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'Frocntlie Boyal Gazettes, printed New ork the 20th and 2 3d of February. Debates in rhe Houfe of "Lords on his Majefty's cb. SO trr HAMPTON lamented the. I fs we had 'I. jatey.

fuflaiiie in the Capture of lordCornwallis and hi army, anq compiimemeo mat nooiesnagaiwni com minder in terms of jjmv as well for his general a vt, fpirU and good conduct, as for hir. having fun endered on papitulation, in a moment of great thereby 'pre venied his army from necominga facrih'ce to the fworu', which muft have been the inevitable ccnfequcnce of his ft aiding out longer a a (r inr To nuirh is fu oerior Doillt of numbers and advantage, as to fituation, artillery, ire. After de feinting fur fome ihort time on this me 1 1 a that it ought 'not to mike too drep an impreffion on of their bfcaufe that their exam pe would naturally be bokfd up to by the reft of he kingdom, and the moment of calamity, and the prefluYe of misfortune, was by no means he moment for a great peop'e to give way to defpondency. His lordfhip then our affair in and argued that if our arms had been Iefs fuccefsful in Americn, than the juftice of our caufe was entitled to, it was forne confolation to find that the caure was different in another quarter of the globe. His lordlhip fummed up his fpeech by earnefily exhorting the houfe to recollect that the eyes of all the world were turned upon their Lordfhips, and that it depended on the proceedings of that day, to fhew mankind in generaJ, that the people of England would not fubmit to the difmemberment of their empire, but like their prince, poflfelfing true magnanimity of mind, derived frefh ardour from auction, and that in.

creafe of danger and difficulty only added to the energy of their exertions. His lordfhip concluded with moving an addrefs to the king, which he read to the houfe. Lord Walfingham in a very elegant fpeech feconded the motion, and added frefh arguments to prove the impolicy of relinquifhing the of the American war. He Mated the fatal conlequences that would un. avoidably follow fuch a men fure, exclufive of extreme imprudence of adopting it in a moment when we had fu Rained fo great a calamity as the lofs of 6000 gallant troops and their noble commander, whofezeal and activity exemplified in a variety of ftriking inftances, made both the' capture of him and his veteran troops, a matter vof deep regret and unfeigned forrow.

To re clearly owiiigtoall Europe (what he hoped this country would never find its felf either willing or obliged toavow, that fhe was unequal to the preservation of her deareft and moil effential rights, but by giving up trans Atlantic market, the bell of all we had to refi rt to giving up our fifheries, which were not merely important as an object of commerce, but on a variety of other material and weighty considerations, and giving up to our natural enemies a country which abounded in naval Mores of every defcription. Having dwelt for fome little time on thefe events, which it muft be obvious to every reflecting mind, would be the refult of our relinquifhing the purfuit of the hjs lordfhip warmly piciiea the houfe to mew ltfelf unani mous in tneir reioiutions 10 aiuu in uiajcu auu further as their lordfhips could, the royal determination to purfue the war with unabated vigour and renewed exertion. His lordfhip before he fat down, took a view of the alarming ftate in which our territorial acquifitions were but laft year, and contraftcd it with the mohV pleafing accounts that had lately arrived. He (hewed that: by the fl range negleft of the perfons in power in India, Hyder Alley had been fuffered to march his army to the gates of Conjaverom, but that fuch had been the exertions of fir Eyre Coote, that he had been obliged to retire ttnd abandon his conquefts with as much precipitation as he had advanced. His lordfhip fpoke alfo of the flourifhing ftate of th4 province of Bengal, and added fome frefh arguments on the neceffity of continuing the war with ani ma ion and energy, and concluded with declaring the addrefs, as moved by the noble lord, had hit 4iearty affent.

Lord Shelburne oppofed the addrefs, and moved the amendment which was inferted in this paper laft Wed nefday. His lordfhip followed by his grace of Richmond, who wifhed to change the fyftem of the war, to carry it on defenfively, not ofFenfively. The great error was, we had acted on the offenfive, without the to do fo with any effea by changing it to a xlefenfive war we might recover, and bye and bye be able to act on the offenfive 5 and his grace begged the thbufe to underftand that by a defensive war, he meant cto advife a war by fea, to ftrengthen our navy, the national fecurity of the kingdom, and to leffen the army. He declared that it was the middle of a war, he made no fcruple to reconamend it moft flrenuoufly to vernment immediately to fet about dimihifhing the army, and that as much as poflible. There was the greateft probability, that a reconciliation might in time be effected vvith the colonies if the Americans were left to themfelves, and that they would bye and byefue to us and folicrt our protection of them frcm the opref (10ns of the French, their unnatural allies.

His grace added, that if the motion was unfuccefsful, he xfhould not tire the houfe with the farce of debate this tfeftions, and concluded with moving, that the fecond paragraph of the addrefs as original moved, be omit ted, and that it ftand only the fir ft paragraph, and then the earl of Sbeiburne's amendment Mr. COURTENAVs Speech in the Houfe of Commons. MrCourtenay faid, no man could be more affected by nhat fell from the honourable gentleman (Mr. Pitt,) than he was. His fplendid diction, his manly elocution, his brilliant periods, his pointed logic, conveyed in a torrent of rapid and iraprefled eloquence brought ftrongly to bis recollection, that great and able ftatef memory every grateful and generous Briton feveres.

The honourable gentleman flood high by his own fuperior abilities, yet ftill the memory of that great man threw a ray ot gtor rounq niro. mr. Cotirlenny faid "ht would pqlj trefpafs on the indulg ence of thehbufe for.a few minutes, as on fuch a. great and important que ft ion he did not choofe to give a file nt vote. At this difaftrous and calamitous moment, the houfe of commons were called upon by thepropofed addrefs, tofupport the juft and necefTary war in which we were engaged, againft the united force of France and Spain, and againft "America as their allyl ft', was' a war of nectffity, of cruel End dire neceftify, on which principle alone he would attempt to juftify it.

Courtenay obferved that much had been faid on the American war; fee ms ever ready to 'avow his fentiments 011 that fubject he had always thought it neither wife, politic, or expedient on every occafion, whtn that war had become jhe fubject of he had very fret ly, pernapj fometimes indifcreetly, declared his opinion, infignifirant as it was yet ftill the fentiments of themeaneft hdivHual, in a free country, on a great, interefting, cenfii tutional queftion, were of fome confequenee. On the firft day he had the honour of fpeaking in that houfe, he hd expreffed the faoe whis'h he (hould always adhere. He ha vofed for the adJrtfs on explanation of the rhinifters who had got up in their places, and bad explicitly declared, that the houTe was not phdged, or meant to be drawn in by tlie words of that addrefs, (which to fome gentlemei feemed fo very exceptionable) to carry on tne wir, for the exprefs purpofe of fubjugating America, but on general terms to carry on that juft and neceffarji war in which we were engaged, in th moft effectual manner, for thefafety and honour of Great Britain, and the protection of his ma jefty's dominions. Mr. Courtenay faid, he did not like the voice of de fpondence that he trufted th ere was an elafticity in a Britifh mind, which would always rife in proportion to the preffu re of calamities but that he wasfurprix ed and mortifyed to hear a noble lord of the admiralty affert, as an apology for ihe acknowledged inferiority of the Britifh fleet at this awful moment, that France, from her great refources, was enabled to have a Superior fleet that in tne reigns of king William and queen Anne, fhe had one if there was truth in this voice, it founded the funeral knell of Brit in, and might well appall the ears of the people, hut Mr.

Courtenay added, he was happy to find that the aflerrion was not founded; it was contradicted by hiflorical facts; and the noble lord who made it feeraed to have forgot the glorious annals of his profc ffion he feemed to have forgot the action of La Hogue, where the marine of France receivti a blow, from which it never recovered. He feemed to have forgot that memorable action where Britifh valor was fo very confpicuous, that king James, in the exultation of his heart, forgetting his own fituation, and that every hope was blafied with the that fleet, deftined ro reftore him to his throne; forgetting every thing for one moment, "but that he was an Englifhman, (the only moment of his life which merits an eulogium) burft out into this generous exclamation, on feeing the feamen in fwarms fcram ling up the high fides of the French fhips from their boats, Any none but my brave Englifh could do fo brave an action." "The noble lord, when he made the afTertion, roiift have forgot the action of Malaga, when fir ClouH fl r. a nJLi, uiougn lupv'rior to him in number of guns and men, as well as in weight of metal. The noble lord niuft have forgot the conjunct expeditions which were carried on in thofe reigns, the reduction of Barcelona and Gibraltar, which could not have been effected without maintaining that Superiority at fea on which the very exiftence of this country depends. The ruin of the colonies and commerce of France, the deftruction of her markie, the abfolute annihilation of her naval power at the conclufion of every war, in which file has been engaged with this country fince the revolution, are the mortifying topics on which her moft eminent political writers have difplayed their talents and ingenuity.

While the naval fuperiority of Britain (from her infular fituation) has been ever pathetically lamented by French patriots, as the fatal check to their ambition and glory. Let not then, the glorious reign of king William, the triumphant reign of queen Anne, be quoted as a precedent to apologize for the prefent inferiority of the Britifh navy. Let not the memory of whig minifters fufFer by fuch an injurious fuppofiti on It would be in him, Mr. Courtenay faid, to point out any reafon for the prefent avowed and clif graceful inferiority of the Britifh fleet he will only fay it could not be juftified by precedents, drawn from the glorious reign of king William and the triumphant reign of queen Aane. Mr.

Courtenay concluded by faying, that no men could lament more than he did, the late difaftrous event in Virginia; Jie liftened with indignation to invidious comparifonson the event. Lord Cornwallis had fallen, not ignobly, by the united arms of France and America; he had not fallen in the pride of prefumptionby the hue and cry of the peafantry, by the poffe coinitatus of the country he had fallen admired and reflected by the enemy, and his chains were wreathed with laurels may he then live to receive the reward of his valor from the hands of his difcexning foveretgn 1 He is an honour to his profeflion, aid will add a lu ft re to the higheft honor that can be conferred on him; and the facred and applauding vofceof the people willfanctify their fovereign's choice, February 18. The privateer febooner 5hark, captain returned from a cruize laft Thuifday night: fix days ago he took the fchooner Polly, captain Addifon, frcm Potow mack, for St. Croix, with 50. hogfheads of and ordered her for this poit, but fhe is not yet arriv ed.

Captain run a brg afhore in the Chefapeak, but could not get her off however he made fhift to obtain to or 12 hogfheads of ier Tobacco, amidft a hot fire of cannon and fmall artis. A' fleet of 10 fail of fhips are to leave Baltimore about this time for Europeand tht Weft Indies and another large fleet are to leave York River about 6 weeks" hence that two French frigates had failed from Virginia for Old France about days 30; and that all the French 4 cavalry that were nt. York Town, had lately taken their route for Charleftowx South Sir George Rodney has hoifted his flag on boar tht Conqueror, of 74 guns, and is appointed to fucceed the late lord Hawke, as vice admiral of England 'he uppofed to have failed for the Weft Indies with a powerful fquadrori about the firft jof. January. Feb.

20; On Monday arrived at the Hook the fhip William and Jamss, captain Hafleden, in eleven weeks from Liverpool. a On Sunday laft a veflel with a flag of truce, arrived here from jChefapeak and 00 Monday another from the fame place by them we learn, that a French frigate of twenty fix guns, named la Diligente, com manded by the Chevalier Clonard, run afhore eleven days ago two miles to the Southward of Cape Henry the veffel was entirely loft, and about twenty of her crew drowned. The officer's of the frigate imputing the accident to the ma ice or inattention of the pilot (wh acted in that ftation on board his majefty's fhip Iris when fhe was taken by the French fleet in Chefapeak laft Septembe and was forced to take charge of la Diligente much contrary to his inclination) threw the unfortunate man overboard, and he perifhed along fide of the wreck. 1 Same day was brought to Sandy Hook, a fmall fhip formerly purchafed here by meffieurs Hodgzrd and Graham, and called the Chatham, with 116 hogf. heads of Tobacco alfo a brigantine with 105 hogfheads o( the fame article, both taken off the Chrfepeak by his majefty's fhip Amphitrite, captain Biggs, who was in the Tate fevere weather blown out of the Hook, and, from that event, fortunately pounced upon thefe rerc traders We are informed that the merchants of Philadelphia have contrived to get about eight thoufand pounds worth of Englifh manufactured goods Jrom the ifland of St.

Thomas how this will accord with the late pro fcriptions (at the inftance of their ally) againft fuch ippli being introduced to the continent, a little time will necide. Feb. 23. On Thurfday arrived his, majefty's fhip Savage, in fifteen days from Charleftown, South Carolina; by her we learn, that the king's troops in that province are very healthy amply fuppljed with pro vifions, and by no means difconcerted at the return of the rebel general Greene. By the lateft accounts re ceived at Charleftown from Savannah and St.

Auguf tine, the troops and inhabitants of thofe places are in a fimilar fituation. Mr. Greene's army keep at a refpect fu) diftance from the Britifh ports. The fortifications about Charleftown are fo truly formidable that whoever prefurhes to attack them, will pay dear for their temerity. The Savage on her paffage captured and brought in a rebel floop from North Carolina, bound for Bhode Ifland, with a cargo of indigo, Spirit of turpentine, pitch, tar, Laft Sunday a flag of trues from St.

John's Antigua, with a number of rebel prifoners, bound for Phladel phia, was fpoke with by his majefty's floop off war Savage, commanded by lieutenant Crawley. The maf ter of the flag related, that fome French troops having landed on the ifland of St. Chnftopher, the Britifh retired to Brimftone Hill the French fleet confifling irjf fan fail, (landing off and on that ifland and that fir Samuel Hood, with a fleet of twenty two fail of the line, and amorigft them fome three deck'd fhips, had failed for the relief of the ifland the intelligence of which, had occafioned fome anxiety to the French Admiral for the return of the troops on board fleet, apprehenfive he muft be brought (unwillingly) to an engagement, or abandon them to their fate on the ifland, as fir Samuel Hood was determined on an actioa if the enemy fhould not quit his ftation. Another report fays, that admiral Hood had arrived to the relief of St. Chriftopher's, in terpofed the Britifh fleet under his command, between that ifland and the French fquadron, the latter having hitherto declined battle.

We are told that colonel Moncrieff, in a late view of the works at Savannah has made conliderable improv ments fo, that fince the garrifen has been reinforced with about a thoufand (additional troops; nothing is apprehended from the menaces of Mr. Greene. On Thurfday arrived a brigantine, laden with to the Orpheus captain Colpoys, who lately ran on fhorea brigantine of 14 guns, and a floop, both fuppoftd from the Weftplndies he likewife took 1 North Carolina floop, which (after fecuring the na val ftores) was burnt, I Yefterday arrived anj armed fhip le Perfeverence, iaden with fugars, coffeejand cotton, prize to his majefty's fhips Garland, Amphion and Centurion, bound from Cape Francois to Old Franqei fhe being one of an hundred and fifty failj under convoy of fix fail of the line, which left Cape Francois the 13th of January. Part of her cargo, it is faid, confifts of 200,000 pounds of coffee, ioo hogfheads of fugar, cotton, A very handfome capture. Brigadier general Meadows is appointed a major general in the Eaft Indies.

From the South Carolina Gazette, arrived here ofl Thurfday, by the Savage, we have collected thefol lowing particulars. Major Coffin with 70 Britifh cavalry, routed 400 rebels, under colonel Richardfon, at Smith's plantation, of whom 57 were killed and ao taken our lofs was captain Archibald Campbell 7tft, killed, and captatnAI exander Campbell and a dragoon wounded among the rebels was a number who had fubmitted to government and afterwards revolted. A great many prixe are carried into New Providence, where near 4000 barrels of Philadelphia, etc. flo'wer, had been in a fhor time landed. It is that Mr.

John Mathews is elected by the rebel aflembly to be governor, and Mf Richard Hudfon lieutenant governor of South CaroH na and Mr. Greene appointed a lieutenant general in the French ferwice, and had difcarded the Owgrefa uniform, The French (hip, bound to Mauritius, prize to the Jupiter, mentioned to be'arrived at Jamaica, brought accounts of the five Dutch Eaft fndia fhips, prizes to commodore Johnftone, having proceeded on their voyage with the transports under convoy of the Hero of 74 fta.