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MADRID, CRober to.
CT' DE ten officers whom general Flliot sent back to
% the camp of St. Roch, on fieryth, de are, that
they had received from that commander every civi
|„y that can be imagined, that they were fed with
f rt fo provisions, vegetables, fruits, &e. and wereeven
permitted to r fc Ad the'Spanifh garettee.
We are allured that the Spaniards themselves, and
particularly the inhabitants of MarhHb ard tsßpona,
two villages on toe Borders of the Mediterranean be
twerp Malaga and Gibr Itar, supply the hnglifh with
fre(h provisions. Enquiry las been made into this, and
a dozen of fhefc perfrii u fubjeßs have been hanged.
We are very apprehensive h<te, that the negrciator
ana chirfoltie«migrints of this city, who, we hear,
bos lull lef* London to return to his country, will be
treated on his arrival as deserves a disloyal citizen,
who feeksto depopulate bis country. The marquis
de Jancourt, tie count de Marmora, and general
Lentnlns, rave prhhfhed an ordinance, by which, to
obviate the 'reo u f ot disputes between the burghers and
soldiers, the guards are enjoined to take up the difpu
taels, end the next day, on mounting guard, a coon
co fits, condemns the sgereffor, whether he be French
or Savoyard, Swiss or Genevan, to a punishment ade
quate to t e offence, before the ceremony, the pati
ent asks pard ri of God, the magnificent republic, the
t; ree powers, aid of he party whom he has offended.
Nov 5. Yeferday captain ohn Cements prefect
ed to tht c! urt of direßors of the East India compa
ny, the colours taken by the fleet under his command
?r the Dutch fetriements on the weft coa^of Sumatra.
He was accompanied by the captain', Williams, Mor-,
g^n, and Fraser, w+o were upon the expedition with
him. l The chairman on receiving the colours, ^ ank
ed himand them for their good and difinterefbd con
dtift, and for the service they had rendered the com
pany by deftroyirg ail the Dutch fettlemeots on that
coast : and addd, that as, a mark of the cour 's ap
probation, rey would order 50OOL to be paid to the
fleet, to be divided in the fame manner their prize mo
ney was. The captains then retired, and afterwards
dined with the court, of directors at the London \ta
-1 ern.
The (heriffof the county of Antrim has summoned
a meeting of the freeholders on the orb of next month,
?o deliver tleir sentiments refp<aing an Irish bill of
rights, and the fedcible regiments.
An English baron, who'e fortune was once among
the mod affluent of any in this country—immense
ground rents in London- —mineral property in a distant
county—extensive territory in different parts of En
gland, &c is now so reduced, by a course of long ex
per ments on the turf, as to be allowanced to 5001. a
year.
The Chip ordered to be built in the great dock at
Woolwich, is to be a firft rate, to mount 00 guns,
and will be called the Royal Gorge. The lafi (hip of
that name was built there and launch d in 1755.
Nov. 7. An invention of a lingular kind has engag
ed the attendon and excited the aflonifhment of all
Paris. A. M. Blanchard lias conßrufted a flying ship,
with which he undertakes tc fly from Faris to Brett,
and from Brest to Paris, with the government dis
patches, in five hours, although the dißance is up
wards of 330 miles. Nothing has b^en heard of for
several weeks past but M. Blanchard's flying frigate;
it has made amends for the deßruHion of the floating
batteries, and been a complete recompeuce for all the
miseries of the war. The print-shops have been full of
vues laterales vues m-chaniques, and vues caricatures
du vaiffeao volant. In some of them M. Blanchard is
shown at work in his machine, with his Compagnon de
voyage; and in another, dedicated aux incrudelis de
Paris, the "effel has weighed anchor, and is under
way in the mid Heaveas, to the wonder of 100,000
fpeaaters Katterfelto hide your diminished head. It
is really a fad that fueb a vessel has been made ; it is
contriv d with win^s, which aft like those of a bird,
by means of springs and levers, which the pilot in the
body of the machine puts in motion. The inventor
made trial of his machine, a few days ago, in a gar
den at Paris; but when he had railed himfelf to the
height of about forty feet, the springs being of wood,
broke, and he fell to t e ground, but happily got off
with a flight contusion in the head.
Nov. 8 A variety of reports are in circulation, re
lative to a change in the mjmflry; whether true or falfe
we know not, but a fortnight's time will give us cer
tainty. In an evening paper of last night, the follow
ing article 1 appeared.
A change of mmiflers is the general fubjeß of the
day and totally engrosses the attention cf the'public.
A part of the new arrangement, it is reported, and we at
prefen' give on'y as a r port, is, that lord North is to
be president of the council; Mr. Pitt to be Secretary of
flafe, in the room of Mr. Townsend, who retires ; and
Mr. Jenkinfon to be chancellor of the exchequer, with
the liberty of appointing Mr Robinson his secretary.
It is further said, that the duke of Portland will suc
ceed lord Shelburne who goes out; and that earl Fitz
william, nephew and heir of the late lord Rockingham
will be provided tor in some diftinguithed department.'
Mr. Fox, it is added, will certainly be included in the
new arrangement as firft lord of the admiralty, in the
room of lord Keppel, who wishes to retire ; and that
colonel North will reappointed paymafler, in the room
of colonel Barre, who is obliged to retire on account
of his total loss of eye fight.
Other reports 'ay, that Mr. Townfhend will succeed
colonel Barre, that Mr. Pitt will be secretary of Rate,
in the room of Mr. Townfhend; and Mr J^kinfon
chancellor of the exchequer, in the room of Mr. Pitt.
A large body of troops will be sent to the Weft-In
dies, as soon as the encampments break up.
It is great wisdom, remarks a correspondent, in e
vwy well regulated state, not to drain points too far
foreign Intelligence.
G E N E V A, Oftober 12.
L ONDO N.
Tilth refpeß to the people, Fir whether they have A
right to oppose measures or not, they are ever sure to
attempt an opposition, when things in their opinion
are carried too far, although the remedy in general
proves ten times worse than the grievance attempted to
be red refled.
Princes ought to have great allowances made them
for faults in government, since they fee by other peo
ph's eyes, and hear by their ears: but ministers of
slate, their immediate confidants and inftruuments,
h^ve much to answer for to their country, if to gra
rify private paffibns, they misguide their prince to do
a public injury.
One hundred and seventeen Dutch vessels have taken
imperial passes from Ofteud since the beginning of June
last.
Extras of a letter from Edinburgh, Nov 2.
" At a meting of the manufacturers of Glasgow,
Pa Rev, and Kilbarchan, convened this day by the
lord proved in the town hall, it was uoanimoufly r e
solved to purfye every legal measure to procure an ex
emption from the hrav,Juries on many material need in
the linen and cotton manufaa< re, so injurious to the
trad of Great Britain ; and without which, the linen
and cotton manufactures of this country must be great
ly injured.
' A plan for eflabbfhing a chamber o f commerce
and manufactures in Glasgow, comprehending the
towns 'of Paifly, Greenock, Port Glasgow, and laces
advent, has been submitted by the lord proved so
the coufideration of the merchants, traders, and ma
nufalors of Glasgow, Paifiy, &c. and many relpeCta.
ble gent lemen of all ranks have a ready become mem
bers of tins institution, the object of which is to watch
over tie inrered of trade and manufactures, to fettle
commercial deputes among merchants by a plan of
arbitration, and to eftabldh a fund for negociating
public bofinefs"
It was an observation of a wife man, fays a Corres
pondent, who after living to the age of ninety, declar
ed, "that weal h was, of all the worldly bleffngs which
he had tailed toe weft imaginary ; that avarice was
the greatest tyrant, and yet an object of compaffibn,
and that the acquisition of an over-grown fortune sel
dom brought the acquirer more than the care of pre
serving, and the rear of losing it,"
Nov. 9. We mod earnestly recommend it to the con
federation of the opulent merchants and traders of this
metropolis to imitate the example of the people of Dub
lin, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Belfatt, io forming a fund
for'the importation of a quantity of foreign grain, to
Supply the deficiency of the present crop, and to pre
vent avaricious adventurers from taking the advan
tage of the present necessity of the poor, by felling the
articles of corn, wheat, barley, malt, and oats, at ex
orbitant prices. By a fubfeription of a Stipulated sum
the adventure might be formedioto regular thares; and
if the conduct of the whole was invested in the hands
of a refp^aable committee, the market might be Sup
plied at a fair price and the subscribers themselves be
fully reimbursed.
Extract of a letter from Rtlfaft, October gr.
" The inhabitants 0! Belfaft have set a worthy ex
ample to the kingdom in general, for obviating the
threatened general dihrefs from the fcarciy of corn.
' Tn order, as t ey humanely o bfirve, to alleviate the
fame as far as human prudence and forefight can ef
feft, a voluntary tubferiptjon is proposed to be set on
foot, to raise the sum of qoool. to be employed in pur
chafing srain and meal at the best markets, and im
porting the fame into their port, and felling it out in
fmaU quantities to p or pe pie of the town and parish
of Belfaft, at firft cost? Though this noble plan com
menced only on Monday last, no less than 24001. were
inftanriy Subscribed, and not the leaU doubt remaining
but the whole Subscription would be filled in a few
days."
It is said some fetters from Madrid advise, that the
Spanish minifiry have come to the resolution of recal
ling the main body of the troops from the camp of St.
Roch, where, however, a Sufficient force is to be left
for protesting the fortifications and other works that
have been raised : as though the design of reducing the
garrison of Gbraltar is for a time suspended, it is by
no means wholly abandoned.
The relief of Gibraltar may be considered as the most
fortunate and glorious cirrumfiance of the present war.
The combined fleets of France and Spain, have frd be
fore us, and Great-Britain has again proved hrrfelf
mistress of the ocean !
To the honour of the firfllord of the admiralty, we
every day discover some inftaoce of national benefit
) refusing from his administration :
State of the line of battle Ships the goth of Septem
ber, 1782, as flanding on the admiralty books :—
In port, and fitting . _ ^
W-ft India islands - - - . j
A letter from Waterford @ys, that it is ftronply fuf
peHed that some persons there and other parts ol Ire
land are concerned in the French privateers which have
so much infefled that coafl, and stria search is mak
ing after them, that they may be punifh^d.
The affair at Drogheda has sown alarming feeds of
diffention between the and the volunteers Mr.
Grattan's popularity is compared with the common
fate of all over-grown champions of patriotism ; while
Mr Flood js followed by t le eyes of the multitude,
as the reformed fubferiber to Unpolitical creed of Irish
independence. Lady Temple's genius for polite lite
rature, and elegance of tafle, in her didion, adorns
the dignified station she now fills, in her native coun
try, with a splendor and magnificence unequalled by
her predecessors.
Jamaica and New-York - * 33
Newfoundland - - - 1
East-Indies and going - - - 16
Conveys and expeditions - - „
Lord Howe - _ ^
Hospital and prison ships - _ 5
Ordinary and repairing - - - 20
Building - _ 37
175
The Bedford party have trimmed so artfully within
the lift threedays, that the premier knows not how
far he may depend on r hisverfat 1e phalanx; they
had not accede! to the minister's terms at their last
interview with tue chancellor and lord advocate, yef~
ttrd&y at noon.
We cm assure our read rs that the reports which
have|b eq so confidently circulited o' a change in a/ rr. -
niflrarion are as y^t premature. Mr. Jenkinfon was
certainly at court yeflerday, but he neitner had a pri
vate audience with the king, which is the invariable
custom on receiving the seals of so high an employment
as secretary of date, nor did ne kiss hands at all. His
attendance was a mere visit of ceremony. It is not true
neither that Mr. Townfhend ano colonel Barre have
been removed from their refpeßive offices , but tho' these
events have not yet taken place, it is equally certain
that some important revolution is at present in agitati
on. A cabinet so infirm and so divide, as the present,
cannot, in the nature of things, Rand Ibng.
An express was received yesterday at noon, by a ves
sel arrived at Portsmouth from Lifboa. She fade 1
from the Hague the 24th nit. at which time they had
intelligence that several men of war had arrived at Ca
diz the 18th, among which were two three -deckers,
which had been totally difmafted in rhe flo r m at Gib
raliar, and came in under jury masts, but whether
French or Spaniards w .s not mentioned.
L O N DO N, November 23, 1782.
Til, day the governors amd directors cf the bink of
England, received the following letter from the ho
nourable T. Townfhend, secretary for the home de
partment.
Whitehall, Nov. 22, 1782.
Gentlemen,
BUS majedy's minifies, anxious to prevent as ear
ly as pebble, the mifehiefs too commonly refuting
from (peculations in the hinds, during the uncertain
Rate of m&ciations of peace, between the powers at
war which it is the general interest of all rr^
ers t< >avoid, have thought it their duty to as khis ma
jefiy's permission to communicate 10 you, that there
gociations now carrying on at Paris, are thought so
near a crisis, as to promise a d cifive conclusion, either
for peace or war, before tie meeting of parliament
which will therefore b~ prorogued ; ro n I oefday the
26th in flam, to Thursday tie sth of December, and I
have hie majeßy's commands to assure you that you
will receive immediate notice of the fame.
(Signed) T. TOWNSHEND.
By the arrival of the eaflern post on Monday last
are inf rmed of the d ath of the honourable major
ffral lord STERLING. We have no particulars as'to
the p.ace waere his lordship died or of the diforte which
deprives America of this valuable officer.
FfiraA of a letter from Plymouth, Nov. 5.
“ Sunday, Nov. 3 In the hurricane last evening,
three centinels were hurled from their polls on the
ramparts into the garrison ; one of which was unfor
tunate y killed upon the spot, and lay two hours be
fore he was difeovered, by the copor ri of the guard
going his rounds; the other two were much bruised."
The fol-lowiog may be depended on as a fa&: On
Tuesday evening a gentleman called at an inn, at a
small town near Bath, to deep. Soon Tter his arrival
he told the landlord he had a great charge of mo
ney with him, but that he had a brace of chargers al
so, and was not afraid of being robbed. After (upper
he left his pistols on the table, and went out to visit a
friend. The landlord took advantage of this, drew
te charge of the pifiols, and loaded them with bran.
On Wedrufday morning the gentleman examined them,
and fefpeded that be thould be robbed. He re-c>arg
ed them properly, and set off on his journey : and, as
he thought, was flopped about nine mies from the
town by the landlord of the inn, with a crape oyer
his face, who demanded his money; the gentleman
indantly fire , and thot him dead on the fpot;-after
which he returned to the inn, and told the landlady
he wanted to speak with her h u(bind. She Git hehtd
been out on horseback an hour and an half: the gen
tleman fait he was truly sorry for it, for that he had
(hot him; aid if the would (end to the place, file would
there find him dead on the road.
No advice has yt been received at the admiralty of
tl e arrival of die Vdle de Paris in any port. The inofl
dreadful apprehensions are entertained for her fafety,
as well as the other m*n of war that were in the hurri
cane. It is earnestly wished that the Buffalo, which
lord Howe dis patched home, may have fallen in with
her.
Mons. Picquet, in a three-decker, commanded the
van of the combined ieet. The firft shot he fired went
through the fore topsail of the Goliah ; he then made a
signal t at ,is guns reached our (hips, and inflantly
the whole line hauled their wind.
Tl a fallowing is said to be a copy of £he letter writ
ten by Mr Townfhend to the directors of the Bank of
Eng and, (mentioned in our last.).
If Mr. Charles Jenkinfon should come again into of
fice, it may be fairly concluded that the present pre
mier is no enemy to the political principles of his pre
decessor. Lord North was always upbraided by oppo
sition, that,he was only an oftenfiblt minister, the pup
pet of a person behind the curtain: and Mr. Jenkin
fon was always pointed at by the then opposition, as
the agent creature, or mouth-piece of that concealed
person. Either, t^eref re, the change, as far as it re
lated to Mr. Jenkinfon, was a gross calumny, or t e
present premier and the man behind the curtain tho
roughly underhand one another.
The profound secrecy preferred by the present admi
nistration on the receipt of dispatches, augers no good
to the nation. Englishmen are of an open, candid dis
position, and do not like to be trifled with. Not a word
has appeared in the Gazette from fir Guy Carleton,
though it is well known dispatches of a very interesting
nature have been received from him by government in
the last pacquet from New York.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30.