The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1783-11-27 00:00:00, page 2

EXTRACT of a Letter from a Gent!eman in
T Cork, to his friend in this City.
rrillE departure of my friend Mr. M '
I who will deliver this to you, furnifhes
' me with an opportunity of writing to you,
which I cannot let flip ;he has wa ; ted with impa
tience for peace, in older to convey himfelf arid fa
mily to that land of virtue and liberty. I know
your political principles too well, to think you like
him the worse for his zealous attachment to
the cause of justice, liberty and America. It
grieves me to the foul, that my fixation in life
will not admit of my taking atrip to that happy
region. Of all the countries on earth America is
that in which I should choose to spend the remainder
of myfdays. The account I received, before the
Jate rupture, from every unprejudiced perfin, of the
manners of the inhabitants charmed me. I wilh the
civil war may not have catfed an alteration in them ;
and that they may have wisdom and virtue to Item
the torrent of corruption, which seems a natural
attendant on national prosperity. Though I am de
med the happen fs of ever feeing America, it is some
c^nfolatioß to me, th^t my wishes andl,predictions in
its favor have in a great measure been accomplished.
'I heir enemies and bitter persecutors have eventu
ally proved fas 1 foretold) their belt friends, by
driving them to rehflarce, independence and im
portance, much fodner than would'have happened
by the regular course of things. I with they may
have prudence to adopt the form of government
mod likely to preserve that liberty they have made
I° glorious a struggle for. In the beginning of the
war, I hast dwelled in my mind a plan of govern
ment for them ? both provincial and continental,
winch 1 am concerned I did not commit to writing.
If puhlilhed, it mighrhave feggefted fame ufefid
hints In it I guarded agrinit the evils of the ari
hrocratic and ricniocratical forms ; and united the
•advantages of both, I adopted the {lability and
egnity of the former, without its tyranny and op
prehion, and the 'freedom and personal Security of
ihedatter, without its hcentibufnefs, anarchy and
confuhon. lam sorry Canada and the Floridas are
not joined to the confederacy, especially the latter;
it wound be much better for Britain to have the
} 1 ridas independent, than fubjecf to Spain or any
other power. Ibis was the fine management of
veil worth, countryman. Mr. M , and a few
odr-rs are the firft fiuits ofMunftcr emigrations;
but I for fee that next spring emigrants will pour
in on your cor tinent, from merit parts of Europe,
Ihe a flood. Our legislatures may mate some at
tempts to prevent h, by prohibitory lav^ ; but in
my opinion, any attempt of the kind muff be tuga
tury, whue_Brrain h^sanv 1 oting in North Ame
ilea. .or even in the.Wefc^ndies. It is found io-
P'ilibJe to retrain people from Smuggling their
grids; how 'much more their performs: even new
t amfanas would fleck to you, ii they could pro
cure a conveyance. I confider General Wafhing
t:n as the frd character of the age. Other heroes
have euflaved foreign countries, and not unfre
quently destroyed the liberties of their -own: but
he gave bbeity and independence to his country,
and without overturning any other empire, h^
founded one, wnich bids fair to eclipse the great.ft
empires that ever exited. He deserves eve y return
from his countrymen; but as hereditary tides and
dignities are incompatible with American liberty, I
would recommend the fame honors, which the Ro
mans of old bellowed on their excellent emperors
Augulhis and Trajan, viz. To have the 'very ho
nourable title of " father of bis Country" confer
red on him by a solemn vote of Congress. Surely
no man ever deferred this title better. And to have
an obelisk or Column erected in the middle of the
center Square in Philadelphia, of very considerable
height ( either I 4 or 150 feet ) in imitation of
Trajan's Pillar in Rome, to be called Washing
ton's Pillar, or the Pillar of Liberty; the base
to form a double triumphal arch pointing to the
four principal. Greets ; an Equestrian Statue of the
Hluftrious Warrior to be placed at top, on a tomb
for the reception of his affies; on the corners of
the pedeftaf or bale to have the statues of thefour
American Worthies, whole national deserts come
next to his, or of the four Britons, who by their
oppreffi ns and persecutions contributed mold to the
present Independence and greatness of America,
such as Pure, North, George Grenville and Saw
ney Wedderbu-ne; thus perpetuating the remem
brance of his services to his country, and Simu
lating poflerity to the imitation of his brilliant
example.
L 0 N DON, Augtift 28
A letter front Paris, of the 17th of August,
fays, " Ihe king being informed, that in the ge
neral conduct in the affair of the 12th of April,
A>B2, there has been only inexperience and fatali
ty, without any treachery, it appears that the
c<,urt martial will not take place in regard to that
tufref; This is what is given out; and ifany
cm umif ancecould corroborate this opinion, it would
be the enlargement of the Messieurs de Arros arid
Mithun/ de Genuilly, who have been liberated from
their prison."
A j:^' .'"^ Copenhagen fays, that the king
has issued out an edid, offering great encourage
^t to any peifon or persons line will come from
According to the mod recent letters from Paris,
Comte de Grade's trial will not come on till De
cember next. The Comte is not in custody, (the
court martial being held at his own request) but at
a feat of his own in the province of Champaigne.
It is now generally believed in Gerfuany. that
the negociations with the Porte are but feints; and
that the intention is to attack the Turks in winter,
when neither the king ts Prussia, nor any other Eu
ropean power in the North can stir to counteract it :
^i die f ame time that the climate of Turkey will
make that season more Sizable, and five them from
ail hazard of the plague.
I he fezure of the Crimea by the rrnprefs, is
perhaps one of the greater political strokes the
world ever law. All nations ought to look upon it
-with an eye of jealohfy. England, if wife, will
lever be angry with trance for endeavouring to
preserve tee balance of power by aflifting the Poke.
J he advantageous situation of the Pertinfth (Cri
mea) will enable her Imperial Majeftv to increase
maritime /Length so rapidly, that, if not checked,
our posterity may tec Russia midrefs of the seas.—
" fcelix r qnem faci^ht aliena pericuia cautun."
I he information so industriously circulated in the
-public prints. .relative to the sentence of the Compte
de Graffe, is totally void of truth. The Compte
underwent a trial in conformity to the custom of
tne navy; but so far was his conduct from appear
ing io a reprehensible light, that after the tulleft
Tuvertigatibn of the circundlances attending the loss
of the Ville de Paris, the Admiral Compte de
Grafle was most hon durably acquitted.
Sept. 9. Port wine has fallen N price 6nce Ja
nnary Lit about §l. in the pipe. /Gout January
next, it is expAfted to be lowered as much more.
In other words, the best wine in the market will
then be, or at any rate ought then to be, not more
trian 461. or at the most 40 guineas the pipe.,
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. iz.
On the 3d in ft, the United States in Congress
tombed proceeded to the choice of a Prefideot,
when the Hon. Thomas Mifflin, Esq; was unani
raoufy ele^d in the room of his Excellency Elias
Beudmot, E'fq; whose term of delegation had ex
.pir d. And the chair man, (the President being
absent) was directed to adjourn Congress on the
£th mft. to meet at Annapolis on the 20th, for the
defpatch of pub'ic business.
Thursday left, the Council and General Assem
bly of this Commonwealth proceeded to the choice
of President and Vice President of the Supreme
Executive Council, when his Excellency John
Dickinson, Eq; and the Hon. James Ewing, Esq;
were unanimously re-elected to those important and
elevated Rations, for the enfuirg year.
Extract of a genuine fetter f om one of the num.
berleJs difagpointed Emigrants to the diftraßed
States of America, dated Boston, in New Eng
land, July 6.
" relieve me, my dear friend, yon have no rea
foh to ervy my fauation in this town. lam sorry
to fay l have been most egregiously deceived in the
opinion 1 had formed of the liberality of the peo
ple of this country. Having always been a friend
to the cause of America, and often contributed to
the relief of those unfortunate prisoners, whom the
chance or war brought to England, I Mattered my
felf that l Should meet a most Cordial reception a
niong the people I was p r oud to call my brethren.
But the case is quite otherwise; fcarceiy a mer
chant here has yet deigned to ihew me the lead ci
vility, though I have tended in the town upwards
vs three months ; and some even fly me, as if they
imapNed I had femething contagious about me.
But ,hat hurts me more than all, is the distant
beb lour of those to whom I was particularly re
co mended by my friends in England, whose
1 afes those very people even frequently made their
6mes, though perhaps, witli no other recommen
dation than that of bring Americans. How differ
ent are the sentiments the people in this country
certain of an Eaglifnman: If he escapes person
al iufults, and only meets with neglect here, he
thinks himfelf extremely fortunate. As to the
loyahds, 1 pity them with all my fcul. Igo no
where but I hear them reprobatedin the vilest
terms, and vengeance denounced againff them, if
any foreign parts, to eftabliffi any ufeful manufac
tory, not already in that country; anLalfo t, any
English ship builders, good handa being wanted
in their dock yards.
Ihe epithets of folly and duplicity are now li
berally bedowed on the American Congress. The
late Farl of Cihatham freaking of tris body of
men, fays, “ I have read that great and profound
Lidorian, I hueyddies; i have also Ihdied the politics
of the mbft famous dates in the world; and I can fay
with truth, that for vigor of counsel, and wisdom
of conclufioa, I never read any cofapofitions equal
to thole of toe American Congress."
1 hey write from Gibraltar, by way of Algiers,
that the beys of the three provinces, and the dey,
had received orders to bring all th^tr troops into
the field immediately.
Fir Guy Carleton is talked of for an appoint
ment to the Lail-Indies, in case he chafes to ac
cept it.
they ffiould presume to return. The revolutions
wrought in the private situations of a great many
individuals in this town during the war are won
derful, and could only be caused by that great po
litical revolution, which effected the cfoliflrment
of an American empire. The people here, who
were at the commencement of the war the lowed
@nd mod insignificant, are now become the molt
opulent, and live in a slate of fplendor' and mag
nificence, unknown before in these parts; and
those who were the mod relpe&able, as well as
opulent, who, from a conscious principle at the
firft onset of the war, declined mating their for
tunes upon the ruin of the blether Country, are
now reduced to poverty and distress, and many of
them to the miieraole Rate of being dependent on
these who a few years ago were their menial fer -
vants. $ When I fee people of this last description
wandering about the streets with fcarceiy covering
fuiheie t to keep them from the cold, and Cem
ingly linking under tne weight of their misfortunes.
I am loft in wonder at the dispensations of Pro
vidence."
CHARLESTO N,
November 2?, 48%
L A ?.' Saturday arrived here from Philadel-
J phia, the ship Philadelphia, Capt. Matthew
Stiong, in whem came passengers Mr. and Mrs.
Hollingffiead, Major Ilyfne, Mr. Lyme, Mils
Ilyrne, Mr. Shed, Mr. Rush, Mr. } oung, Mi.
"Smith, Mr. potts, Mr. Wilkinson, Am Harris,
and other paflerigers.
wn Monday died, after a few days illness, by
the wound of a splinter in his hand, Mr. Isaac Da
Costa, Sen. a rcfpedable and Valuable Citizen.—
On the fame day in the prime of life, Mrs. Neii
fon, wife of James Neillon, Enquire.
port News.'
ENTERED INWARDS.
24. Sloop Molly, Toha Philips, from Dartmouth
Sfhp BeHey, Franicis Swinburne Virginia
25 Schooner Suckey, T. Dickinson, Wilmington.
Sh:p Tdudelphui, Mathen Strong, Philadelphia
Slop Robey, Charles C> : ice, Sn Ancuftine
Schooner Columbus, ^ahn Galla d, N. Carolina
Schooner Hannah, Bridet Holmes, Plymouth
Schooner Olive Branch, Clark, N. Caioliaa
Schooner Polly, Duncan Campbell, Cape Fear
ENTERED (UPWARDS,
"24 Brigantine Rofeaur Andrew Simplon, fur London
'25 Brigantine Frfendfrp, Harvey, Teneriffe
Schooner Thomas, Kennedy, St. Thomae's
"26 Sleep Alpha, William Bull, FyAl
CLEARED PUTWAkbS.
29 Brig Speedy, tohn Joheltoo, for Popfmou.h
Ship EM of Galloway, Dick Watson, London
Sloop Bobu's John Bob, St. AußuUne
Schooner Effer and Grate, Fal'brton St. Augu^ine
^^TC^^^^^rarararcmUfflßTCl ttm^^i L /OCT
ANO THE R
VERY Fat TURTLE, to be
killed for Friday and Saturday
Morning, at No. 80, Tradd-ftreet.
Wednesday Non, 26, 1,83.
Marine Anti-Britannic Society,
TH E stated Anniverfiry of said So
ciety, s (late under the appellation
of the Smoking-Society) having been fix
ed to the 14th day of December in every
year; and adopted to commemorate the
for ,j n , e euen t which took place on that
auspicious day (of the year antecedent to
the prefmt) in tke Excitation of ibis Ca
pital by the Bcm/b foe; and as the 14th
of December next ensuing, is to fall on
ounday, the ctlebrpHon of the aiorefaid
Ahniveriary could not, ivith due felicity,
be held on that day ; —it was therefore;
unanimously, the reflation of the Socie
ty, when last convened, to foleniize
their Anniverfiry (tor this yea:) on the
Saturday preceding, bei g the 13th day
of Lecenioer next, at the Cityfavern;
when it is expected, every Member, ncT
unavoidably detained, will gve h s per
sonal attendance. 1 hose who intend to
be prelent, are requested to give in their
names to the freajurer, before, the 7th of
the ensuing month. Dinner will be on
the tabe precisely at 3 0 Clock,
By Order of the President,
James Fallon, Sec.
Cnurteflou, Nov. 22, 1783.
I")°''°' Rubers Ar.tfccrbutic Dentifrice? d
JLf virion FfleDce.—Lie per's High and 1 w
I oaft Suuff—as good as any imported from Eu
rope.