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Foreign Intelligence.
LONDO N, August 3.
WE hear a gentleman of Sheffield has
invented a steam engine, for the
fafe conveying of ships, boats, &c.
from one port to another, from
twenty to two hundred tons bur
then, at the rate of fifte a miles an hour.
Yesterday colonel Smith, the American charge des
affairs, in the absence of Mr. Adams, had a confe
rence with lord Sydney, at Whitehall, on some de
fpatches received from rimerica by way of L'Orient.
Aug. 12. It is laid to be a fa&, that a strong
party in America are for commencing hostilities againit
this country, and are with difficulty retrained by
some persons of powerful influence, and greater mo
deration. Should, however, such an event take
place, we ate informed that ministry have received
the strongest assurances that fiance will observe the
ftri£teft neutrality.
A dilpute betwixt Great-Britain and America, un
less the french weie to affilt the latter, cannot be
conlidered as a matter of great consequence to this
country. Ihe Americans tuemlelves well know, that
they are not strong enough to retaliate on any nation
on earth that poffetfes a naval power.
Mr. Cruger, the member for Bristol is gone to
America to collect his dents before the present tran
quility may be dilturbed by that vindicative spirit which
the Congress is undoubtedly possessed with to a very
eminent pitch, manifefted most clearly in Mr. Adam's
declaration before he quitted England—a menace of
reprisals on the Welt-India idands and commerce, is
certainly of a serious nature, and has made a deep
impression on the commence of this city, but as the
languilhing and exceeding great lethargy of the mi
nister, previous to the late war, was so justly and ge
nerally reprobated, it is hoped that the present irii
nifter will take immediate Heps to prevent those de
predatory measures men iced by America on the
Welt-India inlands. 1o be threatened in the very in
fancy of the American States, is a just cause of spi
rited and active exertions to convince Congress of its
want of power to dictate to the firft maritime state in
the world.
It is itrongly asserted, that additional troops are to
be sent out for the defence of the Welt-lndia illinds,
and to secure them againit the menaced reprisals of
America, and that there will be a commander in
chief employed.
I he veflel now fitting out at Deptford for a voy
age round the world, is the property of two English
gentlemen, one of them goes in her. She is of five
hundred tons burthen, and fails from hence to South-
America; from thence she goes to China and Japan,
and lastly to Noortha Sound, in quest of those rich
furs of which captain Cook speaks so highly. These
they are to barter with the Japanese, which trade
must be remarkably lucrative. This veflel has forty
hands, and four years provisions.
The state of the United Provinces may be truly
said to be very alarming. A civil war there is looked
upon to be inevitable. The aristocratic party have
been supported by the court of France against the
prince of Orange. On the contrary, the prince has
received marks of friendfhip from his relations the
kings 01 England and Prussia. But there has very
lately a third party started up in Holland. This is
the democratic. This party seems to declare ftrorig
'y against the aristocratic; but, however, is not in
favour of the Prince. The commotions and fears oc
casioned by those divisions, have contributed greatly
to the late rife of our funds; for the monied people
in the provinces dreading the consequences of those
divisions, have sent their pioperty here to be veiled
in our Hocks.
Aug U- Th e departure of Mr. Adams for Ma
drid, seems to announce an approaching rupture be
tween this country and the United States; in which
case an invasion of Canada will certainly take place.
Some people think the French will keep "aloof in this
contest, but that is much to be questioned. They
have long looked on our possession of Canada with
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regret, and would no doubt hazard much to recover
it, that they may fell their assistance at a dearer ra^.
Of what advantage a settlement on the continent of
North-America is to those powers who arc in pos
session of islands in the Weft-Indies, we know by ex
perience; nor are the French insensible of it; they
therefore will be eager to procure it by any meins
whatever; and if they can prevail on the Americans,
as a stipulation for their assistance, to cede te them in
case of conquest, the province of Canada, or even
Nova-Scotia, they will embrace the cause of the
United States with pleasure.
Aug. 16. Private letters from Vienna, dated July
17, mention, that a libel having been published againit
his Imperial majesty, arraigning him in the fevered
terms for the treatment of some ' officers, for the ap
prehending the author of which, the principal of tire
police at Vienna has offered a reward of five hun
dred ducats. ihe emperor, who was then at Buda,
in the course of his tour, directly commanded that
the reward for taking into custody the perlon of the
author should be withdrawn; anti the copies of tire
libel in question, which had b^n seized by his mi
nister, should be returned to the publisher, in order
that they might have a fair and free circulation.
Extras of a letter from Nantz, July 25.
" I he fliip Butler, captain Corbie, is arrived here
from Boston, full of goods, cenfigned to Meins.
Bourdeerere and Co. for immediate sale. ft i; with
great furprize 1 hear that there is yet no • m,L:i con
sul in that part of America; and our leuci:Bern to
hint, that a violence Hill p.cvails in that ft to figiinH
the English. It is even said, thht fnc< c prain Stan
hope's affair, no peilon piofen'Ally from Britain can
put his foot on shore. New troubles ieem to he ga
thering; the Americans arc not likely to be at left,
which must finally ruin them."
We are told in the memoirs of Eradut Khan, ano-°
bleman of Hindoftan, that Jehaundar Shaw, grand
son of the great Aurengzebe, who succeeded to the
throne of the Mogul empire in 1712, fettled on his
favourite mistress, Lall Koor, who had been a pub
lick courtezan, an annual stipend of two crores of
rupees (about two millions ftciiing) for her household
expences only, exclusive of her clothes and jewels !
A sum superior to the establishment of all the queens
consort of Europe put together.
A most uncommon sacrilege was last week commit
ted at Wing, in the county of Rutland; all the clam
pers of the church-bells were Holen; and on Sun
day last, the clerk of the parish was obliged to sub
stitute a blacksmith's hammer to aflemble the congre
gation to divine service.
Extrafl of a letter from Paris, Aug. 6.
The arch duchess Christiana, and his highness of
Saxe Tifchen, her consort, dined the third infant at
Bagatelle, with the comte de'Artois. This princess
going to Versailles the 31st ult. and wishing to arrive
there at an early hour, ordered her poftillions to
drive as faft as they could; unfortunately a country
woman on horseback was in the way, and happened
to be touched by one of the wheels, which threw
her off her horse, and by the fall broke her thigh.
The arch duchess ordered the drivers to flop, took
the poor woman into her carriage, brought her to
Paffy, and was present while the surgeon administer
ed his aid. Her imperial highness gave her a purse of
Louis d'ors, and promised her a yearly pension. The
beneficent princess never forgets calling on the patient
in her way to and from Versailles, and this accident
is likely to be a lucky one for the poor farmer's wife.
" The greatest interest is now making at court to
hush the affair of prince de Vandemoat, who lately,
as I before informed you, killed a folder of his regi
ment at Douay. Ihe king is deaf to all intreaties
in lus favour, positively declares that he will let jus
tice have its due course, and that he will never at
tend to any reasons alledged to palliate guilt, however
diftinguiffied in life the perpetrator may be.
"M. Linguet left Paris the s th, and set off for
Brussels; his cause against the duke d'Aiguillon, &c.
&c is not to come on before Friday theist of Sep
tember. The lord keeper of the seals has caused a
circular letter to be sent to all the printers in Paris,
to command them not to employ their presses for M.
THE
Linguet's use. There is another mark of Gallick
justice! Iringuet was to have pleaded on the ninth,
but he asked for a more distant day. The whole has
something mysterious in it.
" A letter from comte Caghoftro is now in the
poiTeffion of the publick; in which this celebrated
alchymift does not spare a certain great man. In his
third mem rial, which is at the eve of being pub
lished, lie asserts that the minister in question, having
perceived his bull in cardinal de Lohan's closet, fpite
fully exclaimed, " Am 1 then doomed to meet that
animal where-ever I go? In short, the comte accufts
tire baron of being tue p^ixx^m mobile of all his
iisß. tones in France, Cagli.drio adds, “ The baron
'^^ not arqpnnted with me, I never did him any
injury, nor nave ! ever cvended any one of his conn
trying
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" '' B L I N, Aug.
Should our iniormatiaq from Philadelphia proveto
be a genuine uuiu, that the aothticcd tonr-to 0.,
Brituh vuiris, with the eur& furies 0 merchandifo
imported in them, are taken off by the :iC cf af';r%-
bly of t! e Hate of I'^nfylv inia, it uri! he produc
tive or many good contequerces to the trade of this
country, as frith rebels were 1:J anl chased in
the fame manner as the/ of Britain. Bren./w to
fuco heavy caries being brio on, there were several
'-y L r ge orceroa our merchants and rt ,m.\.-ri:,rers
f 1 w&iLn apTsOTt<m gooth, and various ether arti
c®3 of inu ihcvi.: but hce that period there have
• b# ; ' B • y at all. Pe&ps itiis
11 "' ^ 0 nt oer^on on the part of one of the
molt cc^Liibie c the American Hates rosy fug.
g-H the icr-rf to hme of the rest to imitate the
i<u^ nsodc of c.,n jt, though we cannot expert the
whole Wil! be fcotlad on a liberal basis, or that the
mote n-shelly pro truces will pursue the like mea-
Lue r. il a commercial treaty is formed between the
fiber country and the Congufs of the United States.
Vv^iMi th. 6 very desirable affair is drawing to an
am.cabif elofe, is not in the least known, except to
the hiinikei on the other f; e; nor is even the pub
lick eonje&rc pronouncing upon it, as in the pend
'% ntgocidtion between the courts cf London and
Verfaiiks.
%% 9. Jhe treaty lately entered into by the
United otates with the king of Prussia, is a further
proof how industrious and indefatigable the Ameri
cans are in the eftgblifhment of their" trade and com
merce, and indeed it is really incredible, that in so
short a space of time, after a long ruinous war, they
should arrive at such perfection in commercial affairs.
, " u ^- '7- A commercial treaty is now on theta-
P IS , Madrid between the New-States and the court
cf Spain. Some advantages in point of commerce
are offered on the part of the Americans, in return
for which the Spaniards are to protest them against
the pirates in tlie Mediterranean Sea.
^^£° J - We have the pleasure to inform our
readers, that the diHillation of oil of turpentine is
actually going forward with great fj ccefs, as a concern
has, been lately taken for that purpose behind Roger
fonsquay. A circflm'flance, that, while it fecdres to tbis
country so important a manufacture, will much faci
litate our trade tb North-America, by taking from
that continent quantities of common turpentine, an
article which, for want of a factory to diftil it, has
been long a drug litre.
^ u & # 22# Ihe commotions in the south of this
kingdom, begin to Wtaf a serious and .alarming afpe&.
Belides the march,of the flank companies of our gar
rison, under the command of general lord Lovell,
a detachment of the royal regiment of artillery, with
two field pieces, are on the road for the general's
head quarters. His lordship being Iworn a privy
councellor, constitutes him a justice of the peace
throughout the whole kingdom.
It was on Sunday currently reported, that an ex
press had just arrived from Kilkenriey, giving an ac
count that an engagemant had happened in that coun
ty on Friday evening, between the king's army and
the insurgents, in which a lieutenant of thf light horse
was killed:
[Numb. 442.]