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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
Number iS.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Hague* March 4.
’ deputies of the Admiralty of the pro
v*nce Holland are ®*t. The fubjed
of their deliberations we fuppo e to be
B£sJ T IHK thc rupture with Algiers, which is Jook
wTjfjt'm’i iW c d on as near and unavoidable. We
learn, with concern, that the commif-
Varies sent to England by our East-In
dia company, have as yet done nothing,
nor hu the Count de Weldcren made any progress in the
negotiation begun for renewing the treaties between Eng
land and this State. * *
April 12. The King of Prussia appears resolved to con
tinue armed. He has given orders for levying 36,000 men,
under pretext of peopling and cultivating his country, and
is going to put his army oq the fame footing as before the
war. He is also filling his magazines. Prom the confidc
ration of thefc Heps our politicians infer, that the neigh
bours of that Prince ought to put themselves on arefpedaole
footing; tnd that this republick in particular ought to aug
ment her land forces, and put her marine in proper order;
but there is little probabuity that either one or the other
will be done, though the expediency of doing both Is ac
knowledged by many provinces, by the council of Hate,
and by all real friends to their country. It is certain that
the Empress Queen likewise keeps all her forces on foot;
and is resolved to have always a body of 25 or 30,000 men
in the Netherlands, for whole maintenance mcafures are now
taking in that country,
LONDON, March 15.
LAST week a sailor, who had been paid off on board one
of the men of war in Portsmouth harbour, being in
liquor, swore he would throw alt his wages overboard, which
amounted to 24 guineas, and a&ually did so, in spite of all
that his brother tars could do to prevent it.
Among the many uncommon and merry pranks played
by the crew “of the Adtive man of war, who took the Hcr
mione, is the following: Two of the common Tailors at
.Plymouth, after they had got their prize money, not only
decorated themselves, but their lafTes also; one of them
bought a fnfficicnt quantity of rich brocade silk to make his
temporary wife a full sack, and infilled on its being lined
with the fame, which was done accordingly. The other
Jbired three poll chaifei to carry him from Plymouth to the
•dock, which is about two miles, in one of them he put his
oak Hick, in the second his wig, and got into the third hira
felf, and rode in Hate bare-headed. Afterwards these two
Ctars met with one of their mefimates at a publick
e, the landlord of which not having thing they
liked for dinner, one of them ordered a frying-pan and a
large lump of butter, declaring he would Hand cook, whe£
they came to a resolution nem. con. to fry their watches.
March 3s. We hear that four men of war will be ap
pointed to pro ted the trade in and near the river Senegal
on the coall of Africa.
Apr A5. His Portuguese Majelly has purchased all the
horles that were in the Britilh fcrvicc in that kingdom.
We hear that his Excellency the Duke de Nivernois will
set out for Versailles on the 15th of next month.
Tuesday 6000 lb. of gunpowder was Ihipped in the river
for Qucbeck. This mult in rime become a beneficial trade
to that extensive country, as the Indians are in perpetual
want of it. The French bought it of the Dutch, but we
hope we lhall always be able to supply them, and have the
whole profits within oerfelvcs.
Yeftcrday being LaiVr-Monday, the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, Lady Mayorels, Arc. in the date coach, fol
lowed by mod of the AMcrmen, and both the fhcri-flfs with
THURSDAY, August 4, 1763.
their ladies, went in procefiton from the Manfionhoufe to
St. Bride's church, from whence* after divine (ervice, they
returned to the Manfionhoufe, where the I<ord Mayor gave
an elegant entertainment to several hundred gentlemen and
ladies, among!! whom were many persons of difiinriion.
There was a ball at night, where the ladies made a moll
brilliant appearance.
Jfril 7. Tuesday the Archbiffiop of Canterbury enter
tained 19 Engliih and two Irilh Biihops at dinner at his
Grace's palace at Lambeth.
At the Lord Mayor's entertainment lafl Monday there
were no less than IC7O dilhes, befidcs the desert. There
were in particular 36 removes of fi(h.
Twenty ships are to be employed this season in the whale
filhery for the port of London.
Ycfterday 10,009 ounces of gold, and 10*000 ounces of
of silver com, were exported to Prance, to go by the Elisa
beth, Giibie.
Yesterday morning a considerable numbecof seamen went
again toSt. James’s, and waited at the garden gate in the
Park, till his Majelly returned from an airing, when thev
presented a petition to his Majelly, for the payment of their
prize money, which was gracioufiy received; they after
wirds waited a considerable time for an anfwcr, but being
informed it would be inserted in the London Gazette, thev
departed fcemingly well latisfied. *
April 9. A letter from Madrid of the 2id pall, fays
that for three weeks publick prayers had been offered up in
all their churches to impl -re that fair weather which is so
neccfTary to the health of man and the fruits of the earth.
The continual rains notwithstanding do .ncredibic damage
in the country.
** The spirit of partjf amongst the common people was
scarce ever m re conspicuous riian at present. A man mull
be very cautious how he gives his opinion on the present
political difentions, or ‘tis odds but he gets his head broke
by fome furious antagonist.—The sale of the North Unto*
has been for feme time pad prodigious. On Thursday lafl
at the hour of the publication of the North Briton Extraordi
nary* as advertised, the house of the publilher was surround
ed, and several of the adjacent iireets filled with a greater
Crowd of purchasers than ever attended an Extraordinary
Gazette. After waiting a considerable time, they were in
formed, that it was found neceflary to delay it till Saturday,
the 16th, upon which they became quite outrageous, and
were with the greatell difficulty restrained frum breaking
the windows of the house and Ihop. **
In confluence of the sudden revolution in the MinitVy,
the publication of the North Briton Extraordinary, adver
tised for Thurfdav, and afterwards for Friday, is deferred
and a Hop is alio put to the publication of No. 46 of the
North Briton, which Ihould have appeared this evening.
April 23. Twcnty-feven thousand pounds in quarter gui
neas and twenty-one thousand pounus in the fame coin arc
sent for publick paymentvto Portsmouth and Chatham.
Wbiitlull * April 23. The King has been plcafed to grant
unto Robert Murray, Esq; the office of Receiver General
and Ca/hier of his Majelly s Customs in Scotland, and also
the office of Receiver General of his Majefiy't duties on fait
made in Scotland.
London* May 3. The North-Briton did not make his ap
pearance lafl Saturday. Perhaps, as he is in (Irong hold,
he is not allowed the ufc of pen, ink, and paper. But a
new combatant has entered the political lifts, under the ap
pellation of The Champion. His present attempt is levelled
dirtily at the now openly avowed author of die North Bri
ton, and his reverend friend the author of The Prophecy of
Famine. Os the firft he fays, “ that envy, malice,‘and
presumption, guided his pen;” of the latter, that “ K->
writes for. hrr**d,”
