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SATURDAY, July if, 1788;
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
OR
INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Ccvjiituticn of Georgia*
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HAGUE, March jo.
THE anniversary of the birth of his Se
rene Highness the Prince of Orange,
Hereditary Stadtholder, &c. ,was celebrated
on Saturday last, in this refidclnce, with great
rejoicings and magnificence, on which occa
sion his Serene Highness received the congra
tulations of the foreign Ministers and other
persons of diftintfion at his palace. In the
evening there was a drawing room at the pa
lace called the Old Court, where that Prince,
together with her Royal Highness the Princess
of Orange, received the compliments of a
very numerous and brilliant assembly. The
illuminations and other dcmonflrations of jov
in honor of the day were general throughout
the town.
We have accounts from Haarlem, Utrecht,
arid, in (hort, from all parts, of the great re
joicing and splendid illuminations which took
place on the Bth, the anniversary of the birth
day of his Serene Highness the Hereditary
Prince Stadtholder.
17. Last Friday Sir James Harris paid his
visit of ceremony, as Ambassador Extraordi
nary and Plenipotentiary, to the Prince Stadt
holder, in great state. His carriage was very
splendid, and drawn by fix horses, ornamented
with avast quantity of orange ribbons. A
number of young girls, drefied in white, with
orange coloured falhes and ribbons, strewed
flowers before his Excellency. His Serene
Highness returned the visit next day in the
greatest state, amidst the acclamations of a
vast concourse of people, and girls ornament
ed with orange ribbons, strewing flowers,
and making the air ring with the cry of Long
Jive the Prince of Orange and the King of Eng
land* In Ihort, nothing could exceed the
univetfal joy and marks of refpeft exprefi'ed
on this occasion by all ranks for the house of
Orange and the King of Great-Britain.
20. The province ofFrieflaDd has acceded
to the resolution of their Noble and Great
Mightinefles the States of Holland and Weft-
Friefland for the support of the Constitution
and Stadtholderfhip. It is said that the pro
vinces of Guelderland and Overyfiel have like
wise agreed to the fame resolution.
PARIS, March 13.
They write from Rochelle, that three mer
chants ©f the reformed religion pitfented
tbemfelves, with their wives, to have the bans
publilhed, to renew their marriages accord
ing to the new law. The Curate to whom
they addrelled tbemfelves refufed to publish
their union; they then applied to the Bilhop
of Rochelle, who has confirmed the Curate’s
refufal, and in coufequence, by this refufal,
incurs all the difgrate of the‘Curate.
LONDON, April 12.
What an alteration have two centuries
made in the power of the European Princes !
—When the remains of the Grecian empire
were entirely destroyed, by the taking of Con
flantinople by Mahomet the second, a gene
ral conftei nation ensued, whilst the Turkifti
arms advanced If ill farther into Europe, and
the larze provinces of Romania, WalJachia,
Moldavia. Bulcharia, Greece, apart of Hun
gary, ice were subdued without almost any
rcfiftance, Alarming inroads were afterwards
made into Germany and in the last century
Vienna itfelf mud have inevitably fallen into
Ihe hands of the Turks, with a large accefiion
the
of provinces to their extended empire, had
not John Sobielki, afterwards King of Poland,
railed an army and entirely defeated the Ot
toman forces. At the beginning of this cen
tury the Turks were also making inroads into
Hungary aud Germany, end with a large ar
my were again marching to besiege that ca
pital, till Prince Eugene gave them a total
overthrow, and afterwards took several of
their fortified cities and towns; from that pe
riod they have sensibly felt their inferiority,
and their empire has likewise been torn by
intestine commotions and rebellions, and
their armies every where routed last war by
the Ruffians.
Hiftory informs uS, that the standard of
Mahomet was twice taken from the Turks in
battle, firft during the time of Amurath the
Fourth, which, when it fell into the hands of
the Germans and Hungarians, the Mahome
tan army was instantly struck with a panic,
and on the very point of quitting the field with
precipitation, when the commander of the
Spahis* or cavalry, cut off the tail of a led, or
spare horse, and holding it up in his hands,
cried out, “ this is the standard of Mahomet,
follow me to victory !’* and from the vigour
and fury of the onset, the Turks were victo
rious, though the ensign could not be reco
vered. From hence, Pachas of either two or
three tails were ever since appointed by the
Porte, (according to their rank) in comme
moration of this very lingular event ; and the
horse tails are carried by officers of inferior
rank in the field of battle, by the fide of such
generals as have arrived to those degrees of
military dignity and diftinftion.
The second and last instance which occurs
of the standard being taken, was duiing the
reign of Randolphus, Emperor of Germany,
(who was cotemporary with Queen Eliza
beth, during the latter part of her reign) when
in a dreadful battle, in which the Turks were
at length defeated. Lord Arundel, of War
dour, a volunteer in the German army, broke
from the line, and hewing down fix Turks
with his fabre, or broad-sword, wrested the
great standard of their prophet out of the
hands of the seventh, and brought it fafe to
the General who commanded the army. He
was dangeroufiy wounded in the hazardous
attempt, but fortunately not mortally. His
Lordlhip received tire most diflinguifhed
marks of honor fiom the Empeior, and was
himfelf afterwards appointed to present it to
the then Pope, and the standard was deposited
in the Vatican at Rome, where it still remains.
The Turks, however, were made to believe
by ,their Mufti and priests, that Mahomet, in
indignation, wrested it from the unbelievets,
(so they called the Chriflians) and placed it
in its old sacred repository in the Seraglio.
From hence it is firmly believed, by the lower
orders, that the present standard is the very
fame that had been borne before the Mahomet
at Mecca and Medina.
ExtraS of a letter from Vienna-, March 10.
« By an edict of the Grand Signior the fol
lowing prayer is to be recited four times a
day by all the Mufielmeu.
•« Creator of all the worlds, Lord of hea
ven and earth; thou whole immovable and
glorious Throne obfcurcs the Sun, Moon aud
Stars; thou who ruieft the vast aud raging
ocean with as much ease as a drop of the morn
ing dew i thou who by thy supreme p.wer
ca nil reduce the uuiverfe to uotbing ; weirn*
plore thy protection, fuccour amt help; hear
us, pity us, and giant our prayers; thou for
merly didst sent thy Prophet to give us thy
holy laws and commandments ; we have tranf
grefl'ed them ; we are tinners, and this has
brought down thine anger upon us, which has
awakened our enemies, and has caused the
land of the faithful this moment to groan he
neath the weight of their chariots, and their
neighing horses to trample it under their feet ?
Lift not thine avenging arm against us ; hide
thy face from our fins, and turn thine anger
from us ; baffle the bloody objects of thine
enemies and ours ; render their threats in
vain, reduce thole Infidel nations to dud, re
st ore thy people their former courage and con
fidence, and the arches of the temple of Mec
ca (hall re found with praises and thankfgiv
ins unto thee.”
The following is an extra# of a letter from
Gibraltar, Match 13 : “ The veflcls belong
ing to Commodore Cosby’s squadron, which
have made a general teview of what is going
on in the African ports, have teturned with
an account that they weie every where equip
ping ships of force. At Tunis the Bey ha*
finifhed nine ships for the particular service of
the Porte ; three of them are frigates of conft
derable force. The Dey of Algiers is aifa
decidedly againfl the enemies of the Ottoman
faith, and, betides others, has two ships of
50 guns each, almort new, rigged and man
ned in the completed manner. The Emperor
of Morocco, who about two years since sent
away the Ruffian Council from Tctuan, has
made no declaration, but his intentions are
every way apparent. The Moots will be a
valuable acquisition, as they reckon 3:, men
of war, of which four or live are fir for laying
alongfidc any of the Muscovite ships of fio
guns. We expert in a few months fufficent
news in this part to furnifh out a long letter
every pod. Till when adieu.
■« P. S. The Commodore, intheTrudr,
of 50 guns, is dill absent from us on a cruise.”
NEWS from INDIA.
LOSS of CORING A.
As the fubje# of the melancholy efleft* of
the late iuundation of the tea, on the coad of
Coromandel, naturally engages the attention
of all ranks of persons, we are h?ppy to be
enabled, by the arrival of the Ravcnfworth
on Saturday lad, to lay before our reader*
tome authentic particulars of that dreadful
catadrophe, which is contained in the follow
ing extra# of a letter from Madapollum, dated
the 17th of May, 1787.
4< For some days the sky bore a very angry
and menacing afpe#, and on the 1 dth and 19th
it blew drong gales from the N. and N. E.
On the 20th, about eight in the morning, we
had heavy showers, accompanied h* violent
guds of wind from the N. E. At eleven it
encreafed so much that we found it neceflary
to barricade our doors. At half pad one it
blew a perfe# hurricane from N. N. W. with
hard and incefTant ram, and evety room in
the house was covered with water in spite of
our exertions to prevent it. At thicc our
Hefuient quitted the fa#ory-houfe and came
to mine *«—about forty minutes aftet wards,
news was brought of the corner room having
fallen in, which was fuon followed by the
opposite room and the Verandah faring the
river. At five, the wind veered to W. by
ti, and foou after fix began to abate i about
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