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Xotim? niw prevents a rupture bt'wsen this coun
try and every branch of the Hou/e of Bourbon, but the
uifo~reemen?$ fabjifling in the French royal Faintly,
and the unsettled, divided fate of the /reach cabinet.
There is advice from Gibraltar, that the Spinoji,
a Spanifo frigate, hadput in there with a corsair of
Sake, taken after a mft dreadful engagement of three
hurs, wherein all the crew of the latter, which con
ffed of 200 men, were killed, except 13.
There is now the greatest quantity of foreign corn in
the port of London ever known at one time..
//correspondent oljerves, that prom the present pro
cedures of several European Pi inces, it should /Cem
that the amuiement of a King conffs in making the
world unhappy. The Spamfb A.anarch has declared
mar against the Al,ei ires ; the Emperor of Morocco,
as avows hirnfelf the enemy of the Dey of Flyers ;
the Ling of Prufra is didgently augmenting his forces,
as if meditating fomefetal blow ; the King of France
is preparing a formidable fleet; and the King of Great
Britain is at the eve of a war with his ownfcbje^ls.
Extract of a lettei from the Hague, May 10.
'' They write from Vienna, that the Emperor, fere
vivus to bis fitting outfrdm Court, bus promoted thir
teen Lieutenant field Marshals, and that every thing
has the appearance of an approaching war.
" Letters from Warsaw mention, that the greatest
conf/ernatkn reigns at that Court; that all the Minis
ters of the Crown ifft that they will not dependfom
the Council permanent; matters became so dangerous,
that the King was obliged to fimmon a Privy Council
at two o'r'ck in the morning on the iSth ult.
" The King of Prufa, in order to usurp the
whole commerce, has publijbed an edifl, that none of
bis fubjefls fall in future wist the fair of Leipzic,
under very jeverepunfoment.”
May 20. At five o'clock Mr. Burke brought
up and presented a Rerqonfhance and Represent
ation from the Assembly of the Colony of New-
York, the main purport of vbich is directed against
the propriety of taxing the American Colonies in
the British Parliament. As soon as the remon
strance was read by the Clerk, Mr. Burke moved
that the fame be referred to a Committee, and
Lord North moved an ammendment. A debate
now ensued, which continued till half after seven
o'clock, when the question being put on the
amendment, the House divided,
Ayes, 186. Noes, 67.
Upon which a short debate ensued, and the
principal speakers were, for the amendment, Lord
North, Mr. Cornwall, Mr. Jenkinfon, Mr. Au
brey, and Mr. 1 homas Walpole; againftit, Mr.
Cruger, Mr. T. Townsend, Mr. C. Fox, Mr.
Burke, Governor Johnson, and Serjeant Adair.
Mr. Burke introduced the business in a short
and pathetic fpcech, and was answered by Lord
North in a very plausible manner; to which Mr.
Cruger replied with much spirit and eloquence;
and the debates upon the whole, were very inter
effing and entertaining.
The following was the amendment proposed by Lord
North on Monday last, on the rep refentation and re.
monstrance from New-York, presented to the House by
Mr. Burke.
As soon as the A& of the 6th of George 111. was called
for and a clause read, it was moved, after the word re
monstrance to insert, " In which the laid Assembly claim
to themselves rights derogatory to, and inconsistent with,
the legislative authority of Parliament, as declared by
the said A&."
On Saturday evening some dispatches were received at
Lord Dartmouth's office from General Gage at Button,
brought by a ship arrived at Brittol from that place, af
ter a quick passage, which were forwarded to hisMajefty.
The Spanrih Ministry have given the,rongeft assurances
to the British Ambassador at Madrid, that the armament
now fitting out in the different ports of Spain, " is not
"""fed to aa again, Great-Britain or ber Colonies."
Thursday night an express arrived with the news of
the death of the Q^een of Denmark, on the 11th instant,
at Zeil, of a fever, aged twenty-three years and ten
months; flie was born the zzd of July 1751.
HOUSE of L ORD S, My 1 9 .
1 he Duke of Manchester presented a paper intitled
A Memorial from the House of Assembly of New-York,'
and moved that the fame might be read. A matter of
order was now started, whether it would be regular to
receive the said memorial, as his Grace had not stated
the contents, and declined to do so farther than reading
and the prayer, desiring the repeal of certain a&s
<>f Parliament, and praying redress. Lords Townsend
Buckingham, and Denbegh objected to it on several other
grounds, particularly to the very title memorial, which
they contended was improper, and txpreffive of difre
fpe& towards the House, and a disclaiming of its legisla
tive authority. Lord Sandwich spoke fully to the regu
larity and mode of proceeding and moved an amend
ment, by adding after the word " memorial," the con
tents whereof not having been opened. The Duke of
Rchmond differed as to the point of fa& ; for he infill
ed, that part at least of the contents had been opened, and
moved an amendment to the hit amendment, by adding
the concluding words of the memorial, which bad been
read by the Duke of Manchester. This gave another
turn to the debate, and Lord Gower infilled, as his Grace
had refused, though often pressed to make known the
contents, his Lordship moved another amendment to the
question so amended. The debate now took entirely
another turn; and a warm debate arose about the man
lier of getting rid of the several amendments, and com
ing back to the main question, that the said memorial be
now read, in which the Lords Mansfield, Camden, Shel
burne, Weymoutn, Dudley, Dartmouth, and Marcb
mont, spoke. At length, after four hours and a half
continual altercation, doubt and uncertainty, the questi
on was put on the motion, as amended by' Lerd Sand-
wich, which was carried in the negative without a divi
on ; and thequeftion on the original motion, " that said
memorial be now read," being put, there appeared,
Consents - - - - 19
Proxies - - -- 6
Nop-Contents - - 60
Proxies - - - - 10
So the Memorial was rejected by a majority oj alm, three
to one.,
Yellerday a petition from the protestant inhabitants of
Qie % ec was presented to the House of Commons by Sir
George Saville. This occasioned a warm debate, in which
Si George Saville, Sir William Meredith, Lord North,
Mr. Fox, Mr. Adam Drummond, Mr. Sawbridge,
Mr, Turner, Colonel Barre, and Mr. Burke, were
Speakers. At half after ten the question (which during
the course of the debates hid been frequently called for)
was put, when the House divided ; the numbers were,
for the motion 86, against it 174.
May 23. It is said that on Thursday his Majesty will
go to the House of Peers, and close the prelent session
with a Speech from the Throne.
It is talked that the celebration of the King's birth-day
will be pottponed till the 23d of June, on account of the
mourning for the late Qneen of Denmark.
The Grace, M'Caufland, from Philadelphia, is ar
rived at Dover; and the Rising Sun, Salter, from
South-Carolina, at Cowes.
The want of corn is so great all over France, that the
King has issued an edift, allowing to all vessels, as well
French as foreigners, that shall arrive with foreign corn
in any French ports, from the 15th inst. to theist of Au
gust ensuing, a premium of 18 sols for every quintal of
wheat, and 12 sols for every quintal ofrve, and all such
ships are to be exempt from paying any duty of freight,
or any other fort, in any French port during the above
period. The above bounty to be immediately paid by
the King's Officers in the refpe&ive ports in that king
dom.
Intelligence is arrived from Paris, that the King dis
patched orders to all his sea ports to be put in a date of de
fence immediately. Similar orders have been given by
the Court of Spain, which puzzles our most experienced
politicians greatly, they not being able even to gneis at
the designs of those powers.
W I LLIAMSBUR G, (Virginia) June 24.
Last Thursday a joint address of the Hon. the Council
and House of Burgesses was transmitted to the Governor,
on board the Fowey man of war, of which the following
is a copy. It is said his Excellency intends to take up
his residence at Portsmouth, and that Lady Dunmore,
and the rest of his Lordship's family, will fail to-morrow
for England.
To bis Excel enc, the Right Hon. JOHN Earl of DUN
MO RE, bis Majefy's Lieutenant, Governor General,
and Commander in Chief of the Colony and Dominion of
Virginia, and Vice Admiral of the fame:
The joint Address of the COUNCIL and HOUSE
of BURGESSES.
My Lord,
WE his Majesty's dutiful and loyal fubjr&s, the
Council and H use of Burgesses of Virginia,
have received your Lordship's answer to our joint address,
by which we represented to your Excellency how very
insecure we thought the public arms in the Palace since
your Lordship's removal from thence, and requested that
your Lordship would be pleased to order them to be
Stored in the public magazine, judging this a repository
of much greater security.
You are pleased to tell us, that experience hath (hewn
the insecurity of the magazine, and that as the Palace
hath hitherto been refpe&ed, you thought it improper to
give any other orders that the arms belonging to the
King, which have for so many years been lodged, may
still remain in the Palace, and that they may, on no ac
count, be touched without your expiefs permission.
Though these arms, my Lord, may be considered, in
some fort, as belonging to bis Majesty, as the lupreme
head of this government, and that they are properly un
der your Lordship's direction ; yet we humbly conceive
that they were originally provided, and have been pre
served for the use of the country in cases of emergency.
We would not with to interfere with your Lordflrip's
authority, of this difpolition we presume pur former ad
dress afforded the ftrongett testimony; but the reflection
that these arms are so much exposed that they may easily
be made the most improper and deftru&ive use of, is, to
us, extremely alarming.
The Palace, my Lord, hath indeed been hitherto much
refpe&ed, but not so much cut of regard to the building
as the residence of his Majesty's representative. Had your
Lordfllip thought fit to remain there, we should have had
no apprehensions of danger; but, cenfidering these arms
at present exposed to your servants, and every rude in
vader, the security formerly derived from your Lordship's
presence cannot now be relied on.
In your Lordship's answer to an address of the House
of Burgesses, you are pleased to fay, that experience has
demonstrated to you that the city <fWi'iamfbrrg isu
improper place for the residence of our Governor, a J
give it as a reason for not returning the powder, mold
ing to your own voluntary promise, made to the House,
that you could not attend to its preservation, nor depend
on its security, if returned to the magazine. We should
suppose, my Lord, that your Excellency's attention to the
arms would be equally necessary for their security, as
yon know the Palace standing on the edge of the city,
and we should, for this reason, imagine it more likely
to be rifled than the magazine in the midst of it ; besides,
should it be thought necessary, a proper guard might be
kept at the magazine, which we did not think.fo decent
to propose for your Lordship's Palace. Our apprehensi
ons, my Lord, have been not a little increased by consi
dering the several depositions taken by order oftbe House
of Burgesses ; we decline commenting upon them, but
submit to the world from whence the unhappy disturb
ances in this colony took their rife. We mult, my Lord,
once more entreat your Excellency to order the arms to
be removed to the public magazine.
We cannot, my Loid, decline representing to you,
that the important business of this Assembly hath been
much impeded by your Excellency's removal from the
Palace. This step hath deprived us of the neceffayy and
free access to your Lordship, which we conceive the con
stitution entitles us to. There are fevered bills of thelaft
importance to this country now ready to be presented to
your Excellency for your assent.
Vve have hitherto, my Lord, in hopes of preferring
that harmony which we wish ever to fubfifl between ail
the brandies of our tegiflature, fubnillted to the great
inconvenience of fending our members twelve miles to
wait on your Excellency on board one of Iris Majesty's
flips of war, to present our several addrefles ; but w^
think it would be highly improper, and too great a de
parture from the c mftitutional and accustomed node of
tranfifting the business of the Assembly, to meet your
Excellency at any other place than the Capitol, to prex
sent such bills as have there been agreed to by the Coun
cil and House of Burgesses We must therefore befeeth
your Excellency to return to us ; and as the advanced
leafon of the year requires our presence in our several
counties, we hope your Lordship will be pleased to favour
us with your speedy and —tymate answer, that we may
certainly know what to depend upon.
His EXCELLENCY'S Answer.
/HAVE already declared my intentions in regard to the
arms at the Palace, and I onceive the Council and Houje
°f Burgesses are interjering in a matter vebich does not being
to them. Ifoould be glad to be informed iubo they design by the
terms rude invaders vsb'cb they have made use of.
Ibe diferders tn WilUam/burg, and other parts of the
country, drove me to the necessity of changing my place of re
fdence, and if any inconvenience has arisen to the Assembly
on that account, lam not chargeable with it, but they have
not been deprived of any ncceffary nor free access to me. Ibe
confitution vefls me ivitb an undoubted power to call the As
sembly for the business of, to any place in, the colony, exi
gency may require.
Not having been made acquainted with the whole pro
ceedings cj the Assembly, 1 know of no bills of importance,
which, ij I were inclined to rift my person again among the
people, the Assembly have to present to me, nor whether they
be fuels as 1 could agent to.
PROVIDENCE, June 24.
Extract of a letter from the Committee of Correspon
dence at P ymouth, to the Committee of this town,
dated the zzd instant.
" IVe have a letter come to town from Saco, giving an
account of two veffeis, with provisions from Ga^e, under the
protection of a tender, having arrived at that place, in order
to exchange faidprovifunfor lumber ; the Committee oj that
town conJidered of the propriety of fuffering them to trade,
and from necessity were obliged t^ admit them ; after this
they difeovered great partiality in regard to the persons with
whom they contrasted, which at once however they failed in ;
fte hove up her anchors, proceeded down the river, some
diflance from the town, where foe again anchored; but was
soon so warmly attacked from tbe jfeore, as to be obl ped to
flip her cables and pufo down: In her way foe boarded a
small coafing foop, Captain Tobey, from Sandwich, and
obliged him to undertake the pilotage of the vefel out of the
river; but before getting out, they boarded a febooner, Capt.
Avery, from Norwich, and took him also n board; in the
mean time the mean time the people of Saco fitted out two
armed vcjels, which pursued the enemy, and soon after get
ting clear of the land, they difcove?ed and made jor each
other ; the tender did not " suppose them to be armed tilt they
approached each other, when the mafler threatened t Ad
charge a brace of balls through Captain Tobey, unffs he
would firear to take up bis gun in defence of the vtyel;
who replied, that as he engaged only as a pilot, he fhould'
refufe; the maser then excused him, and threatened A^ery
in like manner, and be was obliged to comply Thefrff
volly from our armed veffls kil ed poor Aver," "and the in
fernal Captain, which put the people into such conye.nation,
that they defeended into the bold, cobin, &c. and w'ere boar V
ed and carried into Saco ^tle n&nb.r oj men taken
on board the Tender is not mentioned ; foe had four three - len
ders, 12 swivels, forty or fifty muskets, as many cuilafcs,
and a number of pijiols.
We learn that the Hon. John Hancock's late dwelling
house is now used as an hospital for wounded officers, as
is the Alms-House for wounded soldiers.
NEW YO R K, July 3.
Wednesday last General Woofler, with 7 Companies
of Iris Regiment, and Colonel Waterbury', with his Re
giment compleat, both consisting of about 1800 men,
arrived here from Connecticut; they appear to be a
healthy, hearty body of men, and are now encamped
about two miles out of town.
The following is the STAFF lately appointed by
the Continental Congress :
General and Commander in Chief of all the American
Forces,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; of Virginia.
Major Generals,
ARTEMUS WA RD, Esq; of Massachusetts-Bay.
CHARLES LEE, Elq ;
PHILIP SCHUYLER, Esq; of Albany, in
New-York Province.
ISRAEL PUTNAM, Esq; of Massachusetts-Bay.
Adjutant General,
HORATIO GATES, Esq;
We are informed that the Provincial Congress have
appointed the following Gentlemen to be Officers in the
Battalion to be raised in this city and county:
Mr. Alexander M'Dovgall, Colonel,
Mr. Edward Fleming, Lieutenant Colonel,
Mr. Rudolphus Ritzema, Major.
Since our last 9 transports with troops, of the second
embarkation from Cork, have arrived at Sandy-Hook,
and agreeable to orders there received, failed last Friday
for Bolton, under convoy of his Majesty's drip of war the
Nautilus.
The regiments on board the transports are the zzd,
40th, 44th, and 45th.
The following extract of a letter is received from a
gentleman who has the best means of information, and
may be depended upon as authentic: "You may depend
“ upon it, that the Glasgow Packet, Capt. Peterfield,
“ failed from Greenock in April last, hound for Salem,
“ with many thousand pounds value of poods on board."
It is said that the above goods are marked for the army.
It is hoped the Committee of Salem have paid proper at
tention to the vessel, as its more than probable that she is
already arrived.
By a Resolve in the House of Commons on the r
of May, is. per gallon is to be laid on all Rums, or oth .
spirits, imported into Newfoundland from America.
The Brig Sally, Capt. Innes, left Greenock the 17th
of May, and arrived here last Friday in ballast.
The Snow Chrifty, from Greenock for Georgia, put
into Sandy-Hook last Saturday, and landed 43 passengers:
He is to depart with the firttfair wind for his drained
port. The Sh>p Monemia, Capt. Moirifon, was to fail
from Greenock for this port the 27th of May, with pal
fencers.