The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-08-14 00:00:00, page 1

LON D O N, April 16.
By yesterday's French mail an account was re
ceived, that the troops at Brest began to embark
on board transports on the Sth; and that la Motte
Piquet was expected to fail with seven or eight
ships of the line in a few days after.
Were it possible, fays one of our papers, to add
to the unpardonable negligence of the late ministry,
it is their constant refulal to treat with the Ameri
can commissioners in Europe, when administration
were infor med that those commissioners had powers
for the purpose. I hen advantages might have been
obtained in favour of this country, but at present
the commercial and political treaties have so strong
an analogy to each other, that France and Ameri
ca are as it were one nation.
The report which has generally prevailed here,
that the Americans and the french in America do not
agree, is without foundation. Even our own pa
pers admit, that never since the commencement of
the war, has a more universal harmony reigned
among them than at present; which is as great as
it possibly can be.
April 23. It is said the great obstacle of peace
with America is the proportion of independence.
The Earl of Shelburne and Lord Afhburton are
positively against it. They have already given their
opinions publickly.
In case overtures for peace should commence
with France, it is said, independence must be giv
en to America ; Canada to revert back to France,
giving back the islands flie has taken ; Spain to have
'Gibraltar and Minorca ceded to them, and to give
to us the iflaud of Porto-Rico.
According to letters from Versailles, a Ruffian
of great diftindion arrived there a few weeks ago,
supposed to be charged with some defpatches from his
court, relative to a peace with England.
From the St. James's Chronicle of January
20th, 1781.
y The following very singular fad has come out
6< in the examination into the affairs of the late Dr.
" Fothergill, which ought to be recorded for
“ the honour of human nature, viz. that fpecifick
“ sums to the immense amount of no less than Two
" Hundred Thousand pounds, appeared to have
“ been distributed by him in different modes of cha
“ rity in the course of his well-spent life."
May 10. The advices which have been receiv
ed refpeding the Dutch fleet, are as follows:
Captain M'Dougal, of the Flying-Filh sloop of
war, having been stationed by direction of Admiral
Drake, Commander in Chief in the Downs, to
watch the motions of the Dutch off the Texel, re-
P A R I S, May 14.
rTTHE Count de Guichen is arrived at Cadiz
■ with nine ships of the line, and has join
q ed the Spanilh fleet, that consists of 24,
and is going to put to sea. They have
orders to go firft, off Brest, to expel from thence
Kempenfelt, and from thence, fleering northward,
to drive back into their ports both Howe and Bar
rington ;, who, it is assured, are blocking up the
Texel; they will then receive thirty Dutch ships
of war, conformably to the agreement made be
tween the Prince of Orange and the Duke de la
Vauguyon. It is thought, that from these 63 ships
united, three squadrons will be formed, viz. one
third French, another third Spanish, and the third
Dutch, which will sweep from north to south, all
the coasts of Norway, Germany, Holland, France,
Spain and Portugal.
May 16. It is generally believed that the ne
phew of Lord Grenville, who is here, is charged
on the part of the court of London, to make over
tures for a general pacification.
Naples, April 16. By letters from Palanno, we
hear, that the Viceroy of Sicily had gone to the
tribunal of the inquisition, and had formerly abo
liflied the holy office. This was done in conse
quence of an edict of his Majesty addressed to the
Vice King. The kingdom of Naples was always
so happy as to be free from this dreadful court.
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. V.]
WEDNESDAY, August 14, 1782.
Since the above, private accounts have been re
ceived, containing secret information of the desti
nation of this formidable squadron, in consequence
of which General Phillipfon and General St. John
received orders on Wednesday to infpe& the troops,
and older them to such parts of the coast as it is
apprehended are most liable to an attack. Orders
have been allo issued to all the general officers be
longing to the several regiments to repair immedi
ately to their refpe&ive commands, and the various
corps of militia in the neighbourhood of the metro
polis have been enjoined to hold themselves in im
mediate readiness for marching.
In consideration of the above, a letter was on
Wednesday received by the Right Honourable the
Lord Mayor, from the Earl of Shelburne, one of
his Majesty's principal-Secretaries of State, direr Sing
his Loidfhip to have the militia called out, and
put under arms with all possible expedition; and a
letter to the like purport was lent to all the differ
ent Lords Lieutenants throughout the kingdom.
One of the new regulations intended in Ireland,
is, that the King shall not call up to the House of
Peers there any Englishman who is a non-resident;
and that all pensions on that establishment shall
cease to pcifens out of the kingdom, the Royal Fa
mily and Prince Ferdinard of Brunswick excepted.
lelkiday morning the hottest press broke out
on the river, that has been known this war; and
a great many hands were procured to man the ships
of war at Chatham and in the river.
turned to the Downs on the 6th instant, with in
formation that nine Dutch ships of the line of two
decks, and 3 frigates, had come out of the Texel
on Sunday morning last, and came to an anchor a
few hours after near the Heildau.
May 13 A patent appointing Sir William Howe,
K. B. Lieutenant General of all his Majesty's ord
nance, ammunition, stores, &c. within Great-Bri
tain, and allo keeper of the ordnance store-house,
palled the great seal on Saturday last.
^Jay 24. Early yesterday morning a messenger
arrived at the Ruffian Ambassador’s, with defpatch
es from the Empress of Russia, concerning the an
swer given by the Dutch to her offer of negociat
ing peace between them and Great-Britain; whi&i
His Excellency in a few hours after he received
them communicated to the Secretaries of State,
who laid them before his Majesty.
A cutter, we hear, has been dispatched after
Admiral Pigot, with inftru&ions to the Captain,
that in case he should not meet with the Admiral,
he should proceed for the Weft-Indies with a letter
to G. B. Rondey. The purport of this epistle, it
is said, is to congratulate the Admiral on the sig
nal success which he had met with in his recent en
gagement with the French, and to compliment him
in the name of the Admiralty, on the extraordina
ry merit displayed by him and his officers on that
occasion, intimating at the fame time that Admiral
Pigot had been directed to proceed to the Welt-
Indies, and to take upon him the command there,
but that this appointment was to be considered as
entirely conditional, depending upon Sir George's
option whether he chose to return or no.
HCU SE or COMMONS, Friday, May 24.
Mr. Rolle informed the houl. that notwith
standing he had, on the day the address of thanks
was moved to Admiral Rodney, withdrawn the
motion refpeaing his recal, he should on Thurs
day next renew that morion, as he considered the
recal of that gallant Admiral unwise, impolitick
and hurtful to the service, particularly now, when
the Beet under his command seemed so unanimous.
7 he house resolved itfelf into a committee, Mr.
Secretary Fox in the chair, on the American truce
bill, when they filled up the blanks, and ordered
the chairman to report the fame to the house.
May 26. Advices have been received by govern
ment, by the packet which arrived Friday last from
Mr. Grenville, the present negociator for peace at
Paris. He arrived there in the beginning of the
present month, and has already had a conference
with Moiifieur de Vergennes on the fubjed of his
THE
May 27. Letters from Spain, received yefler
day, advise, that Count Guichen had returned to
Cadiz, with nine ships of the line, and that joined
by twenty-four Spanish ships, he is shortly to put to
sea again. His orders, 'tis said, are to proceed to
wards Brest, and afterchafing away Kempenfelt, to
pals up the channel and open the ports of Holland,
from whence, joined by the Dutch, he will be able
to drive the English ships into port, and scour the
fliores of Norway, Germany, Holland, France,
Spain and Portugal.
We are assured, that towards the end of June,
a convoy will leave Portsmouth for the Weft-India
islands, and that the victuallers and ftore-lhips. who
now lie at Spitehead, are ordered to repair imme
diately to Cork, and put themselves under the care
of some fllips of war, which are to piccecd from
that port early next month.'
commission, at which the Count de Aranda, the
Spanish AmbafTador at Paris, was prelent. The
conference lasted two hours, but as nothing took
place but a general explanation of preliminaries,
he has not been as yet able to transmit any deci
sive opinion refpeding the probable result of his
visit.
M*y 28. Soon after the revolution in the Mini
stry, Mr. Adams, lately acknowledged b, the
States General of the Netherlands, as A adder
Plenipotentiary of America, commi nica cd to cur
new rulers, and through the mediur of a trusty
messenger, that Congress had deputed in Europe
five commissioners to open and conclude a treaty of
peace; that corfcquently their powers were most
extensive; and that they were ready to use them,
in case they should find in the new Governors of
this country, a difpefition equally pacifick. In con
sequence of that commission from Mr. Adams, the
new administration consulted Mr. Laurens, one of
the five commissioners, and imm:cly after the
firft conference on the fubjedt, ne was rele.fed from
his parole, as well as his securities. They did
more! though they did not immediately proceed
to a general exchange of prisoners, Earl Cornwal
lis was released from his parole, in consideration of
the favour granted Mr. Laurens.
Mr. Oswald, one of Mr. Laurens's Securities,
was immediately lent to Versailles, to confer with
the French Ministry and Dr. Franklin. He had
several other audiences in the beginning of April,
and availed bimfelf of them to make proposals,
which were better received, and procured more
favourable answers than could be expelled.
The 12th instant Mr Laurens left England.
He is supposed to be now near the place where the
negociations are to be decisive. It is said they are
on the following terms:
All our islands, that of Grenada excepted, shall
be reftituted by France, who shall again be in pos
session of St. Lucia, Pondicherry, and all her other
settlements in India.
Minorca to be ceded to Spain, who shall give us
Porto-Rico, renounce her pi etenfions to Jamaica,
in consideration of which foe shall be put in full
pofTeffion of Gibraltar.
Florida to be ceded to the Americans.
Me shall reftitute to the Dutch all their pofTefli
ous taken during the war, and secure to them the
exercise of a free and neutral trade, on the terms
of the armed neutrality.
America will be granted her independency, and
a general liberty of trade. England on her part
will equally divide with her the fifheries of New
foundland and New-England; preserve the peacea
ble possession of Canada to its old limits, and all
the lands to the northward of that province. We
shall, in consequence of this, give up New-York to
the Americans, and whatever we possess to the
southward.
Lord Keppel moved yesterday in the house of
peers, a vote of thanks to Admiral Rodney. It
pafled unanimously ; but Lord Sandwich seized this
opportunity for observing, that the services done
the country by this fortunate commander, were not
due to the new administration, which, far from ac-
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