The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-11-04 00:00:00, page 2

ANTWER P, June 26.
, On the 13th. inst. a battalion of the regiment of
Murray, infantry, entered Ghent, to be kept in
garrison till further orders. On the 14th a batta
lion of the regiment of Claivfait, infantry, arrived
at the fame place, which, it isfuppofed, will be
followed by a great number of other troops. The
movements which the republic of the United Pro
vinces have made by the rifarch of some regiments
on our frontiers, have engaged the Emperor to
augment his gafrifons on his fide, though it is cer
tain that his Majesty has no hostile intentions.
LOND O N, July 24.
Extract of a letter from a principal planter in Grena
da, dated'Ma, 26, 1784.
We are greatly distressed for the want of a mar
ket for our rum, the demand is so inconsiderable,
that it will not pars in payment except for desperate
debts. I have only been able to pay t\ccnty pun
cheons of your rum, and about five of my own,
and the cellars so full at present, we know not
what to do with it. Such is the effect of the re
straints and difficulties put upon the American
trade. The little that is carried on is done with
every pebble disadvantage to the planter. Lum
ber is treble the customary peace price, and the pro
duce which used to pay for it of no value, because
there is no demand for it.
" This business is of much greater importance
than many of your politicians seem tp be willing to
admit, but experience will prove the miltake. The
Weft-Indies cannot prosper without 'being permit
ted a very liberal intercourse with North-America,
and without great relief from England; the bur
th^ns, expences, and difficulties are not to be (up
ported, and must end in ruin, if not removed or
cased, and that speedily,
Should his Grace the Duke ofßutland be recall
ed from Ireland, it is imagined General Pitt will
also return, and General Arnold be appointed Com
mander in Chief of the forces in his room, being
an Officer every way qualified for so im ^ortant a
trail-London Chrono
MADRI D, }$ 20.
she Miner of the Marine Department has re
ceived a letter from Don Antonio de Barcelo, dat
ed in the bay of Algiers, the 12th of this month.
That general-officer gives the folfovfng account of
his expedition, which had been touch retarded by
bad weather and contrary winds. He failed froth
Cafthagena the 28th of last month, but was two
days before the Whole fleet cleared the land, two
sire-ships excepted, who could not weather cape
de Subiba. The 9th he arrived in the bay, but
the weather prevented him at that time from mak
ing the heceffary difpoMtions for the intended at
tack. The enemy made no movement, content
ing themselves with firing thtee cannon on the dis
play of their flag on the ramparts, and a fourth on
hoisting it on board the Whipping. The night was
spent on our part in furnifhing the fhallops and ves
sels with/ammunition, &c. that were defined for
the assault the next day; but the 9th and 10th were
taken up in providing for the security of our own
fleet, which was in some danger from the stormy
weather, bpt it fell calm in the night of the 11th.
On the 12th, at half past four in the morning, or
ders were given to prepare for the attack; the ene
my fired a gun at 5 o’clock, and their vessels di
re&ly formed; at half after fix the Spaniards were
at their flation, they then advanced between fort
Babalon and the south. The enemy then threw a
shell, which fell a hundred yards from the Spani
ards; a few minutes after eight the firing commenc
ed oh our fide, and continued till twenty minutes
raft ten, at which time our gun-boats and floating
batteries; having expended all their ammunition,
withdrew, and retired in good order to the fleet;
during the two hours and an half (the time the firri
orifet lasted) we threw 600 shells, 260 grenades,
and fired 11/0 shot, the enemy difehafged at us
202 shells, and 1160 shot. There must have been
considerable damage dune ih the town; the ruins
of the houses were perceivable from the fleet ; seve
ral parts of the town were oh fire, which was not
extinguished till four in the afternoon. We had
three men killed and fix wounded, four of them
mortally, on board the gun-boat No. 23, which
was occasioned by the fuze of a bomb taking fire
too soon, which burst on board. The gun-boat
No. 27, blew up, in which Don Jofcph Rodriguez
and Don d'Arfard, two Neopolttan Officers, pc
rifhed, the number of men loft is not known, there
are only fix saved out of the crew; an Officer of
artillery, in another boat, was Rightly wounded by
a splinter at the time of the explosion. Don Bar
celo having supplied the fhallops, &c. with a frefh
stock of ammunition, intended to have renewed
the a&ion in the afternoon, but the time was
thought too short, and it was deferred until the
next day. The Portuguese fqyadron, confiding of
two Drips of the line and two frigates, joined the
Spanish fleet the fame evening at fix o'clock.
VIENN A, July 21.
, Six regiments of Huffats that were going to Bo
hemia, have received orders to march for the Lbw
Counts es, taking their route through Egra, Nu
remberg, &c.
Foreign Intelligence
Extract of a letter from a,oimg Gentleman in India,
dated Febt. 12, 1784.
" Every man here is for himfelf, and a cursed
civil government it is. A young man can get no
thing ; I have not a friend in India to put any thing
in my pocket, except Captain S—, whom I live
Svitb, and am to go to his house in Bombay. When
the company pay me, I shall have about 3601. or
4001. clear. As I am very ill of the liver, (a com
plaint general to Europeans ih India) I shall be
obliged to keep this by me, for fear my disorder
should encreafe; if it should, 1 shall be obliged to
leave India. You mention Captain Curtis; there
are no laurels like his to be gained in India; the
wars here are only to fatisfy a few mercenary
wretches • the service is shocking—wish I was out
of it, and in England again. I cannot nor will I
murder the innocent for their riches, if I continue
poor as long as I live. In this campaign there can
not be less than 80 or 90,000 fouls murdered, of
both sexes, old and young, and their habitations
reduced to ashes."
Lately died at Brookhill, in Ireland, Lovelace
Love, Esq. I his Gentleman was noted for his ex
traordinary bulk; is weighed hp^ards of forty
stone; his coffin measured seven feet in length,
four acicfs, and three and an half deep. His 'death
Was occasioned by his immense corpulence.
A tax upon dogs, if ever it takes place, must be
modified according to the quality of the animal.
Dancing dogs ought to pay more'than flupid curs;
and lad dogs, droll dogs, and drunken dog", Ought
to pay ad valorem. The tag: On puppies, v.ould be
very popular, as it would principally affeCt the no
bility.
American Intelligence.
RICHMON D, 0^.2.
All Printers of News-papers^are requeued to ptblifh
the following DepofNon, with the description of the
wllains annexed, as an endeavour to have tht cul
prits brought to juftich
Norfolk Borough, to wit:
PERSONALLY appeared before me, Charles
Kelly, mariner, of lawful age, and made oath
on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty Cod, that
he was Shipped on board the schooner Ffiehdfhip,
Captain William Lewis, on a voyage to St. Tho
mas's, from Poftfmouth, ih Virginia, belonging to
William Downs and Co. merchants, in St. Tho
mas's; that before they failed, they took in, as
passengers, three men, to wit, William Johnston,
Morris Keaton and Joseph Twentyman, and failed
from Hampton-Road on the 22c! day of July ; that
on the 25th day of the fame month, the said John- N
son, Keaton and Twentyman, violently seized
Charles Haddock, mate, and William Price, sai
lor, and carried them forward, and there left them
bound; that the deponent, a Negro man Jack,
Capt. Lewis, and a merchant of the name of Wil
kinson, who were the rest of the crew on board,
were all asleep; that this deponent heard these cul
prits fay, that after having bound Shaddock and
Price, they went into the cabbin, seized, bound,
and gagged Capt. Lewis and Wilkinson; that they
then came into the doerage, seized this deponent
and Negro Jack, bound and secured them; after
which all remained quiet until the morning; that
in the morning of the 26th of the fame month, the
aforefaid culprits carried Wilkinson upon deck,
and this deponent afterwards saw him in the
shrouds, begging them to save his life, but they
beat him off into the sea ; after that they brought the
Captain upon deck, andthrew him overboard,
and then served the male in the fame manner,.
That after perpetrating these ads, they compelled
this deponent and Price to swear upon the Bible,
that they would not difeover what they had done,
after which they set them and the Negro jack 4
loose; that after this, all remained quiet until a
fortnight after, when they hung a remarkable dog
wlucli they had from Capt. Grime's house in Ports
mouth, left he should be known and they should
be difeovered. That feme days afterwards they
cast overboard Negro Jack, apprehending he would
difeover what they had done; thut a day or two
after, they made Antigua, and run for port Lania,
in the ifand of Grand-Terre, where they arrived
after a pailage of thirty days from Portsmouth. Af
ter having arrived in the harbour, they hailed an
American schooner called the Bee, belonging to
Newbury, and borrowed their boat, in which the
said Keaton went on Chore, as Supercargo to the
vessel they had taken pofieffion of, and with him
went William Price. While they were on Chore
the veflel lay off and on, until Keaton lent Price
back with paint to alter the colour of the vessel,
that she might not be known; that Keaton was in
formed on fhorc (as he said) that the vessel would
not be allowed to anchor there, or to fell her car
go, but that they might do it in Point-Peter, to
which place the said Keaton went in a eanoe, and
bargained for the vessel and cargo, and then re
turned and informed those on board thereof;
that they then made the said Point-'Peter, and this
deponent was orderad up to loose the foie-top-fail;
that while he was performing that duty, he heard
Keaton tell the others, that they ought not to carry
this deponent to Point-Peter, as there were vessels
belonging to Virginia at that place, and he would
be known; from which, this deponent fufpe&ed
they would murder him that night, to prevent
which, he leaped from the foic-maft head into the
sea ; the vessel being under rapid way, wd was as
terwards taken up and carried ashore by a fifh'n^
canoe ; after which the aforefaid schooner altered
her course and bore away: That after this deponent
went on Chore at Point-Peter, he lodged the above
information with the Commandant of the island.
And furtlier this deponent faith not.
CHARLES KELLY. L . s.
Norfolk Borough, to wit:
PERSONALLY appeared before me, Charles
Kelly, and made oath to the truth of the above de
position. Given under my hand, this 18th day of
Sept. 1784.
ROBERT TAYLOR. Mayor.
IT illiam foknfon is a native of Virginia, about
5 feet 10 inches high, rather Him made, has a re
markable folack spot on his under lip, lias the ap
pearance of a bruise, but is natural, fliort black,
hair, and dark complexion. He altered his Chris
tian name from Benjamin to William, and has
since altered his Surname to Lewin; he came from
Charleston, South-Carolina, to Norfolk.
Moiris I\.eaton is about 5 feet 8 inches higli, a
native of Ireland, ruddy complexion, sandy colour
c^ ',''"' and much freckled in the face, polite in
his behaviour, and talks imoothly; has been an
officer in tlie liglit liorfe in the British service, and
since aßed as a Rage player,
jofeph F%t,man is about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches
^ig' ] , a native of of Liverpool, well made, very
muci imarked with the small-pox, a'thin liead of
hail, occasioned by sickness, and was married to
Hick's daughter, in the town of Douglass, in the
Isle of Man.
p Pham Price, a native of England, about 5 feet
6 inches high, 28 years of age or thereabouts,
round fhoddered, much marked in the face with
the, small-pox, short dark hair, dark complexion,
and has a wife and family in the illand of New-
Providence.
PHILADELPHI A, Sept. 29.
Saturday last the Council of Censors, having
finifhed the business committed to them, adjourned
till the 11th of O&ober next, the last possible day
of the exigence of this Body, litis adjournment
WeS made to give official power to their President,
Secretary, and A committed appointed to superin
tend the printing and distribution of their ads and
minutes;
We hear that the Council of Censors, before
they rofc, directed their President to fend copies of
all their proceedings, by different conveyances, to
his Excellency Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. Mini
lter Plenipotentiary , of the United States of Ame
rica to his Most Chrtftian Majesty, President of the
Convention in 1776.
By authority, it is published, that the petitioners
for a new Convention to revise the constitution-, in
confer nance 'di the appeal made last February by
the then majority of the Council of Censors to the
peop'e, were only 240 freemen, residing in and
near to 'Cmlifle, in Cumberland county ; whereas
the remonstrances, and others of various counties,
opposing the call of a Convention, were 18559.
CHARLESTON,
NOVEMBER 4, 1784.
Extract of a letter from an Ifragte in London, to a
Gentleman Bi 'Philadelphia.
I AM sorry to inform you of the embarkation of
s ever al of our society, who have disgraced
their brethren by a&s of the most atrocious vil
lainy, fo.as to become amenable to the laws of
■ '"""' as the Jews of Pennsylvania
"have ever funported the character ohhoheftmen;
that these men may not prejudice their reputation.
These people arc as well connected in family, as
in their many codes of villainy—they are> termed
fivindjers, and their names well known in the
pubneprrfts in England. They make great ap
pearances as merchants, and I suppose will launch
out into large branches of trade upon the credit of
others, and in the end be the ruin of many an un
weary trader. I therefore give you this informa
tion, as I know you. are a friend to mankind, that
you may caution your fellow-citizens against such
base men."
A fU a ? °f feigned property, whose sole study
1S under the fpeciouVpreTencc"
ofa fair trader. —— ——''"
By-tneHottowing certificate it will appear that
our beloved General, in his retreat from the glories
of the field, still continues to encourage, and pay
attention to fucli undertakings as are pregnant with
great utility to this country Mr. James Rumfey,
(late 01 Baltimore) having been happy in a mecha
nic ducovery, could not, for some time, impress
liis lellow-citizens with an idea of its practicabili
ty; but, by a laudable perseverance, he hath at
length obtained, not only the approbation of Ge
neral Washington, but of General Wood, the
Hon. Mr. Randolph, of the Council, Dr. Craig,
and several members of the Legislature of Virginia
and other gentlemen of character and diftin&ion;
so that he may now expect a reward from his grate
fin country, tliat may, in some measure, compen
sate him for his ingenuity.
C E R T I FI C A T E.
“ I have seen the model of Mr. Rumfey's boats,'
conftruHed to work against stream, examined the
powers upon which it ads, been eye-witness to an
actual experiment, in running water of some rapi
dity, and give it as my opinion, (although I had
little faith before) that he has difeovered the art of