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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1801
Page
3
Late European News from Liverpool via New York on the Liberty reports that in Petersburg the convention of armed neutrality was signed by Russian Swedish and Danish ministers with Praffia as an acceding party, following its earlier sighing.
London reports suggest real disruptions in the Cabinet over Catholic emancipation. Pitt and allies resign with Castlereagh. delays to the king's speech follow. Rumored replacements include Addington as prime treasury head, and others in key posts while Pitt stays on temporarily. A bank notice signals Pitt will stay until the loan and budget are settled.
A London dated letter notes large grain inflows ending scarcity with daily price declines. Three thousand barrels of flour sold on the 7th for 85 shillings, wheat at 24 shillings per bushel. Earl of Fife says he can no longer support the ministry amid union defections.
Georgetown March 18 report says fifty or sixty laborers under Mr Harbaugh have laboured to finish excavations and remove remaining rock to fully open the Great Falls navigation, a project of vast importance to the country and its waters.
Washington March 20 The editor of the National Intelligencer notes corrections to recent public prints. It denies Wagner as private secretary, Short as minister to France, Wade Hampton as postmaster general, and Dawson as negotiator for the French treaty. It states Livingston will stay in the U S and Dawson bears the instrument only, saving about 2109 dollars for four months and proving economy.
The schooner Abigail under Boone from Rhode Island and the sloop President Packet with Lane from Philadelphia are cleared at Georgetown, while the Speculator with Smith from New York is also noted in port records.
A Ber ealut notices that some doubt the rights of the faberider to grant licences for using the Rolling Sifter or Screen for Sifting Rice. Jonathan Lucas claims the patent was proven in the Court of Common Pleas at Georgetown on the 7th instant. He urges unlicensed users to obtain licences or face enforcement. Licences for the sifter and Evans patent elevants are available through Theodore Gaillard or James Dellet in Chaterton or Georgetown.
The Subscriber informs planters of a new construction for rice shelling and corn grinding. Mills operate in ten hours with two workers, grinding four to five pecks per hour. Saw gins run without injuring staples and can gin 100 to 2000 weight daily. For details contact Mr. Lizar Joseph in Charleston. James Symmonds, Machinist. April x.
Has for sale by wholesale at very reduced prices the following articles coffee 700 wt pepper 15 boxes candles eggs raisins virgin twitt spnitakings trias 39s Mullinet hats coarse dimities calico broad cloths durants satin striped calimane robes kerchiefs printed muflins muff table cloths fine houmhums coarse and fine shoes kerchiefs 100 ft knives and forks 72 grace shoe tatts March 7.
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