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V VRT lIE R AD V 1 CE S
By Captain S i A 1 N, from B pistol.
CONSTANTINOPLE,^,,.,-
r 'H E entry of the Andrian troops,into Mol-
L uavta was the cattle of much (peculation;
but the myltoy o' tm proceeding of the Court
of Vienna is now unravelled, as it is now known
that the reason of it was on account of the terri
tory winch theie troops occupy being lately ceded
to Vienna by a late treaty concluded between that
Court and the I'orte.
"Conftantiulple, Nov. 5. The Ruffian offices
are released from the Seven Towers. Tne
Turkish Ambassador, who is preparing to go to
the Cant of Peterfburgh, will have a retinue of
I 300 persons; and it is thought that of Prince
Lepnin, who is appointed Ambassador from tne
Empteis of Russia to the Porte, will not be less
numerous.
The Grand Signior has given orders to set at
liberty all the slaves tiiat have been made by the
Tartais or the Turks during the war, and to pay
the proprietors too pialhes (20I.) for each Have.
'1 he Empress of RuLa has already rertored 3000
Turktfh prisoners, and has sent orders throughout
her do ninious to release all Turks that are in Ila
very there.
Carfav, Nov. yc. The Pruflian detachments Cent
hither to buy up horses, consist of cavalry and infan
try, arid bring with them a train of artillery. Ac
cording to some advices, two of those detachments
are actually on theii March towards the Fron
tiers of Turkey.
Letters from Peterfburgh affiire, that the fa
mops Pugatfebeff will not be put to death, but is
to be condemned to perpetual imprisonment in
some fortrefs.
ll'arfam, Dec. 7. Letters from Cracow men
tion, that a large body of Pruflian troops, with
artillery, are in the environs df that place. Those
from Lemberg mention, That a great number of
the inhabitants of the Provinces ceded to the
Court of Vienna have left their habitations, not
being able to bear the new taxes laid upon them.
Fr@ tie Frontiers of Po and, Dec. 8. Letters
from Peterfburgh mention, that the Empress of
Russia has appointed Marshal Count Romanzow;
to be Generalissimo of all her forces.
Hamburgh, Dec. 16. A private letter from
Munich mentions, that a Courier from Rome
brought an account that Cardinal Anthony Euge
nus Vifeonti, formerly Nuncio at the Court of
I Anna, is eledled Pope, and that he propoled re
taining the name of Eugenics.
E-fye, Dec. 20. M. Roffignol, Consul from
the Republic in Barbary, has sent advice to the
States. General, that the King ofMorocco haugh
tily refined and returned the presents their High
Mightinefles sent him; at the fameVime complain
ing that they made very light of his friendship,
because he knew very well that they had sent
more considerable presents to the little states of
yUgiers, unis and I ripoli, which in fomedegree,
were dependent upon him ; and therefore to Shew
bis resentment of their behaviour, he had declared
war against the Republic.
Vienna, Dec. 10. The Emperor has made a
present to Field Marshal Count de Romahzow of
5000 ducats and a gold fnuff box, richly set with
brilliants; the value of which present was enhan
ced by a letteNn the Emperor's own hand, where
in he acknowledged how much he was pleased
with the stria discipline observed by the Ruffian
tr< ops, while they were upon the frontiers of his
dominions; and alio with the polite reception which
his Excellency gave all the officers, who, by his
recommendation or that of the Empress his august
Mother, went into the Ruffian army.
Petejourgh, Dec. io. The sentence is said to be
F' jnounced against Pugatfeheff at Moscow, from
whence we expert a confirmation. The provin
ces where the rebellion reigned are so laid waste
and ruined, that a general famine prevails there,
ia consequence of which the government has found
it necessary to fend corn, and flour from their ma
gazines at Moscow and otherplaces to those parts ;
but as these supplies cannot last long, they are
contrasting with some merchants to furnifh the
inhabitants 'of Nifckney, Novogorod, Cafan,
Orenburg, and other parts with corn and flour,
and to faciliate their so doing, it is imagined the
Exportation of corn will be forbidden both here
and at Archangel.
Warfare, Dec. 16. They write from Moldavia,
that the Ruffians are there still, but that they
will pass the Niefter the 21st of this month, 40,000
men of that at ny will remain in Poland, 4000 of
which are to be quartered in the environs of this
city. ,
FFg"^ Dec. 16. They write from Madrid,
that the King of Spain hath ordered to be pub
li^d in all the sea ports in his dominions, a gene
ral pardon io favour of all sailors who have deferr
ed from his Majesty's service, provided they will
return io two months fromlhe day of the publi
cation of this pardon, anti engage on board the
men of war now fitting out in the different ports
of Spain. His Catholic Majesty even engages to
^ive them the arrears of pay due to them when
they quitted their ships.
Hague, Dec. 20. A treaty is now much talked
of here, which has been kept very secret these
four years. Ihe treaty in question was concluded
in 1771, between the Houle of Austria and the
Ottoman Porte, by which the latter engaged td
pay the former 20,000 purles of piaftres, con
taining 500 piaftres each, which makes a sum of
10,000,000 piaftres. lourthouland purses were
Stipulated to be paid as loon as the treaty was
figged, and the remaining 16,000 at two equal
payments at four months distance, and the Porte
fckewife agreed to give up part of Moldavia and
VaEchia, upon the coniines of the Grand Duchy
<lTranffoania and tl % e Bannai of Temefwar.
In return, the House cf Austria engaged to main
tain a considerable aiiy upon the Frontiers (as
fl e has actually done, to the great aftoniShment of
?il the world) and to recover all that the Porte
C.culd loose during the war with Russia, &c.
Paris, Dec. 2, The Archbishop of Paris hav
-42g received orders to be at Versailles on Sunday,
Dec. 27. An express arrived this day from
Spain, with an account that the King of Spain
had retired from the Sovreigoty, and that the
Prince of Auftrias has assumed the reins of go
vernment.
Dec. 28. They write from Lisbon, that advice
had been received at court, of an infurre&ion at
Salvadore, in the Brafils, in which it is said that
the crews of two French ships inthe hathour were
chiefly concerned.
It was remarked the other day at a great man's
levee, that an august assembly had been informed,
that the American papers were to be laid before
them after the holidays, and that they would fur
nifh bulinefs for the committee to last out the
whole session of Parliament. But the American
Congress had now shortened the business much,
for they had evidently proved the Americans to
be British fubjeßs, so that the only question now
was, Whether British fubjefls were to be fubje&
to the Parliament of Great-Britain? A question
that could certainly be fettled and resolved on in
one day.
Dec. 29. Letters from Lisbon, dated the 23d
of December, bring advice, that the King of Por
tugal has published an ordinance, laying a duty
of five per cent, on all vessels purchased from fo
reign nations, for the use of the Crown of Portu
gal. Vessels purchased io any part ofthe Portu
gal dominions, are to be exempt from this duty.
Some differences refpe&ing matters of trade,
,have lately happened between the Dutch and the
Portuguese, two of the latter of whose ships at
tempting to search a vessel belonging to the fub
jeßs of the States-General, a running fight ensu
ed, in which both the Dutch and Portuguese had
several men killed and wounded.
Dec. 31. They write from Cadiz, that four
regiments of Spanish troops are exposed there, to
embark on board some men of war going to Afri
ca, in order to attempt something against the
Moors, who, it is said, have blocked up Ceuta
with 50,000 men.
Extras of a letter to Prince Gallitzin, the Ruffi
an Mimfler at the Hague, dated Peterfcuty,
Nov. 19.
“ As to our present situation with refpeß to
the Ottoman troops, I mutt inform you, that
Hadgi Alli, Commander in Chief ofthtir troops,
whom Prince Dolgorucki left in Caffa, is just
gone from thence with all his people, so that now
there are no Turks left in Crimea. Prince Dol
gorucki, after having augmented the garrisons of
Yenicale and Kortock, is going to deliver to the
Tartars the Castle of Precop, the only place be
longing to them in our hands. He was htodclf
on the point of leaving Precop, having matched
the rest of his army towards the quarters afligned
tothe troops in time of peace in the interior part
of the empire."
A correspondent observes, that upon the whole
question of taxation, it seems most manifeft, that
it is the antienr, undoubted right of Englilh lub
jecls, being freemen or 'freeholders to give their
property by their own coofent only, lignified by
regaining the refufal of the Sacrament at St. Se
verin, his Majesty Spoke to him in the following
terms, in the presence of the First President of
the Parliament of Paris. “ The King my grand
father exiled you several times for the troubles
you occasioned in the Rate; I ient for you to tell
you, that if you relapse, 1 shall not exile you, but
give you over to the rigour ofthe law."
Hamburgh, Dec 25. The letters from Poland
advise, that the Pruflian commissaries, charged
with fettling th? limits of that country, had re
ceived orders to return to Berlin.
L O N I) O N, December 11.
Tie are assured, from the best authority,
that a lid of the names of all such merchants
and traders as retufc to unite in adopting imme
diate meafufes for the refloration of union and
commerce between this kingdom and America, will
be expeditiously transmitted thither, and printed
in all the North American News-Papers.
The foilowing have been sent us by a corref
pondentas American toasts:
A speedy and a lasting union between Great-
Britain and the Colonies.
A good tarring to Lord N—- and ^ll his
adherents.
No military government.
May the enemies of America be transported to
Boston.
Dec. 24. We hear that a fubferiotion is soon
to be opened under a very refpeXable patronage,
for the inhabitants of Boston, who are bravely
Suffering all the rigours of a siege, in opposition to
arbitrary power.
We hear there are letters in town from New-
York, Complaining much of the resolutions of the
Grand Congress, as having destroyed the trade of
their province, at a time when their neighbours
the New-Englanders were doubly flocked with
European goods.
l efterday his Majesty went to the House of
Peers, and gave the Royal assent to the Bill for
allowing the exportation of Indian corn, and the
Bill for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cy
der, &c.
After which the Lords adjourned to Friday,
the 20th of January.
Dec. 26. It seems to be the opinion of all real
lovers of their country, that nothing will heal the
unhappy divisions between this country and Ame
rica, but calling forth Lord Chatham and bis
friends, who, having equally the confidence of
both countries, are nioft likely to reconcile them.
A memorial has lately been received from seve
ral Englilbmen, confined in the Spanish prisons,
under various pretences. It is said they do not
amount to less than 600 men, the major part sea
men. The above memorial, we hear, will after
the holidays be laid before the Parliament.
Positive orders, we hear, have lately been
transmitted to the commanders of the several men
of war on the North-American Ration, to be ex
tremely vigilant in their duty against smugglers,
and to seize all such goods and merchandize, which,
by the laws of trade, ought to be exported di
re&ly from Great-Britain to the Colonies.
themselves or their reprefcritatives ; that the mere
right of giving money, the right of making laws,
are, and ever were, separate and diftind; the
one residing in the representative, the otherin the
legislative body; that the House of Commons
claim and exercise the sole and incommunicable
right of granting the money of the people, because
their House only represents the people ; that the
House of Commons ought not to claim or exer
cise such a right over the people of America, be
cause their House does not represent them ; that
to levy taxes on the people of America, by the
authority of the British Parliament, in which they
are not represented, is unconftitntional, deprives
them of the rights of Englishmen, and reduces
them to a state of absolutely Slavery.
fan. ?. An American agent is said to have had
an interview with a leading person, when he in
fitted on the neceiTitv of repealing the American
ads; hold, said the statesman, 1 for my part will
sooner submit to the block than a Single clause Shall
be repealed.
Extras of a private letter from the Hague, Dec. 27.
" A war on the continent is, according to the
present circumflances almost unavoidable ; to which
endthe continental Princes actually have 1,625,000
of the best disciplined troops in readiness; but it
is certain that Great-Britain will not be in the
least concerned in it; for we are informed from
undoubted authority, that a new alliance has been
treated on between Great Britain, France, and
Spain, and which was the real cause of Lord
M 's trip to Paris. Of this treaty the
French boast, and fay it was bought at a prix d'or:
the reason of which they pretend is the affairs of
America, which never could have come to a seri
ous confederation of the Court of G B n,
without previously obtaining the pacific determi
nations of France and Spain. It is further said,
that the said treaty was finished under the gua
rantee of Prussia and Sardinia, and which was
the cause of changing Ambassadors between the
two latter courts."
Extras of a letter from the Vifula, Dec. 15.
“ The city of Dantzig is still blocked up by
the Prullian troops. They are railing at Marien
burgh, for the service ofthe King, one battalion
of grenadiers, one regiment of hussars, and two
pulks of uhlans. Two thousand workmen are
employed, notwithstanding the severity of the
weather, in forming lines and ere&ing fortificati
ons along the frontiers of Samogitia. There is a
number of engineers, &c. at Memel, which seems
as if they would fortify that place."
fan. 5. We have the pleasure to hear, that
repealing the American afts is a measure determi
ned on in the Cabinet.
Some papers belonging to Madam Barre have
been lately discovered in an apartment at the pa
lace at Versailles, which will certainly be the
cause of her imprisonment for life. It is rather
unfortunate that a difeoveryof this kind Should
be made at a time when means were contriving
for her enlargement.
fan. 9. The people of England seem averse to
the American mode of tarring and feathering ;
notwith ftandining this aversion, the people of
Wapping have adopted this method of punish
ment by tarring and feathering a person last week
at Bell Dock, for being guilty of stealing.
Extract of a letter from Turin, Dec. 10.
" 1 ne alliance of this Court with the Empire,
France, and Spain, is upon the point of being ra
tified, and all the articles are agreed to. The
Marquis of Aigueblanque, our Prime Minister,
has Sent orders to Villa Franca to build four fri
gates, to Sweden to buildfix, and to our Ambassa
dor at London, to engage officers to command them
to whom good appointments will be given; so that
we are going to become a maritime power. The
Swiss regiments which compose the garrison of
this city and citadel, are distributed in the fortified
towns of Piedmont, and are replaced by Pied
montefe and Savoyard regiments. The scarcity
and d;arnefs of corn, the Small produce of Silk,
and the universal misery which reigns in this coun
try, does not seem to presage any great success
to our enterprizes; and the general opinion is,
that if some mediating power does not interpose
before the spring, we may become the vidims of
ourown ambition and credulity. Our kingdom is
certainly the richest in Europe, because the state
owes nothing, and our coffers are full; but such
an alliance may ruin us in two years. These are
the reflexions of an old General, which he having
made public, received orders to retire to the cita
del of Coni, there to learn to reflect and hold his
peace."
It is reported that two Noblemen ofdiftinguifh
ed abilities will speedily embark for America, by
commiflion, in order to enquire into the grievan
ces complained of, and on other matters of con
sequence.
We hear from Seville, that 3000 troops have
lately been embarked there on board trahfports,
for the Spanish garrisons on the coast of Africa.
By a private letter from Senegal we are inform
ed, that the French have at present five meh of
war cruizing on the coast of Guinea, and that se
veral of their merchant Ships are fitted up more
like privateers than ordinary traders.
Jan. 14. Itis Said that the late Lord Middle
ton has left not less than 400,000!. in caSh, and
an estate of 20,000!. a year.
A molt violent hurricane hath committed pro
digious devastations on the coast of Languedoc;
two Swedifli vessels laden with pitch and timber
were loft, and a third foundered in the gulph of
Lyons. Not a perlon on board either of these
vessels escaped.
Extraß of a letter from ^lymou'h, fan. 8.
" Yesterday the Commissioner finished paying
the artificers of his Majesty's dock-yard; to-mor
row he begins paying the ordinary, and on Tues
day the agent victualler will pay the officers, &c.
belonging to the victualling office.
NE WB ERN, ( North Carolina,) Feb. 24.
Cho-wan County, January 28, 1775.
JI being made appear to the fatisfadion of
the Committee for this County, that wehave
violated the eighth article ofthe affiiciduon enter
SALE M, (New England) Feb, 28.
Laid Sabbath the peace of the town was dis
turbed by the conning of a regiment of the King's
troops, the particulars relative to which are as
follows.—A transport arrived at Marblehead, ap
parently manned as usual. Between two and
three 0 clock (as soon as the people had gone to
meeting) the clicks were covered with soldiers,
who having loaded, and fixed their bayonets,
landed with great dispatch; and instantly marched
off, some of the inhabitants fufpe&ing they were
bound to Salem, to seize some materials there
preparing for an artillery, dispatched several mes
sengers to inform us of it. These materials were
on the North fide of the North river, and to come
at them it was necessary to cross a bridge, one
part of which was made to draw up to let vessels
pass. 'The inhabitants kept a look out for the
appearance of the troops. Ihe van guard arrived,
arid took their rout down town as fin as the Lorr
wharf; perhaps to decoy the inhabitants thrher,
away from the place to which the main body was
destined. The m u m body arrived soon after ard
halted a few minutes by theTown-Houfe. It is
laid enquiry was immediately made by some of
the officers, for a half-brother of Col. Browne,
the mandamus Counlellor. Be this as it may, be
was soon whispering in the Colonel's ear, in the
front of the regiment, and when he parted from
the Col. the regiment marched with a quick pacd
towards the North bridge; just before their en
tering upon which the bridge was pulled up. The
regiment however pushed on till they came to the
bridge, not oblerving (as it seemed) that it was
drawn up. The Col. exprefled feme furprize;
and turning about, ordered in officer to face hs
company t) a body of men Landing on the wharf
on the other fide the drawbridge, and to fire.
One of our townsmen (who had kept alonehde the
Col. from the time he marched from his owh
hotife) told him he had better not fire, that he
had no right to fire without fuithtio:de r % arid if
you do fire (said he) you will be all d^ I men.
The company neither faced nor fired. Ihe CC.
retired to the center of bis redimt, id mbh-d
his officers, and held a consultation; wi c 7
ed into by the Continental Corgi'!hr )\*
concerned in a horse race:—We do thereto.. .. c
heartily and Sincerely declare and profcSs, iTe )
arc sorry for our milconduX. And in order th t
proper atonement be made for Such our er^r
mity, do proinife that, in future, we shall ftrititiy
observe every article of the association ; and hope,
by such behaviour, to be reinstated in the esteem
and favour of our countrymen and acquaintance,
Which we have justly forfeited by our misbehavi
our. WILLIAM "ROBERTS.
JOHN ELLIF.
DEMSEY BOND.
Ckman County, January 28, 1775.
THE Committee of this County met at th:
house of Mr. John Cofield, and having
chosen Mr. Luke Sumner their Chairman, and
Mt. Samuel Jones their Clerk, made the follow
ing resolves:
I. i hat the thanks of this Committee be given
to Joseph Hewes, Esq; for the faithful discharge
of his duty as a Delegate from this province, in
conjunction with the other worthy Gentlemen
his Colleagues, at the Continental Congress.
2. That a Subscription be promoted in this
County under the direction of Mr. Luke Sumner,
Capt. James Sumner, the Rev. Daniel Earl, and
Col. Edward Vail, in order to raise a fund, to be
applied as premiums for such artificers and manu
facturers as Shall, within this County, make for
sale the best and greatest quantity ofthe following
manufactories, viz. wire, wool and cotton cards,
fulled woollen cloth, bleached liner, and steel.
Signed by Order of the Chairman.
SAMUEL JONES, Clerk.
At a meeting of the Committee for the town
of Edenton, on Saturday the 4th of Febru
ary, 1775.
P R ESE N T,
Robert Hardy, fofeerChaCtoX, Charles Bondfeld,
Jofepb Heines, join Rombough, Ibomas Jones,
Robert Smith, ICilliam Bennet, John Green.
ROBERT HARDY, Esq; Chairman.
TH E Chairman acquainted the Committee,
That Mr. William Litt ejohn, Merchant,
had informed him, that sundry goods, lately im
ported in the Lip Peggy, William Patton, master,
from Leith, in Great-Britain, amounting as per
invoice produced to £291 1/. 4 1-2^. Sterling,
had just arrived in Edenton consigned to him,
which he was willing to deliver up to the Com
mittee, to be by them disposed of agreeable to the
lentil Article of the American Continental As
sociation.
1 he Chairman also acquainted the Committee,
that Mr. Archibald Campbell had informed him,
that he had also imported in the said Ship Peggy 1
box of linens, amounting as per invoice produced,
to Z # 37 Sterling, which he was willing to deliver
up to the Committee as before mentioned.
Refolded, That all the said goods be fold at
public vendue at the Court-House in Edenton, ora
the eighth day of this instant February, (except a
quantity of potatoes, which, on account of their
being perishable, Shall be fold on Monday the
Sixth of this instant) for ready money ; and that
Robert Hardy, Joseph Hewes, and Robert Smith,
fee this resolve carried into execution.
It appeared to this Committee that Mr. Archi
bald Campbell had countermanded his order for
goods soon after the resolutions of the Provincial
Convention, held at Newbern in August last,
were made public, and that the aforementioned box
of linens had been flipped before his letters coun
termanding his said order, had been received by
his correfpondent#
Refolded, That the thanks of this Committee
be offered to Mr. William Littlejohn, Mr. Archi
bald Campbell, and Capt. William Patton, for
their refpeXful acquiescence in the Affociatior )of
the Continental Congress, and their readiness to
conform to the resolution of this Committee.
By order of the Committee,
CHARLES BONDFIE LD, Clerk.