The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-10-13 00:00:00, page 2

« out after his Imperial Majesty at 5 o'clock the next nlorh-
Mg, and arrived at Bruges at a little before seven the fame
day, and immediately sent Col. Lowther to fignify his desire
of an nterview; but the Emperor declined giving the Duke
that trouble, and direCtly accompanied the Colonel to the
hotel where his Royal Highness had alighted. The Duke
hearing of the honour the Emperot intended him, received him
at the foot of the staircase, and after conducting him into his
apartments, the most perfeft intercourse of cordiality and friend
ship took place, which was facceeded by a long conference.
The Emperor, before he left Bruges, declared Oftend a
free port.
The Emperor, whilst at Oftend, ordered a new bafon to
be made for the aCcomniodatiori of more Shipping ; and as
there appeared to be great want of ground for building houses,
his Imperial Majesty directed that they fliould be built on the
ramparts, as the town was too ill fortified to make a defence
against the modern art of war.
The Emperor, while at Oftend, called a committee of mer
chants together, among whom were Mr. Romberg and Mr.
Herries, brother of Sir Robert Herries, and desired their sepa
rate opinions upon what could be proposed for the general
benefit of the commerce of the Low Countries.
June 22. Confederacies formed against a single power, sel
dom or ever prevail :—The history of the several States of Eu
rope furnifhes a variety of instances, where one country has
opposed the greatest inequalities in point of numbers, and ul
timately triumphed over all. We fee one proof of this in
the reign of Lewis XIV. And the situation of the King of
Prussia last war, affords a striking demonstration, that the uni
ted efforts of a single State can preserve itfelf, even when in
vaded in every quarter. -We have therefore every reufon
to hope, that Great Britain may still be able to contend with
the host of adversaries that surround her; to preserve her po
litical and commercial importance; to support the war with
vigour, and in the end to procure an honourable and lifting
peace.
Let the advocates for the rebellious Americans, who are
now prisoners in this country, remember the cruel and un
natural treatment that Britiih officers and soldiers have ex
•perienced during their confinement on the continent. What
American has been stripped of his cloaths, confined in dun
geons, murdered in cold blood, or exposed to any kind of per
secutions during his imprisonment in England ? Yet this is well
known to have been repeatedly pradifed in the provinces, and
ought always to be argued against any frivolous complaint of
ill treatment which is made by their friends in this country.
To plead for the distresses of the prisoner and captive, car
ries a laudable appearance of humanity ; but we know that
political humanity often proceeds from other causes than the
common emotions of compassion. A little insult to Govern
ment, a little regard to the promotion of difeontent, a little
intention to make Ministers unpopular, and a great inclination
to give advice to our enmies, has occasioned most of the pa
thetic appeals which have been submitted to the House, in fa
vour of the American prisoners from the beginning of the war
to the present hour.
Lord Cornwalis's private as well as public life is so amiable
and engaging, that it gains him universal esteem amongst all
ranks of people ; we therefore cannot wonder at the success
he meets with in his arduous and difficult undertakings, when
it is known that the personal attachment and regard of his
little arm, for him, as he calls it, is so great, that there is not
a man in it who would not follow and support him on the molt
enterprising and dangerous expedition.
A private letter from the Hague by the last mail has the fol
lowing article : “ The Prince of Orange has taken great pains
with the States-General, to induce them to pacific measures,
and to think of some expedient to bring about a reconciliation
with the Court of Great-Britain, that a permanent peace may
be soon effected. He sent before them, in the last assembly,
the ill consequences that must ensue if the war is continued ;
that it has already been productive to many capital families,
and many more will be involved in the fame calamitous situa
tion, unless some proper steps are immediately taken to stop
the effufion of human blood. He urged, that their navy had
not yet done any thing worthy of notice, nor is there any pro
bability of their doing any thing till their navy is in better con
dition, many ships being almost unfit for service; but all his
arguments proved abortive, for though some seemed inclinable
for a peace, the majority were for continuing the war."
A few days since the officers of the detachment of the guards,
ordered to America, set off for Plymouth to embark.
June 25. The contents of the dispatches brought over
from the Governour of Gibraltar, by Capt. Leslie, who ar
rived on Friday morning last, are kept a profound fecrct.
The Captain, however, has contradicted the report which re
cently prevailed, and was generally credited, that Governour
Elliot, at the head of four Britiih and two Hanoverian re
giments, had made a sally on the Spanish forces, and destroyed
a great number of their troops, together with their new works
at the Devil's Tower. Captain Leslie reports, that since the
failing of Admiral Darby, the Spaniards have kept up a heavy
and well-directed fire against the garrison, both with shot and
shells; but that since the burning of tire town, they had done
very little damage, the people having principally retired to the
southward of the rock, and where they remain out of all
danger.
A correspondent observes, that notwithstanding the dis
patches brought by Capt.Leflie from Gibraltar are silent as to
a sally being made by the Governour, in coufequence of which
it is Laid, he gained a compleat victory over the Spanish forces
besieging that fortrefs, yet the report of that important event
gains credit, as several letters announcing the particulars,
arrived from Faro by,the Lisbon mail on Tuesday last, and
bear date subsequent to Capt. Leslie's departure.
June 26. The destruction of such a quantity of tobacco as
General Arnold has effected, will be a deadly flab to Ameri
can credit in Europe, as it is well known the most of their
remittances, in exchange for French and Dutch commodities,
consisted of that article.
Portsmouth, June 24. Yesterday arrived the Vigilant man
of war, and Vesuvius bomb, with about fifty fail of ships from
St. Euftatius, Antigua, &c.
London, July 26.
Extrafl of a letter from Gibraltar, dated the 2%tb of May.
" Since the departure of the fleet, the Spaniards have con
tinued to fire with great briskness, and we are now particu
larly annoyed from the sea, by their gun and mortar boats,
which do great mifehief, and render almost every place with
in the walls uninhabitable.
“ The greatest part of the inhabitants have left the garrison,
and are gone to Minorca or England ; those who remain, live
in the holes and caverns of the rock, some indeed are resolute
enough to rifque their lives, by deeping every night in Black
Town [a place without the reach of the enemy's shells from
the land fide, but liable to be destroyed from the fea] to se
cure their property, not from the enemy without, but from
our own villains within, who have done more mifehief in a
few days, than the Spaniards could have done in months.
The town is almost totally demolished; scarce a house but
is levelled with the ground, several families who lived in
affluence now reduced to poverty ; the shells are perpe
tually flying, houses burning, and foot skimming along
the street and line wall. We are often obliged to fly to
the hill, and remain in tents all night, so frequently arc we
alarmed by the enemy's gun and mortar boats. It is with
Extras of a letter from Portsmouth, June 29.
" Arrived the following men of war, with a large fleet of
merchantmen, all last from Ireland, viz. Vengeance 74, Com
modore Hotham, Capt. Holloway; Prince Edward 60, Pul.
teney; Mars 36, ; Alcmene 32, French, from St. Euf
tatius; Repulse 64, Sir Digby Dent, and Venus 36, Douglas,
from Cork; Camilla 20, and Galatea, 20, from Carolina,
Hound 16, Macnamara, from Weft-Florida.
Jul, 2. From Paris the advices mention, that the creditors
of Dr. Franklin, the rebel agent, are more clamorous than
ever. Upwards of 47,6dpi. iterling are now outstanding. The
monied men will not difeount his bond without the additional
security of a capital house, banking or mercantile !
Jul, 3. A treaty of marriage is on the tapis, and fceciily
will be concluded between the Marquis of Lothian and Mils
Stevenson, an heiress of a very large fortune.
It is a general opinion among the best informed people, that
a treaty is an the tapis, and ntar a conclusion for an alliance
between the Emperor, the Empress, and Great-Britain. This
will restore the balance of power which the House of Bourbon
is solicitous to destroy, and either produce an immediate
peace, or enable us to conduct the war with additional vigour
and advantage.
When England had to eontend with America alone, it vyas
prophecied by her domestic enemies, that the would, in all
probability, be totally ruined in the contest. When France
united with our rebellious colonies, this detraction of Great-
Britain was confirmed. Spain, however, with her bund ed
grievances, was anxious to precipitate her downfall, and with
a cowardly interference, threw the additional weight of her
power into what appeared to be the heaviert scale. France,
Spain, and America together, have united their efforts in
vain ; instead of diminishing our fleets and armies, they have
(to the astonishment of Europe) seen them increase; instead of
humbling our spirits, they have only added to their vigour;
and instead of exhausting our refouices, .as was long since
predicted, they have feeh, in addition to our immense debt,
such a sum raised for the services of the present year, as no
nation in the world beside, in the highest plenitude of wealth
and credit, could possibly supply. In addition to all her former
difficulties, the Dutch have joined the hostile confederacy,
and by encreafing the number of her foes, have contributed
to encreafe her triumphs.
The avaritious pursuit of commerce, had so blinded the
Dutch to every other confederation, that perhaps no power in
the world ever was so little prepared for war. Their army
for many years has been univerially neglected, neither officers
nor men having ever seen service; their fleets have been fuf
fered to fink into decay; their forts have been left without
garrisons, without guns, without repairs, without a* proper
provision for defence in every part of the globe. In this situa
tion they have had the temerity to provoke the hostilities of
this country, which has already destroyed a great part of their
trade, and will probably before the end of the year, reduce
the Mynheers to reason.
Information of the most favourable and important complex
tion is daily expected from the East-Indies, as well from Ad
miral Hughes, as from the Asiatic continent.
Extrafl of a letter from Utrecht, June 25.
" We read in foine of the public papers, that the city of
Amsterdam, not contented with having presented the 18th of
last month, the memorial that made so much noise, determined
to take another step far more feriotis, of which we are very im
patient to hear the issue. The Sth of this month, after break
ing up of the States of Holland, two Burgomasters of that city,
Messrs. Timminck and Rendorp, accompanied by Mr Viffcr,
Penfionary of that city, demanded an audience of the Prince
Stadtholder, who admitted them to his presence at the house
in the wood. These gentlemen then read to his Serene High
ness, in the name of their principals, a memorial, in which,
after having assured that Prince in the strongest terms of their
love, refpe&, and attachment, for his person and his illustri
ous family, they most earnestly begged he would remove from
his councils all the perfohs, whom the nation in general con
fidered as the cause of that inactivity, in which the naval for
ces of this Republic have hitherto been held, and in conse
quence, the cause of the ruin of its commerce, and the loss of
its possessions. The Prince having heard the memorial read,
answered, that gratitude and other motives absolutely oblig
ed him, not to listen to such a proposition, &c."
%, 4. Five Dutch Eafr-Indiamen, who failed from the
Cape the Bth of March, in Company with the Blip Concord,
pleasure, however, I cart acquaint you, that a few days ago
we threw a shell into one of their powder magazines, which
blew up with a great explosion, and must 'have killed a number
of them. We have latterly kept up so incessant and well di
rected a fire upon their new advanced works from the Old
Mole, Willis's and Prince's lines batteries, as to reduce them
to return it only from their old forts St. Philip, and Santa Bar
bara, which being at so great a distance, can do our works
little damage. Our soldiers and the garrison in general are
in perfect health, and seem to have acquired additional spirits
since the bombardment; and I have not a doubt, but they will
exert themselves, should the Dons attempt a coup de main,
which at present there is very little encouragement for them to
do, the fortifications having sustained little damage."
By a letter from the Hague, dated June 20, we are inform
ed, that " the Republic has nothing to expert from the armed
neutrality. After a long time, and many deliberations, of
which the English have known how to make their advantage,
by weakening us, and enriching themselves be our spoils, we
learn, that we are reduced to depend on ourselves for defence,
unless we agree to the pressing felicitations of the other ene
mies of England, to make a common cause, and join together
in our operations to strike a sensible blow on our enemy. We
are very impatient to know what steps the Republic will take,
especially at this time, when the fix months stipulated in the
treaty of Breda expires."
June 29. By an account just received from Gibraltar, the
loss of the garrison at present is, one 0 fficer killed, and eight
officers wounded; 50 men killed and 200 wounded; a very
small number, considering that the Spainards had fired an
hundred tboufand shot and fliells.
Sir George Collier's resignation of the Canada has been ig
norantly and falfely ascribed to a disagreement between him
and the firft Lord of the Admiralty. The reasons which in
duced Sir George to give up his command, in the firft instance,
was on account of his approaching nuptials ; and again, from
an intimation received from Lord Sandwich of the Canada's
being on the lift of ships ordered for America with Admiral
Digby, whither it was supposed Sir George would not will to
go in a subordinate command, having served on that Nation as
Commander in Chief.
Forty-fix fail of the Jamaica fleet arrived in Leith Roads
on Saturday last, under convoy of the
Egmont, Fanfhaw 74 Bristol, Duckworth 74
Gratton, Gardner 74 Endymion, Cartwright 44
Trident, Dumarefque 64
Jul, 2. A gentleman who arrived in town op Friday from
Oftend, fays, that since the Emperor has declared that city
a free port, people are coming from different parts to reside
there, that they have begun to build ware-hbufes, but they
are in want of more carpenters than they have at present, and
great wages are offered to good hands, as they intend not
only to ereCt ware-houses, but a piece of ground is. marked
out tor building a street of capital houses for the residence of
merchants.
Extra# of a letter from Dublin, June 24.
“ The cotton manufacture, in all its several branches, since
the extension of our trade, has, under the auspices of the
Dublin Society, and the patronage of some Gentlemen of large
propertv, been entered upon with a foirit that bids fair to
make it in a short time a most valuable article of foreign export,
independent of supplying home-confumpfion ; to effect which
falutdry purpose, factories have been established in various
parts of this kingdom, the best workinin brought over from
England, at a Considerable expence, and the various machinery
for expediting the work, which have been heretofore unknown
among us, introduced ; by which means we shall be enabled
to vic even with the Weft of England, both in the cheapness
and quality of that species of goods."
Jul^ 7- A Gentleman of reputation in the mercantile line
at Paris writes to another at Amsterdam, advising him of fe
ver al of Dr. Franklin's bonds being sent there for the purpose
of raising money ; desires him to be very cautious, and to have
no concern with the agents, as the principal monied men in
Paris will not difeount or advance any money upon his bonds,
or receive them as payment at the bankers.
Notwithstanding all the popular clamours of the Dutch
against the Prince of Brunswick, he will meft probably.come
off with dying colours, being a man ^ infinite as red m
tr gue. He went to Ruffin in the reign of the' late."rcoreb,with
a view offlaring the tbreny; and though futc; e ^ ' ! ( ids
design, yet it is certain that his insinuating address ebtak^d
the imperial favours. From bis family, ^ '>/. no rum' s rn
three thouf-r.d a year; but, a Fi' m ri "cs,
he enjoys a dear revenue of fifty thoufc....<-.. •,
Extra# of a letter from Hanover, June 19.
“ The Prince Bishop of Ofnaburg, returned here yeffer
day evening from a journey to Gottinguen and to the Hartz.
His Royal Highness will pass the summer at the Cattle of Mont
brilliant. Since the return hither of Lieut. Gen. Freytag,a
few days ago from London, two more regiments of 100'S men
each are railing, which are to be taken into British pay, to be
sent it is said, to the East-Indies. They will conlift entirely of
volunteers."
Extrad of a^ Letter from Portsmouth, July 2.
Ca pC Knowles is appointed to the command of the Rot.
terdam, of 50 guns, now fitting for sea at this port."
Extra# of a letter from Cowes, Jul, r.
day a vessel arrived here from Gibraltar, the matter
°'fays,,bat the loss the Spaniards sustained when Ge.
" ot babied out upon them was very cohfiderable°
the fleet which was before Gibraltar is returned into Cadi?
and that part of the troops are drawn off, from which it
imagined that they intend to give over any further attempts
the present upon that garrison ; he also fays, that many of
families are obliged to leave Gibraltar, having no honfa
to live in since they were beat down by the Spaniards, and
in want of materials to build new ones."
Extra# of a letter from the Hague, June 24.
" The Duke of Brunswick Wolffenbuttel had the day before
1 efterday a conference with the President of their High Migh
tineftes, to whom he delivered a memorial, desiring him
T'J™r\"' Ca ' e " '°. " e Assembly of their High Mightinefa
- "'" complains heavily in this memorial, “ of a veiv
ohenhve addrtfs presented, on the part of the city of Amfter.
1", ,° bis Serene Highness the Prince of Orange; not
doubting, but that in an affair which so strongly afieds his ho-
Hour, which to him is dearer than life, their High Mightinesses
a [evolution to clear him entirely of the aceefatioa
or being guilty of corruption, and the cause of the inactivity
witn which affairs are conducted. He requests such fatis.
faction as it shall please their High Mightinesses to grant him,
His Most Serene Highness, the Hereditary Prince Stadtholder
haying appeared in the Assembly, declared, “ That, in hi;
opinion, they could not refufe to examine whether the inju.
nous reports formed against the said Duke, were with or with
'"''?u"dati°n ; in the mean time it behoved their High Migh.
'"j,, 3 to examine whether any person in their service, inverted
,rh so diftingu shed a character, is really guilty of what is
imputed to him ; and that no well-thinking man can patiently
Submit to be taxed with such accusation; nor to have fucha
blemish cast upon his honour, which ought to be dearer to
him than life itfelf." Upon which the said Memorial was ac
cepted by the Provinces, and deferred to a Commission to be
M^ti^es^ "''"'°" th " e ° f ™™™' to their ^
Greenock, June 75. The Richmond, Jamiefon, arrived here
yesterday from Charleftown, after a tedious passage of nine
weeks, four of whichfhe beat in the North-Channel.
London, July 6. The arbitrary insolence of republican legi
flavors is demonstrated, in the very indecent and illiberal attack
o. toe Regency of Amsterdam, upon the character of the Duke
ot Brunswick; imputing the distressed situation of their affairs,
and the negligent system that has long prevailed, to the mif
conduCt 0^ the Duke, in the educatioh of the Prince Stad
tholder. These referendum gentlemen, appear rather difpofcd
to censure the Prince himfelf, for his negligence and inattenti
on, and only employ the Duke's name to disguise in part
their literal meaning, which amounts to a severe reprobation
01 the conduct of his Serene Highness.
.A revolution in Holland might be brought about with left
difficulty than in Sweden. All the forces of the Republic are
under the immediate direction of the Stadtholder and his ad
herents; and the natural indolence of the States, who take
every confederation ad referendum, would not only facilitate a
coup de main, but even irfure success to the most hazardous
enterprize. An event of this nature would do aneflentialfer
vice to the Mynheers, and put a period to the present war;
but the friends of the Prince of Orange ought to remind him
of the mysterious words spoken by the brazen head of Friar
Bacon— Time is.
got into dadiz the Bth of Junte, after being attacked A,e
letters from Cadiz) by the English privateer the Tart ''"^
•Hamilton, of Glasgow, who sent a boat on board ° a ^
modore, demanding the surrender of his ships & C °^ <
his refufal, the privateer fired several times, Daa^Z^ 4
the Concord. The Indiamen returned the fire and
the privateer; but the Concord having received fe v
between wind and water, funk, after most of the 1
taken out. In the interval, the privateer took the I
of drawing off a little to repair the damages,
Dutoh Indiamen steered dire&ly for Cadiz. The " c
^?^ s ^ p ° rt ' th " threc ° ther ffii P s belonging to the
East-India Company, of which they had no tidings, failed
the Cape of Good-Hope a fortnight before them. Adv^
have been already received of two of them having been
up by our cruizers.' "Picked
Six vessels arc now fitting out in the River, on a
construction ; they are intended to carry two long 48 nound^
brass, and in the center there are beds for mortars,
manner of the Spanish gun-boats. > the
In addition to the aspiring commerce of the Netherlands
favourite , topic at Antwerp is, our correspondent there
us, a revival of the Emperor's dormant claims to Lufatia
the prefecture of Alfatia, which were both extorted from t^
Emperor by the treaty of Munster. ™
The tumultuous disputes between the magistrates and
lace at Geneva are yet neither subsided, nor indeed at all
n £ r 18 it: likcly that they fl 10 " 1 ' 1 ' as 10n g as the fam':
fubjeds of contentions altercation in full force subsist
the cede of new laws shall remain unformed.