The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1789-09-26 00:00:00

K E N T U C K Y G A Z E T T E.
S A T U R D A Y, SEPTEMBER 26, 1789.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his OFFICE at the corner of Main and Cross Streets, where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
AN EPHMERIS FOR OCTOBER, 1789. Calculated for the Meridian of KENTUCKY.
Table with 4 columns: Day, D. H. M., Sun's rise/set, Moon's age. Includes entries for Full Moon, Last Quarter, New Moon, and various planetary positions.
AN ECDOFE. Of Major General O'Hara the present Commanding Officer at Gibraltar. WHILST this officer was governor of St. Lucia, a young man who wanted to marry his aunt, a Madame Le Batt...
CASH will be given for good Horses in this place. NICHOLAS WOOD, Baker. Lexington, Sept. 24, 1789.
AN EXCELLENT NEW PRIMER. May be had, by the gross, dozen or single, at this Office.
A company will meet at the Crab Orchard the 27th of September, in order to start the next morning for the Eastern settlements: it is hoped every person will go armed.
A large company will meet at the Crab Orchard the 10th of October, in order to start early the next morning for the settlement.
ALL persons indebted to the Printer hereof, for the news advertisements &c. are once more requested to pay up their respective balances. Good Wheat, Rye, Wool, Flax, Feathers or well dressed Deer skins, will be taken in payment, at the selling price in this place. Lexington, Sept. 12, 1789.
PETERSBURG, (commonly known by the name of Gen. Scott's landing) on the Kentucky, September 8, 1789.
JOHN NANCARROW, purposed carrying on at this place the MALT-ING BUSINESS and BEER BREWERY, where those who have distilleries, &c. may be supplied with malt in exchange for barley or other grain, and tavern keepers and others with good beer. Merchants and others, trading down the Mississippi, may, on timely notice, be supplied with such beer as will stand the test of the climate of New Orleans. He proposes to those who may become purchasers, to take in payment two thirds in barley or other grain, and the remainder in cash, or at least as much cash will enable him to purchase hops, being a cash article. Those who intend gathering the wild hops, should gather them this month or the beginning of next, in dry weather, and cure them in the shade, - hops gathered after they have changed their colour are of little value.
N.B. Travellers may be accommodated, at said place, with lodgings and such entertainment as the country affords.
A JOURNEYMAN MASON, BRICKLAYER, or PLASTERER, who understands his business, will meet with encouragement, by applying to JOS. GALE. September 8, 1789.
NOTICE is hereby given to the public, that I will exchange store goods, at Bourbon court-house, for bear skins and fur, - and will take ginfang till the 10th of October, at one shilling per lb. - Also, I took up a colt near Cumberland mountain, in the wilderness, last fall, which was supposed to be two years old. Whoever has lost such a colt, will apply to me, at said court-house. JOHN HOUSTON. September 8, 1789.
JUST ARRIVED, And now opened for sale, by PETER JANUARY & SON, At their new store, nearly opposite the old Court house, A large and general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Particularly adapted to the season: Together with a compleat assortment of MEDICINE, Which they, as usual, are determined to sell on reasonable terms.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, at the mouth of Hickman's creek, a Bay Mare 2 years old with a blaze face, a white foot under the right eye, and one under her throat and breast, neither docked nor branded. Posted in Fayette county, and appraised to £. 7. ARTHUR NASH.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near Lexington, a bay mare, about 13 and a half hands high, well made, a small star, branded on the near shoulder RR, and on the near buttock D, Appraised to £. 8. STEPHEN BARTON. July 9, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on the North fork of Elk Horn a brown cow with a white face and legs, no ear mark. Appraised to £. 3. CLEMENTS MOSLEY. Sept 13, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on the waters of the two mile, in Fayette County a gray mare and this spring's colt, she is about 12 1/2 hands high, 11 years old, branded on the near shoulder P, has on about a four shilling bell, branded IRID, the ID in dots. Appraised to £. 6. AMBROSE BUSH. June 18, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living on Hickman creek in the County of Fayette an iron gray filly 2 years old, 14 hands high, branded on the near shoulder and buttock TM a star in her forehead, her near hind foot white above the pattern joint, a little white above the hoof of the off hind foot, has been running in the neighbourhood since February 1788. Appraised to £. 14. DAN. HARRISON. June 15, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the Town fork of Elk Horn, a brinded row three years old with some white on the sides, back and belly, marked with an underkeel in the right ear. Appraised to £. 3. WILLIAM PAYNE. August 14, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living near Hunters horse mill, on the Cliff of Kentucky, a bay mare, three years old, 13 hands high branded A on the near shoulder, marked with a pack rope under the belly, paces natural. Appraised to £. 5. 10. JACOB MARCH. July 22, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living near Lincoln Court House, one red (or light brinded) and white cow, her neck yellow on each side from her shoulders to her head, marked with a swallow fork in the right ear and a slit in the left, there is something appears like a brand on her cushion, but not perceivable what, if any. Appraised to £. 2. 15. WM. MONTGOMERY. August 27, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, on Glen's creek, a dark red Stear, 4 years old, marked with a crop in the left ear, and three slits in the right, a white face, and some white on his legs. Appraised to £. 3. JOHN WILLIAMS. August 6, 1789.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, a black heifer has some yellow hairs in her ears, some white hairs in her tail and under the belly, about three years old, has a red heifer calf, with a white face, posted in Fayette County and appraised to £. 2. 10. JAMES HOGAN. Sept. 21, 1789.
THURSDAY the 8th of October, is appointed for the General Muster at Lexington,
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, are requested to settle and pay up their respective balances immediately; those who fail to comply before the last of November, need not expect any indulgence. Tobacco, Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats, Beef, Pork, Butter, Cheesie, and Hogs lard, will be taken in payment, at the selling price at this place. CHRISTOPHER KISER. Sept 13, 1789.
The following tracts of LAND FOR SALE,
SEVENTEEN hundred acres on the Kentucky, nearly opposite to Frankfort - 3,000 in the same neighbourhood - 1600 between Arnolds and Meux's station - 170 adjoining the town land of Harrodsburg - 200 on Brasfield's creek - 400 within four miles of Lee's Town, on the N side of the Kentucky - 1000 on Cedar Creek - 13,000 on the Ohio, near the big bone lick - 53,000 at the three forks of the Kentucky, - 800 on Hingston's fork - 40,000 in different tracts on Licking and the Ohio. it is unnecessary to say any thing in recommendation of those lands, but that the greater part are equal in quality and situation to any in the District. Negroes, Tobacco, Beef, Pork, Horses, Cows, and all kinds of publick securities, will be taken in payment; the terms may be known by applying to Mr. Peter Tardiveau in Danville, or to the subscriber, who has also a quantity of goods which he will give in exchange for Tobacco, Beef and Pork. M. NAGLE. Holders, August 8, 1789.
TO BE SOLD
Several very valuable tracts of land lying on the waters of Clear Creek, in the County of Fayette, about ten or twelve miles from Lexington, which are patented in the name of William Stewart. Also to be let for a term of years, two valuable tracts of land, one on Glen's creek, and the other on the trough springs. Together with several other tracts in the different Counties in this district. The terms may be known by applying to Harry Innes, Esquire, in Danville, or to the subscriber about six miles from Danville, in Lincoln County. THOMAS TODD. b 39-tf.
All kinds of Blank Books for Merchants, Clerks, &c. made and ruled to any pattern: Also old books new bound, on reasonable terms, at this office.

To the Printer of the Kentucky Gazette
SIR, It is observed that the officers of this District are concerting proper modes of defence and attack, and the state's men devising political arrangements for the public good? In our situation, these are subjects of great importance, and should no doubt engage their attention. But neither these things, nor any situation, however secure, should direct the citizen from his own personal rights; nor for a moment suspend his watchful vigilance over his own freedom. Happy are the people who know from annuals only, the ease with which liberty may be lost; but happier still are they, who know from experience how to prize its blessings. Surrounded on all sides by open force, or secret machination; it is subject every moment to be attacked and destroyed. Frequently liberty receives a more fatal wound from the injury and oppression, done to a single individual, than from the invasion of a foreign enemy. In the one case, the magnitude of the object spreads the alarm, and every man is opposed to the general danger; In the other, but few are acquainted with the affair, a still smaller number are affected by it, and none sufficiently, to make common cause. The injury is passed over without punishment; and thus is a precedent formed. One precedent creates another—they soon increase in number, and a number of precedents make law. The example has its influence, and is supposed to justify the most irregular measures; and where it does not exactly fit, the defect is supplied by analogy. And thus the man who at first wore the timid aspect of guilt, and might have been punished as criminal for his conduct, now assumes the bold front of right, decides the complaints of the injured, and triumphs in his arrogated powers.
The facts, which gave rise to these reflections not being generally known, and at the same time so alarming in their nature, and consequences, as to demand the attention of every man who dares say, even to himself, I am free; I have taken the liberty of communicating them thro' your press to the public.
Then know Kentuckians, that a free citizen in your country, in the house of his friend, in the peaceful pursuit of his business, is seized by a military officer at the head of his soldiers, taken into custody—confined, and hurried—Where? to a magistrate—to a court of justice—or to any tribunal qualified to examine him touching any supposed crime? No; but out of your country—out of the reach of your laws—away from his friends, into a military garrison: And all this without any legal warrant, or the shadow of authority, save only what his armed troops gave him. But he who has force, what other warrant does he want? He disclaims the common ties which bind the rest of mankind: And thus was the sacred laws of hospitality, and all the dearest rights of a citizen, in a moment violated and trodden under foot by armed violence. The county lieutenant of Mason, where these things happened, strongly impressed with a sense of the insult offered to the laws, the injury done the individual, and the pernicious consequence of such an example, raised a party of his militia, and with a spirit highly to be applauded, pursued the officer in order to rescue the man: Who however was carried into quarters before he overtook him. The man, I am told, is since released—by the interposition, I suppose, of the county lieutenant. This is however but a small part of that justice which he is instituted to. It is not my intention to take notice at present of the injury done to the man, but to the public. I cannot hear that the officer has yet been arrested, this should most certainly be done, that he might undergo the proper enquiry, and suffer a punishment equal to his crime. For if such a violation of the laws is permitted to pass with impunity, where is the man that is safe? Suppose this man to have been charged with a crime; are not all men liable to a like charge; and who is able to oppose an armed force? If you call yourselves freemen—if you dare stand up, and say that you are governed by laws—and not by the insulting caprice of individuals; assert those rights; support those laws; demand justice, and rest not satisfied until you obtain it. Your situation makes it doubly your duty; you have armed forces stationed upon your bor-
* Capt. M'Curdy.
ders, who may at any time commit depredations upon your property, and violate your persons with the same impunity that this man was seized? And once more I charge you by all that you hold sacred, to guard against so baneful a precedent. It is expected that the county lieutenant who was concerned in the transactions, will immediately furnish the executive with a particular account of the circumstances, and also that he transmit a similar account to the officer commanding the continental troops on the Ohio.
G A I U S. Sept. 10, 1789.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
L O N D O N, March 14.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, March 3.
"An attempt has been made here to burn the Russian fleet by an incendiary, one capt. O'Brien, from Ostend, whose ship lying amongst them, fast in the ice, had been planned to set on fire, so that a general conflagration might ensue. Providentially it has been discovered in time; for, if it had succeeded, half the town would have been blown up by the large quantity of gunpowder on board the Russian men of war. He had been bribed by a Spanish emissary, and was to have received a reward of 4000. sterling. O'Brien is arrested, and is to take his trial; but the villain who planned this horrid plot has unfortunately escaped."
Yesterday upwards 250 volumes of East India transactions, in manuscript, were brought from the India-house to Westminster-Hall, preparative to the commencement of the trial of Mr. Hastings. Each of these books contains from 1500 to 3000 pages.
Thirteen sail of the line are ordered to be equipped as fast as possible at Copenhagen, to join the Russian squadron early in the spring.
All the Austrian troops were ordered to quit their winter quarters at the end of last month, and to form the different camps as soon as possible.
Those in Transylvania and Moldavia to be ready for marching on the first notice.
The Elector of Bavaria has joined the armed neutrality of the German powers. His force is very considerable, and would, in case of a rupture, be turned against the Emperor.
The slave trade, and the rest-act, are again agitated in the course of this session.
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES.
PHILADELPHIA, May 22.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in General Assembly, May Session, A. D. 1789.
An act for levying and collecting certain duties and imposts within this state.
WHEREAS eleven of the states belonging to the late confederation of the United States, have organized themselves into a new confederacy, and are preparing, by their general legislature, to levy and collect sundry duties and imposts, on goods, wares and merchandise imported from foreign parts; and whereas it hath become necessary for this state to take some effectual measure for the levying and collecting similar duties within this state, to be placed in the treasury thereof for similar purposes.
Be it enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof, it is hereby enacted, that the same duties and imposts, whether by per cent. ad valorem, or on specified articles, or otherwise, be levied and collected upon all goods, wares and merchandise imported into this state whether by land or water, as may be ordered to be levied and collected upon similar goods, wares and merchandise imported either by land or water into any of the said eleven states, by and under the authority of the said eleven states, by their said general legislature by any laws, acts or ordinances made and passed or to be made and passed by the said general legislature: and that the several officers appointed for collecting the imposts heretofore levied in this state be authorized directed and required to carry this act
into effectual execution, at and from the same time appointed, or to be appointed, by the said general legislature of the said eleven states, for beginning to collect the said duties and imposts in the said states, and on principles and terms of the acts and ordinances of the said eleven states, mutatis mutandis.
Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the duties and imposts hereby required to be levied as aforesaid, within this state, shall be paid in the same kind of monies, or other things in which the said duties and imposts to be levied and collected in the said eleven states, shall be payable under the laws or ordinances by them passed or to be passed for collecting the same.
A true copy. witness HENRY WARD Sec'y.
From the New-York Daily Advertiser.
EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.
The ship Chesapeake, from Bengal, John O'Donnell, esq; owner and commander, has brought a valuable cargo, consisting of almost every production and manufacture of Asia. He has had a very quick passage, being only four months, including five or six days stay at the islands of St. Helena and Ascension, from Bengal. By Mr. O'Donnell's arrival we are favored with the following intelligence:—
The Chesapeake was the first American vessel allowed to hoist the colours of the United States in the celebrated river Ganges, and to trade there. When Lord Cornwallis, the Governor General, then at a great distance up the country, was applied to by letter from Calcutta, to know in what manner the Americans are to be received—his answer was—On the same footing with other nations. This answer being probably conformable to his instructions from Great Britain, evince the friendly disposition of that nation in that quarter; for the American ships pay no more at any of the English settlements of Bengal, Madras and Bombay, which Mr. O'Donnell visited than other foreigners. It is to be noticed also, that the Supreme Council of Bengal have taken off a heavy duty, called governmental customs which included exports as well as imports—this duty all other nations, except the English, were liable to. That on Madeira wine was so high as 18 rupees, the cask; and one rupee or 2/6 sterling, on all wines in bottles.
All sorts of European goods, wines, spirits, &c. were selling at the different European settlements in India considerably under prime cost, in consequence of the markets being overslocked. The best Madeira wine would not nett twenty pounds sterling the pipe.
Capt Keiby, in the Betsy, from Philadelphia, arrived safe at Bengal, but in a very leaky condition: her cargo of wine &c. was unloading. The vessel was to be sold, and not to return.
Capt. Randall, in the Jay, was safe arrived at Batavia, from Madras. It was supposed she would winter there, and proceed early next season to China.
Capt. Mercalfe, in the brig Eleanor, belonging to New-York, lying in the river Tigris, was boarded we understand, by a number of Chinese banditti; but by the spirited conduct of the crew, who brought a gun, loaded with grape, to bear on them, they were repulsed with the loss of some of their gang. The Captain was up at Canton.
All was profound peace between the country and European powers in India, when Mr. O'Donnell sailed. The hitherto restless & ambitious Tippoo, son of the famous Hyder Ally, and the English, appear heartily sick of war, and are now fully employed in restoring lost credit, and their almost ruined finances, by systems of reform and economy.
The French at Pondicherry were preparing a strong armament to accompany the dethroned Prince of Cochin-China, who lately visited France, and to assist him in the recovery of his legal and hereditary kingdom.
We understand, it is very unsafe for American vessels to go on the
coast of Malabar, for fear of the Mahatta fleets, who without distinction capture the ships of all nations with whom they have no treaty.
BALTIMORE, May 22.
London News-papers, received by the latest arrivals, communicate the following Intelligence from Stockholm the Capital of Sweden. "That the King has brought about a second Revolution, and notwithstanding his Declarations to the contrary, he has made himself really absolute. The Clergy, Burghers and Boors, were gained over by the usual Means. About Thirty of the chief Nobility, who were in opposition to the King's Measures, are arrested and put in confinement; among these are the Count Barbe, first noble of Sweden; Count de Persen, a most respectable and patriotic Nobleman; and many others of great honor and property. In consequence of this step, many other of the chief Nobles and Officers in the Army have resigned their posts.
The King has ordered a large body of the Dalecarlians to come armed to Stockholm, and hopes to carry all his Points by their Means. The two Courts of Petersburg and Copenhagen cannot be indifferent Spectators of these events; and all Parties wait most anxiously to see what active interference the King of Prussia may take in these matters. The King of Sweden seems bent on prosecuting the war with Russia; and Denmark is very busy in Preparations to make good their stipulated assistance to the Court of Petersburg.
RICHMOND, June 3.
On the 11th of April last, the wife of Mr. George Bucklew, of Montgomery county, was delivered of a BIRTH whose Monstrosity merits the attention of the Naturalist, as well as a Place in this Paper.
Two distinct and separate Heads, &c. with nothing remarkable in their Structure, connect themselves by several Necks to one Body, which produces three Arms, two of which are in their proper Places, the third projects from the right Shoulder Blade, which appears to be double; and furnishes one Thumb and seven Fingers—From the Navel downwards, appear the distinct, proportionate Parts of two Female Children.
Extract of a letter from Cork, dated March 4.
"Have you heard of the great flood we had in Cork on the 17 of January last? such as cannot be remembered. It rose about eight o'clock in the morning of Saturday, came up nine steps of our stairs; it was 4 feet higher than the quays on both sides, and over the counters of every shop. It continued in that situation, by the help of the tide, till towards the evening. It was two o'clock in the morning of the 18th before any person, where the flood reached, could venture down stairs. You may figure to yourself the deplorable situation of at least one half of the city, and the dreadful condition we were in, some thousands without fire or victuals until Sunday the 18th, when all markets were open to relieve our distresses. It was by boats that many were saved, out of windows, &c. and providentially but few lives were lost. Our family were shut up stairs twenty-four hours; the wind, by Divine favor, being westerly, or the whole city would have been an entire heap of ruins. There have been large collections made in every parish for the relief of the unhappy sufferers."
The King of Great-Britain, by his proclamation of the 13th of March, has ordered, that for the supply of the inhabitants and fishermen of Newfoundland, for the ensuing season, that bread, flour, and Indian corn may be imported from any part of the United States of America, by British ships, and navigated according to law, and which shall within the space of seven months previous to the time such importation, have cleared out from some port in his Majesty's dominions in Europe.
LEXINGTON, September 26.
We are informed that the company that started through the wilderness on the 15th instant, had some of their horses stolen by the Indians, who were pursued and the horses recovered.