The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-11-01 00:00:00, page 2

LONDO N, July 24.
Extract of a private letter fro^ Calcutta, received by
the Atlas, dated December 31, 1783.
iAM ferry to tell you, that hostilities have re
commenced between us and the sons of Hyder,
nuthwithftanding a deputation has been sent by the
Madras ( ouncil to effect a peace. Anderson isjuft
returned from Scindia's Court, and Colonel Pop
ham has been dityatched to aiLft young Anderson
in the management of tire Company's hegociations
with the Maratta powers, who, I fear, will be pre
vailed upon, by french intrigue, and Tippos pa
godas, to break with us, ere long."
August 12. Last Thursday " An AH to empower
the Bdhop of London, for the time being, or any
other Bishop to be by him appointed, to admit to
tec order of Deacon or Pricit, perlons being fub
jetbs or citizens of countries out of his Majefty6 do
minions, without requiring them to take the oath
< allegiance as appointed by law," was presented
by the Louse of Peers and read a firft time.
Ihe combined fleet, under the command of Don
Barcelo, after having made eight different, though
gallant attacks on Algiers, in wlrich he burnt and
delta yed many parts of the town, and luflered se
veral ievere losses and rebuffs, has retired to Spain
without accomplishing their object, which was the
capture and extinction of that heft and nurfeiy of
pirates. Nothing could exceed the gallantry of
the combined flee 3, except the warlike spirit of
t w infidels. The consternation of the Moors is
Luu to have been very great, and numbers of the
people mult have perished, as the flames were very
rapid, and the firing on the town was continued
for nine hours, without the leMt intermdiion.
The bombardment of Algiers has, it is said, de
stroyed upwards,of t ;re: theHand houses, one hun
dred and leventy mosques, arid other public build
ings, and effects to a very cmfiderable amount.
The expedition to the Mediterranean has cost
Spain alone upwards of a million in its equipment.
Letters from Maeftricht, in Dutch Flanders,
mention, that the inhabitants were much alarmed
on -account of the Emperor's having demanded that
town and d .chy to r be fnrrendered to him as his
property; two Dutch battalions had orders to re
infoicu the garrison, which will be to no purpose,
a the emperor could eahly reduce the fortrefs, even
if guerdoned by the whole Dutch army.
Extras of a letter from Utrecht, sane 19.
yThere is just row a report here, that the Prus
sian Minillcr has left St. Feterfburg, without for
-I^l leave. It is hoped for the peace of Europe,
that this news may want foundation, otherwise all
the kingdoms in that quarter of the continent will
be necciikrily engaged in the most bloody war that
has been known for many years. M e are assured
that r aron Horst, the King of Prufhas Minister,
is actually at Paris, where he tranfa&s the business
of a treaty between his King and the King of
France, and it is reported, that the King of Sweden
will' accede to the fame."
The Duke de Lauzun, lately arrived from
France, was presented to the King at St. James's,
by the French Arnbaflader.
D U B L I N, 7.^ 29.
Yesterday morning a guard of the fta ding army,
unsolicited, took post at the Tholfcl, un ter pretence
o' aidting the civil power, in a manner that had
more the appearance of an hostile interference,
than a measure to preserve the peace. The Magi
strate on duty neither desired or expelled this force;
as a detachment of the volunteer army had adted as
a feoffe comitatus, and had not quitte d the place, but
on the most perfect conviction of their attendance
being unnecessary.
ri,the hostile appearance visible in all the ma
riceuvres of government here, were infufficient to
open our eyes to -their real intentions towards this
country, hey ate determined their prints shall
ferveas a comment on their condu&--Every packet
is replete with the' most fcahdalous misrepresenta
tions of the situation of affairs, and calumny of the
good people of this country, not to speak of the
most direct and pointed menaces of chastisement,
for our insolence; that'this is no exaggeration our
readers may be convinced by the following extract
from the London Evening Post of last Thursday:
the public will please to observe, that this paper is
in the pay of the youtli unhackneyed in the ways
ofmen:—
" \v hen it comes to be reflected, fays a corre
frordent, that a very ill-timed lenity, in the early
breaking out of the troubles in America, loft those
colonies forever to Great^Britain, it is hoped go
vernment will behave with a proper exertion of those
laws, which God, nature and this country have
placed withintheir 1 ards, to prevent similar effeds
being produced near home. Had the insurgents at
BofLu, in the year 177,5, been treated as their ini
quity deserved, a deal of blood had been saved,
and a vast part of our public debt prevented. It is
notorious than when governments are too arbitra
ry, men grow defperatc. It is also certain, that
when laws arc too much relaxed, infurre&ions
glow frequent; and as lenity is misplaced, the
r rues grow daring for want of timely and exem
^Luy punishment.— Ferbum fit."
Extract of a letter from IVat^forcl, July 24.
''• The never to be enough lamented emigrations
are going forward in this part of the kingdom with
Uncommon desolation —The Anne, Benjamin Ed
'Foreign Intelligence.
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American Intelligence.
TH I LadALPhla, 0ft. 15.
Extract of a letter from Wyoming, Sept. 28.
T, I,EV EN hours after you left this place we were
A lurrounded by the 'Connecticut band. They
kept up a hot and incessant fire for the space oftwo
hours. ) ou know that our house is not proof against
shot. Loor Lieutenants Reed and Henderson are
both mortally wounded. Mr. Reed is shot from
the back and into the guts; Henderson is shot in
five places, one of which is in the bread. That
is the dangerous one. Captains Shoemaker and
Henderforqattempted to gain the block-house. Poor
Henderson fell at the door. Captain Shoemaker
gained the block-house, to whose exertions we owe
our lives (who now remain.) The enemy put a
burning torch to our house, which ftruclc me with
the utmoll horror. I ftript myfelf naked and went
Cut at the window, and pushed the fire off with my
gun, . Soon after Captain Shoemaker, as we fup
pofc,. k lled or mortally wounded one of the vil
. lains; we heard his groans. This morning dif
covered* much blood and found his rifle. From the
time you left us, we had only time to remove the
arms and ammunition into Shrader's room, where
they arc fafe. The Justices, with myfelf, propose
calling in the country, and will endeavour to make
a Land until we hear from government, which, I
pray God, may be soon.
“ There is no doubt but that Johnson, Franklin,
and Price were among the murderers. Oh! for
pity's fake, Simulate government to grant us im
mediate and effectual relief. It is not possible to
describe my mortification for my two brave, gentle
manly bosom friends.
ALEXANDER PATTERSON."
We are informed, that to quiet the disturbances
at Wyoming, the Executive Council have taken
orderthat a body of militia be again called out, and
that the direction of this important business be com
muted to John Armstrong, jun. Esq. now appoint
ed Adjutant-General of the militia of this com
monwealth, and Brigadier-General of the fame.
Last Saturday the Chevalier Longchamnswas
sentenced to pay CT one"" hundred "Trench
Crowns, to be imprisoned two years, and then to
giye security sot hisgood behaviour for seven years,
hifnfelf in a bond for one thousand pounds, and
two freehold securities, five hundred pounds each.
RICH M O N D, Sept. 25.
The ( ap'. of the schooner Harrison informs, that
about day break, on the 9th ult. a little to the south
ward of the capes of Virginia, he Tell in with two
armed brigs, whom he Shortly afterwards hailed,
.and neither would answer, but immediately fired
two broad-sides into him; he then hailed them a
second time, and they, after hailing each other, it
is supposed, in Spanish, fired another broad-fide
into him ; but he having the advantage of them in
failing, happily made his escape.
monflone, Master, from Cork; for Philadelphia,
has upwards of tybo passengers, amongst whom is
not one redemptioner—They have all paid their
paflage—lo guineas in the cabin, 6 in the steerage,
and 4in the hold. This is his second voyage id
that trade, and he intends continuing in the fame
line, for the accommodation of passengers chiefly.
This must convince the tyrants and fathers of op
preflion, that they arb not the scum of the people
alone, who are leaving them in peaceable poflef
fion of a desolated country, for the full exercise of
their tyranny ; one of the passengers has been in
America since the peace, and returned for his fa
mily, whom he now brings away, in number 25."
To the Volunteer Army of I RELAN D.
Countrymen and Fellow Citizens,
" l befeecli you, let not tlie new foftered senti
ments of a Charlemont in any wife mar the perse
verance of your resolves. Even if he should total
ly defert'you, which heaven avert! Till there may
be found amongst you a character, whole bravery,
virtue, and integrity, will prove a WASHING
TON, in refloration if yo r long Joft liberties;
neither fink under the falfe idea, that from your
Mouthful inexperience in war, you cannot be an
overmatch for a mercenary army; no, my country
men, harbour not these ideas; though you perish
in the event, resolve, uhite, and let your warlike
prej aratiuhs terrify the muth detefled enemies of
Ireland. Then you will teach them not to under
value our beloved Volunteer troops, or to lay tco
touch dependence at their own. For resolution;
conftanCy, and a good cause, are more than all the
h'cetich of manual difciplirie, which is soon learn
ed to a fufficient degree. I am, Gentlemen, a sin
cere friend to a speedy emancipation of Ireland's
rights, your obedient servant,
July 24, 1784. O. N.
CHARLESTON,
NOVEMBER t, 1784.
The affairs of Ireland, with refpe& to their free
dom and independence, seem drawing to a
cr ; fis; and from several outrages that have been
committed by his Britannic Majesty's American
Heroes, on Women, Priests, and Unarmed
Men, those dogs of war will probably be let loose
in that devoted kingdom. Mav the fame spirit of
patrioUfin, and love of liberty, which dtftinguifhed
the late American army, be revived and^difplayed
by the volunteers of Ireland!
By a letter from Dublin, of the 29th of July,
received by a Gentleman in Philadelphia, we have
the following very important intelligence, viz.
Ihat on the 27th of the fame month the volunteers
of the city and county of Dublin (on the signal of
a rocket and the filing of some great guns) assem
bled, and in a most furious manner attacked the
regular troops, whom they drove from the castle
and barracks, which they took polfeflion of, toge
therwith every other fortification in and round the
tity. Ihat tlie fame had beeri effected at Cork,
Limerick, Galloway, and several other parts of the
kingdom. That a number of the volunteers arid
regulars had loft their lives in the different attacks,
among whom is named a Lieutenant in the Dublin
rangers, uncle of the gentleman who received the
letter giving this information. I^ater accounts
received here make no mention of this.
Etttrafl of a letter from Virginia) dated Sept. 18.
'• As three men were going down theOhio a few
weel s ago in a npall canoe, being mucliin want
of piovitions, they discovered a bear fwimmin<r
actofs the river, which they fired at and wounded?
he immediately made for the canoe, which was
drove ra, idly on by the current, and attempted to
come on board, but his weight on the cd/c of the
canoe being, great, ovei set it, turning the people
out with all their guns, ammunition, &c. and
obliged them to swim for their live's. A Mr. Mont
gomeiy, one of the party, was unfortunately
drowned; tlie other two, by tlie abidance of the
canoe, reached the shore in about a mile from where
they were overfet. In strolling about the woods
after they landed, they found a deserted Indian
camp, which supplied them with some old mocka
fons and flroes, and enabled them to proceed on
their march; during which, they were four days
before they got any thing to eat, when fortunately
they fell in with the company on the Ohio, which
they had parted with on the Miffifippi."
The following is, perhaps, as lingular an instance
o' unrelenting tyranny, as is to be met with in
the histories of base aftions, which individuals have
left to be recorded for the mortification of man
kind: A planter in North-Carolina, being seized
with a dangerous disease, conceiving himfelf ne
gletfed by the Negro girl that attended him, order
ed his son to put her immediately to death ; the
young gentleman being unwilling to punish with
such severity, a fault winch was unvolunta.iv, re*
monftrafed against the dictatorial mandate with so
much feeling and humanity, as to put the old brute
out of all patience. He commanded the son to quit
tlie loom, and sent lor a lawver to whom he gave
orders for such an alteration in his will, as left his
son a beggar; he then called the girl to his bed fide,
and, whilst the attendants held her, animated with
fury and revenge, he raised himfelf up in the bed,
and cut off all her toes, rafter which, nature hein^
exhausted by the violence of the ekertion, he ex*
pired.
'I he public are requeued to be very cautious in
receiving guineas: A number of persons have late
ly been detected in New-Jersey and New-York,
counterfeiting them; they are somewhat larger than
the good ones, otherwise they arc extremely well
executed.
Letters from Paris, dated August 4th, declare
that a negoc ation is a&ually on foot between the
Spanish and British Ministers at the Court of Ver
sailles, for the restitution of Gibraltar to the Court
of Madrid. A compenfigion of territory in the
Weft-Indies, the accounts further fay, was to be
given by the Spaniards, and a sum of money, the
quantum, of which had not been agreed upon.
Private letters from France and Spain mention,
that several of the Spanish vessels have been dread
fully shattered in the late attack upon Algiers, and
a great number of their men deftroye,d.
Thursday last arrived after a very fhert passage,
the brig Charlcffon Packet, William Allibone,
Commander, from Philadelphia,: in which came
passengers—Miss Stead, Miss Hopton, Miss Powell,
Mr. Doughty, Mr. Legare, Mr. P. Garden, Mr.
J. Brown, Dr. Stewart, Mr. Grimble, Mr. Wa
ring, Mr. Simons, Mr. A. Edwards, Mafler E.
Edwards, and others.
Last Friday the Hoop Peggy, Captain Richard
Estes, arrived here from Rhode-lfland; in which
came passengers—Mrs. Childs, Miss Crouch, Ms.
Thomas Smith, of St. Bartholomew's Parish, Mr.
Thayer, and Capt. Moore.
Last Thursday evening was married, Mr. Henry
Bedon Stocker, of this city, Merchant, to Miss
Jane Fickland, a young lady of great merit and
beauty, daughter of Mr. George Fickland, of Wad
malaw Iflar.d.—Rev. Mr. Samuel Fenner Warren,
of St. James, Santee, to Miss Lydia Perdrian.—.
Mr. George Evans, of St. George's Pariflr, to Miss
Harriet Baker, daughter of the deceased Richard
Bohun Baker, Esq.
On 'lhurfday, 'the 23d of September last, died at
Richmond, in Virginia, when uh his way to this
city, Mr. Robert Be 11, Printer, Book-Seller,
and Book - Autlionier, of Philadelphia; a man of
infinite wit and humour, and well known for dif
fufing of literature. And on the day following his
remains were decently interred in the church-yard,
attented by a number of refpeElable gentlemen.
Some time ago died at Jackfonborough, Mr. John
Bryden, Merchant, a worthy member of society,
and much lamented by his friends.—At Kensing
ton, near Georgetown, Mrs. Mildred Kinloch,
the amiable confert of Francis Kinloch, Esq.