The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-02 00:00:00, page 2

D U B L I N.
The Publifiers of the Volunteers Journal to
the Public.'
" ¥ F the public wishes for our success, if their
1 ardent prayers that we may triumph over the
bkfe arts of all our enemies; that we, borne in the
bosom of our affectionate countrymen, may prove
too strong for the ruffian and lawless hand of pow
er; can influence hearts not totally callous to
generous feelings, we find ourselves mod particu
larly called on, to express our warmed gratitude
lor the very fleering and partial diftinflion they
have been pFeafedto'conferon our feeble efforts in
the common cause.
" Much we shall not profefs,—but our generous,
liberal and much injured Countrv, may rest allured,
that our resolution is as fixed as fate, never to re
lax in the,purluit of the public good;—and that
the threats of fines, imprisonments, nay even death
itfeP, so far from shaking our constancy, shall but
endue us with frefh vigour, to pursue that glorious
path we have already trodden with so much an
plaufe,
" As we shall ever hold private character sacred,
io shall We deem it at all times our indispensable
duty, to pluck the made from villainy, optneffion
am, tyranny, wherever we find them, however ex
alted, or with whatsoever sacred characters inveft
cd ; to expofb and hold upto the execration and juR
referitment of a much injured kingdom, thole trai
tors who buy their feats to fell their country.
those traitors who Vote our money to bribe them
selves; —those traitors, who, in fine, to gain tire
Smiles of- our natural and hereditary enemies the
Engl:fh, would plunge a dagger in our country's
bread; as We have dated to lash 'oppreflion, and
look tyranny in the face, regardless of the 'imme
diate confcquences to our perfors or properties,
we iruft for the support of a nation never remark
able for ingratitude: No! It were treason against
the majority of the Itifli nation to doubt, even for
a moment—their mod liberal support; weare con
fident we shall receive it, not indeed in proportion
to our merits, but according to the favourable in
terpretation they have been pleased to give to our
endeavours.—But if it is rendered in the book of
fate (wincn may heaven and our gallant volunteers
long avert) that Irish liberty shall shortly be but a
name—that all our fond hopes of constitution and
commerce shall “vanish, like the bafclefs fabrick
of awifion, and leave not a wreck behind;" if we
must be eriflaved, and hug the chains which bind
us, —if we must be chastened, and kifsthe rod that
scourges us, —that day—that fatal day, we with
not to fee; but as our efforts and lives are dedicated
to the cause of liberty, when fc receives the
mortal stab, may heaven, in pity to our feelings
for our country's welfare, forgive our fins, and
close up our existence." ~
xO the liberty of the i refs tne conlbtutiori of
this country owes as much as to the spirit ot the
people! It is a pillar of Rrength in the worst of
times, agairft the worst of men, and on the most
critical occasions. On its bale Band the dearest
riglits of a nation, and which it should ever guard
with as much' vigilance, as did the Dragon the
Hefperian fruit. The graces that adorn it °arc the
amor patriot public spirit, intrepidity and national
honor. It should wage eternal war with minißerial
and parliamentary corruption; be the prop of
patfiotifm, and the bulwark of virtue. In fine
the Freedom of the Press should ever be deemed
the richest gem in the Cap of Liberty,—be the firft
and constant object of our attention, and the laR
in our grasp when the lamp of life expires.
Notwithßanding impious men that bear sway,
may issue out the thunder of proclamations, at the
suit of enemies to their country, and for a while
consign Printers to imprisonment, they may learn,
to their confufion, that honest and spirited juries
will be found, who will not fuffer oppression to
triumph, nor the Freedom of the Press to be availed
by the prostitute and corrupt minions of tyrannic
power.
NEW-YORK, July 2.
Extract of a letter, said to be from a True Blue
Briton, to his friend in America, dated Nov. 30.
Ihe affair of the Balloons has at length
leaked out to the French, who pretend to be the
firft inventors; but it was difeovered by the Britons
fix years ago, when seventeen gentlemen of genius
and learning, were secretly dispatched at the ex
p^nce of the crown, to explore the planet Jupiter.
Jhey returned some time laR month, and' report,
among other astonishing matters, thatthey reached
Jupiter in two years and about three months, after
their departure from the earth; and that they passed
near Mars, and had a fine view of the planet; that
the others were not accurately dtfcernable; that
the atmosphere of Jupiter, being proportionate to
her amazing bulk, was so dense by pressure, that
they floated in the cart, without the use of the
globe, which they were obliged to unbend and
th " after much difficulty in defending to
the furface, they landed upon a hill of land, which
though void of vegetation itfelf, afforded them a
„f P r °'p e "' a "ch an d fruitful country; that the
inhabitants w-re of an enormous fiz?; that while
they were eroding a monument, and taking poss f
hon m his Majeftyls name, they were attacked by
% n ^' er ° f .Icteric ants, which, in spite
or^a^uj erice, charged t^ree of their company
,° tneir hole at the top; and would undoubtedly
e o^o-Tine remainder in those dreary mansions,
had they rot been dißurbed by cue cf the inhabi
tants, who in pairing over them) covered the hole
with one of his little toes; while the remainder of
the company (except Dr. Solandcr, who was
crushed to death by the great toeof 'tlfe fame foot)
reached the cart and failed off. That on^heir re
turn they palled near a comet, (the fame lately seen
from the earth) which seemed not to observe his
Majeßy's balloon, as Ihe did not douse her tail, in
honor to the British flag, as might have been ex
pelled. That they interfitted and landed on the
moon in her aphelion; and tock poffAhon of her
in his Majeßv's name; in domg which, they
destroyed a number of the poor little inhabitants
who had the imprudence to depute the propriety
of the measure; that they difeovered a new planet,
without the orbit of Saturn, &c.
" His Majesty has in contemplation, to plant
lunar colonies by the American loyalists, as they
appear to be difeontented with Port Rofewav. and
indeed with tne world; and have ever manifested
a lunatic disposition. I am in hopes of living to
fee all the planets, with their satellites, under °the
Biitifh thumb. The inhabitants of Jupiter seem
at prefect to bid defiance to her arms; but let the
lion be roofed, and what cannot Britons atchieve?
I hope the nations of the earth will not be so pre
posterous, as to dispute the British title to the new
planet, which was incontcftibly gained by the firft
discovery,. His Majeßy has fettled a pension of
five hundred a year, during life, on the amiable
Mrs. Solander, widow to the late Dr. Solander
who loft his life in bis Majeßy's service, by the
fatal crush of the Jupitcrian toe."
An Enquiry into theeffeltfof Sv irituoc s LIQUORS
upon the human Body, and their influence upon
the happiness of society.
(Concluded from our Paper cf the 26th of July.)
are certain clades of people to whom
JL I beg leave to fuggeda caution or two upon
the use of spirituous liquors.
1. Valetudinarians, especially those who labour
under difordeYs of the Hoinach and bowels are
very apt to fly to spirits for relief. Let such people
be cautious how they repeat this dangerous remedy.
I have known many men and women, of excel
lent characters and principles, who have been
betrayed by occasional doles of gin or brandy to
ease the cholic, into a love of spirituous liquors,
insomuch that they have afterwards fallen facrifices
to their fatal efle&s. The different preparations
of opium, are a thousand times more fafe and
innocent than spirituous liquors, in all spasmodic
afle&ions of the fromach and bowels. So appre
hensive am I of the danger of contrading a love
set spirituous liquors, by accustoming the stomach
to their stimulus, that I think the fewer medicines
we exhibit in spirituous liquors the better.
2. Some people, from living in countries fubje&
to the intermitting fever, endeavourto fortify them
felvcs against it by two or three glasses of bitters
made with spirits, every day. There is great dan
ger of men becoming lots from this practice. Be
sides, this mode of preventing intermittents, is by
no means a certain one. A much better security
against them is to be found in the Jesuits bark. A
tea-fpoonful of this excellent medicine, taken
every merning during the sickly season, ' has in
many inhanccs prefetved Whole families in the
neighbourhood of rivers ahd mill-ponds, from
fevers of all kinds. Those who live in a sickly
part of the country, and who cannot procure the
bark, or who objed to taking it, I would advise to
avoid the morning and evening air in the sickly
months—to kindle fires in their houses on damp
days and in cool evenings throughout the whole
fiminicr, and to put on woollen eloathing about the
firftweck in September. The last part of this
direction applies only to the inhabitants of the
middle Rates. These cautions, I am persuaded
will be more effectual in preventing autumnal
fevers, than the best preparations that can be made
from bitters in spirits.
3. Men who follow profeffions that require a
constant exercise of the mind or body, or perhaps
of both, are very apt to seek relief from fatigue in
spirituous liquors. To such persons I would beg
leave to recommend the use of tea instead of spirits.
fatigue is occasioned by the obftrudion of perspi
ration. Tea, by reftorirg perforation, removes
fatigue, and thus invigorates the system. lam no
advocate for the general or excessive use of tea
When drank too strong it is hurtful, especially to
the female conftitntion; but when drank of a
model ate degiee of Rrength, and in moderate
quantities, with sugar and cream, or milk, I be
lieve it is in general innocent, and at all times to
be preferred to spirituous liquors. One of the
most industrious Ichoolmafters I ever knew, told
me that he had been preserved from the love of
spirituous liquors, bv contracting a love for tea in
early life. Three orfour diflics drank in an after
noon, carried off the fatigue of a whole day's
labour in his school. This gentleman lived to be
71 years of age, and afterwards died of an acute
disease, in the full exercise of all the faculties of
his mind.
Io every class cf my readers, I beg leave to
suggest a caution against the use of toddy. °l acknow
ledge that I have known some men, who by
limiting its strength c onftantly by measuring the
spirit and water, and who by drinking it only with
their meals, have drank toddy for many years
without fuffering in any degree from it: but I have
known many more who have been infcniibly led,
fom drinking toddy for their constant drink, to
take drams in the morning, and have afterwards
paid their lives as the price of their folly. I fhaj
felcH one case from among many that have come
within the compass of my knowledge, to shew the
ordinary piogrefs of intemperance in the use of
spirituous liquors. A gentleman, once of a fad
and sober character, in the city of Philadelphia,
for many years drank toddy as his constant drink,
from this he proceeded to drink grog—after a
While nothing would fatisiy him but dings, made
of equal parts of rum aim water, with a lithe
fu.gai. from flings he advanced te raw rum—and
from common rum to Jamaica spirits. Here he
rested lor a few months; out at last he found even
Jamaica spirits were not fhong enough to warm
his ifomach, and lie made a conßant practice to
throw a table-fpoonful of ground pepper into each
glais of his spirits, in order (to use Iris own exoref-
Arons)" to take off their coldness." It is hardly
neceffaryto add, that he soon after died a m
to his intemperance.
I shall conclude what has been said of the effects
of spirituous liquors with two observations.—l. A
people corrupted by strong drink cannot long be
a free people. The rulers of such a community
will soon partake of the vices of that mass from
which they are ferreted, and all our laws and
governments will foqncr or later bear the fame
marks of the effects of spirituous liquors wuicli
w f re „described formerly upon individuals. • (
fuomit it therefore to the consideration of the
legillature of Pennfvlvarda, whether more lavs
should not be made to increase the expence and
lessen the consumption of spirituous liquors, and
whether some mark of public infamy should not
be inflicted by law, upon every man convinc'd
before a magistrate of drunkenness.
The second and last observation I shall offer, is
of a serious nature. It has been remarked, that
the Indian's have diminished every where in Ame
rica, since their connexion with the Europeans.
This has been justly ascribed to the Europeans
having introduced spirituous liquors among them.
Let those men, who are every day turning their
backs upon all the benefits of cultivated society,
to seek habitations in the neighbourhood of Indians,
confider how far thi^ wandering mode of life is
produced by the fame cause which has scattered
^nd annihilated so many Indian tribes.—Long life,
and tlre lecure polfefhon of property, in the land
of their ancestor's, was looked upon as a blessing
among the ancient Jews. —For a son to mingle his
dust with the dull of his father, was to aft worthy
of his inheritance; and the profpe6t of this honor
often afforded a confolatioh even in death. How
ever exalted, my countrymen, your ideas of liberty
may be, while you expose yourselves, by the use
of spirituous liquors, to this consequence of them,
you are nothing more than the pioneers, or in
more slavish terms, the "hewers of wood" of
your more industrious neighbours.
If the faffs that have been Rated, have produced
in anv of my readers, who have fuftered from the
use of spirituous liquors, a resolution to abstain
from them hereafter, I must beg leave to inform
them, that they must leave them off faddenly and
entirely. No man was ever gradually reformed
from drinking spirits. He must not only avoid
tailing, but even smelling them, until long habits
of abstinence have subdued his affection for them.
To prevent his feeling any inconveniencies, from
the sudden loss of their stimulus to his stomach,
he should drink plentifully of camomile, or cf
any other bitter tea, or a few glalles of found old
wine every day.' I have great pleasure in adding,
that I have seen a number of people, who have
been effectually restored to health—to character—
and to ufefulnefs to their familes and to society, by
following this advice.
CHARLESTO N,
AUGUST 2, 1784.
TH E flip Prince Liege, Captain All, from
London to Philadelphia, supposed to be loft,
put into Fyal the 22 of March in dißrefs. In this
Blip General Roberdeau was palfenger on board.
On Saturday the 9th of June, the ship St. James,
Captain Cain, failed from Philadelphia, for Eu
rope, with whom went paiTenger his Excellency
the Chevalier de la Luzerne, who has for several
years resided in that city, in the exalted Ration of
Minister Plenipotentiary from the court of Ver
sailles. His amiable deportment, during his resi
dence in this country, has endeared him to every
ciafs of citizens, and his departure is universally
regretted.
On Thursday the 17th June, was married at Phi
ladelphia, Mr. Francis Barbe de Marbois, Consul-
General of France, to Miss Elizabeth Moore, daugh
ter of the late President of that State.
Extract of a letter from London, dated April 27.
" I shall, whenever it is in my power, not hc
fitate to leave this diffracted countrv, where taxes,
and burthens, are the only Rudy of the great, to
support their pride and luxury, at the expence of
the country, and all that good men wish to live for,
and ought to esteem. If the Americans are pru
dent enough to encourage arts, hufbandrv, and the
sciences, to give free toleration in religion, and
to keep down the taxes by a modest moderate ?-
vernment, they will unpeople this country, wlv re
all the people ever wished them well, and pra\ d
for success to their cause, deeming it their own,
and looking on that countrv as the last resort m
Engliffi liberty.'