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GEORGIA GAZETfE.
Number Bi.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
London, June 15.
BD'Eon (whom the French cdurt is taking
great pains to have delivered up, and for
which they have got the foreign Ministers
here to.join with the Count de Guetchy,
in a memorial to Lofd Halifax) is charged
with having reviled fome of the mod rr
fpe&able characters in France, and of
making publitk fome memorials and pa
pers which ought nevct to nave seen the \
June 30. The papers of (alt week having mentioned the
inhabitants of South-Carolina in a manner’rather difrefpeCL
ful, on account of their neglecting to provide for a number
of French Protestants in r the‘filk manufactory, who lately
Went over to. fettle among them, *tis but jultice to set
the publick tight in a matter which concerns so valuable a
part of their fellow fubjeCts. We therefore beg leave to in
form them, that the behaviour of the South-Caroliners arose
from no negleCt of the silk manufacturers, but was the con
sequence of adifpute between them, and their Governor; the
cause of which will be made'fufficiently apparent by the
perusal of the following petition, which they have just now
lent over to be laid before their Sovereign. From this it will
be seen, that for a conflderable time both and since
the affair of the French Protestants, they have done no bufl
nefs whatever in a publick capacity, and cohfequently can
not beaccufed of any intentional disregard to those adventur
ers in particular, whose fettlcmcnt could not but be highly
advantageous to theinfelvcs.
To the KING’S Moft excellent Majesty.
44 Moft Gracious Sovereign, . . .'*
41 WE your Majesty’s moft dutiful and loyal fubjeCls, the
Commons House of Affeinbly of your province of South-
Carolina, with hearts full of gratitude for the many bleflings
we enjoy under your moft auspicious reign, well knowing
by repeated experience, that even your Majesty’s moft dil- ‘
tantfubjecls sensibly feel the happy influence of your royal
care and protection, their sure resource in time of need,
humbly crave leave to represent, *
44 That the Commons House of Assembly of the said pro
vince have an undoubted “tight to, have always enjoyed,
and were never interrupted in, the exercifeof that moft con-
ftltutional and efl'ential privilege, solely to judge, and final
ly determine, the validity of the election of their own Mem
bers, until your Majesty’s Governor, Thomas Boone, Esq.
thought fit, in open violation thereof, to refufe admini
ftring the State Oaths to a Gentleman, declared by the lift
Assembly, duly defied, and returned to ferveasone of their
Members, who had accordingly taken the Qualification oath
therein, and to dissolve that noufe, for nootker reason, but
because this determination was not agreeable to his fenti
jrtents, thereby taking upon himfelf to be the foie judge of
elections.
44 That upon the firft meeting of the present house, we
shade application to your Majesty's said Governor, humbly
beseeching him to support us in all our just rights and. privi
leges, particularly claiming and infilling upon our right of
enjoying and uiing without molestation, that moft efl'ential
and fundamental privilege before mentioned; but so far
from giving us any faiisfa&ioit in that refped, he took, and
ftifl continues to take, every method to Ihew his contempt
of us your Majesty’s moft faithful fubjeCts, and to flight our
repeated and neccflary mnonftrances.
44 That jealdus of this open’ inrafion of the moft valuable
of our privileges, the chara&eriftick of your Majefty*s hap
py fubjeCts, the poffeifion orWant whereof, we humbly con
ceive, must denominate us to be either freemen or slaves;
We therefore found ourselves reduced to ther necessity of
coming to a refolutton to do no business witlryour Majc
fty*s said Governor, until he Ihoold have done us juftibe in
that important point > in confequenoe whereof an inte/fral of
•THURSDAY* October 18, 1764.
eight months has elapfed* since all publick bufineft in fins
province, between the Governor and Aflembly, hlr been in
terrupted, he still refilling to do us so mn<& delired jultice.
‘‘ That this delay continues to hinder our making such
provisions as the exigencies of Government require, and a*
our abilities and inclination! would otherwile lead unto,
injures our publick credit; deprives us of the opportunity
of preventing or redrefling those disorders in the community
which ought always to be the objeCt of attention to aLegifla
tive Body; and particularly that of endeavouring to guard 2-
fainft those dangers with which this as well as ail the n<dsh
ouring provinces, are now threatened from the Indians,
who have lately committed hostilities against your Majesty Is
fubjeCts. , (
44 That bad the Governor aCted conformably to the pa
ternal and provident direction in your Majesty’s conuxuifion
to him, by appointing fit persons under the Great Seal of
the province, to tender ana administer the State Oaths to
the persons duly returned, according to the laws and utagea
of this province (an aCt not yet done) we humbly conceive
this dreadful evil would not have happened. t •
14 Wherefore we your Majesty's dutiful and loyal fub
jeCts, confiding in your Majesty’s avowed and known regard
to the liberties and privileges of your people, and in your
royal gqodnefs and jultice, humbly pray your. Majesty
bepleafed to take this our petition into your confidferatooh,
and give.us such relief as to your royal wisdom (hall feen*
fit.*’ •- . ‘ •'*
July 3. Yefterdav the Spanilh Ambaflador had tke ho
nour of a long conference with his Majesty at St. James's.
We are informed that Mr, Pitt had a long conference 4
fewdays ago with Lord Bute. / *
Yesterday the Right Hon. Lord Warkworth* tldefl fell:
to the Earl of Northumberland, was married to Lady Anno
Steuart, third daughter to the Earl of Bute, and in the after
noon they set out for Sion-Houfe, Lord Northumberland'*
feat, to celebrate their nuptials.
Letters from. Lisbon of the 16th ult. fay, that the damage
which the Englilh faClory sustained by the late fire, was not
so cOnftderable as was at firft imagined, and that the greatest
loss will fall on the King of Portugal. These letters add.
that the above .accident was occafioncd by fomt wet If aid
burgh linen, which had been damaged at sea, taking fire.,
and it being a holiday, there was no assistance at hand to ex*
tinguilh it. . - (
July 6. The count d’Unruch is arrived at Stockholm on
a deputation from the Protestants and ocher 2>iflcnters pf
Poland, in order to befecch the King of Sweden to makqa
powerful mediation in behalf of those people at the Dyttgic.!
Warsaw. He is likewise coming to make the fame reeaeit
at Copenhagen, Beilin, the Hague add London. All tha
favour whicn these Protestants implore, is, to poflefs under.
the reign of the future King, the fame tranquility they en
j<wed whilst Augustus 111. King of Poland, fat on the throne
of the Republics.
Orders_are given for three companies of the royal regi
ment of artillery, commanded by the Marquis of Granby,
to be in rcadinefs to embark for America.
July t. Letters from Naples of the Bth ult. briug a very
melancholy account of the iicknefs which followed the late
famine, upwards of 200,000 people having died there and
in the neighbourhood in four months, and in the burying
places in that city alone 160,000 have been interred,
July 10. On Saturday night, at 10 o'clock, died, in the
824 year of his age, at his house in Piccadilly, the Right:
Hon. WiHiam Pulteney, Earl of Bath, Vifcounfc Pulteney,
Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of s.l
lop, R. S. and one of his Majesty’s moft honoufribje
PrivyJpouncil. He dving without male iflue, the title is
extinct* and his paternal estate devolves to his brother, Lieu
tenant General Harry Pultcnev, w ii* alio hir advanced ia
years. N