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L turd ay, December 15, 1787 J hEORGIA STATE GAZETTE f O R e/ INDEPENDENT ' REGISTER. H • t \ *■' * If REE DO M of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Confiitntion of Georgim* L\JGU sT A: Printed by JO H N E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; EJfays, Articles of Intelligence , Advertisements, £j? c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. NAPLES, June io. ■ A Countryman being at work in his field |r\ in the environs of Gaette, felt the ■arth under his feet suddenly give way, and K, e immediately fell into a spacious cavern, ■without receiving the least hurt; here he Bound three apartments, one filled with can tons, one with mortars, and a third with liufquets and arms. The King having be lome the proprietor of tbefe effeds, his Ma- Befty has granted a pcnfion to the man who Jkccidentally discovered them, ■ BERLIN, September i. II A terrible fire has reduced to alhes the ci lly of Ruppin, situate in the Marche of Bran- Blenburgh, about 8 or 9 leagues from Berlin ; %/fcere are not above 24.0 houses (landing ; ■more than 609 have been burnt, as well as ■three churches, the town house, and the ftuilding belonging to Prince Ferdinand of ■ruflia, and the royal magazine, where there ■was a quantity of cloathing ready to be de livered to the troops, &c. The fire lafied 12 ■lours. They eflimate the loss at many mil lions. ■ > HAGUE, September 18. On Tburfday last the Pruflian army, under [he command of his Sereuc Highness the fcuke of Brunswick, passed the river at Nime fcuen, and advanced from thence in three co- Durans. On tTieir approach the Rhinegrave of Salm evacuated Utrecht, after having spiked 140 pieces of cannon, which he was obliged to leave behind hin>, "and destroyed, as far as he was able, the powder and other llores, retirihg what he could colleft of thegarrifon, in great disorder, towards Am fierdam, and Naerden. On Sunday the Prince of Orange’s troops Entered the towns of Utfecht, Monfort, and Vaarf, and no opposition Was made by any part of the pro vince. Intelligence Was received at the Hague, of Crorctim, Dordt, Schoonhoven, and several other towns of South-Hollaiid, having sur rendered without bloodthed, to the Duke of Brunswick. The dates of Holland issued or- Ws for breaking and disarming the Free lorps; and late this evening they pasted a /efolution for restoring his Serene Highness the Stadtholder to all his rights and honors, with the command of this garrison; and a deputation is appointed to the Duke of Bruns wick, and a letter sent off to the Prince of Orange to return to his residence here. Sept. 21. The Prince of Orange arrived here yesterday at two o’clock in the afternoon, and was received by the Deputations from the States General, the States of Holland, the Council 4l of State and Committees, the Equestrian Order, the Courts of Justice, and the different Colleges. The Deputies of 15 towns were present in the Assembly of the States yesterday, when they voted an address to the Stadtholder; and this day they came to a resolution declaring him reinflated in all his rights 1 ; ft is impoflible to deferibe the universal joy that prevails her* among all ranks of people upon this eVent, LONDON, September 22. The intelligence received from Holland is, hat the Bates of Holland have refufed to >ive an answer tt» the late memorial of the Pruflian ambassador, and that they have sent two arabafladdrs unto the Pruflian court to make a personal representation of the affair of •eizing the PrinCefs of Orange. On Saturday morning a meflfcnger arrived at the Marquis of Carmarthen’s oflice, from Paris, whose dispatches arfe said to contain the ultimate resolutions of the French court to support the Hollanders, provided the Prus sian troops enter the Dutch territories. We do not vouch for the authenticity of the above reports ; but they came To diredly upon the accounts received by yfcflerday’s mail, that the Pruflian troops had marched, aud made such an impreflion on the that Bocks fell yeflerday on* per cent. At Maidflone a d 9 efprii Was some little time ago played off by some per son whose aim Was ah annoyance of the inha bitants. —He advertifedfor a quantity of dogs and cats, having, as he aVerred, a cotttraft for supplying the colony of Botany Bay with those animals for the deflrudion of vermin. The advertisement was put in the Kentifli Gazette, and they were direfred to be brought by a certain day to the Star inn. The con sequence was, that the town was On the day appointed, and has been ever since, swarm ing with those animals in order that the em bodying them might answer at teafl some one good purpole. . _ Advices have been received from Sir James Harris, by the Marquis of Carmarthen, one of his Majefly’s Secretaries of State, con taining information, that the Emperor has fignified his intention to the British ambassa dor at the Hague, that he (the Emperor) will not interfere fn the present disputes re fpefting the parties in Holland, so long as France preserves a neutrality ; and that the Emperor has also declared, that although he should not diretl his troops to be adive for the present, yet he would notfuffer any other powers than those of England and Pruflia, to take any part in the present commotion, and that his determination was to support the Stadtholder, if it fliould appear necessary. Extras of a letter from Dunkirk , duguft 21. “ A circumflance has just occurred, too interefling to escape notice. The troops that were coming to the frontiers of French Flan ders are flopped in their present position. The foragers are ordered tofufpend tbeir ope ration, and all is at a Band. This is said to be owing to some representations of the Em / peror’s ambassador at Parie.’* T H TL l ExtraS of a lit ter from the Hague , dug. 2 • The States General and the States of Hoi and, who had been divided for some days part, have at length again commenced a friendly correrpondence, on the fubjeff of putting an immediate Hop to the troubles which begin to be fmartingly felt in every corner of the flatus general. The Marquis do Verac is going home, and it is said, the count de Mallebios speedily follows. The state of Holland continue violently to oppose the me diation of England, aud, what they cfteem more ciif&racefol, the mandates of Pruffi*. The other party as violently oppose the inter ference of Franck, so that it is probable they must fettle titir own differences. A few moderate men are coming forward, among whom is the Count Heicke, who are expefled to have weight with the leading men on both (ides, and from whence we look for some good at lea ft. Sunday lift a party of the artillery, with two waggons, laden with proper implements* marched to Dover, with order to mount the cannon which were demounted at the peace. Commodore Corby’s squadron in the Medi terranean is to be immediately reinforced, in consequence of the rupture between Kuffia and the Turks. The differences tvhich fublifted between the Courts of Portugal and Madrid, on occount of the detention of dollars, to a great amount, have been amicably accommodated, An order was yesterday font off to the Commissioner at Plymouth to get three more ftiips of the line ready for sea with the utmost dilpatch. KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Auguff a iThe following is an iuftance of Divine Providence, manifefted in the preftrvation of two unfortunate persons who were driven off the island of Grenada on the 6t!i of last month. —Mr. Elias Balkman, who kept a trading canofc at that iflarrd, having been conveying a cargoe from Guava to St. . George’s Bay, about 1 6 miles, affified with a negroe, was quickly after leaving St. George’s Key, on his return, attacked by a sudden squall of wind, and driven entirely out to sea; having only a quart of peas, and a pound and a half of fait beef on board, and no water but what was fcanrily supplied by the Heavens; when that failed them they were obliged to drink their own urine. They had but one fail, which with the rudder was loft in the fame gale of wind -which con tinued four dayswithouc intermiflion. Dur ing this period, they also loft the instrument of guidance left them, their paddle. They then consigned themselves to the mercy of the waves, and abandoned every hope of fafety,. Land never appeared to them, until they ar rived off a place near old Harbour in this id and, where they landed on Saturday the zyh ult. having been at sea in that deplorable TNo. LXIV.)