The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1787-09-22 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E.
S A T U R D A Y, SEPTEMBER 22, 1787.
H A G U E, Aug. 25, 1786.
The Treaty of Westphalia... The war between the Emperor and the King of Spain...
Paris, Aug. 15. The King of France... The King of Spain...
Vienna, Oct. 1. We have received intelligence... The Russian army...
Vienna, Oct. 12. We learn that the Russians... The Russian army...
Vienna, Oct. 14. It is said that the Russians... The Russian army...
L O N D O N, June 13, 1786.
Mr. Pitt in answer to an enquiry of the earl of Surrey... The business of the crown...
The last advices from the Continent... The probability of an approaching rupture...
be a bloody one, as the latter have been some time... The Emperor...
Letters from Vienna, of May 12, mention, that... The Russian army...
Paris, Aug. 15. A letter from Rheims, dated Feb. 27... The King of France...
The King of France is now fully employed in... The Russian army...
The Court of France, since the commercial Treaty... The Russian army...
L I V E R P O O L, June 26.
Sad Consequences to be apprehended from Precipitate Judgments.
A young child in the hands of a dry nurse at Troy... The child...
A SCENE from an Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species...
LET us turn our eyes to the cloud of dust that is before us. It seems to advance rapidly, and accom-
panied with dismal shrieks and yellings, to make the very air around it tremble as it rolls along. What can possibly be the cause? It is an engine of that melancholy African who seems to walk dejected near the shore...
Alas! says the unhappy African, 'the cloud that approaches is a train of wretched slaves. They are going to the fields behind you. They are destined for the English colonies...'
Scarcely were these words spoken, when they came distinctly into light. They appeared to advance in a long column, but in a very irregular manner. There were only three in front, and these were chained together. The rest that followed seemed to be chained by pairs...
While we were making these remarks, the intelligent African thus resumed his discourse: 'The three whom you observed at the head of the train, to be chained together, are prisoners of war. As soon as the ships that are behind you arrived, the news was dispatched into the inland country, when one of the Kings immediate is assembled his subjects and attacked a neighbouring tribe. The wretched people, though they were surprised, made a formidable resistance, as they refused, almost all of them, rather to lose their lives than their liberty. The person whom you see in the middle is the father of the two young men who are chained to him on each side. His wife and two of his children were killed in the attack; and his father being wounded, and on account of his age unable of service, was left bleeding on the spot where this transaction happened.
With respect to those that are now passing us, and are immediately behind the former, I can give you no other intelligence than that some of them, to a out the number of thirty, were taken in the same skirmish. Their tribe was said to have been numerous before the attack; these, however, are all that are alive. But with respect to the unhappy man that is now opposite to us, and whom you may distinguish as he is now looking back and wringing his hands in despair, I can inform you with more precision. He is an unfortunate convict. He lived only about five days journey from the factory. He went out with his king to hunt, and was one of his train; but through great anxiety to afford his royal master diversion, he rushed the game from the cover rather sooner than was expected. The king, exasperated at this circumstance, immediately sentenced him to slavery. His wife and children, fearing lest the tyrant should extend the punishment to themselves, which is not unusual, fled directly to the woods, where they all perished.
The people whom you see close behind the unhappy convict form a numerous body, and reach a considerable way. They speak a language which no person in this part of Africa can understand; and their features, as you may perceive, are so different from those of the rest, that they almost appear a distinct race of men. From this circumstance I recollect them. They are the subjects of a very distant prince, who agreed with the slave merchants for a quantity of spirituous liquors, to furnish him with a perpetuated number of slaves. He accordingly surrounded, and set fire to one of his own villages in the night, and seized these people who were, unfortunately, the inhabitants, as they were escaping from the flames. I still saw them as the merchants were driving them in, about two days ago. They came in a large body, and were tied together at the neck with leather thongs, which permitted them to walk at the distance of about a yard from one another. Many of them were laden with

elephants teeth, which had been purchased at the same time. All of them had bags made of skins, upon their shoulders: for as they were to travel, in the way from the great mountains, through barren sands and inhospitable wools for many days together, they were obliged to carry water and provision with them. Notwithstanding this, many of them perished, some by hunger, but the greatest number by fatigue: as the place from whence they came is at such a amazing distance from this; and the obstacles, from the nature of the country, so great, the journey could scarcely be completed in seven months.
When this relation was finished, and we had looked steadily for some time on the crowd that was going by, we lost sight of that peculiarity of feature which we had before remarked. We then discovered the inhabitants of the depopulated village had all of them passed us, and that the part of the train to which we were now opposite, was a numerous body of kidnapped people. Here we indulged our imagination; we thought we beheld in one of them a father; in another husband; and in another a son; each of whom was forced from his various and tender connections, and without even the opportunity of bidding them adieu. While we were engaged in these and other melancholy reflections, the whole body of slaves had entirely passed us: We turned almost involuntarily to look at them again, when we discovered an unhappy man at the end of the train, who could scarcely keep pace with the rest. His feet seemed to have suffered much from long and constant travelling, for he was limping painfully along.
This man resumes the African, "has traveled a considerable way. He lived at a considerable way from hence, and had a large family, for whom he was daily to provide. As he went out one night to a neighbouring spring to procure water for his thirsty children, he was kidnapped by two slave hunters, who sold him in the morning to some country merchants for a bar of iron. These drove him with other lives, procured almost in the same manner, to the nearest market, where the English merchants, to whom the train that has just passed us belongs, purchased him and two others, by means of their traveling agents, for a bottle. His wife and children have been long waiting for his return, but he is gone for ever from their sight; and must now be disconsolate, as they must be certain by the delay, that he is fallen into the hands of the CHRISTIANS."
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TO THE VIRGINIAN.
SIR, I HAVE seen your late pieces against a separation, and as you are now my country man, I shall make no apology for asking you a few questions relative to your former conduct, and these last productions, that may cast light on both.
Did you not get elected to the first convention by haranguing a muster field audience?
By whom was it that "complaints were at first made of grievances in the administration of Government, and a great inattention in the assembly to the interest of this country?" And was it not you, and you alone that was so alarmed, and to whom "these complaints appeared so well founded, that they awakened in your mind only, "a resentment like that which had been heretofore expressed against the abuses of the king and parliament of Great Britain?"
When our Gentlemen of the first Convention were labouring so earnestly for grievances as for hid treasure, was you not second best?
Did you not labour with all your oratory in the first convention to inflame the minds of the members with resentment against the Government and Assembly?
Did you not read to them a letter from an Eastern correspondent, and a laboured composition of your own to strengthen your harangues against the said Government and assembly?
And to crown all, did you not then move that the convention should come to a resolution "that the Government of Virginia was become intolerable, and ought to be no longer born; and that the district should immediately take the reins of Government into their own hands?"
Did not your motion fail for want of a second; and did you not make the like motion a second and a third time without success?
And was you not the only man who spoke a word of a separation taking place in any short time? I think you was.
If the dispute has changed its appearance (with any man of sense) respecting the conduct and Govern-
ment of Virginia is it not with yourself: and did you not make the loudest complaints against them?
Did you not by a poetical prayer, addressed to a court yard audience and passed up at the tavern procure yourself a seat in the second Convention and did you not then vote for a separation on the terms mentioned in your second piece?
At the election for a third Convention was you not out voted?
"To be out voted! or to be out witted!"
"This is the humbling mortifying thought!"
"To cease to claim success by confidence"
"Must give you pause and stop your resolution;"
"This is the intolerable sad reflection"
"Which drags you on with so much fruitless toil"
"And makes cursing of our Convention!"
With this change of fortune did you not change sides, and "By bold assertions and liberal imputations upon a court yard audience" did you not endeavour to procure your election to the Convention of 1786, by making them believe that the Government and assembly had changed their conduct - a conduct of which no one had so loudly complained as your self?
Are not your Pieces leveled mere against certain persons who favour the separation, than the measure itself? and do you not point at your own conduct as much as any other man?
When you was so piping hot for a separation, did you not then call yourself a Pennsylvanian?
And how is it that you have been so agitated: or to what end may we ore it that a man of your good understanding should be so much like a wretched coxcomb, to change his sentiments because he was out voted; and change his Country because he has changed his sentiments.
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.
The subscribers for the Kentucky Gazette who have not received their papers, are requested to send their names to the office as soon as possible, and their papers will be afterward sent to them by the most convenient opportunities. The reason of this publication is, that several subscription papers have been lost and never came to the office, by which the subscribers have failed getting their papers.
JUST OPENED,
And to be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash, at the house of Mr. John Clark, in Lexington by
GEORGE TEGARDEN, CONSISTING of a compleat assortment of linen and stuffs. Also, coffee, boe tea, chocolate, mulecavado sugar, pepper, allspice, nutmegs, ginger, indigo, copelas, rosin, resins, nee, china and queen's ware, glass tuables, West India rum, writing paper, cotton cards, eight penny nails, &c. &c. &c.
ALL PERSONS
Indebted to Henry Work or the subscriber, by bond, note or book accomps, are desired to make payment on or before the first day of October next, as they may not expect any further indulgence. Sept. 20, 1787. HENRY MARSHALL.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD
STRAYED or Stolen from the plantation of William Stevenon (near the surveyors office) a large bay horse, seven years old about four feet eleven inches high, has a small star, one white foot, and some saddle marks, branded on the near buttock B L, paces and trots. Whoever takes up said horse, and secures him so that I get him shall receive the above reward. JOHN LITLE wheel-right, near Lexington.
Notice is given to the Separate Baptists that their next general
ASSOCIATION.
Will commence on the first Monday in October next, at Tates creek meeting house, and will continue Saturday and Sunday. The reason of this publication is, that there has been a misapprehension in the appointment. Sept. 13, 1787. MARKER BAYLOR, C.A. Fayette County September 12, 1787.
I hereby give notice to the Gentlemen subscribers to an article of agreement, bearing date the tenth day of July last, for the purchase of selling on Col. John Harris's farm near Licking, that we Henry Turtin Esq. and myself, agents for said Harris, first meet them at Brays tavern in Lexington on Thursday the first day of November next in perfect readiness to proceed to the place, lay off their lots agreeable to contract, and give them possession. The strictest punctuality will be necessarily observed in this case on my part, and therefore hope, no neglect will take place on the part of the subscribers. The public utility of this measure if carried into effect, will merit the approbation of the country; but in a particular manner of those Gentlemen who hold large possessions of lands contiguous to that place, whom, I have not a single doubt will liberally contribute. This settlement will consist of twenty six men, situate within ten miles of the Ohio river, on the bank of m-m Licking. JOHN CRITTENDEN.
A FRESH CARGO
Just opened for Sale in LEXINGTON by T. H. O. M. A. S. JANUARY. Consisting of a Compleat Assortment of DRY GOODS: COFFEE, TEA, LOAF SUGAR, RAISINS, JAMAICA SPIRITS, WINE, LIME JUICE, BROWN SUGAR, SHIRTS, EMPTY COTTONS, TEAPOTS, CUPS, AND SAUSERS, &c. &c. &c. which he means to dispose of very cheap for CASH. August, September 5 1787.
All persons who have accounts and certificates in the surveyors office of Fayette, are desired to apply personally, or by their agents for them. All those who fail to apply as above, may expect I shall take the most speedy methods of recovering my fees on such surveys. Those who have open accounts are desired to settle, and discharge them or their heirs by giving some security for payment to their heirs be servant. THOMAS MARSHALL late surveyor of Fayette.
Danville, August 21, 1787. THE public are cautioned against taking assignments of two bonds I gave Mr. Maurice Nagle, of Danville, the first for £100 due next July, the other £210 due July 1789, as I will not pay them until said Mr. Nagle discharges some debts of consequences which I am liable to pay upon his account. On the first of these bonds there is paid £120 5 7. Virginia Currency. SAMUEL IRWIN.
Lincoln, Aug. 15, 1787. THE subscribers begs leave to inform the Public that he is now engaged in erecting a Paper Mill on a branch of Dicks river near his grist mill, and anticipates to have it fully completed by the first of November next. He flatters himself that in the execution of an undertaking which promises such advantages to the District, he will meet with the greatest encouragement from every good citizen, who wishes to see Arts, and manufactures flourish in Kentucky. But as a paper mill factory cannot be carried on without rags, he therefore most earnestly recommends it to all persons to be particular in saving all their old linen and cotton. Persons will be appointed in different parts of the country to receive rags, for which he will give a higher price in cash than is given for that article in Maryland, or Pennsylvania. JACOB MYERS.
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