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R®PB A N INTELLIGENCE,
Copenhagen* July 7.
mos thw-twe Damilh i%ids of St.
and it. Jbhn, ift America, have
:larea free oil the following Con -
—l. Ho European merchandizes
arried thither, except in his Da
ily’s European (hips, which (hal!
(hed with paiTports. Two per
cent, on the value to be paid on importa
tion. All American prod unions to be admitted in (hips of
rfartion, payibg five per cedt. of the usual duty; and
thfHe refills may export any goods duty free. But it is for
&d aH fd Sehto go from these i(lands to St. Croix to take a
cargo fit feturu.—2. No produ&ions, imported into these
i (lands, (hall bet wrought to Europe but in Dani(h (hips which
-had frit Untied goods with paflports, and these to unload
ohly hi Denmark or the Daniih provinces.—3. These so-
Teign produ&ions (hall be exempted from foreign duty, but
those if the growth of St. Thomas and St. John are ttrpay
Mteper cent. —4. Frauds (hall be putiilhed by confifcation,
and a fine of fee rixdollars for every quintal of sugar, and
dollars for every too lb. of cotton, over and above the
4uties. —Foreign sugars brought from these ifiands to jthe
Daniih dates (hall remaiu only till they (hall be exported a
gain, paying one per cent* duty.
London* Amguft 30. It is said a quantity of ordnance, and
three companies oi foot, will (hortiy embark, for the better
pfofe3ion of the EogliQi fcttlements on Black-River, Muf*
Iceto Shore. ‘ V !
Sty/. 1. It is said our A mbaflador at Paris, on presenting
the memorial on the behaviour of the*French at Turks-Iu
laid, received buta veryevafive and unfetisfa&ory answer,
hiving been told, according to the quibbling of that ccuirt,
Chit lu&ould be enquired into, but required time.
1 It is Wow (a*4, (hould the French peri ft in their design of
j&ufifcg troops tp Corsica, an Engliih fleet,may possibly rifit
the MediterraneaAm a little time., 1 i
This sVeek arrived in town very strong remondranee* from
the Northern colonies, with reipett to their crampt trade by
ftteaus of feme late regulations in America:—As did ako
fereral petition* from the British I Hands in the Weft-indies.
All-vhich are preparing, by their refpe&ive agents, tube
said before the earning parliament.
1 Sept. a. Ou Friday nigh*, at ten o’clock, his Royrf
Highness the Duke of York lauded at Dover from Calais,-
w&ere his Royal Highnefe lay that night, and on Saturday
fi noon he arrived in good health at hu house iu Pall Mall;
fie afterwards waited on the Prince!* Dowager of Wales at
CarlK&'Houfe, and at five o'clock fct out for Richmond, to
wit their Maieftfos,* who‘received him very aftecUonately.
? his Royal Highness wa* at Court, and received
Vhe compliments of the Nobility and foreign Ministers, on
Ri* fife arrival ia England.
rendezvous houfea are aftnaHy opened in Wappingl
to enter 1500 men to man the guardHups, and three (hips of
if which are going baton an expedition.
Therein now a report, from fome foreign advices, that the
King of Sardinia has of late entertained fome thoughts with
regard to Corsica; which may probably rn a little time re
& the inhabitants of that id and to they long wiftied for in
odency.
They write from Bristol, that the principal nierchants of
that city intend tn (upoort with all their interest the indepen
dent free trade of the North-American colonies, the late un
, smttErai reftraiat upon which, from their large connexions
with England, has already occafibned jCome alarms, that, if
not timely removed, may be attended with very melancholy
confluences with regard to the credit of North-America.
-We are informed that a certain noble Peer of great confe
quencehas been sent for three times to court but has not at
. tended. This affair much embarraftes the Majority.
J On the 27th ult. diedin Ireland, after a tedious illness,
Richard Paribns, Earl of ftofs. His Lordlhip dying with
out male issue, the title of Earl is extiuft* And
On the zßth ult. at Newcastle, John Lord Belhaven. His
Lordlhip is succeeded iu his eftaie and honours by his bro
ther Mr. James H#mißou, now Lord Belhaven.
The Spaniard* have just presented a memorial to our
opart, u; which they juftify fome violences lately committed
by them on our fifhermen, by alledging that they have the
fame right to prevent other nations fiom fifhing on their
coasts, which wc exert in preventing them from fi&ing on
, Ac COS*! ofEagUni. Qary, Itlu th
trt iUt right ? * J jjr *•
It is hid that the reason of th; fuddtn return of a ?rra ,
• perfonaie to Bagland was. tiiac hs be a nu-<fct(>r
• tween *e,two contending parues, know* under me title
the Majority and Minority.
1 S4C*. All she (hips that are fitting out for sea, both af
Chatham and Sneemefs, are ordered to be viXualied
manned with all expedition. w 41114
It js currently reported, that fome considerable removal
wril soon take place by consent of both parties, i n cork*
quence of a certain scheme of mediation, offered by a
personage, whose good offices the heads of either will find if
their account to accept, in order to restore the publick tran-
Monday night orders came dewn to his Majcfty’* dock
yard at Portfnaouth, to (it out immediately mi Thunderer
man of war, Capt, Hood, for fca.
The St. Alban’s man of war 0f64 guns, lately launched
at Blackwall, is fitting for sea at Woolwich with ill expedf
tion. r
From fome late advices it appears, that the Genoefe them
selves do not think Baftia can hold out against the rebels of
Corsica till the firft of October, if foreign tuccours are longer
delayed. t • % 6
Seft. S. A veflel lately arrived at Rouen, and that touch
ed in her paflage at Gibraltar, reports that ihe law an En
glifli trigate bring in there a Sallee Rover, of cenfiderabfo
force.
It is now said, * royal yacht will fail in a few days for Hol
land, to bring over hi* Serene Highness the Duke of Meek
knburgh Strciitz to England.
A private letter from Paris, mentions, it was no foonev
certain that the Court designed in good earned to affiil the
Genoefe, in the redu&ion of Coriica, than three foreign Mi
nisters prptefted against it; and it is now said the dtficu i
intirely laid aside. %
Several private letters from Berlin, which arrived yester
day by the Hutch mails, bring advice, that Count Ponia
towlki was elected King of Poland, in the usual form, on the
27th alt. under the name of Stanislaus the second. These
letters add, that the eledlion tent was 20 fathoms long and
eight wide, lined with red cloth, with a wall behind, ‘and a
bank on each fide; afid that the Regalia, which was brought
to Warsaw bp the Bishop of Culm on the aid from Cracow,
confided of five crown), four feepters, a globe, three gold
chains, agji a fable richly ornamented.
There are fome advices by the late French mail, wiiicb
mention, that the Court of Spain have determined to efrieft
a settlement somewhere on the coast of Guiney, for the bet
ter supplying their extensive American dominions with (laves
without being obliged to purchafothem with such vast lum*
from foreigners.—Three men of war failed the 18th ult. for
this purpoie.
It is (aid in fome of the foreign prints, the following
is the manner in which the supplies will be railed in England
for the fervicc pf the ensuing year.
It is computed that (even millions will be required to de
fray the national expcnce*.
The Land-tax, which will continue at 45. in the pound*
will amount to two millions.
The Mak-tax will be 750,000! 1
The Sinking Pund, by the great increase of commerce*
will amount to about three millions.
There will then remain to be railed by loan, the sum of
one million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ftci
which will be dene by lottery, unless the whot? sum can be
fapplied by the produce of the fiue of lands in America, ani
the ransom for die Manillas.
The spirited proceeding of the Ministry in the affair of
Turk’s I Hand, hasfickened the Minority. Their hope: of
feemg the nation involved in a foreign war b< ingj
firuftrated, they are induftriou* in contriving every mea/u to
improve our domeftiek divisions.
It is said Admiral Rodney will soon hoi ft his fag at Sp:U
head, to take upon him the command of the fquaaron no’.v
rendezvoufingat that place.
It was this morning reported, that the present spirited
disposition of the English Ministry had considerably affetted
the French funds; several of their (aleable actions, elpeciall v
Weft-India, having fonk ten per cent, when .the last mail
came away,
S/. James's, September 11. In answer to the reprefentationr
made by his Majcfty't Ambaffado. at the Court of Fraft^®