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charge, so far as to be commit
ted to goal, or to have him bound
it) recognizance to appear before
any Court of Record for further
trial, and have since either broke
goal or from the custody of the
officer, or have forfeited iheir re
cognizance, and have fled from
the laws of the Rate where the
crime was committed, and have
come to this stare for refuge to
the great prejudice of the fame,
Be it therefore enacted by the au
thority aforefaid, That any perlon
now within the limits of this
slate, or that may hereafter come
within the lame, who may have
been found guilty of any feloni
ous crime prior to his coming
within this state, so far as to h ive
been committed to goal for the
fame, or to have been bound in
recognizance to appear before any
Court of Record for further trial,
and have since broke goal, or
from the custody of the officer,
or have forfeited their recogniz
ance, and have fled from the laws
of the state where the crime was
committed and done; in any such
case the said person or persons
shall be deemed and adjudged
vagrants, and fuhjedt to all the
pains and penalties exprefled in
this law, and shall be confined in
goal until applied for by the Exe
cutive authority of the state where
the crime was committed, or
until the Executive or this state
shall find it convenient to fend
such offender or offenders, under
a fafe guard, to the state where
the crime was committed and
done.
By Order of the House ,
N. BROWNSON, Speaker.
Augnfta t February i, 1788.
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LONDON, November 1.
BY letters from St. Peterlburgh we are in
formed that a dreadful famine prevailed
in the southern parts of Rufiia, which has un
til lately been industriously concealed from
public notice. Thousands of people are to
be seen on the roads fouth of Mufcow, beg
ging with the most pitious Applications for
bread. The calamity has been occasioned by
the failure of the crops for these three years
pad, and roust unavoidably suspend for a time
the warlike operations of that empire. •
The objeft of contention between this king
dom and France is now confirmed to have
been the full and complete re-efiablilhment
of the Stadtholder, and fevering the United
Provinces from their dependent connexion
with France. The Court of Versailles, find
ing themselves unable to contend with the
combined force of and Pruflia,
were oeiv anxious, having 101 l the fubftancc,
t® preserve the fliadow, and to concede what
flic could not retain in terms as little humili
ating as pofliblrto the pride of a high spirited
nation.
In consequence of this accommodation the
navy will be immediately brought back to its
former eftabliftiment, but the array having
been reduced lower than was proper to serve
a temporary purpose. the opportunity that
lias offered for augmenting it will not be ne
glerted. The two additional companies to
each regiment will be continued; so that etch
regiment will con fill of ten companies inft,ead
of eight; but the eleventh or recruiting com
pany will not be continued.
The King of Prussia, we aFe informed,
communicated by his AmbalTador a few days
ago to the Court of France, that it was not
h:s intention to withdraw his army from the
United Provinces until the feverai corps at
Ainfteidam, and elsewhere in the provinces,
fliould Ihew a determined resolution to return
to their duty ; and, by giving the fatisfaftion
required by his Pruflian Majesty, acknow
ledge. the lovereignty of the States General.
But his Majelly added, that as soon as those
things- were done it would not he his with to
interfere in the arrangement of the internal
affairs of the provinces j aud more especially
if he perceived a difpofltion to adjust them
according to the ancieut couftitutiou of the
country.
Not a word has been fail?, as far as ap
pears, concerning the fortifications at Gher
burgh ; and whether those who have been
loudest in favor of the Miuifter’s aftivity, se
crecy, and vigour, will be fatisfied that he
has made the belt possible use of the opportu
nity that was offered to him, and availed
Imnfelf fufficiently es the force which the
returnees of the country, and the concurring
voice of the public, had put into his hands,
remains to be afeertained. We are now made
acquainted with the advantage we have ob
tained, and may examine? t at lieufure, we
fliall soon be informed of the price wq mult
pay.
Trincomale, the Cape of Good Hope, and
the deftruflion of the works at Cherburgh,
aie still fllid to be the objects of approaching
war “" o hjeOs well worth contending for, par
ticularly the latter, which of late has in
creased, through the unremitting diligence of
the Fiench nation, to such an unexpected
height, as to induce the King of France to
ailume of late the additional title of King of
the 11a' row seas ; a presumption that would
heretofore have roused every particle of blood
in the veins of an Englilhman ; and notwith
standing the degeneracy of the present age,
it is still hoped that such measures will not
only be taken, but put into execution, as to
convince the aspiring .Gaul that Britannia is
determined to support the charter that she de
rived from nature.
Peace is at length fettled, but whether it
will continue long is very doubtful. The
Counter Declaration of the French Court is
perhaps a paper as iufidious, and contains
more double entendres than any thing of the
kind on record.
A correspondent aflures us, and pledges
himfetf for the truth of it, that there are at
this moment ip (hips of the line in the ports
of Spain, completely manned and viftualled,
and ready to put to sea at 48 hours notice.
What the destination es so llrong a squadron
is he does not fay, as not being in the secrets
of the Cabinet of Madrid; but, from letters
from the capital, lie aflerts, that the general
opinion there is, that if the Ruffians enter the
Mediterranean this squadron is destined to
oppose them.
Extract of a letter from Conflantinople , Sept. 25.
u Various and uncertain are the reports
here—some fay that Oczakow is taken, and
that the Turks have been beaten with great
slaughter—others fay that the Turkilh fleet
has bcea destroyed—but the uoft probable and
most certain is as follows j On -ft
a boat arrived from Oczakow with 13
oot of which number r z were much wound*
ed, and died of the wounds they had receive
cd * Th V related that they had been in an
action again!! the Ruffians, that the Ruffian*
(- inadc an attack on the’ Ottoman fleet then
lying at Oczakow, the Ruffians had con*
ftrurtsd several bomb boats, by which means
the Turkish Vice Admiral’s thip, of 74 guns,
took fire and blew up, two other (hips of the
line ran athore and were burnt, the remainder
cut their cables and ran oflf.
“On the 18th several (hips of the line,
which lay for forne time at the mouth of the
’ Black Sea, together with a few frigates, let
fail, but there (till remain here foqae fewfrv*
gates, and since their departure we have had
much bad weather, and a very strong notbef*
ly wind has prevailed
“ On the 24th a fliip of 54 guns, under
Ruffian colours, appeared at the mouth of the
B»ick Sea, under her m ien, having loft hep
mam aud foremaft ; when (he entered the porfc
ftie hauled down her colours, and delivered
he feif up to the Turks. It appears that Ihe
was in company with nil* (hips of the line;
that when the fturm came on they were fe*
parated; the Ihip of 64 guns, commanded
by one Captain Tifdale, loft her main and
fore malt, and had got much water in hen
hold, upon which the Captain made direttfoij
this port; (lie has since been brought down,
and is found to have water up to her lawe£
decks; the men on board her, to the nmn*
ber of 350, 250 having died in the
were all put in irons, the Captain not ex«
cepted. This is a great loss to th* Ruffians,
they having only three (hips of so many guns,
the rest being frigates, gun boats, and fmaU
lei ones that were launched when her Impe*
rial Majelty was in the Crimea, not beina
ready; yet it is now the Turk* begin to ba
insolent, and (hew their courage, by attack*
ing paflengers, and Franks in general, and
do homage to their prophet for what they owe
to the badness of the weather. If then this
Ruffian ihip has so much fullered by bad wea*
ther, under the command of an experienced
seaman and an Englilhman, what must the •
Turkifti fleet have fuffered, aud those Ihipe
which departed the 18, as the greatest parb
of their commanders and seamen were neves
at sea before ? We every moment expert to
hear from the Black Sea on this head. There
remain in this port two (hips of the line aud
five gallies”
The exart order and regularity observed by
the Prussian troops before Amsterdam is an
unpa r alleled instance of the feverc and rigid
discipline of that service, in which it is witb
forae reason asserted, that a soldier dares nob
even think but by the word of command.
The displeasure of the French, in the lase
humiliation of their Cabinet, is not confined
to Patis aud Versailles, even London rings
with their complaints, and there is scarcely
a P renchman to be met with in a coffee room
or public place who does not venture to aflur#
you, very gravely and ferioully, that the bu«
fmefs is by no means concluded.
The States of Utrecht' have publiflied a»
order requiring all the armed societies and vo
lunteers of the province to lay down theia
arms, cockades, and colours, within fifteen
days, those who refufe to be punithed.
Most of the Imperial troops undermention*
ed are already on their march towards th©
frontiers of Turkey, and which., with those
under marching orders for the fame deftin**
tion, amount to
94 battalions of infantry, of 140® men
cach » - - 135*3*3
3 battalions artillery, 1000 each, 3,00®
63 divisions of cavalry, 400 each. 25,00®
In the whole 163,56®
To command which the following the Go*
acral Officers are appointed, vis* l Chief Gcg