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LONDO N, August 3.
f II ^ He, Roebuck iloop of war went up the Dela-
M ware river to water, and having run aground,
about forty armed row-galleys attacked her ; Ihe
fired, iqnk four, and the rest made off. The
commander despatched an express for the Liverpoole, which
lay at a Short distance from that place, and in the interim
Farted his water calks, and got oh, when running aground
again, about thirty-eight row galleys, better armed and man
ned, attacked her with more apparent vigpur than the for
ruer; but the pouredjo close and hard upon them, that they
all fateied ch, and twenty were perceived finking, that could
net reach the Shore.
Yesterday Teter Oliver, Esq; Chief Justice cfMaffachufetts-
Ba,, who.lately went from that to Halifax, and since arrived
here, was introduced to bis Majesty.
Aug. 17. David Hume, Esq; Dr. Smith, and Sir James
Stewart, have all given the King their opinions, that it a re
conciliation does not speedily take place with America, that
country is loft.
By a gentleman just arrived from Paris, the answer which
Lord Stormont had just received from that Court, was the
talk at all the English ruelles, and other places where the
company dared talk politics, and is said co be as follows :
Lord Stormont, according to his inftruftions, repeatedly de
manded of the French Minister the caule and intent of their
armaments both by sea and land ; to which he for some time
received evasive answers, yet such as feemed^to breathe the
spirit of peace; however, being lately farther intruded to de
mand a categorical answer, he was told, “ that as the French
Court had always remained silent in regard to putting similar
questions whenever Great-Britain thought proper to increase
her armaments, it was but handfeme on the part of Great-
Britain to observe the fame silence ; that his Lordihip had al
ready received what the French Court thought a proper an
swer ; to which, and to which alone, they must then refer
him."
The moment Minidry received intelligence of General
Howe's landing on Staten-island, orders were sent out that
he Ihould immediately leave that place; and if his brother
had joined him, that they should fail together to Philadel
phia. However it is more than probable a decisive Broke
will be Bruck before they can pqffibly reach the army.
Policies were yesterday opened at Lloyd's Coftee-houfe, and
five guineas given to receive one hundred if the Provincials
declare war against Portugal within one year.
It is very remarkable, lays a correfpondeht, that the event
of' this unnatural war Should id directly contradict Lord
Sandwich's assertion, in calling the Americans “ Cowards ;"
and that his particular friends ihould fuffer so efientially ;
Major Pitcairne echoed his Lordship's opinion, and boasted,
before he embarked at Portsmouth, that if he drew his sword
but half < ut of the scabbard, the whole banditti (as he termed
them) of Massachusetts-Bay would flee from him. Behold
he is llaia, on the firit time he appears in the field against
them. Capt. Howe, of the Glasgow, another of his Lord
ship's friends, fails in with two or three raggamuffin priva-
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teers, \and he brings his Lordihip an undeniable pro f that
the Americans are not cowards. And now we have a Gazette
account, that those cowards have beat two fifty gun ships,
four frigates of twenty-eight guns each, and two others of
twenty-eight guns each, making together two hundred and
fifty-two guns. How many had these cowardly Americans ?
Why, truly nineteen ; and though the King's mips had so
many^as two hundred and fifty-two iveil manned, to so few as
nineteen, yet those cowardly Americans made those heroes,
and friends of Lord Sandwich, with his bon companion Sir
Peter Parker, and a Scotch Lord, confefs that their attempt,
to take an insignificant fort, " was impracticable, and that
a farther attempt would have.been the reduction of many brave
men, without the \zafk probability of success." They certainly
confided in Lord Sandwich's bare ipfe dixit, and could not b 2
otherwise convinced, without losing one of the King's ships,
and having five more nearly battered to pieces, brides 1 sing
sixty-sour men killed, and one hundred and forty-one wound
ed. Oh! Rare Jemmy Twiteher, Oh!
The Court of France is at this time negotiating a treaty of
commerce with the States of Holland; by an article of which
the fubjeds of the latter are to enjoy many benefits arising
from some particulars of exclusive trade, which perhaps may
not prove quite agreeable to the other maritime powers of
Europe.
Lieut. Col. Campbell, who is taken prisoner by the Ame
ricans, is esteemed one of the belt engineers in the service.
It is said, that his Majesty has given a place to the youngest
son of Lord George Germaine, a child of five years old, the
income of which is Bcol. per annum. -
Sept. 5. Letters from Cadiz fay, that they arc getting rea
dy for sea fix ships of the line, and that there is an order to
raise twenty thousand men.
David Hume, Esq ; whose death ariEdinburg last week's
papers announced, was, without exception, one of the firft
geniafes of the age. He has been ridiculed by his cotempo
raries for his partiality as an historian, and his caprice and
contradidion as a fceptical writer ; but if his writings of the
latter kind are in fad .fallacious, are they not wonderfully in
genious ? And if his history of England speaks the Scotch
man, does it not also speak the manly and enlarged mind of
the author, and is it not replete with fair argument and rea
sonable inferences from obvious and accepted data?
The last time the King conversed with Lord Germaine,
he asked him how many men he expected General Howe
would land? His Lordihip replied twenty fix thousand nine
hundred, including the troops from Glalgow. No, replied
his Majeity, the number will be only twenty-woe thousand,
and such are the regiments, putting into his hand an ac
count he had just then received; Lord George desired to
check it at his office—and on his return, admitted that the
King was right. The King then told him that it was the
opinion of the foreign officers in the American army, that if
the General landed a few miles from New-York be would
be fuccefsful, but if he landed at the city, he would be
beat. The King added the names of those officers, and the
service frera whence they were lent. His Secretar, of State
[Num. 290.