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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.