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GEORGIA GAZETTE.
Number 71.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Drefdea, Jprtl 7.
BUR bear leaden, arv'arrefted at Fulda,
who* among other enormous crime*, had
seized. fcvexal children from the breast,
and given them to he devoured-by their;
Purer, April zo. Madam Pompadour
has left her fine (eat at Evereux, toge
• ther with ioq.ooo lim** tQ the, Pyench
Rug; to the Duke de Penthievrt the like sum; to the
Prince de Sou bile, executor of her will, her giafs house at
Beve and the furniture, toward* paying of her debts and le
gacies, which are estimated at one million; to Madam d’.
Amblimont, a set of diamonds valued at 20,000 crowns;
to the Duke and Dqchefs of Choi&ul, the Duchefi of
Grammont, and Madam de.Roiue, each a gold box > to
the Duke de Gontaqd, a magnificent watch > to the Matfhal
de Mirepoix, two done rings ; to Mr. Qucaet, her phyli-.
and to Mr. Hevin, her surgeon, an annuity of 4000
Hvres each; to her intendwtf, 6000 livres, and a* much to
her equerry ; to her domefticks, pensions for life, in pro
portion to their wages and time of service 3 and to her
chamber women, her laces and wardrobe, The King has
given up his legacy of the hotel d’Evreux to the Marquis de,
Mariguy, her brother, with this ftipulaqon, that if he.
Jhould hkve occasion to resume it# he shall pay the faid,kta
quia the full value of it.
- Parma, April 21. Holy Thuriday the Empress Queen,
according to cufiojn, warned the feet of iz old women,
whole ages put together amounted to JO2O, and ierved them
at table. tmftod by their Royal Highneffe* the Archducbef*
fo*. The Emperor being übfent, could not do the lame by
* the like number of old men. hut nothing was wanting ex
cept the ceremony of walking. They appeared at court,
‘‘•tad dined there, served by their Royal Highncffes the Arch
dukes Ferdinand and Maximilian. Their ages put toge
. Cher formed 1114*
- Louden, April 28. They write from Paris, that the parlia
ment have ordered Gen. Lallv to be taken into custody:
However, he U to remain in the Baftile, and will not he re
moved to the Concicrgene- M. Law. who was on the point of
<- foiling out for theJSaA-Indies, to take the command of the
company** troops, is ordered.tp stay in Paris, his evidence
being oecefiary in Lally** trial.
> There has been colleded in England on the brief iffaed
• for the benefit of the colleges of Philadelphia and New* York,
.cxdufivc of confiderabk private tapefe&onv and {hqugh
> there are several briefs yet ouandyg, co than nine thou
sand and fix hundred pounds fterling.-rOf ft mu?k W?T
:Canoe has it been judged to be to the Mother Country, that
‘.her colonies (Would(warm withichoUf*.
Extra# a letter from Brrft , rtcervedyefitrdap,
“ Ycfierday arrived here with u great retinue from Ver
-1 failles. Colonel Law van Luwfon, appointed by our court
•Governor and commander in chief of the Flench fcttlemfnu
in the East Indies, for which he will embark in a few days
on board the DukeafPmfiin, afhippf logons, appointed
-to carry him over: The Ckameau frigate, with dotes, Sec.
;• Will foil in company for the lame place.** ,
We learn from Rome that Rr* Hamilton, an Engliftunan.
has painted there feme pieces, which are admired even by
-the Italian*. He has lately finhhfda. large one representing
Achilles dragging the body ; of H|eftor round the walls of
Troy. In tm piece nothing bloody i* admitted: The cha
riot of Achilles occupies the fore ground; The horses are
dranmintheinftaotoftheirfetttngpiF. Achilles is ftandifig
in hit chariot: His.fttUqde> ufirm; and thsf’.cafure he
feels in revenging him fell is teen in the air of joy and Jfirr/f
T H U R S D AY, August 9* 1764.
appears in his countenance. The body of Heftor. beau*
tifol though hfelefs, is dragging on the ground, alt but the
; fcet, which are fattened to the chariot by the heels: To
i wards his hefd is a Greek soldier, whose eyes are turned to
the walls ofTfoy, where Andromache is
) fainting away in the arms of her women amidfPn croud of Tro
jans, fome seized with fear and terror, and others penetrated
wjth die deepeil sorrow. This pi&ure is truly dramatick;
spiring at once both compafiion and horrori
The lame artitt has also painted the death of Lucretia.
This fubjeft. which has been so often repeated, is treated in
* n £” ®miper. Lucretia is represented just expiring; her
huftand fopports her head, and hinfenfible to every thing but
hF* whiltt the aj&iftion of her father fee ms suspended, and’
he appears to mind only Brutus, whb, holding m one hand
the poignard he had just drawn out of Lucretia*s wound, lifts
up his eyes to Heaven, and items to pronounce the oath that
he will revenge her death on the Tarquias.
. ExtraSfef a private Utter from Francftrt, luted April g.
“ A man of faftiion, whom curioiity had brought hither
from London, tb fee the coronation,'that his horses and him
(elf might be better served, hired two Germans, one ai his
Groom, the other in the capacity of Valet de Chambre; but
a few days ago, having occasion tb make a little exourfion
into the country, by wav of airing, he ordered his equipage
to Be got ready early the next morning: When the time ap-
E in ted came however, He had the mortification to find that
new Groom was gone off with all his horses and his car
riage, being by his Valet, who had made fret
with all his wearing apparel, andhj) strong box; and what
Was still worse, the rogues had* in concert, carried offhis Mif
ttefs, who was, a few months ftgo, a Figure Dancer at the
Opera house at The made no great ndife, at
our (park was glad to hath it up, left he (hould be laughed
at by all his acquaintances: he, therefore, applied to His
Bank ct, got a firefli (apply of money, and this ntorniiig set
•r. as he effected to declare, for London, incog.**
Mat 1. They write from Edinburgh, that in the ap
proaching General Assembly of the Church of Scotland;
among other important affairs, it will be finally difeuffed
fib what condi tfonithe clergymen of that kingdom will bp
allowed to perform the marriage ceremony between perfect*
kbrives of England, running there for that purpose) or whe
ther the pradice will be entirely liid aside.
They write from Paris, that the King is not so inconsolable
as was expc&ed at the death of Madame Pompadour, owing,
as it is thought, to the charms he finds in Madam Murphy,
an Iriih Lady of exquisite beauty. \
Monday last was taken from a cow belonging to a farmer
ft LowKiil in the parish of White- Alton, ltf.the county
of Worcester, a calf having two heads, four ears/ four eyes,
four fore-legs, and only two hind-legs; add; what is Very 14-
naarkable, the cow is likely to do well.
Mat 3. It is computed; that the damage sustained by the
East India Company in the late violent hurricane in Madris
mad amounts to little fhprt of 6ne million ftdrling.
They write from Dresden of the 14th ult. that a giant
’ was arrived there from Trent to make a (how of himlelf.
He measures 15 of their ells (about 14 feet) in height# and
has been so tall ever since he was nine years old.
The last Dutch East India (hips, which arrived in Hol
land from Batavia, broughtletters from Caffambazur, whith
give an account, that, m March 1763, a moft violent fire
happened at Moxudabath, which had reduced that place to
aloes. And that on the zd of April following there was
such a vehement earthquake at Deher or Decca, that it
caufaf the water in the river Ganges to rife to feet above
its common courfc, and agitated it in the fame way as Hit
at new and full moon; Upwards of SO6 veflcls with provi-