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Containing the frejheft Advices a June 12, 1 755. From the Gentleman's Magazine, March. On the frefent State tf AFFAIRS. ISE, Britons! rife, wuh all your Fathers Might Aflert your Honour, and maintain jour Right Lot black Ambition arms her faithlefs Eager to grafp the Empire of the Main Aw'd by no Sanctions, by no Laws confin'd, See France prepares her Chains for all Mankind With treach'rous Skill the deep DeGgn is laid She courts our Favour, while her Troops invade. Thus fome falfe with diffembling Arc, Smiles, while he flrikes a Dagger to the Heart.

Ob! may Britannia, from Experience wife, Strip French Ambition of her thin Difguife Nor let the Arts of this perfidious Foe, Elude the Vengeance, and efcape the Blow. May Britain's Statefmen in due Time prepare, And prove that Boroughs are not all tbeir Care; Their Country's finking Glory to reftore, And bid again her Naval Thunders roar. Ard Thou, great Anson arm'd with Terrors, go, Defend thy Countryand chaitife the Foe. France, with Difmay, thy dreaded Name (hall hear, And ev'n ber braveit Chiefs iubmit to fear Soon to thy Hand, the Ruler of the Sea, Shall yield his Trident, and confefs thy Ye gallant Chiefs, who nobleft Deeds have done Go, and aiiert the Honours you nave won Fir'd with your Country's Spirit, urge the Fight, Refolv'd to conquer in your Country's Right. Go, teach this Leflbn to proud Franci and Spain, That Britain's Natv Hill commands the Main.

COPE NH A March 3. THE King has granted Letters Patents Yor edablifhing an African Company in this City, to trade on the Coads of that Country, and buy. Slaves for our Plantations. The Fund of this Com pany confifh of 500 Actions, of 500 Crowns each, divided among' 1 3 Proprietors. Hamburgh, March j.

The Regency of Hano er hive Permiffion of our Magiltrates to en lift Sailors here for the Service of his. Britannic Majefty Bat it was judged improper to grant their Requeft till our own bound to Greenland and Davis's Streights, had got their Complements of Men. vv Berlin, March 4. We daily receive Accounts of the melancholy Effects produced by the Rigour of the Seafon. Two Peafants have been found frozen to Death, and a Servant, ftifled under the Snow, nearCorlin in the Hither Pomerania.

Three Perrons have alfq been found frozen near Schwel ben and the Bodies of a Father'aqd his Son, the' one aged Seventy one, and the other, aged Twenty, ae been found Handing in each others ArrasRilled under the Snow near Pocltzin. Four Men and four Women have undergone the fame Fate near Baewalde. A Shepherd, who looked after loqo Sheep, was buried under the Snow, with his whole flock, near New Stettin The Body of the Man, tod Twenty feven of the Sheep. have been dug Two Men, a young Girl, and a Shep with eight Sheep, have jperUhed by the Cold "Belgard, Letters front Breflaa Advife, that eleven Bodisa have been dug out of the Snow near odefhst; five of which were tbofe of fome Chil ((bat had been overtaken by the Snowt as they re going to School) with ard in their Hands. They write from Danr that the Fall of Saow has been fa great ia Neighbourhood, that it it four Feet deep.

Madrid, fV4, 1 8. The Court haa fent down Or. to Carthjgcna, Ferrol, and. other Pom, to fit out Twenty.five Ships of the Line of Battle, and lome frigates, that we may have a powerful Squa dron ready to be employed as Occafion may require. Hague, Feb.

28. The extraordinary Armaments which the French are making at Bred and Roche fort, have in a Manner exhaufted all their Magazines upon the Coad of the Ocean, both of Provi fions and The Attention of the Public is at prefent much engaged to fee whether the Eng lifh or French Fleet will firjft put to Sea but as they feem pretty near equally ready, whichever fails fitft, it is imagined, will be followed by the other, fo that if the two Squadrons fhould meet, fome Difpute may probably arife, which may oc cafion a Commencement of Hoftilities. Madrid, March 4. Divers ExprefTes arrived within thefa few Days from Paris and London, have brought very intending Difpatches concern ing the Naval Preparations making in England and trance. The Refolution taken by thole two row ers, to lend out each of them a fleet, and the valt Expence which fuch.Armaments moft put them to, induce as to think that the Difference between them is of fuch a Nature as cannot be sdjuded by Negotiations 1 though fome Politicians are of Opinion, that fuch Armaments may alien the Conclufion of the Accommodation which they have fo long la bour'd at in vain.

It is fuppofed that our Court employs its good Offices to prevent a Rupture be tween thole two rival who are always contending either about the Ballance 'of Power, or the Ballance of becaufe the Britifh and French Ambafladors confer very frequently with our Miniders. Staden, (in the Dutch if Bremen) March Q. An Edict has been publifhed here, whereby all Sailors of this Dutchy are exhorted to engage in the Ser vice of the Britifh Fleet, with fromiie that they fhall be at Liberty at the Expiration of the Term tbey enter for. Madrid, March II. Baron Wallenaer, Ambal fador from the States General, went feveral Times to Court raft Week, to confer with the King's Mi nifter about the State of Affairs between the two Nations in the Weft Indies.

This Morning Sir Benjamin Keene received an Exprefs from London, and in the. Afternoon his Excellency communicated the Contents of his Dif patches to Don Richard Wall, Secretary of State and that is all we yet know ot the Matter. Parts, March 17. Letters from Algiers of the 17th of January advife, that the military Men jn that State appear highly difcontented with the pa cific Syftem of the new Dey. Hague, March 4.

According to the lait Accounts from Bred and Rochefort, the Number of Men employed at thofe Ports have lately been almod doubled and the following Extract of a Letter from Paris, received from good Hands, miy ferve to give fome Idea of the Sentiments' of the French, witn retpect to toe preient ircunwances You may depend upon it, Sir, tbat our Court is not difpofed to come to an Accommodation with theJEngl.fh, with regard to the Affairs of the Eaft and Weft Indies. Our Miniftry has juft difpatched an Exprefs to the Duke de Mirepoix with fome new Prooofitions to the Britifh Court, which, it not ap proved of (as is likely to be the Cafe) that Ambaf iador is ordered to return home, nndcr a Pretence of being made Governor to the Duke of Berry, who, by the way, is not yet of an Age to be taken out of the Hand of the Women. Paris, March XI. Private Letters from Hamburgh advife, that, the Decree of the Senate of Ruffia, in Confequence whereof the Provinces of that valt Empire were to furnifh 60,000 Recruits in the Month of February, has met whn great Op pofition. They have been obliged to fend Detachments of Soldiers into feveral Parts to fupport the Execution of it, an Expedient more proper to increase tbe Evil, than to remedy it i Accordingly the Senate has prorogued the Term for the Delivery of the Rccraiu till the 1 2th of April, on Pain of the Provinces being obliged to deliver a double Quota if they do not furnifli them by that Time.

Hamburgh, March '25. The Perfons who have the Direction of the French Company of Infurance here, have received Orders to raife their Premium on all French and Englifh Ships. An Enghflf Frigate is arrived in the in order to take on board the Seamen of the Dutchies of Bremen and Verden, who have engaged in the Service of the Britifh Crown. March 8. According to a Paragraph in 'one of the Evening of the fixth Inftant, the Inhabitants of the French Coafts are fo terrified at the News of the Naval Preparations making in England, that many of them forfake their Dwelling.

fome running up to Paris, and fome flying even to Rome, which is about feven Hundred Miles farther. fo that if the Panic continues ftrong upon them, we may poiiibly near of tneir polling away to Conflan tinople or Pekin. panic Terror (if there ia any in. the Account') may perhaps be. owing to our putting fo many fird and fecond Rate Ships, into Commiffion, which thefe poor People imagine mud needs be defigned to barter down their Maritime Forts and Caftles, finkthe Shipping in the Harbours, and beat the Town about their.

Ears. We heartily with their Fears may be well grounded, that the World may not have Reafon to tax thia Nation with want of Economy; fince fuch large' Ships cannot be of any great Service, unlefs fome Expedition of that Kind be intended. March 1 8. Advices from Paris inform us, that the marine Guards of the Department of who received Orders from Court to repair to Bred. are actually on the Road thither, and march with all poffible jQiligence, three hundred Livres having been given to each of them for the Expences of their Journey, i he Regiment ot Aquitam, whicn was quartered at Toulouze, is marching to Bour deanx, to relieve the Regiment of which is one of thofe thatVe to embark at Bred.

The four Companies of the Tram of Artillery that are dedined for America, are to be cloathed with Jackets and Trowfiera, inftead of Regimentals; March 20. The Experiment Man of War, Capf. Evans, failed from Plymouth on Samday ad, with Orders to look into Bred, and obferve the Conduct of! the French Fleet. By a Letter from Berwick we are informed, that Capt. Hunter of the Mermaid, arrived at the Orkneys from France, after eighteen Days Sail, efpicd off to the Weft five Sail.

of French Men of War; but having the Wind, they could not come up with tbe Mermaid, fo he faw' them no more, March 21. Our Correfpondent at Paris informs us, tbat the Friends of the prefent Minifters affect great Moderation in their Difcourfes 1 give out that the King's Orders have been exceeded in America, and that they are well difpofed to facilitate fuch Meafures as may contribute to an Accommodation! all which is look'd upon as calculated purely to pleafcthe who give evident Teftimonies of their Averfion to a War. March 27. We bear that every Builder jn the River of Thames will fpeedily have an Ord from, the Lords of the Admiralty to build a Twenty Gun Ship We hear tbat the new rais'd forces wall amount, to 35000 Men, viz. 20000 Seamen, 10000.

Marines, and 5000 Land Men. The Lords of the Admiralty have given the Command of the Fdugeux. a Man of War of 60 Guns, to Capt. Sprye, who brought Xhe Exprefs from Virginia. On Sunday lad the William and Mary Tender, arriv'd at Plymouth, and brought in 100 Men.

March o. To encourage Sailors to enter into his Maieftr'a Service, by removing the Difficulties which they labour under in getting their Wages, it nrnoofed. That every Sailor fhall have his Tick et made' out for his Pay every fix Months, igned 1 i.