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est commendation and applanfe by Lord Corn-
Wallis.'
The present seems no favourable period for
effecting a compromise with America ^ for the
evacuation of Savannah and Charleftown, are
such concessions as will probaly spirit up the
colonists to enhance the exorbitancy of their
demands. Since we are no longer to prosecute
an offenfive war on the vast tract of land, for the
right of sovereignty over which an obstinate
contest has been io long maintained, the inhabi
tants of that country will, in effea, enjoy every
privilege they have foughtto obtain: and not
withftandingour refufal formally to acknowledge
them independant, the recall of our forces is, to
all intents and purposes, a tacit acquiescence in
their demands. Being no longer harassed by
our fleets and armies, they will naturally direct
their attention to trade commerce, of which they
are poffeffedof such prolific and inexhaustible re
sources as cannot fail, in a short time, of abun
dantly the recruiting impover flied state of their
finances. To give them time for repairing their
mifchiefs of a long and destructive war, and at
the^fame time to persist in the plan of fubjeaing
them to the controul of this country by the foroe
of arms, seems to be a species of policy contrived
to answer two purposes, one of which must ine
vitably oppose and defeat the other.
Wednesday fe'nnight, as a poor man was dig
ging potatoes in a little garden which he had ad
joining to his house in Bandy leg-walk, Surry,
the spade going slantwise from the bed, struck
against an iron chest, which the man with the
assistance of his wife soon dug up, and upon its
being opened, there were found upward of 900
broad pieces of gold, of the valueof fifty shillings
each, and 100 crown pieces of Edward the fifth.
It is supposed that this treasure was hid in the
time of the civil wars : but whether that is the
case or not, it has raised a worthy unfortunate
family to an easy competence.
An ambassador of England, at the court of
Couf.mtinople, having been informed, that the
gw^. 1 rk had condemned a-baker to be burnt
in bZovn, for having fold bread under weight,
Viewed great astonishment at the severity of that
juc-ment. The grand seignior being informed
ofit, sent for the ambassador, and asked him,
What was the punishment for such an offence
If England ? The ambassador replied, the baker
was obliged to pay a fine of five pounds, and af
ter th i was at liberty. Well, replied the grand
ZeigniorA . find there is more justice and humani
ty in n judgment than in yours ; I condemn
perhaps a single man in a century, and you
barye a thousand people in a year.
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PA R I S, October 10.
THE 2d inst. the frigate la Survellante en
tered the port of Brest from a cruize on
the coast of Africa, where, she took fourEnglifh
(hips with slaves on board, which she sent to the
Antilles. She had intelligence on the 30th of
September of Admiral Hood's fleet, which was
then in the Bay of Biscay, with contrary winds.
The frigate took two of their draggling ships.
ROTTERDAM, ^uguftii.
The committee of merchants, owners of ves
sels and insurers, belonging to the city of Rot
terdam, hereby require all owners and insurers
of vessels, established in the fame city, to deliver
in fix weeks from this day, or sooner if possible,
exa& and circumstantial accounts of the losses
they have sustained from the piracies and vexa
tious robberies of the English, since the conclu
sion of the year 1780, till the present time, as
well by the seizure and capture of their effects
and their ships at sea, as in their colonies, which
were conquered and pillagedin the Weft-Indies,
in order that the committees may from such ac
counts estimate the losses which have been sus
tained by the trade and navigation of this city,
from the English plunderers, both in time of
peace andin the course of this war, into which
our republic has been drawn by the insults of
our common enemy. This estimate is to be laid
before our Sovereign, to the end, that after all
other commercial towns of our country (hall
have followed our example, proper measures be
taken at the concluding a treaty of peace, to ob
tain fufficient indemnification in favour of the
merchants of the republic.
AMSTERDAM, Auguftaz.
All the merchants, holders of ship accounts,
as well in this city as in Saardam, are desired to
deliver in, on or before the 14th of September
next, to the Notary Dorper at Amfterftam, the
names of their Chips and of the Captains, who,
subsequent to the year 1778, have been taken
and pillaged by the Englilh ships of war and
privateers, and carried into Lisbon, Port Ma
hon, or elsewhere, and condemned in an unjust
and illegitimate manner. They are also desired
to draw up a fpecific inventory of their private
losses, as well as those which concern the pub
lic, and also of the expences incurred by the re
claims made, in order to make known the im
mense losses the Dutch commerce has fullered
at a time when we trusted to the faith of the
most solemn treaties betwixt the republic and
Great-Britain.
LONDO N, September 19.
Extras of a letter from Peterfourg, August 10.
" On Sunday last the celebrated brass eques
trian, statue of the Emperor Peter the firft, was
opened to public view. At about five o'clock in
the afternoon, her Imperial Majesty, after hav
ing dined at the Hermitage, came in her barge,
attended by several of the firft nobility, and
landed at the New-Key, from whence, on a
platform covered with red baize, she proceeded
to the Senate House, where, from a balcony
handsomely fitted up for her Majesty's reception,
she had a full view of the statue, the royal
yachts in the river(of which there were several,
all dressed in the various colours of different na
tions) and of the prodigious concourse of people
assembled on the occasion. On her arrival her
Majesty found the statue inclofed with a screen,
on which were painted rocks, uncultivated spa
ces, and ether emblems of the rude state in which
the Emperor found his country. Her Majesty
had not been long on the balcony, when, on a
signal given by a rocket,the screen which conceal
ed the statue, on a sudden, and as it were by ma
gic, fell, and difeovered one of the fineft pieces
of workmanship, I believe, that was ever known
to any age or country. The sudden appearance
of the stately figure, big with majestic fire, gal
loping up a precipice on a furious deed, most
exquisitely finished,in all thea&ionbf contending
eagerness, together with the firing of cannon
from the cable, admiralty and yachts, and a
running fire of about 10,000 soldiers, produced
an effect on the mind not easily to be described.
After the firing ceased, and the Empress had
contemplated the statue for feme time, with the
greatest seeming fatisfa&ion, all the regiments
of guards, the regiments of artillery, and three
other regiments, which were drawn up on the
occasion, marched round it, lowering their co
lours as they passed by the balcony, where the
Empress was placed. After this part of the ce
remony was ended, her Majesty was towed
back to the Hermitage in the fame manner she
came. In the evening the city was illuminated,
and every face manifefted joy at the happy re
membrance of the father of their country.
On the 17th of August, the I'Eveille, of 64
guns, arrived at I'Orient. She left Cape-Fran
cois the 20th of June, and had on board 700,000
piaftres, which she was to have difeharged in
North-America, but put the whole on board a
Boston frigate, and having convoyed her as far
as the Capes ofVirginia, Dore away for France:
She was butqg days from the time of her leaving
the Cape, till (he arrived at I'Orient, including
four days (he flayed at the Havannah. On the
coast of America she fell in with a sixty gunship
and two frigates (Fnglifli) from which she es
caped by dint of failing. [The Boston frigate,
mentioned above, is the Washington, Captain
Barney.)
The Morning Chronicle of this day informs
that government received, on yesterday, dis
patches from Sir Guy Carleton and rear Amiral
bigby, in which they both demanded an imedi
ate recall, as the last orders which they received
annul those on which they had began to ad, and
thereby render it impossible to treat with Con
gress.•
OSI, 17. We can assure the public from unex
ceptionable authority, that Messrs. Fitzherbert
and Oswald on the part of Great-Britain, ex
changed credentials with Messrs. Franklin and
Jay, on the part of North-America, on the 28th
of September, in consequence of Independence
being granted to America, and these gentlemen
being admitted to take their places as plenipo
tentiary at the general Congress, which is ex
pected to be held very soon.
November f.
The trade to Hudson's Bay being annihilated
by the late capture of our settlements there, that
to Quebec will be carried on in a more exten
sive manner, and several additional ships will be
sent up the river St. Lawrence in the spring.
Letters from Peterfturgh fay, that overtures
for a compromise of differences had been made
by the Porte, and that being ofa nature too ad
vantageous to be rejected by the Empress, it was
daily expected that orders would be issued for
suspending all hostile preparations.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, October 26.
" We are happy to learn that a party of cot
ton manufacturers from England, who were
making a Rolen march thro' this country to
America, under a pass of Dodor Franklin's,
have been prevented from embarking by the
closeness with which they were watched : and
have since, by the overtures directed to be made
them by government, been induced to engage
themselves to a considerable manufacturer in
that branch in this country, as well as to resign
Do&or Franklin's pass, which had escaped the
search of the officers."
PHILADELPHIA, January 14.
In the Oftend cutter, which arrived at Balti
more on Wednesday last, came passenger Mr.
Miller, late printer of the London Evening Post,
and also of the London Courant, who for these
fifteen years past, had so freely exercised the li
berty of the press, to the advantage of his coun
try and honor to himfelf ; but particularly in
asserting and defending the cause of America.—
Mr. Miller comes over with the good withes of
the honorable Mr. Laurens, in whose happy de
liverence he was particularly instrumental. —ln
our next we are promised to be able to assign
the motives which induced Mr Miller to make
this visit to the continent of America.
The advices which we have been favoured
with by the above vessel, refpe&ing the contin
uation of the war, are in substance—that tte
idea of the best informed in England, refpe&ing
peace, was as vague as it is among the people of
this county. The negociation was in train at
the time the above vessel left Europe. But as it
had been made throughout a parliamentary war,
the result of the whole was intended to be fob
mitted to it on the firft meeting. It would as
semble on the 28th of November, eight days af
ter the departure of the Oftend: The work of
peace would then be brought forward and can
vassed : The adjournment would soon after fol
low: And their rcfolves on the business could
not take place till near the latter end of the pre
sent month.
So far from the negociation havingbeen broke
up, as has been reported, the ports of Calais and
Dover had just been opened for the admission of
the paflage boats of both countries ; and that it
was even expe&ed that the letters of each would
be permitted to pass. But notwithstanding the
pfomifing appearance of peace, no relaxation of
the means of war on any part had taken place :
on the contrary, every power was Braining the
last nerve, to be well prepared for the openings
of the campaign the nextyear. May the efforts
of America not be the last, nor the least.
Mr. Rivington in his paper of the Bth inst. has
the following arrata : For 5000 continental
troops taking possession of Charleftown—read
five hundred.
CHATHA M, January i,
Congress have promoted the Hon. Elias Day
ton, Esq; to the rank of Brigadier General in
the army of the United States.
By a gentleman from London, via New-York,
who left it late in November, we learn, that &
number of the ministry have assured Lord Shel
burne they will abandon him, unless the plan
of the late Lord Rockingham is pursued, which,
was, to grant peace and independence to America;-—
That the people of England, fated with the war,
are heartily disposed for peace;— That Mr.
Laurens, late president of Congress, was to have
come over in the fame ship with him; but his
indisposition, which 'tis thought will be fatal,
prevented him.
The receiver of continental taxes for the state.
of Maryland, has published that he has received
for the month of December, ten thousand fix
hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-eight
ninetieths ofa dollar.
We are told, from pretty good authority, that
Governor Franklin has wrote to his friends in
New-York that a peace will certainly take place
between the belligerent powers before spring;
and that the refugees will be provided for by
government.
The following are the reasons given by the as
sembly of Rhode-Ifland for their non-compliance
with the recommendation of Congress refpe&ing
an impost on imported goods, &c.
First, Because it would be unequal in its ope