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SATURDAY, July if, 1788; GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE OR INDEPENDENT REGISTER. I FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JUR Y, to remain inviolate forever. Ccvjiituticn of Georgia* AUGUSTA: Printed by JOHN E. SMITH, Printer to the State ; Essays, Articles of Intelligence, Advert ifements, will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. ■ | j - -..1 - ..... JL 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 CNo. XCV.]