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Newspaper
Georgetown Gazette
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1801
Page
4
An 18th century verse sketch explores temptation, virtue, and hypocrisy through a tale of Jenny, a young woman led astray, and the abbess’s moralizing. A candid reply from a seasoned courtesan notes experience shapes marriage and life, challenging rigid pieties.
A Tulip Tree near Greensburgh treetop relics of Major Andre’s capture was split by lightning on Saturday. The eastern half fell after fire spread in a fissure, leaving a hollow base. The tree measured 26 feet around, 1114 feet high, with 106 foot branch spread and elicited both sympathy and mixed patriotic reflections.
A historical reflection compares daily death risk to drawing a single black ball in a 10 000 draw. It argues the small perceived danger hides a universal mortality chance and uses a hypothetical lottery to frame the concept of risk and inevitability.
The text argues that death should not cause dread since it is inevitable. Philosophy and Christianity praise preparation, urging readers to arrange worldly affairs and cultivate a tranquil mind to meet death with content.
The New York report notes a company dispute over transporting Indian commodities on India built ships. Proponents argue cheaper freight and preserved company rights while supporting British seamen. Opponents fear endangering the company and colonization risk. The general ballot favored employing India built ships despite harsh Lascars wages and climate deaths.
Philadelphia demonstrates a new ship pump by G Clymer. An 18 pound ball is dropped into the well and the pump is quickly raised and discharged after experts including Governor and Commodore Barry witness the test. The invention is praised and hopes for support and trial.
Reports from authentic sources describe a June state of affairs in Portugal where Portugal and France and Spain agreed to a peace at Badajos. A short armistice was set to allow the prince regent to decide terms. The treaty, sent to Paris, allegedly includes four million dollars in payment to France and a boundary line linked to the 1797 agreement, with Spain gaining small frontier places. French and Spanish garrisons were reportedly to be relinquished.
The Portuguese resistance faltered due to scarce provisions and weak leadership while Paris withholds advices from June. Fears rise over French treaty ratification and harsher terms. The Prince of Beira dies, and Almeida becomes secretary of state as a French squadron heads to Egypt. a British frigate arrives amid news of a large stipulated payment.
In Norfolk on August 3 1801 Judge Cyrus Griffin presided over Samuel Barron and crew versus the Schooner Success. The court ordered the vessel and gear forfeited for slave trade violations and condemned to libellants, with sale by public auction after six days notice. Proceeds to libellants as prize money under naval prize laws.
A notice identifies Joan Hammon a free born Marylander near Elk head bound by his mother to John Devinny and later sold southward through Harmon Alexander to others, ending with Francis Rogers in Charleston near She Raw, aged about twenty, well built and fluent in English. September 5.
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