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That in 1775, when a dangerous rebellion against
the sovereign rights of the British Legislature had
broke out in America, his Majesty conceived that the
aid of his fubjeds would be necessary to reduce it ;
and therefore by his proclamation he called on all for
their assistance ; and that none might negle ? or vio
late their duty through ignorance thereof, he further
declared, That all his faithful Subjects were bound
by law to be aiding and assisting in suppressing the re
bellion ; and that there could be no doubt of the pro
tection which law would afford to their loyalty and
zeal.
That your Petitioners, in dutiful obedience to the
Call of their Sovereign, and the two Houses of Parli
ament, and relying on the justice and protection thus
held up before them, have alone Stepped forth from
the great body of Britifli fubjeCts who were equally
called upon and equally interested in the publick Safe
ty. —And in consequence of their loyal and zealous
exertions, have been deprived of their fortunes By
the insurgents, and have, besides, encountered a va
riety of the most imminent dangers, and fuffered ex
treme distress, front which their fellow-fubjeCts have
been entirely exempt, and for which your Honoura
ble House can make them no adequate compensation.
That, moreover, the estates and fortunes of your
Petitioners, which the Britifli government, by the es
sential lawsof its union, was bound to regain and re
store to them, have been devoted and ceded by that
government to the American States, as the purchase
and price of peace for the whole Empire.
Thus circumdanced, your Petitioners conceive that
they have, under the fundamental laws of the Britifli
confticurou, the resolutions of both Houses of Parli
ament, the royal faith pledged to them in his Majes
ty's proclamation, and under all the precedents of
Parliamentary justice on Similar and much less meri
torious occasions, not only an equitable, but a law
ful right to a just compensation for their estates and
property so devoted to the national peace and fafety.
And that nothing less than an equal distribution of
their losses thus incurred among their fellow-fubje&s,
who are in the enjoyment of the benefits and security
so purchased at their expence, can be confident with
law and justice.
That in the year 1783, sensible to the justice due
to your Petitioners, the Parliament passed an aft ap
pointing commissioners to enquire into their losses thus
sustained, for the purpose of making them due com
pensation. That the commissioners have investigated
a large number of claims, have made two Several re
ports thereof to the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury,
which your petitioners have reason to believe contain
their decision on what has been loft by the refpedive
claimants, who anxiously expected that the said re
ports would have been laid before your Honourable
House, in order that compensation might be made
to those comprehended in them.
That in the years 1764 and 1767, when a violent
arid riotous opposition arose in America to the sove
reign authority of Parliament, both Houles by their
resolutions declared, That such persons who had ma
nifefted a delire to comply with, or to assist in carry
ing into execution, any ad of the Legislature, relat
ing to the colonies in North-America, ought to have
full and ample compensation for any injur, or da
mage sustained on that account. —And that such per
sons Were entitled to, and Should assuredly have, the
protection of the House of Commons of Great-Bri
tain.
That it is impoflible to describe the poignant di
stress under which many of the American loyalists
now labour, and which mutt daily increase, Should the
justice of Parliament be delayed until all the claims
are liquidated and reported; but your Petitioners
would be greatly deficient in their duty to their con
stituents, if they Should omit to represent to the hu
mane and just consideration of your Hon. House,
that ten years have elapsed since many of them have
been deprived of their fortunes, and with their help
less families reduced from independent affluence to po
verty and want; some of them are now languishing
in British gaols, others indebted to their creditors,
who have lent them money, barely to support their
existence, and who, unless speedily relieved, must
fink more than the value of their claims when re
ceived, and be in a worse condition than if they had
never made them. Others have already funk under
the pressure and severity of their misfortunes ; and
that others must, in all probability; soon meet the
fame melancholy fate, Should the justice due to them
be longer postponed, notwithstanding the temporary
support which we thankfully acknowledge has been
given from his Majesty's Civil Lift, and reimbursed
k,, p, r i: ^, But that, on the contrary, Should
now made for payment of those whose
been fettled and reported, it will not on
ly relieve them from their distress, but give a credit
to the others whose claims remain to be considered;
and enable all of them to provide for their wretched
families, and become again ufeful members of society.
Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that
your Honourable House will take their case under
your Consideration, and make such provision for the
payment of the sums adjudged to be due to the re
fpe&ive claimants, as you in your wisdom and justice
Shall think reasonable ; or, if this cannot be done in
the prefen't feflion, that your Hon. House would, by
a vote now, declare that the claims reported and to
be reported by the Commissioners, Shall be considered
as a part of the unfunded debt of the nation.
And your Petitioners further pray, that if any
doubt Shall remain refpe&ing their right to the sums
reported to be due, that they may be heard by coun
sel, at the bar of your Honourable House.
And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, Shall ever
pray.
TAMES WRIGHT,
THOMAS BOONE,
THOMAS MACKNIGHT,
DUNMORE,
GEORGE CHALMERS,
J. GALLOWAY.
W. FRANKLIN,
GUY JOHNSON,
GEORGE ROOME,
W. PEPPERREL,
PAUL WENTWORTH.
The Turks have eroded a line of forts on the fron
tiers of their dominions next to the Ruffians, and they
have ordered a very large body of troops to march to
wards Crimea ; there is every appearance of their hav
ing determined to drive the Ruffians and Emperor out
of furky. For this great purpose they have made
a concellion to France, which all the negociating ad
drels of the. cabinet of Versailles could never procure
before—they have yielded to them the free passage of
the channel of the Dardanelles, and navigation of the
Black Sea—a thing which the English will have oc
casion most seriously to lament in any future contest
with her neighbour and enemy.
By the defpatches which arrived this week at the
East-India House from Bengal, there is an account of
the fafe arrival of Sir Edward Hughes at the Cape;
who is preparing to fail for Europe the firft opportu
nity.
By private letters received from the continent yes
terday, we are informed that all matters are amica
bly and finally fettled between the Emperor and the
Dutch ; and that the preliminaries are to be Signed
the 18th inst. One of the terms, as we have already
Rated in this paper, is a partial navigation of the
Scheldt to the Emperor. The others are not known
in detail ; but one is said to be a retribution in florins
for damages, &c.
The Minister's borrowing of the Bank, in prefe
rence to the publick, was to prevent flock-jobbing,
which would be the case, if the fubferiptions got into
private hands; it likewise fives government at least
the interest of one half per cent.
Wednesday the Directors of the Bank of England
came taan acquiefeence in the Minister's proposal, of
lending government the Sum of one million, at five
per cent. In consequence of which, there is no mo
ney to be borrowed of the publick this year. Yester
day, the above sass being universally known, the
flocks rose one per cent.
1 he French ^mbaffador at the Hague has received
some very important defpatches from France, relative to
the negociation between the Emperor and the Dutch,
which have been laid before an assembly of the States
General. Several members took copies in order to
fend to their constituents. The contents of these de
fpatches have not yet transpired.
Saturday Mr. Blanchard afeended again in his bal
loon from Langhorn's Repofitoty in Barbican. He
made a number of manoeuvres for the entertainment
of the fpe&ators, which evinced more power over
this machine, than it was deemed capable of acquir
ing. The alcenfion was peculiarly fine, the progress
of the veffe! gradual and even, and formed a majef
tick fpedacle. Innumerable crouds were assembled
on the spot, and from its course towards the south
east, afforded a full fight to the metropolis in general.
American Intelligence.
Carthagena ( South-America) Oftober 4.
JOACHIN Navarro, wife of Francis Huertas, re
ading in the quarter of St. Anthony in this city,
was brought to bed in the night between the 7th and
Bth of last month, of a monstrous child, which lived
three days after being baptized, and named Jean Rai
mond. Don Gasper de Villapuefe, assistant to the
Surgeon Major of the fleet, and Don Vincent Ocag
na, Surgeon in Ordinary, having anatomized the bo
dy, they sent it, together with an account of whate
ver they found extraordinary in their process, to the
Society of Natural Hiftoty at Madrid. In general
the infant was well formed with refpe& to its exterior
figure, and most of its members; but it had three
legs, and a double or pubis, three groins, with each
an orifice; in the cavity of the stomach were found
two lungs attached to a single trachin artery ; the
great lobes being separated by the mediaftinum ; in
hze the heart was equal to two, distinguished by the
aurioles in the epigaftick region in the cavity of the
belly; there was no stomach, and the inferior part of
the sefophagus exceeded the usual size; the colon
had neither the common extension nor direction, but
formed a stomach, from the lower part of which de
scended a membrance for performing the office of the
re&um, being terminated by the anus; this kind of
stomach was filled with excrement; and the two reins,
which had the natural position, were of an extraordi
nary size.
KINGSTON, May 21.
Although no accounts have been received, which
could be entirely depended on, from the Mufquito-
Shore, refpefting the progress of the dispute with the
Spaniards, but such as involved us in thick clouds
and darkness, yet we have now the fatisfa&ion to as
sure the publick, from indisputable authority, that a
kind of treaty has been actually brought to perfecti
on, between the English and Spanish commanding of
ficers, who had a meeting for that purpose in the city
of Truxillo, which stipulates, that the English set
tlers shall remain in quiet and peaceable polleffion of
the country for two years to come, and that in the
mean time proper measures shall be used, by both
parties, to accelerate the conclusion of a special trea
ty between the Courts of London and Madrid, for
the final adjustment of every difference receding the
claims of either power to the territory in that quar
ter of the world.
A party consisting of twelve Maroons, having formed
the resolution of exploring the Blue Mountains, in
hopes of falling in with the residue of that gang of
runaway Haves, headed by Dagger and Toney, who
have so long been the terror of the adjacent country,
took their departure from Accompong-Town^ about
a fortnight ago, for that purpose; they for several
days encountered many hardftiips, when At length
they suddenly furprized two of them, viz. Toney and
Tom, who instantly betook themselves to flight ; but
being closely pursued by the Maroons, one of them
levelled his piece at Toney, and (hot him through the
head, of which he expired instantly, whilst the others
secured Tom, but hot till he was severely wounded.
He was brought to this town on Saturday last, and
secured in gaol. The gang is now reduced to three,
viz. Dagger, for whom a reward of 1000 L is offered
by royal proclamation, and two new negroes.
This a&ive and well executed enterprize of the
Maroon negroes. Who have on many other occasions
shown themselves extremely serviceable to this com
munity, has, in all probability, given the death-blow
to a nest of defperath plunderers, whose murders and
daily thefts have hitherto escaped with impunity.—
We are informed that the Maroons who were engaged
in this expedition have already received the reward
offered by his Majesty's proclamation, of fifty pounds
for killing Toney, and ten pounds for securing Tom.
The head of foney was fevered from the body,
and duck on a pole on Cambridge-Hill.—J. Reeder,
to whose bravery we were indebted for a riddance of
that daring depredator, Ihree Fingered Jack, was of
that party that apprehended Tom, the villain now iri
custody.
The ship Diligence, Captain Hay, which arrived
on Sunday last from Anamaboe, with upwards of 400
Haves, was overtaken on her passage, about two de
grees to the southward of the line, with a dreadful
thunder florm, in which a most awful slash of light
ning struck the fore-top gallant-mast, which immedi
ately fell upon deck and killed eight of the Haves, se
venteen others were so fatally wounded that they died
in a ffiort time afterwards. The Captain and crew
were also stunned by the (hock, though providentially
none of them were materially hurt.
If we are to'eredit the American prints, their in
testine broils and commotions do not impede the pro
gress of the arts among them; and the completion of
Dr. Berkeley's prophetick Ode, " on the profped of
the arts and sciences in America," appears to be faft
approaching. The distant regions of Kentucky lay
claim to the difeovery of that desideratum of philofo^
pliers, the perpetual motion ; a citizen of Pennsylva
nia is faid'to have conftruded a vessel which goes ra
pidly against the current by the assistance of certain
mechanical powers ; and amongst the contributions to
the American Philosophical Society at their last meet
ing, we find " the model of a wheel carriage, which
rolls diredly against the wind by the wind's force
alone ;" communicated by the ingenious Mr. Ritten
houfe, of Philadelphia.
On Monday last arrived dt Port-Royal his MajeD
ty's ship Swan, from the Mufquito Shore. By her
we learn, that the Janus, Flora and Iphigenia, had
failed for Truxillo, and the Bull-Dog for the Bay of
Honduras ; that every thing was quiet at the Shore ;
but that no treaty whatever had been agreed to when
Hie failed. The troops we hear enjoy a better state
of health than could have been expelled in so dife
greeable a climate.
CHARLESTON, June 23.
We are happy to learn that his Excellency the Co-
Vernor, in his tour through the interior parts of this