Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1775-07-03 00:00:00, page 5

B the Captains Holland, Watson, and Loring, from
London; and Captain Scot, fromßelfast, arrived
at New-York, rd. have the following advfes.
From tb° GROY NE, April 5.
g^ Q^A IHE fl.er which has just fa led from
^?X ^^^p, Ferrol was this morning plainly seen
^"^ T "h from hence. It confids of fifteen fi,
¥viz. Two Tips of the line, three fri
gates, five flutes, three bomb ketches,
fy'v"mv/ and two transports. Besides a large
number of marines, this fleet has on board the two re
giments of Toledo and Savoy, each of two battalions,
and an hundred men of the Royal corps of artillery.
We don't yet certainly know the objed of this arma
ment. Its fiHf destination is only for Cadiz, where, it
feems,it is to join a much larger force.
Genoa, dp.il 15. Letters from Marfeil'es advife,that
the Caprain of a French ih p was arrived there from
A giers, who depoled, that there had been a very bloody
action near Oran, between the Moors xad the Algerines.
The fame advices add that 14 tartans were equipping
in the port <f Matgrilles fur the service of the Spanish
armament, defined to aft agrinft the Algerines, who
have occasioned the war between the King of Spain and
the Adelines,
Warfnv, pril 19. The permanent Council affem
b'^ tins day for the firfl time. The Ruffian troops
are preparing tp quit this kingdom ; yet they may
pebbly remain longer, or be replaced by those of the
other two powers, Specially if the report be true, that
freh confederacies ate forming in several dilbids; this
would not fail to ruin entirely this unhappy kingdom,
which has been already but too much tom by i.s ewn
inhabitant.
It is assured, on the other hand, that independently
of the Prussian encampment near Auguflow, 40,000
men belonging to the fame power ate to be assembled
near Graudentz, where a camp is al ready tracing or
for turn.
Hamburgh, April 29. The extraordinary movements
making for some time past in the cabinets of some of
the powers of Europe, make our politicians conjecture
that we are at the eve of feeing some great event come
to light.
Hague, April 2g. Some authentic letters from Mo
gador, dated the 15th of February mention, that the
Emperor of Morocco has sent letters to the Governor
of that place, and to that of the forte, with orders to
them, not in any reaped to inlult the fubje&s of the
States General, edabhihed in his country, por any of
the merchant Tips which trade to thai port, but on the
contrary to affine them that both themselves and their
effeds may depend upon the mod perfect kcuriry, as it
is his Majesty's plea are, thar all th f: who disobey his
oderr, on that head, befmerely puniflied. Moreover
this Prince offers all the Dutch Captains, who afl< it,
passports, which enable them to carry on their irJe
all along the coat in fifay.
iVeze, fy 2. A can? wi?l soon be formed near
this town, confining of 50,000 men, and the King is
expected there, his allo laid, that considerable ma
gazines are to be assembled in this neighbourhood
The levies go on luccelsfully in his Maj fly's dominions.
In general, evert thing Items in a term.nt, as was the
case before, when important affars were in agitation.
We TG learn, that 12.000 of the FJ&r Palatine's
troops are to be affembied at the lame time near Duf
foidmfF
Paris, My 2. Four hundred of the corps of artil
lery have been fe t from Auxerre to quell the infur
redtion at 1) jon. A battalionof the regiment of Aunis
is I kewile ordered thither from Befancon, and will re
main there whilst the Prince of Conde is holding the
flares of Burgundy.
Amferd m, May 4. Five may credit foreign intel
ligence, great changes will take place very foou in Eu
rope. Letters from Paris allure, th.it orders have been
sent to Brest to fit cut feventcen Tips of war with the
utmost diligence; which gives room to many conjec
tu es. These letters add, that some people ate of opi
nion, that this squadron is to join the Spanish fleet,
which consists of the fame number of (hips, and then
fleer in consort towards America. Others, on the con
trary, fuppsfe that this armament has no other object
but to guard against the great preparations making by
Great Britain to subdue her colonies.
Briflol, May 11. The Charming Peggy, Captain
Tilly, which arrived here on Monday lad from New-
York, has brought a petition to his Majeity, a memorial
to the Lords and a representation and remonstrance to
the Commons of Great Britain, fiom the General Af
lembly of New-York, requeuing their mutual endea
vouis for a settlement of the present disputes fulfilling
between the mother country and her colonies.
St. pames's, May 6. The King has been pleased to
appoint Lieut. General John Irwine to be Commander
in Chief of a'l his Majesty's land forces in Ireland,
and also to be Governor of Londonderry and Calmoie
Fort in laid kingdom.
L O N D O N, /% 6.
By a private correspondent we learn, that the King's
troops at Button have attacked and defeated the Pro-
Ticials, who loft a thousand men in the a&ion. The
ds of the former, it is laid, is fix hundred. We arc
ot yet enabled to give our read- s a more particular
count of this unhappy event, but have reason to be
POSTSCRIPT to the Pennsylvania Packet. July 4, 1775.
lieve it mnft very soon be circumstantially known, an
express with the above news to Government being just
arrived..
May 9. Upwards of 100 pieces of cannon, of anew
confru&ion, so lignt as to be carried by a man on
horleback, and which carry balls from four to seven
pounds weight, and 10,000 Rands of arms, were Tip
ped from the Tower, in the couife of the lad week,
f.r the tile of the troops in America.
It was seven weeks yefteiday since that true friend
to the liberties and happiness of his country, Doctor
Benjamin Franklin, failed with a fair wind from Spit
head for Philadelphia; that it may reasonably be con
cluded he is now in that city, where the representatives
of i'HE UNI FED COLONIES are to aflemble in
General Congress, to-morrow, the loth of May, a
day which ought to be kept as an extraordinary feftival
by all true Whigs in Great-Britain and Ireland, as well
as in North-America. The Doctor, from his uncom
mon abilities, perhaps not a little whetted by the tieat
ment he met with here, will, no doubt, contribute in
some Imall measure to the winding up the feelings of
his oppressed countrymen to a proper electrical charge,
for a grand exp.ofon throughout the continent of North
America.
Ma, 10. It may be depended on that the refracto
ry Americans are not the spring which has put the
Ministry in motion for some days past, and which
has caused such hurry acd diligence in our dock
yaids, such anxiety in mann ng of Tip?, and aug
mentation of land forces; insolence in the Spani
ards, l ke pertness in a school boy, is arrived at such
a height, that nothing but a flogging will make them
conform to the rules of good manners and justice.
Lord North's tone is Rrangely altered lately. Last
year he pofitivel declared, that the French and Spa
nards would not be able to go to war in ten yeais.
In January he tells the Parliament they were in good
condition for a rupture ; but he assured thea, it was
not in the lead the design of Fra ce and Spain to
b e<.k the p ace; now his Lordhip as itrenuoufly
asserts, they have really been preparing for several
months pall.
There is some talk of a proposal ha ring been late
ly made by the Emperor of Germany to our court of
taking off the duty of our woollen goods exported
thither, on conditi n that the like indulgence shall
be Tewn to tie German linens imported either.
The report of a SpaniT war gains ground among
the molt intelligent kind of people to much, that 'tis
th ught not all the conceptions of the Falkland Illand
Ministers will be able to prevent it.
Considerable belts are depending in the city, that
we ihd have a war with Spain before the month of
AujuiL and that France joins the Spaniards within
fix months after.
So positive aie the mercantile people of an ap
pr aching war with Spain, that many Captains, now
lying in the river, have received orders from their
owners to fi: their Tips as in time of war.
Extras of a Letter from Madrid, April 10.
" The armament of f me ships of war in our ports
is continued wih the greatest adivity; and several
regiments have received orders to march towards the
coasts ; b files whch, a Dutch Tip hath just been
freighted on account of the King, and an embargo is
laid on all the Tips of this nation. We are ignorant
at present of the motive for all these measures."
Orders are sent to Chatham for every vessel be
l°nging [0 go\e r nm nt, lying at that port, to be
immediately docked, and made ready to put to sea
at a very Tort notice.
The Concord, Batefon, and the Phcenix, Helleyer,
both from Newfoundland, are fafe arrived at Water
ford, and bring an account, that the Dutch had a
great number of Tips fiTing there, and were bound
to America.
Yesterday the firft regiment of foot marched
through the city with bayonets fixed.
1: is calculated that the King of Preffia has at this
time in Prussia, Silt fia, and Pomerania, not less than
60,000 effective men, who could be brought into
the field on the Torteft warning: And what might
not be expelled from so formidable an army, if the
following character of its Commander be true, as
given f raejears since by Mr. Mitchell: " Such in
" trepi rity beams from his eye as strikes tie boldest
'' foluier wi h an awful terror."
There is not at this present time a power in Europe
but uhit ferns to be arming for war.
Adv ce is received from Gibraltar, that a DaniT
merchant ihip had been taken in the Mediterranean
by some Algerine cru zers, and carried into Algiers,
in confiquence of which a I aniT squadron failed
for that place, and demanded a restitution ofthe Tip
and cargo; on refufal of which they threatned to
bombard the town, and reduceit to aTes; that these
threats had the desired effed, the Tip was rellored,
and (he cargo, which had been confifeated, paid for.
Lord Effingham being ordered to join his regiment
in America, has afk:d the King's leave of absence,
and if that cannot be granted, that he may be per
mit d to retire from the army; federal messages have
paffd on the occasion, but nothing is decided at
present.
Seldom a day passes now but the horse and foot
guards are exercised in Hyde-Park.
Myll. Three T'ps of the line are ordered to be
fitted out forthwith ; it is said they are to take on
board a number <f troops, and are defined for the
Weft Indies,
The Noble Bounty, Dutchman, from Charleftown,
is arrived at Cowes; and the Chalkley, Spain, from
Philadelphia, at Bristol.
Extract of a Liter frem Warfauro, April 19.
" It is reputed a rather an intereitiog particular,
that whilst tney were reading in the Diet that the Re
public took upon itfelf the King's debts, the Sieur
Drewnofk:, Secretary to the Diet and the Confede
racy, in fpecifying the total amount of those debts,
left out one cypher, but the King, who attended ve
ry regularly at all those affemHies, and who likened
with great attention durn g the whols lecture, did
not wait for his Chancellor to redify toe mritake,
called aloud from his throne, “ Read 9,000.000,
and not 900,000 livres."
Extract of a letter fam Paris, April 28.
" The indifferent harveit 1 ft year in this king
dom, and the cold and dry weather we have at pre
sent, makes the farmers and dealers in corn imagine,
thjt by keeping up their grain they may fell it at a
more advanced price, by which the markets are very
scantily fupph d with that article, and the arret of
the 14th of September forbids the Officers ofthe Po
lice fiom using proper means to remedy it ; for by
obviating this inconvenience, they mutt hurt the li
berty of commerce, and occasion more considerable
monopolies. Ihe King, whefe greatest care is to
relieve h;s fubjecb, particular!, the molt numerous
part of them, the indigent, has given a freT mark of
his paternal tenderness, worthy a Herr, the IVih, by
g anting rewards to those who Tall import corn fam
foreign parts. This bounty is to extend even to fo
reigners. An arret of the King h^s been publiffied
accordingly, dated the 24th ofthis month.
We are assured from good authority, that the great
preparations of Spain are continued with unremitting
diligence ; that jco tranfpjrts, victualled for thiee
months, are ready in the port T heriol; tnai the
Wallo ns and frith in the Spaniffi service, together
with several regiments formed out of the moun
taineers of Galicia, are already arrived near Ferrol ;
that the fleet of Spanffi Tips of the kne, defined to
convoy the tranfpoit^, had their fails bent in the nar
b.>ur of Carthagena when the express came away ;
and that the Spanish court affixed L^d G, antiam this
great force (preparing l\ ths Atl ant.c) is def
tiaed to chajhje toe petty fates of Bobary in the M.ni-
TERRANEAN.
Yeilerday Lord Cambden gave notice in the House
of Lords, that he T> u |d make a motion on Weclnef
day next, in cons, queoue of a petition from the kt
tlers of )ue ec againlt rhe late aft for regulating the
government < f Quebec, and derived the Loid a might
be summoned acc rdingly.
In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Burke
gave notice of a motion relative to America niTuif
day next, and required that the members Toul 1 be
summoned to attend. It is to be founded on a Peti
tion from the inhabitants of New. York. At the
fame time Sir George Saville gave n tice, that he
should pieient a petition on the fame day from the
fetters at Quebec, against the act of the lift frffion
of the latt Parliament for regularing the government
of Quebec.
The motion of so much expectation in the Upp°r
House, relates to the petition from New-York, which
is like y, it is said, to be better received by the Lords
than the Commons.
The Nancy, Smith, and the York Linfey, both from
New York for London, are put into Falmouth, after
very Tort passages ; they sent their dispatches up imme
diately by express.
May 12. Yesterday Lord Camden acquainted the
House of Peers, that he intended to make a motion,
relative to the Protiftant settlers at Quebec, and de
sired the House might be summoned for that day,
which was ordered accordingly.
Yeilerday the bill for fettling Buckingham House
on her Majelly, and for other purposes, was reported
in the House of Commons, and ordered to be en
grofled.
An American thinks that Lord C—rth—n might
have done himfclf more honour by joining with Lord
C—d—n in supporting the cause. cf the colonies, in-
Read of opposing that noble Lord's pathetic vindica
tion of the right, and liberties of America. What a
pity (adds he) will it be, if America Tould be over
powered by the weight which administration has in
iidioufly acquired by unwearied efforts to persuade
the inhabitants of England, that American freedom and
independence are incompatible with the Britifo rights of
empire, or Britifofecurity. If America was perfectly
free, and independent of every restraint, nould this
little illnd pofefskls real happiness ?
It is certain that messengers have within these two
months been continually palling and repaffing be
tween the Kings of France, Spain and Emperor of
Germany, but not a tittle has tianfpired relative to
their business.
The petitions from New-York and Pennsylvania,
which were to have been preferred yeilerday are put
off till Monday.
May 14. By the mail from Flandets, the failing of
the Spanilh fleet from Ferrol is confirmed.
May 15. It is noav believed that Spainvuill tale the lead in
breaking fence voith Great-Britainfrom cebieb France avzl!
derive tw) advantages ; f r f by fanning the necefitj of
julfiiing her engagements cvi/b Stain; secondly, by uniting
the several dijeordant interns in the Court and Cabinet in
one great principle, that o; jetting limits to the dangerous
groivin{ povuer of Grtat-Britain, and interrupting and cbafr
tying her for the indolent etc, m of dominion they pretend foe at
prefect exercises over the v.dole ommercial v.crid.