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Fortes creantur fortibus
Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum
Virtus ; nec imbellum feroces }
Progenerant aquihe col^mbam."
Political Mirror, ora summary Review
of the preLat R&ign, p. 40.
L.
LONDO N, August 13.
Extract of aletter from the Hague, Aug. 7.
“ The States General after deliberating on tne memo
rial presented by Sir Joseph Yorke, have come to the fol
lowing resolutions :
“ First. Not to yield the affiftmee to Great Britain,
which was required by the memorial.
"Second. To increase the land forces of the repub-
lic-
" Third. To provide (efficient convoys for the trade
of the republic.,
“ These ar m the resolutions to which the Affemoly of
the States General have agreed The Stadtholder is verr
much cha rined, as he was strongly inclined to furnith
Great Britain with the quota of flips fpecified is the trea
ty; but he was absolutely over ruled by the French
and republican party, who consider the idea of an invasion,
only as a lure thrown out by the Court 0 Loudon; to draw
assistance from Holland, and thus involve her in a war
with France."
Extr<ft of a letter from Hanover, July 30.
« The number of men raised in this Electorate, since the
commencement of the American war, has been so great
that the railing parties find it extreme.y ult to
rai (e new levies to compleat the a^menta,^ that or
dered to be made, petitions have been presented, the re,
renev graying, that men who nave Hr^famines, and
whoeLr^ h^eft livelihood by hard labour, may not
befoul to serve. 10 ^of the dims, have
fr/lQ^ttrtcrQ Aftsare fentoff
to London for inftrocLons how to.proceed
Yefhrday arriveda mail fr om Lhbon, brought by the
Expedition pa ket boat, Capt. Robing ; ^ ^%,,
: her pat being obliged to come North about to e
scape ti e friT.es and privateers winch are cruizing
in BSm left the Englifli fleet waning there.
Tae last letters from Jamaica motion,, that three com.
foot, with a train of artmery, nao just ^oark
^at that ^e, torale force the Engl ft Elements, on the
Manito '^reand to ^ some strong batted next to
the Spanish fide, ~
Extrad of a letter from Jamaica, Ju^ 2.
" Though weare at a dinancei r om tae orewot v .
war in the Weft-Indies, y-te/ery care and ! s
taken here, as if ^1 enemy were at hand; ah the mj
and independent companies, horse, &c,
nual exercise, and amount upon the whole Kland to 12, ,
besides the Liverpool Blues, who are 10*0 Itror.g, a< r
the other regular corps making together near 3000 ;
works throughout the Island are in the mos tcompel re
pair. an I new ones have been added, though we think the
French will not have hardiness enough to attempt this
Island untefs D'Eftaiog, with all his fleet, and 10,000
troops, should make the essay." ~
The Pituxant, Captain Lufk, which arrived a# w w •yi
ago from Jamaica, was taken on her pjffige y an '
ri can privateer, and afterwards ranked for s^^J,
is the firft (hip that has been ranfomeo from the Amen
cans since this unhappy con est, therefore it is imagine
it will occ^fimi a dispute among t: e underwriters.
The Sophia privateer (the property of taree daug iters
ofa nobleman) has taken the Efoennandeau, a very rich
Soanifu (hip, and is arrived at Lisbon.
Lord Macartney's dispatches for government „& on
board the Supply armed (hip, which were burnt t.e day
before the fleer failed to St. Kitt's, and confuted ,^h
her Lady Macartney had embarked on boaru toe noove
(hip at Grenada. The Supply drifted through th€
fleet whilst on fire, and yet did not damage any one veliei,
bat went on shore and there blew up.
To the Printer of the London Evening PoR.
SIR,V
Tr freedom of speech, and the moR vigorous opposition
_ to Ministers, wre ever necessary in a free country,
they are certainly attais awful period; a period which
not only marks th^ decline of a great empire, but the
immediate fall of it, a period in whien one man fee,ms to
have ufurpel the foie direction of government, and
having procured a Lt of profligate associates to go through
thick and thin with him, has bribed the Senate, and
delu'e 4 t'' e people into an approbation of measures',
which hmamßy Shudders at, and common sense con
demns. , , ,
A writer, who has lately taken up the pen to expose
these ret designs of the Crown against the liberties and
grandeur of Britain, in speaking of the coated with Ame
rica, observes, that " to the cruelty and i^juftice of
'' dr^winf ti;e (word, were added insult and calumny.
« Both ffouPs of Parliament were prodigal in their abuse
" of the Americans, whom they Rigmatifed as cowards
^ and as blockheads. Allowing these Rigmas to have
" born just, is it not a region (fays the writer) to have
„ tad LtU very COWARDS and BLOCKHEADS
“ for peace, after a contest of FOUR YEARS, in whicn
“ the rtrength of this country had been in vain exerted to
“ subjugate them?".
To this paflag'e, a bold but admirable note is subjoined,
and as it proves the author to have a perfed knowledge of
lire man, of whom it may be said, Omnis ilia tempeftas
Carfare impulfore exercitata est, we have extracted it for
the perusal of our readers: _
" Lord Sandwich in one House; and General Grant Ift
the other, were th e firft to brand the Americans as cowards.
The farmer summoned the fhoft of Sir Peter Warren from
its silent mansion, in Support of his illiberal reproach,
while the latter declared, tnat with 500 men he world
march from one extreme of the Continent to the other.
These were the opinions of L .n high in the royal confi
dence of their Sovere ; gn; opinions abhorrent to reason
and philosophy, but which were received with avidity,
because they were consonant with the fauguinary and ob
durate temper of a man, who fe^ms desirous of exchan
ging his ancient and venerable motto for the nhore classi
cal and pleafiog one of fie volo, fie jubeo. Had either
of the Senators above mentioned consulted Horace, tney
would have been informed, that the lion could not beget
the lamb, nor the bird of Jove the timid dove.
A vessel of 6od tons h parchefed by government, to be
fitted up as a prison ship, to be Rationed in Sheerness har
bour, as a great inconvenience arises in putting prisoners
on board the guardihip at the Nore till they can be sent
tip to Chatham.
A frigate is ordered to be Rationed to cruize in the
Downs, with orders to flop all (hips that come in and go
out, and ftridly to examine what they are laden with,
particularly to fee what letters trey have on board.
All the King's suit now wear blue coats, with a small
red cape and cuff, as do the Queen, the Princess Royal
and her attendants the fame coloured riding habit, which
is their usual morning dress.
An attempt is certainly intended to be made the eafuing
feißons of Parliment, to procure an equal land-tax through
out Great Britain, whereby it is calculated the revenue
would g^in upwards of half a million Sterling, without
frefh burden to the nation.
Our trade to Russia this year has been greater than ever
was known : The exportation of tin, lead, copper, coarse
iinnen and woollen cloths, long ells, worsted fluffs, &c.
make some amends for the loss of our American trade;
and in this, by treaty, we are to stand unrivalled.
The Ruffian method of seasoning Chip timber, as prac
lifed in their dock yards at Peterfburgh;Riga,Cronftadt and
Revel, is now generally introduced into the King's yards.
It was firft communicated by t^e late Admiral Knowles;
who was for m.ny years at the head of the Ruffian Ad
miralty, but was then hot taken much notice of.
The M rquis of Carmathen has obtained permiffioa
of his Majesty to raise a company of grenadiers, to be
incorporated with the Yorkshire buffs (East ,Riding mili
tia) now encamped at Coxheath, to consist of 120 men.
The Earl of Buteis now raising at Harrowgate 600 men,
by giving an additional bounty of three guineas to such
men who (hall enter into the regulars or marines with the
recruiting officers there.
There are now a very large number of prisoners in
France, among ft whom are a great many valnible officers,
and able seamen; our prisons in many parts of England
are filled with French prisoners, and 1500 are now in the
river—fltold pot any exchange be fettled on some plan to
the releif of this kingdom, in both instances, and she eti
quette of nations, in not allowing a cartel without a decla
ration of w^, in this instance, be dispensed with?
August„, Her Majesty is reported to be pregnant for
the fourteenth time.
Yeflerday Lord John Murray was at Court, and offer
ed to raise his Majefty'sregiment of highlanders, which
offer wac received.
The fubfeription in Surry, it is believed by many
will turn out a mere job. When the proposal was
firft made at Guilford (where 29 of rhe fubferibers attend
ed) left objection Ihould arise, the land forces were Rated to
behigh enough already, perhaps too high, as they exceeded
60,000 men ; and therefore the fitnefs of confining the sub-
Lription to the raising men for sea service only was strong
ly urged. All saw, and all lamented; the Ihameful inferi
ority of the British navy to that of the enemy, and there
fore federal gentlemen fubferibed to increase the fleet, who
were not friends to the Administration: And it was ex
prefly declared, they would n®t ^ive a (hilling, if any part
of the whole fuMcriptiou was given to r? ile landraen.
When objection was taken to the words in the refolurion,
“ Or for such other purposes as the exigency of the State
may require, Sr Fletcher Norton declared the objection
was unnecessary, and ill founded, for after all that was
said ch the fubje&, it was impoffibie any gentleman could
seriously believe the money would be applied to any other
than naval purposes, and that he must be a bold man,
who, knowing the opinion of the then meeting, should
prepofe to change the application ; notwithstanding whi: h,
at a meeting at Guilford on Saturday last (where only 19
persons attended,) 10 of whom only were at the firft meet
ing) it was resolved to give ten guineas a man to raise three
volunteer companies to be added to the militia, and boun
ties-for violating the birthright of every Englishman in this
cecity, by dragging them from their families, and forcing
them info the sea and land service I In consequence of this
change in the original plan, we art assured many refpeda
ble gentlemen, who had become conditional fubferibers,
am I amongß them the Knights of the Shire, have declared
they will not contribute a (hilling; and it is believed the
whole will fall to tee ground, unless the last Guilford re
solutions are refeinded.—The meeting on Wednes
day next in Southwark, will, it is Lid, be crowded.
If three more companies Should be added to the Surry
militia, it will then be numerous enough to admit of being
formed into two battalions, one of which, it is reported,
will be commanded by Lord Onflow; other gentlemen
will get rank, and new commissions will be granted.
Whether his Majesty conferred the post of Colonel to
the Glamorganshire regiment on the Earl of Plymouth, or
whether it was an ad of Lord Mountftuart, who could by
his own interest difpoie of it ; it is very certain that the
•officers of that regiment wetee.xtremely offended, that the
ordinary compliment had not been paid them, and they
have deputed some eftheir corps to represent the impropriety
of it in a proper place. The Earl of Plymouth, upon be
ing informed of the intention of the officers, set out imme
diately for London. It is thought he will be appointed
Cußos R®tulorum of Glamorganshire, which some inaa
gine will put an end to any disputes that might have arisen
on this fubjeft.
Though we are feelingly in the midst of war, a peace
is an the tapis, under the direction of the very man, who
made the last honourable peace of Paris; and under the
mediation of the fame Court, that of Sardinia, who w@re
so much our good friends on a former occasion, that we re
warde I their Ambaflador, Count Viri, with a pension upon
Ireland, which he enjoys to this very hour.
Lord Mountftuart, eldest fen of the Earl of Bute, is
preparing to set out directly for Turin, on affairs of im
portance; being lately appointed Ambassador to that
Court. t
We hear that Sir Charles Hardy is often so troubled with
the gout, that he is obliged to lie whole days on a fofa in
his cabbin in great pain. . ~ . c 0
This morning advice was received, that twenty-five fail
of merchant lh:ps being part of a fleet of forty fail, tender
convoy of two frigates and a 50 gun ship, from Cape Fran
cos got fafe into Brest harbour the 6th instant, whin Sir
C/a'rhs Hardy's fleet lay off Plymouth, and h- rest of the
fleet was gone for Rochelle.
No one flap displays more t he needy, defpicsb| e condud
of the prefect Millifters, than their fending from house to
house their begging box ; but the feofible public are aware
that the more they give now, the more they rnuft give
hereafter, by additional taxations, (for there is no end to
the necessities of the present craving minihers) eccafioned
only by their obstinacy, and extravagant measures.
How truly impolitic and detrimental, fays an eld cor
respondent, it is an Admhii flration, to fuffer new levies
to be made before the old regiments are properly recruited.
In all changes of Adminfirrtion, and revolutions of the
Cabinet, the people,' for whose fake all government is or
ought to he instituted, are never confdered as having any
weight or consequence in the State. They are looked upon
as beasts of burden, and called the feum of the earth ;
they are fit only to be insulted and trod upon, to be loaded
with taxes, and galled with opprefficn.
If the Prime Mioifter after a ion and inglorious, a
weak and wicked administration, should think proper to
withdraw into retirement, he muff be gratified with a titled
and rewarded with a pension ; and the people are obliged to
give an annual sum to support the man in luxury and afflu
ence, who has betrayed their interests and drained their
pui fes.
Lord Earrihgton 'is indeed an inflance of singular mo
deration.—This Nobleman after having acquired above
one hundred thousand pounds by his place of Secretary at
War, declined to accept the offer of a pension; and the
best of Princes was reduced to the necessity of employing
all his rhetoirick to overcome his Lordfliip's modesty, who
now enjoys the small taken of the King's gratitude
in a pension ©f 20001. per annum.—What a gracious
Prince !
A correspondent is much surprised that the King, after
Fallowing such large qir Cities of thifile broth, should not
be troubled with qualms or pains in his fiomacb, and that
in all this time, some portion of it should not.bavebeen
difeharged. He recommends a large dram of Irifi whis
key, as the best antidote, for so pernicious a beverage as
the thistle broth.
September 1. A letter from Portsmouth, dated Au
gust 30, fays, " A cutter is just arrived with dispatches
from the grand fleet, which f eft them off S illy."
A letter from Lewes, dated Aug. 30, fays, “ On Wed
nesday last some French privateers were observed chacing
an English vessel off Rye ; they continued chacing her for
several hours, and in the evening droye her on shore, near
Lydd, where it is thought, their intention was to set her
on fire, in consequence of which an exprtfs was immedi
ately dispatched to the commanding officer, at the camp
at Pleyden, near Rye, acquainting him thereof, who im
mediately sent 100 men, and a piece of ordnance, which
arrived at LyL time enough to save the sloop, and occasi
on the privateers to iheer off. The sloop was laden with
deal plank, and had cleared out of the port of Hastings
the day before."
Extras of aletter from Lifke^r^, Aug. 34.
" The French appearing on the co^ft for this eight
days last past, has entirely ftppt all kind of business, ex
cept preparations for war. The tinners, with all the ca
pital Gentlemeu and their Captains at their head, mar
ched through this town last Saturday, to the number of
about 1000 of the fineft young fellows I ever saw. Our
old town and parish (I mean Redruth) is extremely a&-
ive, and fliews a most uncommon spirit on this alarming
occasion, haying marched to the number o' 250 as fine
men as can be seen, and who are now employed in raising
batteries, digging intrenchments, and making mines with
indefatigable industry, and learning the war manoeuvres
out of working time. Mevagiffey was last evening can
nonaded by two small vessels, and several houses beat
down, and part of the key, but no lives loft. The wo
men and children have (est Plymouth and Dock, Kingdom
and Caws nd, and all the towns on the river. Gre^igum
bers are with us at Ldkeard?'¥
Extract of a letter from Ereft, Aug. 12.
" Notwithflanding the prodigious quantity of provisi
ons and Rores sent to the combined fleets, when they ap
peared off this place, in their way to the English Chan
nel, several tran (ports are waiting to carry live cattle,
floor, &c. to them as soon as ever we hear the success of
their expedition. The certainty of their being detained
to continue there some weeks has determined the Court to
fend them supplies by every opportunity. The Amethyf
te, Sauvage, aad Leopard frigates, which have been some
time blocked up at Havre by English men of war, are at
length fafe arrived here, with all the (hips they had ua
der convoy, two only excepted, which we look upon to
be taken. Our artificers work with the greatest diligence
to finifh the Ihuflre, Belle fie, and Comreffe of 70 guns,
now on the Rocks here, and the keels of others are ready
fcr laying, as soon as they are got off."
A letter from Lisbon mentions, that a violent earth
quake had happened in the provinces of Arragon and Le
os, in Spain, which had done considerable damage, and
several lives were loft.
Extract of a letter from Newcastle, Aug. 24.
“ This morning appeared off Tynmouth bar, a fnow
riffed vessel under English colours, which fired a gun as
if for a pilot to bring her up to this place, a boat accor
dingly went off, and passed backward and forward two or
three times with provisions, for which they paid honestly,
but refuted a pilot, and put to sea again almost immedi
ately. A few hours after came an express from Berwick,
that three large vessels had been off that place, all under
Eoglifh colours, by which firatagem they had taken se
veral (hipping. Fr®m the description of their sizes, &c.
the above appeared to be one of them. Croizers are failed
from hence to chace them, and an exprefe has been for
warded to Leith to give notice.
“ The Queen armed ship is appointed to convoy the
Baltick fleet from this port, and to fail the firft fair
wind."
On Saturday evening last, the liquor in one of Faren
leit's thermometers was near three fourths of a degree
higher than it has been at any time this fumnier, which is
one degree and a half more than the usual summer heats
in the Weft India Islands.
September 2. Last Tuesday a meeting was held at the
Crown and Ancher, of the American refugees resident in
London, when it was unanimoudy agreed to address the,r
Sovereign, and to offer to nobody themselves in defence cf
the State in any manner that may appear moR serviceable.
The address will be prevented to the Kmg by Lord G. Ger
maine, in the course of a few days.
Yesterday passed the Great Sal a patent, appointing
Robert Maxwell, Esquire, Governor of the Bahama
fflands.