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■S A T U R D A Y, May iy, 1757, rEORGIA STATE GAZETTE ° R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. I FtEEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. CtnJlitHiion of Georgia, |j UGUS TA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Efays, A,tales of Intelligence, AdvertiJmehtSy &c, will be gratefully received , and every kind of Priming performed, igggg . , -. . _ _ _ .. • H ■ « 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. # """" * ""* ■ 1 , m m . 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 - - ■ : 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 [No. xxxiv. 3