The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-12 00:00:00, page 1

ADDRESS to the PUBLIC.
LICE to the public, that mifinformation may
J be precluded,—juftice to my own conduct,
that milreprelentation may be confuted,, impels
this address. Unvefted with the literary accom
plishments, adorning him who claims attention as
a popular writer, fads must supply the deficiency
of abilities; and the propriety of my pioceedings
atone for inelegant language. My manner of
cxpreffion is dilated by, and spontaneously flows
from the heart; it is consequently plain, undisguised,
and unembellished; aiming only to convey authen
tic information, respecting tranfa&ions, in which
being a party concerned, I am thereof qualified to
give such an accurate state, as will incontrovert
iblyfatisfy each candid mind; undoubtedly impress
witli due conviction, every impartial bieaft. The
opinions of predetermined and party people, meriting
no regard, I shall naturally pay them none.
that approbation, extended by one whose uni
form, unequivocal conduct, both during and sub
sequent the late contest, renders his opinion
estimable, ought to be fedulbufly fought for, and
inestimably prized when obtained; but it is very
little compensation for the research, when, after the
trouble of enquiring, we learn the sentiments of
those patronising a cause they formerly steadily
opposed and declaimed against, even with a degree
of virulence. So much as prefatory observation:
Let us now advert to tlre particular Subject matter.
A gentleman Waited on the writer, mentioning
that he came as Mr. 's friend; the latter
refufing, on requisition, to retra& Somewhat he had
published, received a reply iri the nature of a
ch ge; on which he mentioned his particular
Spider, being- bound over $^ next @t,&"
Sefliors. himfelf in £.jof and two .fecuriti.es in
£.250 Sterling money, each,—but after fame con
versation, gave a tacit content to the propofol
made, and afterwards tranfirfitted an explicit
acquiefeence in writing. This the writer acknow
ledges was imprudent, and a&irig with very little 1
consideration, when thus engaged for.a fam of
money, which his estate could by no means, with
out diEre fling his family, difeharge. lie likewise
admits that he did not treat those gentlemen, who
voluntarily and unrequested became Securities for
him, with the attention their friendship and gene
rosity demanded, by making them run an imminent
rifque of losing the abovementicned sums; for his
bond must have been inevitably forfeited, as there
can exist not the mod diflant doubt, but that the
City Council, who took the fame, would have
put it in suit; and no court could, according to
their oaths, have done otherwise than compel the
:payment. 1 .
Still the writer hopes, that the gentlemen who
would have been injured by the step, will receive
a'candid confeffion of error, and permit it in, some
degree, apologetically to operate. The writer was
at this period, and had been federal days before
(he may indeed assert weeks) greatly indisposed,
and absolutely obliged to keep his bed the ensuing
morn. Dr. Fallon, who attends his family, can'
witness the truth of this, with many others;,font the
Dh&or's name is inserted, beca^fe, on account ofL
Ins profeffional character, the matter obviously
falls under his strict cognizance. No sooner was
the writer in some degree recovered, but .he sent a
written notification of it to the other party. Ai
day and hour were afterwards appointed for meet
ing, and the writer was just stepping into a chair,
properly provided, when the following letter was
placed in his hands,, frotp one of his Securities:
, sip^3o^7^4.
“ I request that you will give me your word add
honor ret to endanger me by any aft o f you;.s
&/nhd that you are proceeding- to what
vol evolve m, fry do not c&wiffi this
nemano, I^nutt oecune being longer one of the
lecuritps you gave. lam very fore that the Citv
Council will dirtily fife % and I hope ^ have
m ° r - yoor than to engage me for a fern of money
and oblige the payment of what I do not wife to
tnrpw away.
I am, fir,
Your mofu obedient,
BEN. WALLER-"
(To be continued.)
rVOL. XLIII.I
t~ — 1
THE
GAZ E TT E
OFTHE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 , 178^
South-Carolina, )
Charleston Difriff, )
KXyiLLIAM HORNBY maketh oath, that he
vV is the author of two pieces, which appeared
tn eGa Z ette of the State of South-Carolina, on
~, y Ma y ! 3, dated Ma y !0; and the other
of J ul Y ,: dated July 26, 1784, signed Demo
cratic Gentle Touch ; except two or three lines
at the elofe of that piece of the soth of May, which
were added by another hand, after this Deponent sent
the piece to the press.
Inis Deponent further faith, that the infimi
ations and chaige§ of a writer who Signs A Steady
and Open Republican, refpeHing the Hon.
Alexander Gillon, Esq; being the author,
poifor, promoter, or adviser of the laid pieces, or
either 01 tliem, are without the least foundation
in truth; and faith, that Mr. Gillon never was
consulted or advised with on cither, to this Depo
nent's knowledge.'
This Deponent further faith, his only motive
for writing laid pieces, or any other political paper
tnat originated v^lli him, and has been printed in
Charleston, proceeded from his earrieft delire
to piornote the peace, happiness, good government,
and equal liberty of the State; he being of
opinion, that designs, inimical to a Democratic
system of government, were forming by some
leading-men in this Commonwealth. And this De
ponent fa 1 tiler faith, that he never approved of
Mobs, either ofthe people, or EXTRAJUDICIAL
MAGISTRATES! that he never assisted in any,
but used all the arguments and influence he was
master of, to prevent the late marble disturban
ces in this city, adyifing to the legal and conftitu
fog^hc ofyftfif ^ vam^fbc hiking 'care
at the next Girrmt Ecicfrhx. Of ch^hfefiich
men (only) into' the J^ftt as will not affumc
the ai.rs top m^mybf trie'present fnbfnbers 'have
^a^y declaring themselves (tchen rt on=e defied)
at hbefty t<>.pursue their own int-er'Es-ts and
o^pio^s, , though .contrary to the iriftruttiohs 'of
thcir&pNSTITUENTS.'e # . .-,:.T
WILLIAM HORNBY.
y^Q™ before me this sh day of Augufl, 1784.
William Print, J. P.
ADDITIONAL RULE~S # to the
Marine Anti^Britannic Society.
.R ,U L E 35th."
WHEREAS the. Britifh government hath
violated, and ffill perils in .the violation
ot our commercial.rights, and,of that reciprocity,
asa trading people, we ought ever to claim
Of all nations allowed to tr^c with us, by. prohi
bitcrty^dr&sp. and a&s calculated to cramp our
carrying trade to their Wed-India islands, and
djfebur^e thegrowth of, and the cultivation of
nee ftfoe %le, by heavy fofe and
r^^''*** frfo into
' tori?V^M^ in American bottoms;
,^ therefore, be a finding rule of the feciety,
that; (until such unequal obftru&iops to our com
merce and'induftry fnalbbe removed?) no member
of this Society will hereafter putchafe or consume
pr^aufe to be purchased or confirmed, any goods'
wares-OY merchandizes, of the growth or Lnu
faCure of Great-Britain, whilst goods of equal
; value can te^btained.(on equal terms) from the.
citizens of these Stakes, or the citizen Or fubie& of
any; of our Allies. ... J .
RDLE 36th.
That members &11 give a preference to other
members, for any buffers he, may require to be!
, do% and ueal with each othcr in a like preference'
provided they can be conveniently accommodated
on equal terms.
^R ITT E 07th, +
igfat^CT,'^ amm g amongst members, be
left to the decuior. of the Society's ftandirw com
mitte, „o ,m fth cases are to a6l as arbitrators,
provided botn differing parties apply to the said
committee, by letter, forthat pmpofe.
'RUL E 38th.'
eve , member, wh^ er prefect or absent
pay Inree I ence to the funde^ry Rated meeting.
Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. 100, Meet^ftreet.
From the Wit's Magazine.
HUMOROUS ESSAY on ERRORS
OF THE PRE SS,
Originally inserted in the Public Advertiser.
(Concluded from our left)
FROM several articles, Mr. Woodfall, one would
be apt to conclude that you were no great geo
grapher; for you tell us of coifairs fitted out from.
Turin instead of Tunis; and that the Chinese had
revolted against the Spaniards, instead of the
(hilefe: now, though these two nations are on
diffeient sides of the globe, I fuppoie you thought
they were near neighbours, being within an ell°of
each other. Last year, when the Ruffian fleet
took the iile of Lemnos, you told us, that part of
the squadron remained at' the isle of Candy, andthe
rest were going to attack the isle of Lemons: you
'"PP°'°> "° doubt, that Candy was a sugar island.
and that they were gone to the isle of Lemons for
fruit, and so between them to supply the fleet (pro
bono publico) with punch..
You have sometimes treated the Ruffians verv
injuriously, by calling them Ruffians; and one dav
you told us, the combined army of the Turks and
Tartars '(inftead of a Kam) was commanded by a
Ram; as if they had been a parcel of sheep: and
v lien it was expelled the two armies were coming
to Action, you fay they were coming to Acton; and
as there was a considerable fall of ftocksabout that
time, I have reason to think it was owing to the
above report, or to feme bther equally alarming.
I tiembled for you during the whole time of the
Congress at Fockzapy; it is a ticklish word, in the
hands & ^aretefs compositor, and one does not
know what terrible work he might make of it.
Apropos, it is not Ihng since you advertised a viex&
°f ,f canal of Venice, and you made it Venus;
andjn the account of house-breaking, iriftead of
the rogues ' broke in at the window, you said they
broke in at thotoidow." ''b 7
When you informed us that a certain lady was
gone to pals the" holidays at hermefuntty feat, near
Corydon, eyery reader supposed that some scandal
Was meant, till the next day, wlien we learnt that
there was no Corydon in the case, - and that her
^y^ was only g6ne"to her country feat near
Croyddh:
° n e?ay you told us, that some English IoM
(whose name [forget) was arrived at Naples with
Ids War; travelling with a tabor seemed to be an
T^CT^. his lordihip (apparem
ment) was fond of music, though the tabor and
inpe^efagd -more adapted to a lagged bear than a
lord on his travels: thus wc reasoned, till the
erratum of next day desired us, %f Qr tabor to read
tutor:."'..
" y° u r cQmpofitOTs are bad geographers, they
are at least as bad arithmeticians,: wherever sums
occur, they, are fuie to make a bad figure I
ierriember, at different times last ye^r, thc°y made
the c^faz/fa^lndia' loan 14,000,T40,000!. and
sometimes 14,000,000!. in short, they have no
adequate ideas of figures; and as to cyphers' they
conhdefthem as mere nothings, and that adding or
takingaw^ay two or three of them from a
makes no difference at all.'
I have known you turn a matter of hearfa, into
a matter (ifherefy ; Damon into a daemon; a delici
cUs girl.into a delirious girl; the comic muse into a
comic rioufe; a Jewrfh Rabbi into a Jewish rabbit;
un&, when a correspondent, lamenting the cor
ruption of.the times, exclaimed, 0 Mores' vou
ibadeihitn fay, 0 Mftes. }
, You should cohfider; Mr. Printer, that there
immaterial difference between a&ing with the
UtmofL/CTub and utmost levity; between famous
and facetious; fellow and felon; imprudent and
impudent; refolding and revolution; 'Runfoad
and running mad; Loud profefans aid fy pfofef-
Jions;fearing and roaring; Thames Inn and Thrives
Inn ; minutes and minuets; rubies and bubbles: a
tube and a tub: all of which words I have observed
you; fir, at times, use indiscriminately.
I know you will fay that the people ought to
corAder the constant hurry which attends the
publication of a daily paper: that the Public
Advertiser is in so great request, an d people are
so ea%r to get it, wrih all its perfections on its
head, that you really have not time to be correct
An, Mr. Woodfall! it would be well for mankind
if rcsoimauon, like charity, were always to begin
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