great to be overlooked; he fhould therefore only Tay, that there was a difficulty about the time when the penfion was to commence. A general cry was immediately heard through the Houfe of, The glorious 12th of April! Lord John adopted the fenfe of the Houfe, and moved that 2000l. per annum be granted to his Majesty out of the aggregate fund, to be fettled in the most beneficial manner on the Right Honourable George Lord Rodney, and the two next heirs of his body, to whom the barony of Rodney shall defcend, and to be payable from the 12th of April 1782. The vote then paffed unanimously. The Houfe being refumed, the members went again into a committee; when a grant of 1 500l. per annum, out of the aggregate fund, was voted unanimously to the king, to be fettled on General Sir George Auguftus Eliott, for his own life, and that of his fon, Francis Auguftus Eliott, Efq. payable from the glorious 13th of September 1782. JULY 2. Paffed the Feverfham Ordnance and Malt Compounding bills. Lord John Cavendish presented an account of the debt due on the Civil Lift, which was referred to the committee appointed to confider the king's fpeech. Ordered in bills on the refolution of his Majefty's meffages for granting the penfions to Lord Rodney and Sir George Auguftus Eliott, &c. The order of the day being then read to take into confideration that part of his Majefty's fpeech which relates to his debts, &c. the Houfe refolved itself into a committee, and came to a refolution to enable his Majesty to raise the fum of 35,000l. for the purpose of discharging the Civil Lift debts. A bill was afterwards ordered in to prevent the exportation of corn with a bounty, JULY 3. Read a first time the Corn Export, and Lord Rodney's and Sir George Auguftus Eliott's Penfion bills. Ordered in a bill to enable his Majefty to raise the fum of 35,000l. to discharge the debts on his Civil Lift. The bill for impofing a tax on the registering of Births and Deaths being then read, Sir Adam Ferguson faid there was fomething wanting in it; there was no claufe to compel people to make the regifter; and without fuch a claufe, he apprehended, the tax would produce little. Sir Adam and Mr. Sheridan faid a few words more on the subject, and it dropped for the prefent. JULY 4. Read a first time the Civil Lift Debt bill. Read a fecond time Lord Rodney's and Sir George Eliott's Penfion bills. Paffed the Excife Duties bill. A new writ was moved for Dumbarton, in the room of George Keith Elphinstone, appointed fecretary and chamberlain to the principality of Scotland. The Houfe then went into a committee on the bill for regulating certain offices in the Exchequer; after which they adjourned. JULY 7. Paffed the Births and Burials Duty bills. Ordered, that Lord Rodney's and Sir George Eliott's Penfion bills be epgroffed. The Houfe went into a committee on the bill for appointing commiffioners to enquire into the claims of the Loyalifts; when Lord John Caven difh moved to have the blanks for the names of the commiffioners filled up with thofe of Mr. Cooke, Mr. Wilmot, Mr. Roberts, Sir Thomas Dundas, and Mr. Marth; which motion paffed without any oppofition. JULY TO. Paffed the Civil Lift, American Commerce,and feveral other bills. Sir Adam Ferguson moved an addrefs to his Majefty, that he would be pleafed to order the fum of 2000l. to E. White, Efq. for his trouble in attending as clerk to the Committee of Secrefy in 1781 and 1782; and to affure his Majesty that the Houfe would make good the fame. Sir Philip Clerke moved an enquiry next feffion into the fervices rendered by the above gentleman; which was accordingly adopted by the House, and the fum of 500l. voted on account. Sir Adam then moved, that the fum of 4001. be divided between two clerks of the India Com pany, who had also attended the above committee; which motion paffed without a divifion. General Smith moved an addrefs for 5ool. on account, to the clerk who attended the SelectCom mittee, and some smaller fums to inferior clerks; which were alfo agreed to without oppofition." JULY II, The Commons were fent for to the Upper House, to hear the commiffion read, declaring the royal affent to twenty-two public and private bills; and, being returned, feveral papers from the Eaft India Houfe, relative to General Erikine, were prefented, and ordered to lie on the table; after which the Houfe adjourned till Tuesday. JULY 15. Sir Watkin Lewes made a report from the committee on the bill for regulating Juries in the city of London and county of Middlefex; which was read, and ordered to be printed. A new writ was ordered for Renfrew, in the room of J. Shaw Stewart, Efq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Dempfter brought up a report from the committee appointed to enquire into the cafe of the officers of the Swifs regiment raifed by Colonel Erfkine; which report was very favourable to the claim of thefe officers; and moved an addrefs to his Majefty, to order fuch relief as to his wisdom fhould feem meet, and that the House would make good the fame. The Marquis of Graham feconded the motion. General Smith, Mr. Brett, Sir Adam Fergufon, General Conway, and Mr. Frafer, likewile gave their fentiments on Mr. Dempfter's motion; R and and the question being put, it was carried without a divifion. The Uther of the Black Rod then arriving with a fummons for the Houfe to meet his Majefty's commiffioners in the Houfe of Peers, the fpeaker repaired there at the head of the members; and the Houfe adjourned. JULY 16. Lord Ludlow acquainted the Houfe, that his Majefty had been waited on with their addrefs relative to Colonel Erikine's corps, which he had been pleased to promise to take into his royal confideration. A new writ was moved for Portsmouth, in the room of Sir W. Gordon, who has accepted a penfion. Mr. Burke ftated to the Houfe, that the select committee on India affairs had paid a strict atten-` tion to the business that came before them during the feffion,and discovered various peculations com WH mitted in that country, which appeared to be connived at in this. The committee, he faid, had likewife received fome important papers, which it was neceffary the House should be in poffeffion of; and therefore moved, that the faid papers be laid before* the Houfe; which being feconded by Lord North, was agreed to. General Smith faid he had received a letter over-land from India, which mentioned, that a doubt remained there, whether the civil judica tute of that country was competent to try perfons guilty of peculation and other crimes committed out of the province in which they refided. He wifhed the gentlemen of the long robe would turn the matter in their minds, and come prepared to fpeak on the fubje& early next feffion. The fpeaker and members being then fummoned to the Houfe of Peers, they accordingly attended, and were prefent at the prorogation of the parliament. POLITICAL RETROSPECT. OCTOBER 1783. THILE our good neighbours on the continent were gaping at the air-balloons of Meffieurs Montgolfiers, and other puppets of power, (conformably to that well-known plan of French policy, which conftantly provides fome object of universal amusement, to divert the native gaieté du coeur of that people, previous to the difcovery of any unpropitious event) fuddenly the Caiffe d'Efcompte, or Bank of Difcount, at Paris, was declared to be infolvent. In confequence of this failure, feveral of the moft capital houfes in France have stopped payment, and the evil has even extended to surrounding nations. The account of this business, published by authority, with the remedy provided on the occafion by the French King and his council, may be feen at large in the Foreign Intelligence. The reflection of this difafter in a rival kingdom, conveys, however, but little fatisfaction to the mind of the most rigid Anti-Gallican, as it may tend rather to ftrengthen than enfeeble the power of the nation, at the expence of unfortunate individuals. This is one of the bleffed effects of arbitrary power; and supplies a very useful, and at this time perhaps too neceffary leffon to ourfelves, not haftily to quarrel with a government which, whatever may be the faults of particular minifters, will never dare unite in any act of fimilar oppreffion! The Funds of Great Britain, funk in value as they are by the machinations of the enemies of our country, aided by our own reftlefs and diffatisfied fpirits, ftill conftitute the fafest and most advantageous depofitory of cafh that is to be found in any part of the world. Political fpeculations, till the meeting of parliament, must be merely fpeculative. The Dutch have not yet fettled the Definitive Treaty of Peace; the Preliminaries having been objected to by three out of the Seven United Provinces. Indeed, a treaty offenfive and defenfive, between the States General and France, is faid to have been warmly recommended, of which the Stadtholder, however, has very properly expreffed his difapprobation. The Dutch have always got more by their connection with us, than we have by our alliance with them; and if they are wife, (gratitude, like friendship, has nothing to do with commerce or commercial people) they will cultivate a renewal of the ancient confidence with us, and fecure the return of thofe advantages, the lofs of which they have fo feverely felt in confequence of the late rupture. The meeting of the Irish parliament has not produced any thing new; the protestations of loyalty in that kingdom are as great, and the ap pearances of it to the full as little, as ever. The following letter, written by Sir Guy Carle'ton, will beft explain the state of British affairs in America; nor can we withold our highest praife from the noble, manly, and benevolent heart, which dietated the spirited epiftle. accelerate the total evacuation, the difficulty of affigning the precife period for this event is of late greatly increafed. 'My correfpondence with General Washington, Governor Clinton, and Mr. Livingston, (your late fecretary for foreign affairs) early suggested the impediments tending to retard this fervice. A letter to Mr. Livingston of the 6th of April, two more to General Washington of the 10th of May and 10th of June, with feveral to Governor Clinton, ftating many hoftile proceedings within the sphere of his authority, are those to which I refer: copies of fome of these letters I inclofe, though I am, doubtless, to prefume the Congrefs to be informed of all transactions material to the general direction of their affairs. "The violence in the Americans, which broke out foon after the ceffation of hoftilities, increased the number of their countrymen to look to me for an efcape from threatened deftruction: but these terrors have of late been fo confiderably augmented, that almost all within these 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 compleated. Whether they have juft ground to affert, that there is either no government within your limits for common protection, or that it fecretly favours the committees in the fovereign ty they affume, and are actually exercifing, I fhall not pretend to determine; but as the daily gazettes and publications furnish repeated proofs, B not only of a difregard to the articles of peace, but as barbarous menaces from committees form ed in various towns, cities, and diftricts, and even at Philadelphia, the very place which the Congrefs had chofen for their refidence, I thould fhew 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 loyalifts that are defirous to quit the country, a prey to the violence they conceive they have fo much caufe to apprehend. The Congress will hence difcern how much it will depend on themselves and the subordinate legiflatures, to facilitate the fervice I am commanded to perform: by abating the fears, they will thereby diminish the number of the emigrants. But fhould thefe fears continue, and compel fuch multitudes to remove, I fhall hold myself acquitted from every delay in the fulfilling my orders, and the confequences which may refult therefrom; and I cannot avoid adding, that it makes no small part of my concern, that the Congress have thought proper to fufpend to this late hour recommendations ftipulated by the treaty, and in the punctual performance of which the king and his ministers have expreffed fuch entire con fidence. I am, Sir, your excellency's most obedient, and most humble servant, GUY CARLETON. His Excellency Elias Boudinot, Efq.' FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Lisbon, Sept. 5. accounts from the Brazils, a new filver mine has been discovered there, which promiles to be a very rich one. Government have fent orders to draw famples from it as soon as poffible. Franckfort, Sept. 18. By letters from Auftria we find, that orders are given out in feveral places for fresh levies of troops to be made, and a vast quantity of tents have been lately fent to Hungary. The punishments which had been fubftituted for murder in lieu of death, have been found too lenient; and therefore the ancient law of life for life has been again established in this country. Petersburgh, Sept. 19. Within thefe few days an English merchant-hip has arrived here, with 50 naval officers of that nation; and we shortly expect a much greater number, as we are informed our court has engaged 140 in it's fervice. Orders have just been difpatched to the regiments of infantry in the feveral provinces of this empire, to march immediately two companies each towards Poland and the frontiers of Turky. Mentz, Sept. 20. Our fovereign has published an order, forbidding the Jews from ufing any other language to carry on their trade than German, and granting them in other refpects greater privileges than they heretofore enjoyed. Their civil affairs are to be brought before the tribunals of the country, with orders for them to be treated in every refpect as if they were Chrif tians. Naples, Sept. 20. The Emprefs of Ruffia has lately fent the queen a rich trimming of black fox, worth 14,000 roubles. The fituation of Vefuvius occafions a continual noife in the neighbourhood of that volcano, as there has not paffed a day fince the 30th of laft month, without flames being perceived to iffue both from the fummit, and the two openings which are formed at the bottom of the crater. Advices from Calabria inform us, that the earth ftill continues unfettled; that many of the shocks are very violent; that the inhabitants remain under tents; but that they receive daily fupplies of money and provifions from the king and the nobility, who humanely fecond the benevolent intentions of his Majefty, in favour of this unfor tunate people. Rome, Sept. 23. Laft night fome wicked per fons having found means to conceal themselves in the church of S. Charles at Catinari, belonging to the Barnabites, they stripped the image of the Holy Virgin there of all it's pearls, gold rings, votive fymbols in filver, and other jewels, to the value of 500 crowns. After repeated and fuccefsful trials made here for extracting oil from raifin-ftones, a manufac tory for that commodity is established, under the immediate protection of his Holiness, who has or dered dered the method invented by Signor Anthoni Chinozzi to be made public. Western Pruffia, Sept. 27. The conteft refpecting the free navigation of the Vistula still continues; and as the city of Dantzick has refused to liften to conciliatory methods, our monarch has taken the refolution of marching two battalions and four fquadrons, under the command of General Eglofftein, to fhut up the town on all fides, and force it to grant the free paffage of the river to his fubjects, in like manner as it is grant ed to the Dantzickers. all. Brandenburgh, Sept. 30. The obftinacy of the Dantzickers feems daily to increafe; they perfift in the firm refolution either to lofe all or preferve The animofity of the people hath risen to fuch a height, that a detachment of Pruffian Huffars, who had received orders a few days ago to advance to that city, were received with a fhower of ftones. The foldiers, who were without doubt forbidden to fire, retired. It is now much feared the affair will be treated with more rigour by his Pruffian Majefty, as we learn that feveral regiments are on their march to Dantzick. Since the 24th inft. the city has been more clofely blocked up by the king's troops than before. Berlin, Sept. 30. The following proclamation does the highest honour to the feelings of our fovereign, who therein pays the most commendable regard to the dignity of man. "WHEREAS his Majesty the King of Pruffia, our most gracious fovereign, will not permit that any of his fubjects, delivering into his hand petitions or addreffes, thould 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 Majefty is therefore gracioufly pleafed to order by this present, that the Confiftory of Breflau fhall cause this refcript to be read from the pulpits of all the Evangelic churches in this province of Silefia, and the fuffragan of Roth Kirk to do the fame in the Roman Catholic church, that all and every one may be informed it is his Majesty's pleasure that no kneeling fhall in future be practifed in honour of his perfon. The Supreme Confiftory fhall therefore take the necessary steps to the above purpose. (Signed) "FREDERIC. Given at Bettlern, Aug. 30, 1783.' Paris, Oct. 1. The following is the arret of the king in council, concerning the Caiffe d'Efcompte. IT having been reprefented to the king in his council, on the part of the adminiftrators of the Caiffe d'Efcompte, that in confequence of the scarcity of cash in their hands, occafioned by the circumftances of the war, which have prevented the annual and regular importation of gold and filver, at the fame time that fpecie has been exported, they, in order to fupport commerce, and above all that of the city of Paris, where the fcarcity has been particularly felt, have recurred to the resource which government allowed them in authorizing the establishment of the Caiffe d' Efcompte-That their zeal to affift commerce has induced them to discount fuch bills of exchange, and good deeds on individuals, as have been prefented to them, and have paid those bills of exchange in cafh, or in notes of their Bak payable to the bearer. That the confidence of the public in this Bank has led them to augment the number of thefe notes in proportion to the wants of commerce; but the refource by which trade has been fo greatly benefited, and fpecie has been thrown into circulation, being retarded in it's effects, the Caiffe d'Efcompte will be prevented, for a time, from continuing to the public the facility of difcount in the impoffibility of iffuing fpecie, and even of being able to give cash for their notes when they are prefented in too great quantities, unless provifion is made by his Majesty. That in the neceffity of attending to the refources which the return of peace presents to commerce, and of continuing an aid which has been productive of so many great advantages to it, it does not appear that any farther means are wanting than that, until the 1ft of January next, a period when it is known that the circulation of fpecie will be perfectly established, they shall be authorized to pay in letters of exchange, and good deeds and fecurities on individuals existing on the books of the Bank, the notes which they have iffued, to fuch of the holders as may not be inclined to fuffer them to remain in circulation, in confequence of the offer which they make of beneficial discounts, if it fhall please the king to protect them until the forefaid first day of January, from all profecutions which may be brought on account of the faid notes-and to ordain that they fhall continue to have currency, and to be given and received in payment in all the public and private Banks in the city of Paris only; which being willing to do, having feen the state of the notes of the faid Bank, and that of the letters of exchange and other good fecurities, in the hands of the Bank, the amount of which exceed that of the faid notes by more than twelve millions; the original fund established by the proprietors, the profits of which have never yet been divided; and alfo having heard the report of the Sieur Le Fevre d'Ormiffon, counsellor of ftate, counsellor in ordinary to the royal council, and comptrollergeneral of the finances, the king in his council hath authorized and authorizes the cashiergeneral of the Caiffe d'Efcompte, to pay to fuch holders of the notes of the faid Bank, who do not chufe to fuffer them to remain in circulation, the amount of the faid notes in good deeds and letters of exchange on individuals, with beneficial difcount. His Majefty farther ordains, that the faid notes, payable to the bearer, fhall continue to have currency, and to be given and received in payment as heretofore in all the public and private Banks of Paris only. His Majefty prohibits all holders of the faid notes from inftituting any profecution, before the firft of January next, for the payment in cafh of the faid notes. Majefty in like manner prohibits all notaries or bailiffs from protefting, or otherwife pursuing, until the above-mentioned first day of January, actions on account of letters, bills of exchange, and other debts, of which payment has been actually offered in the notes of the Caifle d'Efcompte. His accelerate the total evacuation, the difficulty of affigning the precife period for this event is of late greatly increafed. "My correfpondence with General Washington, Governor Clinton, and Mr. Livingston, (your late fecretary for foreign affairs) early suggested the impediments tending to retard this fervice. A letter to Mr. Livingston of the 6th of April, two more to General Washington of the 10th of May and 10th of June, with feveral to Governor Clinton, ftating many hoftile proceedings within: the sphere of his authority, are those to which I refer: copies of fome of these letters I inclofe, though I am, doubtless, to presume the Congrefs to be informed of all transactions material to the general direction of their affairs. The violence in the Americans, which broke out foon after the ceflation of hoftilities, increased the number of their countrymen to look to me for an escape from threatened deftruction: but these terrors 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 impoffible to fay when the evacuation can be compleated. Whether they have juft ground to affert, that there is either no government within your limits for common protection, or that it fecretly favours the committees in the fovereignty they affume, and are actually exercifing, I fhall not pretend to determine; but as the daily gazettes and publications furnish repeated proofs, BY not only of a difregard to the articles of peace, but as barbarous menaces from committees form ed in various towns, cities, and diftricts, and even at Philadelphia, the very place which the Congrefs had chofen for their refidence, I should fhew 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 loyalifts that are defirous to quit the country, a prey to the violence they conceive they have fo much caufe to apprehend. "The Congress will hence difcern how much it will depend on themselves and the subordinate legislatures, to facilitate the service I am commanded to perform: by abating the fears, they will thereby diminish the number of the emigrants. But fhould thefe fears continue, and compel fuch multitudes to remove, I fhall hold myself acquitted from every delay in the fulfilling my orders, and the confequences which may refult therefrom; and I cannot avoid adding, that it makes no small part of my concern, that the Congress have thought proper to fufpend to this late hour recommendations ftipulated by the treaty, and in the punctual performance of which the king and his minifters have expreffed fuch entire confidence. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Lisbon, Sept. 5. Y accounts from the Brazils, a new filver mine has been difcovered there, which promifes to be a very rich one. Government have fent.orders to draw famples from it as soon as poffible. Franckfort, Sept. 18. By letters from Auftria we find, that orders are given out in feveral places for fresh levies of troops to be made, and a vast quantity of tents have been lately fent to Hungary. The punishments which had been fubftituted for murder in lieu of death, have been found too lenient; and therefore the ancient law of life for life has been again established in this country. Petersburgh, Sept. 19. Within thefe few days an English merchant-ship has arrived here, with 50 naval officers of that nation; and we shortly expect a much greater number, as we are informed our court has engaged 140 in it's fervice. Orders have just been difpatched to the regiments of infantry in the feveral provinces of this empire, to march immediately two companies each towards Poland and the frontiers of Turky. Mentz, Sept. 20. Our fovereign has published an order, forbidding the Jews from ufing any other language to carry on their trade than German, and granting them in other refpects greater privileges than they heretofore enjoyed. Their civil affairs are to be brought before the tribunals of the country, with orders for them to be treated in every refpect as if they were Chrif tians. Naples, Sept. 20. The Emprefs of Ruffia has lately fent the queen a rich trimming of black fox, worth 14,000 roubles. The fituation of Vefuvius occafions a continual noife in the neighbourhood of that volcano, as there has not paffed a day fince the 30th of lask month, without flames being perceived to iffue both from the fummit, and the two openings which are formed at the bottom of the crater. Advices from Calabria inform us, that the earth ftill continues unfettled; that many of the shocks are very violent; that the inhabitants remain under tents; but that they receive daily fupplies of money and provifions from the king and the nobility, who humanely fecond the benevolent intentions of his Majefty, in favour of this unfor tunate people. Rome, Sept. 23. Laft night fome wicked per fons having found means to conceal themselves in the church of S. Charles at Catinari, belonging to the Barnabites, they stripped the image of the Holy Virgin there of all it's pearls, gold rings, votive fymbols in filver, and other jewels, to the value of 500 crowns. After repeated and successful trials made here for extracting oil from raifin-stones, a manufactory for that commodity is established, under the immediate protection of his Holiness, who has or dered |