The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1763-1776, August 25, 1763, Image 2
fort any encine* bepnn to play. One unhappy circunifiacce
is said to have attended* that her iadyftiip had the key of
-the ltfillfc ds9£ confkpthf bjjoqghL.ro hecxvfcry night; and
when the fire&as'firft difc&vefedPby %neof theJervants,
they few to hw lady (hipfs room, which teas in tame®, and
cpnfequeritly could not jjet the key, uhicji chiefly occasi
oned the melancholy arc urn fiances I>cfore recited. .
. In Saturday’s Gazette arc-addrefTes from the. Eall-India
cohipany, the-county of Huntingdon, the borough of Ban
* bury, the borough o f Jfieyt Windier,. and ‘the bofgh of
NaiAi, on the conclufionof the peace.
We are informed that the report of Mr. Wilkes’s flunks
Being charged at the* poft-office is without the lead founda
tion.
’ In obedience to huMrjcfty’s commands fignified by the*
of Egremont to Earl Temjde, Lieutenant of Buckin
gham sh ire, his Lord (Kip htts difrhifl*ed John Wilkes, Esq;
from being Colonel of the Buckingham (hire regiment of.
militisi. ’ ■/’ • %
’ Gif Saturday the Earl Ttmpfe’ was’ dxfmifled from the
King’s service as Lord L euteaant and Cuftos Rotulorum of
the connty of Buckingham. ,
‘ * This day the Duke of Botfcon resigned the place of Lord
Lieutenant and Cuflos Rotulorum of the county and town
of Southampton.
The Marquis 1 of Gianby is appointrd Matter of the
Ordnance. . ‘ * W r ,
St. James's, May 9. The King has been pleased to con
flitute and appoint the Right Hon. the Lord Le Defpenfer,
to he Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the county
of Buckingham, ih the room of the Earl Temple. ...
Mm i u It is reported that the itland of Dominica, in
the Weft Indies, is to be made a free port for all the Weft
Indian commodities, Under certain reftri&ions. It is fur
ther said that the price of sugars will fall very ficedily con- *
fidmbly.
‘ The Rt. Hon. George Townftiend is appointed Lieute
ira.it General of the Ordnance in the room of Lord Ligonier.
Mr. Ke.arfley, publilhcr of the North Briton, was dis
charged on Monday, giving 10001. bail, and 5001. cadi of
his two ficurities. • . *
*lAaj 1). An information in the King’s bench has gone
i|ainll Mr. Wilkes for the North Biitain N0. '45, and , we
■far it makes 30 ftieetr. We hear it wi Ibe tried at Guild
nail-in December next.
This morning the merchants and traders of this city came
toarefolution, at the K?g’s arms tavern in Cornhill, to •
address Ms Majesty on the def.ni ivetreaty of peace.
May 1%. ‘lt having been aflerted in a speech, said to have
been made by Mr. Wilkes in the court of common pleas,
that corrupt offers had been made him by the government,
that gentleman is now piled upon to declare when, how,
X® w t °? fuC ? afters were made, and whal they were.
• * h ! s been before challenged fco make this deebmti
°mi \L IS n ? 1 f°° n complied with, the Impartial publick
will confider the infinuapon in.the odious light it deserves.
/r* 2U setters from Hanovfr by yesterday’s mail speak
of the marriare of the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick with
the frince.s Augusta of England as an affair concluded on,
and which !S to be consummated in the course of next month.
Admiral Tyrrel is appointed commander in chief of all
the Leeward 1 (lands. . ;
1 Monday evening failed from. Dover, his Ejicel
ledcv tfie Duke. J, Nivernoi,, i;, r Ffallce . , ■ -
e Bear that Mr. Wilkes ha borrowed printing- tvpes
.ni . pr.ntmg freft, which was fct up in his houfe’ Tail
marks. By Mr, Wilkes, . Price one guinea, to be paid at
thetnaeoffubfcribMig/’ , F *
J°*, A number of people are engaging here
apd Ireland, to go and fettle in Florida,
He. 6 land will be given them by the government, and ail
f ° r a S? c^l I ,IPC be provided for thepi, by
may fl °. in-afew years, the foil and.
chniite being tJ many of the French wru
*S , fom: 6f the best in the unSverfe.
7** 3- At the court at St. Jam*’* jfo ~ ,763, prC
feat moll ezcelleut day the RU Ilt
Hon. Francis End of Hertford war, by his Majefly’s com
mind, sworn of his moft honourable Privy Cour
nil, and look his place at the board accordingly.
7*" 6 - . A comnuffion, hs oafied ths seals appoirtinj,
the Marquis of Caravyan Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Ro
tulorum ofhhe county of Southampton, in the room of the
Duke of Bolton, who has resigned. , .
Letters by the French mail bring advice of a larp e fti-,
from -St. Domingo to Bounjeaux, almost loaded with indf
go, being intirely loft, said to be worth 700,000 lit res; ic
is said she had on board 150,000 lb. of indigo.
Jsnu 8. Laa night’s- Gazette contains an address on the
peace from the provinceof Georgia.
• June 10. i he’trial relative to the seizure of Mr. Wilkes’s
papers, will, it is said, come on the 17th of this month.
We hear the fubferiptions to Mr. Wilkes’s intended/
publications already amount to above 30001.
Last week the Rev. Mr. Whitefield tailed from.Greenock
oh board the Fanny, Capt. Galbraith, bound to Rapaha
nock in Virginia.
Wednesday Admiral Tyrrel kifled his Majesty’s hand on
being apoointed commander in chief of the Leeward i Bands,
and has hoisted his flag on board the Princels Louisa man
ts war.;
, 1 4 • All the tnfinuations that a certain prosecution
is to be dropped are groundless, on the contrary
informations have been tiled agamft Mr. Wilkes, and a fub
pcena iflued for him to appear, and he is now Handing out
the process of the court.
The King has appointed Gen. James Lord Tyrawley to
b t Field-marlhal of his Majesty’s force*
,A number of perfoos, both ua Liverpool and the country
and neighbourhood there, propofi: to go over to the settle
ments ceded by thfi peace to Great-Bntain, and to the ad
jacent English colonies, where each head of a family is in.
u 10 100 ac^cs °^^* n< J>nnd every perion in their familv,
whether child or servant, to 50 more acres of land.
■ A ME RICA.
H* July 4. 1. „
E hear from Halifax, that Commodore Spry
was preparing to fail from that place for the
Havana.
Ne*w-York t July 11. The Aflembly of Penn
sylvania have lately resolved, that it be recom
mended to the Governor and provincial,commiflioners, to
take into pay 700 men, excluuve of already in the
service of that government, to be employed in prote&ing
the frontier inhabitants, within the purchased parts of the
(aid province, during the harvest. ’
July 14. By a letter received yesterday from Philadelphia
we are informed, that 100 Indians are come into Lancaster,
and declare that they have had no hand in the latehoftilities.
. * letter yesterday from Albany we learn, that four
men belonging to the g*Ti(bn at Niagara, who had ventur
ed fame distance from the fort, were cut off by the Indians.
Charleflvwn , July 30. Admiral Keppel we hear is soon
to fail tor England from Jamaica, where he is to be relieved
by Commodoie Spry.
Jugujl 10. The Indians who did the mifehief among the
Catawbas, formerly mentioned, were Sliawaneie.
A lettet from the Havana of the 28th ult. fay?, “ The
British fubjeCbs here, by the humanity and strict honour of
Gen. O’Reilly, remain in thegreateft security; he has re
fused to lay dqties on Britiih goods, thougluftrongly foliciteil
thereto by the royal company. Capt. Webber, of the Cer -
berus, has notice that he will fail for England in a
few days. The; Spaniards are busy in repairing the fortifi
cations‘of this place; 3000 negroes are at work upon the
Cavannbes.” 6 ‘
We hear from New-York of the 12th July, that the Indi
an’s about the Ohio and the Lakes continue their depreda
tions, and have almost depopulated the weflern frontiers of
Pennsylvania; they are determined .and resolute aid take no
prisoners. . AU our forts beyond fort Pitt and Niagara, in
number eight or nine, are cut off, Detroit or.ly excepted,
which been b o:ked up forfome weeks. The GeuCrnl
has ordered up 1200 men to recover thefc forts aid chaftifb
the Indians. Pittlburgh has be* n r e 1 cate lly f m -rloned by
the lavages. The c is batons co: ti n.e quie* rs j tt. Among