The New-England chronicle — Boston [Mass.], 1776-06-13 00:00:00, page 2

to execute these orders with the fame exa&nefs
as is observed with regard to his Majeftys Elec
toral troops. t .
Art. IV. This body of infantry and of light
cavalry fhalibe composed of five regiments and
of two battalions, according to the lifts annex
ed to the present treaty; the officers servants on
the said lifts Ihall be furnifhed with arms, and
every necessary equipment as soldiers, they shall
do service like them, if occasion requires it, and
be paid as such.
Art. V. The most Serene Duke engages to
furnifh the recruits that may be annually neces
sary for this corps ; these recruits shall be de
livered, after a previous notice of four months,
tohis Britannic Majesty's Commiflary, difciplin
cd and equipped; the said recruits ihall arrive
at the place of their embarkation at the time
that shall be agreed upon before the opening of
each campaign.
Art VI. The King's service, and the preier
vation of the troops, requiring equally, that the
commanding v^cers and subalterns should be
expert perlons, his moll Serene Highness Will
take proper care in the choice of them.
Art. VII. The molt Serene Duke engages to
put this corpson the best footing possible ; and
none ihall be admitted into it but perlons pro
per for campaign service, and acknowledged as
such by his Britannic Majesty's Commissary.
Art. VIII. This corps ihall be furnifhed with
tents, and all necessary equipage.
Art. IX Ihe King grants to this corps the
ordinary and extraordinary pay, as well as all
advantages in forage, provision, &c. &c. enjoy
ed by the royal troops ; and the most Serene
Duke, engages to let this corps enjoy all the
emoluments of pay, that his Britannic Majesty
allows them ; the sick and wounded of the laid
corps shall be taken care of in the hospitals and
at the expence of the King, as the troops of his
Britannic Majesty ; the wounded, not m a con
dition to serve; shall be transported into Europe,
at the expence of the King, and landed in a
port on the Elbe or the Wefer ; as to what re
tards the body of the light calvalry, they shall
be put on the footing of the British light caval
ry, when they are dismounted; but they shall
have the fame pay, as well ordinary as extraor
dinary, as the light horse of his Majesty, from
the day that they shall serve on hoileback.
Art. X. There ihall be paid to his most Se
rene Highness, under the title of levy-money,
for each soot-soldier, or trooper not mounted,
thirty crowns banco, the crown reckoned at fif
ty-three sols of Holland, and reckoned at four
shillings nine pence three farthings ; one third
of this levy-money shall be paid a month after
the signature of the treaty, and the other two
thirds shall be paid twp months after the signa
ture ; the payment of this levy money ihall be
made, nevertheless, on condition, that the
thirty crowns banco shall be retained for each
soldier ofthe said corps, who without cause of
sickness shall be absent on the day when they
pass in review before his Britannic Majesty's
Commiflary ; which thirty crowns banco shall,
liowever, be paid as soon as the absent foldiei s
ihall join their refpe&ive corps.
Art. XI. According to custom, three wound
ed men shall be reckoned as one killed ; a man
killed shall be paid for at the rate of levy mo
ney ; if it shall happen, that any of the regi
ments, battalions, or companies of this corps,
Should fuffer a loss altogether extraordinary,
cither in a battle, a siege, or by an uncommon
contagious malady, or by the loss of any trans
port veflel in the voyage to America, his Britan
nic Majesty will make good, in the most equi
table manner, the loss of the officer or soldier,
and will be at the expence of the necessary re
cruits, to re-establish the corps that shall have
fuffered this extraordinary loss.
Art XII. The most Serene Duke reserves
to himfelfthe nomination to the vacant em
ployments, as also the administration of justice ;
moreover, his Britannic Majesty will cause or
ders to be given to the commander of the ar
my, in which this corps shall serve, not to ex
act of this corps any extraordinary services, or
such as are beyond their proportion with the
rest ofthe army ; this corps shall take the oath
of fidelity to his Britannic Majesty, without
prejudice to the oath which they have taken to
their Sovereign.
Art. XIII Towards defreying the extraor
dinary expences, which the hasty equipment of
this body of troops occasions, his Britannic Ma
jesty grants two months pay, previous to the
march of the said troops, and from the time the
troops shall have quitted their quartets, in or-
der to repair to the place of their destination,
all the expences of their march and transport
shall be at the charge of his Britannic Majesty.
Art. XIV. His Britannic Majesty grants to
his most Serene Highness. an annual subsidy,
which shall be regulated in the manner follow
ing : It Ihall commence from the day of the
signature of the present treaty, and shall be
single, that is to fay, of the amount of fixty
four thousand five hundred German Crowns,
as long as these troops shall enjoy the pay; from
the time the, pay shall cease the fiubfidy shall be
double, that is to fay, of one hundred twenty
nine tlioufand German Crowns. This double
subsidy shall be continued during two years af
ter the return of the said troops into his most
Serene Highness's dominions.
Art. XV. This treaty shall be ratified by
the high contrasting parties, and the ratificati
on thereoffhall be exchanged as soon as possible.
Thus concluded and signed by the Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty, the King or
Great-Britain, on one part, and by the Minister
Plenipotentiary of his most Serene Highness
the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, on the
other part.
Done -at Brunswick, this 9th of January, I77°°
William Faucitt (L.S.)
J B. de Feronce L. S.)
Note concerning the Levy Money.
BY the date annexed to the present note, it
is manifeft, that the total of the heads for
which levy money is paid, amounts to four
thousand eighty four. By the tenth article of
the treaty it is agreed, that thirty crowns ban
co of fifty-three sols of Holland, shall be paid ;
the crown banco is valued at qs. qd. g-qths,
which makes for the whole 294811. ys. 6d. By
the fame tentharticle it is agreed, that one third
part of this sum shall be paid one month, and
the two other third parts, two months after the
signature ; consequently his Britannic Majesty
will be pleased to order it to be paid on the gth
of February next, to the banker properly au
thorifed, the third part of the levy money
making 98271. 2s. 6d.the two other third parts
shall be paid on the 9th of March next, the a
mount of which is 19654 L ss.
Done and signed at Brunswick, this 9th of Ja
nuary, 1776 ,
William Faucitt. J. B. de Feronce.
[The Treaty between his Majesty and theLand
grave of Hefle Casel —together with that of the
Hereditary Prince of Hesse Caffel, reigning Count
of Hanau, &c. must be omitted this Week,for want
of Room, butfeaU be duly noticed in feme future
Paper.]
It is reported that Lord Howe's going to Ame
rica is not yet fettled, and there is great reason
to believe he will not go. Several objiacles lie in
his way ; amongf which are these : that he flat
tered himfelf be fbould have had full' power
to treat with the Americans, by which he would
have become the happy means of reconciling the
colonies to the mother country, of which ha now
does not fee the leaf profpeß. He finds by the
returns made by Admiral Greaves, that the fleet
in America are not fit for service, and that it
will be impoffble to aft with it,without loss of cha
racter, and rifaue of every kind of reputation ; a
rifque much too great for Lord Howe to run, who
so justly stands high in the efimation of bis coun
try, as a great sea officer of. unblemished honour
and probity.
March 14. On Monday were presented to the
l®wer assembly, purfaant to their order, copies of
the following requiftions made by Generals Gage
and Howe, from America :—Copy of Lieutenant
General Gage's requifition.for 21,5001. dated Feb.
7, 1775. Ditto for 20,0001. dated April 17,
1745. 20, Ditto for !0,0001. dated May 23.
1775. Ditto for 20,000! dated June 1, 1775,
Ditto for 20,0001. dated July 22, 1775. Ditto
for 40,0001. dated August 7, 1775. Ditto for
100 0001. dated September. 30; 1775.
Copy of Major-General Howe's requiftion, for
100,0001. dated Nov. 1, 1775. Ditto for iqq,
0001. dated Jan. 1, 1775.
Advices from France jay, " That large bodies
of French troops are ordered down to the Jea coafl
of that kingdom on the Mediterranean ;" which
occasions variety of Jpeculations.
However the Minifry may attempt to conceal
it, there is certainly a treaty to^lly inimical to
the honour and interest of England, now carrying
on between the Courts of Versailles and Madrid;
in confequer.ee of which, the French and Spanifb na
vies are increafag at their different ports, an^
LONDON, March 12.
manning with the utmost expedition ; their lan;
forces ar: likewise considerably augmented, and
have orders for embarkation early in May . —Mr.
St. Paul, our Charge des Allaires at Paris, came
over the latter end oflaft vfe4ivitb^his alarming
intelligence for administration. '-.
March 21. The Spanish fleet are to rendez
vous at Carthagena the 20th of March, and
will, consist of fourteen fail of the line, ten fri
gates and several bomb vessels and fire Ihips ;
the grand army is to be composed of Spanish,
French, Neapolitan, and Parana troops, which
will make altogether a body of 40,000 men.
This formidable armament will be equal to any
enterprize that may be thought most con
ducive to the interests of the family compact,
but its ostensible destination is Algiers.
A few days ago the Shattered remains of the
18th regiment of foot, which was engaged in ,
the action at Bunker's Hill, and reduced to 25
men "- °4 ar Maidftone. They confided of
2 placers, three ferjeants, 2 drummers and a
band of music. A fubferiptibn was opened for
their relief.
The loss of a ship taken by the provincials is
like to make work for lawyers ; the urger wri
ters declaring they are not pirates, arid the po
licy not providing againftrtbris.
General Carlton has ; hanged no less than ?o
persons in Quebec since the beginning of the
siege, for traiteroufly holding a correspon
dence with the rebels.
Colonel S—p, secretary of the embassy to
the court of France arrived in great haste on
Saturday evening at St. James's, with news of
France and Spain equipping a great fleet and
army under the pretence of attacking Portugal.
If this bait is swallowed, they Will find the beard
ed hook too late.
The French force will consist of eleven fail of
line of battle ships, and four frigates, with three
bomb vessels, and several tenders, which will be
commanded by Monsieur L' Ache, who hoists
his flag in the Languedock, a fine ship of 80
guns. An army under the command of Mon
fiure de Marbeuf, is likewise to be ready at the
fame time, which is fixed for the 3d of April.
Cork, March 21. it is certain that the French
are fitting out fleets of men of war at Brest and
Toulon, and that orders have gone to all the
sea port towns in France for seamen to man
them.—This accounts for the large quantity of
beef ordered by the French last season in Dublin
and Cork for their ships of war.
WOULD inform the Public, that he car
ries on the BOOK-BINDING Business
in its various Branches, at Powars and Lillis's
I Printing-Office, in Queen-Street.
Account Books ruled and bound in the neat
est and genteelest Manner—Gilding in all its
Branches.
Cream-coloured W ARE.
Now opening for. Sale, a large and beautiful
Assortment of cream-coloured WARE, by
WILLIAM SHERBURNE,"
At his Store in Kilby-Street, next the Bunch of
Grapes Tavern, Boston,
Wholesale and Retail Cheap.
Where also may be had,
A few ENGLISH GOODS.
Sperma-C^ti C ANDLES,
To be Sold by
/CARTWRIGHT and JARVIS,
At the large Brick Store near the Coffee-Houfe,
in King-Street.
T^b^ ""LET; 7
A noble MANSION-HOUSE,
pleasantly situated in Cambridge, with conve
nient Out-Houses, and a fine Garden ; also,
Pasturing for a Horse and Cow, late being the
Estate of the late Lieut. Governor, Thomas
Oliver, Esq. Any Person inclined to hire,
may enquire of the Subfcribur, living on the
Premises. WILLIAM PRENTICE.
Cambridge, Sth June, 1776.
TAKEN up between Milton-
Bridge and Boston, about a Month'ago, a Silver
WATCH. The Owner may have it again, by
telling the Marks, and paying Charges.
SAM. WHIPSEMCRE.
Gentlemen in Town and Country who please
to favour him with their Work, may depend
on being well used, and with the utmost Fidelity
and Dispatch.
JAMES WHITu