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p|„ I A PEL P 'H A, Jure 27:
By the briga^fe B^fty, captan Gallagher/ from
France, w have European papers as late as the 16th
of April, from which the following Intelligence is
extracted.
HAGUE, April % 1782.
„-, HP exbrris which the Prince de Gallitzin, and,
I M. d':. Markow, Ruffian ministers, some time
since fertt to London being returned, these mi
nifters this day defected to the states-general the fol
lowing memorial:
THE underlin'd minders of the'emprefs of all the
Ruffas. aPiRg by virtue of orders given 10 them to pro
irottsmucn as ip.them lies, the salutary work of the
mediation conferred on her imperial majesty, hasten to
communicate herewith to your high mightinesses, a co
py of the letter written to Mr. Simolin, miniver of
their sovereign, at the court of London, by Mr. Fox,
secretary of bate of his Britannic majesty. Your
high mightinesses will there perceive the intentions of I is
Britannic m; jelly to makea hncere reconciliation with
the republic, upon the ba^s laid down by themfelve ,
in their r % folves.of the 4th of March last, and by
which they accepted the mediation of the empress.
The preliminary conceffiou made by Great-Britain,
of the cardinal point of reviving the treaty of 1674,*
feem c to remove every obßicle which flood in the way
of opening the negociations for a definitive peace. If,
in this mean while, a suspension of arms, as 'propofed
in the letter, should be thought agreeable to the inter
ests of this nation, nothing would better accord with
file humane vi-ws in general which animate the em
press, or witty her particular fentimen ts of benevolence
and affection toward this state: this measure, connect
ing the double advantage of putting a flop to the effu*
fion of human blood, and reflorinc, fromthis moment,
to the republic, the exercif of the rights of free trade
and navig tion, which neutral nations enjoy, and espe
cially those who have acceeded to the principles of thd
arm'd neutrality.
In full confidence of tie pacific difpofitipn, which
your high mightinesses have not failed to mamfeft in
the mod solemn and pbfitive manner; depositions so
analogous to the real welfare of the state, the un
designed flatter t; emfelves that your high mightinefles
will not imitate to lay hold of the communication
which they have the honour to make, by taking an
immediate and decisive determination to re-eflablifh
peace and good harmony with their old allies and friends,
on conditions which they shall find to their equal ho
nour and advantage.
'tone at the Hague, 3d of April, 1782.
" Having resumed the deliberations, the address,
and the last address of Mr. Adams, of the 4th of May,
1781, and 9th of January, 1782, to the states-general,
for the delivery of his credentials from the united Rates
of America to the states-general, by which last address
the said Mr. Adams has demanded a categorical an
swer to be communicated to his constituents: having
deliberated on the request of a great number of mer
chants, manufacturers and other inhabitants of the said
province concerned in commerce, to be ftipported in
their petition presented to the Rates-general the doth
instant, in order that the most efficatious measures be
taken to eflablifh a commercial intercourse between
this country and North-America ; of which request,
copies were, on the 21st, distributed to the members:
it has thereupon been thought fitting, and it has been
* By'the treaty of 1674, the contracting parties a
greed, " that a free ship should make the goods free,"
that is to fay, that enemy's property should not be
deemed prize if laden in^n Enghfh or Dutch ship ;
and naval stores were declared not to be contraband.
The councellor, Penfionary de Eleifwick, has inform
ed Mr. Adams of the resolution on the 28th of March,
by the states of our province, in the following words :
Ex'rafl from the resolutions of their lordships, the states
of Holland and Weff-Friefland, at their meeting of
the 28th of March, 1782.
The letter of Mr. Fox, to M. Simolin, mentioned
in the preceding memorial, is conceived in the follow
ing terms:
“ Having laid before t^ king, the extract of the
fetter from the prince Gallitzin and M. Markow,
which you did me the honour of communicating, I am
ordered by his majesty to inform you, that the king,
desirous to give proofs of his intentions to their high
mightinesses, and of his wish to renew the friendfhip
which has been so unhappily interrupted between anci
ent allies, who o,ught, for their mutual interests, to be
united, is ready to tnter'into a negociation with their
high mightinesses, in order to form a treaty of peace
between his majesty and the republic, on the footing of*
the treaty of 1674 ; and that tofacdirate the execution
of an objeft which his majesty has so much at heart,,
the king is ready to issue immediate orders for a cessa
tion of hostilities if their lordships, the states-general,
shall think such a measure likely to forward the de
sign.
“ His majesty has ordered me to explain to you his sen
timents concerning so important a fubjed, and to desire
you to impart them to the ministers of her imperial maje
lly at the Hague,in order that they'may be communicat
ed without delay to the ministers of the republic, judg
ing that this mode will be froß suitable, under the me
diation of her imperial majesty, to put an end to the
calamities of the war which unhappily subsists between
the two nations. I have the honour to be, with the
most perfect consideration, &c.
(Signed) C. J. F O X."
We are told, that on the delivery of these pieces,
the affemblihg of the flutes of our province has been an
ticipated a week, and that treir noble and great migh
tinesses are called to meet next week. The proposition
of a cessation of arms, HI agrees with the answer that
their high mightinesses-gave the duke de Vaguoyn,
ambassador of France, to his memorial of the 18th of
March, relative to a concert of opera ions against the
common enemy; an answer which was couched in the
moR fatisfadory terms.
Among those who are diffatisfied with this great
charge, such especially are diftioguifhed, who wer d
the usual partisans of lord North. They accuse him
of having committed more than one fault in politics,
by which they are plugged in difficulty : the pretend-
MPaulr, which goes moR to the heart of-the'e grum
blers, is that, in his last fixing the interest upon the'
supply of this year, he treated with eight persons ofno
influence, inflead of admitting to the doceurs of the
late loan, 50 members of the house, who discontinued
their votes, as soon as he difeootinued his favours. They
particularly murmur that he did not make use of every
effort to suppress the renewal of a bill, which last year
had been twice rejected, and whole dreadful purport is
to remove from the commons all temptation to take
Glares in the contrasts with government, for furnifhing
money, goods or other things, and this, under precau
tions more rigid than formerly in fimular cases. Indeed
it is said, that this new bill, which assumes the pretence
of preventing all corruption, will not permit members
of parliament, as formerly, to make contrails with ad
minfAration by public bidding, and that taking part
in open bargan or secret contracts will be forbid, by
giving this last provision a retrofpeftive effeft, so as
to purge the house of members who have heretofore
contrasted, as well as of those who shall hereafter dare
to be concerned in these bargains, whether public or
private.
The joy of the rest of the inhabitants of this capital,
has produced a very firiking contrafl, to the regrets of
these persons of whom we have been (peaking ; but this
joy has been^ little disturbed by the arrival of cap
tain Everet, charged with dispatches from admiral
Hood, dated at sea, 22d February, and advising the
capitulation of Brimßone-Hid, which surrendered the
13th to the marquis de Bouille. Ft is not easy to con
ceive, how this officer has been led to fay, in a former
dispatch, that the commandant of this fortrefs did not
need the reinforcements which had been landed on the
island, and that he was perfectly secure. Thefelaß dis
patches also bring account of the retaking of the butch
Settlements of Ifequebo and Drn'rara.
It was not without dTan, that the great change men
tioned above, has taken place foner to the Rafter hol
lidays:The two houses having adjourned, the one till the
&h, the other till theioth of this month, time has been
given to prepare abd concert the new measures, which
are to be taken, and which must authorife the necessity
of assuming new courses in every refpefb in order to
refeue our affairs out of the deplorable condition to
which they are now reduced. We know, that a new
crisis is approaching in Ireland, and that colonel Lut
teral, just returned from that kingdom, had obliged
their parliament to declare, that that kingdom is ab
solutely independent of the British legislature, and that
it was at the intreaty of Mr. Byng, that they had defir
eci to enter immediately upon it as a fubjeft of delibera
tion, till he should acquaint the new minißry with it,
to whom enemies in the bosom of the three kingdoms
would not fail to be found.
As we have observed at the time that this change
took place, it cannot be denied that the members of
the new miniflry may exert every thing, that might
at an earlier epocha have preserved England from
the mortifications and real losses which she now flat
ters herfelf with repairing; but as to hinder any
one from falling from a precipice, is not just the
fame with rescuing him from thence Case and found,
after he has fallen, and when his bones have been
broken by the fall; is it within the power of these
fame men, who might poßlbly have prevented the ac
cident, to repair it without leaving any fears? We
shall not answer this question; but if-the event shall one
day answer it in the affirmative, in order to prepare
h 0 N D 0 N, April 1, 1782.
On the 27th of last month, there was the greateß levee
ever known at St. James's. All the nobility and fo
reign ministers attended, together with the old admi
oiftration, whole members were formerly difmißed, and
those of the new ministry, who thanked the Icing for
their appointment, and after the levee, took 'the u fual
oaths.
By letters from Mr. Haldimand, governor of Cana
da, that province at present enjoys the greatest tran
quility, but he was not ignorantthat the French, Ame
ricans and Savages had resolved to invade the country
next summer.
The fortifications on our sea coasts, are on the point
of being finifhed. Insomuch, that we shall be under
no apprehensions for our merchant (hips, who will be
covered by them, and the daring attempts of our ene
mies will.be baffied.
April 5. A change of miniflry may in time pro
duce an effeflupon the mass of public affairs, but it
will require time. The revolution, which throws us
into a kind of relaxed state, having no retrofpe&ve
effects under our form of government, we do not ac
quire any news more conformable, than such ,s take
place so rapidly from the measures of the dismissed mi
nistry. All our good things are yet in hope; a Ren
der food sometimes dangerous !
determined " bf their noble and great mightinesses,
" rhit the Rr.ongeß ioßances be made, that Mr.
" Adams be admitted and acknowledged as quickly
"as may b°, by their high mightinesses, in the
" Quality of envoy from the united Rates of
" America." And the councillor penfionary has been
directed to inform Mr. Adams of this resolve of the
hues of Holland and Wefl-Friefland.
V [E N N A, March 13.
His holiness the pope, in his way to this metropolis,
entered the territories of Venice, on the tenth of this
month, and is coming forwards, and may arrive the
22d instant.
March 25. Friday, the 21st inflant, the sovereign
pontiff arrived here. He was diet at Neuftadt by the
emperor. -He is treated with all pcffible vene
ration. The people croud after him in irhrnefde bodies,
and he diffufes his blessing on all that approach him.
Great care is taken that he be not .fatigued by the
concourse of the populace on thi& extraordinary oc
ca fibn.
Great-Britain is not, properly speaking, at war with
Ireland, but Ireland is in a state of commotion ; a state
which must absolutely be a ppea fed ; and this may be
called making a peace. The difference between them
is in the difficulty of accomplishing it ; if we assume,
as to America and Holland, the course we shall be
forced to take with regard to Ireland, all might easily
be said. It seems to be decided, that the new ministers
are about to grant to the Irish all they ask with,
arms in their hands ; in this they will certainly do
very right, as they cannot do otherwise. But will a
procedure of this nature give to Europe a favourable
ideas of their vigour.
PEACE with INDIA.
The catastrophe of York-Town is evidently the grand
cause of the ruin of the late adminiflrat'ion, as it put
the top-Rone to the disgust of the nation for the Ame
rican war. It gave ground for the celebrated motion
of general Conway, which so ha flily set bounds to this
war. But if the English are tired of carrying on war
in America, doth it follow, that the Americans are
tired of enjoying their independence, which this vidory
has assured to them ? When any one abandons a match,
is :t then usual for his antagonifi to make him a pre
sent of the flake ? Is it then, at the moment of viflory,,
and other following circumstances (such, among others?
as those which are now taking place in Holland) which
clap the seal to the independence of the Americans.,
that the new miniflers, who have already freed ther^
of all fear of the arms of their mafler, invite them to
make peace! Most certainly they will accept of it at
the firft word ; for the proportion alone gives them to
understand, that their independence is acknowledged ;
but if afterwards they find themselves in a miflake;
will the Americans make peace? No; for Europe, a
flonifhed, would ask them, why did you make war?
If, on the contrary, the peace offered to America fy
the new ministry, is founded on the independence of
America, what will the ex-ministers fay? What will
the fliade of the great Chatham, the tutelary shade
of the new administration fay ?—ls this then a peace
easy to make ?
PEACE with HOLLAND.
What our new governors have most reasonably said
to the states-general is, that they protest against all
that was done, in spite of their opposition, by their
predecessors, whom they always treated as fools and
madmen, for embarking in a new war against the na
tural allies of England ; but will not this declaration,
as finc^e as it may be, come a little too late? The
cape of Good-Hope, St. Euftatius, Demerara, the sta
ple of the Dutch India commerce, fixed at I'Orient, are
net these fu fficient hoftagesin case France could for a
moment doubt of the gratitude of the Rates-generai?
On the other hand, what immense indemnifications
must not England make to Holland'; for, besides that a
cbnfideraUe part of what the firft power has torn from
the latter is no longer in her power, to what immense
ferns will not the equivalents to be offered amount;
whether for the part already alienated, or whether for
losses of every kind which the republic has fuffered,
by an attack which she confiders as unrighteous? —ls
this a peace easy to be made?
PEACE with IRELAND.
This leads us too far, (we shall return one day). It
relpefts the putting bounds to a war, the most compli
cated of any. This is not a war only with France, with
Holland, with Hyder Ally, with the Marattas and o
ther Indian people, but the British government indirect
ly is engaged in a war, of which the issue cannot be fore
seen. It is with the company, with its governors, na
bobs, peculators of all denominations. A million of
.abuses must be connected in India, the least of which
are capable of annihilating the British sway in Asia.
PEACE with our natural ENEMIES.
The ministry propose, it is said, to signalize the en
trance of their administration, with a declaration of
war against France and Spain. 'Til now, war has only
been declared by the mouths of ourcannon and the loss
of dominion, but now it is to be done solemnly by the
mouth of the chief herald. This ceremony, however,
may be considered by some as useless, bur>efk, and ill
timed, since we have been so long at war, without do
ing it. Nevertheless, it may serve to shew, to our
ancient enemies, that far from being wearied wi h the
war, we are this day only about to begin it with them.
France and Spain may at present have some reason to
beware, when they fee them at the point of being attack
ed by the whole force of Great-Britain, undivided, as
heretofore, by the troubles in America and war with.
Holland.
If the new ministry should fail of restoring the politi
cal and commercial dignity of Great-Britain, their foli
ation will be very disagreeable; for no excuses can be
admitted for men, who have constantly opposed the
measures of treir predecessors, and have uniformly
persevered in declaring that the measures they suggest
ed were the only means which would save the nation
from the ruin which thieatned her.
It is given out,that according to the last arrangements
of rhe new ministry, lord Howe is to command the
grand fleet; but may not we ask where this grand fleet
is to be found, if not in the Weft-Indies? In the chan
nel it cannot be, for our fleet in the channel, for the
ensuing campaign, promises to consist of no more than
23 or 24 veOels of tl e line. At the entrance of Decem
ber last, our feet confined of 92 fail of the line, 40
whereof are in the Weft Indies, 13 in the Eafl-Indies, 17
upon the different Rations of North-America, New
foundland and Jamaica. Ten are detached- to the:
North-lea; 22 only remain, too few to be fitted the
grand fleet.
Vet there may be a large fleet collided in the channel,
fufficient to make head again ft France and Spain; but
this will depend on the extraordinary efforts of our (hip
yards and a peace with Holland, which last will ena
ble us tQ add io at least ts our channel fleets
for our new governors th* abundant harvest of prahr
to which they will be intitled, we shall give a sketch of
the main difficulties that they have had the fortitude to
meet.
PEACE with AMERICA.