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SATURDAY, August 4, 1757.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
OR
INDEPENDENT REGISTER. *
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Conjlitution of Georgia .
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LONDON, April 19.
Extras of a litter from Venue, March 3.
« A Nobleman of the firft diflinftion is lately
yY arrived here from Rutlia; he travelled
Over land through Germany from the North. It
is expefted that his bufiuefs is of great importance,
as his visits to the Members of the Senate are very
frequent. Our fleet for the ensuing summer will
consist of seven ships of 60 guns and upwards,
,and eleven frigates, besides galleys. These will
,|»e wholly employed againfl the Barbary States.
They arc expefted to be joined by some other
CJiriftian power; but at present we know not
hj whom or when.”
A letter? from Corunna, by the way of France,
fays that the Santa Maria, Don Antonio de Col
vcn, commander, was arrived there from the
Havannah, after being plundered of several chests
of dollars and other things, by the crew of an
Algerine galley. The Spanifli Commander ex
claimed against their proceedings, faying it was a
.breach of the peace the Court of Madrid had
made with the Dey. The Algerine Captain re
plied that he had only afted according to his or
der, which, if he had not done, his head -mull
.have forfeited.
ExtraS of a letter from Lijlon, March jf.
** A man of war, a frigate, two cutters and
two chebecks, are failed to cruize againfl the Al
gerines in the mouth of the Streights, and fliortly
another squadron will follow.
« Our Court is in treaty with the Algerines,
and it is expected to hear of its being concluded
Very soon. w
Mr. Haflings, during the latter part of his
government in India, had arrived at that confum
.. mate height of wickedncfs, that he used to fend
home private intimations of his intention, to some
of the Directors, written on pieces of mujlin ,
-Which certain applications brought out to view.
Three of these pieces were brought home to one
of the committee on Saturday night in order to
be examined, and to prove that nothing can eftiape
them.
When this kind of evidence can be got at, it is
always the belt, because ihould it prove of noufe
to thecaufe, unlike other teflimony it may always
be turned into something—a judicial cap—a lawn
_ sleeve—or a habit of jufice-
So much is exchange in favor of this country,
that no tefs than fifty thousand pounds are remit
ted weekly from Holland. In addition to this*
evil, the Dutch confidcr the Commercial Treaty
with France as pregnant with dcftruflion to their
carrying trade, which hr.s hitherto been their
staple, and has served them inftcad of commodity
and manufacture.
A letter from Lilbon fays they have received
advice, that the St. Joseph Hoop of war, which
was sent with an express to Cadiz, is taken by a
galley belonging to the Bey of Tunis, after anob
flinate resistance, and is carried into Tunis. The
fame letter fays that the Bey has no lefa than to
armed vessels cruizing in the Mediterranean.
The reduction of the duty on Spanifli wines,
which have just taken place in Ireland, is about
twenty fliillings in the ton, which reduction,
though seemingly as an inconsiderable one to indi
viduals, is of some consequence in a cargo, being
equal to. the whole port chatges.
Since the month of November last, the French
have sent no fewer than two tlioufand fix hundred
recruits, and near one hundred officers in Dutch
bottoms, to the Cape and to the iiland of Mauri
tius, and they have reinforced their fleet in India
with one fifty gim aud three frigates, which all
failed singly, the better to elude observation
These additions to the French force iu India, joined
to the known superiority of the Dutch navy in
those seas, mud make every man that feels the
value of our Oriental pofiefiions, tremble for the
consequences.
Lord Cornwallis has rendered himfelf extreme
ly popular by the firft exertion of his power in
Calcutta—the anulling of the favors granted in
the French East-India Company by Mr. M'Pher
fon. Had they been continued, the ruin of the
Englifli merchants in that country would have been
inevitable.
Impeachment of M. dt Calonnt , by the Marquis
de la Fayette.
Monseigneur ,
The king defifes us to indicate no particular
abpfes, but in signing our names; the advice
which I gave on Saturday has procured us the
permiflion; I will profit by it with the zeal, im
partiality, and liberty which are in my heart.
I have- said it was necefiary to attack the monfier
flock-jobbing’, instead of feeding it; it is believ
ed that government lias just given several millions
in favor of the flock jobbers- His majesty deigns
to afture us, that he does not support flock-jobb
ing ; I had been the interpreter only of the public
alarm.
I pr&pofed, and now propose to the office, that
his majesty be supplicated to order a serious exa
mination, by persons not suspected of all the gifts
of the king, of domains, as well as of the titles
of gifts, sales, exchanges, or purchases which
are, or ought to be in the chamber of accounts,
so that his majesty may know the value of those he
lias made; investigate burthenfome contrails which
have not been liquidated, and break those wherein
he has since his fucceflion to the throne been injured
of more than one half. And to support my sus
picions by some examples, I have quoted the con
trast of l’Orient, because the public has bcenfcaa
dalifed, in learning that for the feigneury of i’Ori
ent, and the lands of Chatel, being togethesjyorth
no more than one hundred and eighty *]HPpufand
livres a year ; the Prince cf Guimence has bad the
principalities "of Dombes estimated at forty thou
sand livres rent, (without reckoning, fay they,
eight hundred thousand livres paid to M> de 1 An*
beepine, who had obtained the conceflion of it)
and the immeufe sum of twelve million five hun
dred thousand livres, payable in twenty-five years.
1 have quoted the exchange of the Compte of
Sancerte, because I fear it has been paid for by
eight thousand acres of wood, of which three
thousand, three or five hundred in the country of
the Blaifois, are worth of tbmnfelves, as'it is said,
the Compte of Sancerte ; and that the public adds
to these eight thousand acres, a great number of
lands indifferent provinces, apd a great sum given
to M. le Barron d’Efpagnac. .
I have the mortification to believe, that the
king has acquired since hisfucceffion to the throne,
about seven hundred thousand livres of revenue
in lands and forefts, which he has paid for with
about seven hundred thousand livres a year, fifty
thousand of which, or thereabout, in annuities
for lives ; and that he has granted on this occasion
either in ready money or engagements, to pay it
at stated terms, upwards of forty-five millions..
It ispoflible I may be deceived, but a great dis
order supposes a great depredation.
I aik why the miniflers of finance propose to
the king purchases or exchanges, which not being
by any means proper for him, can only serve the
ptirpofes of particulars ?
I might perhaps aifc also, why the king is made
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to purcbafe domains, at the fame time that it is
thought neceflary to fell those he has ?
I am not of the king’s council, neither of the
chamber of accounts, nor one of the administra
tion of domains; I cannot, therefore, verify what
I indicate; but my patriotism. is alarmed, and I
solicit a rigorous examination.
And fmee the information now given is figneef
by me, and i 6 to be laid before his majesty, I re
peat with double confidence, the reflexions which
I have submitted to Monfeigncur, which is, that
the millions which are diflipated, are levied by
imports, can be juftified only by the neceflities of
the rtate ; that so many millions abandoned to de
predation or to avarice, are the produce of the*
sweat so the brows, of the tears, and, perhaps*
the blood of the people; and that the calculation,
of the misfortunes which have been caufcd to
compose those sums, so lightly and prodigally dir—
fipated, is a frightful one, for the justice and good -
nefs which we know to be the natural fentiment®
of his majesty.
(Signed) LA FAYETTE.
The Turkish fleet, confining of ten fail of the
line, failed from Constantinople on the tyth of
February, forSinap, to wait being joined by theic
other ships, which amount in the whole to 300
fail. The Empress of Rufliahas sent a Mr. Ser
gio to demand from the Porte the ceflion of Befla
rabia, as a country belonging to the ancient Khan®
of Tartary; but the Divan informed him, that
Ruflia mu ft think of restoring the Crimea, and of
her own defence, and that if he solicited anymore
on this fubjed, or alike commiflion, he muftnot
expeX favorable treatment.
i ranjlation of a letter from Paris , dated April 13*
Vet failles is in the greateftconfufton—nobody is
to be trailed—all the king’s ministers are dis
graced, * I
M. de Calonne, at nine o’clock onSundayeven
ing, received his difmirtion, and was requested by*
the king to remain at Versailles, to inftruX his fuc—
ceflor in his plans. This, you are to know, is am
absolute order not to leave Versailles, where he is
now guarde a vue, kept in fight. He would hatne
been impeached when in place as minister, but it
was thought difrefpeXful to his majesty. He is
now impeached by the Marquis de la Fayette.
Mons. de Fourquier is named Controlleur de
Finance, but only to fill up the gap; it » sup
posed he cannot keep it long. # . ,
I e Garde de Secaux, M. de Miromefnil, is
exiled, or confined to his hoafe, and M. la Moig
non is named in his place. <
Le Controlleur des Batimens du Roi, InfpeXor
of the King’s Buildings, M. d’Angervillie, is dif
mifled ; and the firft President of the Parliament
of Paris, M. d’Algire, is desired to demand hi®
conge ; if he refufes he will be instantly prosecut
ed for mal-adminiftration. M. d’Ormeffon i»
named to succeed him. These are the principal /
changes.
M. le Marquis de Vaudreull, to the
Admiral of that name, a gr:at favorite of the
Queen, wanted the place of Controlleur dc Bati
mens du Roi, but is also in difgrace*
PORTSMOUTH, (A. tiumpjhirt) June 7.
A gentleman in nine days from Quebeck, in
forms, that Lord Dorchester is using every effort
to have the militia of Canada well regulated and
under proper difeipline, and to be ib readiness to
march in four days from the time of notice being
given : That the frontier polls have been streng
thened by an additional regiment: That five re
giments were daily expcXed to arrive at Quebeck :
That the Britifti were piej>aring to c<*uip aud fit
[No. XLV.]