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% g 1 BECKS on Nc\v*York, for sale by
V> * THOMAS GARDNER.
*, August 16. » . \
Bills on New \ ork
AT SHORT SIGHT,
fair Sale by
A Slaughter & 0. Labuzan*
August 16. . ts
Bills on New-York
For sale by
McKenzie, Beiraoch &'Co
* August SO. n
Bills on New-York
For Sale by
Benjamin Picqaet.
August 23. ts
—: —fottiaee;
TWO LIKELY YOUNG FEL
LOWS—excellent Bricklayers.—
Enquire at this office.
• Augu4tt3.
For Sale or to Rent.
A BOUSE and LOT at the upper end
of Broadest, as good a stand for
buying produce as any in the city—For
particulars inqure of T. PYE.
August 27. ew
STOPPED
FLOM a Negro Fellow, a Post Note
for a considerable amount, which
the owner can have by giving a satisfac
tory description of it. Enquire at this
office. August 27.
BOARD
AKD (
'Entertainment ,
EOU civil persons either stationary or
travelling, at Elbertun. on that well
wn lot formerly occupied by Captain
Wni. Patterson. People from the low
country are invited to visit this scat of
health.—A Mineral Spring is convenient
to it. The subscriber promises to fur
nish supplies for agreeable accommoda
tion, to commence on the first of Octo
ber next.
Thomas Oliver.
August 87- c
Guardian’s Sale.
JN pursuance of an order obtained from
the Honorable the Court of Ordinary
Columbia Countv—Will bo sold to the
highest bidder, on the Ist Tuesday in Oc
tober next, at Columbia Court-House, all
the lands belonging to the estate of J oseph
Ray, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs |
of Mid estate; consisting of about 1200
acres, and including a valuable sett of
Merchant Mills on Little River. Brick
Distillery, Brick Dwelling lion Ac, a Two
Story Store House, a large Granary, and
a.nurober of other Out Buildings, too te
dious to enumerate. The Land general
ly 1$ of good quality, and will be surveyed
and sold in lots of about 200 or 250 acres
&. ina lot. One lot will include the Mills
Houses, bic. v
The Establishment at Raysrille (td*a
man of enterprise) would be an elligible
one,for it is believed tohe the most advan
tageous situation for Mills and a Store of
any in the up country. A farther descrip
tion of the |property is deemed unnecessa
ry, as it is presumed that persons unac
quainted with the situation, and who
would have any idea of purchasing, w ill
viewr it for themselves previous to the
sale. - •
Tne Terms*(in part) will be one third,
in hand, and the balance in equal instal
ments at one and two years, with appro
ved personal security, and a mortgage on
the property—The ’terms will farther be
made known on the day of sale.
WILLIAM BARNETT, Guardian
\ for the, Minors of Jos. Ray , dec.
July 18 lawtds
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In the Court of Ordinary , July
Teim, 1817.
WJIKUEAS llyrd Murun, la e of the coun
*y of Richmond, tiecease.i, in his ‘if,
tin,--, ami in the lite lime of John M K
late of the same coutry, now also decease,
en’ered into an affrei-nient under his hand amt
seal, dated the 8 ;st October, 1812, to convey
to the said Jilin MKllliu’ a certain tract of
land lying in Abbevilie district, adjoining Ben
jamin Chiles* land, die wid«.w Mi chel’s lam ,
William Lipscomb’s (decease.l) land and lands
which the said NrKcllar pirchaaed ofDivid
", Thomas and others, cental ing two lumdred
and fifty .icres, more or .es*.— md where is the
•aid Byrd Mar in and J ,hn M’Kellarhath bolli
departed this life intestate without titles hav
in'- b ep made pursuant to the said agreement
—This ’s therefore to give notice, that appli-
C-n ion irwid. by tke heira of the aid I
J hn M K> 11 T o 'he honourable the Justices,
of t"e inferior court of said county, while ait
tinjf for ordinary purposes, and as a court ol
ordinary, praying that the administratrix of the
%aid Bvtd Martin be ordered to make titles for
the said irac or iahd to the heirs of the sai '•
John M‘Kellar,Bi have filed with the clerk of .he
said cour. of ordinary, a copy of the said agree
ment, pud thereupon it is ordered by the said
court, tha* notice of the said application bf
given in one of the public G uetts of said coun
ty, *nce a month stir three months, and that
at the court of ordinary next to be held in aipd t
for Mild county, after U»e expiration of said’
t brer months, all persons interested be &. appear
then and there to shew cause, if 'any they have
or can, why such order should not he granted.
Taken /ran the Minutes.
Isaac Herbert, Clerk.
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£3* WE are authorised to an
nounce GER ARD MORRIS, a candidate
for J'islice of toe Inferior Court of Co
lumbia county/. August 27.
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Communicated for the Boston Patriot.
There are some persons among us, who
from a variety of causes, seem incapable
of conviction, and either have not under
standing sufficient to perceive what is
tight, or honesty enough to acknowledge
it. Whether those who pow applaud the
conduct of the British government to
wards their oppressed people, and their
defenders, be of this class, each reader
is left to determine.
It will be impossible for us Americans
to be indifferent spectators of what is go
ing forward in Old England between the
people and their government. It may be
•aid that we have no business to concern
ourselves with either. But we must
change our natures,alter our our inquisit
ive habits, and divest ourselves of omJbe
nevuieut disposition-*, before we can re
main indifferent auditors and spectators
of the tragedy now opening in Britain.
Our boxes, pit and galleries will applaud
and hiss the actors, whether princes,
dukes, great lords, generals or common
people, just as they appear to deserve
praise, censure or ridicule. This being
the case, it is Os importance to obtain
correct information of the actual state of
things in Old England* and this cannot
be acquired from the London newspapers
during the present reign of terrour.
Mobs are terrible tilings and ought to
be discouraged every where; but they are
not so dreadful and dangerous to the peo
ple as Secret Committees, established by
a parliament, whoso reformation has been
■ loudly called for. Secret committees of
inquest, and the deprivation of the pri
j vilege of the Habeas Corpus or personal
safety act, constitute the most alarming
species of despotism, for it implies a pre
vious state of freedom. As descendants
of Englishmen we lament that the forms
of parliament are tnade use of to destroy
the substance of liberty.
The reports of the parliament’s secret
committee would of themselves be en
ough to induce an American to thank
Heaven that he is no longer a British sub
ject. Extreme alarm appears on the face
of them, while they betray, taken collec
tively, the most outrageous exaggeration.
They say that “the revolution which the
people meditated was, if possible, more
sweeping anti immediate in its elfects
than the French revolution.” Indeed!
what evidence could they possibly have
had for this sweeping assertion?—The re
poiters do not say what atrocious deeds
the people havp done, besides hissing,,
hooting and pelting the prince regent
with mud ami potatoes, but they pretend
to tell what they “meant to do.” They
meant, says the seport, “to begin by de
priving evey man of lands and funded
property—to declare all the land in com
mon, and to extinguish thefumls.” They
next utter the old and dreadful cry that
the Church is in danger, and gravely as
sert that “they meant to recite profane
parodies of the liturgy, or songs blasphe
ming the holy scriptures;” and they add
they meant to kill the bishops. fMeu of
coolness and discernment saw in all this
a vile trick, designed to alarm the land
holder, the monied-man, and the priest
hood, and to rouse the vengeance of all
three. But these were not sufficient for
their purpose. The soldiery must be o
perated on. Accordingly, the strange
report goes on to say—“To the soldiers
they had, by a second determination, re
solved to adopt means of seduction; but
the first plan and impulse was the mur
der ol the soldiars at midnight. The de
sign was, by a sudden rising in the dead
of the night, to surprize and overpower
them in their different barracks, which
were to be set on lire.” All this is grave
ly told by the secret commi' tee of par
liament, and serihusly believed by think
■ ing John Bull!! Let us hear no more of
the credulity of Papists, nor the imposi
tions of the priesthood in any country
however barbarous. This far exceeds
their own gun powder treason, which we
used to celebrate so heartily every sth of
. of November, and which is now” known
to have been at .bottom an imposition on
John Bull and his descendants!
This midnight murder of, the soldiers
was inserted, no doubt, with a view of
whetting up the rage of military against
the citizens; and was probably done to
produce a declaration of war against them.
If so, is not this like pampering “the dogs
of war” for the chase? The report of the
secret committee furthermore adds,
“that the prisons were to be drained, and
the murderer, the felon, and criminals of
every description, were to be, let loose
upon the metropolis, with arms, and that
pike heads, ana a large quantity of other.
arms, were procured.”
The fact is, this committee saw a little,
imagined a great deal, and presuraptu-.
ousl y jumped to a terrible conclusion.
At this distance, we can see through
all this improbable story; but “thinking”
John Bull, will, for a time, believe it all,
and will join most cordially in making
halters, and forging fetters, and prepar
ing dungeons for his own flesh and blood.-
The horrid scenes of Ireland will be act
ed over again in England: the government
will require additional strength; and ter
rour will prop up imposture a little while
longer.
We pity the distressed people of Eng
land, especially the women and children -
We hope the men will remember how
they cryed out foe war against America.
It may be that “the.just avenger” is now
visiting withchastisementthosc very men
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who not long since, lifted up their hands
and voices against us; and were impati
ent at the too tardy foot of victory. We
do not wish to see the capital of Britain
like Washington city in flames, their suns
and daughters slaughtered and abused;
but hope to see the people of England
driven to due reflection on their unfeel
ing conduct towards us.
To the question—Why concern our
selves with the affairs and conduct of the
English? We answer, because there are
too many amongst us predisposed to fol
low her track. They admire the theory
of the English government, but are not
apprised of her practice. Our trials are
to come; Providence, before it conducts
a nation to greatness, leads it through
great difficulties and embarrassments.-
When storms arise, and storms will come
we hope we shall retain our two best an
chors, a Free Press add the Habeas Cor
pus Act; and not do like the parliament
of England, cutaway both from their ship,
while in a storm, at short allowance, and
with a mutinous crew. Their bad man
agement should be a warning to us.
Besides, if the transatlantic politician
has aflixed a mask on the face of truth,
the American politician should take it off
and shew her, as she really is, to her ad
mirers. Our government has no secrets,
no intrigues; neither is she under the
-necessity of holding up to the people a
picture of things different from the real
ity. Few of us read the history of Eng
land to the best advantage. We give here
a very interesting portion of the history
of the present times, drawn from sources
in which we have entire confidence.—
This account which follows does credit
to a distinguished traveller who was in
London last February.
“Last week the prince regent gravely
told both houses of parliament, that this
nation “was blest with a system of laws
and government wiich has been hitherto
felt by ourselves, [meaning the British'
people] as it is acknowledged by other
nations, to be the most perfect that has
ever fillen so the lot of any people.” In
going to the house of lords to make that
speech, the, prince jregent, the head of
the most perfectly stem of law and gov
ernment that has ever fallen to the lot of
any people; was followed by the hisses
and groans, and execrations of an innu
merable multitude of this inost blessed
and perfectly governed people. In re
turning home from making that speech,
in the midst of ail his royal magnificence,
in his gilded, bullet proof coach, drawn
by eight cream coloured horses, caparis
oned with harnesses all glittering with
gold, tricksied all over with blue satin
ribbons, with grooms, and coachmen, and
lootmen, and yeomen of the guard, be
dizzenetf with gold lace from the crown
of the hegd to the sole of the foot, and
with a trpop of horse before, at the sides,,
and behind the carriage, pressing the*
throng back to a distance from it, and a
commanding officer repeating incessantly
the command “keep them backl—keep
them back!”-—with atone as if a herd of
tigers were breaking in upon a boarding
school! With all this glory, and with all
this defence, he passed through a con
course of teas of thousands and hundred
of thousands of his most happy people,
“by his sceptre swayed,” whose mode of
manifesting their felicity, was by hisses,
groans, cries of—“throw mud at him!”— 7.
“pull him out!”—and finally by showers
ol etnnes and potatoes!
“The master ofthe horse (a most noble
duke) and a -lord if the bed-chamber,
(son and son-in-law of two other dukes)
who were with the prince in the carriage,
have attested most solemnly before the
house of commons, and before police ma
?;istrates, that in their consciences, and
rom their souls, they believe that the
window of the carriage was broken by
two bullets, shot from a tree, although
they heard no report, and .although other
witnesses testify that the window was
thus booken at a place where there was
no tree. But that the glass was broken
and pounded to powder by stones, there
is no doubt. That potatoes were thrown
is also established beyond controversy;
and a worthy magistrate, on the examin
ation of a man whom he threatened to
commit for high treason, for having par
ticipated in these demonstrations of joy,
observed, th4t “the potatoes spoke for
themselves,” and proved a premeditated
design of high treason in the people.
“No less remarkable is with all
this hissing, dnd treasonable clamouring,
and pelting, and (as far as courtly testi
mony goes) shooting in broad day-light,
at noon-day,"in the public highway, and
in the presence of myriads of people, al
though a reward of a thousand pounds
sterling has been offered for the discove
ry of any person concerned in the out
rage, and pardon to any culprit who will
turn king’s evidence against any other,
only one man was taken up for’the out
rage upon the.royai carriage. He was
seized upon the spot by a military officer
out of uniform; and three examinations
before two magistrates,was,notwithstand
ing the most earnest and loyal desire to
commit him for high treason, at last re
luctantly admitted by them to bail, upon
a charge for a. simple misdemeanor, the
magistrates bitterly bewailing that they
could not get evidence against anybody.
“Both houses of parliament, and the
corporation of London, and the loyal liv
ery of London, and counties and corpora
tions, without number, have presented,
and are presenting to his royal highness,
loyal and dutiful addresses, assuring him
their horror at the actrocious and trea
sonable assault upon the bullet proof coach
—congratulating him upou his providsa
tlal escape from the%ullel3 and the stones
and the. potatoes, that “spoke fwthem
selves,” protesting of their affection, re
spect and veneration for his person—and
indeed throughout all the ranks of loy
alty, it ia universally agreed that the un
popularity of his royal highness is utterly
unaccountable; a mere wanton, unpro
voked and corseless caprice of the peo
ple!
“There was a meeting of the common
council in London, called to consider of
an address to the prince, congratulating
him on his providential escape from the
atrocious assault of some rash and intem
perate individuals, but the recorder told
them that he and the common sergeant,
and all the city officers, were of opinion,
that if the common council agreed to that,
address, the whole batch of them would
be gu|lty of misprision of treason; for it
was itself a high crime and misdemeanor’
to call high treason rash and intemper
ate only. So they had another meeting
at which the rash and intemperate indi
viduals were left out,' and the atrocious
turned into a traitorous assault.
“This is not the only commentary upon
the most perfect system of law and gov
ernment, presented by the present session
of parliament. About half a million of
people have signed petitions for a reform
in parliament, and universal suffrage.—
The house received a very small part of
these petitions, and ordered them to lie
on the table. They rejected most of them
fur containing expressions disrespectful
to the house; or because the petition is on
one piece of parchment, and the signa
tures on another; and almost all the mem
bers of all parties declare themselves de
termined against the object of the peti
tions. Numbers es people are literally
starving, and a secret committee of both
houses are brooding over a green bag of
treasons and conspiracies against the
mmstitution, which are to terminate in
new laws of restriction anon the liberty
of the people. Such is the condition of
this most perfect system of law and gov
ernment. in a time of profound peace, af
ter the termination of what they called a
glorious, successful and triumphal t war!
Thus floats the fast-anchored isle.”
This is the most correct and lucid ac
count of the attack on his royal highness
the prince regent, that has hitherto ap
peared with its causes and consequences.
It is from the pen of an American, dis
tinguised for his talents and learning,
and has been several years travelling in
Europe, and was an eye witness of what
e describes.
The populace of London admire and
scorn, applaud and reproach, court and
persecute the same person, as their fancy
is occasionally moved, or as fortune fa
vours the person. But when pressed
down with taxes, pinched for food, and
shivering with cold, they become serious
and terrible. Then their masters can no
longer drive them, but they must deceive
them and entrap them before they can
hind them. The reports of both houses
of parliament are of this sort. In ordi
nary times the people of England are ge
nerally zealous for their opinion in pro
portion to its absurdity, and sometime
the more ridiculous the more fierce the
zeal of its votaries in its defence.
The English are generally speaking, a
wrong headed people, and uncharitable
in proportion to their bigotry, #hi< h com
monly operates against the welfare of
all mankind beyond their own Island.—
No people, Chinese or Japanese, have a
more bigoted creed, religious, political &■
national, than these Islanders. Their
church is the freest from corruption and
nonsense of all others; their watriors are
the most valiant and magnanimous and
tender hearted of all mankind; and their
judges are the wisest and most equitable
and impartial of all judges! The truth
is, that in no Country upon earth have
the streams iff justice been more frequent
ly and more foully polluted. In no coun
try have the supreme courts of judicature
been so generally and so uniformly sub
servient to the executive authority. But
their creed asserts their absolute and in
violable purity, and whoever affirms to
the contrary shall, beyond all doubt, per
ish everlastingly. Let Englishmen no
longer boast of their liberty, when truth
is a libel jn England. The more truth
with which a man can support his asser
tion, the greater the libel! Such is John
Bull’s logic, and John Bull’s law.
It is a happy circumstance for the wel
fare of the human race, that the Ameri
can free press, the only free one now in
the world, can diffuse those truths around
the world, and transmit them to our p*s
ty-ity as a warning agaiftst the miseries
of a monarchial government.
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London, June 29;
An account of the number of persons
now in confinement in Great Britain, by
warrant of either of the secretaries of
£tate or of six privy councillors, detained
under the provisions of an act, passed in
the present session of parliament, for en
abling his majesty to secure and detain
such persons as his majesty shall suspect
are conspiring against his person and go
vernment, with the places of their con
finement:—Jail at Reading, 3; Tothill
Fields, Bridewell, 3; Jail at Horsemon
ger lane, for the county of Surrey, 4; Jail
at Chelmsford, 4; Jail at Gloucester, 2;
House of Correction for the county of
Middlesex, IS; Jail at Exeter, for the
county of Devon, 6.
The great arsenal at Caraftca, near Ca
diz has been consumed by fire. The fol
lowing account is given in one of the Pa
lis papers of Friday: “The burning of the
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immerse establishment at Can-' i I
spread constcFnation 'throughout ~ .'I
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event is connected with n i r‘*l
al enterprises, the object of v.hici f’l
to prevent the equiping of ships „
destined to convey to South
considerable force. The manrin M
Caracca, notwithstanding the mistm tunS
of Spam, contained still every thin* ■
cessary for the equipinga powerful CM
Every thing has been destroyed: the
walk was six hundred paces l on * ,' P J
was considered equal to any thing whi ®
England or France possesses of th?s kin®
The .was so violent tl I
the isle of Leon, which is separated fr.lll
** * basin was cover «d with!
' Th e expense of the fete given by thM
• inarqris de Manalva, the Portuguese anul
• , f lehna, on occasion 0 f (Kp!
late marriage,is estimated there atamil II
hqn of florins (83,0001.) The royal (vB
nuly were served upon gold plate; the o-B
ther guests,upon silver. Building wereß
expressly for it, which are to remain, andß
another fete is to be given them for theß
benefit of the poor. g
The earthquakes which were repeated B
ly felt soipe time since in Sicily, had been!
followed by an eruption of Mount vEtna I
For seven days the volcano poured forth!
its boiling lav?, through several openings |
Large excavations have also been pro-|
duebd in the earth, but no inhabitants!
have been destroyed, and no lives lost. 11
It is mentioned in privated letters, that I
the Confederates, upon the solicitation o) |
England, have determined to deprive the!
yrung Napoleon of his mothers princiß
palitv in Lombardy, and to bestow it; at!
the death of Maria Louisa, upon Spain.
June 26—The die is cast—and we must
learn, in future, to live upon the recolleo
tion of what we have been and forgetting
what we are Last night the suspension
act passed the commons, & St. Stephens
bell tolled for the death of departed Kn-1
glish liberty; but whether with the blest
hope of a glorious resurrection in sight
months or eight years, or seven, is rather
s matter of uncertainty.
Lord Castlereagh distinctly stated in
the House of Commons, on Thursday
night, that there will be no dissolution of
parliament this year.
It appears by the Dublin papers that
in consequence of the riots in that city,
arising the high price of provisions,
the lord Mayor has issued a proclamation
requiring the inhabitants to remain with
in their respective habitations from nine
o’clock each night till six in the morning,
and directing all - public houses to be shut
during those hours.
A Russian fleetof eight sail of the line,
one frigate, ard one brig, have anchored
in Calais Roads, for the purpose of carry
ing off the Russian troops, to the amount
of ] 0,000, expected there in about 4 days
to embark; " ' ' ■
From the National Intelligencer.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE:
“St. Mary’s, August S, 181 7.
“General Sir Gregor M 4 Gregor still'
remains on Amelia Island, having recei
ved no material addition of force since
you last beared from this place. For him
to advance, therefore, to St. Augustine,
with his present small undisciplined par
ty which does not amount to two hundred
men, would be the highest of rashness,
when people of information in this quar
ter, suppose that three thousand veterans
would be incompetent to take St. Augus
tine, with proper officers and a proper
train of artillery.
The present invasion of East Florida,,
has never been popular in this vicinity,’
and it is daily losing the few supporters
of respectability it at first possesed. It
is viewed by people of feeling, if not an
unwarrantable, and distur
bance to the inhabitants of that province.
The high-sounding and deluding epithets
of Patriot Hero and Liberty , are lost in
their commisseration for the deplorable
situation of that country at present, foe
the inhabitants of which, in this vicinity,
we not only feel as fellowmen—we fee!
for them as countrymen, (as they gener
ally are,) and vye feel for tnem as friends
and connections.
Before the arrival of General M‘Grc(-
gor, the province of East Florida was ini
a state of quiet and peace, having learnt
a useful lesson from the misfortunes of
the former insurrection; feeling a grati
tude to the government of Spain for the
lenient manner they had been treated af
ter it was subdued: and, being attached
to the present governor of the province,
whose very pride it has been to make the
people contented and happy', by assimi
lating the instructions of the country, as
nearly as Spanish policy would permit,
to the enviable regulations of the U-
States—they therefore, w ished no change
but that which they expected would lake
place in the course of one or two years,
by a regular cession of that province to
the United States, when they should be
again admitted into the bosom of this gov
ernment, the happy institutions ol which,
as well as the prejudices of nativity, cause
them to admire it before all others.
This is tne situation of the inhabitants
of East Florida, when a stranger and a
foreigner, unsolicited, unasked, and no.,
even wished for, arrives to revolutionize
them. The small force he has brougn
with him, does not enable him to do any
thing of consequence. The Governor*'
the province, to man the walls of St. A •
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