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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
HAGU E, June 23.
THE province of Holland has agreed to
the request of the Council of State, con
cerning 3,409,700 florins for the building of
nineteen ihips ofthe line, (besides the furns con
tained in prior requests; one for 11,635,012,
and the other for 9,271,498 florins) and also to
the augmentation solicited by Friefland, for
building a ship of 50 guns, and a frigate of 20,
under |he direction of the college of Admi
ralty of that province ; for which Service 490,125
florins are required. Their noble and great
mightinesses, in consenting insist at the fame
time, that this business have as early c# ^€t asmay
be ; and that as soon as there shall be a vacancy
in the fllip-yards by launching any vessel, not a
moment to be loft in setting up another in its
room, so that there shall be not in the least dan
ger that the naval force of the Republic be again
annihilated. Besides this, they infill, and ex
hort in the molt serious terms their confederates,
to give their ready and entire consent, unembar
rassed with any trammels, and that they will
refpe&ively furnifh the neceflary Supplies with
out delay, and equal to the demands, in a man
ner worthy of the high obligations, which the
defence of their country lays them under.
P A R I S, June 21.
Mr. Grenville has had fame conferrence with
M. de Vergennes, and because he has sent off
(two couriers for London last week, and it is
known.that he looks for the return of the last
with much impatience, it is pretended that pre
liminaries are agreed on. Some who pretend
to be the best informed, give us the grounds of
this arrangement. The independence of North
America ; Gibraltar to Spain ; Grenada and
Dominica to be kept by us, &c. Here is the
basis of the treaty. India alone prevents the
closure of the business. The English fay they,
being unwilling that France fhbuld assume any.
higher fituatian there, than she had in 1762, and
infilling that the number of troops in her facto
ries, be fixed ; whereas M. de Vergennes, de
mpnds, that we be restored to what we were in
1748. No motion is made of the fifliery of
Newfoundland, as to us and Spain, about which
it is allured there will be nothing previously a
greed. Such are the public rumours. At ano
ther day, we may tell what persons are rightly
informed, and what to think of Mr." Grenville
and his conferences, which tend to nothing yet,
because the ministry, as well as the people of
England, are very far from wishing for peace. >
The Count and Countess of the north, (the
grand Duke and Dutches of Russia, who travel
under these names) were at Choify on Wednes
day last, when the whole court was together.
Thev dined there, and after the molt affeaionate
parting with his Majesty and the royal family,
they set out for Orleans, where they were to rest
that night. They will find Brest very brilliant,
if the Spanish fleet should appear during their
Lay at that port.
The regiment of Mouron, and a part of the
legion of Luremburgh, designed for Ceylon,
which were on board the Frier at the iiland of
Rhee, have received orders to disembark. Ma
ny pretend that this was to hold the Hollanders
fall, as they began to give way , but it i^raani
feft that the endeavours of Rufiia have no./ rat- .
er influence upoa then^ than they have upon
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HARTFORD:
Printed by H U D 3 O N_ and GOODWI N, near the Great Bridge.
I' U E S D A Y, October 1, 1782
The English puffed, up with their late victory,
are about to relume their old pretentions, which
tire to domineer upon the sea; hence they have
begun to fieze formic neutral fbips. They reck
on the vessels, now palling under neutral flags,
at about 6000. Upon this plan,- it is certain,
that England might make a grand harvest. ' But
how would the Emperor Joseph, who is deeply
concerned, take this ?
Mr. Grenville, the English negociator, did not
receive orders to return to London, as was re
ported. We. expend from the Hague, Messrs.
Laurens, father and son, and other American
negociators, who were to set out from Holland
the sth or 6th of this month. It is allured, that
a courier arrived at Versailles the 2d, from Pe
terfburgh, and delivered a letter to the rhiniftry,
in which that ofßuffia feeing to insinuate, that
if France would consent to a separate peace be
tween the United Privinces and Great Britain,
that peace might be fobn concluded ; but, ad
mitting the arrival of that courier, we may with
good reason doubt that this has been the obje&
of his dispatches. And indeed the matter in
question is not for the United Provinces to hud
dle up a peace any how ; that peace muff be
solid and honorable. The Englilh must stipu
late for the Dutch in the treaty, a freedom of
navigation, which they have robbed them of for
a long time past. They must make them an au
thentic reparation of honor to their flag, which
they insulted in the affair of the Count de By
land. They must leftore to them the value of
the merchant Ihips, which, by the avowal even
of the Right Hon. Mr. Fox, the new Secretary
of State of Great Britain, they have taken froni
them, not only without lawful cause, but even
without an apparent pretence. In fine, they
must indemnify them and their allies for all the
expences of the war, already immense, which
they have necessitated them to incur, by their in
justice for upwards of eighteen months past,
without forgetting the restitution of such of their
colonies, whose property they had plundered,
and who, by being torn from their paternal foil
and families, they have given up to all the hor
rors of misery and dtfpair.
Humburgb, June 14. Fourteen tranfparfs,
having 011 board the 16th regiment of Hanoveri
ans, the recruits of Anfpach, Brunswick, Hefle
Caflel,and Zerhft, set fail from Bremerleke the
icth infant, escorted by three English frigates.
[Thefe are the troops arrived at Halifax.)
FeteQurgh, (Rufia) May 14. Yefter,day
at two in the afternoon, a fire broke out in the
great market, where are chandlers shops, all of
wood, and quickly spread to those of flefh meat,
fiffi, iron ware, sugar, coffee, spices and linens,
whidh were soon in ashes. The like befel the
warehouses of flour, dye-fluffs, salt, &c. 111 the
neighbourhood. Some dffe£ls have been saved,
and the shops which had been lately built of
stone, and also a new range of wooden buildings,
quite near the tire, were with difficulty and by
great efforts preserved ; notwithdanding the
roofs of twenty of these last shops were actually
in ablaze. The lot's is very great arid must be
feyerely felt, for above a thousand shops with the
goods in them have fallen a pray to the flames,
The Empress was upon the foot, and by her en
couragement greatly excited the people to la
bour in furpreffing the fire, to which we owe
the preservation ofthe great Chops which remain.
The damage is calculated at three minions of
roubles.
L <>, N DO N, July 20.
A treaty it is said is really on foot between
Russia and Great Britain, Lord Northington be
ing appointed to go there as ambassador—the
firft English Earl sent to that court.
%/y io. By papers brought home in the Isa
bella from the file of France, a prize to rhe El
len, arrived at Liverpool, the squadron of Mons.
de Suffrein failed from thence on an expedition
against Madras, on the 7th of December, 1781,
confiding of 10 ihips ofthe line, besides one of
50, another of 40, some frigates, fitted out at:
the expence of above seven milion's of their mo
ney ; and that on board them were upwards of
11,000 men, with pfovitions for fix months, 20
mortars, 42 pieces of cannon for the siege, and
ji smaller pieces ; the fleet commanded by
Mons. d'Orve, Commodpre, together with Com
mandeur de Suffrein ; the army by M. Duche
min, Marefcnal de Camp.
July 11. Yesterday dispatches were sent from
the Admiralty to Plymouth, in order to forward
to Lord Howe, advising his Lordihip of one of
the convoy belonging to the Jamaica fleet having
arrived, and that the others were daily expededt
It is supposed that he has orders to cruize to
meet them, as the convoy which accompanies
this fleet will enable his Lordship to bid defiance,
to the combined fleets of France and Spain, even,
admiring that Piquet's squadron has formed a
junction with Mons. Guichen and Don Cordova.
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, July 9 .
“ Friday, July 7. Accounts from Torbay
mention, that the van of Lord Howe's fleet were
in great danger of running ashore last Friday off
the Start Point, in a thick fog, but providentially
a filling boat hailed them, two cables length of
the land, and they hauled off shore immediately,
by which means they evaded impending danger^
“ Reports prevail, that the combined fleets
are cruizing between Scilly and Uffiant, thirty
three of the line and ten frigates.
Extract ofa letter prom Portsmouth, July 11.
“ This morning arrived the St. Kaphel, a car
tel ship, from Providence, one of the Bahama
Blands, with Governor Maxwell, and other of
ficers on board.
Mr. Orde is appointed by Lord Shelburne to
be his chief Secretary.
The Duke of Grafton has certainly refufed a
very confiderabfe appointment under the present
Eutterf? Miniil^r..
The independence of America alluded to by
Mr. Fox and that ofthe present premier are wide
ly different; the latter infills on the sovereignty of
the crown; while the former was for making A
merica an independent Sovereignty, the only
terms on which they will treat'
Brefl, June Ir. ' Mon. de la Motte Piquet
only waits for his last orders, to fail with eight
ihips of the line and the convoy which he takes
with him., The Bretagne will not go out into
the road before two days.' If M. Guichen ar
rives here, as we arc given to expert, he will
find four fliips of the line ready to join him.
The trading ships from Bordeaux, Nantz,. &c.
are moftlf arrived; 10 or 2 only are behind.
They know nothing of the enemy's fleet. A
small vessel. anchored here yesterday from the
Ille of France, whence she failed February 23d.
She touched at Bourbon, and flayed at the Cape
of Good-Hope 15 days.. Every thing in thefc
colonies was in the belt order. The accounts
from India by this velfel are all stale.
;No. 92g.