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and deftruftive tendency of fiich publications
to the intcreftaand happjnefs of the commu
nity ; and pointed- out klie particular male
volence of the libels in queflion.
After this, Mr. Justice Afhurft paflcd sen
tence of the Court, viz. That his Lordfliip
(hould. be -£onfined r for the term of three
years, now next enfning, in Newgate; and,
after the expiration of the term, for two years
more ; to pay a fine of 5001. and to find sure
ties for his good behaviour, himfelf in 10,000 l
and two sureties in ajool. each, for the fur
ther terni.of fourteen years, after the afore
said five years are expired, and the fine of
5001. paid, or else to remain in Newgate un
t'il-k is done.
N. B. His Lordfliip made a very grotcfque
figure ; he was wrapped up in a great coat,
liis hair lank, as usual, his beard about three
inches long, extending under his chin and
thfroat,' from ear to ear, and differing from
the colour of his hair.
No authentic accounts whatever have been
received to juflify the report of war between
the King of Pruflia and the Einperor, which
las been industriously propagated within these
feW davs.
*
Notwithstanding the bluflering of certain
continental powers, it is plain that they would
all avoid a war if they poflibly could. The
mediating fyftein never was more prevalent
—lt has already w bin these few years pre
vented a war between *he Emperor and the
Dutch—the King of Pruflia and the Dutch—
England and France—and are now employed
in preventing the progress of the war between
the Empress and thp Porte.
St. JAMES’s, February 20.
This day John Adams, Esq. Minifler Ple
nipotentiary from the United States of Ame
rica, had his audience leave of his Majefly.
To which he was introduced by the Mar
quis of Carmarthen, his Majefty’ ‘ ncipal'
Secretary of State for Foreign AfFa , and
conduced by Stephen Cottrell; Esq. Afliftant
Matter of the ceremonies.
NASSAU, (New-Providence) April 2?.
E*t rail of a letter from Col. Alexander M*Gil~
lev ray, chief of the Creek Indians , dated
Little Talajfe, 'January 6 , 17 88 •
“ In my last I informed you that the
Georgians had barbarously murdered eleven
of my people on the hunting grounds, for
which vve demanded fattsfatfion in form. In
flead of complying with this our just demand,
they returned us defiance, conceived in the
inott insolent terms, and threatened to drive
us over the Miflifippi • I came then to the de
termination to accept the alternative of com
pelling them to take refuge on the sea illands,
or being forced to the threatened extremity.
In consequence of having decided in this man
ner, our warriors turned out, spread deva
luation on all the frontiers, and excited a ge
neral panic and confiernation throughout,the
whole ftatc—You mutt be sensible, my friend,
and so mutt every difpafiionatc man be, that
the obftinatc perseverance of the Georgians
in afts of injuttice, barbarity and oppreflion,
obliged us to have recourse to such desperate
resolves. Self preservation, the love of coun
try, and on every other sentiment that digni
fies human nature, dictated them ; nor lhali
we throw aside the bloody hatchet, until our
enemies defilt from their encroachments on
our territory, and give such afliirances as we
can lely on, for their never being renewed
in a future time.”
\
N E W -YORK, April?.
Ex c; of a letter from St. Croix , Feb. 9.
“ On the 31st of December last, his Ex
cellency Major-General de Schimraelman re
figrted, by his tyTajeftv’s permiflion, the com
mand in chief of these islands. His Excel
lency is succeeded by the Hon. Frederick de
Walterftoeff, Chamberlain to his Majeftv, and
Governor General. His commiflion as
Governor General is daily expefted. This is
the fame gentleman who it was once imagined
wou.d have been rent as Envoy Extraordinary
to Arne, ica, had ( ongrefr appointed any Mi
n ftcr 0 the Daniflt Court. Although ft is
i ed that our new Commander in Chief
will keep a watchful eye over all kiud of
jjfnuggliug, particularly that offugars, car
ried to foreign markets, contrary to the ordi
nances of this country, yet there is no doubt
but commerce will at the fame time meet
■ with every encouragement under his govern
ment, and the fait* tracer with every pro
tection. The intimacy which subsists between
his Excellency and several of the firft charac
ters on the continent, cannot but be favor
able to the American trade, and .render Bill
more lading the friendly intercourse which is
already eftabliftied between- the United States
and these colonies.”
PHIL A DELPHI A, April
ExtraQ of a letter from Baltimore, dated
April?,, 1788.
“ The belt information from Virginia fays,
it will be a dole* poll, but the tederalifts will
certainly carry, but by no great majority.
Maryland is a haiiow matter. We are fede
ral in convention : I mean they will be as five
to three, or fifty to thirty. Out of conven
tion, we' are three to one all over the state.”
The ihip United States, Captain Be)!, i 3
arrived at New-Castle from the Eaft-Ind:es.
It is about fifteen months since the failed from
this port.
It is with singular pleasure that we inform
our readers, that in most of the counties on
this fide the Susquehanna the jpinning wheel
'has become a fathionable piece of family fur
niture, and that looms areeftabliftiing in most
of the town drips of these counties. Great
preparations, we are told, likewise are mak
ing for cultivating flax, and an attention is
paid to the means of encreafing the quantity
of wool, by leffetwng the consumption of lamb.
By these means only the United States will
become refpeftable and independent.
RICHMOND, April 3.
Intelligence from the State of Franklin
fraufenpt of a letter from General Russell,
dated the 9th of March, 1788.
“ You have heard that Governor Severe had
besieged Colonel Tipton’s house, had offered
terms of capitulation ; which being rejeded
by Tipton, he sustained a fire from the Go
vernors whole body of troops, without da
mage to any in his house. Two women were
sent out in the day tune on some occasion,
one of whom received a ball through her
ftioulder, but not yet dead. The experienced
General, to show his abilities in war, attempt
ed a moving battery to fire Tipton’s house;
employed thereon, early in the morning of—
“ Colonel Maxwell stole a cautious march,
surprised the Governor and his party by the
firft fire, and forced the Governor to retreat
without his boots. It leems the retreat was
intended to gain an eminence, not far from
the encampment ; which being recovered by
Severe’s party, returned some lbot on Max
well’s men, killed one and wounded one or
two more; but the fotce of the latter charg
ing with firmnefs, soon diflogded Severe, and
effected a total defeat—We learn that twelve
are dead of their wounds, and the Governor
seen fifteen mile's from home barefooted—The
last account fays both parties are railing more
men ; How it may end God only knows.”
AUGUSTS, May 17*
Letter front M. LA MBERT, Councilor of
State and of the Council Royal of Finance
and Commerce, Comptroller General of Fi
nance, to M. JEFFERSON, Minijler Ple
nipotentiary for the Catted States of AME
RICA at the Court of VERSAILLES.
Versailles, December 29, 1787.
I HAVE the honor, Sir, to feud you a co
py of an Arret palled in Council, for encou
raging the commerce of the United States of
America in France, I lhall furniih you with
a number of others as fooa as they lhall be
printed.
You will therein fee that several consider
able favors, not before promised to the Ame
rican commerce, have been added to those
which the King announced to you, in the let
ter addTeffed to you on the 2id of Oftober
of the last year.
If in the mean time any duties have been
levied, contrary to the intentions of that let
ter, they lhall be repaid on fight of the
vouchers.
I have also ordered a verification of the fads
whereou it was represented to you,- that the
decision of the 24th of May, 178 6, relative
to the commerce of tobacco had not been fol
ly executed. Be allured that if it shall ip-
1 p£ar that engagements have been evaded*,
Which were taken under the fandion of the
King, effectual provision lhall be made for
their scrupulous fulfilment.
You will learn also with pleasure that the
measures I have takeH to prevent the inter
ruption of the commerce of tobacco, have
had full success.
This commodity shall not be excepted from
among those to which the right of eutrepot is
' given. ’ The Farmers General lhall have no
preference in the purchases; the proprietors
lhall be perfedly inafters of their fpecnlat ions,
and free to export their tobaccos by sea to
foreign countries.
Measures only must be taken to prevent
those frauds to which the entrepot might
serve as a pretext ; and the chambers of com
merce for the ports lhall be consulted, in or
der that the precautions necessary for this pur
pose, may not be incompatible with that li
berty which commerce ought to enjoy in its
operations.
Although the present stock of the Farmers
General amounts to about three years con
fumotion, I have engaged that company to
continue to purchase yearly from the firft day
of January 1788, to the end of their lease,
fourteen .thousand hoglheads of tobacco
brought diredly into the ports of France n
any French or American bottoms, and to
Ihew at the end of every four months that their
purchases amount to four thousand fix hundred
and sixty-six hoglheads
At to the prices, you. have been fenfiblc
yourfelf of the necessity of leaving them free ;
and this freedom es price was the principal
objed of the applications of the American
and French merchants when they complained
of the contrail of Mr. Morris.
The determination then taken to force the
purchases of tobacco, though at high prices,
insomuch that the Farmers General now find
themselves poffefled of three years provision,
ftiews that the imereft of the planters and
merchants of the United States of America
have ever been precious to the King.
The Arret of Council herein inclofed, and
the other regulations which I have the honor
of communicating to you, are a further con
firmation of a truth tending so much to
rtrengthen the bands which unite the two na
; tions,
I have the honor to be, with a very sincere
and inviolable attachment, Sir, your most
humble and most obedient servant,
Sigma, LAMBERT.
An A r T of the King’s Council of State, for
the encouragement of the commerce of
France with the United States of America.
December 29, 1787.
■ Extract from the Records of the Council of Statel
The King, delirous of encouraging tha
commerce of his fubjefts with the United
States of America, and of facilitating between
the the two nations Connections reciprocally
ufeful: having heard the report of. the Sieut
Lambert, Counfellor of State,and of the Royal
Council of Finance and Commerce, Comp
troller General of Finance, his Majelly being >
in his Council, has ordained, and does ordain
. as follows :
ARTICLE- FIRST.
Whale oils and Spermaceti, the produce of
the fiftieries of the citizens and inhabitants of
1 the United States of America, which lhall be
brought into France dire&ly in French vessels,
or ifi tliofe of the tJnited States, lhall conti
nue to be fubjetted to a duty, only of seven
livres ten sols the barrel, of five hundred and
twenty pounds weight, and whale fins lhall
be fubjeet to a duty, of only fix livres thirteen
sols, four demriers the quintal, with the ten
sols per livre on each of the said duties; which
ten sols per livre lhall cease on the last day of
December, 1790; his Majesty reserving to
himfelf to grant further favors to the produce.,
of the whale fiftieries carried on by the filher
men of the States of America, which
lhall be brought to France in French vessels,,
or in those of the United States, if on the in
formation which his Majesty lhall cause to be
taken thereon, he lhall judge it expedient, foe
the intereftof the two nations.
11. The other filh oils, and dry and salted
filh, the produce in the like manner of the
fifhtfrics of the citizens and inhabitants of the
r Uuited States, and brought also direlily into
France, in their, or in French vessels, ftiail
not pay any other, nor grericr duties than
those to which the oils and fith of the Jam•