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in vain ; —and such is the madness of the times, that the
best meant endeavours to save this finking country, are
basely mifreprefenteJ as the causes ofitsruin. Such a con
duct as this might naturally have been ex?e&ed from the
pensioned enemies to En^lilh liberty, who would rejoice
at destroying those principles by their pens, which they
twice attempts I, (since the accession cf the prefect royal
family ) to dedroy with their (words; but, that you, Mr.
D-iu, sh mid become a fellow-labourer with such men,
tht you fhoul 1 dip your pen in Tory gall, and basely re
present the Wpigs, as being retrained from joining the
French, only by their cowardice, isfuca a circumstance in
y ar ch trader, for which candour it(elf cannot plead ; and
whenever you praft fe that (elf examination which you
have so often recommended to others, you must be loft
indeed, if your own reflexions do not present you with
ample cause for flume and humiliation.—To these reflecti
ons I shall now leave you, only adding, that as you have
been (efficiently plunged in trade, politics, and election
eering, perhaps it might not be improper for you to re
u.-m'jer that there is a nominally sacred character in which
you appear to the world, which requires some correspon
dent duties. You have done enough to conciliate the fa
vour of the powers which now are; but you have ill de
served your preferment, if you do not feel, that you will
soon want some better convolutions than any which a mi
nifterof date can bestow. Under such anawful cloud as
at prefect hangsover this unhappy country, every sincere
and faithful Minister of the G (pel ©f Peace should endea
vour to sooth, rather than to irritate the rage and tumult
of our politi.al diffractions. There will always be in the
heart of min enough of bitterness and wrath without your
prophaae endeavours, 'to foment and cherish those unhal
lowed paEions.,
" Bluffed are the peace makers, for they shall be called
" the Children of God"
Your's, &c.
A BRISTOL WHIG
From the London Evening Port.
A DIALOGUE between Dean Tucker, and the
Devil; occasioned by alate publication, entitled
" Thoughts ON THE PRESENT POSTUR EOF af
fairs."
HE Dean and the Devil, in free converfatios,
T.us oriefly difcourf'J on the Rate of the nation :
Quath Satan; " Dear DoXor, religion a trade is;
Your pen when you fiourifh, what Briton afraid is?
You write as you fight, and you fight as you write,
With eqwil inftruai o, and equal delight.
Defended by Tucker, Old England shall fland ;
What Frenchman shall dare to embark, * or to land ?"
Tucker.
" Dear Satan if ever I kneel'd at your shrine,
Our councils befriend, from the firfl I was thine.
Invafior/s a Bug-bear; the Monfieurs are civil ;
Else Hardy had sent 'em long since to the Devil f
But Congress with temper I never can mention;
I curse day and night Saratoga's convention.
Independence I hear in each Westerly wind ;
And Bunker's firft daughter is freah on my mind.
On the fide of bleft freedom should Providence fight,
I'll lye through whole pages, with impotent fpight.
One tyrant I'll flatter, and ridicule those
Woo blood and taxation shall dare to oppose.
No matter, should England herfelf be undone,
Might Tucker compleat what ambition begun."
Satan.
"“But, good Mr. Dean, should the tables be turn'd,
Should Moufieur ceme o'er, and your writings be
burn'd."
Tucker.
“ Then to Evans and Price I'll leave scribbling and wit,
And own, when too late, that the Biter it bit."
Worcester, Aug. 7, 177).
* Vide “ Thoughts on the present, &c."
4 A pleasure which remains to be axomplifhed.
NAPLE S, August 17.
ON Wednesday last Mount Vefuviws alarmed us
again , but a quantity of lava being difeharged, it is
hoped this tremen lous eruption is nearly at an end. The
whole country for three miles round Ottaiano, lies buried
under the afh?s of Vesuvius, and ha d that shower continu
ed for one hour longer, every inhabitant of that town must
have perished under the ruins of the houses, as in the city
of Pompeii, in the reign of Titus. As yet we have only
beared of two lives being loft, thou gh the deftrufhon and
defolutim of the country about Ottaiano is beyond de
scription, and thedamage estimated at lead 300,000 du
cats.
Ferrera, August 24. We ftili continue to have
ihocks of earthquakes in th@ Boiognefe ; and last Sunday
tnere was a very violent one. Our letters from Rome
mention, that some frefh differences have arisen be
tween the Court of Naples and the Holy See, which
daily become more serious, particularly in relation to
the Arctibi(hop's being railed to the dignity of a Cardi
nal.
Ldpfick, Aug. 30. The report which prevailed that
the King of Prussia was affembiing an army of observation
gains ground, which, it is (aid, will consist of a corps of
between 40,000 and 50,00© men, which is to be command
ed by the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick. It is alfj said,
that oe ore next winter the necessary recruits will be rail
ed to supply the deficiences in the companies from whence
these corps are to be drawn.
Brest, Aug. 31. M. De Cacqueray, and his ftaft'offi
cers, have left the Prothee, now in the dock, for the Ardent,
an English 64. gun fllip, taken by our fleet.
Paris, August 31. According to the report of the officers
of the Juno frigate, M. de Tronj©lly has taken and con
duced to the Isle of France four lhips belonging to the
Englifli Bast-India Company, estimated at 14 millions.
LONDO N, September 15
Portsmouth, Monday afternoon September 13.
—Sir John Lockhart Ross having Bruck his flag from
bn board the Royal George, and hoisted it on board the
Romney, has this instant got under way, with the Burwick
of 74. guns, the Hon. Keith Stewart ; tueßienfaifant, of 64,
Capt. Macßride; the Jupiter of 50, Capt. Reynolds,
and the following frigates, viz. Diana, Pbcenix, South
ampton, Ambuscade, Crescent, Milford, Brilliant, and
Porcupine; the Bonetta, Cormorant, and Helena floeps; the
Griffin and Nimble cutters ; and Firebrand and Incendiary
firelhips.
The deflination of this flying squadron is kept a profound
secret ; but it is conjeftured<they are either ordered to loolc
into Havre and St. Maloes, or to go North about to Ire
land, in order to drive Paul Jones from that coast, and
then to convoy the eight fail of Indiamen home Iroq ithe
mouth of the Shannon.
From the failing of the above detached squadron, it is
imagined the grand fleet will not go out again till next
spring.
His Royal Hignefs Prince William Henry, now with
the grand fleet, is appointed a Post Captain in his Ma
jesty's navy, and will aft as second Captain to Admiral
Digby.
The day for the meeting of Parliament will be fixed by
the Privy Council to day, which it is supposed will be ei
ther the 26th of Odober, or very early in November.
Yesterday the Clerk of the Crown, pursuant to a war
rant from the Speaker ofthe H+ufeof Commons, issued
out a new writ for electing a Member for St. Michael's,
in Cornwall, in the room of the Hon. Thomas Howard,
Esq; called up by writ offummons to the House of Peers by
the title of Earl of Suffolk.
Letters received from Tralee in Ireland, mention, that
on the 26th of last month the squadron under the com
mand of Paul Jones were blown out of Ballynfkeligs by a
violent gale of N. E. wind, which obliged them to quit
that bay with fu.h precipitation, that a long boat belong
ing to one of the frigates, with a Lieutenant of marines, and
13 hands, were left behind, and captured by a detachment
of the Kerry Legion.
ExtraX of a letter From Falmouth, September 10
" The frigates and cutters on the Brest Ration whenever
they have any intelligence, are in their inftruXions, or
dered to go for tee firft port they can (etch, if the wind be
not fair for Plymouth ; they therefore frequently put in
here with their dispatches, and fend them by land to Ply
mouth ; one arrived here yesterday from off Brest, but
so much precaution was tiled in carrying the packet
to the Poft-office, that when the boat had lauded
the officer who had it, the men kept rowing about till he
retained (no one being allowed to go on shore); they
then took him again on board, and rowed away for the
cutter, which put to sea immediately ; so that we are all in
the dark as to what the dispatches contained."
The Druid letter of marque, Capt, Brownfon, has, after
a desperate engagement of three glasses with the Perdrix,
a French privateer from Calais, taken her, and (ent her
into Harwich She has five ransomers or . board.
Extract of a letter from Atuy, in Ireland, September 4.
" This day James Carr was taken from the goal of this
town, in order to be executed at Gallows Green, for aiding
in forcibly carrying away a young woman with intent to
defile her. His Grace the Duke of Leinfler, accompanied
by many refpe&able gentlemen of the Anna LifFy club,
attended the High Sheriff td escort the criminal, and en
ferce the sentence ofthe law. As soon a# they had reach
ed the turnpike, on their way to the place of execution, a
numerous and dangerous mob, who had concealed them
selves under shelter of a stone wall, let Ry a volley of
hones at the gentlemen, and, with unparalleled audacity,
made a violent attack on the escort, in order to refeurthu
prisoner. The High Sheriff afted with remarkable spirit
and intrepidity, and the gentlemen, compelled thereto, re
peatedly fired amongst them, which these defparatu mis
creants seemed to disregard, and although many of the
mob were fevtrely wounded, they effected their refeue of
the prisoner.
Orders were last week sent from the War Office to the
commandants of such places where French prisoners art
Confined, to make it known, that any perlons who were
in future caught iu attempts to recover their liberty by
unlawful means, would be treated as felons, fettered, and
sent to other prifans, and that officers, attempting to break
parole, would be immediately locked up with their men,
without the advantage of an exchange till war is at an end.
S ptember 16. The Corporation of Dublin have appli
ed to the Lord Lieutenant for leave to raise one thousand
mew, for preserving the peace and good order of that
city, as the fouation of affairs in the kingdom required
the assistance of mod of the troopsin Dublin.
Application was on Tuefd ly made to the Lords of the
Admiralty, that the fame men of war which are to fail for
Ireland to convoy the EaftTudia (hips from Limerick
to the Downs do likewise take under their convoy the
rich Manilla (hip, which is carried into Cork, to fee
that fafe into the Downs iikewife, which was granted.
Orders are feat from the Admiralty Office, to the com
mander in the Dewns, to permit no lhips whatever to run
through there without firfl undergoing a ftri& search, and
to treat all such as are found endeavouring to evade it as
enemies. The like orders are sent to the guard (hip at
the N'ore.
Extract of a letter from Keykefin in the bay of Honduras,
dated May the 20th.
" The rebel privateer, Wafhißgton, of twelve guns and
seventy men, in company with the brigantine Mon
mouth, of fourteen guns and eighty men, commanded by
Captain Hingifton, of Salem in New England, have ra
vaged and destroyed the keys of the islands of Benacea and
Rattan, and carried off many negroes."
September 17. The frigate ordered for Quebec goes
North about, for the purpose of taking under her convoy
some lhips from the North of Scotland and Ireland, bound
to that place.
A great number of transports are taking up by the Navy
Board to carry troops; and fix (ail of armed lhips were
contrasted for, in the river, by the Admiralty, on Wed
nesday last, ad which occasions much (peculation when the
season of the year is considered.
Sept. 18. Two new batteries ofheavy metal are just com
pleted at Dover, one upon Pilot's walk, and the other within
two hundred yards of it, which added to the former works,
have secured the inhabitants of that place from any attacks
by sea, which before this, they were in hourly expecta
tion of.
The last contract for frefh beef to be delivered at Fortf
moutb, was for the amazing quantity of 30,000 oxen,
one hundred and fifty of which are required every day to
dine the fleet at Spithead which contains 30,000 effective
men.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, Sept. 11.
“ Our harbour is fortifying in many places. A batte
ry of 28 twenty-four pounders is erected cn Spike Island,
nearly fronting the entrance of the harbour; another of
8 cannun at another point of that island ; a bomb battery at
Prince Rupert's Tower, on the left of the harbour going
out, called Dog's Nose; another of ten cannon on the
right fide of the harbour, called Ram Point ; another at a
place called Roche's Cafiie.
The late Earl Temple was the only whig of eminent
character, whom Lord Bute could not impose upon, and
draw into his snares. He would accept no place under
the influence of a man, whom he knew to be equally cun
ning and insidious. He saw through all his falfehood,
thinly covered over as it was byaffeßed stateliness. He
warned Lord Chatham and Lord Camden of his artifices.
Pride seldom stoops to cajole, but with an intent to betray.
They were the dupes of his duplic ty, because they thought
so poor a cieature as Bute, durst not deceive them. Tem
ple remained firm and unshaken ; he lamemedto the last,
that his friends had not taken his advice, and treated the
gaudy caterpillar of the date as he deferyed.
Though the destination cf the flying squadron is not
announced, the probability is, that they have failed for
two material purposes—the firft to scour the Irish seas of a
number cf American privateers, and the second to defiroy
the late embarkation of the French troops. Sir John
Lockhart Ross fhiftiag his flag from a 74 to the Romney
of 50, and his taking with him a number of fireships, Re
prove the latter suspicion almost to certainty; As to a
longer voyage, though it was proposed by Governor John
ftone, who aCts in this squadron as a Captain under Admi
ral Ross, it has been thought prudent not to (pare so ma
ny ships at present from home service.
The runners to Ministry are now running down the
courage of D'Orvilliers, the French Admiral, and pro
mulgating his diferace with every degree of exaggeration,
not remembering that the more they decry the conduct of
the combined fleets, they degrade the spirit of our, own;
for if D'Orvilliers had done what they fay he might have
done, what does our Administration, or our Admiral
deserve?
D'Orvilliers could not have landed at Plymouth, or
Portsmouth, because he had no troops. The former like
wise he could not bombard; and as to the latter, if he
attempted it, and our fleet come up in the mean time, he
would have run a rifque of being defeated 'ere he formed
a line.
Jemmy Twitcher has the impudence to solicit a con
gratulation on the French and Spanish fleets getting back
into port. He calls it his manoeuvre; md a Great Per
son and he have had two or three broad laughs upon the
occasion.
Oue of the vacant blue ribbands, we can assure the
public is intended for the Right Honourable the Earl
of Sandwich. Patriots may comp! tin, and call this
an unmerited diflinaiou of royal favour; but we be
lieve there are few ; mpartial men in this Kingdom,
who do not think his Letdfhip highly deserving of a
Bring.
Extract ofa letter from a merchant at St. Christopher's to
his friend in Edinburgh, July 25.
" I am sorry to acquaint you that the superiority of
the British flag in these seas is now no more. After the
unfortunate engagement off Grenada, Admiral Byron
came to this island to repair. D'Eftajng alfohas appear
ed off the island and offered Admiral Byron battle, which
he could not accept, the French being much superior. D'E
ftaing then set fail, I suppose to reduce some more @f our
islands. Byron is, I hear, to fail in a few days to protect
Barbadoes, I with he may not be too late as he was at Gre
nada and St. Vincents. Affairs in this quarter have un
dergone a wonderful and dismal alteration within these
last three months. The brave Barrington is gone home
to report our condition."
Queen Elizabeth thought, thatin the hearts of her
people was her earthly paradise. To her people (he com
mitted her confidence, under God, and they to her their
chiefeft treasure upon earth. This good Princess once
refufed a subsidy; because the thought it too much, she
took batons half, and thanked the people for the remn& t.
This courtfe, made a great noise abroad ; the Princes
on the continent blushed at the adion, and felt themselves
lessened and reproached by the greatness of her mind.
But Elizabeth knew that such a conduct would endear
her to her fubjefts, and that ffie could command their
purses whenever the wanted their affftaace. Let it be
observed, that to a Prince who spares them, the people
will be liberal, and a good Prince will spare a liberal peo-
P ] =
A skip just arrived from Shetland brings advice, that
the saw three large lhips cruifiug off that coast, the largest
seemed to be a French 74. gun (hip, and the second a 50.
It is supposed they were cruising there for the eight East
India ships which are arrived at Limerick. Orders were
sent to them to go north about, but very fortunately they
were obliged to go to Ireland on account of the bad health
of the crews.
BALTIMORE, December 21.
Captain Cauldfield, who arrived here, since our last,
from Cape Francois, informs, that a squadron of the
Count D'Eftaing's fleet, consisting of 5 ships of the line,
under the command of the Count D'Gras, had arrived
there from Georgia.—This squadron was destined for
Chefa peak- Bay, but was obliged by stress of weather, to
bear away for the Weft-Indies.— Previous to the arrival
of these ships at the Cape, a privateer from Jamaica, com
manded by a Capt. Pickering, had greatly annoyed the
French trade on the coast of Hispaniola.
His Excellency General WASHINGTON, having
we are told, received certain intelligence that a large em
barkation of troops (amounting to upwards of B©oo men)
was taking place at New-York, destined to make an at
tack on Charleftown in South-Carolina, has detached from
the grand army a body of three thousand Virginia and
North-Carolina troops, for the better defence of that im
portant place. A part of these troops arrived at the Head
of Elk, a few days ago, and have since embarked and
failed down Chefapeak, to Portfmoutb, or Suffolk, in Vir
gniia.
We learn from the north, that the regiment ®f South
Fencibits, have, with a noble spirit, petitioned the Duke
of Buccleugh, feting forth, that in the present alarming
crisis they will dispense with the clause which euads that
they will not be obliged to march into England, except
in case of an actual invasion; but that they will chearfully
march at prefect into England to repel the foe, should
they attempt to land.