The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-04-13 00:00:00, page 3

NAVAL ENGAGEMENT. ^
L-tttrs from Lil >on, dated the 19'h oi February,
f ,-ived by the United Stales brig Sophia, Capt.
0'B* ieo» give information of Sir John Jarvis’s fquad
i,.;i having fallen in, off Sr. Vincent's, with the
bpanifh fleet, confuting of 20 fhips of the line and
as manv frigmes, of which lie captured four fail ol
thc line (two ot which are three decker.-) and lunk
a three decker of 120 gur.s, luppoled to be the Spa
1,ilh admiral's fhip, Trinidads. Admiral Jarvis
h^d only i$ thips of the line, two of which were
difabled by falling aboard ot each other a few days
b. fore the action. At the date of this intelligence
the B itiih admiral with his prizes were at anchor
jn L igos bay.
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MARTINS BURG, April, 3.
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The convening of Congrds is a circumftance
which has been expected to take place, flute ihe re
(,-;pt of \ ne advice s and dilpatches from Bourdejnx.
rJ he period fixed for its meeting allows of the time
©ecefsary for the arrival oj^bofi&i f^ateswholepla
c<‘ti of rehdence are very VemoCB ftvni the pr.ient
feat of government.
Siifisc tent information is already before the public
to enable them to conjecture {or rather to know)
v bar are the principal ob jects of this call from rhe
F. dident : rhi lunation 01 our commerce ; the pt e
it-nt flare of affairs in Europe; ihe language held
out to one, and the noiweo-ption ot another Mi
n-I.er, will, with many other coufiderations, af
fmd tin jatt i(ication for convening ihr Representa
tives of the people of the United States, to decide
wi'h wiitlom, tirmnefs, and moderation, on ihe
20 r erelt ing 1 f 3r ** of their affirs.
A letter from a gentleman in Liverpool, tc hit friend in
Pal. imore, dated Feu ut,>y 16 fays “ A report t m cirett
la I ion, that an rrnlar^o has bun laid in f mince on all
American vtjf Is and irjttrance rf e ten gum, as from then
pi act. ongcut oy Amt 1 ican vrjj'As."
Major David Holmes u tidied a member of Congrrf: f. •
the dijiript comh,Jr J of the counties oj Hampjhire yHardy, Cdc
ty n majority of 35.
Lhea m this- town, Mr. David Hunter, fenior.
&hT Cap' Boyd having ajftired the Editor of Ids ir.no
tet.it m the charge btough, agaujt him in our htjl of hav
ing attempted to bribe the boy to make a di/coveiy ej the an
thor of :1 he Ecople andjtvsral circumjiances corroborating
in fup port of the truth oj that /finance, is inauced to believe
the ,njon.nation receivedJrtm the boy without a ry joundau
on in truth, and that ihe boy was hi! tu make the d-detrain,?/
by jo me ill djpojed perjon. who, would n: live from ihr Eat
tor a jin tab It njrntmcn: could a djcovr.y be made of hut,
to fjf ct •which every exertion has ban made, but, a: yd
wi onl Jtucejs
lrT V he uu'-nymvit w- iters on the fubjeft cf the ending
Election, having become numerous h >.r,by. and ter/or,ai to
an extreme, wrjhall, in linn* v ex. luce any publications oj
the kind in the Ou ndian ; the am cors may be accouwioda
ted with an ex ho //. rtf at thn fn < a lure.
tl-<f CtUrvet'— d h Ha ' rover—\>bjerveTt ^Ac, may cf
fur as above J 1 Ley ch: ft it.
t broth™ PL. !iLtiAdAN,
IN reading Mr. Willis's paper the orhfr day, I
law a p’. re in your Paine, about < andidates and
tile p-opl : there are a heap of tuneful layings in it,
1 d .n’t tliu.k you can prove, and therefore brmher
Ploughman, don’t get mad with me, if I tell you
plainly where 1 think yon are wrong—and here l
in tilt put you its mind, that my imereti is the fame
with yours, and the fame character that would 1'uit
you as a repielemative would ftrit me. In the fir ft
offset, you tell os you know the author of the Peo
ple ; infleid of being a friend to the People, is their
hiltereit enemy. Now brother Ploughman, as you
have told us this without bringing any proof, and
j ifti.ee fays, that every man mult be prcfunied inno
cent, till proved guilty. I muft tell you plainly,
that you ar: not entitled to our belief■; and more,
by this way of feafoning, I think you are not a
Ploughman, hut in reality Come brokeii-w inded law
yer, or broke - land {peculator, who like a wolf in
fheep’s cloathing, willies to make us Reapers and
Ploughmen inltrumenis of your wicked d-ligns._
But may be 1 iriay he wrong, hut, however, you go
on to ftate, that this author, in his pieces againft
E. B. has not confined himfelf to facts, but only
flanders that gentleman to gratify his own private
fpleen. Here brother, I Ihould have been glad if
you had confined yourfelf to (acts, bot i find you
have not ) 1 will try then to ftate them for you.
The people charged E. B. with betraying their con
fidence, by being a blent from the alsembly at two
different times ; thc-l'e are facts brother, proved by
the journals. I he people charged £, B. with vo
ting for a petition, for the honelf labourers to pey
bioncy to lame {peculators becaufelhey were un
lucky ,* this is a fact, proved by the journals alfo.
But I luppofe you thought we knew nothing of the
journals, and you could tell us what fuited your
pnrpoles belt, but don’t milcake yourfelf. You
next tell US, that no doubt Mr. D. was mu.li
a Haled by the fuccels of the petition he wrote a
was employed by the representatives
ot Lord hairlaa, to fix quit rents on lands in the
Northern Neck. Now here I don’t know whether
r. U is the author ol thofe pieces or not, and I
believe yoh only fufpect it ; but allowing he may
be, di l you think we were fuch fools, as to hclie.e
that the petition fbppnrnd by E. B and the other
from Hardy, Hamplhire, &c. were fimilar. We
know the former was in effect to tax the honeft
part ol the community, for ibe benefit of {pecula
tors, but the other to quiet honeft people iu their
pof^filons ; the different fate of the*® two petitions
lliew their real difference. Tvl'. E. B.'s petition
was rejected as unreaionaule, the other was ague 1
to be realoriable, and occalioned that compiom.te
between the representative* of Fairfax and the- C un
monwealth, which afterward* took place ;—how
then, may 1 alk, was Mr. D. agitated by the fuc
ceis of thel'e petitions; if agitated at all, he mufr
have been agitated wit h pie..tore, at the failure of
the one and Aiceefs of the other ; every i>ood man
i’urely would be thus agitated. Your next halt is
upon Mr. D.’s being anxious to go to the afsembiy
to repeal the act making the above coropromHe.
Why brother, fee how you contradict yourl. !f .• in
the fir ft place, you ihow us no grounds to think Mr.
0 is in the employ of'FairtaVs reprefentavivrs ;
and even if he was, your remark would he ridicu
lous. Was not the comnrotnife made by the exprefs
content of thole repreltntative* ? Why then Should
they with to have it repealed, and if they did, don’t
we alt know th&r the (ucceeding afsembly cannot
repeal the contracts entered into by the preceding
one ? This much being laid, all your Hinder reboot
ins being a Briirth agent, and luch huff, veil! ap
pear to proceed ' -My from yor^t pertonai fpice a
guuiic Mr. D and of courle not Whirled to our be
lief. Your next attempt is, to Ihew us that Mr.
D has no politics ; you lay tie a'fserts one thing in
Winchester, ami another *#»hing in Be*k» ley ; now
for Morgan, then lor Rutherford ; now *ior the
trench, then for the Engliln ; now not a freeholder,
.ben a freeholder. How lhall we believe tHefi*
things •• 1 here is no pioot for them but yi.ur af
lertion, wh ii h i trult, in ihe courle of this piece, 1
have lhewn to be worf'e than nothing, I begin to
u* tired of your nonfcnle ; one more word wi'h
you bef'ufe 1 t• ke my leave. I think Mr. D. has
been a freeholder for i;x months r* but if be has i,wt
1 cruft he polbcfses the tsential qualif.^atious for a
representative, 1 mean the confidence of the people;
and iuffi. imt property to iniertlt him in the welfoie
of the itate. You make Inch a hobbling hand of
v\ ritiug, as well as tnyfelf, that;'I fhoulri be glad
■ ou would (tick to your plough, this buly lealun,
•nd leave tcribbling to thole engaged in let’s imlul
rioos callings, for if you don’t, y ou 'will uuke no
corn ibis year.
Hirk ye brother, you hive been guilty of a gla
ring contradiction ; in one part o! your line piJc<,
you lay in one place, that Mr. D. was well paid
ami relieved by the repreientatives of Lord Fairfax
and immediately afterwards you fsy he was dilap
pointed, and loli ioc farms, and ico;> dollars. Lh
you numbfcul. Yours, &c.
A REAPER.
Mr. JOHN DiX-JN,
S 1 K,
IN your late publication, on the fab jeer of you*
b^ing a freeholder, you treat the public in tin
l.nie imperious inarly manner that you do individu
♦Is, who differ in ienriments with you. Therefore,
inthislhort reply, 1 lh.dl treat you wi;li as little
ceremony as you delerve. You fay a tew illiberal
per Jo ns ha*. e induf»r; n fly circulated, that you are
not qualified for the (-- tnbly ,for want of a freehold,
in time. ihi. 1 belur/, will be tound to he the fact,
it rightly inquired into, for 1 believe you mean to
impute a deed oi trull, given to you to fecure a
debt, from one perfon to another, to prove you
are a freeholder $ and fo great is your vanity and
impudence, that I Ihould not he furprlled if you
would otter a Ihip’s regifter for the lame purpofe.
Put if you do offer either an antedated deed, or a
deed of iruft which does not convey inch an eftate
ar. will mike you eligible to the affedibly, the im
pofition will he made mantfeft on the day of ejecti
on- You probably fuppofe, that your ineligibility
on this (core ought to he winked ar, as you have a
freehold in virtue «nd integrity, which many others
want . for tnv own parr, if you really had this lali
mentioned freehold, and if any perfon but yourfilf
had laid you had, 1 thould not object to you for
wan: of the other But as you fectn determined to
arrogate to yourlelf, what few people think you
pofstis, h may not be improper to enquire into
your virtue and integrity, or rather your want of
them —And it is as aironiihing that you could find
a friend, who w ould give you a freehold, in dirty
acres (jS you call them), anti yet not be able to find
aw who would riique the alsertion, that you had
virtue and integrity. But 1 may be anfwered, that
a man will riique his property for a r—_1, when
he won’t riique his reputation* or that your friends,
more prudent than yourielf, thought this fubject
btft let alone • be this as it may, you are left to
found your own praife, and as you have had the
confummate impudence to compliment yourfelf fo
highly and in to public a manner, whether from
neccffity or not, 1 mult afk you a few qoeltions on
the lubject.—•
Why did yon not aftert your pre eminence in vir
tue and integrity, in your pieces figned “ The Peo
p!e ? or did you think it would be more authentic
with your own Dame to it ? You mult have a very
exalted opinion of yourlelf, when von venture to
ilsue Inch a proclamation in your oWn favour. But
how did you derive your title to this invaluable
eltate ? Was it by purchafe, or by defeent ? It by
pureh,-»(e,did you pay tor it with money or tobacco :
ot did you get fomebody to atsume the payment—
to exunerate you, and run awiy quite to the Span
iih luttkment, lealt jultire Ihould fall upon their
rear ? Ir it came by defeent, pray Johnny don’t be
lo InaHy about this as about the dirty acres, but re'i
us good naturedly, what ftock or branch ofyour
family it defcended from ; but I expect that rhiv
freehold will he harder to eltabliih then the dirty
acres, anti that it will be found that you have *ci
tlier the ore nor the other—if fo, I would cal! tip
on jou to Uiuii), i)t>t in the luce, lor iliai )uU are u -
capible of, l)in behind il»e rai«, where a liltle ninth
niav he Uen when you do a vny nic.iu dirty act ; —
1 m: this 1 mention in your favour, is it is ifte only
m irk of any fort of virtue that you dilco*cr. If br
ing a ilefiller inf religion, a debt, a inifanrhropr,
hypocrite, or iuch like thing, can give either ilia
one or the o her ot the freeholds mentioned, 1 will
agree that you are well provided againft any ob
jections that may arife to your eligibility ; but if
on the contrary they cannot, I nny reasonably ex
j>ect that you will be rejecttd on both grounds, end
that the people will not choole a man to reprelejit
them, who is fo unlike them as yon arc.
I had like to forgot your advice to Come perfons
alluded to in your public .lion, to fell rheir ill got
ten freeholds and ptv rtv ir d-bts. In anfwer to
this! need only dbferve, i! von hid given the
fame advice to yO’ir brother Roger, and others of
your relations, who ran away i-om this country
with rheir property instead of felling it to pay their
juft debts, you would have Served many of the peo
ple of this county more than by nnv of vice vou can
now give them. A PLOUGHMAN.
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Mft WILLIS,
SG\JL fo'lijb per (on, who ft gits himfrlf “ PJ>ughmart in
your [Hiper of th btb r.Hrnt his. a mu; many other ■
things,'/aid that I rtjietted Upon the birth ,vid pa
rentage of Mr. tihyd ; I mmi, in jujiice to my own tharoi
ttr as tit Has to the filings of Mr. Hoyd dniurc, that I
ne v t did, in rnj fanner r>J!< ft up.,n the birth vr parent •
age of that gentleman ; this n not the c> eerion by tvhtch /
jud-jf of the inert!s of mtn /is to the other frivolous
fu'jh ids. nonf-njical abnf. a-d ion:) Ju.nJai which tl-t
/nun has b■ h bed ut me, l think them, or any tike them, luhub
may i.pt«ar hereafter. unworthy my /totter.
JOHN TVXONJ
h O R SALK,
'"T HE Subfcriber h / for tale, Three Hnodred
JL Aires of good l.me ;:one LAND, fiuiated
within t wo miles of Mininsburg, "Rcikeiev Countv,
Virginia ; i here are on laid tract about too acres
cleared, and under good fence, Hie rent lining pare
is as well timbered as any in the County, if not
better j there are to or :2 acres •/, ix.rllent mea
dow, with a fine It ream of w j»er running through
the fame ; rheie is alfo a very near hj-iare log-hoi:f%
two Itory high, convenient to w;..fr, with font®
out-ljouies, &c. For ccrtr.s, apt !y to
fcEiH DUNCAN.
April 1$, ’ay.
rHE Subscriber, Jibing in SinM'ield, B“rkeley~
bounty, wilhes ro gyt two Apprentices, to
work with him at the Ci.''-n*r r.nd j-merL bo(ii>ef*„
He has contiaut empi-cv. — Good treatment, and
great encouragement will nr given, b*
j A M K H S A U N D E R ?.
_ April 13V07. _.
FT AN aw-.y from the Suhfcriber, on Wednefday*
V. the i6;h of November »a‘V, an apprentice
boy. bound to th? Gun-lmuh tvilinefs, named Hen
ry Laverfton, abou- iq years of age, has black hair*
about 5 feet 7 inches nigh.-'—He had on a Ini.jfio
lour'd coat, a pair of velvet overalls with Inin .1
ones under tlierrt. Whoever returns laid rnna -. y
to me, or comm.ir.i him to goal, ilia!! have -1 cene
reward. — AH per Tons are cautioned dgainlt harbour*
ing dr employing him.
JOHNSHOUGH.
Martir.sburg. April f 3
x\ U i i C E
THE Truftees tor the Preibyterian Church in
Middletown and vicinity, will meet in the
aforefaid town, on the firft day of May neX*, for
the purpofe ol felling to the loweft bidder t he erect
ing of a Meeting Houle, to be built of rot ick, forty
by 50 feet. Any perfon or peHons who would wiiti
to undertake the building, are iequefied ro attend
on that day. The necelsary proportion of the mo
ney will be paid in advance, and the tv: la nee when
the houle is railed and covered in ; fufHcienc fecuri
ry will be required of the undertaker for his per
futmance, to
JAMES RUSSELL, 1
ALEX. FLEMING,
» Truftees,
James wilson,
JAMES KEN ED\Y.
Middletown, Berkeley County, April
S/97.
A LL per fort i rdf bird to ;he Subfcrihrr either by bo.‘id,
7 note. or hook account, are her. by a-jitrd to cane for-**
ward for fttlenunt by the \Ji day of May rxt, as he io
deterfnim d on a generalJtttlemeni at that lime
JOSEPH ckoMiWELL.
Martin sbur?f Ap»•// 1 ±
1 he beautiful and well bird HORSE,
YOUNG SHAKKSPEAR,
If ILl, fiavd. this Scafr,at the plantation of 'Jacob Vast
Dorm, on the road leading from Shepherd s 7 own to Mar
dm burg, at the low and moderate price of Twenty five
Shillings, Ptnnfylvania currency and on, bujhcl oj grant
the Jeafon if paid by the fifi oj Odder, ij nd then paid.
Pour Dollars will be required.
Voung Shah fpear is a handfome black, with a ball fart
and both hind feet white, full 17 hands high, r./ing five
years old, Well proportioned, and mart well. He was
got by the noted and high br*d hofe Oid Shake]p ar his
dam by the noted horfc Old (r rand hay. He -x< ill reco.m
mend himfdf to goodjudges without giving along hjtory of
his pedigree.
CHRISTIAN VAN DO REN.
Berkeley County} Ajnl ij; yy.