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PARI S, Augustji.
q^HE King ever attentive to give his fubjeCts
1 frefh proofs of his love and equity, would
have his name-day, Aug. 25, marked by an a&
of benevolence to nis people. In consequence, his
Majesty of his own proper motion, has abolished,
on that day la @<tfion Preliminaire (the torture)
which, accordinggo a barbarous cuftom,preierved
force the ages of ignorance, criminals were put to
a moment before their execution. The ediftor
daining that abolition, will soon appear, and the
Sovereign Courfs^who have long lamented that
custom, though obliged to put, it in execution,
will receive the new law^with rapture.
The King's edia for the fuppreffipn 406 place,
in his Majesty's houfliold wasregiftered in the
Chamber of Accounts the ^th of August last r ,.
Cadiz, Augl 22. The Major-General, of the?
Marine has declared, that the commandant of that
department has received 4ri'exprefs from the Gc>r
Vernor of a fort on the coast, with accounts that
30 English vessels, bound to Gibraltar from Algiers,
^ r ith provisions, have been taken by a division of
Don Barcelo'sfquadron,and fentinto Carthegena,
Among other valuable Rores on board the con
voy. taken by the combined fleets, is copper fuffi^
cient to sheath five Men' of war.
LONDO N, September 20/
The common cryerliaving proclaimedthe num
bers, informed the Livery, the Sheriffs were of
opinion, that George Hayley, Esq ; John Kirk
man, Esq; Frederick Bull, Esq; and Nathaniel
Newman, Esq ; were duly elected members of
Parliament for this city.. •
Mr. Burke's retiring into private life, is a par
liamentary loss that all parties lament/
The late death of Mr. Alderman Kifkmar;
reads a strong leflon of the uncertainty and little
value of every thing in this world. This gentle
man was in the meridian of life, happy in a num
ber of refpe&able friends, very wealthy, and
within a few days of being one of the Sheriffs of
the city of London, and one of its representatives
in Parliament, when death putan end to all those
Honors, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vifibn/
left not a wreck behind."
Extra& of a letter from Cadiz, Sept. 12.
" The officers and passengers belonging to the
"English East India men, have obtained permiflion
to go to Lisbon on their parole; and a vessel is
getting ready, as a cartel, to carry them thither,
and to bring back whatever Spanish prisoners, ta
±en by the English, may be in confinement in
that city."
Sept. 30. We hear the Ruffian ambassador posi
tively refufed to communicate some difoatches
from his Court, to any person but his Majesty;
a circumstance which nas produced much Specu
lation at St. James's, and iurprife among the Mi
nisters.
Extras of a letter from the Tile of Man, Sept. Ig.
" Our cutter, the General, is arrived from Bar
badoes; she failed the 26th of July, and parted
with the convoy the 4th inst. in lat. 44, in a hea
vy gale of wind, and the next day he fell in with
the wreck of some ships, which ne takes to be a
part of the fleet ; the sea for miles round him was
covered with rum puncheons, and bags of cotton,
but the sea ran so high, he was able to faye but
two bags of cotton."
On Monday evening arrived express, at Lord
George Germain's owce, Brigadter-Geu. Dal-
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tymplc, from Gen. Sir Henry Clinton at NeW-,
York, Lord George Germain being at Stoney
land in Buffex, an express was sent to his Lord?
ship, and the difoatches were forwarded to his
Mafffl^ atWindfor. 1 .
],Gen. Dalrymple arrived from New-York in.
njs Majesty's ship the Virginia, which bad a re-,
rharkable quick , passage. Capt. Ord, the com
mander of the Virginia, arrived at the Admiral
ty at the fame time, being charged with dispatch
es totteir Lordlhips, from Vice-Admiral Afi
buthnot. 1
,To the other accounts received by the last dif
fatches from New-York we subjoin the follow
:fhat Gen. Wrfhjngton having receiving a rein
forcement from the arrival of M. de Ternay, is
strongly encamped near New-York, having up
wards of 12,000 men under his command, a large,
body of whom are trench ; that the Americans
are in pofleffion of.Weft-Point and Sandy-Hook,
at the latter of, which pofts,' isoo,men are Rati
oned ;' and all the landing places about New-
York are alfp in their hands. ; ? -
, That the French and Americans are mon firm
ly united, and that the utmost we can do at pre
f^nt is to ftandon the. defensive; that the Mar
quifs de la Fayette is very strong at Rhode-Inland,
his force confining of ?©co French, besides Con
tinental troops; tnat the French Commander in
Chief has published a proclamation, importing,
that on the arrival of a very strong reinforcement
that was on its way, and which he daily expea
ed, one grand object would be the conquest of
Canada, re-uniting it to the continental govern
ment; that the last accounts from Gen. Earl.
Cornwallis were, that he was in the interior parts
of South-Caralina,'ahd that the militia of that
province, who had profeffed fomuch loyalty, have
seized their officers, and carried them into North-,
Carolina,' which is. still attached to the govern^
faent of Congress ; : that the last packet from Eng
land was taken within fight of Sandy-Hooks and
that several of the Quebec fpfrng fleet have like
wise been taken.
, From these accounts if also appears, that the
French have quitted the object of taking the
Wed-India Iflands/and mean, by a powerful ex
ertion, to drive us from the Continent of America,
Lord Cornwallis's dispatches are also arrived
with Sir Henry Clinton's, and by several letters
received from officers on that Service, we learn
that he had had several engagements with the in
habitants of North-Carolina, in detached parties./
and that he had fuffered a repulse in every attack;
that the idea of a total conquest of that province,'
as well as the reduction of Virginia,- was entire
ly absurd and-impraaicable; on which account,'
he strongly recommends it to Administration to
give up all subsequent attempts for that purpofe.^
A packet had failed for England from New-
York two days before the Virginia left that port;
and in the latter, besides Gen.Dalrymple, Gover
nor Ttyon, with the Generals Matthews and
Pattifon, are said to be passengers.
EXPLANATION which the Court of Sweden
has demanded, relative to the proposal which
the court of Russia has made her, for the reci
procal protection and navigation of their fub
je^s.
I. HOW, and in what manner, a reciprocal
protection and mutual affiflance ihaU be given?
IV. It seems expedient that the representations
mentioned in this article, be made by the party
aggrieved ; and that the ministers of the Other
confederate powers support those remonftrauces
in the most forcible and efficacious manner.
, I. As to the manner in which protection and,
mutual assistance shall be granted, it must be fet
tled by a formal convention, to which all the neu
tral powers will he invited, the principal end of
which is, to insure a free navigation to the mer
chant ships of all nations. Whenever' such ves
sels fhajl have proved from it's papers that it car
ries nd Contraband goods, the protection of a
squadron, or vessels of war (bill be granted, her,
under whose care she shall put herfelf, and which
shall preyent her being interrupted. Front hence
it follows: ~, . ...... -
; 11. That each power must concur in the gene
ral fecurit'y of commerce. In the mean time the
better to accomplish this object, it will be necessa
ry to fettle, by means of a separate article, the
places and diftahces which may be judged proper
for the Ration of each power.'„ From that method
will arise this advantage, that all the squadrons of
she allies will form ,a kind of chain, and be able
to assist each other ; : the particular arrangement
to be confined only to the knowledge of the allies,
though the convention ip all other points will be
communicated to the powers at ' war, accompani
ed with all the proteltations of a ftriff neutrality.
111. It is undoubtedly the principle of a perfect
dquallity, which must regulate this point.' We
shall follow the common mode with regard to
fafety. In case the squadrons should meet and
engage, the commanders will conform to the usa
ges of the sea service; because, as is observed a
hove, the reciprocal proteaion, under these con
ditions, should be unlimited.
11. Whether each particular power- shall be
obliged to protect the,general commerce of the
whole, or if in the mean time it may employ a
part of its armament in the protection of its own
particular commerce?. 1
lIL If feveral' of these combined squadrons
should meet, or, for example, one, or more of their
vessels, what should be the,rule of their conduct
towards each other, and how far shall the neutral
protection extend ? ( /
IV. It seems efl'entiil to agree upon the man
ner, in which representations should be made to
the powers at war, if, notwithftaading our mea
sures, their ships of war; or armed vessels, would
continue to interrupt our commerce in any man
ner. Must theft remonstrances be made in the
general name of.the united.powers, or shall each
particular power plead its own cause only ?
V. Laffly,' it appears essential to provide a
gainst this possible event, where one of the united
powers feeing itfelf driven to extremities against
any of the powers a&^lly, at war, should claim
the aflillance of the allies in this convention to do
her justice ; in what manner can this be best con
certed^? A circumstance which equally requires a
ft ipuktion, that the reprisals in that case shall not
be at the will of such party injured, Qut that the
common voice shall decide; otherwise an indivi
dual power might, at pleasure, draw the rest, a
gainst their inclination and interests, into disa
greeable extremities; or break the whole league^
and reduce matters into theiroriginal Rate, which
would render the whole fruitlefs and of no eff@a.
ANSWER dfttie court of Russia.
(No. 835.)