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SATURDAY, July 5,1788 i
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
OR
INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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'AUGUSTS: Printed JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State \ FJfay*> Articles of
Intelligence , Advertisements , will be gratefully received , and ev try kind of Printing fe? firmed.
VIENNA, February 27.
WE arc allured that after four as
saults, iu which we loft 1000
men, our troops have taken
the fortrefs of Gradilka, and
that all the garri foil, which had been rein
forced by fuccours from Banialuka, were kil
led or made prisoners.
March 8. Yesterday a courier arrived at
Buckowina, who was immediately dispatched
to his Majesty. He brings the important ac
counts of the junction of the Ruftian troops un
der the Fieldmarlhal Romanzow, and ours
under the Prince of Cobourg. This is a very
important occurrence, about which we were
very uneasy, as, if by any means that junc
tion had been prevented, the Ruffian army
could not have ailed with any effect, as they
are in want of every thing necelfary for any
important operation* As foou as the season
is far enough advanced, Choczim will be be
heged.
12. Our Croats have given frelli proofs of
their bravery fmce Gen. de Vins entered
Turkilh Croatia with the regiment of St.
George, the huflars of Grave, a party of Kin
fky*s dragoons, and two battalions of Bannats.
This body advanced in three columns; one
party was detached to take poll at
other under the command of Gen. Klibeck,
advanced as far as Twofwick. Thcfe two
places fnrrendered without resistance. The
principal corps, under the Commander in
Chief, marched against Whiacz, and fell in,
at a small distance from thence, with a body
of Turkilh cavalry, which violently attacked
the regiment of Kreug. We made a great
difeharge of artillery, and, by a happy di
version, the huftars of Grave fell on the ene
my in the rear. Though the Turks fought
desperately, the field was soon covered w.th
their slain. At length they were obliged to
yield, and in their precipitate retreat many
of them were drowned inthe river Una The
major part were taken prisoners; and there
was but a small part that reached the fortrefs.
Our Commander, by dexterity of manceu
vers, in Ids than two hours destroyed all the
fortifications of Whiacz.
We loft in this expedition 9 officers of rank,
37 inferior, and 556 privates, killed; the
number of the wounded amounted to 37 6.
The Turks loft near 2000, without allowing
for those drowned, and 1300 were taken pri
soners.
FRANKFORT, March 8.
The Turks have taken fix transports from
the Auflrians, and the Brigadier Brentaro loft
his life in endeavouring to make reprisals,
HAGUE, March 20.
The treaty of alliance between the King of
Prussia and this republic is figued ; it is de>
fenfive only, and not offenfive and defenfive,
as was reported.
All the articles with England being now
fettled, the treaty between the Court of Lou
don and ours will soon be signed.
PARIS, March 14*
They are this year to bsften the works at
Cherbourg; before Juue they will be able to
fink four new cones; those who have fuffered
will be repaired before that time. The dykea
or moles ate funk only nine feet instead of 15
or to, which they were reprted to b«. W«
THE
hope this grand wotk will be entirely finifted,
oelore the expiration of the four years they
have allotted for them to be brought to per
fection.
18. The news of the rcfufal of theCom
miflioners (appointed by the King to examine
the business relating to the situation of the
finances) to sign the accounts of the receipts
and expences inspires the public with a great
dillike for that important work announced at
firft with f 0 much praise. It is already re
ported, that the result of the account of the
Archbishop of Sens stated the deficiency for
the year 1788 at 185,000,000 ; a truly dread
ful calculation to present to a nation, who
want 9 a more consoling piftuie set before it
to regain its confidence ; besides, the idea
only of such a situation has caused such an
alarm that every one trembles for the effects
of it, if the States General do not afford foine
speedy relief. We cannot conceive how the
deficiency, which the greateff exaggeration
railed (in the Assembly of the Notables) to
140 millions, which a further examination
lowered to 120, and which, iu fine, has since
truVerfed with an uncertain opinion all the
degrees of intermediate variations,-and found
rather less than more, can at last amount to
so amazing a sum as 185,000,000.
■u II ■ .
LONDON, March 11.
General Carpenter, who had been long in
a declining way, eluded, on Saturday morn
ing, the vigilauce of his attendants, and threw
himfelf into the Serpentine river. The Ge
neral’s affliction for the loss of his favorite son,
an event which lately happened, was so very
extreme, as equally ro affeft and debilitate his
system and his intelleCls.
12. The bankruptcies which have happened
within these few weeks in Scotland amount,
it is conjectured, to about half a million fler
ling. This country, since the year 1772, has
not felt such a ffiock.
Last Wednesday the bill for the reduction
of the interest from fix to five per cent, after
a debate of several hours was rejected in the
House of Lords in Ireland ; contents 14, pio
xies 3; non-contents 24, proxies 4.
15. By yeflerday’s mail from Holland we
learn, that M. Caillaid, Charge des /,ffaiies
from the Court of France, has demanded of
the States of Holland, in the name of the laid
Court, the sum of 150,000 Jivres, at which
they eflimate the loss of the frigate Scmillante,
which was lent to the commander ot a Dutch
squadron, and burnt the 24th of Jan. 1787.
17. By private letters fi om Vienna we have
received the following intelligence : “An
unhappy event has taken place with refpert
to the regiment of Peiigrini; that fine coips,
composed of 2500 of the best troops in the
Imperial service, having advanced toopiema
tureiy and unguardedly on the right fide of the
Danube, were surprised and totally destroyed
by a numerous body of Tuikifti cavalry. They
were mostly cut to pieces in the conflifl, and
thole made prisoners were beheaded, and their
heads sent to Conflantinople. 5 * This unwar
rantable exercise of cruelty in the troops of
the Porte may perhaps excite a spirit of reta
liation in the Imperial!!!, which will leadto
that vinciiClive and baibaious mode of ton
dueling the war that lias not of late years dis
graced the arms if civilized nations.
The detail of the late deveflatiou tccaftoued
b y a hurricane ur the northern toafl 0 i Coio«
mandel is truly deplorable. The Daniffi and
Luicfo fcttlcments have been the chief fuffe
lers among the foreign eftabliffitnents. A di
ftrirt called Uppora, inhab ted by weavers,
was totally swallowed up by the fca, which
role 14 feet above its level, and covered the
country for several leagues. In the neigh*
bouthood of Tranquebar above 12,000 fouls
have been loft; Jagomaporam, belonging tt>
the Dutch, is ruined, and the town of Cojin
ga has left no trace behind to drew where ic
once flood. The country, upon the retiring
of the lea, prefuited a fccuc of horror beyond
all defcripiion.
18. Ihe account mentioned in a former
paper, of the defeat of the Prince de Cobourg,
in the Buckowine, is confirmed by the Gazette
Imperiale of the Emperor, which lament®
that the intemperate ardour of the Piiucc
Ihouid have led him to attack a superior force.
This Paper acknowlegdes that the Auftrian®
have loft 4000 men, and their army of 15,000
men is entirely defeated. The regiment of
- Siculiens has fullered the most, having loft 14,
officers, which, when wc recollect that there
are only three officers to a company of too
.men in the Imperial service, makes the lufs
considerable. Two companies of the regiment
of Pelegrini have been cut into pieces, and the
artillery chiefly destroyed. This is the new®
of the Court ; it conceals half the difafter®
which the Aulitian troops have experienced,
and more than half its lodes.
Their High Mightinefl'es the States Genera!
have resolved to recall their Ambalfadortfrotu
the Courts of Peterfburgh amlConftammople;
and Mr. Van Berkel, their Ambafiador to
the United States of America, is to be re
placed by another peifou in an inferior capa
city.
The Ruffians have begun the liege of Ocza
kow. It is fiotn the army under the com
ma!.d of Prince Repuin, which is so advan
tageouflv polled as to have had the firft intel
ligence of this evenr, that the news comes.
Choczim was fummoi,ed to furrendcr the
20th of last November, by Prince obourg,
in the name of the Empiefs of Kuilia, which
the Pacha reft.ling to comply with, the blockade
commenced, and this fortiefs is so lurrounded
that neither men nor ptovifions can possibly
enter. Its garnfon con lifts of 30CO men on
ly, but as they are determined never to sur
render while one of them exifls, the Auflrians
mud neceftarily lose an infinite number of men
before they reduce a place so ©bflinately-dc
fended, and so well fortified.
24. We learn that ti e Dcy of Algiers has
ordered all the corsairs of that ic>,ency to keep
in port, and to prepare tlie/nfelves for joining
in a fleet, it is thought, to attack the Ruffians,,
whenever their fleet comes into the Mcditer*
taneau. The fame preparations ate making
at Tunis and Tripoli.
Jfrili. The bufintfs which engrofled the
attention of the Cabinet on Monday, we are
informed, w , as the incieafed and increasing
flare of the Spamfti navy, which it has been
leported is fitted out with an intention ofop
pofmg the Ruffian fleet in the Mediterranean.
This pretext will no doubt I e eaicfully fifted,
and tircimifpctily attended to, by the prefene
ruling powet a. /
j 1. The Ruffian fleet intended for tjie Me*
diterranean confifl* of 18 fail of the line, .1 ot
which aie three deckers. The fitcc fating
out by Sp§io ii to*
[No. XClli.]