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Port of Philadelphia, P<nnfylvania, ff.
To ALL whom it may concern.
O TICE is hereby given, That a Court of Admi>
" "''¥ ""' be held at the State House, in the City
of Philadelphia, on Friday the 6th of July instant,
at nine o'clock in the forenoon, for the trial of certain
goods, wares and merchandize, being part and pare I of
the cargo? of the fehoon^r, or vcffel, called the Dol
phin, lately captured at sea ; which goods, wares and
merchandize ate brought into this port and libelled a
gainst by captain Angus, (qd tarn, &c.) To the end
that all P rlons concerned therein, may appear and
&ew cable, if any they have, why a Decree should
not pass puifusnt to the prayer of the libel, &c.
By Order of the Judge,
July 2. JAMES READ, Register.
Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ff.
To ALL whom it may concern.
XTOTICE is hereby given, That a Court of Ad
" miplty will be held at the State hcufe, in the city
of Philadelphia, on Friday, the 6th of July, instant, for
the trial cf the brigantine or veffd, called the MI
NERVA, burthen about one hundred and twenty
tons, lately commanded by Edmund Darizil, taken at
sea on htr p:ffige from Tortola to New York, lent
into this port, and libelled against as puze, by Gorge
Geddes, (qui tam, &c.) To the end that all persons
concerned may appear and shew cause, (fanvth^e
be,)why a Decree should not pass purfunt to the
prayer of the libel, &c. By Order of the Judge,
July z. JAMES READ, Register.
XT OTICE is hereby given, that th? Lind Office ii
Open for the purpose of receiving the arrearages
of purchrte money and interest for la ds taken up by
former offi e lights, and granting patents fcr the sane,
pursuant to an Aft of Assembly of this State, passed
on the gth of April last, and a S ipplement thereto,
passed on the z§th inft^t J^HN Lukens, S. G.
Lav^d Kennedy S L. O.
Philadelphia, June 29. Francis Johnst N, R. G
N. B. 1 he Stu v?ycr G neral's Office is kept at his own
Louse, th: uprer end o' Market-street; and the Secre
tary's 3rd Receivers Offi :s in the weft wi of the
State-boofe,
WAN! ED, immediately, a WET
NURS F, with a good Breast of Milk.
Enquire of ih- 1 rioter.
CARGO
Of the Prize Sloop General Lrflie,
Taken hv the Prvat*er Brigantine Nefbit, Captain
Jarnos Forbes —Confuting of a large and neat AS
SORTMFNT of
DRY GOODS,
Jamaica SPIRITS and Weft India RUM,
Madeira and Port WINES,
Mifcovado and Loaf SUGARS,
COFFEE, Hyfon and Souchong TEAS,
Boxes of SOAP, MUSTARD:
And a V^ety of other ARTICLES:
And at Seven o'Clock,
In the Evening of the fam? Dy, will be SOLD,
the laid
Prize Sloop, General Leslie,
With all her Guns, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture,
agreeable to an Inventory to be seen at the Place of
Sale. By Order of the Court of Admiralty.
June 29. CLEMENT LIDDLE, Mufb.
Philadelphia, Jul, 2d, 1,81.
On Friday next, the 6th instant,
at XII o'clock at noon, at the Coffee-houfe, WILL
BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
The Brigantine FOX,
at (he came from sea. She is a remarkable faft saber,
and well known in this city. I ventory to be fern at
the place of file, and with NELSON & FOX,
On FRID^r Next,
The 6th Day of July, at TEN o'clock in the Forenoen,
a* the M^rfhal's STORES, on M ffrs. Jmet and
Dinker's Wharf, between A r ch and Race streets,
Will begin the Sale, by Public Auction,
OF THE
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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—-Price Six-Pence.
Paris, January 19. By an express from Lisbon we
have received advice, that a Portuguese ship arrived
at that port from the Eafl-lodies, had brought the
important news, " That NTonfieur de Tronjely, com
modore and commander inchief of a French squadron,
had taken an English 74 gun (hip, and fix English East-
Indiamen, which he had all conduced fife to the isle
of Bourbon." The fame advices also mention, that
the inhabitants of the English poffeffons at Bengal
had revolted, on account of the great oppressions they
had lately experienced : that they had set fire to se
veral of the company's warehouses, and that the da
mage already occasioned, amounted to several milli
ons of rupees. We expert daily a more particular ac
count of these important events, bya frigate, which
Monsieur de Tronjely is laid to have dispatched with
an account thereof for cur court.
Hague, January 21. The estimates for the aug
mentation of the navy of this republic, which the
council of Hate has laid before the assembly of the
Hates general, confits of three articles, and is as
follows:
r. For the equipment of new (hips
and frigates, - - 7,342,536
2. For the purchase of artillery,
ammunition, &c. - - 1,500,000
3 For three fourth parts of the
extraordinary expences for the
equipment of the said faips, 5,7^3,135
Total, 14,605 671 florins.
The fourth part, amounting to 1,921,045 florins,
will be taken from the produce of the duty called
Last-en- Veilgeid.
Hamburgh, January 2% By the last-letters from
Carolina we learn, that orders are arrived there from
Stockholm, to fitout with the greatest expedition, the
following fllips of the line and frigates, viz. the'
Sophia Magdalena, the King Adolph Frederick, the
King Gustave 111. and the Gothic Lion, of 70 guns
each ; the Prince Charles, the Prince Frederick Adolph,
the Sophia Albertina, the Waza, the Prince Ferdi
nand, and the Frederick Rix, of 60 guns each ; and
the frigates the Grippen, and the Upland, of 40 guns
each; the Hoeckeren, the Prince Gustave, and the
Illerim cf 36 guns each, and the Jarames, of 34
guns. All these ships are to be ready for sea by tee
iff of April next, and are said to be defttoed to cruise
in the North Sea andin the Mediterranean.
DO N Pablo Eftapar, commander of the Fox lug
ger, of Ceuta, of 10 two pounders, and 35 men,
and Don Di?go de Fuentes, second io command,
having seen an English bilander of 16 eight pound
ers, and eighty men, advancing towards Gibraltar,
endeavoured to prevent that fuccour from getting
in to the besieged. Notwirh Handing the disproportion
of their force, the inequality of the ships, and the in.
convenience of a calm, they Hill got to her by dint of
rowing, and endeavoured to attempt to boar 1 herewith
much bravery and obflinacy, not with Handing the ene
mies fire, and refill nice with axes, pops, pistols, of
which the superior height of the English ffiip g^ve
them great advantage.
Such was the precautions taken by the commander
of the Fox, that the bilander was forced to jay too,
to repair, when he came again to attempt another
boarding, which was bloody on both fries : but at
length he was obliged to sheer off, having his mails
sprung, when the biland°r took to fight, but was
'gain pursued by our vessels quite un.br the guns of
Gibraltar, by the favour of whi h she got in, as the
chebecs from Algefiras were prevented by a calm from
seconding the efforts of the Fox.
Berlin, January 23. Count de Lufi, who is ap
pointed minister plenipotentiary to the court of Lon
don, set out yeflerday for the place of his destination.
We hear that he is charged with a particular commif
fion at the Hague, where he will probably flay for a
few weeks.
Vienna, January to, According to the last advices
from Constantinople. there is the greaieft hopes, that
by the ioterpofition of the French ambaff dor to the
Ottoman Porte, the differences lately arisen between
the Porte and the court of Russia, will be fiortly ter
minated in an amicable manner, and the good harmo
ny between thef&two powers established upon a more
solid and permanent footing than it has ever been be
fore.
The conduct of the commander of the Fox, li^ute
nant Don Pablo Eflapar, and of ensign Don Diego de
Fuentes, bring made known to the king, he advanced
each to the fame rank on board one of nis fllips of the
line, tri gave rewards to the wounded and to the fa
milies of the slain.
M A B R I D, January 5<
O R, THE
I O N D O N,- February 8.
Letters from Marseilles mention the arrival of Ruf
fian merchantmen in that port from R ga.
The late unfortunate major Andre had' a turn for
theatrical amusements, as well as painting, both which
he displayed at the theatre, at New York, a few weeks
before his execution ; where he not only played the
part of Mr. Carmine, in Foote's comedy of Taste,
with great eafeand spirit ; but during the performance
of the celebrated feene between him and lady Pent
weazle, aduaily coloured a most striking portrait
of the gentleman, who performed the latter, to the
astonishment of all their military acquaintance.
The last letters from Bombay mention, that the In
dian seas have lately been infefted by several armed
piratical Neff? s , who had robbed and plundered seve
ral country ships that fell in their way, without dis.
tindion of country,or to what nation they belonged.
Anecdote. The late Pontiff of Rome (Ganganelli)
observing a youth copying a fine altar piece, advanced
close behind him,- and praised his skill. The young
man fainted through terror of that punishment, which
he thought would follow an imputed crime. When he
recovered, the Pope told him, his education should be
compleated at his expence. " Ah ! holy father! I
cannot avail myfelf of your bounty, I am a Protest
ant." “ ho matter—religion has nothing to do with
painting : ” and the good old man actually patronized
him, and gave orders that no attempt should be made
to convert him
March 2z. There was a very general" alarm yester
day, on the fuEgea of a report, which gained great
credit, that an expedition from the Texel, confiding
of three ships of the line, and several frigates, armed
ships, and transports, were gone against Newcafile
Sunderland anchWhiteby, which places are known and
acknowledged to be in the most defenceless Hate. The
report was universally allowed to be founded on Arid
probability, as ministers the@elves exped, if the war
continues, that the north coast will c-rtainly be the
object of repeated attacks from Holland; and the ex
pedition even ofthe pirate, Paul Jones (as lord Stor- a
mont affectedly call^him in his marinifefto against the
Dutch) is too Hrongly in our r-membrance; to leave
a doubt of what an expedition of very moderate
strength, conduced with tolerable skill, might do a
gainst those parts of the kingdom ; and it is a curious
circumstance, tint there was a pamphlet, written one
hundred years ago, under the title of " Londres cou.
pe par la Gorge," or “ London's throat cut," which
particularly pointed out the feasibility of the project
and the diflrefs w ich the attack or deftrudion of New!
cable, and the flipping and coal mines would aeceffa
inly occasion to the metropolis.
We have beared nothing for a long time about the
famous J fiah B 11 Tucker, of Glo cefter, who by
his writings, hath contributed so largely to the bring,
ing the nation into its prefect happy circumfiances with
the colonies ! but now, in wonder and aftbnifiiment
he is coming forth, the great champion to refine the
Amsterdam, January 28. The Eng'ifh minifter m
who so unadvisedly has thought proper to fall out with
us, seems now to relent. Overtures of an accommo
dation have been made, and he is ready to fubferibe
to any terms to bring it about. The firft proposal
made by England is an exchange of Dutch ships seiz
ed upon at the time of publishing the manifeflo, for
the English vessels that were then in our ports; but
there is no likelihood of our government conferring to
it ; as it would turn entirely to the advantage of an.
enemy, who, to declare against us, has trampled up
on the mos ifacred laws, the rights of nations and hu
manity. The English ships detained in our ports are
6), laden with grain of all kinds. This ufeful article
is much wanted in England : the price of bread there
is go s extravagantly high, and muffencreafe if the ex
portation of corn to the Weft-Indies be permitted ;
starvation flares them in the face; notwithstanding the
2000 lafls of that commodity which the cheva ier
Yorke,, we are told, has been permitted, after many
Supplications,, to contract or in the Auflrian Nether
lands. Another difigreeoble consequence which this
rupture will bring upon the English, is the difficulty
they will fin ; in trading to the Baltic, as their com
merce in that latitude mirf lbecome very precarious.
Paris, April 2. By some letters from the Isle of
France we learn, that Mr. Dorves was to cult that
place on the Bth of October, taking with him fix ships
of the line, two frigates and feme others, on an expe
dition tolndia. He intended to be at the mouth cf
the Ganges last December, in order to intercept the
ships passing that way. From thence he was to cruize
off the coafis of Coromandel and M Ibar, and attack
fir Edward Hughes, who was known to teat Madrafa
with only fix ships. We shall hear of his success in.
May or June.
[NUMB. 751.