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GEORGIA GAZETTE. -m* -.w. •*<■*• ■ -- -—■- 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,