The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-26 00:00:00, page 2

Foreign Intelligence
V £ NI C E, May 21.
n i>L fleet under the Chevalier Emo, and
A which is going out againd that of Tunis, is
at anchor in our road, and will fed the beginning
# Qiy. . ° C
1 he annual ceremony of the marriage of the sea
took place yesterday, and was conduced with
more pomp than usual, and what added to the
magnificence of the fight, was the fleet defined
" against the Tunisians, which lay at anchor in oar
roach
P R A G U E, A nr J ?
Among the damages occasioned by^^ talc inun
• Nation, may be reckoned thole futtained in the
sepulchral vaults of some churches, into which the
waters had penetrated;'the bodies were obliged
to be taken out to repair the damages done to the
vaults; among the number of corpses removed on
this occasion, were two Without any appearance of
putrefaction. This seeming rather marvellous, the
government ordered the physicians to enquire into
the cause, and render ah'account 'of it. The re
port of the faculty, which has been printed and
distributed among the people, imports, that there
is nothing extraordinary in this phenomenon;
and that it is frequently observed in the dead bodies
of those who die emaciated, and not 'too old ^r
too young. # >
P A R I 's, ;
Mayfly. The Dauphin is ill of an intermitting
fever.A
June 7. The hate of the Dauphin's health be
comes daily more favourable; he is vilibly on the
recovery; so that our grief onliis account will net
probably prevent' out joy on the arrival of the
King of Sweden, who is not expended till •.about
thelsth instant.
L E YD E N,
June 14. Lad faturday evening at 7 o'clock, a
proclamation Was read, and fixed up by order of
t,lie Magistrates of' this city, forbidding all perfoOs
to diflirguifh themselves' by cockades of any color
whatever, und< r pain of being imprisoned 15 days
for the firft offence; -three mouths for the feebria;
and barufhed from Leyden doling ten years, also
from tl e Hague and their diftri&s, for the third
offence. Forbidding, moreover, all violence?,
imfults, arid 'meetings in the streets of more than
fi\eperfons, on the penalty-of imprisonment dnd
corporal punishment, for any infuits or ill behavi
our: And further, all those who excite or assist
others in pillaging ftouics, breaking "windows with
Honrs, &c. are to buffer death. This publication,
together with the reinforcement of troops arrived
from the Hague, hath roftored tranquility, and we
flatter ourselves, that these commotions will have
no further disagreeable consequences.
L *O N D () N, 7une"g.
Emperor's famousmechanic in Moravia,
A who has invented machines that have ren
dered his name known all over Europe, has added
a new one to the number, which is likely to come
into universal use. It is fixed under, or rather
into boats, to rowthem, by which one man will
impel a boat along with as much rapidity as twelve
men with common oars could do. The Emperor
was present whcn.it was tried in the Danube, and
with fucli luccefs, that he gave the artist two hun
dred guineas (English) immediately.
Extrafl of a letter from Utrecht, June 3.
" 1 he most important of odr affairs, that with
'the government of the Austrian Low Countries,
seems to become daily more interesting, but from
every resolution of the government of this repub
lic, it appears, that although they are entirely wil
ling " to render unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's," yet they will jealously preserve their own
sights uninfringed.
" On the 25th of last month their High 'Mighti
neffes resolved to inftrubt their Plenipotentiaries,
at the Court of Brussels, to declare that then High
Mightinesses could not refrain from furprize, on
feeing the pretensions and demands, in every
refpe& peremptory, which were contained in a
memorial lent to them from the Governor General
of the Netherlands; that their High Mightinesses
require time to search into the foundation of these.
claims, confident, that if they are' not able to
contradict them altogether, they may in part, to
the fatisfa&ion of the court of Brussels; as also to
offer well founded contra pretensions on the fide
of that state. 'lsatin the mean time, their High
Mightinesses afiure the Governor General, of the
continuation of their sincere desire to put an end
to those differences in a proper manner. That they
wish nothing more than to give every afTiftancein
conferences to that purpose ; and that they will
employ every endeavour which the affair, and the
situation of the Regency can permit, to give their
explanation of the heads contained in the Paid
memorial."
Extract of a letter from Paris, May 31.
" Iheftorms which we have already had this
year, far exceed in terror and devaluation every
thing that we experienced lad year. Our accounts
from the heart of the kingdom, give miserable
reports of the damage done by the hail hones,
some of which were taken up that meafue fix
inches round, and continued to lie undiffoived on
the ground for near three hoofs."
Extract of a.letter from Paris, fam 2.
" The Due de Vauguyon arrived ychcrdav from
the Hague, and is laid to have brought very in
tereuing intelligence; all that tranfpifes aCpocfent,
however, is, that the Stated General of the United
Provinces, have unanimously agreed to a treaty of
alliance,' offenlive and defensive, wi'ln France, for
a term of years."
June 12, By letters from Dublin, we hear,
that the Duke of Rutland has made every exertion
for tire relief of the distressed manufacturers, and
has nr Hctf piplecontributions from his-private
T^e to that p^^ofe.
Ihc volunteer ;ofhhe Dublin diftri&, wfre 're
viewed on the 31. of May, in the Phcenix park,
bytheir General LoMCharlemonr. Ihey amounted
to about 1000 in number, and went through all
' their manccuvfes with grhat expertness. Twodays
alter the garnfon was reviewed by the Lord Lieu
' tenant.
A letter from Dublin, dated May 22, fays, " In
consequence of the great demand for arms in 'this
kingdom, which ourartifts in that way, with the
utmod'diligencc, are not able-to supply; a centrad
has been made in Holland for 20,000 Lands,
whicli are expeded to arrive in a short time."
Extras of a letter from Madrid, May 18.
" -The armamenOdeftined againd Algiers, will
fcron fail to join that of Naples; the celebrated
Barcelo has discovered a manner of making gun
powder twice as flrong as that now used; and this
new powder is to be used in the above expedition,
in which it is not only intended to bombard the
place, but to land and to be at once in good earned
revenged of the Algerines, fofThdir irifults tD'the
European nations."
June 15. " I uefday last the Gentleman who
has undertaken to weigh up the guns, &c. out of
the wreck of the Royal George, went down'in
the diving-bell, and Purveyed her from head to
stern; but for want of necessary articles, he could
day no' longer than ten minutes tinder the water.
He entertains hopes of success, and has every ne
ceflaryafliftahce for the attempt.".
On the 23d pad, about half pad five in the af
ternoon, at Spadling, tin Lincolnfhire, there was
a mod violent had dorm, attended with a conti
nual thunder and lightning, which laded till pad
fix o'clock. The haildor.es were large fol id pieces
of ice of an angular form; great numbers of them
were taken up, which weighed half 'announce
each, and measured from two todhree 'inches in
circumference. Several windows were broke, and
the garden glades were entirely dedroyed. Though
the day had been excellive hot, the 'halftones
covered the market-place almost an hour after the
storm was over. The ftorra extended tojames-
Deeping and Lutterworth-Drove, where 'the stones
that'fell measured fix inches in circumference.
Authentic advice has been received from Chn
dantinople, that the plague Which&b'ke out some
time since there, and at Smyrna, had increased
with great rapidity in that neighbourhood; and
vast numbers of people had fallen a facrifice to
that dreadful difordcr at Magnafia Kukatach. Si
milar accounts have also been received from
Triede of the fame didemper raging at Dalmatia,
where the utmost exertions were made to flop its
progress, and which, Ey the vigilance and 'care of
the Magistrates, had met with the desired effect.
Between 40 and 50 villages were infested at the
fame time; but the disorder had apparently sub
sided, and the people perfectly recovered their
healths, when a new alarm had seized the inhabi
tants by an appearance of the returning malady,
which however proved to be a disease less danger
otfc> in its consequences, and originating only ir. a
malignant influence of the air, which had been
'very injurious to the vegetable creation, and ulti
mately affected the animal human race.
A committee of the privy council havd Lecn
'fitting for some time past regulating the boundaries
of the two governments into which Nova-Scotia
isto be formed: the bufiriefs is at length complet
ed; the new government is to-be called New-
Brunswick; the establishment is put upon the most
ceconomical footing, as the whole expence of
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Chief Justice,
and the other inferior appointments do not exkecd
three thousand five hundred pounds a year. The
lands in the new province have been granted to
the northern loyalists; government have not. as
yet, done any thing towards providing for those of
the southern colonies. Colonel Fox is said to have
accepted the appointment of Governor of New-
Brunswick; the salary is one thousand pounds a
year, which joined to the emoluments arising from
fees will amount to near two thousand.
June 19. No officer is yet appointed to go to
the East-Indies, and at present it remains a doubt
whether a flag will be lent out or noh At the
clofc of the war, government had an intention of
equipping a squadron of seven fail to remain in
those seas. The low estate of the Company's fi
nances at this time, put it out of their power to
indemnify government in this undertaking, and of
course such force only will be sent out, as the
Company are enabled to pay for.
A merchant at Pool has received a letter from
Newfoundland, which fays, that several Ameri
can ships are arrived, and many were daily ex
pected; and it was generally believed, that they
will run away with ,;at;aft of die 'rade, tuA^
ply the foreign maikcts: as they arc very expen „
catching arid curing the Mb,"and they hare get
as hue Liling vcHels as ever were.
Real Patriotism, an Anecdote. —ln 17/8
when the Austrians were in poifeihon of Genoa,
the Republic being in great want of money, a: -
pointed a day for debating on the supply. Whin
tne time was come, Mr. Grillo, a citizen no less dif
tingudhcd by his birth thanhis fortune, strewed the
lobby of the Council room with pieces of roue,
and then withdrew. On being desired to exnlaur
the meaning of so odd an action, he anfwered,'that
the people being entirely exhausted by the expences.
of the war, ,it would be more humanity to furnifh
them with halters to hank'themfclvcs, rather than
to fiddle them with new taxes, which would drive
them to despair, without being of any lervice to
the State. But being answered, that money mull
be railed, and asked, where could it otherwise be
had ? " Where can it be had ?" said he; “where
it is only to be found, in the coders of the rich
and great:" And going out of the Palace, returned
with some fdrvents, loaded with 500,000 livres in
geld and hlver, which he ordered them to throw
in the hall. ^ There," said he, " let every man
tax himfelf in an equal proportion to his circum-
Hances; and the sum you have occafton for will
be cafily raised." His example was followed, the
- made a voluntary contribution,' and the
city was saved.
Jeu de Mot.-^A certain s^ e of the Law, whose .
Celebrity arises not from his “ tempering the
Judgment-feat witli Merty," condemned for Exe
cution at the Assizes, eighteen out of twenty Male,
fallers whom he tried at one place. On 'leaving
the town next morning, a fine young coach-horE}
that he was about to purchase, dropped down
dead in his carriage:—" Strange accident indeed,"
exclaims the judge p^tthhly: “ Not at all, m'y
Lord," replied the coachman sulkily; “ for I
thought how it would befall the poor bead, when
'I was fold you had taken him upon. Trial!"
AJailor, on hoard an English flip, having been fen
tended to 'the cat o' nine-tab, when he was tied
ready for punishment, Jpoke the following lines to
„ his commander :
I? Y your'honor's command,
) An example I stand,,
Of yourjuftice to all the flrip's crew:
I am hamper'd and dripp'd;
And if I am whipp'd,
'Tis no more than I own is my due.
In this feurvy condition,
'I humbly petition,
To offer some lines to your eye:
Merry Tom, by fucli trash,
Once avoided the lafr,
And if fate and you please, so may I.
There is nothing you hate,
I'm inform'd, like a cat:
Why your honor's aversion is mine;
If puss then with one tail
Can make your own heart fail,
'Oh, save me from that which has nine.
American Intelligence.
Richmo n d, July 31.
Extras of a letter from a Member of Congress, to his
Excellency the Governor, dated July 25, 1784.
It is with the greated pleasure 1 communicate
to your Excellency a frefh instance of the genero
sity and attention of his most Christian Majesty,
to the interest of the United States. Hearing that.
American vessels, on their passage to the Fad-In
dies, were fubje& to qpniiderable inconveniencics,
from the want of ports into which they might enter
to refrefh, he has opened the isles of France and
Bourbon for that purpose. This ditinfercfted att
of our great Ally, cannot fail to facilitate our in
tercouHe witli the East, as we have heretofore had
no ports or factories in those fcas, to which our
Vessels, in case of any disaster could repair, under
an aflurance of meeting witli a friendly reception."
Extrafl from the Journals of Congress, May 12.
On the report of a committee, appointed to
confidcr of tne measures proper to be adopted, in
order to take possession of the frontier posts,
Resolved, That the commanding Officer of the
troops now in the service of the United States, be,
and he is hereby directed to open a correspondence
witli the Commander in Chief of his Britannic
Majesty's forces in Canada, in order to afeertain
the precise time when each of the posts, within
the territories of the United States, now occupied
by British troops, shall be delivered up.
That he endeavour to effect an exchange witli
the British commanding officer in Canada, of the
cannon and stores, to be delivered at Weft-Point,
New-York, or some other convenient place; and,
if this cannot be accomplished, tha f then he cause
the complement of cannon and stores, requisite
for those posts, to be in readiness to be transported
thither, in the most convenient and expeditious
manner pollible.
May 17. On the report of a committee, to whom
was referred a letter of the 2111 of April, from the
Hon. the Minitier Plenipotentiary of France:
Resolved, 7 hat the following ai fwer be returned,
'SI R,
The United States, in Congrefy ass mb! d. are
informed Uhe 1 .^w L dGi you wc_c jLHcd to