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P A R I' S, January
COUNT du Barre has produced in Council the ac
tual state of the military, amounting to 180,00 b
men well difciplmed, and 60,000 militia. M. de Saftihe
has in like manner produced a slate of the marine of
Ff^ ^, consisting of 86 Blips of the line, from loe dowil
to 64 guns; 3,, frigates of 28 tuns up to 44; corvets,
&c. with 36,© 0 seamen. France n ver before had so
flourishing a marine, not such a complete and numerous
body of w^f dife iplincd troops.
L O N J O N.
House o' COMMONS, lufdas, January 26.
Ordered, That thee be laid before this House an ac
count of the quantity of wool imported from Ireland into
Great. Britain ; anl also the quantity of exports from
Great Britain for four years.
Mr Charles Fox hedged the House would recollect,
that at the end of the feffan before the last, it had been
deemed expedient to enquire into the conduct of the Di
redors of the India Company, and papers were according
ly ordered to be laid before the House; hence it appears
that the concerns of that Company were certainly national,
it could not therefore be' deemed improper to make an ' en
quiry into the conduct of the officers of the Company in
their extraordinary proceedings, when they imprisoned
Lord Piggot. He intended to move for an enquiry, that
the House might fee what the Directors had done, or ra
ther what they had rot done, on that very important oc
casion. As to his own private opinion on the matter, he
would for the prefect keep it to himfelf; he would not
prejudge, or endeavour to mislead gentlemen by impos
ing bis judgment on them; he wiflied the business to be
difeuffed with candour, attention and impartiality; and
without faying any thing more at prefect, moved, that
an account Should be laid before the House of the proceed
ings of the Court cf Directors of the India Company, in
conference of the violent imprifonmeut cf Lord Pigot,
and of the commotions that ensued, together with all pa
pers received from India subsequent to the 24th of Au
gust, 1776.
Mr. T. Townfhend seconded the motion.
Sir George Wombwell, by the silence which the two
preceding gentlem n had imposed on themselves, with re
gard to opinion, was precluded from delivering his ; he
would there ore, like them, wait for a more proper oppor
tunity; but he could not but remark, that however can
did the honourable gentleman that made the motion might
with to appear, by tufpending his judgment, be had fuf
ficiently expressed his fentimems, by talking what the In
dia Company had not done; he trufteJ, however, that
upon an enquiry, it would be found, that toe Court of
Directors had don° a great deal.
The motion pissed without opposition? The report
was then made from the Committee on the recruiting bill.
1 Sir Charles Embury opposed it, in a long ft tidied
Speech, from the declaration of the Secretary at War, that
the country had an immense 'orce, he concluded, that bur
army did not want recruiting: It was the Km,s Coun
cil t at wanted to be recruited, he lamented that our at
tention was so much turned to our land forces, that our
navy was neglefted 1 and the navy of Fr nce, he was fer
ry to,fay it, was fuffered to become equal to ours. He
wished to fee all parties, all interests, joined at this mo
ment; and entreated that gentlemen on both sides of the
House would forget their political divisions; and all act
flreuumdy and united in their country's cause.
Sir Char'es was interrupted in his panegyrick by Mr.
George Onflow, who happening to spy a peer, or some
Nabobs, net Members in the body of the House, infilled
that they fhoul.lbe Zfdered to withdraw, or fit behind the
clock, the place defined for strangers : He said, that as
long as he should bear the name he was then honoured
with, he would have spirit enough to resent insults, and to
maintain the dignity and orders of the House.
The Serjeant at arms was directed to make the Grang
ers quit the body of the House..
Tne bill was then read, with the amendments made by
Committee.
Colonel Barre gave notice, that he had a elaufe in his
hand, which he intended to have inferred in the mutiny
bill ; he had refrained from moving for its insertion in the
recruiting bill last night, because he wished to assist tie
latter, and not retard its progress through the House, which
would have been the case, had he moved it then. The
elaufe was to this effed, to fecu re to all the soldiers in the
army, their difehar e, after a service of a certain number
ot years. This elaufe he thought necessary, to ref ue us
from the difgra e of fubjeaing our armies ; n the freeft
country upon earth, to shackles, unknown to soldiers, in
the most arbitral State in Europe. The honor of our
laws, the honor of liberty, the honor of humanity was in
terested; and he hoped, that when the elaufe should be
proposed, it would meet with support from every gentle
man who was an enemy to slavery, and such he trusted
was every gentleman in the House.
The Secretary at war thanked the Colonel for not hav
ing proposed the elaufe last night, as it would certainly
have retarded its progress and promised to pay the utmost
attention to the elaufe, when the mutiny bill ihould be
read a second time He then proceeded to state some al
terations, which he wilhed the House would make ill the
bill before them.
To fatisfy Sir Herbert Mackworth, he would make no
mention of the Welih counties ; to meet Sir Philip Clerke's
idea, he wished to be empowered to suspend the aH at
once, when necessary in all the counties South of Trent,
than in all North of Trent, and next in Scotland. The
standard Ihould be five feet three for lads of seventeen :
and five feet four for those who were above that age ; but
upon the interposition of General Conway, the standard
of five feet three was confined to lads of eighteen.
The House then went through the bill, paragraph by
paragraph, and afterwards adjourned
Thursday, January 28.
Lord Beauchamp moved, " that an account be laid be
fore the House of the number of men on the pay of Ireland,
in the service of his Myefty, his dominions abroad, to
gether with the expence which Ireland sustains in support
of them." His Lordship would not then trouble the House
with a relation of his inducements for making the motion,
but when the accounts came before the House, he would
take the liberty fully to explain the use he intended to
make of them, from whence his reasons for making the
notion would naturally appear. Ordered without a divi
fiog.
The Serjeant at Arms then informed the House that a
mefienger (Mr. Rutherford) waitedat thedoor from the
Directors of the African company.
Mr. Temple Luttrell objected to the messenger's being
called in; he came fully prepared to go into an enquiry
into the African trade, and not one person, whole duty
it was to attend the House on such an occasion, was pre
sent; the business was of too great importance to admit
of a flight difeuffion; 50,0001. were annually expended
in the proteaion of that trade; the advantages derived
from it were certainly great, of course it was of national
confluence. He came, time after time, the last fiffots,
to make the enquiry he now wished, but was always pre
vented ; at one time the House was thin, at another it was
too late in the sessions, wera the excuses of our procrafti
natorsin adminiftratioH. Under a pretended idea that no
business was before the House, gentlemen took care py
their absence, to prevent any from coming. He had
wished to consult with those, to whom a confederation of
those affairs belonged, in order that some mode might be
adapted for conducing the enquiry with the , reater faci
lity ; but from thence he could meet with no success.—
The noble Lord, who was generally termed '' Lord of
the Trade and Plantations," had, is answer to an appli
cation made to him, asserted that commercial affairs did
not come within bis de,artmen!; that he had no more to
do with them than the Archbifoob of Canterbury. For his
part, it was little concern to him who had to, do with
them, provided proper attention was paid them; which
he was sorry to fy, was by no means the case at present.
If the Archbifov, of Canterbury was concerned so much
with commerce, for God's fake let him attend bis d.tity in
the House, let forhe one be prefect who could give the
House some information on that head. Brit to be furious,
he realty could not withhold his censure from those in
power, whose grind objed seemed to be emolument;
whose most pleasing bufluefs—indolent convenience. If
the messenger on'y waited to deliver the accounts of the
African Company (which had been previously moved for)
he had 'no obje&ion to his being called in ; but if any
thin^ further was intended, he hoped the House would
confider that it was a very improper time to enter upon
any matter of importance, whed scarce a dozen Members
were prefect.
The Speaker then acquainted Mr Luttrell, that the
messenger had only brought the accounts from the Com
pany, pursuant to the order of the House. Upon which
he was ordered to be called iri, when he presented at: ac
count of the orders and regulations of the African Com
pany.
Adjourned.
A letterfrom Mindsn, dated Jan. ,4, fayt, " The Eni
peror has. actually refuted to meet Congress, but agrees
to treat at \ienna, which his Prussian Majesty will never
consent to. Tiie next campaign will be a terrible one, as
both parties make themselves formidable, and 36,000
Ruffians have cQuliy entered Poland."
It is laid that the French have taken up 6000 troops
into p y from the feverd States in the empire, and that
a rupture is certainly expected in Germany ; Hanover is
mentioned, for which as no' defence will be made, it is
thought it wk! serve to balance any thing the French may
have to lose to us.
Yesterday Col. O'Hara, of the guards, arrived at the
Plantation office with dispatches from General Clinton at
New York,
March 16. The Ministry, fays a Correspondent, have
all along been remarkably diffufive in their encomiums on
the valour of Gen. Clinton, and indeed they seem, conti
nues he, to have rested all their hope (i. e. the conquest of
America) on the intrepidity of Sir Henry; for the vigi
lance of administration has left him little more to do the
business, not a single man having yet been sent to rein
force him.
P PI I LADBLP II I A,. June r 7..
Wehear from Brunswick in New-Jersey, that out of
upwards of 1500 sick, who were admitted into the military
hospital in that place, since November last, only 22 have
died. This extraordinary success in the management of
the sick, (compared with former years) has been justly
ascribed, next to the diligence and care of the Surgeons, to
the plentiful and ,unequal supplies of stores and necessaries
of all kinds for the sick, by the preferit Purveyors of the
hospitals.
On the ?t h inst. the brig Monmouth retook a fchocner
from Dominica, lately taken by,the Bishop privateer; of
New-York. She is fafe arrived at Egg-Harbour.
C O MMI TT E E-R O O M,
Wimingtoh, State of Delaware, June 2, 1779.
WH E RE AS our fellow-citizens in a neighbouring
State, routed at the extravagant measures pursued
to raise the prices of every necessary of life, depreciate our
money, and in short counteract every measure pursued by
those who with te fee the glory, freedom, independency
arid liberty of America established, have nobly slept forth
to the support of the civil authority, with a full determi
nation to fee that the laws of the State shall be put in full
force, ftridly observed, and duly executed.—lnfluenced
by their example, confeious of the necessity of the mea
sure, and requested by them, a considerable number of the
inhabitants of this borough have thought proper to unite
in a society, to be known by the name of th 6 Constituti
onal Society, and think ourselves justifiable to purfae the
fame measures of our friends in Pennsylvania and the neigh-,
bouring States, who are solicited, and undoubtedly will
adopt the fame measures : — And we hereby inform the
public in general, that we shall take particular notice of,
arid use our best endeavours to promote a fair, just and
open trade with the States in general and each other ; that
we will use every endeavour to prevent foreflalling, en
grossing and monopolizing the necessaries of life, and every
other article of trade; that we will fee that those regula
tions which our friends in the neighbouring States (which
relate to us) shall think proper to adopt, shall be duly ob„
served, and put in execution—and we hope and expert,
without farther trouble, that a proper regard will be im
mediately paid to the regulations now made in Pennsyl
vania, until a more general one shall take place; but if a
ny person or persons ffiould be so loft to good order and
virtue as not to takp notice thereof, we will be ready at
any time to receive information of or against the offenders
and treat them according to the nature of the offence.
Signed by order of the Committee,
THOMAS CROW, Clerk
By a gentleman from New-Jersey, we learn, that sr
party of tories landed at Shrewfbury on Thursday night
last, when they were opposed by about thirty militia,
hastily collected, who after some refinance retired with
the loss of two men killed and ten wounded—As the to
ries kept the ground, their loss is unknown —As soon as
the militia had retired, they collected thirty horses, some
flieep, and horned cattle; took Col. Hendricks, arid a
few other of the inhabitants, and made off.
Accounts from Trenton fay, that General Livingston
had received advice, that on Thursday arid Friday last,
upwards of 100 fail bf vessels, many of them sloops and
schooners, arrived at New-York—They had few or no
soldiers ©n board—lt was net known from whence they
came, but it is supposed they were from Georgia.
*,* The COMMITTEE for the City and Liberties of
Philadelphia, meet this afternoon at the College, at four
o'clock precisely, when every Member is desired to be
punctual in his attendance, as matters of an important
nature will come before them.
4t4 The Members of the AMERICAN PHILOSO
PHICAL SOCIETY are requeued to attend at the Col
lege to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock, agreeable to their
rules.
STATE of NEW-JERSEY.
House, of Assembly, June 11, 177,.
"UT HEREAS the Legislature of this State hath passed
▼ ▼ "An Act for calling out of circulation, and for fink
ing all Bills of Credit, heretofore emitted in this State
whilst the fame wasa Colony?' In and by which it is en
a&ed, that “all Bills of Credit emitted by Law : and like
wise all those emitted by an Ordinance of the late Provin
cial Congress of this State, fyli be brought into the Trea
sury, to be exchanged, cn of before the firft day of Janu
ary next," and; "that all those bills which shall not be so
brought in, oh or before that day, shall be forever after
irredeemable?'.;
AND WHEREAS many, of those bills may be in
the hands of persons residing in the neighbouring States,
which, unless timely riotice be given, may not be brought
in. within the time limited, to the great injury of the posses
sors, to prevent which ;
Refolded, That the Printers of public news-papers in
this and the neighbouring States, be requested to insert the
above entraps from the said Law,in their papers, and con
tinue the fame at kaft four weeks, for the information
of all persons concerned.
By order of the Hotfe,
JOSEPH PHILLIPS, Clerk.
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Philadelphia, June I§.
On T UE S I) A Y next,
The twenty-second If ftant,
At Ten o'clock in the morning, will be l>ld by Public
Au&icn, at the late dwelling house of Patrick
Meade, 1 deceaferi, in Wa^r-ftreet, the coiner of
Qjeen th eet, South wark,,
ALL his Moulhold.Goods aad Kitchen Furniture ;
eoßfifting ot tables, chairs, andirons, (hovels and
tongr, bedu and bedding, a stove and pipes, a choice
good silver watch, fevers! articles of silver ware, toge
ther with some Wearing Apparel.
N. B. The money to be paid at the time of sale.
ALL those who are in any wife indebted to the eflate
of Patrick Meade, deceased, are hereby requested to
make immediate payment to the fubferiber; and those
who have demands upon the said estate are olfo request
ed to bring in their actounts, properly authenticated,
that they m*y be difeharged, by
DENNIS POUGHERTY, Administrator.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennffoania, IT.
+ lO ALL whom it may concern.
N° ' "^ " herein, given, That a Court of Admfe
ralty wall be held at the C urt-Houfe in the city of
Philadelphia on the eighth day of July rrxt, at Ten
o'clock in the forenoon of the fame day, then and
there to try the tiuth of the fa&s alledgel in the bill of
Samuel Tucker and Seth Hording, Enquires, (who as
well, &%) against the thip or yeffel called the Pole,
lately commanded by John Maddock : To the end and
intent that the owner or owners, or an, person concern
ed therein, m ? y appear and shew taufe, if any they
have, why the fame ffiotild not be condemned according
to the prayer of the frid bill.
By order of the Judge,
ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
TO ALL whom itmay concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
miralty will be held at the Court house in the city
ot Philadelphia, on the eighth day of July next, at
Ten o'clock iri the forenoon of the fame day, then and
there to try the truth of the fa&s alledged in the bill of
Charles Alexander, (who as well, &c.) against the
fchocner or ve£l called the Nancy, lately commanded
by Nathaniel Buttei field, her tackle, apparel, furniture
and cargo: To the end and intent that the owner or
owners, or any person concerned therein, may ap
pear and shew cause, if any they have, why the fame
Should not be condemned according to the prayer of the
laid bill. By order of, the Judge,
June 16.' ANDREW ROBESON, Reg.
Philadelphia, June sc.
FORTY DOT.LARS REWARD.
STRAYED AWAY from the edge of the Com
mons at the upper end of Third-ftr@et, on Wednes
day the ninth instant, a sorrel HORSE, about four
teen and a half hands high, with a small star in his fore,
head, and no other white about him; branded on the
left fhouldef or left buttock L. 2D. but so faint as
hardly to be feeri; pretty long bodied, and his mane
rather shorter than common. Whoever will bring said
horse to Henry Funk's ftahle, at the corner of Third
and Race-streets, shall receive the above reward and all
seasonable charges.
JONATHAN D. SERGEANT.