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S/LTURItA Y, January i% 1788, GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE O R INDEPENDENT REGISTER. - *•% a•• 1 " a» FREEDOM of the PRE SS, aud TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate lortver. Lwjiuuim oj luorgtat '.•*. : _ ' f AUGUST A: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the States PJf a y* * Articles of Intelligence , Advertijements , &c. will be gratefully received , and every kind o) Printing ferformed. - *— CONSTANTINOPLE, Auguftiy ALL the Ruffian veflcla which have been detained u 4 »*.n the firft appearance of an approaching war, have been condurted to the arsenal and their crews imprisoned, tho* ivith formalities hitherto unknown in Turkey, VIENNA, September 11, An answer has been dispatched from the Emperor to the blunt demand made by the Ottoman Ministry refperting the part he would take in the wars it is as follows: “ That the Turks being the aggrcfi'ors, his Majesty could not but fulfil the engagements he bad entered into with the Empress of Russia.” In confc iquence of this we expert to hear immediately a fecoud declaration of war on the part of the <?rand bignor against the House of Austria, We presume that the Porte has vented the answer of the Emperor by the ar ?efl of our Internuncio. In effert, a report has been some days here, that this Minilter, in returning from a conference With the Reis JLffendi on the ipth of August, was obliged to take refuge in the house ot the French Am haliadorj others fay that it was onjv his wife ♦n-J rhild’TL*, went thither to t.e out of danger. But as the XWinhiry have publiflied nothing on the fubjert, though we have ad vices so late as the 25th of August, we no 4 e it is without foundation* Every thing is in movement in our pro vinces to make a favourable diversion against the infidels. They are getting together in Hungary an amazing ftorc of pcovifions, to fee put in magazines immediately. In ftiort, orders have been feat to put all the cavalry in Hungary on a war efiabiiihmcnt. S 3. All preparations for celebrating the ST a triage of the Archduchefsof Tuscany with the Prince of Saxony are suspended. The Emperor is gone to Bohemia, but on what account it not known, though it is asserted bis abfcnce will be but a ftiort time. We are liere in the utmost impatience to learn what part our Sovereign will take in the great feene that is preparing to be opened in Europe. The rumour of an exchange of Bavaria is re vived, and it is believed this affair will be concluded in secret, and it is said to be no longer opposed by the Ceurt of France. BRUXELLES, Sept. 2?. Lord Torriugton, Minilter Plenipotentiary of hil Britannic Majesty at Bruxelles, having received from bis Court dispatches, to be communicated to the government of the Au strian Pays Bas, and being in haste to obey these orders, has addrefted the following let ter to his Excellency Count de Murray, Lieu tenant Governor and Captain General, per interim: “ The artual lituation of affairs in the United Provinces, where the troubles have long since fixed the general attention of Eu having ftiUJbcwac wore critical by the recent and relative state of politics in these provinces, and France having notified the re solution of aiding with her f Fees that party in Holland who refufe to give fatisfartion to the just complaints and demands which his Pruflian Majesty has made for the insult done to the Priucefs of Orange, my Court has or dered me to have the honour of informing the Government General of the Austrian Pays Bas, that his Britannic Majesty cannot conli der the alliance between France and the whole ) republic as a just and fudicient reason to en j gage her to support a party in an affair cx \ prefsly disavowed by a majority of the States General. His said Britannic Majesty has dc | dared, and often repeated, that is was ina poflible for him tofuffer with indifference the armed interpofitiou of France in this affair, kecaufe, in tolerating this armed interpoli tion, there could not but reiult conferences very dangerous, as well for the constitutions s*>d independence of these provinces, as hurt r 4 1 in m<xcy refperts to the i mere ft and furpty of the states of his Britannic Majesty. «* In confcqucnce of which his Britannic Majesty is neceftitated to make the speediest preparations for equipping a considerable na val armament, and for augmenting his land forces, to the end that they may be iu a state and ready to art on auy event. « But that it will be his greatest pleasure to let his fubjerts, and all Europe enjov the felicitv and blessings of pe*ce; unless the in terest of his states force him to adopt a con trary condurt; that, in consequence of these gracious difpolitions, and in order to avert the scourge of war, his Britannic Majesty has renewed to his Minister at Paris a repetition of those intentions, in case the Court of France are equally disposed, to engage them to ter minate amicably, and by equitable arrange ments, the points of discussion which have impaired the state of affairs of the Republic, and reduced it to the deplorable situation it is in this day. “ I have the nonor to be, with the most distinguished consideration, your Excellency's very humble, aud very obedient servant, TORRINGTON. Sept. 27, 1787. A N E R P, Oaobtr 1. Our town is crowded with emigrants from all parts of Holland, which they abandoned in consequence of their lives and properties being in the utmost danger. The Btadthol<ler intends te publish a severe prohibition to the departure of the opulent inhabitants of the Republic, HAGUE, September 30. M. de Berkenrode, Ambassador of the Re public at the Court of France, has sent a no*e of Mr. Secretary Fagel, which the Min :/ i«r for Foreign Affairs delivered him at F<ui«i (his note contains in fubftaucc • That his Most THE Christian Majeffy is highly offended at tho insult offered him by the invasion of Holland by the FruiTian troops, the Republic being at this time hia ally : That his Majesty expels these troops will immediately evacuate tho territory of the Republic i And that the King has already given orders to support, byway of arms, the pretentions of this note* AMSTEkDAM, utcbtr 4. All the negociations of our y. whether with the Duke of Brunswick on t'e Hague, have terminated in an entire fob n d on to the Court of Pruflia and t<> her Ro •' Highneft the Frincefs of Orange, as appears by tho following placard : “ The and Counfellors of the city of Amsterdam find themselves obliged to declare to the worthy Corps of Burghers that they have always conscientiously endeavoured to aft conformably to the advantage of their dear countr* 'in general, and that of this city •n n-irtic' , and that still, in their prefeut circumstances, the good of this city, ana that of its inhabitants, is dearer to them than their own lives, and the prefervaiion of their ho* nours, their employments, and their pro* perty. “ The grtat imminent danger in which they are involved, and the little time which with difficulty thev had obtained to deliberate, not having permitted them to make fully known to thtf Burghers all that has been tranf* afted to preserve this good city from tho dreadful mifehiefs that seemed to impend, they have been obliged to accede to the point* which the other members of the States of Holland have agreed to, and to charge th® Deputies of this city to yield to every de* mand, in case they cannot aft otherwise, even the difmiflion of the eflablilhed Regents, ra* ther than risk greater damages to the towa and inhabitants, in addition to those which thev have hitherto fuffered, and after all, peihaps, after having undergone thele losses, lobe obliged to submit to demands ft ill more affiifting. They call God to witness, from whom nothing can be concealed, and the oath which they to< k on affumingthe Magistracy, that they hav* no other view in conceding every thing, than the pieventionof the ccr* tain and irreparable ruin of the city. “ Since they have constrained to give up all, they will at least endeavour, and they hope to be able, to preserve the most perfeft tranquillity and security in this very populoui city; to the effecting of which they expert with confidence, that the brave Burghers, who have exerted themselves with so much zeal for the preservation of that tranquillity, will continue to cxercife the fame efforts, and the fame zeal, to maintain public quiet in tho city, and to preserve each individual from &U manner of violence and oppretfion. “ Pone the of Oftobcr, 44 By mo* * ii, h. HASSELAER, £No. LXIX.)