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3iid hi- fecrefary with another. Wjth regard to this,
hisfucceffors could not dare to blame him, as they had
committed the like enormity. He was therefore amaz
ed at the corruption of the times, and concluded with
differing from the motion.
Mr. M'Donald opposed the motion.
Mr. Fox, in a long and very ab'e speech, said, that
we had made base and mean cessions to our enemies.
The condition of our country was much more refpec
tablethan had been represented. France had decreased
13 in lintof battle (hips this last year, while these of
Great Britain had increased seventeen ships of the line.
We had a great fuperiorty in the Weft Indies. Our
fleet, he said, was put on the most refpe&able footing,
by the great exertions of the firft lord of the admiralty
(lord Keppel), a man who deserved well of his country,
but who had been invidiously and maliciously calum
niated. We had given away iueftimable possessions,
and we were wife a fortiore. What we hd given to
France was equal toa general restitution. He said he
had taken notice of the ult poffidetis on a former day,
and he averred that what we had done was as lucrative
to France as a general restitution. This to him ap
peared prima facie; and at firft blush he was convinc
ed of our error. He lamented the untimely death of
the marquis of # Rockingham, and paid many compli
rents to his memory. He said he himfelf had with
drawn himfelf from the present adminifiration, as soon
as he found that the gentlemen with whom he had confi
ded in for years abandoned their principles. The pre
sent adminifiration were formed from the ruins of the
last, and he was sorry to fee many gentlemen for whom
he had the big est regard remain so long in adminifira
tion. He blamed the earl of S ~ and said, that he
had never a great opinion of his lordship. He wasup
near three hours, and entered minutely into his politi
cal principles.
Mr. Chancellor Pitt made a long and elegant speech,
in which he gave a narrative of the condition of cur
ravy, and compared it with that of our enemies, by
which he endeavoured to shew that Mr. Fox's state
ment was erroneous. He said, that if he and his col
leagues should be forced from their situation, he
would not ereQ, like Mr. Fox, a fortrefs for the in
vitation of a phalanx, but would leaveto government
the management of the state, unclogged by inviduous
opposition.
Sir Cecil Wray rose to explain. He was only the
enemy of lord North's principles: but of all men in
this country he would fele& Mr. Fox to be prime
winifler.
Lord North made a long and most able speech, in
which he confirmed what Mr. Fox had said. Their
enmity bad ceased with its cause. He had always
found Mr. Fox a warm friend—a fair, but a formida
ble adversary.
Mr. T. Pitt arraigned the unnatural junction of
men the most adverse in principle, and told a flory of
a barbarian, who meeting a friend as he was going to
a feaft, mangled and left him in a miserable condition;
and afterwards, when he found that they had bathed
and bound up his wounds, he tore off the bandages,
and set them a bleeding afrefh. This story he applied
to lord North.
Several other members spoke, and at length the
house divided, ayes 207 ; noes 190. — Majority against
miniflry 17.
Lord John Cavendish then withdrew his fifth propo
sition retpeaing the loyalists, and the house adjourned.
LONDO N,
February 22. Yefierday at five o'clock, immediately
after the levee was over, the duke of Grafton went to
St. James's, and after holding a private conference
with his majefiy for upwards of half an hour, resigned
the seals of his employment as lord privy seal.—This
resignation is the prelude to several others that must
necessarily take place in a few days. General Con
way is expected to resign this day at the drawing
room. Eng. Chron.
The English Chronicle also gives the following as the
arrangement of a New Ministry, confidently talked of
yefierday at the Weft end of the town. The duke of
Portland, firft lord of the treasury. Earl of Carlifle,
and Mr. Fox, secretaries of state. Lord John Caven
dish, chancellor of the exchequer. Earl Gower, pre
sident of the council. Lord Beauchamp, secretary at
war. Colonel North, paymaster of the forces. Mr.
Burke, treasurer of the navy. Lord Townfhend, mas
ter of the ordnance. Earl Dartmouth, lord privy seal.
Lord Thurlow, to remain lord chance lor. Duke of
Montague, maflerof the horse. Dukes of Manchefler
and Rutland, also to retain their places. The duke of
Devonshire, or earl Fitzwiiliam, to go to Ireland.
Lord Keppel, firft lord of the admiralty; with Mr.
Brett, fir Robert Harland, lord Mulgrave, lord Lif
burne, lord Duncannon, and the hon. major Sta*ope.
Lords of the treasury; Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Frede
ric Montagu, Mr. John Townfhend, lord Lewifham,
and lord Althorp. Mr. Richard Burke and Mr.
Champion, secretaries to the treasury. Mr. Lee, at
torney general; Mr. M'Douald, solicitor general.
Mr. Wallace to have the firft vacancy in Westminster-
Hall.
A cessation of hoflilities was agreed to by the assem
bly of the Bates of Holland, by a majority of one
voice only.
Ireland is at this time pushing for a preference in
the American market; not a single vessel has failed as
yet from England, for any part of the now independent
Bates ; but the ship Mary was to fail on Sunday from
Dublin for Philadelphia; so that Ireland takes the
lead of the three kingdoms in opening the trade to
America.
Yesterday morning lord Camden went to the levee
at St. James's, after which he had an audience of his
majesty, when his lordship resigned the prefideotcy of
the council.
Tuesday the Royal William man of war was paid
off; and this day the Victory, of 100 guns, will be
paid off at Portsmouth.
We hear preliminaries with the Dutch were adually
Egned, and will be declared to the house of commons
on Monday next.
Spotfylvsnia, ff.
THIS day came before me, one of the justices of
peace for t h e commonwealth of Virginia, WIL
LIAM WIATT, of the town of Frederick fburg, and
made oath, that he loft fix LOAN-OFFICE CERTI
FICATES, of 1000 dollars each, taken out in the
name of THOMAS LEIPER, Philadelphia, of the
following Numbers, viz. 2889, 29%, 2905, 2906, is
sued by THOMAS SMITH, enquire, Commissioner
of Loa^s for the state o f Pennsylvania, dated February
27# 1779> and 2960, 2961, dated March 2, 1779.
Witness my hand this 26th of September, 1779.
CHARLES DICK.
As the above Certificates have been often advertised
in the Virginia papers, and orders have been left at
Thomas Smith, tfqnire's office four years, for flopping
them, and as they have never made their appearance,
it is presumed they are entirely loft. The person in
whose right the Certificates are, intends to apply to
Congress for a renewal of them.
April 2;. THOMAS LEIPER.
Just published, and to be Sold at T. BRADFORD'S
Book (lore, in Front street, the fourth door below
the Coffee-houfe,
A Sixth ESSAY on FREE TRADE and FlNANCE
particubri, (hewing what Supplies of Public Re-'
nue may be drawn from Merchandise, without injur
ing our Trade, or burthening our People. Humbly
offered to the Public, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.
A LSO, A DISSERTATION on the Political
CT Union and Constitutiqn of the' Thirteen
Unit ed-Staies cf America : which is necessary to their
Preservation and H^ppinefs. Humbly offered to the
Public, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.
w AS taken out of the Court house,
supposed by Mistake, the First Volume of the
Attorney's Practice in the Court of Common Pleas •
fourth edition, London, 176,.
The Fifth Volume of Bacon's Abridgement, third
edition, London, 1768.
And the Sixth Volume of Modern Reports.
Whoever has the abovementioned B)oks, or any of
them, in their poff^ffion, and will please to inform
Mr. SHAD, cryer of the courts, (hall be thankfully
Rewarded. Philadelphia, April 24.
*#* On Wednesday the 30th instant, at 12 o'clock,
will be Sold by Auction, at Lancafler, Fifty Horses
belonging to the public, some of which are said to be
very fine, and in good order: And on the 7th of
May, will begin the Sale of One Hundred and Fifty
Horses, at Yorktown; to be continued until the
whole are disposed of. The money to be paid on the
delivery of the horses.
SAMUEL HODGDON, affiflantquartermafter.
Qiartermafter-general's office, Philad. April 23.
Philadelphia, April 21, 1783.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given,
To ail persons which may have any Demands
upon an, one of the Employers belonging the admini
stration of the French Ar-my, that they are to apply,
with proper titles, at the INTENDANT of the said
Army's Office, in Water-street, three doors from the
corner of Cheinut-ftreet, every day before the firft day
cf May next ; as no regard will be paid to any further
application after that day.
War-Office, April 22, 1783.
NOTICE is hereby given, That such prifon<rs of
war, as have been liberated and permitted to work
with the inhabitants of'the united dates, are immedi
ately to join their refpeßive corps, conformably to
the flipulations entered into when they were enlarged.
B. LINCOLN.
[The Printers in the several slates are requested to
insert this Notification in their Gazettes.]
TO BE SOLD, A
RIGHT to Three Hundred Acres of L A N D,
, about two miles from land of RobbL, in Mun
cey township, Northumberland county, to be Survey
ed by warrant, dated the 23d February, 1775. The
foil in this neighbourhood is, in general, rich and fer
tile. The situation of public affairs, since the d^te of
the warrant, has prevented the owner from obtaining
a survey of this trad; but as p^ace and tranquility
are now established in that country, it will be in the
power of the purchaser, to procure a survey as soon as
he may think proper. For further particulars enquire
of ths Printer. April 24,
'February 25. Yefierday at the levee the following
ministers of state intimated to the kipg their resolu
tion of resigning their refpeHive employments, name
ly, the dukes of Richmond, Manchester and Rutland,
the lord Chancellor, lords Shelburne and Afhburton,
general Conway and Mr. Pitt. English Chronicle.
Yefierday advice was received by government
from Mr. Fitzherbert, our reddest at the court of
Versailles, that the French cabinet were so much a
larmed at our present embarkation of troops for the
East Indies, and seemed so little fatisfitd with the
arguments he had urged in defence of the measure,
that it would be prudent to be prepared for any
hostile interruption which might begiven to the pas.
sage of the said fleet; in consequence of the above
advice, orders are gone down to Portsmouth for t$
fail of the line to convoy it through the bay to a
certain latitude.
March 4. We can assure our readers that though
the principal offices of the state are fettled for the new
arrangement, yet there is much to be done before the
whole can be so compleated as to be given to the pub
lic, and we are afraid that some of the late admini
stration, whose services promised great benefit to the
nation, are to retire upon penflons.
Thirty Dollars Reward,
LOST, last Evening, about Seven o'clock, on the
Bristol road, between mjor Holmes's tavern and
Philadelphia, A SUM of MONEY, in do!lars, crowns,
and small change, to the amount of about NINETY
POUNDS. It was tieri up in a fm-ll canvas nag,
which was also enclosed in another bag.
Whoever has found the fame, and will return it to
major Holmes, three miles above Frankford ; to the
widow Rffen's tavern, the upper end of Second ffrtet,
cr to D<vid C. Ca< poole, Printer, in Market- street,
Shall have the above Reward. April 22.
LOST, on Monday laF, in the afternoon, between
this city and Germantown, a Silver WATCH,
the maker's name not known, nor the number ; was
some time ago repaired by Mr. Wood, watchmaker in.
this city; the chain that was with the watch was of
steel, as also a seal, the stone of which is left. Who
ever hat found the fame, and will leave it with the
Printer hereof, or the fubfcriberin Front street, be
tween, Walnut street and the Drawnriuge, sh ^ receive
FORTY SHILLINGS Reward, ,and all &onatle
charges. JAMES FCOT.
Philadelphia, April 23.
slk,
THE reprefenfatives of the freemen of the cothmertA
wealth of Pennsylvania, in general affcmbly met, havd
directed me to forward the enclosed resolution. It id
with no small degree of fatisfadlion I undertake the bu^
finefs , for, added to the pleasure I had in joining
with the rest of the house, as an individual, 1 feel my
felf particularly happy, and esteem it an honour to
enumerate the baron de Steuben among the citizen#
of Pennsylvania. I have the honour to be, wit, the
greatest relpeft, hr, your most obedient humtile fer^
vant,
FREbERick Augustus Muhlenberg, speaker.
To the honorable major general
baron de Steuben;
In General Assembly, Friday, March 21, 1783. A. M
THE representatives of the freemen of the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, willing to tefify their ft fc
of the military talents and diflingnifhed ex rtions ai
major general the baron de Steuben, in the commoo
cause of America, do
Resolve unanimously, That the said major r^o,'
the baron de Steuben be, and he is hereby entitled to
such portion of land, as a major general of toe line
of this state, in the army of the united Bates, is en
titled to by a resolve of affemb'y, passed the 7th da,
of March, 1780.
ExtraQ from the minutes,
PETER Z LLOYD, clerk of the
general assembly.
Schuylkill, March 1783.
SIR,
I Have been honored with your letter, enclosing the
resolution of the honourable house of assembly of
Pennsylvania receiving me, which will to the end of
my life bind me in the strongest ties of gratitude, as a
citizen of that Bate.
This testimony of their approbation of my Services,
exhibited by the legislature of a state, in which I be
gan my career of military duty in this country, at
the fame time that it stamps a value upon my labours,
rewards them.
The honourable notice taken of me, by the public
Society and private citizens of Pennsylvania, will for
ever command my warmest affection and refpeft.
It was to render the citizens of America free and
happy, that f have borne arms in her cause, and I
am doubly happy in being numbered with th^m. to
participate in those blessings I have affixed to pro
cure.
The very polite and friendly terms in which you
have communicated the aft of the house, entitle you
to my Sincere thanks, and have excited in me sensati
ons more easily felt than expressed. With the great
est refpea, I have the honour to be, fir, your mod
obedient humble servant, (teuben.
The honorable Frederick A. Muhlenberg.
Philadelphia, April 21.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY from the fubferir©, an Apprentice
LAD, named JACOB KATTS, ^or: 20 years
of age, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high ha a -due
mark down his forehead, iy tr^de a fhoem#kr: he
took with him a dark brown cent and jacket, d? k
brown corduroy breeches, Nankeen jacket arid breech ~
white fwanfkin jacket, a pair white cotton and a pair
brown thread flockings, one vhite and two bomefpun
shirts, a pair of ne% pu nos and a pair of boot*, a 'sr^e
caftor hat, and bis wd king tools; he fp-^ks flow.
Whoever takes up the Laid Apprentice, and fringe
him to me, in Arch-street, shall have the above Re
ward, paid by me, MARTIN BISH.
ON the 17th of March last, came to the planta ion
of the lubfcriber, in Manor township. Lancaftec
c unty, a Bay Mare COLT, about 2 * c?rs old.
The owner is desired come, prove his property, pay
chargesand take her away, otherwise the will b^ told
according to law. ULRICH REEBER.
VW HhKLAS Elizabeth Maffhali, wife
o' the fubferiber, has left his house, and other
wise ill treated him : this is therefore to fcuw^rn all
persons from trusting her on my account, as 1 will pay
no debts of her contrasting from this date.
THOMAS MARSHALL.
Darby township, April 23, 1783.