ultimately to fecure the utmoft advantages to your country. I anticipate the greatest national benefits from the wildom and temper of parliament, when I confider that the general election has afforded you an opportunity of obferving the internal circumstances of the country, and of judging by what regulations you may belt increafe its induftry, encourage its manufactures, and extend its commerce. "In the furtherance of objects fo very defreable to yourfelves, I ailure you of every good difpofition on my part; fenfible that in no manner can better full the withes and commands of our gracious fovereign, than by contributing to the welfare and happiness of his loyal fubjects. With an honest ambition of meriting your good opinion, and with the warmest hope of obtaining it, I have entered upon my prefent arduous fituation; and with fentiments pure and difinterefted towards you, I claim your advice, and firmly rely upon your support." October 16. The House of Lords and Commons having refolved upon humble Addreffes to his Majefty, The fame, together with Addreffes from both Houfes to the Lord Lieutenant, were this day prefented to his Excellency, and, with his Excellency's anfwers, are as follow: To the KING's Moft Excellent Majesty, The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament affembled. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE your Majesty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament ailembled, beg leave to return our moft humble thanks to your Majesty, for thofe gracious expreflions we have received from the throne, of that tender concern and paternal regard for the happiness of this kingdom, which we have fo happily experienced. Impreffed at all times with the deepest fenfe of your Majefty's goodness, we moft thankfully acknowledge, as a treih inftance of it, the placing us under the government of a nobleman, whofe "amiable character, whofe integrity and abilities, afford every profpect of national prosperity to the country over which he is to prefide. The unequivocal proofs we have received from Great-Britain, from her facred regard for the adjustment of our conftitution and commerce, made and establithed in the faid Parliament, not only afford us the fulleft fecurity for our conftitutional and commercial rights, but muit excite in us the warmett affection towards our fitter country, and itrengthen that union of fentiment as well as of intereft, between the two king doms, upon which the power and happines of both fo materially depend. To contribute to give permanency to that union, we beg leave humbly to affure your Majelty, it will ever be the firt with of our hearts, as it will be the firft object of our endeavours. We befecch your Majesty to accept our warmeft congratulations, at the fuccefs which has attended your Majesty's anxious exertions to reffore the blefling of peace to your faithful people, which muft naturally give fpirit and effect to our commercial purfuits. And whilft it will enable both kingdoms to deliberate on the fureft means of increafing our common profperity, we fhall give every attention in our power, to promez fuch measures as fhall effectually fecure to us the folid benefits that muft arife from reciprocal affection. The happy increase of your Majesty's rond family, by the birth of a Princefs, has afforded us all that heartfelt fatisfaction, which we can never fail to experience upon every increale a your Majesty's domeftic happiness. Confcious of the wifdom of those measures ad vifed by the Privy Council, which, through the mercy of Divine Providence, have averted hom the people the miferies of impending famine, we fhall gratefully concur in a parliamentary fac tion of the means 'purfued by government to prevent fo dreadful a calamity. We shall alfo moft chearfully concur in rega lating the judicature of the Court of Admiralty, as well as forming an eftablishment for the Post Office. The improvement of our linen manufacture muit ever be a principal object of our regard. We are too fully convinced of the extreme im portance of the fihery on our coafts, both to our national wealth and induftry, not to bestow upon it every attention on our part which may bett encourage fo valuable a branch of our commerce, and bett prevent thofe frauds and impofitions which are fo fatal to every infant undertaking. We fhall likewife confider the Protestant char ter fchools, from the humanity as well as wildom of the inftitution, highly deferving of our care. We conceive the liberal intentions of government to provide an afylum for the induftrious and diftreffed Genevans demand both our acknowledgements and warmet concurrence in every meafure that may promote the fettement in this kingdom of fo useful a body of men. But whilft we thall endeavour to procure every advantage to our country from that fettlement, we are likewife bound to prevent as far as poffible every unneceffary expence with which the meafure might be attended. We trust that the prefent parliament will be diftinguished in the annals of their country for their wildom, temper, and moderation, and for the efficacy of their regulations to increafe the industry, encourage the manufactures, and extend the commerce of this kingdom. Whilft we fhall endeavour to promote fuch valuable and important objects to ourfelves, we thall moft cordially confider the interest of Great Britain as immediately connetted with our own; and ever having experienced the paternal benencence of our most gracious fovereign, we beseech your Majesty to accept the tribute of hearts, deeply impreffed with gratitude, in earnestly imploring the Divine goodnets long to continue your Majetty's aufpicious reign over a loyal, happy, and united people. W. Watts Gayer, Cler. Parliaments His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's answer: I Will take the earliest opportunity of tranfmitting this dutiful and loyal addrefs to be laid before his Majeity. To the KING's Moft Excellent Majesty, The humble Addrefs of the Knights, Citi zens, and Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majesty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament affembled, beg leave to approach your Majesty with fentiments of the most unfeigned attachment to your royal perfon and government, and to offer to your Majefty our grateful thanks for the appointment of a nobleman to the government of this kingdom, whofe juftice, integrity, and abilities, afford the belt founded expectations of national happiness and profperity under his admi niftration. The fincerity and good faith of Great-Britain, fo abundantly teftified by the facred regard thewr on her part to the adjustment of our conftitution and commerce, demand our warmelt acknowledgements, while we enjoy the full poffettion of thole conititutional and commercial advantages which were fo firmly established in the lait parliament. We shall earnestly concur in any measure that may confirm and itrengthen the mutual condence of both kingdoms, and their union in fentiments as well as in intereft. From thence the moft folid advantages mult arile to both kingdoms, and vigour will be added to the trength of the empire. Already do we feel the bleffings of peace: and we intreat your Majefty to accept our humble thanks for the happy completion of your anxious endeavours to restore that ineftimable bleifing to your faithful people. We hope now to reap the fruits of our extended commerce, and in our deliberations we fhall look upon the increating profperity of Great-Britain with that regard winch must be the effect of reciprocal affection. As affectionate fubjects, deeply interelted in the happinets of our beloved fovereign, we learn with the highest fatisfaction the increale of that happiness in the birth of another Princets. We will immediately inspect the national accounts; and, happy in your Majelty's jult reliance upon our loyalty, we will make fuch provilion as fhall be fitting for the honourable fupport of your Majesty's government, confiftently with the abilities of the nation. We adore the mercy of Divine Providence, in averting from this people the mileries of impending famine; and we will chearfully concur in a parliamentary fanction of thole wile and falutary meafures which government purfued by the advice of the Privy Council. We fhall lofe no time in the neceffary manner for regulating the judicature of the Court of Admiralty, and for making a new ettabliment of the Polt-Office. We shall induftriously perfevere in the improvement of our linen manufacture; nor thall we omit an attention to the fihery, that promiling source of induitry and wealth, and we thall endeavour to regulate the encouragements granted to it, fo as to produce the beit effects, and to prevent fraud and impofition. We shall likewile extend our care to the Proteftant charter schools. We shall readily forward the liberal intentions of government to provide an afylum for the diftreffed Genevans- Ingenious men have a claim to the protection of a generous nation. But our own country is no lefs entitled to that care, which it is our duty to exert in avoiding unne ceilary expence, and fecuring the utmott advan tages from the fettlement of the emigrants. We trust that the wifdom and temper of this parliament will be manifefted in all its proceedings; and we fhall endeavour to profit by every opportunity which circumitances have afforded us, of oblerving the internal ftate of the country, and judging what regulations may beft encourage and extend its industry, manufactures, and com merce. Having conftantly experienced the beneficence of our gracious Sovereign, in contributing to the weltare and happinets of his faithful fubjects, we lay at your Majefty's feet the tribute of grateful hearts, cameltly beteeching the Divine Goodneis long to continue the bielings of your Majesty's auspicious reign over a happy, united, and loyal people. THO. ELLIS, Cler. Parl. Don. Com. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's aniwer: I Will take the first opportunity of tranf mitung this dutiful and loyal Addrels to be laid before his Majefty. To his Excellency Robert Earl of Northington, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General Gover nour of Ireland, The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament aflembled.. May it pleafe your Excellency, WE, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament alembled, pretent to your Excellency our warment thanks for your molt excellent fpeech from the throne. We beg leave to congratulate your Excellency and ourlelves, upon your appointment to the vernment of this kingdom, at a period peculiarly aufpicious to Ireland. In the fullest reliance upon your Excellency's wildom, justice, and integrity, we anticipate the advantages this kingdom mult derive from your Excellency's administration; and confider your Excellency's appointment to prefide in it, as a freth initance of his Majefty's paternal regard for the happinets of his faithful people. We are highly grateful for the warmth with which your Excellency fignifies your fatisfaction, at meeting us in the full poffeffion and enjoyment of thofe conftitutional and commercial rights, which were fo firmly established in the lait par liament. We trust that the unequivocal proofs given by Great-Britain, of her facred regard to the adjustment then made with Ireland, cannot fail to cement the union, and ftrengthen the mutual confidence between two kingdoms, the true intereits of which are and mult ever be infeparable. We beg leave to thare with your Excellency in the fatisfaction you expreis, at the fuccefs of his Majesty's endeavours to reflore the bleflings of peace to his faithful people. We thall, in puritance of your Excellency's wife and leafonable advice, thew our readinels to deliberate upon the mealures pointed out by your Excellency, as well for regulating the Judicature of the Court of Admiralty, and the new establinment of the Foit-Office, as for promoting cur, commercial purfuits, and reaping the advantages to be derived from the reitoration of public tran quility. Permit us to add, that the recommendation of those measures by your Excellency, affords the molt convincing evidence of your refpect for the rights, and your capacity to difcern and defire to promote the interefts of Ireland. The meafures purfued by government, by the advice of the Privy Council, to avert the miteries of an impending famine, if not strictly conformable to law, will appear, we doubt not, to have been urged by neceflity, and fo effential to the public good, as to merit parliamentary indem -nification. We enjoy the highest pleasure in every addition to the domeftic happiness of our gracious Sovereign, and participate in your Excellency's fatisfaction at the birth of another princefs. with gratitude the intereft which your Excellency takes in the profperity of this kingdom, when, in the very nature of those objects, we trace the h and generous fpirit which points them out to us. We will chearfully grant fuch fupplies, as after a proper investigation of the national accounts, fhall appear to be fitting for the honourable fupport of his Majefty's government, confidering the abilities of the country. Convinced of your Excellency's difpofition to promote the welfare and happiness of this kingdom, we shall prove ourselves not unworthy the confidence you are pleased to repofe in us, by con tributing our best endeavours to the ease and honour of your Excellency's adminiftration. The. Eilis, Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. His Excellency's anfwer: I Return you my cordial thanks for this very affectionate and obliging addrefs. It is my earneft defire to merit your confidence, and I fhall anxiously endeavour to justify the favourable opinion you entertain of me, by an unremitting attention to the welfare and happiness of this kingdom. We truft our well known and most fincere loyalty to his Majefty, our confidence in the fincerity and good faith of our fifter country, and the ample means we have lately acquired, of becoming a great and commercial people, will difpofe us to carry on ur confultations for his Majesty's honour, and the good of our country, with that duty, temper, and unanimity which can alone render them fuccefstul, and perpetuate the harmony between the two kingdoms: and with the firmeft reliance on your Excellency's pure and disinterested intent the 8th of August, feveral gentlemen our power, fupport the honour of his Majefty's government, and the eafe of your Excellency's adminiftration. Wm. Watts Gayer, Cler. Parliament. His Excellency's answer: I return your lordships my fincere thanks for this very honourable testimony of your good opinion, which it shall be my conftant endeavour to improve. Be affured that my inclinations, as well as my duty, will ever intereft me deeply in the profperity and happiness of Ireland. To his Excellency Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governour of Ireland, The humble Addrefs of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeiles, in Parliament affembled. May it pleafe your Excellency, WE, his Majesty's moit dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament affembled, beg leave to return your Excellency our fincere thanks for your excellent fpeech from the throne. We confider it as a strong proof of his Majesty's gracious attention to the happiness and profperity of Ireland, that he has been pleafed to commit the government of this kingdom to your Excellency, in whofe firmness, juitice, and integrity we place the highest confidence, that the powers of government will be directed to the true interefts of the people. We trust that your Exceliency will lay before his Majefty the faithful and affectionate duty of his loyal fubjects of Ireland, and reprefent their cordial regard to Great-Britain in its full light, thereby ftrengthening the mutual confidence of both kingdoms, and uniting them infeparably in fentiment, as they are in interest. We will arduously apply ourselves to the confideration of the many important objects which your Excellency has recommended to our attenon. And we cannot refrain from acknowledging N AMERICA. morial, in which are the following paffages. "That your memorialists having been deprived of very valuable landed estates, and confiderable perfonal properties without the lines, and being alfo obliged to abandon their 'poffeffions in this city, on account of their loyalty to their Sovereign, and attachment to the British conftitution, and feeing no profpect of their being reinftated, had determined to remove with their families, and fettle in his Majesty's province of Nova-Scotia, on the terms which they underftood were held out equally to all his Majesty's perfecuted fubjects. "That your memorialists are much alarmed at an application which, they are informed, 55 perfons have joined in to your Excellency, folliciting a recommendation for tracts of land in that province, amounting together to 275,000 acres; and that they have delpatched forward agents to furvey the unlocated lands, and select the moit fertile fpots, and defirable fituations.” The Memorial was figned by 630 perfons. His Excellency returned an anfwer to the following effect: "That his Excellency, within these few days, has had reafon to believe, that no one perion will obtain a larger grant of land in Nova Scotia than 1000 acres. That the power of itiuing patents for lands there refides folely in the Governour, to whom his Excellency will immediately forward the Memorial; which, he apprehends, will arrive before patents can be made out for the tract of land mentioned in it. And that it was his opinion, no perfons fhould be allowed to take up lands in that province, but those who mean to refide there, till the Loyalifts are firft ferved; and that his Excellency will do every thing in his power for the Memorialists, and believes they will have no caufe to complain." The Committee were alfo informed, from the most respectable authority, that the report of all the lands being occupied about Port-Rofe 1783. MONTHLY CHRONOLOGER. way, is groundless. Governour Par, who is Copy of a letter from his Excellency Sir Guy 5 New-York, Aug. 17, 1783. The Juno packet, lately arrived, brought me final orders for the evacuation of this place; be pleafed, Sir, to inform Congrefs of this proot of the perieverance of the court of Great-Britain in the pacifick fyftem expreffed by the Provisional Articles, and that I thail lofe no time, as far as depends upon me, in fulfilling his Majesty's commands. But, notwithstanding my orders are urgent to accelerate the total evacuation, the difficulty of aligning the precife period for this event is of Jate greatly increafed. My correfpondence with Gen. Washington, Governour Clinton, and Mr. Livington (your late Secretary for foreign affairs) early fuggetted the impediments tending to retard this fervice. A letter to Mr. Livingston, of the 6th of April, two more to Gen. Wathington, of the 10th of May and 10th of June, with feveral to Governour Clinton, itating many hoftile proceedings within the iphere of his authority, are thofe to which I refer; copies of fome of thefe letters Lenclofe, though I am doubtiefs to prefume the Congress to be informed of all tranfactions material to the general direction of their affairs. 7 "The violence in the Americans, which "broke out foon after the ceflation of hoftilities, increafed the number of their countrymen to look to me for efcape from threatened destruc-, tion; but thefe terrours have of late been fo confiderably augmented, that almost all within thefe lines conceive the fafety both of their property, and of their lives depend upon their being removed by me, which renders it impoffible to fay when the evacuation can be completed. Whether they have juft ground to allert, that there is either no government within your limits for common protection, or that it fecretly favours the committees in the fovereignty they allume, and are actually exercifing, I fhall not pretend to determine; but as the daily Gazettes and publica tions furnith repeated proofs, not only of a difregard to the Articles of Peace, but as barbarous menaces from committees formed in various towns, cities, and districts, and even at Philadelphia, the very place which the Congress had chofen for their refidence, I fhould thow an indifference to the feelings of humanity, as well as to the honour and intereft of the nation whom I ferve, to leave any of the Loyalists that are defirous to quit the country, a prey to the violence they conceive they have fo much caufe to apprehend. "The Congrefs will hence difcern how much it will depend on themfelves and the fubordinate legiflatures, to facilitate the fervice I am commanded to perform. By abating the fears they will hereby diminish the number of the emigrants. But fhuld thefe fears continue, and compel fuch multitudes to remove, I fall hold Los. MAG. Oct, 1783. 369 myself acquitted from every delay in the ful- "His Excellency Elias Boudinot, Efq." perfon, under any pretext whatever, thall pre- OLIVER DE LANCEY. ceived, moreover add, That the affairs of the had been ratifyed in Congrefs, the 29th day of Allo, that a treaty of amity and commerce July laft, between the United States and the King of Sweden. This treaty was concluded at Paris the 3d of laft April, and figned in behalf of the United States by Dr. Frankin, who was constituted Minifter Plenipotentiary for that purpole, by a commiffion iffued the 8th of September, 1782, and the Compte Guftavus Philip de Creutz, Minifter Plenipotentiary in behalf of equality and reciprocity; and for its object, the the King of Sweden. Like thofe with France and Holland, it has for its bafis the most perfect mutual benefit and advantage of both nations, FOREIGN AFFAIR S. The following is a literal tranflation of an Arabic taining taining an account of the late attack against that place by the Spaniards, tranflated from the original, by Mr Ifaac Cardozo Nunes. "I Acquaint you, that on the arrival of the Spaniards here, being the fint day of the Ramadar (A guit) two hours before day-light, they begin to fire upon the town, and continued to do to for thirteen days fucceflively; the three laft in the morning and evening only. Our lofs in houses, hops, &c. does not exceed one hundred, and thofe not entirely deftroyed. We had thirty-five men killed (amongst whom are fome of our principal artillery officers) and twenty-five wounded. On the 17th day, we went out with our gallies and gun-boats, and we came fo near to our enemy, that the pistolfhot reached from both fides, and, thanks to the Great God, we had the good fuccefs of fetting re to two of the enemy's fhips, and we continued our fire until we burned feventeen of the enemy's gun-boats. A few days after, the tide brought feveral of the enemy's dead bodies on thore, which being told to the Bey, he ordered all their heads to be cut off, and brought to him; the number of which, up to this day, amounts to 703. The Spanish fhips feemed to have received great damage, and we continued firing upon them, during their retreat, with all the guns that could reach. "The Bey distributed large fums of money amongst the troops and feamen, tor their conduct and bravery; fo I conclude, withing you fuccefs and health." Dated at Algiers, the 26th Ramadan, 1197. The following Proclamation does the higheft honour to the feelings of the King of Pruflia, who therein pays the most commendable regard to the dignity of man: "Whereas his Majefty the King of Pruffia, &c. our moit gracious Sovereign, will not permit that any of his fubjects delivering into his hand petitions or addreffes should kneel to his Majesty (an honour due to the Divinity, but which is no ways neceffary when his faid fubjects have any thing to deliver to him;) his Majelly is, therefore, gracioufly pleafed to order by this prefent, that the Confiftory of Brenau fhall caule this refcript to be read from the pulpits of all the Evangelick churches in his province of Silefia, and the Suffragant of Roth-Kirck to do the fame in the Roman Catholick church, that all and every one may be informed it is his Majesty's pleafure that no kneeling fhall in future be practifed in honour to his perfon. The Supreme Confiitory fhall, therefore, take the necellary steps to the above purpofe, Given at Bettlern, Aug. 30th, 1783. The toll wing particulars, concerning the late bankruptcy of the Caiffe d'Efcompte, were tranfmitted from a capital merchant in Paris : In the year 1776, thirteen bankers, the most eminent in Frince, funded five and twenty millions, for the cftablishment of a Caufe d'Efcompte, or Difcounting Bank, the purport of which was to difcount bilis of exchange, part in cath, and part in notes, in imitation of our bank-notes, for the purpote of facilitating trade, and at the fame time fupplying the occafional wants of Government. This scheme had the defired effect, and anfwered the publick expectation till the 25th of last month, when an extraordinary and unexpected run of creditors put the directors under the neceflity of ftopping payment. The deficiency is not yet afcertained, but it mut te very confiderable, feeing they were hardly able to pay feven hundred thousand livres. The ent being foon spread abroad, occafioned an univerfal alarm; upon which the ministry made the of every political measure to prevent any bad c fequence, as in the time of the famous Scotchman, Law. Soon after appeared four edicts of the King, which they had the precaution of tedating five days.-The first forbidding all o taries to protest the notes iffued from the faid Caiffe d'Efcompte, under the penalty of a mult, betides corporeal punishment. The fecond fopping all the demands on the aforefaid bank ill the firit of January, 1784. The third enjoining all perfons to receive the above notes in payment, without any fort of difficulty. fourth laying a very heavy duty on all the fpecie exported. In the mean time, orders were defpatched to all the mints throughout the kingdom, to enable the bank to continue its pay ments. The A new edict of the King of France has ap peared, dated the 4th curt. for opening a loan of four-and-twenty millions of livres, for which his Majeity offers 60,000 tickets of a new lottery, price four hundred livres each, which makes in all the four-and-twenty millions wanted. The purchafers of the faid tickets have the option of paying half the four hundred livres in notes, iffued from the late Caiffe d'Efcompte. The lot tery is to be drawn during the pace of eight years, and the adventurers are to run no rifque, as the holders of blanks will be allowed the principal and intereft of their money. Koning fburgh, September 3. The wife of a tradefman in this city exhibits an uncommon example of fæcundity. She was brought to-bed of five children, three fons and two daughters, all likely to do well, and the mother fuffered no more than is natural to expect in fuch a la bour. Copenhagen, September 9. Accounts are received from Iceland of a violent eruption having taken place in that island, upon the 8th of June. Several villages have been deftroyed, and a confiderable tract of country is buried under immenfe depths of lava. The new ifland alfo continues to emit great quantities of fire, and was ftill increating when the laft fhips came from thence. Letters from Iceland, of the 24th of July, contain the moft diima detail of the devaftations occafioned by the courte of the Lava, and affirm that the eruptions continued even at that date. |