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altogether rayflcriousi—he mull remove the
cloud, or the world will form very unfavou
rable sentiments of him. I have since feeuMr.
Hunt at Fair HHI, when he offeied me 1001.
for the wench ; but my brother, Bolling,.be
ing at Fair Hill at the fame time, and refufed
to join in a bill of sale, therefore I would not
accept of his offer, as it is an invariable max
iuTwith us, never to do any aft wheiir toge
ther, that the other disapproves of. We
then held Mr. Hunt in the view of another
creditor, and offered him security, according
to the laws of our country, (we can only
measure to him as it is measured to us) which
he did not accept. Hewilhtfd us to par
tial to him, mentioned a number of hardlhips
and disadvantages he had incurred in confe
cjuencc of his credit to my father, which I
could not credit, being entirely inconsistent.
R. STARK, juu.
Fair Hill,: June 7, 1789.
P. S. I fliould have publiftied this piece
f°oner, but the didance I live from my mo
ther, rendered it out of my power to get the
above letter.
R. S.
—c^obQs«(Qb—
London, March n.
BY letters from Warsaw we learn, that'
the Court of Ruflia is disposed to enter
into negocihtion with Sweden, and has de
clared to the Court of Berlin, that it would*
be very agreeable to them if hisPruflian raa
jelly would use Ins good offices to bring about
a general pacification.
BRITISH HOUSE of LORDS.
Tuejdaj, March 10.
KI N G>s S.P E E C H. '
A com million having palled the Great Seal
appointing certain Commiflioners therein*
named, and inverting them with the usual
powers, five of them, namely, the Archbi
lhop of Canterbury; the President of the Coun
cil, Lord Sydney, Lord Olborne, and the
Duke of Chandos, were seated on the wool
fack, in their robes, a message was sent to
the Commons I>y Sir Francis Molyneaux,
Knight, Gentleman Uiherof the Black Rod,
commanding their attendance at the bar of
the Houfc of Peers; and the Commons, with
their Speaker, being come, the Commjflion
was read ; and afterwards the Chancellor, by
virtue of that Coinmifiiou, read a commu
nication from his Majesty to both Houses, in
the manner and substance of a Speech from
the Throne. It was as follows:
My Lords and Gentlemen,
His Majesty not thinking fit to be present
here this day in his Royal Person, has been
pleased to cause a Conuniffion to be ilfued un
der his Great Seal, authorifing and command
ing the Commiflioners who were appointed
by former Letters Patent to hold this Parlia
ment, to open and declare certain further
causes for holding the fame : Which Com -
million you will now hear read.
And the fame being read' accordingly, the
Lord Chancellor then f|id,
Mi' Lords and Gentlemen,
*ln obedience to his Majesty’s commands,
and virtue of both Commiflions already men
tioned to you, (one of which has now been
read,) we proceed to lay before you such
measures as his Majesty has judged proper to
be now communicated to his Parliament.
His Majesty being, by the blellmg of Pro
vidence, happily recovered from the severe
jndifpofition with which he'has been aflhfted,
and being enabled to aatnd to the public af
fairs of his kingdoms, has commanded us to
convey to you his wanned acknowledgments
for the additional proofs which you have gi
ven of your affeftionate attachment to his
person, and of your zealous concern for the
honor and interests of his Crown, and the ie
curity and good government of his domi
nions.
The iuterruptiou which hasneceffarily been
occasioned to the public bufioefa will, his
Majesty doubts not, afford you an additional
incitement to apply yourfeives, with as little
delay as poflible, to the different objefts of
national concern which require your attention.
His Majesty has like wife ordered us to ac
q'laint you, that, fmee the dole of the last
lemon, he has concluded a treaty of defen
ce alliance with his good brother the King
oi Pruflia, copies of which will be Lid be-
fore you ; that his Majesty’s endeavours were
employed during last summer, in conjunction
with his allies, in order to prevent as much as
poflible the detention of hoftilines in the
North, and to manifeft his defirc of effeftiug
a general pacification; that no opportunity
will be neglected cri his part to promote this
salutary object; and that he’has, in the mean
time, the fatislaftion of receiving, from all
foreign Courts, continued assurances of their
friendly difpofttion to this country.
Gentlemen of the Houje of Commons,
We are commanded by his Majesty to ac
quaint you, that you cannot so effectually '
meet the mod earnest wiflf of his' Majefty r s
heart as by persevering in your uniform ex
ertions for the public welfare, and by im
proving every occasion to promote the pro
sperity of his faithful people, from whamjiis
Majesty has received such repeated and af
fefting marks of ivariable zeal, loyalty, and
attachment, and whole happiness he mull
ever confider as imeparable from his owu.
[An address in return- for his Majesty’s
communication was moved for and carried,
nemine difjentiente, as was a congratulatory ad
dreis to the Queen on the King’s recovery.—
In the House of Commons an addrefs-of thanks
for the speech, and congratulating his Majes
ty on his recovery, 6c c. was also moved for*
and carried unanimoully. A congratulatory
meftage to the Queen was afterwards moved
for and carried.]
The following are handed about in the pri
vate circles at Vienna, as the propofaisof the
Lmperor to the Ottoman Court:
1 His majesty demands theceflion of that
part of Bofuia, which was formerly united to
Croatia, and which has for many years been
an objeft of uegociation between the two em
pires.
2. The Turks to raifethe fortreffes of Bel
grade and Schabatz, as they promited in the
treaty of Belgrade, to the end that these two
fortreffes may not in future clog the trade-of
the Save and the Danube.
3. Ihe Turks to render that part of Walla
chia which belonged to the House of Aultria,
between the treaty of Paffarowitz in 1718,
and that of Belgrade in 1739/ This part ex
tends quite to the river d’Aluta, and bears
the name of Austrian Wali«u,liia.
4. The Turks to leave the Emperor Choc
zim and the Rava, or the country which de
pends on it in Moldavia, confiding of 126
market towns and villages.
5. If the Turks will accept these condi
tions, the Emperor will declare that he will
never make any other demands against the
Porte, and will give Turkey, as guarantees
to this declaration, any of the European
powers the Porte may require.
The Parliament of Paris has made the fol
lowing arrete, which is to be presented to
the King, with the request for his Majesty to
lay its articles before the States General, that
the fame may be parted into law. They are
in the form of demands or claims.
1. For a habeas corpus aft, which cf course
annihilates the lettres de cachet.
2. The liberty of the prels to be granted.
3. Ministers of slate being made responsi
ble for their afts, deeds and conduft.
4. For the existing taxes to be diftiibuted
equally upon every class of the people through
out the whole kingdom.
5. That the new taxes which are to be raif
cd ftiall be applied to consolidate the national
debt, and to no other purpose whatever.
6. The meetings of the States General Oiall
be fixed.-
7. And no taxes ftiall be raised without the
confeut and authority of the States General.
A most unnatural, horrid murder has late
ly been the fubjeft of convention at Bristol.
About chriftmas last, a man who slept in
the house of an eminent tradesman, was a
woke before day-breajt by a noile below (lairs,
and on coining down to fee what occasioned
it, he dilcovered an immense fire in the kitch
en, and presently after a woman servant of
the house. She informed him the fire was
made on account of a great waihiog which
was to commence that morning; but the
warticr-women coming soon after, were sur
prised at the fight of so large a fire, which
made them fufpeft there was some other
cause, and looking attentively in the fire,
they difcoveied—horrid 10 relate ! toe (kull,
legh, and other parts of a new-born inf mt.
They immediately fufptftcd the female fer
vaut wUc h.W-made.tlic file, and ontxauim
ins her, Ihe was found to be in a situation
that left no manner of doubt of her being the
mother and nAnderer of the infant. ,
NEW-YORIC, May I.
Ex trad of a Letter from Ha-vre de Grace * dat-<
ed fan . 29, 1789, to a gentleman tn Bo
fan*-
“ Our worthy friend, Thomas Jefferfon ,
Esq. Ambassador of the United States ofr
America at the Court of France, hath ob
tained from government to recall the prohibit
tion on American whale and fpermaceti oil,
imported into France in American Ihips :
Thus all forts of foreign oils (the American *
only excepted) are prohibited, which surely
is very great favor granted by our govern*
. ment to the American fiiltery 1 .”
This letter confirms the account of aboun
ty on wheat and flour, as mentioned fomc
time since.
By the Brig Betsey, Capt. Mefnard, in 58
days from London to New-Yofk, summary
intelligence is, That the Ukraine, a part of
Poland,/ was in a ferment, on account of the
neighbourhood of the Prufiian troops, and a
general infurreXion was expeXed there :-*•
That the siege of Oczakow, produced one of
the most bloody engagements known in mo
~ dern hiftorr j for though the Ruflians were
victorious, it may be said in the words of
Shaxefpeare, to have been among those vie*
torie*;,
h or which the Conquerors Mourn'd* so manyfelL
The Pvufiian troops confuted of 25,000, of
which 14,000 fell—and of 14,000 of the be*
heged, 10,000 were destroyed.
GEORGE-TOW N, April 17.
Extrad of a letter from a gentleman in St*
Augujtine, Eajt-Florida* to his friend in
Alexandria* Virginia* dated January 12,
*7B9*
u Our veflels are received with the great
est cordiility by the Spaniards. Governor
Zefpodez pays the greatest attention to every
American who comes properly recommend
ed ; and the friendly treatment our country
men receive from the officers of the Irilh bri
gade, stationed in this town, must lay every
America* uudar the grea est obligations tO
those hospitable sons of Hibernia.- Flour and
all kinds of provisions from the United States,
find a good market here j the commerce in
the above articles being, entirely free. This
indulgence we owe to the uncultivated (late*
of this province ; fort St. Augustine, the gar- .
rifons on St. John’s and St. Mary’s are the
only inhabited parts] of East-Florida, and
these are occupied by men of the military
proteffions, who raise nothing except money n
the whole of which is laid out in American
produce.—Since my arrival heie, I had the
fatisfaXion of conversing with the famous
Alexander M < Gillivray, whose name you
have so often seen in our public prints : This
interview has fully convinced me, that he
really is the man, our papers sometimes re
present him to* bey and that his neighbours,
the Georgians, have much to fear from his
penetrating genius and great address. The
attention paid him by the Spaniards, seems
to have something more than common polite—
ness in view. They tell me, he holds a Ge
neral’s commission under thd crown of Spain ;
This I have reason to believe, as I have seen
him in the Spanilh uniform at the Govr’s, table
and receive the military honors of the garri
son. This is a policy fur which they are not
to blame, as Mr. M‘Gillivray’s connexions,
from his infancy up to this day, with the dif
ferent Indian nations in the southern parts of
America, has eftabiiihed him the supreme le
gillator of their country. The Spaniards but
, indifferently eftabiiihed in this quarter, and
fenfiblc of his power, dread his coufequence.
A new treaty has lately been eftabiiihed be
tween them and M'Giilivray, as King of the
. Creek nation, by which it is stipulated, that
the navigation of that part of the Gulph of
Mexico, on which St. Mark (an old aban
doned fort) is situated, Hull be free for the
veffcl® belougiug to the said nation. Agree
able to this article, M'Gillivray, in connex
ion with fomc of the most refpeXable mer
chants on the iiland of Providence, has ac
tually eftabiiihed warchoufes, at St. Mark, iu
Weft*Floridafrom wheuce he carries on an
extensive and most profitable trade with the
Indians, and even our white lcttlemeuti on
the Weftern Waters, Thus you fee, an U*