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(yredly it would not Le honorable. Quixotifra
irfelf wonfd hardly attempt such a meafurc. How
ever the Spaniard* would probably begin with you,
kecaufe you arc at hand and you have much to lo(e,
but we have not any thing except your houCcs,
cattle and lands; to thi® fliort inventory may pof
ftbly be added a considerable number of unpo
lished citizens, whom the Spanish negotiators
would count as worse than nothing. It is pof-
Able, however, that Spain may pursue other mea;
fures, for we are told that Die has others in con
templation. Perhaps (lie may fend troops up the
U river, and endeavour toeftablifti pods on the Ter
reffee, or on some other water of the Ohio. This
is a step that we look for. It would naturally
bring on a serious difcudion of territorial claims ;
or you may be rather pleased to call it an experi
mental enquiry concerning the meaning of trea
ties and the rights of inen. There may be a
great deal more involved in this question than peo
ple are apt to fufpeft. During the progress of
the enquiry, we may poflibly discover, that the
; claims of Spain to certain territory beyond the
Tidiff’fippi arc not well founded. Be it remember
ed, that Spain aderted her claim to that country
two hundred years ago, in the presence of un
armed savages, and nobody (ince that time has
taken the trouble to examine her title deeds. I
formerly observed that datefmen are not usually
guided by the mod obvious rules of judice; but
when you have reviewed the several treaties- that
I have just mentioned, and when you have consi
dered what will be the probable operation of those
arguments that are commonly ufed* to explain
treaties, you will allow me to express my surprise,
that Spain diould put so much at dake for so trif
ling an objeft. That flic would forfeit the repu
tation of good faith, and hazard other things that
are more fubdantial for the mere pleasure of di
ftrefiing a few honed .planters, who are only de
flrous t«c paddle their canoes up and down the
Miflifippi.”
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 24.
/T HE fird division of the fleet is anchored un
der the guns of Oczakow, the garrison of
which has been reinforced, and the fortifications
are enlarging considerably. The two other divi
dons are united, and form 13 fliips of the line,
60 frigates, a number of (loops, bombs, &c.
making in all 33 (hips of war ; they are anchored
at the mouth of the Bofphorus, and are preparing
to fail into the Black Sea, Bekir Bey, who has
been laifed to the dignity of Pacha, and appoint
ed Seralkier of this fleet, has taken the command
of it.
squadron of 12 small xebecks, is arrived from
the Archipelago, and is going to join the fleet.
The troops continue marching towards those
provinces in which the Porte has thought proper to
form camps, which will be considerable this dim
mer.
June 23. The lad letters from Aleppo, dated
the 3 id ult. advise, that the plague raged there
with such violence, as to carry off from 1000 to
isooperfons daily. This place happily continues
free from the contagion.
BARCELONA, June 19.
• Arrived a small xeberk with difparches for go
vernment from Algiers. She has not been al
lowed to perform quarantain, or have any com
munications with (bore; but it has transpired that,
on her leaving the above place the 14th inflant,
about 160 people continued to die there of the
plague every 24 hours.
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MADRID, July 8.
The naval department of the Indies, held by
. the late Marquis of Sonora, as well as that branch
of the departments of War apd Finances which
relates to South-America, has been conferred on
Motif. Me Valdes, Minifler of Marine. Don
Antonio Porlicr, Fiscal of the Council of the In
dies, is p'aced at the head of the Civil and Ec
clefiad’.eal branches, or what is here called the
department of Gracially Jufticia \ d Don Fran
eifeo Monino is appointed Governor of the Coun
cil of the Indies.
Naples, June *9. -
Mount Vesuvius continues throwing up a
great quantity of Scoriae, and the Lava
runs briskly from a new opening, a little below
its Crater, but does not defeeud so low as to do
any damage to the cultivated parts of the moun
tain. . .
BREST, June zo
By a late surrey of the naval flores, and the re
presentations of the several boards of works
throughout the kingdom, it is declared that a
fufficient quantity of materials are deputed in
the public flores and magazines for the equipment
of too fail of the line.
FRANKFORT, July 17.
We hear this moment, that sixty thousand Au
strian troops, have received orders to march to
wards the Low Countries belonging to the Em
peror. The regiment of Bender, which was at
Brifgaw, is already on the way, and the others
are getting ready as fall as possible. A camp is
to be formed, in case there is not fufficient room
to quarter them in the towns. The army is to
be divided in four divisions ; but the general ren
dezvous is to be in the county of Luxembourg.
The regiments who are to compose it, are as fol
lows : Infantry, Bender, Stein, Langlois, Fer
dinand Tofcana, Pellegrini, Samuel Juliy, Archi
due Ferdinand, Anttune Efterhazy, Terzi, Gem
mingen, Neugobauer, Btechainville, Howenet,
Stader, Reder, Alviazi, Aveiuhe ; m, Theirheirr,
Schindler, Nadalti. Cavalry, Waldeck,
Cheveux Legers, Richecourt, Hadick HouLrds,
four companies of Artilleiy, and some Pioneers;
it is laid General Haddick is to command it.
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C L E V E S, July ir.
His Majesty has given orders for the virch of
40 battalions and 30 squadrons, as also a party of
huflars, making in lire whole an armv of between
50 and 60,000 men. The Regency, he Council
of war, and the Chamber of Fiuance, have had
an extraordinary aflembly, and every thing is
prepared here for the reception of the troops
Orders have been issued to the farmers to fend all
their horses to a fixed place, where such as are fit
for traufporting artillery are to be fclerted.
HAG U E, Julv 7.
We learn from Nimeguen, that her Royal
Highness the Princess of Orange and Naflau, ar
rived there last night between eight and nine
o'clock.
We learn for a certaiqty, that there has been
yesterday and the day before, a dreadful tumult
at Zuphcti. Upwards of aoo houses have beeu
pillaged.
The following is a copy of a mijjtve, written to the
S atts General by the St adt bolder t ref petting tbe
feizu' t of the Princes of Orange •
High and Mighty Lords ,
We are this moment informed with certainty,
that her Royal Highness, our dear consort, has
been flopped on her road from Nimeguen toGra
venhage, near the city of Schoonhoven, by a party -
of armed burghers and military, and carried back
to the said city, where her Royal Highness is de
tained in cuflody, in the name of the Committee
of the States of Holland. We need not observe
to your High Mightineflcs, how much our feelings
are hurt by this outrage againfl her illullrious per
fou, who is so dearly attached to us. Your High
Mightinefles mull easily conceive that we cannot
remain unconcerned at the insult ftiewn us, our
House, and to the person of a Royal Princes; and
we expert, with a full afTurance, that your High
Mightinefles will take such ineafures that her
Royal Highness will be inflantly relieved from pre
sent detentios, and set at full liberty. We like
wise expert that your High Mightinefles will not
remain unconcerned, when our honour, our dear
consort, and our children, are insulted ; and that
the said insult done to our consort, will assert you,
and be soon repaired, especially as we cannot ex
pert that the Royal Houses to which our Royal
Consort and we are related, will be indifferent
when such an outrage has been committed.
We remain, Sec.
W. PRINCE of ORANGE.
Amersforty June 29, 1787.
We hear the motives for flopping the Princess of
Orange in her way to the Hague, were the com
motions which ic was feared her presence there
might occaliou.
Nothing can equal the alarm which has been
caused by the Princess of Orange having been
taken. Guards are now flationed at all the avenues
of the public roads leading to or from the Hague,
as well as the patroles; which arc constantly pa
rading the Areets night and day.
The bold enterprise planned and executed by
Lieut. Col. Balnavis does too much honor to his
courage and presence of mind to omit mentioning
the particulars of that occurrence* That officer,
who had been suspended by the States of Holland
for having remained faithful to his oath, presented
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himfelf, in consequence of the orders Os the Coun
cil of State, before Oudewatcr, to resume hie
pofl, JL»ut they refufed him entrance into the
city. He got himfelf introduced, however,
disguised in the habit of a peasant, driving a care
loaded with greens. At a signal which he mad*
to his brave soldiers, who were acquainted before
hand with his arrival, and who waited for him on
the ramparts, they came to him, and sword in
hand forced the guard of the patriots, and in
troduced him into the city. He immediately
marched with his troops toColonel Vancitters, the
commander of the city, who was ffill in bed, jand
made him prisoner. The alarm being given, the
officers in vain did every thing in their power to
retain their men v one of them was even bold
enough to force his way through the crowd, and
prefen t a piflol to Mr. Balnavis, but was happily
flopped in time and made prisoner, together with
many others of his comiifts, among whom they
found a great number of French names.
Mr. Balnavis was sure of them, he aifembleif all
the foid.ers in the city, to the number of about
600, including .those of the regiments of Stuart,
and Grenier, seized the magazine, out of which
he took every thing he wanted, as well as the
treasure of the battalion, and, after having spiked
the cannon, he went out with drums beating and
colours flying.
UTRECHT July 9.
The horrors committed at Middlebourg surpass
all that can be imagined. The capital of Zeland
is an image of deitrurtiou, the Orange taction
having put all iu fi.e and blood. y
LONDON, July 12.
A letter in town, brought by the last Dutch
mail, favs, that on the 6th inst the Prince of
Orange attacked and took the city of Wyck. No
particulate are mentioned; the fart, however, is
pofitivelv afferred, and the authority from which
the letter comes is refpertable.
Messengers a id counter-meflengers are pa fling
and re-pafling daily from the Hague; Privy Coun
cils are summoned daily, they determine and un
determine ; but those undetermined measures will
last but a few days; decisive questions are put,
and categorical answers ifluft be returned, as the
fate of Holland, and probably the fate of Eng
land, depends upon them.
The court of Spain is about to declare againfl
Algiers—that piratical state having violated tho
late treaty, and begun their usual depredations oti •
the Spanith (hips. The Spanifti lhip that was car
rying out seven hundred thousand pieces, as re
mainder of the ransom money demanded by thi
Dey, has received orders to repair to Carthagena,
in consequence of some private advices of a very
alarming tendency received from the Spanifti Con
sul at Algiers.
Letters from Oftend fay, that the American
trade at that port is on the decline, no less than 14
(hips under Congress colours having lately failed
from thence without having found a vent for their
cargoes.
Three (hips from Charleston, laden with indigo
and other valuable goods, have been lately cap
tured by the Algerines.
Extratt of a letter from Dublin , dated July 4,
“ A fev? days ago an American veflel from
Philadelphia, freighted with a cargo of tar, to
bacco, Sec. arrived here, and, while the mailer
came on ihore in order to make his invoice, the
tide waiters went on board, and searching :he vef
lel, they found 213 pieces of nankeens, andwb ; ch
of course they seized; the matter hearing what
had happened went on board, and immediately
set fail with the two revenue officers along with
him. who by much entreaty, he landed on the
rocks near Howth, and the veflel got clear off.
The consequence must have been, if the matter
had not thus failed out of pursuit, that the whole
cargo would have been forfeited on account of
having those prohibited goods on board.”
From Utrecht we learn, that, in the night be
tween Saturday and Sunday fe'ennight, a body of
1000 men, in two divisions, commanded by tbe '
Rhingrave of Salra, and the other by Lieutenant
General Vander Boch, marched from thence to
attack the out posts of the Stadtholder's camp. A
smart ikirmiih ensued, in which they killed seve
ral horsemen, of Vander Hoop's regiment. Trhejt
returned tn U trecht on the Bth inst. Two hun*
dred of the Stadtholder’s troops have deierted,
and come into Utrecht.
Accouuts from France speak very, positively of
hostile preparations there, and that 29 ihips of
the line and 13 frigates, at fitting out with, gfl
possible d iff act h,
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