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CONSTANTINOPLE, {Turkey} Aug. 17.
'T'HE joy which the people expressed at the firft
accounts of the peace between Russia and the
Porte is entirely at an end, since hearing on whatdif
advantageous terms for the latter, that peace is con
cluded. The people now daily alfemble in vast
numbers before the door of the Divan, and houses
of the Ministers of State, begging that they would
not fuffer such a peace to be concluded, but pulh
their war on, let the consequence be what it will.
This alarms the Grand Signior and his Ministers,
as they fear it may end in a general infurredion; in
consequence of which, the guards at the door of the
Sei aglio are doubled, and no body admitted to the
audience of the Grand Signior, but the Shevalier
de St. Priest, the French Ambaflador. Every one
is impatient to fee how these affairs will end; for the
Divan is for peace, but the people are outrageously
againftit.
LONDON, Sept. 14.
We hear that « very refpedable meeting of the
merchants of this city will soon be held, to confi
der on an Address, refpeding the affairs of Ame
rica, to his Majesty.
Strange as it may be, the Earl of Bute is now ac
tually talked of as fuccefibr to Lord H——e.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, OA. 1, 1774.
By the KING,
A PROCLAMATION.
For Dijfolving the present Parliament, and declaring the
calling op' another.
GEORGE R.
Y / HEREAS, We have thought fit, by and with
> p the advice of our Privy Council, to dissolve
this present Parliament, which now Hands prorogu
ed bo tuefday the fifteenth day of November next:
We do for this end, publiffi this our Royal Procla
mation ; and we do hereby dissolve the laid Parlia
ment- accordingly. And the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Bur
gefi'es, and the Commissioners for Shires and Bo
roughs, of rhe House of Commons, arc difeharged
from their meeting, and attendance on tuefday, the
said fifteenth day of November next. And we be
ing desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to
meet our people, and to have their advice in Parlia
ment, do hereby make known to all our loving Sub
jeds, our Royal wijl and pleasure, to call a new
Parliament: And do hereby further declare, that,
with the advice of our Privy Council, we have this
day, given orders to our Chancellor of Great-Bri
tain, to issue our writs, in due form, for calling a
new Parliament; which writs are to bear test, on
Saturday the firft day of Odober next, and to be re
turnable,gn tuefay, the twenty ninth day of No
vember following.
Given at our Court at St. James’s, the thirteenth
day of September, One Thousand, Seven Hua
dred, and Seventy Four; in the Fourteenth
Year of our Reign.
OA. i. The sudden dissolution of Parliament,
has given rife to a great variety of conjedures,
among which are the following: That it is princi
pally occasioned by the present critical situation
of affairs in North America, which renders the
advice of a new Parliament necessary. Others
more confidently assert, that the many spirited reso
lutions entered into by the several Candidates for
feats in the new Parliament, hastened the dissolution
of the old, as the Ministry did not know to what
lengths such proceedings might be carried, and
what trouble such spirited exertions in favour of the
patriotic party might cause them.—--Some fay the
accounts lately received from the Courts of Sweden,
Vienna, France, and Spain, have been of so per
plexing a nature, that a new parliament was be
come abfolute’y necessary, to advise and aflift his
Majesty. in the present alarming state of affairs.
It is now expeded that a general change of the
Ministry will take place before the meeting of Par
liament. .
It is said, that some advices of the most impor
tant nature, were received on tuefday from Ame
rica.
Sy the Boston Packet, Capt. Shephard, arrived at Sa
lem from London, we have the following frejb Ad
vices, viz.
A letter from Philadelphia, of August 4th, gives
the following account, viz. “ In the colony of
Massachusetts-Bay, about eight weeks ago, the mi
litia was mustered, which consisted of 119,600 effec
tive men, belonging to that colony only, all train
ed and disciplined as well as the best troops in Great-
Britain. They were exercised a few days ago at
the place where the regulars are encamped, the com
manding Officer of whom, ordered them to dis
perse, or he would bring his troops against them.
This occasioned some words, and the Colonel of
the militia told the commanding Officer of the Kings
troops, that it he would bring double the number
of regulars into the field, he with his men would de
cide the fate of America with him. However, mat
ters being amicably fettled, the Colonel of the mi
litia desired the Officer of the regulars to exercise
his men, when the militia fired nine times in a mi
uute, by companies, to the furprj^ of ^ll present,”
The following is a copy of the engagement signed
by John Wilkes and John Glynn, Efqrs.
.We \jjohn Wilkes and John Glynn\ do solemnly pro
mise and engage ourselves to our constituents, if we
have the honor of being chosen the Representatives
in Parliament for the county of Middlesex, that we
will endeavour to the utmost of our power to restore
and defend the excellent form of government model
led and eftabliffied at the Revolution, and to pro
mote ads of legislature, for fiiortening the duration
of Parliaments, for excluding placemen and pension
ers from the House of Commons, for a more fair
and equal representation of the people, for vindicat
ing the injured rights of the freeholders of this coun
ty, and the whole body of eledors of this united
kingdom, and an ad for the repeal of the four late
ads refpeding America, the Quebec ad, eftabliffiing
popery, and the system of French Canadian laws in
that extensive province, the Boston port ad, the ad
for altering the charter of the province of Massachu
setts-Bay, and the ad for the trial in Europe of Per
sons accused of criminal offences in America, being
fully persuaded that the paffingof such ads will be
of the utmost importance for the security of our ex
cellent constitution, and the restoration of the rights
and liberties of our fellow fubjeds in America. &
John Wilkes, John Glynn.”
It is to be hoped that the eledors in every county,
city and town in Great-Britain, will infill upon the
General Gage hath absolute orders from Court,
to prevent the meeting of the Congress.
A report prevails, that General Gage is killed,
and that two regiments of his troops are revolted.
It was yesterday reported, that advice had been
received, of there having beer, some commotions
at Boston, and that a great number of the army have
deserted, and that some mifehief had been done.
Sept. 14. Summonses, we are assured, are issued
for a grand Privy Council, to be held on Tuesday
next at the Cackpit, Whitehall, on the affairs of A
merica. Governor Hutch in son will then, we
are informed, be fwornin one of his Majesty’s Pri
vy Council.
We hear administration intends to be before hand
with the Patriots, by bringing in a bill next session
of Parliament to make a final settlement of Ameri
can affairs, if the colonies furnifh them wdth any
pretence to save their honour.
It is assured that government is much deceived in
thecondudof the Americans ; their cool deliberate
and prudent meafures,having confounded their foes,
and gained them-many friends.
Sept. 29. No more troops will be sent from Ire
land to America, but from Great-Britain. This
regulation has been occasioned by the great deserti
on of the Irish regiments under General Gage.
This being Michaelmas-day the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, attended by the Aidermen, Sheriffs,
Recorder, and other city officers, met at Guildhall,
where the two Sheriffs mounted the Hustings, and
proceeded to the election of a Lord Mayor. The
ieveral Aldermen below having been feperately put
up, the Lord Mayor was then nominated, when the
Ihow of hands appeared in favor of his Lordfiiip and
Mr. Aiderman Wilkes ; but a poll was demanded
in behalf of Sir James Efdaile, and Mr. Aiderman
Kennett, which began immediately.
L O N D O N, September 27.
YESTERDAY the Lord Mayor, the two She
riffs, Aldermen Wilkes and Sawbridge, and
a number of Freeholders of Middlesex, met at the
Mile-End Assembly room,in order to nominate pro
per persons toreprefent the said county in the en
suing Parliament. The firft business was to deter
mine on the different articles that the candidates to
be put in nomination ffiould fubferibe, which were
to the following purport : That, if chofcn, they
should endeavour to obtain a bill for the fiiortening
the duration of Parliaments ; a bill for the exclusi
on of Placemen and Pensioners ; a bill for the more
equal representation of the People ; and a bill to re
peal the four late acts refpeding the Americans.
The Sheriffs a iked the Freeholders if they were
willing their Candidates ffiould be bound to the
aforefaid articles ; when about fix persons held up
their hands against the question. This being de
cided in the affirmative, John Wilkes, Esq; was no
minated as a Candidate, and all hands held up for
him, except five or fix. The Sheriffs next put up
Serjeant Glynn, who had every hand held up in his
favour. Upon Mr. Sawbridge’s motion the two
Candidates, were jointly put up, which w'as receiv
ed with the greatest applause. Lastly the Sheriffs
enquired if any other Gentleman was to be propof
edas a Candidate ; whereupon one Gentleman was
mentioned, but no person seconded the motion.
The nomination being thus concluded, Mr.
Wilkes assured theFreeholders he was ready to bind
himfelf by the terms they proposed, as he agreed to
them. Fie thanked the Freeholders for that far
ther mark of their approbation, and begged leave
toaffurethem every part of his condud ffiould be
uniformly such as he hoped would continue that
confidence, as he was determined through life to
pursue the fame great end. This speech was re
ceived with applause.
It is not the people of Boston only, who are resolved not
to pay the tax upon tea, but the common cause oj' all the
American colonies ; and it is not improbable, but that the
ojfenfive step now going to betaken, may induce the Ame
ricans to apply to France and Spain, and open a commerce
with them ; and the consequence of which may produce a
war with England.
A corftant reader fays, that all persons who favour
the dragooning the Bostonians, Indicate as little found po
licy, as they do of humanity; vshat a savage disposition
must these betray, who can be gratified with nothing left
than the unnatural butchery of their fellow fubjeAs, re
commending the horrors of the sword-, such would, no
doubt, have been joyful fpeAators of the French and Irifti
Majfacres, and have chuckled at the carnage.
In answer to all and every the inconsistent prosecuting
political bigots, who may propefe hostile violence against
the Americans, let such be told that the Asner leans are
convinced of their indubitable right cf equal and uriN
verfalfreedom with the rest of their fellow fubjeAs, and.
that they are not represen ted, but mi/reprefenied.
It is inftnuated, that the pert of Boston will be as sud
denly opened, as it was rajhly and impolitic ally jhut ut,
in order to anjwer two 'very necefiary purposes, a refto
raiion of the deficiencies cf the revenue, and that of a vi
sible decay of popularity where it ought never to be voant
ing'
like engagement frem those they chufe.
, Oci. 1. At the close of the pell for Lord Mavar
this day, the number was as follows :
Lord Mayor, - - . 6 O -
Alderman Wilkes, - 602
Sir J. Efdale - -588
Aiderman Kennet, - 566
Orders, it is laid, are dilpatched to the commander
in chief in North America, to cause any fix of the
Deputies to the Congress to he intercepted on their
way, and by that means to fruftrate the intention,
by not permitting it to be general.
’Th hoped that the people at the next general
eledion will have an eye to those who have promot
ed the .passing of several unpopular and unconstituti
onal bills : the promoters of the Quebec bill ought
not to be forgotten, w'ho have denied Englifir fub
jeds a trial by Jury, and encouraged infamous prac
tice of Lettres de Catchet, by refufing to grant the
liberty of the Ildbcus Corpus ad to persons confined
by an ad of power. And lastly, those ought to be
had in everlasting remembrance, who endeavoured
to destroy the freedom of eledion, by rendering of
no effed the votes of the cledors cf rhe county of
Middlesex.
ExiraA of a Letter from Gibraltar, Aug. 20,
“ It seems as if all the powers cf the Mediterranean
were preparing for a war, either of inf ve or def e,five,
as all the ports are full of /hipping, and the foores covered
with troops, in Spain and Barbary particularly. The
emperor of Morocco has two very Jtrong squadrons now
f ,t J or f ea i tit Sallee, and the other at Larrache : The
States of Algiers and Tunis are Ukewife fitting out fma
drons for sea, but for what purpose these Barbarian
preparations are making cannot even be gucjfed at. The
Spanijh lines up to Saint Rocque are full cf troops and
several new battlements and forts are new built T
The ejfeA of our disputes with the colonists is vifille
at the cujiotn-houfe. The gentlemen of the long room fay.
that the exports decline confiderably.—Mufi not this cud
fatally for both countries I
Sept. 29. It is now generally known that Lord Mans
field's vfit to the French court is entirely a political one.
Some particular matters were entrufied to him, which
could not be committed to the care of any otherperfon. ”
OA. I. The idea cf fending cut another cargo oft.a
to Boston, with a military force, is mqjl contemptibly ri
diculous, and is likely to serve no other end than that of
making the exporters more laugh'd at, if pojf.ble, than
they are at present. Good Heavens !is it reasonable that
we should compel the people to drink tea whether they will
or not ? If we have injudicioujly overstocked ourselves
with a commodity, can reason or justice warrant us in
forcing afale ; does not common Jenft rather fay, wb
Jhouldflay till they fend for it? The exporters in this in
stance may, intheftriAeft sense, be termed hawkers and
pedlars, who if their accidental customers are not in im
mediate want of their wares, must be content to take them
home again, and rather by a civil demeanor insure their
future favors, than by any insolent imposition lose them,
which is exaAly similar to a parent, or Governor fund
ing over a child who has no appetite, and with a rod in
hand inftfting on its eating its bread and butter. Indeed,
Pappy, I cannot eat my bread and butter. You Jhall eat
your bread and butter, or mark the consequence, you jhall
be whipped. Away, away with such ridiculous, filly
politics.
It is now very currently talked of at the St. James’s
end of the town, that a new speaker of the H..of
commons will certainly be appointed at the meetino
of the new parliament, if not the veiy next feffions*
The present speaker is tired with so much business,
and it is really no great wonder when we confider
his years, the veryjaborious part he aded for many
years in his profeffion, and that the business of par
liament now mak e s tw'o volumes in folio each feffionti
inftc-ad cfone volume, and that fometimea a very
thiaone, which it used to be.