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fc O N D O N, April (.
A letter from Cadiz, received by a merchant in
the t iry, has the foliowing article : “ We have at
length concluded a treaty with the Dey of Algiers
that fuel),of the American (hips that are loaded
with wheat and flour only, for any of our ports,
(hall pa s unmolefled by his armed veflels, except
ing only in (earch.ng whether they are bound to
any ports of i’ortugal, and that if any one is taken
before it is known by the officers of his cruisers, it
ilia!! be t eftored; but the Dey will not agree to
their refusing hoiut without being molested, so
that I am afraid this treaty will be but of little ufc
to us, who are in great want of those articles;
however, our Governor has orders from Court,
that if the Americans will venture to bring wheat
and flour, they fliall in return have a convoy to fee
them out of the reach of the pirates.”
The head of the Algerine Captain, who took an
Englilli (hip off St. Vincent, was elevated on a
pole, after it was fevered from his body. Here
it flood three days, and then it was fuffered to be
buried. The Englilh Captain geueroully made
interxeffion for the Algerine; but the Dey would
«ot liftcu to it, as the Englishman had (hewn his
passport and proved he w’a6 bound to England.
The Bailli de Suffreiu has conceived a projetf
worthy of his great foul, as well as of the power
which he represents. Lately, in quality as Am
ballador from Malta, he aflembled all the foreign
Miniflers to And ou* means for reprefling the Bar
bary powers, which have now riien to so great a
height. His feheme is either for the maritime
States of but ope to enter into an agreement not to
furnilh them with any more naval stores, or to
form a league in order to put an end to their pi
racies, or at lead to leflen them. As soon as the
Miniflers with whom he has conferred, (hall have
received their answers from their refpedive courts,
we (hall know whether the proposals and plan are
capable of being put in execution.
According to letters of the very firft and best
authority fiotu Gibraltar, the piratical dates of
Barbary are on the very point of entering into a
measure, which may finally effeft what not all
the opposition against their lawless proceedings has
hitherto been able to accompli(h. A war among
tbemfeives is the matter alluded to, the cause of
which is briefly related as follows: The present
Emperor of Morocco, the mod pacific of the In
fidel sovereigns, who is in treaty of alliance with
mod of the Chriilian powers, for the purpose of
confeientioufly difeharging his part, did some
months since command, that no corsair, frigate or
galley, (hould be permitted to bring or fend in
any vefiel, being a prize front any of the Chriflian
powers, into any of the ports of Morocco. An
Algerine frigate last funimer, in defiance of this
carried a'vefiel, bound from Malaga to Lilbon,
of Which lhe made prize, in Larrache, where the
Captain attempted to fell vefiel and cargo, but
was prevented by the Moot ilh Governor of Lar
rathe, who obliged the frigate to fail again with
out his prize, which was restored by order of the
Emperor, to the Confttl of the Portuguese nation,
lor the benefit of the owner?. This is the foun
dat on of difputc? which arc likely to embroil the
Moors with the Dey of Algierf,Tripoli, and Tunis.
An etlima'e of the amount of the value of pre
sents annually made to the dates of Barbary is or
dered to be made out to be laid before Parliament.
Advices from Smyrna lay, that several Ameri
can (hips have arrived at that port with French
goods, and have found a very good market
Cleat honor has been paid to the remains of the
Count de \ ergennes; no less than two tboufand
mourners followed the hearse which concreted
them to their last repository.
On a moderate computation, there are more
men and women executed and sentenced to trauf
portation in Great-Britain and Ireland than in all
Europe together; and, by the fame dispassionate
and itnpaitial calculaticn, there are more perfotis
confined lor debt in the two kingdoms than in the
whole world. To what then, in the name of
heaven, can this be imputed, but to radical imper
fttl.c* in our lanxs / To charge it to national de
pravity would be paying an ill compliment; to
link the obfervatiou would be inhuman aud im
politic.
I The French still continue reforming all the un
necel'ary parade in the King’s Hcufliold, two thou
sand horse are difeharged, which are eflimated or
toft the King one piflole a day each; by which a
faviug is made of 7,300,000,000 livres annually.
The present King of Pruflia has revoked the law
made in the last reign, which prohibited military
officers from marrying any woman who did not
pofiefs a fortune of 6000 Thalers; and they are
Jiow permitted to marry according to their incli
nations without regard either to birth or fortune.
Ccveral months since, a mediciual correspondent
(in the General Evening Poll) gave the hiftory of a
disease, introduced by the fajhionablt pradice of
tranjp laming teeth ; the patient, a young lady of
great beauty and merit, after having been attended
by some of the i»oft eminent physicians in this me
tropolis, funk under the disorder. Since that pe
riod, a more particular and alarming account of
it has been given by the ingenious Dr. Duncan, of
Edinburgh, in the following words :
“ A new disease has lately been discovered in
London, occalioned by the tranfplaming of teeth
from the head of one person to that of another.
The mortality from it is computed at nearly two
deaths to ten diseases ; and about one in every hun
dred who receive the teeth by transplantation is
affeded by this disease. Ulcerations of the thFoat
and gums, with eruptions on the Ikin, are its chief
marks. When death takes place, it is from the
occurrence of jphacelus . for five or 13* weeks after
transplanting, the teeth look well, and are as firm
as others. A -ore has been attempted in vain by
the Peruvian bark, and it has proved fatal after the
use of mercury, although some cases have yielded
to medicine.”
Some blind children, educated ?nd supported by
a philanthropick society of Paris, have lately been
presented to the King and Queen at Versailles, and
exhibited in the Royal prefeuce great knowledge
of several arts. Some of them discovered the grea
test facility in the various branches of printing and
bookbinding, &c, others gave the most evident
proofs of the success of their application to geor
graphy, arithmetical and mathematical calculations.
Their Majesties expressed the highest fatisladion at
their efforts, and spoke in very high terms in com
mendation of Mr. Hawy, who, by exemplary
diligence and induftrv, has restored fomany mem-!
bers to society.
The celebrated General Lloyd lately evinced,
by a number of examples, which occurred in the
course of the last war, that a sword was to a soldier
almost useless, and ought to be laid aside. He
proposes that three-fourths of our infantry should
be armed with a musket and a Short lanre to fix on
it, inflead of the bayonet now in use. The other
fourth were to be armed with a pike twelve foot
long, a good fabre, and a pair of piltols, which
they were to carry in their belt. Why these arms
were not adopted by the Officers who had the di
redion of our tadics, we cannot fay, but it is
certain one of the greatest Monarchs in Europe has
direded this new mode of defence to be pradil'ed
by all the infantry in his armies.
After all the combinations that have been form
ed againlt Britain by the European powers, flill
lhe maintains her superiority in point of commerce.
The trade of France is not comparable to ours ;
nor is that of Holland nearly equal. Even in the
thirteen United States the Britifti merchant Hands
uarivalled. The view qf such circumstances is
highly pleasing, and affords no little encourage
meat, elpeciaily at a time when new sources of
commercial opulence are about to be opened.
By letters from Madrid, we learn, that two
Syriac Frkfts had arrived i<t that capital, who hav
ing given such fatisfadory proofs of their know
ledge in the Eastern languages, that his Catholic
Majefly has charged .hem with the translation of
the manuferipts m those languages which make
part of the King’s librai y at the palace of the Efcu
rial. T his news must be imereft’ng to the learn
ed, these important books having been but imper
fedly known by the small analysis, given by Mi
chael Cefarv, in the catalogue printed at Madrid
in J 760, by order of the p relent King of Spain.
A revolution seems to be taking place in the
charaders and employments of Princes, Inflead
of moving at all times like butchers, and marking
their steps with blood, they sow seek information,
and vilit each other ou the terms of polite huma
nity. The Emperor has furnished the example.
The rumour at Vienna is, that he will vilit
land this summer. r The King and Queen of
Naples arc aifo expefted in England. • , -
'I he Emperor of Germany has lately followed
the example of his humane brother-in-law, t he
Molt Christian King, and forbidden the arresting
his fubjed for debt, Os yvbat does the boasted
liberty of England conlift j and what would be
the fate of half our Britilh fepators, were they not
protected by the privilege of Parliament ?
The French Notables have not deipeaned them
selves, as the Gr.and Moparque flattered himfelf
they would dp. They have talked occasionally of
guarding the privileges of the people ; and that is
by no means the objed for which they were af
lembled. Besides, they- have given mortal of
fence in haying refufed to comply with some of
the chief requisitions made fey the King, and his
agents, refpeding the revenue.
In April 1782, a Lalcar Indian, engaged as
cookcn board a ve&J bound £ n glan4 to’the
coast of guinea,, upon a trading voyage, parti- j
cularly for Haves. After trading a few weeks y
upon the coast, the Captain came onboard one
day,, and. having an altercation with his Lafcar S
cook, ordered the mate to. set him immediately J
on lhore, with his chest and cloathes. This cruel u
sentence was instantly executed —the wretched >
Lafcar was hurried into the boat, and landed 0:1 1
oue of the Flaintain Islands. Thisifland was in
habited solely by. who were, however,
under the government of a Negro, who had been jj
a considerable time in England, and had erefled
a fort here, for the purpose of defending his peo- fl
pie from the savages of the continent, upon whom I
he made frequent depredations, by carrying off ™
the people and felling them into. Oavyry. This
Lafcar well knew, that death or Uavery mult be
his fate. For several nights he wandered on th©
illand, hiding himfeif in the day. On the nintl*
day, the continental savages made a descent upon
this bland in great numbers, attacked the fort,
and having carried it, put the commander to
death, with every creature found in his garrison,
and all the other inhabitants on the illand able ti* j
bear arms. The Lafcar, during this confufion, j
seized a canoe, and trulting himfeif to the sea, r
departed from the illand ; and hunger compelling
him to land upon the continent, he was there dis
covered by a party of thirty savages, who tied his
hands behind his back, and marched h m fourteen
miles to oue of their villages. Here a consulta
tion was held upon his fate. It was proposed to
put him to death ; but one of the savages difeo
veriug that his hair was like their own, they re-«
solved to fell him for a Have. Fpr this purpose
he was carried to the coast, and fold to the Cap
tain of a Weft-India trader, and by him again
fold to the Captain of a Liverpool vessel, who
brought him back to England, where he is now
filing for jufticc,
April 2. The commercial treaty begins to ope
rate so far already, as to make the old Britilh
traders give way to the throngs of Frenchmen,
who now daily infeft the Royal Exchange, in the
new cnaraCters of Anglo Gallic merchants!
Friday the claims of the inhabitants of St. Eu
ftatius, were finally argued before his Majesty’s
Moll Hon. Privy Council; and counfcl being
heard on both lides, it was decreed that Lord
Rodney and General Vaughan Ihould refund the
money tq the said claimants.
Should the commercial treaty break off, a war
will biealt out. and that, of runrfr, wuult) bicalc
the neck of the prefeiit Administration. It is
therefore idle to imagine, that the present nego
ciator in Paris, will infill on any terms that ais
likely to bring about luch an evil to his party.
BOSTON, May 16.
t Last evening arrived in town, the Hon. John
Hancock, Elq. and Lady, and Mrs. Jeffry, from
a tour to New-York. '
Uu Monday evening an express arrived in town
from the county of Berkihire, with letters for his
Excellency the Governor and the Hon. General j
L.ncqin, from several gentlemen of diftinttion iu |
that comity, which we are informed contain ac
counts of the rebels, to the amount of 700 or 800,
being collected in the Hate of Vermont, in th©
vicinity of this commonwealth, and that it was
given o t by them they intended, in the course of
die present week, to make incursions into several
parts of this lUte, and to kill, plunder, burn, and
deilruy, whatever comes in their way : That Shays,
Day, Parlous, &c. had been seen at Crown Point
on their way to join them: That the town of Sha
ron, in Connecticut, had turned out a company of
men, pioperly officered, for the purpose of assist
ing the rebels : And that the militia in Berklhire
county had orders to hold tbemfelves in readiness
to opoofe the inroads of these daring and infatuated
men.
1 efterday the Hon. Major General Lincoln left
this town on his yvay to the wefiern counties.
, WaiMm. for the execution of the sentence of
oeath pronounced on the four traitors, now in con
finement ni the weftern counties, were received
by the refpeClive Sheriffs about the 4th instant.
Those who were pardoned are liberated.
tx [ r i a f °S a . htUffrom Spring field, dated May 15.
gent.emau from the northward informs me
that fame of the rebel leaders in Vermont are en
listing men for the service of the King of England
t ey are to serve three months, are promised
18s. bounty, and 40s. per month He saw aClti
ally several enlisting papers, with a number of
names on each. This may be depended on.’*
ihe HOll. the Supreme Executive have been
pleafedto grant to the traitors who are now under
sentence of death in the counties of Hampfhireand
Berkihire, and who were ordered for execution on
Thursday next, arefpite untii the 21st of June next.