Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Savannah, in Georgia.

"The people are as poor as the bitterest of their enemies could wish them, a few foreigners excepted; hardly a man in the place can afford a bottle of wine; the state wished to send a member to Congress, but the governor called the British merchants together, and told them, that he must require them to raise among themselves 300 guineas to send the members to Congress, and that he would make a point of having confiscated property sold to repay them. There is little or no trade; the merchants will become bankrupts; there are only three ships, two brigs, even schooners, and two sloops in the state, loading at present, and all bound for British ports. South-Carolina, I understand is in the same predicament."