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' v rTM--'iil .IMlllW Extraft. (November 27.) T HE 59-) The following1 is taken from the South - 0 a r o l i n a G-A' Z E T T E, of Oc tober 31 ft.-, being the laft Paper intended tobe' printed in that Province, till ' an iiiteration or nirairs in n m e r i c a.j . ; -n;. - C H A R L E S'-T O W N, O c t o b e rT 30, -irD AYthe 18th inftantv4a :i p am anchor under the cannon of 1 7$l:--- feK -ventureV Gapb Miles 1 was corning over in. this (hip, : and it being luipetted, from the circumftance of VX" her not "coming uplto town. -that night, that there'was on board eithcr'a ft amp officer, (lamp's, or ftampt paper, - v ' V - - . "X Early on SaturdaVi-rnorning, (October 19th) in the middle of' Broad ftreet ' ; r -' anu Ljuirciv ureet, near lvir. union s ueing uurmuii central arm puunt. pari ui ... . - 1 r r 11 11 " v . . . . iv : T c 1 - - . ,i- .j . . , - i , , .-i thf rhwn nnnenrcd fufoended on a izallows twenty teeTliiiiTu- an eififfv defisned to rcprcfent a diftributor of ftampt paper, with a figure of the devil on hts right ?. Jhandrand on his left a Boot, with a head ftuck opon-rtj diftii bonher; to eaclvof wlf a peo- . "pie, unfliakcn in their loyalty, but tenacious of'juft liberty, w ho hid conceived, "that all internal duties impoied upon them without the content of jtheir imme diate, or even virtual, representatives,, was grievous, opprelftve, and unconftu tional; and that an extenfion of the powers and jurildittions of admiralty courts in A merica, tended to fubvert one of .their moll darling legaLriglus ahd ,priyileges, - L; that of trials . by .'jurics.?,r--On the gallowsrin very cpnfpjcuous characters, was written, " LlBF.KTYand ! no Stamp-Act VI and on the baclTof the principal ' figure thefe words,' viz. u Whoever fliall dare attempt to pull down thefe efHgies, had better been born with a mill-ftone about his neck, and call into the fea."--In this fituation therfligies continued the whole dayvwithout one perfon's oiTerng z to difturbor take them down, the court of general (elftons of the peace, oyer and' tcrnuncr, aHize,andfcgeneral jail delivery, fitting alLtheVwhile , nor vvas there the. leall riot or dillurbance, though a great concourfc of peopleTnceirantlyrelbrted to the place of exhibition,- In the. evening the figures were taken down, and received in a cart or wagon, drawnby eight or ten horfes, when a proceffion commenced down Broad ftreet to the Bay attended atleaft by two thoufand fouls, , . continuing from thence to the exchange, and up Tradd-ftreet, halting at the door of a houle belonging to George Saxby, Efq. tthe then fuppofed diftributor of -.amps) occupied by Captain William Coats, forne fmall injuries to the windows of which it was imppflible to prevent from lb great a number, (whom it required 't.. ... creat prudence,' and no lefs exertion . of influence in many, 'to reftrain from levelling it with the ground), not owing however to any perlbnal diflikc to. Mr.' . : . - - Saxby, v NB. (& No Stamp'd PAPER '-be had.) : r - K' 1 " I -
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