Camden gazette and mercantile advertiser. (Camden, S.C.) 1818-1822, June 15, 1820, Image 2
Foreign.
NEW-VOKK, JUNE 2.
LA TEST Fit (h M E U?(JP E.
By the arrival of the Packet Ship
Albion, Capt. Williams, in 27 days
from Liverpool, we have received
Liverpool papers of the 1st of May
and London to the evening of the
29th of April. The Courier of the
38thcoirtaius the King'sspeech on the
opening of the new Parliament. ?
'lhe answers to tlie speech were car
ried unanimously in both houses of
Pallia merit. Even Sir Frauds Bur
dett, though so recently convicted of
seditious conduct, expressed his ap
probation of the Royal address.
The procession of the new Sover
eign to the Parliament houses excit
ed great attention ami interest. The
exhibition was brilliant ? the discrip
tiou of the throne magnificent.
The trials of Thistlewood, Ings,
Brunt, Davidson ami Tidd, five of
the Conspirators, Jiave been finished,
and their sentences pronounced in
the following words : " That you,
and each of you, be taken from
hence to the gaol from wheuce you
came, and from theuce thatyou be
drawn upon a hurdle to a place of
execution, and be there hanged by
the neck until you be dead, and that
afterwards your heads be severed
from your bodies, and your bodies
be divided into four quarters, to be
disposed of as his Majesty shall
think fit. may God of his in
finite gooduess have mercy upon your
soul."
The prisoners were then with
drawn from the bar, seemingly unaf
fected.
Accounts from Spain as late as the
43th of April stated, that the differ
~enl towns and authorities continued
To Take the Constitutional oaths and
To seud addresses of congratulation
: to the King.
Advices from Bagdad dated 25th
* of August mention the distresses re
sulting from thfe great , heat. The
thermometer in the coolest part of
the houses rose to 120 at midnight
in the air to 108. Multitudes of peo-|
pie in country and town dropped
down dead in the streets. The riv
er rose, and became oJf a turbid red
Dolour, , and the waters so offensive it
was impossible to drink of them. ?
The people proclaimed the Day of
Judgment to be at hand, and were
, preparing for the awful doom.
A duel >had taken. place in France
? between a half-pay officer and a
5 member of the Body Guards. ?
, They fought three days; and, in the
? end, fired et three paces distance,
when the officer was shot dead upon
The spot. This is the longest person*
al individual war that we ever recol
lect to have heard.
lrou is said to have fallen two
pounds per ton, ip the manufacturing
district?, in consequence of the.di
r a minished demand for the manufac
tures of Birmingham, imd other towns
'in the neighborhood. v .
The London Globe of April 27th.
mentions that a petition of an inter"
esting nature had been reported to the
French Chamber of Deputies. It
announced the existence of a formi
dable conspiracy in the town of to
mes, in France. Intelligence had
l>een circulated that Napoleon had re
? turned.
All appeared to be quiet in Eng
land and Scotland, among the radi
cals. The ribbon- men in Ireland
were now and then guilty of some
excesses.
A considerable improvement had
taken pfaice at Manchester in the de
mand for goods and cotton yarns.
The price of silver in bars fell in
England, on the 26lh of April, one
r halt penny the ounce, being now 4*.
l-#d. ? 1 l-8d. below the mint price.
? >
1IOUSK OF CfoMMONS, April 26th. ?
THE K/jVG'S SPEECH.
The Speaker stated that the House
had been to the House of Peers."
and heard the speech delivered by
his Majesty, of which, to prevent
mistake, he had obtained a copy.
This he read, as follows :
u My Lords and Gen'lvmen,
V I have taken the earliest occasion
xf assembliu? you here, afler having 1
recured to the seuse of my people.
"Iu meeting you personally for
the first time bince the death of m y
beloved father, I am anxious to as
sure you that I shall always continue
{to imitate lu9 great example in un
ceasing attention to the public iuter
jests, and iu paternal solicitude for
I the welfare and happiness of all clas
ses of ray subjects,
" 1 have received from Foreign""
Powers renewed assurances of their
? friendly disposition, and of their ear
nest desire to cultivate with me the
relations of peace and amity.
" Gentlemen of the House of Com
mons ,
"The estimates for the present
year will be laid before you.
" 1 hey have been framed upon
principles of strict Economy; but it
is to me matter of the deepest regret
? that the state of the country has not
allowed me to dispense with those'
additions to our military force which
I announced at the commencement of
the last Session cf Parliament.
"The first object to which your I
attention will be directed is the pro
vision to be made for the support of.
the Civil Government, and of the
honour and dignify of the Crown.
" I leave entirely at your disposal
my interest in the Hereditary Re
venues^ and I cannot deny myself
the gratification of declaring, * that
so far from desiring any arrangement
which might lead to the imposition
of new burdens upon my People, or
even might diminish, on my account, ,
.the amount of the Reduction incident i
to my accession to the Throne, I c n
have no vvisli, under circumstances
J like the present, that any addition
(whatever should be made to the Set
tlement adopted by Parliament in the
year 1816.
" My Lords ani Gentlemen .
u Deeply as I regret that the
i machinations and designs of the Dis
; affected should have led, in 1 some
? parts of the country, to acts of open
violence and insurrection, I cannot
but express my satisfaction at the
promptitude with which 4hese at
tempts have been suppressed hy the
vigilance aud activity of the magis- i
trates, and by the zealous co-opera- *
tionof all those of my subjects whose
exertions have been called forth to
support the authority of the laws.
u The wisdom and firmness mani
fested hy the late Parliament,' and
the due execution of the laws* haw
greatly contributed to ..restore confi
dence tliroughout the kingdom? and
to discountenance those principles of
sedition and irreli^ion which has i>een
disseminated with such malignant
perseverance, and had poisoned the
minds of the ignorant and unwary.
"I rely npon the continued sup
port of Parliament in my determina
tion, to maintain, by all the means
entrusted to my hands, the public
safety and tranquility.
" Deploring as we all musr, the
distress which still unhappy prevails
among many of the laboring classes
of the community, and anxious look
ing forward to its removal or mitiga
tion, it is in the meantime our com
mon duty to protect the loyal, the
peaceable, and the industrious, a
gainst those practices of turbulence ,
and intimidation, hy which the peri
od of relief can only he deferred,
and Uy which the pre sure of the dis- '
tress has been incalculably aggravat
ed.
" L trust that an awakened sense
of the dangers which they have in
curred, and the arts which have been
employed to seduce them, will bring ;
back by far the greater part of those
who have been unhappily led astray .
and will revive in them that spirit of
loyally ? that due submission to the
laws, and that attachment to the con
stitution which subsist unabated in
the hearts of the great body of thoi
people, and which, ondei the bless
ing of Divine Providence, have se
cured to the Hritish nation the enjoy
ment of a larger share of practical
freedom as well as of prosperity and
happiness, than have fallen to the
lot of any nation iu the world."
Domestic.
NEW-HAVEN, MAY 30.
ELEGJJYT specimens.
AVe have seen the Sword and Pis
tols, which, agreeably to a resolve
of the Legislature uf this state, ate
to be |>reseuted~to our gallant toun
tryman, Commodore Isaac Hull, as
testimonials of the high respect which
the citizens of his native State enter
tain for his valour aud establishments
as a naval officer. The workman
ship of these weapons reflects credit,
uot only on the iogeuious artists who
made them, but on the country in
which they were produced. They
are the most elegant specimens of
domestic manufacture, lliat we ever
saw. The scabbard and handle of
the sword are of pure gold, beauti
fully wrought with appropriate devi
ces. The most remarkable of these
i* on a broad leaf of gold, branch
ing from the hilt, as a substitute for
an ear. It represents the escape of
the Constitution from the British
squadrou, by which she was -pursued
on her passage from the Chesapeake
to Boston. The blade is a cut and
thrust, of the modem plan, and is
pronounced by those who are judges
to be as well tempered as the best,
Toledoes. The sword was manu
factumkby Mr. J^a^han Starr, and
the pistols by Mr. North, both of
Middletown, in Connecticut. We
have not heard when they will be
presented,
NEW-YORK, MAY 30.
Launch. ? At 15 minutes past 1 i
o'clock this forenootj. the1 beautiful
liue of battle ship OHIO, built un
der the superintendance of Mr. Eelc
ford , at the Navy-Yard, Brooklyn,
left her cradle, and gently and ma
jestically glided into her .destined
element, amidst the firing of cannon,
and the acclamations of thousands of
spectators, who crowded the sur
rounding hills, and house-tops in the
neighborhood. The day was fine,
and all the steam boats, and indeed
almost every other kind of water
craft, were put in requisition to con
vey ladies and gentlemen to the spot,
to witness her descent in to old Nep
tune's domain. Wallabout Bay,
and the East liiver, were literally
covered with boats, many having
on board elegant bands of music.
Just as the last key wedge was .dri
ven from tbe locJk, Which gaye her
freedom, salutes were lired from the
navy-yawl, fr om a detachment at Cor
laei^s Hook, from the Washington
74, .and from the Hornet $ the latter
vessel being decorated in a most
tasteful manner, with the flags of all
nations, and her yards manned with
hardy American tars^~The Frank -
tin 74, lying in the North Hiver, al
so fired a salute, The Ohio , is pro
nounced by adequate judges, to tie
equal if not superior in strength and
beauty, to any vessel of her class,
that ever floated, I lie concourse of
people which lined the margin of the
East liiver, from the country am\
from the city, it is calculated, a
mounted to upwards of 35,000;
Notwithstandingtheimmeuse crowd/
we have not heard of the occurrence
of a single accident. ?
mfm t
AJLBANY, MAY *9. ?
Dr. Morse left town yesterday
afternoon, on his way to Buffalo.
He is employed, we understand, by
government, on a mission for investi
gating the actual condition of the In
dians in the western and north wes
tern parts of the uuionr-rpreparatoi y,
to a distribution of the funds that
have been appropriated by Congress
far the civilization of tbe Indians.
Dr. Morse will proceed from Detroit
to Mackinaw ? from thence across
the north western territory, jto the
falls of St. Anthony, and in his way
will visit al) the tribes of Indians
lhat reside in that country. ? He will
then probably descend the Mississip
pi, and on his return, examine thi
condition of the tribes in the western
States. The intention of govern
ment in this mission wo learn, is to
obtain Rn accurate account of the
state of all the savages north of the
Ohio.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 31.
Don Lopez Meudex, envoy from
Veneznla in London, has published
that ij is impossible for the Ameri
can Independent Government ever
again to submit to the yoke of Spain,
whether governed by an absolute
monarch or by the Cortes ? and that
the Cortes when in power before,
carried on war against revolutionary
America ? refused to listen to the
proposals ? refused the freedom of
trade ? refused the mediation of Kng* I
land ? did not consent to prohibit the
Slave trade ? and they refused to ad
mit as an American delegate to the
Cortes any one who had a drop of
African blood in his veins ? or to ad
mit any such to be reckoned in the
70,000 persons entitled to a repre
sentative.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 2,
" The Canada newspapers give us
an evidence of miserable malice
w hich we did not suppose, if enter
tained, could find open defenders
among -respectable Britons, against
oue of our distinguished fellow-citi
zens. Hume ? exhibitor of Wax
Figures at York, had in his collec
tion a representation of our Major- '
Geueral Jackson. The exhibition ;
I of this figure, says the ne wspapers,
was "highly offensive, uot particu- (
larly to, tlte inhabitants of York,
but to every British subject, whose
heart beat in union wmi royally to
his Sovereign." Revenge was de
termined on. The offending figure '
was taken, uuresiuting, from the
\$axen grouper and ^ hung as high
as il a man." to use the words of a
writer who gives an account of it.
Spirit of chivalry I What an ex
ploit ! What enlightened minds
must have conceived it ! VV hat dar
ing hands achieved it i How loyal
be these men of York !
It would be gross injustice to the ,
British Nation, to impute to it the
Imposition indicated in this inst&ncp
of stupid malignity. Regarding the ;
authors of it as ignorant zealots,
they merit pity more than any other
sentiment, 'l^he writer in the York
' Observer, however, who applauds i
this magnanimous feat, deserves the ;
punishment which is justly due to all
mischievous instigators of National
broils. X<et it be the business of the
serious and reflecting part of both
Natious. tp counteract ihe effects of
such folly. We are persuaded there ,
is no part of the United States in ;
which a transaction like that of York
would not have been universally
condemned,
tfUNTSVILLK, (ALAB.) MAY 4$.
Military Road. ? We have recent
ly had the pleasure of conversing
with Lieut Lyman, of the U. 8.
army, wl*o is attached to the corps
now engaged on the jroad from Ten
nessee River to the head of Lake
Poncbartrain. It is wit!) oo ordina
ry pleasure that we can assure our
readers, oo the authority above men
tioned, that this great national work
will be completed in the month of
June. The whole road is now cut
out, and budges, ferries and houses
of entertainment are established, so
that the road can be travelled on
horseback with great convenience. ?
I This great national work is of
the utmost importance to the whole
western country, as the distance to
New-Orleans, 4>y land, is lessened
from 3 to 400 miles.
MILLEDGEV1LLE, JUNE 6.
On Sunday the 14th ult. a son of
Mr. Thomas Sparks, of Franklin
county, took down his gun to shoot
a bee martin, and as he stepped out
at the door, he laid his gun across
his arm, opened the pan, and as he j
shut it she firedf and shot his mo
ther through the head, as she was
standing ill the kitchen door, a short
distance off, who fell dead without
a struggle. This unfortunate catas
trophe has bereaved a kind husband
of a beloved companion, and a nom- 1
Uer of children ot a kjjid mother,
ami numerous friends ami acquaints
auces long to lament her untimely
end and irreparable loss. ? Journal*
CHARLESTON, JUNE 8.
Steam Navigation. ? The -svexiw
ship Robert Fulton, which entered!
our harbor yesterday, is prouounced,;
on all hands, to be a most bt^auti-.,
fuWpecimen of Naval Architects?!?,^
combining elegance of model, with'
strength apd convenience. She haa? >
on board about seventy passengers,
who speak of her in the highest*
terms of approbation. Her run /
from Havana was made in 90 hours;
and but for the strong N. E. gala
which commenced with us at nooml
on Tuesday, her passage woulit j
have been nearly SI hours shorter
She will proceed for New- York on i
Saturday Morning. \
The captain ( Desfargas J and ?
First Lieutenant {Johnson J of the*
piratical schr. Bravo , were execu
ted 011 the 25th May. Fifteen o? J
the crew were respited for 60 days,, |
, _ vwut mi/ (a. i fi ~ i a y,()l i7i c? p \
Capt Utley# started yesterday for
Columbia ? the river having risen so
as to render her passage up anil ,
dowjD pretty certain. *
June 9. J
From JV* ?w- Orleans.- r- A few days 1
br fore the steam ship Robert Fulton 1
I sailed from New Orleans, a fire J
took place in the vicinity of the U. *
S. Naval Arsenal nt that place ; tho
flames communicated to that buildr
ing, and it was consumed, with all
its contents. ? Besides tho property
belonging to that department, there
was 5000 stand of arms, and alrge
quantity of clothing belonging Jo the
Army, destroyed. The whole loss
to the government, being upwards of
one hundred thousand dollars.
The Captain and First Lienten*
ant of the Bravo , were executed (a?
mentioned in yesterday's paper) on
hoard of one of the U. S. barges ly
ing in the Mississippi. ? Just as they
reached the barge, the Captain f Dps -
fargasj suddenly tjirew himself in
to the stream ; his arms tieing pin
ioned, he sunk to the bottom ; .but
rising soon after to the surface, he '
was again secured. He had previ
ously expressed a wish to be shot,
which was not granted ; and it is sup
posed he adopted this expedient, in
the expectation, that the marines
would shoot him as he Tose ; but \n
this he was disappointed; and he
died in the way pointed out in his
septence.
JUNE 10.
William Hey ward, convicted of'
Highway Robbery, was, on Mon
day last, sentenced to be hung on
Friday , the 30 th inst*. His Honof
Judge Gantt prqnounced the sent
ence upon him in a most solemn and
impressive manner.
CAMDEN.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1820.
FOR THE CAMDEN GAZETTE*
Mr; Editor,
Sir ? Please give the following a place
in your Gazette, and you will oblige
One of your Reader ??
At a meeting of the Genera) Confer
ence of the Methodist Espiscopal Church,
held at Baltimore in the month of May
1820? It was Resolved ;
1st. That there shall be held an*
nually, in each presiding Bidet's
District, a District" Conference of
which all the Local Preachers in the
district .who shall have been licensed
two yeqrs uhall he members ; and of
which the Presiding Elder of the
District for the time being, shall be
the President: or in his absence,
the Conference shall have authority
to elect a President Pro. tem . It
i shall be the duty of the Presiding
! Elder of each District, to appoint
the time and place of the first Con
ference ; after which, the Presiding
Elder shall appoint the time, and
the Conference the place of its owti
sitting. '
?d. That the District Conference
shall have authority to license pro
per persons tq preach and renew their
iicertse, to recommend suitable Can
didates to the nriiiunl Conferences for
Deacons or Eldet's orders in jHa