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day next, the gift inflant, for four days, for her late
royal highness the princess Sophia Philippine Elizabeth
julhne of France, aunt to his mo fl chrirtian majefty,viz.
The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, Coloured rib
bons, fans and tippets, or plain wine, or white and
gold, or white and silver fluffs, writ black ribbons!
The men to wear black coats, and black or pEin and
witr, or white and gold, or white and silver fluff
w/uflcoats, full flrimmed, and coloured (words
and buckles.
Extract of a letter from lieutenant Hinson, o f the La
Nymph man of war, dated St. Curifiopher's, Feb. 19.
1782.
" I have the mortification to tell you, that the par
rifon of this island surrendered yesterday to the mar
quis de Bouillc'on the 17th. The marquis forced thir
advanced guard at Brimflone hill, put the so ces there
to flight, and took about go pri?bn p rs. Ear'y the next
morning, by an unfortuoa e accident, a magazine of
cur's blew up, by which 76 men were killed, and a
great many wounded. A little after general Fazer
bung out a white Big, and propose 1 a capitul tion "
Tee Warrior, of 74 guns, commanded by fir James
Wallace, went singly, a few days before fir George Rod
ney left Plymouth and co account having been received
refpeAing her since her firft departure from harbour, ap
prenenfions are entertained for her fafety.
We are well informed, that the chancellor has refu fed
to put the great seal to Mr. Arnold's pension of 10001.
a year ; the brigadier will therefore be now totally dif
appoin'ed in his views from this country.
Lord Shelburne is to aft as secretary of Gate for the
home department, as well as colonial ecretary, which
is to include the cort efpondence with the Eafl and
Weft-Indies, Gibraltar, &c. his lordship has already
appointed a Mr. Morgan to be one ofhis under secre
taries, and John Morceu, a clerk in the Southern de
partment, to officiate as private secretary.
Mr. Fox's department will include the business cf
Holland, and the whole of the continent, where if peace
should be eftablifh^d with America, the whole " tug of
war" must necessarily lie. He has been more fortunate
in the feledionof a fecretary,than any of his colleagues,
Mr. Sheridan's talents being indisputably of the firfl
stamp, and his determination for indufiry and exertion
•entirely as warm, and as sincere, as that of the firft
secretary himfelf Mr. Fox has been up at fix o'clock
ever since his appointment to his prefenr high office in
the Bate.
March go. No official confirmation has been receiv
ed at the admiralty, reforming the arrival of fir George
Rodney at Barbadoes; but the authority on which this
important intelligence has been received is such, as
entitles it to the hignert degree or credit,-=-The infor
mation comes in the way ofa letter to Mr Cmmaney,a
Capital navy agent, in America-square, from a merch
ant in Barbadoes, whose bufineb Mr. Otamaney tranf
a&s.— The letter appears to bare had te fel broke
for the fake of infertng the words, —" Sir George
'' Rodney arrived here with eg fail of the line, 0 tie
" 23d of February," which are squeezed in towards the
conclusion of the epiflle,and fuggefls therefore the rea-'
son whyno mere particulars are communicated. Next to
the pleasure f hearing of hr George's arrival with bis
feet in the Weft-Indies, which at this period is indis
putably an, event of the utmost consequence, nothing
would give a heartier fatisfaßion to his countrymeen
than to be informed of his fafe arrival in England
without it. .We are happy in the opportunity of affui
irigour readers, that this event will certainly take place,
very soon, letters of recal have been difpatihed after
him.
Yesterday William Knox and John Fisher, efqrs. were
dimiffed by lord Shelburne from the offices of under
secretaries of Bate to the American department. The
former of these gentlemen has realized a large sum of
money by the additional appointment of distributor of
the Indian presents, for which no less ihan 160,000!.
has been charged; and the latter retires with an easy
fortune made in a short time, as contractor for hats and
caps for tl e army in America.
Mr. Cbamberlaine, one of the clerks on theeflablilh
ment at the treasury, and Mr. Strachey, who was ap
pointed clerk to the commission, which was originally
granted to lord and fir William Howe, for restoring
peace to America, are appointed by the marquis of
Rockingham to be joint secretaries of the treasury, in
the room of fir Grey Cooper and John Robinson,
enquire.
Vice-admiral fir Robert Harland will soon hoif lhis
flag at Portsmouth, in order to proceed with a squa
dron to reinforce the Eritifh fleet in the Weft-Indies, of
which it is said he will have the supreme command ; fir
George Rodney's letters of recal having already been
dispatched by a sass failing (loop.
Vice admiral Hyde Parker is to resume the command
of the squadron deflined for the North seas, in the room
of commodore Keith Stewart, who is expected soon to
strike his broad pendant.
Sir Hugh Pallifer, we hear, has resigned the govern
ment of Greenwich hospital.
We hear from Dublin, that two full councils have
been called together at the cartie this week, on the fub
jed of the volunteer and grand jury resolutions to urge
a parliamentary declaration ofright ; the result of which,
after much opposition and many difficulties being dart
ed by the viceroy and his secretary, we hear is a re
port to the adminiftra rion of Great Britain of the date
of the kingdom, and that any further opposition on the
part of government here to a parliamentary declaration
is dangerous, and at this time it is highly expedient for
the king's friends to yield to the popular tide.
Lord vifeount Mount-Edgecumbe is said to have re
signed his office of captain of the band of gentlemen
pensioners yesterday, the command of which was im
mediately given to lord de Ferrars, son of lord vifeount
Townfhend.
Earl Gower was present at the drawing-room on
Thursday lart, when it was said his lordship would be
appointed steward of the houfhold, in the room of lord
Talbot.
Orders for the court's going into mourning on Sun-
Lord Chamberlain's Office, March 28.
Mr. Grattan's promised motion, in refpeß to an un
limited declaration of rights, has daggered administra
tion more than any queßioo they have hitherto encoun
tered in Ireland. In •he midflof her misfortunes, Eng
land is not yet fufficiently humbled to quit this claim
of dominion over the Irish. But such a determined spi
rit of independence on this head hat breathed through all
parts of the kingdem, that it is thought this member
of tie senate will meet too powerful a support to rifque
a disappointment on this occafidn.
Yesterday morning advice was received at the India
houfe, that the Vanfittart, Pigot, and earl Mansfield
Bait Indiamen,were fafe arrived in the Downs, on which
orders were font immediately for the India pilot boat
to from Gravefend, to pilot them into the river.
Yesterday some letters were received from Jersey,
which are said to contain an account of several Chips
being driven on Chore near that place, amongst which
are two French ships bound to Amflerdam from Nantz,
and it is apprehended several of them will be loft.
A letter from Mersey island fays, that some fifher
men,being out a fifhing two leagues from that island,
saw a vessel beating about without any people on board,
except a boy, who was so very weak for want of food
that he could not Band : after they had given him
some refreshment he could speak, and said t. e vessel
belonged to Ortend, that being leaky the crew defected
her, and would not fuffer him to go in the boat with
them, that the vessel had been beating about for some
days, a, dhe expelled her every moment to fink. The
boy is likely to recover.
Tae Love and Unity, captain Hamilton, bound from
Poole to Newfoundland, is taken by the General Gates,
anAmerican privateer,and sent into Borton,from whence
the captain is arrrived on his parole; by him we learn,
that the Americans treat the English with great huma
nity, and the prisoners who seem of a quiet orderly d f
pofition, are (offered to walk about the,town.
After the ministry kissed the queen's hand on Thurs
day atthe drawing room, they ^ll dined with lord Shel
burne, at his house in Berkley fquar p .
The duke of Richmond, was aiked a few days ago,
why he had, in such troublesome rimes as the present,
accepted of a place ? his grace replied, “ If there is no
profpea cf glory before the new admmiftration, on
account of the very calamitous slate of the country,it
must be allowed that their situation is a pof tof danger,
and that is enough to induce a fpinted man to Ranl
forward, and, in his country's cause expose himfelf to
that danger."
On Tuesday laid arrived here the flocoSpeedwell,
Moxey ; the sloop Swift, Bromhall, and the schooner
Hope, Filher, all from New. Providence, which they
left thirteen days ago.
Extract of a letter dated New- Providence, April 16.
" The Spaniards have t 2 fail at Cape Francois, three
or four of which are 50 gun ships, and about 9000
troops ; but Rodney's critical arr val will, for the
present; fpol their (port. It was not doubted but
they waited only for a junction witli the French to at
tack Jamaica.
" A number of prizes have been brought in here
lately, chiefly laden with flour, sugar, molaffs and
coffee. Oue Spanish vessel was laden with dry goods."
Capt. Moxey, of the sloop Speedwell, mentions, that
before he failed from New-Providence, two privateers
had arrived there from a cruise, the makers of which
reported, that in the Old Bahama Straits they saw
some vessels at a distance, which they afterwards came
near enough to discover to be a Spanish fleet of nine
ships of the line, with transports, &c. coming from
Hispaniola and fleering towards the Havanna.
Captain Moxey further fays, that a flag vessel had
arrived at New-Providence from Cape Francois, by
which advices were brought, that the spanifh fleet
that had been there, witli a view of co operating with
the French forces, on hearing that count de Graffe was
blocked up in Martinique, had failed for the Havanna.
By sundry persons lately from North- Carolina, we
are informed, that colonel Fanning still maintains his
ground in that province. His common residence is on,
the banks of Deep River, in a rough, hilly and broken
country, from which he is continually making excursi
ons to harrafs the rebels. About two months ago, a
captain Walker, under his command, surprised and
made prisoners of a company of rebel militia ata mus
ter field, whom he afterwards,dimitied on their paroles.
Lieutenant colonel Balfour of the Randolph county mi
litia was, about this time, raising a body of men to
go after Fanning, and, among others, forced those
whom Walker had paroled to join him, telling .them,
that a parole to a tory was no way binding,
Balfour imarc ed against Fanning, but could not
come up with him. He then returned home and dir
miffed his party, reserving only two officers and fix
privates as a fafe-guard. Their horses were scarcely
let loose when Fanning who had always been hovering
about them, came suddenly up to Balfour's house, and
made prisoners of him and his men. The privates
were sent away on parole, but the officers, including
Balfour, were tarried eighty miles to a place called
Saturday and Sunday night, a double guard of St.
Mary's association patrolled the parish to prevent the
prevalent effects of an old cuflom on Patrick's day.
Several persons intoxicated, were refeued from idle
women, and sent home to their families, and the dis
appointed ladies provided with a lodging in Newgate.
As this country is become, in part, a land of tillage,
every improvement in this great branch of husbandry
is a national concern.—An ingenious man, of the name
of Shepherd, has lately presented to the Dublin Socie
ty, the model of a curious engine for threshing corn,
the working of which is entirely produced either by
the hand or wind fails, while, by the incessant beating
of a number of flails, the grain is flruck from the ear
or pod and falls into a kind of hopper on an inclined
plan, so contrived that the chaff, in its course to a bag
or other receiver, is completely Separated, by means of
a fan, from the corn, which last is, at the feme time,
freed from sand, &c.
CHARLESTOW N, May 2.
D U B L I N, March 21.
3. Resolved unanimously, That this house highly ap
prove of the declaration of congress, “ That these Unit
ed States cannot with propriety, hold any conference
or treaty with any commissioners on the part of Great-
Britain, unkfs they shall, as a preliminary thereto, ei
ther withdraw their fleets and armies, or else, in positive
and express terms, acknowledge the independence of
the said Bates."
" You have heard of a treaty going on between
France and Holland; my cotrefpo^dent at Paris gives
me notice of such a contrast being actually signed,
which confifls of a great number of articles ; among 0-
thers the following are nearly the tenor thereof: A sti
pulation of a mutual guarantee of the Dutch and
French dominions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Ame
rica. A general guarantee of the Dutch dominions
absolutely held by them at-the time of signing. A pri
vate article refpeßing America. A new tariff on the
commerce between the two powers. No other sove
reign Bate to be admitted to a participation of cer
tain articles of this treaty; The article of guarantee
to be in force, and extend to all possessions falling to
the lot of either of the contrasting powers at the time
of a general peace. No treaty entered into hereafter
with any power or powers whatever, to affect the full
performance of this treaty by the contracting powers.
Six weeks to be allowed for the exchanging the several
ratifications, in order to take away any suspicion of
trifling in either of the parties. Ore extra article is
said to be, that France fliail for ever oppose erecting
erecting the republic of the dates general into a mo
narchy . This last causes a variety of (peculation.
The 17th inflant, departed this life, at Bethlehem,
in Northampton county, Nathaniel Seidel, the rever
end bishop of the united brethren's congregations, in
the 64th year of his age.
In COUNCIL, Philadelphia, May 2ifl, 1782.
WHEREAS on the 25th day of May, 1778, at a
time when the Britilh parliament, ministry and
kina were artfully attempting, by infidiovs means, to
divide and destroy these United States, the general as
sembly of Pennfy Ivania with a dignity becoming the re
presentatives of a virtuous and free people, entered, u
nanimously, into the following resolves, viz.
“ I. Resolved unanimously, That the delegates or
deputies of theUnited States of America in congress as
sembled are inverted with an exclusive authority to treat
with the king of Great-Britain, or commissioners by him
duly appointed, refpeCling a peace between the two
countries.
2. Resolved unanimously, That any man, or body of
men who shall presume to make any separate or partial
convention or agreement with the king of Great-Britain,
or with any connmiffiopers or commissioner under the
crown of Great Britain, ought to be considered and
treated as open and avowed enemies of the United States
of America.
Another party of the rebels were now in search of
Fanning, who getting intelligence of this went towards
Guilford, and while they were looking for him at Deep
river, attacked the guard at that place, killed seven
of them, released fix or seven loyalists in confinement
there, burnt the c urt house, jail and other buildings,
and afterwards made good his retreat to Deep river,
flipping by a body of rebels marching against him, on
a supposition that he was at Guilford.
the Cross-Roads, in Guilford county, where one Jan
son, a captain of Fanning's had been hanged a short
time before. Fanning, IN RETURN, THERE EX
ECUTED HIS THREE PRISONERS.
N E W-Y O R K, May 12.
The privateer Tyger, of this port, has captured a
sloop from Grenada, loaded with rum, not yet arrived.
A passenger taken out of the prize, and brought in
here reports, that he was in company with the French
fleet when fir George Brydges Rodney, with the Eritifh
under his command, bore down and attacked it within
pjftol fllot: at the commencement of the action, the
vessel he was in run for St. Euftatia, and a few days
after his arrival there, the governor of that island in
formed him of the complete victory which the British
had gained over the French fle^ (the particulars of
the action, as rented to him, are in every refped simi
lar to what has been published in this paper) On his
passage from St. Euftatia, he observed a very g eat
quantity of the fragments of masts, yards and other
wrecks of flipping floating on the water ; a sure indi
cation that a roeft severe conflict between two capital
fleets had recently happened in those seas.
For the information and amusement of the Ladies of
New-York, Philadelphia, &c. &c.
FASHIONABLE Dress at Paris, for 1782.
4. Resolved unanimously, That the congress have no
power, authority, or right, to do any a&, matter or
thing whatsoever, that may have a tendency to yield up,
or abridge the sovereignty and independence of this
state, without its consent previously obtained.
The queen of France has appeared at Versailles in a
morning dress, that has totally eclipsed in the levee
robe, and is said to be the universal rage. The robe is
made of plain fattin, chiefly white, worn without a
hoop, round, and a long train. It is drawn upin the
front, on one fide, and faftened with tassels of silver,
gold or silk, according to the taste of the wearer—and
this disclosed a puckered petticoat of gaufe or farfnet
of a different colour. The sleeves are wide and short,
drawn up near the shoulder with small tassels, or knots
of diamonds ; under sleeves of the fineft cambrick, full
pleated,anJ trimmed at the el bow with bruffels or point,
give infinite charms to the whole. The fattening of
the whist is not strait down the flays, but gently
swerved and trimmed with narrow fur, as is the bot
tom of the robe. A round pasteboard hat, covered
with the fame fattin, and without any other ornament
than a diamond buckle, or an embroidered one, finifh
es the dress, which, it is said, will be worn through
the summer, made of lighter materials.
Philadelphia, May 23.
Extract ofa letter from Antwerp.