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SATURDAY, August 4, 1757. GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE OR INDEPENDENT REGISTER. * ' *' FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Conjlitution of Georgia . AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Articles cf Intelligence j Advertijements , &c. will be gratefully received , every kind of Printing performed. 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 THE 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.]