The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-12-06 00:00:00, page 2

American Intelligence.
N EW- Y ORK,%. 7.
lASTI AST week the Hon. John Jay, Esq. came
^ to this city from the family feat at Rye, and
on Monday received the following address from
the corporation, viz.
Torthe Honorable JOHN JAY, Esq. late one of the
Miniflers Plenipotentiary of the United States of
America, for negotiating a peace.
SIR, . # W
BE pfeafed to accept the congratulations of the
Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of
New-York, on your fafe return to the place .of
your nativity.
The revolution which hath secured our liberties
&independence,will not be more celebrated for the
illustrious events which have marked its progress,
Than for the roll of flatefmen and heroes, by whose
wisdom and valour, under the divine favour, it
hath been established on the most solid balls.
Among those worthy patriots, you, Sir, are high
ly didinguifhed^—in our own convention, in our
firft feat of jußice,'as a member and as President of
the United States in Congress assembled—and as a
Minister Plenipotentiary, both in Spain and France
: —you have executed the important trulls commit
ted to you, with wifdem, hrmnefs and integrity;
and have acquired universal applause!
While you thus possess the national confidence
and esteem for a series of en'inqnt services, we,
your fellow-citizens, feel a Angular pleasure in em
bracing this opportunity to present you with the
freedom of your native city, as a public testimony
of the refpe&ful sentiments we Entertain towards
you, and as a pledge of our affection, and of our
sincere wishes for your happiness.
By Order of the Common Council,
JHMES DUANE, Mffo
Atze-York, Oct. 4, 17841
To which Mr. Jay was pleated to make the follow
ing Answer.
To the Worfnipful the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com
monalty of the City of New-York.
* Gentlemen,
ACCEPT my warmest thanks fob ybur affetrio
nate congratulations on my return to my native
country; and for the particular mark of approba
tion, with which you have honoured my endea
vours to do my duty in promoting its welfare. I
conhder the day, on which I againlanded on these
shores, as one of the happiest with which an in
dulgent Providence has blellcd me ; and that fatis
faßion was increased by finding my fellow-citizens
in the enjoyment of public tranquility and private
security, under the auspices of ifiagihrates, who
had given early attention to both.
I cannot omit this opportunity or offering to you;
Gentlemen, my congratulations on our having ob
tained the objeds of a war, in the toutfe of which
America in general, and this part of it in particu
lar, displayed exemplary magnanimity and perse
verance; and exhibited to the world the lingular
fpe&acle of a patriot army of citizens, peaceably
•retiring with their great and good chief, crowned
with laurels and the blessings of the people, to fill
the various Rations of private life.
If we cultivate the virtues and observe the policy
requisite in peace, with the attention paid to those,
which, (with the blessing of heaven) gave success
to the war—if our views be national—our union
preserved—our faith kept—war, however impro
bable, provided for—knowledge diffufed—and our
federal government rendered efficient, we cannot
fail to become a great and happy people.
This being a land of light and liberty, I bless
God, that it is the land of my nativity. Here my
forefathers fought and found freedom and tolera
tion. I am bound to it by the strongest ties, and
as its happiness has been the firft object of my en
deavours from early life,fo the mod fervent wishes
for its prosperity shall be among those of my latest
hours.
JOHN JAY."
CHARLESTON,
DECEMBER 6, 1784.
FRIDAY evening the declaration was made of
the ballot for members of the Senate and HouTe
©f Rcprefentatives for the metropolis, at the present
general Election, when the following Gentlemen
were declared duly elected, viz.
For the Senates
Hon. Daniel Bourdeaux, Esq.
Hon. Daniel Defaullure, Esq.
dor the House of Representatives,
Henrv Laurens
Isaac Motte
Da% id Ramsay
Josiah Smith
John Edwards, fen#
Edward Darrell
George Flagg
Isaac Holmes
Anthony Toomer
C.Cotefworth Pinckney
Thomas Gadsden
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Pinckney
Alexander Gillon
Alexander Moultrie
Benjamin Guerard
William Johnson
John Mathews
TEdanus Burke
Thomas Jones
John F. Grimke
Hugh Rutledge
John Blake
Edward Lightwood
J<tcob Read
Richard Lufhington
John Lewis Gervais
Richard Beresford
Thomas Shubrick
Gen. William Moultrie
For St. George's Parfl, F^ckefcr.
, Hon. David Oliphant, Esq. Senator.
Members of the House of Representatives.
Last Wednesday arrived here the City of Charle
ston, Capt. Hill, from London, with whom came
paffcngers—Mr. and Mrs. Bold, Mr. and Mrs. M'
Cleur, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Hartley, Mr. Duf
fey, Mr. Maubray, Mr. Innis, Mr. Harris, Mr.
Lamblcy, Mr. Frice, Mr. Blakeley, Mr. Lee, jun.
and a great number of others.
Yesterday came into the road the Britahnia,
Capt. Ball, from London, full of passengers.
Likewifaa ship from Jamaica.
Last Wednesday departed this life, in this city,
M'r. John Crane, late of the Orphan House in
Georgia, who was truly pious in life, and happy
in death. ~
Married--Yesterday evening, Do&or Henry Col
lins Flagg, to Mrs. Allfton—And lass Thursday
evening, Mr. Cornelius du Pre, to Mrs. Mary
Hartley, of this city.
Wonderful Thoughts by the Rev. Rest Knipe, Lec
turer on Education, at Edinburgh.
STRANGE as it miy seem, there was a time be
fore all times; when there was no day, but the
" antient of days;" no good, but God; no light,
but the "father of lights; when arts were but ideas;
the heavens, a book in folio; the earth, one in
quarto, and men and angels but capital letters in
the margin of Godis thought!
T ire more David meditates on Man, the more he
admires ; the more he admires, the mere he afirs;
the more lie asks, the greater his talk; till mirror
is changed into terror, and every glance into a
trance.
The body of man is the foul's castle, the month
is the entrance, the lips are a double leaved doot,
the teeth a portcullis or ivory gate, the tongue is
the porter at the gate of that lofty power. ° Man
may be viewed as a microcosm, or little world.
A resemblance appears between the liver and the
ocean ; the veins and the lesser rivers, the breath
and the air; our natural heat and the warmth of the
air; our radical moidure and the fatnefs of the
earth ; Our knowledge and the light; our eyes and
the two great luminaries. The beauty of youth is
like the flower of the spring; the thoughts of our
minds are like the motions of angels; our four
complexions referable the four elements; and our
seven ages the seven planets. What was man in
rule and dominion? He was Emperor of the whole
earth, Admiral of the whole sea, the heir ofEden,
and peer of Paradise. Take him in another view,
and his life is a mere farce, or comic tragedy. The
prologue is delivered within the curtains of the
womb; the prolepfis in his birth and cradle; the
epitafis in his mirth and gaiety; death is the cata
flrophe; the grave his wardrobe. His leu ^ ; .
F r 3h fohn's Parift, Berkley County.
Hon. Brigadier-General Francis Marion, Senator.
Members of the House of Representatives.
Richard Hutfon
Thomas O. ElLott
Benjamin Elliott
Thomas Ferguson
Thomas Bee
Rdger-Parker Saunders
John Boone
Josiah Toorier
John Rutledge
Thomas Shubrick and Clement Brown; Efqrs;
had equal votes.
For St. Andrew's Parish.
Hon. Lieut. Colonel William Scott, Senator;
Members of the House of Reprefntatives.
Hon. William Moultrie
Richard Gough
Thomas Childs
John Matthews
John Glaze
Dr. — Tucker.
Ralph Izard,
William Smith
Jolin Parker, jun.
William Johnson and Peter Pacot, ETqrsrhad
equal votes.
For Chrzfl-Church Parifli.
Hon. Arnoldus Vanderhorft, Esq. Senator.
Members for the House of Rebrefentatives.
John' Hannahan
Fierce Butler
Thomas Legare
John Huger
Edward Thomas
Edwafd Harleßoh
Joseph Stephens
William Ferguson
William Fifhburn
St. James's Parift, Goofe-Cretk.
Hon. Alexander Fraser, Esq. Senator.
Members of the House of Representatives.
For St. Paul's Parish.
Hon. Morton Wilkinson, Esq. Senator.
Members of the Douse of Reprrfentatita.
For St. fohn's Parifa Colleton County.
Hon. Daniel Jenkins, Esq. Senator.
Members of the House of Rebrefentatives.
For St. Thomas's Parish
Hoti. Jofepli Atkinson, Esq. Senator;
Members of the House of Rcprefentatives.
St. Bartolomey's Parish.
Hon. John Lloyd, Esq. Senator.
Members of the House of Representatives.
George Hag
jofeph Slann
Nathaniel Farr
Stephen Fogartie
Louis Fogartie,
Daniel Bourdeaux, Esq.
James Legare
Isaac Holmes
Thomas Hunfcome
William Hort
Plowden Mellon
Alexander Garden, jun.
Gabriel Manigault
Charles Drayton
Glen Drayton
- Rivers
Thomas Lad on
John Cato Fields
James Culliatt
William Moultrie, jun.
Matthias Hutchinloa
William 1 offell
Maurice Simons
Isaac Couterier
■ - M'Kelvie
Negroes. Owners
Na mes;
Sam Farr
Dick Maham
William Baxter
Dick Frickland
Sam Izard
London Kirkland
Joe Smith
Feter Mapfon
Sam McQueen
June Sheeftry
Simon Fuller
Mita Drake
Jack Cattell
Adam Huger
Abraham Lehefne
Waly Dickson
Jack Curtis
Sepny Pattei son
January, Bonneau
Monday Miles
Peter Smith
Boatswain Ashley
Simon Smith
Toby Smitli
Margaret Reach
John Wihn
Jack Holmes
Linias Stiles
Pompy Waters
Defter Miles
Prince Cooper
Jupiter Hawk
Sam Price
Noble Dupont
Scipio Palmer
Ned Weight
Jack Hopton
Samfori Bull
Prince M'Tier
Neptune Dupont
April King,
Prince Rivers
Ned Cochran
Jamie Steel
York Coachman
Sam Dorman
Quamina Robertson
Robin Droze
John Simons
Ilarry Mitchell
March M'Pherfon
Toby Smith
Sam Gigleman
Prince Watts
Cuffee Colin
Peter Singleton
Joe Foftcll
Vvafhing- Bed
ton
but a spar, Ins ftrergth is grass, his beauty ,
his droughts medreams, his body is a shadow, h^
fufh but a xopour, his glory a taper, which begin”
as a blubber, continues like a blaze, and ends with
a blafh
Grammar teaches us to fyeak tire language of our
own confufion. The frit part contains the true
orthography of our cares; the commas, colors, and
periods of our pahrons. Ihe lecord part unfolds
(our cafam diferimina) a thousand diversities of
dangers; accidents varied witli divers cases; with
genders of sorrow; engendering humberlefs dcclen
hons of that which is good. The third part displays
the mifcoriflruing of charity, in not concording
with equals, not governing inferiors, or not yield
ing to the government of our superiors. The lass
part of grammar is, an accenting of griefs, by fevc
-lal pricks in tne flefh: And a scanning of things
upon the fingers of reafon d to tickle'the car of
fancy.
What i^ rheto+rck? Each trbpe is a franflatioa
from purity to corruption; each climax climbs up
by degrees ofreneWed grief; each auxefis augments,
and each hyperbole makes up the height of human
hardship. What is logick? An art of reasoning t$
inform reason. Each predicament is a ladder of
human frailty, declaring the substance of our body
of death, the quantity and quality of our fin, flicw
ing where, when, and how every fin was commit
ted; demonftratirg causes-, and proving by in
duction the finnei's dHtruCtioni
The following is a Lif of Two Hundred and Forty-one
Negroes, that were taken off at the evacuation of
Charlfon, in one tranftorfhifo the Scimitar. The,
were put on board by Colonel Muncreef, and carried
to St. Lucia. Their families were a!fo carried off
at the fame time in different vessels.
(Concluded from our,Paper of Nov\ 22d.)
The P OWER of GOL 1).
CT OLD can smooth the Wrinkled brow,
T And give to coarfeH air a grace.
Gold on fools can wit beflow,
And perfect make the ugliest face.
Gold can age renew to youth,
And wafm to love the frozen heart ;
Make falfhood wear the face of truth.
And truth appear like art.
Gold the conqueror can subdue,
And raise to power the abjed Have;
Can vice itfelf with worth endue,
And honour give the vilcT knaves
Negroes. Owners
Names.
Scipio Smith
Cato Smitli
November Ward
Sandy Matthews
Torn Burgwin
John Caton
AbraharriFrickle
Gay Moore
Joe Holmes
Simori Cattell
Charly Motte
Prince Harris
Bristol Ladfon
Harry Shuftry
Ben Hawkins
Jack Sinclair
litus Johnson
Andrew Elliott
Tony Alston
Towrhill Matthews
Bristol Tompiat
Scipio do.
July do.
Gold Ferguson
John Stanyarne
Samson E.own
Simon Caton
Dick Moses
Sandy Cattell
Jack Waters
Mingo Smith
Tom Waters
William Bonneau
Cyrus Smith
I,Tandy Daws
John Caldwell
Joe Smith
James Saunders
Othclla Chestnut
Prince Smith
March Diffard
Hercules Sterling
Thomas Fuller
January Cattell
Diclt Singleton
Adam Webb
March Howard
lAbrahamI Abraham Clerk
James Smith
Frank Barnwell
John Rivers
Limrich Farr
Cato Jarvais
Sambo M'Pherfou
Jeffery Smitli
Cato Hampton
I'ctcr Saunders
Tony Smith
John Poftell