The Kentucke Gazette, 1787-09-22

fanied with difntal Jbreeks and yellings to make ' the very air that is above tremble as it rolls along IVhat can pojfibly be the crtife f Let us erqu!re of that me melancholy - lancholy melancholy African who J'eems to walk de eded near the (bare- whofe eyes are jMfaJlly fired on the approach- ' ingcbe3 and whefe heart if we tan judge from the appearance of his countenace muft be greatly agita agitated - ted agitated Alas! fays the unhappy African the cloud tlrt you fee op reaching is a train of wretched flares They ere going to the flips belli id you They are de deflated - flated deflated for tlx Fnglifb colonies and if you will flay to little time you will Jee them pafs They were lajf night drawn up vppon the plain which you fee before you where they were branded upon the'breafl w'th a' hot iron and when they had undergone the whole of ' the treatment which is ettflomary on th je occations -J and which I am inftrmed that you E-igl:jbmrn ct heme vfe to tin cut's which yau buy they were returned to their prij'on As I have fome dealings with the mem members - bers members of the fail ory which you fee at a l-tiledflance (though th mks to the great fpiritl I never dealt in the liberty of my fellow creatures) I gained admittance there J learned th: hijlory tf fame of the unfor unfortunate - tunate unfortunate whom I jaw confined and will explain to you if my eye fbotild catch them as they pafs the real cauxs of their Jervitud' Scarcely were thrfe words fpoken when they cams diftinSly into fight They appeared to advance in a long column but in a very irregular manner There were only three in front and th-fe were chained to together - gether together The rejl that followed Jeemei to be chained by pairs but by prejfag forward to avoid the lafb of the drivers the breadth of the column began to be greatly ercreafcd and ten or more were tbtcrvsd a a-breft - breft a-breft IHiilewe were making th-fe remarks the intelligent African thus r fumed his difeourfe: ' The three whom you objerve at the head cf the train to be chai ed togrth-r ra pt inners of war As Jan as the flips that" are behind 'ycu arrived the hews was difpatched into the inland country when one of the kings immediate ' fy ajjem'oled his Jub eels and attacked a neighbouring tribe 1'he wretched people though they werijurpAfed mode a formidable rejiflaree as they rfoived aim ejl ell of them rather to lool'c their lives than their liberty The perfon whom you fee in the middle is the father of the ties young met who are chained to him on each fide llis wife and two of his children were killed in the at attack - tack attack and his father b-ing wounded and on account of his age incapable of Servitude was left bleeding on the f pot where thistranfaction happened It ith rejpe3 to thofe that are now puffing us and are immediately behind the former I can gfve-you no other inteligence than that jome of them to a! out the num number - ber number of thirty were taken in the fame skirmifl Their tribe was faid to have been numerous btf are the attack tliefe however are all that are alive But with rcfpeH to the unhappy man that is now oppofit: to us and whom y ou may diftinguifb as he is now looking back and wring -iug his hands in dej'pair I can inform you with more prtcifien He is an unfortunate convict He lived only ab-ut five days journey from the fa&ory He went $tS w'th his king to hunt and was one of his train but thro too great an anxiety to afford his royal mafler diverfien heroujed thegamsfrom the covert rather fooner than was expelled The king exafperated at this circumfiancc immediately Sentenced him to flavor) His wife ari children fearing left the tyrant fl mid extend the pit pit-niflment - niflment pit-niflment to tlamfelves which it not u -vfual fled di di-reSty - reSty di-reSty to tlx woods where thyy allperijled T'f PeoPte ' J"ij" ctofe behind tlx unhappy con convict - vict convict form anumerous body and reach a confiderable way They fpeaka language which ne perfon in this part tjA tjA-frica - frica tjA-frica can underftand and their features as yon may perceive are jo different from thofe of the reft that they almoft appear a aiftinct race of men From this cir cir-csmfiaree - csmfiaree cir-csmfiaree J recolleS them They are the fubjeSs cfa very diftant prince who agreed with tin jlav: merchants for a quantity offpiritous liquors to furnifl him with aftepuiated number of flaves He accordingly furround-- ra and Jet fire to one of his own viiages in the night andfiized then people who were unfortunately the inhn -bttants as they were ejeaping from theft mes Ifiili faw then as t he merchants wtre driving them in eboua two days ago - - They came iti a large body and wjrg tied together fit the nock with leather tlnnes which permitted them to walk at tlx difiance of cbo-tt -yard from oc a tether Many of them were laden wit)

TIIE Turks if wc may credit the recent accounts fioin Conftantincp'c feem to tempt their own fate If to the confiifion that now ic'gns through that unhappy empire a involution in ti c Seraglio be rd lei v h:ch the riotous behaviour of the Jcni'Ta Jcni'Ta-lies - lies Jcni'Ta-lies feem to indicate to he fait approaching & the pup puppet - pet puppet tiiey Jo-:thcl in the Imperial robe be forced :nto a v ar with Ruffia their ruin is inevitable When an army after dehroiing the fovereign takes the held cduc to all fuhordination and difciplinc their nomi nominal - nal nominal leaders arc their fiaves and mull implicitly obey their caprices Mutinous in the camp cowardly in the light they will rufti upon their enemies and ily from them with equal piccipication nothing there therefore - fore therefore but ill fuccefs can be expelled from them and they give the emprefsas well as the emperor thefair thefair-efr - efr thefair-efr opportunity that could he wiflied of further dif dif-membering - membering dif-membering that empire Nor will the ambitious Ba Bach - ch Bach as and Beys be idle they have in general Icng (hewn n ardenr deiirc to make tlicini'e'vcs independent of the Porte' and they will doubtiefs not neglect the prefent occalion to attempt to erect feparatc govern governments - ments governments Whether this event fliould it take -place V'ili fufpend the other projefli of thole potentates time only can difenver It is more then probabietliat it will but this fufpcrfion vril i oiiiy be tempoiary and the fin al I Gates in their neighbourhood mutt be equal! cn thcii' guard agaiml tlicm Henna ilfjyfi An engineer of this place has in in-vcntcntcd - vcntcntcd in-vcntcntcd a mil which compietciy grinds all forts of grain without the aid of wind water or fie Par's Atril 1 3 Wc have juit now an exprefs ar arrived - rived arrived from Pera which mentions b'dangerousmfjr b'dangerousmfjr-icclion - icclion b'dangerousmfjr-icclion at Crr-ftantinopic that raped I'o much astooc astooc-talon - talon astooc-talon ail the gates and avenues of the city to be lh it up and neper 'on fufieicd to pafs but under proper rcftriclions ai! the ambaTadois had that tlicinfe1vc3 up in the r ho :is the Flinch corful atPeradifpatch atPeradifpatch-cd - cd atPeradifpatch-cd th s news Feterfiurgh 03 i Wc have recede I indif indif-putab'c - putab'c indif-putab'c information that a body of Ruffian troops lias been entirely debated by the Cuban Tartars Prince Potemkin the lire commander of our tioops !n the Ciimcs is recalled on account of having been fo inattentive as to fuffcr himfelf to be fur fur-prifed - prifed fur-prifed by the Tartars All the officers of-the regi regiments - ments regiments flaiioned on the frontiers of the Ciiinc'js ere ordered to join their lcfpcclive corps without dc!ay Henna 03 14 We learn that the Ruffians have taken two Furkifii fpies in the environs of tlicCan tlicCan-cafus - cafus tlicCan-cafus They were hanged without any formal proccfs Wc arc clfo informed that ihed'van have dignified to Ilr deEuigakow the Ruffian envoy that their com complaints - plaints complaints have produced no effect preparations were jnai ing for attack and defence Tunis Jan 4 It is nol ingcr pnffiblc to conceal the difeomen which vifibiy reigns among the mem members - bers members of our adminiflration who arc quite at a lofs to know how to redo c tranquility to die Gate The Vcnctions have made their appearance again on our coafts and unhappily for us have had better fuccefs than formerly but what in fomc decree leiiens bur fear and makes us hope their ciefign is not at prefent gainfl Suza is the information wc have received that ihcil foie intention is to watch the Ottcmanfect which is now in a very difticiTed fituation off AicTtsidrea Since wiiting the above wc have juG ! card that tlic Venetian ficec have begun to fre upon Suza LONDON June 13 1786' Mr Pitt in aniVrer fo an enquiry of die carl of fiurry In the debate in the houfc of commons the cigth inftant faid undoubtedly it was his intention to bring forward the bufinefs of the crown lands as early as poffibic but he was fcarioil nothing more could he done this year than ufing parliamentary authority for a more actual and accurate furvey As for the claims of the Amciican ioya'ids every ftep offibic was taken to accomp'uGi tne fcuduefs but ic did not imagine the houfc would be called on to come to any thing accifive on that head this year The lad advices from the continent confirm the probability ofanapproching rupture between thcRuf- Caa and the links and that the coined is likely to

be a b'oody one as the latter have been fomc time prepairing fecrctly for war and manifefts adifpuficliin torifk their vc yexiftancc to a pcop!e to regain their lod credit among the Euiopcan powers Tlie cmc cmc-ror - ror cmc-ror it is thought will alfo be a party in this war for which he is to have an extent of tcritory: his prefent pofleffions extenfivo as they arc not be being - ing being fvGicicnt to fat'sfy hi rapacious mind Letters from Vienna dated May 12 mclion that in cafe the houfc of Audria fliouIJ think propel1 to make an alliance againd the Forte in favour of 11 u ilia the dates of Venice had voluntarily rcqucdcu to be included in the treaty and were fuppofing a war inevitable prepaiiingfor it with the utmod alacrity They had 11 new gullies on the docks and had Purchafcd of the emperor at Triede 15000 quin quintals - tals quintals of gun powder Feb i3 A letter from Rhcim dated Feb if favs " About a fortnight ago a boat with 40 per per-fons - fons per-fons in it eroding the Mafc rear Dun in Cicimon Cicimon-lois - lois Cicimon-lois was overfet and all on beard except the waterman pc: iflieJ There were civcn pregnant women among them A labourer being told of the dicadful accident mounted a Gout liorfe in an indant and jumped with him into the river frim a bank twen'y feet high The m ament lie got above the waves he directed his fwimming with Ins liorfe rm'dft thofe head-! of the women that appeared now and then abav ricr (fc fc:ncd eight cf them by tbeir hair anJ let tTi'cin fucccfiiveiy go till he found his wife whom he cairicd uihorc and after afterwards - wards afterwards on his back to a p ib'ic houfc where flie gave fome figns of life but nature by fo violent afiioc'x forced the od'spring from its mother's wcrib and they both died in a few minutes alter The hus husband - band husband the unhappy (pcclat or of fuch a di final fcene did not furvive them long Grief had preyed fo fad on his heart that he died next morning Tlicywcce all tlirre buried in one coffin The m llratcs of the town would have pvniihed the waterman fer h i nelic ice or want of ikiil but that amonfft the viclimsof his imiru donee were his wife and filler The King of France is now bufiiy empoiyed in mailing the way clear to urivcrfal toleration through-out his dominions So much has his mail Chriflian Ma'cfty this clv'ecl at heart that contraryto prac prac-t - t prac-t cc for time imqiemorai lie has aumitted Into the Royal Academy of Sc'cnccs a: Paris mcinhes who have withdrawn ihdmfeivcs fioin the paic of ihc mo mother - ther mother church The Court of France fincc the commercial Trea Trea-ty - ty Trea-ty has becnura tapis liave been caicful to lcinove the idea of religious d'ffercnccs and woud have us to undcifland that ihcic is no d:Gi£lion now between the proteflant and Itomifli tenets- that wc Giould look upon one another as brothers Some cry up this recantation of doctrine as the bicTcd effect of Philofophy - while others icruplcs not to cli it the fly maneuvers of policy but ' 'ju juiice Us ejl LIVERPOOL J ne 26 Sad Conferences to lie apprehended from Prccipi- talc Intermcnis A young child in the hands of a dry nurfeat Troys in Champaign which had been ill ofa violent lever was found one mo:nm to all appeal ante dead The nuifc wrapped him up immediately in a winding flieet and his paients being gene to Angodeina acquainted the curate that thcic would be a burial in the after afternoon - noon afternoon The cui arc infilled on chc woman's not bury burying - ing burying the child tili the next morning Jn the middle of the night the nurfe who was really fond of the poor bake began 10 Icok ac him with lcdoubicd af af-feftion - feftion af-feftion and fheddinja torrent of tears over him took him up and clafped him to her bofom His heart beat ilio' cries he lives ! he lives ! Her joy was e- qua! to her ailonifhnicnt Siic haflened 10 dclivc dclivc-thadcar - thadcar dclivc-thadcar child from the fatal bonds cf death he open opened - ed opened his eyes fmiled uponhcr and ft reached his little arms nowuthbcity Thofe hours of profound fleep had pcrfcdi'y reiiored him to health and by this moll lucky circumfiancc the child received new life at the very intlant Jic was to be lam among the dead A SCENE from an Effay 011 the Slavery and Com Commerce - merce Commerce of the Human Species particularly the Afri African - can African T ranfiated from a lntin Difertation LET us turn our eyes to the cloud of dujl that is before us It feems to advance rapidly andaccbm-