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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*