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conduct makes us look fora desperate refinance
on his part ; and we are all ready to do him the
justice to think, that when he does surrender,
it will be after having made the molt gallant de
fence.
“ The Dake, though he experts a refufal of
his summons, is neverthclefs determined to fend
it, that he may not be answerable for the carnage
that mull ensue, if Gibraltar should be stormed.
—Strong as the fortrefs is at present, there is a
moral certainty that it must fall, though the gar
rison should be even twice as numerous as it is;
it is impossible that any garrison could long bear
the fatigue consequent upon an incessant firing,
day and night, from some hundreds of cannon
and mortars; we therefore look for the fall of
Gibraltar, not more from the execution of our
artillery, than from the state of exhauftment in
to which the garrison must be thrown by conti
nual watchings, and endless labours in endea
vouring to restore their demolished works. So
certain are we of success, that the government of
Gibraltar is already promised to the Duke of Me
dina Sidona. The old idea of undermining the
rock, and blowing it up, is renounced as im
praaicable."
August io. The attention of all Europe is
now turned with infinite apprehension and soli
citude to the fate of Gibraltar. On this theatre
the greatest exploits are Ihortly expelled to take
place. The fame acquired by the Duke de Cril
ion in his siege of Minorca, on the one hand, and
the triedand determined bravery ofGeneral Eliot,
on the other, mull produce a contest, in which
every ftratigem and manoeuvre in the art of war
will undoubtedly be exerted on both sides. The
vast armament from sea, will also not a little aug
ment the prodigious fpedlacle on land; and
more courage and Ikill are not expected, either
from the English or Spanish army under their
refpedive able Commanders, than from the Bri
tish fleet, led on to victory or death by th gal
lant Howe. On that bloody and important day,
whenever it shall happen, may the God of battle
take charge of the fate and honour of Britain!
Ihe present cabinet, so far from being unani
mous, are divided upon the American question
by a formidable opposition. The certain loss of
all Georgia, and evacuation of Charleftown, has
confirmed the propriety of Mr. Fox's judgment;
and the probability is that before the meeting of
parliament we shall not possess a foot of ground
inthe Thirteen Colonies. Would it not thenhave
been better to have in some measure conciliated
the minds of the Americans, by declaring them
independent at once, than to have precluded our
selves from that a& of favour, by giving them
an opportunity of boafling that they had faiMy
driven us out of their country?
' The cabinet are said to be at present so much
divided, that very few of these confidencial ser
vants of the crown attend; and the whole of the
government of the country is executed under the
sole direction of Earl Shelburne,
Lord Howe's fleet, when he next fails, is in
tended to consist of three Grips of 100 guns, seven
of 90, four of 80, feveht^en of 74, five of 6;, two
of 60, three of 50, eleven frigates, five firelhips,
and two bombs, with three cutters, in alloz fail
of vessels, 33 of them of the line.
Though their Moorish Highnesses are now
brought over to the interest, and are assisting the
Spaniards to reduce Gibraltar, yet they would
fuffer more by the reduction of it, than any other
power. In the hands of England it has been
their protestor; in the hands of Spain it could,
and it certainly would oppress their trade, and
keep them in continual awe,
RICHMOND (Virginia) Oflober 5.
We are credibly informed that the King of
France has lately laid these States under new
obligations of gratitude to him, having been
pleased to remit all the interetl already due, or
which may hereafter become due, for the large
loans which the court of France have from time
to time generously advanced to theUnited States;
and not fatisfied with such dihinguifhed libera
lity, his Majelty has relinquished his right to the
speedy payment of the funis borrowed, and which
would soon become due, agreeable to contrail,
but has declared his intention that no demand
Ihall be made for the fame till the end of the
war, and that then the United States shall be al
lowed twelve years to pay offthe debt. But the
benevolence ofthis great Monarch towards an
oppressed people is not even bounded h&re, for
it.is (aid that lie not only advanced but has since
actually remitted, all the expences attendingthe
negociation for a loan for us with the Dutch.
Since the acknowledgment of our independence
at the Hague, we hear the subscription Tor a
loan to the States has been filled with astonish
ing rapidity, audit is said that no less than ten
millions of livres have been actually fubferibed at
four per cent, interest, the firft payment of the
interest to be made in November next.
We hear that a talk from the Chickamogga
Cherokees to his Excellency the Governor, has
lately arrived, containing the most explicit as
surance of their desire for peace. They had de
livered to CoL Martin feme of the prisoners they
had in possession, and were to biing inthe whole
of them at the treaty, which was to have been
held some time the middle of hill months
PHILADELPHI A, October is.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS
assembled.
PR O CL A M AT I ON.
IT being the indispensable duty of all nations,
not only to offer up their {applications to
Almighty God, the giverof all good, for his gra
cious affillancein a time of distress, but also in a
solemn and public manner to give him praise for
his goodness in general, and especially for great
and signal interpofitionsof his providence in their
behalf: Therefore, the United States in Con
gress aflembled, taking into their consideration
the many infiances of divine goodness to these
States, in the course of the important conflict in
which they have been so long engaged ; the pre
sent happy and promising state of public affairs ;
and the events of the war in the course of the
year now drawing to a close, particularly in the
harmony of the public councils, which is so ne
cessary to the success of the public caule ; the
perfect union and good understanding which has
hitherto subsisted between them and their allies,
notwithstanding the artful and unwearied at
tempts of the common enemy to divide them;
the success of the arms of |he United States,and
those of their allies, and the acknowledgment of
their independence by another European power,
whose friendship and commerce mult be of great
and lading advantage to these States ; do hereby
recommend it to the inhabitants of these States
in general, to observe, and request the several
States to interpole their authority, in appointing
and commandingthe obfervatign of T H U R S-
D A Y, the Twenty-eighth day of November
next, as a day of solemn ThankEiving to God
for all his mercies ; and they do further recom
mend to all ranks, to teftify their gratitude to
God for his goodness, by a cheerful obedience to
his laws, and by promoting, each in his flation,
and by his influence, the plaice of true and un
defiled religion, which, is the great foundation
of public prosperity and national happiness.
Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, the
eleventh day of October, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand seven hundred
and eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty
and independence the seventh.
JOHN HA NS ON, President.
Charles Thompson, Secretary.
Extract ofa letter from a gentleman at General
Greene's camp, dated September 2.
'' Orders have been repeated for the evacua
tion of Charleftown ; they have not tranfpprts
enough to convey their fibres, and provide for
the refugees who are to go to East-Florida. We
have good information they have fallen upon
this method :---they will evacuate Charleftown
in a few days, and leave the refugees at Beaufort
on Port-Royal Bland, a little to the southward,
well fortified. Here they are to remain till the
transports can return from New-York, and in
the mean time collect corn, which is much want
ed, from the islands in the vicinity. Probably
we Grail be in town about ten days hence,"
F I S H-K I L L, oaob er 24 .
We learn from New-York, that the enemy
are demolishing No. 8, near King's-Bridge, and
that Delancey's corps, which was quartered un
der the protection of this work, is to take a fafer
pofiton on the island.
On Sunday lad arrived in camp, the honora
ble Major-General Lincoln, Secretary at War,
from Philadelphia.
Brussels, August 8. Mr. Fitzherbert, Mi
nister Plenipotentiary of Great-Britain at our
court, set off from this place the 31st of July for
Paris. He is charged from his Britannic Majef
tyto resume the negotiations for peace, begun by
Mr. Grenville, and to treat to this cilia with
all the powers at war with Great-Britain, jointly
or separately with either of them. His depar
ture was attended with the greater secrecy.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Augufty.
" Mr. Fitz herbert, Miniiler Plenipotentiaiy
of his Britannic Majelty at the court of Bruflels,
being arrived here to relume the negotiations .of
peace, has had his firll audience with Count de
Vergennes. As it was but a very Inert one, it is
not probable that the fubjefls of his million have
been entered upon.
r pHE Collectors of State, Town and Society Taxes for toe
A town of Winchester, and also the Col!cdors ofa for
mer Land Tax granted by the General Alfcmbiy. hereby
warn the inhabitants of said town immediately to pay their
refpedive Rates or ex-pea colt to pay ; and thole perfaus
who have Land in said town liable to be fold for Rates to
have their Land fold at the Sign Pelt in said town of Win
chester on the 6th day of Jannaiy next, if they n< glctft to
fettle by that time, and pay off their Rates, viz. Zachariah
Sanford's heirs, Rev. Daniel Welch, David Root, James
Porter's heirs, John Hafeltor's heirs,AshbelHtunphrv, James
Stevenson, Thomas Mckins's heirs, Edward Dodd's heirs,
Mr. Samuel Talcott, jun. lor 4 icche sys he fold to Jorl
Stone, Ebenezer Rowlee.
DAVID AUSTIN, SETH HILLS,
ELISHA WILLCOXSON, GERSH. M'CUNE, ir.
SAMUEL HURLBU T, JOSIAH LVERIT.
Winchester, October 14, 1782.
THE Collector of the State, Town and Society Taxes for
the to wn of Simsbury, hereby warns the inhabitants of
said town, immediately to pay their refyedive Rates or ex-'
pc& colt to pay ;. and those persons who have land in said
town liable to be fold for Rates co have their Lands fold at
the Sign Polt in said Simlbuiy, on the fiift Monday of Ja
nuary next, if they negh & to fettle by that time and pay off
their Rates, viz. Samuel Barnard, Samuel Enos, Noah Grit
wold, Odiah Loomis, Elizabeth Phelps, Mary Stevens, Wil
liam Thrall, Elizabeth Thrall, Anna Wcbfter, Apthop's
heirs, Robert Brick, Timothy Day,Thomas Gideons, George
Griswold, jun. Ezra Marvin, Mr. Noicr,. Abraham Page,
John Root, Mr. Smith, Giles Ellfworih, John Palmer, Site
Filer, Thomas Griswold, John Piney.
DUDLEY PETTIBONE, Colledor.
Odober 11, 1782.
7u the Sufquebannab Proprietors.
SINCE the late Advertisement to the Sufquehannah Com
pany for the payment of half the Four Dollar Tax, for
merly voted by said company, by the RcfolV.es of the Gene
ral AiTemlly of tne State of Conucdi<ur, it becomes neces
sary, in order to carry on the adion with Pennsylvania, that
the whole of said Four Dollar Tax should be paid without
delay ; and that this company should have a proper agent
or agents, to represent said company before said court to be
held at Trenton, in November 1782: And said AfTembl,
have enabled said company, to m>ke sale of the whole or
such part ofan, proprietors right in said puichafe, as shall
neglea to pay said tax, and the other taxes on said rights
without delay, which renders it nccclfaiy that said company
should have a meeting in order to accomplish said matters.
These are therefore, to notify said proprietors in the Suf
quthannah purchase, to meet at the CpurtHoufe in Hartford^
on the i,Ji day of November next, at ten o'clock in the
morning, to take into consideration the matters aforefaid,
and to a& thereon as shall be just and necessary, and to dw
any other business proper to be done on said day.
NATHANIEL WALES, jun.)
JIDEDIAH ELDERKIN, ) Com-
WILLIAM JUDD, „)mictce.
SAMUEL GIUY, )
Dated at Hartford, Odober 25, 1782.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that rhe Assembly of
said State have laid a Land Tax of Two-Pence on the
acre, on the noh-refident proprietors lands, and other non—
residents that own lands in Wilmington.
Therefore, tbisisto notify said non resident proprietors
of the township of said Wilmington, (lying in said State)
that if said tax is not paid to the Su&criber by the firft of
January next, their lands will be fold at Public Vendue, a
greeabfe to the Ad offaid Assembly.
STEPHEN FORBS, Colledor.
Wilmington, O& °ber 1, 1782.
r)~?HESE are to notify the non-resident proprietors of the town
of Hartland, to pa, to the fabferiber, at his dwelling-hoafe
in said Hartland, a tax of Four-Pence on the pound, granted on
the lift 17^0, or their lands will be fold agreeable to aft of the
General ^ffemblj.
JOEL aC^LEr, Colleger.
Hartford, October „, 17*2.
ELIZER HALE, jun.
A FEW months past has been permitted to inoculate for
the Small- Pox; The success that attended his pradice
the lalt fprirgand summer, induced many to apply to become
patients and more than could be conveniently accommodat
ed : He acquaints those, and the public in general, that he
has eroded a house near his dwclling-hdufe, in the eastern
part of Glaftenbury, which is now open for Inoculation;
there th y will be molt carefully attended, the Itri&eft atten
tion paid to constitutions, and every different one treated
accordingly, and accommodated with every neccffaiy, on
very reasonable terms.
Glaltenbury, O&^ber 26, 1782.
LOST on the road from Hartford co Glaftenbury, a Note
on the Treasurer of this State, of 10.175. <c. No- 8%
dated 0&. 21, 1782, in favour of the fubferiber-— Whoever
has found the fame, and will leave it with Landlord Jones in
Hartford, or Mr. Henry Deming in Wethersfield, shall be
handsomely rewarded.
JOHN ACKLEY.
Hartford, O&ber 22, 17$},