Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOE T it Y. 1\l ol Htt/i ? Out could nut refund hirn. W'hlnkvek a mu mat's good hun?oi*d and I IC v , L'litn-atsa iu\ei to choose him, X vow in ^ooii ianh 1 tan'i possibly see . Wh >u i cubon I'd nave lo rcluse him. Ins cad ot con^idYing his suit as a amiss ? W ith sMuits I would kindly amuse him ; And, should tn<- dear crca ure solirii a kiss, I'cLd?U??u bui- cuuiaiiui reiuse4uro. When talking of marri y;e, he u ters a tow, Willi caiui n i 'hencoulti peruse him, B';i. >fhe were constant, I cannot sec how I could have the heart to refuse him. Wi. y should ai,y lass to comply be afraid* And run such a hazzard to 1< ose him Slit; ?.n ma> he sorr\,ano die an old maid Who makes it her boast to refuse him. . ? , 1 " 1 ? ? - ? - ? - \Uftrel(stnpoK<t. Cm jForsyt/i'* J^tmuik* on Ituii /. LfciOI'Oi.L). The Tuscan history may he re duced to three periods, ? the repuh lie- tin* n i^n^ of thy Medici, and; Leopold's alone. Of ihe*e three,! fierhip* (he last tills the tuost import j a lit space in tlte eye of the nation, for nis hither ami his sou-were blanks 6;. fuel sine of hhn. I lie rei^n of old wan philosophy working for the jK'opJe ; mil the complicate phil osnphy <*f economists an.l con-l *ti in tioh- inn k rs? hut rather good sense CI i tiff with good intentions in <\\h ,a elliniS prejudices, coiterting a bosi'S* and in iiu, roving the moral And phy Mcal-conditiiwol men. * Before the rt^bto of men agitated Europe, Leopold had come to a ft*'* iuri* o (ah of distinction.^ audi exclusions. He immediately oj>eneil . *H the offices of atate to all rank*, lie brought all u$h utid^r. thtf aami law and irihnuAls, jhe suppressed unnecessary courts, he simplified the $onim' tif justice, he instituted for Tuscany a jtenal code of small volume, a code. whi< tr abolished tor ture, mutilation of hodjy the pain of de ? n and *ttie sequestra ion ol land, *y vt twin stead) enforcement rentier eclcriun s rare atld m u i-der n n k e ? w n . * He mute counneree free in all its relation*, in tl^e free introduction, pas 8i?. : ciiculaliiin artd sale of good*, tOt. p'Hlti. wine and oil, free from tin' ihecjig which mwrkt ts, corpora - turns ami public brokers hail former ly tasd on eighina; and meftrtjring. The uikIs he tiveil 6:oi^ Miejf ancient refine tinns to particular corn ami oif-mUls.- He abolished all mono polies alid couzioili of ha} and straw . hwi<l of bixirtiim from grain ami raw commodities to the materials of ktttQty. He^mip preased (he farming of bread,* can dies* fi>b, &c. Ue opened i lie. riv ew> fire* d the chase froW restraint, tlf? cuitotos he removal to the fron tier* ; he threw several vexatious taxes, into one; he fixed . the sum wlfrMi JiH?"*aittett by -Wit state, aiitf left the people to ratoe h in their own itikfi yet surh were his economy mid order* thai while he re*i?neii mAn> sources of revenue,^ lie dis charged the public deht ok' the tin tion, and reduced the annual rate of interest, to 3 per t ent. ' His establishments in the title ?rts, - though \*mn splendid than those of the Medici, were perhaps more di rejflrty useful; not galleiici, hur schools of }>a tut trig. The Avedici revived and proteeted literature. ? JLeopold created tor science the tnnt cabinet in kurope. I tie Medici \U'te fond of r<iit?tng *tatuies to iht u? selves; Leopold retu?ed t?i?e whnli vhs onered by his grateful people The A. edict turned all the trea#i?it of the if little state into /such a mat , solemn for their cinhitiou* du?? ?< liegger* every monarch'* in Kmop a maOKHieuin lined with the raie ii.atbfes and incrubted with precious : Leopold designed for \\W ? 1 ?' snui" i on iiiou ?;r \e tha rereive* tin' meant* ?a of hi* *t ?hjectsJ I hwc u;?siar'-s. risen It oil) the ft m 1 1 1 ? ii.g-iiouse to the throne. niio^atet. all the athibuies of ni;ijr*t\ ; > pold, i he MH), the blotter. ami 4ii? tic ir of emperoms fieed his -uijeei fitim i In* debasement of kneeling. Though t >? >i 1 1 to a in i Ittftr v ?o em inent and surrounded fioin his infait cy with thff>ps. Leopold soon fi-li the vice . nil liiiU of soldiers in a little m *tate. On arriving li? re. he r duced llie army. laid n|r tfe navy, an*# exempted its knights from their im potent cm a v n*. The soldiers *ana the noble life-guards he replaced b\ citizens, and these he embodied ? 7 into lour companies, not foi his ow u protection hut for (lie police of the country. i hus Leopold teall} dm a hat princes encircled will) gUiiil only pretend to do, ? he trusted his all to the aliiction 4*1 his jieople. . He was the "friend of religion ra ther than of the church. He banish ed the inquisition from Tuscan;* ; reduced the leultiiude of idle festi val*; thinned the population of the convents, by checking thai temerity and that viuleqce which used to stock them with youth; he suppr* ssetf i nose which had lost their uionk^ ; he subjected (he church lands to the general taxation, and kept the cler gy on good heha\nnr by a whole* some degree of alarm. Indeed -the parochial clergy , w lioin Leopold re spected as useful men. had some rea son to coin {Jam ; for. h4> commuiing tiieir iy?tiesj he eveutually wronged tbeui; as the rate fixed, though f.tr <?nd ample at the time, fell afterwards iu value, from that depreciation of money whicu fallowed his own im praveineuts. ' ' , aii jueU|iOiu;s r^iorms were gra connected, and led to eacjh other. /.Nothing w s demolished at once, nor <4 id any nuisance cea se infill hertei resources were opened t tin- persons who had lived by it. by keepings in Ilia own hands ihe power of reforming, he sa\ed it Iroin mtscitief. A free nation Will receive Uu hem fits 4hSV in its o n way, auci here st?pie ciepotism was necesaaiy to overcome abuses which had en riched die tuost powerful. Our Wri? tish constitution could never etteW; ail the benevolent purposes of Leor j pold. In i he purest house of com mons (here would be qouutry gentle-! iiieu enough! to maintain the laws whicti lie annulled^ jkxpvl those sporttmen, and merchants 'or farmers would succeed, w Im Nourish by such mono^jiea as Leopold sup pressed* ' In^rmoving thqre ev ils J will not say that the motives of tld* prince v\ere mvariubly pure. The rou^fter p.isw^a of our nature are ever the more vigilati>; and, perh ps, tt certain dislike* of the pievile^fd urdeis who had teased him, may liave given a stiniuh s to reform, w hFBhts Trenfrvoteuc^reTaxed He often travelled, |dea -jure or display, hut to know his people and their wants, lie he rd ?ver> person; he saw every thing; lie registered every notice. The in Ibimation thus obtained he reduced ihto?a system, w hie h protected him from imposition, and from th pen* ijence on hit ministers. Thus his know ledge of details surprised thou sand* w no addressed him on tlieii rrwti concerns, and. silenced many petitioner*. Perhaps this acti\ ify w a^ iod <t eddling, tini jealous. too con nta|itly at work, for a prince ; pei - baps he governed his states too much, unci trusted the interests of his peo ple too little to themseUe*; perhaps ne left too often the m tn^priiig oi the political machine, tb watch the ac tion of the' minutest wheels. Leopold was certainly the best , mice of Ins tiitfe. Jbl?derick sunk into a concpieror before kim, or, ai <?est, a philosopher Alio could act tie tyrant, H hatever the I russian obtained from Frederick passed lot 4%ora: Leopold opened to his'i os ;i us ()u ii rights. I he one was an - " ions lo multiply histuojecis ; Ihc f i?er to make fit* happy. Krede ks soul Mid liftouueb ta^ in uis J Li o^Okl bail the Coinage to disband bis. Frederick, as a \?ar look cominaudiuy; grouud. *??? -auatiou ?a*e importance to hi mortis,* as it docs to a robbers on (he scaffold ; Leopold, by 11 li \ i 1 if: familiarly with t i izens, soon lo<-i 1 le ?lo*s ?<nd filler of a monarch, I *11 1 he created that noble and wore diir lile uflcctiun w hich follows talent a oil power when beneficently em plowed. in short, Leopold was a patriot on the throne. Of all practicable' .iivcrauieiitK this is surely the nnisi convenient; yet depending ouMhel duration of one in ?n's virtues and powers, it leave* us still to de^iie another form of polity, not so simple* perhaps nor ho cheaply administer e ( i, 1>ui more satV for the ?u\ erued. .itore able to perpeiuate itself, alio more indifferent to the character oi i hem w ho conduct it. For want of that |>erpctuatiu? po .er, which can reside onl in the people, half of Leopiild's^iutprove ments ceased with his reign. His successors have abolished, by their ?? xeueraussimo motupropiiti," sonn of those republican tonus which the Angusii'.Q policy of C lis mo 1. re tained to amuse a nation which- he had fobbed of its indep. ndence,? 2 he senate remains only to Ogure in processions ; for the authority w hich it l-aely caught from the sn>pen?Joti of all otjhur authorities, was acci dental and nhort, The t ommuni ty of rhdgmce," instituted by Leo pold for tlie poiice of the city, ha v ma; some: long popular in its consti tution, was the or^an lately emplo> ed- by Freneh lot- revolution and robemv- : %* ? * r ? Leopold s peml code, called the C riminal icioim," is still in force; out it wants his preventing violence. a apital punish merit is now restored^ .>et crimes have increased sincvliis reign irom 50 >o 1^0 trials a moftib. I j i> civil code was left unfinished, and llif com ts are still perplexed he ?? (??.? coiumuue," 01 K<* man law, and the " i?ius uiuuici paie," u liii li ih a chaos of jarring systems toimed by the contentious republics 4>f I uscany. Agriculture is stdl left free to pro duce ; hut it suffers now from the burdens laid on its productions. j s For ever) bullock that enters Flin ?;nce a duty of 1Q. crowns as paid, atid for every hog 10 liie, nor caii tuede be killed without a permit from I be eJtfise. vy i 1 ?? . !? ?< - -- - - - ? From the Boston Ctniinel. u Hefroi tactions of a Jiu&tunian. The Jhitish army evacuated Bob ton on the forenoon of S unday, the 17th March. 177? * n tht^ after* main of that day 1 landed (in com l>.tny with/* burgeon who was or dered in ny Gen, \Y aahington) at (lie bottom of the common, near4<tbe bigh bluff, V hicli was taken a^a^ a few yearn ago to make Charics street. Tl?p first object that 1 oh served on lantling wa* a thirteen inch iron mortar on the hracli of'ex traordinary diin*'ntioiis and weight, ^ hicli ihe Ilritish had ihrov. n down f oni a lottery they had erected on freight above. 1 w|s told that another of the same size was sunk at the end of the Lujuft- wharf, which u as alui wards raised. One of tjhem is now at the navy-yatd in Ctiarlestowii, and the other was a few ^ e a hi, since on the grand hatier^ ut ]S*w-Yoik, where it wan carried in the same year, Oi crossing the comftton *ve fount! ii Vt4y much disfiknred with ditches and cellars, w Inch had been dug by ihe I rittshr troojw for theiy Tttcom mndatinn wlien in camji. To oar r.-prywi; saw s. vei.,1 tar# trees l\ log in Ihe Mall, w hicti had been cm oow it ttiat morning. Ui itfe irilotiflNl that (bir lories were io exasperated at l>ein& obliged to leave the town, that they were d[e^ (r 1 mineo lo do nil the mist^iief possi Me, ami had cmtfftiefM ed de*t 10 jpiitu ?jfiat MaUtifli |iici?;Vrnade ; Imf irbeiri^ told to some ot the aele.cimen, the*:! went in haste to General liowe, am i .presented the circumstance, win. ? ndty Kent oiie of his ahV to forbid *i,e 1 u r 1 her destruction (ff'ltfe tiers *ml to reprimand tlie tone* for their v ducL General Howe could Dot ut feel Muiie degree of grateful re gard and svropaih^ for the people i?l Niassachnseu*, as the#\ had erected a mouniuent in eshuinster Abbey to the tseuioi \ of his l>rotherf whose ttr*>aue and gentleraiuly deportment had gained the esteem and respcctfof the .\Jfis*ac^us<<.elts fortes and who as killed in a hattle w ith the French and Indians iu.4738. The Mill I was originally laid out witk uhI) two rows of Iretj-s a liiird *\as added a few years Iwfoire the war. which we found were all cut down for fw4, together witli the en tire fence which nurroondeil the cum mon? a> was also a large magnificent treewhich stood on the town's 1?*T, near the schcol house, in W est-street* of equal size With that, which now stands in the middle of the common, hoth of w hich 1 suppose to be aboii ?NmUt ? ' r ,*?? ? Ha ; ? On passing into the town, it pre sented an indescri liable scene of tle solation and gloominess, for not with standing the joyous occasion of hav ing driven our enemies from our land, our nuuds were impressed: with an aw ftd sadneas at tite sight of tile ruins of many houses which had heen taken dttHiit(b4fQek-tiie dirti ness of the street&M-the wretched ap pearauce of tlie very few inhanittani* w ho remained* during the slfcge-~-'the r won i^rn ? m t rain i* i rrwrmm r v m \ t-is > rrm . ? ? ^ 1 1 ? ? n \ w he held, compared* with those ike formerly witnessed, wben well dress ed {>eople w ith chee.firl countenances, were going to, and returning from Church, ?ki which occasion, Boston exhibits so beautiful a scene-jjmt more especially when we en tern! the old houth l!hurch. and had ocular (U?m(mstvatiott4hattt had been turned into a Hiding bchool, for the use of Gen. llmgo\ tie's regiment of caval ryy whiili formed a part of the gsy rison, hut w hich had never ventured to pass the Urrriefif> o< th(i town. The pulpiv.afMl all the pewfc i#K] taken away and'ta&nt ftir turl,\a?d nia u\ hundred loads of dirt and grav y l were carted in, and spread upon the floor.'/ ' The adurb dwir was clu* ed,aud a har w istixcd, over wiiici. the cavalry were taught to lea^p* horses at toll speed. ^ A f*grogxlwp I v* as ei?oted ia tlifr gallery, \> In r 'liquor was sold tollie soldiery, ami consequently produced scenes of rio and debauchery in that holy temple. Alt these circniti stance a cftutttired In in I I he mind with dombre reflections hut amidst die sadness of the scenc. tliare was a pleasing satisfactio&in Ww hopi that men capable of twich attfiK&tety could not (lave the htfessiiig of Weaken in file# nefarious Qtyu of subjugating our beloved country. I he English soldiers were wiie'-atl* episcopalians, aud vieW^o^ thU hd with iiufMRhretce, hut the hcotefo who . were mostly dissenter*, and u|>wi it with horror , rind uol without some feelings r A Mijtfmftmrf. I as told thatp ffidkrous scetn took place in the course of the pre cedfog winter. A #??od old worn i> that frequently passed the cliufi h. Was iit the ha (lit of stopping at the d<>oi\ inid wi'h loud lamentations, (amidst the hooting* of die wittier),) hew ailed the desolation f>f tlie house (if prayer. 8 he d< nouru ed on them the vengeance of Le?\en, andas surt fl (hem tl? t good old Dr. Hew II the former parson. of th^ church would rise from hi* grave, and tar " vy tliem off*. ? X. blotch centiftel was one uiglit m of what lie thought was an appari tion of the Doctor, He scieamed violently / and alarmed the guard of grenadiers, who were alwa^> station ed at the Fr viW*-honse, theij t>c Copied hy general Howe. 'I here was no pa< ifyitig- him, until some oiie asked how the lloctor was dress < if, and he answered with a large w and go\Vn. One of the inhahi .nts who had heen drawn there ? V ?* *4. * * ? <i ' i' i i who wished to frighten a sn;trrsti lions K(du l man. at n< \ for thai pur pose. had dressed himself in the clerical liu I >ii of tin* Ke\. Mr. ('mike, of ilie Meuoiomy, who he hail plumb red. on his rt* I rval at the LmxL tie of Lexiaglou. A i OSTONI VN. MO Mil GUirrick's Preevyis to Preachers. Tin* cele lir&stec! G*nick liMxiu^ bee n requested hy Dr. Mtouehouse lo favor him with his opinion as to uil* manner in which a sermon ought to |lie delivered, the English Koscius iient him (he following judicious an ?v\ er. . 2* ? ".i/; dear pupil. ? You know how you would feel and speak ill a parlor [concerning a friend ^ho wo* in im minent danger of his life, and wiih uliat energetic pathos of diction and countenance you would enforce the ?ihseiv.nce of that which you really Ahoug.t wo*d<l heUu his preseryntton. You could not think of playing tho orator, of study ing y our emphasis ca dences Aid gestures; you v\uuld tie yourself; and the interesting nature of ydfeyr subject impressing your heart, would furnish you with the most na tural tone of *>ice, the most proper language, the most engaging features, and the tuost suitable %*ud graceful gestures. \\ hat you would thu> be in the parlor, be in the pulpit; au<l you w ill not fail to please, to effect, *ml *1> nnifli. Adimi. mydeai fi iwnl.** IMIL'li'JIIHJ'l tln-m^lvea rfrom tl?eil?.S tlieir ?utt'erii?g. ^ejr awrtrivw) dice., iiatlx, tables kc. iti'aaUdeil, that Ufc:beai catemiiy the tielter, Ibej used 10 pU> a whole diqr without inter* they might noi.be i .icUcd ghts of ..Tiled a* a remeliy '<?' that evil. >~TZZ ? kli i]o ..$S|K4 A French ttffi W wit mill U vity, said to n gall A> llO COIftj elCeAU imj umii irvuutp i4>iiyii ra< ?<Or IHlO^I' [tXI^IKIsticHle UN I ,}*??** ??eWrtK? ~<*'I1wI ? hot .. t?y?nr age and my it*., M ..M ..nrlMi ?|. <i H ' l 't#rY S^iijA ?tim.?, >t?di?iiu8. *bm Wv> * ? > . 'r* -v i?r*& Paints, Mirgeons Instru ments, c. flrc. Ju?t received and for salt by *4*. lS$F ill to ? ?# * WaHding. Wf'4 Comer llrond k Vol lt-?ircet?, (antdctf. Au^unt ffc- ,'hf ,sap . M I III I I l^h *? *? Sourh-i aroHna?bumtet iJtoirnft. James < apers, vt. Patient c \H rifcht, Ad minwtralijx pi the I^oocIk ai.c; ChattlM, rights and credits Which were of Amos .Wright, fl?c????ed. \V lierevs iM? Pbiintifl in this caw, till!, on th? 1 rtl? ot March, I H 'I, fcio his dr cla Ration agaiuat <foe Defendant! it ;fot?rov?kred, That fie defendan do appear land pletui to th<! same on or bvfcft the 1 8th Idat of March tA *t, Of jtirlgnieiH -will be J given againat him by ritfutiW I 1. U Mnlbii, I ' March 17, 1H2K ? ? .i. ,.