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(hall be added thereto, from ihe mam corps, i by means of she feflions. j The main eorpa will be perfeftly armed m the firft instance, and will pr.ttife theteaer _.;f - and manoeuvres four days m each year, and wi»l assemble in their refpeftive diflrift., by companies, battalions, regiments, or le ssens, as (hall be directed by the legionary eeneral; but it mull be a rule, that, in | populous parts of the dates, the regiment, inuft assemble once annually, and the legtoua once in three years. Although the main corps cannot acquire a great degree of military knowledge in the J few days preferibed for its annual yet by the conflant acceflion o( the r*uth from the advanced corps it will foot, C9*- mand refpefl for it. dilcipline, a. well a. it. When the youth are transferred from the advanced corps, they (hall invariably join the flank companies, the cavalry, or artillery, of the main corps, according to the nature of their former services. Os the Referred Corps• , : The relerved corps will assemble only twice annually, for the infpeftion of arms, by com panies, battalions, or regiments, as (hall be xliretled by each date. It will assemble by legions, whenever the necessity of the date may render the mcafure neccffary. VIENNA, December to. rp h E Tefferdar, who was expeiiled at Belgrade, arrived there the toth ind. So much relpeft was paid to him, that horses were sent to meet him as far as Semendria, and bring him and his suite to town. The next day the integers at Sernhn re ceived order, to repair immediately to Bel ®r Thi officer of the Forte i. empowered to treat, fird about a suspension of hodilities, end as er wards of peace. It is for no other putyofe than that oftreat ing with him that Marthal Loudohn Hopped at Belgrade. f A R I S, December 31* The difeovery of a late eonfpiracy, and the Commitment of the Marquis de la Faveras, and Ilia wife, who is Princefsof Anhalt.Chajnl angiofs the whole attention of the Magiffra » r i«m i«r removing hi. Majedy out •f the kingdom. Jo, thi. effeft M. de la Fayette and M. the Mayor, were to have been mur dfercdthree thousand gentlemen volunteers were? to bave Waited at St. Dennis, to escort Hi. Majedy. and the Queen to Lille in Flan ders. It is said that the guard at the Barrier (owns had been bribed over to let his Majedy ' pals, and that aban of three or four millions had been Tailed to assist this fchbme. , The Resolutions of the Committee of En quiry.on this flibjett, >dated the 2.5 th inftanr, throw, fame farther light on thq eonfpiracy. The report is in the following words j ; *« The" Committee of Enquiry being in formed that the enemies of public liberty had formed a eonfpiracy. again ft the fyffem efta blilhed’by the nation land the King 4 that, to wards the success of this plot, they had laid at plan to .introduce forae ,armed men into the city at night, to attack the guard set over his , Majedy, to xarry off the Great Seal, and with it their Majesties, who were to be con duced to Peronne s .. . H “ Being likewise informed that they have attempted to bribe over lome. of the Nation- J al Guard by promises, and the clandeftme cir culation of incepdiary libels among them: j « That further they have had several con ferences with certain Baukers, and others to procure a considerable loan of money, to ex tend thi. eonfpiracy among different pro vinces : The Committee, after having heard thf Marquis de Faveras and hi. wife, having read the verbal prncefs made on the 24th ind. by M. Grondin, and also the letter, and paper, seized on the Marquis de Faveras, and in hi. house—are of opinion, that the At torney-General of the Common, ought to impeach the Marquis, hi. wife, end their ac complice*, of the above crimes, tec. (Signed) B.ULLI, Arc.” , y 1' LONDON, December 3y. i The patriotic furbr of freedom, which so < highly dignifies the present period, has at length extended to the Britiili iflandsof Jersey and Guernsey, in both of which the llandard of liberty is erefled. The points resolved ,j upon are, grand juries, trial, by juries, and an abolition of appeal and jurifdifition. v The j driends of government have drenuoully en -1 deavoured to oppose those resolutions, but the I patriots carried them by a prodigious majo rity. ' ~ The loft fuftaioed by the Grand Vizier in J the atlion with Prince Potemkin, is about T‘ 20,000 men, mod of whom were drowned; the Reis Effendj, and many principal officers, weie among them. I* At Rome,'the middle of November lad, the weather fudrfenly becatnefo cold, that the I inhabitants were obliged to button themselves fin their great coats. A circumdauce so uu ufual in thole climates, may lead to a con jecture, that the rivers which are deferibed by J the Roman Poets to have been fiozen over irt the days of Augudus, may Ihorrly exhibit the . fame phenomenon. A detachment from the Rufliah grand fleet in the North, passed the Streights of Gibral tar on the 23d ult. ‘ fan, 7, The of ,the Magif | trates, and Clergy of Portugal, which the Queen -has thought proper to call, is solely for. of, dive fling the Monks W 1 their ecclefiaflical revenues, which forjn cr j bigotry had deposited in their hands. Shelias appointed her own Confeffoi Piefident of the Meeting. / > ’ , 1 Some french from Grenada, thejd of Odober, fay, That »he Couit of Spain has jufl pubhilued a, proclamation, in viitue of J which all fugitive Have., from the Enghfli .or other Weft-Indialflapds, (hall be,declared free the moment they tet foot on Spanith ground, on condition of their malwng their arrival known to the Governor of the place where 1 they land. .. . • I The States of Brabant have confirmed the -I publication signed Van der Noot, dated the 24th of October, declaring that the Emperor, Joseph the s« cond f Dukc Brabant, is de •I; dared (fptio J dethroned of his sovereign ty, domains, eights jind, prerogatives in .the. I , said Pnchy an.d tts dependencies,. and that the people are free and In # confe qucnce whereof, thi. manitefto ha. been dr 1 ■ 1 posited in the Regider of the -'•ioaiiy declared I j n,s the next cam- A j paign with the utmost, vigopr, and that he (hall command his army in person I The letter., from Vienna report, that the 1 Emperor is now determined to duflen the j I election of k new King of the Romans, I winch ceremony if to take plads early next fpring< Baron d’Alvini is the minifteT ap pointed by the Emperor to communicate Bit intention to the Diet at JRatilboq. ~ j The Polidi Diet is known to be composed J of certain Noblemen only, without the towns or burghers having any thing to fay ; the lat ter have, however* thought the present times I pre.tented a fit opportunity to invalidate their I rights, for which purpose deputies are ar- I rived at Warlaw from 72 small towns, who j have requefled formal audience of the Dier, I to lay before them certain points for the wel- I fare of the refpetfive towns. When they had their audieuce of the King, they formed I j a train of sixty coaches, and ail the deputies j were, dieffcd in black. They then waited J on the two, . Mar dials of the Diet, and pre sented to them the plan of what they had to I propose to the Diet. I Ihe King of Pruflia’s Agents are buying J up all the corn in the neighbouring kingdoms j that can be procured. The King of Sweden j arts on the lame plan. * v j The States of Flanders have published rwp declarations, in both of which they dyle I themfeives Sovereigns. One is, forth 4 free entry of faltpetremand,punrpow.der; the <» her orders—that the inhabitants diould make ail Imperial soldiers who c.me in tltir way, prjfouets. Tour‘Hundred persons .re employed in de- ( droying the Citadel of Ghent, built by Charles the Fifth. The State, of Brab.ut have proceeded to , the choice of a Prune Mmiflei, a becretary j of State, a Conuniffary.General l or the War Departiuem, a Chancellor, and a Graud Pen lionary, ( • -/• -f _ Jk Mr. Henry Van der Kon» was chosen ?r : rae Minister ; Kev. Mr. Van !• open, Pcnien'ury of the Cathedral of Antwerp, Secretary of State v Baron d’H-ve, CwiH'Diffioner General* M Del Marntol, Chanrel'or in the room of M de Crumpipen, and M. dbgoughe, Peo- Canary. Extras of a Ittttr from Lijbott, Dee 10, « The American vefleis hare ailived in such numbers lately, aa to have wholly le lieyed u« from thfrdifaders that might been oherwife expeftedv. Most of the ihipa have teturned home wi*h Vv ne and fruit —it being an eftublnhed article of commerce between Portugal and America, that the Ame ricans, for any cargoes they ihould bring over, (hall receive one halt in the produce of this country/* AUGUST A, April 24. ilia Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Thorn is Watkins, Efg. ‘ Clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Richmond, in the room of Daniel Elam, Esq. reiigned. f , . The following is nn extraS of a letter from an stfictr in board the Jhtp Columbia, to hit jntnd in Bojion , dated ut bteotka Sound, ju m ly 1 3, 1789. . ** On the aid September last, we arrived here on this long wilh’d-far north-weft coaß of America, where we,,met our consort, the Hoop Washington, after being absent from her . fix months, the crew of which were then well, but had been extremely ill of the feurvy, of which we loft two o\ our people. We ha.f the misfortune of lojiug our altrouomer, Mr, Nutting, overboard, while in the Atlantic Ocean. This fide of ,the continent afford* but little news; the mod material at prffent is, that Ihe Spaniards have taken poflelfionof this Sound, and erefted a fort oft 6 gunsj they have also here two rtiips, and are deter* mined to take all Euglilh vellels that may ar* rive here ; they have also captured three, viz. a snow commanded by Capt. Collenet, a (I*op by Captain Hudson, and a fchoouer by Capi. Funter, all belonging to one company. Wo hourly expert an American snow, ( calf, from Canton, whom the Spaiiifh Com modore has promised not to;mole(t. To-, morrow we expeft to proceed to the north ward, as far as Cook’s river, and f - • ~t,ieC **. , , 4 At an Inferior Court held in and for the county, of Rubmvnd, the ißrb of Macb, 9 iy^o 9 •prejerity Charles Craw-ford, Thomas Napier* and Nathan Harris, E,quires. ON the petitions from William Stitfi, for- Agnus Bacon, from William and also William johnfton, praying ‘theCourc to grant letters of guardianrtiip to sundry per sons therein named : ' Ordered , That the Court, at the next term, . will proceed to the appointment of guarjianx to the orphans of Jeife Barnett, deceased, of John Beddingfield, deceased, and also Wyl* liana Johufton, for the person and gtnrdiau-. (hip of Sufan'iah Davis, orphan of Tbeouhi-,. Ins Davis ; and that the Clerk cause thf Jame. to be pubiiilied in the Gazette before tne next terra. . An ExtraS frim the Minutei, ■<" . PHILIP CLAYTON, Clerk. NOTICE is hereby given to the iuhabj. tants of St. Paul’s parilh, that the Election for twelve Veftrymcn, to serve t h« eufuing year, willbc held at the Church i u Augutta, <»n the ftrft Monday in May next, at ten.o’clop-k in the forenoon, where all con cerned arc desired to give f heir attendance/ > ABRAHAM JONES, ) Cbu.eb DALZiEL HUNTER, 3 Wardens • Apru 10, 1790. * f THE Subscriber has removed into the town of Augutta, and intends cont:- nuing the practice «f law, in the diflritls of, Orangeburgh and Ninety. Six, and counties of Edgefield and Wiotcn, in Sou h-Carolina j and in the bupeiior aud Interior C ount of Wafhmgtoo, Gietn, franklin, Wilkes and Richmond couuticc, in Geoigia. PETER CARNES. Apnl 1 0, i;pO.
