The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-12-02 00:00:00, page 2

I O N D O N, August 27.
BY letters from Bombay, by the lad packet, we
lc<irn, that the French are forming connecti
ons with the moG powerful princes on the coast of
tylalabar, and have so firmly telfablifhed themfclves
in the good opinion of the Country Chiefs, as great
ly to alarm the whole of the English fettlcments in
that part of India.
Authentic letters from Paris, dated July 26, men
tion, that the learned Miflionary, M. Amilot, had
lately transmitted feme very interesting memoirs
from Pekin, where he had resided some years, con-
CCT^ing the arts and manners of the Chinese. From
these we learn, that the present Emperor Kien
Long, who is in the 75 year of his age, ha^ pu
blished an edi& in favor of Europeans, by which
the Tornrer impolitic and illiberal restraints upon
them are taken off, and they are Ordered to be
treated as friends and brothers.
Th^fame accounts declare, that upon an estimate
of the number of inhabitants in eacli province,
made last year, by order of the Emperor, (whe ap
pears in all refpe&s to deserve the 'noble title of fa
ther of his people) it was found They amounted to
Upwards of two hundred millions of fouls ! Incre
dible as this calculation may seem, it is delivered
upon good authority, and fuppored by the testimo
ny of Mr. AllcrfWn, Prefrdcnt of the mathemati
cal department at Pekin.
The voyage of difeovery which is at present pre
paring for in France, by order of the King, will
be onc'of the completest for the purpose of fcierice,
(the gieat end of it) that ever was undertaken.
These plains for the improvement of the faiences
are like to be very much extended; for thd King
of Spain has notvnly appointed a similar one, but
allo ordered that a philosophical survey should be
taken of all his American dominions.
St. GEORGE'S, BERMUDA, Nov. 13.
Sunday night lad the sloop Friendship, Captain
Richard Blake; from New-York to Curacoa, laden
with leap, candles, butter, &c. run upon the rocks
off the wed ehd of these islands, in a hard gale of
wind, and soon after filled Witli water. The Cap
tain and crew are laved, as is mod of the cargo,
but the vessel is loft.
The 4th inst. the schooner Phoenix, Capt. Sam.
Tucker, from Norfolk, in Virginia, to Tobagb, in
lat. 34, sprung a leak in a violent gale, and in four
hours after she filled with water; but being laden
with lumber, and cutting away her main-mast, she
kept up to the furface of the sea; in this iituation
they were enabled to carry a forefail, (witli a fair
wind) and happily made the land on Sunday morn
ing lad, and got fafe on shore.—The veffcl and
cargo are laved.
Saturday arrived the brig Neptune, Capt. Tatem,
from Charleston; and. sloop Industry, Godfrey,
from ditto.
The ship Lady Martha, Captain H. Bruu; which
fpi'ung a leak and put in here, is arrived at Am
sterdam, after a very short passage.
The brig Sally, Captain Smith, from New-Lon
don, is put in here.
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American Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, 0^.28.
The following relation of what passed during the
time of the Duke de Chartres and Messrs. Roberts
going up with an air balloon, from Paris, on the
15th of July lad, may be added to the account of
that enterprizing aerial veyage.
They give a description of the principle of the
machine, by which they were not only to govern
'their flightin the regions of air, but also, by inter
nal theans, were to enable themselves, when aloft,
to afeend or defeend without the loss either of gas
or ballad. To direct the machine, they prepared
oars of twelve feet in furface, fixed to a lever ten
feet in length, and placed at the extremity of the
gallery opposite to the helm, whose iurface was
lixty-four feet. After a short account of their firft
mounting into the air, the date of the barometer,
thertnometer, &c. they date that being carried to
an immense height, the earth became invisible to
them, and carried away, or rather buried in a dense
vapour; whirlwinds turned the machine three
times in a moment. The violent shocks they dif
fered made them abandon all the means prepared
for their direction, and they set thcmfelves to tear
away the taffety of which their helm was made.
Never, fay they, did a more dreadful fceric present
itfelf to any eye, than that in which they were now
involved! An ocean of fhapelcfs clouds rolled one
upon another beneath, and seemed to forbid their
return to the earth, which was dill invisible. The
agitation of the globe became greater every inflant.
They cut the cord which held the interior globe,
and it fell to the lower furface of the great machine,
where the gallery was fixed, and by its weight
crushed, jammed up, and incommoded them—they
endeavoured in vain to push it up, and at length
it burst. In these dreadful circumfrances, when
they were dill riling higher, they judged it neces
sary to make an orifice in the lower part of the great
globe. The Duc de Chartres took himfclf one of
the banners and made two holes in the aeroGaric
machine, which tore open seven or eight feet.
They then defeended with great celerity. One
Foreign Intelligences
mother! they saw neither heaven hot earth—Tire
next they were clearly withirtiight of land. They
would have fallen into a pond, if they had not cri
tically thrown out a quantity ofballaft, by which
they alighted without accident, about 30 feet be
yond the bank.
I hurfday last, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer,
h^ld at Cheder for the county of Cheder, Joseph
Chaulk, John M'Daniel and John Benson, alias
Varnum, were tried, for burglary, 'committed in
Cheder borough, on the 1 7th of May last, by break
ing into the house of Ann Davies, and dealing
thereout a large quantity of shop goods. They
were all found guilty, and received sentence of
death.
At the fame Court John Jackson was tried for
palling counterfeit continental money, knowing it
to be fiich: but was acquitted, his indictment hav
ing laid over several years, and the witnesses scat
tered.
" Perhaps no science ever received greater addi
tions from the labours of a finglc man, than geo
graphy has done from those of Captain Cook. In
his firfl voyage to the South Seas, he difeoved the
Society Islands; determined the insularity of New-
Zealand; difeovered the Straits Which Separate
the two islands, and are called after his name; and
made a complete survey of both. He afterwards
explored the caftem colft of New-Holland, hither
to unknown; an extent of twenty-seven degrees of
latitude, or upwards of two thousand miles. In
this second expedition he solved the problem of a
Southern Continent; having traversed that hemi
fperc between the latitudes offorty and seventy de
grees, in f ch a manner as not to leave a possibility
of its evidence, unless near the pole, and out of'the
reach of navigation. During this voyage he dis
covered New-Caledoria, the largest coast in the
Southern Pacific, except New-Zealand; the island
of Georgia, and an unknown land, which he named
Sandwich land, the Thule of the Southern hemi
sphere; and having twice visited the tropical fcas,
he fettled the situations of the old, and made new
discoveries. In his last voyage, befid'es several
smaller islands in the Southern Pacific, he difeover
ed, to the north of the equino&ial line, the groupe
called the Sandwich Iflands';which, from their
situation and productions, bid fairer for becoming
an object of confequericc, in the system of Euro
pean navigation, than any other difeovery in the
South sea. He afterwards explored what had hi
therto remained unknown of the western toaftbf
America, from the latitude of forty-three to severity
degrees north, containing an extent of three thou
sand five hundred miles; afeertained the proximity
of the two great continents of Asia arid America;
passed the Straits between them, and surveyed
the coast bn each fide to such a height of northern
latitude, as to demonstrate the impracticability of a
passage in that hemifoheie, from the Atlantic into
the Pacific Ocean, either by an eastern or western
course. In short, if we except the sea of Amur,
and the Japanese Archipelago, which still remain
imperfectly known to Europeans, he has complet
ed the hydrography of the habitable globe."
CHARLESTON,
DECEMBER 2, 1784.
Account of the loss of the ship Pennsylvania packet,
which foundered oh her passage from London to
Philadelphia:
MR. Isaac All, Matter of the ship Pennsylva
nia Packet, failed from London the 11th of
September last, and proceeded to Lymington, in
Harripfhire, where he compleated his lading, arid
failed from thence the 29th of the fame month,
bound to Philadelphia; that on the 7th of Nov.
ffie sprung a very dangerous leak, so that the
water encreafed to such a degree, that by the 9th
following, nearly one half of her cargo (salt) was
washed away, and had four feet water in her hold ;
that the wind was, and had been, for several days
before, blowing very hard; and that in this situa
tion the master found no other remedy for the pre
servation of the lives of his crew and himfelf than
to abandon her, having then in company a sloop
belonging to Rhode-Ifland, Lewis Thomas, Ma
ster, bound to Hispaniola, who kindly took him
and his company on board, and with great huma
nity brought them to Bermuda, where they arrived
on Saturday, the 13th of November.—Captain All
left his fliip in lat. 34. 37. long. 67, ifo
A person who lately belonged to the Continen
tal army, and is now living at New Lebanon, in
the State of New-York, having concluded a matri
monial bargain, made the following whimsical
choice of a place for the marriage ceremony.—A
spot of ground within four yards of the western
source of Delaware river, where some of his inti
mates fell (in a skirmish witli the Indians in the late
war) whose bones and tattered garments were still
to be seen. This situation was such, that the bride
groom and bride flood in the county of Albany,
their nearest attendants in the county of Ulftcr,
and the other gnefts in the county of Montgomery.
The Honorable Mr. Adgate, Esq. administered the
matrimonial vows—in what county or Gate he
flood, is not yet afeertained.
By late accounts from the magnificent and flou
rishing town of Shelburne, we learn that the inha
bitants are in a most comfortable situation ; live hap
pv. and want for nothing; the land flowing with
mill: and honey: Their Ready attachment to their
mild King still continues; and their deteft-rien to
the rebel Americans, if possible, increases, aitho , ri
they acknowledge, they never would have tifted
the facets of Rofcaay's shore, had it not been for
the Jtiff necked Yankies.°
On Wednesday, the 17th ult. was executed at
Beaufort, in this State, James Booth, who was
found guilty at the last Court of General Selfions
held at that place, of robbery.
Last l uefday the sloop Delight, Captain William
Gilbert, arrived here from Bermuda, with whom
came passengers—Mrs. Somarfall, Mrs. Philp, Mr.
M'Colly Righton, Miss Righton, Miss Davis, Mr.
Samuel Cordes, jun. Mr. Thomas Joell, jun. and
several others.
Last week died in this city, Mrs. Margaret Du
pont, wife of Gideon F. Dupont, of St. James's
Parish ' J
MARINE LI S T.
ENTERED I NWA RD S.
Nov. 29. Brig. Jenny, J. Collinfon, Grenada
Snow Hope, M'Dowal Liverpool
Sch. Georgia Packet, Pinder," Savanna
Sch. Savanna Packet, J, Dickinson, do.
Sloop Betsey, John Conyers, Georgia
Sloop Trial, j. Mercier, ditto
30. Sloop Polly, B. Tucker, Turk's Island
Sloop Punch, W. Griffiths,
_ c „ St. Mary's East-Florida
Dec. 1. Shig Carolina Packet, Currie, Liverpool
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
Nov. 24. Brig Lucretia, S. Tinker, New-York
25. Sch. Ranger, A. Willis, N. Carolina
Biig. Jet:, S. Little, Virginia
26. Sch. Jenny, W. Kerfey, Georgia
27. Sir Walter Raleigh, —, Turk's ifland'
Sloop Friendship, T. Newal, Savanna
Sch. Industry, I. Hayfine, ditto'
Sch. Two Brothers, S.N nval, ditto
Sloop Cripple, W. B'rown, Connecticut
Sch. Edentori l'arket, Willis, Edenton
Sloop Betsey, ,T. Champlin, New-York
Ship Philadelphia, Strong, Philadelphia
Snow Hope, S. MfDow.ll, Liverpool
i3 0 > Sloop Adventure, j; Ashton, Savannah
ENTERED OUTWARDS.
26. Sch. Ramble, J. Chadwicke, Virginia
27. Snow Industry, J. Honeywell, Bristol
Brig. Pomona; R. Gilbert, Barbadoes
, Ancient York Masons,
Of LODGES No. 190, No. 38, No. 40.
INTEND celebrating the Festival of St. JOHN
th& EV ANGELIS f, the 27th of December,
at the Lodge Room, in Lodge-alley—-The Brethren
that intend celebrating the Festival, on application:
being made to either of the Stewards, may be fup^
plied with tickets on or before the 24th, as none
will be granted after that day. Transient Brethren
excepted.
. (William Clancey, No. 47, Corner of King
Q and Queen- ft rects.
04 Ethan Sic kles, No; 24, Meeting-flreet.
< ^ Captain Thomas Gordon, No. 45, Bay.
? Benjamin Huggins, No. 8, Bay.
^ Dr. James Brywn, No. 75, Church-Greets
to LT'A/ 7 ^ Ellis, No. 102, ditto.
They meet at the Lodge room pfeeifeiy at Ten,
A. M. in their several orders; from thence proceed
to St. Philip's Church, where a sermon will be
preached suitable to the occasion. ipw
LOTS to be SOLD on LEASE.
On FRIDAY, DECEMBER the 3 d,
WILL BE SOL D,
On thefpot, at 11 o'Clock,
FOURTEEN valuable LOTS of LAND, belong
ing to the estate of Mr. Peter Boutiton, on a
leafc of eight years, situated on the weft fide of
King-street, south fide on Boundary or Manigault
ftreet, and on the east-side of St. Philip's-Rreet;
each lot containing 50 feet front on said Greets, and
222 feet deep, more or less. The Lessees to have
permission to remove any buildings they may crebt
thereon; at the end of the lease, or dispose of them
at a proper appraifement, as may be most agreeable
to the parties concerned. For further particulars
apply to the fubferibers, where a plan of said lots
may be seen.
ALSO, 129 acres of good land, at Hobcaw,
Christ-Church parish, bounding to the southward
on Wakendaw creek.
Cudworth & Waller.
N. B. Something comfortable for the stomach
will be provided on the day of sale.
Mr. T URN E R's
Dancing and Fencing Academy,
Will be opened at the Lodge-Room, in Beresford's Al
ley, on TUESDAY, the 16th infant,
WHERE Ladies and Gentlemen may depend
upon being taught those polite accomplish
ments in the most approved and fafhionable taste.
Every attention shall be paid towards forming the
manners of the pupils.—Ladies and Gentlemen
taught privately if requeued.
Dancing days, Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur
day. Fencing on Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day, Floury of attendance from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M,