The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-10-28 00:00:00, page 2

Foreign Intelligence.
P A R I S, July 7.'
THE workmen are extremely diligent in the
conftru&ion of the new harbour at Cher-
Bur§ which goes on with very rapid success. There
is not lets activity and expence in endeavouring to
put the port of Dunkirk upon a rcfpe&able foot
ing. France knows the importance of having a fate
harbour in the channel for her veffels,and a Ration
that gives her an opportunity of overlooking the
movements of her rival, and in case of a rupture,
to give a check to her enemies. These are the great
advantages resulting from the establishment of this
port. Nothing proves more the weakness of the
Er glifh nation at the conclusion of the late war,
then the seventeenth article of the treaty of peace,
by which all the stipulations relating to Dunkirk
since the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, to the present
time, are totally suppressed and abrogated.
We are allured, that all the articles of the treaty
of alliance, between our Court and the United Pro
vinces, are mutually agreed on, but cannot be sign
ed till 'he dfcuffions which the States-Gen&al have
with the Austrian Low Countries fliall be termi
nated ; the more so, we are assured, as an absolute
guaranty of all the poffeflions of the United Pro
vinces is in agitation, who in return, will furnifh
France, in case of a war, with a subsidy in men,
Lhips. or money.
M A D R I I), fyl2.
The expedition againß Algiers, unddr the com
mand of Don Antonio de Barcelo, consisting of
130 fail, left Carthagenaon the 28th of last month;
and after remaining two days in fight of the har
bour, proceeded towards their destination the 30th
in the evening, with a fair wind. The Portuguese
squadron appeared on the 15th inst. and was also
detained by unfavourable weather, till the morning
of the 7th, when they pursued their way with a
westerly -breeze, towards Algiers. No accounts
have since been received frort. Don Barcelo.
L ON D O N, Jz%29.
The order ofthe Cincinnati in America is un-;
popular through all the colonies: The people fay'
it is a degree of nobility; and while they hold out
the plough as the emblem of Cincinnatus, they mean
to bring the lower order of the Sta e to the yoke.
Fits Majesty proposed in the last Council to visit
Ireland himfelf, in hopes that by his petfohal inter
ference, he might allay the alarming tumults that
drßrqg the peace of that kingdom; this bold mea
fare, though Rrongly urged by the Sovereign, was
however, immediately over-ruled by a majority of
the Cabinet!
"Our lift letters from Gibraltar advise, that the
Tame rigid discipline was Rill observed in that gar
r son, as during the siege, owing to the suspicious
conduct of the Spaniards, whose works still remain
entire at St. Roche. The King of Spain has not
only pofitivelv forbidden our troops being supplied
with provisions from his territories, but even al
most prescribes the British Officers from entering
into his dominions, by making them previously
perform a forty days quarantine: such littleness of
mind may naturally be supposed to have rendered
the Spanish Monarch compleatly odious through
out the English garrison, and to put Sir Augustus
Elliot on his guard against the machinations of a
'man, whom pique has already urged to such illi
beral extremities.
Aug. 4. Four Ladies, a few days since, went up
in an Air balloon, at Rouen, and were landed in
about an hour and an half sixteen miles from that
city.
LONDONDERRY, June 1.
The rapidity of vegetation for the last fortnight
or three weeks, exceeds any thing that can be re
'rhembered in this country; from a bleak, sterile
profpeft, the face of nature is beautifully changed
to a moR luxuriant green ; our fields have assumed
a rich verdure; all kinds of grain promise to yield
abundantly; and the fruit trees shew immense
•q entities of blossoms.
American Intelligence.
PHILADELPH I A, Sept. 22.
In COUNCIL of CENSOR S,
Thursday, Sept. 16, 1784.
THE report 'of the Committee of the whole,
delivered in yesterday afternoon, was taken
top for a second reading, viz.
The Committee of the whole report, that they
have maturely conlidered the business referred to
them, and having agreed to the following resolu
tion, they now submit the fame to council, viz.
Refolded, That there does not appear to this coun
cil an absolute necessity to call a convention to al
ter, explain, or amend the constitution, and the
fame being considered, the question was put, "Will
'council adopt the said resolution submitted to them
by the Committee of the whole?" When the yeas
and nays were required, ^nd were as follows: Yeas
14, Nays 10.
So it was determined in the affirmative;
Extraafrom the proceedings of the'Council of Confers,
refbeCling the settlers at Wyoming.
IT is the opinion of this Council, that the deci
fichi made at Trenton, early in 1783, between the
’St^tc of Connecticut and this Commonwealth, con
cerning the territorial rights of both, was favour
able for Pennsylvania. It likewise promised the
happiest consequences to the confederacy, as an
example was thereby set to two contending sove
reignties adjusting their differences in a court of ju
stice, instead of involving themselves, and perhaps
their confederates, in war and bloodshed. It is
much to be regretted, this happy event was not
improved orbthe part of this. State, as it mighUFiave
been; that the perlons claiming the lands at and
near Wyoming, occupied by emigrants from Con
ne£ticut, now become fubje&Uof Pennfylvania^
were not left to prosecute theirdaims in the proper
course, without the intervention of the legislature;
that a bddy of ffoopsovas enlisted after the Indian
war had ceased, and t civil government had been
eflablifhed, and Rationed at Wyoming, for no other
apparent purpose than that of prompting the inte
rests of the claimants under the former grants of
Pennsylvania; that these troops were kept up and
continued there without the licence of Congress,
in violation of the confederation; that they were
Suffered-, without restraint, to injure and oppress
the neighbouring inhabitants during the course of
the last winter; that the injuries dohe to these
people excited the compaffiori and ihtelpofition of
the State of Connecticut, which thereupon demand
ed of Congress another hearing arid enquiry in or
der to investigate the private claims of the settlers
at Wyoming, formerly inhabitants of New-Eng
land, who f'roiTr~thiS~TTrftance of partiality in bur
rulers might have been led to diftruk the justice of
the State, when in the mean time numbers of these
fuldiers end other disorderly performs, in a melt rio
tous and inhuman manner, expelled the New-Eng
land settlers before mentioned, from their habita
tions, and drove them towards the Delaware, thro'
unsettled and almost impassable ways, leaving these
unhappy outcasts to Suffer every species of distress;
that this armed force, Rationed, as aforefaid, at
Wyoming, as far as we can fee without any public
advantage in view, has cost the commonwealth the
sum of 44601. and upwards, for the bare levying,
providing and paying of them, befide3 other ex
penditures of public money; that the authority fox
the embodying these troops was given privately,
and unknown to the good people of Pennsylvania,
the fame being dire&ed by a mere Refohe of the
late Iloufe of Affembly,brought in and read the firft
time on Monday ^ed September, 1783, when on
motion and by Special order the fame was read the
second time and adopted; that the putting of this
Refoive on the [ecret journal of the rloufe, and
concealing it from the people,, after the war with
thYlavages had ceased, and the inhabitants of Wy
oming had submitted to the government of the
State, fuhiciently marks and fixes the vlandeftine
and partial intent of the armament, no such caution
having been thought necessary in the defence of
the northern and western frontiers during the late
war ; and lastly, we regret the fatal example which
this tranfa&ion has set; of private persons, at least
equally able witli their opponents to maintain their
own cause, procuring the influence of the Com
monwealth in their behalf, and the aid of the pub
lic treasury; the opprobrium which from hence
has resulted to this Irate, and the diffatisfa&ion and
profpe& of diffention now exiling with one of our
lifter Rates; the violation of the confederation and
the injury hereby done to such of the Pennsylvania
claimants of lands at Wyoming, occupied as afore
faid, as have given no countenance to, but on the
coritrarv have disavowed these extravagant pi oceed
ings, In Short, we lament that our government
have in this business manifefted little wisdom or
forefight; nor have acted as the guardians of the
rights ofthe people, committed to their care. Im
pressed with the multiplied evih which have sprung
from the imprudent management of this business,
we hold it up to censure, to prevent if possible, far-.
YhcrHhTCances pf.bad Government, which might
cohvolfc and diftraff ouy n£jv formed natiop.
In the Commerce, Capt. Truxtun, arrived a box
of valuable books, for Dickinson College, at Car
lifle; a present from Granville Sharp, Esq. of Lon
don: a Gentleman eminent for his learning, and
warm attachment to the happiness of mankind,
without preference to country, left or colour.
CHARLESTON,
OCTOBER 28, 1784.
Extrafl of a letter from a mercantile house in Jamaica
to their correftondents in Philadelphia, dated Ring
fon, August 2, 1784.
X =E seize this opportunity to advise you of a
VV moR calamitous event that took place in
this town and island on the evening ofthe 30th
July. At nine o'clock it blew the mod violent
hurricane that ever was experienced in Jamaica.
Every fl,iip and vessel (save four) in the harbours
of Port Royal and Kingston, are cither funk or dif
mafted. Many houses in one part of the town, and
in the adjacent plains are thrown down and de
stroyed. All our plantains, on which we general
ly depend for the fuppoit of our negroes, are torn
up by the roots and destroyed. In this situation,
therefore, it muR be obvious that masts, lumber,
and provisions, will be high. Every article has
^rifen, Ihe inhabitants of the town were yesterday
convened by cur cuftes, and a petition was pre
sented by him in their names to the goxkrnoi. j lay
ing permission for vessels of all rations to enter our
ports for eight months. After 4 little time the pray
er was granted in part, and the port of Kingston
opened to vcifels of all descriptions, with provi
sions and lumber only, foi four months commenc
ingthis day, We forward you this account, that
you may profit thereby, ana govern yourielf ac
cordingly." r
By the French packet, la Fortune, Capt. Coet
nempren, arrived at New-Yoik, we learn that tha
infranchifement which the city and port of I’Orient
were to enjoy, has been reftriHed to the port on
ly, and not to the city.'
About five weeks ago Dr. Witherspoon arrived
at New-York, from making the tour of Britain.
Witlr him arrived fcvcral Clergymen, and a num
ber of settlers designed for Vermont.
Last luefday tire Election of a Warden, for
Vv aid No. 3, came pn b when Colonel Maurice
Simons was duly ele&ed.
Yesterday the undermentioned Gentlemen were
re-chosen for Officers of the city, viz.
Hon. William haz:ll Gitws, wlq. Recorder.
Peter Bounethean, Esq. Clerk.
Benjamin Legare, Esq. Treafarer.
Captain Robert Cochran, Haibour-Mafler.
George Warley, Esq. lieutenant Commasdan' of
the City Guards..
Sunday last was married at Beaufort, John Lea
craft, Esq. Sneri'R for Beaufort w.h.i.ct, to .e
aimable Mils Elizabeth Black, eldeß daughter of
the late Mr. James Black, of that place.
Last Tuesday departed this 1 fe, after a long ill
ness, Mr. Arthur Stafford, of this city.
G^T The piece sighed BRUTUS cannot be ad
mitted in its present form.
From the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL,
(Printed in Philadelphia.)
Mr. Printer,
DID you ever fee a flock of turkeys fighting ?
All against one ; one against all. Low tly
fight through one another? dore! one is delt
and they are all upon him. No; there are two or
three pecking away furioufly at,thofe who ha< c ;t
him down. See! he's up again, and has fa' n
violently upon those who took Ids part. Heave 8,
what a gabbling! Look yonder! a pretty little
Rrange hen ! that has never mixed in the frac —if
they have not fallen upon her mcft unnTTcifuh?!
The hubbub increases. One is down, ancaher is
up: Gabble! gabble ! gabble! Hab! they are all
quiet again! They have been fighting without any
reason : and they have left off without knowing
Did you ever fee the like B—Yes; there is feme
thing very like it. What is it ? Look at these mert
in the news-papers. They are terribly angry —,
with one another;—with every body :—with them
fclves. If they can but strike a blow no matter
whom it hits; no matter whether it hits any body:
Nay, every second blow hits themselves. Well !
there is no fencing against flails. But fee yonder!
What is that? Ob, nothing ! It was a squib; but
it is burnt out. Stand farther off! Never heed
them. They'll foori leave off if no body looks at
them ; but whilst they are at it, they would as
foOn attack you or me as any body. You never
offended them, you fay. See! one of them has
fixed his eye upon your coat; and he is swear rg
most bloodily, that your aunt is the whore of Ba
bylon, and your great grand mother was the witch
of Endor.—Why the dog!—Never mind him I.tell
you! Hark! there is another offering to take his
affidavit, that he saw me, with his own eyes, run
away from Strafburgh, with the great fteepla
upon my nofe.—Strafburgh ! was you ever at Straf<
burg ?—No; nor he neither, I suppose.
Heigh go mad ! What a noise there is about Ti
grancs. —Tigranes! who is Tigranes ?—Liften a
moment. They have got hold of an honefl fellow,
whom they charge with being the author of feme
piece in the news-paper signed Tigranes. I know
the man well. He is as much guilty of writing in
news-papers, as I am of dealing Strafburgh steeple,
and wearing it by way of nose. But look! that
makes no odds you fee: They have fairly ftript
him of his coat, and given it to another.
Who is that blowing a ramshorn yonder? Why
the mad fool is running round the Rambles, with
a chap by way of armour-bearer, blowing on his
rams horn, and eXpe&ing every moment when the
walls of the new Jericho, as be calls it, will fall
down. Hark! he is offering the butchers to leave
off blowing the rams horn, and spare their Jericho,
if they will only fettle a few pounds of meat upon
him every day, by way of stipend. Well! God
help the hungry !
Here! they are now all jostling, and running,
and bowingg and cringing. They are all enemies
to one another, and friends with every body else.
This is a blessed fight. What has brought this
about? O ho! There's a little place to be given
away.
Now they are quarrelling again with all the
world. They are all disappointed but one; and lie
is gone home contented. Adieu.
LISMAIIAGO.
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