The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806, September 19, 1789, Image 3

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Indian tribes, and the appointment of Com miflioners for- managing the fame. yf t/ G ZJ b T Sept* On Tburfday evening lift arrived at this place, the honorable Benjamin Lincoln, . Cy rus Griffin, and David Humphreys, Esquires, Commitfioners Plenipotentiary for negociating treaties with the Indian tribes fouth of the Ohio, on their way to the Rock-landing,- to conclude the treaty with the Creeks. After fo;ne communications with the Executive, they took an early dinner with his Honor the Governor, and proceeded about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon —From appointment so refpeftable and confidential we have the belt founded lmpes of a substantial and just peace ; and we feel it as a favorable feature, already impressing iirthe dawnings of the New Go vernment. —They were escorted out of town by Capta'n* Watkins, and a number of re fpetlable gentlemen'. The arrival of General Lincoln in this fron tier ot the Southern Department has given univerlal pleasure ; in which he was equally diftinguiftied by his merits and services, un der every adversity and difficulty in the late war. Nothing could have been more apt, or so confidential, as his present appointment.- The Commirfioners are accompanied by the Hon. William Few, Esq. and their Secre tary Major Franks-. It appears from the New-York papers that Cougrels are to adjourn on the 2ad inst. till the firft Monday in December next. Arrived at Tybee, the 7th inst. the Friend ship, Capt. Robert Lee, from Jamaica, after days pafiage. She was bound for Charles ton, but* after beating off it a day, bore a way for this port. Thomas Connell, Esq. , of this place, came paflcnger, who begs leave to thank him for his attention and polite civi lities. The Rev. Abraham Marlhall will at , tend on a funeral occalion on Saturday, the 3d of October next, at the Bluff, opposite the Sand-bar. > ",, » Hijlory of the ■ late Royal Malady . —to>,oirOi— q’kepji fyniptsw. — in Wind for Park — V The King was taking an airing with the Queen in a phaeton, and suddenly called out, there he is. Then -giving the reins to her Majesty, he defeended, and walked up.to an old tree, bowed to it, and entered into a conversation ’ with' it, as- if he had met the King of Prussia. The Queen, greatly (hock* ed, desired the page to inform his Majesty, that (he wifiied much for his company. The King at firft refufed to liflen to the meflage, blaming the page for interrupting him when he was engaged ; but at length recovering his recollection, laid, “ Good lack-a-day that is true—run on and iuformher Majesty, that lam hastening-to her.” fbe next—-the Coach feene . • <c Their Majesties were going to Rich mond, with the Princess-Royal and two maids of honor. The King was unufuaily abient, and length, forgetting that there was any body in the coach belidgs himle'f and the Queen, he made a proposal, of luch a nature, that were the fuu to fall from his orbit, it could not have (truck her Majesty with great er horror 1 and confufion The Priucelo and junior maid of honor scarcely understood the terms, and the purity ot their minds saved them from -distress. But the other Unified, and then laughed aloud. His Ma jesty roused from his lethargy, but r.ot restor ed to reason, determined to puniib her ill timed mirth.” Royal Bedchamber* u Ptaving about the prerogatives of the down, reducing America to unconditional fubmiftion, following theeounfel of Murray* Bute and Jenkiofon, &c.” 7 'hi Knight of C/oaeina .*• *' The iing by an artifice get* his hands iliftnfMged, and crown* Sir Bakeriu a very uncommon manner. . What a figivwt* what « tux ill l 1 VVu AUttjvb***' pretty good authority foine time ago, bat not’ iu l*o nauseous a form.” A Holy Con-vtr fat ion. u York is sadly troubled, and impart® hid distresses to Canterbury, relative to the prayer for the King. Canterbury declares he never read it, but th*t his Chaplain lolil him it was an exad transition of a prayer drawn up for Edward the CbnfelTort Some c—d Metho dist or Prefbytereau fanatick bad written a letter to York, strongly and jullly reprobat ing the dottrine it contained, that the Sove reign was afflicted for the tranfgrefliou of his people. Either the people mult have offered him up as a vitfim, or he mult have volun tarily devoted himfeif. Neither is true. He is not facrificed like Charles, nor has he de voted himfeif like Christ. For the fake ol , decency, let popery and noufeufe be expung ed from the public invocation. The holy bre thren fee the force of the objection, but agree to forget their furrow, in a bottle of claret and old hock” Royal Bedchamber. « Raving again. Recollects an admi rable itroke of economy in Mrs. Gill, the Lady Myorefs, who, when a fowl was kil led, had the bariey in its crop carefully taken out, w£fhed and dried, and given to the o-’ thcr poultry. Determines to imitate it.” Prayers. “ The King di Sorbs the devotions ©f the Sabbath, and being entrusted with a kuiic and fork, constrains Sir George Baker and Dr. Duplicate to dance a hornpipe.” [Review. 2 ANECDOTE ROYAL. (From a late London Paper.) THE morning after the* French Ambafla dor’s Gala, the Duke of Clarence (Prince William Henry) went to Buckingham House to pay his devoirs to the Queen and Priuceifes : His Royal Highness was lhewa into a room where Madam Schwell-überg was fitting, who immediately got up, and rudely retired without paying him the leal! mark of respect or attention. Soon after, however, Ihe re entered, and servilely ctirtefying to the ground, made ten thousand apologies for her behaviour, adding she took his Royal High ness for the Duke of York, or flic lhould not have behaved in the manner flic did. “ And fuppde I' had been the Duke of York, J re plied the incensed Royal Tar! “ Get your felf under weigh this inilant, you d d old mil’chief making B ——h, and if ever af ter this you date bring your a —e to au anchor in my presence, I’ll kick it out of the room, or give it a flinging dozen before all the pages of the back flairs, by .” I AL L persons having demands again It theeftateof Alexan der hearer, merchant, decealed, are desired to lend them in, duly acteft cd, to Thomas Camming, in Au* gutta, or to the fublcriber, in Sa vannah, on or before the firft day of January next; and thole indebted, are requeued to make payment as early as pofiible, in that the administrator may be enabled to dil charse the debts owing by the de ■Aj cealed. ANDREW M‘CREDIE, Adminiftrator*- ; Sept, i, 1789. A lift of Defaulters in C-pt. Pool’s ciftrift, Richmond county, 1789* viz* HAR LE S Statham, Charles Carter, William Bryant, Jones, John M'Mullcn, John Brandon, David Evans, Abu Clay, Jonathan Glaf*, johu Shadwick, j Abfalom Fears,. Dswfon. h W. FREEMAN, •Notification* ALL persons who are pof fetTed of Treasury Certi ficates issued by the late Trea surer, Seth John Cuthbert, Efi* quire, deceased, are requefled to report the dates, Aims and deno mination of such Certificates to the Honorable Joseph Clay, El quire, Tn Savannah, or to John * Meals; Efquirc, Treasurer, at Augusta, in order that the amount outstanding may be alcertained. JOHN WERE AT, Auditor. - *•» ■ ■ - - •-*— Twenty Dollars Reward. STOLEN out of my pasture, at Loculi Hill, on 1 hurltiay night between the loth and nth inflant, two horses, viz. a white horse, up wards of fifteen hands high, ten or twelve years old, branded on the * mounting butedek D. S. Also, a chelnuc sorrel horse, about fourteen and an half hands high, fix orfeven years old, branded on the mounting buttock I. W. They both trot and pace. Any perlon delivering the above horses to me, at Loculi Hill, or Col. John Milton, Augusta, shall ■ have tht above reward, or in propor- * tion foreither,andtwentv pounds iter - ling for tile conviction of the thieves, GEO. HAN DLL Y. Loeujl Hill, Sept. 14', 1789. 4 - - - - At a Meeting of the Board .of ‘lruflees of the Richmond Aca demy > Friday , Sept. 12,1789* % IT appearing that the commons to be leafed out by the adt of Afiembly of the fourteenth Au gull, 1786, not been clear ed and cultivated as therein, and by fcveral orders of this Board, have been directed. And it having been suggested, that, provided the lcafe couid % be extended, several of the lcfTces, or their afligns, would bind themselves to clear and cultivate the parts by them relpeCiively leafed, in conformity to tht* objects of the Lid a£t i whereupon- It is ordered , That all luch lefTees, or their afligns, -who (hall pay the rents due, and give obligations, with v ficurity, for the additional time as per annual lease, shall be entitled to 1 a lease of seven years, to commence from the third i ucfday in OCteber next; and that the obligations of all luch as do not comply literally with this order, shall be put in suit agreeable to the order of the Board or the 2id July last, if n>t p-id by the laid third Tucfday in October ntxr. Ordered, That the foregoing or der be publiflied. Ex.raß from the proceedings of the Boat a, J. M. SIMMONS, Clerk . -