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ytedity JhaU be obfcrved in-the dfpotthn of the fuf plies vMebyou
nave granted, and when the accounts oft be memy arijutg from the
JaU ofj'ucb frizes as-are vtjled its the crown Jhall be ciojed, it it my
intention to dirt3 that the produce Jhall be applied to the public it Jcr
yict. •
My Lords and Gentlemen,
• The extenjion of the commerce cf nty fubjc3s ; the improvement of
tic advantages we have obtained ; ami the incteafe of the fublick
re venue, an the proper works of peace. To tbej'c important and
mceff'ary objects, my attention jhall bed retted. I depend upon your
conjlant can to promote in your Jevcral counties that J fir it of concord
and that obedience to law, which is essential to good order, and to
the happineft of my faitlful J'ubjeils. It is your part to d.jcourage
every attempt of a contrary tetuicncy jit jhallbe mine firmly to main
tain the honour of my crown, and to pretea the rights cf say people .
Then the Lord Chancellor prorogued the parliament to
Thursday the 23d day of June.
St. James's, April 20. Mis Maiefty in Council was thit
4ay pleased to declare the Right lion. Hugh Earl of Nor
thumberland, Lieutenant General and General Governor
of his Majesty's kingdom of Ireland.
April 22. His Majesty having been pleased to deliver the
custody of the Privy Seal to his Grace George Duke of Mail
borough, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day
adminiftred unto him, and his Grace took his place at the
board accordingly.
AMERICA.
_ Bojion , May 23.
hear from London, that it had been proposed
iC 1* to lower the duties on French mol&ffcs from 6d.
W “ to 2d. per gallon, in order the more effc£lually
*° secure the payment, which it was thought
would be carried through before the rising of the
parliament.
Extra3 of a Utter from London, dated March 27, 1763.
I cannot however omit mentioning a matter much
the fubjeft of convfcrfation here, which, if carried into ex
ecution, will in its consequences greatly affeft the colonies.
It is to quarter 16 regiments in America, to be supported at
the expence of the provinces. The money it is said will be
levied by ad of parliament, and arise on a (lamp duty, ex
cise on rum dirtil ed on the continent, and a duty on foreign
sugar and molasses, &c. by reducing the former duties on
these last mentioned articles, which it is found impracticable
to colled, to such a one as will be colleded.”*
Extrail of a letter from Surinam, March 22.
** A few days ago an express arrived here from Berbicia,
f riving an the negroes of two plantations, be
onging to Mr. Vanderforter, had burnt the houses, mur*
dcred tne white people, and made off. Another express ar
med yesterday, with advice, that 22 plantations more were
cut off by the negroes, who, in a moil cruel manner, mur
dered all the white people they could come at. —The inha
bitants, are in a moil miserable condition, being obliged to
take refuge on board the Ihips, and it is generally thought
that the colony will be intirely ruined.'*
New-London, May 27. A gentleman who left Jamaica
the 10th of April informs us of there being an infurredion
of a number of negroes in a part of that iiland. T hey par
ticularly went into one houfc, and butchered the mailer by
cutting off his hands, then his arms, his feet, and legs,
and then broke his thighs. They afterwards killed three
of his children. But the ringleaders in this (hocking atruir
being taken, they were gibbeted alive, which had happily
put a Hop to their horrid defigus.
Ph&adeiphia, June 2. Yesterday arrived a large Spaailh
Blip bound from Havana to Cadiz, having fprur.g a leak at
Tea, and is in great dilirefs.
Tuesday arrived here Capt. Whitlock, in 2 1 days from
Jiarbadoes, who informs that two small pirate Hoops were
cruifmg near Dominico.
June 9. From London we have advice, that the Right
Hon. Henry Fox, Efa; is mu it* a Peer of Great-Britain.
Extrail of a letter frem Fort Pitt, May “J I.
•• There is moll melancholy news here; the lndir.ni have
broke out in fevcral places; they have murdered Col. C lap
ham and his family, and two of our at the law-mill,
J-uH by the fort, and two fculps arc taken from each man.
An Indian has brought a war belt to Tufquerora, who fays
Detroit \vw inverted, and St. Dutky cut oft, and Ensign
Tawly taken priftmer. AH Levy’s goods tre flopped at
I ufquerora by the Indian*; and last night 11 men were .at-
at Beaver-creek, -and at leait Bor 9 killed; and we
hear of nothing but fcalpitig every hour. M‘Cray'4 and
Alifotfe 25 horses loaded with (kins arc all taken.'*
New-) erk , Juste 13. An express arrived on Monday last
from Pittfbourg, to his Excellency Gen. Amhcrft, advifimr
of the Indians breaking out; and it is said the conmajties of
light infantry* of the 17th, and regiments arc or
dered to affcuible on Staten-liland, to be in readiness to pro
ceed against the savages, (hould it appear that there is any
thing general intended again ft the fcttlements.
Jlojlon, June 13. Friday last arrived here the (loop Hep
7.ibah, Capt. Bryant, in 20 days from New-Providence, in
whom came paffengerhis Excellency Gen. Shirley, Gover
nor of the Bahama lilands; and we hear the Hon. John
Gam bier, £fq; is deputed to fuccecU in that government
during bis Excellency's absence. •
Charleftown r, June 15. Two gentlemen from Ninety-fix,
and the frontiers to the westward, inform us, that the coun
try that way is very well fettled, people daily coming in
from the northward, upwards of 300 families having puffed
by Ninety-fix since March last, in order to fettle on the
lands thereabouts. Some gentlemen in Virginia, who were
at Ninety-fix, said, the lands there were superior to any
they had seen on the continent, and exceeded their moil
fanguinc expectations. The inhabitants have every conve
nicncy that the fnortnefs of the time will allow of, and have
ui fine profped of an extraordinary crop of wheat, rye, ami
barley. They live together in the greatest harmony, an
in fiance of which is, that a number of the inhabitants on
Bush river, about 200 miles from Charleftown, affcmblcd
4th inst. and celebrated his Majerty's birth-day in the mod
jovous manner. The fame gentlemen inform us, that the
Cherokee Indians behave in the moll friendly manner to the
tattlers.
June 18. ‘Tis said that Pcnfacola will be made a civil
government, and the port declared free and open to all na
tions.
Our letters from the Northward, by Capt. Noarth, fay,
that all the independent companies there, and two battali
ons of the Royal American regiment were already disband
ed; that the4Bth and csth were the only regiments to lift
sent home; and that the disbanded Royal Americans weft
gone down to the 50th.
June 22. Letters from Philadelphia inform us, that
John Penn, Esq; son of one ofthc proprietors of Pennsyl
vania, and nephew of the other, will soon fuccced the Hon.
James Hamilton, Esq; in the government of that province.
The (loop Katey, Davis, from this port for Cowes, hav
ing met with bad weather, and received fomc damage, it
put into fiofton in Ncw-England.
June 25. On Thursday arrived three vcffelj from the
Havana, which plr.ee they left the 15th, when no order*
had arrived for delivering up that fortrefa to the Spaniards,
nor was any thing rcltorcd to theirpoft'clfion but she King’s
dock yard and the company's house. The Governor of St.
Jago was said to be in Honda-Bay, with three men of war
and fomc transports with troops, waiting till Gen. Kcppel
could deliver tip the place.
By Capt. Jeremiah Dickenfon, who arrived yesterday
in 22 days from Antigua, we have no other news, than
that on the id inst. arrived at Martinique 9 fail of French
merchantmen from MarfeilJcs, who were permitted to un
load immediately, and apoiacre of 20 guns belonging t<*
the French King, with (omc officers, &c. but no troops $
and that all the French iftands in the Weft-Indies would be
icftorcd by the 10th, in terms of the treaty.
We have great reason to believe, that no person whatever
in Charleftown will inoculate the small-pox after next Fri
day ; on the contrary each individual seems inclined to do
every thing in his power to prevent the further spreading or
continuance of that difordcr here.
SAVANNA H, July 7.
Ex/raß of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia , to his rorre -
J'psn.lcnt here, dated June 6.
t* expreffes from Fort Pitt since last night bring
the di(agreeable accounts of the Indians breaking
out, and have already killed fevcral people, taken many
hoifcs and gooib, one of out small polls, and it’s feared