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f : S||lIS MAJESTY’S SPEECH.
rare THIS day his Majesty went in state to
[ Ijffc house of peers, and being ft-atcd on the
Jflfhronc, delivered the following most gra
(ljrlous Speech to both houses of parlia*
if If |Hnt:
“ My hnrds and Gentlemen ,
jjftf « I have called you together at this un-
JWf fn-il season, in order to recommend it to
mjliott to confider of the propriety of ena-
M|ii ( ig me, without delay, to availjnyfelf,’
V-fT'o a further extent, of t,he Voluntary fer
jjyiiice of the militia, at a moment when an
A|4ncreafc of our active force abroad may be
rjirnduAive of the mod important and be
i'netkia! consequences. . ,
JjF “We have leen the happy effects qftt)e
UjCliteafure which you adopted on this sub-
LrjeX in the laftfeflion : and the forces which
gj-'l j <v.is thereby enabled to employ, have al-
HNready displayed, in the face of the enemy,
|j|a courage, difoipliue and steadiness worthy
jjMof the charter of Britifli loldiers. In the
Ipf short interval since the dole of the last
ieftion, our situation and profpeXs have,
I|l under the bleflimrs of Providence, improv
j|jf ed hevond the most sanguine expeXation.
“ The abilities and valour of the com*
J: mandersand troops of the combined im
perial armies, have continued to be emit)*
jjfijj ently displayed. The deliverance of Italy
Mjf ynay now he considered as secured by the
w'l refit It of a campaign equal in splendor and
H| success to any the most brilliant recorded
! ‘ in hiftory ; and I have had the heartfelt
Mik fati|faXion of feeing the valour of my
[ fleets and armies fuccefsfully employed to
: the alii dance of my Allies, to the support
|| of our just cause, and to the advancement
“ of the most important interests of the Bri-
I tift) Empire
“ The Kingdom of Naples has been ref-
I Cued from the French Yoke, and restored
I to the I) jminion of its lawful Sovereign ;
and my former connexions with that
if* power have renewed.
“ The French expedition to Egypt has
t continued to be produXive of calamity
: and disgrace to our enemies ; while its ul
timate views agajnft our eastern pofteffions
have been utterly confounded.
“ The desperate attempt which they
have lately made to extricate themselves
[ from their difficulties, has been defeated
[; bv the conrige of the Turkish forces, di
reXed hv the Ikill, and animated by the
1 h.-roifm of a Britifli officer with a small
portion of my naval force under his com
mand ; and the overthrow of that reltlefs
and perfidious, power, who, instigated by
i tlk* Artifices, and deluded bv the promiles
of the French, had entered into tiieir am
bitious and deftruXive projeXs in India,
fl4s placed the Britifli interests in that
quarter of the Globe in a state of solid and
permanent security. The vigilance, de
cHion, and wisdom of the governor gene
ral in council, on this great and important
occDiiur, and the tried abilities and valour
of the commanders, ofticers, and troops
employed under his direXion, are entitled
to fny highest praise.
“ There is I trust, every reason, to ex
pCX that the effort which I am making for
the deliverence of the United Provinces,
will prove fuccefsful.
“ The Britifli Arms have refeued from
the pofklfion of the enemy the principal
port and naval arfenalofthe Dutch Repub
tr licau : and although we have to regret the
loss of any brave men in a subsequent at
tack a gain ft the enemy, whole pofttion
enabled litem to obftruX our progress, I
have the strongest ground to expert that
the (kill of my Generals, and the determi
ned resolution and intrepidity of my troops
will loon surmount every obstacle, and
. y. that the lleet which, under the Usurped
Dominions of France, was dtftined to co
operate in the invasion of these Elands
may speedily, I trust, under the ancient
ftandaru, partake in the glory of restoring
the Religion, Liberty and Independence
to these Provinces, so long in intimate
k Union and Alliance with this country.
“ While you rejoice with me in these
events, which add so much Inftre to the
Britifli charaXcr, you will, I am pcrluad
ed qs cordially join in the sentiments so
iotfiy due to the conduX of my good and
faithful ally the Emperor of Ruftia. To
b's magnanimity and wisdom, direXing to
so many quarters of Europe the force of
his extend ve and powerful Empire, we are
in a greet degree indebted lor ti.s success
of our own efforts, as well as for the rapid
r id tavofhbk clrrngr in the general litua
•* affairs. I have d reXed copies to
• laid before % von, of those Engagement
which have confotidated and cemented a
oonaeXioh so coufonant to the perroi
ninyititertfts of my Empire, arid so im
portant at the prefen; moment,* to every
] art oft tie civdited world.
“ GeniletneK <f the }vn>fe of Comment^
“ Phtaih’’e lupfnti which you have
granted to me in the yourfe of the l ift fef
tiou, w ill, I trust, so nearly provide for the
cogences of t’le pubftc icrvice, evtn on
»be extenftve fcafe which our present ope
• atioos require, as to enable me without
further a.d,> tocer.unuc th ife to
tlie close of the present year; but in order
to afford you the convenience of a longer
recess, I recommend it to you to confider
of providing for the expence which will
he neceftarv in the early part of the ensu
ing year, and with this view, I have or
dered the proper estimates to be laid be
fore you.
“ My Loi ds and Gentlemen ,
“ In pursuance of your recommenda
tion* I judged it proper to communicate to
my two Pi#utes of Parliament in Ireland,
at the close of their last fefiion, the senti
ments which you had exprefled tome ref
peXing an incorporated Union with that
kingdom.
“ The experience of every day confirms
me in the persuasion, that signal bent fit
will be derived to both countries from that
important measure ; and 1 trust that the
disposition of my parliament there, will be
found to correspond with that which you
have manifefted for the accomplishment
of a work which tends so much to add to
the security and happiness of all my Irifli
fubjeX, and to consolidate the strength and
prolperity of the Empire.”
October i.
HOUSE of COMMONS,
r
September 30
Colonel Gafcoigne brought up a peti
tion from the merchants in Liverpool,
praying relief of the Weft-India mer
chants ; the objeX of a mere temporary
loan to meet the present exigency, arising
from the great quantity of Weft-India pro
duce on hand. Half a million was the
sum asked for, and two millions and a
half of produce was now lying dead in the
Angle port of Liverpool. There were now
190,000 hogftieads of sugar on hand, and
yet a trithing demand. He concluded
with moving leave to lay said petition on
the table.
To a question from the Speaker, Col.
Gafcoigne said, the merchants would give
ample security, that no eventual loss fliould
fall on the public.
Mr. Pitt thought the difficulty a serious
ofie, and the case one of those few in
which the House ought to grant relief.
The bill to enable his Majesty to avail
himfelf on the farther service of the Mili
tia, went through a committee. On the
question for going into the above com
mittee, Mr. Jones conceived it would be a
species of swindling to keep the Dutch
fleet if we did not succeed in restoring
the Stadtholder
Mr. Tierney thought also, that the get
ting the fleet, as we did, bound us to pur
foe the plan for the restoration of the
Stadtholder, notwithstanding what diffi
culties fliould arile.
Mr. Pitt said there was no fiich engage,
ment, though, in honor, we were bound
to use every exertion for that effeX. At
the fame time he took that opportunity of
declaring, that nothing had happened to
teflon our aflurance of success for that,
since the fliort time this fubjeX was last
difenffed, advice has been received from
our fleets, that they 4 had been received in
more than one or two towns, as deliver
ers, and that the standard of the ancient
government was ereXed.
The report of the Militia bill was then
brought up, and ordered to be received to
morrow.
On the motion of Mr. Pitt, the House
then rcfolved itfelf into a committee of
Supply, on which the 1 following resolu
tions were moved and agreed to.
That 120,000 seamen, including 22,699
marines, be granted to his majesty for the
lervice of two lunar months, commencing
the firft of January ISOO A sum of
444,0001. for wages for the fame, at the
rate of 1). 17s. per man, for the above pe
riod—A futfl 0/436,0001. for maintenance
at the rate of xl. 81. per man A sum ot
720,000!. for wear and tear of (hips, at the
rate of 31. a mm per. month—A sum of
6o y oool for orakiance, at the rate of 3s.
per month—That a sum 0/ 3,000,0001.
be granted to his Majesty to pay off the
Exchequer bills issued, in consequence of
the Exchequer loan bill oflaft felfion, and
payable on the firft day of the felfion.
The report was then brought up and or
dered to be received to-morrow, and the
committee of supply deferred till VVednef
dav. Adjourned.
Mr. Pitt, in addition to what he had
alreadv said relative to the intelligence
from Holland, mentioned, that the advice
from our fleets stated that at every place
where the people of the country' could
(hew their real disposition, they u-ere lan- 1
guine in favor of the Stadtholder, and ma
nifefted the greatest joy and exultation.
NEW-YORK, November 23.
The London Print from iv hich we copy the
late Foreign Intelligence, is “The Sun,”
a paper profefledly devoted to the miniftrv
—We think it neceftarv to mention this
• circumstance, as it may have coniiderable
1 inflnem eon the speculations of our poli
ticians,to which ever party may be attach
t el.
> The Editor of “The Sun,” fpcaking
! c f the official letter of the Duke of York,
j fays, that were he to judge from his own
i ignorance of military affairs, notwithftan
din? the encouragement held out by his
Royal Highness, he should conclude that
the Anglo Ruffian army had received so
severe a check as to give a death blow to
the object of the expedition, especially as
the Batavians are infpited by success, and
are considerably reinforced, and thele cir
cumstances have thrown many obje£ls in
the way of the besiegers.
By the ship Sally, capt. Farrel, in 50
days from Lucar, we learn that the ship
Fortitude, captain P. Kearney, bound
from Calcutta to Philadelphia, was loft on
the Iftand of Afceffion on the sth July last:
that the do£tor, chief mate, captain’s clerk
and eleven men, took (by lot) the jolly
boat, and landed on the island, and that
the captain, second mate, and leventeen
men staid on board the fliip then having
ten feet water in the hold, and her rudder
gone. The above persons who took the
boat remained* on the iftand for sixty-two
days, living upon fifh and fowls, without
bread, during the above period, until they
were relieved by the British frigate Ell
- fir Thomas Williams, comman
der. The doftor, clerk, and two of the
crew, came passengers in the Sally, capt.
Farrell.
The above gentlemen inform us, that
no account has been had of those who re
mained on board the wreck, and suppose
they must have perished.
Captain Farrel further informs, that by
the last advices from Egypt, Buonaparte
had fallen a viSlim to the treachery of the
natives, and his whole remaining troops pat
to the Jword . —So then, this fiery Son of
Mars, that once threatened like another
Alexander to overrun the world, is at
length laid low—How are the cunning
caught in their own devices! How are the
mighty fallen !
From a St. ChriftophePs paper , received by the
Ship Anna.
Bassaterre, o<£t. 8.
On Friday the United States frigate
Ganges, brought in a French letter of
marque schooner, called L’Efperante (for
merly the Laurel, of this port) from Point
Petre, bound to Bourdeaux, with a valua
ble cargo of sugar, coffee, cotton, See.
PHILADELPHIA, November 27.
Arrived last evening, the schooner Sea
Flower, capt. Mann, from Porto Cavallo,
capt. Mann, informs, that on the 25th of
Oftober, in the morning, on his passage
from La Guira to Porto Cavallo, he was
brought to by the British frigate Surprise,
captain Hamilton. The Surprise had then
in her possession the Spanish frigate Her
mione, (formerly a British frigate com
manded by Pigott, in the murder of whom
the famous Danbury Irishman Thomas Najh ,
alias Jonathan Robbins , was concerned.)
The Surprise had the night before lent
fix boats, manned with eighty men, and
boarded the Hermione then lying in Porto
Cavallo. The Englishman knocked down
the centinels upon deck and dispatched the
Spaniards as faft as they attempted to come
up, until the ship was surrendered. In
this gallant enterprize, capt. Hamilton in
formed captain M. that he had loft but
three men.' Sixty of the Spaniards were
killed.
The Hermione was completely fitted,
provision for fix months, and manned with
350 men. The whole of the crew were
flowed on board the schooner Sea Flower,
by which they were carried back to Porto
Cavallo.
BALTIMORE, November 29.
Extrafl of a letter from St. Domingo , dated
OBober 11, to a gentleman in Baltimore.
“ French sloop of war Deligence, com
manded by citizen du Bois, on her way
from Rochfort to the city of Santo Do
mingo, with dispatches from the Execu
tive Dire&ory to the agent and comman
der in chief of this island, captured thfc ship
America,* of Hamburg, captain Jacob
Frederick Enjelbrecht, on the6th Septem
ber, 1799 —’ n * at * o0 > N. long. 35, 00,
W. from London ; on her return home
from Bengal, with a very rich cargo be
longing to Mr. Jacob I. Chapperouje, of
Hamburg.
N. B. The sloop of War arrived here
the 26th September—but the prize (which
was ordered for this port) has not been
heard of since.
* Formerly the Camilla of Philadelphia.
| Extraft cf a Utter from a gentleman in Nevis’
to his friend in this city , dated ±th Novem
ber, 1799. |
“ This day I had the pleasure to fee an
American sloop of war, supposed to be the
Baltimore, carry an elegant French brig of
about 16 guns with her topmast carried a
■ way, into St. Kitts as a prize, the natio*il
under the American colors.
; By tfte schooner Cabot , Capt. Compton , from
Embden.
STUTGARD, September 20.
An Imperial officer puffed this day
; through this city, to bring the account of
the capture of the fortrefs or Torton
the archduke. The garrison confifti n “’ to f
1044 men, left it on the nth, agreeabk
the convention of August 24th U T'°
Austrians found about Joo cannon i n
citadd. The terms of capitulation are'*' 6 ’
yet unknown. The garrison flattered i?
ielf to be relieved by the armies ''
reau and Chafnpionet, but the pofltion °'f
the Austrians made this impossible. °
According to letters from Schaffha u f en
of September 18, nothing has taken p! a l
in Switzerland. r *
September 23.
According to advices from Switzerland
the Austrians exchanged their pofition’
with the Ruffians. The former now oc*
cupy Zurich and its vicinity, and the | at "
ter the environs of the Linth. The re
fon of this change certainly is to makea
junction of the Ruffians in Switzerland
with those expected from Italy more con.
venient. It is affected, that Gen. Suwar
row will arrive in Switzerland to-morrow
to aflume the supreme command of the
forces there, and to combine his operations
with those of the archduke.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 26.
Muftapha Pacha anchored with his
forces in the Bag of Abonkir on the nth
of July, and lanffed his troops the 16th
without any opposition—when they at
tacked the castle and redoubts, and after a
heavy cannonade offive hours, thegarrifon
consisting of 400 men, surrendered.
Commodore fir Sidney Smith arrived sev
en days after this took place, just in time
to re-establish the order of the troops,
which by the following event, had been
interrupted; Muftapha being encamped
on the plains of Aboukir, waiting for some
artillery and other military stores, which
he wanted for the siege of Alexandria, in
opinion that the garrison was weak and
intimidated by the great superiority of his
forces, thought himfelf perfectly lafe—
but this fafety was attended with ill confe
quences—for during the night, a corps of
French cafalry came in confufion. Muf
tapha Pacha while in the a6t of mounting
his horse, was killed by a pistol ball, and
a great part of his troops made prisoners.
SAVANNAH, December 13.
We are happy to hear that capt. Col
ver has succeeded in removing the three
WRECKS, that so much obftru&ed the
navigation of this river, near Five Fathom
Hole, to the place appointed by the com
missioners of pilotage.
Capt. Isaac Marfli, of the schooner Re
publican, from New-Providence, arrived
here last evening in 6 days, inform* ibssS
on the 19th ult. on his paflage to New-
Providence, in lat 32, 50, long. 75, 00, he
was boarded by two brigs under French
colors, (after four hours chace) and plun
dered of the following articles four bar
rels beef, a quantity of poultry, cheese,
cabbage, onions, &c. to the amount of
150 dollars.
On Wednesday, arrived the Brig Dean,
capt. Akerly, from New-York, having on
board a detachment of about 60 Artillcrifb
and Engineers.
[OFFICIAL.]
IN PRIVY COUNCIL.
Jamaica , Oftober 5, 1 799*
His honor the lieutenant-governor, laid
before the Board a Circular Letter from
his grace the Duke of Portland, one of
his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state,
stating, that in consequence of opening
the ports in his Majesty’s Weft-India ill
ands to foreign veflels for the importation
of provisions, Mufcovado lugar has been
permitted in several of the islands, to be
exported in American bottoms, in return
for the provisions brought in those veflels,
which is not only contrary to the lawsot
navigation but very detrimental to the
commerce, navigation and revenue of
Great-Britain, especially as sugar now pays
no duty on such exportation ; and sub
mitted to the board, the propriety of a*
mending their resolution of 28th Auguft*
1798, in regard to such return cargoes.
The board having taken the fame into
their nsoft serious confederation :
Rejolvtd , That his honor the lieutenant
governor be advised to recommend to the '
several officers of his majesty’s customs, at
the several ports of this island, to permit
the free importation of sheep, hogs, poul
try, small live stock of all kinds, and ad
forts of fruit, salted and other provisions
and lumber of every defeription, as well m
British as in all other veflels belonging to
neutral and other states in amity wi l * l
Great-Britain, from the day of the date
hereof until the firft day of March next*
and until fix months notice should be g* v ‘
en to the contrary ; upon the like terms,
charges and conditions, and fubjedi to the
fame rules, regulations, visitations an
learches, as are observed with refptA
veflels importing provisions to this iflam_
Refolded, That from and after the si s
day of January next, all neutral veflels im
porting the foregoing articles, under *>■-
authority of the above resolution, be p e ‘
milted to export, from any port or por-**