The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1779-09-15 00:00:00, page 4

LONDO N, Feb. 2z.*
Lord North is in another delemma about the bud
get— his firft proposal was rejected, with occasioned
him to make another more favourable to ths fubfcri
bcrs, but though he has offered them 3 per cent stock
at §B, they wont bite at so tempting a bait, having
so poor an opinion of government security. There
was a meeting on Thursday between his Lordship
and the parties, which broke up abruptly ; much to
the diffaiisL&ion of the former.
The following must give our Readers a just Idea vuitb Sow
much (boasted) eafe,Great- Britain continues thepreJent war
HOUSE of COMMON S, Feb, %
Lord North, from the great number of explanati
ons relative to the new Loan, which he found it ne
cessary to make, and which kept him upwards of two
hours on his feet, was obliged to defer till Friday,
that part of the budget that relates to new Taxes.
The terms of the Loan, he was goi^g to lay before
the House, were, he (aid, the best he could poflibly
make, and fich, as he accepted, only because he had
found, by application elsewhere, that he could not
mike more advantageous ones. The fame persons
with whom he had bargained, became at length, by
a second proposal, more reafcnable than the, were at
firft ; and he had thought proper to agree with them,
but what he had done was not binding upon Parlia
ment ; it could not be conclusive without their concur
rence. The Loan was only for seven millions, though
113 should have been better pleased to have got eight;
but he found a backwardness in the Proposers to sub
scribe for more than seven, because they had been
fuft ers by the last Loan ; and were so apprehensive
that an additional eight millions, borrowed this year,
would leave them in a similar predicament, that they
absolutely refufed to fubferibe for more than seven ;
and indeed board him in a promise not to issue any ne
gociaole paper fiofa Government before Michaelmas
next, left the ne? Lean should be injured by such a
measure — The Turns voted for the service of rhe cur
rent year, together with some extraordinaries as yet to
be voted, amounted to fifteen millions'; The only
provision as yet mideby Parliament was by the Land-
T°x and Malt Bids, from which about two millions
and fifty thousand pounds will arise ; seven to be bor
rowed by the new Loan, four by Exchequer Bills, a^d
about x, 200,C00, which he intended to raise by neg%
cable Pap-r, to be issued after Michaelmas, would
compleat the sums necessary for the service of the
year. The terms h^propofed for the new Loan were
3 ler cent, in tire confo!. Funds ; an Annuity for 29
years of three pound: fifteen Killings per cent, and
a Douceur of seven Lottery Tickets in a Lottery con
fiding of 40,0'00, at ten pounds a piece, worth up
wards of twelve, to every Subferiber of Icool. This
mode of granting Annuities mull be deeemed, he said,
a most picsfing way of railing money, as in 29 years
the S.ate would be intirely freed from three and a
half per cent.
It might appear something flrange, he said, that
France had not, as yet, made any car fiderable loan ;
ihe had borrowed only 40 000,000 <f liv.es, (about
1,750,000 k) while we were borrowing 7.000 cool,
this year, exclusive ofthe loan we made last Session.
But gentlemen mull fee, that, however able might be
the Gentleman at the head of the French finances,
with whom he had force acquaintance, and whom he
knew to-be an ingenious, intelligent, great Financier,
yet Gentlemen muff conceive that ire must either have
contracted an enormous debt to fit out such formida
ble fleets as he sent to sea last yeqr, confining, in al',
of between 40 and go fail ofthe line, or else he mull
have flarved the other departments of the State —-This
he was more bold to fay, as he knew that in 1774,
the revenue of France was not equal to its expeaces ;
und nevertheless her marine from rottenness and con
tempt, was within the last two years raised to a most
flourifhing state: The Peace establishment of the
French navy was about thirty-fix millions of livres,
and now it was between eighty and ninety and he could
not think it extraordinary or exaggerated to fay,
that it ceft France one hundred mi.lrons of livres to
lit out the fleets she now has in pay : Whence he con
cluded, that she must have contrasted a great unfun
ded debt, and that she would shortly be obliged to
open a loan, to rel x her mode of making war, and
bring it into a narrower compass, or else offer Great
Britain f # me reasonable proportions for peace. This
he was the more forward in asserting, as he was per
fectly convinced that France would not have enga
ged in the war, had she not been made to think, that
the moment she should declare in favour of America,
Great Britain would certainly give up the contest.
But the spirit which the nation had shewn, and which
he was really proud it persevered in, had made her fee,
that she had embarked in a business which she did not,
at firfl, think so dangerous. Our resources, he asser
ted were Hill great; he had re doubt but we should
be ft.ll able to borrow more if it should be necessary,
provided we should deny ourselves feme gratifications,
and he flattered himfelf that he should be able to raise
the whole supply within the year. He then moved,
that the Committee do consent to the terms of the
loan.
The question was at length put, and was carried
carried without a division.
American Intelligence.
F I S H-K IL L, 7uly 29.
Oar gallant Light Infantry, who under the brave
and intrepid General Wayne, have gained immortal
CHAkLES-TOWN: Printed at Timothy and Bodzh's Office, in the State-House, where Adverafements, &c. are received.
honour, by forming the British garifon at Stony Point,
were composed of drafts from each State. The firm
coolness with which they marched up to the attack of
what our enemies stiled the American Gibraltar, was
never exceeded by any troops whatever, ancient or mo
dern, and cannot be fufficiently extolled. The Offi
cers and men were eve^mnlous to go upon the Forlorn
Hope, which was d^fidea by lot, when one Gentle
man, disappointed in that command by the lots fa
vouring his neighbour, expressed himfelf as a child
of misfortune from the cradle, while the other boun
ded from the ground with joy. They proceeded
withputa bulletin their pieces, or a whfper in their
mouth-s, till getting over the abbatis, and scrambling
up the precipices, the enemy called out," Come on ye
dam'd rebels, come on." Some of the brave fellows
foftly anfweed “ Don't be in such a hurry, my lads,
we'll be with yen prefentH " It was upwards of
twenty minutes from the time the firing from the fort
began, to the surmounting of the parapets ; befidts
the enemy were fully prepared as appears by an order
ly booi, wherein directors were given that night at
nine o'clock, for th arifon to mann the walls and
lay on their arms; the place was carried by the pu p e
bravery alone of nine hundred assailants, against a ga
rifon of upwards of fx hundred, overcoming eve
ry offtrudion and resistance. But if the courage ex
hibited in the assault is not to be set forth adequate to
their merits, what pen can depi€ ttheir humanity ?
Although they entered the fort with the fall refelu
tion of putting every man to the fwerd, Spurred on by
their ardor, by their resentment of former cruel bavo
netting, which many of them had experienced and still
more by the rece t, the savage barbarity of burning
unguarded towns, of infusing and even deflowering de
feucclefs wome% and reducing to the last lifrefs the
innocent and the hrlplefs; yet the cry of ^ Merce, 1
" Aferccy! dear Americans'! Quarter brave Ameri
'' cans ! Quarter! Ojarter !" cifarmed their refent
merts in an instant ; insomuch, that even Colonel
7ohnfon, the Commandant, has fresy and candidly
acknowledged, ri^t not a drop of blood was fpilt un
meceffarily.—Bluffi! .Oh Britain, blafh! Towhit a
depth art thou now funk ! Go on make bonfires of the
lacking villages, until fell retaliation open your eyes
with a veng-ance, and^makeyou repent in tea:s of
blood! Bnt a British American fill feels for you,
nochwithflaoding all that you have done, and even
now withes that other tears, if p ffib'e, might ex iate
thy crimes! Yer, alas! what else can wash out the
fain of your East-India, your Weft Lidia, your Ame
rican murders ? You ypurfelves have acknowledged
this wer to be unjust, both in its commencement and
its profecutims, by ,our too late and untimely offers.
'What then remains? You pretend now to be our
enemies on account of that, which your own ad in
in calling us off, tacitly confirmed long ago : Confirm
then oar Independance publicly toe, execute Justice
uponthe authors of this horrid and infernal war ;
and then, for the fafe of the vituous which remain
among you, and from the memory of the foil from
whence the Tree of Liberty was transplanted, we may
yet Ihafe hands as friends, and you may ,etieap those
emoluments from our benevolence, which you can ne
ver acquire by force.
Stolen or Strayed
ON or aboyt Sunday the lit of U&ober, from off Charles*
Town Green,
A Dapple-grey Gelding,
about 13 hands high, and near 5 years old, neither decked
not branded ; his mane has been hogged, but was feme,
what grown out, his tail swept the ground—he has neither
Scar nor Blemilh, but had a small cru/h when loft, on the
point of his Moulders, and another under the off Side of
the Seat, from the Saddle.
If Strayed 30 Dollars will be given on his Delivery
at the State Printing Office; but, if stolen, Fifty Dollars
will be paid for taking up the Horle and Thief. Infor
mation has been given, that a Negro carried him away to a
-Plantation no very great distance from Charleftown; as this
Advertisement will be continued, the Owner of such planta
tion, will not have it in his Power to plead Ignorance if the
horse should be found on his Premises.
Q"''HE Hefrs to the late Mr. Benjamin Williamson,
^ arc desired to meet the fubferiber, at his house
in town, the firft Monday of November, in order that
afinal fcttlement may be made, and the administrator
get a difeharge—ln the mean time, those of the heirs
who have purchased largely at the sale, will come pre
pared to pay what they may owe over and above their
proportion.
||m Wm. Williamson.
—oHmt3cra<Bßßmraeza
STolen, and carried away by the British troops, several
horses, mares, colts and mules, with a number of cattle
brandedWx, or X; also several jaci asses which they tool!
from my southward plantations. ——Any person fecuringany
of the above creatures, and gives me notice, so that I may get
them again, hull be generously rewarded, and thanked be
tides, by
§ Williara Williamson.
QN Thursday September 17, will be fold atpublic Vendue,
before our Store, near the Exchange,
A Valuable Family of NEGROE S,
confining of a fellow who is a good sawyer, boatman and
field Have ; his wife, who is a field slave, and their four chil
dren, one of whom is a girl about 14 years old, a spinner.
Credit will be given, paying interest and giving security
to the 4th of February 1780. WEBB & Bintxam.
Head.^a+^rj, Charles-Towe, Aug. 27, 1779.
✓TOmplaint having been made to the General, that
Ci Capt. M'Clean, Capt. Stump, Capt. Espy, and
Capt. Wycho of the Militia, have, cor. to their
paroles, le't Sunbury.—fhe said o^ '"raH, hereby
directed immediately to return and deliver themiclvef'
at that or some other British post in Georgia.
B, Order of th General.
Edm. Hyrke, Dep. &j Gen.
Several Officers in the Continental Service, prisoners of
warin Georgia, whofs paroles obliged them to remain
at such posts to which they should be ordered by the com
manding officer of the British troops ih.-re, having beam
brought off by armed parties of American troops, arc to re
turn and icrniin in that state, according to the tenor of their
paroles. t, Order of the General.
Edm. Hyrne, fig, Adj. Cen.
Head Carters, Cbarlu
lo~wn, Aug. 2 7 , 1779.
Washington Furnace,
Fexr, County, in Virginia, July zi, 1770.
Notice is hereby Given,
THAT the said FURNACE entered into Blast the
Ift ofthe present month, and it is expefled will
continue unt 1 Christmas ner: where may be had, by
wholesale or retail, the following assortment of catlines,
to wit, poi s. KETTLES, Camp - kettles.
OVENS, SKELLETS, FLATIRONS, SPICE MOR
TARS, FIRE DOGS, SMITHS ANVILS, FORGE
ANVILS, FORGE HAMMERS WAGGON BOXES
STOVES, or any o.her kind of Callings that may be
wanted.
TO be fold at Public Vendue, on Thursday the zSth of
September inst. before the Exchange, FIVE NEGROES,
belonging to the estate of the late Mrs. Ruth Hartman. Thtf
Conditions will be made known at the sale, by
William Gibbes, Executor,
V^ Hereas the fubferiber is concerned in the purchase of a
certain tra& of country on the Ohio River and Waters
thereof, now -called ' TRANSYLVANIA, from the Chero
kee tribe of inXians, and wishing to have it in his power (#
go but and fettle the fame——Would fell, on the most rea
fenable terms, the well known feat of Hartford, in Orange
County, North Carolina, which contains 500 acres ofland,
on which are a dwelling-boufe 4g by 30, and two other
small houses 20 by 16, which stand as wings 20 feet distant
from the main house, and joined by Piazzas, all two Rory
high; another dwelling house 52 by 26, which is now occu
pied as a tavern, a good water grist mill double geered, with
two pair of stones, and a fine fit of bolting cloths for manu
facturing fupefrfine merchantable flour, all in good repair, a
fulling-mill with every utensil for manufacturing woollen
cloth, an oil-mill quite new, for manufacturing flax feed oil,
a saw-mill, a distillery for distilling fpiritucus liquors out of
grain, with three stills and a large copper kettle for brewing
and mashing in, a malt-house and kiln, a tan-yard, baik
houfe and mill, with three or four hundred hides now in tan,
a smith's fo.op with two sets of good tools, a good storehouse
and warehouse, and 2 number of other con venient out-houses.
m—And also several other trails of land, on some of wh ch
are valuable improvements. The terms will be made ealy
by allowing the purchaser his own tune of payment for most
of the money, on giving bond with approved security, and
paying interest from the date.
ALL Persons indebted to the late Thomae Middleton of
Cro^field, Efa; deceased, are hereby requested to dis
charge the fame, and those to whom he was any wife indebt
ed, tv fend in their demands properly altered.
Elizabeth Middleton, Executrix
Robert Gibbes, °)%
^ohn De>3, ^Ex^utore,
• Ralph Izard, jun. J
THE Subferiber will attend at bis own Houfe,'on Sehth
Bay ; e/ery day (except suDday) from 8 to 10 in the
morning, and from 3 to sin the afternoon, to receive sub
scriptions, or monies on loan to the United S ates, and to re
ceive bills of the emissions of May 10, 1777, and irh of
April 1778, agreeable to the Resolutions of Congress of
29th of ,une, and 2d of %ly 1,70.
Pursuant to th last Will and Teflament of Daniel
Ravenel, deceased, quill be fold on Thursday the
lift ^September, ^779> before our Store near the
Exchange.
A TRACT of DAND containing 3000 acres, more or
less, situated in the fork between Broad and Saludy
rivers, on the waters of Bush river, joining to the northward
on lands on William Nealy, Michael Wilton, —Miller
and others, to the east on William Gray and Samuel Ford,
to the south on Thomas Clark and vacant land. Condition
ready Money.
Henry Ravenel,, „
T) A NIVT < kXeCUtOrSQ
UANIEL KAVENEL,}
AL S 0,.
A TRACT of 575 acres in the fork of the Congaree a,
Wateree rivers, bounding N.W. part on Edmund Coffees,
Efqr's land and part on land unknown, S.W. on land laid
out to Edward Jones, S.E. and N.E. on David Jackfon'g
land.
LIKEWISE,
A TRACT of 1030 acres in St. George's Parith,
Dorchester, joining lands of David Rumph, James Ford,
Robert Axtell, and Aaron and William Way.
Plats of the above lands may be seen in our hands.
Also, A Trad of Land of 600 Acres situate in Craven
County, bounding N. W. on Lands of Mr. Cordes, and
on all other fide# vacant at the Time of the Purvey in 1771,
Webb and Bentham.
Early and Caraway.
THOMAS HART.
William Gibbes.