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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.