The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1783-11-06 00:00:00, page 2

gallon, I | Sugar-candy, | Moore-freet, Dry by sundry 111, c ar rf es ,d the Articles At of Alley, Port and Starch, , ties, of Madeira Wine fins, Potatoes, Goods No. too tedi- Onion Corner Sal- Hohbeck's and
BEGS ' I | bottles, andy Friends, | leave ditto, Tongues, mention, to inform petre, his in Cordials mm, in ditto, B rd, and in Salt, Macle ous to Neats Salt
M'Donald, Charles I following plain Souchong, Congo Cups | Sugar terms; Articles on the Coffee, Saucers, N. B. mol Reasonable Works Teas, The Iron Enamelled of a Machine and Bohea Cho~ coloured and and 1
Orange Juice, j Vinegar, Molalfes, ; Oil, Soap he Retails towect Flour, | that the G^een, ceneral. Butter, Tobacco, Candles, n pnhi; r ; ^ and Cream-
, I | ^^^ j Spirits, compkat, apply Sold, quality, Cyder Sugar Rum, amai CT Wed-India Difhe% to be as above. Ware, Gin colate Plates, in M fcovado Rar &c. Iron in Bot- of the belt , O^g^
L O ND O N, July 17.
A VESSEL is just arrived in the Thames, af
ter a short paffdge, from Baltimore, in Mary
laud, with tobacco, fh.x-feed, haves, &c. and we
are lorry tha 4 the accounts by her are not favourable
to there-admission into thaPflate cf any of the A
merican_ refugees and loyaiids, as we have had rea
lon to fchvve TroTn the nioderation and good fenle
of the people of the middle colonies. Very few
people, of citl^r diftio&ion or landed property, re
sorted to the Ilandard of loyalty, either fr^m that
Rate or Virginia; but foch as are,' have been pro
scribed by similar resolves among the leading people,
as has been the case in mog of the Northern colo
nies, and rather put forth-as an intimidation to
Congress, not to recommend them to mercy, as
ihputeed id the provisional articles of pertce.
tetrad ot a letter from Lisbon July 8.
" A treaty between Portugal add the United
States of America is new in agitation, but it will
probably be several months before it is accompli!) ed,
as the court will be directed in a great measure by
the treaties negociating at Paris, for the regulation
of Anu rican commerce ewith *he mother butoptan
powers."
August §. The' arms and seal of the-new-Bank
of Ireland (tire impreflion of which is foil finished)
are Hibernia bearing a crown fas a lymbol of her
-independence) ah anchor in her hand (to dhew that
her trad- is free) at the tap are thefeteerds, The
fan! of Ireland, - and under tbe'anthor, Bona
fits refubic^fidAßfas: This device and motto
were formed >ar the request of tiA tommi(lioners)
by George hdmund Howard, Efq;' who was the
parent and- fobeier of that bank ; he firft proposed
it to government, and l to the nation, and he after
wards formed And 'digested the plan, upon which
it h^s been cftablifhed.
v Augud ig. The French have played theifeafds
so well with the Turks as to engross thicefourths of
their trade to themlelves; they" keep consuls "in
melt of the principal towns, and cultivate their
frienc'fhip on every occasion. Lithe article of eloath
ing, wrich tiled to be top,lied by ois country, the
French underfill us so much, that hardly anything
bat -renchchrth is worn in the Furkiffi empire.
It is laid that the^king has a complaintfwhich has
hung about him so long that both Dr 'Warren and
Sir Apah I homas have advifedfht baths of Bar ges,
-in the Pyrenees; but the king, whenever ifhas been
mentioned, has cried, flhaw, R\isrimptfiiblc ! Of
late- be h^s likened rather more torit. It is laid
the king of 1 rance has written a remarkably polite
and even triendly letter, reou fling him to ule all
France'^ his^own.~nd <rkeA%failtes- in<bis way.
From the Pennsylvania Journal of
October if, 1783.
M r . BRADFORD,.
Your publifring the following, (Chough
wrote in this City, was firft puHifhed
in London) will greatly oblige, Sm,
youf's, &c. V. D.
from the Gentleman" s Magazine.
Reflexions upon the Life and Death of
Edward 1 drinker of the City of Phi
ladelphia, who died on the 17th of No
member, 1 82, in the load year of his
Nge. Written by a literary Gentleman
of that City.
IQl^f-^^^ O' l
[7"the^4th of December, 1680, in a
small cabbin near the present corner of
Walnut and Second streets, in the city of
Ihihdelphia. His parents r came from a
place Gal ed Beverly, in Massachusetts
Bay. The banks ot Delaware, on which
the city of Philadelphia now stands, were
inhabited at the time of his birth b, Indi
ans, and a few Swedes and Hollanders.
F T e often talked to his companions es pick
ing whortleberries, and catching tabbits
on the fpet now the most populous and
improved of the city. He recollected the
lecond time William Penn came to Penn
sylvania, and tiled to point to the place
- where the cabin flood in which he and his
friends that accompanied him were accom
modated upon their arrival. At 12 years of
age tie went to Bottom, where he lerved
" 2 ^ nt ^^^ to a cabinet nuker. In
the year 1745 he returned to Philadelphia
with his family, Where he lived till the
time of his death. He was four times
married, and han 1 8 children, all of who n
w^e by his firft wife. At one time of his
Ihe^e iat down-at his own table with 14
children Notdong before his death he
heard of the birth of a grandchild to
one of his grandchildren, the fifth in fuc
cellion from kn^f^
HeTtaineTall hisTacif ies ti'l the last
‘years of hk life: even his memory, so ear
ly and 10 generally diminished by age, was
but little impaired. He not only remem
• bered the incidents ' bf his -childhood or
youth, but the events of later years: and
lo faithful was his memory to him, that
his lon informed me that he never heard
him ted the-fame story criee, but to dif
ferent persons, and in different companies.
His eye-fight failed him many years before
his death, but his hearing was uniformly
periedLand unimpaired. His appetite was
good till within a few weeks of his death.
He generally ate a hearty breakfaft of a
point of tea orejffie asfobnas he got out
of his bed, with bread and butter in pro
* portion. He ate hkewile at eleven o' lock
- and never failed to eat plenti uly at dinner
of the groffftfdid food. He d^ank tea in
the evening; but never ate >any supper.
He had loft-all his teeth go years before
his death (his son fays, by drawing exces
sive hot smoke of tobacco into his mouth,)
bot the waM of suitable medication of his
food did not prevent its speedy digestion,
nor impair his hea th: 'Whetherthe gums,
hardened by age, fopplied the pla e ofhis
•teth in a certain degree, or whether die
jui es of the mouth and stomach became
f) nVuch more acrid by time as to perform
The office of ditfolving the food ^reore
speedily and more perfectly, I know not;
lueFhive often observed that old people
are mere fubje& to exceffi/e eating than
young cn # % and that they fuller fewer
incoDvenen^es from it. He was inquisi
tive after news in the lad years of his life:
his educ tion did not lead himToincreafe
The stock of his ideas in any other'way.
"But it'is a fad well worth attending to,
'that old age, 'instead of dimmilhing, al
ways increases the desire of knowledge.
It must afford force confojation to those
who expert to be old, to dilcover that the
infirmities, to which the decays of nature
^expofe the human body, ?re rendered
more tolerable by the enjoyments that are
to be derived from the appetite Tor sensual
and intellectual food.
1 he lubjeft of this history whs'remark
ably sober and temperate. Neither hard
labour, nor company, nor the usual af
^idions cf human life, nor the wastes
'of nature, fv^r led him to an improper
or excessive use of strong drink. For the
last 25 years of his lite he drank twice e
very day a draught cf Toddy, made wuh
two table spoons full of fpirir, in half a
-point of water. His son, a man of $9
years of age, told me that he had never
leen him intoxicated. The time and man
ner in which he used spirituous liquors, I
believe, contributed to lighten the weight
of his years, and probably to prolong his
life. “ Give wine to him th tisof a hea
“ vy heart, and strong drink to him that
" is ready to perish" [with age as well as
with ficknefs.] “ Let him drink and
“ forget his sorrow, and remember his
" miiery no more."
He enjoyed an uncommon share of
health, insomuch that in the course of his
long life he was never confined more than
three days to his bed. He often declared
that he had no idea of that most distressing
pain called the head ach. His sleep was
interrupted a little in the last years of his
life with a defluxion in his breast, which
produced what is commonly called the old
man's c .ugh.
Ine character of this aged citizen was
not lummed up in his negative quality of
temperance: he was a man of a molt
Amiable temper; old age had not curdled
liis biood: he was uniformly chearful and
kind to every body: his religious princi
ples were as steady as his morals were
pwe: he attended public worship above
30 years in the Rev. Dr. Sprout's church,
and d v ed in a full assurance of a happy
immortality. I he lire of this man is mark
ed with several circumstances which per
haps have seldom occurred in the life of an
individual: he law and heard more of
thole events which are measured by time
than had ever been leen or he+ird by any
man since the age of the patriarchs: he
saw the lame foot of earth in the course of
his life covered with wood and bushes, and
the rec p>acle of beads and birds of frey,
afterwards become the feat of a city not
only the firft in wealth and arts in the new,
but rivalling in both many of the firft
cities in the old world. He saw regular
streets where he once pursued a hare: he
law churches rising upon morasses where
he had often heard the croaking frogs: he
saw wharfs and warehouses where he had
often seen Indian lavages draw firfh from
the'rivtr for their daily fubfirtence; and
he saw fhipsbf every size and use in those
streams where he had been used to fee no
thing but Indian canoes: he saw a stately
^edifice filled 'with legislators attonifhino
the world with their whilom and virtue on
The fame spot probably where he had feeri
an Endian 'council fire: he 'few the firft
Treaty ratified between the newlyTbhfeder
ated powers of America and the ancient
'monarchy of'France, with dl the forfoa
lily of parchment, and seals, on the lame
fpotprobably where he few William Penn
ratify his fiift and last treaty with the In
dians without The formality of pen, ink,
or paper; he saw all the intermediate
stages through which a people pals from
the mod simple to the mod complicated
degrees of civilization; he saw the begin
ning and end of the empire of Great Bri
tain in Pennsylvania.
He had been the fubjed of seven crown
ed heads, and afterwards died a citizen of
the newly created republic of America.
1 he number of his fovereigqs, and his
long habits of submission to them, did not
extinguish the love of republican liberty
which is natural to the mind of man in its
healthy state. He embraced the liberties
and independence of Americain his wither
ed arms, and triumphed in the last years
of his lite in the lalvauon o f hi s country.
American News.
SP RI NG'FI EL D, September ;o.
I) Y the Eastern post we are informed,^ that one
) d^y last week, as Mr. Frost, of Prince
town, in this fate, and his son, a lad cf about 19
years of age, were at work together, making walls,
the boy assaulted his father, beat his brains out with
a leaver, and was last 1 hurfday committed to Wor
cester goal.
A great number of counterfeited crowns and dol
dars have been offered in this part of the country, —
a little attention will difeoverfthe true from the falfe
ones, as the latter are generally, very badly executed,
PROVIDENCE, Sept.
Extract ofa Letter from an American Minister
dated Paffay, June 28, 178%
" Our loan in Holland is goi g on, 2 rd with
such prcfpecY of success, that the bankers who
l h . e °'"° " "' have btely lent by express to
Mr. Adams all the blank obligations necessary t