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" Having been informed of the probability of some
riots and tumults this evening, I take the earliest op
portunity of conveying this information to your lord
ship, that you may take proper measures for securing
the public peace. I am, &c.
March 9- The emperor of Germany, and Czarina
of Russia have agreed to a war upon the Turk, in
order todrive them out of Europe, their troops are to
confiß of 600,000 men in four divisions. A new trade
is expelled to be opened by this channel when affairs
are fettled,; commodore Affleck is voted by the house
of commons duly elected member for Colchefter—Mr.
Potter had been returned. In a further debate up
on the American war on the 4th of March, general
Conway, in order to elucidate and explain a part of
his motion to lord North, rose again, and said he would
endeavour to explain his meaning, in order that an in
terpretation which he had no idea of when he penned
his motion, might not be put upon it. The very
rev@ rfe of the noble lord's conßruHion was the mean
ing he intended to convey to the house—his motion was
not a motion for peace, but a motion for war. It did
not recommend to ministers to seize the firft opportu
nity of making peace with America that might offer,
but it expressly directed an immediate operation of war,
by ordering that ministers should instantly forego a pro
secution of offenfive war with America, for the pur
pose of reducing the revolted colonies to obedience by
force. Men, the general said, naturally expressed their
ideas in that way which their education made most fa
miliar to them. Having been bred in the army, he had
chosen a military idea to convey his meaning to the
house, and to a military man, nothing could be a more
clear, diftinft, and simple idea, than that of offenfive
war. Without going into a long difeu ffion of
the nature of the several forts of wars, a war of
posts, &c. &c. that had been talked of by different
gentlemen on a former day, he had expressly used the
term offenfive war, and as offenfive and defenfive war,
were contrafled terms extremely simple, he could not
help wondering that any difficulty Should be made, at
least if there was, he thought he ought to have been
helped to a more dißinQ term than that of offenfive
war, by those who affefled not to understand it. The
general said, he recollected in the last war prince Ferdi-
We hear that on the report of the committee of coun
sellors alt :s province, refyeding the oegociation of
twelve millions for the last year, the states of Holland
have gra;nt d them leave to negociafe an extraordinary
of four millions, at two and a half per cent. We con
clude from this that the war is to be pushed on with vi
gour-
Feb. 3. We hear that on Friday last in the assembly
of the Rates general, in the presence of the ftadtholder,
it was resolved to e^uip and put in commiffioh, for the
present year, the following ships of war, viz. 3 ships
of 70 guns each, 19 of 60 guns, 11 of 50 guns, 9 fri
gates of 40 to 4-4 guns, 13 of 36 guns, 14 of 20 guns
each ; also five cutter-, 6 advice yachts, 6 guard ftlips,
53 cruizers, and an hospital ship; the crews of whichia
tne whole, amount to 25,000 men.
March 1. The following is said to be the substance
of a.letter received yesterday by the lord mayor from
one of the secretaries of state :
C OLO GN E, January 29.
Mr. Brightman, agent of the American congress
for the province of Virginia, after a short stay in this
city, set out the day before yesterday for Franckfort
on the main. He had resided some time in Holland
with Mr. J- Adams, and came last from Liege.
Jan. it. WeJearn that the expedition and equip
ment which h^'s been preparing at Aftracan above a
year, is finished, and the flips have at length failed
with a fufficie,nt body of troops, to take possession of
he towns cf Aftrab^lk and Gilan, in Persia, beyond
the Caspian sea.
From the New-York Papers of the Ift
and 3d Instant.
THE port of Cherfon on the Black, sea, will in a
short time be one of the most renowned in Europe.
The citadel, which occupies eight miles in circumfer
ence, is furnished with 800 pieces of cannon. There
are corfftantly in the waters of that port, twelve fllips
of the line. 'Phe.garrifon is composed of 39,000 sol
diers.
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'' My Lord,
PETERSBURG H, Dec. 29.
H A G U E,
L O N
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
St.James's, Feb. 28, 1782,
D O N.
January 30.
an account of the arrival of another of commodore
. Johnston's prizes from Saldannah, at the back of the
isle of Wight ; so that with the Heltwoltemade, which
arrived the 3d of February at Plymouth, the Hoog
fcarpel and the Denktairket that were towed into Pen
zance the Bth, and the one that foundered on the 29th
of January, we are now acquainted with the fate of
the whole.
The following is a lift of the fleet which failed from
Brest on the iith and 12th of the present month, un
der thecommand of the count de Guichen, with an
account of their deßinations:
Ships destined for Cadiz.
Guns. Guns.
Ie Majeftoux 110 L'lndien 74
Le Royal Louis 110 Le Lion 64
Le Terrible 90
Ships destined for America.
Le Pomona 80 Le Dauphin Royal 74
Le Magnifique 75
Ships destined to the Indies.
Le Fendant 74 L'Argument 74
Ships whose detonation is not known.
La Robufte 74 Le Pegaze 74
Le Zodiaque 74 L'AHif 74
The following frigates are also included in the fame
fleet.
L'Amphitrite 32 La Gloiie 32
La Cleopatre 32 La Nayade 26
L'Emerande 32 La ( eres 26
La Friponne 32 'La Pandeure 16
Le Crefent 32 La, Claire Voyaot 16
L'Engageant 32
Confining, upon the whole, of fourteen fail of the line
and eleven frigates.
" The emperor is meditating some greatdefign ; be
sides the aemy recruiting in Hungary, Moravia and
Transylvania, magazines ace laying up there: the ar
my of the empire is also recruiting ; in the midfl cf
these preparations, trade is ftridly looked to ; the com
merce of Antwerp, Bruges and Oflend revives ; at the
latter port 240 fail of vessels were employed last year."
It is reported that Mr. Laurens, through the medi
um of Dr. Franklin, is vested with powers from the A
merican Congress for treating of a separate peace with
Great-Britain.
The following is the petition prefenfed on Wednes
day last by the Iheriffs of the city of London to the
house of commons.
A letter from Peterfburgh mentions a report, that a
fleet of men of war are ordered to be got ready to fail
for the downs as soon as the season will permit; which
it is said, according to treaty, are to be employed in
convoying trading ships from port to port, under Ruf
fian colours, and to any part of the Weft-Indies, to
America, to Lisbon, and the Mediterranean, but not
to the East-Indies.
To the honourable the commons of Great-Britain, in
parliament assembled.
The humble petition of the lord mayor, aldermen, and
commons of the city of London, in common council
assembled,
Sheweth,
Friday an order was issued from the privy council,
for the enlargement of Messrs. Governeur and Curzon
from their confinement, on condition of their giving
bail for their appearance, similar to that entered into
some time since by Mr. Laurens, the American prifoh
er.
" That your petitioners, in the present Rate of pub
lic affairs, moved by every sentiment that can impress
nand had, previous to the commencement of a cam
paign, wrote home for inftrudions, whether it was
the wish of the minister that he should make an offenfive
or a defenfive war. The general added fomepther
arguments to prove that the terms he had adopted,
were perfectly intelligible, that they certainly were not
to give ministers any infractions to seize the firft op
portunity that might offer, of making peace, but im
mediately to forego any further prosecution of offen
five war with America, for the purpose of reducing
America to obedience by force.— 0
A commission is preparing for fir Guy Carleton, to
treat of peace with the Americans, in the fame manner
as fir Henry Clinton, with the fame powers and appoint
ments.
The governor of Padang on the weft coast of Suma
tra, is arrived in England as an hostage for the effectu
al performance of the terms of his surrendering all the
very valuable Dutch forts and factories on that coafl,
viz. Padang Plaman, Pooli, Serico and Ayer Hadjah,
they were taken without opposition, by five Indiamen
from Bencoolen, commanded by commodore Clements,
on the 19th of August.
Last Monday about noon, an express arrived with
Extract ofa letter from Brussels, Feb. 19.
O R, THE
THE
Extract of a letter dated London, March 6, 1782.
“ A wonderful alteration has happened since I wrote
last, and the nation seems at present in a Rate of in
sanity, but I think it will soon return to its senses, not
withflanding the present appearance of things. lam
confident the war in America will Rill be pursued. The
terms proposed for pacification can never be accepted,
the rebels will hot detach themselves from their allies,
therefore the present parliamentary and anti-ministerial
manoeuvres are considered merely as a bait to catch
some certain gudgeons. The minißer would not have
been left in a minority bn the question, had not one part
of the cabinet countenanced the measure in order to
turn out lord North, for both Mr. Rigby and lord ad
vocate Dundafs spoke for the resolution, though they
voted against it; the Shelburne party are against the
measure though the, voted for it, in Short it was a con
certed plan to drive out the p-emier, in which intenti
on I believe both parties will find themselves disappoint
ed, and I should not be furprized to hear that both the
Bedford and Shelburne party oppose the truce bill in.
the house of lords, and that the former will be admitted
as part of the adminiftratiou on their engaging to pro
secute the war, or the latter come in on the fame ground;
a large body of troops are expeded from Germany far
America, and all the regiments upon your continent
are to be compleated by draughts of effeHive soldiers
from hence."'
Extract of a letter from London, dated eleven o'clock
P. M. 9th of, March. 1782.
“ I hattily snatch the opportunity of a few minutes:
to mention what you will hear and fee more than enough
of, the present embarrassments of government, and to
give you my opinion upon thefn. You will find that
all parties in opposition have united their forces on the
popular ground of the ruinous consequences of the
American war, and in two or three votes gained a ma
jority against administration. The design of the lead
ers was in reality, not with Raiding prose ffions and pre
tences, no more than to displace the present ministers
and get possession bf their offices, after which, 'tis
more than probable, they would carry onihe obnoxi
ous war with more vigour than their predecessors.
We generally thought that administration must give
way • —but it seems they have no meh intention. It
is asserted they are in expectation of something that
will fully support them; perhaps in the way of foreign
treaty, or from some other quarter ; be this as it may,
the event will be, that the American war will not be
given up, that American independence will not be con
sented to, nor New-York evacuated. This is certain
ly the determination cf the present ministers.
On the whole, dark as our affairs have lately appear
ed, I fee no ground for anxiety, but on the other hand,
much reason Rill to hope. I know more than I have
time to explain, or am at liberty to fay."
the human mind with regard for the common welfare
of this kingdom and its dependencies, are impelled to
implore this honourable house to interpole in such man
ner as to their wisdom shall seem most efftftual for pre
venting the continuance of the unfortunate war with
Amerira."
" Last night colonel Tarleton, (in his way to Liver
pool) flopped at the Red Lion inn, to exchange horses,
it was soon made public by the ringing of bells, the
house was illuminated, and at least one thousand sail
cloth weavers assembled, when it was agreed to take the
horses from the carriage, and draw him through the
Rreets. Many young gentlemen and merchants inter
posed, and declared they would draw him to the end
of the town, which is a mile long; this they did, a
midst the cries ,of, " long live brave Tarleton." At
parting he very politely said, " don't be afraid of ta
king hold of my hand, though I have loft two fingers,
I can use my pen, and will my sword, when I can be
of use to my country." At nine last night he got to
Liverpool, where the bells were rung all night, and
this morning till church service."
Brig Navarro, 152 hogsheads tobacco, 48 calks in
digo.
Schooner Salmon, 80 hogsheads tobacco, 6 tons pig^
iron, 1000 Haves.
Schooner Eliza, 750 barrels flour, &e.
The above are prizes to the Pears and Charleftown
frigates.
Last Monday arrived eight prizes, ship Philadelphia,
with 192 hogsheads tobacco; 9 calks of indigo, 6 ditto of
flax feed.
Of the other prizes we have, a^ yet, got no descrip
tion.
Brig La Antonietta, 113 hogsheads tobacco,g
calks indigo.
Extract of a letter from Warrington, Feb. 17.
N E W-Y0 RK, May 1.
MAY 9, 17€^,
[NUMB, 882.