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' • CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. ±5.
The Porte has received the agreeable news, that the Captain
Pacha has gained a complete victory in Egypt, over the
Rebel Beys, hear the Rosette, and is aduaily mailer of Cairo,
the capital of that kingdom. This important news, with the
treasure and effeds they found in Cairo, btfides the inutility it
has hitherto been to the Ottoman empire, will make a diffe
rence in the Grand Seguior’s revenue of 15 or 16
piaflres per aim.
PETERSBURG H, August 29.
The difpatchcs with arrived by the last Courier fromCon
flantinople, bring ho news of any change in the affairs
between our Miniftcrs and the Porte. The Divan persist in _
refuting to give any fatUfadion to the four demands of our
Court* These dispatches, and those received by a preceding
Courier, were laid before the Assembly of the State, who
dispatched an express to Coaftantinople in eight hours, after
holding conferences with the Minilters of Aultria and France
on this important occafiuft.
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MADRID* July ijf.
The Algerine corsairs hate lately taken a ftiip richly laden,
under Ruffian colours, and fold her cargo for 80,000 crowns.
This veflel was built at Archafigel; Ihe has come from Ani
fterdam to Barcelpna under Dutch colours, with a lading
of wheat, and, having provided herfelf with Ruffian papers,
failed with a cargo of 1400 tons of brandy, and was taken
after being out three days. The Ruffian Miniller has caused
the prize to be demanded back from the Dey, and has given
notice, that, if (atisfaclion be not made, he will complain to
,the Porte.
PARIS, August 28.
We hate seen here k copy of a truly royal will, taken from
the original, now set on a glazed frame in the inmoff closet
of his Prussian Majelly, at Potsdam ; the general opiuion is,
that »he Solomon of the north, will leave nothing else behind
him as to the disposal of his worldly fconcerns. The following
is a literal translation of the fame :
“ I die in peace with all men, and I hope with God.
Nature has bellowed on my itlultrious successor, prudehec
and wisdom ; he. is indebted to time for experience and matu
rity 1 I bequeath to him four hundred thousand valiant men,
four hundred millions of florius, four hundred millions of
solid resources, the hearts of a whole people, a brave, a ge
nerous people indeed ! This last blessing has been conferred
upon me, not so much on account of my military toils, as of
my love of juftice* My honored fire has performed great
things 1 the little I have done, may be much improved upon ;
btit in the present juncture of affairs, the keeping all things in
their present Hate is the utmost to be wiftied for.”
The attention of the people of this capital is fixed on the
troubles t»f Holland j and we are persuaded here, that the
King of Prussia yvill not engage in this affair which is foreign
to'him.
The wife of Charles Cafoue, formerly a grenadier, and now
a labouring man at Dampiere, in the tliocefe of Auxarre, was
on the 25th and t6th of June brought to bed of four children,
all alive at this moment; they were each of them 14 inches
long when born ; the mother suckles two of them, and the two
others are out at nurse. It was seven years since this Woman
bad borue any children, and in a week after her delivery ihe
Attended the market of St. Amand.
HAGUE, September 27. .
General Splenger, who by command of the Prince and the
States o; Guelders, sent the troops against Hattem and El
bourg, has given to the Lords of the States a report, under
his signature, of the effects of that expedition ; wherein he
fays, “ by the favor of God, there was not any killed on either
fide of the soldiers, or on that of the Burghers, and that the
whole was conducted with all possible moderation.”
The Baron de Goertz, Miniller of the King of Prussia and
Envoy extraordinary to the States General, had a conference
on the 18th, with M. de Leyden de Billerfwyck, the Stadt-
Jiolder’s representative at the States of Zealand, and this week
President of the Assembly of their High Mightinesses ; at
Which tune he delivered his credentials. We are persuaded
that his Excellency’s Embassy is to try all the means in his
power, to effect a conciliation in favor of the Prince Stadt
holder; he , s charged to declare-formally, that his mailer
will not take upon him any other office than that of Pacific
Mediator. We are at prefect ignorant of the contents of the
letter delivered by the Count to the States General, which
has been formally notified to their High Mightincffes, qji which
they will deliberate, and determine on the answer to be given
to it.
It is believed the terms require no facrifice on the part of
the contrary to the constitution of the States* to
the hopor of the foverciguty, as well as the lurety of the in
tegrent members of the Cupreine Thus
this'letter, the contents of which cannotlas yet be known,
can be looked upon in no other view, than as an overture to
a speedy reconciliation of all the subsisting differences.
The Marquis de Verac dispatched a courier to Versailles
yefttrday evening, with orders te use all pofftble expedition.
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GOTTINGEN, July 05,
The three youngest Prints of Great-Brits ia were entered
of this University ori the 6th of this rooiith, each of them
accompanied by a Governor, a Preceptor, and a Gentleman;
their Royal Highnesses are lodged in one house, and the
txpence of their table fixed at 600' crowns pdf week, including
two grand iuflitution dinners, to which the Profeffors and
some Students are invited. ProfefTor Mayor teaches the
Princes the German language ; Mr. Heyne inftru&s them in
Latin ; the Ecclefiaflick Counjfellor Less teaches them re~
ligion ; and the Counsellor Feder inftru&s them in morality.
These mailers are rewarded by an extraordinary *ppoietjiji«ni>
of 1000 crowns per annum each.
AU G U S ¥A y Dec . 25#
GEORGIAi
fly the Honorable EDWARD TEtFAtR, Efquire*
Captain-General, Governor, and Commander in Chief is
and over the slate aforefaid. >
A PROCLAMATION*
WHEREAS good and fufficient information hath been
received that a certain banditti of rtin away Nsgroe
men, who have been out-layers before and since theevacu*.
tion of the town of Savannah, have lately embodied them
selves, and have with arms opposed the militia that have been
ordered out to suppress them, and have also committed sun
dry depredations on the property of the inhabitants of the
counties of Chatham and Effingham: I HAVE THEREFORE
by and with the advice and consent of the Honorable the
Executive Council, thought fit to issue this my Proclamation,'
hereby offering a Reward of Ten Pounds for each of the said
run-away NegroC men, being brought to trial, or good and
fufficient proof before a Magiftrati, of each or either of the
said run-away Negroc men being killed.
GIVEN under my hand and the grtfat fdal of the said
state, at Augusta, this tWeuty-firft day of December*
• in the year of our Lord one thoufajid seven hundred
and eighty-fix, and of our sovereignty and indepen 4 ,
deuce the eleventh.
EDWARD TELFAIR.
By his Honor s Command ■>
J. MILTON, Secretary i
GOD SAVE THE SfAfE!
On Monday the 25th September a Communication took
place in Philadelphia, of the different officers aird represen
tatives of the refpe&ive lodges under the governiment of the
Grand Lodgesdi in order to confider the pro
priety of renouncing their fubiiiiffion in future to the
hajonie power and authority of Great-Britain, and declar
ing themselves independent of any foreign jurifdiftion what
ever. And it was iefolved,Jthat the Grind Lodge is, and
ought to be perfectly independent and free of any such foreign
jurifdittion.
This mcafure (observes a cotrefpondent) is not Without
its ‘precedent in the annals of Mafonry.-—Buch has been the
cohduftof other lodges similarly circumftahced, and seems to
arile from the providential order and disposition of human
events. For although Masonry disavows any manner of
connexion with politics or faction, and it is right it should be
so, yet confideriug a reparation has taken place between
Britain and America ■, it would be as improper andabfurd that
we should again yield an obedience to her wild, extravagant
claims of power, as that the lodges of this independent country
should fee subordinate to foreign jurifdlttions in any part es