Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1799-12-09
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RELA7IYE u PRUSSIA.

oaliiica circles, mat neI3cidtiOn was actually
u foot at Berlin for the reef abhment of the
aadthoder, and that the king of PruiIia intereR,
I'd himfef with great zeal 10 bring it about.
The French were not greatly indifpofed to the
ne4fure, and required only that guarantee
hould be given them that they ihonld not be
daarbed in Belgium. On this footing the cef
Gon of Holland on the one lie, and of their con
OUTS in Italy on the ether, would have been The
bafs of general peace.
This, however, was not acceptable to the
courts of London and St. Psteriburgh. They
would not accept by compromise what they had
,efolyed to accomplish BY force, and in the con.
6ience of ficcefs in their intended defcent, they
compelled the king of Prui1ia to ielinquiih his
mediation aud to adhere to his neutrality. The
fat is not improbable, when we confider the
fuccefs that has attended the operation, of the
allies through the Whole of the campaign,
and the belief that was generally entertained, that
the Dutch people would be amoa unanimous
IN decllrng for the tadtholder as foon as a land
ing ihould be Effected In the cafe OF negocia.
tion, would have been without poGeIion of
the Dutch fleet, which by fome freih rupture
and untoreieen contingencies, might afterwards
have come to be at the difpofal of the French
Republic
From Bruxe1es, Ga. a. s'Letters from the
frontiers of Weitphalla announce, that ince the
war OF feveH years, no one remembers to have
iten flch formidable preparations for war. The
eommifaries are making enormous purchaies of
proyifons of all kinds. The principal maya.
zines are eaablfhed at Mioden, Ham, and Rees:
Troops are continually arriving not only from
The banks of the Wefer, but from the interior of
Psudia. The Pruiian army of obfervaon
or, IS l....C -,
,houfand. All the regiments forming this army
will be put on the full war eilablilhment. 1t is
Rill pretended that the Prufiian troops will i'm,
mediately occupy the fates of his Prudian maj
city, ftuated on the left bank of the Rhine,
which the French troops will evacuate.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
Hoaf of Peers, GA. 8.-The royal a1ent was
given by commiilion to the bill +" to enable his
majelty to raife an additional number of recruits
from the militia regiments, under certain re.
Ariaions."
HOLLAND.
1t frems to be the determination of mnlers
! 10 perfia in the plan of attack upon Holland,
and therefore more troops mutt be Immediately
TENT to keep up the ranks of our army and
improve the advantages we have gained.
In the engagement of Alkmaar, the Britifh
artillery being left at one time of the aefion cx
pocd to'a great part OF the enemy, were taken
priloners but two troops of Englih cavalry
attacked the alailants with fuch fprit, that they
put every one of them to the fwsrd, and regain
ed the artillery with very triAng lois.
The inhabitants of Alkmaar Q(fays letter
from Hollaad) actually refuied permilion to
the re,reating and defeated army to pats thro'
their town, and fhut their gates againlt them,
which were gladly opened to the Duke of York
on the sd Ga.
l, is ltated that the Britifh and Ru1ian forces
made 1000 prifonsrs.
The accounts in the London prints Of the die
trrb,nccs in Ireland, and copied ftom the
papers of that country, greatly exagserate the
lis under which it labors. Rejecting the poii-
tive itatement that two regiments of Irih militia
in Cork had planned the fezure of the arienal,
ard the dehrudion of all perfons hottie to their
views, we are aanred, by gentleman jun arriv-
ed from that city, that it was grois fabrication.
We'hope and doubt not that the fame will, in
principal degree, be found to be the cafe with
refped to other places. We have with concern
repeatedly fated the general fpirit of diiafec-
ton but the Loyalilts are too numerous, and
the Government too arong for any ferrous diE.
turbance, or attempt, unaided by the French.
BREST FLEET.
LONDON, OCT. 6. A letter from on board
the Boadicia, of SO guns, dated off Brett, on
Monday laff, the I'd infant, relates that Capt.
Heats had JUL ran into Brett water, to nearly
within gunihot OF the batteries, by which means
ne was enabled to count forty -ieven fiil Of the
line, and fifteen fgates, with fails bent, and to
ALI appearance in every relpett ready for fea.
Other veilsls were in a ilate of preparation, and
one IMP ieeIned ready excep, herforemaft, which
had been taken out, but which could be replaced
and rugged in few hours
The appearance of the combined feet by no
means aecords with the recent accounts of
muiiny and exteniivc dc!eriion though TO thefe
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