The South-Carolina weekly gazette — Charlestown [i.e. Charleston, S.C.], 1783-04-12 00:00:00, page 2

From the MORNING HERALD.
To the Earl of SHELBURNE.
My Lord,
I CAN by no means entertain so base and injurious
an dpinion of your Lordlhip, as to imagine that
,you advised or promoted that impolitic and destruc
tive measure, the declaration of American Independ
ence. No, my Lord, I have too great an opinion
of your wisdom and integrity, of your political ta
lents and national virtues, to suppose you guilty of
such a breach of the indifpenfible duty of your
profeffion.
1 think, my Lord, many of your associates now in
office, pledged their honour to restore this diftraded
•ountry to its former glory and prosperity ; in con
sequence of which they were supported and desired
by the people, and approved and accepted by their
sovereign ; expecting they would fulfill their decla
ration, and bring about the happy event to this dis
tressed country. But, has this administration been
productive of such glorious consequence ?, Have they
aded conformable either to the desires or expecta
tions of the people? No; on the contrary, measures
that they have promoted, are the moll pernicious to
our prosperity of any that could be projected ; and if
they are fuffered to be projected by popularity, they
Certainly will prove the basis of our final deftruftion ;
they will leave a mark of ingratitude, which will at
tend our names to the latest generation, and proclaim
the violated charades of Britons to the most remote
parts of the world.
Let the men who concerted these vile means fland
forth in vindication of their conduCt ; let them deny
that they have not brought perpetual difhonour to
this noble and admired nation ; and promoted mea
sures which may work her utter ruin ; let them assign
their reasons for declaring America independent,
giving away the rights of the people, without their
consent and approbation ; and fee if they will assert
that we will not, nor cannot, carry on the war to
diminish the power of our envious and presuming
enemies, and crush the head of imperious rebellion.
They cannot, my Lord, it is absolutely impossible
for them, to give a deep colour of justice to their
proceedings. They have not the least merit to the
appellation of Englishmen ; they have rejected that
emblem of mercy, the ever glorious characteristic of
Englishmen: Those brave and loyal men in Ame
rica, who, prompted by a tender affection for their
sovereign, and esteem for their mother country, re
linquished their all, and risked their life for the prof
parity of this nation ; men who possessed the emo
luments of character peculiar to Britons, they would
expose to the mercy of implacable and malicious
villains, who are opposing the laws of God and na
tions. Forbid this rash measure, my Lord—call
back that ingratitude, that ignominy now difeovering
itfelf to the world ; —impede the source of calamities
tow threatening to overflow Europe, and gain for
your memory, the universal plaudits of posterity.
When I fiift read Sir Guy Carleton's letter, with
the offer of independence to America, I immediately
remembered a passage in Fenning's Geography,
which has the following sentence. " The time may
" arrive when America may be the feat of mighty
«empires, and be renowned for cities as extensive as
" Babylon, and beautiful as Athens and Palmyra."
I fear, my Lord, the time is now approaching, when
Britain's hostile fleets no more Shall deck the exten
sive ocean, and scatter fear to distant nations; when
her thunder Shall no more roll on India's frighted
Shore, and proclaim the approach of her terrible and
irrefiftable heroes to dismay multitudes ; when her
commerce Shall fall, and her eternal decline com
m^^ ! Even all Europe will fed the growing pow-
-CHARLESTOWN, April 1%
SATURDAY last a brig failed for Salem, and a
schooner for Boston, in whom went passenger,
Mrs. Lyon, of this town.
Since our last four flags have arrived here from
St. Augustine.
• The following vessels have arrived here since our
last from North-Carolina, viz. Schooher John, James
Cochran, with turn and pork ; fcheoner Eagle, Ben
jamin Leaycraft, with pork ; schooner Polly, David
Salftone, with indian corn; schooner Kitty, James
Vail, with pork and Raves ; and (loop Four Friends,
Robert Johnston, with pork and rum.'
MARRIED.] Last Tuesday evening, Thomas
Middleton, Esq; to Miss Nancy Manigault,
daughter of the Hon. Peter Manigault, Esq; de
ceased.—Capt. Francis Hill, to Miss Sally
Fair, daughter of Mr. William Fair, Merchant.
DIED.] Last night, in the bloom of life, after a
lingering illness, which she bore with uncommon pa
tience and resignation, Miss JENNY Jones, of this
town, a young lady esteemed through life by a nu
merous acquaintance, who now sincerely laments her
death.\
Sweet as the favourite offfpring of the May,
Serenely mild and innocently gay;
Adorn'd with all that nature could impart
To please the fancy, and to gain the heart :
Yet not her virtues opening into bloom,
Nor all her sweetness fav'd her from the tomb—
Ye thoughtless fair ! her early death bemoan,
And while you mourn her fate, expeß your own.
er of independent America, and the unpunished per
fidy of ambitious France.—Then will Surrounding
nations regret that they did not lend an helping hand
to the nation, who is the bulwark of their commerce,
and taught them arts, which they so unjustly with
hold from her assistance.
1 need @ repeat to your Lordlhip any advantage#
to be reaped from America being dependent on this
crown; you have yourfelf declared, that “ the fun
of Great- Britain will set the moment She is declared
independent;" therefore you surely will never com
ply with such a measure.
If there really are not resources in this nation
(which I cannot believe to be the case) to reduce
America to her former obdience, let only three or
four of the provinces be annexed to Great- Britain ;
and the other divided into two diftna republicks, to
pursue different interests and different alliances : then
the liberties of Europe would not be in danger ; but
the united powers of France and America, in forty
and fifty years time, would be fufficient to subdue all
Europe ; and we cannot expert, from pfefent ap
pearances, but that they will continue in close alli
ance.—How will it found in the ears of posterity,
that it was Britain I inglorious Britain ! that Suffered
the feeds of the misfortunes of Europe, to grow in
her dominions ?—Will not future ages most bitterly,
most vehemently exclaim against her ?—Nay, will
they not curse the names of those men who advised
the measures, that brought on such calamty.
The people, my Lord, look up to you for the
Support of their honours and rights ?—then let not
their just expectation be difa ppointed—aft, becoming
the dignity and duty of your profeffion; and enrol
your name in the annals of honour with that of
Chatham. P ORTI U S.
To be fid at private Sale, by the Subferibers, at their
Vendue Store, No. 107, Broad street,
A Parcel of elegant and ufeful HOUSHOLD
FURNITURE, confiding of
A Mahogany Bureau and Book Case, with
Glass Doors
One Dozen Chairs, and two armed ditto, Hair
Bottoms nailed over
Two Pair of oval Looking Glaffcs, and z Pair
of Girandoles, with ornamental gilt Frames
A Settee
A ditto Bedstead, with printed Cotton Furniture
Glass Clandlefticks
Two elegant Fire Grates, with Shovel, Tongs,
Poker, &c.
A Screen
A handsome Carpet
Mahogany Dining, Card & Side-board Tables
An elegant Chest of Drawers & Writing Desk.
Also, a Horse Chair.
They have also to dispose of, Weft India Rum
in Hogsheads, old Jamaica Spirits fit for any Table
in small handy Calks, Port Wine in Quartercasks of
an extra Quality, Cocoa, and a few Calks of very
fine Orange Juice.
WEBB & BOUNETHEAU.
To be fold by public Outcry, on Thursday the 24th Day
of April instant, at our Vendue Store,
A Young, likely NEGRO MAN, who is a com
pleat bricklayer. Six months credit will be
given. WEBB & BOUNETHEAU.
In the House of Representatives, March 18, 1785.
ORDERED,
THAT the Lift of Justices for the State of
South-Carolina, be published in the Gazettes.
By Order of the House,
JOHN-SANDFORD DART, C. H. R.
A Lift of JUSTICES for the State
of South-Carolina.
Jufices of the Quorum.
Richard Beresford, Arnoldus Vanderhorft, Josiah
Smith, Will. Scott, fen, Joseph Atkinson, Da
vid Oliphant, Will. Arthur, Edward Blake, Le Roy
Hammond, John Thomas, John Thomas, jun. Cert.
Henry Hampton, Col. Rich. Richardson, Tho. Powe,
D;yid Ramfy, Joseph Palmer, Triftram Thomas,
Stephen Snikh, Phikmon Waters, John Moore, John
Berwick, John Mathews, Thomas Bee, General Wil
liam Henderson, Peter Jacquet, Benjamin Waring,
John Lloyd, 'Morton Wiikinfon, Paul Trapief, Sa
muel Smith, Samuel Watson, John Poftell, Patrick
Calhoun, Simon Berwick, John Winn, Col. Frederick
Kimball, John-Lewis Gervais, Ralph Izard, fen. Ben
jamin Smith (Goofecreek) Col. William Harden, Wil
liam Thompson, fen. Robert Baxter, William Robin
son, Thomas Waring, fen. Henry Pendleton, ^danus
Burke, Lewis Golfon, John Wyld, William-Hazell
Gibbes, Daniel Defauffare, Hugh Rutledge, General
Francis Marion, General John Barnwell, Jonathan
Sarrazin, William Parker, Cornelius Dupont, General
Andrew Pickens, Thomas Brandon, Levy Casey, Tho
mas Sumpter, Claudius Pegues, fen. John Rutledge,
Jacob Read, Anthony Simons, William Logan, Rich
ard A. Rapley, Hugh Horry, John-Fauchereaud
Grimke, John-Ewing Calhoun, Thomas Heyward,
William Myers, John Vanderhorft, Esquires.
'Jufices of the Peace for Charlefown-Diftria.
John-Sandford Dart, William Print,.Charles Li
&% ^^ ^9!% i^ Daniel Mazyek, John Hall,
Dr. Garg# Haig, George tiviagto, ’Beijimli SL
mens, Joseph Waring, Benjamin Villeponteaux, Wil
liam Mason, George-Abbott Hall, John Pringle, Tho#
mas Hall, Alexander Gillen, John Mitchell,Melchior
Garner, Robert Johnson, Walter Izard, John Troup,
John Vanderhorft, John Owen, George Shced, James
M'Call, Peter Bounetheau, Joseph Slann, Cel. Wil.
liam Washington, Hopfon Pinckney, John Joor, Eli.
Iha Haul, Mathias Hutchinson, William Eckles, Tho
mas Fuller, Thomas Hutchinson, Archibald Scett,
Benjamin Poftell, Richard Singellton, Alexander Mac
Queen, Peter Porcher, John Boone, Thomas Harris,
Thomas Giles, John Hanahan, William Scott, jun.
Thomas Boone, John Glaze, Daniel Stewart, Col.
Joseph Glover, Abraham Weight, jun. Benjamin El
liott, Richard Hutfon, Thomas Hutchinson, jun. CoL
John Sanders, John Ward, Peter Youngblood, Cle
mons Brown, Daniel Horry, Daniel Dwight, Alex
ander Broughton, Richard Gough, Ephraim Mitchell,
James Neilfon, William Dewit, William Blake, Major
Benjamin Smith, Daniel Townsend, fen. Thomas Farr,
James Witter, Philip Smith, John Logan, Charles
Glover, Isaac legate, Richard Withers, John Frier
fon, Zachariah Villepontoux, Charles Gaillard, Joh<
Palmer, EfquireQ
Juflices of the Peace for Ninety-Six Diftria.
John Ewing Calhoun, William Moore, John Mur
ray, John Harrington, Hugh Wardlow, Will. Luckie,
Reuben Piles, Jonathan Downes, Edward Wadling
ton, William Howfeal, Michael Leitner, Robert
Hanna, Benjamin Kilgore, George Anderson, John
Moore, James Jordan, William Kennedy, Mathew
Patton, William Tate, Robert Anderson, Arthur
Simpkins, BenjaminTutt, John Bowie, Solomon Pope,
Col. John Lindsey, Bartlet Salterwhite, Henry Gin
dratt, Williara Malone, William Wadlington, James
Caldwell, Charles Saxfon, Robert M'Crary, John
Hunter, John Sturzenegger, Samuel M'Junkin, Wil
liam Farr, Joseph M'junkin, John Purves, Hugh
Middleton, John Fraser, Andrew Hamilton, Thomas
Hamilton, John Williams, Robert Gillum, George
Roof, Robert Rutherford, Major Thomas Gordon,
George Ross, James Montgomery, William Wilson,
Ralph Smith, Henry White, Samuel Otterfan, John
Hale, Baylis Earle, John Ford (of Enoree) James
Harrison, John Thompson, Charles Sims, John Bla
fing,me, David Hopkins, Nathaniel Spraggins, Efqrs.
Judices of the Peace for Camden Diftria.
Col. Samuel Watson, Col. William Bratton, CoL
William Hill, James Wilson, John Adier, Dr. James
Knox, David Hopkins, William Reeves, Joel M'Le,
more, James Craig, Andrew Allison, Philip Walker,
Col. John James, David Rogers, George Wade,
WilliamWelfh, William Tate, John Hampton, Joseph
Palmer, John M'Caw, Malcolm Henry, James Thorn
fon, Charles Miles, Thomas Baker, Joseph Brown,
William Mears, William Scott, Ainos Davis, Andrew
Kemphill, John Hitchcock, William Martin, William
Murrell, Andrew Softer, Robert Montgomery, fen.
Timothy Reeves, John Buchanan, iFrame Wood,
Joseph Howe, David Leech, Edward Lacey, Charles
Picket, Philip Pearson, John M'Cool, James Tayl%
John M'Kimmy, William Lang, John M'Clenchan,
John Cantey, Roger Wilson, Barrel Boyakin, Jog
Lowrey. Enquires.
fufticet of the Peace for Orangeburgb Difria.
William Dunbar, Jonas Beard, John Fraser, Darrit
Hart, Charles Myddleton, Bartlet Brown, Henry
Felder, William Heatley, Philip Frierfon, Lewis
Golfon, Henry Patrick, Richard Tradaway, Michael
Leitner, Jacob Rumph, Malcome Clarke, John Par
kinson, Thomas Sabb, Enquires.
Justices of the Peace for Georgetown Difria.
Col. Peter Horry, Philip Betha, Jeremiah Allan;
John Graham, Major John Warden, Francis Allfton,
James Johnston, Dr. John Buchanan, James Jones,
Alexander M'C'rea, James Grier (Pedee) Samuel
Dwight, John Waties, fen. Jehu Poftell, Tho. Potts,
Joseph Graves, John Baxter (of Kingston) Robert
Scotr, Gavin Witherfpooh, Nathaniel Dwight,
thony White, Enquires.
fuflices of the Peace for Beaufort Difria.
Col. William Stafford, John Buche, Andrew Ag.
new, Thomas Hutfon, James Smith, Paul Porcher^
Col. James Thompson, Joseph Brailsford, William
Norton, William Ross, William Devcaux, Btipjamte
Garden, Esquires.
Jufices of the Peace for Cheraw Diftria.
Triftram Thomas, Claudius Pegues, jun. William
Pegues, Charles Evans, Robert Lyde, George Pawley
George Hicks, Charles Irby, William Strother, Mo°
fee Pearson, Peter Allfton, Richard Brockington, Jen
feph Pledger, Morgan Brown, Benjamin faction;
Lam. Benton, Elias Dubofe, Zach. Nettles, Esquires 9
TO BE LE T,
And may be Entered on immediately,
That commodious STORE in Queen,
Greet, No. 1, near the Bay, well fituated' for trade.
Enquire at No. 49, in said Greet, to
WILLIAM PHILLIPS/
W A NT E D,
As an Apprentice to the Printing Bufineffy,
A smart, a&ive L A D,
About fourteen years of age, who can read and write
tolerably well, and is of a goed &h@ra&cr; on °'h«
wilfbe takes.