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LONDON, November I.
Lalt Saturday, Thomas Stone was carried
from Tothiifields Bridewell, to Bedlam, when
a final examination before Mr.
Hepean, under Secretary of State, Mr. Bond,
one of the 3ow-dreet judices, and the commit*
tee who tranfaCted the buflnefs of the hospital.
He at Ard imagined that Macmanus was tak
ing him to Newgate, but on approaching
Moorfields, he soon recognized the feene,
and mentioned the place of his destination.
Being introduced through the rear of the build
ing, he viewed with much carneftnefa the
lofty walls by which he was surrounded, and
then said, “ Aye, this is enough to make a
man mad indeed !” The papers which had
been in the care of Macmanus were put into
the hands of Doctor Monro, and the other
gentlemen present, but the unfortunate man
i'oon precluded the necefiity of all formal en
quiries by openly avowing his paflion for the
Princcfs Royal. He said he was acquaint
ed with his fate that he felt not for him
felf, but for the object of his paflion and
that he was well convinced that her Royal
Highness, from her sensibility and attach
ment, was in a situation equally lamentable
tvith his own.”—He was then sent to the
appartments appointed for him, and which in
ail probability, he will not quit during his
life. On his way through the gallery, he
asked repeatedly where Margaret Nicholson
was lodged, and expressed a drong inclina
tion to fee her. Inftruftions, we are adored,
were given, that this unhappy man- should be
treated with the utmod humanity. 1
The following are lines written by Thomas
Stone, which at the time of the examination,
were submitted to the critical examination of
Do&or Munro, and which Stone acknow
ledged to be his production :
To her Highness the Princcfs Royal.
TJhrice glad were I to be your willing Have,
But not the captive of the tool or knave ;
With woe on woe you melt ray sighing bread,
Whild you rejcCt your humble would-be gued.
T. 8.
August 21.
It is not a little Angular that the present
Royal family should be so peculiarly feleCted
as objects either of the vengeance or the at
tachment of phren >y. Be/ides the present in -
dance, and that of Margaret Nicholson, there
is now in Bedlam a young woman by no
means uncomely in her person, whose lunacy
has fixed on the Prince of Wales as the ob
ject of its affection. Her foie employment
confids of forming plumes of didirent co
loured paper, in imitation of tire credos hie
Royal Highness.—Every step the hears, she
fancies he is approaching to deliver her, and
she upbraids her keepers with cruelty in pre
venting his accefa.
And to complete this catalogue of Angula
rities, no longer Ance than lad week, a smart
chambermaid belonging to au Inn in Holborn,
became enamoured to dtftration of his Royal
Highness the Duke of York, whom she saw
at the head of his regiment, in one of the late
reviews. This paflion, “ like the worm in
bud, feeds on her damalk cheek.” She pro
claims itjto every person, who approaches her;
but as (be has not told it to any person oflici
oufly concerned, the is properly fuffered to
remain in the care of her friends.
A letter from Bred informs u«, that Dr.
Franklin is arrived there very unexpectedly,
after a fliort passage from Philadelphia; and,
after being conducted through the dock-yard
by several Noblemen of diftintfion, set out
with one of them for Paris. [Such is the «#-
ibenticity of Engltjh news.]
The diflentious among the French seem to
increase, and indeed mud increase, from the
humiliating conceflions they have been ob
to make to Pruflia and Englaud. The
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flame of liberty, small as it is, increafcs dai
ly, and will not at length be smothered by
any commands blind delpotifra—in their
endeavours to be a nation of freemen every
s friend to liberty withes them success..
Extra# of a letter from Dublin , Sept’lj.
“ The following, however incredible it
may appear, is, we are allured, a mod un
doubted fact: Two gentlemen, returning
to Dublin from Irith Town, took notice of a
sailor pursuing a rat on the low ground, near
the rear of the njariue school, and aiking him
why he did l'o ? he replied that the rat had a
hulling in its mouth. Through curiosity they
all purlued it, into one of the fields, when
difeovering the hole it went into, the sailor
dug it up, and to the lurprife of the gentle
men, he found half a guinea and seventeen
lhillings pretty deep in the ground/*
1 he lollowing original petition is a&ually
prelerved in the Tower of Loudon.:
“ Copy of a letter from an Iriili warden, ad
“ drefi’ed to the Governo* of the Tower,
“ praying the liberty to lleep out at night,
“ Hoc ”
u May it please your worfiiip’s honour and
glory ; I Patrick Cogar, having a wile very
ill, beg tne leave of lying out of the Tower,
and *1 laithlully protmfe never to go out till
after \Xit gates aie locked up at night, and al
ways to come in* before they are open in the
morning.”"
CHARLESTON, January ax.
On Saturday the Houle of Reprefentarives
agreed, that an election for delegates thould
take place on the nth and 12th days of April,
to meet on the 12th of ivlay in Charleiton.
General Pinckney moveu to meet in Charles
ton. No question iu the Hnufeot Keprefen
tatives ever ran so close,, the yeas being 76,
the nays 75.
24. Yesterday Mr, Farr made hi.s prorailed
motion in the Hoi le of Representative, for
| leave to bring in a bill for repealing that part
* of the Inftalinent Law which prohibits the
* importation of Negroes for three years. Pie
! supported b? Commodore Gillon, Mr.
Barnwell, and Mr. Hunter, but so ably op
posed by Mr. C. Pinckney, Mr. E. Rutledge,
Chancellor Matthews, Mr. Bee, Dr. Ramsay,
Dr. Budd, Mr. Darrel, and Mr. Lowndes,
that, on the yeas and nays being taken, there
appeared to be in support of the propolition
4 P» againfi it 93. —The principal ground of
objection on which the arguments in opposi
tion turned being, that it would be unjust and
dangerous to public credit to meddle at all
with the Inflalmeut Law; those who felt fears
an that head may be fatisfied from the above
divilion that their fears are groundless.
Leave was given for taking off the Vendue
duty on lands, houses, and negroes.
The Castle Douglas is fold fur a Venetian
frigate ; the London and Douglas are ’bound
for this port in pallaft. *
Tuefday arrived, after a tedious passage,
he brig Ann, Capt. Glafcow, from Larne*
with near 200 paflengers, all in good health,
and molt of them very valuable people, elpe
cially iu a country whose riches depend ou>ts
population. They speak much of the great
delire of the people of Antrim to come to
place, and of the humane and generous be
haviour of their Captain towards them on the
passage,
31. Yesterday arrived the Princess Royal
from Gibraltar, after a passage of leven weeks.
Died, on YVednefday the 9th infi. i n the
New Prison, Mr. Robeits, who was commit
ted for an afiault on one of the Sheriff’s of
cers, from whom he refeued five negroes, and
obstinately persisting in detaining them. This
person made Priest, theConftable, eat a writ.
Feb. 8. Yesterday Major Butler moved
in the Jloufe of Reprefentative*, that a inef
fage be sent to his Excellency the Governor,
requeuing that he will appoint a Commissioner
to treat with the Indians, the Legifiaturc of
Georgia having appointed one*
AUGUSTA, ilfa/SV"
On Sunday lift the Honorable Fraternity jf
ANCIENT YORK MASONS belonging to
Lodge COLUMBIA went in proceflion from
the Academy to the grave of their deceased
brother, Dr. Henry Toddy to inform the-fu
neral honors due him as a Mason, and the
last kind offices of friendffiip, after having
attended divine service, and a difeourfe well
adapted to the foleran occasion, by the Rev.
brother Boyd on these words, in the Book of
Job,, ch, xiv. v. 14. << jiH fJjj days of my ap~
pointed time nvill I wait until my change come* 7
Our accounts from the frontiers are truly
alarming—The Savages, who are very nu
merous on the other fide of the Oconee, fre
quently cross over and commit theft and mur
der in the settlements on that river Last
week they killed a man near Williamfon’a
swamp, burnt three houfefs, and drove of'®
number, of cattle.
A Baltimore Paper of Nov. 20, fays, “la
Sept, last, Col. Joseph Brandt, the celebrated
Indian partizan, had a great council at Nia
gara, consisting of some of the principal chiefs
of the fix nations and Meffafogers; shortly
after the council broke up, Col. Brandt set out
for Detroit, up Lake Erie, with two lloopn
and feventcen batteaux, loaded with
riors, ammunition and provisions ; a few days
previous to his departure, he was heard te
lay, that the Long Knife (meaning the Vir
ginians), were very tr^ublefome,’and paid lit
t .e regard to treaties—that he would pay them
a vilit, and could treat with them upon a.par #
being accompan n d by the tomahawk, as the
long knife are always by the bayonet, and i£
> w ete for peace they should have it; but
if tor war, they ffiould find that war accom
panied him alfo.”’
We hear that feveral'veffels are fitting out
from the Eastern dates, for the ports of the.
Emperor of Morocco. His Moorilh Majesty
is said to entertain sentiments extremely fa
vourable to the American commerce in that
part of the world.
The ffiip Alliance, (formerly a frigate of
40 guns) that failed some months iince fronft
Philadelphia, it is expecled will open the
way to a new branch of trade, that may in
time prove beneficial to this country. Thia
fiup was intended to double Cape Horn, pro
ceed to George’s Sound, in lat. 50, north, and
attempt a fur trade with the Indians of that
couiiti y. From thence ffie is to cross the Pa
cifi Ocean to China, and return by the East
ludiesj thus making a complete circuit oi
the globe, for the purpose of commerce on—
ly. non mortalia peflora cogis aurifacru
James l
On the 3d of December last, a party of 30'
men, employed by the Directors of the Ohio
company,fet out from Salem (New-England)
for the weftern country, under the direaioi*
of Major Haffield White, in order to begin a
fettlemeut on the Ohio river, at the confluence
of the Mufkingum. Another party, consist
ing of a large number, are to march from
Hartford, who will join them at Pittfburgb.
General Rufus Putnam is appointed Superior
tendant of this settlement.
Extrafl of a letter from NewYorky Novetti*
\ her 5 0, 1787.
\ v There is like to be a schism in the Roman
tehurch here. The Priest for some mifeonduft
iVith powers from the Pope, but the Priest
faVs he is 411 a free country, and knows of na
powfr btk tb® laws of that country.—All thef
Ambaffadorsland genteel families'belonging*
to the Chapbl are in favor of the Abbot—the
common pea&le, who are far the more nume
rous, adhere jo the Priest. The Abbot ex
commumcateA the Priest and his adherent®
last Sunday. The Priest harrangued the peo
ple, and the Abmot remonstrated. There was
tuch a mob and uWoar round the Chapel, that
the Magiftfites called, who threatened
4 19 f?ad them ail > upon vriuefc tbgf