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The king flattered himfelf that the amicable repre
sentations and communications, which the undersign
ed had made by the express orders of his majesty, to
many ofthe distinguished members of the Rates gene
ral of the united provinces, on the bad interior fer
mentation, which at present appears in this country,
would have produced the effeft wished for, agreeably
to the positive assurances given on this head; but his
majesty has learned with as much diffatisfadion, as
forprife, that inßead of abating, these interior broils
'Rill go on increasing, and that nothing less is medi
tated than the depriving the prince fladtholder of the
command of the land and sea forces, and thereby to
oust him of the principal and most essential preroga
tives of his office of hereditary, captain-general and
admiral-general.
The king cannot imagine, that this can be the sen
timent and design of the nation in general, and of the
regents of the slate. Every good Low Dutchman must
recoiled with gratitude, that the foundations of his
present liberty and happiness were layed by the princes
of the illustrious house of Orange and Nassau, and ac
quired in part at the expence of their blood; that it
was this family which formed and consolidated the
present constitution of the republic, and which after
extraordinary vicissitudes and revolutions resembling,
in some measure the present, formerly rescued the uni
ted provinces from the imminent dangers with which
they were threatened, and re eflablifhed them in their
former luftre.
THE duke de Vauguyon, embaffador of France,
having the day before yefierday, notified in a
formal manner his return to Paris to the baron Lyn
den de Hemmen, who presides this week in the assem
bly of the estates general, the latter has compliment
ed him with the usual formalities. Yefierday this mi
nister of the most Christian king, had conferences with
the prince fladtholder, as well as with the counfeHor
penfionary, of the province of Holland, and the secre
tary of the Rates general.
Mr. Thulemeyer, envoy extraordinary of his Pruf
fan majesty, has within a few days, conferred with
some members of government, and yefierday morn
ing he delivered to the president of the Rates general,
a memorial in the following terms:
High and Mighty Lords;
It is, without doubt, on the preservation of this
form of government, which has now so happi'y subsist
ed for two ages, and of which the ftadrholderfhip is an
inseparable part, that the happiness and fafety of the
republic depends. Every real patriot must be convinc
ed of this truth. All the neighbouring powers appear
equally apprised of it, and are affected to fee such
dangerous and unseasonable diffentions break out and
increase within the united provinces, the consequences
of which must be fatal to the republic, as such have
been to other Rates, when like circumstanced : and
the neighbouring powers are equally concerned in the
support of the present system of government. The
king indeed is more particularly so, as well by the ties
of relationship, which conned him with the illustrious
house of Orange, as because he is the nearest neigh
bour, and conftaot and sincere friend of the republic.
His majesty is persuaded, and has the most positive
assurances of it, that the prince fladtholder has the
purest and most salutary views, for the good of the
republic and for the support of the present con ftituti
on; and that if ill designing persons attribute to him
any other, it is by a fi&ion deflitute of all probability,
and injurious to his person and his underflanding.
That the prince will follow and execute invariably the
system and principles adopted by the sovereign power
of the united provinces, and he will for the future re
move even the suspicions of the contrary.
The undersigned envoy extraordinary has the ho
nour to lay before your high mightinesses all those
important considerations. He is charged, by the king's
most particular orders to recommend them to their
most serious reflexions, and to call upon them, to re
je& and lay aside every proportion tending to lessen
the just prerogatives of the ftadtholderfhip,or to change
the eflablifhed form of government, which has so long
and happily subsisted, and that they will immediately
take efficacious steps to Rifle all internal diffentions,
to flop faXious enterprizes, to suppress abusive li
belt, and to eftabbih, not only necessary union, but
likewise the authority and refpe& due td the prince
fladtholder and other persons concerned in the govern
ment of the republic. His majesty flatters himfelf that
their high mightinesses will receive and take in good
part the representations of their neighbour, who is a
real friend, and far from being indifferent to the hap
ptnefs of the republic; one who will ever take the most
SATURDAY, & APRIL
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O R, THE
GENERAL ADVERTISER.
VOL. XII.I
HAG U E, January 22, 1783.
Foreign Intelligence.
Published every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.—Price Sixpence.
L O N DO N.
Feb. 4. It is resolved in council, that a large body
of marines shall be kept up during the peace, in case of
a sudden rupture; as they have been found the most
ufeful body of troops in the kingdom during the last
war, both by sea and land, where they have equally
distinguished themselves.
There could not (fays a correspondent) have been so
ruinous a peace to England as the present.—Aster the
loss of one hundred millions of money and more than
one hundred thonfand men, we have loft by it all A
nserica, Mahon, Tobago and Senegal; given back the
superior slate of the Fast- Indies in Cbandernagore and
Pondicherry; the fame in Africa, in Senegal and Go
ree; and a decided superiority over us in the Weft In
dies, by restoring St. Lucia.
No mifchief to Britain (fays the fame writer) was ever
equal to that done in the adminiflration of lord Rock
ingham, and completed in lord Shelburne's; who, with
all his boafled talents, has not shown the wisdom of a
child ; who has had recourse to (hops and wine cellars,
to find negotiators to ruin his country.
Extra& of a letter from the Pais Bas, January 30.
" Peace is no sooner signed between France, Spain
and England, than all the horrors of war are like to
take place on the continent. The emperor, it is said,
with other powers, is bent upon driving the Turks out
of Europe; in which case Fiance must assist he latter;
nay perhaps, even the pope, and the Italian states.
The king of Prussia is directing the Hollanders, as Louis
the fifteenth has the Genevois.
Extract of a letter from Pdrtfmouth, February 2.
" The duke of Athol, colonel Murray, and lord
George Lenox, commander in chief in Scotland, have
been down here; but the Athol Highlanders are Rill de +
termined not to go to the EaR Indies. They have put
up their arms and ammunition into one of the maga
tines, and placed a ery flrong guard over them, whilst
the rest of the regiment flecp and refrefh themselves.
They come regularly and quietly to the grand parade,
very cleanly dressed, twice a d;y. Their adjutant and
other officers parade with them. One day it was pro
posed to turn the great guns on the ramparts against
the Highlanders; but flat scheme was soon over-ruled.
Another time it was suggested ro fend for some march
ing regiments quartered near this place; upon which
the Highlanders drew up the draw-bridges, and placed
centinels at them.
“ The 81st, another Highland regiment aboard the
Indiamen, have also infifled on being disembarked, and
we hear that they are to disembark on Tuesday. Tne
Athol Highlanders are then to march to Guilford, in
their way home.
“ An English regiment, embarked for the Weft In
dies, infixed likewise on being relanded, and cut the
cables of thei transports, and are now in the barracks
here. The Athol Highlanders are quartered among the
town's people; they do not all appear to be Highland
ers. There are indeed some of Struan Robertson's men
amongst them, and a few of the Glio Ammon people,
and Stuarts of Appin, and Camerons of Lochiel ; but
they chiefly consists of young lads from Perth, Gla'fgow,
Dundee, and Montrofe, amounting in the whole to
near 1000 men. The most of them attended the wor
ship of God to-day, it being Sabbath, and have plac
ed centinels all round for fear of being furprized.
The inns are full of company from London, and the
country people from Sussex and twenty miles round
flock in to fee the Highlanders."
Atthe Hague, Jan. 20, 1783.
As there has been no attempt hitherto to take away
any of the lawful prerogatives of the prince fladthold
er, and as all recommendations of innovations till now
only refpea the remedying of abuses which had crept
into the government of some cities and towns, we are
yet to learn upon what grounds his Prussian majesty
charges the design to take away his powers of general
and admiral; no such propofirion having come to the
public ear.
warm and zealous interest in feeing its present slate
preserved.
You will oblige some of your readers, by inferring
the following Answer to the Enigma in your paper of
Tuesday the Bth in Rant. , I.
YOUR Enigma I read, fir, with care atd attention,
And oft as! read it—it puzzled invention,
I thought it was Woman—but found my mistake,
For (he can but half the Enigma partake:
So at it again, I both laboured and try'd, -
And find it to be, what composes the Tide:
Mr. PRINTER,
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
In the Borough o Chester, on ? he 22d of April, instant,
That valuable PLANTATION, late belonging
to the estate of David €owpland, decked, situ
ate on the river Delaware, one mile below the town of
Chester, and sixteen from Philadelphia, supposed to
contain one hundred and forty acres, to be fold by the
acre; there are eighteen acres of good meadow, two
valuable orchards, one of which is mowable, and a*
bout 30 acres of valuable woodland; the place abounds
with valuable fruit, pears, peaches, and all forts of cher
ries. The whole front of the place is furnifhed with an
inexhaustible fund of mud, and commands a profpea of
go niiles up and down the river. There are on the pre
miles the walls of a brick house, thirty by twenty feet,
with new joists from top to bottom, and all the materi
als on the (pot for finishing the carpenter Work, which
will be fold cheap to the purchaser of the land ; like
wise, a ,ood barn and Rud. The payments will be
made as easy as pcffibl p , and the particulars made
known on the day of sale, nr sooner, by applying to
DAVIS BEVAN, Executor.
N. B. There is fine sport both for fifhing and fowl
ing in ?heir seasons.
To be Sold by Public Auction,
At the Coffee-House, on SATURDAY
the 19th inffir.t. April,
At Twelve o'Clock, at Noon,
The State Ship Hyder Allyg
Agreeable to an Inventor,o be seen it the Place of
Sale - JOHN BAYARD, Auctioneer.
To be Sold by Public Auction,
At the Coffee-Houfe, on WEDNESDAY the 23d
instant, April,
The State Schooner
H A W K;
Agreeable to an Inventory to be seen at the Place of
Sale.
At fame Time and Place will be Sold,
A While B O A T,
About thirty-seven f,et long, with fourteen Oars;
very suitable for fifhing, or other water parties
lOHN BAYARD, Auftioneer
A gay Bay Horse for Sale,
NOW landing at Mr. Rowe's ftabl.es, back of
the Fountain Tavern in Chefnut-ftteett he is
full 15 hands high, is 7 years old this ms, trots and
canters, and goes well in a carriage. To prevent trou
ble, his lowest price is fifty pounds. April 9. gtf.
Wanted for a term of years, a
BOY or GIRL, white or black, between the age of
ten and fifteen, capable of running errands and tend
ing young children, in a small family. Any person hav
ing on- to dispose of, will be generously treated with by
app), ng to the printer hereof.
for S A L E, a
VER Y good second-hand CHARIOT with new
Wheels and Harness complex: Also three ex
cellent MARES, with foal by a very handsome three
quarter blooded horse. For terms apply to SAMUEL
HODGSON, at his Livery-ftaHe, behind the City
tavern. April 2.
Twenty Pounds Reward.
Vr i"AS stolen last night, out of the fubcriber's sta
ble, in the township of Trenton, Two Bay
MARES, one of which is about 7 years old, a light
bay, trots and canters well, carries herfelf gay and ie
Very likely, about 14 ^ hands high, neither band nor
ear-mark, died all round. The other is about 14
hands high with a bald face, nr rather a lift of whit^
down her forehead, a natural trotter, and has not teen
thoroughly broke, both her hind feet white, and not
(hod. The th^f or thieves are not known. Whoever
tpkes up laid Margs aad Thieves, so that the owner
may get his property and the thieves brought to pun
ishment, shall have the above reward, or FIVE
POUNDS for each of the Mares, paid by
April s. JACOB CARLE.
[NUMB. 1030.