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GEORGIA GAZETTE. Number 40. EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE, CONSTANTINOPLE, September i. HE late news from Smyrna has alarmed us very much. About ten days ago the Ambafladors and Ministers here received y iwSr from thence the account of a very exten r five and devouring fire, which, by fume fatal accident, broke out on the 6th of I aft mcnt ‘ l at midnight, and lading 26 hours, involved in its progress the whole quarter of the city, called the Frank Quarter, inhabited en tirely bv the different factories of the several foreign nations trading* there, particu’arly the Englilh, French, Dutch, Venetfan, Imperial, Swedish, Daniih, and Ragufean. By the Englilh Consul’s account, not a merchant’s, nor a Con sul’s houfeis left Handing, except his own, and that not en tire, nor without futFcring great damage. Even their maga i;nes, the repohtories of all their various merchandise, (which had hitherto been looked upon as fire proof) burst, through the intense violence of the flames. The feene of de fection is on all Tides tenible. The loss sustained is reckon cd, by a gross computation, at a million and a half of Turkiih dollars, or near 200,0001. Sterling. As by the accounts received from hence, the behaviour of the Turkiih officers, during the fire, gave the greatest cause of complaint to the fufferers by it, all the Christian miniilers residing here have presented memorials to the Porte on that occasion. [ Smyrna is a jea-fort town it Turkey in Asia, and in Katoli a, being one of the large]} and ricbeji cities of the Levant, The goodness of the harbour has caused it to be rebuilt several times , aj'er it had been defiroyed by earthquakes . It is the rendezvous of merchants from al/nojl all parts of the world, and the magazine of their merebandifes. It contains 15000 Turks, 10000 Greeks, 1390 Jews, 200 Armenians, and 200 Franks. The Turks have l 9 mofjues, the Greeks 2 churches , the Jews 8 Jynagcgues , the Arme nians l church , and the Loti os 3 convents. There are three bi jhops, one Greek, the other Latin, and the third Armenian. The Jhreets are open, better paved, and the befits better built, than in other towns of the continent . The Jlreet of the Franks is the fnej} in Smyrna, and lies all along the harbour. It is eight days journey from Confantinople by land, 25 days from Aleppo by the caravans, fix from Cogna, fevenfrem Cat ay a, andfix from Satalia. There are many merchants fettle here frem mo ‘1 countries in Europe. The caravans of Persia fen bring 2000 bales offilk in a year, bfides drugs and cloths. The other commodities brought here, are thread, made of goats hair, cotton yarn, cotton in hags, nut galls, wax, feammeny, rhubarb, opium, aloes, tatty', galbasium, gum arabick , gum tragacanth, gam ammoniack, fankinctnfe, zrdoary, and ail farts of carpets. All the trade pajfcs through the bands of the Jews, and they seem to have better capacities for trade than other merchants. The Enghjh and Dutch factors have Prctejlant chapels, and taverns are as open here as in Europe. The fortifications confijl in a fort, a cafile, a mount ait:, and an old citadel It ts J toted at the bottom of a large bay, 183 miles W. by S. of CoufiaMtiaapU. Lon. 45. O. tat. 38. 28.] Pans, Sept. 23. It is said that by the end of December if not (boner, there will be uo Financiers, or in other words, * the Farmers General will be difeharged. Lijbon, QSober 5. His Royal Highness the Duke of York arrived her , in perfeft health, the 3d inst. in his Britannick Majesty’s (hip the Centurion. His Royal Highness is pleat ed to make use of his title of Uliler, ander which name hit arrival has been notified to tha court. His Royal Highness proposes flaying about right days, and will then proceed From hence for Gibraltar. la tha maaa while their Moil Faithful Majeffies, and their Ministers, do every thiag ia their power to make his Royal Highnofs's reside*ce as agree able to him as poffiblc. THURSDAY, January 5, 1764. Drtfden, Oil. 6. Hit Polish Majeffy died fuddcnly yeffer day afternoon of a fuflbeation. He had for fome days pail been indisposed with a fevrilh cold, which was thought of no fort of consequence. Hamburg, Od. ii. Prince Augustus of Holstein, Bi(hop of Lubeck, has received, by a courier from Peterlburg, the agreeable news of the Empress having appointed him Stadt holder and Adminiilrator of the dutchy of Holflein, in tha room of his late brother. Hague , Od. 25. By the last accounts from the Mediterra nean we hear, that the French Consul, and all the merchant* of that nation at Algiers, have been chained, and obliged to work as (laves ; and it is supposed, that the (hips, which were fitting out at Toulon, were intended to go against tha Algerines. We learn too from Algiers, that his Britannick Majeffy’s Consul there, having been (hot in the arm by a drunken soldier, he was the next day hanged and quartered for that crime. Paris , Od. 25. The Earl of Hertford, Ambassador from his Britannick Majeffy to the King, arrived in this city tha 20th, and on the 22d fetout for Fontainbleau. LONDON, September 27. AVery dangerous rock has been lately diicovered near the Colleradoes in the gulph of Florida, which i* thought to have been the occasion of many (hipwrecks; it is near a quarter of a mile round, level with the furface, and in a rough sea not to be diffinguifhed but by the breakers. Odober 4. In the Hague Gazette, and fome other fo reign Gazettes, brought by yefferday’s mail, among the London news there is the following notice, without any name fubferibed to it. * The King has thought proper, in order to liquidate, finally, the expences of the late war in Germany, to nomi nate commiflioriers who are to examine and adjuil all claims that are not yet fettled, as well those which regard the foreign troops in the pay of Great Britain, as those which relate to the extraordinaries of the war. * These commissioners will receive the accounts of al! the aforefaid claims at their office in London, till the 3 iff of De cember of the nrefent year; after which day none will be re-” ceived. Theie accounts, and the vouchers for them, will be laid before the Par iament, in order to obtain payment of what (hall be found juff and reasonable; for no attention will be paid to what (hall be found to be otherwise. And thofe* claimants, whose impatience has made them (o imprudent as to seize fome magazines belonging to the crown of Great Britain, which were left in Germany, will be put off, at thia general liquidation, till they (hall have explained the mo* lives of their behaviour, and made compensation for the lofs’ and damage oceafioned by their ill-advised violence.* Od. 8. Private letters from Berlin import, that his Prus sian Majeffy is determined to have an army of observation, in consequence of which several officers are getting ready their field equipages, and fome persons even pretend to men* tion the number that this army of observation is to confffl of, and fix it at 40,000 men. It is said a nobleman of diffin&ion is arrived from the court of France, with dispatches to the demolition’ of Dunkirk. Od. 13. By letters from Lilbon we are informed they hare received an account there, that the Spaniards have piade them (elves mailers of the Portuguese settlement called Rio Granada, to the southward of Rio de Janeiro. This ie looked on as a very valuable acquisition, and was taken in March lass, and hoffilitias were not to cease in those parts till May. There is feme talk of eftablifliing a national parliamentary bank, by a million a year might be saved to the pub*