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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. Writing Paper To be fold at the Printing-Office. Likcwifc blank Deeds of Conveyances and Bonds.