The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806, November 21, 1789, Image 2
The King continu'd during’the a&iort much
engaged in con/erfaiim with Lord C hatham
and. Lord Hood, aud questioned the Caiile
gentlemen relative to the figiuls. —His Ma
-- jefty expreffid m; ! h concern for the fa'c y of
the seamen at tne top gallant mills of the
Orion, and when they defeended, appeared
well fatisfied.
The Cumberland excited the particular no*
tice of the King. The ports on her starboard
fide were manned with black*, dressed in white
with haudfome turbans.
Between the ads, the Southampton made
the signal, by the King’s express order, for
all cruizers; which was an intimation for
the Commodore and Captains, to pay their re
fpeds to his Majefty—thev did so, and were
gracioully received, and killed the hands of
the King. This over, the Captains rejoined
their refpedive (hips, when the fquadrott
made fail ; the Commodore drew out his Blips
in a good position, in a line a-head, and "con
cluded the day with a very general ialute ;
after which the Southampton and Magnificent- -
flood in for the Sound, and the fleet tacked
together, and laid their heads to the fourh
ward.-
The day was mod propitious for this Royal
Gala ; and all parties and of per
sons were highly delighted. The Duke of
Richmond was in his yitch the whole day
with a band of malic, which at intervals play
ed “ God save the King,” &c. To deferibe
the tout euleifcble is out of the power of
words ; it certainly formed a mod pleaftng
fight, and gave gratification to 10.000 loy
al subjects.
Their Majeflies did not land at Saltram till
near 8 o’elock at night, so that they were on
the water full eleven hours. Every refreih
meut was set befoie them by Capt. Douglas ;
audj as we find no parr of the Royal Family
were sea-sick during this long excursion, they
no doubt fared well, as is usual with them,
di/daining all formalities—their excellent ap
petites iufured them a good repast.
His Majesty no longer wears his favourite
bob, and douched hat; they are both difeard
ed for a new handsome tye wig, and hat routd
militaire, with the lull dressed VVindfor Uni
term. The female part of Royalty were dressed
in their usual manner, blue riding-habits
turned up with red.
Among those on board the Magnificent, to
behold the review, were the Marquis of Wou
celter, Lord Cheftei field, Lord stopford, the
Hon. Col. and Mrs. Fox, the Hon. Capt. and
Mrs. Berkeley, Lady Louisa and Miss Lenox,
the Hon. Mr. Bathurft and four French Offi
cers.
BOSTON, September
The spark from the altar of liberty in
America, which his communicated its fire.,
to France,' has not expended its animated fer
v»r. Look to your inquisitions, to your racks,
. to your tortures, and to your religious tyr- *
ranny, O Spain ! for the day of your eman
cipation cannot be far off—the right hind of
your tyranny is cut off, and freedom ap
proaches to place her- fiaudard on the walls of
your inquilitiou.. \
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NEW - Y OR K, O Bober
On Monday, 28th September last, while a
detachment of the militia were in the field at
exercise, by ihe inattention of one of the men
in the ranks', a ramrod was difeharged, and
thereby Mrl John Loudon, Lieutenant and
Adjutant of the fitft regiment on duty upon
the occasion, loft his life. >
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16/
TSxtrotftfrom Lindjaf'S Httel Deary , Aug. 16.'.
September 1. This morning received the
folio*-/mg note. On Thursday, the 22th Au
gust; about half past two o’clock in the as
, ternoon, the sloop Sally, of Jamaica, Thomas
Moore Savage, master, on her passage from
Norfolk to Barhadoes, wind about S. W.
Cape Henry bearing VV. N. W1 diflance about
three leagues, was wilfully run down and
perfefl wreck of, by a French frigate,
one 0! the fquadmn which came lately from
and had been lying in the bay for
f me time past ; the lieutenant came on board
the (loop after the lighted, and informed the
Captain, that it was their Commodore's order
«.> fink the sloop, One of the crew of the
t’h op was overboatvl some time, but was for
.t-.r-ately taken on board after the sloop right
ed. Tus veffcl arrived su this harbour on Sa
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turday morning, the 29th ult. ia a mod leaky
and (li&ttered condition
(Signed) THOMAS M. SAVAGE
Odeber 7. Extra, tof a letter from Domi
nica, dated September 6.
“ This,,day week the most diabolical de
sign that ever was formed, was clifcovered in
Martinicrt'; it was an infurredion of the ne
groes, who were that night to have set fire to
the large and beautiful town of St. Pierre ;
while the white peojde were afl in confafion'
and driving to escape the flames, they were
to be butcheied indiscriminately, man, wo
man ami chi ld< The combustibles-wore laid
in upwards of ioohoufes, coufifting ot hemp
dipt in turpentiue. The plus was not discover
ed till five o’clock in the evening, when a ne
groe belonging to an old lady, dung with re
moife in thinking that he mu ft murder the
woman who brought him up from a child, dis
- clofcd it to her. The troops being thereupon
aftembled, forty of the negroes were taken,
armed with a bauger and long knife \ the in
flruments which were in a few hours to have
put a period to the existence of upwards of
5000 people. All the inhabitants have'been
under arms ever (ince, as they are afraid the
negroes will attempt to relealethe forty who
are in gaol; but this week they will be all
refeued by the grim hand of death in the
dreadful form of the rack. As it is orfly fix
houis paftage to Martinico, I (hall go there
to fee 1 the execution,-to be convinced if the
reck is the terrible thing it is represented.
“ This moment we are alarmed with an
account of ten fail of large men of wir be
ing seen between this place and Gaudaloupe,
wiih a number of colouis hoisted, which leaves
us in fufpence to what nation they belong,
but suppose by their built to be Swedes, go
ing down against the Danifti islands of St.
Croix, St. John and St. Thomas.”
At an ordinary held in-St. Peter’s church,
on the 18th ult. by the Right Rev. Doctor
White, bilhop of the Episcopal church at
Pennfylvaqia, Mr. Andrew M'Culley; of
South-Caroliua, and Mr. Alexander Hay, of
Virginia, were ordained deacons, and on the
20th received the - rder of priesthood. Fi om
the teftimoiiials of the character aiul abilities
of tbele gentlemen, we hope they will be
come ornaments of the church.
. The following lift of vetfels now in this port,
of 50 tons and upwards, was last Wednes
day taken by the pilots, viz. Ihfps 30, snows
2, brigs 40, fchooneis 12,- fto.ips 32—in all
116, cxclufive of ihallops, &c.
From an E glfb print of riuguft n.
A letter from Hamburgh, dated July 31,'-
mentions, that the Rufiian and Swedilli beets
met near the illands of Gothland and Born
holm, on the 26th of that month, in a calm
sea and weather, when an engagement to k
place, which lasted till nine in the evening
The firing on land appeared to be i'o great,
that it is fuppoied both fleets mull have fuf
fered dreadtully. No particulars, however,
had tranfpned when the accounts came away
Exti ad oj a Utter jrom Elfineur, Auguji 1.
“ We have certain accounts that the Ruf
fian and Swedilh fleets engaged the 26th ult.
but there is-no intelligence in whole favor it
ended. There mult have been great daughter,
as it continued cairn the greaielt part of the
engagement.”
Extract oj a Utter fom Loui/'vule, Augufl 1.
“ The convention of this diltrid met a
few days ago, where they were of opinion it
would not be the imereti of the diftrift to be
feperated from the Rate of Virginia.—They
petition the aliembly for better terms, which,
if not granted, will cause the convention to
meet again, and to re-confider thd terms pro
posed. The Indian* have murdered several
people in the neighbourhood of this place this
summer—A volunteer party of peihaps about
30D men are now prepariug to march against
the Indian towns.”
Ext rad of a Utter from a Swoedip gentleman
. in London
“ It -is confidently reported that the Em
press of Russia will now accept of the medi
ation of Great-Britain-”
Ex trad of a letter from St 0 Mold, June 18.
“ Twelve colouels and o her officers, who
milbehaved in the MU, campaign, kre under
trial of a court-martial, the proceedings of
wnich are verv formal, and in a volumniuus
detail communicated to the public. The pro
cels is not yet finilhed. The criminate ure
teud that their memorial to the Eiftfxelfc of
Kuffia was prompted by their the
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dangerous situation of the King and the aa
tion ” „
CHARLESTON, Odobet 19.
The place where the permanent feat of go
vernment of the United States will be fixed,
depends almost entirely on theftaie ot North-
Carolina adopting the Conftitu.ion ; if the
d-'es, the votes in the Senate will be equal for
the Potowmac, and the decihon remains with
the Vice-Pielident, but in ti e lower Houle
there is a profped of a majority.
AU G UST A, November 21 .
On Thursday last the following communi
cation was transmitted by hi# Excellency the
Governor to the General Aflembly :
C J be Honorable the Frefdent oj the deflate, and
the Honorable the Speaker oj the Hou y t of
Reprejem at i-Ves-
THE Conftiiutioh, under’which’ the Genff-’
ral Aflembly are convened, wilf require thq
mature deliberation of the diffeieut powers of*
Government, in framing additional and lalu
tary laws, tocarry the fame into-full effed—
the completion of this will be a work of :ime,»
1 ihall theiefore only for the prefeut remark
on luch parts thereof, as our immediate emer
gencies may require.
There are no powers veiled in any depart
ment during the reccls of the General
bly to fill up vacancies that may ante by
death, resignation, or disability in any office
(except the Executive Department) under
this incumbrance, it will be difficult to effed
a co-operation of that efficiency in govern--
went, the Couftitmion appears to-have had
in view, unless the mode of filling up-vacan-'
cies is lully afeenaiued by law.
By the 11. bedion of the IV. Article of the
Constitution, the power of appointing militia
officers, and the Secretaries of the Executive,' '
are veiled in the Exeiutive alone; to bring
this claule into full effect, it will be requuite
to pals a law pointing out under what regula
tions and reflnCiious these appointments are
to be.
I Ihall chearfully acquiesce m any law that
may be deemed nete»iaiy pointing out the
duties ot the refpedive revenue officers, the
neceflary forms and cheques for their reflec
tive offices, and the mode whereby luch of
ficers may be brought to account 'in the recefa _
ol the General Atfembly.' .
I truit the Geueral Aflembly will accofd
with me in the propriety of one of ihe Judges
and the Attorney General (or it the office of
the latter be put in commiflion, one of them)
to telidc at the tefideiice of government,—
aud that it be annexed to heir relpedive du
ties to give opinions to the Executive in
writing, in all cases when required.
Ihe expediency of a law to empower the
Executive to fix a proper deposit, for the
arms, 4c/ belonging to the state, with a
power to "compel persons holding the fametA’ “
deliver to any . person or perfma authoriied
as atorefaid, is eaineftly recommended to your
lerious coutideration.'
My thurt duration’in-office precludes met
for the present from -euteriug into a detail of
the finances of the state, I ihall notwithftaudr
ing readily premise the urgent neceffiry there
will be for laying-a-Tax lor the support of
Government for the cunent year, as well as
a Tax in Medium to enable the Executive
to fee the neceflary order taken upon an Ad.
entitled, ‘AnAd to redeem the Paper \tf'e- "
dium of this State and that any surplus that
may anfe, or any sum or funis m medium *
that may come into the Trealury, be set apart
and appropiiated towards a finking fund, the
fame to bo burnt under such legulations as
the Gene al Aflcnftdy may be plcafed to
point our.
It is to be lamented thfet the languid state of
commerce, for years part, together with the
precarious tenor thereof, has drained- this
state of gold and silver, the levying a tax
which would be exceedingly difti effing to the
people ; and although F have reason to hope,
that three (hillmgs &four-pencetaxcd on every
*ool. value, might prove adequate to the
Civil Eflablif-rment,- yet I cannot recommend
the measures-as I conceive a fpecific tax in
articles not fubjed io wafle, and to be deli
vered in places on navigable rivers where
commerce exists, would prove less burthen
forne to th* people; the colledion, fafe keep- -*
mg, and application of-which, in conformity/
to the approprittions-br law, I trust will be-**
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