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N EW- Y 0 R K, July 17.
Monday evening arrived here the schooner Dove,
and sloop Retaliation, laden with pork, flour, Indian
corn, &c. Also a small sloop with flax, they were
captured by the sloop Association, Charles Thomas,
commander, and the whaleboat Sly, capt. Trowbridge,
under the orders of the honourable board of directors
of associated loyalists; the above prizes, with two o
thers with similar cargoes, taken by captain Hoyt, in
a whale-boat, from Lloyd's Neck, were bound from
Fairfield to an eaflern port.
His majesty's frigates the Cerberus and Appollo,
were arrived at Lisbon from Gibraltar, where they
convoyed about 20 fail of vessels, with troops, and
funk a Spanish frigate in the Gut in their way up.
His majefly's frigates, the Vestal and Jason, lay in
the Downs the 20th of April, and 'tis said would soon
fail for New-York.
A number of merchantmen have lately failed from
the Chefapeak for Cape Francoise, under convoy of the
French frigate Sybil, who we are told is to proceed to
Old France, after feeing her convoy off the coast.
The privateer schooner Surprize, captain Hall, of
this pert, sent in here, Saturday last, a schooner
from Virginia for St. Thomas's,' called the Luck, Ba
ker, master, of four guns and twelve men: she failed
in company with the fleet above mentioned, 16 in num
ber,.and was captured the Bth instant, in lat. 36, long.
60 W. having left the fleet two days after they took
their departure.'
Capt. Gulches, who came in the prize, the ,th inst.
60 leagues from the land, fell in with 9 fail (brigs and
schooners) handing S. E, and on the next day saw 6
mere, fleering the fame course.
Thursday last arrived the flag of truce schooner Han
nah, John Cox, master, from Virginia, with 103 hog
sheads of t bacco, due to the merchants at the capitu
lation of York-Town: in this vessel came passengers,
sundry gentlemen, who formerly resided in that pro
vince, and who have remained there since the surren
der ; we do not hear of any news they bring, but that
the flags that went round there some time ago, are
sow all taking in their loads, and may be expe&ed here
in a few weeks. They mention, in handsome terms,
the very kind and polite manner in which they were
treated while in Virginia ; not only by their old friends,
but by the people in the country in general, who
seemed to vie with one another in Shewing their civili
ties,
The Hannah was boarded off the Neverfinks by one
bf Hyler's boats, two more being in company, who
seemed disposed from their rough treatment, of some
of the passengers, to use them with great severity ; but
they were happily relieved by an armed brig bearing
down upon them, which obliged Hyler's people to leave
them with precipitation.
A copper-bottomed brig belonging to Boflon, (for
merly to Lancaster in England) and two Roops from
North-Carolina, with flour and tobacco, were sent in
to Bermuda about sixteen days ago.
Saturday evening arrived here, in eight weeks from
Lisbon, the brig fir George Rodney, captain Ramsay,
by whom we have received the following advices,
viz.
Nantes, March 30. Yesterday arrived here after a
three months passage, a vessel from the IRe of France.
The captain's report is, that Hyder Ally having the
worst in two adions with the English troops, was in a
third totally defeated; that messieurs D'Orves and Suf
frien had failed from thence the latter end of Novem
ber last, with 11 ships of the line, seven frigates and a
great number of transports with 4000 men on board ;
they were to flop at Ceylon, and proceed tfaiy for
Bombay, to attack that chief settlement of the English
on the coast of Malabar.
Paris, April 7. Every body here hopes that it will
not be long before peace takes place. It is not doubt
ed but that England is now inclined to it with a good
HOUSE of COMMONS.
Oh Wednesday the^zd Msrch-laft, the day on which,
according to notice given, a motion wav exposed for
an address to the king, that he would dismiss his mini-
Rers.,this drew an immense refoft of people to the
house, and the number of members prefect was un
co nmonly large. Among the Grangers appeared ma
jor general Arno'd, in his uniform, who met with a
mortifies!ion which he might have avoided if his pru
dence was equal to his intrepidity. With design to
move out of fight ah objed which could not but offend,
a determination was taken to turn all Grangers out of
the house, and the^general could not be ignorant that
be was the person aimed at, for he had a hint given
him to retire, by open mention ofhim. Upon his pro
mise that he would not again attempt to enter the
British Senate, the member who designed to make the
motion, from a regard to the number and characters of
the Grangers who wou d be ordered out, gave up the
design, and general Arnold remained Spectator of a
feme which coul 1 be no arbufement to him, as the issue
of the burners did not promise to support him in the
character and part he has late y been ailing among us,
a, it is most probable that from henceforth obscurity
tori be his lot.
When this was got over, lord Surry attempted to
raovt according ashe had promised, when lord North
riling at the fame inflant, the Speaker gave the prefer
ence to lord Nortb. As lord Surry had previously an
nounced his business, the Speaker was accused of par
tiality a'd the house got into confufion. After much
ado the queflion was put, who Should (peak ; under
this lord North obtained a hearing, and put an end to
The motion by declaring that the late ministers had re-
Signed the day before, and proposed an adjournment
till Monday following, which after force debate was a
greed to. Lord North took the opportunity of return
ing thanks for the great and generous support which
foe had received while he had the confidence of the
king, and made large profeffions of his zeal, patriot
ism &c. &c. Adding, that if Should be called to
answer for his condua, he was ready to undergo any
thing of this nature that the house Should dired.
From Rivington's Royal 1 Gazette, dated
grace, at leaf! she appears to seek it ; for three persons
are lately arrived here as couriers from London, who
have had an audience with the minister for foreign affairs
and a long conference with him. The Brest fleet will
fail in the course of this month under the command of
M. de Motte Picquet. The armament will be very
considerable; and nfter to-morrow the troops will be
gin to embark. The merchant fleet which failed from
Domingo, escorted by five ships of the line, under the
orders of M. Albert St. Hypolite, is at length near the
coast of France. Yeßerday a courier extraordinary
arrived from Corunna, with advice that the fleet an
chored on the 26th of March in that port. The whole
convoy amounts to 205 Ships, 30 of which have passed
the Traits of Gibraltar.
April 20. Itis said, that on Wednesday a confer,
ence was held at the northern department, between
his excellency M. Simolin, the Ruffian minister, and
Mr. Secretary Fox. The consequence of the interview
was, that a messenger was yeflerday morning dispatch
ed by his excellency to the Ruffian minister at the
Hague, with letters containing thefu I, final and deci
sive description of the intentions of the Britith court,
with reSped to the proposed interference of the Empress
of Russia, and how far they will go in acceding to a
ny future conditions th.t may be transmitted to them
from the French. The terms last presented on the part
of their high mightinesses, were too exorbitant to meet
a moment's attention from the court ofGreat-Britain;
their firft and second requisitions, as the conditions for
acceding to an armiftrice, being, firft, that they fliould
be paid no less a sum than 6,000,000!. as a com penfati
on for theexpences they have been put to : and second
ly, a restitution of every place captured from them by
this country, in the course of the war, so far as it was
in our power to comply with it. The result of this se
cond application, which is urged with considerable
more vehemence than the firft, will finally determine
what kind of expectations are to be entertained for the
wished for pacification.
N E W-Y O R K,
July 19. Yesterday arrived here, under convoy of
his majesty's ships Vestal and Jason, a fleet of 28 fail of
victuallers from Cork, which place they left the 7th of
May, but bring no material intelligence, except a
confirmation of the account brought by captain Ram
fay from Lisbon, of the capture of four fail of French
line of battle ships, two frigates and seventeen trans
ports, with stores and troops, some of which had ar
rived in England. We hear there are rebel persons in
town which confirm the above account.
The above frigates on their passage captured two
vessels, which are arrived at Sandy-Hook, but we
have not been able to learn from whence they came or
where bound.
Yeflerday was sent in here, by the letter of marque
brig Dandy, which failed from this port about ten
daysago, a sloop with 70 hogsheads rum, bound from
the Weft-Indies to a rebel port.
Wednesday was sent in here by his majesty's ship
Bonnetta, the rebel galley Hyder Ally. She was from
Boft®n, mounts two 9 pounders, rows fix oars, and
had 28 men on board. She was taken last Tuesday off
Sandy. Hook, where she has been cruizing some time
“ The memorial delivered by prince Gallitzin, the
Ruffian minister, with the English secretary Fox's letter
annexed to it, have both been read in the assembly of
the Rates, and it is said the deputies of all the different
provinces, took copies of them to fay before their con
stituents, except those of Friefland, who even refufed
to take those two pieces ad referendum, a proceeding
which is rather looked upon to be out of charaaer,
and unconstitutional; and it is imagined the empress
of Russia will not be much pleased with the contemptu
ous proceedings of the Frieflanders."
It is said a cabinet council was held on Sunday, af
ter the lords in administration had severally held confer,
ences with the king, the result of which was, a resoluti
on for the immediate equipment of the channel fleet.
Lord Howe was sent for to the council and gave infor
mation to the miniflers, that he was prepared at an
hour's notice to take the command, in consequence of
which declaration, an admiralty board fat on Monday
to issue the official directions ; and afterwards express
es were dispatched to all the different dock-yards, con
taining orders for a general rendezvous to take place
at Spithead, with as much expedition as wind, weather
and the Rate of vessels would permit. Several of lord
Howe's ships Set off on Monday far Portsmouth, and
he himfelf is expected to hoist his flag on board the
ViHory of iio guns, now laying at Spithead, in the
course of the present week.
April 8. By the Holland mail of yeflerday we learn,
that on Monday fennight failed from the Texel, a
squadron under the command of captain E. C. Starrinch,
composed of the following ships of war, viz. the Areo,
Zu'leveld, Bellona, Amphitrite, Zephin, Hoorn,
Waakzameid, Jaager and Zee-Baars, with 12 merchant
Blips, all destined for Surinam, and another for Cura
coa.
LONDO N, April 16.
On Friday an express was sent from the lords of the
admiralty to fir Thomas Fye, commanding at Ports
mouth, for a convoy to be immediately got ready to
protest the outward bound Quebec fleet, which will
soon be ready to fail. Sir John Johnson (the son of
fir William Johnson, celebrated in the last war for his
popularity among the Indian nation,) goes out in this
fleet with ^e appointment of Superintendent general of
all the Indian tribes in the province of Canada, as does
also vice admiral Campbell, lately appointed to the
chief command on the Newfoundland station.
Private advices from the Bast-Indies mention the ar
rival of two Blips of the line from England, at Bengal,
and one at Madrafs; the latter is known to be the
Monarch of 70 guns; the other two are supposed to be
the Sultan of 74, and Magnanime of 64, which failed
with convoy in March, 1781.
“ All the provinces except Guelderland have con
sented to the acknowledgment of Mr. Adams as am
bassador from the united Rates of North-America, and
it is thought that province will soon also consent, when
that affair will be unanimously carried.
Extras of a letter from the Hague, April 12.
" We, whose names are hereunto fubferibed, being
convinced that the king and minifiry of Great-Britain,
their agents and adherents, despairing of the conquest
of these Rates by force, are resorting to the arts of
duplicity and intrigue; that, among other devices, they
are endeavouring, by means of those among us who are
opposed to the present revolution, or devoted to sor
did gain, to introduce, into the country large quantities
of British goods, and to draw offour money in payment
for them; thus they expert to disable us from paying
our taxes, rob us of a medium of business, and put an
end to our opposition, in the support of which money
is indifpenfibly necessary ; that care is taken to fend out
such species of goods as are not only uftlefs, but are
likely to have the greatest effeft in corrupting the man
ners of the people; that the better to insure success, the
highest encouragement is afforded to fush as will en
gage in the traffick, either personally or by connexion
in interest ; and, on the other hand, every effort is made
use of to shut up, as far as possible, all the channels by
which goods have been, during the war, imported a
mong us, or the produce of the country sent out to mar
ket; that those among us who favour thia trade, either
from the malignity of principle, or the inordinate love
of gain, are doing every thing in their power to secure
it under the feigned appearance and cover of the law,
and that they have but too far and too often succeeded;
that they a r e endeavouring to slacken the hands of those
who are disposed to be adive and vigilant, in putting a
flop to such intercourse and traffick, by propagating
an opinion that interference of this kind is mean and dif
honourable; that notwithflanding the salutary meafurea
taken by the legislature, the evil is become so dangerous
and inveterate, that it will not be in the power of the
magistrates to correct and remove it, unless the citi
zens in general exert themselves to bring offenders to
justice ; that to approve, connive at, or not to ufe'e
very means to destroy such intercourse and traffick with
the enemy, is not only unworthy the charader of mem
of principle, but a mark of difrefped and ingratitude
to a nation from which we have derived the most sea
sonable and effedual aid ia the progress of this revolu
tion, and whose exertions and fufferings in our favour
claim from us every possible acknowledgment and pre
ference ; that such clandestine traffick is a difeourage
ment and injury to the fair and upright trader, and has
a baneful tendency to lead away others by the exam
ple : And being also convinced, that it is the duty of e
very good citizen to recoiled the glorious principles
which gave rife to the revolution, and to recur to those
principles, which, under Providence, have brought it
to the present Rate, and will be the most powerful
means of bringing it to a happy and fuccefsful termi
nation ; we have associated ourselves for the following;
purposes: *
i. We will, to our utmofl, detect and bring to jus
tice, all who may be, in any-wife, concerned in this
pernicious traffick, and use every lawful means to pre
vent and suppress it.'
2. To which end we will, to the utmost of our power
and influence, firengthen the hands of all officers, civil
and military, in the difeharge of their duty, and support
the full and vigorous execution of the laws.
3. We will give every assistance to those who are veil
ed with authority, to refirdn ..nd punish all suspicious
persons travelling without proper passes or certificates,
or carrying British goods, or other property made seiz
able by law.
4. We will avoid, as far as possible, all intercourse,
communication and dealings with such as have been, or
may be concerned in trading with the enemy, or who
have been, or may be, justly fufpeded of being so con.
cerned.
5 We will give every support and assistance in out
power to those who shall exert themselves to deted and
bring to jußice persons concerned, either direHly or in
diredly, in trading with the enemy, and treat as mean,
falfe and defigniog, every insinuation that Lurch endea
vours are in the lead degree inconsistent with honour
and good citizenihip, or that they are not highly be
coming and praise worthy.
6. In prosecution of these objefls, we will, at the fame
time, discountenance and oppose all aft of oppression
and violence, and wha ever may be inconsistent with the
peace and good order of the community, being deter
mined not to resort to force, except where the fame may
become indispensably necessary.
Subscribed by one hundred and fifty-three inhabitants
of Trenton and the neighbourhood.
Trenton, July 11, 1782."
T RENT O N, July 17.
On Thursday the 11th instant sundry inhabitants of
this place met together on a fliort notice, for thepurpofe
of considering a plan of association, to prevent trade
and interrourfe with the enemy; and a draught being
proposed, was agreed to and fubferibed by all present.
A committee was then appointed to take meafuret
for offering it to the inhabitants of the town and neigh
bourhood, to devise the best means of rendering it ef
fedual, and to call a general meeting of the inhabitants
of the town and country adjoining, on Friday the 19th
instant in order to determine upon such things as are
necessary to be done. 6
pift, in company with another pfecmon of similar force
and conftrudion. The Hyder Ally was commanded
by one Conner, a native of Ireland.
BALTIMORE, July 23.
It is confidently asserted, and generally believed, that
the British forces, under the command of general Clark,
had evacuated Savannah, in Georgia, and gone, (by
water) to Charleftown, South-Carolina.
Extrad of a letter from Alexandria, dated on the 12th
inflant.
“ Captain Simmons, in the brig Ranger, belonging
to Salem, New-England, which loaded here for° the
Weft Indies, failed lafl|week, and on Friday came too
near St. Mary's. Between twelve and one o'clock the
fame night, his people discovered two barges, one com
manded by the noted Whaland, the other by one Bar
ry; they immediately attempted to board the brig, but
were repulsed by the Spirited behaviour of capt. Sim
mons and hia people, consisting of only 29 men, include