The Newport gazette. [volume], September 23, 1779, Image 3

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Hore, Brown, Torto's; B i'en, Il.rdcal
tle, Tcb go. Thary pared with the Lon
don flee he 8 1, at four o'clock in the
s ierho B, 25 | sgu s Wek of scilly, ander
corvoy ef e St. Albaz’, of 64, aud Iy,
of 50 gue, aed an armed vefiel ; another
arwed vedel, mh) was td have failed with
them, was Surat the night beicre t2ey came
Ou.'l)
On the 211 o't. failed frem Corke his
Mijft’s the Leviaren, Capt Brewn,
with the Weit Indie flaet uader her convoy :
a-d be fame ¢ y faied for New York, bis
M j= v's thi» Roebu k&, Cipt. Sir Alexan
d: Harm nd, ard the D:ligh: floop of
w r, Copt Inglis, with the tiade for New-
York, ued.r ther convey, corfiliag of
§ 1y totl,
Exc «ét of a lotter from Plvemou:h, July 30.
CA v ks Ma iy’ thip i, Admiral
Graver, o Bta R't:'ss
¢ P.fled bst.e 3i. Aiba-"s man of war,
god 5o ke iy, wi i the trade fram the
Lz ware til:.de, all wel,
““ Airivec th R:m l'es mas of wer, frem
acuz, aod failledag ia, wi h ‘he Pr.dec:
mea cf «ar, 10 j Qa2 Sir Chasles Hardy”
flect, wh ch are muw ia fight ¢ff thie Har
b u.”
Ext s@ falet'er ‘rom Livernael, Ju'y 30
“ A ived the Jecny, Gil, frem M:gq.
ferrat; Befs, Purry, a d Ifibsiia, Wileman,
from St. Vincent’s ; B-.cders, Hafl:l4ixe,
sed B:idgt. Gibcdy, fiom Grensds, Se
veal mo:e of be fleei are in fight.
“ The Bloflso, frem hence for Africs,
has :k a aed carried izco dlige a fauw,
I'de with teb.cen, lice and indigo, from
Caro oa.”
Ext-a& of a letter from Brifto!, July 28.
“* Or Morday laft here was a Mesusg
st the Gu idh.il, ta railz a fublcription- ia
p've bouziies t 3 msa enteriog lato the
Kiag's f2:vfte, when it was agreed to give
g ot fict sco whd thould enter litg
tne R oaulus, anc 3l.tothe i @ 500 wha
fhoed emer Into ¢ ¢ Marnes, over and
povesiiother b uatier ; and a iubfeription
-was sotered wooa scs rcragly, when above
1700 . was fubicibed. ui: Johs Durbia
was ch.fen to the Casir, who read to the
Meceting & paper d.claring the bafiaefs they
were ca led upos, which was immediatzl)
azrred to,”
Ex altof a letter from the Hague, Joly 27
“* We hear that the memorial prefen:cd
lak Tharflay, by tae Eaglith Ambaflid
to the Staizs General, was, ths fame day,
ccmmuaicaied to the States of Hollsad, ane
the nix: dav feat to the re of the Con'e
, derates for their opi-iony wpoa this :imoer
t4nt fabj & In the meaa time it is bel'ey
ed, tac the States are noi (irey this memo
rial has tn‘ervezed, as they ace by tha
meats difgenfed from thinkiog ot the con
voy to be granted to naval fapplies, &
which muit be put afide tili this much mor
important . Fiir is decided ; particularly s
wt are iaformed that the pr-viaces of Guel
d:rland, Zta and, Fricfland, sad Grocin
gen, hav: delivercd their anfwers relativ
to the coavoy, by which it is fsund the
are againil the grantiag it,
The following Memorial to their Hizh
Mightin fles the Siztes of the U.ied
Proviaces, ras b-en prefeated by Sir
{of:ph Yorke, the Ambaflador from his
ritannick Majefty ;
High and Mighty Lords,
INCE France, by the declerstion
S made at London on the 135 of March
lalt year, folly difcovered the vaft asd den
erous defi. ns which the Family C-mpaQ
t,d bef>re anncunced to Eu-ope, this part
of the wor'd muft bear witnefs to the wiidom
ard moderation of the King ‘of Great
B itsin, who endeavoured 10 ward cff tke
ealzmiiies of war, avoiding, & much as
poiible, engaging his neighbours and aliies
ia it.
A conde@ like this, founded in the moft
pointed moderation, fo much emboldened
the Court of Varfaill=s, thac af er pe fidi
oully encouraging jof reoel fubjets, wnd.r
the ak o: libe ty, commercs, and inge.
pendence, to plunge a p ignard ieto the
beat of their mother couni.y ; France, not
contented with {o hoftile a préceeding, has,
wishout amy mationa quarie/, drawn Spaia
into its vi we, a'd wi nout any piaufibe
reafons 10 colour the d fizn, isma.i gevery
peparation t.atan impzrous diip fition
can dict e o invade the Bric fh Iflsads.
%:0n he ne s f thefeexr (d narv and
great prepera ions, your Higu Mi biioeflos
Cannet ba j-ilify the prefli g aud etered
inftences which J.he King o Great Britain
couli not but make t. y - u rel tive (0 .be
paval armament ; atd ths o (orious dan
ger of Englead wili no doub: co.vince all
the fubjeéts of thefe Piovim es, who have
hi:herto fp-ke againit it, of ths necafiity of
tais requ-it of my court,
But thofe motives, which were only p:i
liztiv:s to preveet an evil, are no» eut of
feafon, ihe d n:eris brcome imaiaent, snd
the rem-dy muft be fpeecy. Ths flipula
tions of a treaty, f.unded on the intsrefts
of iade Only, muft g've wiy to t .ofe fouade
¢d on the deareft inierefts of the two naijves,
The momeat is come to cecide whether
G eat Britain, who has {7lli fo mech blaod
ond experdes_fo mach trealure to fu:cour
others, and (3 maintaiu libery a.d religi
on, is to have mo other reiowrce: agsintt
the malice and envy of her enewies, ihan
her own coursgs, and her owa i.termal
it eagth ; whe her fhe is to be aband. ned
by rer mcft ancient friends acd a lies, to
the ambiticus views of the Houfe or Bour.
bor, waica would cruth all to ieigu «ver
sll, ard whether Earope in general, sad
your Higi M ghtimeflss in par:icaler, will
with indiffercace e a Iyflen eft.b.ifh d,
which will evideutly deftroy that equinbn
em which is the enly gui.antee of y.ar
eommerce,iider y,and even exift n:e itfo f.
The Kiag, High aad Migh'y Lords, has
100 high an cpinién of the w.derfandicy,
the good faith, and the witdom of the Re
pudlic, to doudt » m ment of t ¢ f:a i
ments of your High Migtireies ou this
occaficn. A nauva, whofe hßtoy coa.
tvins fcarcely awy thing but the detail of
the dangers which the ambitioa of France
as fac:zifie.ly creatsd, whnofs b:t day,
begaa with (heir amion with Begliad : [a
fhort, a nation accullomed 0 +x:@ ghe
literal execwtioa of & hard treaty, has
too meck geneofi.y sut-to fa!fil thofe
which bave united the interefts of the two
nations upwards of a ceatury.
It s in thir perfuatiae, joioed to all that
is hsld moft ficred among men, that the
underwriti®a Ambafl«dorExirae disary and
Pleaipotentiary from the Kiog of Great
Britais, has, by exprefs order, the hesour
to notify to your High Mighiineffes, thac
tte dinger which thre. tons his kicgdoms
neceflizates his Msjelly to reclaim, wiihout
lofs of time, the fuccou s f'pulated in the
trestios of 1678, and others, and of which
tte Cajus Foderis is fo fully expl.ined in the
' {epara:@ ariicie of 1716. His Majeity ex.
| peßs the fame with confidence from &
" peighbaur who bas mever fail-d in bis en
) grgements, and for the st confides im the
divine beoediion on the jullas(s of his
caule, and on the fidelity and valogr of his
2 fubjeQle.
A The underwritten wa'ts wi'h tbe.gmet'
- impatience for a itft, fpeedy, and favour
U able safwer, and is ready to confer with
t the depu'izs of your High Migh inefl*s on
" what fteps are further roceflary to be taken
. (Signed) OSEPH YORKE,
0 Hame, Taly 02, v 3. =
NEWPORT, Septem. 23,
Yefte day arrived here the Mip Willisw,
James Wignell Mafer, in 6 Weeks and ¢
Days, from Liverpoal, by whem we learn,
thet Sir Ch-rles Hardy’s flzot has beem
cruifing in quel of tue Fremck fleet, ever
fivce our lat Accounte from England, but
was obliged a few Days bef re Cept. Wiz.
tell {alel, by a firong Wefterly Wind 10
put illO Torbry,e=S nce whi-'l they bave
been j ised by 3 Shiss ef the Lige, which
wakes the Nomoer of the Fleet to be 37
—M 1o weie ge ting resdy to join them =
t': Workmen are employed double Tides
“=trd moft of the Ships which are turned
eut of Dock, are fheathed with Coprer,—
Subfeription are opesed and openicg im
m: it cf she Principal Towns ia Eeglead,
forriifing Muney 10 give »3 Bounijes to
Soldiers and Sesmean, 1n Aldition to the
Bounty giv.n by his M j:fy,
Sir Kdward V:racn’s i'quadron in the
E«ft Indies has laken a 74 Gun Ship, cne
of 40 Guos, and an lacia Ship fitred .ue
by the Compsny.—=The Troops under Col,
LeMlie have dedioyed the Foench Se le
arats on the Coalt of Mulcbar, aad ok a
their Poftts on the Ma atias Shore.—S§ip
Chailes Hardy’s Fleas wos o fail egain s
foon as *he Wind came abour,
A Part of the R tuges Flret retur el
bere laft Eveni- g, with Weod,Catile, . ul
try, &<,
’Wo hear that Mr Sa'toalt 1), who erma
manded the Re.el Fleot at Pencblzer, haw
betn fi o+ vpon a: Bettor, by the M b (-
veral T mes fince iis re:arn ‘rom the Exe
peditioz, ind hat he h'd become 2 v lune
lary Pii oner in Boftor G.a), to fcrees Lime
felf from N ir ref*nume ¢,
M. R vere, who ¢ maaned thejr Are
titlery, and who j .ined in opinioa «itt Mr.
Salwnrali bas ve:y prudenily kept hifelf
out o' their Sight.
Upaards of 10c Britith Sramen have
bren recovered frem the Robel; by this
for anatceAffair, who readi'y en ¢r en hourd
the Kin-'s Ships, *nd a great Number of
he Rebel bave perifhed,
Jutt arnved trom Liv ¢rpoole.
Ths Skip WILLI AM,
JAMES WIGNeLL, Mafter,
Who has for SALB,
A QUANTITY of Fine Irifly
Bsef in Teirces and Berrels, Pork in
Barrels, Fine white Herriogs ia Barrels,
Butter in Fiikins, Hams, Brandyin Pipes,
Willi.ofon's Beer in Bettles, Clare: in
Hogfheeds, Sail Canvas, Teas, Currants,
R.ifins, Sallad Oil, Sweet Muats, F.n Flour
in Barecls, Sosp and Candles, Paints and
Oil, Bruthes for dito, Single refined Sugar,
Starch, Blue Slops, Hard Ware, Jappaned,
Ware, Glafs Wa o, &c. &c. &ec. .
DESERTE D
ROM the Prince of Wales's
American Regimeat, Tromas Fose
TEr, by trade 8 Shoemaker, hora in
Dorchefeer, neir Bofton, he is about 5 Fests
11 laches high, 35 yeass of lfi. bleck Eyes,
durk complexion, snd dark Hair, has fol.
lowed his occapation in Nowpore, for fone
years, and leit behind him a Wife ard four
Childree, «eeeWhoever spprehends him fo
8s that he may be brougk: to the Regiment,’
will RECEIVE TEN DOLLARS, from
the Cemmanding Officer, over aad above
the King’s Bousry.
HE Membters of the REDWOOD-
I LIBRARY COMPANY, sre heree
by requefted to mzet, at the LIBRARY, om
Wedaefday the twenty-ainth inftant, at ren
o’Cl*ck in the Forenotn, for the ele&ion
of Office’s for the enfuing year, sgrecable
to the Charter of faid Gompany,
iEDWARD THURSTON, Secr’y,
t 0 faid Compeny,