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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,”