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Bufe, Ef<]. commander, in seven weeks (rim.
■mouth, in which came paffengera, Dr. Prevoft,
■ White, Baron Boellnitz, his lady and son.
I WKxiracl of a letter from London , dated Feb. 6.
E. Last Sunday, the 4th inst. the Rev. Dr. Saracel
■ v ,)ft. Redor of Trinity Church in New-York,
fKj Chaplain to Congress, and the Rev. Dr. Wil
!Bn White, ReCtor of Christ Church and St. Pe
f B’s in Philadelphia, were consecrated, the for-
Bilhep of the Protestant Fpifcopal Church in
S ■ fate of New York, the latter Biflmp of the Pro
-1 Kant Epiicopal C hurch in the Bate of Penufylva
| ft, The solemnity was performed at Lambeth
| Race by the Most Reverend Dr. Moore, Lord
; Bchbiihop of Canterbury, Primate of all England,
l ftfiedby the Moll Reverend Dr. Markham, Lord
Bchbiihop of York, Primate of England, and
ftrd High Almoner to the King, and by the Right
I ftveiend Dr. Moss, Lord Bishop of Bath and
I Kells, and the Right Reverend Dr Hinchliffc,
I Krd Bilhop of Peterborough.”
j lln a committee of the Britilh Houle of Com
| ftons, on the 2d of March, a majority of 62 ap
| Bared for impeaching Mr. Hastings of high crimes
| Bd misdemeanors. The Houle then resumed, the
I ftnnmittee reported, and wete to fit again,
f IBy private letters from France we are informed,
• Bat, in order to introduce leveral salutary altera
s lons in the system of finances, and other purposes
; let unknown; his Moll Christian Majesty has
K ou ßkt proper to call a General AffemLly of the
Ktion, coin; ol'ed of the Clergy, the Nobility, and
Be Reprefentaiives of the people. This extraor
dinary convention has been announced by the fol
■wing circular letter.
I “ Our beToved and frufty—Having resolved to
Bonvene perions of different ranks, and the mod
B' j alified in our kingdom, in order to communicate
■0 them our views for the relief of our people, the
ftrder of our finances, and the reform of dilferent
Bbufes, we ha\e thought proper to call to this con-
Bention our First Presidents, Attornies General of
Bur sovereign courts. We address you in this
Better, in order to tell you to come to Versailles
■he 29th of January next, on which day we have
Ketermined to open our General Assembly, and to
■ear what will be proposed by 11s. We are con
■inced that we fiiall receive from you the services
■which we are to exped for the good of our king-
Idom, which is our principal objed.
I Given at Versailles, the 30th day of December,
1786.
(Signed) LOUIS.”
We have now the pleasure to inform our read
■ers, that the General Assembly of the States met
Bat Versailles the 9th of February. The following
■ fubjeds are to be debated, viz.
1. The reform of different laws.
2. The manner of enacting and publifliing laws.
3. The adminiftratiou of civil aud criminal
I justice.
4. The adminiffration of finances.
5. The consideration of the active and paflive
I debts.
6. The domains, aydes and gabel Us, (excise and
I impost upon fait.)
I 7. Land tax.
I". S. The customhouse.
5. Provincial assemblies.
10. The general abolition of mortmain, or rights
belonging to convents.
11. The naturalization of all Protestants.
12. The proper regulation of a loan office.
The difeuflion of these important n afters laid by
a powerful monarch under the consideration of his
own fubjeds, is an infiance of generosity unex
ampled in hirtory. The Members of the Affein
bly are comprehended under the following heads:
1. Clergy—consisting of seven A rchbilhops, and
seven Bilhops,
2. of seven Marfhafe of
France, ten Dukes cud Peers, thirteen Comtes, aud
leven Marquises.
3. Commoners—-confining of seven Counfellots
of State, four Intendants of different Provinces,
the Presidents and Attornies General of all the Par
liaments, the Mayors and Deputies of the princi
pal cities, the Deputies of the three orders of the
Provinces called PaysSEtais.
Extract of a lette, from Pans , dated Jan. 20, 178;.
“ ’Tis reported, in confluence of the advan
tages the Engliffi juppofe thev have gained in the
late commercial tteaty, that about the time Con
gress complimented Count de Vergennes with “ the
lervice of plate” a mod elegant portrait of his Bri
tannic Majesty, set in diamonds, (out of the pulse
lately received through Mr. Hastings from an In
dian Nabob) was prefentedto the King of France,
and received with the greatest politeneis.
“ But His Moss Christian Majesty, with a gene
rosity peculiar to himfelf, ordered it to be fold at
the fame audion with the plate, and the amount
(knowing the Englilh nation to be fret from debt )
appropriated toward the payment of the debts of
His Royal Highness George A'uguftus Frederic,
Prince of Wales, and enabling him to maintain the
dignity of heiV apparent to the renowned Britifli
empire.”
Fxtrafi of a letter from a gentleman in lVincbefer
to the Editor of the Wot teller Magazine, dated
March 17, 1787.
“SIR,
“ Would inform yon ofafingnlar circumstance
which happened in this town on Tuefday last.
About three o’clock in the afternoon, a heavy
rumbling uoife was heard in a mountain in the
south-cast part of the town, at several times, for
the space of 20 or 30-minutes, when, all of a
sudden, it was seen, by one Mr. Gold, who
lived at the foot of the mountain, to break forth,
and the rocks and dirt to move in vast bodies; —
soon after the firft were difeovered, rocks and dirt
were seen to fly in the air, though the main body
made its way down the mountain. Mr. Gold flood
viewing it until the noise seemed to be over, when
he suddenly beard it again, and perceived a second
eruption take place, at the distance of about eight
or ten feet from the firft; the noise and motion were
as if they had been occasioned by a blast of powder,
though he saw no appearance of smoke or fire, nor *
did he smell any thing of a fulphurous nature. I
have since been and viewed the ground, but could
not difeover any thing of a fulphurous kind, fuf
ficient to cause the eruption. There are many
conjectures refpeding the cause of it The distance
from the place where the eruption began, to where
it ended, was about ten or twelve rods, and in
some places thirty or thirty-five feet wide, and
from four to eight feet in depth. Rocks of seve
ral tons weight were thrown several rods down
the mountain, and, I suppose, at a moderate com
putation, there was as much as an acre of land
covered with rocks and gravel. The rocks and
dirt thrown out are supposed by many to be seve
ral thousand tons.”
AUG U S ¥ A, June 2.
On Friday, the 13th of April last, the United
States in Congress affemblcd passed a resolution,
recommending it to the different states to repeal all
their laws now in force which are inconsistent with
the treaty of peace between the United States of
America and the King of Great-Britain.
Congress having deemed it inexpedient to retain
in service anv of the troops ordered to be raised
by their resolution of the 20th Odober 1786, (ex
cepting two companies of artillery) have ordered
them to be disbanded.
The following gentlemen are appointed to re
present the fate of .Maryland in the General Con
vent ion to be held in Philadelphia, which was ta
convene on the 13th ult. Hou. C hies Justice Har
rison, C harles Carrol of Carrolton, Thomas Stone,
James M'Henry, and Thomas Sim Lte.
1 he King of Great-Bi itain has appointed George
Miller, Elq. to be hisConful in theftates ofNoith
and South-Carolina and Georgia, and Deputy
Commiflary for Commercial Affairs to the United
States of America.
We hear from Savannah that a duel was lately
fought between George Walton, El'q. and Colonel
Gunn, in which the fanner was fi»ot through the
thigh.
MARRIED] In this town, on Thursday Irff,
Captain Ambrose Gordon, to Mils Betfcy Mead,
daughter of Col. William Mead.
FOR SALE,
A complete
SulkyandHarnefs.
Enquire of the Printer.
NOTICE .
THIS is to forwarn any person from receiving
my order of T welve Pounds in favor of D d
ziel Hunter to Emanuel Wamberfie, as I gave it
in part of a note to said Hunter, which was due br
me, and he promised credit for that amount on said
Note; which credit, lam informed, lie put out
of his power to give in confequeme of parting
with the fame previous to the said order being
drawn.
JAMES STALLINGS.
May 30, 1787.
Eight ‘Dollars Reward .
STRAYED or STOLEN off the Commons of
Augusta, some time during the late Seflion of
Assembly, a likely, blooded, black Stallion, riflng
14 hands, 9 years old this grass, very low in flefti,
without any visible brand or white about him, ex
cepting some trifling saddle marks, and just the
appearance of a verv small star in his forehead by
the mixture of a few gray hairs ; carries himfelf
tolerably’well, trots altogether, has a confiderablo
lengthy tail, and bears both whip and spur decent
ly. Whoever delivers said horse to the ftibfcriber,
his prefeut owner, (hall receive the above Reward,
and payment of all reasonable expences.
JOHN COPP.
Augu/ia , May 30, 1787.
N. B. Said Horse was valued at Forty Pounds,
is commonly known by the name of Peak's Stallion,
bread at Writffcorough.
Notice is hereby Given ,
THAT all persons indebted to the estate of
Mr. John Wright, Cooper, late of Rich
mond county, Heceafed, are hereby requested to
meet at the house of fames Rae, Esq. on Monday
the 25th day of June next, in order to obtain a
settlement ; and «hose to whom the said estate ia
indebted, are deflred to make it known on or be
fore ihe day above mentioned, to
THOMAS WRIGHT.
Augusta t May 25, 1787.
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