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Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • 2

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oreign Intelligence a Weatherden for Ahierica Jone i America One to hla Britannic majefly under whole fpjces captain Cook proceeded on his difcove riet One to the king of rance for is great cour tesy io giving a petific charge to lii naval com manders to forbear (hewing hoft ility to the Re foiu ion and Difcovery the two (loops under captain command and to afford him eve ry fuccour in their power in cafe they fell in with him One to the emprefo Raffia for her great hnfpira'i'y to captain Cook wneo he touched at One to Mrs Cook the re' ift One to be depofited in the Bptifli mufeum and One to remain in the college of the royal focie ty The til ver nl dals were di flributed among the members of the royal fociety feme particular lords of the admiralty and afewptherdillieguiflx ed pe fons Extraft of a letter from Gibraltar June 5 The Talbot tei der is arrived from a cruiie file looked into Algiers where they are hard at work in raffing new fortifications which it is conjeftured will enable them to fet a defiance even the very formidable force which the Spaui4 ards and their a lies are a goig 0 fend againft it The Algerines are well fupplied with artil lery ammunition and ever Mind of necelfary which renders it be bvsd they are (ecr'ily up held by tl'e grand fignior or fome powerful friend Ti ere are 6 or 7 ffels now in the Mediterranean cruifing under the dey's cofours which are from 38 to 50 guns No vefie's are now permitted to approach their Jiarhour thofe ofthei' own flag accepted A rench (loop was fired at and funk the Algerines took up the crew who are into flavery a much Worfe fate at prefa it than July to A number of experiments have Been made in the courfe of thefe few months by or der of the rench government in count iron forges and alfo tn the royal manufaftory at NerooviHe in order to afceriain whether rench and hngiifli iron is convertible into Reel by the procefs ot et mentation Thefe experiments have fucceeded beyond expectation and havr received the approbation at the royal academy of feiences The objeft of them is very important to us as well as to tte rench as at prefrnt the ft iron for the purpofe of making fleel comes from Swe den A letter from Cleves by the landers mail fays that a camp is preparing for 20000 foldkrs who are ex efled here by the middie of July The fame Utter adds that a camp formed 4 Io near the Dutch territories mu fl greatly alarm all the Hollan ers as the king of Proffitt has fame grand objeft in agitation by fixing on a camp in th fe parts The renco are en'arging the port of Dunkirk in (uch an extraordinary and expenfive manner as will make it the very firft port of confequence in the chann 1 They will not only fit out (hip of fifty guns ut they will be enabl (o build them alfo the effefts of this cannot fail to be felt in a fuute war as it will pb'ige us to keep up a large fotce in the Downs and in the middle of the chanh'l in a future wr of which the rench feems to be well advertifed and with this view have undertaken to render Dunkirk fecond to none of the ports of England except thofe of Portimouth and Plymouth At every former period government were (6 apprehenfive that rance would one day meditate a meafure of this kind that they have ot every former peace infill ed an article peculiarly Hating the demolition cf Dunkirk It wa: rtderved however far the wildom and prudence of lord admi niflra'ion fpecifically to come to ah agreement with rance at the making of the laft peace by providing an article (the 17th of the Definitive treaty) wh reby all the articles relative to Dun kirk from the treaty of Utrecht in 1713 inclufive to the prefent time are abrogated and fuppteflied July 12 "orne time ago miniflers were in trea ty with fir Guy Car on for the purpofe of in veiling him witn the civ i1 and military command of the province of Quebec and a fo of Nsva Scoua The negotiation is for the piefent broken off and fir Guy is gone into the country indif gull The terms riquired by fit Guy are faid to be an Englifh peerage and the entire patronage of ti two provinces To the firft condition mi ll Ilers had nothing to objeft A peerage was a boon which they refuted to no bbdy The pa tronage however was of a very different qua lity They could notexifl without patronage it was the corner Rone of their fyftem and re fufing it peremptorily fir Guy declined all fur ther corre fpondence on the fubjtft Miniftry have it in contemplation to divide Cavadainto two governments as they have done Nova Scotia and appoint a governor general with auihority fimilar to that poffeffed by tne go vernorof thr Leeward iflaods By a late calculation made at Paris by order of the king it appears there are now in rance upwards of a million and an half of proteflant fubtfts Ex ft of a letter from Utrecht June 26 The aflembly of this province has given frefh inflruftions to its deputies in the Rates general to give their utmoli affi fiance to procure an an fwrr to the la ft memorial of his Pruffian majefly concerning the affair of the fladtholder the time fixed bHng nearly elapfed and themofldifagreea ble confequences are be apprehended if it" fbou be permitted to expire with out a deter mination The Pruffians are already preparing a camp to be Rationed on the border ofothe Dutchy of Cleves the particular occafion and circumfiances are not declared but it is eafy to guefs the aning However it is hoped prudence may ft il I avert the numerous florms that feem to be THINGS A 8 THEY ARE The coloaifts flupidly loft and igoominioafly abandoned Ireland an objeft of ten times their importance fo the nation felf rhurderoufly and not over ge eroufly furrendered from her in the hour of her diftrefs India conftantly in jeopardy having never ben poffeffed by us but with the loofe flippery bold of ao ove'grafp Portugal our interefl greatly declined with that nation who is herfelf but in a precarious Rate BTERSBUR May if The trade at prefent with Crimea is nor very confiderable and confifls chiefly in horfes of which there are many thoufauds wi'd and very fit to mount cavalry upon as it would not be the work of three months to remount 100000 men on mod excellent horfes When that peniufuh becomes better cultivated it may be the granary of Conftantinoplrfrom which capital it is but a three days fail to Caffa which is 'the port of Cri mea the moft remote from Conflantinople If Rnffia was tl reap no other benefit by the acqui fitton of Crimea than depriving the grand frignior of his moft formidable light cavalry it is a very great advantags: the Tartars of Crimea furmfh cd the fulran with So 000 hones during the laft war The manner in which the Crimeans make war is by barraffing the convoys of the enemy by perpetual attacks in the rear and wings with an aftivity and repetition which is tea rce credible and in the war of 1774 they did more injury to the Ruffian army than the maia body of Ottoman troops I 0 June tfi A negotiation has lately been concluded withAmerica in virtue of which 4000 tons of AmericanJCjeat are to be delivered in her aithful maje granaries every year between the 29th Sep tfcnber and ebruary at a flipulated price for gjmtea years to come Halifax (Hova satia) Juiyi'f On the 10th June la ft a tehooner belonging Liverpool in this province was cad away sfp ifhnd St near Cape lton in a par windatnighr the people with the utmofldil culty faved their live and arrived lure yiC day bring fix men thefe men were en dayh the ifland and built a boat with only thrrffe knives and a plane Sufficient to carry thetfl Spanith river where they met with a veffefife brought them here 0 I Augufi On Wednefday captain Chriftopher Whlyjl in the fioop America of this port arrived ft in 23 days om New Orhans He lay fix in the river Miflffippi in hopes of ob'sinihgt miffiod to trade with the Spaniards and allheij he purrhafed fuch permiffion for a large fum1ti forbid to trade under no lefs a penalty thsad confifcatisn of the veffel and cargo A Spanifh foldiers was placed on board and ateS on the ihore oppofi his veffel Various were praflifed to induce him to fell a fmsll teB of his cargo and fome perfons difguifed diers went on board offering veryfl prices fcr trifling articles in order that a ptboS might be formed for fetting the veffel oN ll whom was afterwards feen on fhore drtffedB perfoa of Captain Whjpp'e forms that a number of Britifh veff iswereWB ed while he lay in the river and that it wriifl an American vtffifl would not be perrnittfl trade till a line fhali be afeertained bNweeifW United States and the Spaniih territory Miffifippi ODE A May 25 The courtsof Vienna and Parma have for fome time been engaged in a controverfy refpefting a certain pofl fituated on the frontiers of Lm bandy from which a body of Aufirian troops a few iys llhce drove out the foldiers that had poffeffion The iffue of this affair is impatiently expefted ONSTANTINOPLE April j6 It is faid that as toon as the Engliih ambaf fador here knew the privileges granted to Ruffiart and Adrian fubjrfts he required the fame for his own nation and particularly the navigation of the Black Sea but it is alfo faid he was ire fufed A June 24 By accounts from Colonie and Aix la Chapelle we find the Imperial troopi are preparing to march to the Auilrin Low countries 0 ON June 1 A bill is to be brought into parliament fo re gulate the and nicht according to tne tafhion attle ca'end the Gregorfah ine found in ma ny places defeflive The morning is to be entire ly four or is to be the fun riflng time and foppr to be on the table at the prrfent breakfafiing hour According to this regulation two of the present days will only make one wMch accounts for the common report that our young nobility do not live above half their days June jo The king of rance during ths pre lent peaceful interval has determined on purfu ing d'feoveries irt the northern hemifpherfi A fmall fquadron is now fitting out at Breft for the purpofe of finding a north weft paffage through for which the Rriiiffi parliame in the year 1745 a reward of sooool Three frigates ate alfo to fail from Dunkirk in the courfe of next month in order to deter mine how far navigation is praflicable towards the North pole The peasantry and other inferior defcrip'ions of men throughout the kingdom are already employed in blocking up their humble windows finding themfelves by Mr popular tin bilb obliged to renounce the lights or abandon their habitations! The power of the premier is fu rely great be yond all compare who fays tit thtrt bt and it it dark1 Julyi We were happy to hear Mr oi on Wednsfday cbjeft particularly to the tax on rib bom and gauiet His triumph in Weftminfter was coofiderabiy faci stated by the efforts of the ladies and he owes it in juftice to the Tex to proteft them from ths heavy oppreffiont of the immaculate miniler Sir Edward Hughes has again wrote to (he ad miralty for leave to return to urope be has al 0 fent to feverat of his private friends defiring that a reprefentation of his fi nation ftiuld be laid before the king infilling that there never wad an officer of his rank left in fo dtfgraceful a con dition not having a fllip of wat able to contend wi'h a rench frigate jf the cothmande'r thought proper to attack The great Henry IV of jahce being by one of hit haughty (avorj'es why his majefly gave himfelf the trouble to return he faluts of fd many beggars who made their obeifance to him in the flreets inllantly becaule I wifti not to fee the beggar' in myreets exceed thefr fovertign in Veflerday the morning a very (harp engagement happened off Seaford be tween the lirt (loop of war and the Britifh Lyon a fmuggling cutter mounting 22 nine pounders The engagement lafled upwar ot 3 tours in which the lirt difehargid 400 (hot and it did fome execution among the crew of the cutter their cries being heard diftlnfily by the people of the (loop which however did nt prevent het getting clear eff with their cargo having firft cut thr fails and rigging of the lirt to pieces which they did the more effectually by firing old bolts horfe (hoes nails The lirt had site two of her men wounded and one of them fo danger oufly that it was thought he could not recover July 6 When the laft (hip that arrived from India left Bengal Mrs' Habings and her family were preparing for Europe and had taken a (hip for that purpofe It isconfidereJ as a very fortu nate circumflance for the captain who comman te I the Indiaman on board of which The returns to I England The price agreed to be given is thirteen I thoufand pounds a fum not confidered extraordi nary as no paffengers are to be admitted but fuch as Mrs Mailings thinks proper to accommodate How ill natured the mini 'er is I he taxes our windows our candles and our fires fo that being debatred day light candle liht and firelight the inevitable refult is that we muff drink our tea in the dark I A mttiimonial unitJb is on the tapis between Mr Windham and Mifs Harford the quondam Mrs Morris who wi many perfonal accorn plihments poffeffes in her own righ't a tangible 30000! with a reverfionary profpeft of20o'oL a year in America on the death of her broth EXtraft of a letter (tom Conflantinople June The fultan has deputed a firman to the dey of Algiers requiring that he indemnification to be made for the Aufirian (hip the Diana la den with fugar which was taken by corfairt from Algiers adding that they mufl likewife btfides 1 paying the price of (he fh and the cargo fend a 1 fum fficient to make up the lofs of time and the damage done to the (hip In cafe of refufal his bighnefs will fee obliged to fend his grand admi ral Niffau Pacha at the head of a fleet againft Algiers in or er to carry into execu i in the de cree of profcription iffued by the mufti againft Algiers According to the engagemetis entered into between the emperor and the ibiime porte the grand fei ni is bound to piy fnro his trea sury (he value every Auftnan (hip fix months after comp! jnt being July 8 The laft letters from Cadis mention that the Ventura a Spaniih regifler (hip from Lima which has ben long miffing with a very rich cargo js fafe arrived there Extraft of a letter from Bdenburgh June 30' Laft week arrived here the reverend doftor Witherfpoon late a member of the American A letter from Greenland dated the 24th' of June mentions that all the (hips were leaving the ice as faft as poffible and that not one (hip had then met with any damage A medal has lately been flruck to perpetuate the memory of capt in Cook the execution of which i eqsal to the fubjeft On one fide is a bold reliefof captain Cook with this infcripti on tAC COOK OCEANI INVESTiRATOR ACSM rimys: immedia tel under the head is expreffed in leffrr charaflers Reg See Lend Joeit fm Oa the revede appears an ereft figure of Britannia flaoding on a plain Tht left arm refls upon an hieroglyphic pillar Herfpearis in her hand and her (hield placed at the foot of the pi ISr Ht right arm is projefted over a glob and con tains a fyrabol eXpreffive of the celebrated cirt enterpr king nius The in 1 fcription round the reverfe ii nil inTbntayVm nostri LitysRs and u' der the figure of Bri i Aupiciii Georgii itt Ti above medal wai engraved at the expence of the royal fociety 5 fiximpreffiooi were (truck I in gold and 250 in fil ver" The gold medals are I 'difpokd of as follows: I Holland invipered sgainfl us The emperor rather partial to the very joltly holding us in ttaoiffn rnnftmof good will to us the very cryphal The other northern powers 1 feeblement and inability to fubfidifethem io cofei neither love nor fear us rance in virtue that ateendant which'S has decidedly and infol' ntly taken over Verning us by oat rebel ttlonifit and domeflic tors bantering bullying and worfe yet pltk us without lfing fight of her eternal phasj Cartbagt ns Spain blindly following her lead and nitu enough not difpofed to forgive us the retention Gibraltar which not the lead wife of the prince of the aftually reigning dynafly had omiftf reflore but was prev nted by the rage of ever in charafter to facnfice to its ownendij( good of the tubole Come we now to Great Britain But oh piteoully altered is her afpeft from what if was! How looked now! How pal ghaflly no wonder! mark her effete of ter 8 to take charge df her fyftem in this ardo moment of her crifis to direfl her counsels (eleft her mealures in the pre "ious arringtg of her political and military operations A July Sailed the Bt Ifaft Campbell for MsrrltM Remains in tfie Dawns the Admiral ParUB Weatherden for America Utrecht June 2a Our differences with the emperor become every day mote and more ferious On the nth of this month the baron de Reifchsck envoy extraor dinary to the emperor prefented a memorial to their high mig'itineffes from the governor gene ral of tne Auflrlah Netherlands in Which it is declared that fince our repub ic as fent fuch a number of troops towards the frontiers the emperor mufl confi ier every aitempt on the rights of bis territories as an haiiility June 5 The Britifh fquadron is ill in this port and yeflerdayby a general difeharge of all the artille ry from the (hips Celebrated the birthday of tne king of England COP A May 18 Tne ordinance lately publilhed here ngsinft the migrations obliges all navigators going to the Weft Indies and the iflandsof St Croix and St Thomas to give fecurjty for their return it alfo forbid the Jews to fend any part of tbeiterty but of the kiagd The fllips that any national on board withput bring provided with paffports will be feized bs laden with contraband goods foreign (hips are even not accepted from ihis hw the atm of which is to prevent the king's fubjefts from emi gfating to the United States of North America and foiming fettlements there A AGE A June 7 The fquadron from Malta Confiftmg of four galleys a (hip of 60 guns and two frigates of arrived in this port on the 5th inflant This fquadron which is deftined tor the expedition againft Algiers is commanded by the Balli Alex ander de refloa A I May jt HE laft psckg from Montevideo brings advice that though it was imagined that the death of the fatuous chtf Tupa or Tupac Amaro would have appealed the infurreftion in Peru) the yunifilment inflifted pon that reble who waa torn to pieces by (oar horfes had but a temporary eff ft in quieting the turbulence of the popul ice among whom new diflurbacces had been fo mented that a brother of the deceafed leader named Diego Tubac Amer had put himfelf st the head of the infurgents and vowd to execute vengeance for the death of his relati on but that he had not yet attemp'ed any en torprile againfl the Spanifh government content ing himftlf with barbarcufly maffacring fuch of bis enemies as were fo unfortunate as to come his powel and was bufily engaged in fpiriting Up the neighbouring Indian tribes to a general revolt The fame letter advifes that i'i was in a perfeft flateof tranquility sad that Tome of tne opulent inhabitants had conftrufled large men of war entirely at their own expence A Jj April 30 It is reported here that the diffeient Banking houfes expeft to receive no lefs than 130000000 of livres tournois in hard piafters by the mules now on their journey to Paris There is bn ab folute overflow of ca(h here at well as at Bour drauxand MarfeillrS June Workmen are employed in forming a new port at Cherbourg? and have been very fuccrfsfulin layiuv the foundation thereof June 14 The Pruffian envoy lately artived here is the baron de Horft mfoitef of flateof the king of Pruffia It is faid that the miffion is for no lefs than'the forming an alliance with our court We are in hopes that the king of Sweden will to it alfo and we think that unioti neceffary In order to counteract that lately made between the two Imperial courts 4 A Augufl it Lift week Titus Butler being cenvifted the honorable fupreme then flping st Lid field of cou ate feiting loan office certitt was fentenced to receive twenty flripes fifty pound damages and imprifonetffl! firft part of the fentence was we flifted laft Saturday Correfl account of the fevers' places taken tM the war and ceded oY reflated by the of peace between rance and Spain and Qifl Britain CONQUERED by Great Britain end to The ifhnds of MiquflHfl ban Pierre near Newfoundland Sr Weft Indies ifland of Goree in Africa cherry in (he Eaft Iodias with the formerSI blHhment Conquered by rance from Great The iflands of Grenada ths Grfgg les St Vincents Dominico St Kitte and Mootfcrrat all io the Weflfndies: Conquered by Spain from Great Briteiwfl Bahama and Providence illaod Conquered by ranc? and ceded to the The fertile ifland of Tobago be ft of atl tb( ward iflands Toe moe valuable as briAffl the Spaniih Main and out ufoal burticams in tne Weft Indi'S The whole river Senegal in Af ice all thereon and the trade to be rxclufivtlyHw by th? rench Conquered by Spain and ceded to the CBM Minorca a fine beiuii'ol Mediterranean the fivtt in value io ttiitjgy th? globe and a key (o the Spaniih iu Europe it 'igj The whole povjcce of Weft lorida ottJM there were upwards of Brnifli (itltl A a X'rafl of a letter from Dublin May This evening feveral of the diflaut corps ttfl rived for review on Monday The Athy rnA gers halted at the exchange for half an hourUH der arms: they marched off and took thexifl to York flreet through the Lowet Callie yrdO Paiace ftreet jth drums beating fife plsffyM and colours flying Words cannot amusement of the Ca file guard all in filWlB Was an uproar of terror grenadiers fltw io their drums beiyj the Viceroy trembled even in the cspit The attack was upon the arms (lores artljM lodged in the rebellion wasth0 vctjal the town major pofl to when behold I the Athy calmly evacuated the citadel after making way through the cattle guard and wee IsS by the centinals at the Ship flreet iis the year forty one never wbs there fuch confsls in the cadi of I.

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