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tion supsrior to the rest of Britain) to detect this spread through these Kingdom so that our Joy Lord North sent no answer to the above Leiter till Monday, between two and and three o'Ciock ivhpn Mpfl'pnopr rnmt tn -Vn Tr; may be attnbuted to a equany Denenciai to both Countnes, tbe fcxtinction ot tnat jvaon- Delusion; and ienlihie as tney uwu late unequivocalProofs that of Opposition had given of the rectitude of their-Con-duct and they ought to exprefs their ster, Commercial Tealoufy, 7 ivuuwiu irorn Lord North, and appointed 12 o'Ciock next Day (Tuefday) to reeeive the Deputation. On Tuefday at tweive, the Deputation waited. I Dublin. 7a. 1.

On Thursday last was sense and Gratitude to tnoie ivicuiucta, im us- publistied here a Proklamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, for the holding upon sNortn in iowning-ureet, and after a Conference of near two Hours, they understood a general Fast throughout this Kingdom on Fri- day the 4th of February next, for impionng a r-. 1 i-r- nr rt fcS A 1 1 particular Account of tbe Proceedings of tbe Squadrok ander tbe Command of Commodore Fielding. THURSDAY, Dec. 30, 1779. P.

M. Wind at East, from St. Heien's at Six o'Ciock the following Ships, viz. NaqMW, the Commodore, 9oGuns, Centaur 74, Valiant 74, Thunderer 74, Courageux 74, Bustalo 60, Portland 50, Emerald and Daphne Frigates, and Sea-ford and Camel twenty-gun Ships, Hawk, Svval-low, Wolf, and Wasp Sloops, and four Cutters; at 9 o'Ciock P. M.

saw a Fleet und er Convoy of some Men of War, five or fix Leagues to wind ward of us; Commodore made the Signal for a general Chace at Eleven came up with them, and found them to consist ofabout 30 Sail of Doggers, under convoy of one fifty-gun Ship, the Admiral, two forty-gun Ships, and three large Frigates, all Durch the Admiral, who was in the fifcy-gun Ship, kept along-side the Commodore allNight. Fiiday, Dec. 31, Wind South-East, off the Hieh Lands of St. Alban's. bis Lordfliip declined either to prefent or support Iti the Petition of the Protestant Association.

The jfcu President then defired Lord North to give big fiu Answer under bis own Hand, that he might de- Pi liver bis Lordlhip's Words exactly to the Associa. A2n tion. Lord North. faid, he would send a written foi Answer that Evening to the President. Lord Cl North did not send a written Answer that Evening to the President, but at one o'Ciock on Wednes- in day (Yesterday) his Lordfliip sent the following ha Letter, viz.

to 1 tbe Right Honourable Lord George Gordon, I Fr clare the Obligation which this Country at large were under to tnem, for their steady Endeavours to snatch it from Ruin. He moved a propofition to this Effect, which was instantly seconded and it was with unanimous concurrence and applause. Thanks were then given to the Sheriff and the Chairman. and the Petition being engrossed, was signed by a great Part of the Freeholders then prefent, Yesterday the Hon. Capt.

Fielding was prefent at the Levee for the first Time since his arrival from Portfmouth, on which Occafion he was pre-sented to his Majesty, and most graciously re-cc 1 cd It is confidently afferted. that a Treaty, offensive and defensive, is at last conclnded between Great Britain and Ruffia The latter Power to send 12,000 Men to America the beginning of next Summer and 20 Ships of the Line of Battle, as soon as the season ill admit, into the English Channel. anen aiiiuance on nis tvijcit a and for restoring and perpetuating Peace, safety, and Profperity, to bis Majesty and his Kingdoms. LONDON, Jan. 8.

The Meeting at Winchester on Monday last was refpectable and numerous. A Petition to Parliament upon the Plan of the York Petition, for the redrefs of Grievances, was proposed by Sir Thomas Miller, Bart. Two or three Gentlemen faid a few Wordsagainst the general Purport of the Meeting, bututtered not a Syllable against the Petition itielf, which was highly approved by all prefent, and unanimoufly agreed to. The Scheme of the Irifh State-Lottery is as fol-lowsi There are 42,000 Ticlcets at 5I. each to Subscribers, 14,065 are Prizes, 27,925 Blanks.

Two of the Prizes are each, two of 5000. the est in Proportion. There are not quite two Blanks to a Prize. The Prizes are to be funded at the Rate of 4 per Cent, and the annual lnterest paid either here or in Ireland. My Lord, After having fully reconsidered all that passed Yesterday at my House, I see no reason to alter the Opinion I then expressed, and must begleave to decline presenting the Petition your Lordfliip lest with me, or engaging to support any Bist At Eight o'Ciock P.

M. the Commodore made the Signal for the Emerald, Daphne, Seaford, and Hawk, to examine the V-onvoy, ana to form re; tic th jtk of co ne th sar by int Pr; the Line of Sattle a-head a Cable's lengrh asunder; at half past Eight the Durch Admiral red a shot that may be brought into Parliament. for repealing the Act passed for the Belief of the Roman Catholics, in theYear 1778. I have the Honour to be, with the greatest respect, my Lord, your Lordstiip's most faithful, humble Servant, NORTH. atthe bcarord Boat, wnicn was going on ooara one of the Convoy; upon which the Namur fired a Shot to leeward the Dutch Admiral then fired hisBroadfide at the Commodore, who returned A Requisition having been made to the Sheriff his Fire, and immediately hoisted the Signal to attack the Enemy's Convoy, and a few Minutes after the Signal to engage the Valiant also fired several Shot at a forty-gun Ship and one of their Doivttitig-Street, Jan, 5, Ro 1780.

'Pei Publistied by order of the Association En G. Gordom. President. th Frigates, who hkewise fired their Uroadiides in a few Minutes after they all struck: At Nine o'Ciock P. M.

the Commodore made the Signal vif Co lev Extract from the Minutes. James Fisher, Secretary The Right Honourable the Lord North ha of Middlefex by several freeholders, to call a Meeting, for the purposc of confidering of the Propriety of entering into Resolution and co-operating with the noble Lords who formed the Minority on the 7th and of December, on the Motions for the Retrenchment of the Civil List, and for controuling the public Expenditure; and they having advertifed for a Meeting to be held at Hackney, many very refpectable Gentlemen attended Yesterday in the Affembly Room, at the Mermaid. About a Quarter before One o'Ciock Mr. Sheriff Wright took his Seat, and informed the Company of the Causc of their being called together; the Under Sheriff having read the Letter of Requisition, Mr. Byng, with the Petition in his Hand, addreffed the Company he apologized for not being prepared to fpeak, as not imagining it would have fallen to bis Lot to introduce the Petition however he hoped he stiould never want Words to utter when a Matter ofsuch moment was under Consideration He was exceedingly severe on those in Power concerning the heavyLoadof Taxes which the Nation in general laboured under, and particularly the Free-holders of the County of Middlefex, who, he believed now paid Fifteen Shillings in the Pound it therefore became absolutely neceffary to take Uare of the remaining Five he faid, when he looked at the Red Book, he was astonifhed to find Twenty-one sail of Dutch Ships, bound up the Straights, are taken and carried into Cadiz.

Yesterday Morning between One and Two o'Ciock, a Fire broke out at the House of Mr. Evans, a Chandler's Shop, in Great Wild-Street, which in a Short Time con-sumed the fame, together with a pawnbrokers and a Peruke-maker's adjoining, and did considerable Damage backwards it could be got under, being near three Quarters of an Hour before any Water could be had. The Counties of Devon and Corn wall are about to petition their Sheriffs to appointa Meeting, in like Manner as in Yorkfhire, and for the fame Purpose, and a great Number of the first Names in both Counties have agreed to sign them. Extraa of a Letter from Capt. Dunn, of tbe Rambler Privateer, Malaga, Nov.

26. I take the first Opportunity of advising you of ourMisfortune: After a desperate Engagement of four Hours, off Estampona, with two Spanish Row-Galleys, the 141h instant, which we drove off, we were the next Morning furprised with the Appearance of a Frigate of the fame Nation on our Weather Bow, which made down to us very fast. Our Rigging was so damaged in the Engagement the Day before, that unable to get away, we struck to a Force much fuperior to our own, the Spaniards having Twenty-to Tweive-Pounders. and fix Six-Pounders. The Frigate is a new Veffel, well manned, and carried me, with 32 of my Crew, into this Place.

We have been here now ten Days, and I hear nothing of our Veffel, lhemust therefore have been sent toanother Port, which I think can hardly be the Cafe, or fhe is re-taken. Pray God it may be the latter. Our Fate is not very hard, though we fhould have fared better, 1 think, if we had been taken by the French. The Doctor is well known here, and I believe will be able to come to England before myself." Yesterday Mr. Recorder made the Report to his Majesty of the Convicts under Sentence of Death inNewgate, viz.

John Howell, for entering the Dwelling House of Mr. Davidson, a Pawn-broker, in Bistiopfgate-Ltreet, and stealing 352 Silk Handkerchiefs, and divers other Goods, value, 30I. Benjamin Ferrer, John Wood more, John Wiley, and Hush Mulvey, for burglariously ing declined to prefent and support the Petitionf nc of the Protestant Association for a Repeal of thei PU1 Popisti Act, Ofl Resolved, That the Right Honourable th5e President be requested to make an immediate Ap-plication to their Protestant Brethren in Scotland, "Me to unite with this Association for a Repeal of th Jttia late Act in favour of Popery. cor Refolued, That an Application be made to the ver in Parliament for the Cities of fr, London and Westminster, to request them port the Petition of the Protestant Association. Pr Refol-ved, That the Petition do remain at the Old Crown and Rolls Tavern, Chancery-Lane, Jto London, until the next Meeting, and that the Committee do attend between the Hours tweive and two every Day, (Sunday excepted)ov to reeeive the Signatures of the Protestants ifl5jfclOJ London and Westminster.

37 Resolved, That this Association do adjourn the quarterly Meeting, to be held at Coacb-f' makes-hall, on Fr! day the i4th Day of Januarycut Instant, at 6 o'Ciock in the Evening. exe Done in Association at London, on the Day of January, in the Year of our Lordcc One Thoutfand Seven Hundred and Eighty.p1" By order of the Association, G. Gordon, President. tn V.Ytmfl fr cm Vi Minute. fevt for all Tenders to come under his Stern, who, in pursuance of their Directions, made sail after the straggling Ships of the Convoy to bring them into the Fleet; he also made the Signal for the Emerald to come within hail.

At Eleven the Commodore hauled down the Signal for Battle, and the Dutch Admiral then hoisted his Flag and Enfign. as did the Rest of his Squadron after being boarded by our Boats at Half past Tweive A. M. the Commodore made the Signal for the Centaur, Buffalo, Camel, and Hawk, to stay by the Dutch Convoy; at three A. M.

the Dutch Admiral saluted Commodore Fielding with 11 Guns, which was returned; we found that some of the Doggers had-made off; hailed one of the Men of War, and was told they came from the Texel; the Doggers were loaded with Hemp, Flax, and Iron, some bound to Nantz, and others to Port L'Orient in France; at Five A. M. the Commodore made the Signal to tack, both Squadrons in Company. Wind East by South, very morderate. Saturday, Jan.

1, Wind E. S. E. almost calm, a large Dutch Ship came into the Fleet, loaded with Hemp and Flax, bouud to Nantz; detained her. Working up the Channel.

Evening very foggv. Sunday, Jan. 2, off the Ifle of Wight, Wind N. N. W.

clear Weather, both Fleets in Company the Emerald's Signal made to chace; brought a large Dutchman into the Fleet; at Eleven P. M. standing up for St. Heien's at Eight A. M.

brought up in Sand-Down-Bay, in the Ifle of Wight, in order to stein the Tide, being very little Wind and Foggy at Nine both Squadrons at an anchor. Monday, Jan. 3, moored at St. Heien's with his Majesty's Ships as considerable Sums added toNames who bad never done any public service but, what was still more alarming, he was mtormed, that at the of every a Paper was put into the Hands of a certain Person, containing the Namesor those who were Favourites, to which was annexed such stipends as had been bestowed in confequence of their having acted aecording to the Wislies of those whose Actions must be detested by every Friend to Liberty and his Country this Matter, DU: James Fisher, Secretary. Subfcriptions are reeeived at the followin 11 he faid, it was imposllble for the People at large Bankers.

Messrs. Hankev and Co. FenchurchJ Street, William Son, and Co. Lornbardust to know, and might be dimcult to prove but as he had been informed of it as a Fact, hethought neceffary to mention it at any Rate he thought that no Money fliould be granted till the Public Street, Dornen, Mello, and Martin, Finch. Lane and by the Secretary to the Protestant Association We have the Sarisfaction to assure our Revers, upon the best Authority, that the Protecteur, breaking and entering the Dwelling House of were acquaintecWor what it was intended, and afterwards have Satisfaction that it was ex- French Man of War of 74 Guns (on board oj pended for the real Purpofes for which it was granted.

Having expatiated a considerable Time which were a great Number of Englisli Prisoners)Lfrrj MONDAY7 POST. Foreign InteUigence, Paris, (France) December 23. on thele Jbleads, he read tue rentiern, wnicn was exactly the fame as that agreed to by the County 1 ho. r- arley, the Pickled Egg, in 'oidbatn-fieias, and stealing a Quantity of wearing Apparel and Einen William Kent, for felonioufly affaulting Mr. Henry Otto, one of his Majesty's Meffengers, on the Highway, near Gunnerfbury-Lane, and robbing bim of a Silver Watch and some Money when, they were all ordered for Execution on Wednefday the iSth Instant.

On Monday, wa Married at Walcot-Church, lareiy arnveo at Kochelle the beginning 0 last Month, after a tedious Passage from St. Do of York. mingo. a vioient urricane obliged the Captai VW to thiow over-board most of his Guns, her Fore Col. Miles wislied to make an amendment in the first Article, as it seemed to lay the Blame on the Colonies for declaring for an independency.

Mast went by the board, and stie arrived off the Ifle of Rhe a mere Wreck. The English Passe lMZ ESS. de Vaudreuil and de Bou-gainville, both Captains of Ships in Count d'Estaing's Fleet, have been created Admirals. It is said that the Count Du ChafFault has requested not to be sent to America, as well on gers were two Lieutenants of the Royal Ar Dfe ana moit ot the Urhcers of the 48 th Regiment whereas he was fully convinced that they had beendriven thereto by the Conductof Administration, and proposed that those Words might be interted as an Amendment which seemed to wno were taKen at Grenada, trom whence, afre iount had suffered bis Peoule to stri oa them even ot their wearing Apparel, they wen meet with the approbation of the Company; but Mr. Grieve anflog, hoped the Gentlemen would is aent to uomingo, and kept in dose Confine consider that Spirit, with firmness and Modera ment till they embarked in the above Man 0 account of his advanced Age, which is 73, as on account of his wound, and that those Seas have never agreed with his Health.

Amsterdam, (Holland) Dec. 24, We have Accounts from Cadiz, that besides the Swedifh and Danifh Vessels which the Spaniards have taken, they have lately seized 17 Dutch Veffels; or tion, would be the molt likely Mean to ensure War. On their Arrival at St. Rochelle, the In Success. Ministers, he faid, in a bad Causc, ob- habitants, execrating the inhumane Bebaviouro the Count, treated them with the utmost Polite served unanimity and in a good one, surely, it was more essentially neceffary.

Col. Miles declared himfclf the last Man in nefs and Hofpitality. Most of the above Office ina the Court of Madrid being deterrmned not to let any Veffels, of whatever Nation they may be. have reeeived Passports from the Court of Ver oc iailles, and are daily expected Home by Way 0 pafs into the Mediteranean during the Siege of isreena. ani Application has been made to the Sheriff the County of Huntinsdon, to call a Meeting 0 5 that county, on the Plan of the late Meeting on 1 1 A r.

luiiv, vriiiv.11 we near. tne dnerumre has complied with. The rollowiug Advertisement aoneared in ttt Cumberland Packet of the 4th Instant To tkW ny )ou ueniiemen, -ierey, and freeholders or tm Bath, John Edenfori Heatheote, Esq; of Long-ton, in Staffordfhire, to Miss Grefley, eldest Daughter of Sir Nigel Grefley, Bart, of Knyper-fley, in the fame County. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. London, Tburfday, January 6, 1780.

THE Right Honourable the President informed the Association, that in obedience to their Resolve of Thursday last, that a Deputation be appointed to wait upon the Right Ho, the Lord North, to request of bis Lordfliip to prefent and support the Petition of the Association, and to report his Lordstiip's Answer to the next Public Meeting." he had written the fol-lowing Letter, as the first proper Step for carry-ing their Commands into Execution, viz. 7o tbe Right Honourable Lord North, Lord of tbe Treafury, effc. fcfr. cr. My Lord, Inclosed 1 send your Lordfliip the Copy of the Resolves of the Protestant Association You will see by them, that, as President, I am nominated one of their Deputation to wait upon your Lordfliip, and that the Association have adjourned only to Thursday next, reeeive your Lordstiip's Answer.

I write this to apprize you rLord ship of our com-ing, and to request to know, whether Saturday, Monday, or Tuefday, will fuit most with your Lordstiip's Convenience. Your Lordfliip knows that you did not delay a single Hour in returning a fatisfactory Answer, when I had the Honour to write to your Lordfliip on the Business of the Committee of Correfpon-dence for the Protestant lnterest at Edinburgh, and I trust, that as you are a Friend to the Protestants in London, your Lordfliip will fliew a similar Attention to their Application. have the Honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordstiip's most obedient and humble Servant, G. GORDON. Welbeck-Street, Friday, Dec.

ZI, ,779, 6 o'Ciock, Jftermon, County of Cumberland, Gentlemen. Havin been folicited by several resoectable Gentlemei nly of this County, to call a County Meeting, (upoMhat 1 i a rr in" miy vi ntiai oituaiiou or puDiic Airairbj not thinking myfclf fufficientlyiustified in such a Meeting, without endeavouring to the World to wish to prevent a cordiality of fen-timent, and withdrew his Motion. The Petition Was then unanimoufly agreed to, without a dissentient Hand. Mr. Baker now moved two resolutions iimilar to those agreed to by York the first, that a Plan for a conllitutional Association be prepared in support of the Determination to render Parliament independent and the second that a Committee be appointed, consisting ofFity-three Members, to correfpond with the other Count! es in England, and such Plan of Association against the next general Meeting, to be held on Tuefday the nth of April, Masons Arms Tavern." These Resolutions were agreed to nem.

con. It was then resolved togive the Thanks of the Meeting to the Duke of Portland, Lord Harcourt, Lord Craven, and Lord Beaulieu, for their Coun-tenance and support at the Meeting. Mi. Grieve now called the attention of the County to a Propofition he wiflied to make. He said it had been the uniform practice of the wretched hirelings of a less Administration, to debase the noblest Characters in this Country by blackest calumnly, spread Reports calculated to raise the Belief, that there was no Remnant of public Virtue remaining and that the noble and patriotic Persons who opposed Administration, were actuated by the bafest Motives.

It was, he faid, the Duty of the County of Middlefex (who from her local Situation had Sources of Informa Gibralter. I D. Dublin, Dec. 28. The English Act, repealing the Laws restraining our Woollen and Glafs Manu-factures, is arrived.

Almost the fame Wind brings us Accounts of Advantages gained by the Britilh Arms in America and the West-Indies. No sooner was St. Patrick's Malediction removed thau they profper That we (hall obtain all we want, and ask for, cannot now be doubted as a Britilh Minister has founded the Justice of his Claim on a Base too solid to be fliaken by any blast of Prejudice, or of Ignornnce, and especi-ally as the People of Great-Britain now see that the Profperity of ireland will be the chief Means of operating the Salvation of the Empire. For-tunately, besides thess Advantages, we have an Iristi Nobleman a.Minister, whose Vigilance in the Cabinet will, no doubt, watch over that pious Work which he hath so successfully begun. Now is the Hour of Ireland's Exultation 1 Let the Elegy of our national Mufic, which originat-ed in national Woe, be changed into fhort-paced Meafure; and to the Harp of Ireland be restored its long lost native lyric Sound i Let the Foundation national Industry, which will secure public Hsppiness, be 1a id in national Content andChear-fulnefs.

Let us rejoice not more for the Restora-tion of our natural Rights, than for that kindly Constdence and mutuai Affection likely to be the Sense of the Gentlemen, Clerey, and Fr Enti noiaers in generai 1 man thererore taKe it as in rarticular favour ot the Gentlemen, Clergy, an Freeholders, to give me a meetine at the TT-- r. nouie in vvoexermourn. unnn wecineiciav iu I2th Instant, at one o'Ciock, when I fhall happy to take their Advice, as to my furtherProSava ceedings in this Business. 1 am, Gentlemen, yowoci moit obedient and faithful Servant. Wilhant Hasseil.

Sheriff. Penrith. Tan. 1. 1-780 Sa The Fleet that failed Yesterday from Por mouth, coniisting of a 90 Gun Ship, one of 4w al rour or 24, and a of 10, aregone to ne von ay wait in tne L-nannel to intercept.a fJumo 1 Ships coming from the Texel, with naval Swr for France and Spain..