The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser — Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.], 1797-04-20 00:00:00, page 2

i <iv/ loudly they eaf complain of the proceedings in
<,u\ courts, and at-the lame tiiue wiih how little
’ 'Ittee.
(To'be continued ) ''
Mf . Wtllis,
IN your Guardian of rhe ig*b of April, I -©Merve
a notice Hating your intentions in tuture of not
ndnit1 ting anonymous writings in that paper.-—
V’nile you continue to admit th* ter fowl fribbling of
JV],. P! ughrtart, ii would b“ unfair 10 deny tht lynie
privilege to ar»y perfon who may incline to antwer
l»im i therefore, One of Ike People begs leave to fub
'r.lir. to your confiderauon a few free, pl.iin, and ap
plicable tern-rks, on h:i laboured pc rformabces of
the 6 h and 13 h inftaht, or lo much thereof as is
thought material.
With relp ct to Mr. Ploughman's introductory
part, in the Guardian of the 6 h, I lhail pay no at
tention, as it contains nothing but fcurrility.
In hkfirft efsay it is granted, that Mr. K. B's
father is a plain, honeft man, and had he been Jo
lucky as to have kept, his fon at home, and fed him
upon good wholelbme Waiter milk and fervexs, and
learned hitn the ofe of the mattock, hot an t ax, he
would have done hiifofelf infinitely more honor
than in attempting to* make fucli^a ninny / a ham
mering, It.-mmering, hobling, gublmg'<]m:ck of a
] .wy*.r, that no court ever did. or ever will, pay a
uy attention to, unlels it is for the exprefs purpofe
pf laughter. Suppofe Mr. E. B. had undertaken to
riiiph’.y a genius above common mediocrity, he
‘.vould have laboured under as great a miltake as a
Jittig mils, who purchafed a young polecat for a
lap-dog. „ .... <
With refpect to Mr! D cUifning any ritperiority
above the commonality of 1lie people,in conffcuence
of the refpectability of his anceftors, it is an ill
‘imured furmile of Mr. Ploughman, more than they
fortijerly were wealthy, and perhaps their offspring
would yet have felt rhe effects of that wealth, had it
not been for a rear eotinehhn cf Mr. Ploughman t. and
others of the lame Itamp, who forgot, until their
dying day, eyer to make the fmalleft refriturion.
'Eilat M". P luppofes that genius , or merit co.n
not exift among the funs of tarmefS, is a hatched
fuppolition, an lM-thriv^ff'plant,, taken from a bad
root, and watered by ill-naiure. Mr. D. has a due
relp-.et for’that valuable part of the cnmnniftity,
famuii itkd their font \ he lives by them, and has ^
ink idea of their genius and refpectability. But
Mr. D. and his act] tainrances has never, nor ever
will have it in then- power to difeover inch a geni
us in Mr. B. nor no other foul oh earth, except Mr.
Ploughman and Co. and bis two mammas.
The junto 1 mean to addrtfs,has been, and would
he a let of dictators, conkfling ofKing P. Prince D.
Me. Financier, their attorney-general E. B aScotch
collector ot'Q R. my lady Eel, and her confort the'
human cattle driver. •
it is well Known in miosc who arc aiyiaimtu
with the femimenrs of Mr. D. thaj he* hat been uni
formly of tlie opinion, that Lord Fuiifcx held an
ah/o'ut fee in all the lands in the northern neck of
V.rginia, except what was difpofed of previous to
the King’s grant to.him, and rt piced at the happy
comj.rc nile that took place between the reprefenta
tivesofhis lordlhip. and the Commonwealth, for
reafons jufrty hinted at in the'Guardian of the 13'h.
With relpecr to the attempt made by this royalparty
to twift the !hw to ferve their greedy defigns, ijhder
cover of which they meant to Irrip the repreleiita
tives of Lord Fairfax out of 50,000!. worth of pro
perty, for lefs than7/.oool. of certificates, worth at
the time they were paid into the tr*a^ry about 2/6
in the pound ; the whole amount of which,, witb
the intereft, and coft of furvey'bg the land belong
ing to the reprefentatives of Lord Fairfax, they are
now mod eft enough to alk from thisCommonwealth
through the nteditup of Mr. E. B. who the laft fel
iffSon prefented their petition to the afsembly, and
itipported 'it wit It all his feeble abilities. Suppole
theft Ipeculators had thov3r‘ht proper to burn their
land warrants, which would have been exactly the
lame with Ideating them on othtrpeople’s land, under the
idea that the money* and the interelt arifing from
the pretent appreciated ft ate of the certificates,
would be a greater advantage, tnd petition the si
limbly for that purpofe, what would be the language
of lite houle on this occasion ? It would be this,
Why did you not lay youryseo^rrants on nj heart t land? at
the lime tlwy* vertobtained, you might have had
choice ol many hundred thouiand acres. Let me
slk then, whether a reprrfentali've has not fairly for
feited the confidence of his conltituents, by tiling
every ni-afts in his'power to lerve a party at their
'ih;pence ? Who mult have paid the luni of money, if
the nraver of the petitioners had been granted ?
honrjl Ploughmen, but not fuch as yon.
[Nothing however, can equal the barefaced absur
dity of thi le kingly quality, in that they accuie Mr.
D. with being the council for the reprefentatives of
Lord Fairfax, who is endeavouring to fnake the peo
ple in the northern neck tributary to a Britilh
Lord, by fuing for the quit rents, See, Suffer ns to
.inquire into the real caufe of the reprefentatives of
Lord Fairfax fuing for their quit rents at this
d?y. Is it not the Hritjh treaty ? If that treaty had
been rejected, it never would have been thought of.
Who then abuled Robert Rutherford for voting for
the appropriations ? Who wrote petitions to the
'General Government, and heaped the epiihet of in
/urgent and ant federal on thoie who rtfufed to fign
ih-tn ? Who exerted all their influence to havethe
treaty that makes you tenants to a Britilh Lord,
carried into effect ? Was it not this kingly, queen
ly,couftlv. certificate purchsfing, land fpecuj iting
gecup. iNelr. E. B. previous 10 the conguflional
election 1C: pair, was"id* public tctftpany told',
ihat the day was Dot far diltant, when the
freenolders in the northern neck would he tenants
to a Britilh Lord ; he denied that any iuch cireum
frjtnce could ptfffibJy happen. . Now, who is’molt a
Bririlh agent, he who does every thing in Ins pow
er to carry a law into effect, or fee who, as a mere
lawyer, acts under the law, after it is coiiltituiion
ally enacted—-the anlwer is eafy. ^ ,
The change of Mr. D. varying in his political
opinion, is unfounded ? he might however, have
adopted the bid patriotic HobfrtRutherford’s creed
in one thing* that ii to lay, he might have thought
him right in voting againft the treaty that makes
you.tenants to a B« iriiii Lord, and might rhink Mor
■get 'u.irortg for every endeavour tiled by him to fad
die you With this burthen
N >w as to Mr. D 's freehold. Is a deed of bar
gain and tale, a deed of truft. I am ra'lier inclin
ed to think not ; if not, lee the records in this
County ; ihould you know the d'^rence, you will
be tatVsficd on thgt head, lo that it became unneceta
lary for Mr. V?.,A. or any other perlon to make
Mr. D any luch ofter as is alluded to.
Permit me now to take my leave of all the ma
j°lterinl, Fuanciering, quack tawing, vdeocatecfr
iiritifh'ireat'.es, and all tlu ir tools ajnd party, txirpi a
few bcotvh collectors ofculr reptaj whole pardon!
mult beg, being convinced 1 Cnll ihbuly be in their
power, byjuli oblerving, that Mr. E B. on Ins re
turn from the lair iVflion, declared in lbemoft une.
quivoca! manner, that he would not ofi r as a can
didate at the enfblng election. Mr. D. was then !
lb I i cited by many to offtr, who partly conferred.
Whgn the dictatorial party was informed of this,
they were arfiazingly alarmed, and immediately
held a council of Hate, When it 'was agreed the Ar.
torney Gmeral Ihould difregard his promife as a
foretaid, to op pole MKD well knowing and right
ly judging, that he had not a I! the partiality tor
them that they could have willed, and that he
would not be infiunced to ferve their pnrpol'es in
the afsetnbly at the expence of hiji conitituents,end
r hit Mr. K. B. would, who like \ well tempered piece
of clay yields to he form nd by the hands- of the canning, arts
man, tn anyJhage he gleajes. Wim p mey is u that •
write, and rioe, and fweat;,. 'and grunt, and try to '
have Mr. E. B elected, aDu after all their rheto
ric is exhaufred, if they cannot extort a promife
in favour of Mr. B. which I believe never in one
(ingle inftance happened, they appear to be in as
much pain as if a lurgeon was lancing a bile in the
bill of their eye. .
Iliad slmolt forgot ore thin1", rhj?t 1c, ar, the
Financier left the council as alorefaid, he was heard
to fay a—mn-'-on to Lord Fairfax’s appropriated
and unappropriated land : I with to the ford 1 had
kept my 400I. worth of certificates,and funded them j
as 1 did my others j I could at leaft have had two J
11101 e TUolai ions. The ref: of his folilcquy could I
not be heard, but it is (hrewdly luf'pected and molt
fiacertly belie^d, that the lamentations of the
prophet Jeremiah, was nothing to compare wirh it.
ONT OF TR'i FECRLE.
Mr.Vims, ■ ■ . t, .
IT lias )reen ofren fa*d by the Petition Oentlenep,
thtmieives, rhat rSiey 'aid om between three and
lour thoufand pounds in certificates, for land war
rants—lay three thoufand—this, at 25I. per hun
dred, mult lu»ve purchaled them 12,000 acres of land
warrants ; thefe certificates they purchaled ar 2/6
in the pound (for at the time they purchaled they
could he got for that) therefore every 400 acres of
land warrants coft them onlj i'jl.’ios. in fpecie, at
which rate their 12,000 acres colt them oi ly $qol.
in fpecie. They prayed the legislature 10 give
them the'fullafr'oztit, with 6 fer cent, intereft. Now
I underftaud their meaning by full amount to be is;].
in fpecie, for every 25I. in certificates, which they
had laid out, fo that had they have fuccerded in
their petition, the public wchld have had to have
paid them for every 400 acres of land warrants
which tliey h';d purchaled at the above low rates,
and coft 1 Sol. (calcuh-.ring itVerelt for :o years,
which is the time elapled fince they -cornmenetd their
/peculations) and for the irooo acres 4950I. —add to
mis the colts and charges which they prayed for,
we will fay at lea ft 5'j ol. will make 5 fool, in the
whole. Thus thefe gentlemen, for 350I. which
they had laid out as a venture, expected to receive
off of the public 5500I. Each Brian's vetnure was
116I. 13*. 4d —tor which he was ro receive
1833I. 6s. 3u.— ibis is turning lhillings into pounds
and hundreds into thoufands, by the way of a tax
upo£i the people,with a vengeance f
TRUE CALCULATOR.
tWfc. Willis,
T HAVE lately obferved in yobr papers, pieces
t. fignarured a “ Ploughman/’ abounding with the
molt virulent abufe, illiberal reflections, and un
meaning calumnies, againit one of nur candidates,
that I have ever met with ift th? public prints; I
know not the man who could be fo ignorant, bale,
proftitute and infamous ; and let him be who he
may, it will be heifer for him to keep himielf ftill
concealed behind his maik, for if ever he Ihtws his
face to the world, he muit inltantly become an ob
ject of public fcorn, and eternal infamy mult follow
him wherever he goes. Mr. Dixon has always
borne a good character ; I have never, until this
bale calumniator came forward, heard any thing
difrefpectfuf of him; hut the ddign of this man,
mult be obvious to the lealt difeerning; he is the
vile inftriHiient of a vile intriguing, designing par.
ty, that wilhes to fend Mr. Boyd to the afstmhly,
be it right orwiong; and becaufe Mr. Dixon is the*
only one amoDg the candidates who can interfere
with Mr. E iyd's election, he is mide the mark of
their Icanrial and abute. The mon immaculate n. ■ n
that ever lived, was he placed in the lame liiuaiu.
wdh'.d meet with the lame treatment, from luch'in
famous men. Tiiere is another cattle of t gVnce to
this party •, they lufpect that Mr. Dixon is the au.
thor of the information which was communicated
to the public, reipecting a petition to tax th'public
with thoufands, to aggrandize a lew indiviuua|,
who had advemor»d a trifle for land warrant■ ’
This gives offence to them, becaule they think it is
an in'crdachment upon their prii ileges to iinpole
upon the public, and to itjoeeze fortunes out o( the
labouring and induftrious part of the community •
but to all other perlons it muft he a caoie <;f rtej
fatisfaction. I oa hot know whether Mr. Dixon
wrote the pieces fip.efl “ The People" or not, nor
do 1 believe it is known certainly'who wrote them •
but whoever he lie, he 1.2S done himfelf no dif'cre
dit. while tile public his received real advantage
B it I would alk, if Mr. E >yd bad not have forfciitd
the confidence of the people, as he has done, has he
the eyrluflve right or cfieri'og to reprefent the pco.
pie of Berkeley f and Ihal! no other perl'on, lei his
talents ar.d virtues he wh?t they may, oppole him
without being liable to be a blued and publidv fcan
dulized ? prepolterous the idea fit never could have
entered the head of any than, except thsi ofluchan
ignorant, impudent, bale wretch as Mr. Plough
man. I alii, a candid
' OBS'T.kVER.
Lateft Foreign Advices,
Received !j lot Utlando, arrived a: Nezv Y^ri.
Jum Liver pin l.
L O N D O N,
Febt’iary 27.
BANK Of ENGLAND,
In confeqiSoee of an order ot ms m :j-:rtyps privy
council, notified to the B-u;k } it night, a copy oF
which is hereunto annexed, the governor, deputy
governor, and directors of the Bank of England,
tnii>lc it their duty to inform the proprietors of
oank Hoc!.. as well as the public at 1 trge, that the
general concerns qf the bank are in the molt afflu
ent and proipt runs Tr nation,and inch as 10 preclude
every doubt as to the leer-rfty o- i»s notes.
The directors mean to continue their ufuaJ dif
counts for the accommodation of the commercial
interact, paying the amount in bank notes, and the
divided Warrants will be paid in the (ani'e manner,
Francis Martin, s-cVv.
We have this day the malt important con.muni
cat ions to lay befote our readers. By an efpemi
rceomnie.ndi.tion of government, ro more'/pede will
be ifjued in t ay men i from the bank of E>/ptaud.
, i.i comv:mpi.nioi ot this valt meamrt, an exprels
w=s, yefrerd »y morning, ft nt to Windfor ; and
loon af.er, his maj.Try at rived in town, and airend
ed a privy council held at Buckingham houfe, which
lat three hours,and afterwards adjourned toDuwn
ingftreet,.
The gentlemen r?bo attended this council, heF.de*
their mjnilters, E ere Mr. haw knet, the cletk o? the
council, the attorney and foliciror general, the go
vernor and deputy governor of the bank, Mr. St tn.
'Thornton and Mr. JRofennuet, Bank Directors';
wjien it was relolved, that a ccmfounicaiion ihouid
this day be made frrun his nnjelty in parliament, ac
quainting the two houfes that he had thought ic
expedient for the public lervjce, that the above im
portant ftep llicusd be taken immediately.
The following is an official copy of the order of
council :
“At the Conn ?il Chamber" 9 ^Vfjiteoa'l, tFrb 16.
By the Lords of his Nbkfiy’s molt honorable Privy
Council, PrefenD
The Lord Chancellor Earl Spencer,
Lord Prefidcfif, Earl of Liverpool,
Duke of Portland, Lord Grmvilie,
Mat quia Cornwallis, ' Cfianccilor of tne'ExrbeV.
Signed W, FaWKNER.
“ Upon the reprefen^ation of the chancellor of
the exchequer, (taring, that from the refnlt of thef
information which he has received, and of the en
quiries which it has been his duty to make, relpcct
ing the effect of tbe unufual demands for Ipecie, that
have been made npon the metropolis, in conlequence
of ill-founded or exaggerated alarms in different
parts ot the country, ii appears, that, unlefs fume
m'eafore is immediately taken, there may be reafon
to apprehend a want of a lufficient fupply of cafli LJ
antwer the exigencies of the public fervice.
“ It is the unanimous opinion of the board, that
it is indifpenfibly necefsary for the public fervice,
that the directors of the bank of ;land tbould
forbear ifsuingany cafb in payment until the tenia
of parliament can be taken 011 the fubject, and tbe
proper meaftires adopted thereupon, for maintaining
the means of circulation, and hipporring the public
and commercial cfedit of the kingdom at this im
portant conjuncture ,* and it is ordered, that a copy
of this minute be tranfrfmted ro the directors of the
bank of England j and they ar f hereby required on
tbe ground of the exigency of the cafe to conform
thereto, until the fenie of parliament can be taken
as a fore fa id1.
S5fined _ W. FAWKNER."
Ar a meeting of the principal bankers,merchant?,
•Sic. held at tbe tiianfion houle, at which the general
lCnfe appears to be (imilar to that which governed
the commercial interefr during the rebellion of
to take tbe bank notes in all payments,and by every
exertion to promote the circulation of them.
The fecurit y of government will probably be uni"
ted to that of bank notes, by the way of indorse
ment, for the purpofe of prefe-rving their credit.-*