The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1784-10-11 00:00:00, page 2

^J XD 0 N; 8.
T 1 II E following lines, which conclude the
mandate ofhisGrace the Archbilhop ofParis,
(ordering the Te Deum to be sung in all the
C ™ ic hes of his diocese, in thanksgiving for the rc
c^abliffiment of Peace)'deferve^ attention: -
' —O! that the happy peace which we now
celebrate, may never hereafter be difturbed!—O!
that it may extinguifh/for all eternity, that fatal
rivalry, which in every age has cost fo' many tears,
and so much bloodshed, to two nations who have
a mutual regard for each other ! —O! that it may
be succeeded by a noble emulation between two
nations, so capable of bringing arts and science ' to
perfection, and of extending the boundaries of hu
man knowledge, if they would but banish from
their minds that falfe science, and that proud phi
losophy, which, instead of enlightning mankind,
obfeures all truths, and reverses every principle;—
O! that France and England could be for ever
united, for the glory of Europe, and for the good
of the universe !—There is a spirit of liberal piety
in these lines, which an Englishman cannot fail to
adraire..
July 12. It is determined that the army is to be
reduced to the 64th regiment of infantry. In con
sequence of which orders were lately sent for the
70th regiment to be disbanded. The Officers have
presented a petition to the King, to be continued
on full pay, or seconded in the other corps, on ac
count of that regiment having been considered as
one not to be reduced at the coriclufion of the war,
and purchases made in it accordingly.
Tetters from Amsterdam concur in the 'appre
henfions of an imipediate rupture arising between
two great Northern Powers, in which Great-Bri
tain will be obliged to take a part.
TAXES proposed for the next Budget,
On the Honesty of Lawyers. .
the Chafiity of Stews.
the Piety of the Church.
the Difintcreflednefs of Opposition.
the Moderation 01 Physicians.
the BaJhjulnefs of Widows.
the Sobriety of Rakes.
the Taciturnity of Wives.
the Madefy of Pleaders.
the Negligence of Beaux.
DUBLI N, some 30.
" Cease your rebellious volunteering," fay the
Caftlcmen, " and break through your non-con
sumption agreements, and then you shall, if you
have patience, get every thing you ask." In other
words, lay down your arms, and put your necks
under the feet of your British oppressors, and then
you may expert the old British liberality! No. Mr.
Orde, we are determined to grasp our arms the
fatter, and awaken at last, to a sense of the injuries
we have sustained for a century from Britain, we
will force that nation, felf-fliled generous, but in
fartf the mod rude arid felfifh one under the fun,
to consider us either as brethren, or as open and
avowed enemies.
From the BE LF AST MERCURY.
A correspondent of the firft refpert and informa
tion in the Volunteer line, assures us, that it is
actually in contemplation, at the several reviews
this summer, among other public business of impor
tance, to address that friend of the liberties of man
kind, LOUIS the XVlth, particularly exemplified
in the noble disinterested part he took in behalf of
our dear brethren in America, when they groaned ;
under the yoke of infatuated Britain. This is a step
that can offend nobody, as his Most Christian Ma
jesty is in perfect amity with our most gracious so
vereign; and it will mark the volunteer character
in a style of fuperiour colouring, furpa fling even
the tranfeendent luftre with which it has shone
since the year 1778.
A gentleman just returned from a tour through
the greatest part of the province of Ulster, assures ;
us, that at no period since the institution of volun
teering, was there to be seen half the number of
men pra&ifing the exercise of arms, as at present,
in almost every direction, the number of additional
recruits is immense. He calculates that by the end
of June, the province of Ulster will contain not
less than 60,000 disciplined volunteers.
An extraordinary phenomenon happened on the
24th ult. at Raab (in the Turkish dominions) when
there fell a great quantity of scorching powder,
nearly resembling what was seen during the last
ravages in Iceland. This shower of inflammatory
fulphur, which is thought to have issued from some
volcano, lasted but a minute, yet it burnt the hair
off all the cattle that were in the fields.
B O S T O N, Augvftl2.
Extract of a" letter from a gentleman in Schwatz, fin ;
Germany) to his correfyondent, dated May 10, 1784.
" A learned taylor here has invented, and made
for the benefit of mankind, Aeroftatic or Balloon
Breeches. They may be worn without danger, as
they will not, upon any occafioh, quite exalt the
fubjeT, but operate to make him go lighter; they
are contrived upon different scales; some for the
heavy and corpulent, who find a great easement by
their use in getting forward; some for the weak
and infirm, who by this help, instead of going by
things, are enabled to march a good step : and others
for the gay and sprightly, but they must be worn
with discretion. The fabric is silk, but made air
tight by some curious substance, They are so form
ed, that the wearer hL..~rr will naturally regulate
them in most cases, however, as to any flatus or
inflammable injection, it is a profound feci;et, rett
ing with the ingenious author. I was present at a
dance, where the new breeches were put on. It
was a most curious fpe&acle, better to be coifceiv
cd than described. This most ufcful invention be
gins to ahonifh all Europe!"
CHESHIRE, (Connecticut) Augnji 4.
About 4 o'Clock this afternoon, Be house of the
Rev. John Foot was struck with lightning, and
Mrs. foot and a child struck down. Mrs. Foot
Was fAken up apparently dead, bit has come too,
after letting blood, and it is hopeful she may reco
vei—Her clothes were very much tern by the
shock, and she much burnt—22 beads of her neck
lace were melted, q of them entirely gone; the
other in part. Six other performs were in the house,
but received no special damage. At the fame time,
the house of Mr. Jonathan Hull, innholder at said
place, was struck, and two men'ftruck down, but
recovered; a sword plate was partly melted, and
the house took fire, 1 ^ was loon extinguished.
CHARLESTON,
OCTOBER 11, 178.1.
T)Y letters from Rhode-Ifland we are informed,
that the fleet of His Most Christian Majesty is
lalc arrived from the Chefapeale in that harbour,
and will return to the Weft-Indies after the hurri
cane season, to avoid which, is tire object of their
visit to our Continent.
• Extras of a letterfrom a Gentleman in Halifax, dated
^^ 3f
"Our port is now shut against the New-England
people, they are not permitted to enter, neither to
buy nor fell; what the consequence may be is un
certain, but we may suppose they will retaliate.
Ihcie aie gi eat disturbances amongst the people at
Shelburne, so much that tire 17th regiment is or
deied there immediately to keep them in order."
Extrafl of a letter from a Gentlemen at. Portsmouth,
(in Virginia) to hisfriend in Philadelphia, dated
September 18, 178.4.
" IT is a mortification Jo me to be unber the
neceflity cf informing you of the fate of your schoon
er, the Fri ndfhip, capt. Lewis. By a sailor be
longing to the said vessel, just arrived, and this day
examined by a board of justices, we have the fol
lowing horrid information:
He fays, that about two hours before they failed
from tins port, they took on board three pafTengers
from Norfolk, thrir occupations and charadefs un
known; and after they had -got cleat to sea, and
near the latitude of Bermuda, Mr. Wilkinson and
capt. Lewis, were bilcw a'fleep, the mate having
hrs watch on deck. These three pafTengers picked
their opportunity, and Lized upon the mate and the
men he had with him, tied their hands behind them,
and then went down into the cabbin and treated
Mr. Wilkinson and captain Lewis in the fame man
ner, without the lead alarm; after securing them
they went into the Peerage, and confined the re
mainder of the crew.
Being now in possession of the schooner, they
'sagged the ^ate and all the sailors except two, and
hove them overheard : then followed captain Lewis,
and after him Mr. Wilkinson. They were gene
rous enough to allow Mr. Wilkinson his gown to
plunge the ocean in.
They now untied the two sailors which re
ma'ned, and swore them upon a bible never to tell
what they had seen or heard, nor what they thould
fee or hear whilst they continued on board the vessel:
—these two they spared to affid them in working
the vessel, with your negro fellow to cook for them.
They treated Mr. Winkinfen in a cruel manner ;
there being a small schooner at some distance astern,
Mr. Wilkinson went to put his head out of one cf
tne cabbin windows, and they split his head open
with a cutlass, and when turning him over the fide
they punched him with a handspike ; his feet hung
in the chains—in this horrid manner they treated
our worthy friend.—
Tley were thirty days before they made the firft
land, which was po t Lewife. Whilst they were
on their passage, this sailor which we have now with
us, endeavoured to persuade his surviving mess-mate
and the negro to join him, and endeavour to retake
the vessel whilst feme of the villains were below :
but the other would not agree pun&ually. They
never came to an anchor at port Lewife, but lay off
and on whilff the merchant, who they fay was one
of the actors upon the flage in this town, the even
ing we had the play whiU you was here, (this was
one of the villains, and him they made merchant)
borrowed a boat and hands of another vessel which
lay in the harbour to go on shore, not thinking it
altogether fafe to trust his own people: he imme
diately sent off paints to alter the colours of the
schooner-.
Whild the merchant was on shore the other sailor
joined them: by this time the merchant retained,
and finding that market would not answer, they de
termined to try another port, and ordered this fel
low (which is now with us) up to loose the main
sail ; whilst he was out upon the yard, he heard the
sailor which joined them tell the villains, it would
not be prudent to carry this fellow into any island,
as he wanted to rife upon the vessel to retake her.
Upen hearing this, he knew his doom, jumped off
the main-y^rd over board, and was taken up by a
boat with a white man and some negroes on board,
which lay off the harbour. The schooner b ire
away, but he could nbt tell for what island, but he?
believed St. Martin's, as they talked about that
One of those villains has a wife in Norfolk, and
this sailor went afliore with her husband and helped
hi^ w.fe put up his sea I'lores. She is order exami
nation, and I believe will imprison her for trial.
Her advice to those villains when they took their
leave <fber, was to be sure to do their business
effectually, and not to leave any one to tell tales.
On their prfage they took an oath to rob every one
they could rob, and not to spare any one they did.
I have omitted mentioning that they murdered
your negro one or two days before tney made the
bid land. This day sets off an express to our ,0-
vernor, to have it published in all the gazettes
throughout the continent, from under his hand, and
also dispatches to be sent by him to the Weft-Indies,
to raise a hue and cry throughout all the iflands,°
both public and private.
Brown will write yen I expect in a day or two,
and give you a mere minute description, with all the
v llains names, as he was upon the examination. I
can only tell yen one was an Irishman, one a Liver
pool man, and the other an American. After bea
ring landed by the 6fhing boat, the sailor went from
port Lewife to Point Peter, and from thence came
here in a vffel belonging to this port. He immedi
ately went to the commanding efficer at Port Lewife
and gave information, but they would net believe
him, arid called him a deserter, and. hid the mer
chant behaved too much like a gentleman to be a
pir^t . He wris dressed in poor Wilkinson's clothes
which they soon divided, the sailor fays, after tak
ing the vessel."
Fhe following is a dejeription cf the abcoementionM
schooner.
A chimp built veTl, burthen /byut foo bogfheads
of tobacco, her masts lofty—high Bern, her cabbia
divided from the fteeiage by a bulk head—the cab
bin lately altered and fitted up commodious for j?f
fengers. having four births on each fide, with blue
and white linen curtains, two windows in her ft in,
and two quarter lights—has had her pumps lately
moved nearer the mainmast—a scuttle cut forward
and lumber port cut in her stern —a British rcgifiet
—and was purchaled by William Downes in Charles
ton, of Mr. Henry G!enton, formerly secretary to
admiral Digby; she failed from Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, about the 20th cf July last, with a cargo of
lumber, confiding of fcanthng and fhinglts, some
bees-wax, and two pieces cf fine French c?ffimer=—
one piece between a brown and a pompadore, the
other between a drab and an olive, addressed to the
owners, Miffrs. William Downes and Co. St.
1 homas.
A bell and clock is arrived in the Grip London,
Capt. Purches, from London, for the Independent
Church in this city.
A Sellion Sermon will be delivered by the Revd.
Mr. Robert Smith, on Tuesday next, the 12th inst.
at St. Fhilip's church.
On Thursday evening last, Mr. Peter Sinkler, of
St. Stephen's Parish, was married to Miss Polly
Walter, daughter es Mr. Richard Walter, Mer
chant, deceased.
Rules and Maxims for promoting °
MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS.
Addreffeddo all the Widows, Wives, and Spinsters,
in America.
THE likelitft way, either tp obtain a good hus
band, or keep one so, is to be good yourfelf.
Never use a lover ill whom you design to make
your husband, least he should either upbraid you
witli it, or return it afterwards; and, if you find
at any time an inclination to play the tyrant, re
member these two lines of truth and juflice:
Gently shall those be rul'd who gently fway'd;
Abject shall those obey, who haughty were obey'd.
Battle of the Sexes.
Avoid, both before and. after marriage, all
thoughts of managing your husband. Never en
deavour to deceive or impofc on his understanding;
nor give him uneasiness, (as some do very foolifh
ly) to try his temper ; but treat him always, before
hand, with sincerity, and aftei wards, witli affection
and refpe6L
Be not over sanguine before marriage, nor pro
mise yourfelf felicity without alloy ; for that's im
possible to be attained in this present date ofthings.
Confider beforehand, that the person you are going
to spend your days with, is a man, and not an an
gel ; and if, when you come together, you difeover
any thing in his humour or behaviour, that is not
altogether so agreeable as you expert, pal's it over
as a human frailty; smooth you brow; compose
your temper ; and try to amend it by chearfulnefss
and good nature.
Remember always, that, whatever misfortunes
may happen to either, they are not to be charged
to the account of matrimony, but to the accidents
and infirmities of human life, a burthen, which each
has engaged to allih the other in flipporting, and to
which both parties are equally exposed: Therefore,
instead of murmurs, reflections, and disagreement,
whereby the weight is rendered abundantly more
grievous, readily put your shoulder to the yoke,
and make it easier to both.
Resolve, every morning, to be good-natured and
chcarful that day; and, if any accident Ihould hap