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the mofl explicit, unevafive, unequivocal declaration
of independence, and the minister who would not con
cur in this doftrine, would be highly criminal, and so
culpable that he would not aft with him ; as for him
felf he trusted that he had Come personal character with
the house, and that personality he would pledge as a
Security fto his honourable friend fir George Savile,
''that there was not an intention in any of his majesty's
ministers to refufe American independence." I called
the next day at where I found this declaration
had given the greatest offence, as it was contrary to
• the noble lords fixed, invariable opinion, and repeat
ed declarations, which have been since renewed to
the house of peers. Mr. Fox finding himfelf unable
to carry the independence of America, contrary to the
spirit and sense of the nation, and piqued at lord
Rockingham's successor being on the demise of the
marquis, inßanfaneou fly appointed, and without his
being consulted, presently afterwards entered the
house of commons, and there took his feat on the fide
opposite the treasury bench, whilfl Mr. William Pitt,
just turned of three and twenty, went from that fide
to the treasury bench as chancellor of the exchequer,
vice lord John Cavendish ; lord advocate Dundas has
joined lord Shelburne, taking up the room made by
Mr. Burke,s resignation of the pay-mastership, fir
George Yonge is secretary at war; lord Temple and
Mr. T. Townfhend, secretaries of state; these are the
chief arrangements at present made in the confufion oc
casioned by the death of the marquis, who headed the
late administration; the Bedford connexion are to be
provided for, particularly the lords Gower, Carlifle
and Weymouth, Mr. Jenkinfon too is talked off. lord
Howe is to be firft lord of the admiralty on his return
home. Lord North is gone into the country, declaring
absolutely against taking any part on occasion of this
sudden change, at least for the present. The Dutch
have informed the czarian, that their engagements with
the court of France and the plan of reciprocal engage
ments against Great Britain precluded her from agree
ing to a cessation of arms, or to a separate peace, with
out the concurrence of their ally Two of the flaming
Jrifh patriots are lately promoted, Mr. Huffey Burgh
to be lord chief baron of the exchequer there, vice loi d
FaHon, and Mr. Barry Yelverton, to be attorney ge
neral, and of the privy council. Sir Henry Clinton
was, on his arrival, most cordialy received by the king,
and has been much consulted, refpeding Americanaf
fairs. We have very favourble accounts from Gib
raltar, the garrison having blown up the besiegers
chief magazine, with prodigious execution, and killed
their boafied chief engineer, a Frenchman."
Extract of another letter from England, dated July 14.
'' Mr. Fox is gone out because he could not succeed
lord Rockingham in the treasury, name a successor,
and fill up all vacancies. Lord Shelburne is made firft
lord at that board. Lord Keppel, John Cavendish,
Mr. Burke, &c. are gone out likewise. Lord Howe is
to be firft at the admiralty board. Lord Temple and
Mr. T. Townfhend are secretaries of fiate, vice Fox, &c.
lord Shelburne has declared'in the house of peers,
that he has never altered his opinion about the inde
pendence of America, but thinks when that is granted,
the SUN of GREAT BRITAIN will be set forever.
The parliament is prorogued to the 3d of September,
and the king declares an inglorious peace shall not be
made. The duke of Richmond is Fill in office, but
fays he will go out if America be not declared inde
pendent ; indeed he will soon go. The combined fleet
is certainly in the channel; lord Howe is gone after
them with an inferior fleet. Our Wed-India fleet
o- more than 100 fail, are expended every hour; one
or twoof the Jamaica fleet are arrived. Lord Howe
has been met by a vessel, the commander of w ich in
formed him, that he saw the combined squadrons that
morning, on which my lord flood towards them ; this
may produce a very decisive event. I wish this epißie
may get fafe to your hands, that you may know lord
Shelburne guides the affairs of government, and that
America will not be independent yet. His majesty
has a great attachment to his lordship"
The following is copied from the Morning Post, da
ted July 9.
The late resignation will save this country from two
impending evils ; in the firft place, the people will hear
no more of American independency ; and in the second,
parliament will not be dissolved until its coßfliitutonal
duration is expired.
Mr Fox's sedulous endeavours in the interest of the
revolted provinces, and his late declarations in the house
of commons refpefbng their independency, have entire
ly destroyed his popularity. Had such a peace been con
cluded, as was lately in agitation, the present generation
might have lived to fee grass growing on the Exchange
of London. Granting independence to America is
neither the voice nor the wifli of the people, unless by
this is meant the people, who wish in future to live
there, or those who, in hopes for a peace, are by trade
to make immediate fortunes.
Lord Rodney, immediately on his arrival, is to be
appointed to the command of the channel fleet.
His Britannic Majefly's most gracious SPEECH
to both Houses of Parliament,
On Thursday, July 11, 1782.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
THE unwearied assiduity with which you have per
severed in the difeharge of your duty in parlia
during so long a session, bears the most honour
able testimony of your zeal and industry in the service
°''he publics for which you have provided with the
Clearest difeernment of its true interests ; anxiously 0-
Pfning every channel for the return of peace, and fur
nifhing with no left vigilance, the means of carrying
war > if that measure should be unavoidable.
The extensive powers with which I find myfelf in
veiled to treat for reconciliation and amity with the
colonies which have taken arms in North-America, I
mail continue to employ in the manner most condu
cive to the attainment of those objects, and with an
ea „ e " ne ' s ' uit able to their importance.
,at Z f a ' which m y fubjeds in Ireland have expref
led for the public service, ffiews that the liberality of
y°° r Proceeding towards them is felt there as it ought;
and has engaged their affections, equally with their
duty and interest in the common cause.
The diligence and ardour with which you have en
tered upon the consideration of the British interefig in
the Eafl-Indies, are worthy of your wisdom, justice
andhumanity. To protest the persons and fortunes of
millions in those distant regions, and to combine our
prosperity with their happiness, are objeßs which am
ply repay the utmost labour and exertion.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I return you my particular thanks for the very libe
ral supplies which you have granted with so much chear
fulnefs and zeal, for the service of the current year. I
reflea with extreme regret upon the heavy expence,
which the circumflances of public affairs unavoidably
call for. It shall bemy care to husband your means,o the
best advantage, and, as far as depends on me, to ap
ply that ©economy which I have endeavoured to set on
foot in my civil eflablifhment, to those more extensive
branches of public expenditure, in which still more im
portant advantages may be expeded.
My Lords'and Gentlemen,
The important successes, which, under the favour
of Divine Providence,the valour of my fleet in the Weft-
Indies, hath obtained, promise a favorable issue to our
operations in that quarter. The events of war in the
Eafl-Indies have also been profperoas. Nothing how
ever can be more repugnant to my feelings than the
long continuance of so complicated a war.
My ardent desire of peace has induced me to take
every measure which promised the speediest accomplish
ment of my wishes; and I will continue to exert my best
endeavours for that purpose. But if for want of a
corresponding disposition in our enemies, I should be
difappomted in the hope I entertain of a speedy termi
nation of the calamities of war, I rely on the spirit, as
fedion, and unanimity of my parliament and people to
support the honour of my crown, and the interests of
my kingdoms; not doubting that the blessing of Heaven,
which I devoutly implore upon our arms, employedas
they are in our just and necessary defence, will enable
me to obtain fair and reasonable t^rms of pacification.
The most triumphant career of victory would not excite
me to aim at more ; and I have the fatisfaHion to be
able to add, that I fee no reason which should induce
me to think of accepting less.
Then the lord chancellor of his majefly's command
said: My l ords and Gentlemen,
It is his majefly's royal will and pleasure, that this
parliament be prorogued to Tuesday, the third day of
September next, to be then here holden ; and this par
liament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the third
day of September next.
Philadelphia, Sept. 12.
Yesterday the fhp Herr Adams, captain Smedley,
arrived here from Holland. She left the Texel on the
28th of July, and brings official advices to congress,
of the acknowledgement of the independence of Ame
rica by Holland, and of the reception, at the Hague,
of the honourable Mr. Adams, as minifler plenipoten
tiary from the united dates to that court. For further
accounts by this arrival our readers are referred to the
following extracts of letters from gentlemen of infor
mation at Amsterdam.
Extract of a letter from Amflerdam, July 11, 1782.
" You will find that the Dutch fleet, confiding of 19
fail, large and small, failed from the Texel the Bth.
'' This day's mail from England brought advices as
late as Friday Bth, on that day Mr Fox, lord Keppel
and Mr. Burke went out of the ministry ; the reason is
said to be the aver^on which the king shews to the de
claration of the independency of America. This event
has been foremen here for some time; yet it has thrown
the people of England into great confufion. The fad
is, that the advantages gained by Rodney have thrown
the people of England into as great a delirium and as
general a one as has been known ; indeed as few have
escaped it as did the Influenfa or Northern malady.
" The city of Geneva opened her gates the latter end
of last month to the troops belonging to the king of
France and the duke of Savoy: what the consequence
of this event will be I know not.
" The French fleet arrived at Brest, with 18 fail of
Newfoundland and other merchantmen prizes, and it is
added a 50 gun (hip.
" From every appearance, peace seems to fly from us.
I hope our friends in America will not be lulled into too
great a fecurity.''
Extraft of a letter frdm Amflerdam, dated July 8.
" The talk of a peace, which for some time past has
excited the general expectation of such an event, seems
entirely to subside, and the profpea of it is now loft in
a more vigorous preparation for war."
Extract of a letter from a house in Amflerdam to their
correspondent in this city, dated July 10, 1782.
“ We were some time ago amused with the idea of
peace, but that is now loft in great preparations for a
vigorous campaign in Europe."
Lift of the Dutch fleet which failed from the Texel on
the Bth of July last :
Vice admiral Hartzink, . . ,_ ,
Schout by Nagt van Kmfbergen, /Admiral Genera , 74
Vice-admiral Graaf ran Eyland,). A ,
Capt. Meuver, JAmflerdam, 60
Vice-admiral Zoutman, absent,).. , n
Capt. A- H. C. Staring, ) Ad - ^Ruyter, 68
Graave van Welderen, De Une, 68
Aberfon, - - - Glinthorß, 54
Bofch, - - - - Batavier, 54
Raders, - - Frinf. Rojaal Fredrika Wilh, 54
Mulder, , . . Rynland, 54
Staring, - - - Argo, 44
” e ' s l - - - De Jason, 36
Willink, - - - Venus, 24
Lieutenant Pieterfen, - - De Ajax, 24
D. E. Hengfi, - De Snelheid, 12
Vice admiral Pichot, absent,
Capt. Hooft, - - - JKortenaar, 68
Holy, - - - Prins Frederik, 68
van Gennip, - - Admiral Tromp, 54
J. Baak, - - - De Brak, 12
Capt. Pruyft, - - - Brunfwyk, 36
Capt. van de r Beeft, - - De Pallas, 40
The (hip Carolina, capt. Newel, is arrived at I'Orient
and carried in with her a very valuable prize.
The court of Petersburg is very industrious in her
endeavours to accomplish a separate peace betweeri
England and Holland. Her minifler at Verfaille®, has
made an insinuation to the French court, that her ma
jefly would be much obliged to the king, if he would
not make any farther opposition to such a separate
peace. To this insinuation the following wife and firm
answer has been given.
^w^ H E king is very sensible of the new proof of
1 confidence which he has received from the rm
prefs of Russia, by being made acquainted with
the fleps ihe has taken, and her fen timents refpefhng
a separate peace between Great-Britain and the flate®
general. His most chriftian majesty is fully persuad
ed that the was actuated only by sentiments of huma
nity, and therefore takes the earliest opportunity of
replying with the fame franknefs, as far as his majesty
is particularly concerned in the verbal insinuations de^
livered by the prince Barantinfki. The king ever Rea
dy to his resolutions, never to interfere in the conduct
of any other power, has not fought to dired the deli
• berations of the Rates general, either to excite them to
war, or to prevent them from making a separate peace.
England having unexpeHedl, attacked the united
provinces of the Netherlands, his majesty used the
most speedy exertions to counteract her intentions, by
rendering to the Rates general, in tl e most difintereß d
manner, all the good offices in his power, Without ex
acting any acknowledgement from them. If the ftatea
general think that the Services rendered to them by
his most chriftian majesty, together with the interest
of their own republic, engage them to persevere in the
common cause with the king and his allies—^ee^
press of Russia is too wife and just to imagine that his
most chriftian majesty would attempt to difuade then
from a resolution so favourable to the common can:: ;
and that he can only rely on their wisdom, to ^'^ -
mine on what is most convenient to their fituatmr.
The empress is not unacquainted, tha circumftac
ces had induced the Rates general to aft in co operati
on with the king ; who flatters himfelf that the view. 3
of her imperial majesty were not to engage nim to df
fift from this mutual conjunction, which n ceffar y r -
fulted from the situation of those two powers wi re*
fpeft to England, and which would naturally contri
bute to the re-eflablifhment of general tranquility—
this being the object of her imperial majefly's wifh¥
as well as of the monarch of France.
Extras of a letter from Pott au-Prince, dated Au
gnft 14
" We have taken, in the Eaftlndies, fix 74 gun Bri
tish ships, and thirty merchantmen, full loaded, valued
at one hundred millions of piasters, and they were fafe=
ly conduced to Bourbon. We have it from France, also
from the East Indies, by a ship that arrived here frora
thence last week."
Extract of a letter from South Carolina, dated Aug ti 3
" I am just informed that a number of Icyalifts have
petitioned general Leslie, to permit them to remain and
defend the town with the tories and negroes: inclofed
you have the pricipal<—Col. Ballingall, Robert Vi
liams, efq; col. Robert William Powell, John Gaillard,
e fa; John Rose, efq; major William Greenwood, maj.
Gabriel Capers, lieut. col. Thomas Inglis, John Hop
ton, efq ; Alexander Wright, efq; lieut. col. Tupont,
col. Gray, col. Caffels, col. Pearson, col. Phillips, col.
Hamilton (96), William Carson, efq; do&or W. Charles
Wells, maj. John Smyth, col. Samuel Campbell, N. Co
Andwew Miller, efq ; N. C col. Fanning, col. Edg^-
hill, col Bryan, dost. Baron."
Extrad from a letter—Head-Quarters, S. C^o r ir%
August 13, 1782.
'' For several weeks past we have been in th? great??
uncertainty iefpeaing the defrgns of the energy ~^
each succeeding day bringing accounts at - r;^- #
for and against their evacuating the town; tu ^ r:y
the indications have grown more and m r re .^
favour of it, and I hope I may now fay there ;?
not adoubt of it, for on the 6th instant at nig .H :de
my burnt and levelled their works at the Qmrter-oov y
and retired to town, deflroying in their way every . g
that had been planted, and at the fame tim p cut rr
all their forage on James island On t e 7tig;.
Leslie had a hand-bll published. desiring the loy I .?
that chose to go to St. Augustine, in case of the pre, —
ble withdrawal of the garrison, to report then fe^
and the quantity of their effects, and prorrifing a <.
voy for that purpose, at the fa me time desiring tn^
who chose to go to other parts to give notice. On .
toth a deputation from the merchants in town was f
to the governor, desiring protection for tneir perf %
and property, and refugees are constantly coining
and throwing themselves on the clemency of their < .:,-
try, which they are permitted to do by general L
There is information alfo,tha t the remains of five Brit, it
regiments were to embark dire&ly for New York. From
these fads the design is plainly allowed by the enemy,
and I think will be compleated very soon, ' if they have
Clips enough, as I think the, wish to be away in time
to avoid the approaching Equinox.
" We have been very quiet since the evacuation of Sa
vannahs a party of the enemy in vessels lately paid a
visit to Santee-river, and coheßed it is said about 500
barrels rice. 4
" The enemy are certainly Dipping their Cannon,
baggage, &c. as faft as possible and shoals of people
are constantly coming out to surrender themselves.
While I am writing the governors house and the road
to it, is crouded with applicants from town."
The N w-York paper of Saturday lift, contains a de
bate in the British house of peers, rejecting the indepen
dence of America, in which lord Shelburne fays, that
“ thefun of Great-Britain was fet^vhen the independence
“ of America was avowed," and that he knew of no
other motive for the resignation of Mr. Fox, than "a
desire of getting the whole government of the country
into his own hands." This interesting matter will be
included in a Poftfeript, to be published this afternoon,
at four o'clock—as the length of the debates did not
allow time to insert them in this morning's paper.
*»* The PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY meet
To-morrow Evening.