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PHIL ADELPH I A, August ig.
By a Cartel arrived in the Delatuare, in seven
weeks from Plymouth, with 216 American Pri
soners on board, we have received London Papers
to the I Bth of June, from which we have extract
ed the following INTELLIGENCE, viz.
A L GESIRA S, May 9.
ON the 7th ind some Spanish chebecks took
three English merchant ships of 300 tons
burthen each, coming from Gibraltar; their
names are the Valiant, the Royal Briton, and
the Thomson.
Cadiz, May g. M. O'Dun, Ambassador from
France at Lifbori, has spoken so much in favour
of the Americans, that the Ministry of Portugal
have at length resolved on an advantageous ar
rangement for the navigation of the Thirteen
United States ; but we are not yet well inform
ed of all the articles. It is assured, that one of
them stipulates, that all English ships, of larger
force than those of the Americans, (hall not fail
out of the Tagus in less than 36 hours after the
latter.
Paris, June 7. Mr. Grenville has received
the full powers which he wanted, to enter into a
negociation for a peace, upon the conditions that
he offered before the battle of the 12th of April.
His full powers are dated the 20th, and Admiral
Rodney's letters are dated the 17th. That Ad
miral, itis confirmed, actually found on board
the Ville de Paris, and the otherdhips which he
took, the whole train of artillery destined for the
taking of the island of Jamaica.
A report is circulated of some advantage obtain
ed by M. D'Orves, over Admiral Hughes in the
East-Indies, but it wants further confirmation.
By a Courier arrived from Madrid we learn,
that Don Cordova hoisted fail the 23d of May,
with 27 fliips, and the division of Count de Gui
chen.
The greatest part of the natives of this king
dom seem to (hare in the loss sustained by our
fleet the 12th of April, and are forward to repair
it; people of all ranks unite in the opening a
fubfeription, which has alreadyproduced 100,000
livres, and will be augmented to 100,000 crowns.
Edinburg, June 7. The Clergy of Scotland
have made application to the new Minidry to be,
exempted from payingthe duty on window lights.
This tax they have not hitherto paid, but the ex
emption has novel ' been properly ascertained.
His Majesty's Ministers, wishing to conciliate
the minds of all ranks in England, Scotland and
Ireland, so that, as Lord Shelburne emphatically
expresses it, there may be but one heart and one
hand in the three kingdoms, have with the great
est chearfulnefs agreed to exempt the Clergy of
Scotland from payment of the window tax duty,
and have given orders accordingly.
L O N I) O N.
June 4. The letters from Paris by the |aft°
mail fay, that the dimculties which had arisen
about.a fortnight before in the negociation car
rying on by Mehr's. Grenville and Oswald, had
been entirely removed by the good offices of Dr..
Frai&lin ; and now there was a greater appear
ance of peace than ever; for if Great-Britain
made no alterations in her proposals since her late
success in the Weft-Indies, France would mod
readily agree to holding a general Congress at
Brussels, with a view to bring about a speedy
peace.
On Eridtiv a letter was received from Admi
ral Lord Viscount Howe. It dates that the
Quxh fleet; confiding of thirteen fail of the line,.
WEEKLY INm^ENCER.
HARTFORD : Printed by H U D S O N and GOODWI N, hear the Great Bridge.
T U E S D A Y, August 27, 1782.
remain still in the Texel, and do not indicate the
smallest disposition for coming out. He conti
nues to keep a constant look-out after them,' and
will preserve his position there till he receives
further direction.
Extract of a letter from Lausanne, May 18.
" You are not ignorant of the infurredtion
which happened in the Republic of Geneva.'
The following is some detail of that unfortunate
affair.
"April 8. The natives and the reprefentants
having seized the gates, put 15 of the Magistrates
under arrest, and eftablilhed a new government,
which the Canton of Berne and the Court of
France have refufed to acknowledge.
" The 9th of the month the new government
sent an express to Berne, but their Excellencies
returned the dispatches immediately, without
opening them, and gave the messenger but an
hour to depart in. As he did not obey this di
re&ion, an archer came to his inn, with direai
on for his'inftant departure, or to follow him to
prison.
" Friday the loth, the two hundred were as
sembled at Berne, front eight o'clock in the
morning until eight in the evening, when after
long debates it was decided to command 6000
men to be ready tomarch; besides 2ooodragoons,
chaffeurs, anda necessary train of artillery. They
have written to Geneva Lyndies, to acquaint all
those that belong to the garrison, and to their
subjects, that their Excellencies will relieve them
from the oath taken to the new government; that
they must quit the town, as well as all other
subjects of the Canton, Domestics, Artizans, and
others.—They have communicated this news to
the Ambassadors of France, and have offered to
that Court to aft in concert with her, to save
Geneva from ruin.---The King of Sardinia has
marched 4000 troops, and the King of France
6000.—1 imagine we shall depart next week.
Tne Plenipotentiaries will hold their Congress at
Caronge, near Geneva. Mr. Le St. Pimon has
been named, on the part of France, and Count
Marmora, formerly Viceroy, on the part of Sa
voy. Those on the part ofthe Canton have not
yet been named. As soon as the whole of the
troops of France and Savoy are joined to those
who are already at Verfoy and Caronge, Geneva
will be immediately invested. Some fay that the
Genoese will receiveaßaronois garrison; others,
that they will defend themselves to the lift ex
tremity.
" Lift of the French army against Geneva—
The regiments of Normandy, Nassau, Foix and
Dauphine, the Royal Grenadiers of Tranche
Comte, 3,0 horse Chaffeurs, four companies of
Cannoniers, half a company of Bombardiers, 40
miners, 20 pieces of cannon, four mortars, two
bomb shells, besides other proper ammunition;
the whole conduced by 1300 horse.
" Lift of the army of Savoy on their march
since the 12th—Eight Companies of Grenadiers
of the guards of Savoy, Piedmont and Oile;
five Companies of Fantaffins, Courtes, Grifons
and Marixes; and contingent of the legion at
tached to the Duchy ofSavoy; and two squad
rons of Piedmont."
Extract ofa letter from Dublin, Map 28.
" Yesterday his Grace the Duke of Portland,
attended by Lord Charlemont, went in state to
the House of "Peers, to announce the concur
rence of the King of Ireland and the Ijritilh
Parliament in the restoration and confirmation
of our national rights, so strenuously fupponcd
by the combined powers of Irifti valour and elo~
quence. The carriage in which they went was
met with in DameftreeK by the manufacturers of
the liberty, who, anxious to express their strong
est tribute of joy at a fight which opens the fair
eft profpeff of reaping the fruits of a free com
merce and a free constitution, attempted to un
harness the horses, and convey his Grace of Port
land and Lord Charlemont to the Parliament
Houfe,with the fame acclamations of triumph
with which the Roman people conducted their
deliverers to the gates of the capital."
June 6.^ All the letters from France and Spain
agree in giving an astonishing account ofthe pre
parations that are making by both countries for
the siege of Gibraltar. The Spaniards now de
spair of starving the garrison, and therefore are
determined to make a vigorous effort to take the
place by regular approaches. The Duke de Cril
lon is to Command a combined army of 40,000
men; and for fix months pass artillery, ammuni
tion, and provisions have been collecting from
every quarter at St. Roch. s
A letter from Leghorn fays, that a fleet of
Danish men of war, consisting of fix fail of the
line and two frigates, -are arrived there, that the
account they giveis, that they are to cruize in the
Mediterranean to protest thejr trading ships from
being tiken by the Barbarians, but it is generally
believed to be only a pretence, but that it is done
at the request of the Court of Spain, to flop the
Moors from flipplying the garrison of Gibraltar
with necefl'aries.
Jwie 8. A noble Lord, high in Administra
tion, is in a tew days to make a motion in the
House of Peers, to acknowledge the indepen
dence of America; the happy effects a similar
relolution has had in Ireland, has induced Mini
dry to bring on this business immediately ill
Parliament, as there is littledoubt, whenit passes,
but Dr, franklin will then have power to treat,
and conclude at lead the preliminaries of a sepa
rate peace with America; for he has acknow
ledged, when independence is granted, America
is no longer bound by any treaty with France
not to make peace with Great-Britain.
June 14. Sir Guy Carleton, immediately on
his arrival at New-York, dispatched a messenger
(laid to be Mr. Digges) to Congress, with a copy
of his commiffiong and the powers veiled in him
by government for opening a treaty with Ame
rica. His Excellency at the fame time transmit
ted fevetal letters from the new Administration,
in their official capacities, to the different mem
bers of Congress, refpeding the sincerity of their
amity towards America, lamenting and repro
bating, in the fevered terms, the coercive con
duct of the Mimftry; and concluding that as
they had ever been efpoufers of the American
cause, when out of power, they hoped Congress
would the more readily credit their proposals of
accommodation, and treat them with candour;
that the former friendfhip subsisting between the
two countries might be speedily restored on a
permanent, advantageous and honorable footing
to both—Their proposals are said to be, to place
America exactly in the fame state of independ
ence as Ireland now is; that while the strength
and valour of the whole Empire is united for
the joint security of all its parts, our reciprocal
commercial intercourse may more strongly link
us together, in the only agreeable bonds of free
born minds, the bonds of Rrong and lifting
frieriddiip.
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