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PARI S, December 23.
YE STE RD AY about ten o'clock in the
morning Count d'Eßaing arrived at Ver
sailles. He went immediately to the
house of the Minister of the Marine,
where he Rayed about two hours. M.
de Sartine then conducted him to the
King's palace, and presented him to his Majesty, who
expressed his extreme fatitfattion at his conduct in the
most gracious manner. M. d'Eßaing, in speaking
afterwards to ong of his friends of the reception the
King had given him, said, " I met with a reception
infinitely beyond my merits." This modest remark
shews how greatly he was affeded by the King's
goodness.
Meif. de Vaudr^il and de Bougainville, Captains
of Ihips in Count d'Eftaing's fleet, are jult appointed
Admirals.
LON DO N.
The following is tie genuine Speech of Lord George
Gordon in the House of Commons, cm the motion of
Lord Lewijbam for an Address to the King :
" Mr. Speaker,
" I should not have troubled you and the House,
on this occasion, were it not for the absurdities with
which the Speech from the Throne is replete. —His
Majesty tells us, he has ordered certain papers rela
tive to Ireland, to be laid before us. Why was not
that order made in consequence of the addresses from
Ireland ? Were Irish addresses to be disregarded ? And
was the Irish Parliament unworthy of its Sovereign's
notice ? The truth is, Sir, his Majesty's ministers are
no less odious in Ireland than they are in England.
The King well knows this. The Irish deem them
selves oppressed, and call this government tyranny.
To prove this, Sir, I need only read to you the opi
nions of forne leading members in the Irish Commons.
[His Lordthip then produced a news-paper, and read
from it the debates of the Commons of Ireland on
the lirft day oftheir meeting ; and dwelt with parti
cular emphasis on every sentence that conveyed a
censure on Adminiftration.] Thus, Sir, you fee the
grievances of Ireland are at length become so nume
rous and intolerable, that the people are obliged to
intitt on havingaFßEE trade. But if it is intended
to comply with their demand ; if they are to trade
with every part of the empire, I beg the noble Lord in
the blue ribbon will give me timely notice : This I ask,
and insist on, as a piece of justice from the noble Lord,
that I may difeharge that duty which my conscience
claims of me—that I may write down to my country
men in Scotland, and give them warning to eßablilh
an India Company of their own.
" In Scotland, Sir, the people are as ready to break
with the minister as in Ireland. The indulgencies
given to Papists have alarmed the whole country, and
they are determined, with the utmost vigilance and
resolution, to guard against a people that are become
such favourites in the eyes of the ministry. Ido not,
Sir, deliver to you my own sentiments only ; govern-
at my back, who will avow and support them. The
people have sent petitions to the ministers of Rate,
who have disregarded them ; to the Lord Chancellor,
to deliver to the Lords, who fupprefkd them ; and
to you, Mr. Speaker, who have incurred the displea
sure of the people, by not delivering them to the
Commons. They have now printed their sentiments
and resolutions on their grievances ; they will shortly
be puldilhed ;. and, the moment they are ready, I,
Sir, will deliver them to the King and the Prince of
Wales, that they may learn from them upon what
terms the Scotch will be governed.
" The coast of Scotland, Sir, is left naked and de
fencelefs; the people of Dumfries-ftiire had therefore
petitioned for arms to defend themselves. To my
certain knowledge that country is in such a situation
that Paul Jones might, with the utmost facility, have
destroyed Glasgow, Leith, Greenock and Edinburgh,
in one expedition. Thus circumstanced, could it
have occurred to any one, that administration would
have denied so reasonable a requisition ? Wicked as
the minds of miniltry are, could any one have ima
gined that they dared to commit such an outrage up
on common sense, common policy, and the common
fights of the people? Yet, Sir, extraordinary as it
may seem, the answer which thole men returned, was
a positive refufal of the request ! I will, Mr. Speaker,
read you the letter from the Secretary at War to the
Duke of Oueeniberry and Lord Stormont, on this
fubjed. [His Lordship then read the letter; after
which, looking at the Secretary at War, he continu
ed,] And you, Charles fenkinfon, how dared you
write such a letter ? Robert Bruce would not have
had temerity enough to have done it: And yet th§
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WEDNESDAY, May to, 1780.
Mr. Wiikes would have had , the Duke's letter re
ferred to the committee of privileges, but there be
ing 110 person then ready to prove the hand writing,
it could not be received by the House. To obviate
the difficulty, however, the Speaker advised Mr.
Wilkes to make his complaint, and sign it; then
move, that it be referred to the committee of privi
leges, where the letter might be proved and given in
in evidence. Mr. Wilkes accordingly moved as fol
lows :
" Complaint being made, that the Duke of Chan
dois, a Peer of Parliament, and Lord Lieutenant of
the county of Southampton, had ligned a letter with
his own hand, respecting the emuing election lor the
said county, thereby concerning himfelf in the said
election, is a breach of the privileges of this house,
and an infringement of the liberties and privileges of
the Commons of Great-Britain."
The motion was carried without a diffentient voice.
Mr. Wilkes then moved that a call of the House be
made on the firft of February ; aud intimated that he
should then move for an enquiry into the cause of our
present humiliation and diltrefs.
fan. 6. This morning the Dutch Ambassador held
a long conference with Lord Hillfborough, at his of
fice in Cleveland-row.
Some fay that orders are gone down to Portfipauth
for the Dutch Ihips to be brought round to the river,
where they are to remain till the affair is determined
in Dottors-commons, whether they are legal prizes.
On Tuesday orders were sent to Portsmouth for
another fleet of flrips to be got ready as soon as possi
ble for channel service, and to guard our coasts, and
it is said Sir Charles Hardy is to have the command
of it.
It is confidently asserted that one, if not two of
our Admirals, by the particular desire of the Empress
Secretary of an Elector of Hanover has had that pre
sumption ! The royal family of Stuart have been ba
nilhed from their kingdom for not attending to the
voice of the people, and an Elector of Hanover is not
afraid to disregard it ! Sir Hugh Smithson, Earl Piercy,
Duke of Northumberland, armed cap-a-pee, march at
the head of all the chcefemongers and grocers from
Temple Bar to Brentford, and the present Earl Dou
glas is not to be entrusted with arms ! The Scots, Sir,
are jußly irritated at this scandalous partiality; nor
are they less exasperated in point of religion.
" I Ihall now, Sir, only trouble the House a few
moments longer. I would not, indeed, have occu
pied so much of their time as I have already done,
but that, being on my legs, I thought it proper to
difeover the sentiments of the people of Scotland.
All that I have now to add is, to give notice, that I
intend, on a future day, to move for an address to
the King, to fend down to Scotland 12Q,000 mulkets
and bayonets, to arm the defenedefs people of that
country."
Mr. Wilkes seconded the motion; and after some
little debate, the petition was ordered to lie on the
table, and leave was given to bring in the bjil, and
Mr. Wood, Mr. Bing, Mr. T. Townfhend, Mr.
Wilkes, and some others, ordered to prepare and
bring in the fame.
Mr. T. Luttrell moved a resolution, Rating the
conßitutional rights of the freeholders and electors of
England in general, declaring, that no Lord of Par
liament had a right to interfere in the election of mem
bers to serve in Parliament.
HOUSE of COMMONS, December 10.
MR. Wood, the new member for Middlesex, pre
sented a petition from the freeholders of that
county, Rating a complaint against Lord North, for
his improper and unconstitutional interference in some
of the lace stages leading to the election of a Knight
of the shire for Middlesex. He said, it was a depar
ture from the constitution in itfelf, but more parti
cularly so, as the power now exercised by the mini
ster, intended originally for the preservation of the
conßitution, was perverted, and operated to the
lodging of a power in him that might be used, and he
was tree to fay, had been often used to the prejudice
of that constitution it was meant to protest and de
fend. After some further Ihort explanations, he
moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable members
to vacate their feats, and of course to have an option
what county, city, town, or borough, they might
with to represent, contingent on their success.
Mr. Wilkes (Chamberlain of London) then rose,
and said, he had in his hand a letter ligned " Chan
dois," recommending Sir Richard Wqrtefley as a fit
and proper perlon to re'prefent the county of South
ampton in Parliament, and desiring the support of the
freeholder to whom it was addrefled to the candidate
so recommended.
THE
of Russia, will, or have obtained leave to take on
them the command of a part of the Ruffian navy.
The French Ambassador at the Hague has notified
the King his maker's intention of marching an army
to the relief of Holland, in safe of any attack from
Hanover.
It is confidently said that a commission has passed
the Great Seal, and is gone to Sir Joseph Yorke, to
enable him to open a treaty with any Agents, Com
missioners, or AmbafTadors from the American Con
gress.
The following is a correct lift of the farmers that
are prisoners in the undermentioned gaols, who have
been ruined by the great fall of prices :
Norwich 18 Gloucester 3
Lincoln 9 Worcester 18
York 12 Hereford 8
Derby 8 Canterbury 10
fan. 19. The present American war has cost the
following sums above the peace eftabliihment.
1775 - - £• 1,782,000
1776 - - 6,103,000
1777 - - 6,614,000
1778 - - 10,172,000
1779 - - 14,000,000
38,671,000
Outstanding debt, 24,925,00?
Total, £. 63,596,000
which is the sum we must fit down under the burthen
of, if peace is concluded this year.
fan. 29. A celebrated writer, Abbe Raynal, fays,
" When 1 fee monarchs and empires furioufly attack
ing and waging war against each other, with all their
debts, with their public funds and revenues already
deeply mortgaged, it seems to me as if l saw men
fighting with clubs in a china (hop."
The King of Prussia, it is confidently asserted, has
given his final answer to the Court of London, which
is, that " he cannot think furioufly of taking any part
in the contest between Great-Britain and the House
of Bourbon, unless the peace of the empire be dis
turbed by some one of the belligerent powers." The
answer of the Empress of Russia is nearly conceived,
in the fame terms, but not quite so explicit.
Last week 14 Ihips were taken into government ser
vice, and ordered to fail for Cork to take on board
provisions for the use of the garrison at Jamaica.
Extract of a letter from Havre de Grace, fan. 1%
" The Boulogne privateer, la Marquise de Segue
lay, of 20 guns, commanded by Capt. Cottin, after
having conducted into this port the London, an Eng—
lilh prize, failed again 011 the 3d instant, and on the
Bth following, at a small dißance off the S. W. point
of St. Helen's, fell in with the Harpooner, an Eng
lilh letter of marque, of 32 guns, Capt. Lionfhill,
bound from London to Plymouth, and took her after
a ihort engagement, in which he had two men killed,
and ten wounded ; and the Harpooner had ten killed,
and the Captain and 15 wounded. In his route to
this port he fell in with another English vessel, the
Anne, of 120 tons, from London to Chester, which
he also took, and sent into Cherburg, with 56 pri
soners, and yesterday arrived fafe here with the Har
pooncr. The King being informed of the brave ac
tions of Capt. Cottin, has presented him with a ver,
elegant sword, and has sent him a commission of
Lieutenant of a frigate during the campaign."
The business of Ireland in Parliament is drawing to
a very critical Rate, either to unite the two kingdoms!
heartily, or to cause greater difeontents than ever ;
a little time will disclose the scene.
County meetings go on apace, and are becoming
general, though not all unanimous in their resoluti
ons, &c. However, one petition serves them all, ex
cept one county. The papers are so full of them, we
leave them there to be recorded at large and dileufleet
previous to their difeuffion in Parliament.
This day the inhabitants of Westminster, to the:
number of 4000, met in Weßmintter-hall, pursuant:
to public advertisement, to agree on a petition tex
Parliament, to controul the fhameful waste of the:
public money, &c. The petition was agreed to and.
carried without one dissenting hand.
On Saturday last the corporation of the city of
Bristol agreed to present a petition to Parliament, for
the retrenchment ofthe present extravagant expendi
ture of the public money, and dangerous influence of
the Crown.
On Friday last the county of Devon met at the castle
of Exeter, and did the fame ; with only one dissent
ing voice, a Mr. Putt.
The counties of Dorfet and Norfolk have agreed to
petitions and resolutions similar to those of York, &c.
Ou Saturday tail four gentlemen of the Common-
[Numb. 124.]