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grant a mote extensive trade to this Kingdom, was
immediately followed by a demand of an extraordi
nary subsidy of 600,0001. sterling, for the railing of
which there should be one or two lotteries, an addi
tional duty of fix per cent, upon all kinds of mer
chandize imported, except wine; an additional duty
of 41. per ton upon all wines imported ; a third duty
of a penny per pound on all tobacco imported ; and
a fourth, of fix-pence upon every raw hide export
ed. After long debates, the House appearing in ge
neral disposed to reject the duties, it was proposed
not to hurry it, and that the determination should
be put off till to-morrow ; but the demand was not
more fuccefsful, and Mr. Gratton having observed
that the indignation of the House, the evening before,
was general, made the following motion, That at
the present moment it <was not convenient to agree to
an, new impofls. After some debates, the question
having been put and the voices taken, there appear
ed for the motion 170, against it 47 ; the majority
against government, 123.
Dec. 18. A negociation of some importance is go
ing on bet\?een our Court and that of Copenhagen,
for which purpose his Majesty's Ambassador at that
Court has been lately invested with frefh powers by
the last dispatches, which were sent from London.
Dec. 21. This day arrived at Lord George Ger
main's office, an officer from Gcn. Prevoft, with dis
patches, giving a particular account of the proceed
ings of the army under his command, up to the time
of tne departure of d'Eltaing.
The arrival of the good news, given in last night's
Gazette Extraordinary, was announced yesterday to
the public, by the firing of the park and tower guns,
and in the evening there were illuminations and o
ther rejoicings.
LORD North rose, and the house observing a pro
found silence, his Lordthip proceeded to tulfil
his promise by making some proportions to the house
for the relief of Ireland. He said he should only Short
ly open the propositions he meant to offer, and refer
them to the consideration of a Committee to be ap
pointed for a future day. An hon. gentleman (Mr.
Burke) in the course of the debate, had aiked him
whether he knew the propositions he had formed
would prove fatisfaCtory to Ireland ? In a question of
such importance, of such magnitude, he said it was
impossible for him to undertake an answer for the con
sequences ; but from all the information he had been
able to procure, (and he had made very ample enqui
ries) from what he had learned to be the opinion of
the principal perlons of Ireland, and from having con
versed with those who were the most capable of giv
ing information on the fubjeCt, he was himielt con
vinced that they would prove fatisfadory ; he beg
ged however, to be understood as here giving only
his own opinion, and not as taking upon himfelf the
entire responsibility ; by all he could learn of the real
meaning of the Parliament of Ireland, by the words
a free trade, he did not understand, nor had it been
said by any one person either here or there, that a free,
untaxed, and unlimited commerce with this country,
was expected or desired, the real cause of the com
plaints of Ireland, was the restrictions on their trade ;
restrictions begun to be impofedin the reign of Charles
the second, and which had since been, from time to
time, encreafed on various commercial principles ;
his intention was to take off such of those reftriftions
as were most burthenfome and most complained of;
and not only this, he also intended to open new
fonrces of wealth and commerce to Ireland, not upon
any foeculative views of politics, but upon real, afcer
tainanle grounds. To this measure his Lordship de
clared he was led from a thorough conviCtion that
the interests of Ireland did not interfere with a col
lective view of the interests of Great-Britain, and that
it was wife and politic to give her as much encou
ragement and relief as was consistent with the ability
of Great-Britain. The language of the Irilh Parlia
ment was not a demand but a petition ; in their ad
dress to his Majesty, they had complained in decent
and dutiful language, of their distressed and impover
ished situation, and pointed out a free tiade, as the
means which appeared to them the most likely to en
able them to retrieve their affairs ; neither did the
Parliament of Ireland fay a word that amounted to a
complaint of any defects in their constitution, as had
been thrown out by some gentlemen in that house in
former debates, or state in any other grievance than
such as was comprehended under the idea of a free
trade. Hi' Lordship, after dwelling some little time
on the nature of his fubjeCt, read the resolution he
meant to move, when the house should at a future
day be in a Committee on the affairs of Ireland. The
firftwas substantially as follows: " That it be expe
dient to repeal so much of an Ad of Parliament as
prohibits the exportation of glass manufacture from
the kingdom of Ireland."
In explanation of the above resolution, his Lord
ship said that the restrictions on the woollen manu
factures of Ireland had been obviously laid on under
an understood and implied compact between the two
kingdoms, relative to their refpeCtive trades ; under
which compact it was conceived that Ireland was to
have the linen manufacture, and England the wool
len. It had indeed of late years happened that the
linen manufacture had been established in Great-Bri-
[From a New-York Paper, dated the 13th March.]
L ON D O N.
HOUSE of COMMONS, Dec. 9 .
" We are obliged to you for your information re
garding Capt. John Grecia Duarte's errand to your
city, to reclaim the restoring to him his ship Noffa
Senhora da Carmo e'Santo Antonio, which had been
contrary to the faith and laws of nations, seized on
by a cruizer and carried into your harbour. He is
the only instance that we find of the many ships to
our Brazil, or elsewhere, who met with any cruizers
of your country, that has been so unwarrantably
seized on ; the news whereof had immediately risen
the premiums of insurance on our trade to five per
cent, above the former price, which, by the bye, is
an impairable lose, caused by the Captain of that
cruizer, for him to lament and atone at leisure, as he
hereby gave cause of fnrmifes injurious to the honour
and rectitude of his national Governors, until we be
came apprized of the resolution of Congress of the
11th of May, 1778, regarding said capture, much to
their honour, and to the tranquility of our naviga
tion, as that step has been since verified on every o
ther instance of our flips having been encountered by
the cruizers of your Congress."
March 9. Capt. Merchant, late commander of the
Black Prince, an armed ship that has made such a
noise the last year in Europe, arrived here from Nantz,
in Capt. Sampson. This ship was fitted out at Dun
kirk, under a continental commission and colours;
her crew confided chiefly of Irilh and English smug
glers, with a few Americans. She went round the
coasts of Britain and Ireland, and in less than three
months took 37 prizes ; three of them were re-taken,
four burnt, after taking out what was valuable, all
the rest were either ransomed or arrived fafe in port,
by which the lowed men have made a little fortune.
By instructions from Dr. Franklin, the Captain was
prohibited doing mifehief above high-water mark ;
this generous prohibition he punctually observed,
tho' he had it frequently in his power to land, and
distress the inhabitants of Britain on their remotest
coasts. He had not heard of their burning Fairfield,
and other towns in Connecticut, of which Mate he
is a native, or he would have been Strongly tempted
to have trangreffed his orders by a just retaliation.
Being once in want of water, and some refreshments,
on the coast of Scotland, he sent his boat to a small
town, and demanded a supply, promising security to
the inhabitants and their property, in case his de
mand was complied with. It was refufed. Upon
which he approached the town with his ship, and sa
luted it with a broadside. A white flag was imme
diately displayed by the inhabitants, and the Black
Prince was not only supplied with water, but with
cattle, flieep, poultry, and every refrefhment the
place could afford, and the commander chose to
receive.
His Lordship expatiated a little upon the second re
solution, and the restrictions upon the trade of Ire
land, refpeCting the exportation of glass, &c. had not
like those refpeCting the woollen manufacture, been
imposed under the idea of any compact implied or
direct.
His third resolution was, '' That Ireland be fuffer
ed to carry on a trade of export and import to
and from the Britilh Colonies in America, and the
Weft Indies, and her Settlements on the coast of Af
rica, fubjeCt to such limitations, regulations, restric
tions, and duties, as the Parliament of Ireland thould
impose." (Tu be continued.)
BOSTO N, March 6.
Extract of a letter from Li/bon, dated Sept. 28.
'' As to France and Spain they are doing what
they can to bring Portugal into the war, and Eng
land is interested to keep her in peace, to which the
is very much inclined. It remains therefore to be
seen which party will prevail, and which fide Portu
gal will take in case the is obliged to enter into the
quarrel: To avoid extremes seems to be her present
plan."
Extract of another letter from the fame place.
Lift of prizes taken by the Black Prince, a priva
teer of 16 carriage guns and 32 swivels, fitted out at
Dunkirk with a commission from Congress, and com
manded by Capt. Stephen Merchant, who lately ar
rived from France in the Mercury Packet ; the Black
Prince failed from Dunkirk the 12th of June, 1779,
and returned to port the 20th of September follow
ing, after making the following captures, viz.—On
the 20th of June, took the brig Blossom, of 14 guns,
bound to Tinbay; the fame day took the brig Li
berty, bound to Milford, and the sloop Sally, from
Swantzey to Falmouth. —21st, took the brig Hamp
ton, from Liverpool to London ; fame day took the
brig Three Sifters, from Bridgewater to Swantzey,
the sloop Elizabeth, bound to Falmouth, the brig
tain ; that we had participated with Ireland in the
benefit of that trade ; that both countries had throve
with it, and that this day he believed our linen trade
was about equal to that of Ireland.
Under this view of the matter, he said it was but
fair to admit Ireland to a participation of the woollen
trade with us, and to let them Share the benefit of it,
and profit by their industry, which in this refped had
certainly been checked and impeded hitherto.
His Lordlhip's second resolution was, " That it be
expedient to repeal so much of an Act made in the
nineteenth of his late Majesty George the Second, as
prohibits the exportation of glass, glass bottles, and
other articles of glass manufacture, from the king
dom of Ireland, to any part of Europe, the Britilh
Colonies in America, and Britilh Settlements on the
coast of Africa."
March 13. Last Thursday Capt. Bartlett, in a let
ter of marque brig from Cadiz, arrived here after a
passage of 90 days.—He informs, that about 4 weeks
ago he fell in with and took a brig, from New-York,
bound to the Weft-Indies, which may be hourly ex
pected.
The sloop Right Hand, Gabriel Sifter, master, be
longing to Joseph Packwood of New-London, lately
arrived at Portsmouth ; the master fays he failed from
Point Peter, Guadaloupe, on the 14th of January, in
company with the brig Ranger, Capt. Howard, for
New-London, and the sloop Maria, Capt. Dodge,
forthis port; on his passage he met with very hard
gales from the Northward and Westward, whicli 0-
bliged him to keep so far to the Eastward, and having
sprung his main boom, was very glad to get into the
firft port.
Tuesday last arrived here a flag from Bermudas,
which brought all the prisoners belonging to thefc
states, amounting to upwards of 30. By this con
veyance we learn, that one of Goodrich's cruizers
had met at sea, in distress, a large ftorefhip, one of 'he
fleet that failed from New-York, which had on board
one quarter part of the cannon, powder, and ord
nance stores belonging to this whole embarkation,
and 82 officers and soldiers of the artillery. The ship
was difmafted and otherwise so Mattered in the storm
that overtook Admiral Arbuthnot and his fleet soon
after they left New York, that there was no hope of
her reaching any port. Goodrich's vessel according
ly took out the men, and carried them to Bermudas ;
the ship was set on fire and blew up. These men,
thus saved from destruction, gave the fame account
at Bermudas that we had from the officers brought in
to this port some time past, by the Blaze Castle ; that
Admiral Arbuthnot's fleet were totally dispersed, in
the uncommon severe gales they met with ; that pro
bably many of them have perished ; of the 1500 horse
embarked at New-York, and all carried upon deck,
not one is supposed to be saved. It was conjectured
that many of them might have made Bermudas, but
none had arrived there the beginning of February;
nor have we any account of their arrival in any port,
tho' they left Sandy Hook on the 26th of December.
Should all the damage be done to this fleet of the ene
my, confiding, according to their own account, of
10,000 of their bed men, with proportionable stores,
and all the loss be sustained by them, which there is
now the strongest reason to believe, the blow mud be
great indeed, and beyond any they have received dur
ing the war, except the capitulation of Burgoyne and
his whole army. However this may be, it is now not
to be doubted that this fleet has been torn and scat
tered in such a manner, as to render the collection of
it in season, and so as to answer the purpose of this
grand embarkation, absolutely impracticable. All
accounts agree that the transports had not more, in
general, than 14 days provisions ; a terrible circum
stance in the situation to which most, if not all of
them, must have been reduced. The winter has been
uncommonly severe at Bermudas.
Orange, from London to Cork, with King's Fores,
and the brig Goodwill, from London to Waterford,
with porter, iron and dry goods. —16th of July, took
the sloop Rebecca, from Milford to Plymouth.—•
17th, took the brig Ann, from Biddeford to Ply
mouth, laden with beef, &c. —18th, took the brig
Lucey, from Swantzey to St, Ives; fame day took
the sloop John, from Bafcove to Bristol, the sloop
Rebecca, from Milford to Bafcove, and two sloops,
each called the Two Brothers, from Swantzey to
Patfton, with coals. —19th, took the brig Union, from
Patfton to Bristol, laden with dry goods; and the
brig Sea Nymph, from Patfton to Barnftable, with
dry goods. —20th, retook a Spanish snow called the
St. Joseph, laden with cochineal and indigo ; and the
brig Dublin Trader, from Bristol to Dublin, with
bale goods, &c.—2lft, took the sloop Charlotte, from
Cork to Briftol.—22d, took the brig Monmouth,
from Lancaster to Chapfton.—lßth August, took a
whale brig, with oil, belonging to London; fame
day took the brig Diligence, from Bafcove to Swant
zey, and the sloop Friends Adventure, from Bafcove
to England, ransomed her for 20001. Sterling —l9th,
took the brig Blossom, the Matthew and Sally, and
the sloop Resolution, from Minhead to Cork; and
the sloop Betsy, from Biddeford to Youghall, with
pork, &c. —20th, took the ship Southam, from White-
Haven to Waterford, ransomed her for xßool.—9th
September, took the snow Hopewell, from Norway
to Dublin, with naval stores ; fame day fell in with a
large privateer schooner of 22 guns, fought her some
time, and obliged her to sheer off, and took a sloop
under her convoy, which we burnt; loft our firft
Lieutenant and three privates in the engagement.—
10th, took the brig Peggy, from White-Haven, in
ballast, and burnt her; the fame day took a sloop
from Liverpool to Wales, with pork, &c.—lsth,
went into the harbour of Logharpool, in the High
lands of Scotland, burnt two brigs there, fired into
the town, and obliged the inhabitants to fend off a
supply of frefh provisions.
Advice is received, that Capt. Grenold of this port,
on his passage for Amsterdam, was taken and carried
into Leith, in Scotland.
FISH-KIL L, March 23.
Reports have prevailed here for some days past,
that the enemy have called in their guards from their
two redoubts near Kingfbridge,—that Kingfbridge
was taken up,—the guns from Fort Waddington taken
away :— That great preparations were making for