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POETRY.
On the death of that Patriot , Philanthropy and.
ChriJHan , JOHN HANCOCK, Esquire.
YES! all must yield to death*s remo/felefs rage;
Creation’s brow (hall wrinkle up with age;
Time (hall remove the keystone of the iky;
Heaven's rooflhallfall—-but ah, puft Hancock die ?
What then is greatness ? what, this thing Call’d
fame ?
A meteor’s slash—which glitters but in name !
Far he whose arm a bleeding realm could fan,
Now bows a victim to the tyrant grave !
S&k *E DINBU RG H, AaJud ,'*****
PETITION for PEACEf
TO THE KING.
May it pleafeyour Majesty.
WE, your majeity’s molt dutiful and elFeCiionate
fubjefts, the merchants, manufacturers, traders and
other inhabitants of Paifiey and its neighborhood,
humbly beg leave to approach your majesty in the
present awful and alarmfng crisis, to make known
to your majesty the multiplied grievances under
which we labor—that we are at this moment lan
guifiriing beneath the most heavy and diftrefling ca
lamity, the terrible consequences of which, if not
speedily remedied, no human apprehenfton can
calculate, or .pretend to set bounds to. We fee,
with the deepest concern, our triide ruined—pub
lic credit exhausted every article of subsistence
f .-ifed to an extravagant, andalmoft unprecedented
price; and our commerce and manufactures, by
which alone there would exilt a poflibility of sup
porting such accumulated hardlhips, (hackled and
funk to wretchedness, while our country is bereav
-11 of its blood, treafurc, atrd provisions, to feed
and nouriih the very evil that threatens tr> com
plete its Universal ruin. Epiignitions from every
quarter are daily taking place, and nothing deters
vast numbers from abandoning their native country
for ever, But the want of means to carry them
hence. Our long and expenftve pursuits after those
improvements, by which our manufactures had at
tained to such unrivalled perfection, have now
been wafted in vain—thousands of induftricus in
dividuals,, with their heiplefs families, deprived
of every means of subsistence, and reduced to the
most pitiable and forlorn situation, arc pining in
hopeless poverty, without the most diftart profpeCt
of relief from the iaft approaching horrors of abso
lute want.
Fully convinced that the pref*H unhappy and
ruinous war is the source of all -those nnfupporta
ble miseries—that nothing hjit fhefpcedy re-eftah
liftimentof peace can ever reiit)re our manufactures
to the late prosperous and ftourUhir.g ftuation
from which they were so unhappily precipitated,
and when the foie avowed purpose, for which on
our part, hostilities were commenced, is now ful
ly accomplilhed, when our enemies are driven
from the dominions of your majesty’s ally; our
manufactures and prosperity verging on ruin, and
when nothing but a long dismal pefiod of blood
(hed, desolation and expense, presents itfelf to our
view, we cannot look forward without the utmost
horror and alarm to the continuance of such danger
ous and deftruCtive measures—measures, we hum
bly apprehend, calculated only to (Veil the tide of
human (laughter, to (hut up every resource cf
trade and commerce, to weaken and diifolve that
mutual affeCtion, which alone can bind the (ab
ject to his sovereign, and to hurry to tVe most
dreadful extremes a starring and defperatc peo
ple.
We, therefore, your majesty's most faithful fub
jeCts, deeply atTeCted with thefealarming profpeCts,
and having no other hope of relict but from the
humanity and benevolence which have ever relided
in your royal bosom, humbly beg to lay this our
distressed fttuation before your majesty, as the
kind friend and patron cf ycur people To im
plore your majesty to take these melancholy truths
into your merciful cenfideration— s o have pity on
the many tbotifands in this place, who arc (inking
under the most deplorable calamities; and, in your
* gracious vvifdom to fee meet, that a speedy con
ciufion may be put to the present lamentable war,
the existing cause of all onr fufterings ; that the
earth may no mote We wantonly drenched with the
blood of our fellow-fubjefts, but the terrible en
gines of dellruCtion refigtred for the more blefled
instruments of peace—that our country may once_
more refiime her former splendor and prosperity,
and a grateful and affectionate nation perpetuate to
posterity its sovereign’s timely and merciful inter
poirricn.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, (hall
ever ptav.
HUNT, STALLINGS & Co.
Augufia, November 9, 1793.
WHEREAS on the 23d of August 1792,
Melfrs. Hunt, Stallings and Co. merchants
and faftors of this place, afligned over their ilock.
in trade, book debts, bonds, notes and every spe
cies of property belonging to that Co-partnerlhip,
as well as every part of their personal property, by
an instrument now on the records ot Richmond
county, to us Birch and Ouvry, merchants of the
citv of Ixmdon, and other of their creditors, for
a debt then due us for property before advanced the
said Hunt, Stallings and Co. to carry on their bu
siness here with the planters as merchants and
fa&ors.—Thefe are to request that all persons
indebted to that firm, or to the personal estate ot
either of the Co-partners, and alio all those plan
ters which the licufe ot Hunt, Stallings and Co.
are indebted to for produce put into their hands
oh commission, will apply before the ift of Janua
ry next, at the late itcre of Hunt, Stallings and Co.
to Chamberlain Birch or Stratfoird Brown, who are
the only persons authorized to give difeharges or
fettle the affairs of Hunt, Stallings and Co,
BIRCH & OUVRY,
ADVERTISEMENT.
Goods advertised by us* to be fold by pri-
JL vate contract, at the (tore lately occupied by
Hunt and Stallings, will be exposed to sale in lots,
by Public Vendue, on the premises, oil Monday
the 2d of December next, to commence at the
hour of ten in the forenoon, and to continue from
day to day until all are fold* No lot will be de
livered without, the money, and dvery purchaser
to deposit one fifth cf the purchase money at the
time of sale; and any lot not taken away by ten
’ o’clock the c.nfuing day, (hall again be exposed to
sale at the rifque of the pufehafer, and with the
forfeiture of the deposit.
BIRCH & OUVRY.
Augufia, Nov. 26, 1793.
NO iICE to all persons indebted to the
Firm of
HUNT, STALLINGS & Co.
of Auguflcu V
CERTAIN persons from England; (tiling theth
felves Birch & Ouvry, by virtue of a power
surreptitiously obtained, Claim a right to the col
lection of the debts due to the houie of Hunt,
Stallings and Co.—-therefore all persons indebted
to the said house, are hereby informed, that any
payments to the said B. and O. or to any person
or persons afting under them, will be in their
own wrong, as the said B, and O. are not legal
ly entitled or aurlwrizcd to have or receive any
part of the laid debts.' * "
Such persons as have been or may be sued by the
B. and O. are requeued to transmit an account
thereof to the underwritten, as soon as pofiiblc,
that measures maybe taken for their fafety. And
all persons are fonVarned of purchasing from the
said Birch and Ouvry the (lock on hand adverti
sed by them to be fold on the second day of the
next month, as they are not Authorized to make
any such sale.
/ J. STALLINGS,
November 28, 1793, E. STALLINGS.
A ' ■ C A (J T / 0 N!
NOTWITHSTANDING Col. James Stal
lings, and his brother Capt. tzekiel Stal
lings, are pleased to deny that Hunt, StalTmgs
and Co. have made any legal alignment to us of
their personal property, (lock in trade and debts;
yet in jullice to ourselves, and to thole whom
their publication of the 28th is intended to mis
lead—We do hereby again notify those concerned,
that the subscribers, or Mr. Stratford Brown for
us, are the only persons to whom, those who are
indebted to Hunt, Stallings and Co. can with
fafety make payment—We do further forwarn
the public against purchasing from Col. James Stal
lings the following negroes, or either of them, viz.
Dick, Peg, Fortune, Sylvia, Nancy, Mary and
her three ch ldrcn—as also against purchasing from
him any other species of the personal property in
his pofleffion, the fame being included in the as
signment to us, a copy of which aflignment is on
record in the Clerk’s-Office of the Superior Court
of Richmond County, and the original may at
any time be seen on application at the late (lore
of Hunt, Stallings and Co.
BIRCH & OUVRY.
N. B. The above mentioned afiignment duly
proved and recorded, and repeatedly acknowledg
ed by Col. Janies Stallings, before the mod ref
pe&able gentlemen of this town, evinces clearly
that it was not surreptitiously obtained, we fin
cercly \vi(h, as much could be said in favor of the
means used by the gentlemen to obtain that credit
in England, which has been so great a misfortune
to us. BIRCH 6? OUVRY.
At a Board of Tru/lees fcr the Richmond
Academy, held at Augufia, on Saturday
the 2Nov. 1793.
&NT,
G. Walton, President, Seaborn Jones,
• Robert Forsyth, John Milton,
Edward Telfair, James Gardner.
THEbufirefs of the Academy being entered
into and confidered— Refclved, that in fu
ture there (hall be a public examination of the
ttudents, annually, on 'the Monday preceding
Christmas day; and that the Academy (hall be
again opened on the firft Monday iti January fol
lowing.
Re/olved, That there (hall be also quarterly ex
aminations ; that is, on the firft Mondaysin Anril.
July and Oftober. v *
Re/olved, That during the annual vacation, the
President for the time being (hall afiign a day for
the reappointment of the officers; at which time
a President and Clerk of the Board, a Redor, and
two Afliftants of the Academy, shall be appointed,
for the ensuing year.
Re/olved, That the Matter and Afliftants be
provided for in the following manrter-:—The Redot
shall have a salary of fifty pounds , and the Affittants
twenty-five pounds each ; and the proceeds of the
tuition shall be apportioned betweeii them, accord*
ing to their refpedive salaries.
Re/olved, That the rates of tuition, after tile
next vacation, be as follows:—The firft class tuo
dollars ; the second three dollars } and the third
jour dollars per quarter.
Re/olved, That a quarter’s tuitioh shall be paid
at entrance 5 and that, at the commencement of
each quarter thereafter, a note of hand, fatbfado
ry to the matter, ttiall be given by the person en
tering the student, for the amount of the ensuing
quarter’s tuition, and payable to the bearer, three
months after date, for value received: All which
notes shall be deposited with the clerk, to be en
tered in the books; and which the matter and
afliftants may jointly apply for and receive before
the expiration of the quarter; and such notes as
shall not be so taken out, shall be colleded by the
clerk in the most summary way.
Re/olved, That the clerk be allowed for his for.
vices thirty pounds per annum.
Re/olved, That William Rogers, Esq. the late
Redor, have power to open the Academy, upon
the terms of the last year, until Monday proceeding
the ensuing Chriftinas-day, inclusive ; and that the
Rev. Doftor Boyd be continued in his fun&ions
therein to the fame period.
Ordered, That the board meet on Monday next,
to take measures for repairing the Academy.
Ordered , That the foregoing proceedings be
publifhcd, that candidates may give intheii names
to the clerk, for the places of Redor and affittants,
and for undertaking the said repairs.
Taken from the Minutes,
Attest. J. MERIWETHER, Clk,
N O TICE.
ALL persons having claims or demands upon
the Commissioners of the Richmond
Academy, are requested immediately to deliver
in a state of the fame, to
J. MERIWETHER, Clk.
■■ ■ .. - = - - - - - • . -
JOHN SULLIVAN,
late 0/ Spirit-creek,
TAYLOR and HABIT-MAKER,
TT AS lately commenced business at the houfc
-l A of Mr. James Edwards, where such Ladies
and Gentlemen as are pleased to favor him with
their cuttom, shall have their orders pundually at
tended to, and work done with neatness and dif*
patch.
N. B. The said Sullivan has redded for 5 years
past at Spirit creek.
Augufia, November 27, 1793.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
LOST on the road bety/een Brulby
creek and William Skinner’s, a
Red Morocco Pocket-book, containing se
veral Bank Bills, to the amount 0f2,i50
Dollars jalfo, 32 of John Wereat’s Cer
tificates, to the amount of 2661. and
some fiiillings, and three letters direct
ed to me, with several receipts—The
above reward will be paid on deliver
ing it to me in Walhingto 1, or to the
Printer of the Augusta Chionicle.
DUHEM DE MCNTRQUY
September 24, 1793,