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Hamburgh, Ma, 27. The arrival of Capt.
Watson, at this Port, the 20th instant, has
fufficiently contradicted the report of his
having been taken by an American armed ship.
Hamburgh, June 3. All the letters from
Poland give us realon to expert a plentiful
harvest; and as the harvest of last year was
very great, it is expected the price of grain
will greatly fall.
VIENNA, May 21.
—q™Q HE Empress Queen has given
' ' ™° hundred thousand florins to
the didreffed inhabitants of Crem
nitz, to enable them to rebuild
houses since the late fire,
Vienna, Ma, 8. We learn from Moravia,
that some troubles had arisen in the Circle of
Hradifch, where 20,000 inhabitants had de
clared themselves Lutherans. Our Court how
ever has given orders to treat them with lenity.
Vienna, Ma, 24. The last advices from
Constantinople, mention, that Sahib Gueray
took Karazu by furprize the 17th of April,
at the fame time that Prince Proforoway took
Ponokowa and Caffa ; which combined opera
tions have obliged Dewlet Gueray to leave
Crimea, and to take refuge with his family
at Heraclee, at the Mouth of the Canal at
Constantinople where he was tolerably well
received.
The last accounts from Persia are also un
favourable, as it is said that Zendi Kerinihas
caused his son to advance towards Cars and
Erivan at the head of feme troops, who lay
every thing waste; this disagreeable news has
caused Zochaniki Ali Pacharo to be sent with
all his troops against the enemy; 150 purses
were at the fame time sent to him to accelerate
his motion.
It seems as if the fleet under the Captain
Pacha is to remain at the Mouth of the Black
Sea, to cover Constantinople against any sur
prise from the Ruffians, who have upwards of
50 ships of different force in that neighbour
hood.
Paris, May 9. A young widow, at Pan
ton, who was left with four children, was in
love with a young man of fortune, who said
he had no other objection to marry her, but
that he did not chufe to maintain four children
who did not belong to him. This woman
listening to the force of her passion only, re
solved to get rid of her children by poisoning
them, which she a&ually adminiffered to three
of them very soon; but the fourth being of
too strong a constitution struggled with the
horrid dose ; and one day his mother being
out, he asked a person to aflift him for he was
poisoned; but help came tuolate, and he died
the next day, and when opened, it was found
that he had been poisoned ; the mother was
immediately taken up and confeffed the whole.
Madrid, June 2. The Motions of the
Moors in the neighbourhood of Melillo, have
induced the Government to reinforce that
Garrison, and put it in a proper Rate of de
fence in case of an attack. These precautions
are said to be taken in consequence of the re
port of the Moorish Spies to the Governor of
Melillo, who said that a certain neighbour
ing Power pressed the Emperor of Morocco
very much to besiege that place again and
promised to furniih him with artillery.
Lifan, May 21. On the 13th of this month,
the Ceremony of the Acclamation of her most
faithful Majesty, the Queen of Portugal, was
performed in the following manner :--A large
Gallery was built for this purpose on the Weft
fide of the great Square called Real Pracho do
Commercio, (where the Equestrian Statue of
the late King Joseph I. is erected,) with seve
ral apartments adjoining connected with the
principal Building belonging to the Tribunals,
and prepared for the reception of the Queen,
the King, and the Royal Family. The whole
was magnificently furniffied with tapestry and
damask, and adorned with gold fringes and
gold lace, in an elegant manner. The in
side of the Gallery is about 304 English feet
long, and about 33 English feet wide.
The Queen, the King and the rest of the
Royal Family came to their apartments early
in the forenoon. Soon after four o'clock the
Procession began from the Royal Apartments,
through the several chambers, where the La
dies of Quality and the Foreign Ministers
were placed: the windows of these several
chambers' look into the Gallery. The order
of the procession was as follows; Heralds and
Monday, September 22, 1777.
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other officers; the Tribunals ; Servants of the
Palace ; Sons of the Grandees; some of the
principal Clergy; the Conde de Sas Lauren
zo, Royal Standard Bearer; the Prince of
Brafil; the Infant Dom Joao his Brother,
carrying the Sword of State, as Lord High
Constable, pro hac Vice.
Leghorn, Ma, 24. They write from Smyr
na, that an order was arrived there from Con
stantinople, to raise immediately 1200 Sailors,
and that 500 had entered voluntarily,; but it
was wished they would soon quit that city, on
account of the many disorders they commit.
They likewise add, that a number of Soldiers
had marched to serve against the Persians.
We learn from Pisa, that a father had been
so barbarous to kill his son, aged twenty years,
by a stab of a stiletto, for liaving opposed the
sale of some family effeds. The Officers of
justice are in pursuit of him.
Leiden, 'June 9. Advices arrived from Po
land, dated the Bth ult. mention a rencontre
in the Crimea, wherein a Ruffian Colonel was
killed. Notwithflanding this, the letters add,
there still remains hopes that a peace will take
place between the Porte and the Court of
Peterfburgh.
Stockholm, "June 10. The 7th instant the
Nobility, and principal Officers of State came
to the Palace Royal, to pay their refpefts to
his Majesty, and wish him a prosperous voyage
to Peterfburgh ; and about five o'clock in the
afternoon he went on board the chebeck na
med Biorn Jarn fida. They immediately set
ftil with a fair wind, and it was hoped he
would have a quick passage. His Majesty will
continue incognito all the while he remains
there, and travels under the title of Count of
Oothland.
Peterfburgh, Ma, 20. Great preparations
are making at Court for the reception of the
King of Sweden, who is expected here in the
course of next month. The firft interview
between the Empress and the King will take
place at Peterhoff.
MarJeilles, June 7. They work night and
day at Toulon, in order to get a ship there
on the stocks, ready to launch, when Mon
sieur, the King's Brother, shall arrive there to
visit that place.
LONDON, June 16.
A Relation of the taking of the Island of St.
Catharine, by the Spanijb Arm, under the
command of the Captain General Don Pedro de
Cevallos, extracted from authentic Letters with
which we have been favoured from Madrid,
dated June 6.
OU R fleet, consisting of 116 fail, left Ca
diz the 13th of November 1776, and
after a most happy passage found themselves on
the Bth of February in 26 d. 36 m. lat. and
37 d. 24 m. long, when they took a Portu
gueze Merchant ship, called the Lucia a
Fortunada, bound from Rio Janeiro to Lisbon,
on board which they found letters which infor
med them, that four ships of war and five
frigates were placed in the Bay of Garupa to
observe and attack us, if we should enter the
Port of St. Catharine; in consequence of
which we resolved to fail for that place in
order to attack them.
The Portugueze forces in garrison op the
Inland were much more confiderablo than
usual ; independent of four battalions of troops
and 20® Artillery, they had regimented the
Militia, so that the force was not less than
4000 men, exclusive of what they called auxi
laries, and the inhabitants of the Island, who
were to assist in defending the Castle, and the
strong Forts of Saint Croix and Punta Grofa,
very strongly situated by nature and art, and
well provided with provisions and ammunition.
No sooner had we difeovered the Island of
St. Catharine, on February 10, and had dou
bled the Cape of the Bay of Garupas, than
our frigate the St. Margaret informed us that
flie had seen the enemy's squadron, consisting
of 12 fail, for two days. On this information,
our General Don Cevallos, and the Marquis
of Cafa-Tilly, Commander of the squadron,
having deliberated, they judged it more pro
per to enter the Port of the Island than to
pursue the squadron, which they accordingly
entered on February 20, excepting a few
transport vessels, on board of which were
1400 men, which we supposed had made for
Monte Video, the place of general rendez
vouze.
Monday, 54. Min. after 1
Tuesday, 4.5 Min. aftei 2
Wednesday, 32 Min. after 3
Thursday, 25 Min. after 4
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Friday, 29 Min. after 5
Saturday, 18 Min. after 6
Sunday, 2 Min. after 6
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THE
When the place had been recohnoitred, the
Army was debarked the 22d at night. Next
day we occupied the camp near within can
non shot of Punta Grofa, while the Septen
trion and two bomb vessels approached the
Castle. In the night a body of Troops'was
detached towards the left, and dispositions
were made for our Army to take Poffeflion of
the Heights, which the Governor feeing, and
the Portugueze being intimidated at our move
ments, they abandoned the Castle without
firing a gun, and retired to a strong advanced
work, but with such precipitation that they
left all their cannon and stores, and every
provision for a long siege.
The Fortugueze Troops in the Castle of
St. Croix, feeing the Castle abandoned, and
a body of Spaniards marching towards them,
took a resolution with the other Portugueze
Troops, and abandoned it, witl? their other
intrenchments and batteries, so that the whole
Island was evacuated on the 25th. And ha
ving passed over to the Continent, and crossed
the River Catabon, about seven or eight
leagues from the Island, their Commander in
Chief, Don Antonio Carlos Hartado de Men
doza, sent Brigadier Don Joseph Cuftodio de
Sa-y Faria, with orders to propose to our Com
mander Dori Cevallos to grant them ships to
transport them to Rio Janeiro; but this he
would not consent to, and infilled they should
surrender themselves prisoners of war; which
after some messages passing, they agreed to,
and ships were allowed to transport the Offi
cers only to Rio Janeiro, on promise of not
ferveing in any manner against his Catholic
Majesty, and to render themselves to any other
place when called on by the Spanish General.
Since which all the Portugueze Soldiers have
been sent to Buenos Ayres, arid nothing re,
mains on the Island belonging to the Crown
of Portugal.
June 11. His Majesty was attended yester
day to Blackheath to review General Elliot's
regiment of Light Dragoons by the Generals
Harvey, Carpenter, and several other Officers.
The regiment made a fine appearance, and
performed their exercise to general fatisfadi
on. Her Majesty was present, and afterwards
drank chocolate at Lord Dartmouth's, at
Blackheath.
Sunday morning, about half past fix o'clock,
a fellow found means to get into the house of
a Gentlewoman in Mortimer-street, Caven
dish-square, and concealing himfelf in the
cellar, when the maid went down for coals,
rushed suddenly upon her and binding her
hands and feet, afterwards went up flairs to
the Mistress, whose pocket he rifled of four
guineas, then broke open the burea, and ha
ving stripped it of what was most valuable,
made clear off. The Gentlewoman immedi
ately on his quitting her apartment, alarmed
the neighbourhood, and two Barbers, who
were passing by, were called in to assist: but
after the most diligent search, they found only
the maid in the cellar, bound as above men
tioned.
They write from Marseilles, that in April
last an Algerine frigate of 30 Guns, and 150
men, carried into the Port of Tunis a Nea
politan Barque, of 20 guns, and 150 men.
The Genoefe on board defended themselves
with great bravery, but the Neapolitans
could not stand to their guns. The Comman
der, rather than fall into the hands of the
Barbarians, ihot himfelf thro' the head with
a pistol.
On Monday orders were sent down to Ply
mouth for two of his Majesty's ships of war
that were ready, to fail for the French Coast
in quest of some flips from America, intelli
gence having been received of several failing
from Carolina, laden with rice, indigo, and
tobacco.
Orders were yeflerday sent from the Admi
miralty to the different Sea-ports, for his
Majesty's ships of war in commission, except
ing those that compose the Fleet of observati
on, to take on board all their fores, and to
be ready for sea at twenty-four-hours notice.
On Monday Lord Towhlhend, and several
other Officers of Diftindion, were present at a
proof of Artillery in Woolwich Warren, and
afterwards proceeded to the new Embankment,
which is making by the Convids belonging to
the Juftitia Hulk, near the Butt. David
Brown Dignam and George Barrington were
both at work. His Lordship left a present to
the Qverfeer, for the relief of such of those
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unhappy people as were ill, or who, by their
afiduity and peaceable behaviour, shewed they
deserved to be dikinguiihed from the rest of
their companions.
From the General Evening Post, of Jan. 7, 1777.
To the E DITO R.
SIR,
AF E W evenings ago I was present in a
promifeuous company, where were some
strenuous advocates both for and against Ame
rica. One Gentleman, with great force, exposed
the absurdity of Dr. Price, who advises great
Britain to sheath rhe sword, as her only preler
vation, and at the fame time recommends it to
the brave Americans by all means to treat
with sword in hand. But this, and even the
Dolor's half million of fighting' men, which
he assured the,public were to be found in Ame
rica, could raise no blufli on the patriotic
cheeks. One question, however, fartled our
patriots; for i believe it was new to them,
and therefore they were not hardened against
it. Pray, fays a gentleman, is it not the
desire of the Congress to bring Spain, France,
and Holland, if possible, into a war with
England? and what can America expert from
these powers, if England is subdued py their
arms, cr shall lose the empire pf the sea? what
treatment, I fay from these allies, is America
to exped ? This, Sir, was rather a puzzling
queftiori, a silence ensued, when a gentleman
told the following
FAB L E.
THERE was a large sorest, inhabited by a
few sheep; in the neighbourhood was a nation,
of makiff dogs, another of foxes, another of
wolves, and another of boars, the sheep were
protested by the dogs till,they increased to a
great multitude. After a bloody war, in which
they were saved by the dogs from both the
foxes 'and wolves, the sheep imagined them
selves to be a very mighty nation, and some
old stinking rams told them it was not proper
that the dogs should rule over them. The
dogs had bit them, they said, and intended'to
bite them more severely. And so the sheep
proclaimed themselves a free people. Yet
while they complained how the dogs had
oppressed them, they boasted, with the fame
breath, that so greatly had they prospered,
that in twelve years time they had became a
match for the world, though it was evident:
that before that time they could not defend
themselves against the foxes only. The dogs,.
upon this resolve to bring them back to obe
dience; but the sheep implored the foxes, the
wolves, and the boars, to attack the dogs,
which they gladly performed; and while the
best maftiffs were in the country of the sheep,
these different tribes so violently attacked their
old formidable epemies the dogs, that they
utterly broke their ftfength, and ruined them
as a people. But the sheep did not long boafl:
of their profound politics; the foxes, the
wolves, and the boars, poured in upon them,
and soon rendered them the most abjeft and
miserable of all animals.
The M ORAL,
Gentlemen, is thus: the Americans are, in
reality as defencelefs as sheep; it is impossible
they can, for several centuries, constitute an
empire; they want many requisites. The
Engliin are generous, brave maftifts ; the
French have always been fly, ravenous foxes;
the Spaniards cruel wolves when they con
quer; and the Dutch mere wild boars, when
ever they can effed a settlement. Amboyna,
and all their settlements, witness this: but
though, for the fable's fake, I supposed the
conquest of the maftiffs, I trull that event is
yet very distant; and that half a million of
determined fighting sheep, with their ingra
titude, a circumstance infinitely more to be
feared than the strength of their horns, will
never effeft so worthy a purpose. And let me
add, gentlemen, there is a circumstance in
the natural history of the sheep which greatly
resembles the American courage. When you
go near a flock of sheep, a few will at Frft
run, then the whole body of them will draw
up in a line like foldiets ; will watch your
motions ; will seem as if they felt vastly bold ;
aye, and will stamp their feet on the ground
in a menacing manner; but let a maftitf walk
up to them, and half a million of these deter
mined threateners will instantly take to their
heels, and fly off in the greatest fear and con
fufion.
BRITANNIC US.
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