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ribands. The fafhion of the Court was poppy-co
loured fattin waists and trains ; their heads ornamented
with poppy-coloured ribands and flowers.
On Saturday the Dutchefe of Rutland was at Court,
for the firft time, since her arrival from Ireland; her
Grace was richly dressed in a pink fattin train and
waists, in a fancy coat elegantly trimmed with white
silver fringe, and her head was neatly adorned with
jewels and white ribands,
It appears by the secret, but authentick accounts
from the Continent, that the French Cabinet are en
gaged in more negociations than one ; that between
Holland and the Emperor does not employ all the at
tention of the French Ministry; they are branching
out a variety of schemes, which extend to all the
quarters of the globe, in order to enc^eafe their com
merce, and they are taking such steps as will secure it
when obtained. The French have lent only fix ships
to India hitherto since the peace, one of which went
to China, and two of them have returned. This trade
is for the prelent confined to I'Orient, where 9 ships
are now fitting ; but it is laid to be finally the inten
tion of France to throw this branch of commerce en
tirely open to all the fubjeds of the nation; on that
much favoured opinion, that monopolies are a clog to
commerce, and to the general interests of the nation.
The French have an African Company, but the Crown
is the patron and manager of their affairs ; their Wefa
India Company at Bourdeaux is merely nominal.—
Their Newfoundland Company is on the fame esta
blishment, all under the direction of the Government.
Their trade with America is as yet young, and, in or
der that it may not be cramped, a few irregularities
are allowed. It is from all these sources, which they
aie preparing to make the most of, that France looks
for there-establishment of her finances, a matter which
is the leading principle with old Vergennes and his as
sociates.—Go, do thou likewise. Fas est ab hofte
doceri ! !!
Extract of a letter from Vienna, Dec. 8.
" Prince Kaunitz Ritfberg, Chancellor of state, has
not been seen publickly for several days ; his functions
arc difeharged, during his absence, by the Vice Chan
cellor Comte de Gobentzel. The gd,defpatches were
received from the Imperial AmbafTador at Paris, which
rook all the time of the Emperor, who remained clo
seted till very late in the evening; and, contrary to
his intention, his Majesty did not go to the opera.—
Surely the opposition made by the French Cabinet,
cannot overturn a resolution, in the observance of
which, his dignity seems to be deeply concerned. The
Emperor's Sentiments on the occasion are conformable
to our conjecture. He has often been heard to fay,
“ Had the fatal gun been fired by the Agents of a
crowned head, 1 might have palled it unnoticed, but
it is unpardonable from a Republick." Notwithstand
ing the remonstrances from the French Court, it is
very doubtful whether they will take an active part
against the House of Austria. This supposition can
only be supported by those who are unacquainted with
the influence of Comte de Vergennes in the French
Cabinet; who upon the Emperor making known his
ultimatum, will loon incline his Royal Master to
adopt measures rather friendly than inimical to the
Imperial cause.
" Be this as it may, it is certain that the pretended
letter from the King of France had never an existence,
but in the speculative imagination of news-writers.
The real fad is, that a French Minister sent from
Versailles, on the 20th of November last, a spirited
memorial ; it was delivered on the 27th by his Excel
lency Marquis de Noailles. However, it is a truth
on which you may depend, that an answer had not
yet been returned so late as the 4th inst.
“ What follows is the poftfeript of a letter dated
Antwerp, Dec. 24. “ We have this day received
the most positive assurances, that the Emperor has ex
cepted, ex toto, the mediation of his Most Christian
Majesty. Meanwhile Marquis Chatelet has received
leave to raile an independent corps of 1500 men, to
be afterwards incorporated into the five national regi
ments, when he will be raised to the rank of Lieut.
Colonel. It is positively averted as a fad, that the
Emperor has come to a resolution of holding in the
Netherlands a Landing army of 40,000 men, be the
event of the present dispute what it may,"
%%5> The Germanic body, according to all ac
counts from the Continent, never were so united as
'bey are at present. This is principally imputed to
The superior policy of the Emperor, who, from the
commencement of his reign, has uniformly studied to
preserve the Hri^eft cordiality with all the principa
lities of the Empire.
So powerful is the confederacy formed in Germa
ny, that it is conjectured the Emperors force will ex
ceed three hundred and twenty thousand met).
No dependence can be had on the Dutch prints,
which are full of [peculation. This is clear from the
consideration, that within the last ten days, we have
had almost positive assurances of peace from the Hague,
and as positive assurances of all negociation being at
an end. If our private intelligence from Paris may
be relied on, the French have no expectation that the
present dispute will have an amicable termination ;
but, on the contrary, the publick opinion is, that the
campaign will open about the beginning of May.
They write from Berlin, that the powers of their
great monarch decline very faft, though his heart is
Hill warm with military ardour, Hill faithful to its
martial tires. It is however the general opinion, that
he never will be able to take the field again, as his
constitution is top much debilitated for such exerti
ons.
The commotions in Egypt, we under Hand, are of
so serious a nature, that they may tend to keep the
Turk from molesting the Emperor, which is a cir
cumstance of great moment. There are beside other
internal difeontents prevailing in the Ottoman domi
nions, which difqualify the Porte at present from en
gaging in a foreign war.
Mediation and no mediation, war and peace, are
alternately given us by the foreign prints, which ap
pear to be involved in clouds and thick darkness.-
While the great principals in the contell are ob
serving the profoundeft secrecy, eyery little politician
indulges his speculations, and gives his visionary con
je&ures to the publick with an authoritative air, as if
he was an immediate member of the Cabinet of Ver
sailles.
The political disputes in Pennsylvania indicate a
strong tendency in the majority of the Americans to
return to their duty. In fad, when they, have time
to reflect that to Britain they firft owed their exist
ence ; that to her foftering care they are indebted for
their prosperity ; that their blood and treasure were
lavishly expended in her defence; that no profufion
of either was reckoned by the fond mother to be too
great for these her favourite children ; that even when
they had commenced open hostilities, she put not forth
half her Hrength, and mourned over the wounds she
was obliged to infli& :—lf their hearts are made of
penetrable Huff, they muH feel remorse for what they
have done, and an eager desire to be reconciled to
that parent who so tenderly watched over them in
their infancy. Add to these considerations, that they
havenow tasted the bitter fruits of thetree ofknowledge,
and can. difeern good from evil, good loft, and evil
only gained. 'I hey feel by experience, that tyranny
is next door neighbour to anarchy. Loaded with
taxes, oppressed with poverty, and groaning under the
yoke of a junto of arbitrary despots, who are them
selves tools to the Most Christian King, they now
look back with regret to those happy times, when, un
der the wings of Great-Britain, they enjoyed peace,
plenty, and real freedom; while the only returns re
quired of them were fidelity, affedion, and a contri
bution towards the common experices of the empire so
Imad, that it could be looked upon only as a pepper
corn rent paid to the Lord of the Manor, in token
that the lands were held of him.
The Empress has clearly shewn her disposition to
wards the Emperor, by her last appeal to the States
General. Her application to their High Mightinesses,
inHead of the Court of Vienna, amounts to this, that
Hie confiders the Hates to be the aggressors, and that
it remains an obligation on their parts to make every
conception that can avert the impending storm.
Extract of a letter from Paris, December 5.
“ A new mediator, or rather mediatrix, is started
up in the person of the Czarina, or as she is other
wise called, the Sublime Empress of all the Ruffias.
Her Ambassador has lately had two or three confer
ences on this business ; and this we add, that she is
wholly in the interest of the Emperor Joseph.
Three days before Christmas day, a messenger ex
traordinary from the Court of Peterfburgh arrived at
the Hotel of his Excellency Mons. Kalichof, the Ruf
fian Minister at the Hague, with the following me
morial, which his Excellency, by order of his Sove
reign, immediately delivered to the President of the
States General.
“ Her Majesty, the Empress of all the Ruffias, ne
ver loft fight for a moment since the beginning of her
reign, of the happiness and tranquility of Europe in
general, it was therefore with the melt lively concern,
He received intelligence that the negociations between
the States General and the Emperor, her friend and
ally, had been interrupted by ads of hostility, which
would seem to put it out of the power of his Impe
rial Majesty to take any other steps, than such as the
care of his dignity, which Hands committed in the
face of Europe, should suggest. Her Majesty the Em
press has given too many marks of the interest she
takes in the peace and prosperity of the Republick,
not to be confident that their High Mightinesses will
confider the invitation which she now fends them, to
devise means for opening again the way to accommo
dation, as the fruit of the most pure and laudable de
sire to restore tranqillity, and prevent hostilities that
might end in open war, and disturb the peace of all
Europe. Her Majesty then requests their High Migh
tinesses will think of the means that their wisdom may
suggest, to bring the dispute to an amicable conclusion,
a consummation as salutary as it is ufeful to both par
ties."
American Intelligence.
PROVIDENCE, March 19.
SINCE our last Captain John Warner, and Cap
tain Christopher Smith, both of this port, ar
rived here from Surinam.—On the 9th instant, in lat.
38 5, long. 72, Captain Warner spoke a brig belong
ing to Boston, James Lovett, Master, from the Bite
of Leoganne, out twenty days. She had loft part of
her bowsprit in a gale of wind.
Extract from Lloyd's Lift, Nov. 23, 1784.
“ The Nautilus, Winter, from Newfoundland, ar
rived at Barcelona, was boarded off Cape St. Vin
cent's by an Algerine corsair, cruizing for American
vessels."
N E W-Y O R K, April 6.
On the 24th ult. arrived at Baltimore the flip
Pierce, Captain Hall, from London, but last from
Falmouth, which she left the 14th February. Let
ters received by this ship mention, that insurance up
on American vessels had risen, on account of the dan
ger of capture by Algerine pirates, several of which
were expe&ed to cruize on the English coast for Ame
rican property.
WHAT is it? fays the parson—ls it a new living?
—No.—ls it a frefh brief? fays the lawyer—No.—-
Isdt a sick patient? fays the dodor—No.—ls it a fu
neral ? fays the undertaker—No.—ls it a new-fafhi
oned cap ? fays Miss Tittup—No.—Well then, pray
tell us what it really is. Why in truth it is no
more than a little wholfome advice, for which, at pre
sent, you will not, perhaps, be thankful; but, at a
future period, you will esteem the donor as one of
your best friends. Short as the duration of the last
year may appear to us, Hill, if we recollect the num
ber of improprieties which we were guilty of in that
space, we shall find the catalogue alarmingly exten
sive. Elevated by power, or depressed by humility,
advanced by fortune, or reduced by poverty, superior
in wisdom, or characterized by simplicity; let every
one endeavour to balance his accounts on this score.
Let the enthroned Monarch count up the oppressions
which his fubjeds have fuffered in the last twelve
months, and the various burthens which, through his
impositions, they have been necessitated to support un
der every possible difficulty. Let the judge refled,
that among the number of criminals he has sentenced
to death, many of them pofTeffed dispositions naturally
as good as his own, but swerved by temptation from
the paths of reditude. Let him remember with Lil
lo, when he condemns the poor man for thieving,
that, had he been poor, he might have been a thief
himfelf. Let the dignified Divine confider how little
care he lias taken of the flock entrusted to his fuperin
tendance. Let the physician estimate how little he
has done disinterestedly, to foften the bodily afflicti
ons of tortured indigence. Let the merchant look
over his books, and fee how the balance Hands be
tween his losses and expences, and his gains and ex
travagances. And, lastly, let the deluded fair, whom
imprudent confidence has fubjeded to injured virtue,
in conformity to the advice of her best Friend and Sa
viour, “Go and fin no more." Thus shall the pow
erful proted the weak. Thus shall the wife apolo
gize for the ignorant. Thus shall the fkilful remove
the miseries of pain. Thus shall the adventurous re
gulate their speculations by prudence—and thus the
fair avoid the accumulating torments of continued
prostitution. These thoughts may be deemed too se
rious for the volatile, but they cannot offend the ju
dicious. It is only by a conviftion of wrong doing,
that we can be rationally induced to ad with justice
and with propriety. Hence we shall be induced to re
pent of the evil which is past, and avoid that which
is to come. So may the judgment of heaven confirm
the equity of human governors; so may kings meet
unabashed the King of kings ; so may Divines account
to their Master for his trust; so may physicians find
favour with the Healer of fouls; so may merchants
find no bankruptcy in Heaven; so may those whom
delusion Hiles Angels upon earth, be ranked by Truth
and Mercy as inhabitants of the blifsful regions of
eternal happiness ; and, in a word, so may this Gift
like the Mercy of the Supreme, bless both the giver
and the receiver.
War between Holland and the Emperor was not
declared at the failing of the Pierce.
" St - Jago de la Vega, Jan. 27. The Mary, Capt.
Bowen, arrived in the harbour of Kingston on Sun
day from the Mufquito Shore, with intelligence that
a sloop of war anchored on that coast from the Ha
PHILADELPHIA, March 3c.
Advices from Jamaica announce the commence
ment of a controversy between the English and Spani
ards receding the Mufquito Shore, that may lead to
consequences of a serious nature. The fubflance of
the advices are as follows :
A NEW YEAR'S GIF T.