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HAGUE, March t.
The marine of our republic now in com million,
tonfifts of 2 2 (hips of the line, 30 frigates, 16
brigs, and 6 gun-boats.
It is now asserted that a fleet of 4 (hips of the
line and 13 frigates, which failed from the Texel
la ft week, is bound for the Eaft-Indtes, and it is
cxpeftea that they will be joined ofFßreft or Roch
fort by a French squadron.
LON DON, March 12.
Mr. Gfey established the very strong fafts which •
he undertook to present :o the house of commons
beyond the power of refutation. He proved these
points. _
That above seventy fcven millions eight hundred
thousand pounds of debt, incurred by the present
war, had been already funded.
That twentw-two millions remained floating and
unfunded and that this sum of an hundred millions
had been squandered in the three firft years of this
war. * 4
That this was more than double the expence of
any three years of any war in which this country
was ever engaged.
That of tnis sum, almost as much had been spent
without eflimate, and consequently without the
authority of parliament, as with it.
That barracks were built for any army of forty
thousand men, to be kept up in time of peace.
That by the new fyflem, the peace establishment
-could not be less than twenty two millions per
annum.
That the permanent revenue was not likely to
be more than 19.500,0001.
* That consequently if peace were made to-mor
row; independent of winding up of the warex
pences, there mull be additional taxes to the amount
of 2>500>0001. to carry on the peace.
That, indireft violation of the provision of the
aft of queen Anne, which declares that if the bank
Ihould advance money to government, without
grants from parliament, they (hould forfeit treble
the sum advanced, tniniftershad procured large sums
of money in advance from the bank.
That they had artfully finuggled into an aft a
clause repealing the wholesome provision in the aft
of queen Anne, and that now the bank was in ad
vance the enormous sum of 11,800,000 k!
These are but a few of the fafts established by
Mr. Grey, from documents laid upon the table,
and of which printed copies were in the hands of
the members. To these charges Mr. Pitt did not
fay one word. He left every thing to an evasive
vote on the order of the day, and his majority was
against 45 ! ! !
In the paper laid on the table of the house of
commons, there is a charge of 49,000!. to M.
Puifaye, for buying provisions for the French at
the time the Englifli poor were starving.
Mr. Haltings’ pension is 4000 k a year, for 27
years, from August, 1785, to which the India com
pany have added the loan of for 17 years,
without interest, which is therefore an annuity of
that term of all that it will bring of interest on a
fubllantial fccurity.
Mr. Burke is in a rage that his pensions of 4000 k
a year did not commence at the fame term. He
therefore threatens tninifters with a regicide piece.
The court of the duke of Wertemberg is one of
the mod splendid of the small principalities; he has
live palaces, the meanest of which is more superb
than Carlton house.
There is no objeftion to the union with our prin
cess on the score of religion, for the reigning duke,
though born a catholic, is now a protertant.
March 13. The Hamburgh mail, which arrived
on Wednesday, brings intelligence from the Rhine,
that the campaign is to commence the middle of
this month: The firft operation of the French is,
it is said, to be against Mentz. Immense quanti
ties of artillery have been sent to the armies of the
Sambre and Meufc and the Rhine; and general
Jourdan, when the letters that arrived by the mail,
were dispatched from the Rhine, was expefted daily
from Paris, at the head quarters of the Sambre and
Meuse army.
On the fide of Italy the campaign commences
earlier than on the Rhine. General Scherer, and
the army of Italy', 50,000 strong, were to be in
motion the latter end of lalt month.
By a letter from Paris we learn, that the execu
tive direftory has gtanted a very mild sentence to
the Duke deChoifeul, the Baron de Montmorency,
and other emigrants, who were unfortunately
wrecked some time since, on the French coatl.
The sentence is—that they (hall be sent out of the
territories of the republic.
Letters from the borders of the Rhine fay, that
the army' of the Sambre and Meuse has received
orders to hold itfelfin readiness to march at the firft
signal; different battalions have even approached
the Moselle, and every moment we expeft to fee
the fuflenfion of arms cease. Preparations for de
fends and attack, continue to be redoubled on both
sides. According to all reports that reach us, the
French and Austrian armies increase every day.
Almost all the trooj» that were in Bohemia, are
marching towards the Rhine where they will form
a corps of 20.ocomen, Hungary and Austria are
fending cavalry, and almost the whole of the garrison
of Vienna will join the army. The hopes of peace
are eomnleatly vaniftied.
Stoffl. t, according to letters from Angers, died
with fumaefs. Before he was (hot, he tied a haul*
kerchief about his eyes, and knelt down.—The
soldiers hit him at the firft fire. One of his aides-de
camp received ten fires before he died. They were
fold by * farmer, who conduced the republican
troops to the place between Vailons and Challet.
. The change which has taken place in the chief
command of ihe Auflrian army on the Lower Rhine,
by the resignation of field-marthal Clairfayt, is a
circumstance of great concern.
By Lloyd’s lift, it appears, that the number of
ships taken bv the enemy, from England and the
other powers at war with them, from January 1793,
to December 17951 is 2009, of which 119, were •
retaken by our cmifers. The number taken by
England and the other powers, from France, is 3 19,
so that there remains a balance in favor of the enemy
of 1491 vclfels. Ships of war and privateers are
not included in this ftareraent.
The king of Spain, to de'fray the expences of
his journey, has taken two millions of crowns from
the treasury, which is appropriated to the expen
diture of 40 days. The Duke d’Alcudia, who
has four secretaries of Rate with him, rides in the
fame carriage with their majeftics.
March 16. The title of the duke of Cumberland,
is to be (hortly revived in the person of his royal
highness prince Edward, their majesties fourth son,
now abroad in Nova Scotia with his regiment.
The Orange family, the prince ftadtholderand his
priacefs alone excepted, are on the point of leaving
this country, in future to reside at Berlin. Prince
Fredrick of Orange has received the hrevet of ma
jor general in the Imperial army, and will make the
ensuing campaign in that capacity.
Government has received official accounts from
the Mediterranean, by which it appeals that the
French have actually a considerable fleet at Toulon,
but the (hips are badly fitted, ltored and manned.—
A (harp look out is kept to prevent them getting
to sea.
The national convention of the United Provin
ces met at the Hague on the lit inlt. and having
verified their powers, the States-general immedi
ately resigned their functions and dissolved their
assembly. The ceremony was extremely splendid
and accompanied with much public feftivity.
We underltand that the court of Madrid has yield
ed to the remonstrances made by lord Bute and has
removed the suspicions entertained of its political
condud. The Spanifla ministry have feat orders to
Cadiz to difmanrle 20 fail of the line, lying in that
port; and a French privateer which was at Alicant,
and had taken ferae of our velTcls, has been order
ed from thence to Tonlon.
King of Poland.
Particulars of the abdication of the throne of Po
land by Stanislaus. 4
On the day-of St, Catherine, Repnin went to
the king, and prefentedto him several papers which
had been sent to him from Peterfburgh, as the ad
of his abdication, a relioquifhment of his preten
sions to the throne, &c. which Stanislaus signed
without Tefillance, in the morning, and which
Repnin immediately published through the city.—
After this the king of Poland published, at dinner,
his attachment to his former millrefs, Gradbowaka;
declared that he had espoused her seven years ago;
and legitimated all the children which he had by
her, and fettled on them the wrecks of his fortune.
Then his eyes dreaming with tears, he took leave,
with a conflancy truly royal, of the faithful servants
-of his former date, which produced a truly affecting
feene. This was ended by a ball, at which Rep
nin, encreafing his pride, bimfelf presented to the
company this king dethroned by the droke of a
pen.—Such was the end of the reign of Stanislaus,
than whom a man of brighter virtues, and a more
enlightened mind never filled a throne.
N E W- Y O R K, April 25.
The property arrived here from India, Canton
and other parts of the world within a month pad,
is computed at upwards of twelve millions of dol
lars. Were the United States at War, it would
have cod fix millions to have got home the above
property.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2.
The Maryland Journal of the 28th. ultimo, has
the following article:
A pamphlet on the British treaty, wiitten by
Mr. John Swanwick, representative of Philadel
phia in congress, is now on its way to the press.
The proceedings of Mr. Jay, and the merits of
his performance, will there find an able and ample
difeufiion.
CONGRESS.
On Saturday the public expectation was wrought
up to the highest pitch.—The fate ot the empire
seemed in some measure to depend on the vote; —
and yet, when the vote was declared, which secure
the peace and prosperity of the nation, the friends
of order and good government received it with a
tranquility highly honorable to them. If any thing
could have exceeded the merit of the numerous
and interfiled fpeiftators, in maintaining an unpar
alleled decorum, it was the calm, the unexulting,
the dignified deportment of those, who, from a
minority of 37, found themselves, on so great a
quell ion, in a majority ot 51. —The vote was the
triumph of reason the conduit of the majority,
the triumph of temper. If anv thing is wanting to
enhance their merit, let those who have lately
viewed with attention the proceedings of a certain
party, picture to themselves what th*ir proceedings
would have been had a JitFereut refuk taken place.
and the contest mull be highly honorable to the
friends of government and peace.
May 7.
Extract of aletterfrom Havannah, April u, 1796,
to a merchant in this city.
“ The packet that arrived a few days ago from
Spain, brings out an order to suspend the admif.
fion of veflels from the United States with flour
and provisions into this port.”
The meetings and petitions in favor of carrying
into effeft the British treaty are more numerous
than we can reeded to have ever been the case on
any other occasion. The spirit is extending itfelf
to all. parts of the Union and the infiances of peti
tions against the appropriations, are very few in
deed. A (hiking demonstration that the people
conlider their ALL at flake,
N O R F O L K, April 23.
Extract of aletterfrom Martinique , to a gentleman
in this town, dated Port Royal, 28 th Manh.
“ Ten thousand troops are arrived at Barbadoes;
2000 at Grenada, and 200 at St. Vincents: gene
ral Abercrombie and admiral Cornwallis are arriv
ed at Barbadoes, with part of the Cork fleet; the
remainder are hourly expelled. A French (hip
from Gaudaloupe with 900 hogiheads of sugar and
coffee, said to be the property of Vidor Hughes,
is captured by a frigate and sent into Antigua. An
embargo took place here ten days ago. This is
sent you by a vdfei which obtained liberty to fail
for Baltimore.”
CHARLESTON, May 16.
On Saturday morning, about two o’clock, a
fire broke out in the house of Mr. Lyon Moses,
in King-street which soon communicated to the
adjacent buildings, and, in a short time, exhibit
ed a dreadful fpedacle of conflagration. The
houses in the vicinity, being generally conftrud
ed of wood, many of them very old, and from
the long drought, highly combustible—the fire
spread with such rapidity as, in a great measure
baffled the efforts of the citizens to flop the violence
of its progress. Upwards of sixty dwelling houses
and habitable tenements were*confumed, exclusive
of out buildings. Among those are the celebrated
inn, called Martin’s tavern, occupied by Mr.
Brockway; the (lore and dwelling house adjoining,
occupied by Mr. George Selby, that of Mr. Hen
ry Geddes; of Mr. Cameron, of Mr. J. Da Costa,
and of Mr. Jacob Williman: A compleat lift of
the fufferers, on this melancholy occasion, shall
be laid before the public as soon as it can be accu
rately obtained.
On Friday last, as Mr. David Dott, a young
man, a carpenter of tf)is city, waslhingling a house,
the feaffedd gave way, by which means he fell to
4 the ground, broke his neck and expired immedi
ately.—Two negroes, who were on the house,
likewise fell, but are not dead—-their lives ate
despaired of.
May 17. Yesterday morning, at 6 o’clock, jbe
citizens were again alarmed with a FIRE that
broke out in the (table loft of Samuel Brailsford,
Esq. in Friend street. The exertions of the num
bers who repaired thither with alacrity, soon got
the better of it, and it was extinguilhed with the
loss of only the roof of the (table.
This accident was evidently the result of the
mifehievous intentions of some incendiary : For
the horses of the family had been a considerable
time in the country, and therefore there could be
no reason in the world for a candle’s being carried
into the loft. All the hay and blades were com
pleatly on fire when it was difeovered, but it bad
r.ot burst through the roof.
The adjoining tenements being brick, and no
wooden building near, joined so the favourable
time of day, operated to dis, el the horror that this
reiterated alarm mull otherwise have occasioned.
Admiral Parker has landed forty pieces of can
non on a small ifiand near the Spanifit part of St.
Domingo and also left some men there.
May 20. Captain Philips, who arrived on Wed
nesday last, from Surinam; spoke on the 2d of
May, a fleet of eleven fail of French ships, armed
tn flute, with troops on board, from France bound
to Cape Francois. Captain Phillips was informed
by them, that they had captured on their paflage,
eleven transports with naval (lores, belonging to
the English fleet, which failed from England the
beginning of March.
SAVANNAH, May 24.
A prize of 10,000 dollars, in the Philadelphia
Lottery, it is said, is drawn by Mr, John Porter
field and Mr. Robert Fisher of this city.
Arrived on Sunday last, brig Aurora, captain
Morton from Barbadoes, and 17 days from St.
Bartholomews, who was embargoed at Barbadoes,
and left there on the 29th April, informs, that of
15,000 troops in the British fleet, a detachment of
1500 had gone against Demerara, and it was re
ported, they had gained pofleffion of it; two other
detachments were dispatched, one aga»nft Grenada
and the other against St. Vincents, and the remain
der of the fleet 120 fail, had gone against St.
Lucia.
By arrival of two American veflels at Barbadoes,
who made their escape from St. Lucia, information
was received that the fleet had commenced a very
severe attack on that place, but met with a fuiriretl
oppofitton by the French who funk a number of
their boats, and otherwise disabled them ; that all
was in flames when those vessels came out.
It was reported, ihe day captain Morton failed#