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■S A T U R D A Y, May iy, 1757,
rEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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g X ‘O N D O N, January 24.
9 His Majesty’s moll gracious Speech to both Houses
of Parliament, on Tuefday, January 23.
1 My Lords and Gentlemen ,
JHAVE particular fatisfadtion in acquainting
you, that, since I last met you in Pailiament,
I the tranquillity of Europe has remained uninter-
I rupted, and that all foreign powers continue to
I express their friendly difpofitiun to this country.
! I have concluded a Treaty of Navigation and
I Commerce with the Moll Chriflian King, a copy
I of which (hall be laid before you,.. I mull recom
mend it to you to take such measures as yon
judge proper for carrying it into effeft ; and I
trull you will find that the provisions contained in
it are calculated for the encouragement of indu
stry, and the extension of lawful commerce in both
countries, and, by promoting a beneficial inter
course between our refpeftive fubjedfs, appear
likely to give additional permanence to the bles
sings of peace. I Ihall keep the fame salutary ob
jeds in view in the commercial airangements
which I am negotiating with other powers.
I have also given diredlions for laying before
you a copy of a Convention agreed upon between
me and the Catholic King for canying into effect
the sixth article of the kit treaty of peace.
Gentlemen of the Iloufe ts Commons)
I have ordered the estimates of the present year
to be laid before you, and I have the fulleft reli
ance on your readiness to make due provision for
the several branches of the public service.
The Hate of the revenue will, I am persuaded,
continue to engage your conltant attention, as be
ing effentjally connected with the national credit,
and the prosperity and fafety of my dominions.
My Lords and Gentlemen ,
A plan has been formed, by my direction, for
transporting a number of convidis, in order to re
move the inconvenience which arose from the
crowded ila'.e of the goals in different parts of*he
kingdom ; and you will, I doubt not take such
farther measures, as may be-necessary for this
purpose.
I tiutr you will be able, in this feflion, to carry
into effect regulations for the ease of the merchants,
and for fimplifying the public accounts, in the va
rious branches of the revenue; and I rely upon
’he uniform coniinuar.ee of your exertions in pur
suit of such objetts as may tend Hill further to im
prove the national resources, and to promote and
confirm the welfare and happiuefs of my people.
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KINGSTON, (Jamaica) March 24.
Advice has been received in London from Paris, i
that the Comte de Grade has nearly Hemmed the
torrent of Court piejudice which the Queen’s party
had raised against him ; and that Monsieur Bou
gainville was in consequence falling into gieat pro
iefiiona' diftepute*
Five Americans, who have been convi&ed of
fmugglmg tobacco into I.ifbon, and of conveying
out ot the kingdom of Portugal its coin, gold and
fiiver, aie condemned, after several appeals, to
peipctuai imprifonmer.t and labor in the Brazils.
The Irilii newspapers present a miserable ptoof
of thp.diforders which rage in that country. The
volunteer nf t , u Voufsms
twelve or thirteen Proclamations frem the Lord
Lieutenant, offering sums for the difeovery of ruf
fians who have committed depredations and hor
rid cruelties in different parts of the country.
NASSAU, ( Llensj - Previdence) March 28.
The following is a copy of a letter from Mr.
M‘Gi!liVray, Chief of the Creek Indians, to his
friend in this town. Our readers are already ap
prized that Mr. M‘Gillivray’s mother is a Creek,
and that, agreeable to the cufloms of the Indians,
he istherefoie deemed one himfelf. Hisfuperior
acquiiemeuts and eminent abilities have raised him
to the firff place among bis countrymen j what fol
lows will lhew the zealous animated part he takes
in whatever affeCts their interefls.
“ Little TalaJJee , Upper Creels , fan. 20, 1787*
“SIR,
“ In return for your friendly communications,
it is not often in my power to furnifii you with
any thing worthy your attention, unless details of
our difpuies with the Georgians can be deemed so;
disputes which, on their parts, are as frivolous as
they are vexatious, and wh'ch to all appearance
will rot he terminated otherwise than by the sword.
“ You hare been already made acquainted with
the grounds of the differences between us, from a
copy of a letter that I wrote in 1784 to Go'error
Houlioun, and which waspuhlidicd by feme friend
to my country. P epeated representations have
followed that one for years, but without effecting
the leaf! change of measures as to the encroach
ments made upon our hunting grounds by the
Georgians. Wearied out with ineffedlual attempts
to awaken in them a sense of justice and equity, the
nation W'as refolvcd not to behold w ith indifference
a plan formed to wrest from us the greater part of
our nieff valuable territory. Accordingly, in
April 1786, we met in general convention, to de
liberate upon what measures w e ihould adopt for
The
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: fruff rating the wicked dcfigns of the Georgians.
i Finding that moderate ones had been treated with
insolent c< ntempt, it was determined to lift the
red hatchet, in oppofitioti to insolence and in
jtiftice. This was become necellary for perl'onal
fafety. Parties of the Georgians, when employed
in mat king out their usurpations, uniformly at
tacked any of our people who chanced to fall ia
their way, although peaceably hunting game ou
our own grounds.
“ Being influenced by motives of humanity, and
unwilling to spread that definition on their fron
tiers wh ch the conduct of the Georgians merited,
intruders who fiiould be found thereon ; and they
had orders not to deftruy them, nor even use foicc
in any case wheiein personal fafety did not render
it absolutely necefiaiy. This was in a great mea
sure accomplifi.ed ; only fix persons loft their l;ve3
on the part of the Georgians, ami thefc fell vidiina
to their own temerity. This affair, which their
Tnifjuitous proceedings had drawn upon them, lia3
been held forth by the Georgians as the molt vio
lent unprovoked outrage that was ever committed ;
and for which nothing can atone but my life, and
the lives of a number of our Chiefs.
“ In Odober 1786, the Georgians sent up a
talk to the nation, inviting them to a conference
to be held at Oconee, and profelTing an anxioua
desire to have all diffcteices amicably adjulled.
Having good grounds to queflion the sincerity of
tbele profeffons, the invitation was not accepted
of; and only a lew of our people, from motives
of curiosity, attended. The event proved the ju
fiice of our suspicions. These mefienger3of peace
were attended by 1500 men in arms;*and pians
of the moil atrocious nature againlt our persons
weie <oiicerted. 1 hefe they attempted to effeit
upon the credulous few of our nation that met them;
but the fpirm d condt d of fume of them alarming
the Georgians, prevented the accompliihment of
their peifidious deligns, and this aimed force,
which, in the event of their failing in thedefignof
seizing our persons, was to fpiead devastation and
defiiu&ion through our country, was oblige 1 to
retieat piecipitarely, after having disgraced them
fclves by an abortive attempt to engage thole In
dians who met them to murder fevetal innocent
traders fpecified by name, and to procure the af
fafiination of all the Chiefs who were supporters of
their country, and of ccurle hofhie to the Georgi
ans.
“ I have icafon to believe that in 'the ensuing
fpringthey will offer feme licfii yropofitior.s to us.
I n.can to hold y«r annual gr-jud convention in
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