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It i> now (aid that the Parliament will meet for the’ dis patch of business the latter end of November. jfognft 30. His Maje&jr has appointed Robert Wood# E(q; to have the management of affairs of the southern de partment till pother principal Secretary if appointed in tho room of the Earl of Rgremont; bat the Earl of Halifax signs all the dispatches that go from the said office. • We are informed that a great nobleman received an ano nymous letter last week, by the pod, which occafionpd the summoning together no leu than tao perfon* belonging to the poft-omcc, in order to trace the above letter. . It's reported that Lord Shelburne is to be the Chief of a new department for a third Secretary of State# purely and foidy for the colonies. *’ I ‘ ’ Advices from Dantzick of the 9th ult. make mention of the present ferment in Russia. September 1. This day his Royal Highness the Duke of York, accompanied by Commodore Herrey, let out for Plymouth, to take upon him the command of the fleet de- Ain ed for the Mediterranean fcrvice. AMERICA. Philadelphia, OSober 6. VjQgQgQafESTERDAY arrived here the (hip Richmond, j3?y3B( Capt. Younghulband, from Rotterdam and fi Y P ort^ with upwards of 200 Germans. 08. 13. A letter from Carlifle of the 6th fays, 44 I greatly fear the communication between Fort Pitt and Ligonier is cut off again, as the Indians have been seen about Ligonier, and have killed one man, and done fome other damage.—lt is upwards of five weeks since any accounts from thence.’* * r . Kingfion in Jamaica, Sept. 15. On Wednefiiay between the hours of 1 and 2 P. M. the magazine at Fort Augufla was fired, as it is supposed by lightening, the explosion being immediately followed by a loud pea! of thunder; it was laid to contain between 2 and 3000 barrels of gunpow der, and the blast was so violent thar not a Angle stone of the foundation, or of the walls that surrounded it, could be observed on the place where it flood, mod of the guns (24 pounders) on the bastion contiguous were dismounted, part aimoft buried in the rubbilh, and one of them carried more. than 100 yards from the place. The lhock not only (bar tered the works to a coufiderable diflance, but al(b threw down the officers barracks, and moft of the small houses in and about the garrison, the stones confidently damaged the soldiers barracks, and killed and wounded a great number of men, women, children, and negroes, within the works, and two soldiers far up the bay were killed, and fome wounded at the diflance of a mife, or a mile and a half. • Capts. Talbot and Dunbar, and Ensign Keating of the 43d regiment, were taken out dead from under the ruins, Lieuts. Dunn and Monfell of the 74th regiment were very much wounded, and several other officers who were in tne fame barrack narrowly escaped with their live*. The number of white pcrfons buried that evening amounted to it, several are since dead of their wounds, the dreadful confufion in the garrison occasioned by this melancholy accident, renders it impossible f;r fome time to ascertain exa&ly the lo(s sustain ed, or the number of lives loft. St. Jag 9dt la Vega, Sept. 24. From Kingston we learn, that the society of Free and Accepted Masons have m*A* a collection for the poor wounded fufferers by the late dread ful explosion at Fort Augufla. On Monday last several gen tlemen of the society went to Port-Royal hospital, where, after viewing their condition, they left upwards of 1201. to be diilributed among ft those real objects of charity. WiUiamJburgb in Virginia, 08. 14. The following is an extraft of a letter from Col. Andrew Lewis to his Honour the President, dated October 3d. ** Our men on duty have of late been continually harraf fed by the enemy, especially those on Jackson’s river. The lookouts in that quarter, about the end of August, discover ed the tracks of a party of Indians on Green Brier. Afloon as they made their report, I ordered Capts. Bowyer and Moffat, with 100 men, to go in quest of them, who found the Indians, about 20 in number, sorted in. Affoon as our people fired on them, they took to their heels, though not without returning the fire ; two of their men were however Hilled on the spot, and many of those who nude their escape About the 12th of last month, Capt. Ingles, wkh of his men, fell in with ajparty of Indians, 20 in number on New River, as they wdft reVvfthidg from the frontier, of Halifax with 4 prifonerl. 3b horfos, and a considerable quantity Os baggage: Tile Indians, being unwilling to part with so valuable a booty, disputed the ground for near half an hour, when Capt. Ingles remained mailer of the field, ftalped two of the Indians, wounded many, released the prisoners and brought in the horses and baggage. 44 On the 26th a more Bnlucky affair happened on Jack son’s river, between Fort Dinwiddle and Fort Young. As Capu. Moffat and Philip* (the latter from Louisa) were on* their march with 60 men, to join Capt. Cuningham, they were attacked by a for superior number of the enemy. The engagement lasted a considerable time, but at last our men, ~ overprefled with numbers, were obliged to give way, leav * ~ ing 12 of their number dead on tho spot, one of them Capt. Philips’s lieutenant. By all accounts the Indians mail have loft a good many men.” ’ Brfin, 08. Saturday arrived here Capt. Wheel wright from Halifax. By a gentleman who came passenger we learn, that Lord Colvil was arrived there in the Rom ney man of war in 20 days from England: That it was re ported at Halifax that three large French store (hips were gone up the river St. Lawrence, supposed to supply the Indians with necessaries for carrying on a war. Same day Capt. Haufe arrived from Gafpee, who in. that his Majesty’s (hip Mermaid was come in there with jury-masts, having last Wednesday three weeks met with a violent gale of wind off Split Island, which carried •way his bowsprit, and all her masts. .. • - We learn from London, that the thoughts of fending a bilhop to America is wholly laid aside. Philadelphia, 08. 27.’ Saturday lift fome officers and soldiers arrived here fjrojn Pittfourgh ; the garrison all well whea they left the fort, nor were they interrupted on the road by the Indians. On Tuesday we received the following melancholy ad vices from Northampton county. That on Sunday the 16th the Laghowexin fettlemcnt, on a branch of the Delaware, betwixt Wyoming and the Minifinks, was cutoff by the Indians, When nine people were killed and four wounded, £ n f oCwrtuch, and two boys, had got into Upper Smith field : That on Thursday last a party of the enemy ruined into a house in Allemingle town (hip, and tomahawked the min, his wife, and four children, and a fifth is said to be miffing: And that bn Saturday four men, a woman, and a negroe wench, were killed in a flat going over to the Jer seys ; two other men are miffing. The Indians, in number about 20, swam intathe river, brought the flat afliore, and lealped all the people excepting the negroe woman.— The man, woman, and children, in Allemingle, were likewise lealped, and cat and mangled in a moft inhuman manner. And from Sussex county, in the Jerseys, we learn that the Indians have been seen in different parts thereof, and that the militia of that province are out after them. * a letter from Paxton, in Lancaster county, dated 23d mil. we learn, that the party under Capt. Clayton, is re turned from Wyoming, where they met with no Indians, but found the New-Englanders, who had been killed and lealped a day or two before they got there; they buried the dead, nine men and a woman, who had been moft cruelly, butchered; the woman was roasted, and had two hinges in her hands, supposed to be put in red hot; and several of the m . cn aw^s into their eyes, and spears, arrows, pitchforks, &c. flicking in their bodies. They burnt what houfe* the Indians left, and destroyed a quantity of Indian corn. The enemy's traAs were up the river towards Wlg haloufing. • New-Yerl, 08. y.- ThurlHay last his Excellency Sir- Jeffery Amherst arrived here from Albany. Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated zgth injl. ‘‘ Tha* afternoon arrived the Hope, Capt. Harkies, from Bnuol, which he left the 12th of September. We havo the London papers to the 10th. The nation flili in a fer ment about the ministry. Mr. Pitt has had two or three conferences with his Majesty, but his demands were so high that his Majesty would not comply, on which the miniilry waii fiturned according to the inclofed lift. It is still said the other fide are making drone opposition, being determined to have out the prefect ministry. Preparations for war are