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About The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state. (Augusta [Ga.]) 1789-1806 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1791)
SATURDAY; April 2, 179:.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE A N V GAZETTE op the STATE. *— * » v • —l.l , ■ .... ... —l. ... . i.i I, '— . .t. • ■ A...- " ■" ■■ * ■' ' ■ ~ ** * 11 « ' ~ FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, (hall remain inviolate. CnJlitutUn §f Gttrgia. AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State-, Essays, At tides of Intelligence, Advertisements, (Ac. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. \ VIE N N A, December 4. CONFERENCE Iras been held arthrs Court within these few days, by the Mimfters of State, in the presence of his Alajefty, and to which were also invited the Baron de Hagen, President of the Aulic Coun cil, and Prince Colleredo, Vice-Chancellor of’the Empire; the re fu It of which was, a determination to inform the National Aflem- Hy of.France, that the Emperor, in conjunc tion with other powers, would efpoufd'the cause of the Queen of France, as an Impe rial aud Royal Princess of Germany ; and that, to guard her from future inlults, ihe Ihould be foiemnly acknowledged as such. LO N D O N-, December I. As the congregation were on Sunday sing ing the psalm in Martock church, Someifet, a bat, or what is commonly called a raven mouse, alighted on the head of the Clerk, where it fluttered its wings, set up its little pipe, and Teemed to join in chorus. Mxtra&ff a letter from Oftind, December rj. { “ Sunday morning, about 11 o’clock, the Imperial troops entered the town, too hbrle and 660 foot; I had the firft honor of fainting them, being at the Weft Port. The General paid*us the compliment of re lieving our guard, as if we had been regular soldiers of hisraafter, and allowed us the ho nor of wearing our regimentals and swords, a thing nop granted to any other companies in the country* who are aH disarmed, and not fullered to appear in uniform* ««This monrngnve aflembltd to the amount of iSO companies', and escorted the Couut le Toilr, to when a grand Tt Deum was performed.*’ . f , ExtraEl of a letter froth Holy b tad, December V)r « Ytfterday evening a most melancholy •vent, happened near this place s One of the Liverpool packets, in endeavouring to enter our harbour for (htlter, 1 struck upon a rock, and went to pieces. It is supposed there were I co people on boards 0/ whom ay only were fived.* . * a 14. His MijeiH Ills ijot only- expressed a with that a mbritrment fhehld be er'e&etf On the reck w of Gibraltar, to perpetuate the gal lant services of the la-te Lord Heathfield, bus hie basalfo fketchtd a design, plain, uoblc'and elegaftt* By-fetters from Mi#drid, -received by*ycf terday** mail, w« learn, that peace is iikely to v be'concluded between Madrid and Mo rocco.' Every thing taken is to be reftdred reciprocally, and the annual present of •00,000 piaft res which Spain fetVt to be aug mented. Such is the fubjeftion utider which the Kiog of -Morocco reduce* every European power.- It may be ufeful to many of our Teaders to know, that one of the nvrft simple and ef fkacious remedies for a fore throet, is a gafgle made with a ltrong decoftion of carrots, which very soon remover air inflammation and foreneft. - Jan. 34. The affairs of Europe are upon the eve of a crisis, and the Emprefk has now moll decidedly to contend, if ihe has teme rity enough, with a quintuple alliance, from whom (he will be competent to obtain a peace oa the terms of the Reichenbech rreity only. The Dutch, it appears by the lift msiU, ere indefatigable in (heir preparations to co-epe* late with England in every meafurc that wilt georg be found ncccflary io the spring to adopt. Their fleet* will find more work for those of rvuflia, than the fleet* of Sweden did ; and the armies of Frufiia and Poland will iufurmountablc barrier to the ambition of Ca therine and Potemkin. Extrad of a letter from the camp at Coimba tore, ‘within IJO miles of T'tppob Suhuns capital , Seringapatum, dated the 30 th of Augujt, 1790. “ The war with Tippoo ha* been com menced thel'e three mouth* pal!, although no , thing of consequence ha* jet been done, ex cept the capture of this part of his country, of which we made ourfelve* matter* with lit tle oppoiition, Tippoo having retired with his army through the mountaiua into the infe rior part of his kingdom, where it is supposed he will make a fiaud. We remain encamped here ou account of the rains; when they are over we (hall march for hi* capital, Seringa patam, which it is said is itrongly fortified. It i* only i;o mile* from this capital, but between us and it there ii a large chain of mountains, through which our army mud march by one narrow pass, which, if well defended, may give us much trouble. There s here; encamped the fiueit army that ever any European power emplofcd in India :—lt conlilts of four King’s regiments, and one regiment of the Company V Europeans, il battalions of Teapoys, four regiments of na tive cavalry, the 19th regime ut of light dragoons, three bartaliou* of European artil * lery, with 70 fleld pieces, belides a battering train* Our camp it upwards of two mile* in length, and is a noble fight. The troops are iu high health and great spirits.” : 17. Yesterday an eminent banking house in the Strand received letter's from France, stating that accounts hid been received from 1 " Pondichery, confirming the rumo ir from Ma ■, dras, that Cob Fioyd’i detachment had been cut to pieces. It is also said that the British army have ’’ found, as they advanced, the dream* and springs poisoned by the milk; tree, , which is cut ant} fixed in the bed of the river, and which emits * juice for many days, that, mix ing with the water, produces a dyfcntcry. In cpofequences. of this impediment, and feariug also tnat the country might be cleared of ail provisions, Gen. Meadows-Tia* no Jeft> than 80,000 bullocks in the train of his arm/. A L B A N Y, December 30. Mr. Sheldon, an experienced distiller in this city, has broughf the diflilling of GIN to such perfection, rhrt the ftrfl judges (Euro peans aud Aiucricaus) pronounce u equal to the bed imported from Holland. Mr. Sheldon having made foine experiments on the juice of thr Maple Tree declares, that, when dittoed, it yields a liquor not unlike AH RAC, and superior in flavorj aud that, * ; from the bed computation be ha* been able to make# a tree will product as many pints of this liquor as it does pounds of sugar. Admitting this fall, a conclulioo highly fa vorable to the ifftereft of tbe United States must he drawn, via, that our import trade. from the Weft.lndies must soon decline, ts the two principal article* of it are fugsr and rum, the ffrft of which we can produce su perior and in (uflicient quantities, and a fub dilute for the Utter nut iufeiiur iu the belt { jsmai-i fpUiti* [7dl. V. No. CCXXXIV.I NEW-YORK, Feb. % A Dublin paper mention*, that a gentle* man has engaged, for a wager, to spin a fiber piece of muslin than ever came from the Eift- Indies.„ We hear that a pound of cotton caa be spun in such a manner as to be worth thirty guineas. Yellerday his Excellency the Govstnot communicated to the Legiflatnre a letter from Governor Chittenden, of Vermont, dated January it d, inclotioga certified copy es an art of that fiate, for paying 30,000 deHart to tins date, aud fixing the bouudary of Ver* mont — Also, informing that they* bad ap pointed the Hon. Nathaniel Chipman and Lewis It. Morris, Esquires, comratffiouere to uegociatc the admifiiou of that flat# into * the Union. An Albany paper of the aoth ult. men*' tious, “ counterfeit notes, of New-York bank money, circulate in and about this place. On the 19.11 a 41. countetfeit bank note wae * detested. It differs from the true bill by having the wSter mark deeper, and the paper thicker and darker. It had been confidera ! bly worn and foiled, apparently to prevent difcovery.'* CARLISLE, January rp.‘ On Tuefday the nth inst. about niaC' o'clock in the morning, the house of Alexan* der McDonald, a tenant on Mr. David Hduge'i farm, in East Pennfborough, was burned 3 and hia wife, two of bis childrtrt, and a girl, the only child of his brother*in-law, perished in the flames. This dreadful accident waa occasioned by putting a quantity of flix to dry upon the dove. The flax taking fire, M*Do* nald took it up in hi* arms to throw it out of the door, but as he carried it, the blaze caught the loft floor, which was loolely laid with boards, and draw ovtr the leamS-. M‘Dooald*i brother-in-law was in the house with him and his wife, an old infirm Wdman. They'all ran our immediately except M Donald’s wife;' who came to the* dotJr, and then turned back ibto the house to bring out'the children,' aa was foppofed, but” the flames, which raged most violently at the door, prevented her Te«s ttirn ; (he" was heard for fome‘time in the tack part of the htfnff, but the two mert, ftupified* - and like persons bereaved of their senses with fright, could do no tiling for bet affiffante'j— * fbe, findiih? all hopes of relief ih vam,’threw herfelf ov tf . her’chiMreii to fetten aa ’ long as poifible, and cominufd in this fith*» 1 tidn until the fire reduced theta to a coal. * ' I -- -- - s > , ...o» • PHIL AT) ELP ts lAV February it « Apprinimtntt. —The Governor of this com# m'unwealth, on thrift intrant, made thefbl* lowing appointments t f r * : The Hon. Edward’Shippeo;- Esq. oe# of the Judfier of tMB Stipre heCourt, in the room » of the la«e Htai. George Bryan; Esq th#f Hon. James Biddle; Esq. Judge of the Cotire of Common Pleas ; and Charles Biddle, Efq* ! Piothwiatary of said Court/ * . , f, 1 BALTIMORE, Ftbruary t. ExnaeJ »J a Utter from a ghtthmun at Bour+~ ' tueux, to another in Nt*w-Ferk, dated OBo bef if* . 1 «• The principal merchants nf tbr» p*aee~ met lift week, to deliberate on the means of ! obtaining redrei* concerning the tonitsy# duty Ivd by row*;»fls 011 fienth vertels, tww»i«**
