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lick, and the debt of it,686,8001. which die government
owes the bank, might be soon paid off} but the debt snuft
be absolutely discharged, and a year*® notice given to the
bank, before it can be dissolved, or any other publick bank
eftabli&ed.
03. 15. Several of the causes between Mr. Wilkes and
the Secretaries of State, mefiengers, Sec. are now at HTuc,
and will be tried at the firft fittings in the next term.
Twenty-tour copies of writs nave been served yesterday,
and to-day, on the King's messengers, at the fait of the prin
ters and publiihers, who were seized on account of the
North Briton, No. 4c, and had not brought their iftiona
before.
03. 18. The firft business the parliament goes upon wifi
be to fix the dowry for her Royal Highness the Princess Au
gusta.
It is reported that a Squadron of five (hips of war will very
Shortly be Sent to North America, with troops on board, for
the better Security of our acquisitions in that part of the
world.
03, li. Letters from Hamburg import, that his Prussian
Majesty keeps a watchful eye over the Poles, which is the
reason of his affcmbling so large a body of troops on their
frontiers.
John Weft, Esq; InfpefW-general of the customs in
Scotland, is appointed Secretary to the Commissioners of
Inquiry into (he accounts and expences of the forces in Ger
many, during the late war, with a salary of 5001. per ann.
Letters from Leipfick adviSe, that his Prussian Majesty had
desired leave to march an army, but without fpccifying of
what number, through the territories of that city into Poland.
Letters from Brandebourg give an account of the death of
Count de Bruhl, Prime Minitter to the late King of Poland.
st. James* o3. 2s. This day his Excellency the Count
dt Guerchy, Ambaftador in Ordinary from France, and the
Count dc la Marmora, Envoy Extraordinary from Sardinia,
had private audiences of her Majesty.
London, 03.2 5. We are informed, that a noble Lord has
owned himfelf the author of a late celebrated paper, fuppOfed
to have been wrote by a commoner, which has made so much
notfe in the world.
It is Said that 25 articles of impeachment will be exhibited
again A three illustrious persons at the meeting of a certain
great aflembly.
A noble Lari of diftin&ion expended very lately the fnm
of 4 0001. in about fix weeks, at Paris, to the great credit of
lumfclf and the nation.
03. 27. Monday night an express arrived at the Earl of
F gmont s house in the Admiralty, with the advice of the
death of the Right Hon. the Earl of Northampton at Lyons,
on the 17th ml. of a fever, ou his return from Venice to
England.
Publick notice Las been given at Hanover, that all per
sons who have any demands on the court of Great-Britain, or
us agents, for provisions, forage, &c. which were contrac
ted for during the lalt war, are ordered to deliver their re
pecUve accounts to the Secretary of State’s office for that e
leaorate, m order to be tranimitted to Loudon before the
jitt of December next.
November!. On Friday the 1 ith of this month is expe&ed
to come on, in the Court bf Common Pleas, before the
Right Hon. the Lord Chief Jufticc Pratt, a trial on an adi-
S °f wh^; n Wilkes, Esq; is plaintiff, and
Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; defendant* Subpoenas being
already served for the above pnrpoie. • 6
AMERICA.
_ LADELPHIA, Novi meek jo.
Aflembly of Maryland have
If w w f bill, for allowing 501. for every enemy
£ [*{\™ 4 pnfoncr taken in or by the in-
W habitants of that province. ‘
STTj ‘2r- AWJVi, AW. n. Wednefdaynightlaft,
the Hon. Brigadier General Gage arrived here from Mont-
.*•■■“<£ chief of all the Britifli troop,
tm North-Amenca, his Excellency Sir lefferv AmuS
t • Ith M h * V “.* £ M h J £&
lad Friday 01. Maj<y>>s flap the Wefel. g
„ f’f"* £**; *• The General Alfcmblv of New-York
“the feffion^h W f** b‘ e "?“? t - < ' ovcrno f Colder. opened
LC. r- Kh / r P* cch - he reprefenu. that not
wkhtandmg the peace which ha, h& n icukd, th, ae^rtX.
tiou by the weftem tribe, of Indian, on the frontier, m ,a
it neceflaty to make provlfion not only for their def,.’ .
also fofficicnt to chastise those savages; he likewise ’u”
fore them a letter from his Excellency Sir Jeffery A,! V
preffin* the government to furnilh a proportion of mc
proceed early in the fpnng with the regular troops o n t ’h“
important fcnrtce; and h.s Honour eanreltly recommends ,h!
Aflembly to ? rant the neceflary fupplie. for railing, c | 0 ‘k
tng, and paying a body of forces luflicient with other
to avert the danger, they fear, aveng* the injuries they hive
received, and convince the savage. of their ability to corn'll
them to a submission. ; m P cl
We hear that the General Aflembly of New- York hav.
voted too men, to be immediately ratfird, for the defence of
the frontier, of Orange and Ulster counties, again!! the in
curfions of the Indians.
Philadelphia, December 1. From Suffcx county in New
JerTey we have intelligence, That on the 17th ult Cant”
Westbrook, with 11 of the militia, went over to the Penn
Sylvania fide, to bring off fome cattle and effefts which were
left there by persons who had deserted their habitations •
That about three miles from the river they were attacked
by a body of Indians, who killed Capt. Westbrook and four
of the party : That fix others escaped to Nominac, and a
person of the name of Whealand is miffing, supposed to be
carried off to give an account of the Situation of the forces
on the river: That a party of ! 5 o militia, immediately on
receiving the news of this dtfafter, went over to Pennsylvania
to bury the dead, who found the bodies of five of our men
. m °ft inhumanly butchered, and an Indian ftiaved and drelhd
.*“ the Mohawk manner, who was killed in the engagement •
the white men they brought off and buried, and foalped the
Indian: That the party of Indians wffre thought, by the
persons engaged, to be upwards of ao in number, and ‘tis
imagined they were apprehensive of the alarm Spreading,
and therefore made a precipitate retreat, as they did ;.ot
carry off the Indian that was killed, and left Several things
behind them. 6
The Countess of Leicester packet-boat, Capt. Willifon,
from Falmouth for New-York, was loft the i ft of November,
on the Wafli, in North-Carolina, when five persons were
drowned. The mail, it is said, was taken up 30 or 40
miles from where the veflel was loft.
Nrw-Tork, Dec. 8. Monday the 29th ult. Capt. Gardi-
A*ik °* JS 1 * 1 * and Lieut. Stoughton, c.imc to town from
Albany. They belonged to a detachment of 600 men, un
der the command of Major Wilkins, destined for Detroit,
from Niagara; but on tne 19th of October, at the east end
of Lake Erie, 160 of our people, being in their boats,
were fired upon from the beach by about 80 Indians, which
killed and wounded 13 men (and among them Lieut. Johnson
late of Gorham’s killed) in the two fternmoft boats, the re
mainder of the detachment being ahead about half a mile.
Gapt. Gardiner, who was in the boats adjoining, immedi
ately ordered the men (50) under his command ashore, and
took poiieffion of the ground from which the enemy had fir-
M, and as soon as he observed our people landing, he, with
Lieut. Stoughton and 28 men, purfuea the Indians, and in
a lew minutes a Smart (kirmiih ensued, which Jafted near an
hour, fnd in which three men were killed on the Spot, and
Capt. Gardiner, with Lieut. Stoughton and ten others, very
badly wounded. During the (kirmiih, the troops that did
not follow the Indians, formed on the bank, and covered
the boats.
C harUjivwn, Dec. 21. The coramiffion and non-commif
hon officers, &c. of the three companies of Royal Americans
ordered to replace his Majesty’s three independent companies
ow in this province and Georgia, arrived here to-day in the
J”>P ? r * tannia John Simblett master, from Philadelphia.
I. he independent companies wc are told arc to be dilbanded,
uie officers to be on half pay, fome of the private men to be
draughted, in order to complete the three companies uovv
Arrived, and the others discharged.
N N A H, January 5.
HURSDAY last arrived here from New-Ycrk, the
Hon. James Haberlham, Esq. President of his Majc
tty's Hon. Council in this province.
Same day came to town from Charfeftown, the Hon. Wil
liam Sunpfon, Esq. lately appointed our Chief Justice in the
room of Mr. Grover.
Friday arrived at Tybee, his Majesty’s (hip Speedwell,
Robert rauftiaw, Esq. commander, from a cruifc.