The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-08-28 00:00:00, page 1

By several late arrivals in this port, we have been
favoured with a number of British, Spaniih, Weft-
India and Halifax news-papers, from which the
parliamentary speeches and European intelligence,
contained in this day's paper, have been extracted.
From the Madrid Gazette of May 10, 14, 17 and
24, brought by Captain Deland.
HAG U E, April 20.
, Il IHE Ambassador of France, at the close
of the last month, communicated to their
High Mightinesses the plan of naval ope
rations concerted between that power and
is Republick, which has destroyed the little hope
me persons entertained of a separate peace with
reat-Britain.
April 23. The province of Gueldres, being the
aly one that had not already coniented to the ad
jiffion of Mr. Adams as an American Minister, has
;reed thereto the 7th instant; in consequence of
hich, the States-General have come to the foliow
ig resolution:
;xtra& from the register of their High Mighti
nefles the States-General of the United Provin
ces, dated Friday the 19th of April.
“ Having resumed the deliberations upon the
firft and second address from Mr. Adams, the for
mer presented to the president of the assembly of
heir High Mightinesses on the 4th of May, 1781,
nd the letter on the ninth of June last, requesting
hem, in the name of the United States of North
tmerica, to permit the said Mr. Adams to deliver
is credentials to their High Mightinesses; and fur
rer, in his last address, requesting a categorical
afwer on that fubjed :
" It is determined to admit the said Mr. Adams,
: 1 Ambaffodor from the United States of North
- merica to their High Mightinesses, and he is ac
irdingly, by these presents, admitted and acknow
dged as such.
Signed, W. Boreel.
Underneath, W. Fagell."
Mr. Boreel, president of the assembly of the
province ofiHolland, notified Mr. Adams of this
proceeding, that he might fend his credentials from
Congrtfs to be presented to the assembly; and on
the 20th the new Minister went to deliver them to
the said president, that he might make the prefen
ration to their High Mightinesses. This tranf
aftion has given the most perfed fatisfa&ion through
all the Republick; and it is said, disposition is made
to transmit to America the earliest information.
Mr. Adams has had a visit from the French Am
bassador, with whom he held a conference of two
flours.
May 7. By letters from the Wefer of the 27th
alt. it appears, that there were lying in the mouth
of that river an English frigate and two armed cut
ters, with a number of transports, to take 2000
Germans over to America ; by which it seems evi
dent, that the British Ministry expert their pacifick
proportions will (hare the fame fate in the colonies,
which those have in Holland, which were the firft
made by the new Ministry.
Administration have laid a plan for employing all
the land forces in America, as soon as ever an agree
ment takes place with Congress, in the Weft-lndies,
for the prote&ion of our remaining possessions, and
to retake such as have been captured; and it is also
hoped, that will put us in a situation to attack the
possessions of the enemy in that quarter:
Lord Keppel has had sundry conferences with
those members of the late opposition, who have
been the most assiduous in examining into the Rate
of the navy, upon the measure of a national naval
militia. It was agreed, that every county ought
to be taxed in proportion to its known wealth and
mportance for buiding a ship of the line, or a 50
gun ship, by which means there would be fix ships
of 100 guns, laid on the docks; ten of 90; ten of
80; ten of 74; ten of 64, and fix of 50; the mo-
NEW-JERSEY GAZETTE.
[Vol. V.]
LONDO N, April 26.
S A L E M, August i.
[Thus far Madrid Gazette.]
WEDNESDA Y, August 28, 1782.
Vienna, March 23. Pius VI. Sovereign Ro
man Pontiff, arrived yesterday in this capital. His
Imperial Majesty, accompanied by his Royal High
ness the Archduke Maximilian, went to meet his
Flolinefs through Neuftadt to Neuftirken, where the
firft interview took place. After flaying some time
at the military academy at Neuftirken, the Holy
Father went into a coach with the Emperor, and
was received without the lines by a detachment of
noble Hungarian and Galician guards, who escorted
him to the cattle, where, in the midst of an innu
merable concourse of people of all ranks, forming a
line to the entrance of the Imperial Palace, his Ho
liness arrived at half part three in the afternoon.
On defeending from the coach, the Holy Father
was received by the Apoftolick Nuncio, the Mini
sters of state, the Privy Counfellors, and Chamber
lains, and conduced by his Imperial Majesty and
the Archduke Maximilian, through the grand apart
ment to the oratory of the chappel of the chamber,
where, in the presence of the whole court, h Deum
was performed by way of thanksgiving for the hap
py arrival of his Holiness, the host being exposed.
After prayeis, the Pope retired to bis apartment,
where the Archduke Maximilian repaired in the e
vening; and a little after, his Eminence the Cardi
nal f^arzan, who arrived from Rome the fame day,
had an audience of his Holiness.
Admiralty-Office, April 30.
Extraft of a letter from Vice-Admiral Milbanke,
to Mr. Stephens, dated Plymouth, April 28.
" I have the fatisfadion to acquaint you, for
their Lordships information, that his Majesty's ship
Latona arrived here last night; and Captain Con
way brings the agreeable intelligence of his having,
in company with the Queen, last Mpnday, south
of Scilly, fallen in with a French ship, I'A&ionnaire,
armee en flute, which struck to the latter. She has
eleven cherts of Dutch silver on board, and also
lower mails for four 74's, with fails and rigging
complete, besides her own j ills, which were in
tended for the Hannibal."
ney to be paid into the hands, by quarterly inftal
ments, of a county receiver, and to be drawn for
by the admiralty, for building a ship to be called
by the county's name. The naval militia to raise
men enough to man completely the refpe&ive coun
ty ships. And in railing the men, it was proposed,
that, till a certain day, volunteers should be receiv
ed, all of whom should be entitled to greater pri
vileges than others. The term of the feryice to be
for the war, and no militia-21 an ever after to be li
able to be pressed. It is conceived, that such a
measure, notwithstanding its being burthenfome,
would be popular ; and that the people would sub
mit cheerfully to any expence they were sure
would be applied to the real national defence.
April 30. No intelligence of moment has been
received from the continent of America or the
Weft-Indies. Religious and political liberty are
gaining ground in Europe. I 1 ? Emperor's edi&
for liberty of confeience will find but a weak oppo
nent in the Pope; and if the foreign publick prints
are to be credited, the French King has determined
to give free exercise to the Protellant religion in his
dominions.
March 27. On Saturday, the 23d instant, the
Sovereign Pontiff paid his firft visit to the Emperor
and the Archduke Maximilian. On Sunday his
Holiness performed mass in the chapel of the
chamber.
June 17. Letters from Amsterdam fay that their
High Mightinesses the States of Holland have at
length determined to enter into a negociation for a
peace with England as soon as possible; for which
purpose couriers are defpatched to the courts of Vi
enna and Peterfburgh, to appoint a time and place
for opening a negociation, which the letter fays has
given great joy to the people in general; and it
further fays, the merchants are pieparing to ship
their goods as soon as hoftilitie; cease.
The motion for American independence, which
was to have come on last week in the house of peers,
was deferred till Miqirtry had full time to consult
THE
Yesterday advice was received of Rear Admiral
Sir John Lockhart Ross being arrived with his
squadron in the Downs, from a cruize in the north
seas.
Advice is also received by government of the
combined fleets having put to sea from Cadiz, con
fiding of 26 Spanish and 7 French drips of the line.
Extras of a letter from Bourdeaux, June 12.
" An order arrived here the 9th, to lay an em
bargo on the fliips bound to the Weft-Indies, and
they are now ordered to receive troops and stores
on government account for the different islands ;
which, on account of the disaster of the fleet under
Count de Graffe, it is found necessary to reinforce
diredly."
From the Westminster Magazine.
REVIEW of POLITICKS for May, 1782.
GIBRALTAR seems to be no better attended
to by the new than the old Ministry. Great
efforts still continue to be made by the Governor
and garrison; but men must be wearied out and worn
out with incessant labour, severe toil, and imminent
danger, especially when they think themselves ue
gleded or abandoned by those whom they faithful
ly serve, and whose duty it is to relieve, encourage
and reward them. The combined force of Franco
and Spain will probably be now vigorously exerted
against that important fortrefs, and perhaps with
success, if fpecdy and efficacious measures are not
used to defeat them.
The naval forces of our enemies, separate or
combined, have as yet made no great figure in Eu
rope this season. Admiral Kempenfelt, with a
small fquadon, commands the bay of Biscay, which
occasionally visits Ereft unmolested; and Lord
Howe, with another small division, fcotfrs the north
sea without any opposition from the very angry in a
cenfed Dutch.
with Sir Henry Clinton on that fubjeft, and will
be brought on in the course of this week.
A letter from Holland, by the way of Ortend,
mentions, that the body of merchants have received
a note from the States General, intimating that a
peace is certainly on the eve of being concluded,
firft between England and Holland, and then a ge
neral one; and that the preliminaries are actually
fettled.
The Empress of Russia continues to appear in
the character of a mediatrix between the belligerent
powers; but she does it in such a languid, equivo
cal style, that it is difficult to know what her Im
perial Majesty aims at; and what is still more,
whether she really wishes in her heart a peace to
take place, or the continuance of war. Accoiding
to her manner of mediating, and considering the
distance between her and the parties concerned, she
may keep mediating these ten years, and the main
articles of the peace remain still to be fettled.-
Perhaps she has an interest in it.
The Emperor of Germany is busily employed in
cropping the ears of the church, and resuming those
powers, privileges, prerogatives and property, which
his predecessors of many centuries ago tamely sur
rendered up to the Spiritual Monarch or Delpot of
Rome, and in making other internal regulations in
the temporal affairs of his dominions; therefore no
assistance is to be expected from him in the hufinefs
of peace-making —And he too, probably, finds a
benefit from the contentions of other powers.
' Ihe moment is come when the grand question
must be determined, whether Ireland is a part of
the British empire, or a separate, difiin&, entire,
independent kingdom, subsisting in and of and by
itfelf, unrelative to the island of Great-Britain?A
question of immense magnitude; not to be decided
lightly and inconfidei ately. Our Ministry, howe
ver, have decided it, to our utter afonifhment, in
a very summary way, in a few hours, in favour of
independency. We have only room at present to
enter our protest against the measure, and to fay,
that if carried into execution in the manner it is
going to be, it will be the ruin of both islands.—
Great-Britain and Ireland must always be one king
dom or dominion ; or they will be rivals, and soon
[Numb. 244.]