3. PINCKNEY,
Charles.
Three Letters, addressed to the people of the United States, which have lately appeared under the signature of “A South-Carolina
Planter.” The first, on the case of Jonathan Robbins. The second, on the recent captures of the British cruisers, and the
right of a citizen to expatriate himself. The third, on the claims of the British creditors, and the proceedings of the British
Commissioners under the sixth article of Mr. Jay’s treaty. By Charles Pinckney, Senator in Congress, for South-Carolina.
Charleston: printed by
T. C. Cox,
Dec. 1799.
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8vo. 36 leaves, including the half-title. The letters are signed A South-Carolina Planter and dated August 28, October 3d
and October 26th, 1799.
The 1849 catalogue calls for a tract printed in Charleston, this edition of Pinckney’s
Three Letters has therefore been included here. That Jefferson had a copy of the earlier edition, printed at the Aurora-Office in Philadelphia,
is clear from his letter to Pinckney written from Monticello on October 29, 1799: “
Your favor of Sep. 12 came to hand on the 3
d. inst. I have delayed acknoledging it in hopes of recieving the longer one you mentioned to have written, but that has not
yet reached me. I was both pleased and edified by the piece on Robbins’s case. it ought to be a very serious case to the judge.
I think no one circumstance since the establishment of our government has affected the popular mind more. I learn that in
Pennsylvania it had a great effect. I have no doubt the piece you inclosed will run through all the republican papers, and
carry the question home to every man’s mind . . .
”
Charles Pinckney, 1757-1824, Governor of South Carolina, was at first a Federalist in politics, but later became a Jeffersonian Republican.
In 1801 he was appointed by Jefferson minister to Spain. Pinckney married the daughter of Henry Laurens, q.v.
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4. PRIESTLEY,
Joseph.
Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood, on subjects interesting to the author, and to them. Part
I [-II]. By Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c . . .
Northumberland: printed for the author by
Andrew Kennedy,
mdccxcix
. [1799.]
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First Edition, 2 parts. 8vo. 26 and 22 leaves. At the end of Part II is
Maxims of Political Arithmetic, applied to the case of the United States of America. First published in the Aurora for February
26 and 27, 1798. (By a Quaker in Politics.)
, with caption title, continuous signatures and pagination.
Sabin 65508.
Fulton and Peters, page 14.
Jefferson’s copies were sent to him by the author, to whom Jefferson wrote on January 18, 1800: “
I have to thank you for the pamphlets you were so kind as to send me. you will know what I thought of them by my having before
sent a dozen sets to Virginia to distribute among my friends. yet I thank you not the less for these which I value the more
as they came from yourself. the stock of them which Campbell had was I believe exhausted the first or second day of advertising
them. the papers of Political arithmetic both in your’s & m
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Cooper’s pamphlets are the most precious gifts that can be made to us; for we are becoming navigation-mad, & commerce-mad,
and navy-mad, which is worst of all. how desireable is it that you could produce that subject for us. from the Porcupines
of our country you will receive no thanks; but the great mass of our nation will edify & thank you . . .
”
Priestley wrote from Northumberland on January 30: “I am flattered by your thinking so favourably of my pamphlets, which were only calculated to give some satisfaction to my
suspicious neighbors. Chancellor Livingston informs me that he has got an edition of them printed at Albany, for the information
of the people in the back country, where, he says, it is most wanted. Indeed, it seems extraordinary, that in such a country
as ”
