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

VI A ebruary i6' oreign Intelligence Ls i 0 ebruary Lettefs from Geneva Jan 24 fay that 'in confequence of fame late requifitions from the court Verfaiilft 'tdiching the part taken by the ftates of Switzerland in the prefent difpute between the Emperor and Holland Count de Po lignac the rench Minilter had abruptly left that city March By an exprefs received yefterday from Dublin we learn that the Iriffi parliament have laid an additional duty on Portugal wines laft week imported into Ireland of thirty pounds per ton This "with the twenty pounds paid heforc muft operate as a prohibition on all Portugal wines im poi ted in that country confequently as a bounty in favoiir' of rance as it muft unavoidably follow that little elfe but rench wines can henceforth be drank in that kingdom March 3 The following exprelons in the ince of letter to the Hates fpeak the real fnuation of the republic as well as the opinion of the ftadt hoder: Without foreign troops or foreign allies the' republic mod certainly is not in It condition to make a 0 fifiance ngainft a prince fo formidable as its enemy but muft either fink under the firft attack 01 be forced to yield to the prctcnlions of the emperor fo enormous and ruinous to the republic as well by the dimunition of its real force as by the the principal branches of its profoei at aft to make cellions tt at may delay the ecu for a dm iL leave it equally if not mere expofeti than it is at prefent whilft' on our part having Iron the bill moment of our adminiftration nr our iitmoft to put the republic in fitch a fituaricn that (without depending upon cnyotLcr power) it might have re lied iiion ilfelf alode for its profperity and have ac quired by alliances reciprocally advantageous a juft right to affiftance iu cafe of an attack fliall have lift no caufeof cenfure or reproach on thecontrary we now again offer to employ our influence our pro petty and our perfon in the defence of our coun try and to facrifice them all in fo good a caufe if fuch Ihould be the pleafurc of the Almighty Difpoier 'of human events March 3 America and not Germany will pro bably be the retreat of the great returning nabob The amazing fums he has amaffed would render him a welcome vifitor to the infant ftates and perhaps I procure him a Ration of eminence anfwerable to the utmoft of his ambition The Adlive Ludlam from London to Bofton ftruck upon the Pan Sand but was got oft by the Deal boats and put into Sheerucfswith litttle dam I A letter from Limerick has the following article 1 Our trade to America is all over to this port for the 1 American Trader which failed from hence three months ago loaded with linens for Bofton is re turned with almoft all her cargo finding no demand for goods there he failed for Philadelphia where lie found al) iu confufion he therefore put to fea again and put into New York where he met with no better fuccefs and accordingly thought it moft prudent to return home as there was no fale for any of his March to i The Ii ilh pfopofitions are founded Upori their pro per bafis namely an enquiry info the ftate of the manufactories of both countries and are wifely form' to give fpur to the induftry and exertions of each without being productive of prejudice to either' is upon fuch broad foundation as' this only that the correction of national grievances fliould be taken up I Partial remedies generally produce little good 1 the arils of redrefs which erecarriedlthfongh bylcrd I North and Mr ox may be laid to have done much" I mifchieff'as their liberality to the Irifliwfo unaccom panied by ftipulaticns in our own favour and went' but a very little way towards giving them permanent jfinisfaffipm However menacing and terrific the armada of Spain and Naples maybe combined with other powers yet the prince fett them at defiance He invites them to approach him that he may have the honor of beating them Amongft his artillery lie he has a piece called a bafilifk with an enormous mouth throughing balls a prodigious length This piece of ordnance is to defend Jii? camp batteries He is planning erdfs fiattefiesj playing athwh'art each 0 ther upon one point where wliat ope bullet (hakes another heats down In point of invention as an en gineer he is eminently fkjlful Thecrpfs batteries above mentioned are a moft in genious contrivance and phy with a dexterity and 1 elferil truly aftonifliing TJicfe and batteries d'enti hide have for force time employed Algerine by way of rehearfat of the full concei of can non snorters howitzers which is to commence in the fpring I The weather Hill continuing to thicken we Ij all light of land till the jtl wh it appeared bi iu to the north call and north weft Our latitude by account was at this time 65 0 longitude 189 0 As the lllands of St Diomede which lie be tween the two continents in Itrait were detc rm ned by us laft year to be in latitude 65 0 we could not reconcile the land to the north eaft with the fitu itien of thofe (Hands We therefore flood to ward the land til three in the afternoon when we were within four miles of it and finding it to be two iflands were pretty well fatisfied of their being the fame but the weather ftill continuing hazy to make fare of dur fltitation we flood over to the coaft of Afia till feven in the evening at which time we I were within two or three leagues of the eaft cape of that continent This cape is a high round head of land extending four or five miles from north to' fouth forming a pcninfula and connedled with the continent by a narrow nick of low land Its fhore is bold and off its north part are three high 'detached fpiral rocks At this time it was covered with fnow and the beach furrounded with ice We were row convinced that we had be ti under the influence of a ftrbng eur rent fetting to the north that had catfed an 'error in pur latitude at noon of twenty miles In palling this ftrait the laft year we had experienced the fame effedl Being at length fure of our politico we held on to the north by eaft At ten at night the weather becoming clear we had an opportunity of feeing at tjie fatne moment the remarkable peaked hill near cape Wales bn the coaff of Zmcrica and the eaft cape of Alia With the wo cocneifling ifl and of Sajnt Diomede between trem At noon on the 6th the latitude 1 was 67 north an 1 the longitude 191 0 eaft Hav ing already palled a conftderable number of large inaliis of ice and obferved that it ftill adhered in Teviral jdaees to the fhore on the continent of Afiaf we were not much furprifed to fall irtr at three in the afternoon With an extenfive body of it ftretch iny away to the weftward'' This 'fight gave great discouragement to our hopes of "advancing much farther northward this year than we had done the preceding Having little wind in the afterpooh we hoifled out the boats in purfuitof the leahorfes which were great numbers' on the detached pieces of ice but they foon returned without fucccfs thefe animals be ing exceedingly fhy and before they could ceme guu fliot always maki ig their retreat into tiie water i At feven in the evening wehoifted in the boats and the wind frefhenmtr from the fouthward ftood ort to the north eaft with a vlew'of exploring the continent of America between the latitudes of 68 and 0 'which owing to Bi'e weather 1 lift year' we had riot been able to examine In this attempt We were again in part difappointed or 011 the 7th 'at fix in the morning we were ftopped by a large field of ic ftretchm from north weft to fouth eaftj but foon after the hcrizon becoming dear we bad fight of the coaft of America at about 10 leagues diftance extending fretri north eaft by c'aft to eaft and lying by 'obferyation between the and 68? oi'atitur Asthe weatfie wds clear "arid the ice not high we were enabled to fee over a great extent of it' The whole prefcilted a folid and compaf( lurfacc nqtiiuthe frnalleft de gree thawed and appeart to us likewife to adhere to the land iThis dayw'e faw a great number of gulls and' were wjtnefles to the difgufting mode of feeding of the ariftic gull which has procured it the name of the parafue and which if the reader is not already acquainted with it he will find in the note below This bird (which is forrdwhat larger thyn the common gull purfues' the litter kind whenever it meets therrt the gull 1 after flyirig' fb' fqirttione with loud fcreams and evident marks pl great ter ror drops its dung which its pnrfuer immediately darts at and Catches fore it falls into the fea (To bt'Mnti'iued in our Ktxt) a "vi 'riday a boy about four years old fan of MrS mea belonging tojhe Theatre Royal durin the ahi fence of his mother? took fame water out of a boil ing kettle which was on the fire and drank fa muci of it that in pile of every affiftance which could be given he died or Satuiday morning Saturday a wretched boy fcarce leventyen years of age received fentence of death far Various robbe ries Inftead Of' this dreadful decree havrrik a pro per efic fl on him he laughed heartily and all the way to the New Gaol he and his unhappy compa nions in the carriagel were in a continual roar 0f merriment to the amazement of every fpeflator Aprils 1 The General Affembly of the State of Georgia have elected general Samuel Elbert to the office of Governor of that ftate for the enfuing year A meeting of gentlemen concerned in Trade Will be held in colonel Long Room to morrow at 5 to deliberate upon mea lures proper to be taken for fecuring our commerce5 ami guarding onrfilves againft plafis Which' by the arrival of captainarris'we learn Was forming Britain to fupplant usin thofe branches which zti' the great ftaples of this Commonwealth As the tereft not only of thofe who are now in trade but of the public are evidently in danger it is requeued that there may be a very general and pundlual at' tendance ir THEY write from Clagci furt that on the 31ft of laft month at midnight two fhocks of an earth quake were felt the latter of which was moft power ful and of longer continuance than the firft and that on the riext morning there' wad a prodigious fall offnow PAR I eb aS So fir from Necker having incurred the dif pleafiire of' government by the 'publication of his book he is on the contrary greaily careffcd by all people in office and thofe who cabal againlt his work afe only fuch as are actuated by jealoufy and envyl 1 'This celebrated man is expeifted at Paris in Eaftirwak'' A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Un IcrLken by the Command of hi Britannic Ma jefty 01 making Irijlavrries in ti To lUtermine the Position and extent ofliie Wul fide of North Am rica its Diliance from Afia and the Practicability of a Northern Pafla re to Europe under the Direift on i Cuptaina and Gore in his Majef Ships the llefcijliOn and Dijiivery In the Years 1776 i 777 1778 1779 and 1780 In Three Vci111res Publilhed by Order of the Lords Ci'inmiffioners of the Admiralty is 1 London: Primed by Vf and A Strahan: for BookfuLr to Lis Majefly in the Strand a and Cadeli in the Strand mdcclxxxiv (Conlmtiedfiom cutlujl) VOLUME III BOOK VI Tfanfaftiohs during the fecoud Expedition to the North by tne Way of KantC hatka and on the 'return" 'Home' by the' Way of Canton and the Cape of Good Hope 1 A P' BL cf the Rulliau Chart: Kamfchitlkoi QluUiifltoi Nofs Tfchukotlkoi Nefs ffiand of St View from the fame Point of the Coafts of Alia and America and the HLnds of St Diomede Various Attempts to get to the North between the two Continents Ob fltucled by impenetrable Sea horfes and white Bears Captain Determina tion ami future Defigns a A BOUT eight from land we perceived ourfelves in a fining ri pl'ng and being an prihcnfivecf foul ground we tore away to the along the fliore' nqtwithflandiitp on heaving thelcdxwe foiitidrcgular foundings" of twenty four fathoms over a gravelly bottom" from wlieira We concluded that this appearance was occalicmed by a tide at that time running to the fouthward At noon the extremes 'of the land bearing Weft fouth weft thred quartei'VwMl arid north rtbrth1 eaft thrde quarters eaft diftant'fromthe neareft lllore 4 leagues we wcre abreaft of 'the low' now perceived to join th? two points where we had before expected' to find i deep bay The coaft bends a lit tle to the weliward and has a fmall inlet which may piobnl Iv I tlra mouth of fimae trifling ftream Our latitude by bbfervftion wis 61 0 and longitude' 1 75 '43 and the variation of the com pals 17 We continued during the afternoon to run along the (here at the difta ice of four or five leagues wih a moderate uefterly breeze carying regular foundings from twenty eight to thirty fix fathoms The coaft prefented the lame barren al'peT as to the fouthward the hiils riling coiitlderabiy inland but to what height th clouds on tfeir tops put it out of ourxwer to determine At eight in the evening land was thought heen feen tothe'eaft by north on which we fleered to the fouthward df eaft hut it turned out to by only a fogbank Atmid night the extreme point bearing north eaft a quarter eaft we fuppufed it to be Nofa to thefa'jthWard of which the land trendi tb'the weft Ward and forms a deep bight wherein according to the Ruflian charts dies the river Katirka Oii tiie iyth Juhy? 1779 the was un fitttlcd arid variable withthe wind from the north call At noon of the 40th our latitude by obfi vation yras 610 48 arid longitude 180 at which tinje Saint Nofs bore north north weft? twenty three leagues diftint and beyond if wc obferved the coaft ftretching alrnoft directly north The moft eaftei'ly point of the Nofs is in latitude 50 arid longitude 179 0 being 3 and a half degrees more to thceift than what the Ruffians made it? The" laud about it muft be of a infiikrabk: height from its being ften at great a dinancc During the two laft days we faw numbers of whales layge foals and fea horfes alfo guds fea parrots and albatroffcs We took the advantage of a little calm weather to try for fifli and caught abundance of fine cod Tbe depth of water from fixty fiee to feventy five fathbms 1 On the ift cf July at noon Mr Bligh having moored a fmall keg 'with the deep fea lead in fe venty five fathoms fonnd the (hip made a eourfe north by call half a mile This he attribu ted to the effedl of a long fauthcrly (well arid not to that of any current wind frefhcnirg fiomthe' fouth eaft toward eviuinjr vefhaped tUr'CodrJ'e to the north eaft hy ritft for tfie point called Beer chartTfchukotlkoi Ni fs yphiqhTqil ob ferved bit thii 4tl' Septcn b'r la'fl year at the fame time that we faw tft the fput eaft the iflapd of St Laurence St Thadeuals Nofs form the north eaft and fouth weft extremities of the large and deep gulpbof Anadir 'into the bottom of which the tiver iqf that name empties iti'i If dividing as it pafles the country of the Koriacs from 'that of the On the 3d at noon the latitude bypbfcrvationwas 63 art! the longitude tS6 0 half an hour after which wc jot fight i of th TlchOkiitfkoi Nofs bearing north half weft' thirteen or fourteen leagues and at five imtbe afternoon faw lhe ifiand of Saint Laurence bearing eaft three quarters north and another ifiird a iittle to theeaftward of it which we fuppofed 10 be tween Saint Laurence and iilaiid about fix leagues eaft fouth eaft cf the former As wc had no certain accounts of this ifiand captain Clerke was defirotis of a near er profpec) and immediately haud the wind to ravd it but uufortuhritely we' wire not able to weather the jllan of Saint Laurence and were therefore under the necAiity ofohearing up again and paffmg them all to the leeward Wehod a better opportunity of fettling the longi tiuie of the ifiand Saint Laurence when we laft law it aan now But eing it that time but once and to the fouthward wv could only determine iis iati1' tud fo far as we could judge of distance's whereas now the noon obfcrvatiqns enabled us rfeertainit correfily which 63 0 Its was found to be iSi 0 as before This iflmdif its hcuridaties vyere at this tithe within our view is about three leagues in circuit The north part may bei'een ar the diftance of ten or twelve leagues but a it infow land to the fou eaft the extent of wl i wr could fust fee fame of us ecnjeflttred that miglt probably be joined to the land to he aft ward efit this however the haz nefs of th wea ther prevented mr afc rtr imrig Thrfc ifl nds as ll aS the ahqfc tn' Tf hukotKoi fs were ccvt ed wi'h iiiow prawmed rs with i 1 drcrypidl 're At Saint Lauirtcel 1 foii'l) C'o or les diftan: rand cur: cepth of water was eight'' lathct rs "Vv era ac coinpahi bv varicuik nd cf fea fowl andfaw fa tirai fm 1 fled hawks 8 A April la un 1 Extrail of a letter dated New York March 14 jate treaties held by the commiffioners cf Congrefs with the weftern and ncthern Indians bate' cxtinguilhcdtbelndianclaimsto more than fifty mlh i lioiii of acres of A treaty to be held in Juoki on the weftern fide of the Ohio will acquire an it ion al territory of perhaps nearly as much tndrei i Thcfe lands are in the moft fertile regions of tHi United States sCeffidns have been made of the ftztei rights by Virginia and New i It were devoutly 'to be wiffied fays a correfpoii? I dent that thefe landsmight be honeftly difpofed tfi by Congrefs for the discharge of our national ink? The debtof the Un ted States foreign and domeftick including principal and'inj) tereft ftood in 1 7 83 at about forty at wo millions of! dollars ty riot that debt be paid off at one third' of the fqm inTeady moneyT Or will jiot ouehai I of foe hinds tacquired from the Indians in 1784 'li more thari fufficient for the With fuck refources it is fom intcreft to become baakrujits to' expofe ourfelves as a freaking pilfering band afj i fwindlersv and eftablifh a (harping trickifh frali duient faithlefs deceitful national charafleif I throughput tbefoniverfe? With fuch refourcts aad I that of an jmpoftjon all foreign articles (hai1' we continue nioft abfardly to burthen the people by per' petufoy taxing their mifoftry and the manufaaurti andproduce'of this country which are the effects ofthat industry is it: not more for our ad viitage foeriable Congrefs to difpofe of the pubfe lands in order to pay our honeft to 'erieoti rage put own induftry manufactures agriculture Cprprncrce by wife impofts and reftriClions up on thofe foreign nations who now pay nothing to in cour of all its cafli decifive meafures are taken will not even be what they have been fioPethc laje yarthe factors of foreign merchants AjT bklI filik tQlie fame ftate with thetcaafts of rt or'lriijiawherethe whole trade is in the hands df wherq foreigners are every thing and the natives nothing ra i'' rt ra Swindler One who affitmes the appearance of a man of property takes up goods or money disappears without paying UB I March 9 We are concerned to hear that at na period for many years pad has this city been pefter ed with more robbers than at prefent The tradm of plunder is now become! fo rifefram the iridolence or cowardice of the magiftraey (fame fed except ed) that it is dangerous fo ftir out after dark in ma ny parts of the town rparticMforly in thoEail of and liberties where there are no fit watch' Kevm ftreet is irifeffod with 'a' knot of villains wEpfe ftaridiS ufuaily in a corher be i hind thy Court lioufc which conceals them from ob i fervation till like tygefoj they Jcap ori'the ed paffenger whom they often ufe with thy greateft cruelty as feveral recent arils might fufficicntly prove Iftheinhabitants of that diftriritwhichis very extern five were to apply by memorial to parliament there could be no doubt of their obtaining a regular body of watchmen on the fame terms as the inferior parts of the city fubjeril to fuch rules as their own court Jeet fliould think groper to devife rorii the north we hear that the glorious fpirit of volunteering which was or feme time paftra i ther languid was or hearing of Certain late thanks re kindled anew and now burns with brighteft liame The number of fpirited young men who arc able to maintain themfilves in is great beyond credi bility fo that it is experiled before one regiment of Militia fencibles can be raifid and cloathed that province alone will fee above 30000 reeme'n in arms 'J hrye extra meffiengers were fentof from the raft le with jn thefe three days two to Holyhead the other to Parkgatewith expreffes to Mr Pitt our veiy good friend on the other fide The contents are faid to be firft that every thing went op fwim mingly here that miniftry carried every meafury by the old argument majorities that all was ftill arid hufhed not a murmuy of complaint at the taxes the toy The rxpreffes concluded with pray ing he would graciouflyfend word whether he would have a land tax union or any thing elfe of confe quencc riioVcd this term and' if not that it in tended Ihortly to difmrfs the harpies nejl as they were very importunate in their demands lor their va rious fervjccs I On riday night laft between nine and ten two grenadiers purfued a gentleman who is deaf and dumb into the (hop of an apothecary in Bridge ftreetj wilh an intent to force away and no doubt tt' rob him One them ftood at the (hop door while the other entered the parlour (whether the gentleman had fled for fafety) with his bayonet drawn and certainly would have effcriled their pur pofe but for the fpirited behaviour of the young gen tleman of the' (hop who put the ruffians to flight and fent the gentleman home in fafety March 17 The mailer of a veffel arrived in this pert from Bourdeaux relates that on the zoth of ebruary be ing then off the weft coaft of rance he fell in with 13 Spaniffifhips of war attended by a few light fri I gate who kept on the fame courfe with him for i fame hours then hauled their wind and (leered 8 The captain hailed them but received no anfwef He fuppofes them bound for Soulh Ame ri a but wondered to fie them fo far to the north ward of their meridian The rfionftrous liih by force called a Sun ifli caught foine time ago in poolbeg has been purchaf by Mr Beil oil merchant of Nicholas ftreet the an ilceptic quality of this animal is worthy of re rk for though it had been for two months lying in an open yard on quay expofed to all theiciffitudesof the weather it appeared when cut up blubber perferiliy frefh without the leal! fymp toms of putrcfarilion PR OV fij April Captain Bordyn foafloopbclonging to tills is arrived at Tarpjulih Cove from Hifpaniola aftto a tedious paffage of57 days in which he (piling hit maft and carried away his bowfprit' Yefterday Jonathan Drown of Rehoboth wbq was conviriled atthe'late fupreme court held here i of counterfeiting Spanifli dollars ftood in the pillory 1 purfuaut to his fentenec 'j foi 1 NE W' YO ApriI 17 By his excellency GEORGE CLINTON Govemor of the State of New York General aid Cinnmandeh in Chief of all the Militia and Adint ral of the Navy thereof A A MAT I 4 fa YTTHEREAS on the feventeenth day VV April inftant fundry Britifli feamd and others' did rri a notorious infolent premeditated arid uriprbvoked manner attack and infult feveral of the officers of 'his Moft Chriftian Majeftys packrfj Le Courier de New York then in a boat belongffig to that (hip in hirbour Andwbefedt the' honorable the finate and of thtfflate Jy theif concurrent refolutionsofflqsift arid 23d inftant'haye refolved that foeLegllN tufe are ever anxious to manifeft their refperit to Moft Chriftian Majefly and to prcteril and cultivate the friendfhip of his fobjerils as thofe of goqd great That they confider the late riqtys mg and premeditated infult to thb laws and govern ment of this (latd and calculated to interrupt tK cordial intercourfe fubfifting between the fubjprils of his Moft Chriftian Majefly and the titijejs of this That it is the feufj of foe Legiflatur that the perfflRS already apprehended) chargedwijh the offence afyrefaid be brought to fpe dy trial and to exemplary and fo4 ftould offer the rewards herein after'stnentioued for difeoyering and apprehending the other offenders In cdriipliance wherewith I dp therefore iffue this foE proclamation hereby offering a reward of ONE HU NDRED and TWENTY IVE DOLLARS to any perfon or perfons who will difcovei and caufe to be apprehended the author or authors of foe riot and infult aforefaid And alfo a reward of TWEN TY IVE DOLLARS for difcoverirg caufiug to be apprehended each and every other perlqs qfper ions who Ihall have aided or abetted fos'in And to this end all peace officers others to whom it doth belong are hereby required to yield all due afliftancej GIVEN under my hand and the privy Teal st the city of New York this twenty tiiird day of April in the ninth year of the indepen dunce of the faid ftate Clinton Cfd Same the People.