The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-08-09 00:00:00, page 2

My indisposition is at this moment tuch, that I
would be unable to defend myfelf, which, though
bound over to the peace, I might perhaps be forced
to. Tomorrow evening at fix, therefore, (having
also my private affairs to fettle) shall takethe walk
mentioned. In the mean time, every inviolatel
secrecy shall be obfefved by
Yours'refpeafully,;
IF. PERONNEAU."!
Gen. Pinckney.. :
P. S. “ I fend by a'negro boy who does not
•belong to me, to efcapeobfervation."
To which he returned this answer:
S I R,
“ I have this moment receives ,„ar favor, and
though I know Mr. Horry's anxietv to have this
butinefs immediately fettled, I am sure he would
not wish to avail himfelf of the advantage sou i
fay he would have, was it to be determihed this
evening. I will, therefore, undertake to ha%e
this affair postponed, until 6 o'clock next funday {
morning. Your mentioning that you have four
private affairs to'fettle; arid that hour of the day
being, in my opinion, preferable to the evening
foi the determination of A matter of this fort,
• induce hie to name it. I must request you to im
'mediately inform me whether this proposition .
meets with your acquiescence. The place the !
fame as mentioned in the morning.
Tremain,
.4Your humble servant,
CHARLES C. PINCKNEY."[
Henry Peronneau, Esq; July 16, 1784.
Gen. P=— received from him this reply:
“ Mr. Peronneau's compliments attend General
Pinckney; the day and the hour are equally to his
mind; arid indeed on mote accounts than one, he
Would Inuch rather tranfad bufi'ri&fs in the morning
Instead of the evening. Mr. P. will, in the mein
time ffytlic bark, to prevent the probability of
-his fever's return."
On faturdgy abo'ul 12 o'clock, \fr. Rothmahler
waited on General Pinckney, and fold him that
he was to attend Mr. Peronneau to the field in the
morning; and that he called to let him know Mr d
Peronneau chose the difference should be decided
altogether by pistols; as he WAS uriacqriainted with
the use of the small sword. General Pinckney
acquiesced. About g o'clock tlfe fame day Do&or
Fallon waited on General Pinckney, and acquaint-"
ed him that he came as Mt. Peronneau's physician,
to inform him that Mr.' Peronneau Was ta!<en ex
ceedingly ill with a Cholera Morbus, and Singul
tus Teridonum, and could hot pbffibly attend in the
morning. He remonstrated with the Do&ob, on
the ftiangle and sudden appearance of these disor
ders; as he had received a message by Mr. Roth
mailer within the lift three hours, to the phtyort
already mentioned. The Dofor said he Was un
acquainted with the occasion of thufe ditordters;
but that he could fafely vouch that they Were real;
and not affe&ed; and that he had it in charge from
Mr. Peronneau to assure the General, he should
hear from him as soon as he Was recovered; I wa>
Imade acquainted with there meffa^s: at the last of
therh I expretfed my diffatisfaftion, and requeued
him to inform Mr. Rothmahler, that I would do
any thing to accommodate Mr. Peronneau, in
bringing this matter to a speedy conclusion. That
I would, with Mr. Rothmahler's consent, wait 'oh
Mr. Peronneau, notwithstanding his illness, on the
faireft footing of equality. General Pinckney
called upon Mt.- Rothmahler twice that evening,
but could not meet with him; he therefore wrote
to him the next morning, and Mr. Rothinahlel
favoured him with a visit at 2 o'clock. He then
made my propositions, but Mr. R. thought them
inadmissible; and .said, that if Mr. Peronrieau
would ngt decide the matter properly with me,
wheri he recovered, that his friends Would give
him up.
, On Tuesday the 27th instant, I received the fol
lowing letter.
SIR,
" As by the Dolor's dire&i6h I am gone over
the water, on account of my health, I think it
ptoper to inform you that I shall return to-morrow
Arning',when the gentleman who gives you this
will call and fettle the hour of our meeting.
I am, Sir,'
Your most obedierit,
Humble servant,
H. PERONNEAU."
Col. Hb^ 7^27,1784;
But though I held myfelf iri fcadiriefs to receive
a notification of Mr. Peronneau's return on Wed
rnefday morning, it was not until Friday morning
(the 30th July) that I had the teaft intimation
from him. On that day Mh Rothmahler Waited
on General Pinckney, and dented him to inform
fae that Mr. Peronneau had returned to the city,
and would ride Out armed to the battery at Hamp
flead, at 6 0 clock iri the evening, attended by
him. This Was accepted ori ffiy part, and the
terms on which We were to engage were fettled.
One was; that to lave harmless Mr; Peronneau's
fecuiities, I should behave to him in such a manner
as to oblige him to stand upon his defence. I went
to the battery at Hampffead, attended by General
Pinckney, h little before 6 o'clock. At 6 o'clock
Mr. Rothmahler arrived alone, and 'delivered to
General Pinckney the following letter.
S I R,
“ I enclosed fend you aletter from She of m'y
fecuritics. I have do, idea of injuring a wife and
family, by paying f.iddo sterling, out of the
small efface I possess. The e'nfuing feflions {will
put Mr. H. and felf bh an equality' ;during the
interim I will; whenever business or plealure m'hy
require, be fecri in the Greets of this city;
With refpeX,
1 am, Sir,
Youfs,
FI. PERONNEAU?
Geri. Pilckney.
To which he immediately wrote, with my Ap
probation, this answer.
'Battery at Hampftead, July^o, 178$
, .. Six o'clock, P. M.
SI R,.
" In answer to your letter, this moment deli
vered to me by Mr. Rdthmahlei, I have to infotfn
you thAt .I must look upon you, from your conduct
iri your affair with Mr. Hbrry, to be an infamous
",cottn£fd and Cowdrd:" however, if you have
a Ipark of 'courage in ybuf composition, you will
accept of this lall pfOpofition from Mr. Horry.
He will hire a vessel to 'convey you both, with each
a friend, to North-Carolina or Georgia, which
ever place you may fix upon: there your difference
m'ay be decided.;
Your humble servant,
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.',
To Henry Peronneau, Esq;
" I expe& your answer by 8 o'clock to-morrow
morning." ~,
And this letter he gave to Mr. Rothmahler, wfid
promised to deliver it to Mr. Peronneau; at the
fame time expressing a proper sense of Mr. Peron
neau's behaviour; and declaring he would have no
more to do with this business. T 9 General Pinck
ney's letter no reply has been received; and from
the whole of Mr. Peronneau's conduct, no reply
can be now expected.
D. HORRY,
August, 4, 1784. t ßroad-Street.
From the W it's Magazine.
HUMOROUS ESSAY on ERRORS
of the PRESS,
Originally infested in the Public Advertiser.
Mr. Woodfall, > 4
r" ILS T you and your correspondents are so
laudably employed, in watching over the
Welfare of the state, keeping a jealous eye on
miniffgrs, and pointing out the &rors of govern
ment; I wish (if you could but find time for it)
that you would p^y some little attention to your
own errors;
Perhaps it Will appear the higheff degree of pre
sumption, to offer advice to a perlon in youreminent
ft*ion; tone Who every day (Sundays excepted)
dilates to fcinifters, and counsels kings; one who
is read arid admired in every part of the British
dominions 1 .
It is for this Very feafoh, fir, that I think it in
'cumbent on me to tell you of your miflahes; for
you cannot fay with Job, " Albeit thutl have erred,
mine error remaineth zdith myself." No, Mr.
Woodfall, your errors circulate far and wide; they
mifveprefent many; and mislead more; in short, the
errors I nteari; ate "errors of the press, or, as my
learned friend Sir fames Hodges expresses them, in
one English-Latin fingulapplural word, erratums.
Of all errata, the most harmless are those which
brake stark-stating hohfafe. These arc never im
puted to the writer, but are corrected by the reader
in his own mind, aS he goes along; but the dan
gerous ones are those which make a kind of heifr
sense, and pass current as the sense of the author,
until the day following, when your lift of errata
transfer the blame from the writer to the printer.
HoWever, I must fay that printers (with all their
profusions Of candor) are as little apt to acknow
ledge their errors as the rest of mankind; for hot
one erratum in ten is ever acknowledged; and, in
deed, I suppose they very seldom would,^hlfcfs at
the particular defireqf the Writer,
^•M^HA^Thave laid much about Tfeerrdfj of the press,
it may be naturally expected that I should produce
some proof of what I have asserted. This I dm
enabled to do; having paid particular attentibh to
them for some time past; arid having looked more
fhafply after them, than the promotions civil or
military, the prices of corn or of flocks, the lift
of (hips or of bankrupts, or of those paragraphs
which inform Who is dead; who is married, or
who is hahgedi
But noW for the particulars of the charge.
I have known you throw an injurious reflection
on all the trowned heads in Europe at one ftrpke;
for instead of potentates, you have called them
potatoes, as if they liad been mere vegetables. As to
the King of Prussia, you talk of him iri a different
stile; for, instead of the Hero of Pruflia, you have
made him the Nero. Next day conics your apology,
or your erratum, which sometimes, instead of
mending matters, makes things worse, and like an
arch tinker, in flopping one hole makes two; as I
I remember my old friend Alderman Faulkner of
Dublin, corrected his journal, " Erratum in our
last; lor his grace the Dachef of Dorfet, read, her
grace the Duke of Dorfet." Indeed, a blunder
teems to be lomething of the nature of a ^, the
more you struggle the deeper you get into it. but
to proceed. You have on several occasions used
the Doge of Genoa extremely ill, and never made
him the lead apology for omitting the lalt letter in
his title; though if you had delired your readers
nekt day, instead of Dog, to read Doge, I do corr
fefs that it would have been no great reparation.
I temember the Irish parliament, some time ago,
We're Wended at lomething in the Public Advcr
tiler, and took up the matter so warmly, that they
ordered thi paper to be burnt. Now, Mr. Wood
fall, whether you have taken umbrage alfd and
like-utf, 'or whether it proceeds from negligence,
I know not; but Certain it is, that several unlucky
mifthkes have happened relative to that ref
peffable body^, At th^ir firft meeting you told us,
(instead of a bill) that a motion would be made for
leave to bring in a bi& arid afterwards another
motion, that the order of the Dey be read, as if it
was an assembly 'On the toast of Barbary^—You
told us one day tRAt Lord ——, of the kingdom of
Ireland, had been fafely delivered of a daughter;
and we wtefeAll very anxious on my Lord's account,
till the day following, When you delivered his
Lordfliip 'of the burthen, Arid brought the child
into the world in a natural way.
In a late fcuflle under the Pi^a,Covefit Garden,
'you informed us that an Irish officer had got a con
fufen in his head; arid you made no apofogy after
,yards,As you were right so at.
Not long 9go you advertifel l a speedy cure for
raptures'; and I am afraid it gave some wicked bat
chelor occasion to fcolF at the holy date of matri
mony; for, as the Devil would have it, (t mean
one of your devils) the very next advertiferhent to
irwas from a gentleman Who wanted a wife, and
it was printed matrimony in capitals; consequently
it appeared that matrimony was the most speedy and
effectual cure for raptures'; though of ever so long
standing, &t:.
. I have known you lidvertife, instead of a never
failing remedy, an ever-failing remedy: now, fir,
though this might be ftri&ly true, " yet I hold it
not proper that it should be so set down," as I sup
pose the quAck-dodbr paid out his money for con
veying a very different sense to the public. In a
receipt lately published for the Cute of the plague,
instead of rue; you put rice^ and so made a pudding
of it; arid; in advertising a coutfe of le&ures, you
turned a fyllabut ihto a syllabub; and called the
perpetual motion a perpetual tiotidd.
" I wish fou.would be a litfle mbre cautious in
advertising Salivation is hot necessary ; for it hriri
pened; that by omitting the i, in salivation, you
gave great offence to some very good chriftians in
my neighbourhood ; arid also gave occasion to some
wicked ^ux^ers to obferye, that it was not the frft
time an eye had been loft in salivation; nay, that
some people had been so unlucky as to lose a coUple.
There is another advertisement which frequently
occurs, beginning with, “ Whereas some ehii-minded
persons, uc."-—One day you made evil-minded
parsons, which was extremely unlucky; for in
these times of infidelity, people are too apt to feoff
at the clergy, and indeed at all serious fubje&s: as
to myfelf, I must confefs, that I am particularly
hurt at those impertinent levities, with which forrie
peonle indulge themselves, being a person of a
serious turn of mind, and of a disposition rather
faturninc and grave.
It too often happens, Mr. Woodfall, that “ what
should be grave you turn to farce." I remember in
your paper, a sensible pathetic letter, signed, a
Citizen; he laments the internal state of this coun
try, and you made it the infernal state; when he
exclaimed fad reverse! you made him cry out fad
reverie: he disapproved all national reflexions, and
you made him disapprove all rational reflections;
and talking of the fate of Empires, you made him
fay the fat of empires. Now as there are so many
Handing jokes about citizens being fond of fat,
(whether turtle fat or venison fat) this unlucky
mistake quite spoiled the letter, and disobliged my
friend the Citizen, and “ all the fat was in the fire."
And here I cannot help taking notice of a para
graph sometime since, containing an account of the
election of a certain worthy Alderman, for a cer
tain ward, when instead of faying he was duly
elected, you fay he was dully ele&ed, and thereby
afforded a handle for breaking some common-place
jests on that refpe&able body of men, the Court of
Ale <men. Another time, in the account of an
entertainment given by a worthy Alderman, to the
Deputy and Common Council of hfs ward, where
they dined on the turtle, you said they died on the
turtle; as if they had all eat till they choaked or
burst: whereas, on the contrary, it is extremely
remarkable, that none either over-ate themfelves^
or caught a furfeit that day.
(To be continued.)
The Marine Anti-Britannic Society's
QUARTERLY MEETING,
IS to be held at the City-Tavern on Saturday the
14th of August next, whereof all the Members
are desired to take notice: as there is Business of
the greatest Importance to be laid before the Society,
it is hoped the attendance will be general. TLq
time of Meeting is to be at the Hour of Six o'Clock
in the Evening. By Order,
Wm. H. TORRANS. D. Secrete.
July 28, 1784.