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GEORGIA GAZETTE
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£UROB fe A N INTELLIGENCE.
Dublin, May 8 .
‘The humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burges
ses, in Parliament aflembled, to his Excellency the Lord
Lieutenant.
Mom it tli&fi lour Excellency •
his Majesty’s moll dutiful and loyal sub-
Jiv as je£ts, the Commons of Ireland, in Pxrlia
mcnt aflembled, think ourfelvcs indifpen-
IjjSl W HR fibly obliged to offer to your Excellency
ly-Jf our wailneft and mod sincere congratula
tions on the near and pleating plbfpeft of
th c conclusion of our leffion, diftinguilh
4. ed through every period by visible marks
of your Excellency's wisdom and steadiness, your modern
tipn and integrity.
Our conduit we hope has been answerable to the repeated
,aflurances given by this houfeof our inviolable fidelity to
his Majesty, and zeal for the support of his government:
And although we had used our belt endeavours to be faith
ful and active in the difeharge of our truil to his Majesty, and
to our country, yet we are fcnfible how ineffectual those en
deavours mull have been, had we not been encouraged and
aififted by your Excellency’s influence, and by your prudence
conducted to the ends we wilhed to attain.
Qhr early and full conviction that the honour and dignity
of hit Majcity's crown, and the happiness of his Majelty’s
fubjcCh, were the real and only objects of your Excellency's
rfifinterefted adminiftxation, gave (pint and vigour to our
consultations: And in prosecuting the necessary work of cor
recting those disorders which threatened ruin to our country,
wc can perceive how (tropg an imprelfion ha< been already
4 saade upon the minds of men, by the llriCt impartiality in
the difmbution of publick justice, by the tender regard and
unbounded liberality to private objeas of companion, and by
the regular excrcife of the many virtues so eminent in your
Excellency's character: So that we are pltafcd more than fur
prifcd to lee a general jdifpofetion among the people to fpbmit
to the laws, and to pay a fearful and refpeCtful obedience to
a government from which they derive protection, and conti
nual comforts and advantages.
Your Excellency’s judicious and provident attention to the
objeCts of national bufmefs, to the general interests of our
commerce and manufactures, and to the internal regulation
Os t>e kingdom, has been manifelted by the return of ;he ina •
ny good rills soon to be presented to your Excellency for the
royal assent: And we are thoroughly lenfiblc of the happy ef
fects of your Excellency’s interposition upon these occaliens,
and are truly thankful to hi* Majesty for those proofs of his
..gracious diipofitions to promote our welfare anuprofperity.
We can have no doubt thatyoyr Excellency, on your re
turn to the royal prefenCe, will rcpVclent our dutiful de
votion to ilia Majesty; and our affectionate attachment to Jiis
royal person, family and governpicpt, in the faireft and molt
advantageous light. This office of favour, we are affurcd,
will be faithfully and fully {Performed by your Excellency,
from your regard to truth and justice; and from your atten
tion to the good of this kingdom.
But, as we cannot have equal confidence that your Excel
lency, in your representations, will do the fame justice to
your own ungular merits, both w|‘& the crown and people,
we must beg leave to ufc this occasion of giving our molt
.sincere and publick teftimouy, that his Majesty’s rights and
royal dignity have been maintained by your Excellency with
unihaken firmneit and fidelity: TBht the boundaries of the
conflitutioft have, in every reration, been preferred with pe
culiar exaCtnefs; and that the authority o t his Majesty’s go
vernment has been so cohduCled by your Excellency as to be
Cftablifhed, not by the acquielcence only but by the opinion
and voice of the people.
As an adminiftratlon founded upon such principles, and
so happily carried on, has produce:! general lati.fa-lion, and
T HU ft S I) AY, Auoust 2, 1764.
be attended with substantial and lading benefit to the
inseparable interests of the crown and the fubjefl, w<* enter
tain the molt sanguine hopes that his Majesty, from his ex
perienced wisdom and goodness, will indulge the wishes of a
people thus affectionately devoted to him: And that his Ma
jesty will be pleased to continue to them a chief governor, by
whom every valuable end of his royal government, and c
very graqious purpofeof his beneficent heart ts so effectually
answered; ana whose adminiJtration has been the happy acra
of private as Well as publick tranquillity.
His Excellency's Answer.
Y<>L j R kind approbation, and mop honourable testimony of my con
dud, Jbftslfy and obligingly exprefted in this nddrefs, is ’amojf
Jattsfadorj reward for my past, and mull be a very powerful r
etUmem to uayfutme endeavours to promote the me/fare of Ireland.
If l bad been os JucceJsJul at I have been Jincert and earntft iu
those endeavours, l could not’ have thought myjelf infilled to futh a
return .
Tenth nndjujtiee will oblige me to rtf rtfent your behaviour and
difpofitious iu the moftfavourable light to his Majesty, and gratitude
nvtll engage me to furfue every fmffihL method of cultivating and
ptn/ervfug your eftetm and good opinion .
London, .May it. This day at half past 12 came on before
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, and the other honourable
judges of the court of King's Bench, at Weftminfter-hajl, the
trial of Philip Carteret Webb, Esq. member of parliament
for Haftemere in Surry, Solicitor to the Treasury, and Fel
low of the Royal Society, for perjury! which continued till
7 o’clock in the evening, when the jury, which was afpccial
one, after an absence of half an hour,. brought jri their ver
dict, Not guilty. It was with no little difficulty tha| ajatji
could be impanndled to try this important caule, fomie of.the
gentlemen who had been fummofted uegleCting to attend,
notwithstanding the prefting necessity for their appearance.
One of them however was fined 301. for his remissness, which
. It is hoped will have a filtftary effcß upon every future oc
casion.
To-morrow a contract will be made for frefh beef, and sea
provisions, for the use of his Majesty’s ships and vessels as
may touch at Georgia, and be in want thereof.
Letters brought by this day’s mail fay, that the opening
the diet of convocation for the election of a King of Poland,
which was fixcd*for the 7th of this month, is put off; and
that they have lately observed at Dantzig, a day of falling
and prayer, on account of the present critical state of that
kingdom.
They write from Genoa, thdt the fenatchavc come to a re
solution of lending his ChriltiaA Majesty the sum of 30,000
millions of livres, for a year, Without in ter est, provided he
will immediately fend over 4000 of hisfojeep to aft in cop.
cert with their troops in Corsica, for the recovery of that
island.
A great quantity of artillery is now preparing, in order
to be lent to the islands qf Tobago, dec. together, with fome
cneineers,to direct the building of the fortifications.
Friday 60,000 ounces of silver coin were (hipped for Ben
gal. . . ..
Portsmouth May 19. This morning the Asia, of 64 guns,,
was launched in the presence of the Lords of the Admiralty
and a numerous crowd of fpeCtators; their Lordships immedi
ately went off to infpeCt into the condition of th.c ships, at
tended by the Admiral and principal officers. They were fa
lhted with 19 guns from each guard Chip.
St. James 1 i May 19. The King has been pleased to grant
unto the Right lion. Robert Lord Henley, naron of Grange
in the county of Southampton, Chancvllor of Great Britain,
and his heirs male, the dignity of an Earl of Great Britain,
by the name, itile, and title of Earl of Northington in the
said county.
The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint Wil
liam Young, Alexander Grxme, John Hunt, Robert Stew-