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Georgia Gazette. <m OU*** P*BW* Anfaerf Dr. MUSGRAVF.’i Letter, in/Med in thfTdhlidk A+ekrtiJ* ts September *, 1769, from •whence it mat eefie/intt ■ thetthrr fafert, and bracing Date, Pljmoutb, Augnfi is. ♦ JUST* and: ■ > v . will permit me to believe that you never knew any L j| more of Me, then I have the honour of knowing of *^7, ( you; and if in your letter o( the 1 ath of August you ] W Y nos made a wrong use of my name, I (hnu)d not y * “v , O pow Ind myfclfobliged to enter into a correfpoadeoce g You. pretend that “in the summer of the year ICjr ** 1764, overtures went made io my name to feverai m Membefi of Parliament, importing that 1 was ready to Impeach three a pevfons. two of whom were Peer* and.Member* of the Privy Council, „ of having fold the peace to the FrenchAnd you fawn to found there upon the evidence of a charge, which you fay you camiei yourfelf to Lord link fox, l n • < ! *, I declare, therefore, here, Sir, that I never made, nor caused to he made, iiy focli overture, either in the winter or summer of the year 1764. por at any other time 1 i pna, on one fide, too faithful to the office i fil led and on the other too zealous a friend to truth, m j eonfefa you do not fay it was i that made theft overtures; but only that ‘they wei* made in my name, particularly to Sir George Yongc and Mr. fritsherbert. e ‘ ‘ , I oiere yoo I do not know either of these Gentlemen, and never au therted any person whatever to make in mv name such overtures, which t heabbefrence alone 1 have for calumny would make me detest. I call upon you, tbcreflfre, Sir, to lay before the publick the name of the kudacnroe pdrton who has made ofe of miae to cover his own odious offers. The Gentlemen whom you have given as your witnefTes cannot deny you thin jdftification of thqfo Own veracity and your’s. Though I cannot bot commend your integrity in citing your Authors, uet h appears to meanMLof the left imprudence, in an affair of so much weight, to build upon a report for naming pnbjickly a person of my charac ter without having previously epnfulted him. If you had recollefled the contradiaion 1 gave in James’s Chronicle of OA. 15, 1766, No. 89i j toian advertifcment in the fame paper, No. 875, importing in fub daace what you alledge ip your last letter, you had laved mo the trouble of replying to you at this tijpc* What mail be the result i The publick wiU hake read greedily your letter; will have believed its contents, be* cause you appeal therein to my tellimony : But what will they think now when f&ur own ihterelL my honour and truth oblige me to deny all that you bate.advanced thereon with refpea to me i 1 J ilt it the fame with your pjretence r th MX tboft the lytn or May 17*5* 1* Mr. Fitaherbert told ypu, ha knew that overtures had beto made to me s to fell for a fom of raopey the papers that were in my hands.” t have always flattered myfelf with being poflefled of the esteem and friendfhtp of the English, whh whom I have lived. Who of them then io these sentiments would have presumed to have Ihewn fufficicnt contempt for me to have made me fuck an oycrrtuO? The injury would have been the more sensibly felt by me, as the charafter of the person was more re *l Stall not follow you. Sir, either in all the Heps yon have thought it >odr dtty to take, dr in the arguments you make use of to support them : These fliew jhe Orator, and Thofc, if they be well founded, prove the Patriot. J 1 , . . e e Bat I hero certify to yoo, on my word of honour, and in the face of the publick; that I cannot be of any fort of use to you; that I never en tered into nay treaty for the fate of my papers, tad never, either by my fctf.-or pay agent authojifcd on my part, offered to make appear that the Peace had been fold to France. . r ie V If Lord Halifax, or the Speaker to whom you fay you ajldreffed yourfeir, In Order to call upon me as evidence with refpefi to the validity of your charge, bad caused me to be cited, he might have known by my anfvvers whmy thoughts wer*, that England rather gave money to France than France to England, to conclude the last Peace; and that the happincls J had in concurring to the great work of peace has lefoired me with fenti vnswcvof tbrjnftsft vemwatiwsrfof the Rnglifli Contmiffioners who had been employed in ic, and with the moll lively esteem and fmcere# admiration for the late Count de Viry, who in his attachment to the welfare of the ‘two'Bartons then at war, and thanks to his indefatigable zeal. had the glory of bringing that peace to a happy conclusion. . . . Judge now, Sir, with wbat solidity you can depend upon me to ttnm • I am too well known in England to have been under any this reply, ifthe franknefs of your letter had not appeared to me iMn •my preventing you from taking any further steps, which cmmmmi * ’turn to your prejudice, in as much a# they would be founded fol ly fal prudent as pstriotick, I fig and therein give yoo my address, that for the maintenance of your-™* veracity you may furnifti me with the means of convifting pubhckly.raol flanderera who have dared to make use of my name, in a manner*!* 1 mme repugnant to real fads, than the dignity with which I have tret pp°t edwy ebarader, even in the midst of the persecution of my enemies. h*wf the honoor of being Your mofl bumble fo rv * at < ’ nisnkl -leaFuts Fraaet. WeSminfier. Sr*. 4* - Chevalier D EON. tr e du e 1 and ar, jinu„, , 7> Sirn rx NDO N ’ OcTOßtt 10. , HE Devon (hire petition is very spirited, and contafaa the fame prayer with that from the county of York, a difiolutioa of the rarliamcnt. Among other things the Oeatlea,en of Devon* shire fay, “We prefumn. moil gracious Sovereign, to ada M °ur supplication Ito eur fellow fuhjeds, that your Majesty would g aemuffy atrend to their complaints. Permit not yourfelf, to be r|tided by wicked and groundless infrtiaations, that they proceed • rom faction or diffainfadion. We presume t 0 4(lure yoor Majesty, shoe they flow from the puteft ical for your Majesty’s honour and fafety, and n os the w 'lhes to the perpetuity of the throne in your Majesty S Ruyal house, and the privileges of the fobjed. so infeparabfo tonneded noth your Majesty's right to the crown. We acknowledge with them your Majesty’s paternal regard to the welfare of your fobjedr. 1 wugyiiii lanaent that the fruits offo many royal virtues Aould be biafted with evil and pernicious counsels. We were willing to fptuw your rojmlkfeafl the pain it moftMceCtrily foci from the repeated criea and cotujmnr* of your fuhjeds, waiting with patienc* and in fllence for the moll defirableof all confHtitioaal remedies, the interpofitioa of a fre* and uoiltjluencfd Parllameirt. But we can no longer entertain such hopee of redrcit, as by the arts iod pra flicos of your Majefty f s servants an undue and dangerous afcendancy.has been gained over tne House of Commont’i and they have been prevailed upon to rejed the choice of a member, not ineligible by the laws of this kingdom, and to declare another duly elud ed, though confeffedly with the minority of votes, whereby a great and populous county is deprived of its privilege of representation; and the fundamental telation between theele&or and the eleded is totally cancti ied and destroyed. This precedent, so subversive of the firft of all ogr privilege#, the right of rieding our own rep refen tatives so Parliament, extinguiffies all our hopes of Parliamenta<y redraft. In all humilityv therefore, we supplicate your Majesty, dec.” 03. is. A friend to j office soys, to fee the defaulter of millions, the defrauder of the poor foidier, tb<; plunderer of the publick treasure, thu underminer of his country, gooff unpuniffied, after having bad hoaOuM heaped upon him, during the course of his unfaithful ferviccs, as if, liko Manilus, he had laved the Capitol, or like another Scipio, drawn Han nibal from Oar gate#, and subdued a rival Carthage, is an event of which no history can furnifti an example. * * A letter from York, dated Odeber 10, fays, “ We are informed that so great is the spirit of the Freeholders in molt parts of this coooty for lira support of the rights of the Ele&brsof Great; Britain in general, that they ftrive r who'(halt be the fore mo II to sign the petition to be presented tolrfo M.i>e(ty on that fubjed. By the belt accounts that have been received, there are 5000 who have already signed it; amongst wham, wt are Affujtd, that no left than 14 are members of Parliament.” ExtraS ts a Utter frm the Hague, Odhber 6, , *• We are assured that the Baron de Breteuil, Atnbaffador from France, in a conference which he lately had with the States-Geaeral, intimated to their High Mightinefles, that having heard a report that tbev intend ed to make a conftderable augmentation in their troops, be could not-beip expressing his furprize at foch a Hep, especially in a time of peace, in which they could have nothing to appreheod from any quarter, and at all events might depend upon the alliftance of the Coart of France, which was ready to furnifti them with any number of troops they might havs oc cafionfor; tha therefore, iftheyffiould manifeHuny intention of iocreaf ing their troops, it could not but give umbrage to the King, his dihger, and ’ay the foundation of mistrust between the two powers, dtc.” A letter from Lincolnfhire, dated Odober j, mentions, that tho Fqee holdcrs of that county are to meet soon to confider of a Petition. . t 03. 14. A great number of half pay navy Lieutenants have, in con feq jence of lea-e granted by the Lords Commiffioneri of the Admiralty, applied to the Ruffian AmbaOador for, and obtained appointmenuinthe Ruffian fleet. \ Several bets are already made on the return of L—d H——d this kingdom; the odds sre that he never visits it again. And it is now currently reported, that another N n, who hath late ly been the fubjed of a popular writtr, will soon set out for thtfouth ff jF cjc* * r it is very confidently aflerted, that General Paoli has got a pen Con fet tled upon him by the government, of one thousand pounds petaoaum. Some letters from Gibraltar mention, that the Dey of Algiers h^ or dered out all his Corsairs, to cruize against the French trade in tW Me dhifff W fn 11 > 1 ’ i*# By fottere from Genoa, we hear, that the Algerine Corsairs havelele ly plundered fsvcral French vessels, and have treated the people belong ing to them with great inhumanity. • BUPPORTBRS of the BILL of RIGHTS. Mr. Alderman Townfcnd in the Chair. At a General Meeting, O&ober !•,'> Ths conduA of Samnel Vaughan, F.fq. having been brought into quef- Uo, and he having informad this society, that an information M toteod £>W,° Tha?i?Se said Mr. Vaoghan does not fully juftify kimfelf, either on a trial, or by publication if no trial be had next term, ‘he.fo ciety will then proceed to an examination of hUpubHckqoodna, and du tarmiaeaccordingly, and that this refolutioa bepubUihed. That the next meeting be on Tuesday the 14th mft. >• T* ,T * ,loKl Bf * ta “** “So*. MORMi. -tme-n.-