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& frigates: (o that, on the whole, their navy has beeft deprived 0f37 capital, Ihips, and 55 frigates. From the Spaniards we nave taken 12 Ihips and 4 frigates. Oor loss Has been only 2 frigates taken and 3 deftrqyed, and 1$ (hijis ahd 4 frigates loft by accidents / A U. ERIC A. - ‘ h£/. Jdfb de la Vega, (Jamaica) March Is. SONDAY night last was killedat a tavtern ifrthii town, Lieut. Reddifli of the 49th supposed to be in a renconnter with another* officer; and on Tuesday evening his corpse, being attended to the church-yard by the offi cers and private men of the regiment quartered in this town, accompanied by feverai of the Inhabitants, was decently interred there with the. afbal bo *” BOUTS. *v* CbarUftcvm, April 27. We hear the Ihip Duke of York, Peter Boftock the Windward coast of Africa,’ with about 450 (laves for this port, 1 was taken about the 20th February, and carried into Porto Rico. May y. Col. Nathan Whiting, who commanded, aCbit nedUcifi riigiment this whole war,; we hear, Is aftualty ap- . pointed, by his Excellency Gen. S>ir Jeffery Amherst, Cap tain of one pf his Majesty’s independent companies Jn this province, in the room of Caps. Gray deceased. • Mdy'i r. The New-Yotk papers to the 2d inst. inform os, that MaJjrßogets is appointed to the command of one of the New-Yerk independent companies; and from Boston, it til (aid; that Governor-Ellis is appointed Governor of Que bec k. -f 4 •’ , Arrived from thk port, Charleftown, BartibS, and die Elisabeth, Mallard,* at London;* Susannah, Green, at Bristol; Carolina/Cullam, at ‘ ‘ ‘ * : • m■. —— . ■ I , g ‘ % S AV A N N AH, May 19. * • From the Soutk-Citrolina Weekly Gazette of the Mtb infant nee % batik the foUmving intelligence. 1 Berlin, February 17. - *t pj£ treaty of peace between the Empress Queen and ’ 1 the Kings of P/uffia'and Polaffd, was signed. by* the plenipotentiaries of the refpeftive powers at the caftk of Hubertzberg, the ‘ t*. “ London, February IC./ Yeftcrday the Right Hon. the Earl of Huntington took the oaths in the hottfe of Peers to qualify him for Lord lieutenant ot Ireland. Arid “ r l‘he Earl of Marchmont on being appointed a Privy*- counfellor. . > / # ‘• * “ Feb . 17. A letter Bas Been lent to the Lord Mayor from Lord Egremont, Of* State, with the news that the treaty was signed. % *%* * “ Whitehall, feb.* 19*, On Tnefday night Richard N. Neville, Esq; Secretary to his Majesty’s embassy at the court of France, arrived with’ th£ definitive treaty of signed Paris on Thursday the 10th inst. by his Grace the Duke cf Bedford, the Due de'Praflin, and the Marquis de Gri* maldi, AmbafTadors I&tratirdiqjiry and Plenipotentiaries on the part of his Majesty, the Moft Christian King, and the Catholic k King; to which M. de Mello, Am ballad or and Plenipotentiary ofhis Moft Faithful Majesty, acceded the fame day. v : *’ ■. “ The liing has been pleased to appoint John Earl of Sandwich his Ambafiador Extraordinary and Plenipotenti ary to the Catholick King. Anid, “ Richard Phelps, Esq; Secretary to his Majesty’s extra ordinary embafly to the Catholiek King. V V ortfMouth, Feb. 21. *Yefterday the Earl of Albemarle arrived frem the Havana, in the Rippbn man of war, after a paflage of about 30 days; and this morning Ms Lordftiip set oat for London. * ‘ . r London, Feb. 22. The sum to be raised for the service r>f the year is three millions and a half at 3 per cent, and the fubferiben, for every 195-I. will be intitled to two lottery tickets of 51.*each. • ‘ ‘ 7 , . ** 7 he Right Hon. Charles Townfhtnd is appointed firft Lord of Trade. \ , . 4* merchants were yesterday made ac quainted with the conditions of the new loan. The sum to be raised will be three millions and a half; each fubferiber of 1001. is to have 801. in annuities, redeemable at plea lure, at 4 per cent, and 201. in two lottery tickets. r from d, e preliminary articles m favour of the EWlifh, one of rte privilege cUiined by the Freocb of king £ £ b% St. Laurence, is mtirdy renounced, and that m the Eaft-'lri dies the French are to have no restitution of territorv h.',* only the libwty of trading in their cahptoir, under the Bntilh pr^teftion. BEOR G I A. BY an aft of the General Aftembly ojf this orovitir* pa/Ted the 19th December , 7 6,/it” ail merchants, storekeepers, and other persons whatsoever dealing in deer jkins or beaver fit|ns within this province* shall yearly, and every year,.on the day appointed for p ay l nigof the general tax, give and deliver in to the colleLf* * TJ CCC T- * Wridn ?’ h y hi ® sign ed, of aH deer (kins and beaver (kins, and the value th re. of, bjrhunor the.x carried, br conveyed out of this province by sand dr water, after the 30th day of Ma*sh >7 62 * fpccifying therein to what place or plaees the M P ortedi cafricd or conveyed, and tak f? - £ l } owl *s •fb’ tbe colltdors are autho nfed and ftndly required to administer, viz. LA. B. I ‘'/™*!, ‘* Oid, that the account 7 7 ***. ***** a trm AH account ofihe •weight of *11 deer Jkins and beaver fins vjbatjoever, by w, or U order, procurement, tranfperrted, buried, conveyed, Jbjpped,ar. exported from and out of this province, as <wcU to Great- Britain as elfeysbere, -within the tune theftinfpectfud and Jet forth ; andthat tbefum thereinfated and contained is the value thereof; an that I have, not, dire Sly or irdtreSly, transported, earned, conveyed, pipped, or exported, or unfed or procur ed to be trans- Lifted, carried, conveyed, pipped, or export land or by wj ter, dny deer fins or beaver fins •wbafoever, to any place or places •whatsoever , other than as mentioned in tie fetid account, ‘or “ toe y^ e tl* Payment of a tax impfed by virtue of an act of AJfembly of this province, intituled, “-An Ad for railing and granting to his Majesty the Sum of Four Hundred and For % found*, for ereding a Fort and Battery on the island of Cockfpur, m the nver SzVannah; and the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, for ereding a Lookout and But* tcry on Midway River; and for impOwering Coir.raiifioners to issue Certificates for the said Sums; and for fiuiung the ame by a.Ttt ofTen Shillings Sterling on every Hundred qur s Value of Deer- Skiis and Beaver Skins exported - r?* °L out Province to any Part Os Majesty’s Dominions, except toGreat-Britain only.” Sohetp m God. And at the fame time ftiall pay to the laid coUedors aftel the rate of 10s. Sterling for every 1001. va ue of the deer kins and beaver (Kins in such account raenti oned, except only for such as (hall appear tfc be exported to Every person <3ea} in 4 r (kins or beaver (kins? ne- Meaing or refufing to deliver in such account, or to take aid oath, lhall forfeit and pay thefinn of 100 L Sterling to hi? Majesty, to be levied by distress and faleof the ofienders s?° S ia c b att^ s * by warrant under the hand and seal of the collefrors refpeaively.* Colleflora are required to deliver to his Majeftv’s trea !!l a ™ u “ and tr “ e account upon and pay him all monies by them colleaed, (except only their commiflion of P er cent./ at the fame time that they pay in the general • n^e^ or refufing to perform the and ities equjred of their by this aft, liable to the lame penalties and forfeitures as are mailed for neglefts, &c. in the general • or non-resident persons, who lhall come into is province, and purchase or otherwiie acquire any deer ns > (* or which no duty or tax lhall have ee paid as direfted By this aft, and (hall load or put the ame on board of any boat, canoe, pettiagua, or otiier vef- X*• • on any horse or carriage, in order to . eir ein g. tianfported or carried out of this province to any part of his Maiefty’s dominions, GrcaS-Brltain or!y excepted, without havinf* firft paid the (aid tax, all such (kijM may be lawfully seized by any person or persons, an , on conviftion befqrc any one or more jufticcs of the peace, to be difpoled of as forfeited, and one moiety of the produce tis such forfeiture to be paid to his Maiedy’* treasurer, and the other moiety to the person or persons making such feizurc. ’ r r