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GEORGIA GAZETTE.Number 98. THURSDAY February 14, 1765.GEORGIA. _By bis Excellency JAMES WRIGHT, Efqui/e, Captain-General and Governor in chief of bis Majefty's province of Georgia, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the fame,A PROCLAMATION. ITEREAS I have received information that feveral paper bills have appeared to be fhade in imitation of the lawful paper bills of credit of this province, and which falie bills have .been uttered and palled as the genuine and lawful paper bills of credit of this province, to the great prejudice of {undry of his Majefty’s good fub-jefis* IN ORDER THEREFORE to deter o-thers from fuch illegal and wicked praices, and for difcovcring and bringing to juftice the parties concerned therein, I DO hereby offer a REWARD of FIFTY POUNDS STERLING,,to be paid by his Majefty’s treafurer for this province, to fuch peri'on or perfons as ihall difcover any or either of the offenders, fo as they, or any or either of them, may be apprehended and convicted of the faid offence : AND for the better difcovery in the premifes, I DO hereby alfo pro-tnife (over- and above the faid reward of fifty pounds) his Majefty’s moft gracious pardon tlt;t any one of the parties concerned, (except the perfon or perfons who aually ingraved the plate or plates ufed in making fuch falfc bills) who Ihall difcover his or her accomplice or accomplices therein, fo that he, flie, or they, miy be apprehended and eonvied' thereof.Given under my hand and the great fcal of his Majefty’s faid province, at Savannah, the eleventh day of February, in the year of erar Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-five, and in the fifth year of his Majefty’s reign.Wtary’s-Office, JAMES WRIGHT. By his Excellency’s command,Thomas Mood if, Dcp. Seer.GOD SAVE THE KING.EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.Lijbon, Oihber 30.Y * fhip lately Rfrived from the Eaft.Indies we learn, that Ali Kan had made him-felf matter of our polU (lions in the neigh-bourhood o( Gon, from whence we get our penpcr j and as this ihip brought none of that fpice, the price of it is n?cn cent, per cent. It is (aid that an European gave Ali Kan the hint Of making this conqucft, and that there arc feveral Englilh and otherEuropeans in his army, which makes us apprchcnfive of hitfalling upon Goa.Madrid, Nov. 13. It is faid that fome clouds arc rifing between our court and that of Lifbon.Hamburgh, Nov. 27. Our letters from Konigfberg, the capital of the kingdom of Pruflia, bring, that the fire of the nth and i2th«of this month has conlumed 700 private houfes, the great hofpital, five churches, fix of the king’s magazines, and feveral others belonging to merchants,London, Oflobcr 13. The traders of Ancona have prefcntcd a placet to the Pope, befwehing his holinefs to protcfl their commerce againft the corfairs of Barbary, which infeft all the coafts ofthe ccclefuftioal (late.They write from Rome that the comfaandantof the Pope’s two frigates had received orders to put immediately to fca, in order to cruize in the Adriatick gulph again A the Bajbary corfairs.03. 29. According to letters from Gibraltar, on the 2ad of September, the Efnpcrorof Morocco Cent an order 30 the Dutch Conful atTctuan to depart the Country in three days uqder pain of death on non-compliandc. The Conful, ignorant of the motive of fcrrh an extraordinary command, retired on board a fh'ip in the road, a/ter having depofited his eiferts at the houfe of the Englilh Conful, and lending a courier to require an explanation of this affair., November 8. Tucfday morning, about four o’clock, a (hock of an earthquake happened at Oxford. It was perceptibly felt by molt of the inhabitants of that city, many of whom arol'e from their beds in great conflcrnatton. In fome houfes the pewter, c. was (hook from the (helves.The courts of France and Spain feem at prefent to have their hands full with the depredations of the bailee and other B.-fVbary rovers, who have now fo many (hips of force at fca, that the commerce of the Mediterranean is become exceedingly precarious.They write from Berlin, that the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick is appointed General of Horfe in his Prufiian Majefty’s fervicc.Ycfterday his Excellency Count Bruhl, Ambaflador frorjt the court of Drefden, had his firft private audience of his Majelly to deliver his credentials.Nov. 13. As the Turks have not, and it is believed will rot acknowledpe the new kineof Poland, a war in the eait
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