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LONDO N, November 9.
IT is a truth which cannot be denied, that the
Duke of Dorfet, Lord Lieutenant of Kent, who
is a popular man, could not prevail on any gen
tleman of property to espouse the Court inte
rest, by standing Court candidate for the county.
It is also as true, that at a large meeting of the
gentlemen of the fame county, of very great proper
ty, very few of them would drink the King's health,
but refuted it, vkith words Efficiently expressive of
their sentiments.
Thefday night orders were sent down to Portsmouth
for the Welt-India fleet' not to fail till further orders.
Extract of a letter from Jamaica, Sept. 31.
" We have had a very sickly season, which has been
very fatal to many fine young fellows, who arrived here
a few weeks since, unde;r Admiral Rowley. We are
in hourly expectation of hearing of the few remains
of our army, who went upon the expedition to the
Spanish Main, being made slaves by the Spaniards.
Was I to enumerate the deaths and calamities vyhich
have befel those infatuated youths, who engaged in
this expedition, you would join with me in curling
that man who was the occasion of their misfortunes."
Nov. 10. Such encouragement do the credulity of
Lord G. Germaine, and the imbecility of
hold out to the needy ingenuity of the American re
fugees, that they now go to Pali Mall and 3 m
House with the most absurd and ridiculous intelli
gence, in the certainty of gaining a reward. An in
stance of this was given late week by that apoßate to
every honourable principle, Joseph Galloway. Ife
informed the intelligent and difeeming Secretary, that
he had received a deputation from the Donkers, as
suring him of their loyalty to his Majesty's govern
ment', their determination to take arms in support of
it, and the more to distress its oppofers, their final
determination of raising only as much corn on their
lands as would be necessary for their own consumpti
on. The intelligence was heard with rapture, not a
moment was loft in echoing it to the royal ear, and
the forger of the tale soon pocketed what he expected.
The Duke of Cumberland packet, from Jamaica,
brings an account of the great disappointment occa
fiohed by the capture of the outward bound Jamaica
fleet, from the great Sant of flour, and many other
necessary articles, which they have earnestly requested
to be immediately sent from home; but as the Lee
ward Islands are known here to be well supplied, it is
hoped, when they are apprised of their distress at Ja
maica, they will readily lend every assistance in their
power.
An order is come from the Secretary of State's of
fice, to indulge Mr. Laurens with the liberty of walk
ing abroad in the tower, for the benefit of air, with
proper attendance.
Lord Piercy, Gen. Murray, and several officers of
note, that have already been in America, will fail for
that place with the firft reinforcements.
Mons. de la Touche Treville's squadron, under
failing orders for Rhode-Illand, consists of the fol
lowing ships of the line : La Ville de Paris, 104 guns ;
Le Languedoc, 80 ; Le St. Esprit, 80; L' Auguste,
80; Le Hedor, 80 ; Le Northumberland, 74; Le
Sceptre, 74; Le Vaillant, 74; —all of which are cop
per bottomed, except one 74. They are to take un
der convoy the following battalions, viz. The four
regiments of Anha/t, Auvergne, Neuftrice, and Rou
ergne, confining of 5000 effective men, under the
command of M. de Wittgenstein, an officer of whom
the whole French army speak in the highest terms.
A correspondent remarks, that the present expen
sive war is likely to reduce the nobility and gentry of
this kingdom to absolute want, and raise the dregs of
the people, in the shape of contractors and money
lenders, to the opulence of the firft families in the
kingdom.
Extract of a letter from Kinfale, O&. 26.
" Provisions and other articles are preparing here
and at Corke, for a large fleet which is expected the
beginning of next month. pThe King's ships will be
all victualled here. The transports are to load at
Corke, where also some troops are to embark, but
we do not yet know for certain to what quarter they
are bound, though probably, at lead the greatest part
of them, to America."
Whitehall, November 14, 1780.
Copy of a letter from Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. to
Lord George Germaine, one of his Majesty's princi
pal Secretaries of State, received by Capt. St. George,
one of Sir Henry Clinton's Aids de Camp, who ar
rived from New-York in the Fortune frigate.
“ My Lord, New-York, Oft. 12, 1780.
" In my separate letter of yesterday's date, I had
the honour of informing your Lordship, that the A
merieap Major-General Arnold had quitted the rebel
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service, and joined the King's standard ; and I at the
fame time gave your Lordship a circumstantial detail
of the reasons that induced him to take this step, as
well as of the unfortunate failure of a plan, which I
had the molt sanguine hopes, if carried into executi
on, would have been productive of the greatest good
consequences to his Majesty's service, but which ter
minated most fatally for Major Andre, my Adjutant-
General, who being taken prisoner, was tried by a
Board of -rebel General officers, and condemned by
their sentence to fuffer death; which sentence was
ordered by the rebel General Washington to be car^
ried into execution upon this unhappy gentleman on
the 2d instant. 1 sincerely lament the melancholy
fate of this officer, who was a very valuable assistant
to me, and promised to be an honour to his country,
as well as an ornament to his profeffion.
" 1 had the honor to transmit to your Lordship, in
my dispatch marked 104, a copy of the inftruCtions I
proposed giving to Major-General Lellie, whom I had
appointed to-command the expedition to Chefapeak,
in order that your Lordship might be informed as to
the principal objects of it.
'' This expedition will certainly fail the firft favour
able wind, the troops having been embarked for some
days, and every necessary arrangement made for that
purpose.
'' Your Lordship will receive herewith a state of
the troops under my command ofthe firft instant, to
gether with a distribution ofthe fame as they flood on
the 6th of that month.
" I have the honor to be, with the greatest refpeft,
your Lordlhip's most obedient and' most humble ser
vant, H. CLINTON."
November 27.
MEMORIAL presented to the States General, by Sir
Joseph Yorke, on Friday, 10th of Nov. 1780.
High and Mighty Lords,
0™ HE KiAg, my maftcr, has, through the whole
course of his reign, ihewed the most sincere de
sire for preserving the union, which has fublifted up
wards of an age, between his Crown and the Repub
lic. This union is founded on the durable basis of a
reciprocal interest ; and as it has greatly contributed
to the welfare of both nations, the natural enemy of
both the one and the other is using his utmost policy
to destroy it ; and for some time pas this endeavours
have been, but too fucceisful, being supported by a
faction that aims at domineering over the Republic,
and which is at all times ready to facrifice the gene
ral iuterch to their own private views.
The King has beheld with equal regret and furprize,
the final! effect which hi^repeated claims for the sti
pulated fuccours, and the representations of his Am
bassador, on the daily violation of the folcmn engage
ments, have produced.
His Majesty's moderation has induced him to at
tribute this conduct of your High Mightinesses, to the
intrigues of a prevailing faction, and he would still
persuade himfelf, that your justice and difeernment
will determine you to fulfil yourengagements towards
him, and to prove by your whole conduct, that you
are refolved'vigorously to adhere to the fyßeni form
ed by the wisdom of you ancestors, which is the only
one that can secure the fafety and glory of the Re
public.
The answer which your High Mightinesses return
to this declaration, which the undersigned makes by
the express order of his Court, will'be considered as
the touchstone of your intentions and sentiments re
fpe&ing the King.
For a long time past the King has had innumerable
indications ofthe dangerous designs of an unruly ca
bal ; but the papers of Mr. Laurens, who stiles him
felf President of the pretended Congress, furnifhes the
difeovery of a plot unexampled in all the annals of the
Republic. It appears by these papers, that the Gen
tlemen of Amsterdam have been engaged in clandes
tine correfpondenee with the American rebels, from
the month of August 1778, and that instructions and
full powers have been given by them for the conclu
sion of a treaty of indisputable amity with those re
bels, who are the fubjeCts of a Sovereign to whom the
Republic is united by the closest engagements. The
authors of this plot do not even attempt to deny it,
but on the contrary vainly endeavour to juftify their
conduct.
In these circumstances, his Majesty, relying on the
equity of your High Mightinesses, demands a formal
disavowal of such irregular conduct, which is no less
contrary to your molt sacred engagements, than to
the fundamental laws of the Constitution of Batavia.
The King demands equally a prompt fatisfaCtion, pro
portionate to the offence, and an exemplary punish
ment on the Pensioner Van Berkel, and his accom
plices, as disturbers of the public peace, and violators
of the law of nations.
His Majesty persuades himfelf that the answer of
your High Mightinesses will be speedy and fatisfafto
ry in all refpeds; but Should the contrary happen ;
so just a demand, or endeavour to elude it by silence,
which will be regarded as a refulal, then the King
cannot but confider the Republic as approving of these
outrages which they refufe to disavow, and to punilh;
and after such conduct his Majesty will fintl himfelf
under the necessity of taking those measures which
the preservation of his own dignity, and the essential
interests of his people demand.
Letter from the Hague, November 5.
On the 20th of October his Highness the Stadhold
er gave the following notice to the States of Holland
and Weft-Friefland.
" Noble and Great Mightinesses!
" Sir Joseph Yorke, his. Britannic Majesty's Am
bassador, having delivered to me a few days ago in
the name of the King his master, the papers hereto
annexed, which were found among those of Mr. Lau
rens, formerly President of the Congress, now a state
priloner at London, I thought it my duty to lay them
before your Noble and Great Mightinesses, that you
might take such resolutions on the fubjeCtas to your
enlightened wisdom should appear necessary. I can
not however refrain from certifying that I never had
any knowledge of Any consultations being held, much
less of any authority being given, for commencing a
treaty with the colonies of North-America."
His Highness having been thanked for the commu
nication he had made, as well as for the continual
proofs of his paternal solicitude and vigilance for the
interests of the state, and having afterwards taken it
into their confederation, that the papers in question
appeared to relate to a certain private correfpondenee
and secret negociation which had taken place between
a Commissary from the Congress of North-America,
and the merchants of the city of Amsterdam, autho
rifed by the order and inflrumions of a minister ofthe
fame city, touching the formation of a treaty of com
merce between the Republic and the N. American
colonies, the sovereignty and independence of which
have never been acknowledged by this state ; that
their High Mightinesses have never deliberated in any
manner for the purpose of drawing on such a negoci
ation, much less has any authority or qualification of
that kind been granted to any person whatever. It
has been decided, " That copies ofthe above menti
oned pieces should be sent to the Burgomasters and
Magistrates of the city of Amsterdam, that they might
communicate their advice upon this fubjeCt to their
Noble and Great Mightinesses as soon as possible."
In consequence of this intimation, the Burgomas
ters and Regents of Amsterdam delivered, on the 24th
ult. their answer to the following purport :
" That what had patted between the eldest penfi
onary, and the merchant alluded to, on the one part,
and the Americans on the other, was done by their
unanimous direction ; but that such an overture, for
a treaty of commerce, was built only on eventual cir
cumstances, and to take place solely in case the inde
pendency of America should be acknowledged by the
British government, and that such a step had been
taken only to prevent the town of Amsterdam being
foreclofed from trading with the said colonies by some
exclusive treaty. That they think themselves autho
rifed in having done what, in justice to their interest
and welfare, it was their duty to do. They conclude
by faying,- that they exped their Noble and High
Mightinesses will lose no time in publishing to the
world, that they are perfectly fatisfied with the above
declaration ; a matter on which the said Burgomasters
and Regents beg leave to infill the more strongly, as
several disagreeable reports have reached them con
cerning this affair, and conclusions drawn from it
which a member of a free state should by no means he
liable to, it being their unanimous determination to
oppose the influence of such rumours, in an efficaci
ous manner, and by every ways and means in their
power, consonant with the ftrideft propriety."
The following is the ADDRESS of the HOUSE of
COMMONS to his MAJESTY.
Most gracious Sovereign,
W E, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjeds,
the Commons of Great-Britain in Parliament
assembled, return your Majesty the thanks of this,
House, for your most gracious speech from the throne.
We beg leave to congratulate your Majesty upon
the fafe delivery of the Queen,_and the birth of an.
other Prince; and to allure your Majesty, that we
take a sincere part in every event that contributes ta
your Majesty's domestic happiness.