The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-02-05 00:00:00, page 1

THE injuries which the Subscriber has fuftam
ed by a late Verdi& which obliged him to
pay /666:12. to Mr. Ralph, followed by an award
of £ 2O 7 : G to Mr. Steedman, betides a Suit Aill
intended to be commenced against him, for a much
larger fam by Mrs. Lingafd, as Mr. Wyatt's
representative; will apologize to a GENEROUS
PUBLIC for troubling them with Extracts of the
following Letters: which he hopes will throw a
new light on that affair.
London, 12 Nov. 1781*
SIR,
Upon looking over the Charleston Gazette, some
days ago, I observed a fait had been detided a
gaintt you in favor of Ralph and Dyzell, for a
quantity of Mahogany fold by you, upon a militaiy
order after the capitulation. Messrs. Ralph,Wyatt,
and Steedman, who were jointiv concerned, em
powered me to seek redress here, for the fame Ma
hogany, and upon application to Col. M- , pre
vious to any commencement of a JProfecution, he
proposed to leave the matter to Arbitration, which
I readily assented to, when the sum of £550. was
'awarded for ample bompenfatiod thereof.
To Mr. R. Norris.
(Signed) R. W. POWELL
As it has been industriously insinuated that the
ouofcriber had flipped this Mahogany on his own
Account; and as one Mr. Newton, son to the late
Lritifh Paymaster, and now an afiftant at the Poss
Guice in this City, made Oath, that this Mahogany
was cleared out at the Cullom Ho^fe by rhe Sub
scriber; which testimony, the' contradicted by the
evidence of his Clerk, hadfto inconsiderable weigh
both with the Bench and Jury; the. Subscriber, in
purification of his Character, lays before the im
partial Public, the following Extract of Mr.
M Murrays letter, the Gentleman v/ho bought
the Mahogany in question.
£ c ^ Auguftme, 25 Oft.
SIR,
I applied to Mr. Ruffei to fee if the Cullom
House Books had been left with him, but find they
are not: if my Affidavit can be of service [ shall
fend it, which will evidently prove, you had neither
interest nor concern with it, farther than deliver
ing it to me, and that it was not Shipped on your
Recount, nor were you to receive any benefit from
it. Sould such a voucher prove of service to you,
advise as soon as poflible, that it may be forwarded.
To Mr. R. Norris.
(Signed) JAMES M'MURRAY;
. The Originals of the above may be seen at thb
Printer's.
, ~ . ROBERT NORRIS.
Charlson, Feb. 2, 1784.
To be S O I, D,
By PRIVATE SALE,
A Good BRICK STORE, with a dommodi
-0 cm dwelling House behind it, being Na. 16, in
Traore,, a central part of the to„ n , and a n „ft
eligible fixation for bufineft.-Lik^ift ^ airy, plea,
fant, new Brick Dwelling House in Tradd.fr, lately
occuped by M^ Foiheringh^.-Alfo a few value,
ble House NEGROES u be fold; for particulars
apply to r
Robert Norris.
THE Subferiber intending .%o;tly to leave this
State, desires ad perlons indebted to him, or to
Currie & Norris, by bond, note or open account, to
call and fettle the fame before th? 9% day of March
next enh,g, or other^ife he will b under the necessi
ty of putting his Papers into the hand* of n Attorney.
Robert Norris,
Feb. z, 1784. No. 5, Bedon's.alley.
THE
GA Z E T T E
OF THE
STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON: Printed for A. TIMOTHY, No. too, Meeting, street.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, ^B4.
LONDO N.
WITHIN these few days the
baffador has received infhmfyons to memori
alize the Court of Great Britain, on the nect ffity of
immediately concluding a new commercial Treaty,
which ^U^L&Lr In Consequence of
these ioftru&on^uie Portuguese Ambassador had
a f OD ' er ence with our Ministers ; but From what
has hitherto tra^fpired, it does not appear probable
that the interview was attended with any fatisfac
rion. '" °' u th, the nature of the bufoefs implies
a political dilemma ; for if the feftnAions on the
trade of Ireland Should be removed by treaty, the
export trade of this country with Portugal must be
ruined ; and if the reftricfions are got removed, a
rupture with Ireland may probably ensue.
The County of Down, in Ireland, have palled
a Resolution in favour of Ejection by billet.
It was reported yeßerday in the city, that Or
ders from the privy council were Tent over to Ire
land, in the course of sass ^eek, to disarm the
volunteers.
Volunteering, in Ireland, has come.ro such a
s"'''' that no petlon can walk in the, public llreets
in Dublin, without a Cockade, hue he is most
grofly insulted ; and, indeed, we shall entertain
but a very indifferent opinion of the spirit and abi
lities of admihißration, if they do wt put a flop to
tie anatthy and confu^on now prevailing in that
country..
A letter from. Madeira site, that a large Ameri
can fliip piwin there to taft in wines, and then to
proceed to the E'aft-Indie:, in order to open a
trade to thole part's; flie is the firft lip the Am
ericans have lent out for that trade.
Oft. 2<. The Dublin Evening Poss by yesterday's
mail mentions, that the Irilh have demanded in
their uliftary councils, total independence. Ihe
report cannot de credited, because cdr Iriffi Cor
fefpondents jocosely mentions that the die of Dogs,
the isle or 1/an, Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and
tie ille of W ight, have demanded and infilled upen
the fint terms.
From the Dublin Evening Poss; Soft. 2^,
If we may judge of the future from the Sait
reoves of provincial aflembhes, the meeting of
Ballinahoe will be important to posterity. The
literary elegance and fpiiit breathing in Connaught
conventions are already in high esteem with the
patriots and literati of the times. Dungannon has
chalked ,nt the line to be pursued. Ballinafoe has
already lacredly followed that greiif original of na
tional falvarioh. and October will convince all Ire
land, that unanimous independence will char &crife
the concurring willies ofa kingdom determined to
be free."
Extras of a letter from Z D. Ne^v York;
OR. j, 1783.
" I arrived from Jamaica with a detachment of
the 84th regiment, about 14 days ago, and heartily
congratulate you ori your delivery front a capture
equally cruel and unprecedented, which I under
hand was requeued by the humane W—n, when
at Rhode Iflabd. The cruelty and insolence of the
Americans will not aHonifh you after yotir Offerings;
but it is truly astonishing, that any description pf
men could believe them capable of generosity honor
or public faith. The loyalists have little to hope,
from the Preliminary Articles in their favour. On
this account Nova Scotia will lecrive 50,000 inha
bitants, which American and Shelburnean poli
tics have expelled from their dwellings. I have
cobverfed with Lieut. Colonel AJq the 'ev.
Mr. vV r, and others, who have retu ed
from viewing that land, and am happy to hear *e
good accounts they give of it. The approach^,
feaion, in spite of all their indtiftry, must rendet
their winter quarters uncomfortable, but murder,
maiming, whipping, robbery, and all the variety of
mcbbilh insults and contempt, from bloodthirsty
Republicans, are infinitely more dreadful. Twa
men of a provincial regiment were lately mod in
humanly whipped in the Jerfies, and obliged to
pay the miscreants four dollars for the use of the
•h^^becaule they were new. Their commitee*
nave re-afurred their infernal power, and anarchy
and poverty universally p evail among the malignant
breed of indep ndants. Is it not attonifhing that
the inhabitants of Great Britain should emigrate to
a land like this ? High arid low seem to be ignorant
of the nature of this savage country, and the dia
bolical genius of the people." \ 1
Whenever the shock of accidents shall have so far
operated on the policy of America, as to have
fydematized and fettled the Government—it is ob-
Y'° u ” ?, n ^ certain, that the .Dilator, Protestor,
Stakeholder, or by whatever name the Chief Ma
giGrafe so appointed, shall be called, will be Gene
ral Vy aldington.
% General Gre ne, it was thought by many people,
would have a charice for the Supreme Ration in his
native country; but this idea erroneously over
rates Mr. Greene's merit, which never was fany
thing more than t^a^ of a mere soldier, sanguine,
en erprifmg, and intrepid, and which of course is
thoroughly regarded and requited, if it raises Ge
neral Greene to the head of the war department in
'America.
, she expectations of grhat enlargements in our
American trade, are found to be far from realized
in practice. It is now discovered, that by the way
bf Canada, arid other circuitous channels which the
war had never cFzfed, tire market was all along
{efficiently served with the commodities of Europe;
and from the abundant and unnecefl'aty increase of
their supply, the whole market is now over-Rocked
exceffivelfc
The mutability of time andfhance is ordained
to effect every object beneath the fun, and none
more than the fates of crowns and feeptres. Thus,
ior instance, the Emperor, some seven years past,
was among the idolatries of the French, and no%
few foreign powers are less popular at Paris.
If any thing fald happen to the King as Prussia,
who, die when he may, will not leave behind him
any thing like a compeer in true glory, a Ger
man war will be a very probable confequenee:
D^^ic, Pomerania, Silesia, may each be confi
fide^ed as a fermenting principle of great potency.
Congrds haie voted General Greene io,oooL
for his Services during the war, and the State of
South Carolina have given him five more to com
pieat the purchase of an estate there, betides which
he is laid to be very rich.
. ™ Jobnßon (not the Lexicographer) said, that,
in Sickn^f there were three Things material—the
Phyfraan, the Disease, and the Patient; and if
any two of these joined, then they get the Vi&ory.
'r^r ^hyßcian and the patient join, down goes
the Disease—is the Physician and the Disease join,
down goes the Patient—but if the Patient and the
Dileale join, then down goes tlie Physician.
Letters from different parts of America agree,"
that ln forming commercial connexions, the people
of that continent are exceedingly cautious of the
Dutch, who have difgufcd them by innumerable
impbutions, and by intifting on payriient upon the
delivery of goods, even after agreeing to allow
credit. The forgery bj a Briton.
We are aflured that an express is sent off to Ire
land, authoriling the Lord-Lieutenant of that king
to public assurances, if the Rate of affairs
.aA lender that measure necessary or expedient,
that every possible measure will be ptirfued by the
^°) Irnment at home, for removing every tattle of
public difeontent.
..' h ^ fixate which 1$ ordered to carry oter the^
coevals to ^America is almost completed at Dept
ford, and will be ready in about ten days, to receive
them on board.
Paine, the excellent author of Common
Serifs i§, we are told a preparing a hiftqjy of the
No. 2188.