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the mountains of Wiffocka and Thurldorff, which,
in the opinion of the raoft experienced miners,
will turn out of great consequence.
Dec. 31. A Council, we hear, is summoned for
Wednelday next on matters of great importance,
relative to advices lately received from some of
the northern powers.
By letters from the Hague we learn, that the
Ottoman army is, in a great measure, ruined or
dispersed, and that the ruin of the Turkish empire
in Europe seems inevitable, without the interpo
tiuon of the Courts of London and Versailles.
The Minister has, we are affined by a corre
spondent, declared openly, that he is unequal to
the talk of at once bringing the colonists to their
duty, of adjuring the affairs of the East-India
Company, of deviling the means es making up the
deficiencies incurred in the finking fund, without
laying on new taxes, and of answering the de
mands of the civil lift.—lt is a work too great for
mortal man.
The reason of the two candidates for the city
of Dublin being hitherto so even on the poll, is
owing to a previous agreement between them of
bringing up five voters at a time. Very much to
the honour of the electors of the city of Dublin on
this occasion, they unanimously resolved, previous
to the election, not to permit either candidate to
open a tingle house during the poll, on pain of
being entirely deferred.
The opinion of all the Judges has, it is said,
been lately taken relative to some proceedings in
Nwrth-America.
The above solemn consultation, it is imagined,
is intended to precede some important resolution
in Parliament relative to our Colonies.
The Experiment, Valliant, for Virginia, and
the Unanimity, Smith, for Georgia, failed from
Gravefend on Wednesday afternoon.
They write from Vienna, that the Archduke
Maximilian, the Emperor's youngest brother (who
entered his 18th year on the Bth of this month)
set out the 6th inst. attended by Count Rofen
burgh, on a tour through Germany to Holland,
Flanders, England, France and Italy; and that
the Emperor himfelf purposes to make the fame
lour next spring.
Letters from Holland fay, “ It is certain that
four galiies and two frigates, of Malta, have
joined the Ruffian squadron in the Levant."
Extract of a letter from Warfa^w, Dec. 10.
“ They write from Cracow, one of the prin
cipal fortreffes in Poland, which for some time has
been in the possession of the Austrian troops, that
they have lately received orders to evacuate the
fame."
Jan. I. By the last accounts from Vienna we
learn, that the standard of Mahomet is on the point
of being erected, which is never done but when
the Sultan commands the army in person.
By the last muller-roll delivered into the council
of war at Vienna, in August last, it appears, that
the number of effective men in the imperial and
royal armies amounted to 235,000 men.
The King of Sardinia has appointed the Count
de Scarnafis, envoy extraordinary at the Court
of London, his minister plenipotentiary to the
court of Vienna. The Count is to be succeeded
at London by the Marquis de Cordon, now Sar
dinian minister at the Hague.
A letter from Algiers, dated Od. 30, by yes
terday's mail from France, informs us, that the
English frigate, the Alarm, of 36 guns, Capt.
Scott, cart anchor there the 14th, and had deli
vered letters to the Consul of his nation, in which
he demands, that the boats and chaloupes belong
ing to English fliips shall have the power of re
taining chriftian slaves who have escaped, as well
as the ships; that they should restore five Portu
guese, who had eight years since been taken out
of an English ship; and make fatisfadion for an
insult offered by the commandant at Bon to an En
glish officer. These proposals have not been well
received; the Dey looks on them as coming from
the Consul, and fays he shall always continue a
friend to the English, provided their affairs are
no longer directed by this Consul. In the mean
time the Consul is gone on board the above ship.
It may be depended upon, fays a correspondent,
that as soon as ever the King of Prussia has drawn
his troops out of Poland he intends to employ them
in another quarter, which perhaps may rouse our
Ministry from their present lethargy.
By an estimate lately made, it appears, that the
produce of the revenue of his Majeft,'s Customs
has encreafed near a million per annum, since the
last peace.
Yesterday an extraordinary express was sent
away with some dispatches, said to be of great
importance, to the Regency of Hanover.
Letters from Lisbon mention, that a treaty is on
foot for ceding the island of St. Catherine, in the
Brazils, to his Catholick Majesty, for which the
Portuguese are to have equivalent in the Weft-
Indies.
Jan. 3. It is publicly talked of at the weft end
of the town, that the addition of 200,0001. per
ann. to a Great Personage, will be moved for very
early in the next session of parliament.
The Philis brigantine, Capt. Davis, for Jamaica
from Rhode-Ifland, overfet at sea by a sudden
gust of wind, and all on board perished.
Extrafl of a letter from lEarfa<w, dated Dec. If.
“ The great advantages which the different
Ruffian corps have had over the Turks on the right
of the Danube are confirmed, and likewise that
the rest of the army passed that river, in order to
prosecute those military operations which have
been begun with so much success. The Grand
Vizir has been totally defeated. It is not known
yet, whether that commander has been killed upon
the fpdt, or whether he had the good luck to save
himfelf. The Ruffians have taken all the papers,
the military chest, the baggage, and 150 pieces of
cannon."
On Saturday at noon an Irish messenger arrived
at Lord Rochford's office with some important
dispatches from his Excellency the Lord Lieute
nant of Ireland, which were immediately carried
to his Majesty at St. James's.
There is a report of his Majesty the King of
Prussia having efiablifhed some considerable maga
zines of military stores at Thorn; if these accounts
are true, they itill prove the certainty offome new
intended fcherae by that monarch.
Letters from Paris declare, that M. Vaucanfon
having made a machinein form of a loom, by means
of which one man might perform, with refpe& to
silk weaving, in one day, the work of fourteen;
the office of commerce had forbid the use of it,
under a supposition that it would contribute to re
duce the weavers of Lyons, &c to beggary, on
which M. Vaucanfon had employed his nephew to
convey the above invention to London, where he
doubted not of its meeting with encouragement.
A circumstance, however, considering the present
very distressed situation of our weavers, in which
this ingenious mechanic may probably be disap
pointed.
Accounts from several parts ofthe Levant assure
us, that the Venetians are in a very disagreeable
situation, in consequence of the partiality they
have during the present war shewn to the Turks,
the commanders of the Ruffian fleet having seized
numbers of their vessels, and treating the fubjeds
of that once formidable Rate with the utnloft seve
rity.
A certain ingenious artist, well known in this
metropolis for his improvement of wheel carriages,
has declared, that if he should meet with proper
encouragement, he could bring a plan to bear like
that which the French are said to have devised,
for the conftru&ion of veflels to be launched upon
the ice, in order to facilitate their intended difeo
veries in the northern regions.
It is said his Danish Majesty is advised to take
another tour for the benefit of his health, which
is lately much impaired ; and is to leave the Queen
Dowager regent of the kingdom during his ab
sence.
The Diligence schooner, Lieut. Knight, from
Boston, is arrived at Portsmouth.
It is said, that very shortly the Right Rev. the
Bishops, together with the Clergy of their respec
tive diocef&s, intend to remonstrate, and humbly
to beseech his Majesty, that he would be graci
ously pleased no longer (as the custom has now
been for half a century, and upwards) to prorogue
the upper and lower Houses of Convocation, but
to fuffer them to fit and resume their functions;
to revive the liturgy and thirty-nine articles ofthe
church of England; to amend and explain what
is amiss or wanting in them, and to do their best
endeavours to put a flop to that infidelity, pro
phanenefs and immorality, perjury, bribery, and
corruption, which infeft so much all ranks and
orders of men, from the highest to the lowest;
that without a fiocere repentance, and a thorough
reformation, must undoubtedly draw down the
fierceft of God'sjudgments upon this finful nation.
Extract of a letter Jrom Warfa<w, Dec. 15.
" We have just now received a full and authen
tic confirmation of the great and important victory
gained by the Ruffian army on the other fide of
the Danube, over the army of the Grand Vizir on
the 16th ult. The whole Turkish grand army
being defeated, the Ruffians made themselves mas
ters of all the Turkish artillery, baggage, and
military chest, to an immense value: the Grand
Vizir was miffing, and it was reported, and gene
rally believed (when the courier who brought the
intelligence from the army came away) that he is
among the number of the dead. The Rullians
were Rill in pursuit of the enemy; and the rest of
the Ruffian army, who were yet on this lide of the
Danube, have received orders to pass the river,
and to give the last blow to the enemy. Ihe gar
rison of Siliftria are at prelent left to themlelves,
without the least hope of receiving fuccour from
the Turkish army; nor are the fugitive lurks able
to fly into that fortrefs, as all the passages are cut
offby the Turks, which gives the Rullians great
hopes of being masters of that important fortrels
very soon, which will open to them the passage to
Adrianople; so that there is the greatest reason to
hope, that the present winter campaign will finifh
the struggle, before the Turks are able to com
pole themlelves; and, in all probability, the Porte
will be obliged to comply with the terms of peace
proposed by Russia in the late congrels, before
the expiration of another month, unless some
Christian powers (as is expected) should throw
off the made, and publicly declare themselves for
the Porte; against which event not less than half
a million of Austrian and Prussian troops are in
readiness."
Jan. 4. It may be depended upon as an absolute
fa&, that the parliament will not be dissolved till
March twelvemonth.
Lord Temple, we are informed, is positively
determined to revive the quellion this winter in
the House of Lords refpeding the Middlesex
election.
It is now confidently reported that an addition
often fail of men of war will be made to our navy
establishment.
Six to one are offered to be laid at the Weft end
ofthe town, that Mr. Roberts will be the fitting
member.
It is said that preparations are now making at
the Tower for a silver coinage.
The East India judges have had conferences
with several of the great officers of state within
these few days past; and it is thought by some they
will be a considerable time before they set out.
Extrafl of a letter from Confantinople, Nov. 17.
“ The 12th of this month a Tartar arrived from
the Grand Vizir's army, who was only charged
with a verbal account that a corps of our troops,
commanded by Apti Pacha and Chaous Pachi,
amounting to about 40,000 men, who were going
to attack the Ruffians in their retrenchments at
Bazargick, in order to dislodge them from thence,
and force them to repafs the Danube, and by that
means prevent their taking up their winter quarters
on this fide of that river, had the misfortune not
only to fee their intentions entirely defeated, but
were mostly cut to pieces by the Rullians, who
made 10,000 of them prisoners.
“ I his courier adds, that two Turkish Com
manders were among the slain, and that those who
escaped the enemy's sword, fled to the Grand Vi
zir, and threatened openly to revolt against him,
if he did not immediately march in person against
the Ruffians, and redeem their captive comrades;
that the Grand Vizir, fearing they should keep their
promise, had marched at the head of his whole
army to attack the enemy, who, notwithstanding
the inferiority of their forces, after a bloody battle
entirely defeated the Ottoman army; that the
Grand Vizir was said to be dangerously wounded ;
and that the enemy, after this victory, marched
against Verna, most of the inhabitants of which
place, fearing they should be pillaged by the Cos
sacks, had fled with the molt valuable part oftheir
effeds.
" These disagreeable accounts have been con
firmed by other expresses, which arrived the 13th
and 14th instant, and have thrown the Grand
Signior and the Divan into the greatest consterna
tion.
" The Divan assembled immediately on the ar
rival of these accounts, and orders were sent for
the famenumber of troops to march to the army,
as have been either made prisoners, or killed in the
late axions, that the utmost may be tried to prevent
the Ruffians from taking Varna.
.“ At an Assembly ofthe Chiefs of the Janissa
ries, it was resolved, that 60,000 men were to be
raised immediately, to whom the Grand Signior
has granted a pay of 13 afpres per day."
A letter from the Hague, by the last mail, in
forms us, that it is generally thought there, that
as the King of Prussia and the Emperor have ad
mitted the Empress of Russia into a third part of
the division of Poland, which they had claimed
and pofTeffed themselves of from the Poles; ifthe
Empress can conquer the Turks, and get poffeflion
ofthe country she demanded at the late meeting of
the commissaries to treat of a peace at Fockzany,
the Emperor and King of Prussia are to be admitted
toa third share of it, as a grateful return for the
above favour.
'Extraft of a letter from Amflerdam, Dec. 28.
" Yesterday a packet was received at the Hague
from Algiers by the way of France. By some
letters we learn, that the Dutch Consul died there
on the 28th ult. and that the Britilh Consul was
obliged to quit that place and set out for London.
They add, that the inhabitants are most furioufly
enraged against the English merchants there; they
attacked several English taverns and coffee-houfes.
so that no Englishman dare attempt to walk in the
public streets without being insulted by the
mob."
Letters from Dublin mention, that Willoughby
Lightbourne, Lord Mayor of that city, having
been reflected on in a public speech by Sir Edward
Newenham, called the latter to account, as it is
phrased, and on their meeting with sword and pistol
in the Phoenix Park, Sir Edward made the amende
honourable, and like a gentleman acknowledged
himfelfin the wrong.
The state of the poll for a member to represent
the city of Dublin in Parliament, was on the 27th
ult. at the adjournment of the poll,
For Redmond Morres, Esq; - , 1356
Alderman Geale, - - 1356
Eighteen Irish Lords (including nine Biihops)
have signed a protest against the bill for permitting
the Papins of Ireland to lend money on mortgages.
Saturday night orders were dispatched from the
Admiralty office to Portsmouth for a sloop of 18
guns to fail immediately with an express to Sir
Peter Dennis, commander in chief of his Majesty's
fleet in the Mediterranean.(
They write from Peterfburgh, that notwith
standing the great victories which of late have been
gained by the Ruffian troops, yet they continue
pressing and inrolling men in all her imperial Ma
jesty's dominions; and that a freth army of 100,poo
men will be able to take the field by next spring.
They write from Elfineur, that since the 11th
of December, two Ruffian fiigates of war, and
four transports, had passed the Sound, in order to
join the squadron in the Mediterranean. As the
ice was very thick in the Sound, as well as near
Cronftadt, no more Ruffian ships were expeded
this leafon ; but we are informed, that not less
than 24 pretty large veflels are upon the flocks at
the different sea-ports and harbours in the Ruffian
dominions, all which are expected to be launched
towards the spring
We learn from Vienna, that a general congress
of the Princes of the Imperial empire is to be held
there next spring.
There is advice from Paris, that a difference
hath arisen between Count de Guignes and the
French Minister, the Duke d'Aiguillon ; in con
sequence of which Count de Guignes is committed
close prisoner to the Baftile. Ihe conjectures of
the Parisians are various; but further particulars
relative to this singular incident have not as yet
transpired.
We are informed, that a Lady of fafhion at the
Weft end of the town loft one night last week at
cards 25001. and her gold repeating watch, at
one fitting.
Jan. 5. A grand council is summoned to meet
this day at St. James's, on affairs of the utmost
importance.
A call of the House of Commons is intended to
be early in the month of February.
We are afTured, by good authority, that no less
than thirty-three millions of yards of linen of va
rious breadths and finenefs, have been imported
into Great-Britain from Germany and Russia in
the course of the year 1773.
A report prevails, that a very formidable fleet
will be sent into the Baltic before the conclusion
of the ensuing spring. Some people pretend to
fay that the armament is intended to watch the
motions of the Swedes.
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, Dec. 31.
" On Wednesday there was a general meeting
of the adventurers of the Bank of Scotland, when
the report of the Committee, relative to augment
ing their capital 100,0001. was agreed to, and a
draught of a bill to Parliament was ordered to be
made out for that purpose.
Jan. 6. 'Tis talked that our AmbatTador at
Constantinople has been given to understand, that
the Porte cannot look on the English as neutral,
feeing they give every affiftar.ce that is aiked by the
Ruffians, in victualling, and furnishing with ever y
necessary, the Ruffian men of war, without which
that power would not have been able to commit
luck hostile acts, by lea and land, as they have
done.
By an express which arrived yesterday from
Dublin we learn, that the election for member for
that city terminated 10 favour of Redmond Moires,
Eiq; who on the tlofe of the pull was ,o votes
a-head of Mr. Geale.
Extrafl of a etter from the Hague, Dec. 30#
“ Ihe magiftiacy of the city of Dantzick ha e,
with the permiihon of the courts of Warlaw aid
Beilin, applied to the States General to guarantee
the renovation of the trade, rights, and tranchi es
of that city. Ihe States have returned for anlw r
that they shall confider the propolal at the next if
fembly. The Magilbates of Dantzick have like
wile made applications of the fame nature to several
Princes of Europe, and have been promised pro
teChon."
Ihe Viceroy of a neighbouring kingdom not
loving buffoonery as much as dis predecelfor in office,
consequently a certain theatrical wit, (Mr. Foote)
now in Dublin, is not lo often at the cattle as he
used to be; being asked the reason of this he re
plied, “ He was too Itiff in the knee (pointing to
" his wooden leg) to be a good courtier ;" but u pon
being told he laboured under the fame defect in
Lord T 's adminiftratioo, and notwithftandirg
was well received; “ Aye, but (fays the wit)
" you must consider I was then drawn there by
"b^athy, his Lordlhip's bead being of the fama
"J^ '*'
A letter from London to a gentleman at Man
chester, lays, “ Anoted pollute-master at Sadler's
Wells, has undertaken, for a wager of 200 ,ui
neas, to walk five miles on his hands in two hours.
Great bets are depending."
There is so great a misunderstanding between
the courts of Paris and Peterfburgh, that a rup
ture will infallibly take place before the ensuing
summer.
It is said that the King of Portugal has resolved
to eftablilh some new regulations, that will be
greatly for the advantage of the English fubje&s
trading to that kingdom.
It is laid that certain powers, which as yet have
taken no part in the troubles of Europe, intend
soon to publish a manifefto, in which the conduct
of the Ruffian Empress will be vei y severely hand
led, as well as the partiality fhewnto her caule by
certain states that have no manner of obligation in
any degree to espouse her quarrel.
The behaviour of the Day of Algiers has given
so much umbrage to our Ministry, that some spi
rited remonstrances will be made to that Barbari
an Prince upon the insult he lately offered our
Consul.
A certain northern monarch, it is said, has
had so severe and sudden an attack of sickness, as
though it laded but a short time, reminded him ot
the mortality of his body ; that of his foul is a
matter he has long since seemed convinced of
Fresh causes of uneasiness, we hear, have arisen
between the courts of Stockholm and Copenhagen;
but the unsettled state of the latter is such, that
the Danish Ministers are forced to put up with
affronts rather than to resent them.
A plan is said to be under consideration, fcr
effectually preventing duelling among the officers
of the army and navy.
Jan. 8. We are assured, that a reconciliation
between the mother country and the colonies is the
grand point the ministry wifli'to carry the ensuing
session of parliament,
A national bank is at length going to be esta
blished in the city of Dublin : a circumstance which
will prove very agreeable to the merchants of that
metropolis.
Extract of a letter from Conflantinople, Nov. 29.
" The firft courier who arrived from the Grand
Vizir's army occasioned a general council to be
held composed of all the officers of the Empire,
and the lawyers, soon after which it was publickly
known that part of the Ruffian aimy had matched
toward Katafow; that Dagheftan li Pacha who
commanded 8000 men in that part of the countiy
having attacked the enemy was routed by them with
the loss of ,00 men; that Ifpir Aga Chiaoux Ba
chi was taken prisoner, and that the Ruffians were
pressing forward to attack Bazarzick, and after
that Varna.<
“ On this news the Grand Signior determined
to head his troops himfelf, and the council affeni
bled on this occasion, with difficulty persuaded him
to lay aside his intention. Orders were immedi
ately sent to Bertangi Bachi, of Adrianople, to
go to the army with the 10,000 men, whom he had
assembled under that place, and to th. Capta n
Pacha, who is appointed Seraikier to hasten his
march at the head of 2000 chosen horse; but fede
ral Tartars who arrived since fi om the army have
brought account that Kalidgi Osman Pacha, Gene
ral of the fleet, had entered the port of Varna,
with several veflels full of troops, at the fame time
that the Ruffian General appeared before that place,
and having joined the garrison ofthat place, headed
by Soliman Pacha, the Governor, they attacked
and defeated the Ruffians who came to besiege
Varna, and took one of their Generals and 30
officers prisoners, with all the baggage andartillery;
that Botangi Pacha met the remainder of that ar
my, and gompleated the defeat. The Grand Vi
zir on the departure of the courier, was encamped
at about half a league from Bazarzick, from
whence he wrote word to his Highness, that Ized
Achmet Pacha, who was polled at Koule on the
left-lide of the Danube, opposite Nicopolis, had
gained an advantage over a detachment ot Ruffians
who had attacked him."
To the surprise of most of his acquaintance, a
great brewer is gone off. It is said that be had
overdrawn his Banket fourteen thousand pounds,
and that he will fail for upwards of one hundred
thousand pounds.
On Tuesday last the Right Hon. the Earl cf
Sandwich, firtt Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir
Richard Bickerton, failed in arr ice boat at Weft-
Meadow, Godmanchefter, in the county of Hun
tingdon.—There were a great number of fpcthtois,
and it was judged that the boat failed after the
rate of gomiles an hour. It is thought to be the
fiilt that was ever seen in England.