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'Ey ri/fap ChAlklky, Captain Spain, arrived
here from Bristol, me have the following
advices.
MARSEILLES, May 4.
r r HE last letters from Algiers advise, that
the Dey had received intelligence by an
express who arrived on board of a filling boat,
taat he ought to be on his guard, and prepare to
defend hindelf, as the King of Spain had fitted
cut a itong fleet of ships of war, and a number of
transports; that it was moreover laid, that the
conditions of the peace between the Emperor of
Morocco and his Catholic Majesty were, that the
frft should make war on the Algerines by land,
whilst Spain Ihould attack them by sea. These let
ters add that the Dey could not forbear laugh
ing when he read the letter of advice brought by
the abovementioned express ; but th it he answer
ed with great composure, th^t he was prepared at
all events, and was very impatient to fee the
Spanish fleet ; and that as to the reports refped
ing the hofhle intentions of the Emperor ofMo
tocco, he had a formidable army on the frontiers,
commanded by the Bey of the Weft fufficient, not
only to make head against him, but even to con
quer half his empire.
Confantino/de, ,>ril 18. On Thursday the
Captain Bafhaw took leave of the Grand Signor
at his Kioft upon the canal; he was eloathed with
a Felice as usual, and afterwards entertained the
Vizir and Mufti, and all' their attendants. It is
thought he will depart for the Archipelago in ten
days; he takes with him ten large flips of the
line, five frigates, and some galleys.
Mantua, Ma, 3. They write from Spain,
that the King will not make peace with the Em
peror of Morocco but on the following conditions:
1. That he shall pay four millions of pieces of
.eight, by way of indemnification for the expences
and lodes occasioned by the rupture. 2. That he
shall restore 24 Spaniards that were taken prison
ers. 3. That he shall grant an extent of land
offour leagues, round the places which Spain
possesses in Africa. 4. That hefhall cede the
port of Tetuan and the island of Mogador to
Spain.
Vienna, Ma, 7. It is said that two camps of
10,000 men each are to be formed in August
next; one in Galicia and the other on the fron
tiers of Moldavia.
Vienna, May 10. Expresses arrive twice a.
week at Schonbrun from the Emperor. The lad
advices from Croatia fiy, that his imperial Ma
jesty continues h.s journey in perfect health, that
his presence diffufes joy wherever he passes, and
that he was pursuing his journey to Verginmofcz,
in the county of Carlftadt.
LONDO N, Ma, 23.
Press warrants were on Saturday sent to all the
out ports, for impressing seamen into his Majesty's
service.
An American officer appeared at the mafque
tade the other night, tarred and feathered, just
as he is represented in the print-shops, to the no
frhall diversion of the company.
May 29. The intentions of Lord Effingham to
resign his commission, should the regiment in which
he served, be ordered for America, were some
time since announced in this paper. The regiment
having received orders to embark for America,
hath occafioried an event to take place which every
friend to virtue and to merit must cordially de
plore. Lord Effingham has resigned his com
mission into the hands of his Majesty, because he
could not retain it confident with those principles
of honour and of integrity which alone give dig
nity so coronets, and emblazon nobilitv. That
Lord Effingham was a good soldier, there can be
no fort of doubt, for lie is . a virtuous citi
zen. That he lives in times when the duties of
his profeffion are incompatible with the dilates
of patriotism, is a misfortune his country most sin
cerely lament. But, this in return fnould be
considered, that if Lord Effingham facrifices all
those pleating profpeds, to indulge in which he
had so fair a claim, he makes the facrifice at the
altar of public Liberty, and receives Heaven's
signet of approbation—the internal testimony of
confeientious rectitude.
HOUSE of LORDS.
Eis Grace of Manchester moved to have the
"hil: M ORI AL" from New-York, which
tended to a reconciliation with the Colonies, read.
An amendment was proposed with a design to
have the Memorial rejeded.
In the course of the debate Lord Effingham
thus delivered his sentiments.
Lord EFFJNGHAM's SPEECH.
My Lords,
" The turn which this debate has taken, makes
it undeceflary for me to remark on any thing
which in the course of it has fallen from any no
ble Lord; but as I with to call your Lordships
attention rather to thh fubjed, than to the form
and manner of the paper offered to you, I hope I
shall stand excused, isl treat the latter as trifling,
when put in competition with the salutary or
dreadful effeds of admitting or rejecting the means
now in your hands, of reßoring harmony to this
diftra&ed empire. What may be the fate of the
amendment proposed, I know not; but I fear it
is too eafdy to be guessed, from the complexion
of the House, what will be that of the Memorial.
" if any thing, my Lords, can add to the re
ludance with which I at any time trouble ydur
Lordships, it is a confeioufnefs of my own inabili
ty to treat this fubjed as it ought to be treated.
Indeed the importance of it is such, as would de
ter me from entering into it at all, did I not think
that in the precarious fixation in which this
country stands at present, it is the duty of every
man to avow his principles and sentiments with
firmnefs and integrity. The indulgence which I
have before experienced, encourages me to ex
ped again from your candour, that attention,
which I have not, like many among your Lord
ships, the abilities to command.
" I confefs I wish to avoid the difenffion of our
right to such a power as we are contending for;
: hat is to fay, a power of taxing a set of fubjeda
who are not reprerented among u; and who have /
full power to tax tbemfelves in the ordinary and
constitutional manner. Was any particular pro
vince, among the Americans, to refufe grants of
money in proportion to others, or to commit any
ad in abuie of their charters, I think that supreme
controlling power, which the province in ques
tion allows it its full extent, would give us the
charge, ne quid detriments, Republica capiat. And
is that case, my Lords, almost the whole empire
would be united against the wrong-headed few,
who would be soon brought to reason. But lam -
fatisfied, that without such neceflity, we have no
more right to exercise the power of taxation in
that country, than a Roman Dictator had to be
gin his office with a declaration, that his power
should be perpetual, and was necessary ir. the or
dinary bulinels of government. Therefore, my
Lords, whatever has been done by the Ame
ricans, I must deem it the mere consequence of it
our unjust demands. They have come to you
with fair argument, you have refufed to hear
them; they make the most refpe&ful remon
strances, you answer them with pains and penal
ties; they know they ought to be free, you tell
them they shall be slaves. Is it then a wonder if
they fay in despair, " for thefart remainder of cur
lives we will be free !"—ls there any among
your Lordships, who in a situation similar to that -
which I have described, would not resolve the'
fame? if there could be such a one, I am sere he
ought notto be here.
" To bring the history down to the present .
scene. Here are two armies in presence of each
other; armies of brothers and countrymen; each
dreading the event, yet each feeling, that it is in
the power of the most triffling accident, a private
dispute, a drunken fray in any public house in
Boston; in short, a nothing, to cause the sword
to be drawn, and to plunge the whole country
into all the horrors of blood,flames and parricide.
" In this dreadful moment, a set of men more
wife and moderate than the rest, exert themselves
to bring us all to reason. They state their claims
and their grievances; nay, if any thing can be
proved by law and history, they prove them.—
They propose oblivion, they make the firft con
cessions treat them with contempt, we pre
fer poverty, blood, and servitude, to wealth, hap
piness and liberty.
" My Lord, I should think myfelf guilty of
offering an insult to your Lordships, if 1 presumed
to suppose there was any amongftyou who could
think of what was expedient, when once it appear
ed what was just.
" I might otherwise have adverted to the very
formidable armament preparing by Spain; but as
that argument ought to have no confederation
wih your Lordships, I shall not suppose it would
have any, and for that reason will entirely re
jed it.
" What weight these few observations may
have, I don't know; but the candour your Lord
fllips have indulged me with, requires a confeffi
on on my part, which may still lessen that weight.
I must own I am not personally dinnterefted.
" Ev r since I was of an age to have any am
bition at all, my highefl has been to serve my
country in a military capacity. If there was on
earth an event I dreaded, it was to fee this coun
try so situated as to make that profedion incom
patible with my duty as a citizen.
" That period is, in my opinion, arrived; and
I have thought myfelf bound to relinquish the
hopes I formed, by a resignation, which appear
,ed to me the only method of avoiding the guilt,
of enslaving my country, and embruing my hands
in the blood of her sons.
" When the duties of a soldier and a citizen
become inconsistent, I shall always think myfelf
obliged to fink the character of the soldier in that
of the citizen, till such time as those duties shall
again, by the malice of cur real enemies, be
come united.
" It is no small facrifice which a man makes
who gives up his profeffion; but it is a much
greater, when a predilection, strengthened by
habit, has given him so strong an attachment to
his profeffion as I feel. I have, however, this one
consolation, that by making that facrifice, I at
least give to my country an unequivocal proof of
the sincerity of nay principles."
The following noble Lords voted for delivering their
fe to-fubjedls in Canada, from Popery and Sla
very, b, a Repeal of the Quebec-Aft.
1 heir Ro,al Highnfrfs the Duke< yG'oucefter,
Cumberland.— Dukes of Richmond, Manchester.
—Marquis of Rockingham.— Earls of Abingdon,
Scarborough, Stanhope, Cholmondeley, Fitz
william, Effingham, Radnor, Spencer.— Bifloop
of Exeter.— Lords Craven, Ponfonby, Ravenf
worth, Archer, Wycombe, Beaulieu, Camden.
The following Lords voted b, Proxy.
Dukes of Devonshire,Portland.— Earls of Stam
ford, Tankerville.— Vlfaunt Torrington.— Bifoob
of St. Afaph.— Lord King.
The French, we are assured, have a&ually
sent nine ships of war to Newfoundland this season.
They write from Berlin, that the King of
Prussia has complcated all his regiments, under
pretence of a general review, and that they con
lift of 150,300 choice troops.
Extrafl of a letter from Portsmouth, May 26.
" Yesterday Admiral Duff hoisted his flag on
board the Romney man of war at Spithead, to
take the command of the Newfoundland station."
What must the surrounding nations think of a
Prince, who could not only fuffer, but be well
pleased with one of his upper servants for faying,
in an august assembly, that the inhabitants of a
third part of his dominions were cowardly pol
troons.
Ma, 30. On Sunday night, about 9 o'clock,
Capt. Darby, of the-, from New-York,
arrived express from Southampton, where he left
his ship, and has brought papers dated the 25th
of April hft, which mention an engagement hav
ing happened on the 19th of the fame month with
the Bo'onians, who killed and wounded 160 of
the regulars; and 60 of the Bostonians were kil
led and wounded, whom was the leading
Captain.
1 be following is the substance of the account of
the before-mentioned affair, which is handed about
at Lloyd's and Garraway's.
" General Gage having heard that the insur
gents were drawing some cannon a few miles from
Boston, he dispatched an officer with some troops,
to demand them to be delivered up, which the
insurgents refufed to comply with.—A second
message was sent, when the officer informed them,
that he must obey his orders, which were, in case
of refufal to surrender them, that he mhft fire on
,those that surrounded them, but which he hoped
they would prevent, by relinquishing them. This
they absolutely refufedtodo; oriwhich the troops
fired on them and killed about 60. On this the
country arose, and assisted the insurgents to load
the cannon, and they were directly fired upon
General Gage's troops, which did great executi
on, near 100 being killed, and 60 wounded. The
noise of the cannon alarmed General Gage, who
immediate ] y sent Lord Percy, with a larger party
of troops, to enquire into the matter. When his
Lordship came to the place, he heard the officer's
account of the dispute, and then returned back
with the troops to General Gage's intrenchments,
as he did not find any authority he had to proceed
farther in it."
The French have this minute no less than 22
battalions of infantry, and 12 squadrons of horse,
amounting in the whole to 17,000 men, within a
day's march of Dunkirk.
Teufday, Ma, the 30th, 1775. As a doubt of
the authenticity of the account from Salem,touch
ing an engagement between the King's troops and
the provincials in the Massachusetts-Bay, may
arise from a paragraph in the Gazette of this
evening, I desire to inform all those who wish to
fee the original affidavits which confirm that ac
count, that they are deposited at the Manfion
houfe, with the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
for their infpedion.
ARTHUR LEE,
Agent for the House of Representatives of
the Massachusetts-Bay.
By the most authentic intelligence we have been
able to colled, the following is the true state of
the French troops at present within 41 hours
march of Dunkirk. In the town 4 battalions, at
Gravelines 2, at Calais 4, at Lisle 12, at Valen
ciennes 4, at Quefnoy 6, at St. Omer's 4, amount
ing in the whole to 32 battalions, at 750 men, or
24,000 ; besides 12 squadrons of horse and dra
goons, equal in number very nearly to so many
regiments of English cavalry, according to the
present eftabliihment.
Two men of war and three transports, with
two regiments of soldiers, ate ordered to fail im
mediately for Boston.
Extrafl of a letter from Portsmouth, Ma, 27.
' Baily this morning orders came down here
for fix ships of the line to be fitted for sea as soon
as possible; and in order to man them, houses of
rendezvous are opened and good encouragement
given for men to enter in/o his Majesty's service."
Advice is arrived at the Secretary of State's
office, of the failing of the Spanish fleet through
the Streights of Gibraltar.
Four more regiments, we hear, will be ordered
forthwith to America, and a part of the militia
are to be embodied.
The Spanish Chips of force now ready to pro
ceed to sea, or fitting out, amount to 34, 27 of
which are of the line, besides 30 frigates.
Gibraltar is now put into that state of defence,
as if a siege was hourly expelled ; and though go
vernment affects to disregard the Spanish arma
ment, yet 500 soldiers have been smuggled out
to reinforce the garrison.
On Sunday afternoon died, at his house near
Croydon, after two years illness, Barlow Treco
thi:k, Esq; Some time ago he resigned his gown
as Alderman of the Ward of Vintry.
A^^ 31. The regiments of foot on duty in
Ireland will be augmented fifteen men per com
pany, in order to replace the troops that are sent
to America, that the ftipulited number of forces
may remain in Ireland.
The Provincials, who attacked General Gage's
convoy of provisions, were headed and command
ed by.a dissenting clergyman. A man who has
hitherto been extremely moderate ; but those
who were formerly moderate are now as much
exasperated as the most violent and inveterate.
Extrafl oj a Letter from an Officer on board the
Somerset man of<war.
" Yoh will no doubt receive by the fame ves
sel which brings this, an account ofthe late most
lamentable disturbance at Lexington. To the
lift of the killed you may add Lieutenant Colonel
Smith, who commanded the detachment which
was firft sent by General Gage to seize and spike
up the cannon. Lord Percy very narrowly es
caped being taken by the Provincials. Our ship,
as well as the Lively and two sloops, are at
present Rationed to prevent a conjunction of the
troops from any of the detachments which are as
sembled at Bellingham and Tath rivers, as they
must march along the road which is commanded
by our cannon. A number of caravans from
Quebec have lately arrived, which have brought
the Americans eloathing for an army of 30,000
men ; there whole number, I can assure you, is
40,000 at least, even by our accounts, and they
are said to be more numerous. Our situation is
daily more irksome ; our provisions which we
brought from Europe are expended, and the sup
plies here are irregular, I have fafted several
hours now I am writing this ; neither our seamen
or soldiers entet heartily on the service. Our
marines are almost always in arms, and of the
whole which left the ship on the above service,
eighteen deferred."
June I. Four more regiments of foot abd two
of Highlanders are ordered for America.
The Governor of the Havannah we hear has
orders to oblige the English inhabitants of the is
land of Cuba, to leave it immediately.
The ministerial tools yesterday talked loudly
in the city, that it was the intention of the mi
niflry to proscribe and proclaim as traitors those
men in this country, who have assisted the Ame
ricans by fubferiptioD or otherwise, or shall pit
fume in future to aid them in ary way whatever
Ari Englifliman who writes this paragraph, and
heard their empty menaces, calls upon the tools
of government to put their threats into imme
diate execution; for the instant that such art
attempt is made, hirn felf and thousands of de
termined Englishmen, are resolved to make the
e«periment.
From the King's troops having firfl: fired on th?
Americans, and thus designedly commenced hos
tilities, there is every apparent reason to conclude,
that the private inftrudions to the troops are to
shed blood enough.
To men of thought there is nothing fnrpri&,g
in the late American massacre. It was long ^n<.t
foretold by the Lords Chatham and Camden. Jr.
was very lately intimated by Lord Effingham, who
resigned his commission, because he forefaw that:
American blood would be unjustly shed. The
Commons also, by the mouth of their Speaker,
teftified their expectation, that the sword would
be drawn, and they promised, most chearfu 1,, to
lend every assistance in their power to give it an
EDGE.
1 here is a report industriously propagated by the
creatures of administration, that the people here
who have assisted and cherished the rebels in Ame
rica, are speedily to be called to an account for
their treason, as their money has been applied in
purchasing ammunition for the American traitors ,
and executions hnd forfeitures are the common
topic ofthe Scottish and the English tories; but
there is no terror in their threats !—lmpeach
ments, axes, blocks and halters, are justly retort
ed upon these rascally minions of power, by every
honest whig and indignant Engliffiman.
Advice is received of the Sukey, by which ship
government exped a packet from Boston, being
fafe arrived at Cork, in Ireland, ten days ago.
The guard Rips at Portsmouth and Spithead
are now manned with their full complement of
seamen and marines, by order of the board of
Admiralty.
On Tuesday night an express arrived at Lord
Dartmouth's house in St. James's square, which
was immediately/fent to his Lordship at Black
heath. His Lordship sent it express to Kew, and
yesterday it was laid 'before the Cabinet at St#
James's, his Majesty being present.
Yesterday his Excellency Prince Mafferano
had a private audience of his Majesty at St.
James's for near three quarters of an hour, and
delivered his letters of credence.
His Majesty's ship the Ramilies of 74 guns, and
the Ardent of 64, are now fitting out at Chatham
to join the fleet at Spithead.
The public are requested to attend one moment
to the condud of Ministry, and they will forever
detest their duplicity. A massacre is attempted
by the King's mercenaries in America, the peace
able inhabitants of the town of Concord are wan
tonly fired on, and many are inhumanly murder
ed. Ministry, unable to contest the proofs ad-,
duced in confirmation of this infamous tranfadiou
cause the following paragraph to be inserted ia
the Gazette.
Secretary of States Office, Whitehall, Ma, 30.
A report having been spread, and an account
having been printed and published, of a skirmish
between some of the people in the province of
Massachusetts-Bay and a detachment of his Ma
jesty's troops; it improper to inform the public,
that no advices have as yet been received in the
American department of any such event.
There is reason to believe that there are dir
patches from General Gage on board the Sukey,
Capt. Brown, which, though she failed four days
before the vessel that brought the printed account,
is not yet arrived.
The following are said to be some of the reso
lutions adopted by the Provincial armyin Ame
rica.
“ To treat the mercenaries, who may be taker?
prisoners, with every indulgent species of tender
ness, but in case any of the Provincials should be
put to death, then to hang man for man.
" To be as sparing a^pofiible ofblood, and ne
ver difeharge the firft fire unless in open action.
“ To commit no fort of depiedations, but on
no account whatever to permit the mercenaries:
to be furniflied with frefh provisions.
" In case rewards shall be offered to those who
desert from the Provincial army, to offer equal re
wards to every private soldier who shall abandon
the mercenaries, and go over to the Provincials.
" To maintain an exactitude of discipline;
but, in their firings, to let their manoeuvres be few,
and their evolutions as simple as poflible.
“ And, lastly, having taken the field, never to
quit it until, by the blessing of Providence en their
arms,they shall have obtained an ample reftitutiora
of their rights figured to them on some better te
nure than the faith of Kings, or the omnipotence
of an Engiifh senate."
It is currently reported at the weft end of th
rown, that General Gage is on his way h<nl
without leave, and that two thirds of his troops
are cut off by the Americans.
Two clean frigates, viz. one at Portsmouth,
and the other at Plymouth, are ordered alw^rj to
be in constant readiness to carry difetches to and
from America.
The Americans, we are affr.red have late,
had a large Ripply of warlike ftp;, es o f everyAind
from four Dutch (hips, wb,ch arrived at Sal^i
under convoy of two Sparuth men of war.
ltrs iiffei ted that a noble Lord, who preCce^
ataceitain great board, has delivered in hw
opinion that hoiftilities will commence between
Irngland and two neighbouring pow^rj in ]{s
than three months, and that the putting our
navy on a refpeftable footing will be the most eli
gible step that can be taken.
Ihe report of an intended change in the mi
nistry is revived, and some circumllances are
mentioned, which make it Item not to be whoilv
destitute of foundation.
It is said, that an ingenious gentleman, well
versed in financiering, is drawing up a scheme
for improving the excise, so as to make ir produce;
2§o,ocoL per annum more ;fo. it does <;t ^^
font.