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% ofe member! cf ibe Council •'.ho Sfe atrowedlf
rae friends of tbe House of Orange; and that there
is every reason to suppose the spirited conduft of
the Prince proceeds from the friendly profcffions
of the Courts of London and Berlin.
Jtrty to. Yesterday an express arrived at the
office of the Marquis of Carmarthen, from Bir
j ames Harris, the particulars of which were so tm«
portauts, as to orcafion an immediate Council,
which fat four hours, and all the Cabinet
tit tended : at the breaking up of which, m dßttU
get s wcrC sent off to Ireland, Holland, Franco,
fcpain, and Russia. The intelligence contained in
tlnsuday’a mail, that the French had squally issued
orders for a camp to be formed of 12,000 men at
Civet, and that the troops were attually on their
march to the place, is said to have been the occa
fiOn of this Council. M. rfe Rochambeau, it is
generally understood, is to have the chief command
of this force—M. Chalut to be second in command;
md the two Major-Generals to be the Comte
d’Eflerazzy and the Chevalier de Coigny. This
mcafure is said to be taken by the French, in con
f-*fj< ence of the King of Prulfia having assembled
between 12 and 14000 men at Cleves and Wez
zrl; and in this threatening podure affairs flood
when the lad dispatches which were brought by
Mr. Hiflop set off from the Hague.
A letter from Hanover, received by a mer
chant in this city, has the following article :—Dif
patrhes arrived here from London, the 12th of
une, to the Regency, and the next day orders
were issued out for a body of forces, confiding of
loco •men, to hold themselves in readiness to
march at a short notice ; and it is reported, that,
if occafiou requires it, a body of Heflian troops
were to join them on their march, ft is conjec
tured that they are to be employed in the service
< f the Prince of Orange, to secure him in the
rights and privileges enjoyed by his predecessors.
Whether we are right in our conjectures, you
fiuow bed ; but of this I am certain, that all the
SYinces of Germany are making the fame prepa
rations as are generally made at the near approach
of a war.
BOSTON, July 30.
An infiance demonfirative of the scarcity of cadi
occurred here a few days since. A vessel arrived
from South-Carolina, part of whose cargo confided
of about 1000 water melons, which weie fold for
from three to four Ihilliugs each. O luxury , how
rapid it thy decline /
Our trade with Great-Britain feemsto be taking
a favorable turn : Capt. Callahan, of the dtip Lu
crctia, on his arrival in this port the 16th ind. en
tered at the Naval-Office 4000 dollars in specie,
which were cleared out the Cudomhoufe in Lon
don for this place.
August 9. A vessel which arrived in this port
on Sunday from the Cape de Verdes brings ac
counts of an Ead Indiaman, belonging to the Eng
3i(h Ead-India Company, having been ead away
and entirely lod on the rocks near those iilands.
A number of the unfortunate crew have arrived in
the above vessel.
Auguj} 25. We hear from good authority, that
liis Excellency the Governor, by advice of Coun
cil has put a dop to any further enlidment of troops
ordered to be railed by the Lcgifiature in its lad
session, agreeably to the powers veded in hint by
the celebrated resolution of the 19th of June lad,
for quieting the disorders in this commonwealth;
and at the fame time has directed the officer in
command to reduce the number in service to too
men, officers included, on the 20th of Augud next
cmfuing. We mod fincerelv congratulate the pub
lic on this event, as it carries tbe very pleasing
evidence of thp commotions which have didurbed
f his date in the course of the last winter being in a
fairway to a happy adjudment.
An guff 31. The Supreme Executive of this
commonwealth have been pleased to grant a further
Vcfpite of seven weeks to Parmittir, M«Cullock,
Gale, and Shattuck, under fentenee of death for
tieafon, wbowere to have been executed onTburf
<lay uext.
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NEW-YORK, Augujl 16.
Yeflerday arrived the dtip Hope, in fix months
from Canton. She touched at St.' Helena on her
1* meward bound passage. The Jjeafon being late
when the Hope failed, die was detained by frequent
calms. This vessel is dcepljMddeo, and it is said
Iter cargo is very rich ; a circumflance which will
in a great degree compensate for all the anxieties
of her owners.
We learh from good authority, that Several of
the Northern tribes of Indians are disposed for
yar, as well as the Creeks to the southward, who
fittve been fuinifiicd with arms and ammunition for
the Woody purpose Ly mir gO»<I friends the Spa
niards of South America.
ExtraQ if a Utter from New-Haven, August 2.
« A circular letter is handing about the country,
recommending a kingly got'ernment for tbefeitates.
The writer proposes to fend to England for the
Bilhop of Ofnaburgh, second son of the King of
Great-Britain, and have him crowned King over
this continent. We have found by experience,
fays b'j, .that we have not wit enough to govern
ourselves; that all our declamation and parade
about irpublicanifm, liberty, property, and the
rights of men, are mere fluff and nonsense; and
that it is high time for us to tread back the way
ward path we have walked in these twelve years.
This plan, we are told, gains friends rapidly, and
it surely is neceflary for the great body cf the
people to be on their guard. The Federal Con
vention may save us from the worst of all curies,
(a Royal Government) if we are only wife enough
to adopt their recommendations when they lhall
be communicated to us.”
From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
Halifax , (Nova- June 2%, 1787.
Dear C*»*.
Every thing seems to wear a most promiling
afpeft on this fide the water—the frontier polls
being still in our poffeflion is a stroke of policy pe
culiarly in our favor—the rulers of your new em
pire do not seem to be fufficiently acquainted with
the many dangers that threaten its deflruftion—
your pufilanimity in fuffering Britain to retain the
frontier polls—the want of energy on your federal
head—the contrasted Hate of your commerce—
the Britilh reinforcing the garrisons of Canada —
the many thousands ot troops which were dilbaud
ed and became settlers in this province at the end
of the war, aud who are ready to fly to arms at a
moment’s warning, being tired of cutting down
trees and endeavouring to cultivate unfruitful lands
—are circuraftances which, unless guarded againfl,
will rend America in pieces, and, “ like the base
less fabrick of a vision, leave not a wreck behind ”
Keep these sentiments close, and by the firft op
portunity let me know what your Grand Conven
tion are about,
Your friend, &c.
R— S
N, B. Direcl for me as usual, and by the fame
conveyance
A letter from Paris mentions, that his Highness
the Prince of Conti lately declared to his Most
Christian Majesty, ** That if the ceconomy which
he has proposed in the management of his finances
be adopted, his Majesty would not-know what to
do with his money in 1791.”
We hear that “ Thirty thousand pounds sterling
have been remitted from Paris to two of the firft
commercial houses in London, for the purpose of
taking up such of Mr. Morris’s bills as became
due in May; and it was proposed that a surplus
would remain to pay part of those due in June.”
The debates of the Federal Convention continued
till five o’clock on Monday evening • when, it is
said, a decision took place upon the most important
question that has been agitated since the meeting
of this Assembly.
On the 19th of May last the very best Virginia
tobocco was felling at Dunkirk at little more than
8 i-ifd. sterling per pound.
A Boston Paper of the nth mft. fays, “ We
are informed that the French fleet, con lifting by
some accounts of io, and by others of 13 fail
failed from Cape Francois the 10th of last month]
bound for this port or New-York, as they Ihould
fall in with either. Yesterday We were happy to
hear, by a gentleman who left Cape Ann last Thurs
day morning, that, previous to his leaving that
place, a French frigate anchored in the harbour,
which had loft her rudder j that a gentleman who
went on board the frigate was informed by the
Captain that the other vessels of the fleet were in
the bay ; that the fleet confided ot 3 fail of the
line, io frigates, besides finaller vessels ; that an
American Captain who arrived at Cape Ann from
the Welt-Indies, informed him, that he saw about
10 fail of French vessels in the Bay; and that our
informant saw another French frigate bearing away
for Cape Ann, after having tried for some time to .
beat into our harbour. The vicinity of this town,
from the plenteousness of the' feafbn with which
heaven has been pleased to Bfefs us, being capable
of a supply of animal food and vegetables, fully
adequate to the consumption of this fleet, we with
pleafurc welcome our generous allies to our Ihores,
to partake with us in the blcflings we enjoy 1 allur
ing them - of the continuation, in all ranks of our
citizens, of that friend (hip, which was formed in
the hour of our admfity, and cemented by the
fefood of the brave of both nations.*
X® th« 20*17 inftaato of cmerprife for which
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dtar countrymen are celebrated, we feel a plaafute
in adding one undertaking in Bolton, of a voyage
to Kamfchatka, in Alia. The veflel fitting there*
fore, which, we are told, will be ready to fail ia
about fix weeks, are to be commanded by Captaii*
Kendrick. That no adverse gales may attend these
gallant circumnavigators, but the success of
the voyage may be equal to the moil sanguine ex
pectations formed from it, is our hearty with, &»
it must be that of every friend to enterprise and
commerce.
The coinage of federal CENTS, (coppers) we
are told, is carrying on, and we may expeft soon
to fee them in circulation among us. These will
free us from the impositions to which they are
now exposed from the foods of light half coined
Rritifh half-pence introduced among us; and as*
from the excellent monitorial caution , “ Mind your
'Bujintfs” imprefled on each of these, they may
prove au antidote to insurgency, they will doubt
less be held in high estimation.
Letters from Georgia mention the deplorably
situation of that Bate, and their daily expectation
of an Indian war. As they have nothing among
them but a paper currency, they are very indif
ferently prepared for such an event. From a va
riety of causes, this country has not much recover
ed herfclf since the peace. Her inhabitants were
considerably involved with British merchants and
others ; so that their old debts will be a great
drawback from the produce of their industry.
Their frontier settlers and the Indians are too often
a quarrelling, murders on both tides frequently
take place, and fotnetimes it is difficult to deter
mine who are the aggressors.
Augujl 29. On Thursday last a brig commanded
by Capt. Davis arrived at Philadelphia from Cape
Francois ; Hie brings accounts «hat before Ihe left
the Cape, au express had arrived there, informing
the government that the civil war in Holland had
risen to the greatest excess ; and France and Britain
had each of them sent ten fail of the line into tho
Texel to countenance their refpc&ive parties. It
is probable from these appearances that the wap.
will soon become general throughout Europe.
PHILADELPHIA, Augujl
The following paragraph is taken from the an*
fwer delivered by Prince William Henry to thead
drefs of the inhabitants of Halifax. The language
at this time of day is very absurd and impolitic:
“ This address from the inhabitants of Halifax
gives me the greatest pleafurc, from the fentimente
of loyalty and aftettioa contained in it for his Ma
jesty’s sacred person. I (hall take care to give the
King a just information of the sensibility his faith
ful and loyal fubjefts in this part of theßritilh era*
pire entertain for the manifold bleflings they enjoy
under his wife and mild government, and how
much more preferable they feel their situation in
their hearts than those unhappy and deluded men
do who have on this continent forfeited their fide
lity to their Sovereign, and the advantages arifrng
from being fubjefts to his Majesty.”
His Excellency General Walhington, attentive
to every thing interesting to Ms country, on Friday
last visited and examined the,Jteel furnace belong
ing to Nancarrow and Matlack, lately rebuilt, in
this city. It is much the largest and best con
ftrufted furnace in America, being charged witla
14 tons of iron, at that time, converting into fteel*
and his Excellency was pleased to express his ap
probation of it. The encouragement given by th,a
countenance of diftinguilhed char a tiers to manu
facturers among us is of much greater importances
to the public than many unthinking people art*
aware of.
Augujl 11. On the 27th ult. between five am#'
fix in the atyemoon, the Rev. Daniel Jones was
robbed near the Arsenal, by a horseman, Who
accosted him id the following lingular manner s
“ How dost thou, friend ?” (with a well imitate#
Quaker-like nod.) Will thou be so kind as tts
tell me which ferry I must cross to go to Lanca
ster ?** Having obtained his request, he proceeded s
“ As thou feemeft to be a man of a kind make, £
will venture to solicit a little cash to bear my ex
pences.* y To this Mr. Jones, surprised, but not
fufpiciou* of any evil design, replied: “ From youff
horse and apparel, Sir, you do not appear to km
needy man; besides, as lam not in a situation for
making presents, you must excuse me.” 1 ant
very sorry ” returned he, with that kind of cool
deliberation that usually defigaatca real concern of
mind, “ that a man of thy profeftion, for I perceive
that thou art a clergyman, ihould be so devoid of
faith and charity ; however here ia a little inftru'*
ment, (taking e pifol from she lift brtaft of hi*
coat) “ that (hall either endue thee with both of
these excellent gifts, or chastise thee for thy want
of them.” With these words, which were pro**
counted *0 a determined, but uot wrathful tones
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