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L OND O N, May 13.
The author of a pamphlet called considerations
on the measures carrying on wrh refpeCt to the
British Colonies in North America, fays, “ But
it is in this dispute very often represented, that a
total and absolute dependence on the British Parli
ament, without any exception whatsoever, either
with regard to taxes or any other, is liberty it
fdf; it is British liberty, which is the best of li
berty. I anf^er, who fays otherwise in the case
of us, who chufe that Parliament; but that in
some other cases this proposition may, perhaps,
be more liable to question. Our North American
colonies are, as to their internal constitution, a
very free people, as free as the Venetians,
the Dutch, or the Swiss, or perhaps more so than
any of them. This proceeds from their Affcm
biies being not only the nominal, but real Repre
sentatives of those whom they govern. These are
elected fairly, fully, and often. In these Affem
bLs their liberty coufifts, and it is certainly true
and genuine. But change the feene a little; let
any one colony be taxed and governed, not by
thir own, but by the assembly of another; what
is then become of this their genuine liberty? It is
gone and loft with their own assembly. Let all
the colonies be so fubj^&ed to theadembly offome
one among them. That won't mend the matter.
Let us take a large scale. Suppose this power
over them to be lodged in the Parliament of Ire
land. We are never the nearer. Let us come
towards home. Were the kingdom of Ireland
under the taxture and direction of the British Par
liament, would they then think themselves to be
very free? for an answer to this question enquire
of one of that country. Place then the Irish under
one of the assemblies before-mentioned. They
would be yet further from home, and it might not
be better with them. Let us take our own turg.
Suppose Great Britain on the like conditions under
the Parliament of Ireland. God forbid. I think
that I have but one more point before that I am
at an end of my combination. Place over our
heads with all these powers in their full force the
assembly of Massachusetts Bay, whatthen? I fancy
that we Ihould soon change a certain tune and
fug another song than what we do now. Let me
then mod seriously question any man, from whose
bread all candour and justice are. not totally ba
nihed, where js, as to liberty or property, the
dierence between any of the cases now supposed,
and that original one which has given occasion to
them ? I speak this no otherwise than with the utmost
reverence and refped towards our own legislature;
but are we to conceive, or would it be a compli
ment to them, or does any one mean to fay, that
they are not men, or that they are to be excepted
andexempted from the reasons and the rules which
obtain and take place in the case of all the rest of
mankind?"
May 17. They write from Madrid, that orders
bare been sent to the Spanish Governors in the Me
diterranean, not to fuller, for the future, any
Ruffian ships of war, on any pretence whatever,
to cast anchor in any port in those seas belonging
to the crown of Spain.
Extrafl ofa Rier from Madrid, April 17.
" It is now the absolute and avowed intention
-o' this Court, to take part against the Ruffians in
the Mediterranean ; arid for that purpose are the
squadrons intended which have been fitted out at
Cadiz and Seville, that which was fitted out at
Ferrol having failed for the Weft-Indies. Orders
having been sent to the two firft mentioned places
to raise 4000 seamen immediately to man the
Squadrons. This resolution causes much amaze
ment, as it was the opinion of-moft people, that
if Spain fhonld take up arms, it would be in favour
of the Ruffians."
Etraß of a private letter from the Hague, May 14.
" We are informed that the Empress of Ruf
b- has Solicited the States General for leave to
^\ //'NlerYury Paehl, Caf DfLLON, Priced
at A^v-r^; and Ca,t. MißTr^ fam Lisbon,
drived here, me Aiz: the following advices.
TO HE King of Pruflia and the King of Eng
j land have manually concluded a treaty, by
which they reciprocally agree to deliver up such
criminals as may feck an alylurn in the dominions
of each other.
Smyrna, foil i 6. The Ruffians have restored
tothc French the sum of 100,000 crowns, for ef
feds which had been seized on board French vef
fcls consigned to the Turks, and which had been
declared as good prizes. The Venetians lent a
relicl to Paros on a similar errand, but have not
been ableto obtain reclrefs.
Paris, May 13. The Mhrilers sent oh Wed
nesday last the registers of their refpe&ive depart
ments to the new King, according to custom; bat
his Majesty sent them back, lignifying, that in
stead of waiting the quarantine, he Ihould meet
them in council at the expiration of nine days.
Versailles, May 15. On the 12th inst. at seven
in the evening, the corpse of the late King was
tarried without ceremony to St. Denis, as is cus
tomary for Princes who die of the small-pox. The
Bdhop of Senlis, firft Almoner to his Majesty, at
tended the procellion upon this occasion.
Paris. May 16. Immediately after the decease
of the King, the Friars of the Royal Monastery of
St. Bernard, near the Tuilleries, were sent for by
the Great Almoner of France to pray day and
night by the body of the King till it was removed
to St. Deris. They have had this office ever since
their establishment at Paris, for the Princesses, and
of the Royal Family.
Hague, May 17. Letters from Copenhagen ad
vise, that the King of Denmark has given orders
to fit out seven men of war without delay, which
it is said are to cruize in the Baltick, but with
what intent is not known.
Paris, June 6. Besides the favour shewn by his
Majesty to his fubje&s in dispensing with the usual
payment on his accefiion co the throne, he has ex
empted them at the fame time from any loss ac
cruing from a general coinage, which is soon to
take place.
H A 31 B URG H, May 8.
May 25. A letter from Warsaw, dated May 7,
fays, “ Yesterday a courier arrived here with the
molt surprising news, that the Prussians have taken
the city of Frauenftadt,; that another army of
10,000 Prussians has just entered Great Poland,
and that a large Prussian army, with the King at
its head, had encamped near Dantzic."
It is pofitivcly said, that a fleet of fix fail of the
line, besides frigates, &c. failed out of the Har
bour of Cadiz on the 28th ult. which, by their
courle, were supposed to be destined for the Me
diterranean.
The late dispatches arrived from Lisbon, it is
said, are of an alarming nature, and seem to por
tend that we are not so far from a war as our Mi
nistry would insinuate.
We hear that the Parliament will actually rife
on Tuesday the 14th of June, if some unexpefted
intelligence from America (hall not arrive in the
mean time to preventit.
From the express which is dispatched by govern
ment to Boston, the friends of the con ftitution hope
that the olive branch will be extended (condition
ally) to our brethren on the other (ide the Atlan
tic, which, it is hoped, will be productive of such
conciliating measures as naturally diould subsist
between Great-Britain and her colonies.
Extras of a letter from Hamburg/), May 17.
" They write from Berlin, that the King has
ordered an army of 20,000 to encamp near Oliva;
and that he himfelf is going to review them; a
circumstance which must greatly terrify the Dant
zickers."
May 28. A gentleman arrived from Madrid,
assures us, that eleven capital ships of war are now
building in different dock yards belonging to his
Catholic Majesty.
Extraß of a letter from Lisbon, April 29.
" By all accounts from the coast of Africa, we
learn, that the Emperor of Morocco is fitting out
30 large drips of war, which are to be command
ed by Renegadoes, and to have the best sailors in
the kingdom."
May 3°' The unlimited influence which the
Junto have obtained over the representatives of
the people has rendered them equally giddy in the
use or intentional abuse of this unconstitutional
power. Not contented with (hutting out the Bof.
" Madame de Barre is confined in a convent,
with an annuity fettled by the King of 3000 livres,
all her estates, jewels, wardrobe (shoes excepted)
were seized, and will be fold and distributed to
the poor.
" The Duke of Richlieu is ordered to retire to
his government feus peine de defobeifance.
" Messieurs Lebel and Deleborde, jun. Valets
de Chambre to the King, are both exiled 100
leagues from Paris.
" The Duke of Nivernois, and the Duke of
Choifeul, have given their advice in the Council
in favour of the Count of Chatelet Lamont for the
affaires etrangeres, the Martial Broglio for the war
department.
" The Duke of Lavilliere and Mons. Bertin,
keep their ground."
It is said that accounts were received last week
from Boston, of a very alarming nature to the
ministry.
It is imagined there will be interesting news
from America, in about a month.
Ever since the death of the late French King
has been notified to the States-General, they as
sembled almost everyday, keep fitting till very late
at night, and their deliberations are kept in the
most profound secrecy.
May 19. It may be depended upon, that a ma
terial change io the offices of the Secretaries of
State, is now under consideration.
Advice is received that a great number ofSpa
nifh troops are drawing down on the sea Coa&s of
that kingdom, in order for encampment, but with
what view js not known.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, May 20.
“ Last night orders ca*ie down here for the
men to work double tides, till luch ships as are
fitting out for sea are compleated."
May 21. The Emperor of Germany continues
railing troops in every part of his dominions with
the greatest expedition, and is filling all his ma
gazines with stores. Various conjectures are form
ed, but none with certainty.
May 23. The new French King's mode of dis
missing his Grandfather's Ministers contained some
degree of humour. He sent word to the Duke
D'Aiguillon and the Chancellor, that they had
been too near Louis the fifteenth to be admitted
into the presence of his fucceffbr, as he has not
had yet the small-pox, and that it was to avoid
an infedion that he had confined their female friend
(Madame Barre) to a Convent.
Orders are sent down to the out-ports for the
officers belonging to the Marine corps to keep with
their men, and to be ready to embark on board
the men of war at the shortest notice.
take §OO of their engineers into her pay to serve
against the Ottoman Porte, and that it has been
refufed ; all which proves that the States General
find it prudent to put themselves in the most for
midable fituatioo towards the new government in
France."
All the several men ofwar sloops, now lying up
at Chatham and Sbeernefs are ordered round to
Portsmouth and Plymouth to be in readiness to
cruise in any Ration they may be appointed for.
American Peerages and Bishoprics are again
talked of, and have been submitted, it is said, to
a Great Personage for his approbation.
May 24. On Monday evening Capt. Elphinfton
arrived in town express from Sir Peter Dennis,
Commander in Chief of the ICing's ships in the
Mediterranean, with an account that the Dey of
Algiers had behaved with the utmost infulence and
contempt to our flag, and peremptorily refufed to
receive Mr. Fraser as Consul from hence, nor
would he fuffer him to remain in the city. He
concluded, by ordering the Englilh men of war to
leave the Bay directly, which the Admiral com
plied with.
Orders are sent to the Commifiioner of Ply
mouth yard, for fitting out three ships cf the line
for immediate service.
From the private Buletin, Paris, May 16.
June 4. A gentleman officially connected with
the proprietors of Pennsylvania assures us, that
during the course of last year upwards of twenty
thousand emigrants from Great Britain and Ire
land, arrived and fettled in different parts of the
province of Pennsylvania. Ifany thing likeapro
portiopable number have emigrated to the other
colonies, the conceit of an American Empire in
embryo will not appear quite so fanciful, so vision
ary, or utopian, as some men would persuade us to
believe.
June 7. Orders were lately sent down from the
Admiralty of France, to several of the sea ports,
for opening houses of rendezvous for seamen.
And it may be depended upon, that a very formi
dable naval armament will soon be ready for sea.
Four new ships of 70 guns each, are ordered to
be laid on the stocks at Brest; and that they may
be got ready for sea with the greater expedition,
additional number of hands are ordered to be em
ployed on them.
June 8. It is talked, that the King of France
has given orders for no more English horses to be
imported into his dominions.
Extraß of a letter from Dundee, May 28.
" At a numerous meeting of the Burghers and
broad cloth merchants of this Burgh, they took
under their consideration the vast sum of money
sent from this place to England for broad cloths ;
and unanimously resolved to ered a broad cloth
manufactory here, in which they are all to be con
cerned.
Juneg. The Lords of the Admiralty have ifTu
ed commiflions for buying up in Ireland 900 calks
of beef and 500 barrels of pork, for the use of his
Majesty's navy.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, June 3.
" Letters from Vienna advise, that an express
lately arrived there from Peterfburgh, which
brought some important dispatches, and among
them a request from the Empress of Russia to their
Imperial Majesties, to use their mediation, in con
juadion with the King of Prussia, in order to bring
about a peace with the Ottoman Porte: that their
Imperial Majesties not only consented to it, but
immediately dispatched a person of confidence to
the head quarters of the Grand Vizir, in order to
make overtures to him upon this fubjeft; and as
it is said the King of Prussia is likewise to fend a
person on the fame business, it is hoped the contend
ing powers will be brought to an amicable way of
thinking."
'June 10. Letters from Venice fay, “ A very
dangerous infurreftion broke out lately at Grand
Cairo, in which the Governor, with the other Tur
kish officers were murdered.
tonians from the sea, with robbing them of their
chartered rights, and authorizing M r under
the appearance of law, grown slushed with success,
and confident in imposition, they have ventured to
proceed a step further, they have transformed
Frenchmen and Papists into Englishmen and legis
lators. They have armed i70r23 Papists (Cana
dians) with powers fufficient to force every En
glishman out of that country; and if in the future
progress of their deep-laid plans of despotism, they
should find it necessary firft to begin in America,
a Canadian militia of 20,000 effective men, operat
ing upon a barrier of near three thousand miles in
extent, will be extremely favourable to their de
signs.
The French have at this time no less than 30
fail of ships of the line, besides several frigates and
bomb vessels, now in the docks and harbour of Brett.
sane 1. Letters from Dantzic mention, that
the magistrates of that city had received intelligence
of the King of Prudia's being in such a way that
it was past the power of medicine to relieve him ;
but that they had used every precaution to keep
it a secret.
May 31. The Canada bill (fays a correspon
dent) seems to be a ministerial trick to exalt the
prerogative of the crown at the expence of the
constitution ; and that this is only one instance of
many, which have been invariably pursued ever
since the beginning of this reign by the counsels of
the Thane, to trample upon the liberties of the
people, and to promote arbitrary power.
From persons who seem to know the present
complexion of French affairs best, we hear that
France is as likely to be governed by a woman as
in the late reign, with this only difference of mis
tress and wife.
In the year 1680 the whole number of English
Peers consisted of about one hundred; at this time
they consist es between 180 and 190 (exclusive of
the Scotch Peers); so that their number has been
nearly doubled in the course of the last century.
We are assured that many illustrious and popu
lar commoners will decline any farther public ser
vices at the dissolution of the present Parliament.
There are now several Englifli gentlemen in the
prison called the Chatelet, in Paris. They were
sent there for delivering a few innocent thoughts,
in company, on the treatment Madame Barre has
received from the present King; and notwithstand
ing the Bhglifh Ambassador has interested himfelf
in their favour there they are likely to stay.
This morning, about 4 o'clock, a courier ar
rived at the French Ambassador's house in Great
George street, Westminster, from Paris; and at
seven Mr. Lefcalire, Charges de Affaires, set off
for Kew.
June 3. We are informed, that a Great Perso
nage is again pregnant.
A letter from Rotterdam, dated May 31, fays,
“ We have received very melancholy accounts of
damages done upon the coast by the storm last
Thursday and Friday. A fifhing vessel of Katwyk
perished with every person on board. Six dead
bodies were driven on shore next day. The sea
rose so high at Calanfoog that upwards of a hun
dred iheep were drowned, and some horned cattle.
Several ships were loft upon the coast near Am
sterdam."
A letter from Venice, dated May 14, advises,
that a Ragulan vessel, just arrived there, brings
word, that the day of his departure a Venetian
(nip arrived, having on board a great number of
Polish officers, who immediately let out for Con
stantinople, under an escort of aconfiderable num
ber cf Janissaries.
Letters fr>m T riefte advise, that a Ruffian cho
beck having met a Sclaronian flrip on the coast of
the Morea, the former ordered the latter's captain
to come on board, which he refufed, and the
Ruffians firing to oblige them to bring to, the lat
ter returned the Ruffian salute with all their artil
lery, and funk them.
June 13. Yesterday a courier with dispatches,
said to be refpeding an armistice now negociating
between the Ruffians and the Turks, arrived at St.
James's from Sir Robert Gunning, K. B. Ambas
sador to the court of Peterfburgh.
Extraft of a letter from Peterfburgh, June 1.
“ Fresh advices have been just received, of the
entire dispersion of the rebels, and that tranquility
is entirely restored to the provinces. After their
late defeat, the rebels formed themselves into seve
ral little parties, but by the vigilance and activity of
the Imperial troops have been entirely dispersed or
taken prisoners. PugatfchefF himfelf has assuredly
found means to escape into Armenia ; but it will be
made a particular article in any treaty of peace with
the Turks, that he ihall be delivered up. His Im
perial Highness the Grand Duke is preparing to
set out to infped the forts on the frontiers towards
Sweden."
HOUSE or L OR D S.
PROTES T.
Die Mercurij, 18° Maij, 1774.
THE order of the day being read for the 3d
reading of the bill, entitled, “ An aft for
the impartial administration of justice in the cases
ofperfons questioned for any ads done by them in
the execution of the law; or for the suppression of ri
ots and tumults in the province of the Massachusetts
Bay, in New-England;" and for the Lords to be
fommoned:
The said bill was accordingly read a third time.
Moved, That the bill do pass.
Which being objeded to,
After a long debate,
The question was put, whether this bill fhal!
pass ?
It was resolved in the affirmative.
Contents —— 43
Not contents —— 12
Diffentient,
I ft, BECAUSE no evidence whatsoever has been
laid before the House, tending to prove, that per
sons acting in support of public authority, and in
dialed for murder, cannot receive a fair trial within
the province, which is the object of this bill. On
the contrary, it has appeared, that an officer of the
army, charged with murder, has there received a
fair and equitable trial, and been acquitted. This
sass has happened even since the commencement of
the present unhappy diflentions.
2dly, Because after the proscription ofthe port
of Boston, the disfranchifement of the colony of
Massachusetts Bay, and the variety of provisions
which have been made in this session for new mo
delling the whole polity and judicature of that pro
vince, this bill is an humiliating confeffion of the
weakness and inefficacy of all the proceedings of
Parliament. By supposing that it may be impracti
cable, by any means that the public wisdom could
devise, to obtain a fair trial there for any who act
und§r government, the House is made virtually to
acknowledge the British government to be urriver
fally odious to the whole province. By supposing
the case, that such trial may be equally impradi
cable in every other province of America, parliament
does in effect admit that its authority is, or proba
bly may become hateful to all the colonies. This,
we apprehend, is to publish to the world, in terms
the molt emphatical, the little confidence the su
preme legislature reposes in the affection of so large
and so important a part of the British empire. If
Parliament believed that any considerable number
of people in the colonies were willing to a& in sup
port of British government, it is evident that we
might fafely trust the persons so acting to their fel
low colonifls fora fair trial for ads done in con
sequence of such support. The bill, therefore,
amounts to a declaration that the House knows n,
means of retaining the colonies in due obedience, but by
an army rendered independent of the ordinary course of
laxv in the place inhere they are employed.
gdly, Because we think that a miltary force,
fufficient for governing upon this plan, cannot be
maintained without the inevitable ruin of the na
tion.
Lastly, Because this bill seems to be one of the
many experiments towards an introduction of essen
tial innovations into the government of this empire.
The virtual indemnity provided by this bill for those
who shall be indited for murders commited under
colour of office, can answer no other purpose. We
condfier that to be an indemnity which renders trial
and consequently punishment impracticable. And
trial is impracticable when the very Governor, un
der whose authority adls of violence may be com
mitted, is empowered to fend the instruments of
that violence to three thousand miles diftan e from
the feene of their offence, the reach of their prolo
cutor, and the local evidence which may tend to
their conviction. The authority given by this bill
to compel the transportation from America to Great
Britain, of any number of witnesses at the pleasure
of the parties prosecuting and prosecuted, without
any regard to their age, sex, health, circumstances,
business, or duties, seems to us so extravagant in i $
principle, and foimpradicable in its execution, as
to confirm us farther in our opinion of the Ipinf
which animates the whole system of the present
American regulations.
St. C R O I X, fa, 9.
On the 3d of June, about five o'clock in the
morning, iome (mall (hocks of an earthquake
were felt at an Indian village, about fix leagues
from Guatimah, and very near the coast of the
South-Sea, but did then no damge except alarming
the inhabitants. The (hocks continued with m^
[For more London Neves fee the Poffcript.]
RICHMOND,
FITZWILLIAM,
PONSONBY,
ROCKINGHAM,
PORTLAND
CRAVEN,
LEINSTER.
MANCHESTER.