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.Psintcd by ALEX. PURDIctE, and YOHNiDIXON, at the POST OFFICE.
The followmg l.!" the Substance of (: Debate inthe HOllst
af Commom, on l'Vednesday. tbe t6tb of March, on
sithe Bill for Relief of Protestant Dissenters in Mat
ters of Subscription. ;
Sit- thjmn BAGOT spoke et follows: . si
] R, in Times of Heathenism, Toleretion, because clrried
too fer', beczme detrimental to the Snte. Lucretius, :
Poel of considerable Genint, ngpermitted to breach the
Atheismof Epicurut. Hii followed were at numenout as
thotdps my otssour modsiern Scepticks; like them, sir, he
made Converu; they were the Wits, the beau: ejp'n'r, the
Macctmniet', at that Time. '[A Leugh through the House}
ss Yea, the Gentlemen may laugh, but the Atheistt of 01
were like the Sceptickt of modern Timet; they were occasionally Con
iorm'asis; and, by bein teleuted, thty gained Proselytet to Infidelity,
and tore up the Foundmgns o! Monlity by the Roots; they breached
their cursed Opinions, end infected the Minds es the'People. ct
ln remot'er Times, Sir; wefind indeed ltheifiiczl Scepticks; though,
from not being tolesued. they were remained from 'dotng the Mischief
they intend Epieum't wu not the first Beeptick; in the Time: of
Davzd zhd omosinsithe Sea pmliled. The former King, who wn :
Poet ctalso, tells us, the: " the'Foel said in hie Heart (what the Wits of
our Time sctuple not openly to aflut) that there it no God." ln David'e
Days, Sir, though Persecutinn prevailed not, yet the Seeptiekt were not
dlewed to debeuch the Minds of their Fellow Crelturetss, by obliging the
World with their nefltieut Opinion. Yet : Toletztion'of this Kind it
pu- solicitedt but whether we on to show ourselves so unmindful of our
Duty es to grant the Requesh thie Day't Dehete will discovec." ], Sir,
here my Teffimeny lyinfhhc Bifl ; ] doit douscientioufly; lssdo it with
serious Reverence- My .Smccrity has, 41;an the Course of the Debatce
enth'o Suffice, been called ih-Weflion; end ! coud, perhnpt', with
mnah greves- Propsiety- man.. by questioninz thefiincericy of the Pus)
tnote'sit of this Bill. ] hewe : Right. Sir, so tude; end ] will say, that
the Sbeetity of the A/dvoeetee for this Bill fllndsin need of strong positive
P'roost. ' The Psefomydop it egzinsi them. _
Mt. PAGl. ] think, Sir, after the learned Mtnner in which my
Honoureble Friend he: the Mmer, little leonine to be said. I
tntitely coinctde with him in Opinion ; and the Divlfion emon'gfi the Dis
senten themselus (how: that, in Numbers, the Adyocnes for the Btu
are as inconfidenble as they ere far from being moment. The Chztham
Petition may eqvince us of the Want of Umnimity which prevails, and
] un gh'd to- find that we ere indebted to the Line: of Chlthlm for :
Suppost of Onhodox Christianity. -
Mr. E. Bu- xx. ! cannot rejoice with the Honourable Gentleman,
who spoke last, et the " Snpport the Linea of Chathzm hnve afforded
to ()xtiwdqx Christimity." Whether the Walls heve defended the Linea,
on the Limssheve afforded Defenee to the Went, is altogether foreign to
the Debate in Besh'on; but thit, Sir, ] (hell tnke upon me peremptorily
w atsert, that if the Objection: to the "Bill are sounded upon those tWo
eomempt'xble Petitsont (Khlt srom Chathtm, md mother) which now
in on the Tnhie, 't! theyetje to fnmish the Opposert with Weepone
wherewith-tq attack the Mtnsnre, sil sets the Com'bmntt melt take the
Piuld accoutred by no Heat in 2 mctdnid Mlnncr. -
! psopose, Sir, taking Notice of what sell from th' Honourable Oth
tleman't Lips (Sir Wilh-m Bagot't) considered in e-twosotd view. He
'zdunced the following Pofitipnl, " that. the Dissenteu new enjoyed Li
bertzhy Connharjce," and " thatfsolemion was an Amck upon Chris.
limit)!" Thc'Honourable Gentlemen, to _be sure, hat treated hi'. sad
"rG-in I mefierlsi Mennef, and'hath displayed e Prosuflonvs hearing;
at whether'he ath not beensitoo Ilvish of his Erudin'on, considering the
Abswdity of the Potitiant,ct will tppear sshy more'funy considerins-Lh'
Subject. The; Dissenlert'enjoy Liberty by Connivnnce—l My God, Sir,
what of Ltherty'ie thit? _A Writer (MF. Home) whose Ntme lu'th
lady een made free with in this House, he, Sir; compare: Tssyrann'y to
: Thundet storm or Volcano, ejch Momcnt gathering, end ceruln If
some Petiodio burst so'th and semer Destrueion on an within In Reaehu
Who, Sir, isctybeny by ,Connivance but : tem tary Reluation of
\ Shvery ? is this: SZrt of Liherty celculated for the {feridien of England ?
Montqctquieu plzcet Libeny in an Exemption from Fear. An'Persom
whp enpy it'hy Connivance only, are they fixempt from Fenn'nnd divesied
from Apprehenfiom? The very Bill before ndemonstutet the contrary.
Crentinz that the Dissenters do now enjoy : Son of Uberty-by Cetmi
tence, : liberty which hjlh this for it: Dependenee it preceriout, may
exit} to-day, end he annihilated to-mcrrow. ]! eberefofe cr-tet Alum:
it the Mind: of Men, and makes them epply, an in the ease before un,
'sor Confirmation and Esiablishmcnt of that.- the perniciou- Tenure of
which renders the Continuenee of the Posseflcn uneemin. "
To talk then," Sir, of : Connivanee. i- w ulk on of. temporary
Suspensron of Tyrar'my. You are desire;]: to keep the , 04de over
the Dissensers Heads, at the very [nium thnt "yon assurflhem they (hnll
never sunrt under iu Stripa. _Why then nt'onccsinpt St ,their Hem- ::
Red, ), turning the jmpending Danger : Why hot release them from
lhe Drud'of this pen.! Statutes, the Cruelty of which to shockt your
game.. sum that you. ' itsspcumbgnt on you th declare they never
board heputinto Exeeuti ss — _Qgeflum, Sir, mswefrsitfels; end to
ent! :: in Propriety is to ' ' \ ruth, and elude Connaton.
Much has been urged ' si ' ' ssthe Went of Unenimlty lmoog the
ss Dissymen; but ], Sir. ' "side: the Reasonablenest of .
Rectum, and not the Numhmwsi Pref it., is theft . which ought
todetermine this Housectm it- Procecdmgs and Resolveq, '-ss or, my God !
Sir, how car] the Opinion; of thofectwho petition militelj with any Son of
Propriety uzninfl the Bill? m Bodies of Men approndctlsirthe House, and
Woman: themselves at your Bzr. We cannot, in Consaenee, by the one,
Igree to the Tell: imposed; we all: not Honoura; we have no lspiring
Wishes. no ctViewa upon the Purple; the Mitre hn no Charms for us,
nor zim we at the chief Cathedn] Seltt. gentent to pah our Days in an
hhmble State, we pny for the Sake of him, who isthe'Lord os Con
sclcnoe, that 0?" Conseiences mny be relieved from what at present is :
Burthen; nor that, asi'umingthewib of Hypocrim, we m': belonger
forced to bees this Burthen, or be lrcnted ls Vngrznu for I _' ; agree.
able to the pictntes of Sincerity end internal Reaitude. We, on the con
trary, sey the Men who petition against the Dissentert, we enjoy every
Species of lndulgence we cln wish for; and as we are co 'Pe'nt, we p'ray
lhzl orhcu, who are not content, may meet with no Relief! What, Sir,
shall we {ny to these Reptjles? What but, An" :: was, Cunaillrl
Gre. ! Painssi -Sir, have been tiken to mnke us elieve that the Clcrgy
or the Lshblished Church are alarmedg' but what si I of such Alarm
have Ippeared? Hath either of the Univerfltlll oP ed this sun Have
the Church Digninrfet petitioned ngninfl it? No, Sir: Al Men, they
boss the Right: of Humanity too dear; lnd :: Christian, they breathe :
stt too tuherznt not to with : total Abolition as the Relifis os Eccleli
Ilhck Tyi army. Are we then to be diffun'ded from grmting Rdies because
_* Petition comes dated from the Linen os Chatham? ] should blush to see
- sush : Producti'on quoted n Authority by which British Bemtort were
Wided in their Decifiom.
he to what the Honounhle Gentlemen (Sir William Blsot) Iet' fall
coflct'minz " Tolaation being un Actaek upon Christianity, it is an
N'erzion a concmy to Truth and History um i: snrcely flandl in Need
oslesutztion. dy Tolention, Christianity flourished; whiln Eastern
'"4 Weflern Churche: were tolermt, ,they were illusprious, they were
Knmted, they were held it; smed Eflimntion. When the Romish Church
L.A ,- ..
can aside its Toleretion, and betoolt itself to Threatenings, Slnughter,
and Persecution, Commotion: ensoed', Ecclesinstick Anarchy prevsizllfd,
end the Kingdom os Darkness wn ended on the Ruiru of Chflsilln
Chzrity and mutual Forbeannce; Instead of combating the _common
_ Foe, Christians sought and combated each other; instead os taking Armi
against the grand Deceiver, they strove, by every deceptious Art, to har
rase end torment those whom they ought to have loved as Brethren. ln
short, Sir, the Want of Toleration hzs lessened the Number of Behevers.
I would have them all united; thlt they might be the better enabled to
make it l common Cause, end put Infidels to : total Root. These, Str,
are the Men, these Scepticlu are the Persont against whom your pencil
ans should be directed ; "they ere Monsters ectuelly destructiye. [et you
let them esca ; yo_u ciip not their broad Piniont, w'hilst you tezr piecemezl
the silken nge of some feeble haxmlese lnsea who fall: into your Clutches. _
Away, Sir, with such Absurdity! The Sceptickt, who labour to degrade
us below the Brutus; the Scepticks, who would fnin persuzde us that we
are inferiour to these Animals which wallow in : Stye; the Scepticks,
who sup the Founda'tign of all Morality ahd-socizl Virtue, who dan'n ly
attempt to 'plunder us of the dearefl Privilege annexed to Manhood, t at
of [king : religious Animnl; the Seepticks, who by ridiculing Revela
tion set at nought the urioit't Dis ne of the Godhead m hi'sCrenmre
Men: These. Sir, are the ? ' ageinst whom Christians should be
Armed; husit'emongst themselves Telerdtion elnnot be carried to too
great : Length, nor is there my Danger thlt Christianity should suffer by
,such : Toleptiossn. Afit you whetieleft ,to defend it? ! msweu, the
sirongest Defeneeimeginble; thelursin'ng, the Wit, end the Genius of
its Advocetee. To whom hue Christianity been molt indebted for fsic
completest Victory it ever geined over the, whole Body as Deishcal
WritereP To : Men who never did, nor I am sure never would have
subseribed theArtidee. The learned Writer lellude to 1; Dr. Leiand,
who, in hie " View of the Deislical Writert," bli rendered Chsifliinily
sinn essentizl Serviee, if so divine: Syflemsseould receive Alistance from
moste] Hands. ' ' ' '
As to the Tolernt'ton afforded by Heathenism, I am yet to leern that
it went to fer :: the Honourable Gentlemen seems to think, for those -
who were admitted within the Pnle of the Hezthen Church were of least
required to afflst in the Persormanee of the religious lum} those to Bee
chue, and some other;. Sueh e_Consormity wu necessary; and per
hlps, in every Eshbfishmqnt, it is the on]y-.Consonnlty the Magishate
- he: a Right to exact: For] take the Reverse of our Mode of Proceed
ing to be the just one; the Consh'lint should be put not so much upon
the doctrirul :: the ritunl Part of Religionh : Consormityin thelatter
being the chief Thing requifite for e Snpport of & religiou- Eshhlilh
ment honnected with the State. ]! :, Sir, the 'I'oleration thesleerned
entlenieh speaks of a enereised rowned. the Epicureant proves nothing
to the Purpose; sor being Atheisle, and believing nothing,. they wduld
hzve subscribed to my or every Thing. Persecution, therefore, Muld
not hue mehed them; nor would my Artidet, my human Tcsis, how
well soever contrived, hlve kept them, :: they ought to have been kept,
distinct sisrom the believing Part of their Spedee- I mist, Sir, ] am pe
netrated with ;; deep : Sense of the Benefmctderived to an from the Birth _
of '- Snviour as any Man within these Welll. ] trust ] would so as far as
any min meint ' ' gthe efl'ential Artlelee of Christianity. I also sin
cy, is. the Church o} England hu-not e (inner Friend then myself. I
with her illustrioui. ] wish her Head may seech that Heaven to whichsi
she would eondufljsi ue. Bu't ] would Also with her Femily as numerou
_ :: penible; [would wish e brotherly Afl'edio'n to mn'l'amon'gst her
Ofiprinz. l'would hue Christian: united ; ! wo hue them join in
every Attempt to eruth a Powert of Derimst, end trunple under Foot
the Po; to God and- . Like & Mother tender of her Children, !
would have the Church, with wide-extended Anne, clesp to her Bosom
her helieving ssSoneg not by'umtunl Anslerity npudiate her Off-pnng.
" end tempt them to seek see lese. soi' Pleesure, end fot- Comfort, in the
Harlot lap of lufidelity: ' si
sn- koen_ Newmeaee then said, hewnn much Men
nanyMen, but thatthelssiuinfringed :: tune osU ,. Hun
lllf'und by Mr. Dnon. who showed , Putflity-of thin Ophioo. Sir
Wuunu heo-r againwk. endsaid, "hewovld make : Ptoposel
oe'the Advoeem for the Dill, which v., thee previousiw "it; into .
Genuine: they should point oet ficttch Ioeh ofSerlptureee Ey- deemed
Well." on this Su- Wt'uuu sisiflnnnsin spoke nsollows :
ctn The Hononrnhle Gentleman't Preposal tempt: me to nine tthZm
. Story. Arehhishop Tennison conceived. Men dbeghning .- ReR-r.
mation in the Liturgy. Previousse I lip put itioto Luxation, it was
- proposed to him to rejea either the Book of end the Dngon or the
ssBook'of Deniel outof the Number of the Minoh, it being im
pomble for theSeoriee contained in both to be true. So fer, Sir, in An
swer to the Geatlemn'e Pmpofa]. By Way efklfort to several invidi
out Releaione which during the Course efflu- Day't Debeu hlve been
cesi' upon the P ' ' I lud the Honour whrin'g in. "hell only say, that
] un content to s , in common with thoseeoneemed, every Species
of Disgrlco arifing from the Measure. Sir, the Sincerity of some of the
Gentlemen who sighed that Petition he: been reflected upon; I (hall say
hutone Word in Anfiwer to the Reflection. One Gentleman whqsiligned
the Petit'ron (Doctor Chamber.) hn refused !! eonsiderlble l Promotion
as my private Man need wish for, because, conflstent_with hid Principles,
he could not subseribe the Articles. ' - . '
Mr. Dun" end Mr. Gum next spoke in an rof the Bill; and
in the Course of the Dehl'te, an Assert'ton havings l'en from one of the
Members, thet there wn now no Oceasion 'to repetl or-fet lsldd such of
the penal Law: at effected the Difl'enters. because th were not put in
Executton, : M : u I :- 'arose and made-the following emzrk :
Sir, 'as ] undershnd the Case, there are but two Petiods wherein :
Law can be repealed : The one it when its Grievance is generally com
psilalned of, and felt; the other is, when it lies dormant, and is not fit
to be put into Exeeution: The Temper of the Timee, Sir, must always
be considered. Would it not have bren Folly to have talked of repeating
the Stttute de Hmrica rombunndo in the Day: of (sixteen Mary ? Would
it not have been Folly to have talked of repenling the Suture by Virtue of
Whssh old Women, supposed to be Witches, suffered Death ? We know
thet' 'there was a Time when it was umvcrsnlly believed that a poor old
Woman could bewitch People, and fly across the Air on a Broomsiick.
We also know, that so consctentious, so worthy ; Man us Lord Hale,
condfmned a Woman to Death who was arraigned sor Witchcrast. When
a Doflrine is believed, however erroneous, then is not the Time to-talk '
of repcasing such LlWl :: teine to it. With siRcspcct to the DlsY'r-mere,
to say they enjoy a Liberty by Connivanee is to say they scarcely enjuy any
Liberty at all. The Hugeenott in' France are conmved at; their Minu
ters preach publickly to them, but they do itsiat their Peril; for the State
may hang them for so doing, and the Policy of the Court is their only
lndemnihcation. si
Mr. ()ustow. Sir, [only tise to rectisy : Mishke which several of
the Members mey hbour under, relative to the Persom who hgncd the
Perition from Chatham. They are not, what they call themselves,
etther Mmiuers'or Diffcnters; they are harmlese Methodifls, at the Head
of whom it one Captzt'n joss, who preache: in the Tabernlcle, Totttn
hzm Court. But, Sir, at his Name was so well known, femng : lt-is
covery, he would not (in the Pedtion. Neither, dir, are these l'etssims
Miomen re uhrly ordained, either to the Pssreshyterien er Episcopnl Way ;
they feel : an withm, sir, to pn-hfthe Gospel, zed—hence give them
selve. the Appelletbn of Miniflere. - -
A Member having afferted the: the " Dissentm themselvet required the
Yotuh in their Acudemiu tofsubseribe A eertein Ten," 53 H.?" r
Ho :: eu-rox 'asihred the House that the Alsertioii was false, for that such
a Measuxe was adopted at only one Dissenting-Aeademy. the Matter of "
which had signed the Petition-againstthe Bill.
Thus ended this' remarklhle Debne; when upon : Diviflon, there
were sixty {or the Bill, and sixteen against it.
v 1 E N N A, April'16.
R E P 0 R T is current here, that some 'l'reacie: have infisi bed! .
concluded_betwecn_the Emperour of Germany and the Empresl
of kuflia, and are now publickiy talked of. The respective Ciniimof
the two Sovereigns, on the Kingdom of Polmd, are, by one of these
siA ___sisi. . si
Treaties, clearly investigated. '_I'he Empresc is to keep entire Posfession
os Lime or Red Russu, 'oogether with great Put of the Gund Dutch,
os Lichuani'n, and the whole P-latinjte of- Kiow on the Polish Uknine.
The Empemnr is to be possessed of Whrsov'ctn, Polachil, and Fold].
while Podoiia is to be separated between them. The Pruffiln King, we
hear, has needed to' this Division, as their Imperial Majesties hm relin— '
quished any cum: on Poiish Pmmn, Samogitiz, or the Dutehy of gour
land. '1
DRESDEN, Apri] 18. The military Preparations are ' ward
here with the uumMDespltf-h, in Contequence of the new 'l' ss ' de- "
tween his Bkctorll Highnestaod the Pruflidn King. ]: il , sithlt
40,oco him is the flipuiated Number which the means of ] itw
furnishz in Consequenu of which his Prussun M "city is to ( him
in his Clainu upon the Ducehiu of"- Co'usland and 'tia, ' I! will
be litigned in the Gum] me: of Polnnd, which it in mem- wiu be
held'ubout'tbe Middleof next Month at Cream. , ' , ,
MADRID, Afril 1. The formklnhle Hparztiont which are mnksins
in the Seapom here, and the great Number: of Soldien : ' ,
monly embnrked, foe the Wen and East ladies, certainly indicacctess that .
War it nothi- off; but with w t Power, the most obsirlses [Indeed -,
Pec
pe, with pay just Depaqj le'intysi .
of our Politiciam cunnot
, ROME, Afril ;. As thigrand nffait of the Now}: demjdmed,
i
thu Bociety is supprcsscp in will the chleflahiql Sun, in rmce, 5 1
Pprtugai, the Two Shall", dnd in Man: of the [usual Dukeof
P'arma. Their Geneni Ricci is dis ; lad will be made- B'_
Hia Holiness pau granted : Penfion wives] pmsesscd ]esuit, out of
infects of the Society. The Studam and Novicea will be dismissed.
]
The Bull of Supprefflon will be published this Week, and the Pope will
i
immqiinteiy grnm : Copyos it to any other Sovereign who will choose do
make Use of the same. At the same Time will be published the Aecom. _
modnion in" the Diferencet between the Court: of Bourbon and the Holy
See, to, which [all Aviguon and Benevento will he restored; and the
Tsoopl which occupy lhl hmr of these two ['I-m hue Mad Orden
wbeinkeadinesswleqveiu -si ; : _ - _'ss .
]
. LONDo-N,Aprtlz9... . ,
- ETTIRSi'rom Hunhurg. dated Arm tzth, say: _- Them si
Adecticee sr'om Petertburg memiofl, t ]! thnt Court, coeur," ' ,
be kept. our hose? in luspense by the Porte't feigned Wz -.
Pedro, lip giventhe most pulling Order: thtt their Tnopl '
Complizn wi]; Count Romunow't Army hat been _ _ '
several Det'aehmte, end provided with every Thing : "IN '
Admiulty luvsie given Orderno Clptlin Kinlber . Mictd
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am Zsi tofet oet immedindy for_Anow Tagenr to do --
thekhetwhiehinooroleissnthedlukSeaunderViceA ' 4 ss=
_ 'Excrad {s : 'Lomrjm- Portsmonth, ctrd'fl. * - ,ss. 'ss
c- On Saturday the Achflkt, of 64 Gum, wenron of Duct; '
'l'etrible, of the sun: ymesi- went into Dock. The Amm-mkssu i
in'the Dockylrd until two o'ffioek yefletd-y Morning, in Orderjogn'hu i
out the next Tide. Came into the Harbour, "to be doeked ced fitted, Ihqss' .
]
soflowing' Men of Wer: Centlur, of 74, Gum, Clpu'n Beneinckj- '
' Afin. ot 6'4, Cnptainking; Palm, of 36,;C*puin 'Al-u. . .
" Sir Chulq Sunden, 'we hear is to have the Comm-dssof the nen !
new fitting out, end the Smdwich u eppafnted to be th. Adminl's Ship- i
The Honounbe Capt-in Hervey is nppoinnzl Commotion under him,
and it expected down this Evening. when his broad Peodlnt will he ,
hoifled on Band the Royal Oak n Spithud, commanded dy Capninss ' '.
lalsour. ' -' ' - -
" The Thume Frigat. Cnpuin Lodm arrived We, from Pix-siss, *
mouth; she was ordered to take on Bear fix Month; Pmtfiflons," nssod
twelve Month: Storet. , it is said she is to carz an Exprest lhtoad. - si
.c The Dealcaitic Man of War, Cnptain umnim,_iess come up to
Spithead from the Downs; she is ordered to North Animal. — — '
" Sailed the Lowstofl' Friglt, Captain Carket, tor- the River, ond-tbov .
Otter Sloop of Wu Expreso abroad, but we do oathes: eo-wlm Plato!
the World. '
" Notwithstanding yeflerday wn Sunday, they were very busy at the. &
Gttn When; and Victunlling Office, in Order to set the Provifim [of ' "
Storet on heard the Fleet With the greatest Despztch." ss , , . ' iss
Extract qfn Lmer from an Bears! the Boyne, in Hlmoan, Mjfi. ]
" This Morning we have received-Orders to fill our Comyiement'of. ct
Men from gan to see; at ]ikwise the Alhion, Torhzy, Somerset, Kent, i
end Doblin, their Complement. The and and Gun thrs An 0
ss ...nsisisihsi .
(or the different Officers to get out their Stores. Our 83th are lll t ;
end, is the Wind is fair. we will fail to-mortow into Plymouth Sound,
and wait for farther Orders." _ \
Extract of a Lem- fmu Gosport, lers] 29
" The fleet fiffmg out at this Pott will be re-dy msssom'Dlyl to put to
Sea. The Ship't from Plymouth end Chatham are to rendezvous here,
and will suit sor Gihraitar in ten Dayt, under the Commantl of Sir Charles
Szundets end Capuin Hervey." ss '
Notice wat given from the War Office, on Saturday, for all War Ofli.
cets, absent from Regiments ot- Duty in Ameriia md the Wefl !ndln, to
join them with all possible Despatch. ;
it may be depended on, that Ordcrs are issued from the War Office
for the Regiments os foot in Scotland to be completed to the full Number.
Advice is just received from Cndiz that 7 Snil of Spanish Men of War
of the Line sailed from that Part in the Night of the 17th ult. end that en'
English Frigat that was cruifing of! that Place was stink by the szniards
and all on Board petished. _ * !
The Court of Verfailies, when they informed our Minish-y of their
Intention of equipping Fleets for the Meditcnanem and the Blltick, ne
quz'Lnted them, atsithe same Time, ofsitheir Design of sending 16,ooo
Men by Sel from Dunkirk to Sweden, to assifl their Ally the King of
' I
chden. Accordingiy that Number, confining os Germans in French
sz, art- arrived in the Environs of Dunkirk, but without Tranfports, to
convey them to the Biltick. , \
The Coutt os ("neat Britain hat and still does interest itself wuml) siin
savour of Dantzick, and has made such ttrong Represcntatiom on this
Subject to the Cou-t os Petershu'g that the Emprest of Rttfl'u he de
spatchrd : Person us Rnnk to the Town, who, after confessing with the -
Mzgmrates, is to prooceed to the Court ot Bet-hn, end insifl on the:
Town'u being rt-tiorcd to its Tert-iwries and Priviieges. From this Cir.
eumstmce, it should seem probable that the 'sripie Allinnce is on the
Vcrge of in Dtlsoiuuon. M. Obzsiescow has hroke up the Consenncen
at Buclurelt, tired out With the Del-ys of the 'l'utltish Plenipotentinry,
who wn very desirous of prokmging the Armistice, which the Ruffim
refused, but I! the same Time lgrecd that the Negotiation shoujdsi bg_
cerried on by Lettets. for which Purpose the Tutkish Minifler hll fixed :
himself for the present in : Villagc just on the other Side of the Dan:", m
lnd M . Obrescow ltzys inMoldavia. in the man Time, it it svppt-sed thlt t