Funding for the digitization of this title was provided by R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation.
About The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1763-1776 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1766)
T "\ m ,S7 -” Georgia Gazette. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jnv 4. THEY write from Salonichi, that the Bafnaw of Yaflini had pas sed near that city, at the head of 13,000 men, on hi:, march towards Varna, where he was to embark for Georgia. It’s said that fome other small bodies of Albanians were marched on the fame dedination. July 15. The rebels in Cyprus are become so powerful, that they had, on the sth of June, aflually formed the blockade of Nicosia, the capital fef the island, and would not permit provisions of any fort to be carried in to the city, though the inhabitant* were in great want; and they threaten ed to lay liege to the town in a few days. Rome, July 26. The Baron de St. Odil, Miniftcr from the Duke of Tuscany, has requeued the Pope, on the part of the Great Duke his ma- Iter, that the churches of Tuscany may no longer be places of refuge for criminals, charged with the effufton of blood. Ctnoa, Augujt 16. By a vefiel lately Arrived from Baflia we learn, that an accommodation will {oon take place between the republick and the Cor sicans, and that two Mitiifttrs, one French, the other Engliih, arc daily expetted on the island to put the la ft hand to the treaty. Copenhagen , Sept. 2. On Saturday the 30th of August, the marriage of his Serene Highness Prince Charles of Heffe-Calfel, Viceroy of Norway, and Grand-Master of the Ordnance, Sec. with her Royal Highness the princess Louisa of Denmark, was celebrated with great magnificence. LONDON, August 8. A genuine Copy of a Letter from Lord Clive to Sir J. Y. At the Hague. SIR, . Calcutta, Nov. 7, 1765. I Am persuaded you will excuse the liberty I have taken to indofe, un der your address, a letter to my attornies in England, that it may be sure of going fafe to hand, and wjfh as much dispatch as possible: to tell you the plain truth, the letter contains bills of exchange upon the Dutch company; and it affords me very great pleasure to inform yon, that the great and flourifliing condition of the English Eafl-India company has reduced us to the neceflity of fending our money home in this manner: we have established peace in Bengali and, in confeepicnce, are pursuing mea ftrres Which I hope will make it lading, and secure to the company tne va luable acquisitions lately obtained: Their present revenues, extlufive of all expencet, amount to 1 joo.oaol. fterling per annum. Our moft difficult tafle now left, is to prevent the sudden growth ofprivAtc fortunes, and to era dicate luxury and corruption, which, at my arrival, I found at such a height, that 1 do not think the settlement in that date could have exiiled another twelvemonth: fortunes of ioo,oool. have been obtained within the space of two years; and individuals, very young in the service, are returning home this year with a million and a half, ft would take up too much of your time, as well as mine, to enter into farther particulars; I beg leave, however, to refer you to the advices feut by the Admiral Stc venv, which was dispatched home, the beginning of lad month, express to the company, with mod important news.—*-I have the honour, &c. ... Sigaed, ‘•• Cliv*. * Aug. 16. A young Nobleman of a certain great college in ——, was, we hear, very lately married to a publican’s daughter near that city, aT very ftnart agreeable young lass, under 20 years of age, with whom his Lordship seems perfe&ly happy, s On Thursday died at JJlington, aged near 100, Mrs. Maxley, who had acquired upwards of 6ooi. by gathering Ample herbs for the apothecaries. This week a lady of diftin&ion, in all appearance healthy, has had her coffin brought home, which, contrary to the intreaties of her family,. (lie has caused t q be depofitedin her study, from a firm persuasion that it will not be many days unoccupied. * . ! f)ot only the officers belonging to the garrisons of Mahon and Gibral. tar, but those of the regiments quartered at Quebeck and ether dations in North-America, have received very short notice to join their regiments. wehoar orders are feut over to Ireland for the several regiments on that cftablifhment to be augmented. 18. There has been produced this fcafon, in the botanick gar* den belonging to the Univcrfity of Cambridge, no less than 2000 cars of wheat from a Angle grain, which yielding 30 kernels each, does amount to 60,000. * . We are informed that a city re&or/who lately preached before a Jive, ry company, took occasion, in giving the character of a real patriot, to lament in a pathetick manner the supposed defe&ion of a late celebrated Commoner from those glorious, patriotick principles, which had gained him such just and universal refpedt from every wellwifhcr to the laws and conftiturions of this'free, independent kingdom. We hear that the ships taken up this year for Bengal, in the Hoa. Eafl- India Company’s service, will carry over 150 soldiers each. Aug. 21. Yesterday the Prince of NafTau, who lately arrived from Hol land, was introduced to his Majesty at St. James’s, and was grarioufly received. It is said a late Great Commoner has already given his opinion, that alUninifterial influence at next general eledion ought to be laid afldc, and to allow the eledors to chafe for themfelvcs, as he had oft found from experience they were the moft rational judges of their representatives. W EDNESD AY, December 3, 1766. A few days ago died at Hatfield, Mr. Thomas Dobfon, an eminent fanner, aged years. He has left fix sons and seven daughters, $U married and live in that neighbourhood, who together with their children and grandchildren, amounting topt perfi.ns, attended his funeral. Aug. 23. On Thursday died at his houte in Coldbath-helds, Mr. Carr, peruke-maker, whose death was occaftoncd by the Ihock of being told t man who owed him fome money, and had promised payment thereof, way thrown into goal for debt, which affcCtcd him fomuch, that he was seized with a fit, and continued fpeechlcfs three weeks, and till he died. As fome of our readers may perhaps be unacquainted with the nature of the office now filled by the Right Hon. Lord Chatham, the following is fubjoined'The Lord Keeper of his Majesty’s Privy Seal is a Privy Counfellor by his office, which is to keep the King’s Privy Seal, and to set it to all charters and grants of the King, and pardons iigned by him, before they come to the Great Seal; and to other things of less concern, As for the payment of money, ire. which do not pass by the Great Seal; He was anticntly also Chief Judge’of the Court of Requests. Till 30th Henry VIII. this office was commonly executed by the Clergy, but unce that time has been conferred only on temporal Lords. The Privy Seal is created by a patent, and by taking an oath, and has anapaitment near the House of Peers for his accommodation, which is fomeiimes used for the Lords Committees. It is talked that the Newfoundland filhery will next sessions be laid un der certain beneficial regulations, similar to that carried on at Shetland, by entrulling the affairs thereof to a focicty of merchants, by the name of 7he Royal Newfoundland Company. At the beginning of the cod filhing this last season, our fleet on the we stern banks unanimoully resolved to use the molt forcible means, if neccf* fary, to prevent the Dutch from dropping a line on those banks; but, luckily for them, not a veflel of that nation (perhaps apprised of there, solution) presumed to appear. Aug. 26. It is said an order is issued, that drums are no more to be us ed by the regiments of horse in this kingdom, but an additional number of trumpets are to be provided in their Head. They write from Leghorn, . that nine of the Grand Dujte of Tufcany*# gallies, together with an Engliih-built frigate carrying 30 guns, were fit-t ting out to join those of the Pope from Civita Vecchia, on an expedition against the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. ’ It"is said there has lately been difeovered anew chain of upwards of 70 per sons concerned in coining notes, and bills, Sec. to the amount of three hundred'thoufand pounds, and upwards; and that it is feared above five hundred honeff induftrimis tradefnien, and their families, will be totally ruined by this feeneof iniquity. We are allured, that there are forty Popilh Priests at York, and that the Papists are now greatly augmenting their Seminary for education in that city. Aug. zB. Last week a meflenger was sent away with the ratification of the treaty of commerce concluded between the Cmpreft of Russia and this court. According to letters from Algiers, not only the Dey of that State, but also Tripoli, Tunis, and Morocco, had refufed the payment of any fumi in the name of tribute to the Grand Stgnior. A correspondent has sent us the following intelligence:—An ingenious native of Leicefterfttire has difeovered the Secret of taming bees, in a very furprizing manner: yesterday he attended the Society of Arts in the Strand, with three different swarms, which he made to fly in and out of their refpiCtivd hives at pllafure. His djfcovery was approved of, and he was ordered a premium. Aug. %t). A little time before the expiration of that bright -era of Bri- glory, when the noble Earl (agatnft whom such au ungrateful tor rent of uhjuft and base detraction now rolls with mad rapidity) had the direction of publick affairs, he proposed a plan, by which (if adopted) ten millions of the national debt would have been paid, the bind tax re duced to what it used to be in time of peace, and poiter fold at three pence per pot, to the great benefit of the laborious poor, (the supp-r, t of the nation) who would then be able to do a greater quantity of work than now, by being the oftener able to recruit their exhausted spirits with the only wholesome liquor the produce of their labour can afford ; and as this truly great patriot is again restored to the direction of p üblick affairs, who. knows but ije may put this noble patriotick plan in execution, when, with out doubt, it will be in his power. Mh Wildman of Plymouth, who has made himfelf greatly famous through the Weft of England for his command over Brcs, being come to town, gave notice to Df*. Templcman, Secretary to the Society for the en couragement of arts, kc. that he would pay him a visit on Wcdnrfday the 27th in the afternoon, in his Bee- dress. Several gentleman and ladies who hwd heard of this intended vifif, were affemblrd at the Doctor’s. About five o’clock Mr. Wildman came, brought through the city in a chair, his head and face almost covered with Bees, and a moll venerable beard of them hanging down from his chin, which rendered his appearance truly refpcClabl*. The gentlemen and ladies were loon convinced that they r-'d not be afraid of the Bees, and therefore went up familiarly to Mr. Wild man, and convcrfcd with him. After having llaid aconfiderable time, h*
