I am, said he, " the servant of the public, and
" as such, would know if it is your opinion that
“-the performance should continue." Such pro
priety of conduct had its deferred effe&; no
difrefpe&, but every possible apulaufe echoed
round, and the play was differed' to go on; but
still it was a Pantomime or Recitative accompanied.
After a few feenes the cataftrbphe was a&ed, and
theplay was done. Ihe Entertainment of Barnaby
Brittle fhaied a like fate, and the curtain dropped
twenty minutes after eight, the Vice-Roy then
withdrew, but rot unnoticed; a populace pursued,
and with attendant groans ushered him to the
caflle.
“ Amongst the people who were supposed to be
hissing the Lord Lieutenant, Mr. Smith, Adjutant
of the Gold-smiths corps, one of the audience in
the gallery, was trepanned out by Sheriff K ,
hyatap on the moulder, the Sheriff telling him
he wanted to speak with him, when, on going to
the door, he was hurried off like a common felon,
to the Guard-house in the Castle-yard, and his
pockets searched; after he had remained there
about 20 minutes, the Gold-smith's corps muflered,
and with a prodigious number of refpedable citi
zens, to the amount of at lead 4000, assembled
before the Castle-gate, when it was thought proper
to release the unoffending Citizen. When he was
enlarged, the populace procured a chair and car
ried him on their shoulders to the Gold-fmiths
hall, amidil the acclamations of the greatefl mul
titude ever seen upon any occasion in this city. It
is said Mr. Smith intends bringing an action against
the Sheriff for falfe imprisonment."
CHARLESTON,
SEPTEMBER 13, 1784%^.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at 'Philadel
phia, to his friend at New-York,.dated July 10.
" nrHE affair of the Chevalier Longchamps,
X about which you have (no doubt) been in
formed, is likely to become a very serious bufmefs:
It for the present furnifhes political matter for the
whole city ; especially as it is reported the (louncil
of Censors have determined on fending that unfor
tunate Gentleman to France, where in all proba
bility no less than his life can appeal the insulted
representative of Majeftv. Two reasons are given
for-this procedure: First, for that in our present
situation, it would be bad policy to dilute the pro
°f this meafare with our great and good
and in the next that there is no adequate
law of this State to punish the enormity of the of
fence. Be it as it may, the people in general are
greatly alarmed at the dangerous tendency of such
a precedent; and urge that upon this principle the
liberty of every citizen must in future lie 'at the
mercy of the good liking of foreign Ministers. I
for my own part, Should suppose that this business
being national, %grcce.i.^ the. fanflion and
determination of Congress. upon a candid and fair
investigation of the fuhje&; for as the Chevalier
was admitted to the rights of citizenship, and took
tin oaths of allegiance + Q this State, prior to his
dispute v.uhtn Sieur Marrois, if foR/Vs that he
has every right to the protection yt our laws, that
the Members of the Council, nay ^e Governor
himfell has; and I believe my goo, friend, you.
will admit that they, you, or I would think it ex
ceeding hard to be lent to France, to fuffer for an
oflence punishable in the most rigorous manner by
the laws of our own country, with fine and impri
sonment. Belides, I think it an offence to the dig
nity of a country, to suppose its laws inadequate to
the punishment of an offence: it is not the person
of any man that becomes an obje& on the present
question, but the liberty of the great body of the
the people: (hall they after breaking from one set
of Shackles voluntarily chain themselves? I think
I hear you fay, forbid it Heaven! And I fay Amen
to that good prayer."
LaL f riday arrived here tire ship Charleston,
Capt. Had, in fix weeks from London.
DIED.J In tiiis City, (of the lore thoat) two (
promising sons of Dr. Richard Savage.-Saturday
lad, Mrs. Ruth Mitchell, wife of Mr. William ,
Mitchell./
WHEREAS we, proprietors of Drays, have
passed articles of agreement between u>,
not to draw any load under the rates allowed us by
tip ^Vardens and Commiflioners of the flreets,
u de. he penalty of, for the firft offence, 101. ftcr.
forthe second, 201. do. and, for the third, Qol.
one third of each penalty to go to the informer
or informers, the fad being firft proved, upon
oath, and the tranfgreflor worth the penalty:
therefore, we hope that the public, after tlbs
warning, will not offer us less than the rates; which
rates art so low, the work so scarce, house rent fa
h^b, and provision so dear, that we can, butwith
the greater difficulty, struggle for a living. But
what is fui prising is that a number of perlons, on
whom we depend for support, should want that
generous disposition that prompts one to that tender
feeling which we ought to have for the distress of
our fellow creatures. Instead of which, we arc
called extortioners,and other invectives are thrown
out against us, for only demanding that scanty
pittance allowed us by the public, 111 order to sup
port tne distressed famlliesof those now obliged to
follow that most precarious bianch of business for
a living. Draymen,
Or, Granville's Bastion.
," B. \Ce cannot draw any load from the Ex
change to Gadsden's wharf, under 3s. without'
doing to ourselves a capital injury.
At our Autlion-Room,
TO-MORROW,
Hill be fold, at 12 o'Cloch,
FOUR TEEN years Lease of a valuable
LOT of LAND, ^0 fe e t front on Meeting
ftreet, and 150 feet on George fireet.
CUDWORTH & WALLER.
L Ai our Auction-Room,
TO-MORROW,
J7ill,c fold at 12 o'Clock,
THE fall failing Schooner BETSEY, up
wards of seventy tons burthen, lately repair
ed, with all her fails and rigging as ffic now lies at
I rioleau's wharf. Six months credit will be given
the purchaser. CUDWORTH & WALLER.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the fubferibers, 8 or ,
months ago, a negro fellow named MINGO,
about 5 feet 9 inches high, dim made, pitted with
the small-pox, speaks good English, about 35 years
of age; he formerly belonged to John Purcey, on
Santee, where we are informed he has been seen.
Ihe above reward will be paid on the delivery of
said fellow to the Warden of the Work-House or
JERVEY & WALTER.
Charlefon, Sept. 13, 1784.
At our AuEhon-Koom,
TO-MORROW,
Will be fold, precisely at 12 o'Cloch,
A Valuable Houle and Lot, on the
south fide of Eroad-ftreet, just above the
State-house now occupied by Mrs. Purse, 27 feet
front, and 140 deep, more or less.
Available Lot adjoining the above, 26 feet
front, and 140 deep. On the premises are two
tenements, one of which may be immediately oc
cupied by the purchaser. The situation of these
lots, &c. for the country trade, is equal to any in
the city. The wliole are under Icafe for seven
years, at the rate of tool, sterling per annum, the
emoluments of which, and the fee simple of the
premises, will be conveyed to the purchaser. Con
ditions of sale, one half the purchase money for
each lot, to be paid on the firft day of next January,
and the remainder on the firft dayof January, 1786,
' e purchaser to give bond and approved lecurity,
with interest from the day of sale.
CUDWORTH and WALLER.
for private-TalE;
A PLEASANT situated HOUSE and LOT
on White-point. Four years credit will be
given. Enquire at our Office, No. 51, Bay, op
polite Roper's wharf.
CONYERS, HOLMES,;& Cq,,