The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1784-11-08 00:00:00, page 1

Foreign Intelligence^
CONSTANTINOPLE, July id.
ON the sth of last month there happened at
Nicosia, capital of the idand of Cyprus, a
publick tumult, in which the Governor loft
his life. According to report, yet vague
and uncertain, the Porte had sent to Nicosia a Com
miflary to examine the complaints preferred against
the Governor. The next day after his arrival, the
Commissary held a kind of Council, to which the Go
vernor was cited; but the latter refufed to appear,
and called upon the Commissary to wait upon him at
his palace, in order to give him some account of his
commission. That officer complied with the Gover
nor's request, and went there followed by proper at
tendants. The Governor gave him a very handsome
deception, and had assembled his Divan on the occa
sion. The examination on his condud had just begun,
when the roof of the hall fell in, and either hurt or
buried under its ruins above 300 persons. The peo
ple already discontented with the Chief, and attribut
ing to him a misfortune, which perhaps was occasi
oned only by the ruinous condition of the building,
turned all their fury against the Seraglio, pillaged it,
fired it, and killed the Governor. This revolt has
determined the Porte to fend into the isle of Cyprus
the Grand-Admiral Muftapha Aga, with the profeffor
of the law, to make some frefh enquiries. He will
soon be followed by Hadgy-Aly-Effendy, who has
just been appointed General of Cyprus in the room
of the deceased.
CQPENHAG E N, July 18.
By several feffels lately returned here from Ice
land, we receive the most deplorable accounts of the
melancholy situation to which the inhabitants are re
duced. Ihe disasters that country has undergone, are
such that all hopes of an harvest are entirely at an
end. The extremities of famine and distress areequal
ly felt by the men and cattle, and a great number of
both have fallen victims to their complicated miseries.
The fire, which broke up in several places, rages as
violently as ever; and the new inland, which had lately
emerged from the sea, has totally disappeared.
NAPL E S, July 20.
In the night of the 30th ult. we experienced here
the most formidable storm in the memory of man, the
lightning fell eleven times on different parts of the city
in the space of one single hour, but did not occasion
any considerable damage. All our anxiety was turned
to the fafety of the queen our sovereign, who was
supposed to be in Caftiemore-road, on board her royal
yacht ; but we have the pleasure to learn that her ma
jesty, on the firft appearance of the threatening clouds,
had been set on shore, and came fafely by land to this
Capital.
M ad r i d, August 2.
The Marquis d'Almodovar, who resided in Lon
don as ambassador from Spain before the late war, is
again appointed by the Catholick King to visit Great-
Britain, in the fame capacity; a hodfe is taken for
his reception at Whitehall.
By the Spanilh accounts, they expended in the se
veral attacks on Algiers, 3,373 bombs, 2,145 gra
nades, 10,680 cannon, and 401 case-shot; which were
returned by the Algerines with 1,020 bombs, and
10,181 cannon and case-shot. Their loss they make
to amount only to ten men killed, eleven dangefoufly
wounded, and twenty-four slightly, among whom is
Don Michael de Montemagor. It would be much
for the credit of that nation, if they would learn to
give accounts that bear at least some semblance of
truth ; but though they have been for ages the ridi
cule of all Europe, on account of their spirit of ro
domantade, they seem to be as much attached to it as
ever.
Yesterday, at seven in the evening, arrived here, in
perfect health, our much beloved Monarch, after a long
and tedious absence. His Majesty was received by his
faithful fubjeds with every token of joy and gratitude.
NEW-JERSEY GA, ETTE.
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STOCKHOLM, August 3.
MONDAY, November 8, 1784.
1 he states of Holland and Weft-Friefland have re
solved, that the troops destined to escort the Commis
sioners appointed to enquire into the late disturbances
at Rotterdam, shall take the following oath, which
shall be administered to them by the Burgo-mafters of
that city:“ We, the field, subaltern, and non-com
miflioned officers and privates of the company here
present, promise and swear to serve with obedience
and fidelity, the Commissioners of their Noble and
Great Mightinesses, as well as the Burgo-mafters of
this city, and to execute the orders which shall be
given us by tne abovefaid Lords Commissioners, dur
ing their stay here, conjointly with the Burgo-mafters
of this city, in every thing that they shall command
concerning the maintenance, the service, and peace of
this city, and in an cfpecial manner against all revolt
and popular sedition ; nevertheless saving the orders
that shall be issued to us by their Lordfllips the states,
his Royal Highness the Prince Stadtholder, or the
Counsel-Committee. This is the truth, help us God.
Ihe emigration of our shipwrights to America is
alarming, aad requires immediate cure and cautious
GENEV A, Atiguft 4.
On the 15th ult. arrived here his Royal Highness
Prince Henry of Prussia. It was not his intention to
make any stay at this place, but, 'owing to the presence
of a certain Prince, brother to a great Monarch (the
duke of Gloucester) we have had the pleasure to keep
him here for a whole week. Nothing but so power
ful an attraction could detain here, even for a single
hour, a vifiror of so great consequence. Yesterday
his Royal Highness left this city, and took his way to
Paris, where he is expected the latter end of this
month.
BER °^ N - 0 P :ZO OM, August 16.
Mynheer Gideon Salomon Deutz, Governor of the
fort, and Lieutenant-General of infantry, in the ser
vice of the Republick, died here yesterday in a very
advanced age." J
HA G U E, August 18.
by our last letters from Paris we are informed,
that on the twelfth instant our Plenipotentiaries at
Versailles, amidst the difeharge of several pieces of
small ordnance, and the found of martial instruments,
presented to Mont de Suffrein the magnificent sword
voted to that Vice-Admiral by the States-General.
It is estimated at 50,000 livres ; a gift very inferior,
indeed, to the services rendered to the Republick in
the East-Indies by that great and fuccefsful Com
mander.
The dates of Holland and Weft-Friefland assem
bled the day before yesterday, and resolved to dismiss
Mons. Field Marefchal, the duke de Wolfenbuttle;
this resolution has been carried unanimously; and as
the measure has been long agreeable to the majority,
there is no doubt that it will soon take place.
Lond o n, August 23.
According to letters from Hamburgh, there are
now three powerful squadrons in the Baltic, viz. the
Danish, under Rear Admiral Comte de Moulcke,
which conGfls of seven flops of the line and two fri
gates ; the Swedish, lately failed from Carlefcroon,
consisting of one ship of 80 guns, three of 70, and
three of 64, besides frigates; and the Ruffian squadron
of observation, under the command of Vice-Admiral
Borriffow, whose object is chiefly to watch the moti
ons of the other two. Such a large naval force has
not been seen on that sea for more than forty years,
lime only can determine the views of the two pow
ers, whole differences, though not clearly understood,
are said to be of a very trifling nature. The Queen
of Sweden is lifter to the King of Denmark; but the
two courts have been on indifferent terms for many
years. In the year 1769, they were on the eve o's
coming to a rupture, when our court, with whom the
Danes had made a new alliance (in consequence of
the marriage of the Princess Caroline Matilda with
Christian the Vllth) interposed, and for that time
healed the breach, though they had nearly fallen by
the ears in two years after. The present dispute is
said to arise from the fame cause as those in 1769 and
in 1772.
T H E
They write from the Hague, that the treaty of al
liance with France gives universal fatisfadion to all
descriptions of people throughout the provinces, who
now expea to fee the glorious day arrive, when mo
ther Van Tromp shall carry a broom on his mast-head
to sweep the channel.
We are well informed, that the firft objed with the
French Ministry in uniting with the Dutch, is to ex
tend their settlements in the East-Indies, whenever
they have a pretext for another war.
The hbufes of Austria and Brandenburgh cannot
fee, with indifference, such an acquisition of strength
to the House of Bourbon, and may therefore proba
bly be inclined to interfere with so unnatural a friend
ship, whenever an opportunity shall offer.
Half our merchants of the present day were clerks
of yesterday ; hence arises that spirit of enterprise and
speculation for which English traders are so distin
guished abroad.
It is at this time -peculiarly incumbent upon Go
vernment to watch over the American trade, and to
prevent them from sharing any indulgences which may
be injurious to this country. As to the Nantucket
oils, it will be the very extremity of madness to fuf
the import of it on the old duty, as the new states
are now a diftin& power, and have no more claim to
an exemption from foreign duties, than any other fo
reign power in Europe.
In consequence of the treaty of alliance between
the French and the Rcpublick of Holland, and which'
Was firft given in this paper, we learn from the Hague,
that orders have been sent to the Dutch Ambassadors
at Paris, to lose no time in filling up the blanks, and
(as the resolution of the states expresses it) to bring to
a final and happy conclusion, an alliance so truly °de
firable, and in every refpe& advantageous to the Re
public of the United Provinces.
There is scarcely an object of more national conse
quence, than the prevention of emigrations ; added to
the number of persons which should be employed by
Government to keep a look out in the neighbourhood
of every populous town, there should be occasional ad
vertisements on the fubjed, inferred in all the news
papers.
The Lieutenant Field Marefchal de Browne, who
died at Vienna on the 27th of last month, has left
189,000 German florins, 64,000 of which go to his
heirs, and the remainder to the institution for the
maintenance of the poor. In this will he expresses
himfelf thus :—" 1 hat he had been a pauper before
entering the services of his Imperial Majesty; that
having amassed this sum in the space of 66 years, he
deemed it just to bequeath the greater part to the poor
of Austria."
August 26. A letter from Copenhagen fays, that
it oeing discovered that many of their mechanicks had
a design of emigrating to America, the King has issued
an edid, that whoever depart his dominions without
leave, shall have their effects confifeated, and their
persons imprisoned whenever taken.
A calculation has been just made at Paris, far or.
dre du Roi, of the tletgy in the kingdom of France,
which was found upon the best authority to amount'
to 169,007 persons.
A general alarm has been excited among the religi
ous orders in France, in consequence of regulations
which the King proposes to make in the Eccldiallical
department. Ihe Abbe Foujan and two canons have
been taken into custody for seditious behaviour on
that account.
The new establishment for the island of St. John's,
in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, is finally adjusted, arj
Augnft 25. The Lisbon letters, which are seldom
over-explicit, intimate, that the late mifearriage at
Algiers has amounted to a positive defeat, and that 3
great number of the Spanifli seamen had been slaugh
tered.
attention in the Lords of the Admiralty to put a flop
to it ; added to their own prejudices, it is certain that
persuasion has induced many of our artificers thus to
secede from their own country ; and for this they may
deserve pity ; but those who are employed here as en
ticers of these men to leave home and their honour,
should be detected and fined under the ad of Parlia
ment.
[Numb. $39.]