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P AR I S, April 24, r/to
A PRIVATE letter from Brest, has the following
mtereOing anecdote : Eight Grenadier, of the regi
ment of Soiffo^s, who were absent on furlough, bearing
that the regiment was about embark for North America,
refl ling on the short notice, and calculating the expence
of the journey, set out to join their colours, and were
overjoyed to find themselves arrive in time This, among
one thousand examples, is (elected as a brilliant proof of
of th e zeal and ardour of our troops.
An American officer was yesterday at the opera, in
c mpany with Dr. Franklin's grrndfon. They fat in a
front box. The pitt paid great attention to him ; but be
tween the ads the name of Paul Jones having passed
from mouth to mouth, great applauses refunded imme
diately. The officer to whom they were addressed, could
not miflake their objed. He rose and thanked the pub
lic several times; It was Commodore Paul Jones him
led, whom the pitt and boxes received in this diftingmlh
ed manner. At going nut, the passage were crouded with
multitudes, who wished to have a near view of him, and
their applauses continued till he got in his coach.
Hague, Abril 26. His Excellency the Duke de Van
guyon, Ambassador from His Mod Christian Majesty to
sue States General, yesterday sent to their High Mighti
nesses a memorial declarimg the suppression of the duty
of 15 per centum, to which the most part of merchan
dize imported into France from Holland were liable as
well as the arret of Council for this purpose ; the fob
fiance of which, with the memorial, are as follows 1
H'gb and Mighty Lords,
THE King's political fyflem is founded on invaria
ble principles of justice and moderation ; of these his Ma- 1
jelly has given to the neutral powers, beforehand, the
molt unequivocal testimonies, ever since the beginning
of the troubles which have arisen betwixt him and the
King of England, by publilhing regulations highly fa
vourable to their prosperity, and in proposing no other
conditions, than inat of the most kbfolute neutrality.
With the most sincere regret, therefore, ne has been for
ced to observe other characters in a resolution of the
Stites-General of 19th November 1775, by which your
High Mightinesses suspended their protection in a branch
of their trace, which the rights of public equity, and the
most precise stipulations of treaties had lecureJ. The
K ng, at that time, ordered me to declare to your High
Mightinesses, that if they determined thus to facrifice a
part of their rights to his enemies, his Majesty could not
allow to their fubjefts the advantages which had been
conditionally promised by his lad regulations, nor the
ancient favours which their commerce enjoyed in his do
minions, depending not upon treaty, but proceeding
from his hereditary benevolence and affe&ion for your
High Mightinesses, thereupon, were forward to assure
the King, th t they were refolded t> observe the most
ex^t neutrality, whilst the war between France and Eng
land should continue ; but ifthey declared, that the Aft
whereby theyfufpen ed the efficacious proteaion in favour
of vessels laden with fliip timber ought to be looked on as
unfinifhed, or at least not efta billed ; they also decla
red that all debate on this fubjeft Ihall be poftp mod till
their deliberations had fixed the convoys. His M jefty
not finding in this change, any real alteration of opinion,
found himfelf obliged to set bounds to the advantages
enjoyed in the several ports o f hie kingdom by the Hol
land traders, as your High Mightinesses continued to fuf.
pend in favour ot his enemies, the exercise of tueir mani
feft rights, but at the fame time, he war careful,to pre
serve these advantages,to certain parts of the Republic, in
proportion as they adopted a fyliem, which, whilst it
conformed to the King's views, is pertedly right in itfelf.
His Majesty applauds tie demands made your High
Mi^htineffes, at the Court of London ; the efforts you
have made to recover the refpeß due to your flag, as
weft as the positive orders given to prepare a fleet to e
f ort and protect all vessels not laden with contrabrand
roods, as toon as general convoys should be granted. He
has ever willed, tuat yeur High Migiineffes, Ihould re
move eve^y ebfiacle to the evidence of his regard in yield
ing intireiy to the fundamental dittoes of treir interest.
And being inf rined of their difir,hive intentions on this
head, and well assured of the explanations which your
High Mig' rf i^ffes are determined to give, concerning
their neutrality, by affording an e ffacious and indefi
nite proteaion to the commerce and navigation of your
fubjeds, his Majefiy has with pleasure liftenid to the re
prefentdions of certain members of the Union, and par
ticularly of the Prince, who is at the head of the Repub
lic concerning the emb rraff rents which the commerce
of divers of the United Provinces labour under, in his
kingdom, and his Majefly has ordered me to make known
tofeur Hieh'Mightineffes, that he has revoked by an
arret of nib C u nil of the szd instant, (of which I have
"thehonor to lay before you an authentic copy) the arrets
of the 14th January, 27th April, sth June, and 18th
September, 1,-79 ; but 1118 Majesty has not meerly re-e
---flablilhed to the fubj^b of your High Mightimffes, the
favours they formerly enjoyed,or in which as neutrals they
conditionally partook, but, to give a brilliant proof of
his reg trd, he has moreover direded the Superintendants
if his revenues; to pay back all sums, which had been
received by virtueot the aforefaid revoked edifts. He
flatters himfelf, that such important testimonies of his re
gard, must convince your High Mightinesses, not only of
the'fincerity with wnch he interests himfelf in the prof
per'ity of the United States, but also that justice, moder
ration, and beneficence, from the real and invariable ba
sis of his whole conduct, and of all his proceedings.
Done at the Hague, 26th April, 1780.
This arret firft revokes the arret of the 14th January,
1779 ? by which the freight of Low Dutch vessels was ob
j^ted toaduty; those of the sth April and sth June,
which eftabliflied a new tan< for goods of their growth,
manufactory,fiftury and commerce; and that of Septem
ber, i?79r torbidding the importing into France, of
North Hot and cheese.
idly. The King confirms to the fubieftsof the United
States of the low countries the additional advantages
promised by his Majefiy by Edid of July 1778, to neu
tral nations during the war,
idly. He orders the duties which have been received
by virtue of these ordinances of their fubjeds to be re
funded.
The following is an authentic Copy of the Court of Ma
drid to the Ruffian Declaration.
“ q, H E King has been informed of the fashion
& of thinking of the Eniprefs of Russia, in regard
to tne powers, both belligerent and neuter by a memo
rial, which Mr Stephen de Zinowioff, Minister of, that
Sovereign, has presented the fifteenth of this month, to
the Compte de Florida Blanca, firft Secretary of State.
The King confiders this aft of the Empress as an effect
of the just confidence which his Majefiy has merited on
his part ; and it is to him so much the more agreeable, as
the principles adopted by this Sovereign, are those which
have ever governed the King, and which his Majefiy
endeavoured by all possible means, although without ef
fed, to induce England to observe, during the time that
Spain herfelf was neuter. These principles are those of
justice, of equity, and of moderation; these fame prin
ciples, in fine, Russia, and all the powers have acknow
ledged in the resolutions of his Majefiy ; and it is only
by the condud, which the English navy has established,
both in the laftand prefect war, (a condud, which fub
v?rts the rules the most constantly observed in regard to
neutral powers) that his Majesty has seen himfelf under
the necessity of imitating it ; because, the Eoglifh, not
resetting the neutral flag, when it had on board the ef
fects of aa enemy, although they were not contraband ;
and this flag nut defending itfelf agaioft these violences,
they could not with justice, hinder Spain from using e
qual reprisals, to secure herfelf from the enormous pre
judice which would result from an inequality in this re
fpe&i The neutral powers on their fide, have allo given
occasion to place the inconveniences which they have
furftred, by having served themselves ot double papers
and other artifices, to the end to pievent the capture of
their veffsls. From this have followed the numerous cap
tures and detentions, as well as the confluences which
have resulted from them ; although in truth, these have
not been to prejudicial, as has been pretended ; on the
contrary, we know that foroe of these detentions have
turned to the advantage of the owners of the cargoes:
the provisions of which they were compoftd, having been
fold in the port, where the fldps were tried, at a price
higher than the price current at the place of their decli
nation. The King, nevertheless, not content with thTe
proofs of his juflifi ation manifefted to t e eyes o' all Eu
rope, would at this day have the glory cl beig the firft
to gve the example of refpeaieg the neutral flag of all
the Courts wui h have eonfented. or which shall content
to defend it, until! his Majesty fhaii fee tire part which
the English navy Ihall take, and uatill he shad difeover
by experience, whether this navy will retrain itfelf or net,
as well as the English privateers : And to the end, to
make it appear to all the powers, how ready Spain is
to observe, now the 11 at war, the fame rules which file
defi red while ihe was center, his Majehy conforms him
felf to the other points contained in the declaration of Ruf
ffia; it being w^llunder flood, that for what concerns the
places blockaded of Gibralter, the dan. er of entering
into that, fabtiffs in the manner in which this point is af
certaiued by the fourth article of the said declaration, by
meins of the number of vffels ftatiooed there to form the
blockade, a danger however, which the neutral vessels
may avoid, by conforming to the rules of precaution,
efiablilhed in the declaration of his Majesty of the thir
teenth of M ^ch last which has been communicated to the
Courtof Petersburg by the means of iti Mmifter.”
Aranjue, April 18, 1780 [Signed]
The Compte de Florida Blanca.
BOSTO N, August 14.
From me difpofitioh now making in our main army,
as well as that of our enemy's it is believed that the lat
ter part of this campaign will be very active.
We are told that a plan for a general exchange of pri
soners is on the carpet, and that from appearances, there
is a great probability of its being brought to a fuccefsful
issue.
Friday last arrived here Capt. Coffin, in 18 days from
Cape Francois, who informs that he left at that place 32
fail of the line (French) and 16000 troops.
The following ships are on the Newfoundland Ration,
at this present day, viz. The Fortlaud of 50 guns. Ad
miral Edwards ; the Bird, Maidftone, Surprize, Mercu
ry and Vestal frigates ; the Signet and Fary hoops of war,
and 3 fourteen gun brigs.
Our accounts of tne damage done by the motley allies
ol Great-Britain, up the Mohawk river, are very im
perieft.—lt is reported they have burnt the principal
part of Canajohary, a fine settlement about 56 miles from
Albany ; and 12 or 13 hoefes at Schoharie.—Few lives
were loft, the people having abandoned their habitati
ons.
Wednesday the 9th instant came to Barnard, in Vermnot
State, joining to Woodstock and Pomfret, about 30 To
ries and Indians, all painted, and in Indian dress, they
killed 3 oxen, took three men and carried them off, and
Gripped 3 houses. They were soon pursued by about
50 men, but were not overtaken.
PROVIDENCE, August 26.
On Thursday afternoon there was a general review of
the French army at Newport, preceded by alternate dis
charges of cannon from the batteries in and near the
town, from the fleet, and a fetf-de joy from the troops.
Nothing could exceed the fine appearance of the force s
of our Illufirious Aliy, which, joined to the universal fati,-
fa&ion that was diffufed through a grat concourse of spec
tators, we hope will provea happy presage of their future
success
Yesterday the birth of His Most Christian Majesty was
celebrated at Newport. The (hips of war were ornamen
ted by a display of the colours of the different maritime
powers, and fired a salute on the occasion.—The French
traofports in this harbour were also-decorated with co
lours, and fired a salute in honor of the day.
Thursday last the Honourable Major General Sullivan
arrived here from New-Hampshire, on his way to the
Westward.
Tke British fleet, under Admiral Arbuthnot, put to
sea from the western Sound on Saturday night last. The
master of a vessel which is arrived at New London ad
vises, thet he fell in with them on Sunday, in the after
noon, 70 miles S. W. of Montock-Point, and that on
Wednesday he saw a 50 gun ship and a frigate off South
ampton: We learn that the fleet appeared again offßlock-
Island yesterday.
NEW LONDON, August
The Britilh fleet, which had been lying about a fort
night in Gardiner's Bay, on Saturday last came to fail,
and went down the Sound, to the number ol 17 fail. Soon
after they were out of fight, a frigate from the eastward
appeared, and went up the Sound
Capt. Roffeter informs, tnat a fleet of 200 fail of mer
chantmen were making up at the Cape, which was to fail
the loth inflant, under convoy of the whole French squa
dron, part of which were to convoy them to France, the
defoliation of the other not known. Capt Roffeter failed
in'company with a number of vessels bound to the Ameri
can States, under convoy of a French frigate.
Capt. Timothy Parker, Capt. Thomas Robinfoo, and
Capt. John Miller, all from this port, are captured by the
enemy.
Capt. Starr informs, that last Sunday afternoon he saw
1% large lhips about 70 miles S. by W. from Montock
Point, ,Handing to the weHward, mppofed to be English
men of war that left Gardiner's Island the day before,
bound to Sandy Hook.
Last Thursday evening arrived a fmill schooner, laden
with nival stores, prize to the Hoop Hancock, Captain
Richards.
The privateer ship Deane, Captain Hinman, from this
port, has sent into Boflon a brig from Guernsey, bound
to New-York, laden frith brandy, geneva, cordials, &c.
Saturday last a schooner packet, of ten 4 pounders,
bound from New-York to England, with a number of
passengers, was chafed on there near Huntingdon, by the
Young Cromwell, Hamlin, and a brig privateer. The
people got on Ihore, excepr two; the veffT was immedi
ately got off and sent into Connecticut river. This ves
sel, it is said, sundry times attempted to get to sea by the
Hook, but was as often drove in by tne American cruiz
ers, and. when taken, was attempting to get to sea through
the Sound. ~
P OUGHKEEPSIE, September 4.
Since our lad, we hear three regiments of the soldiery
of this State, are gone up for Albany, in their way to our
frontier iettfemems, in order to defend them against, and
chastise our Indians, and more Savage Britilh and Tory
enemies, whose motions indicate a diipofition to commit
further ravages on our borders.
FISH-KIL L, September 7.
A correspondent at Albany, has favoured us with a
brief account of tne damage done by the Indians at Can
ajohary, about the firft of last month, viz. One church,
one mill, 52 dwelling-houses and 41 barns, burnt; 17
perlons killed, 10 of whom were children ; 6 are miffing, 2
left scalped, yet alive. It is truly lamentable, fays he,
to fee what fine corps of wheat are left in the fields jn
those parts, w ile the owners are either killed, carried off
or obliged to fly aud leave ail.
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Office for Conveyancing and Sale of Real Estates.
TO BE SO L D,
— Large LOT of GROUND, fruate on the esft fide
O 1 Szventh-ftrert, about half way between Market
ana Arch Treats, being 50 feet front and 198 feet deep,
with two two-story brick houses ere&cd on part ot the
front on Seventh-street, both injured, with piazzas and
kitchens to each. On the other part is built a frame
ftQle, and on the back part of the lot may be built seve
ral other houses, having tne privilege of a four feet alley
running from tne back part of th* iotbntc .Sugar Alley.
A oank house, 3 Rories high in Front, and 5 in Water
ftrett, fixate between Race and Vine - Greets, divided in
to t^o appartments; the lot 17 and an half feet nont,
and in depth 4.0 feet, fubje& t^ a groundrent of 61. ftrr
1111g pet annum.
One undivided half part of a lot of ground, situate at
the lout&caft corner of Arch and Sixth-streets, bein^
96 feet front on Arch and Nor tti-itreets, and zoo feet
in front on Sixth-streets.—Three groundrents. reserved
in Spanish piftoles, well secured by brick buildings, each
51. making 151. in the whole. For terms of sale apply
to Abraham Shoemaker, at his office in Fourth-hrect,
below Spruce street, Philadelphia: Who hath'a hrge
number of other houses, plantations and lands for sale,
besides an elegant Coach, nearly painted, with a com
plete set of Harneft ifor two horses ; and an elegant Horse
and Chaise, with Harness complete.
Wanted as an Apprentice, a Lid who writes * good
hand.
TO BE SaL B,
By William Miller & Co.
At their Store in Front-street, the corner of Gray's Al
ley, between Chefnut and Walnut-streets,
MADEIRA Wine in pipes, bhds. and quart, calks,
Weft-India Rum,
Jamaica Spirit,
Old Nantz Brandy,
Bast imported Loaf Sugar, by the hogfhesd or loaf,
Mufeovado Sugar in hogsheads and barrels,
Bohea Tea of the belt quality, in chests, half chests, or
by the dozen,
Pepper, Sago, Madder,
White Lead ground in oil, in kegs,
Ba ley in calks or by the quarter hundred.
Cases of Glass Ware well assorted,
Brillome.
Also, a few D RY GOODS consisting of 3.4 .dor
lass, yard wide linens, oznabrggs, linen check hand
kerchiefs, men, women and children's and brown
white thread hose, pins, needles, &c. See.
Wants a place as a WET NURSE,
A WOMAN with a good breast of milk, that can be
well recommended both for her honesty and so
briety. Enquire of the Printer.