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as to render the place incapable of
any vigorous defence.
There are now forty-nine trans
ports lying at Spithead, in reaclinefs
to fail with fir John Jervis. The
whole fleet will consist of upwards of
one hundred fail of transports, ten
fail of the line, with a proportionable
number of frigates.
A report is prevalent at Brighton,
that the French are collecting in
great force at Cherbourg, in order
to make a descent upon England.
The park and horse artillery are or
dered hack to camp, and forage con
tracted for a fortnight longer. The
quarters intended for the troops, are
to be changed for temporary barracks,
that will form a line of communication
along the coast, and it is therefore
supposed that ten regiments more will
immediately reinforce the encamp
ment.
November 2.
Letters from the imperial head
quarters at Brumpt, near Strasbourg,
Hate, that that city is very much in
clined to surrender, and has lent a
deputy to general Wurmfer, to ob
tain a capitulation.
The French great army is under the
cannon of Strasbourg, and a general
action is hourly expected to take place,
though the French do not fee in de
sirous of waiting this event.
On the 23d nit. the Prufiian heavy
artillery and the battering-trains were
transported from Mentz to Landau,
the flege of which fortrel's is now be
-come very serious.
A letter from Genoa of October 9,
confirms the report of the allies at
Toulon having gained a complete
vidory over the French army under
Carteaux on the 4th ultimo.
Lord Hervey has prevailed upon
the grand duke of Tul'cany to re
nounce his neutrality, and declare
himfelf aoffmft the French
o
It has been Hated in, the national
convention, on the 23d u’t. that the
royalists have experienced a very fig
D3l <!f feat in I •’ V< ndee.
Four new regiments are at present
to be formed from the independent
companies. The four colonels are,
Balrour, 23rd regiment ; Fletcher
Campbell 23d ; William Edmeflon,
50th ; Cornelius Cuyler, 55th.
A gentleman of the name of Erf
tine, high in the confidence of the
pope is coming to this country, in a
private capacity, for in a public cha
rafter he cannot come, to thank the
king and government of this country
for the honourable and active part
which they have taken in the present
war.
November 16.
This morning arrived the Flanders
and Dutch mails due yeHerday. The
principal intelligence is, that the camp
at Cifoing is broke up, and gone into
cantonments.
Letters from BruiTels of the 12th
inform us, that monsieur, brother of
the unfortunate Louis XVI. will be
acknowledged regent by Spain and
England. A courier is arrived ai
Ham, charged to solicit of the regem
commiflions for the officers of the re
giments forming at Toulon.
Captain Cooke, who brought the
dispatches from Toulon, Hates the
garrison there to be near fifteen thou
sand flrong ; yet the republican army
is so rapidly inireafing, that they ex
pelted in a few days to be in a com
plete fiate of liege. Many of the in
habitants of Toulon, terrified at the
threats of the republicans, in case the
city should he taken, have prayed
to be allowed to depart either for
Spain, Italy or England.
The duke of York unquestionably
returns to England immediately on
the allied armies moving into winter
quarters.
-TheEnglifh head quarters, during
the winter, will be at Tournav, on
the walls of which town all the heavy
artillery has been placed.
NEW YORK, January 6.
“ There is arrived in the Dela
ware, a ship from Cape Francois, by
which we are allured that the Spa
niards took poiTdlion of that city and
port, the capital of St. Domingo,
without the effufion of blood, on the
30th of lafl November ; the particu
lars of this important event will loon
be made known ”
January 8.
A vote has palled the house of re
prefentarives in congress, by a m jo
rity of ten, for railing a fma 1 navy of
frigates for the protection of our
commerce.
January 10.
The November packet is arrived
at Halifax, and haslet fail for England 1
again. One important piece of mtel- j
ligence brought by this vetfel, which
bears the (lamp of probability, and
has not yet been communicated to
the American public is, that a peace !
lias been proposed by the cabinet of
St. James’s, who feared a revolution
of the people, a descent from T ranee
a national bankruptcy, and the effect
of the defection of Prullia and the
United Netherlands.
This peace is to be fettled upon
the balls of the ancient re ations be
tween France and England ; but the
United States are to be left with
out countenance from either party, no
new advantage is to be granted to
her commerce, and her means of ag
grandizement are not to be afiilted.
To give fuccels to this negotiation,
the court of London has communi
cated confidentially to the executive
council, an exalt account of (he. tame
conduct of tile American government,
towards France, during the war.
This communication has not had all
the effect the Engliih miniffry intend
ed i 1 to produce, to the diladvantage
of the American inter, (t and charac
ter ; Franc# will never lorget her
elder idler republic, the country
where liberty had hat* birth ; but
the delufioh of a people too trank and
open to rebut the mhdious (Jettons. o!
nek insidious enemies ought to be no
more, and it is time they thould (brink
from the precipice on the brink of
which they Hand.
PHILADELPHIA, December 28.
The ship lately arrived at New-
Vork from Li fuon, brings information
that the Spaniards have, (nice the
truce between the Algerines and tfie
Portuguese, given to the form r a
74 gun ship ; that the convoy ot Por
tugtiefe armed veflels which isprornit
eJ the Americans, are to accompany
them to the diltance of near 400
leagues from the coaH.
It is reported, that the late official
accounts from Lisbon Hate, that the
convoy intended to have been grant
ed to the American (hipping in the
ports of Portugal will he withheld
through the feprefentations of the
rnimffers of the Spanitb and Britilh
courts, who fay that granting this
convoy would be a breach of the
truce with Algiers : it is also (aid.
that this truce was made for the firlt
mentioned power by the interference
ot thole courts.
January 6.
We have it from very good autho
rity, that a peace is on the tapis be
tween all die beliigerant powers of
Europe, except France, Anltria and
Spain.
PITTSBURGH, December 28.
Ext r a:l of a letter from Fort JVafhington,
dated November 1 4, to a gentleman in
this town.
< I received a letter a few days ago
from the Fa Is, informing me that an
expedition is there preparing agairdt
Louifiaua, under the command of the
well known general Clarke, who (fays
my informant) is appointed a major
general in the armies of France, and
commander in chief of the French
revolutionary legion on the Milfi
fippi, See. That a pay-mafier is ac
tually arrived with caffi, and also
tome French artillery officers ; forty
odd boats on anew conftructiou arc
to be budt at that place, as (oon as
pollible ; that blank commiflions are
lent to the general to be filled at his
plealure ; that the legion is to be on
a lite eftablifhnient, the fame as in
Trance; that public plunder is to be
relinquithed to the troops, and they
are to receive lands in the conquered
country consonant to grade ; and that
after the war they (hall not be liable
to be called out of the country, but
are to garrison it.’
CHARLESTON, January 2t.
Captain Pelor, of the brig Charles
ton, in 5a days passage from Gibral
tar, hasfurnilhed us with the follow
ing inte ligence :
, That with re (peel to the pacifica- i
tion which has taken place between
the Portuguese and Duich, and the
Algerines, without previously notify
ing the negociutiou between them to
the Americans, it isgencrally thought,
in that place, it was pur on foot at the
infligation of the Britilh miniflry, in
order to exclude American vefTel -
from participating in the trade of the*
Mediterranean, which has lately be„
come of great importance. 1 hat in
consequence of this pa ideation, the
Algerines have captured in the courle
of fieven weeks, fourteen American
veflels, between Cape St. Vincent
and Malaga. That this information
was communicated to captain Prior
by the captain of a Portuguese frigate,
which came direlby from Algiers,
with dispatches to Lisbon ; but wh th,
by reason of contrary winds, was
obliged to put into Gibraltar Bay.
That the frigate had on board a large
patket of letters from the unfortunate
prilbners of the Algerines, addressed
to the care of mr. Buckley, merchant,
at Lilbon. That the wretched litua
tion of the prisoners was beyond de
scription, with irons upon their legs,
ribbed of their clothes, allowed but
a fagged shirt and a pair of trowfers
eacli, and kept at hard labour. That
the captain of the frigate informed
captain Pelor, that he w'as an eye
witness to this deplorable oppression,
under which the captains as well as
common sailors indiscriminately la
boured. That, about the 141 bof
October, the whole of the Algerine
fleet, confift*ng of one 40 gun frigate,
three of 32 guns, three of 20, and a
number of fmailer armed veflels,
from 2to 14 guns, pad’d by Gibral
tar, and tailed to the weft ward. Cap
tain P. think, that not one American
vefiel, which was bound to Gibraltar,
Cadiz, Malaga, or further Up the
(freights, from the beginning of Oc
tober, to the end of November, could
eficape being captured by them. T hat
while captain Pelor lay at Gibraltar,
lie law an Algerine pals, with a prize
in tow, which he took to he ari Ame
rican. That the captain of the Por
tuguese frigate further informed, that
when he failed, all the Algerine ves
sels were in port felling their prizes
(except one 20 gun ship) and would
be ready for anodier cruize the firfl
eafferly wind. This circumllance
was pi #a ling to all the Americans
there, it afforded them an opportu
nity of coming through the {freights
before the Algerines could get as far
as Gibraltar, and feeing the 20 gun
frigate then going up. That the cap
tain of the Portuguese frigate, whose
name is Shanetchia, very humanely
offered to take captain Pelor under his
convoy, to the westward of Cape St.
Vincent’s, which captain Pelor very
readily and thankfully accepted. 1 his
conduct in the captain of the Portu
guefe frigate was the more polite and
generous, as a day or two previous
thereto, a Portuguese 64 gun ship,
commanded by an Englishman, came
into the Bay, and refufed to take the
American veflels in that port under
his convoy to Lilbon, to which hs
was bound, although strongly solicited
by the captains.
Captain Pelor confirms the account
of tiie total defeat or the Spanish ar
my, and fays, that they left upwards
of io.oco men killed and wounded,
with a number of pieces of cannon,
ammunition and ('tores; and chat the
h rench were making preparations to
attack Fou I on.
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NASSAU (N- P.) January 10.
On YVedneiday his majesty’s frigate
Hullar, commanded by captain George,
called off litre, and yeiierday failed
for the coat! of America-
The llutf-ir lent in two American
fcho0 tiers, viz. the Success, Curry,
and Fredeiickfburg Packet, Anderson,
from Phi adclphia tor Cape Francois,
laden with provillons. Both tliefe
vends, we understand, are at liberty
either to di'pofe of their cargoes here,
or to proceed to fome other Britilh or
neutral port.
SAVANNAH, February i.
On the 22d ult. the Hoop Ranger,
ofHudfon, from ‘Turk’s 111 and, bound
for this port, endeavouring to get in
to Charleston, in bad weather, was
loft on the bar, and the crew sup
posed to be aT drowned.
It is propoted by congress, that an
additional duty (hail be laid upon the
manufactures of luch nations as have
no commercial treaty with che United
Stares ; also on the (flipping of filch
nations, an additional tonnage and,
liniil.tr reflriltions to thole which they
have laid on the trade and commerce
of tnefe Hates.
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Po R T NEWS.
ENTERED INWARD.
Sib Oner Savannah Packet, Dichenjon, CharleJloA
— 1 ‘Joint, Miner, Charleflon
CLEARED OUTWARD.
t!rin Ann, Findlay , Jamaica
Schooner Nancy, Pendleton, Charleflon
Sloop Eagle, Roft, Charlejion
WILLIAM GILLELA.ND,
this method of acquainting his
friends and the public, that he has com
menced teaching in Mr. Whiteford's house,
next door to Mr. Khhinger’s; where he teaches
I reading, writing, arithmetic, vulgar and deci
mal fnuillons extraction of the square and
cube roots, the Italian method of book-keep
ing, Hawnev’s mensuration, surveying by la
titude and departure, navigation, Julians ca
lendar, plain, oblique, and spherical trigono
metry, dialling, See. and hopes his alliduity
and method of communicating inftrunions to
his pupils, will meet with the approbation of
thole who may favour him with the tuition of
their children.
N. B. He also teaches a night fchool, for
those who cannot attend in the dav.
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