The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1783-08-27 00:00:00, page 3

aiz % before ^/general Pr e ffl, and obliged
KU at the pointof their bayonet t retreat before
lines of iha.lefewn. Very a^fal indeed
mud a few lawyers and Tories appear to be—My
Mvocati. n is, of all tame beasts preserve my coun
try fiom the hist, and of all wild beads from the
laiter.
M, friends— Give no man honour, but
Upon equal terms ; for lock how much thou
- Giv'ft to any m^n above that, so much thou
7 k'i from thjfelf: le ih< will give the
Wall, Ihall be quickly thrust into the kennel.
Ch,ran.
If such beings as tbofe who call themselves the
good citizens, could a^e you my friends, I may
soy ^ita the poet, (however more quotations may
be dihiked by our news paper Patriots.)
.—— — ——— 'Where is now the foul
Of godlike Cate, he that du ft be good,
V hen Casar durst be evil; and'had power,
Scorning to live hisfae, to die his mafor?
Or where's the constant Brutus, that being proof
Against all charms of benefits, did strike ''
So brave a blow into the monftcr's heart,
1 hat fought unkindly to enfiave his country ?
fohforfs Sejanus.
This Patriot fays, " the dominion of fy is the
demr ton f liberty :” Brutus fays, the dominion
of justice would be that; but lawyers, without a
bl^b, tarie fost prevent it, and fay it is profef
'°^el; therefore, the dominion of lawyer's who
can, a : retain. io the laws and cuftomd of he
country tM? a fee to prevent juftic^, must be the
greatest curse to a community, as they are
Men of large prefcflim,, that can foe&h
io any cau,e, and things meer contraries,
Till they are hoarse a gain, ye: a q b .
1 hut wit m quick agility can turn,
Ard re-turp, make trots and undo &m •
Gve forked counsel, t^e provoking gold'
In either hand, and put it up;
P,,^%,v e a n d so pefoex'd a tongue,
A.™' withal, that cannot wag nor ica.ee
1 without a fee.
Ben. Johnfons Bo,one®.
. Cur pretended Patriot, who tho' (h ? f ay j he
er of the Scotch judges politics never,
th less afct s to his doctrine of /&,, „ h fays
, a libel is ,o l^ so for be ng /%" ^d adds
c ' ufa 'bed be Severely
with (I p^mc ) fi nes , fyi^m},,
whipping, and pihory, the ufaal punifhmmts in
Such cates, whuh no doubt this other Patr^,
wuh^ to fee i^.a^ on all who dare oppose t ' h .
ft s designs, of ruling u3 as so many petty
&%s of terrors I J
This disciple of the Scotch judges, who is for
laiaaing the freedom of the Press, f? $ << ft
becomes the itreft of every individual' to decry
foti us attars on the L<gifkrive and so/.
me parts of the Q.» In this so, m rf t fr
% & cfo, as iehas no interest, nor will he own
,Y party but his country, and rinows well, that
befttfofi ls the bane of ciril liberty, tho' a
juJ and constitutional inveftigati^n of the leirifla
s conduct may be the salvation of the hate.
Our present Govenor he reveres, aud has the hieh.
est opinion of the goodness of bi bent, .or
dees so, , prove of tumults, fa% ^
,'/',' °'r "f"^ ^^^ grievances fad ) nor
he, free he d,ew his f r ft brea h, assist ii,
not feeing an op; ortunity o f rendering any p b
he fernce by f ue h a mea f u e . &%, h % it
hence be underftcod that he thinks
3 f he people may in some cases be injuri
liberty; hifory proves the contrary.
here is a ridiculous oppini n, which fme
mure aefinging than wife, have industriously p r %
pasted viz. that the legisl ature have . right to
, aft whatever laws, or enter into whatever mea
fires they please, without any dependence on, nr
even confuting the o, inion of their conflicts
,d that the connive body r s the people have n ^
4,gut to call them to any account, or to' take any
cognizance of their conduct; in answer to whi h
* la , "7"" ° bfe ""' " That it is pebble for
'° be ™ ' he wron g> as thev may
raided by ign. rance, inrereft, fadion, a'mbiti.
* For example, the knots of the bill of attainder,
and corffcahon, which the lawyers both in South. Ca
zohna and Georgia, are laid to be about (partial)
repeal in favor of their relatives and obento
j Of what use can the liberty of the P/efe be, if it
not be exercised in either truth or fa|fefhcod ? If
truth be a libel, what must falsehood be ? which the
Patriot and Mr. Miller make, no fcrnple of giving
to the world, to (hew the absurdity of our conftituti.
°, nT-' ^e articles which is to fccure the liberty of
the Press inviolate, J
on and parties, 2nd it is as ridiculous to suppose
them in fallible, as to suppose the Popish conclave
so, which have qfrn ^ernineo agairlt one ano
ther ;" If, i t „ possible for the legifla^re to be
influenced by av^ric and ambition,' and Oy e, her
of these extremes to betray their count, and abuse
the people who have intruded them, and if the
people in such a case ihould have no edrefs, then
would the date be in danger of being ruined by
their ReprfntatiQes.
Brutus is far from casting a ry refleaion on our
Legislature, but can't avoid ceding the people
at large, f or not taking cire t n make a b ter
choice the last e eftion ; fir thy have fi ffered
some to come inro boh h&ufes of the Legislature
who h % e been unfriendly, who adej w j t h c u '
plicty, and who are (if I may build a sup po fit n
on therr condud) at this day more properly Bri.
tiffi, partifare, fubje&r, than whig citizens of
Carolina. And what else can be expected, where
the most unpardonable negligence war obvious?
for in one diftrid (it is said) there were fix mem.
b^rs returned, by each voting for the-^^TC
cut another fuffrage but that ofthe returning officer.
What can he expected but venarity and cor-°
rupton, when the people a c so careless of their
dearest irterefts, even their, political exigence
that which we carried on eight years war to ob
tain ? Of what use can the privilege of app ( i n<
ing the Legislature be to the people if they don't
exercise it? & fort, the designing will never
fail to tU, advantage of such neglect
' The Patriot, his colleague,, and underftrey.
pers have been ve y liberal in their abuse of
Brutus. But he arris, who is the man he has tra
duces ? er whee is he character that he has
drawn which is unjust ? Brutus, is an enemy (h w
ever imp o t& t) alirie to Whig and ory in %,•
the vicious and virtuous are the on!, two parties
he has t, dea with. If any th mbe mbitious
vicious, avaricious, pell hunting Whigs, let them
mend their manners, and remain Whigs ftil) ; and
if the, do not, and Brutus rinows them to be'fuch
and unfriendly to the e ple, he means to let a
matri on them, that they who rum may read.
„ P^,^ ifths bitterly a g a i n st a
club, where some obnoxious hand bills are fan.
posed to have originated," Q^ rinows nothin
of such a dub having met, but is of opinion
w °. u d beyery f,,ary meafee, so to coiled the
united wisdom of several, to eenfult on measures
proper to be laid before the Legiflatn re , or Exe
cuiive department, to ptomou the public pood
in a constitutional way, and thereby prevent &
Patnot, aid his party from whirling all within
their own vortex ad then treat us with more ty.
ranny than the so, ^fy a , trc „ the i r
Haves who fay to their fubjeds,, ( a the Pat „ o ,
wold fay to the people )“ % art ebon that
dares afebro^e or condemn our mefoes ," or even
thAn the Popifo I quifition, which allow of a
Lions mouth, to convey the peo fl/s complaimte.
which this dabbler in politics, this fticrilcr for ty
ranny would shut. But, J
:^" c ° untry da ^ ms our aai ^ aid ;
« " am ' and wher e we find a fparA
public virtue, blow it into flame.
. BRUTUS.
Charleston, August 14, 1783.
PHILADELPHIA.
fr T h : C ° r mm ^r frr the cit ! and Gerties met, at the
btate H use, July 28, 1783,
R fted That Thomas and Lancelot F^ra, J ame g
Mitchell, Lawrence Fenner and Thomas have
C'clocl' "" ' h " state " T hur sday Morning, 10
Capt. Burrows, in the schooner Molly, arrived here
last Saturday from Grenada, in 14 days passage, in
forms us, that before he faded, advice was received
Ba [' a does, of the arrival of a packet from Eng
land, which brought an account that the Prince fladt.
fr ',"ed m a tumult among the people
of Amsterdam —ls this be true, it is likely that some
trouble will ensue between the Stafes General and the
King of Prussia, as that Monarch has more than once,
of late, interested himfelf in the behalf of the Prince of
3>wZ controverfa beTCn him and
^X^ ^ d °“ and G^ £i """ fame
" f ° gee : y " r ' m "°'^ at New. York, finding
"7^ 3 n .° '°^ er aut horifed to shed human blood
With impunity, at prefect spend the chief part of their
r7' m ," en . d ,g and . aiding at Bull Baiting, in the
I la n . " '.hus, gaining to the last that cowardly
and bloody difpofiiion, which has rendered ihem so
odious and deufabi# to mankinds
CHARLESTON,
WEDNESDAY Au^uji 27.
TH E Morning Chronicle, and London Ad
vertiser, of May 22, contains the following
Article: °
:^^^^- the Printer of the London Evening
“ Post, is made Printer to the States of America,
" and now prints a Paper twice a Week under their
“ Authority, at Charleflown, South-Carolina ”
Saturday last arrived here from Philadelphia, in
.the Brigt. Charleston Packet, Capt. Allihone, Major
Pierce, Mr George Readhead, Mrs. Will, (Wife of
Mr. Philip Will) and Family, Mr. John Ginfell,
and many others.
Friday the Ship Roman Emperor, Capt. Tho
mas Davifon, arrived here from London, with whom,
came Passengers, Mr Jones and Daughter of Nor h-
Carolina, Mr Guttier, Mr. George Weare. Mr.
James Darby, a Son and Nephew cf Mr. Zenh^iah
Kingsley, and a great Number of Steerage Paflengerc
Friday the Hon. Privy Council met to e tel 4
Lieutenant Governor for this Srete, when the
Hon. Alexander Gillon was chosen.
/^ The Superintendant of the Press having
been extremely ill, throughput the cotrft of Lift
week, th Gazette of that week was Unavoidably
postponed to this—The circumflance which orca
fion^d this difap >ointment to our fubferibers and
cuftome s, wil., we hope, plead witn them, a
Efficient ^:og . The Omission of th.at Gazett,
will, at the clo? of the year, be compensated ,
for by an additional number.
MARRIED] Dr. Mathew Irwin, of the State of \
Virginia, to Miss Mary Bulline, Daughter of the/
deceased John Bulline, Esq —Mr. John M'Cullogh
of St. John's Pariffi, to Miss Mary Stocker, pb^h-'
ter of the deceased Dr. Stocker.—Mr. Thom?.;
Gough, of Jackfonborough, Merchant, to Mr's
Leslie Creighton, Widow of the deceased Mr. Will
liam Creighton.—Mr. Anthony Afiby, c f St. John's
Parish, t o Miss Charlotte Marion, Niece to Brigadier-
General Marion.—Capt. Jabez Chalker, to MifZ
Ann Compton.—Mr. John McClean, to Mrs. Mary
Pratt, Widow of Mr. James Pratt. Mr James
Theus, Merchant, to Mifi Mary Theu% d'au h
ter of toe deceased Mr. Je emiah Theus. M,.
John Lcvcdale, to Miss Margaret ^ aron,
DIED; Mrs. Martha Mathewes, Wife of the
Rev. Mr. Mathewes, and eldest Daughter of Mr
Patrick Hinds.—Mrs. Susanna Hill,Wife o f th;
Rev. Mr. faill. Mis Judieth Cordes, wifeol |o a
Cordes Esq; of St. John's Parifo, an d rot tie
widow of John Corde> Esq; deceased as % s j u .
farted in our last, by mistake of the beater.
PORT NEW S.
Entered inwards
23 ship Refolutim, Owen Kroger, Portugal and
brigantine Charleston Packet, Wm. Alibon^ Phfa
26 brigantiie PoppeabitHe, Eminl. K.unr.'st
brigantine Sally, Thomas Adr, °
brigantine G;ory, D.n,J j ackfon L ^rfo
schooner Two Sutlers, John Kendall Virginia
In the House of Representatives, the 9 th
of August, 1783.'
ON Motion, Resolved, That any farther Cem^
pad with the British Merchants is become un.
Decenary by the Preliminary Articles of Peace bein^
ratified ; but that such Persons as signed the laid Com
pad, and were banished from any other State in the
Union, Ihould not remain longer than the firft Daw
°n """ T' che Y ^^ Certificates front
the Leg&t,ve or Executive Authority of such S ate
they formerly resided tn, of their readmission thereto.
And that his Excellency the Governour be recuefted!
to cause Enquiry to be made, whether any Persons
Persons, who have been Citizens, or owed Allegiance
to this, or any of the United States, who applied for
Cuizepfhip an d have been ^fufed, and who have
not signed the Compad, yet remain in this State, and
" or , themfto depart the fame on or before the firft
Day of October next ; and that such or any others
under that Description, who may arrive here, be or
dered immediately to quit this State.
Ordered, That the foregoing Resolution be fent t >
the Honourable the Senate for their Concurrence.
By Order of the House,
JOHN-SANDFORD DART, C. H. R. °
In the Senate, nth of August, 178%;
RESOLVED, That this House do concur with
the House of Representatives in the foregoing
Keiolutions.
Ordered, That the Resolutions be sent to the House
of Rcprdemaiiv^ By Order of the Senate,
- JAMES SHARP, C.&