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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
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Number 39.
‘"EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
v LONDON, October 21.
BOME advices from Amsterdam mention,
that the Dutch are double fortifying all
the places they pofiefs on the island of
Ceylon, near the coafl of Coromandel,
by reason of iomejealoufy between their
Eaft-lndia comp: ny and the King of
Candy, sovereign of that island, which,
it was feared, might be attended with
dangerous consequences. Part of the fleet which failed
from Holland to the Indies is to touch there, in order to re
inforce their garrisons with military and other flores.
Mynheer Jan Van Loon, who died lad week at Amsterdam
in a very advanced age, was so much terrified at the English
replication to the information of the Directors of the Society
of Surinam, presented the 7th of October 1762, to their
High Mightineftes, upon the memorial of Sir Joseph Yorke,
that it precipitated his death.
That gentleman was President and eldest Director of the
Weft India Company of the Chamber of Amsterdam; and
as a demand of more than 200,0001. sterling has been made
upon that company,* by fome injured British fubje&s, all
the members of that company are prodigiously alarmed, for
fear letters of reprisal should be granted against them.
It must give pleasure to every good patriot to find, on per
using the late proclamation for fettling our conquests, that
Newfoundland is not only to be put under a regular form of
government, like the rest of our colonies, but to have a more
extensive jurifdiclion annexed to it, whereby we may keep a
watchful eye over the motions of the French, and have it in
our power, at the fame time, to put a flop to their encroach
ments, which, according to fome late reports, they have al
ready begun to make. What foundation there may be for
fiich reports we know not, but in case they should appear well
grounded, it will be inconsistent with our honour or interest
to use any ceremony with so faithlefe a people. We should
take the fame vigorous measures, which ought to have been
taken, with refped to their encroachments on the continent
of America, before we came to an open rupture, when a very
moderate sum, seasonably granted, and wifely and honestly
applied, might hare laved us fifty millions. Beit as it will,
whatever we are doing or meditating, we may be allured
that his Majcrty, knowing the value of this part of his do
minions, has taken it under his royal proteCdion, and will
not permit there to be exposed to the likeinlults
for the future.
It is said several large tra&s of land, which extend north
west from Philadelphia, along the back of Maryland and
Virginia, have been demanded by the Indians of Delaware
and other tribes as unfairly obtained, and that a congress has
been appointed to be held at Williamlburgh in Virginia, and
another at Annapolis in Maryland, in order to investigate
the said claims, that they may be either restored, or authen
tically purchased.
As the business of fhip.building in our foreign plantations
is an article of the highest importance, and a very consider
able branch of commerce, we hear great interest will be made
at the ensuing feflions for a repeal of that part of the claufie,
in an a& of parliament, which ftridlly enjoins all ships
freighted from America to the Mediterranean, to an immedi
ate return to England, by which the intentional faleof such
ships abroad are very much retarded, and the expence aug
mented.—Should this effort take place, as New England
.built ships are in much esteem abroad, we shall soon fee all
our idle carpenters plentifully provided fer> without thene
ccffity of driving them to the contineoL
THURSDAY, December 29, 1763.
On TuefJay last the catalogue of the Harleian colleftion
?* “““kriyts was presented in the name of the trullees to
~ o vv ’ lo has I>een :l very considerable benefaftor to
the Britilh Museum, by the Rev. Dr. Birch, one of the trus
tees, introduced by his Grace the Archbiihop of Canter
bury. Presents of this catalogue, we hear, will be sent to the
principal libraries in Europe.
Ext rad of a Utter from Pat is, 0.7. K.
Y* c hear from Abbevilie, that a youth of 17 years of
age, of a genteel family at that place, has poisoned Loth hL
father and his mother. Having quarrelled with a man who
a ways was his friend, he determined to poison him also:
. consequences of this resolution were terrible. Bcin* in
vited iodine with this friend at a neighbour’s house, le
went thither before dinner to make his excuse for o
bligeu not to stay dinner, and taking an opportunity to step
into the kitchen, threw a paper of arfenick into the pot.
The guests who were to dine were in number 14; ten died
almost immediately, the other four are given over. The
young villain was taken upon th* deposition of a child, win)
declared, that it faiv him Jolt the pot. It is reported that he
has confefled all.”
Extrad of a letter from Mons in Flanders , dated Sept. 2.
“ I was prompted by my curiosity to go last Sunday to
the cathedral, to hear the canoneffes iing. These are nuns
of a royal order, eilablifhed in this city. The present Ab
bess is a Princess of the house of Lorrain, being filler to the
Emperor of Germany. This nunnery was instituted that the
nuns might always perform the chanting part of the cathed
ral fervicc at high nufs, and fingthe anthems. Their dress
is uniform and becoming, but very unlike that of other nun*,
as they wear ruffles, &c. their faces are not covered with
veils, they visit whom they please, and, whenever they are
inclined, may marry. To be admitted into this convent, :
lady must prove her nobility for 16 defeents. I was particu
larly charmed with their performance at the cathedral; their,
voices are heavenly, and many of their faces ange ical: But
what moft attracted my attention was, to fee two of them ad
vance into the middle of the choir, and soon afterwards to
hear them sing a fine anthem, mv heart was ilruck, and tor
a moment I thought myfelf in Heaven,
“ Os what the Blefled do above,
“ Is that they sing, and that they love.”
Was I to compare their faces to thole of angels, and their
voices to those of the cherubim, you would perhaps judge
me mad; I shall therefore content myfelf with faying, that
I never saw any thing more beautiful than their faces, nor
heard any thing more enchantingly agreeable than their \ di
ces.”
An account of a nexu dfco-vtry in France for rendering water in
corruptible.
Paris , Sept. 10, 1763.
I must not omit mentioning to you a difeovery made here
by the Sieur l’Hofle, his Moft Chriflian Maje fly’s chemist ;
it is the fecretof rendering water fop ureas to be incorruptible.
Many attempts of this kind have been heretofore made, but
none of them have succeeded. It is necessary to separate the
heterogeneous particles that cause the water to corrupt: this
the Sieur l’Hofte does, w ithout the help of fire, and without
anv extraneous mixture whatsoever. The method he uses,
is, in faft, so easy, thai a child may put it in practice. He
has kept water, thus purified, by him, in various forts of
reflels, for ten years, without perceiving any sensible alte
ration in them, either by fermentation or otherwise; he ha*
also caused this water to be, in the heat of summer, trans
ported to a considerable diilance, and it has ilill retained id
purity. This water, thus purified, will, it is thought,