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. The three American vessels that came, up the Thames
Horn Oftend, with the thirteen flripes flying, immedi
ately on the declaration of the preliminary articles of
peace being figped, now lie off the cußom-houfe keys
with the broad R upon them, on account of having ta
•ken io their lading prior to any commercial treaty
being concluded upon between Great Britain and the
united dates of America.
Tae fixation of the Wefl-India fleet is truly lament
able, nor one-third of them bring yet arrived; the
mod prevailing opinion refpeHing them is, that they
have been intercepted by the fleet of American pri
vateers which left Nanz immediately after the cessati
on of hostilities, in order to cruise in the latitude of
the wefiern islands.
The army in Ireland is to be reduced to 4000 effect
five men, in which four regiment of horse and three of
dragoons are to be included. This is the smallest
peace establishment that kingdom ever had.
IMarch 15 Yesterday an express arrived at the se
cretary of date's office, giving an account of the peo
ple of Staffordfhire having rose in large bodies near
Newcastle; they were upwards of 3000. The militia
of the county had been employed, but threw down
their arms ; the principal inhabitants had formed
themselves into committees, but hitherto bad not been
able to disperse them, their numbers increasing every
day, on account of the high prices of the necettary
articles of life. ~
March 18.. We are happy to acquaint our readers,
that a meflage from his majefly carried lord North to
Buckingham house, on Sunday evening at (even
o'clock, when a conversation took place between the
king and his lordship, which ended in a re- flablithmept
of his lordship's royal commission to form an arrange
inent of administration ; and we have every reason to
believe, that we shall haveit in our power to congra
tulate our fellow fubjeds on the restoration of a go
vernment of Great Britain within two or three days
at fartheft.
Letters from Paris fay, that a report has, been late
ly circulated there, and generally believed, that a
French East-India company is soon to be eftablifcd;
and that this company will, according to treaty, have
the exclusive privilege of supplying the states of Ame
rica with oriental commodities, for a stipulated term
of years, and that, in return, the court of France will
relinquish all claim to the debt incurred by the united
slates, during the late war.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, March 12.
“ The orders which have been issued out for all the
Bailor's belonging to the men of war actually in com
mission, to repair on board their refpeftive flips, forms
matter of many conjeHures."
March 20. From the late versatile mode of ap
pointing ministers, it is generally imagined that, in
future, they will be pricked down as the Iheriffs are
for the year enfuiog; and of course a new set of men
hold the reins of government annually. It is the flux
and reflox of the sea, with the saline particles mixed
in the fluid, which prevent the water from putrefac
tion.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, March 14.
" Several of the knights of St. Patrick appeared last
night at the theatre-royal, Smock-alley, in their rib
bons with a cross of appendage, whose motto is QUIS
SEPARABIT."
As the following bill, most materially affeds the whole
mercantile body of men in Great-Britain, we have
been induced to print the fame as amended by the
committee, and to insert the fame more fubflanti
ally than we generally do bills which we deem wor
thy the public notice :
A BILL for the provisional establishment and regu
lation of trade and intercourse between the fub
jefts of Great Britain and the United Stales of North-
America.
“ It recites, the thirteen provinces of North-Ame
rica, now are free, independent and fovereigu states,
by the description of the United States of America :
" and that it is highly expedient, the intercourse
between Great-Britain and the said United States
Should be immediately opened, and temporary regu
larions made, until a treaty or convention for esta
blishing and regulating the trade and commerce be
tween Great Britain and the said states shall be final
ly concluded : it therefore enacts, that the prohibitory
ad passed in the sixteenth year of his majefiy's reign,
and also an aft of the seventeenth of his majefly's
reign, so far as the fame extend to prohibit trade and
intercourse with the states of America, or to authorife
any hostilities against the persons or properties of the
futyjeds of the said states, after the refpedive periods
in his majefly's proclamation for the cessation of hofti
Jities between Great-Britain and America, dated the
14 h day of February, 1783, shall be repealed."
The other enabling clauses are as follow :
" That after the palling this ad, and until the end
of the next session of parliament, all goods and mer
chandize, of the growth and produce of America only,
which heretofore might have been lawfully imported
into any port of Great Britain, may and shall continue
to be lawfully imported from any port within the ter
ritories of the said states, and not from any other
place, in (hips or vessels belonging to any of the citi
zens of the said United states, and navigated by mari
ners of the said states, or by his majefiy's fubjeds, in
the manner heretofore accuftorned, except as is here
inafter excepted.
" 1 hat the (hips of the said states shall not bring in
to Great- Britain any goods or merchandize, other than
the produce of the said United States.
" That nothing herein thall extend to the payment
of any bounty hitherto granted upon the goods or
merchandize imported from the territories now com
posing the said states.
And, for the better afeertaining the ships arriving
from the territories aforefaid, the property of such
ships, and the places from which they shall come, (hall
be ascertained by the oaths of the master and mate of
the fllip; and in case of any doubt entertained by the
collector or his deputy, at the port of entry, the bills
of lading to be examined, and other documents which
may conduce to the ascertainment of the matters a
That all British ships asaforefaid shall, before their
entry outwards, give bond that they shall proceed
to the ports in the territories aforefaid, as also for
bringing the merchandize loaded in the said countries
into some port in Great-Britain or Ireland ; and shall,
on entry inwards, before the said bond shall be dis
charged, produce a certificate from two merchants of
credit, residing in the port from whence they shall
load, that the said ship hath been loaded in the said
port, with the commodities in the bills of lading men
tioned.
That all merchandize, of the produce of America,
which in 1775, were importable into his majefiy's co
lonies, or plantations in America, may be lawfully
imported into the fame, in ships or vessels belonging
to the said states, upon the terms and in the manner
heretofore used, but without any certificate, regifier
or other paper, or the obfervanceof any regulations
required by any aft of parliament, except such as are
required by this ad, to afeertain the property in such
ships when entered in any port cf Great-Britain; aid
that it shall be lawful for the vessels of the said states
to export, from his majefiy's colonies, or plantations
in America, to any pert of the said states, all such
merchandizes as were, in 1775 lawfully export ble
to the fame, upon the terms and in manner heretofore
used.
That all vessels belonging to any of the fubjeHs of
the said states of America, which thall have voluntari
ly come into any port of Great-Britain fence the 20th of
January, 1783, together with the merchandizes on
board the fame, shall have the full benefit of this aft.
NEW-YOR K, May 7,
At the moment of this Gazette's going to Press
(four o'clock in the morning), we were saluted
with the arrival of the brig Iris, captain Cal
clough, in thirty-nine days from the Downs; by
whom we are informed ,of a new arrangement in
his majefly's administration, of which we are
told the following are some of the particulars :
The duke of Portland is appointed firft lord of
the treasury.
Lord Stormont, and the honourable Charles
Fox, secretaries of Rate.
Mr. Burke, pay-niafter of the forces.
Colonel North, said to be treasurer of the na
vy°
Lord Gower, president of the council.
Mr Pitt remains chancellor of the exchequer.
Lord Temple flays as viceroy of Ireland.
The seals to be in commission, &c. &c.
This coalition seemed conciliatory to the par
ties.
Lord Cornwallis had taken leave to command
in the East Indies, from whence good news had
arrived, via Holland, and Mons. Suffrein retired
to Mauritius.
Difficulties and debates in parliament refpedt
ing the treaty of commerce with America, but
nothing militating against the independence of
this continent.
Colonel Fanning is appointed lieutenant go
vernor of Halifax.
Sir Charles Gray's departure for America, was
flopped.
Philadelphia, May 13.
It appears by the English prints, that the Bill for
opening an intercourse between Great Britain and the
United States, had neen the fubje& of much parliamen
tary debate. The following is the fubfiance of a fpe ch
of a member of the house of 'commons on that bill, the
17th of March last
" In the course of the committee's fitting, the chan
cellor of the exchequer declared, he had it in his pow
er to fay more to the committee refpe&ing the proba
bility of the United States of America being fatisfied
with the,bill, than he had before been able to commu
nicate. -He was happy to be enabled to assure the
house, that the commissioners of America, now at Pa
ris, had declared exprefily, that as far as they were
capable of judging from theoutline of the bill, as it
forefaid ; dnd she colledor or perfob ading for him,
is authorised to make such examine.ion, previous to
the vessel's breaking bulk.
" That all goods which hitherto might have been
lawfuly exported from Great-Britain to any of the a
forefaid places, may be lawfuly export d, in the
fame manner, and on the ame terms as heretofore, in
any ihips belonging to the said states, without any
regifier, bond or other paper, required by any for -
mr ad, other than is hereinafter provided
" That for all goods which have been ufua'ly ex
ported upon certificate or bond, as being entitled to
drawback of duties, or as being prohibited from in
ternal consumption, bond 111-ill be given, wish one
surety resident in or near the place from whence the
fame shall be entered outwards, in treble value that
the fame fliall not be relanded in any part of Great-
Britain ; and that if the fame, Or any part thereof,
shall be relanded, the ship and cargo to be forfeited,
and the forfeiture applied as in offences of the fame
nature.
" That none but ships of the said states, or ships
British built, and qualified acording to law, shall en
ter outwards, laden with British or foreign goods for
the ports of the said United States, or shall be permit
ted to an entry inwards with any merchandize of the
produce of the said states.
That no document, except what is usual for British
fllips entered outwards or inwards to or from Other
places, shall be demanded from any British ship upon
her entry inwards or outwards to o r from any of the
territories of the said states, except as is hereinafter
provided-
bad been franfmitted to them, the bill manifefled the
liberality of Great-Britain towards the United Stated
in an eminent degree, and in their opinion not only
promiftd to prove fully fatidadory to America, con
sidered as a tingle measure, but appeared likely to be
the means of creating and- cementing a most hearty
and cordial conciliation between the two countries.''
Tuesday laR his excellency general Washington, ac
companied by governor Clinton, &c. met fir Guy
Carleton and admiral Digby at Tappan, on the fub
je& of the evacuation, and other arrangements: but
the result of the interview has not yer transpired ;
though it is generally expefled, that fir Guy will im
mediately remove the British troops to Staten-lfland,
where they will remain til their final embarkation. An
elegant entertainment was prepared on the occasion, by
Mr- Francis, whose bill it is said amounted to 5001.
Tie receiver of taxes for the Rate of Virginia, has
acknowledged the receipt of Forty fix thousand four
hundred and sixty-one dollars from that Rate for the
United States, in the month of April, 1783.
Arrivals in this port si n ce our last:
Ship Dutchefs of Patina, Wifdrite, from
Martinique.
Brig Commerce, Lewis, St. Kitts.
Schooner Active, Sherifh, ditto.
Brig Three Friends, Rich, New York.
Huffar, Wilson, ditto.
Sloop Amelia, Graham, ditto.
Polly, Hyde, Boflon.
—— Brewltir, ditto.
Brig Commerce, Patton, Virginia.
Commodore Hood, Richards, Falmouth,
Old England.
Ship -, Lilbon.
Snow Bonaventure, , ditto:
We hear that Doctor Martin has laid aside hia
intention of going to Europe and has taken up
his residence in this eiry, it being the capital
and most central in the United States.
To be S OLD at the COFFEE-HOUS E,
On Wednesday next,
At Twelve o'Clnck at Noon,
THE Brig COMMERCE, as the lavs at Wjllinfs
wharf; with all her Materials, &c, as per In
ventory, to be fetn at the place of sale.
N. B. She is faponfed to carry about iooo barrels of
flour. JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer. May 13.
TO BE SO L D,
On Thursday next at to o'clock
in the Morning, on FUb urne' Wharf,
THIRTY Crates Queen's Ware, confining of Diffi
es, Plates, Cups, Saucerr, &c.
30 Boxes Window Glafe, different sizes,
6 Trunks China, containing Caps, Saucers, Dishes,
Plates, &c.
6 Bnxes Gafs Ware, containing Wine Glasses, Tum
blers, &c.
zoo Bushels Allum Salt, &-.
May 13 , JOHN BAYARD, Andione^r.
Just Imported from Amßerdam and I'Orient, and to
b?SOLD by
Daniel Benezet,
At his STORE in Arch ftr@et, four doors telow Se
cond street,
DUTCH SCYTHES and WHETSTONES, a neat
affortmenx of black Sattins, Mod^s. Satinets, bro
caded and tambouredfJacket Patterns, rich black Silk for
mens wear, Marfsilles Quilting, silk Serge, Bedtick
ing, Dowlaffes, .striped fiik and cotton flowered Flan
nels and Serges, Broadcloths beautifully afforud in
(mail bales, graft Sickles, clout Nafs, S ri s, hob
Nails, Tack and trunk Nails of al! forts, wu h Chry^
tali, watch Hand;, Chains and P^ndan, , iron . 111
brass Wire of all sizes, Shoe-buckle, SI ve buttons,
Com bs, Pins, Needles, Knives, R zor, &.
Just Imported in the Snow N. S. Piedade St. Ba^en
venture, Captain Joze da Fonleca Soa es de Fc_uei^
redo, from Lisbon, and to be SOLD by
John Wilcocks,
In Third-street, between Market and Aich-ftreet-
SALT, Lfb n and Port Wine in quarter calk, Ar
rack, Lemons, Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars,
foft flull Almonds, Corks, bohea, fouebong, hy
fon and punpowder Tea, ladies heft Kid Gloves, a va
viety of tea and table China. He hat allo fcr Sale,
ANCHORS from 8 to 1200 weight, and a fey cases of
excellent CLARET. May 13.
TO BE SOL D,
TH E Schooner DOVE, Bermudas built, laying at
Sims's wharf. Terms may be kno^n, and ih' <in
ventory seen, by applying to ROBERT STEVENSON
in Front-street, one door from the corner ot Pme-ltrecC
A convenient House and Sta
bles, which have been a long accuftomel Tavern in
Market street, between 6th and 7th tir-ets, gererally
known by the sign of the battle o' Monmouth, 10
be Let. Enquire of ROBERT ERVIN.
TO BE SOLD or LET,
A three story Brick House in
Fourth street, with convenient back Buildings for"
ft^bling or carriages. Foe terms enquire of EDWARD
, GARRIGUES, in Elm ftrcet. Afoy >3.