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, To the KING** MOST EXCELLENT M AJESTY.
fi# bumble Address of bis dutiful and loyal fubjeSs the House of Bu-gtffes of bis
Majtjiy's ancient Colony of Virginia, met in Gfrural AJfemlJy.
May it please yoor Majesty,
WE your Majesty’s moft loyal, dutiful, and afFcXionatr fub
jcXs, the Houfifpf RurgetTes of this your Maje y’s an
cient colony of Virginia, now met in General Afi'embly,
beg leave, in the humbled manner, to adore your Ma- i
jefly, that your faithful fubjeXs of this colony, ever diw
ftinguiflied by their loyalty and firm attachment to your Majclly and vour
Royal ArX.ftors, far fr. m countenancing traitors, treasons or misprisions
oftreafon, arc ready, at any time, to facrifice cur lives and fortunes in
defence of your Majesty’s sacred perfonand government.
Jt is wi'h the deepest concern, and mod heart-felt grief, that your Ma
jesty’s dutiful fubjefls of this colony find that their loyalty has been tra
duced, and that those mcafures, which a just regard for the British conlli
lotion (dearer to them than life) made m ceßarv duties, have been mifie
prefented as rebellious attacks upon your Majesty’s government.
When we confider that, by the c dablilbed laws and coniluutioM of tbi
colony, the mod ample provision is made for apprehending and puniihieg
all those who (hill dare to engage in any treafianable practices again It ycur
Majedy, or dillurb the tranquility of government, we cannot without
horror think of the new, unufust, and permit us, with all humility, to
add, unconditutional and illegal inode, recommended to ycur Majesty,
of feiiing and carrying beyond sea the inhabitants of America, ful
pefted of any crime, and trying such pcrfjr.s ia any other manner than
by the ancient and long eftabl Oied courfc of proceeding ; fo> how trul,
deplorable must be the csfe of a wretched American, who, havhig incurred
the difpbafure of anv one ia power, is dragged from his native ho nr,
and his deared domedick connexions, thrown into a prison, not|o wait
bis trial before axcurt, jury,or judges, fiem a knowledge of whom, he is
encouraged to hope forfpeedy justice, but to exchange his imprifonmept
in his'own country for fetters among ftrar.gcrs: Conveyed to a
land, where no friend, no relation will alleviate his dillredes, or mini lei
to his necessities, and where no witness can be found to tedify his inno
cence, shunned by the reputable and h-'neft, and configncd to the society
and cooverfe of toe wretch and and abandoned, he can only pray tnat he
may toon end his misery wi’h his life.
Truly alarmed at the fatal tendency of these pernicious counfls, and
with hearts fiiled with anguify by such dangerous iovafions of our dcarett
privileges, we presume to pnftrate ourselves at the foot of your Royal
Throne, beseeching your Majedy, as our King and father, to avert from
your faithful aod loyal fubjeXs in America those miseries which mud ne
ceftarily be the conlequence of such meafmes.
After expressing our firm confidence in your Royal wisdom ar.d goodness,
permit us to allure your Majedy, that the mod fervent prayers of your,peo
pie of this colony are daily aodrefled to the Almighty, that your Majeily’s
reign may be long and prosperous over Great-Britain and all your domi
nions ; and that after death your Majedy may tade the fulled fruition of
eternal bliss, and that a defendant of your illustrious house may reign o
ver the extended Britilh empire, until time shall be tto more.
The following Order follows the Adtrefs.
Ordered , That Mr. Speaker do transmit the said address to the agent fer
this colony, with directions to caulc the fame :o be pri femed to his Moil
Excellent'Majedy, and afterwards to be printed and publilhed in the
English papers. .
SPEECH of his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Charles Grcvilte
Montagu, Governor of South Carolina, to the Cjeneral Afiembly of
that province, on Monday the 26th of June lad.
Honourable Gentlemen, ,
Mr Sf caber, and Gentlemen of the Commons House of AJftmbly,
HIS Majedy having been pleased to fignity to me, that it is not his ia
tbntion that this province, in general, Ihould any longer fuffer, on
account of the intemperate resolutions of the late Commons House or As
sembly, by a discontinuance of the meeting of their reprefeatatives, 1 hare
ta'ren the earliefl opportunity to ca 1 you together, for the necessary d‘n
patch of the publick bafinefs, which I trud you will pioceed upon with
prudence, unanimity, and expedition.
Although there are several matters that well deserve your feriooi confi.
de-ation, I cannot help mentioning to you, the grievances that your fellow
fubjeXs fuflerin the interior part.-, of this province, from the want of an
equal didribution of justice, as a matter that claims your immediate at
tention and regard ; as 1 have lately been an eye witness to the diftreir s
they labour under, 1 carneftly recommend to you, to purfuc such mea
fares as will tend’ to it-heve them ; and in order to case your deliberations
on this point, I will lay before you copies cf a report of the Lords Com*
miflianers for Trade and Plantation*, on the bill for eflablifhing Circuit
Courts in this province palled form? time since, wherein you will fee Rated
therrafonsthat operated against that aX receiving the -oyal approbation.
1 also reeomtnsnd to you to confider of fome regolat ons for carrying on
the trade between this province and tie r.dians, it having b*en under no
regulations for theic fix months p3ft ; and feme diiturbances have already
palled between them and the traders, which if not attended us, in t(mc,
may be prodnXivc of dangerous confluences. •
Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of tbe Common* House of Ajfimlly,’
1 (hall order tjie publick accounts to bo laid before you, and desire that
you will make provision for their difeharge.
WEDNESDAY. , July 12, 1769.
honourable Gentl.'tyn,
M r - Speaker and Gentlemen,
. TH 11 of {h,s province cannot fail to raise the mod pleas
ing refleXions tn the of every weii-wifher to its profperitv. a?d the
• e lnlnn^ b,n!,lt - Vs rt i ‘ n,ed Parliament, on the importatfon offiik from
L“* f® ® flatte ” you w,th tl,r ho P of adding another valuable
haplo to your produce, it cannot fail to add to the gratitude which the
tn 3 ” * l . be ( ! iefaa,oh ,*’ you have revived from your mother couni
>, moft juHly defervei. Let it be your care to improve the advantages
you enjoy, and in every mealurc calculated to promote the true welfare
and hap'jundt 01 the province, you may rely on my concurrence and sup.
r;,rt * C. G. MONTAGU.
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ALET •: ER from Aleppo in Turkey, fays, “ The Turks do not go
to this war with their usual courage; they having a prophecy a
fke !r l ‘ C , hy ’ thc . ,r k, "? dom * to .be destroyed by the Ruffians,
and the time it defermint* is part, as they fay, ten or twelve years ago:
this has a great (f.cX on the loldiers, who used to go to battle with the
utmnft fury and enthusiasm.”
April J. A letter from Paris, dated March 27, favs, “The Sieur de
Bourganville lately returned to St. Malo, on board of one of the frigates,
which hr commanded, ;:n d is since arrived here. He fay, he has dneo
vered an ifia: and in the So,th Sea hitherto unknown, but very extenlive,
frrtilr, and popjloei. He has brought home one of the inhabitmts, who
aftron r° ,a * eri °* underrta ‘ ldi ‘‘g *d to have fame knowledge of
April 5. Order* are difpatchcd to the commander of the men of war
on t.;e American flaiion, particularly to the northward, to keep a sharp
look oet againii the imuggiing of foreign European goods ; great cargoes
of whi,h arc udtobe ,h pped in i’rance on boa and their rilhermen to be
fold f toe Engiiih on the ejafts of Nesvfcundland, Nova Scotia, and
Cape Briton.
Mr. Moore’s new invented machine to go without horses, for
wh.ch ne has obtained his Majeltv’s patent, is not only adapted to wheel
carriages in general, such as coaches, chaises, carts, waggons, &c. but
w ploughing, harrowing, and every other branch of hulbandry j also to
all other machines and engines in use throughout the kingdom, in the va
rious biancnes of manufaXurc wherein draught herfes arc new employed,
hear that the new invented machine by Mr. Moore which is to go
without horses, is to run round the city road in a few days, and that very
shortly it is to set out for Winchester, and return the fame day, which is 140
milcs, with pnifengers. The utility of this invention n.uft .uIJ consider
ably to the circle ot arts, as, by it, travelling will not only be made more
expeditious and convenient, but the carriage of all kinds of goods trebly
reduced in price. *
According to an a-ithentick lift of the forces of her Imperial Majesty of
Ruftia, they amount to upwa ds of fix hundred and fix thoafand fighting
men, besides manners.
We hear from Cadiz, tha 1 - the ifis, a French frigate, is shortly to fail,
with a celebrated mathematician on board, and a great number of in
flrumer.ts, to the Cape de Verd 1 Hands and Goree, in order to difeover
the longitude, and Lr which an inflrument has been invented by Mons.
Pinjrc. which bids f.irer t fuccaed in that undertaking than any hitherto
made use of.
April 11. In th s day’s Gazette are addreftes to his Majesty from the
city of Norwich, town of Lancaller, shire of Linlithgow, Chancellor and
Profeflbrs of the Univrrfity of bt. Andrews, ancWcounty ot Haddington.
Extracl ff a Utter from Paris, dated flpnl J.
“ The news from St Domingo greatly alarms these who are interefled
in that colon;, for it seems the fermentation continues, ar.d the confe
q ucnces arc dreaded.
“ A report prevails, (which, however, we give only as such) that the
British Miniilrv ofter to rellore Canada to JFiance for the sum of 20,000,006
millions.”
April is. We hear that the day for frying Mr. Moore’s machine to go
without horses is kept fccret, for fear of mifebief being done among tne
cwwd ; the controuling po*er of that machine not having been as jet
so cffeXually tiied, it will be on a publick road, when it can have a
long run of fomv miles.
April 13. Yefteidny an address from the Gentlemen, Clergy, and
Freeholders of Surry, was prelected to his Majcl!y*i|y JAh n Thornton,
Kfq. Hi£h Jslf.-rifF of the f.tid countv, on whom his Majesty was after-
p'cafed to u-nfer the honour of Knighthood.
Jt is said a great di/pute has arilVn between two gentlemen of great
consequence. in the law, and that a challenge has ensued.
Tucfiday'a indy of dilliuXion hanged herfclf in her own garters, at her
apartments in Park llreet, Grofvenor-f'quare. ■ ’ ..
in this day’s Gazette arc *dd re fie* to the King from the county of Sur
ry, town 01 Kingllon upon Hull, Great Yarmouth, city of Edinburgh,
county of Perth, county of Aberdeen, city of Aberdeen, and borough of
Liu-fthgow.
April 15. It is greatly apprehended by the new quadruple alliance, tb it
the limprefs of Russia will be firoagly tempted to carry into execution her
late huiband’s plan, which was t* drive the Turks entirely out of Europe,
and to etl iblifli the feat of the Ruffian empire in Constantinople, as bead -
t*f the Greek empire.
April 20. r ) hero wtfre upwards of 100 people at one time Gated in Mr.
Layton’s calk with two Leads, and is be iargeft in tbe