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The highlanders of the 77th regiment, quartered in
this town, receiving orders on Sunday lafl, to embark,
as the next day, for India, gathered on the parade,
where they declared with firmnefs that they would not
go on board, alledging that their pay was in arrear;
and that they had been enlisted on express condition to
serve only for three years or during the American war,
that having complied with these terms, they were not
now obliged to go for India, in the service of the com
pany, where none of their officers were to go with
them; therefore, they were resolved to Hand by one
another to the last extremity, thinking, withal, that
their officers had fold them to the company.
The colonel being absent, the lieutenant colonel and
other officers, infixed that they should embark. The
privates furronnded them, and beat the lieuten
ant colonel and some others severely, who escap
ed with difficulty, bruised and wounded. The sol
diers then broke open the fore house of the regiment,
and supplied themselves with gunpowder and ball.
There was a detachment of the invalids sent to pre
vent the routiners from taking possession of the guard,
house and parade. These last fired upon the detach
ment, killed one, wounded two others and forced the
, rest to retire.
Admiral fir Thomas Pye and the mayor to the town,
have done all in their power to appease the insurgents,
and have promised that they shall not be obliged to
embark till the further orders of government. Upon
this they retired to their quarters ; and thi; morning
they were told that their embarking would not be in
fixed on.
The following is his mnj Py's most gracious answer to
to the ad'drefs of the hodfe of lords presented to his
majefly yesterday.
“ My Lords,
" I receive with pleasure this dutiful address, and
have great Tati faction in observing, that the prelimi
nary and provisional articles appear to you, as they do
to me, to afford a reasonable profpea of such a peace
as will relieve my people from any burthens beyond
what the expenses of the war have rendered unsOoid
able, and, if properly improved, will ensure the nati
onal prosperity. Yhefe are always objects next my
heart, and every measure which has the tendency to
promote them, cannot but be acceptable to me. It is
my firm purpose to execute every article of the treaties
on my part, with that good faith which has ever distin
guished the conduct of this nation.
“ I concur with you most entirely on the just ex
reflation you entertain of the like attention in North-
America, to the stipulations in favour of the unfortu
nate (offerers by the war; which are founded in hu
manity and jufiice and now recognized by public en
gagement. J do not entertain a doubt that this and
every other article in the treaties depending, will be
finally fettled and performed by the o her powers with
that spirit of liberality and justice which becomes
them."
The zeal of opposition, on the flattering proCped of
Tuesday morning, is such, as to make them impatient
to renew the attack the firfl moment the house is so
disengaged to admit of their following up the firft fuc
cefsful effort against the minister; and we are made to
imagine, that if the country gentlemen do not get
time to refl.& upon the true date of the finances of the
nation, we shall fee the present miniflry overturned,
and all the schemes of reformation, planned by the most
able calculators in the kingdom, thrown in the dirt, and
in their Read a renewal of the enormous waste of pub
lic money which has brought the nation to its present
exhauffed Rate.
There never was so full a house of commons since
the days of fir Robert Walpole, as met on Monday ;
the members on the division, including two tellers on
each fide, were 4.36 ; and thirty couple of members
paired off during the debate, And did not flay for the
division ; the whole number therefore that assembled,
amounted to 496, which deduced from 558, the num
ber of member, of which the whole house of commons
is composed, it appears that there were only 62 mem
bers absent.
Extras of a letter from Vienna, Jan. 18.
" All the convents of the Carthufians, in the Au
firian Lombardy, have been suppressed by order of his
imperial majefly." . p
This morning four ships laden with foreign wheat
arrived in the river.
N EW- Y 0 R K, April s.
On Sunday morning was brought in by his majefly's
flip the Centurion, the ship William, (taken the firft
instant) from the Havanna for Philadelphia, without
any people on board, the crew having, 'tis supposed,
taken to the boat, and gone ashore with their money.
The Centurion drove ashore within the Capes of De
laware, a ship from the Havanna, called the Mentor,
and the Vulture was left in chafe of a brig from the
Havanna also.
The 17th of February, lord Shelburne said in the
house of commons, “ It was his wish and intention to
" do something for the loyalists, should any difappoint
'' meat happen to what the preliminaries intended."
The news brought by the Prince William Henry
packet, that arrived here Yesterday, in 40 days from
Falmouth, is little more than a confirmation of what
we before received.
April 9.
Further Advices by the Packet.
Since a trade has been open at Lisbon with the A
mericans, that city has been plentifully supplied with
wheat and flour ; the Portuguese pay for it chiefly in
cash. Three American vessels which were lying at Off
end, when the preliminaries were signed, are now (Feb.
6,) in the river Thames, with the thirteen stripes fly
ing.
On the sth cf February, Richard Penn, esquire, one
bf the proprietors of Penofylvania, took leave of the
King, previous to his departure for that Hate.
PORTSMOUTH, January 28.
American News.
On the sth of February, the Bedford, captain Mor
ris, made entry at the Cuflom-Houfe; This is the firft
vessel that has entered the river, belonging to the Uni
ted States. It is said Ilie touched at some port in France,
and hearing of the peace, immediately proceeded here
to a market. She is loaded chiefly with oil.
Philadelphia, April 12.
His most chriflian majefly's frigate Aftrea, captain
de la Prevallie, arrived at Chefl. r on Thursday even
ing, after a passage of 54 days from France. She
touched at Cape Francois, near to which she found ad
miral Hood cruising, and notified to him the signing
and ratification of peace; after which she directed her
course hither, and brought to his excellency the mini
ster of France the official account' of that important
event.
Since pur last the ships, America, captain Caldwell,
Lady Washington, captain Josiah, andSt James, capt.
Cain, arrived here from I'Orient, which they left the
4th of March. We have received nothing more by
these vessels than the late arrivals at New-York have
furnifhed, except that the public dispatches confirm
the advices already communicated as to the happy can
clufion of the negotiations at Paris.
On Tuesday last his Britannnic ma jefly's proclama
tion for a cessation of arms, was read a.t the City Hall
in New-York, (officially) by the town major; a
great number of the inhabitants attending.
Declaring the Cessation of Arms, as well
by Sea as by Land, agreed upon be
tween the United-States of America and
His Britannic Majesty; and enjoining
the Observance thereof
WH EREAS Provisional Articles were fign>
ed at Paris on the Thirtieth Day of No
vember last, between the Ministers Plenipoten
tiary of the United-States of America for treat
ing of Peace, and rhe Miniver Plenipotentiary
of His Britannic Majesty, to be inferred in, and
to constitute the Treaty °f Peace proposed to be
concluded between the United-States of Ameri-^
ca and His Britannic Maiefty, when Terms of
Peace should be agreed upon between their Most
Chriflian and Britannic Majesties : And, Where
as Preliminaries for restoring Peace between
their Most Christian and Britannic Majesties
were signed at Versailles on the Twentieth Day
of January last, by the Ministers of their Most
Christian and Britannic Majesties : And, Where
as Preliminaries for restoring Peace between the
said King of Great-Britain and the King ofSpain
were also signed at Versailles on the fame Twen
tieth Day of January last :
By which said Preliminary Articles it hath
been agreed, that as soon as the fame were rati,
fied Hostilities between the said Kings, their
Kingdoms, States and Subjects should cease in
all Parts of the World ; and it was further a
greed, that all Vessels and Effects that might be
taken in the Channel and in the North Seas, af
ter the Space of Twelve Days from the Ratifica
tion of the said Preliminary Articles, should be
restored ; that the Term should be One Month
from the Channel and North Seas as far as the
Canary Inlands inclusively, whether in the Ocean
or the Mediterranean; Two Months from the
said Canary Inlands as far as the Equinoctial
Line or Equator ; and lastly, Five Months in all
other Parts of the World, without any Excepti
on or more particular Description of Time or
Place: And, Whereas it was declared by the
Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Great-
Britain, in the Name and by the express Order
of the King his Master, on the said Twentieth
Day of January last, that the said United Statesof
America, their Subjects and their Possessions shall
be comprized in the abovementioned Suspension
of Arms, at the fame Epochs, and in the fame
Manner as the three Crowns abovementioned,
their Subjects and Possessions refpe&ively : Up
on condition, that on the Part and in the Name
of the United States of America, a similar De
claration shall be delivered, expressly declaring
their Assent to the said Sufpenlion of Arms, and
containing an Aflbraoce of the most perfect Reci
procity on their Part : And Whereas the Mini
sters Plenipotentiary of these United States, did,
on the fame Twentieth Day of January, in the
Name anT by the Authority of the said United
States, accept the said Declaration, and declare
that the said States should cause all Hostilities
to cease against His Britannic Majefly, his Sub
jects and his Polfeffions, at the Terms and
Epochs agreed upon between his said Majefly
the King of Great-Britain, his Majesty the King
of France, and bis Majesty the King of Spain,
so, and in the fame Manner, as had been agreed
By the United States of America
in Congress assembled,
A PROCLAMATION,
tipon between those three Crowns, and to pro
duce the fame Effects: And Whereas the R 4^
fications of the said Preliminary Articles , be.
tween their Most Christian and Britannic Majes
ties, were exchanged by their Minivers on To
Third Day of February last ; and between His
Britannic Majesty and the King of Spain, 0.7,
the Ninth Day of February last: Aud, Whereat
it is our Will an 'Rleafure, that the Cellar on cf
Hostilities, between the United States of Ameri^
ca and His Britannic Majesty, should be con
formable to the Epochs fixed between dreir Most
Christian and Britannic Majesties,
W E have thought fir to make kno^n the
Same to the Citizens of these States ;an a^
hereby ftridly charge and command all Gur
Officers, both by Sea and Land, and other Sub
jects of these United Stares, to forbear all Ads
of Hodility, either by Sea or by Land, against
His Britannic Majesty or his Subjects, from and
after the refpeCtive Times agreed upon between,
their Most Christian and Britannic Majesties, as
aforefaid.
And We do further require all Governors and
others, the Executive Powers of these Umi ed
Stares, reflectively, to cause :his ot\r Proclama
tion to be made Public, to the End' that the Same
may be duly observed within their several
Jurisdictions:
DONE in Congress, at Philadelphia, this
Eleventh Day of April, in the Year of
Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Eighty-Three, and of Our Sovereign,
ty aud Independence the Seventh.
ELIAS BOUDINOT, Prefldent.
Charles Thomson, Sec'ry,
To be Sold by Public Auction,
At the Coffee-House, on SATURDAY
the 19th instant, April,
At Twelve o'Clock, at Noon,
The State Ship Hyder Ally,
Agreeable to an Inventory to-be seen at the Place of
Sale. JOHN BAYARD, Audio^er.
TO BE LE T,
And immediate possession given,
A N elegant three story Brick HOUSE and LOT,
fl with a large Piazza, Kitchen ^no Yaid, teg f^c
with a large Lot adjoining, with a good Stable th ^on,
that will contain a Coach and fcur Horses, ard room
over it to hold 3 tons of Hay, situate on tne weft fide of
Fourth-ffreet, two doors from Spruce-fire. t. For fur
ther particulars, apply to ABRAHAM SHOEMA
KER, in Spruce-ftiect, the second door from Mr.
Wharton's garden. Apr" ;9.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
%%7AS stolen out of the liable of the fubfer her, in
ths night of the Bth inftan', a likely BAY
MARE between five and fix years old, about 15
hods high, has a small Aar in her forehead, and one
of her bind f<ct white, 8 had the fiftala, lately cured,
on the off shoulder, and the ot er appears somewhat
fw/bd. Sir has been 1 me in her ott tore foot, and
h^s a broad flhoe and a piece of leather nailed on to save
the frog of her foot, which is very tender.
Whotv r secures ti- thief, so th^ he may he pr^fecu
ted to convict on, fhal have Five Pounds Reward, 3rd
for He Mare Fifty Shillings and rc^n^hr H^rfs,
paid by PERSIbOR 'RAZER,
Thornbury, Ch^ft^r county, April 10, 1783.
A Lady going to England
1.1 a few Days,
WYANTS a diferret WO?/ AN to attend hr thi
ther in the capacity or a Narfe; if she has been
at sea before it will be most a^re , de. E quite
of the Printer. A rii 11.
IN pursuance of an order of Orphans Court, ' r the
county of Ne-vcsAle, will be SOLD by Pubii Sale,
011 MONDAY the 23th of April, inftmt, at 2 o'clock
in the Afternoon, at the H use of WILLIAM KER
LING, Inn-keeper, at the sign of the G ner 1 Wa(h
ington, in the town cf Clutter.
A certain Tra6t or Piece of LAND, lituate on Noa
man's-creek, in Brandywine hundred, in the county
cf Newcastle, in the state of D laware, bou d-d by
ftid creek and lands of Thomas Robinfen, Edward
Cloud and ochers, containing 100 acres; l^e the
estate of Ephraim Doane, deceafcd ; if more agreeable
to purchasers the premises will be divided 3nd put up
in Lets. The terms will be made known at the time
and place of H 1& where attendance will be giver, by
SUSANNA DOANE, Administratrix.
The high Bred, imported Horle,
BAY, RICHMOND,
WILL COVER at Mr. Joseph Ogdon's, at
the Middle terry on Schuylkill, at THREE
GUINEAS a Mare, the feafon# April 10.
TO BE LE T,
Part of Kenderton Farm, oppo
fit' the Rifing-lun, in the Northein-liberries. For
terms enquire of Doctor BOND# March 15.