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axious to punishment, in case he was convicted of not having faithfully discharged his duty. The jury went out of Court, but returned in less than a quarter of an hour, Ending the defendant GUILTY...

Mr. Scott, Mr. Erskine, and Mr. Adam, were of the counfel for the defendant, befides Mr. Bearcroft.

Much Stress having been laid in Parlament on the promised Recommendation of the Loyalists by Congress to the Favour of the respective States to which they belong, and the Advantages to which they are entitled by the PROVISIONAL TREATY having been infified on by a Gsleman of very fuperior Abilities (kee p. 475); the following Votes, robich passed At a Meeting of the Freeholders of the Town of Worcester in New England, May 19, will flew if the Expectations of those who Bill retain any bope are well or ill grounded, as thofe Vores appear to contain the general Sense of the Irbabitants from one End of America to the other.

Vand facred regard to treaties of peace,

VOTED, That this town, with an equal

and of alliance; to the refolves of Congrefs, and the folemn acts of this Commonwealth, palled from time to time, for its prefervation, Lafety, and defence; and especially to thofe great and important principles of liberty and a free government, for which they have been Aruggling, at the rifque of their lives will continue, with fpirit and firmness, their most vigorous efforts, to render glorious, and feeure from danger, interruption, or diminution, the ends of their pafi exertions, peace, liberty, and happiness.

2dly, Voted, That this town confiders every country, in times of invafion, as having equally a right to the affitance, the perfonal fervices, and the property, of all its fubjects, in oppofing the affailants-That this country, more than eight years fince, was in vaded, and has been fcourged by a war, which, for the purpose of reducing it to the servile fubjection of foreign domination, has been, by fea and land, waiting, and by every fpecies of barbarity diftreffing its innocent inhabitants; a war that has defolated and burned whole towns, and rendered wretched, and turned out thousands of virtuous Americans, deftitute, defpoiled, and unprovided for by the treaty of peace, which leaves them dependent on the gratitude and generosity of their country--a war promoted, encouraged, and invited by thofe, who, the moment the bloody banners were displayed, abandoned their native land, turned parricides, and confpired to involve their country in ruim, tumult, and blood.

3dly, Voted, That fuch traiterous conduct, upon every principle of policy and juftice, in all ages, and in all countries, would, in the opinion of this town, operate as a forfeiture of the confpirators civil and political relation to their injured and betrayed country; cut

them off for ever from a fanding therein, render them enemies and aliens, and just fy thofe neceffary laws, and that general voice of the people, by which they have been thus declared.

4thly, Voted, That confidering, while the fword was flumbering in its fcabbard, when this country was in the hour of quiet, and as peace with the world, only pleading and petitioning for its rights, for a free govern ment, the fentiments of the abfentees, their principles,language, and feelings, were fixedly oppofed to thofe rights, and to that freedom; they then preferring, and, to evince the fincerity of that preference, engaged to rifque their all for its poffible attainment, a government totally inconfiftent with the principles of the one we have established, and for the destruction of which they have been waging a cruel war; that therefore this town cannot conceive it to be their duty, or their intereft, ever to provide for the return of fuch ingrates, to naturalize them, or admit them to the privileges and immunities of citizens.

5thly, Voted, That whereas the faid abfentees and confpirators have, at all times, uniformly, by their reprefentations, addreffes, and avowed principles, confidered the fubjects of these States, of our great and illuftrious ally, and the treaties of alliance, amity, and commerce, as the proper fubjects of abufe, calumny, and reproach-the former as the deluded tools of a party fpurred on to treafon and rebellion; the fecond, as the cowardly machine of a Monarch perfidiously plotting the ruin of the former; and the lat ter as originating from the worst of motives, delufive, treacherous, artful, infincere, and not to be adhered to, and have even attempted tó feduce the fubjects of thefe States to vie late their faith, and thofe facred treaties That therefore, in the opinion of this town, to admit perfons of fuch principles and fuch practices to incorporate with and refide among us, would betray the want of a due regard to a generous friend, who has been fighting and bleeding by our fide, endanger the treaty, and injure our national character.

6thly, Voted, That whereas perfons of the above description have been of opinion, which they have been affiduous to propagate, that thefe States could find happiness or pratection no where but in a re-union with the kingdom of Great Britain; that, left to themselves, they would become the sport of each other, break to pieces, and crumble into ruin: That no calamity was more to be deprecated, for our own fakes, than indepen dence established; and no bleffing more ear. neftly to be fought for than independence deAroyed: And whereas when, by a change of British counfels and British meafures, there was a profpect of peace, they reprobated that change, and folicited, for the purposesbove, the continued utmost exertions of Bri tifh power and British refources; and even after the commencement of the pacific treas

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ty, with malicious intentions, equally hoftile to both countries, dared to reprefent America as but the proper fubject of an easy conquest: That therefore, in the opinion of this town, our independence must ever be in danger an of annoyance from fuch perfons, who can never have our confidence, friendfhip, or fo ciety.

7thly, Voted, That the plea for the return of the abfentees, of their becoming good fubjects, increasing our numbers and our Krength, is, in the opinion of this town, groundless and fallacious, as it is improbable that perfons who have thus acted, that are thus principled, and thus fituated, would, without any new reason, light, or argument, alter their conduct, and at once reject thofe principles they have embraced, and embrace thofe they have rejected; endeavour to fupport that government they have been trug gling to deftroy; cultivate that harmony which they have been industrious to prevent; prevent that difcord they have been affiduous to create; quell thofe riots and unlawful af femblies which but of late were the foundation of their darling hope; and endeavour to #rengthen that friendship and alliance which they have laboured to weaken, and tried to afperfe, and by a conduct the reverse of their paft become useful and good.

8thly, Voted, That, agreeably to the trea ty of peace, this town withes for no recollec tion of paft difputes with Great Britain, no repetition of paft injuries; but, the feeds of difcord being excluded, that fuch a beneficial and fatisfactory intercourfe may be establihed between the two countries, as promifes and fecures to both perpetual peace and harmony, which would be extremely difficult were shole perfons to refide among us whom this Country confiders as the occafion of interrupting that intercourfe formerly, and the saufe of all their fufferings; especially as thefe wretched beings have already begun a quarrel with that peace and those who made it, which terminates a long, bloody, and unnatural war.

9thly, Voted, That therefore, in the opinion of this town, it would be extremely dangerous to the peace, the happiness, the liber ties, the intereft, and fafety of the States, to suffer persons of the above defcription to be, come the fubjects of, and to refide in, this government: that it would be not only dangerous, but inconsistent with justice, policy, our paft laws, the public faith, and the prin ciples of a free and independent State, to admit them ourselves, or have them forced up on us without our confent.

10thly, Voted, That, in the opinion of this town, this commonwealth ought with the utmost caution to naturalize, or in any o ther way admit as fubjects, a common ene my, a fet of people, who have been, by the u nited voice of this continent, declared, outlaws, exiles, aliens, and enemies, dangerous to its political being and happiness.

11thly, Voted, That while there are thou fands of the innocent, peaceable, and de fenceless inhabitants of these States, whole property has been deftroyed and taken from them in the courfe of the war, for whom no provifion is made, to whom there is no reftitution of eftates, no compenfation for loffes, that it would be unreasonable, cruel, and unjuft to fuffer those who were the wicked occafion of thefe loffes to obtain a reftitution of the estates they refused to protect, and which they have abandoned and forfeited to the juftice of their country.

12thly, Voted, That whereas perfons of the above description have already, made various attempts to introduce themfelves into this government, and thereby establish principles and precedents, by which others might be admitted and restored to their forfeited eftates; that this town will adopt every reafonable and confiftent measure to prevent fo great an evil; and that it is their expectation and earnest request to Samuel Curtis, Efq, whom they have chofen to reprefent them at this critical period, that he will, with firmness and freadiness, continue his pa triotic exertions for the above purpose; that he will use his influence to have thofe good and wholefome laws touching the matter du ly executed, and foch others enacted as events and circumstances from time to time may render neceffary; that he will receive a copy of the above votes-to the principles of which--the principles of a fovereign and independent government-the principles of our free conftitution-and thofe great principles which have carried us triumphantly through a fevere and bloody conflict-to thofe principles he will invariably adhere, and make them the governing rule of his condu&-as what alone, under Heaven, has given energy to war, will give dignity to peace, and make life happy.

13thly, Voted, That it is the expectation of this town, and their earnest request to their committee of correfpondence, infpec tion, and fafety, that they will with care and vigilance obferve the movements, and watch the conduct, of our only remaining enemies

that, until the farther order of govern dent, they will, with dreifion, spirit, and firmnefs, endeavour to enforce, and carry into execution, the feveral laws of this com monwealth refpecting those enemies of our rights, and the rights of mankind, give in. formation, should they know of any obtruding themselves into any part of this State, fuffer none to remain in this town, but caufe to be confined immediately for the purpose of transportation according to law, any that may prefume to enter it;

(A true Copy,)

Atteft,

WILLIAM MCCARTY,' Town Clerk.

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perfons in whole favour the faid recomment dations are to be made are confidered as ciLizens of thefe States, we have an indifpenfable right to deal with them as we pleafe, and it is an infult on our dignity to fuppofe

FOREIGN DETERSBURG, June 10. The departure of the Emprefs for the frontiers of Fine land is fixed for the 20th inftant; above 1000 Korfes have been already fent off to be diftributed at different fations. Her Imperial Majefty will be accompanied in her journey by the Princets Dafchkow and two ladies of honour. Count J. Czernichew, vice-prefident of the Admiralty, and feveral other great officers of fate, will alfo attend her Majefty. >From Amfterdam, That a fhip is arrived at the Texel from the Cape of Good Hope, which place the left on the 30th of December. A Dutch fquadron had arrived there from Europe on the 23d, confifting of four thips of the line, three frigates, four ftorethips. and ten of the Eaft India Company's fhips; the fleet had a tolerable paffage, but loft many men, particularly on board the men of war. There were at the Cape feven hips from China and Batavia that were waiting a convoy home, having been there above 12 months. The thip that is arrived at the Tezel is the regular packet from Batavia, which place the left in September; there were then feveral hips lying for want of convoy to the Cape, which did not attempt fo run it till they thould hear of the English Squadron being off the coast; that there was only one man of war at Batavia, an old thip of 50 guns, worn out and unfit for fea.

The feet for America failed the 16th from the Texel; another fmall fquadron is preparing at the fame port; the India Company have 15 fail of fhips at the fame place ready for fea, which, however, will not fail till matters are finally adjusted respecting the peace, and till it is certainly known if the English are to keep the fettlement of Negapatnam

June 6, Shiled from the Texel the Overyffel man of war of 64 guns, with M. Van Berckel, Ambaffador from their High Migh tineffes to the United States of America; the Erf-Prins, of 56; the Brille, of 36; and the Windhond cutter. Thefe four hips are bound to Philadelphia.

Copenhagen, June 7. The Afiatic Company having lately fuftained a very confiderable fofs through the ill conduct and frauds of fome of the principal perfons concerned, one of whom has abfconded; and another put an end to his life, the King has declared, that his Majefty will indemnify the Company for that lofs. After which the dividend was fixed for this year at 100 crowns per action.

From Hungary, That a moft violent ftorm happened there on the 13th, which has done GENT. MAO. July, 1783.

otherwife. If they are fubje&s of Great Bri tain, the insolence f the requifition o her part can only be equalled by the folly and abe furdity of it.

AFFAIRS.

very great damage to the upper part of that Kingdom. The city of Cremnitz is entirely ruined; the lightning fell in nine different parts of it, and the whole city was in flames at once, and all but feven houfes burnt down; go perfons have loft their lives, either by the fire or by the torrents of water which came from the mountains with fuch violence as to carry all before him.

Warsaw, May 31. It is reported, that a few days ago a large part of the foreft which extends along Landhut, in Leffer Poland, fuddenly difappeared. As we are not accuftomed to fuch phænomena in our part of the world, every one is impatient to learn the particulars of this occurrence.

Utrecht, June 27. Letters received this moment from Germany advise, "That great preparations for war are making at Prague; that the first tranfport of ammunition, which was fent off the 5th of June from Budweis, confited of a train of about 800 carriages, and of 60 pieces of canton of different cali bres; that on the 13th a fecond was difpatched, and on the 20th a third; that a great number of boats are building to tranfport the troops across the Danube, and that feveral regiments of cavalry are advancing towards Moravia."

The above letters add, "that the army of his Prufian Majefty actually confifts of a corps of artillery of 10,760 men; of infantry 171,190; and of cavalry 42,501. Total 224.451 men."

Further, a report univerfally prevails, that Raffia hath declared war against the Porte, and that the Ruffian army is advancing in three divifions towards Bender."

Versailles, June 26. The refolution of our' Court, in cafe the Grand Signor is attacked by Ruffia, begins in fome meafure to be un folded. A fleet of 12 fail of the line is fit ting out at Toulon, to be commanded, it is faid, by M. de Barras. This fleet, how ever, is not to fail till a number of foreign hips of war thall enter the Mediterranean g it will then fail to protect our trade. In the mean time a fleet of armed veffels will cruize off the Heights of Candia. Thefe difpofitions began to be made after the an fwer given by the Minifter to the Ambassador of one of the Northern Powers, viz. That his Majefty will never fuffer the fquadrons of any foreign power whatever to enter the Mediterranean to interrupt the commerce of his faithful subjects.

This anfwer naturally occafions the fol lowing reflections: "That it is not france the Courts of France and Spain should hold

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this language, when they formally agreed to the pretenfions of the Northern Powers, in this article of the armed neutrality, viz. That without their confent not a gun fhould be fired in the Baltick." Now if the Northern Powers have thought proper to make this law concerning the feas near their own coafts, why are not the Southern Powers equally authorized to make a fimilar law with refpect to those seas bordering on their refpective coafts?

From Stockholm, That the King of Sweden being at a review of his troops near Tavefthaus, his horfe took fright, and, stumbling, .threw the Monarch, by which his arm was broke below the elbow; but the furgeons were apprehenfive of no danger,

Hague. On the fuppreffion of the High Court of War in the Provinces of Holland and West Friefland, of which we have given an ample account p. 517, the Stadtholder fent ameffage to their Noble and High Mightineffes, in which he remonftrates ferioutly on the fubject, and concludes with delivering it as his opinion, that their perfifting in their refolyes will teem with confequences as fatal to the administration of justice in general, as to the honour and difcipline of the army. He therefore thinks it a duty incumbent upon him to lay these confiderations before their Noble and Great Mightineffes; and earnestly intreats, after having weighed this important matter, that they will restore the faid tribunal to all its functions and authority, during the fitting of the States General, who are to debate whether the faid Council fhall or shall not be any longer confidered as making part of the military eftabishment.

The confpiracy against the State, denounced by the gardener Van Brakel, (fee vol. LII. p. 547, which gave occafion to the fuppreffion of the above Council) is now faid to have exifted only in the head of that guilty informer, who, in hopes of the reward pro mised for discovering a correspondence with the enemy, bad broached that chimæra. To give fome colour of truth to his plan, he had found means to deceive the young officer, who was afterwards to be facrificed to his interest; and this odious manoeuvre would probably have fucceeded, had it not been for the conteft that arofe refpecting the military jurifdiction, which is fuppreffed. It is affured, that the informer's own confeffion leaves it no longer doubtful, that, in this affair, he is the only guilty perfon to be punished.

The city of Klattau, in Germany, on the 29th of May was thrown into the utmost dread. The lightning fell upon the church of St. Albert, fet fire to the powder magazine, and totally destroyed the church of St. John, with the houses round it.

Accounts have been received from Swbeidnitz, of a very violent thunder-form having happened in the county of Glatz on the 22d. ult. which was followed by fo great a fall of

rain, that the whole country has been over flowed, and much damage occafioned. The town of Neiffe, in Silefia, has likewife foffered much from the fame iundation, and great injury is done to the fortifications and magazines there. Gaz.

A most violent hurricane arofe in the province of Bourbonnois, in France. Hail of an extraordinary fize, driven by an impetuous wind, and followed by inceffant rain for three hours, laid all the country wafte. The country feat of Count Viri was unroofed, and all the windows broke; many trees were torn up by the roots, and the harvest of ten domains entirely ruined. Ten or twelve parishes have shared the fame fate.

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Conflantinople, June 10. The plague has, began to fpread in different quarters of the city, and fome accidents have happened in two of the villages fituated on the canal of the Black Sea. This diforder has allo broken out at Foglieri, or Foggio, in the Bay of Smyrna, where the Confuls furnith foul bills of health. Gaz.

Information having likewife been received that the plague has broke out and now rages at Cherfon, at Oczakow, and in the Crimea, and hath manifefted itself likewife on the Frontiers of Poland, his Majefty therefore hath thought fit to enjoin all fhips, &c. coming from Dantzick, or any other port or place in the Royal or Ducal Pruffia, to make their quarantine of 40 days.

EAST INDIES.

The Grofvenor, Coxen, was loft on the 12th of Auguft last, in the Caffre country, about 29 deg. S. to the Eastward of the Cape. Four of the crew arrived at Cape-Town, af-, ter feveral months travelling, and gave information that 15 people were loft when the fhip ftruck; that they, with feveral others who perished on their journey through hunger and fatigue, left the Captain, paengers, and the greater part of the crew, where the hip was loft.

The fad feries of events attending this dif after form too ftrong a counterpart to the tale of Capt. Inglefield. (See p. 77.)

Eighty human beings beginning to wander. through a distance of near 550 miles!-for fuch was the distance of the coaft on which the ship was wrecked from the Cape of Good Hope.

Of these unhappy people the greater part dropped down through fatigue; fome were devoured by wild beatts. The women whe were paffengers, in all feven or eight, were not among the first who fell

Ten days were the period of their fufferings; beyond which time but four furvived, who, continuing along the coaft, furmounted every obftacle, and at laft arrived at the Cape. Of thefe four, two are arrived; the other two are yet to come. They are zil common failors.

The ship was returning from a Bengal

Advices from the United States of toyage, which had turned out very profitable, the cargo being valued at 300,000l. The number who perished, on reckoning the crew at 99, was about 95.

By advices copied from the Calcutta Gazette the Hawke Indiaman, Capt. Scott, narrowly efcaped being captured by the enemy, (a two decker and a frigate) just as she was about entering the Bengal river. Having fortunarely croffed the Bar, fhe got fafe in the Subtermooky river, where the enemy durft not purfae her.

Advices have been received by the Fox Packet, which failed from Bengal the 17th of February laft, that peace had been concluded with the Mahrattas; that Hyder Ali died in the month of December laff; and that his fucceffor, Tippou Saib, appeared more pacifically inclined towards the English than his father, having permitted fuch as were prifoners in the towns taken by him to have a free communication with the Prefidency at Madras, to be better fupplied with neceffaries, and to have free egrefs and regrefs: That Monf. Suffrein, after watering his fleet at Achin, had croffed over the Bay of Bengal to Ganjam, with nine fail of the line and two frigates, where he captured the Coventry frigate and the Blandford Eaft In diaman: That the Medea frigate had reraken the Chacer floop of war, on her way from Trincomale, with dispatches from M, Buffy to M. Suffrein, by which it appeared, that the reft of the French fleet was in great diftrefs from a violent dysentery, having loft a number of men, and was unable to join M. Suffrein as foon as intended; and that M. Suffrein remained only a few days on the coaft, and it was fuppofed had returned to Trincomale, leaving two frigates to cruize from Ganjam to Ballafore Road, which had captured a number of veffels bound to Madras with rice. Gaz.

AMERICAN NEWS.

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The American papers give us the form of treary lately concluded between the Chiefs of the Six Nations, and Sir John Johnstone, fon of Sir Wm. Johnstone, late Superinten dant of Indian affairs; which, however, does not partake of that fublime fimplicity that characterises the contracts of the Indian nations, and is therefore not worth reciting.

The officers who led on the Indians to plunder and depredations on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennfylvania, and who were inftantly executed by a party under Gen. Gift, who furprized and took them near the Great Buffalo Town, are a Captain Munro, of Sir John Johnson's carps of Royal Yorkers, who was a fettler, and had fome property near Saratoga Lake; and a Serjeant Fergufoa, formerly of the 26th regiment, but afterwards a Captain in Major Rogers's corps of Woodfmen.

A difcovery has been lately made of the perfons who robbed the French treasury at

America.—Irish Affairs, &c. 619 Wilmington, near Philadelphia, last Spring; the robbery was perpetrated by three men, named Delany, Clarke, and Dowdle; the fum taken, about 5000 French crowns, to prevent difcovery, was thrown into a little houfe, where they were found. Dowdle and Delany are in confinement, but Clarke is not yet taken.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

About the beginning of the prefent month a number of riotous perfons affembled in the north fide of the city of Dublin, and proceeded to cut fuch garments of nankeen and muflins as the paffengers had on; but on the approach of the magistracy they immediately difperfed.It is a fact, that every thip that has lately failed to America has had Qne or more mafter manufacturers on board.

The prefent Lord Mayor of Dublin had long projected a plan for accommodating the poor of that city with water, by means of fountains, which he has now accomplished at an expence incredibly fmall. It was at firft proposed to erect a fuperb fountain on College-green; a plan was drawn for an ornamental building, the effimate of which amounted to 1200l.; but the ingenious Mr. Milne, of the Pipe-office, fuggefted that the bafe and pedestal of the Equestrian statue of K. William III. might be converted to that ufe. This hint was attended to; and, upon examination, the lower part was found every way adapted for that purpose, while that beautiful ftatue crowns the fummit.

By a letter from a Genevefe to a friend in Ireland, there is advice, that M. Melly, one of the Gentlemen who had been employed in negotiating a fettlement for his countrymen in Ireland (fee p. 260), had, on his return to Geneva, a criminal profecution inftituted againft him. As this affair has become a public concern, and Mr. Fox, as Secretary of State, is faid to have taken cognizance of it, we shall forbear to make any remarks upon it till the iffue is known.

The Dublin Bank opened for the tranfaction of bufinefs on the 25th of June; the King's orders, communicated through the Lord Lieutenant, have been, that all public money in that Kingdom, payable on his account, by taxes, aids, duties, &c. fhould be henceforward depofited in that Bank.

A letter from that city concludes with thefe words: "It is not in the power of lan guage to defcribe the mifery of the manufacturers: thofe who are able to crawl from their wretched dwellings faint with hunger at our doors, and many perish unnoticed in corners."

INTELLIGENCE FROM SCOTLAND. In the Town-Council of Edinburgh, Ar. Hunter Blair moved, that the thanks of the Lord Provoft, Magistrates, and Counc 1 of the city of Edinburgh, be tranfmitted to Sin Adam Feguffon, Bart. for his fpirited and,

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