Newspaper Page Text
•‘VIENNA, Jpril 23.
HOUGH the HofpoHar Mauro
-5 geni, when he publiflied his Ma
nifefio against the Houfcs of Au
tfria and Russia, fplemnly proraifed the
Walachians that they should be exempt
from any extraordinary contributions,
and that he would render their situation
a 8 easy as he could, yet within a few dayfc
after, circular orders were sent to the bi
shops, boyardfi, and merchants, and a
number of inhabitants of every condition,
by virtue of which the Holpodar ordered
-them to pay within the space of 24
hours, each according to his posses
sions, from 500 to *O,OOO piafter9, for
the support of the army. An aft ofdef
potifm so contrary to the conditution of
that province, plunged the inhabitants in
to a general conflematiou ; they had not
even time to remondratc agafnft fetch an
exaftion, and to reprefeut the difficulty,
Os rather the impossibility, of providing
the funis required in so iliort a space of
time, on account of the disordered date
of their affairs; notwithdanding this, he
extorted those fuins fiom them by vio
lence, and ordered them from one hun
dred to four hundred baftinadoes on the
foies of their feet. We are affbred that
iby this horrid proceeding, Maurogdni
amassed above 800,000 piaflers, part of
which he diffributed to the Pachas in Wa
lachia ; besides which, he ehofe and sent
a number of Greek woman to those fame .
Pachas for their seraglios ; and wanting to
make the Mahometan religion triumph in
a chriftian province, he ordered a raofque
to be built at Bucharefl, which the Tories
themfelvcs never required. But this was
‘ nothing to what they fuffered in the
country;- under pretence of forming ma
gazines for the Grand Signior’s armies,
the Hofpodar seized all their corn, with
out any regard to the public wants ; and
to lodge the troops, he obliged them ei
ther to receive the Turks into their cot
tages, or themselves from the
charge by paying a Cum of money, which
those who were able willingly did \ but
what was their aftonithment to fee, not
witbftanding this, from five to fiftv ful
diersat their doors, whom they were 0-
Idiged 10 lodge. By all tfaefe a&ions,
■Maurogeni only endeavoured to make a
show of his zeal and attachment to the
Porte* but he was not neglectful of his
own' intexeds, or those of his family, as
the following anecdote thews :—Having
about three weeks ago represented to the
Grand Vizier., that he.was displeased with
the conduct of one of his cousins at Bui
ebareft, and that to puniffi him he was
tefolved to fend him back to his country,
which is a little illand of the Archipelago,
without fuffering him to land at Constan
tinople; he befeeched the chief minirter
to give his orders accordingly, which he
did without hesitation, and the Hofpodar
immediately sent off his cousin, wbopaf
fed the canal and Dardanelles without be
ing Searched, in a Small vessel; but they
all know at Buehared, that this pretended
prisoner carried off above 2,000,000 in
money and effects, belonging to the prince,
who imposed on the court in that mod
fhameful manner. If the Walachians
wirti the Ruffians and Austrians to bemaf
ters of that country, it is all owing to the
tyrannical and abominable adminidration
of a Have, whom the Porte has railed to
the dignity of a Prince, indead of keep
ing him in the chains he was born for. —
The Walachians deted his name the more,
ns it is evident that the Porte does not |
excercife those oppreffiens in any other of
(heir provinces*
' LONDON, June id.
ExiraS of a letter from Mr. Blanchard ,
dated Bast, in Switzerland, April 25*.
“ Retired in a castle near the gates of
Bafle, I have been many months making
two wings, composed of wfialebOne, and
covered with, taffety, winch are cxaftiy
like tbofe of birds; and notwithftauding
they cover a space of 90 leet, their
lightness, joined with the force I have
borrowed front the poweEs of mecbanifm,
enables me to use them lo easily, that I
can mount with the least motion-. On
Monday, the sth of May, I will make a
public attempt in this city, at the Mar
gravcof Baden’s, and mount nryfdif front
the court of the palace. I thail, at my
firft trial, take my parachute with me,
which a final baliodu, about 15 in diaine
ter, will rail'e, and keep ready to ipread
when wanted. -1 niayy peihaps, ftaVc a
second of the fame lize f<*r other experi
ments—many motives have engaged me
to perfect and execute this piece of me
- thanifm : rft, to find fbnie method of di
rection, by a confidsrable diminution of
the volume of the balloon ? secondly, to
reduce of course the expence of an ex
periment to'a mere - nothing ; thirdly, to
avoid all the dangers which my afcenlioa
among a number of inaccessible mountains
will expole me to, if carried by a balloon
only, and driven by a bad wind, I Ibould
reach the summit of thole places, but dials
be glad to fee them, whereas I now no
longet feaT those defebte, as I can'eafily
leave 1 them by flying. Afte? this elfay,
nothing will be difficult to me, and I dare
p’romife the success of my wings before
hand, from the observation I have made
in the different experiments. I have
mountains, which no mortal ever arrived
at j tried for these fourteen or fifteen years
with machines, far from the perfection of
my prefer.t piece of mechaniim. I flat
ter myfelf I fhali yet have the fatisfac
tion of returning tu Paris on a fixed day,
flying in the air.”
ExtraS of a letter from Vienna, April 5.
“ On the 9th of March Prince Cobourg
received advice at CzUrddwitz, that the
Bacha Ibrahim Naxir was marching' to.
wards Bouttuchan with yoo Saphis, 300
or 400 Janizaries, and three pieces of can
non, with a de&a-a to take that place.”
The ministry were never more puzzled
1 than to devise a scheme for deltroying the
smuggling of tobacco ; it is their wiflf to'
render every duty productive to its esti
mate, and the tobacco ought to yield l'o
great a revenue, that it becomes an ob
ject of the greatest importance.
, ExtraS of a letter from, Feterjlurgh r .
March 28v
« On the 24th of March, a body of
4000 Turks, of which 500 were horse y
made an attempt to retake the convent of
Sinai, in Walachia, and their approach
was so- sudden that Lieutenant Colonel.
Geitz had hardly time to get his troops
together; hut soon perceiving the Superi
ority of the enemy,, who attacked him.
sword in hand, he was obliged to retreat,
after‘a very terrible fire. The £Turkifh
Commandant fought like a desperado, kil
ling numbers with his own hand. Lieut.
Colonel Geitz was slain amongst the Au
strians, who give out they had on/ly 12 kil
led and 32 wounded. The greater part
of the convent is reduced to allies, and
the Turks in consequence did not take
pofleflion of it.”
Among the novelties in the commer
cial world, is that of a new Sjjanilh East-
India company, whose firm is to be at
I
Corunna. The Trince of At** .1
r principal projector. - ' Uftru2 «out
. MOROCCO DISPuTt B our
; l In confequer.ee of the prefer “
; wjtii- the Emperor of Morocco rW* 8 J
dore Crolby has left Italy, , J
with his l-juadron, to Gibra!;: r ' „B. eC
to protest the Britiih veiiels wuly 'B lne
the btraits. A llrtcf attend®** 1
rhe part of that squadron, v.ill 0a, B“ ot
able to pievetit the pirates of
crmzcrs, the principal fca potVj*®*'
Emperor’s dominions beni> ii lu -J.®" 1
near the Straits of Gibraltar, p i^B C ’
pie have a perfect knowledge of
Ipicabie navy of that prince. TfeeL^H 0
. of it con fills of only zoor 33 rovv " 0
which a: e small low veiTels of aver °"
der conftruftion, and generally CJr '.J" :^B C
or 150 men each. An Engljfl,
the line, with z or 3 frigates of ,r., Ve
each, are fufficient to deflrov kail
r I I- I '
armament.- It- would be a con£j ctl .;im
worthy the Christian powers ta( n ,
junction of their forces, and
themselves ail the sea ports of
the principal of which are Tangier t!KE-.
tuan, Arviia, Magadore, Sale:,
rache ; compelling the fubiects of
empire to rc tide at a confiderabledijJß*'
from the sea coast, by which meats JR
commerce of Europe would'not
j'ect to the- depredations of these hwltffil;
infidels. There are not less ttanij r
: Britiih veilels annually pals the Strii;s'!Bijb
• their way to the ports of Spain, ItaljJ
• Turkey,, and the Levant. i - 4
It is curious to ohferve, that the EmJ*'
ror of Morocco- declares war agaitßf
England, bccaufe he wants gun}Kdn.~M~
Ten thousand barrtds of this article Is
mands as the price of peace, a.ij iiodoubtj;
if he perfev©r«a in- Ills Owiiiamis, »v
receive it,, though in- fra a Her quaautitSjWl
and accompanied by- bull. C
The Emperor of Morocco is vigorouOyH f
recruiting hi*cavalry wijh Christian il:ves,B ,
and augmenting his fleet of rovers oneH
! of which in February la ft, took a mcftH
rich Salee prize; He has fignined his icy* ■
al intention, in case of a war with
land, to lay a frefii tax on the Jews. 11
SAVANNA FT, Jugu/iS. ’ll
Last Saturday evening a small panyoffc
1 1 Indians carried off seven negroes, viz. p
two men, two women, and' three child* If
re 11, from Mrs. Girardeau’s plantation ■!
in Liberty county.- Another fellow they li
had laid hold of they let go on difeovering ■
he had*an iron on his leg ; h,e lays the la- If
dians were - four in number. Col. Stew* 1*
art, as soon as he heard what had pa2c<l »
collected a few men, and went in q °-
the Indians, but night coming on lie loi
thgir trail, and after being out the greatest
part of next day, was obliged to return
without difeovering it. It is thought that
the above party came down in purfutt ot
two negroes of Col. Maybauk’s, who »
escaped from the nation, and gut in 1
or two before, and not being able w»« 4
take them, had seized ou Mis* oi.a* 4
tieau’s to make up their loss.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 13-
The following is a T-anfeript of a *tuf
from Alexander M'Giiiivray, Qbi'h
the Creek Indians, to George Whity* >
■* S
Little Talbfee, nth A*guftt
4< S I R, I
“YAM ’glad to hearyou had » tolle ”
home, & we Y*’src no.