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This corps will, no doubt, be followed by
other troops, to commence the operations on
the left wing towards Moldavia, in which
quarter, after a junction is formed by the
Ruffians, an attempt may be nTade on Choc
zirb ; while in the centre an attack on Belgrade
may, if fucccfsful, open a paflage into the
heart of the Turkish territories.
The second enterprize again# that place
was to have been made on the 16th or 18th
of this month, and General Neugebaur was
to have joined the army intended for that ex
pedition tVith the corps under his command,
and a large train of artillery at Slmlin. Al
most the whole of the numerous Hungarian
army was ordered to march toward Peter
waradin.
It is laid that the Duke of Wirtemberg has
engaged to furnilh some troops for the Em
perorj; to replace filch as oh this occalion may
be detached to the reinforcement of the army
destined to the attack of Belgrade.
We have just learnt, that Prince Charles
Lichtenttein has been appointed Field Mar-
Ihall. The army, it is said, will be increased
tb the number of 206,000 menj and that the
corps by which Belgrade is to be inverted, will
have a train of 400 pieces of artillery*
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C A S EBL T A, December 18.
Mount Vesuvius has been exceedingly tur
* bulent for these three weeks part. The re
ports of its frequent cxplofions are diftin&ly
heard here, though at a distance of 15 miles,
and there is every fympton of a more consi
derable eruption than usual being near at
hand*
B* A R I S, January 13.
The misunderstanding between the Court
and Parliament feemstobe nearly finifhed. It
is*now thought the exiles will return imme
diately, having be 1 i bfent for two months.
The report that the Parliament of Bour
deaux is ordered to be at Versailles by the end
of this month,' is confirmed.
The King of Prussia has delivered a refeript
%o the Emperor, stating that he cannot remain
an unconcerned fpeftator of the Emperor’s
inarching such bodies of troops to the borders
of Turkey, and trusting that he will not per
severe in a design so inimical to the general
interests of the Germanic body, and which
iquft destroy the peace which happily fubfift
cd in that part of Europe—This important
notice completely changes the whole afpeft of
things, and accordingly its influence will be
pnoft important to us as well as to our neigh
bour#.
A letter front Lisbon has the following ar
* tide: “ The Dey of Algiers has at length
proposed to agree to a truce for twenty-one
years, and to deliver up all the Portuguese
that are in slavery on paying 201. for every
one delivered up; the raufom money is the
only thing that is objefled to, but this Court
is willing to pay after the rate of 101. per
man, and double that sum for officers. We
expea an answer from Algiers in a few days.
The English Consul is employed by our Court
in this negociation.”
L O N D O N, January i'J.
Several letters from Rouen fpealc of the di
stresses of the manufaaurers there, owing to
the importation of Englilh goods. Several
thousand of their labourers have been reduced
to the extremity of distress, and government
is to be applied to in their behalf.
The commercial treaty is looked upon ks a
very huitful mcafure all over the kingdom
of France, except to the dealers in brandy.
The parliament of Normandy refufe to re
gister the edia for the second twentieth 5 and
alledge much at large, and with much spirit,
that no new levy can be made, but by the ge
neral estates of the realm.
Nothing is yet done for the Duke of Or-
Jcantj and the two Magiftratce iu cailc*
Ext raft of a letbr from Vienna , fan. Q*
“ The marriage of the Archduke was cele
brated here with great splendor on the 6th
inst. by the Elector of Cologne, brother to
the Emperor. But in the midst of thits joy, it
must be perceived we are at open war.
“ It is generally believed and reported, that
the Turks have already commenced hostilities,
but they do not give the particulars.
“ On the arrival of a courier here, a report
has been spread, shat we have taken Belgrade
by aflault, with the* loss of one thousand men
and two generals.
“ On the contrary, it is said, that one of
the Turkilh divisions have eroded the Save,
aud furprized two divisions of our Croats,
whom they killed.”
Extract of a letter from Conjlantinople, Decem
ber io, 1787.
u Thi Captain Pacha goes daily to the ar
senal to haflen the preparations for the grand
fleet, which is to be under his command, and
on which the foie hopes of the empire depend.
They will be ready for sea by February ; when
the Admiral proposes to go and force the Ruf
fian fleet to battle. There has been already
ifiued money for this service to the amount of
ten millions of piasters.
“ The Grand Vizier is now in his tfcnt,
which according to the form and customs of
the Turks, is obliged to be placed without
the walls of Coiiftantinople, the foreign
Miniflers will goto vilit him, and take their
leave before he goes to camp. His departure
is certainly fixed for the beginning of Fe
bruary. #>
By authentic letters from the Hague, via
Flanders, we are allured that the King of
Prufiia has notified to the States General,
that he must withdraw his troops from the
province of Flolland.
These advices add, that they expert them
to be replaced by the Heflians or Brunl'wick
ers, which will not change ths warlikfc fixa
tion oT Holland. *
St. jamesY, January 16. This day the
Marquis de la Luzerne, Ambafiador from the
Most Christian King, had his firft private au
dience of his Majesty to deliver his creden
tials. As had likewise the Count St. Martin
de Front. Envoy Extraordinary from the King
of Sardinia.
BOSTON, March 5.
On Thursday morning last departed this
life, in the 63d year of his age, his Honor
Thomas Culhing, Esq. LL. D. and A. A. S.
Lieutenant Governor of the commonwealth of
Maflachufetts.
CHARLESTON, April 3.
On the 27th ult. the « representatives of
the people called Shakers, in Ne*iv-England,
being met together in capacity of a meeting for
fnjf‘rings? presented to vhe General Alfem
bly of Rhode-Ifland a petition and memorial
signed in and on their behalf, by Thomas
Arnold, Clerk of the meeting, relative to
the injurious and pernicious efferts of their
paper currency being a tender at par in pay
meut for just debts, praying for a repeal of
that art, and the one which makes void notes
and book accounts, if not fettled in two years.
On which the following resolves palled the
Atfembly.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY, February
1788.
Eefolved , That this petition be, and the
fame is hereby received, and the conlidera
tion hereof is referred to the next fellion of
this aliembly: And the Secretary fs directed
forthwith to caufc copies thereof to be print
ed, and one delivered to a deputy of each
town, to be delivered to the town clerks cf
the refpertive towns, in order that the sense
ol the freemen at large may be taken upon
the fame.
Accounts from Providence of March 1,
fay—The House yesterday resumed the confi
dctttiou of appoimmg a Couyfauon,
y . *
agreeably to tire mo As proposed by tbe Ce*
rieral Convention held at Philadelphia, and
after a lengthy difcuflion of the fubjeft*, re
vived, that the Federal Constitution propoftd
Ihould be referred to the consideration of th
individual freemen of the date, in their re
fpeftive town-meetings.—On this question
15 members voted for a Convention, and J
for the above reference—majority 27,
In the Pennfyivauia Attembly, March 3
On the second reading of the report of the
on that part of the mettage f roni
Council, which refpefts the refoiutions of
Congress of the 21st of March last:
Resolved , That his Excellency the Prefl
dent, and the Supreme Executive Council be
informed, that this House having by their
committee, carefully examined into the fub
jeft matter of that parr of the said mefTa?*
which recommends to the notice of this House
the resolution'of Congress, patted March 21
1787, and suggests the propriety of p a Tia>
a declaratory aft, to answer the end intend
ed by said resolution, they cannot find there
is any aft or acts, or any part of aft or acts
puffed by the Legiflaturc of
now in force, which are repugnant to the
treaty of peace between-the United States and
his Britannic Majesty, or to any articles there
of, or that at all tend to reftraiu, limit, or
in any manner impede, retard, or counterad
the operation and execution thereof, or to
explain the fame.
AUG US T April 26.
The Honorable the Executive Council ha?c
beenpleafed to appoint Mr. Francis Codding,
ton Vendue Matter, and Mr. George Hornby,
Culler and Lumber Measurer for the town 4
Sunbury.
Rxtradsfroin tbe journals of a Convention If
gun and held for tbe dijlrid of Kentucky, at
Danville, in the county of Mercer, on the
*7 th day of September , 1787.
Rejclved by the representatives of the good
people of the diflrift of Kentucky, in Con
vention attembled, that it is expedient for, and
the will of the fame, that the said diftrift be
erefted into a separate and independent state,
on the terms and conditions fpecified in tie
two afts of Attembly, one entitled “ An ad
concerning the erefting the diftrift of Ken
tucky into an independent state the other
entitled “ An aft making further provifioa
for the ereftion of the diflrift of Kentucky in
to an independent date.”
Re/olvedy That this Convention do fix the
thirty-firft day of December, one thoufaud
seven hundred and eighty-eight, to be the
time on which the authority of the common -
wealth of Virginia, and of its laws over the
dittrift of Kentucky, (hall cease, and deter
mine forever, under the exceptions fpecifiei
in the aft entitled, “ An aft concerning the
erefting the diftrift of Kentucky into an in
dependent state. w
Re/olved , That an add refs to the Congref*
of the United States, be’prepared, ft3tingth«
leading reasons for which the Convention have
judged a reparation of this diftrift from the
state of Virginia to be expedient, and request"
iug that the diftrift may be admitted into the
federal union, agreeable to an aft of the Ge
neral Attembly of Virginia, in that case made;
and provided.
Whereas this Convention hath adjudged
expedient that this diftrift lhould be it parateci
from the state of Virginia, and erefted into
an independent state, and hath determine;!
that the authority of the commonwealth o>
Virginia, and of laws over this diftrift*
(hall cease and wever determine ;>n the
day of Dec *7BB s And to ' h * cni
thaf no of anarchy may arise "to ©1
cm*.