The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-11-01 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, NOVEMBER 1, 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office in Main Street, where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
LOST
ON Saturday the 18th inst between the 4 mile tree on the Hickman road, and Capt. Youngs in Lexington, a pair of Saddle-bags containing shirts, stockings, and other cloaths, together with some papers which can be of use to the owner only. Any person who shall deliver the above articles to Capt. Young in this place, shall have five Dollars reward, by
Lexington Oct. 20th 1788. JAMES BROWN.
N.B. The cloaths are marked with the initials of my name. J. B.
EIGHT DOLLARS
REWARD.
WILL be paid to any person, who will apprehend and deliver Negro Ben to the subscriber.---He eloped the beginning of this month. Has a wife at Capt. Fowlers, and probably lurks about that neighbourhood, or in the Vicinity of this Town. JAMES WILKINSON.
Lexington Oct. 20th 1788.
NOTICE
WHEREAS Hector Lithgow, who, in or about the year 1764, served as a private in his britannic majesty's 77th regiment, then quartered at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, left that place for Great Britain, and proceeded in the same capacity to the East Indies, where he died in the year 1784, possessed of a considerable property, and by his last will and testament bequeathed the same to John and Hugh Lithgow, his two sons, who were born in the said town of Halifax, and lately resided there, and also Frances Sweeting, their mother: this is therefore to notify the said John and Hugh Lithgow and Frances Sweeting, or any of them, that satisfactory information of the whole transaction may be received at Halifax, by applying to Messrs Brymer and Feither at New York to Thomas Pope esq. at Philadelphia to Archibald Gay, Letitia Court.
Any who may have it in their power to give satisfactory information with respect to the above persons, or any of them, shall be rewarded for their trouble.
** The Printers in the West India islands and the states of America are desired to insert the above advertisement, and the charge of the same will be defrayed by transmitting of accounts to either of the above gentlemen.
VIENNA May 5.
The loss on both sides in the unsuccessful attempt against Dubicza has been considerable: ours is estimated at 800 men killed, and four generals wounded; amongst the rest general Vins, and general Khun. If the ardour of the turks continues as it has begun, we shall find them not so easy to be overcome as we imagined.
The wound received by Prince Poniatowski nephew to the king of Poland, at Sabatz, seems to be rather dangerous.
Our loss at Dubicza is said, by private letters from these parts, to amount to 3000 men.
LONDON, May 23
By a gentleman who left Brussels very lately we are informed, that, notwithstanding the many Imperial reports of victories gained over the Turks in the present war, the latter have actually had the advantage over the Imperialists in almost every action; and this success is so little disagreeable to some part of the Emperor's subjects, that public rejoicings were made in Brussels on a late defeat of the Imperialists .
In almost every war in which the Turks have been hitherto engaged, it was their military system to act on the defensive. In the present war they act principally on the offensive, owing to the very rapid improvement in the use of artillery, in which they now equal the most expert nations.
Extract of a letter from the Madras Courier, December 6.
"We have intelligence, which we believe may be relied on as authentic, confirming former accounts and opinions, as to the unformidable situation and powers of Tippoo. The latest advices say, that his strength is considerably weakened by defection, and that even mutinous murmurs are general throughout his army, from the want of pay. He is affected besides by a severe return of the indisposition under which he suffered some time ago."
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 20
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at Fort Pitt to his friend in this city, dated Sept. 6.
"Agreeably to a promise made you when in Philadelphia, I give you the following information respecting the treaty about to be held at the mouth of the Muskingum. Many Indians of the six Nations have been here for some time past. About forty, including women and children, embarked in company with the Indian Agent on the 3d inst. while others returned to their Homes, after observing to the commissioner or Agent, that they had made peace with the United States; that it was a great way to Muskingum, and in going there they would lose their fall hunt: since which no quarrel had taken place. By a Gentleman who left Muskingum the 20th ult. I am informed, that about 100 Indians of different tribes had been at that place for some time, waiting the arrival of others: that on the night of the 27th they all disappeared, without giving any cause for their retreat ---many of them left part of their baggage."
"By a Gentleman only twelve days from Detroit we are informed, that Capt. Brent, with 300 Indians, were prepared to set out for the Miami, where a general council was called, in order to determine whether they would go to the treaty or not: this informant was taken prisoner last spring about the time Mr. Puviance and others were taken. He says Mr. Puviance was burnt at the Wabash Towns, on the Wabash; that he was taken by a party of Shawanees, with whom there were five whites, one of whom named Fisher that a Mr. Garland from Richmond; and a Mr. Gray, from some other part of Virginia, were taken at the same time. The two latter were first put to the torture, and then furnished food for their feast."
"These accounts I conceive may be relied on, particularly that from Muskingum. I shall write you from Muskingum when I arrive there, provided I can give you any thing worthy attention."
Extract of a letter from L'Orient, received by the brig Lively, Capt Kelsa, arrived at Boston, dated July 17.
"In this unfortunate and unhappy country we cannot depend upon any thing. The King is now at WAR with his subjects, and there are many regiments of infantry that have refused to serve him against their country. The peasantry begin to collect in formidable bodies, and have offered a large reward for the head of the Intendant of the city of Rennes, who has had the good luck of escaping."
"Every thing at present seems to have a melancholy aspect; the minds of the people are much irritated. This has continued these three months, and we do not know when or how it will end. Thus we behold the consequences of a bad administration."
Extract of a from Bourdeaux, by the Ship Marquis de la Fayette, dated June 18, 1788.
"The King has broke all the Parliaments, and they have protested against the measure as illegal, and are endeavouring to persuade the poor ignorant, happy, quiet, public, that his measures are oppressive and tending to tyranny, because they have foreseen the destruction of the almost unlimited and destructive power of the Nobility and Clergy. Will they succeed? An infatuated love for Nobility, which prevails among the peasantry of this country, will favor, I fear, too much their selfish designs: But for the love of humanity and liberty, I hope they will be thwarted. In Daphiny the subjects have taken arms, to prevent the military from compelling an enregistrement of the new regulations; which they effected, after the loss of a few lives, and took the commanding officer under the King, prisoner, and made him protest against the orders of his master, in a letter to the Minister, wrote with a suspended weapon of death over his head, with intention to put an end to his life in case of refusal. The same measures have been taken in Brittany, but with less rigour and without taking arms. These are the only Provinces that have manifested such violent opposition, they being two that have many extra privileges. In the Isle of France, the eyes of the People are more opened, and a great majority of them are against the Parliament, and in favor of the new measures. The Parliament of Guenne have left Libourn and come to Bourdeaux, as private bourgeois, being deprived of their red robes."
By the United States in Congress assembled, September 13, 1788.
WHEREAS the convention assembled in Philadelphia, pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 21st. February, 1787, did, on the 17th of September in the same year, report to the United States in Congress assembled, a constitution for the people of the United States; whereupon Congress, on the 28th of the same September, did resolve unanimously, "That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case." And whereas the constitution so reported by the convention; and by Congress transmitted to the several legislatures, has been ratified in the manner therein declared to be sufficient for the establishment of the same, and such ratifications duly authenticated, have been received by congress, and are filed in the office of the secretary --therefore,
Resolved, That the first Wednesday in January next be the day for appointing electors in the several States, which before the said day shall have ratified the said constitution; that the first Wednesday in February next be the day for the electors to assemble in their respective States, and vote for a President; and that the first Wednesday in March next be the time, and the present seat of Congress the place for commencing proceedings under the said constitution.
CHARLES THOMSON. Sec'y
From a late Irish Paper.
As more beggars than we could wish, do still infest our streets, it may not be improper to recommend the perusal of the following mode of dispersing those gentry.
A FEW years since James Malone, Esquire, Mayor of Cork, imagining it he could strip the beggars of the miserable and sorry appearance they generally made, he should divest them of the strongest claim to the charity of the humane, came to the following agreement with one Georhegan, one of his constables, who was by trade a barber, viz. He directed the barber to seize all the beggars he found strolling within the limits of the city, for each of whom he promised a reward; but instead of bringing them before him (the Mayor)

he was to take them to his shop, and there shave, wash, and powder them in the genteellest manner. He seized about half a dozen, and with the assistance of razors, wash ball, scissars, and powder puffs, he completely metamorphosed them, that those whom he had apprehended as mendicants, when they left his shop, appeared like macaronies, at least about the head. This laughable scheme was attended with such success, that the whole tribe (during Squire Malone's mayoralty) avoided his jurisdiction as carefully as if it was visited by a pestilence.
Extract of a letter from London, by the last packet, to a Gentleman in Baltimore
“Doctor Nevil Maskelyne, the astronomer royal, has resumed the subject of the approaching Comet, which he has laid before the royal Society. As the whole of the Doctor's reasoning on this expected return of the Comet which was seen in the years 1532 and 1661, would be too long (it containing fourteen quarto sheets) I will only give you such an abstract from the whole as may explain his calculation. The Doctor predicts the return of the above Comet nearly in the same time as in the paper he before read that learned body, about fifteen months ago, viz. to its perihelium in the beginning of the year 1789 or the 28th or 29th of December, 1788, and certainly some time before the 27th of April, 1789. If it should come, he observes, before the 31st of December, this year, or the 1st of January, it will be visible with a good achromatic telescope, in its descent to the Sun, the 16th or 17th of September 1788, and sooner or later, according as its perihelium should be sooner or later. It will approach us from the southern parts of its orbit, and therefore will first appear with considerable south latitude, and south declination; so that persons residing nearer the Equator than we do, or in south latitude, will have an opportunity of discovering it before us. The Doctor hopes it may be first seen by some astronomer, in such a situation, and furnished with proper instruments for settling its place in the Heavens; the earliest good observations being most valuable for determining its elliptic orbit and proving its identity with the Comets of 1532 and 1661.
“He recommends the Cape of Good Hope as an excellent situation to make the proper observations. His papers, with respect to the planet Mercury, for the ensuing year, I shall give you by the next packet.”
PATRIOTISM.
“Patriotism,” says the author of the elements of criticism, &c. “stands at the head of social affection, and stands so high in our esteem, that no actions but what proceed from it are termed grand or heroic. When that affection appears so agreeable in contemplation, how sweet, how elevating, must it be in those whom it inspires! Like vigorous health, it beats constantly with an equal pulse: Like vestal fire it never is extinguished. No source of enjoyment is more plentiful than patriotism, where it is the ruling passion: it triumphs over every selfish motive, and is a firm support to every virtue. In fact, where ever it prevails, the morals of the people are found to be pure and correct.”
“These are illustrious effects of patriotism with respect to private happiness and virtue; and yet its effects with respect to the public are still more illustrious. A nation in no other period of its progress is so flourishing, as when patriotism is the ruling passion of every member: during that period it is invincible. Athenaeus remarks, that the Athenians were the only people in the world, who, though clothed in purple, put formidable armies to flight at Marathon, Salamine, and Platea. But at that period patriotism was their ruling passion: and success attended them in every undertaking. Where patriotism rules, men do wonders, whatever garb they wear. The fall of Seguntum is a grand scene; a people exerting the utmost powers of nature in defence of their country. The city was indeed destroyed; but the citizens were not subdued. The last effort of the remaining heroes was, to burn themselves with their wives and children, in one great funeral pile. Numantia affords a scene not less grand. The citizens, such as were able to bear arms, did not exceed 8000; and yet braved all the efforts of 60,000 disciplined soldiers, commanded by Scipio Nasica. So high was their character for intrepidity, that even when but a few of them were left alive, the Romans durst not attempt to storm the town. And they stood firm till subdued by famine, they were no longer able to crawl. While the Portuguese were eminent for patriotism, Lopez Carasco, one of their sea Captains, in a single ship with but forty men, stumbled upon the King of Achin's fleet of twenty galleys, as many junks, and a multitude of small vessels. Resolute to perish rather than yield, he maintained the fight for three days, till his ship was pierced through and through with cannon shot, and not a single man left unwounded.”
ed. And yet, after all the King's fleet found it convenient to steer off.
“Patriotism at the same time is the great bulwark of civil liberty; equally abhorrent of despotism on one hand and of licentiousness on the other. While the despotic government of the Tudor family subsisted, the English were too much depressed to have any affection for their country. But when manufactures and commerce began to flourish in the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, a national spirit broke forth, and patriotism made some figure. That change of disposition was perhaps the chief cause, though not the most visible, of the national struggles for liberty, which were frequent during the government of the Stewart family, and which ended in a free government at the revolution.”
“Patriotism is inflamed by a struggle for liberty, by a civil war, by resisting a potent invader, or by any incident that forcibly draws the members of a state into strict union for the common interest.”
“The resolute opposition of the Seven Provinces to Philip the Second of Spain, is the cause of liberty, is an illustrious instance of the Patriotic spirit rising to a degree of enthusiasm. Patriotism roused among the Corsicans by the oppression of the Genoese, exerted itself upon every proper object. Even during the heat of the war, they erected an university for arts and sciences, a national bank, and a national library; improvements that would not have been thought of in their torpid state. Alas! they have fallen a victim to thirst of power, not to superior valour.”
“The elevation of sentiment that a struggle for liberty inspires, is conspicuous in the following incident. A Corsican being condemned to die for an atrocious crime, his nephew with deep concern addressed Paoli in the following terms: “Sir, if you pardon my uncle, his relations will give to the state a thousand zechins, besides furnishing fifty soldiers during the siege of Bastia. Let him be banished and he never shall return.” Paoli, knowing the virtue of the young man, said to him: “You are acquainted with the circumstances of that case: I will consent to a pardon, if you can say, as an honest man, that it will be just or honorable for Corsica.” The young man hiding his face, burst into tears, saying, “I would not have the honor of our country sold for a thousand zechins.”
MR. BRADFORD
As there has been a great deal said concerning the instructing our Delegates to the ensuing Convention, and as several sets of instructions have been formed, I earnestly request you to inform the members for this county, that they are requested to call for the Yeas and Nays of the house, on every important question where the House is not unanimous, and publish them in your paper, by A CONSTITUENT.
DANVILLE, October the 18 1788.
THE subscriber has opened at this place, a large assortment of goods, all of the best quality, which he will sell low for Cash, Tobacco, Beef, Pork, Hogs-lard and Salt; he will receive the produce at the mouth of Hickman, the beef cattle in the middle of November, and the Pork in the middle of December; He will either purchase beef by hand or submit to the valuation of two understanding and honest men, and will allow sixteen shillings per hundred. For clean well dressed, corn fed Pork (each hog weighing two hundred pounds, or a parcel, averaging two hundred weight) he will give twelve shillings and six pence per hundred, and for small hogs weighing about one hundred, ten shillings.
For the convenience of the farmers on the other side of Kenducke, he will send a quantity of goods to the mouth of Hickman. For Tobacco only, he will pay one half in goods and the other half in cash on the delivery, and for other produce (on approved security) he will pay the goods before delivery.
In the beginning of November, he will receive a large quantity of fresh fall goods from Philadelphia.
ANDREW HARE.
I HAVE several Tracts of Land in this District which I would sell for Cash, Tobacco, Beef, Cattle, Merchandise or Public Securities: at their Passing Value Viz.
1500 Acres on Hinkston's fork of Licking in Bourbon County.
2000 Acres on the Kentucky in Fayette
850 Acres in several Tracts on the Waters of Dicks River in Lincoln; all Patented in my Name.
also.
2000 Acres on the Beech fork and 1000 on the Waters of Cox's Creek in Nelson Patented in the Name of William du Val.
8000 Acres in Entries and surveys in the Name of David Griffith, besides about 30,000 Acres on the Waters of Sandy and Licking Creeks, and the Ohio, in different Names.
I would also Let out for a few Years, some Valuable Lands near Stroud's Station Hickman's Creek, North Elkhorn and several Places on the Kentucky in Fayette, and in the Counties of Lincoln and Nelson.
CHRISTOPHER GREENUP Danville. 25th. Oct. 1788.
THREE hundred acres of land for sale on the east fork of Hickman, about eight miles from Lexington, equal to any in the district. There is about forty acres cleared, about sixty under a very good fence, very well watered, a good barn and other good cabbins, and a small peach orchard. For terms apply to the subscriber living near the premises. WALTER CARR.
TO BE SOLD FOR inspected Tobacco, a likely Negro Wench Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED TO HIRE FOR 12 MONTHS SIX able negro men, to be employed in the neighbourhood of Lexington, for which Cash will be given: Enquire of the Printer.
SALT TO BE EXCHANGED FOR TOBACCO in Lexington, by JAMES WILKINSON.
NOTICE
A LARGE company will meet at the Crab-orchard the 19th of november in order to start early the next day through the Wilderness. As it is very dangerous on account of the Indians, it is hoped each person will go well armed.
THE FOLLOWING BLANKS MAY BE HAD AT THIS OFFICE, Viz. DEEDS SUBPOENAS, REPLEVI and Common BONDS, APPRENTICE'S INDENTURES &c. &c. &c.
ANECDOLE LADY B---T---was lately one of a large company, at the house of a certain nobleman, remarkable for a large collection of books, but who has a mere ignoramus of a fellow for his librarian. This her Ladyship knew, and in passing, with several others, by the door of the library, she pointed to it, saying, with her usual vivacity, “there is the Seraglio, committed to the care of an eunuch.”