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B E R L I N; Marih 22.
The report that has been in circulation for some
• weeks that a numerous body of troops was about
to be put in motion is totally without foundation.
The corps under prince Hohenlohe is »he only one
that is to retain its position in Franconia, and none
are destined foi foreign service.
L O N D O N, Abril ti.
Mr. Wickham’s note to Mr. Baithelemi is con
spicuous for the chilling formality ofitsftile, and
Tor the extreme caution with -which it refrains
from using any words that might afford fatisfa&ion
"lo the French Republic. The diplomatic charac
ter of Mr. Barthrlemi is-no where mentioned, the
form of the French Confli'ution iasno where ac
knowledged, and the term French Republic fecins
to be ltudioufly avoided. Tn the common tranf
' adions of life, fach minutiae may be of no conse
quence ; but they are of no flight moment in the
diplomatic dealings between nations, efpeciallv
between nations in a Ante of war. The conclu
ding sentence of Mr. Wickham’s note fecins to be
wholly unnecessary for any purpose of pacification.
It explains none of the preceding sentences, and
surely it is nor calculated to afford any proof of the
franknefs, candor and flneerity of the firitiih go
vernment.
April 13, It is an important fad that the mes
senger which carried the dispatch to Mr. Wick
ham, went by the way of Vienna, it being the
objed of our cabinet to procure the Emperor’s
Concurrence; in which case the officially note would
have been in the joint name of the two sovereigns.
It is obvious, from its being only in the name of
his Britanic Majesty, that the Emperor did not
give his ronfent; and it is not improbable that he
will negociate for himfelfa separate peace.
A forgery to the amount of , 17,000 k on the
bank, was difeovered yellerday. A person of the
name of Weston, having heen entrulted with war
rants of Attorney, to receive dividends, had forg
ed the names of the proprietors,, in order to fell
and transfer their flock. This he had been doing
for fix months, but was not difeovered till yefter
day, when he abfeoaded, and in a few hours after,
life blew out his brains, with a loaded piflol.
A great deal of foreign corn was in the market
on Monday; but the purchasers .wmild not look
at the samples, and refufed to give even 60s. a
quarter.
But it is not in England alone, that the ha 'py
profpcfl of abundancropens itfclf. The weekly
bill of entry of the port of London, dated the 19th
inst. and filed in every merchant’s house, contains
an article (hewing, that 3,600 wt. of flour was
imported last week from Havre, and 6oowt. of
starch from Dunkirk. The fuperfluity of France,
it therefore appears, is alleviating the diftreflea of
England.
April 14. About Half an hour before the papers
went, to press, -we received by exp refs the Paris
papers of the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th inst.
Their contents are not of much importance.
The papers charge the British cabinet with pro
longing the war, and aflert, that negociations were
in a train wirh Auflria, when England prevailed
upon the emperor to break off the negociations.
Papers received from the Netherlands at Paris
continue to assert that the Eledor of Bavaria is
dead.
April 1 We enter into a detail of the intel
ligence (a (ketch of which we gave yeflerday) con
tained in the Paris papers of the 7th, 18th, ,o&
atid toth inst. *
These papers are full of speculations on the pro
bability of a speedy-peace; speculations which un
happily we now know have no foundation. ;-Rc
ports of a new armistice between the- French and
Austrian armies upon the Rhine flill prevailed at
Paris,- and one of the French papers, the Ami d’es
Loix mentions, that letters have been received,
from the army of the Rhine, which state that, in
consequence of the new armistice, the French and
Austrians are to retire to a distance of 25 leagues
from each other. Os the note of Mr. Wickham
to M. Barthelemi, and of the answer returned to
jt, the French papers are entirely ignorant. The
Diredory have not yet made any communication
upon the fubjed to the legislature.
Rear. Admiral Harvey, who is appointed to
Succeed vice Admiral Cornwallis in the chief com
mand of the Leeward island squadron, attended at
the board of admiralty yeflerday, - and received or
ders to proceed to bis flatten in the Royal So
veieign as soon as that (hip is ready to fail. Ad
miral Cornwallis’s flag is struck.
The Dutch fleet, which was perceived entering
the Texel by lieutenant Boorder, of the ‘Black
Joke-lugger, .is thought to be composed of (hips
sent round tothat harbour from other Dutch ports,
. being entirely diflind from the squadron which
admiral Duncan is in pursuit of.
April 18. Mr.'Pitt will this day* bring forward
bis lecond budget in the house ofcominons, and
announce-the ways and means for making good
the fame. He will at the fame time submit some
v plan to the house for relieving the present difficul
ties of the merchants of London, in consequence
of the scarcity of money.
April 19. They write from Switzerland, that
three Protestant Cantons have acknowledged the
French Republic.
April to. The Imperial loan, mentioned by
tfec rounder in his war Xpeech, is not yet fpeci
fied. The sum is expend to be three millions,
and the time, the end of May or beginning of
June.
The diflolution of parliament is now talked of,
for the week before .Whitfuntide.
■Exchequer bills to-the .amount of half a million,
have been issued within these few days, for the
service of the ordnance department.
Should it prove true that the republican army
of the north, under the command of-Dournonville,
has entered part of the electorate of Hanover,
which is' within the line of demaikation agreed to
at the-peace agreed upon .between the king of
Prussia and the French, it mult either evince a
wanton breach of the treaty, or that the execu
tive directory have strong reasons to imagine that
Frederic is adling rather as a secret enemy than as
a declared friend, and, therefore that they are not
politically obliged io observe very ftridtly any
treaty entered into with him, supposing, perhaps,
that he is secretly nling every endeavor to bring
about a restoration of the .ftadtholder, or perhaps
fomenting a spirit of opposition among the Dutch
to their present government.
As there seems now to be little doubt that the
Ruffians have either .actually entered into hoftilir
ties with the Turks, or shortly will do so, the
firft object of their attack has probably been the
important fortrefs of Choczim, which is only se
parated from the ci-devant republic of Poland by
the river Dneifter, and after its capture will en
deavor at the. corvqueft of the principalities of Mol
davia and Wallacbia, -which were in their restora
tion at the last peace, and so to enter the province
of Beflarabia and. to besiege Bender. The inha
bitants of these provinces are at least nineteen out
of twenty Greeks or of what is called the Greek
church, and attached ftronglv to the empress, and
who would be readily induced to join the Ruf
fian flandard. The Porte however, does not ap
pear to be unprepared, and the conflict will be
dreadful.
.April 22. A letter wa9 received at the admiral
ty on Wednesday night from the fifft lieutenant of
the Diamond frigate, off the coast of France, con
taining an account of the capture of that gallant
officer, lir Sydney Smith.
Sir Sydney, in the night of Monday last, went
in his boat to cut out a French lugger in the port
of Havre. This he accomplilhed, after some re
sistance, by which one Frenchman was killed;
but deterred from immediately failing by the ra
pidity of the current, he cast anchor.—During the
night, however, the fit ip drove from her anchor
the cable, it is said, having been cut by one of
the prisoners— r and was carried by the current
above the town.
In this fituationbe was attacked on the morning
of Tuefday, by all the gnn-boats and other ves
sels which the enemy could muster; and after a
gallant, and even desperate refinance, against a
force so infinitely superior to his own, he found
himfcif at length obliged- to surrender. We are
happy however to find that he received no injury
in the confiidl.
There were five officers with him—in the num
ber were meffis. W. Moore, R. Kenyoc, and
R. Barrow.
April 23. By the arrival of the Argo, of 44
guns, one of Sir Edward Pellew’s squadron, at
Plymouth, intelligence is brought of the capture
of La Unite French frigate,
Concorde of 36 guns, captain Hunt, likewise one
of Sir Edward’s squadron, after a severe atflion, in
.which the enemy had 36 men killed and wounded
—but happily from superior (kill and management,
not a.fingle -man was either .killed or wounded on
board the British {hip.
A letter from Rennes (in a Paris paper) of the *
date of March 20, states as follows:
**' Within a month past we have taken mote than
100 chiefs of the Chonans, and every day they are
brought in here. ' Emigrants to the number of be
tween 2 and 300 had debarked.and brought with.
them a quantify of ammunition.
The republicans came up with'them between
Charaneuf and Port Malo, made a great carnage,
and took their ammunition, together with a num
ber of themselves, who were immediately short.
A letter from Rotterdam, received by a gentle
man of York, fays,- that the price of grain- bad
confideiable decreased in Holland, particularly in
rye and-., barley, and it was gradually declin
• i»g-
The following is an exaft lift of the.number cf
officers of the Britifn navy, as they flood on the
firft January, 1796—100 flag officers, that is to
fay, admitafs, vice admirals and. rear admirals;
460 captains ;-244Commanders; and 1961 lieute
nants ; making in the whole. 2491. commissioned
officers.
The navy of this count exclufive of the hired
armed vessels for protecting the coast trade, con
fided on the 31st of March last, of 170 {hips of the
line, 29 fifties,, 188 frigates, 21 r'{loops, making
in the whole a navy of 598 (hips of way.
\We have taken, and deftroved, Yince the com
•mencement of the war, 153 lhips of the French
navy, of which 27 are line of battle (hips, not un
der feventy-foufb, and we have added, of these
captures, 64 to our own navy. The enemy have
taken and destroyed of our naval force 34, five of
which are line of battle (hips. This account extends
to the 31st March last.
Cur maritime force was never at any former pe.
riod .in so excellent,* so formidable a date as it is
at present, and we are complete mailers of the sea
wherever the ocean is capable of bearing on her
bosom the burden of a man of war. Our enemies
per contra were never as to their maritime force in
so deplorable a (late. We have blocked them up
in their ports, from whence, except by Health,
they cannot escape; and yet the people of this
, country have great cause for complaint. Privateers
and other small (hips of war continually intercept
our trading veflels, and make many valuable cap.
tures, Our convoys are not properly attended to,
and a fufficiency of frigates is not at sea to protest
such veflels as by stress of weather, bad conduft, or
other accidents, may have parted from their con
voy, It is in this point, and a tender one it is,
that the French have found us vulnerable. .We,
therefore, hope that some new regulation will take
place, and that every cause for murmur xm this
fubjedl will be removed. Our exports and imports
pay moll exorbitant duties; —we are, therefore,
entitled to every prote&ion this country can af
ford.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9.
Extract of a Utterfrom Gihralter t dated the ixth
of April.
'“On the 29th of March, at 2 o'clock, two
strange armed veflels were difeovered from this
place, and about an hour too lofty Ihips appeared
to the southward, two frigates and two cutter
brigs immediately went out in pursuit, and about
7 we heard a very (harp cannonading, which con
tinued till 8, but as neither of the Ihips have re
turned, we are ignorant of the event.—On the 4th
inllant a French squadron of seven men of war and
two frigates came out of .Cadiz, where they pas
sed th£ winter.—The fame day, admiral Mann
failed with fix feventy-four’s and 3 frigates, ha
ving his flag on boaul the Windsor-Castle, of 9$
guns: Last Sunday, about 3 P. M. we heard a
heavy firing, which continued till 2 A. M. but
the conference is not known here. The Moorifli
cruisers have brought in several Danish, Swedilh
and Porugueje prizes, and we are apprehensive of
the Algerines being again at war with us.”
There was yefeerday a report in town of an in.
furrediion of the negroes at jeremie, which is said
to have happened the 20th of May.
June 13.
-This morning -arrived the Coop Friendftiip,
captain Moulder, zo days from Cape Francois,
who confirms the arrival of the French fleet of 14.
fail of men of war at the Cape, viz, two 74’s, the
rest 50% 40’s, and 36 guns,, with .5000 troops,
and brought in three British prizes, and one Por
tuguese (hip from. Brazil to Portugal, with bars of
gold and gold dull, eftirnated at $,000,000 of mo
ney. An embargo had been laid on there for
four days before he failed, in confequenceof some
in train. Flour rated there at 22 dol
lars, although payment was so flow, that veflels
..might stay for .five or fix months before they
- received payment.
Captain Moulder further informs, that 10 fail
of the line were daily .expedted at Cape Francois,
trom Rochfcrt, with troops on board.
Ship .Mount Vernon.
A letter from capt. Dominick late master of the
Mount Vernon of this port to Meflrs. Willings and
Francis dated 10th inst. off Wilmington, contains
the following information. “ That they had not
difmifled their pilot more than two hours--cape
Henlopen bearing weft distant about 6 leagues,
Thursday morning 8 o’clock when they observed
the schooner Flying Filh about one league ahead,
who immediately bore down upon them, fired a
(hot and ordered their boat on board, which was
complied with. The boat with the second officer
and 4 men went on board to know their commands;
the officer and men were detained by the privateer
which sent the boat back with 14 armed men, and
orders to capt. Dominick to fend, the (hip’s papers,
faying in the mean time that the ship was laden
with naval stores. The captain accordingly carri
ed his papers, which the privateerfmen took pof
feflion-of, but did not examine, but declared the
Mount Vernon to be a good prize.—The captain
expostulated on the impropriety of their conduft
towards American (hips and property of our citi
' zens. They replied that they had good informa
tion from one of the firft American houses in Phi
ladelphia that the (hip had naval stores on board.
Captain Dominick then prevailed on them to exa
mine the roanifeftand register and they appeared
at length to be convinced that (he was loaded only
with articles which were on board, viz. Coffee,
Sugar, Rum, Staves, Fuftic and logwood. Their
only plea then was, that since the treaty with
Great-Britain, they had orders, and were deter
mined to take every American vefiei bound to cr
from British ports, even on suspicion of going to
them. After forcing capt. D. and all his (hips
company out of the (hip they sent them on board
of the Flying Fish.
The privateer mounts .fix 9 pounders 2nd has 7$
men. The capt. and owner of the privateer is
named Paris, and lives at-No. 399, north front
ft reef. He told capt. D. that he had a lift of (h>? s
that he intended to take, viz. the Atlantic, V iliiam
Penn, and Dominick Terry. The people belong
ing to the Mount Vernon were put on board a pi
lot beat and are since come up to town.” The fop