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At fca, our fa periori ty has been undU*
puted? and our commerce so effedively
protected, that the losses faftained have
bees inconsiderable in proportion to its ex
tent, and to the capturesmade on the con
traded trade of the enemy.
The circumftancea by which the further
progress of the allies has hitherto been im
peded, not only proved rhe necefficy of vig
or and perseverance on our part, but at
the fame time confirmed rhe expectation of
ultimate success.—Our enemies have de
rived the means of temporary exertion from
a system which has enabled them to dispose
We are engaged in a contest, on the iflue
of which depends the maintenance of our
conftitutip^, laws and religion, and the fe
curitv of all civil society.
You mutt have observed with fatisfadion,
the advantages which have been obtained
by the arms of the allied powers, and the
change which has taken place in the gene
ra! situation of Europe, since the commence,
ment of the war. The United Provinces
have been protefled from invasion. The
Austrian Netherlands have been recovered
a d maintained ; and places of considerable
importance hive been acquired on the fron
tiers of France. The recapture of Men z,
and the subsequent fuccefles of the allied
armies on the Rhine, have, notwithstanding
the advantages., recently obtained by the
enemy in that quarter, proved highly be
neficial to the common cause. Powerful'
efforts have been made by my Allies in
the fouth of Europe. The temporary pos
session of the town and. fort of Toulon,
has greatly distressed the operatiops of my
enemies; and in the evacuation of that
place an important and decisive blow has
been given to their naval power, by the
distinguished conduct, abilities and spirit
of our commanders, officers and forces,
both by sea and land.
The French have been driven from their
poffeflions and fifhery at Newfoundland,
and important and valuable acquisitions
have been made both in the Eaftand Weft-
Indies.
merchant (hips better, and render'
them not so easy to be taken: they
go also more under the protection
of convoys. Thus, while the pri
vateers to take them are multi
plyed, the vessels fob jetfl to be ta
ken, and the chances of prbfit are
diminished ; so that many cruis
es are made wherein the expences
overgo the gains; and as is the
case in ocher lotteries, tho’ par
ticulars Have got prizes, the mass
of adventurers are loofers, the
whole expence of fitting out all
the privateers during a war, be
ing much greater than the whole
amount of goods taken.
Then there is the national loss
of all the labour of so many men
during the time they have been
employed in robbing; who be
sides (pend what they get in rior,
drunkenness and debauchery ; lose
their habits of industry 3 are rarely
fit for any sober business after a
peace, and serve omy to increase
ihe number of highwaymen and
houfebreakersi Even the under
takers who have been fortunate,
are, by sudden wealth, led into
expensive living, the habit of
which continues when the means
of supporting it cease, and finally
ruins them ! a just punifhmenc for
their having wantonly and un
feelingly ruined many honed, in
nocent traders and their families,
whose substance was employed in
serving the copimon good of man
kind.
of January last.
'[^Received on Sunday laftfromSt. Vincenti.^
My Lcrdi and. Gentlemen,
THE circumstances under which you
are now aflembled, require your
moR serious attention.
SPEECH
Os the KING of’ Grf at Britain to
HIS Pa RL l AMENT, ON THEZiftDAY
arbitrarily of the lives and property of a no-1
merous people, and which openly violates J
every principle of justice, humanity and I
religion. But these efforts, productive as
they necessarily have been of internal dif
contenc and confufion, have also tended
rapidly to exhaust the national and real
strength of that country.
Although 1 cannot but regret the neceflary
continuance of the war, I should ill consult
the essential intereftsof my people if I were
desirous of peace, on any grounds but such
as may provide for their permanent fafety,
and for the independence and security of
Europe. The attainment of these ends is
still obftrufled by the prevalence of a system
in France, equally incompatible with the
happinels of that country, and with the
tranquility of all other nations.
Under thia impression I thought proper
to make a declaration of the views and
principles by which lam guided. I have
ordered a copy of this deck ration to be laid
before jou, together with copies of several
conventions and treaties with different
powers, by which you will perceive how
large a part of Europe is united in a cause
of such general concern.
I reflect with unspeakable fat is fac
tion, on tire Ready loyalty and firm attach
ment to the established confutation and gov.
eminent, which notwithstanding the con
tinued efforts employed to mislead and to se
duce, have been so generally prevalent a
mpng all ranks of my people. These senti
ments have been eminently manifefted in the
zeal & alacrity of the militia to porvide for
our internal defence, and in the distinguish
ed bravery and spirit displayed on every oc
casion by eny forces both by sea and land :
They have maintained the luftre of the
British name, and have (hewn ibemfelves
worthy of the blessings, which it is the ob
jedofallour exertions to preserve.
Gt nite men of the House of Common,
I have ordered the ru-ceflary estimates &
accounts to be hid before you ; and I am
persuaded you will be ready to make such
provision as the exigencies of the fame may
require. I feel too sensibly the repeated
proofs which I have received of the affec
tion Qf my fubjefls, not to lament the ne
cessity of any additional burthens. It is
however a great con fol at ion to me, to ob
serve the favourable stare of the revenue,
and complete success of the measure, which
was last year adopted for removing the cm.
barrafTments afftfl’rg commercial credit.
Great as must be the extent of our exer
tions, I trust you will be enabled to provide
for them in such a manner as to avoid any
pressure which could be Severely felt by
my people.
My Lordi and Gentlemen,
In your deliberations you will undoubted
ly bear in mind the true ground and origin
of the war.
Foreign Intelligence.
Austrian Nether^ nds, :
ft
BRU S S E L S,. j/Ni
REAT movements are now observed
VJT in the Republican army under Gen
erai Jord aw, They receive considerable
reinforcements from the environs of LiHe,
as likewise from the environs of Fames.
does not appear that the French have relin
quished their dehgn of penetrating into
Weft Flanders—a province which, owing
to its fertility, will furnifh them with i;
An attack was made on us and our al
lies, founded on principles which tend to
destroy all property, to subvert the laws
and religion of every civilized nation, and
to introduce universally that wild and de
ftru&ive system of rapine anarchy, and im
piety, the effects of which, as they have al
ready been manifefted in France, furnifh a
dreadful but a ufeful leflbn to the present
age, and to posterity.
It only remains for us to continue to per
severe in our united exertions; their dis
continuance or relaxation could hardly
procure even a Ihort interval of ddufive
repose, and could never terminate in secu
rity of peace.—lm pressed with the hecefli
ty of defending all that is most dear to us,.
and relying^ as we may with confidence, on
the value and resources of the nations, on!
the combined efforts of so large a part of
Europe,'and above all oh the ioconteftible
justice ofour cause, let us render our con
duft a contrail to tbat of -our enemies, and >
by cultivating and praftifing the principles'
of humanity and the duties of religion, en-1
deavour to merit the continuance of the
divine favour and protedipn, which have ‘
been so eminently experienced by these!
Kingdoms.
PARIS,
Addrefe of the Committee of Public Welfare,
to the Commonaltiee.
The country has declared itfelf in a state
of war against the conspirators, and all the
enemies of the people- .
The Convention has i fined agatnft them
the Revolutionary laws.
This was not enough—their execution
was to be secured ; the Convention secur
ed it by the decree of Dec. 14.
, The circle of the authorities, and their
duties are;fixed.
The only forms which oppose a barrier
to the arbitrary, are preferred ; but ihofe
who opposed obftacks to the courts of Jus
tice, are destroyed.
The law, as speedy as the will from
which it arises, still strike the guilty, and
only flop before innocence.
The hierarchic order of the authorities
has been touched again by the Legislators.
ft proposed to make them concur in the
most efficacious manner for the execution
of the Jaws.
, It; delivered the application of those
laws to the Commonalties and the Revolu
tion Committee, being placed nearer the
etiemies of the Public welfare, and form
ing in feme manner the van destined to
cpmbat them.
Full of confidence towards you, the Le
gislators ought at the fame time to remind
vou of the obligations under which they
•firft bent their heads. '
, Jhe light ought to be by the fide of all
the functionaries, to enlighten their good
conduct or their faults ; and the more for •
midable their inftruClion, the more severe
-their account. * ! 1
The good man is the firft to demand that
the light be held over his conduit.
You are accountable.
These accounts which juftify the execu
tion of the laws ought to be given in every
ten days by the diftrid of your jurifdidion.
The diftrift has the power of vigilance,
and over them presides the committees of
public welfares and general fafety of the
Convention, which are above all.
..Thus you are in feme manner the arm
which moves the Revolutionary lever; the
laws move those arms.
bThe Convention dictates the decrees; the
other authorities concur by vigilance; and
you in the execution- .
i .mm—
bundance of provisions. They daily rfake
incur Con sin that unhappy province whence
they carry off all the cattle and provisions.
All our Frontiers, from Men in as far as
Furnas, are ravaged, and laid waste for ten
years to come. As soon as our generals
perceived the enemy's defigns,they gave or
ders for several corps to march, for the pur
pose of reinforcing the garrifonsof Menin,
Ypres, and Furnas as likewise the canton
ments before these places.
However competent these measures for
defending those parts of qur Frontiers ap
pear to be, yet the terrified inhabitants
deem them infufficient, and quit their a
bodes with their effects, to repair to the
diftrid of the interior.
On our parl,weareconftantly occupied in
balancing the designs of the enemy, by a
secret plan of operations, which will ihort
ly be put into execution.
All the officers upon leave of absence
have received orders to be on their respec
tive polls by to-morrow, the 4th inst.
By letters from the army we learn, that
our generals have fame secret correfpond
eoce in several of the hostile fortreffes on
the frontiers; and that they will probably
profit by the divisions which prevail at
Lisle afid Douay.
It appears that the plan of making a de.
(cent on the French coast is still resolved
on. It is thought, that a certain, number
of volunteers will be draughted from each
Austrian regiment in the Netherlands, to
go upon that expedition. The regiment
of Latour dragoons will furnilh a whole
squadron.
The army on our Frontiers has just
made two movements, one against Guile,
and the other against St. Quetrn t and one
corps of the French mass has been com
pletely defeated. *
A letter from Mentz, dated Dec. 29
eleven o’clock. Rates, that the ccmmuni
cations with Landau are again open, and
that the Prussian head.quarters were then
expefled at Mentz.
At the moment when that letter was clos
ed, an Eftafette brought advice, that Gen
Wu mfer had defeated the French, and re
pulled them to the diftaoce of 3 leagues.
The war cry of the French in their daily
a'tacks, was, Landau or death I
By Proclamation of Governor Blount, the
feprefentative body of the territory south
west of'the Ohio,-convened at* Knoxville
for legislative purposes, on ghe 24th of Feb
ruary. The session was opened by ptayer,
and David Wilfon,E(q. was chosen Speaker,
andHookins Lacy, Esq. Clerk. The ne^t
day.a fertnOn waspreathtd tdhheln from
these words, in Titus iii. 1,2—“ Put them
in mind to be (übjedto principalities and
powers, to obey msgißraies, to.be ready to
every good work; to (peak evil of no man,
to be no brawieH, 4 but gentle, (hewing
all mecknefs unh^L men?’
THE EMBARGO.
This wife measure, didated by the necefit-t
ty of hindering the remainder of the (hip
ping of the United States from becoming the
prey of the Engjifh cruisers, will have the
double advantage 'of forcing the British
The profpe&s of a protracted Peace, age
leflening to the view—and the signs of War
are thickening in our Hcmifphcre. The
envoy extraordihary does not appear—and
the report of a free trade in the Weft Indies
is not authenticated. This report may pro
bably have arisen from* late Proclamation
enjoining feme reftridion on the captures—
and which, it is very ihrewedly conjcCtur
ed, was occasioned by the late unexpeffed
fucctjfet of tie french.
New accounts of depredations on the
floating property of Americans, come crow;
ding from almost every direction. Imme
diate fuffcrers are exasperated. The ad**
vocates for Peace grow languid, and the
Vox Populi resounds inceflantly, “TO
ARMS! TO ARMSP '
PHILADELPHIA, March zf.
IT is in contemplation to add furnaces
with apparatus on an entire new plan r
to all the fortifications at the entery of the
harbours of the United States, by which
shot may be heated red hot, in half the time
usually taken for this process. Had this
secret been difeovered piior to the last war r
Sir Petir Paw ker’s squadron would
have been consumed in half an hour by the
fire of yed hot shot from Fort Moultire,
and Mud Fort would have fallen into the
hands of the enemy. For the present im
provement we are indebted <0 an officer
who served with Elliot at Gibrakar, but the
invention of the improved furnace is of a
later date, and will if poflible be reserved
for our exclusive use.
ALBANY, March 24.
This morning an express arrived from the
city of New-York, with letters from gen
tlemen in that city to several of the mem
bers of the Legiflature,urgingintheftrong
eft and most pressing manner, that a fom ot
money fufficient for the pnrpofe, be grant
ed for the immediate fortification of New-
York &c.—a petition to the Legislature
from a number of inhabitants of the said ci
ty, on the fame fubjefl, was also received.
The Hon. the Aflembly had however an*
ticipated the wishes of their fellow citizens
of New-York, in having previously agreed
to appropriate thirty thonfand pounds for
fortifying New-York city and harbou.r.
The bill which contains this appropriation,
also contains a clause granting twelve thou
sand pounds to the northern and weftern
parts of the State, for erefiing and improv
ing fortifications, in case of war or emmi
nent danger. The gentlemen named as
commissioners for carrying into execution,
in the city and vicinity of New-York, the
objefls of the bill, are his Excellency the
Governor, Matthew Clarkfon, James Wat*
fon,RichardVarack, Nicbolas-Fifh, Eben*
ezer Stevens, and Abijah Hammond, Ef
quir's; Baron Stuben, Gen. Genfenveqrt
and Maj. North, are the comtniffioncn ftr
the 1 northern and weftan parts of this
State.
HAVRE DE GRACE, D„. 26.
The principle dire fl or of the office for
commercial /hipping xncunces, that ihe
Captain of a neutral ship from Rotterdam
has declared, that two thirds of the inhab
itants of that city are well disposed in fa
vour of liberty ; that the United Provinces
are in general tired of the war; and that
the Dutch army is almost entirely return
ed, very much diffatisfied with the cam
paign it had made, and jefqlved not to take
the field again.
The political tablet opens still more in*
terefting; it shews events impending of the
most ferjous concern.
American Intelligence-
N E W-YO R K, March 31.