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naval stores. The Spitfire immediately set
out on another cruize. * /
We are sorry to fay, that 60 vessels laden
with corn and provisions from America,
reached Brest Harbour on the 4th inst.
Capt. Savage, of his Mejefty's Ship Albi
on, of 6o guns, has sent into the Thames 18
fail of merchant Ships laden with corn, which
he has taken in the north sea, on their way
\to France, either from Denmark or Dant
zi&. This will prove a great relief at this
time.
Mr. Pinkoev, the American Minister, set
out from Dunkirk on the 14th tilt, for Ma
drid ; he took the route of Paris.
The Ruffian squadron intended to ad un
der the orders of our Admiralty, is com--
manded by Admiral Hannikott, and is des
tined to protest the north seas from the na
val forces of the States General, Should they
be brought into action ; which, according to
present appearances is, however, very doubt-'
ful, from the general difeontents which pre
* vail in Holland, in consequence of their late
connexion with the French Republic.
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LONDON, JUNE 8.
Saturday some dispatches were received at
the Admiralty, from Admiral Hotham, dat
ed the beginning of May, from Leghorn ; at
which place the squadron had arrived from
Floreczo Bay, to virtual, which t^ey expell
ed to complete in a day or two, and were
then to proceed to cruize off Toulon. It
does not appear that any intelligence has
been received of the disorders at Toulon.
In the House of Peers on Friday, Lord
Lauderdale moved an address to his Majesty,
of confiuerable length, Bating the opinion of
that House to be, that the present fituatiort
of France fliould be no obstacle to negocia
tion, &c. &c. The motion was supported by
Lord Guildford, andpppofed by Lords Gren
ville and Mulgrave. On the question being
called for, there appeared, for the motion,
B—against it, 53. Majority, 45.,
M. D'Hervilly, Commandant of a French
Legion, Rationed at Southampton, and sev
eral officers, received orders on Tuefday to
join their several corps with all possible speed,
and hold themselves in readiness to embark.
A deftent is supposed to be intended to be
made in the Bay of Concale, near St. Maloes.
The ci-devant Biflup of Dol, in Brittany, has
also left' London;for the purpose of assisting
• in this expedition.
An attempt will certainly fodn be made
upon the French co@ft. ° A number of gun
veficls are ready, and a floating battery for
the attack of forts which (hips cannot get
/neat, is immediately to be conftruded, un
der the diredion of the ingenious and adive
Captain Schank.
JUNE 11. Many neutral vessels, laden
with provisions for France, are daily sent in
to our ports. We have reason to believes
that a very few such vessels have lately escap
ed the vigilance of ourcruizers.
His Majesty's Blip •Spitfire, brought into
the Downs, on Satyr'Ll, last, five vessels
bound to France, ladefolth provisions and
General Olairfayt has under his command
ran army of 120,000 men. These troops are
well appointed, and in the highest state of
difeipiine.
On the 26th of April, the Emprefs,of Rus
sia, seated on the throne, received the aft of
submission of the Dutchy of Courland, and
Xhexircle of Pilten.
JUNE 10. On Sunday arrived a Meffen
~ger from Peterfburgb. He brings with him
the ratification of a Treaty entered into be
tween the Empress of Ruffian and our court,
by which the, former binds herfelf to a prose
cution of the war, and to furnifh twelve ships
-of the line and eight frigates, which may
' foon be expeded to reach one of our ports.
A triple alliance is likewise about to be
formed, between our court and that of Pe
terfburgh and Vienna. The Emperor has
already signed it, and it has been forwarded
to the Imperial Minister here, to obtain the
ratification of his Majesty. , The objed of
this alliance is to counteract the views of
Prussia, in the unnatural union which that
power has formed with the French Republic.
If the Empress is serious in her intentions,
which there is little room to doubt, she will
soon give full employment to all the armies
of Piuffia.
JUNE 11. Yesterday arrived a Hamburg
and Italian mail. The chief articles by the
former are, another declaration from (he
Emperor on the fubjed of Peace.
The Hanoverian troops which occupied
Cruxhaven, and Ritzebuttel, two 'places be
longing to Hamburgh, are now on the.point
of evacuating the fame ; the Hanoverian
Minister at Ratilbon, having long since de
clared to the diet, that the dread of the
French attempting from Holland an enter
prize against the Elbe, was the sole reason
why the said places had been taken poffelfion
of by the above troops.
The court of Peterfburgh is said to have
Tent to that of Berlin, a Memoir, demanding
the territory of Cracow, to be ceded to the
Austrians. It will be highly interesting to
learn the issue of this contest.
Engli/b Affairs.
WESTINDIES.-
Bridgetown, (Barbadoes) June 15. ,
The affairs of St. Lucia have come
toa more final issue ; the soldiery
(we can scarcely call them British)
have fled from their post, and aban
doned the island to their Sans Calotte
assailants ; and, difgraceful to relate,
left a number of their countrymen a
prey to the rapacity of their blood
thirsty enemies.
The evacuation of St. Lucia took
place on the 19th inst. so great a mys
tery hangs over this event, that we
cannot state all the particulars relative
Wit ; certain, it it, boweVtf, feme
thing difgraceful attends it. Letters
which we have seen, from Martinico,
mention it with disgust ;° our corres
pondent there sffuree us that a con
fiderab!e quantity, of powder was left
behind in the garrison, and not a gun
spiked on its being abandoned. Sev
.The Commonwealth it once more
saved. Yesterday the triumph of true
principles over the design, of cut
throats, gave the finifhing blow to
Jacobinifm ; and if all the depart
ments have now the courage to imi
tate our example, there will soon be
left no trace of the ferocity of those
monsters, the Jacobins, who would,
if possible, lay waste all Europe.
Every fedion of Paris, is assembled
this day, to purify the armed force of
the capital. We are assured that a
most excellent spirit is manifefted in
all of them, and that the terrorists at
last begin to tremble at the powerful
measures taking against them. All
who have been denounced for their
bad principles, are disarmed and im
prisoned. Thus, except a few bad
fellows who may have escaped in the
crowd, the population of Paris may
now be said to be purged.
The military commission is also
busied without intermission in trying
and condemning the chiefs of the last
conspiracy.
One fad worthy of remark, is, that 1
if those who are accofed of royalifm,
have taken an adive part in the late
troubles, it has always been in favor
of the government. For as the late
infurredion was a war of robbers a
gainst proprietors, all those who had
a little patrimony to preserve, natu
rally lent all their strength to cruth
the pillagers.
, FRENCH NATIONAL CONVENTION.
A detachment from the grenadiers
of the army of the Sambre & Meuse,
destined to form the guard of the Na
tional Convention, were admitted to
the bar ; they declared their entire
devotion to the National Representa
tion, and expressed their lente of the
honor done them by being called to
fucha post. The President gave the
fraternal embrace to the. Orator of the
detachment, as Representative of the
army of the Sambre and Meuse.
Cn the zdieft. Rear Admiral Pringle fail
ed with our fleer from rhe Downs, and car
ried wi h him Pilots for the Ruffian (hips.
Admiral Duncan fhifted his flag to the De
fence of 64 guns.
We have no doubt but the King of 'Pruffia
has directed the merchants of Dantzig, to
fend all the grain to France, contrasted for
at that port by out merchants many months
since. But the question is, how this corn
can be got to France ; for the north seas are
To blocked up with our cruizers, that scarce
a vessel can pass without being brought to
by them.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 7.
Lift night a figna lwas hoisted at the
Telegraphe, for enemy's cruizers being on
the coal l,
Admiral Waldegfave, with his squadron
of five fail of the line and three frigates, ar
rived on Monday, from a cruize. They
brought in an American schooner, laden
with fifh, bound for France.
[From latest Paris papers. Ma, 24.]
Extraa of a litter from Newport, in the fate of
Georgia, to a gentleman in Charleston.
" Newport, May 26. I have been
credibly informed that Gen. Clark,
of this state, who took a commission
in the French service, has been the
faft week to iafped the sea board, &
inlet of St. Mary's river, and is now
actually building a fort on the said
river for carrying on an expedition
against the Spaniards, I was also in
formed by a gentleman lately from
St. Augustine, that the inhabitants of
Eaftflorida in general, and a large
majority of thole of Weftflorida, are
disposed to revolt ; and they are de
termined as soon as Gen. Clark en,
ten the Spanish territory to join him.
Numbers of young men here feel anx
ious to obtain commi(Boos in the ex
pedition against Florida. - ,
" May 27. Arrived here, at this
inftaoc, two Spanish soldiers, deserters
from the garrison of St. Auguftise,
: ,?^^ ti W^'- r ^/
men; Thus Sir, while these seas have
three Admirals, to wit, Ford, Thomp
son, and Colvile, the last (who Viftor
Hughes calls Admiral Blockade) and
32 ships of the line and 24 frigates.
Victor Hughes, with a number of
(mail (loops and schooners, is making
the greatest conquest that was ever
made in this part of the globe with
so few men, and striking terror thro'
the islands. Where they will flop no
one can tell."
Middletown, JULY 24.
From Fort Royal, June 20,
Yesterday morning the British Bed
from St. Lucia, with all the confufipn
imaginable. I have informed you
that the French had stormed Pigeo-
Illand—immediately on that they
pin'd the Britilh up in Fort Mom.
On Wednesday last they got three
batteries ready to play 00 the fort,
they then (ent in a flag for the surren
der of the fort, and gave four hours
for an answer ; as soon as the time
was elapsed they began to throw their
shells and cannonade the fort, this
continued till Friday night, when they
stormed some of their out works. A
council of war was immediately called
& determined to evacuate the fort, but
the evacuation terminated, as the Brit
ish evacuation generally does, in a
flight, with loft of every thing ; their
sick and wounded left to the mercy
of their victorious enemy ; arms, am
munition, not a gun spiked, nor a fol
diet saved his knapsack, not an officer
a second fhir< —all left behind. This
may seem a little strange, but I am
an ejse and ear witoefs to the fads.—
The men of war have just anchored
in this road—they cut their cables,
and were obliged to leave a great
number behind. They fay the num
ber brought off is about :ioo, but
unless some of them are gone to oth
er iOands, I do not believe they are so
many. At the time of their flight
they lined the fhorei and the daugh
ter was great. I have converted with
a number of British officers, from
whom I have the account, they efti
mace the French at St. Lucia, at 5000
[ The expedition against the Spanifo pofffions in
Florida, from the date of Georgia, is again re
curved by Clark and some others —and bears ev
"3 fe r °ft 6 a of success. The result of this expe
dition, whether Jucctfsful or otherwise, as re
fptas Clark, must he dif agreeable to the United
States, and ma, produce a war between us and
Spain.]
Documents of the Expedition,
era! soldiers who were not apprized
of the retreat, were inhumanly mur
dered by the Brigands on taking pos
session of the place, and their bodies
thrown over tie walls of the garrison
amidst the fhouti of Five la Repub
lique.
Expedition against FLORIDA.
JULY 9.
Extraa of a letter from St. Auguflint, to a gen.
tieman in this city, dated June 29, 1795.
" We are badly situated here ; but
for fear the letter may be flopped and
perused, I dare not tell you the vari
ous alarms some are under. Poor cap
tain Herviouz is close (hut up in dun
geon, and all hit men ; and I fancy
it will require some exertions of the
French Consul to get him liberated,
if death doth not do it without. We
have all been sick, owing chiefly, I
believe, to having nothing but a very
little bad beef to live upon."
The person who received the above
letter, fay^, he has indubitable infor
mation, that a large majority of peo
ple at Sc. Augustine, and the two
Floridas, are much diffatisfied with
the Spanish government, rind will un
doubtedly succeed in their attempt to
throw it eff, if they are ftported by
the French with any degree of spirit.
July 10. Capt. Dickinson, who arrived
here yesterday, from Savannah, informs us,
that before he left it a person had arrived
from St. Mary's, who brought a letter dated
the 30th June, from a gentleman in Amelia,
which mentioned that on that day Captain
Lang would march with his whole force a-
Cbarlcßon, July 4. We are inform
ed that the prefenc situation of the
inhabitants of Eaftflerida is distressing
beyond conception—that they are re
duced to penury and starving, even
nature having denied them her accus
tomed relief.
The fifh, which was formerly the
subsistence of the poor, having de
ferred their coast.
For one 16th of a dollar, we learn,
that any person might have procured
a fufficiency of fifh for his family,
without regard to number. They
are now destitute of all provisions but
the fruits of the season, and of money
for the purchase of them.
Extrad of a letter from a gentleman so &. Ma
ry's, to bis friend in Savanuab, sane 30, 1795.
" On my arrival, yesterday, I found
that the several families who had been
drove from Eaftßofida last fall by
that government, had lately returned
there, under the influence of thetti
coloured fhg, to which the people
are flocking from every part of the
province ; in short, they are in a
complete state of revolt. A Captain
Lang commands at present the Re
publicans ; he has taken the greater
part of the Spanish lcou% all the ac
tive foies in the employ of the old
government, a .large number of beef
cattle, and other public provisions ;
a?d I have no doubt but that in the
course of three or four days, they will
have full poffiffion of the whole pro*
vince, except the garrison of St. Au
gustine. Lang was a Spanish fubjed,
and a Captain of the militia, but had
been confined in the dungeon of Au
goftine eleven months, on suspicion
of his being favorable to the- French
government ; he made his escape
from confinement, and is now at the
head of the revolt ; he has marched
this day with the greater part of his
force, to St. Augustine; he has left a
guard at Old Town Buff, where they
are erecting a garrison for the protec
tion of the port of St. Mary's. lam
just now returned from visiting them,
which I did for the purpose of col
lecting their, views and tneir profpeas
—they assured me that they had the
strongest assurances of ample support,
and that they had already received
considerable supplies. I cannot pre
tend to judge what influence this af
fair will have on the affairs of our
country, but it will efifeaually close
my commercial views with that prov
ince."
0 -
who fay dtfatio^ daily rke phce.
and th^t they a;e in a thrv^g cou
cition." ~