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lent ui his assistance, and without whom we cannot exist, will soon find a hearty welcome with those Gentlemen, who now refufe him (helter from the inclemency of the weather ; for if we are wife we will follow the example of South-Carolina, by making a Valuation Law; I do not mean a Piue Barren Law, but good oak and hickory; then the debtor and credi tor will be upon an equal footing, and the extravagant part of the community may fquauder their money as soon as they ’ please, for they freely have my consent. GEORGIENSIS. LONDON, November a. Extra fl of a letter from Rome, dated the $d ofZeptemler, 178 6, reui'oed oj a g enteiman of the frjl diflwition. « We have just been fpeftators of one of the most bloody tragedies ever afted in this metropolis fincc the days of Cola di Rienzo. The awful fpeftacle was however received with universal applause ; and, with regard to its merit, I can only fay that drift justice has been done to the principal character. To come to the point, Wednesday last, about four o’clock in the afternoon, Cardinal Turlone, High Inquisitor of the Holy Office, on his coming out of the Vatican, was attacked by an incensed multitude, who forced his Eminence out of his carriage, and, after cutting his nose and ears off, and mang ling him in a most (hocking manner, dragged the butchered carcase to Monte Tiburno, where they hung it on a gibbet 50 feet high, which they had erefted for that purpose. The reasons assigned for this popular execution are various : Car dinal Turlone was originally a Black Friar ; but a few years ago he praftifed at the bar as a Curiale, which in English answers to a Lawyer. His abilities were reckoned so very moderate that he was generally styled the dull pleader ; yet on several occasions he found an apportunity of diftinguilhing himfclf by a superior degree of impudence. When his Ho* linefs created Turlone High Inquisitor, and invested him with the purple, the most considerate part of the people were struck with amazement, well knowing that neither his birth nor talents gave him any title to that supreme dignity. The catifc of his elevation is commonly traced to the following circum stance : During the late administration Cardinal Nortoni the place of the High Inquisitor, and Confeffor to the Pope, for your Lordlhip must know that one implies the other, was held by a pious Cardinal of the name of Fattiftoni, whose excellent character ever commanded the resp est of the public. Some Temples arising in the bread of his Eminence, concern ing the conduft of his,penitent, and finding himfelf incap able of putting a check to the noxious measures pursued in the Vatican, he thought proper to resign ; upon which the Ministry held a secret consultation, when it is said that one Cardinal Veimotti recommended Turlone as a fit person to succeed Battiftoni, which was agreed upon by the junto, after that Turlone had entered with them into a solemn en gagement to support their measures through thick and thin, and direst the Pope’s conscience in a mauner totally subservient to their machinations. He had not been one month in office, when he made a clandestine connexion with Cardinal Selbo roni, who, having been a Jesuit for many years, had strongly imbibed the pernicious maximes of that iniquitous orders Cardinal Nortoni, who had been one of the firft instruments of Turlone’s exaltation and fortune, became the firft victim of his ingratitude. Aided by the jefuitical manoeuvres of Selboroni, Turlone soon found means to poison the Pope’s mind against his benefaftor, and in a few days had him turned out of the Vatican. And now the treacherous arts and hypo critical grimaces of the dignified Turlone gained fuchan afeendant over the mind of the deluded Pontiff that he became the folc and abfohue oracle of the Conhftoiy. From the morofity of Turlone’s temper, and the Neronian perverseness of his heart your Lordship may easily guess what could be the coufequence of placing an uuliiuited power in the hands of such a man. The oppreffiono the poor and the miseries of his fellow creatures ever seemed his favourite objefts. While he remained in office about 20,000 individuals were Inut up and actually starved within tnc walls of the holy In quisition. Several C aidinals moved for an aft of grace in full Consistory ; one of them, in particular, with gieat wisdom, observed, that in every other country such afts frequently took place, not only to favour the caufc of humanity, Lut also to serve the ends of good policy ; especially after the numerous calamities with which the fubjefts of his Holiness had lately been grievously afflicted. He proved that the ev!- dent aim of the Inquisitor, in his unmanly riguor, was to enrirh himfelf, at the fame time that he impoveriffled the nation by depriving it of a great number of ingenious and ui'eful a; lifts and manufacturers ; anu, after ali, h,s Eminence declared, that, having taken the trouble of investigating the nature of the various charges laid on the poor wretches con fined in the goals of the Inquisition, he had found that, ex. cept a very few, not exceeding the number, perhaps, of eo who might deserve the tod ot juitice, the rest onhat great multitude were guilty of nothing else but indiferetion and exuberant good nature. These forcible arguments feemerf to make some impreflion on the mind of the Sovereign Pontiff, but Turlone set his black face again!! all the pleas of humanity and reason, in such a blunt and insolent manner, that the good intention of the benevolent Cardinal, whefe name, I think, is Effigamioni, was entirely defeated, and the next day Turlone lent an express order to all the Mai dials, D e , puties, Bailiffs, and Gaol-keepers, throughout the Popifo dominions, to clap double irons on their piifoners. Such was the brutal disposition of this Inquisitor, that one day in the Vatican, happening to find the Pope on his knees before a noble picture of Raphael, representing Mercy on a golden throne, he fell into a molt violent pafiion, tore the picture to pieces before the face offlis Holnvefs. and refufed hdnabfo lution for three weeks, which infamous conduct be pretended to juftify with tl is specious rcufon, That Mercy being a pagan deity, it was a molt heinous fia fora Christian Pope to make it an objefl of his veneration.” December 6. Monday the American Plenipotentiary pre sented the Rev. Dr. White of Pennf) lvania, and the Rev. Dr. Provost ofNew-Yoik, to his Grace the Lord Archbilhop of Canterbury, tube consecrated Bishops for the Un ted States, The Rev. Dr. Gtiffith of Virginia is to be made a third. CHARLESTON, February 26. On Saturday last, his Excellency Thongs Pi/ukney, Esq, Governor elect, was proclaimed with the usual solemnities. His Excellency, attended by both Iloufes of the Legillature, &c. appeared at 12 o’clock in the east balcony of the state house, and was there fiiff proclaimed by the Sheriff, —the fpedatois feflifying their approbation by loud and reiterated acclamations. The proceflion then, in the following order, moved down Broad-ftreef —in front of the battalion of artillery, the com panies of light infantry, the battalions of militia, and the company of futilliers ; whole brilliant appearance and mili tary address were conspicuous on the occaficu. A feijeant and file of fufilliers to clear the way : The Door-keepers of both HouLs, with ftaves : Melfenger with the mace : The Hon. Brigadier General Huger, Sheriff of Charleston Difti icl, bearing the sword of state : Deputy Sheriff, and Deputy Secretary of state: His Excellency the Gouernor eletf : The Prefidcnc of the Senate and Speaker of the House of * Representatives, in their robes: Clerks of both Houses, in their gowns : The Honorable Thomas Gadsden, Elq. Lieutenant Gover nor elect : The Honorable the Privy Council: . Members of the Hon. the Senate: Members of the House of Representatives : 1 His Excellency Major General Moultrie, late Governor; attended (us bis/utt) by the society of the Cincinnati, (of which he is President) drefl'ed in the ancient uniform, and wearing their iniignia; Gentlemen strangers : Citizens. Being at rived at ;he Exchange, his Excellency was again proclaimed, and the repeated acclamations of the people de monstrated their extreme fatisiaftion. The procession then returned in the fame order to the state-house, when the ar tillery fired thirteen rounds of caution, and the different corps a feu de joy. After the ceremony, his Excellency gave an elegant cold collation at his house. SAVANNAH, March 15. The Hon. Henry Olborne, Esq. having been appointed ’ Chief Justice of this state, in the room of Nathaniel Pendleton, Esquire, who declined afting, he took his feat on the Bench on Friday last in the Superior Court tor the county of Cha tham. Same day John Billis and Thomas Smith were tried and found guilty of robbing the store of Melfrs. May and Hills in the night of the 10th of December lait, but were reeora- I mended to mercy by the jury. j Next day John Black, alias Blackman, was tried for being