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. Price only Two Coppers.
Sir Jeffery Amherlt, General Hervey, and General Frazer,
it is said, are all fixed on, and have agreed to go to America
next spring, if the unhappy difference subsists so long be
tween Great-Britain and her colonics.
At twelve o'clock this day arrived a mail from New-York,
brought by the Harriot packet, Captain Lee, to Faimouth;
she has brought a great m..ny letters. This is the lall mail
that will arrive from thence till farther orders.
The Charming Sally, Wilibn, a transport from London to
Boston, is 101 l on the Goodwin Sands, and all the people
perished.
Captain Nichols, of the Juno,.was in company with the
Annapolis, Captain Hanfick, on the thirteenth instant in
Mount's Bay, both cloie to the rocks, which Captain Ni
chols cleared with the greatest difficulty; and he fuppofcs
that the Annapolis struck and went immediately to pieces, as
he law nothing of her afterwards. He fays there was no
chance of any of the people being saved, as it blew very hard
from the S, W. Captain Nichols was obliged to throw one
LONDO N, November 17.
ORDERS were on Tuelday night lent to Portsmouth
for the Greyhound sloop of war, now in dock, and
fitting for America, to be got ready with all possible
defpatch. It is reported iome perlons are to go in
this ship with powers to propose terms of reconciliation, the
event of 'which may be known time enough to prevent the
fending more forces in the spring.
The calling in foreign troops seeming to be considered
as an indispensable m^afure by the friends of Admini-
Bration, it was judiciously remarked by General Conway,
that if once we set America the example, she too would apply
for foreign aid ; and if she offered her commerce to France,
he did not doubt but that country, finding England had ap
plied to Russia for aid, would protect America, and thus a
general war be brought on.
Lord Weymouth will be appointed Lord of Trade and
Plantations, in the room of tne Earl of Dartmouth, now
Lord Privy Seal.
The order of the day being yesterday read, in the House of
Commons, Mr. Burke propoled his much talked of plan for a
reconciliation between the mother country and America. Af
ter very ably touching upon the general grounds of the dis
pute, and pointing out the apparent errors of administration,
this accomplices orat r begged leave to introduce a concilia
tory bill, which he read to the House, and was up full three
hours and half, in giving a full account of the reasons and their
force upon which every clause of his bill was framed, and the
happy purport which it might effect, Capt. Walfingham, in a
(hurt ip-ech, Seconded Mr. Burke s motion. A long and inte
rfiling debate eniued, which continued many hours. The
following are the nan es of the principal fpeaicers, and the or
der in which they rose, Mr. Burke, Capt. Walfingham, Wel
bore Ellis, Sir Geoige Saville, Mr. Grey Cooper, Lord Offory,
Mr. Fitzpatrick, tne Lord Advocate, Lord John Cavendish,
Mr. St. John, Mr. Adam, Mr. T. fownihend, Mr. George
Onflow, Governor Pownall, Mr. Mackworth, Lord George
Germaine, Mr. Charles Fox, and the Solicitor General.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1776.
Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings.
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hundred hogsheads of tobacco, and a great quantity of ftavea
over board.
A ship with General Burgoyne and Earl Percy are hourly
expeded at Dover from Boston ; the latter of whom, we hear,
will not return to join his regiment there again in the spring,
at the request of his noble father, he being the eldest son, his
Grace has been heard to declare it publicly, that for the
fake of a commission he should not run the rifc of his life and
a dukedom together.
On Monday last Mr. Alderman Oliver gave notice to the
House of Commons that he should that day fe'nnight, make
a motion for an Address to his Majesty, requeuing him to
impart to the House who were the original authors and ad-,
vifers of the measures which have been pursued againff Ame
rica, before those measures were proposed to the H>ufe. He
said he was not unaware of the advantages and disadvantages
of his situation in that House. That he knew and lamented,
that whilst an unconnected individual was less liable to be
carried away with any improper measure of p:rty or faction,
such a person was for the fame reason, and at the fame time,
less likely to be fuccefsful in any measure that he could pof
iibly propose.
That no man or party of men having a personal right to
claim his assistance and support, so he would have no peifonal
claim to, and (if he had any experience in these matters) he
feared he could have but little reasonable expectation of the
assistance and support of others.
He said that being of this opinion, and net anting in con
cert, he should not have ventured at this tine to make any
motion in that House, if that which he had to offer was not
attended with circumstances of a very singular nature, which
intitled it to the countenance and support equally of both
tides of the House.
He said it could not have escaped any one's notice what
decidedly contrary opinions had been all along declared.on
the different sides of the House, relative to the measures
against America.
That whilst Administration triumphed and exulted in the
justice and wisdom, and, what is more, in the popularity of
their measures, for, he said, they were repeatedly boaiting that
the sense of the nation was with them, yet those measures had
been treated on the other fide of the House with every expres
sion of detestation and contempt.
This being the case, he said his motion would serve as a tell
of the sincerity and consistency of both sides. For that, if
they were sincere, both, th fe who admired aad those who
abhorred those measures, must equally with to know, and
make known, the persons who are really entitled to their ad
miration or abhorrence.
That the motion, therefore, which he intended to make,
containing neither censure nor praise, and for the support of
which he should trust to the consistency of both tides of the
House, would be merely to this effeft, That an humble ad
dress (for addresses, he said, were now in falhion) be presented
by the House to his Majesty, humbly requesting him to im
part to the H use, who were the original authors and advisers
to his Majesty of the measures Which have b en pursued
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