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CONSTANTINOPLE, January 7.
r, H E mtmbrs of the divan are inclined to peace,
I and almost to an entire cohdefcenfion to the de
sires of Russia. The unhappy fixation of this capital,
the misery of rhe people, the difference which always
subsists between the Mufti and Januaries, the want
0 fold ers, failora, Chips and money, all must inspire
our natjon with pacific fentiroents. It is (aid that the
Crimea is Bill a prey to the horrors of a civil war ;
that the Imans have had the addr«fs to convert it to a
war of fanaticifm. However this may be, Russia de
mands the immediate and entire execution of the last
treaty ; this demand is dot only just, but is also sup
ported by a numerous army.
CADIZ, February 3.
We have just received advice of the peabe. The
troops, &c. were already embarked, but now re land
ed, without knowing our destination. This city is be
coming very flourfhing. his catholic majesty having
given to all the ports of his dates the most unlimited
liberty of commerce with Peru and Mexico.
PARI S, February 23.
We are assured, that all the differences between the
Ottoman Porte and Russia are terminated, and this
assertion is confirmed by a letter, said to have been
written on the part of the empress of Russia to the
comfe de Vergennes, to thank him for his good offices
with the divan in inducing them to adhere and consent
to what she demanded. The importance of the service
of that minifler is demonstrated by the name of" Pa
cificator of Europe," which her imperial majefly of
Russia hath given to hsexcellency. The letter which
the emperor hath written to him, it is said, on account
of the peace, is not less flattering.
A M S T E R D A M, February 22.
An activity is observed in our dock-yards, which
was not noticed before the signature of the prelimina
ries between France and Great Britain, There are
feyen ships of war of different rates, which will soon be
finished, if this activity continues.
LONDO N,
February 25. Several ships are now taking in goods
at Dublin, Cork, Wateiford, Kinfale, and other ports
in the filer kingdom, for the American markets ; very
large quantities of teas and linen are already shipped,
as the vessels are to Lil with all possible expedition.
The American ship which was seized in the river,
has since been given up by a particular order from
administration.
March i. A considerable society of neighbours and
friends from Norfolk and Lincolnshire ate preparing
to emigrate to America. They havedrawn up articles
of agreement to share jointly in all the expences of
the voyage, freighting a ship, &c. and in every thing
that does not concern the property of land when they
arrive there. There are fix of them, neighbours to
each other, in the fame waste, drawing lots who (hall
choose his estate firft, to the extent of 10,000 acres, or
5000, according to his means of fettling. The next
lot is to choose where he pleases, provided it joins for
the length of a mile the firft lot. Then comes the third,
under the fame condition that his lot shall join for a
mile force part of the former, and so on. The great
dread of fettling in the American wilds is the want of
society ; but eleven families, the cumber here united,
will form as good a society as they would have met with
in Britain. Among the number is a clergyman, with
four sons and fix daughters, a surgeon, a man-midwife,
and an apothecary; a music mailer, who is also a
dancing master ; all of whom have fliares of land ; like
wise three carpenter, three blacksmiths, and other
tradesmen, under the fame agreement.
March 7. M. Vergennes, according to the Dutch
accounts, bought up 300,000 pounds of cur bank
flock in Holland, for the use of himfelf and friends,
so early as the middle of November, when they were
ten per cent, lower than the present fettling price.
Extract of a letter from Parib, Feb. 25.
f' The king has issued out his letters patent, autho
riling a loan to be negociated of a sum not exceeding
934,000 livres, for the purpose of repairing the har
bour of St. Valery.
The following alterations are expected to take place
in our administration : marquis de Seguer retires upon
a pension, and is succeeded by monsieur de Castries:
the later relinquishing the post of prime minifler of the
marine department to compte de Eftaing.
Advice is received from Gibraltar, that the plague
is broke out along the coast of Barbary, since which no
vessels from those parts are fuffered to enter Gibraltar,
until thy have performed quarantine for 40 days;
and that all vessels coming from any parts of the Le
vant, are obliged to do the fame, on pain of being
funk.
They write from Vienna, that the dealers in provi
sions there had contrived to raise the price of them,
giving for reasons the great quantities brought up for
the military magazines; the emperor being informed
of it, put a Hop to their proceedings, and ordered a
reduction of their prices, with a severe reprimand not
to be guilty of the like for the future.
The whole nhval force of the belligerent powers at
the cessation of hostilities, is exhibited at one view byl
the following lift of ships in comn^ffion the 30th of
January last..
Great Britain.—Of the line 105, fifties 13, large fri
gatts 63, (mail ditto 59, sloops riy, cutters 43, armed
ships 24, bombs 7, firefhips 9, yatchts 5.
France.—Of the line 89, fifties 7, large frigates 49,
small ditto 52, (loops 86, luggers 22, bombs 5, fire
fllips 7.
Spain.—Of the line 53, fifties 2, largs frigates 21,
small ditto 36, sloops and luggers 31, bombs 14, fire
lhips 9.
Holland.—Of the line 33, frigates from 40 to 24 guns
28, sloops 1 3, luggers 9.,
Further ADVICES from Europe by the
late Arrivals.
sailors living do not remember such a continued series
of blowing weather.
A letter from Madeira, by the w^y of Lisbon, fays,
that an American ship of 350 tons arrived there to
take in wines, but soon after she had got in all her car
go, and was preparing to fail, by some means she
took fire, and was burnt down to the water's edge,
and two men perished in the flames.
March 10. Wonderful as it must have appeared to
every man of common sense, that it should have been
pofiible for the government of the country to have
continued in a slate of inanity for a whole fortnight,
and Bill more extraordinary as the fad is, when the
circumflances, under wh ch this phenomenon in poli
tics has shewn itfelf, are considered, we have it not
in our power to give our readers the consolation of
declaring that an arrangement of a responsible admini
stration is yet adjusted, or even nearly adjufled.
March 11. Letters from Paris advise, that the
courts of Versailles and Madrid, are on the point of
concluding a new treaty, one article of which fpeci'fies,
that they thall each fit out a fleet to cruize alternately
in the Mediterranean, for the purpose of protesting
their trade from the depredations of the Barbary cor
sairs, which, to the astonishment of the rest of the
world, have, for a long succession of years, continu
ally interrupted the commerce of all the great trad
ing powers of Europe, any one of which, by the juftifi
able exertions of a spirit of resentment, provoked,by re
peated insults and injuries, might exterminate the'whole
combination of these nautical depredators.
March 13. In all probability the new administrati
on will be made up from the coalition of the two great
parties, that have lately been induced, from a conside
ration of the calamitous slate of the country, to for
get their former animosities, and unite in their endea
vours to relieve the affairs of the kingdom. Should
this turn out to be the case, the country has every
thing to expea from the efforts of an administration
built upon the best of all principles, and in which the
greatest ability will be joined with the most unim
peachable integrity.
I Yeflerday the French ambassador was at the levee
at St. James's, and had a private conference with his
majesty.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March 1, 1783.
" We are so much pleased with the peace here, that
we are astonished at the unpopularity of the British
negociators in Great-Britain. ft is even whispered
they are afraid of returning to their own country, and
that Dr. Franklin and the count de Vergennes have
offered them an asylum in France and America, left
they should share the fate of the negociators of the
treaty of Utrecht."
By a letter from Paris it is 'aid, that the definitive
treaty will not be Concluded till next July. The Eng
lifh begin to relax some of the hard conditions they de
manded of the Dutch, who, it is pretended, have found
a friend that is in Arid amity with England.
M. Ie comte de Rochambeau, and the other gene
ral officers of the French army in North-America, are
upon their return. Nothing is talked of in France,
but the generosity and magnanimity of the Americans
towards the officers during their flay among them.
The United States of America contain 207,050 square
miles, nearly as large as all Germany, Flanders, Hol
land, and Switzerland, which contain 207,483 square
miles.
March 14. The national bank in Ireland comrnen
ces buifinefs on theist day of July next. A chamber
of commerce is also about to be eflablifhed in that
kingdom.
March 15. Yeflerday colonel Onflow gave notice
in the house of commons, that he would, on a future
day, make,a motion for an humble address to his ma
jesty, to entreat, that he would be graciously pleased
to give directions, that the fortrefs of Gibraltar be giv
en up, for an adequate compensation.
By the late general returns of muflers from New-
York, the number of men killed in the British service
amounts to 43,33 men rank and file, exclusive of the
officers which have fell in the field, or have loft their
lives either naturally or accidently.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March 3.
" If ever an event deserved a lifting monument, it
is doubtless that of the American war, and the ac
knowledgement of their independence, which followed
it. In consequence of this, Dr. Franklin has flruck a
medal relative to these events. It represents Hercules
in bis cradle, Strangling two serpents ; a leopard, a
mazed at his firength, is ready to fall upon him - he
is repulsed by France, who, under the figure of Mi
nerva, turns her shield, on which are three fleurs de
lis, towards him. At bottom, are the years 1777 and
1781, epochs of the capitulations of the armies of Bur
goyne and Cornwallis, represented by the two serpents.
On the other fide is liberty, emblematically pourtray
ed by a fine woman ; and in the exergue, Libertas
Americana."
March 17. We are assured from the heft authority,
that the negotiation with the duke of Portland broke
off on Saturday at three o'clock A message from his
M - gave his grace to understand, that no cabinet
would be approved of, which did not include the chan
cellor and lord Stormont.
Yeflerday morning two Dutch fliips, laden with to
bacco, &c. arrived in the river; they have passports,
and left ten fail more in the Humber.
March 18. On Sunday evening there was a meeting
of the friends of Mr. Fox, and the Rockingham, Ben
tinck, and Cavendish's interests, at earl Fitzwilliam's,
when upwards of one hundred and fifty persons were
present; most of them members of the house of com
mons ; among others, fir Edward Aftley, fir William
Guise, and many independant country gentlemen,
By which it is evident, that the naval force of the
enemy exceeded that Of Great-Britain by fixty-five fail
of the line, brfdes other vessels.
Letters from on board the Portland man of war give
itoft melancholy accounts of the dreadful florms and
tempests they have fuffi red for two months past in the
bay of Biscay, in confluence of which the (hipping
h s fuffe ed so severely, that it was with great diffi
equity flee reached Portsmouth harbour. The oldest
. whom the public have been hitherto taught to confo
der as adverse to Mr. Fox and his friend?.
Extraa of a letter from the Hague, March 12.
" The following extraordinary anecdote is the fub
je& of much talk: The day before yeflerday the Prus
sian minifler went to pay a visit to the penfionary of
Dordrecht, and being arrived at that gentleman's ho
tel, he sent his fervent to alk if the pensionary was at
home, the domestic of the latter returned with that of
the ambassador, and said, his master requeued to
know whether the baron came on the part of the king
or of himfelf, to which the ambassador made no an
swer, but told his coachman to drive off, which being
reported to the pensioner, he ordered his servant to run
after the baron, and tell him he was waiting to receive
him, but the ambassador would not return."
Extras of a letter from Gibraltar, Felt. 28.
'' The Brilliant, which arrived on Tuesday, brings
us the agreeable intelligence of hostilities ceasing be
tween Great-Britain, France, Spain, and Holland, and
we have been too long cooped up here not to receive
it with great joy. Tie Spaniards so long ago! as
the 16th tilt, visibly lessened their camp; and for a
fortnight pafl have not annoyed us in the lead, which
gave ut reason to suppose something pacific was on
the carpet."
March 20. Sensible, as we are, that the public cu
riosity encreafes with the importance of the delay of
the new arrangement of his majefly's ministers, we
conceived it our duty to watch and trace their pro
ceedings, and to slate them daily and impartially to
our readers. His majesty sent yeflerday morning for
bis grace the duke of Portland, who at the time was
taking an airing on horseback; but an express was im
mediately sent after his grace, when he returned, and
waited on his majesty. We underfland the result pro
duced nothing permanent or decisive; and that it is
his majesty's determination to wait till to morrow,
for Mr. Coke to make his motion in the house of com
mons, that he may fee to what lengths their inclina
tions will carry them.
Several policies of insurance are now doing at
Lloyd's coffee-houfe, on outward bound Weft-india
ships, at the small premium of two guineas per cent,
when the fame vessels a few days since could not have
been done under ten guineas. This is one happy e
vent refusing from the peace.
Extras of a letter from Paris, March 4.
" Don Bernardo del Campo, appointed minifler
plenipotentiary from the court of Spain to that of
England, is arrived here, and will set out immediately
for his deftination.'
" The count d'Eftaing's equipages are on the road
from Cadiz, and himfeif will soon be here. By the
last letters from that port we learn, that the marquis
de la Fayette and the prince of Nassau have been ar
Gibraltar, where they most certainly have met with
a handsome reception from general Elliot. It is thought
that the definitive treaties of peace will not be con
clu Jed, at the soonest, until the month of July next."
Te name of Hyder Ally has found favor in the eyes
of some of the most powerful princes in Europe- he
is already most flridly allied with his majesty of France
and by order of the emperor of Germany the most va
luable presents of china and Moravian cloths are at
present making for that Indian prince, in return for
the favorable and honorable reception the imperial flag
has of late met with in Hyder's ports*
TUR F N, March i.
Yeflerday, February 28th, a courier extraordinary,
arrived here from the court of Naples, with the fol
lowing intelligence:
On the sth, at 11 o'clock in the morning, all the
farther Calabria felt a shock of an earthquake, which
lasted no less than fix minutes, passing from Bast to Weft,
she shocks were repeated thirty-two times, from that
hour till half past twelve at night, when the moll vio
lent happened. They Hill continued on the 6th and
7'h ; the sea, during the whole period, pouring in up
on them, whilst a deluge of water from the clouds
contributed to the defiruaion of this unfortu
country. The people wrapped in the
thickest darkness, beheld nothing but lightning
and heard nothing but thunder, which at once
difeovered and scattered death. It is impossible
to give, as yet, all the particulars of this dreadful
phenomenon, atl that is known for certain at present:
is what the courier related on his arrival, namely,
that out of 375 villages, which the province contained,
320 had periled. The prince de Cariatia had loft 17
frets, among which were the towns of Semioaca and
Faima,qf which there is not one Rone left upon another.
The prince of Scilla, living in the town of the fame
name, quitted it, and endeavouring to make his,e/ca pe
in a sloop, the vessel funk, and he was drowned. The
prince d'Ardor is reduced to the single fief of St.
George.
The princess Gerace de Grimaldi is buried in the ru
ins of the town which bore her name, but which is now
entirely consumed by fire. All the effects belonging
to the king, the nobles and merchants, as grain, oil
wine, &c. have been either wrecked or burnt, and all
the fortifications ruined. The point del Phara, and
the town of Pifo are overwhelmed by the sea, as is
that of Reggio, Montleorne, and several other pla
ces. Petrach s river, which crossed the province has
entirely difapp§ared, the courier passed it on foot.
The number of persons who have perished is supposed
not to be less than two hundred thousand. The cap
tain of a frigate which lay at anchor in the harbour of
Meffina, fays that a great part of that city is destroy
ed, The greatest part of the nobility escaped in small
vessels, but have loft all their property. Nearthe en
trance of the port, several chasms were formed, from
whence fulphurous vapours continually exnaled.
It is imagined that the island of Lipari has been
(wallowed up by the sea, several of the inhabitants who
had been taken up by a vessel, relating, that at the
time when they embarked, tne elements had all ming
led with each other for the destruction of the island.
The king has given every affifiance that the nature 06
the circumstances permitted.