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ft 44- r t- " if ; ; ' : if 1 -i "4i- 5 1 h " St.Lawi encf-s and the Huron-Indians liad biWgh. an unulual quantity of ginfeng to mar ket, ia low as 2s.'6d the pound. - The veflels Wele all letting. failSefore the "ice fet in, fo that it is probable we mall not hear again from that : quarter, except through the American Colonies, tor five months to come. General Baron deLilien, Who commanded a. fnvaii at my in the Bannat; was furprifed and defeatedjiy theIurka on ihe:.i9th.fle?hasr)TK. Dten (iiiniiiieii tueiervice lor this dugrace, oe ing the fourth furprife of the Auftrians this campaign. " ; r- i A Accounts bv Cant. Furher and Caot.Princer who arrived here yefterday from Martinrco, , lay ins majeity QLJLJigiajKUs-xieaa Extraii of a Utter from Albany, dateduec. 17. ,VI ihould be afraid thataiiinilarityof views would unite our Legiflature and' that of Vir ginia, did riot I hope, that the federalifrri of our enaic wouia oe aoie 10 prevent every pouuve niichief Negative evils will undoubtedly flow S m Jrdui this difagreement. ; - - ""We (hall probably appoint no Ele&ors. This will only be of moment fo far as it pre vents ouj- Mate from teltitying, by its Jutirages, . the approbation of General WaftSington. But it wHl npf'break in upon the genernl arrange mentjdiould we alfo be. without .'Senators. f which I think not improbable 'Temporary i ipconveniencies may refult from our neglect j but none I hope that can affecl the GeneralGo--vefflmetftrTheG long been extremely foured. lie finds hirhl'elf lef fened in the public ejleem ; and tho' (which there is little doubt of) the ftrength of the par ty, and -the want of troncert in the oppofi tion7 may continue him in office yet office, with all its emoluments, lofes many of its charms, yhenjti$ notatteoded with the reTpecl and -fa vour or the peopie. idnpt7-WjirrrtromHimt informs, that with orders for the: army to leave Gottcnbuig ' on the 15th ot November. ,; : - B A L T 1 M O KE,yJanuaiy 1-. ExtraS 'of a letter JHmpntktnan iWd Uamsburgt io bis chrrlftondent iu tbis to-wn - dated January 6. " We have loll,one of our mod worthy cha ral ers i n t he xkaih of G enei a 1 N e i ion C H e is a lofs to thistate, as welf as to the wholecn cle uaintance. Fi oirThis firmneft and I had a great den re that he mould w his acq abilities hivegone to the new Coniefs. Our federal frjend - --, in Gloucelter, will be one.... It 4s io: beJioped, that the fouthei n-States, iti ge neral, will be-cautious in fending young gen tlemen, who may form (as perhaps too many have already done) their deareit connexions, arid eftablifti their nearttt inerelts with 6ui ri vaU. We are'in hopes that Congrefs will fit as long in Willianifliurg ai it has in JNew York, until fome middle latitude is permanent ly fixed upon." I 'iuppofeyou call Baltimore the.centre peg but here wefayFrederickmurg. To the north, they never Teem to have had art eye on New-Virginia, Kentucky, the Carolinas and Georgia j but it muft be hinted to them, or we mail lhortiy very thorny, perhaps , , y . . - WT TwT their lad Teflion, in this cafe mide, have given and granied, and by thefe prefer ts do givja.Bd grant, unto the faid Nathaniel Gteene, a traft of land containing twenty rive thoufand acres, lying and being irt iour county of Greene, fitu ate on the fouth fide of Duck HiVer, a branck otr,ihe Tenneiree beginning on th fouth bank of Duck River, on a fyramore, cherry-tree and alh, at the mouth of a (mall branch j running therjee along a I inrof Marked trynfottthj: fe vm miles and forty-eight doles, to two Spanifh oaks, hickory and fugar Tappling j then, eaft, fix miles and ninety poles, to a vSpani1h7oak and hickory-tree $ north, three miles and three hundledlTpoles, to a fugar-tree Tappling and two white oak Tapplirigs Uhder a cliff of Duck River, where it , comes from the north eaft i thenceoivTrDuclRto vera I meanders, to the beginning.. ; . A perfon well informed refpecling the lands granted fo General Greene,' remarks, that it is iituate in thirty-five degrees about twenty-five minutes north-latitude, tha,t is, about twenty five minutes north of the fouth line of the State, and about forty Touthwardly of Namville,where the Superior Court of Law and Equity jj fbr the diftricl of Mero, is held by computation 14.0 j. I uiuca cnit ui 111c -iviiumpm, aiiu uiuuii a uuc A l will rt" r- f t . . ' weft courfe from the Atlantic ocean ; and that it is a body of entire good land, of the firft quality in America, unmixed with bad or in-, different. ' ; ' A letter from Paris, dated the itth of Oclo- berlaft, advift, that on the 2 $ th of that month the morning he left that place, a fire broke out which confu m-d a fquare of handibme build ings, which contained property to u, confidcra bl amount, faid to contain goods owned by JMdf. Lewis and Co. formerly known here by tne fiarfie 0 Mtff. Wbackum & Co and others, to the amount of 2. ,oool. fttrlmg. WILMINGTON, (Delaware) January 3. The new year was u (hired in at this place by an exhibition, thou h lefs fplcndid, -yet, per haps more patriotic than any that has taken phce fince the late revolution. At a meeting of a number of the principal citi2ens in and abofit the bojough of Wilmington, held oj tlie hrit ot January, 1733, an agreement was - entered into to meet at the academy in the Tame borough; on that day twelve months, clad in - complete fuits of American nr anufaft u re. The metting wasTheld accordingly, many perfons ppearectncrTaTrTlTO dilplayed of the abilities of this country to af itit her abfolute independence refpeing fo reign "manufaclure? of wearing apparel. All - thendirffeTererrrf elegant and tally, and fuch as would do Credit to old manufafturing countries ; the induftry, Ikill and fancy exhibited in fpinnihg the'niate rial qnd mixing the. colours of the feveral arti cles of drefs, as well asin making them up, ' isaii'rditional- proof; of the dbmertic virtues fi iHU he patriotic Ipint of the fair daughters of America. And we can offer to their country- "women hfhojutidj "j ear's Vih,;- than that they, as' well as their buibands and brothers, may emulate the exam-. yicoT the borough of VVilmingtbn. From calctilatjons made jit -th.ejmeetingiJtr appears. IthtT hoTfrijefre-ioth comes corirmemiy Tow1:" er than fuch asls . imported, of the fame qua- "i,iy; :-; .... in iviarcn nexr, 10 inter at the vcademy; at 12 o t)ock, ha viiig firft appointed a committee to, rtpi.it a fet of articles, for their future governi' PHI LADE LP 'i? I A, ' Janinry 5 6 lCTC'lvKnaaylhe'. 5th ihft. an ived at Newport? 1 Khode-lilanJ ) Lapt. Ureen, m 2 days from N01 way, inDenmark. He iriforms that wherr "have another Congrefs at Richmond. never do tor you northern lads to be all Freema fons, and keep us out of the fecretv I am for ty that Not'tfr-.Car61inawil 1 ji.y,nbieeprefented'; as that is a great, growing and rich State. Kentucky, which promifes to be ranked a .mungftthebeft-and tie heft Tettleimnts in-the-Union, ought not to have a pieferehce of Ca rolina, as to fertility of foil, and other advan tages.' I am well acquainted with both, 'by land and water ; and if I may venture to haz ard art opinion, I doubt not but when Virginia and Carolina lhake hands with a hearty good will, Norfolk wi 1 1 r i fe up, PM( nix -like, and be "the AmfterdamFrAmerrca, w liereloe vcr our -lages4nay4ix-the-Htf Exlraft of ja letter from d gentleman in Neuu York to his friencl inAhis ftace, Jan. 1 6. " I fuppble you are informed ot the divided n . - - "... - . . . .. ltate or our politics. Jt is teared that the dil- agreement between our legiflatiyejbodies will rlpnrttro its rt tf iAnan0 in tn r( Aolttme f rnnr. ,uirU n.. Km.. a. Bedford, John Banning, and George Mitchell, ellentially-rlecellary to Tecure to us the firft JC " . Extra of a late Metfave from bis 'Excellency Governor HANCOCK, to the Legijlature of Maffdcbufetts.- - THERE never was a time when the pub- lie lniereir requirea more attention, or greater abilities, than the prefent. When. the general" government (hall be in exercife a navigation act, equally advantageous to all the States and tounded, as it mail relate to foreign coun- Ilks39Ji3deasloLnat16n claim the attention of Congrels. The early 1 the. Panes, were marching into Norway, they . were attacked by. about 700 SWedes,-and itjvas "rrTApr tednttntTiHetDanes fft. j 00 men" j .aftec which the -nncioffedjtlie river, came uport T"ftbe back of the "Swedes, amTrook them all pii-" faiiex&-rIUic.&uJIiaiar milesGottenburg, and would have taken it, ' 4. bad nor theKng arrived in fcafon'whicli pre1 vented it. x'.rbe'-SwedeslpoJc.ooci barrels of piovifigns thAi'wtfe going to UieKuflian ainiy j giarid objeft, which we expeft will occupy the attention of Congrefs that isthe twelve miles Jquare bujinefs ; We are, however, doing all we can to give Congrefs the moft favorable re ception in our, power. We have,.;1n"the firft place, built them a comfortable hoilfe, hopingi that when they once fit. down in itn they will not like to move in tb the bufii. We have alfo a few little attractions, which fflake no great noife in the political world, although their powers are moli fen fi bl y feltandt-jetc;uf:rri((. when I lay, thatmortfyour youne. and a few -of-you F-WtAfou t her h-del eateratTiot"themo1r inlenlibleto them. We have Itrong atlurances that all the States to the northward of us, will run in favour of New-York. But we. are iVuchfrardhltrPennTy 1 vliniavvlTfbe joi n eof by the greatelt part ot the ibuthern interelt j if fo the conteft wi'H be warm, andi pardon me when I fay, I fear will terminate by 'fix ing on a' more central State than either : for.' I believe, if we come to centrality of tlace. or . . I " .. . i - ' population, your little btate would carry the TKriiii7ear-tha7th anttes no quarter in your State, nd that your reprefeiitation in Congrefs wi 1 1 he federal to a man. 1 wiih we could fny the fame j but the Britifh left, and ftill retain, a curled influence in our politics here." ' ' .;. andt . In honour of General Wajhingtoris lembled here, on the .i ith lnlt. performed many military evolutions. In the evening a Ball was given at the durt-hpiifeat whiclvam merousarJijlja and gentlemen. ; ?x.y ':. ' l': ': ' ; Extra fl of the G rant from the State of North - Carolina to 'lajoyGenrMthdHelne for twenty -five thoufand acres of land fas ex J , Muted by His Excellency Alexander Martin .Efq. on thejxfi day-oMarWijXsy ESTATE, of. NORTH-CAllOLINAi555 f To all to whom thefe jpiefents m "UREET1NG. " KNOW'ye, that wjer for and inonfider. ation, and as a mark of the hig ferfe ofvthe K thaneL Greene- ntertaiaed by our; General died, fuddenly, the. Marquis de Chaftelleaux a Major-General in his Moft Chriftian Majef ty 's army, au thor of a valuable journal of the campaigns of the laft war in America a no bleman of great eminence in the republic of letters, a renowned warrior, and. an accont piifliedeLfttiternan. ' ' x ' ThrLeiflporrof NewHarnpm1?r pointed he Hrln."Pamg:WingatiT FC': n Sgni- tor for that Statd in the Congrefs of the United -States, inftead of the Hon. Judge Bartlett, who has religned. ;r ' . The Hon. John Vining, Efq. is eledled Re prefentative of the State of Delaware, in the Congrefs of the United States and (Junning courage-'agricultuf e, promote the ufeful arts, and introduce thofe habits of life and bufinefs, which tend to render iis, , as a nation tnilvJnw. dependent. It cannot be tod often repeated. or too (trongly inculcated upon the minds of the people, that induftry and frugality ,: fup ported by good morals, and a love to their country, are abfolutely neceffary to the politi cal happinefs of acommunity. u 1 Lye direfted thc Secretairy to Jay, before . you a letter, written by the Geneiaj Affembly ot Virginia enclo'ed by his Excellency the Gojrernorrofuhattateaawhic en - clofed. a reiol ution 'of in ftruclions to their Re- prefentatives in Congrefs, which I alfo com mu- - nicate to you in the fame manner, Thefe arc all t he pub lie d i fpatches I have received , 'and-. are ail exprefsly upon the lubjeft of calling a .GeneraTConventionTfoO alterations in the Conftitiition or Government , I communicated to you in the lalt lemon, a let ter from the Convention of the State of. New- York, upon the fame fubjeft. TheStates of yifginia and New-York" are eryimpoitant members of the Union, and will always receive -great fiiendfliip and ftrice.re . regard from this Com mftn wealth. Thextentlemen who re m K0Iirhmenlli able tor their wtfdom and patriotilm, and cam never be capable, of introductng-a meafure .: whiclftliey lo: nofionceiye IwiU ten4 totthe in- ;il tereftlHLte arnconftraitred Wobfefvethat lUlmpoTew-bjhhEy be. better, accomplilhed' byrecommendationg Pi frooi Congrefs to the Legiflatures of the States.. - A Convention will be expeiiyetlLnot danger . . ous, to the interelt ot the nation. JJut it reitt. vith you, gehtlemcrj to give fuch iaftruftionji .
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