The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-07-18 00:00:00, page 1

THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE._
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[jun' 18, 1777.] WILLIAMSBURG: Printed by DIXON &? HUNTFR. [No. 1353.] si,
M A D R lssssssDsi 'Marclz 10.
NEW expedition is tnlked of, and order: are given for raising
fifteen thousmd more men. An emhargo it laid on all ships nt
Smlle, which serve :: transport shipesi for ammuuition, he. to Cadiz.
in order that Saville may be put in : proper flute of defence.
An order is given to put Cadi: into a better nate of defence, end
35,ooo mikitia men hue received ordert to much !! : moment't warnir? .
COLOGNE, Marrb u- Twelve hundred troopa belonging to e
ve of Bnndenhurg Anspatch, arrived here the tlth, with one
hundred Heffiln chafflun. These troopt. lbout fourteen hundred in
number, officers included, embzrked on boird tnnsports end sailed next
day for Dort, from whence they are to sail for Americl. The Mnrgrave
leeom niet them to Hollend.
PA lS, Mcteb 18. Letten from Marscilles, dlted the tbth, say
they hue been informed, by a ship jnfl lrrived there from Alexandriz,
that the English had [on Madnsu, in the Ear} Xndiet, that pine having
been surpriled end sucked by the native lndiane.
L O ND ON, Marcb4.
HE offer which Dr. Franklin had made to the Court of France, by
order of Congrtss, is to cede Camda to that crown, the Floridae
Io Syflin, to allow the importation of all sort: of French manusafluree,
dut free, into oll their parts; to supply the Well lndia ishndt of Prince
wit provifiont and [under at fixed rites, full twenty per eent. eheaper
then they ever went before, and to nsfist Flame effectudly in the eonquest
of the British Well !ndiet. Letter: from Frnnce advise, that these pro
pol'ttiom have been ngreed to without much difficulty, but the return for
them hue not been so easily settled. Dr. Franklin demanded ! declaration
of war againk Gtezt Britain, and a French army of twenty thousand
men to efsili the Congnssz but this hzd been frnttered down to : fleet
of ten szil of the line, that to be manned by the Amerieuu, five hun
dred thousand Lewia d'ors, and nrnu, artille and nmmunition, for in
army of forty thousand men, to be lodged et Martinico, .! the expence
of the French. Thin was the lot} flute of the neg'otiotion which Lord
Stormont sent over; but there have since arisen unny apparence- which
speak an immed'ute war. . -
Upon Loni Hareoun'a going to the lene. after the new: of General
Lee'e being taken, the King came eagerly up to him, " Oh, my
Lord. your bn have beloved with the utmost allantry! it gives me
the utmost pleasure, and I doubt not but it does e sameto you ;" which
pleased hit Lot'dlhip not xlittle. His Majesty added, " ! shall take
care of Col. Hareourt; leave hit fortune to my care.
Lord Amherst. upon General Howe'e flisi letten conning, which
mentioned Lord Comwallie'e extending to Trenton, observed that so
extensive : line would be very dangerous. General ]lowe's late letters
she- that hie Zordjhip made a "ny accurate judgment of that afl'air;
nul-nothingie much apprehended, at present, as General Washington'n
bein able to k men enough together to. make : winzei'. czimpaign,
whie will shsienzren the King'e troopl in their quartesiis, and be attended
with the worst consequence: to them.
The arrival "of General Clintnn from America, and in such a temper,
has alarmed Lord George Germaine not a little. As soon as it was
whispered abovtcoun that he was expected, a courier was despatched to
Pnnsutouth with ver flattering propol'als, to prevent, if lble, hit
visiting thin metropo is, and to persuade him to re embas on board a
srigate immediately for America; nothing however, would satisfy him
but apetsonal explanation of matterl, and a personal redrest os grie—
vances from the acting Scentary of State, throuzh whom he attributed
the sup ression of the chiefpart of his letter on the unfortunate offair of
Charle nwn, which, if it had appeared in the Gazette, as he had every
reason (bein eommandin officer of the land forces) to expect, hie
character wou d have been seed from certain imputations, which, he is
informed b his friend:, the public have now un'ullly thrown upon it.
Our minister at the Hagne afiumed on air n authority when he pre
siented hll last memorial, but the answer hath taught him a little more
umilit . ,
We ayte now, it seeme, acquainted with the secret desiination of the
French fleet. [: must be of rodigious consequence to the nation, isrhc
French should execute their esign before our ship! mour of post.
General Clinton, it it said, absolutely msnses to return to the com
mand in Ameriea, unless his letter it, even at this time, published in
the gazette, with an apologetical appendix from a certain put'on. high
in 0 ce. -
They write from lreland, as : proof of their defeneelcss [lete at this
etisii, that several American privateen have entered their parts, and
taken iresh water and provilionl. What a pluid behaviourwne'emy
at open war!
A disabled soldier arrived from New York, who un in the Mind et
the taking of fort Washington, says we lost at len} one tholfind good
troops by that Ifflil'. -
A letter from Amsterdam say:, it mny he relied on that the State:
General have ordered several men of vnt- to he got ready as soon as pos
sible, to sail for their settlemenu in the We! lmtiet, the commanden
of which have positive orders not to suffer any E lilh ship of was to
vent the Dutch in those parttfron tnding with a In they my think
it will be most to their advantage. - "
Mercb 17. Lord Geo e Genuine it not sofinn in his seat u he 'a
previoul to the arrival of even] Clinton from Amerielz it-wat not in
the power of office to revent the Genenl'e having repeated audiences
of hit sovereign, whie , backed by the "meane inteteit, have lowen-d
the consequence of the Anericln Secunry, et leek with the Buckingham
house 'unto. ss
Marlcb 19. A despatch lately came to Lord George Genmtine't (life
from Sir Bafil Keith. Govemor of Jamaica, upon the greatprqnntiom
carrying on by the Speniarde at the Bavanneh; they have a whole army
there, and : fleet of four seventy four gtm ships, ad three sixty foul;
with so: or seven forty un ffigatuz end the whole is represented tossp
in great sotwardnese. silk this it tceutate, we held szea by a ney
feeble tenure indeed! .1' Wct ,; 'v-si'; -
it it now known with certainty. that the si ' sl upside" che'y
WWnegothlingflPffil, Mndrid, Vien-jz _ ct nflthoh-z
and that the danger, vhich is the mofl Esfinf, Ethm- thequaner
lean expected. Hit Swedish Majesty . lus plan ofeomnucenwetl
uhit neighboun, and is. very defiroul of procuring anebblifinen'fin
Anterica.
March 38. The answer of the Stltet General, to the last memorial
of our court, evidently shewe that the Holhnden are not to be hunted
out of measure: conduciv "to their intent}. They have supplied, and
they will continue to so;?yct the Americanl with warlike [tom. Om
Dutch ctsicditors are too :: merotu to be irtitated. We could much eclier
'wi : avwa} than pay of their demandt. The sabrie of our public credit
is & exceedingly delicate, that even the spiration of an enemy might
blow it into rttint.
Otdcrs arc sent to Ireland for getting ready provifions sufficient to load
forty sail ot transpostt for America, which are tobe at Cot he by the aoth
oprril next. _ '_
A del'patch of great importance, concerning the ratnn some entire
regsmenu of lrish Catholies, had been tent to the Ear] of uckingham.
shire.
April 8. Thil day both House: of Parliament will meet pursuznt to
their lalt adiouromem.
The rmh-of pery in this kingdom is very rapid, and the expec
lation o hnving : fatal tenus of that religion eflnblished is more and
more exciled in the mind of every impanial person; _
The um for the service of the present ynr are fixed, and said tc con
sifl of the followin lnicles :
i. An exciseo five shining: : thousand on bricks. to be levicd on the
make:; :: (he kiln or punin in.
if A duty ofmemy shillmgs yym- on all lively smnnu.
3. And in order flutsilbe duty may not be ended, fony shining: :
year on those out of livery.
4. One pound : year ndditionxl on fonr-wheel caningu.
These duck: Lord Nonh bring: in under the conv-ctmn. that they
will do for !" the money necessary to be mused sm- tbne yx an lo come}
he (hinks it more beneficial to proude l'ecuritiec for : much larger sum
than is wanrcdsi, ruthe: than be forced to come every y-nr with no- tun
for hue moderate loanl. '
The excil'e upon brickt it calculatcd to bring in three hundnd thou.
snnd pounds a year. Tbcfium Lord Nonh'l, lnd hi- Mujesty tom Psi*