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LONDON, October st.
Tt.e following, it is said, arc the outlines of the fpecific
terms on which the Spaniards cede to France the two colonies
of Fa ft and Weft-Florida, on the continent of North-Ame
rica s . . .•
I. The King of Spain cedes to his Most Chriflian Majesty
the sovereignty of East and Wcft-Florida, who is to pay in
fpeciefor all the artillery, ammunition, Sec. that .remain in
the fortfcffes, bolides the equivalent to be fixed upon between
the two Ipo we re. % *
a. Spanilh fubjefls choosing to remain lhallhave their pri
vileges continued to them.
3. The Most Chriflian King (hall be under a conflant obli
gation to keep up eight battalions of 650 men each, as a pro.
per barrier for preventing any irruption on the Spaniih
southern provinces from the American Hates,
4. The King of France undertakes for himfelf, his heirs
and. successors, to guarantee to the King of Spain, his heirs,
force Hors, &c. the Spanish dominion in South-America and
the Southern seas, as well as the islands of Cuba, Porto Rico,
Hispaniola, &c. in the Atlantic ocean, &c. forever.
5. The King of France engages for himfelf, his heirs, suc
cessors, Sec. never to alienate the above provinces from the
French Crown, by bargain, sale, dower, Sec. except by re
ceflion to the Spanifti crown.
There are three other inferior articles.
Extras of a letter from Gibraltar , September 11.
“ Yesterday morning anchored in this port, the Sultana
Algtrine frigate, id a Very (battered condition, having the
day before fallen in with two Portugefe men of war, whom
lhe beat off, afteb a severe conflift of three hours, in which
great numbers were killed and wounded on both lides ; the
Algerines had upwards of 80 killed, besides fevcral principal
officers, among whom was their Captain, a very resolute,
daring fellow. This man, in the height ofattioh, had both
his legs fliot off by a chain fliot, as he was Handing upon the
quarter deck, encouraging his men to fight. Notwithftand
iAg this misfortune, he would not fuffer himfelf to be re
moved from the feene of aftiob, but remained upon deck
until he expired, which was about half an hour after. The
Sultana mounts 38 guns, besides pateratoes, and when the
failed from Algiers her crew confided of 360 men.
“ I am now to inform you of an affair which may haVe very
disagreeable coafeqvencee both to the Engiifli and Portugnefe.
An Algerine chebeck of 16 guns, and 140 men, was bloked
up in our port by the Triton, a Portuguese frigate. This
Algerine Ihip had performed quarantain near the New Mole
for 15 days ; the east wind prevented her getting tofea again.
On the 3d of this month, about eight o’clock, the wind being
westerly, the corsair went out of the bay, directing her course
towards the coast of Africa* The Portuguese frigate was at
an anchor behind the rock near Europa Point. The Algerine
vessel being under fail, law the Portuguese frigate, which
fired upon her Without doing any damage j aud (he exnefted
to get out of her reach ; but the wind veering to the east,
and the Portuguese (hip continuing to canonadc, lhe was ob
liged to return to the bay. The current drove her near the
isthmus, about the north point of the rock. The Portuguese
fliip came near her, and fired upon her under the batteries
from which not a gun was fired, and about three o’clock at
noon the Algerines were obliged to leave their vessel and take
to their boats, at the points of the isthmus, where they made
a landing, and a Ihort time after the Portuguese advanced in
their boats, and set fire to the Algerine (hip. The Algerines
pafl’ed the night in the isthmus, complaining heavily of the
conduft of the English, and threatening to pay them with
usury For what they had fuffered, pretending that the Gover
norof Gibraltar ought to have protefled them by the batteries
of the place. The fame morning that this affair happened
Commodore Phillips Colby, and Capt. Markham, Comman
der of the Sphinx, had assured the Algerines that they were
perfectly secure while under the batteries of the place but
advised them nevertheless, not to put to sea—There were
two of the corsair’s men killed. On the 4th, the gates being
opened, the Algerines went into the town, where a house
was provided for them, until they could procure a ftiip to
carry them back to Algiers. v
“ The circumstance which renders this affrirof some im-
V2*££** thC ? aptain of the Poit »s>efe fleet, Don
Jcfie de Mello, came here on the 2d at nigh and nert dav
h. r «tin«o a boa,, failed t 0 the ifthmof
which u neutral, in order ~ obferve.he attack tha, wasw be
made on the Algerine lh.p, , nd took witUi h ' “
iignalstogivc the Portuguese, in case he (hotld difeover that
the corsair received any afliftance from the fort. After the
Algerines had left their (hip he was the person who command,
edthe Tritbn’s boat to (et firfc to her.—Our Governor accused
M. de Mello with having infringed on the territory under
his government; M. de Mello returned foranfwer, that the
Algerine lhip having struck her colours became a fair prize,
and he might set (ire to her if he thought proper ; and, by
way of (lopping the Governor’s mouth, Mello quoted prece
dents from the English, who in- 1757 did the fame by a
French (hip commanded by M. Le Clue, then under the pro
tection of the Portuguese batteries. However this maybe,
Gen. Elliot has lignifiedto M. de Mello, who wanted to come
On (hore on the 4th of this month, that neither he nor anv
Portuguese on board of the frigate thould be allowed to land •
and that he wilhed him to remain on board, granting him,
however, every affiftancefor the (hip and the crew that might
be wanted.
P. S. M. de Mello has failed since for Lisbon ; and Com
modore Colby has sent the Sphinx frigate to England. It ij
hoped this affair may be amicably adju(led. ,>
Extract of a letter from. Dunkirk , to a Hottfe in Edinburfb^
September 26.
“ We are much concerned to acquaint you with the melan
choly news of the total loss of the (hip Mercury, Thomas
Davidson, Mailer, that failed from yobr port the 21 ft. in(l.
bound for Gibraltar, with a number of passengers on board.
44 The 24th, at three o’clock A. M.they fawand recognized
the (leeple of Offend, and accordingly (haped their course
toward the Chops of the Channel, but unfortunately struck
upon a bank about seven o’clock that evening, the wind blow
ing very hard at north, and thefea running mountains high,
so that the lhip soon went to pieces, and, as far as we can
learn, every foul on board perilhed, three only excepted, who
were saved on a piece of the wreck* and taken up by a pilot
boat when just ready to drop from fatigue and cold. Two
of these people are, John Paterson, carpenter, and Walter
Montgomery, a passenger • the name? of the third we caiiiiot
learn, as he is at Mardyke, about three or four miles frdm
this place, and said to be very ill, as indeed are the two we
have named. We do not imagine so much of the wreck will
be paid as will pay the expences. One of the chests or boxes
come alhore has the name of Jean Stewart upon it. 1
44 The following is a lift of the unfortunate persons wto
were on board the Mercury when Hie was wrecked :
. Passengers, men,
Ditto, women, a g
Ditto, children,
Captain and crew, U
113
44 These unhappy people were mostly artificers and trades
men, in the prime of life, from Edinburgh, Leith, and the
-'neighbourhood, and have left a numerous lift of friends and
connexions to lament their untimely fate.”
PITTSBURGH, November 11.
A report is circulating in town that some Indians of the
Chippewa nation went to a camp of tlie Munfee nation, kill
ed a dog, plundered the camp, aiid drove away the women
and children, iu the abfenee of the Munfees. When the
Munfees returned, and saw what had been done, they im
mediately followed them, and aftfijjbme time came up with
them, when they killed and lcalped one of the Chippewas.
It is much to be wiftied they would go so war with one
another, and by that means rid this cduntty of a set of very
troublesome neighbours.
CHARLESTON, January 1.
A letter from Detroit to a gentleman in Scheneftady, near
Albany, mentions the death of that noted Indian Partizan,
Col. Joseph Brandt, Chief Sachem and head warrior to the
Mohawk tribe of Indians—He is said to have been on his
way from Niagara to the Ohio, at the head of 60 warriors
of the fix nations, in order to hold a council with the Southern
Indians, and to have fallen in a rencontre with Genera!
Clarke. The death of this chief will, no doubt, greatly
damp that spirit for war, which has lately prevailed through
out the Indian country.
On Tuefday the sth of Dec, the brig Columbia, Captain
Bunker, cleared out at the custom-house, in the city of New-
York, for Canton, in the East-Indies.
Thursday last arrived here, in 13 weeks from Larue, with
about 250 passengers, the (hip Iri(h Volunteer, Capt. M*Neaf,
Same day put in here in distress, the schooner Minerva,
Coates, from North-Carolina bound to Virginia.