The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1763-1776, July 21, 1763, Image 1

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GEORGIA GAZETTE. Number i 6. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. ; “ •” ♦ McJJiaa, December 14. CytogjAflgASflN the night between the Bth and 9th we I, had fnch a storm of rain, hail, wind, and lightning, that in left than an hour < ffVjfil | p&K the torrents of rain became so violent as to remove Hones ten hundred weight, yJtt and break down several dvices and walls. The water in many houses was five feft 1 high. Seven perions loft their lives. Many gardens and fields are covered with earth and Hones * to the height of three or four feet. Copenhagen* February 6. By the last year's bill of births, ‘ burials, and marriages in the bailywick of Aggerihuus, in ‘Korway, it appears, that two women were each, delivered <of three children .at once; and another woman brought forth fiye children in 09c year only. Among other Angu larities, they reckon 150 married coqples, who have lived together 80 years *nd upwards; 70 others who have lived together 90 years and upwards; 12 marriages from 100 to 105 years Handing, and another that has uHed no years. They have also recorded the following case of a woman re markable for her piety and her misfortunes, who died laH year aged 78 : Her firH hulband wilfully drowned himfclf; her second hulband loH himfclf in the mountains ; her only son kindled a pile of wood in a foreH, and leapt into the flames; and her daughter, who was married, flung herfelf into a river. Ratijban, Fib . 7. They write from Vienna, that the Empress Queen has given t * lc government of Comorre in Hungary, with an appointment of 30,000 German florins a year, to Prince Albert of Saxony. War/aw, Fib, 23. To-morrow Te Deum is to be sung here for the conclulion of the peace with Prussia. Hague* Feb. 25. Private letters front Stockholm acquaint us, that the fupercargOes appointed to go on board tile next India (hips) are inflru&ed to make due inquiry, whether the opening a commerce with Japan be practicable or not i Whether a licence may not be obtained from the Chinese court, for carrying on a trade to the peninlula of Corea ? And whether, if this can be obtained, it may not prove a means of fending their manufactures into the northern parts of Tartary ? Naples* Feb. 1 6. In digging the ground in order to lay a foundation for anew church, there was found depolited a vcflel, which contained 20,000 pieces of old silver coin, upon which are engraved the heads of the Roman Emperors from Caesar to Gcta. Upon fome of them Remus and Ro mulus are represented fucking a wolf. It appears by thole ©t the latefl date, that this deposit has lain there about 1500 years. Tliefc pieces weigh 3000 livres. The King has ordered them to be placed in his gallery. There was like wise found a marble flatuc, representing Hercules killing •a lion with a dagger. RatijbdMarch 7. The Aulick Council having drawn up a conclufum relating to the differences occasioned by the guardian(hip*of Saxe Mcinungcn, his Imperial Majesty ap proved of it, and, in confequcuce, the following refeript was addrefled to the Dukes of SaxeCobourg, Goth}, and Hildbourghaufen, dated the 25th of February. •a. His imperial MajcHy b ing-in formed, by authentick nd- P ces that tl c said Princes, contrary to the laws of the Empire, have t;;k n the liberty to invade the dutchy of Mcinungcn, by marching a body of troops to afTault and c *-’ ion;vie the town of Meinunrrci), and that, on this oc casion, there hud been blood (piit: ‘Fils entci prize h iiig fonuary to the laws of the Empire, hi:, imperial MajcHy* T H U R S D A Y, July h % 1763. reproaching the said Princes with it,* and waving the Inw pcrial resentments which this proceeding merit*, orders them to wrthdraw immediately the said trip,, and to leave the whole to the Imperial decision; informing them, that in case of difobcdience, the Directorial Princes of the Circle of>ranconia and Upper Saxony have received orders to proceed to execution againH them, that the tranquility may e re.eflablilhed. His Imperial MajcHy informs the faiJ 1 rinces, that he himfclf has taken care of what regard* ”J e . ni *VO n| ng them to comply with his command, and to juHify tnemiclves m two months, otherwise they muH expect he will proceed against them accordingly to the ri gour of the laws. b 1 Pursuant to the said conclufum, a refeript was sent the fame day to the Directorial Princes of the Circles of tipper Saxony and Franconia, importing, that though they are not ignorant ot the infraction of the publick peace,* com- 7 11 c tte^ b V! IC ? r * nccs °f Saxe againH the country am! iubjcOs of Saxe Meinungcn; (who are under the protection of the iupreme judge of the Empire) and that the said Di rectorial Princes are obliged, by virtue of their office, to put a Hop to these troubles; yet.his Imperial Majeffy could not forbear charging them in particular, as soon as they Dial! receive this, to give the Princes of Saxe three days to put an end to all violence; and in case this exhortation Hi juid not be regarded, he enjoins the Directorial Princes of P rancoma and Saxony to order their troops to march againH the Dukes of ‘Saxe Cobourg, Gotha, and Hildbourghau fen; and, in order thereto, they are to make u e of the contingents that make part of the army of the Empire, con cerning which the General in chief has already received or ders. It is however probable these measures will not bo necefltry, feeing it is determined by the conclufum, that the guardianihip and the adminiHration, begun by the Dut ches Dowager of Saxe Meinungen, is annulled, in as much as it is contrary to the advice of the Empire, 1747 ;be fide;, t*c Princes and Anthony Augustus, bom of the late Duke and Madam Ccfar, arc declared by that conclufum incupab.e of fuccecding; and the Dutchcfs’s taking potfeifion, in the ir names, in confcuucnte of the will of the late Duke their father, vivas likewise abrogated and annulled. His Imperial Majesty sent also another refeript, of the fame date* to the regency of Mcinungcn, reproaching them, that, without attending to the advice of the Empire in 1747, they have acknowledged, by order of the late Duke, hi* two said firft foils for co-rcgcnts. Uis MajcHy also give* the regency to undcriland, that be has declared thelb two Princes incapable of inheriting, and reserving to himfclf the puniflimcnt which the conduit of the regency merits. His Majclly iurthcr enjoins them to continue, under the Imperial authority, their functions till further order*, and, in the mean time, to | übliih the Imperial rdcript to the fubjctls of Mcinungcn, ordering them not to acknowledge for tluir fovercigns these two Princes under pain of death. The Dutchcis Dowager i< commanded by this conclufum to renounce that article in the late Duke's will, which is contrary to the advice of the Empire; and his MajcHy adds, that if this Pnnccfs will plead her right to the guardianihip of the children, and to the adminillration 01 the country, in due form, (lie iliall have u tinal rclblution thereupon. Enchur/en in North Holland, Match 12. A fire broke Out yesterday at I.utje-Brocck, which in less than three hours contained 49 houses, notwithllanding all poflihlc aftiftauce. The violence of thr flames wan such, that there art but three houses left; one child was burnt ; the lying-in women were Carried out in their beds into the fields, where they lay all night. Hy this calamity the inhabitant, arc plunged into the gic.iua diilrCls. O