been in the fervice. If your fon chufes to be a foldier, I afture you that his title will avail nothing for his preferment, unless he endeavours to acquire the knowledge requifite in his profeffion.' P.S. [Inthe King's crun band.] As our young nobility in general never learn any thing, they are of courfe exceedingly ignorant. In England, one of the king's fons, wishing to inftru&t himself, has not fcrupled to fet out in the navy as a common failor. If any one of our men of fashion fhould by chance diftinguish himself, and prove ufeful to his country, he will have no occafion to plume himself on his quality. Titles and birth are nothing elfe than vanity and folly. True merit is perfonal. 'FREDERIC.' Auftria, 08. 15. It is faid, that the Ruffian ambailador at Vienna has formally made known to the Imperial court, that the Princes Heraclius and Salomon have put themselves under the Ruffian domination: this feems a likely occurrence to throw new difficulties in the way of keeping peace, particularly as thefe two princes were tri butaries to the Porte. Vienna, Oct. 15. The military preparations continue; the chancellor of the war has given the neceffary orders for exercifing the provincial troops; 24.000 tons of vinegar are ordered to be got ready for the ufe of the Hungarian armies. Vienna, 08. 16. There feems now to be the greatest probability that there will be no rupture Between the Emperor and the Turks; the greatest difficulties are faid to be got over between the two courts. The treaty of Carlowitz is to form the bafis of the accommodation in queftion. If this is true, the Turks will be obliged to cede Tome territory. Weft Pruffia, 08. 17. M. De Lindonowiki, the Pruffian refident, quitted Dantzick yesterday evening; and at ten o'clock this morning the Pruffian troops took poffeffion of the fuburbs of that city without oppofition. Buda, 08. 20. It is faid that a vaft num. ber of families, who now live in the Ottoman dominions, are preparing to quit them, and pafs into thofe of the Emperor with all they poffefs; they have already fent a deputy to Vienna, to requeft an afylum of his Imperial Majefty; their number amounts to 4000. We have accounts from Belgrade, that the Chriftians and Jews eftablished in that place are felling off all their effects and merchandize, defigning to establish themfelves elsewhere: the fame event is taking place in Moldavia. Madeira, Oct. 21. On the 19th inft. a very fcandalous fracas happened here, likely to be attended with fome difagreeable confequences to the aggreffor. As Comte Gerfdorff, minifter from Saxony, was entering the Spanish playhouse at four o'clock in the evening, he was fuddenly fet upon by the Sieur Favie, fecretary to the Pruffian embaffy at this court; who, fword in hand, violently attacked the Comte: the latter, though unarmed, and rather far from any affiftance, was fo lucky as to escape with a very flight wound on the head, when he was refcued by the guards. No caufe whatever is affigned for fo villainous a deed, but the impetuous and overbearing temper of the fecretary; who, upon the mere report of a fervant charging the Comte with having spoken of the Sieur Fawe in terms rather difrespectful, attacked him unprepared in that ruffian-like manner. Conftantinople, Oct. 22. A warm difpute happened, a few days fince, in a divan held at the house of the Mufti, relative to the manifefto publifhed by the court of Ruffia, on their taking poffeffion of the Crimea, between the Grand Vizir and the Captain Pasha: the latter infifted strongly on the neceffity of a war, and was greatly irritated to fee the opinion of the Grand Vizir prevail; in confequence of which the ministry refolved to temporize. In another divan held at the fame place, declaration was made that they would immediately publish a refutation of the Ruffian manifefto. The exchange of the commercial treaty lately concluded with Petersburgh was made without any ceremony, and nothing was faid about the Crimea on either fide. It is pretended that the Prince of Wirtemberg, who has at prefent the command at Cherfon, is appointed Vice-kan of the Crimea. Vienna, 08. 22. The accounts of the invafion of Natolia by the Georgians, gains credit daily: this will of neceflity oblige the Turks to divide their forces. We are affured that the Turks dare not any more take their usual pilgrimage to Mecca for fear of the Arabs, who affemble in large bodies, and plunder all the Ottoman fubjects without mercy, particularly on their return from the holy journey. Ratisbon, O. 24. It is faid, that his Moft Chriftian Majefty, having defired to know of the King of Pruffia, whether he would take part in the Ruffian war against the Porte, his Pruffian Majefty had declared he would obferve a ftrict neutrality, but that he would oppose the entrance of foreign troops into Germany. Be that as it may, a congrefs is talked of, that is to affemble at Sem. lin, to accommodate amicably, under the mediation of France, the affairs of the courts of Vienna, Petersburgh, and the Ottoman Porte. Poland, Ot 26. There are actually 150,000 Turks, 30,000 of which are cavalry, diftributed in Moldavia, Wallachia, Bofnia, and Beffarabia; which latter province is laid wafte, so that it would be impoffible for an army to march through it without taking with them all forts of neceffaries for their fubfiftence, and even water to drink; and if any army was bold enough to attempt paffing through that province, and were to have their provifions cut off by the enemy, they must inevitably perish with hunger and thirft. Madrid, O. 28. A very extraordinary report is current here; namely, that it being fettled by the Definitive Treaty, that every thing was to be in the fame fituation as before the war, General Eliott had fent notice to the chief commander at St. Roche to demolish the works raised in the front during the fiege; the Spanish officer anfwered, that he had received no orders for their demolition, but that he would fend an exprefs immediately to court about it: to which Governor Eliott replied, that he should not wait the re tura turn of the courier, but would make himself master of those works in 24 hours, which was accordingly done. Hamburgh, O. 28. By advices from Petersburgh we learn, that orders are iffued for two companies of every regiment difperfed throughout the provinces of that empire, to march to reinforce the troops in Poland, and on the frontiers of Turky; from which fome regiments are to be fent to the Crimea. Petersburgh, 0. 29. Mr. Fitzherbert, the English ambaffador, has had his first audience of the Emprefs. Prince Gallitzin, knight of the different orders, field-marshal, adjutant-general, &c. died lately, aged 60 years. Paris, Oct. 29. The Abbe Beauchamp, vicargeneral of Babylonia, has tranfmitted to the Academy of Sciences the obfervations he has had an opportunity to make in his paffage through the defarts between Aleppo and Bagdat, in the months of October and November 1782. He has fixed the latitude of Bagdat to be in 33 degrees 20 minutes, and the longitude he estimates at 2 degrees 50 minutes to the east of Paris. His intention is to proceed to Baffora, and then to the Caspian Sea, in order to determine the queftion now agitated by the geographers the real fituation and courfe of that fea. Rome, Nov. I. We have accounts that the Emprefs of Ruffia has given leave to the archbishop of Mohilow to publish the bull of Pope Clement XIV. relative to the fuppreffion of the Jefuits. Thofe monks will ftill be permitted to remain in Ruffia, but they are to be habited like other priests, and are in no wife to renew their former inftitution. Dantzick, Nov. 4. The fituation of this city is fill the fame; the blockade becomes daily more clofe, and the moft advanced of the Pruffian troops are not now above 100 paces from the walls; but they obferve the ftricteft difcipline, and do nothing that bears the leaft appearance of hoftilities. As the laft proposals from the King of Pruffia are rather more favourable than the foregoing ones, we are in hopes that things will be amicably fettled. Eclufe, in Flanders, Nov. 4. This morning at four o'clock a detachment of about 1000 Imperial infantry, with drums beating and colours flying, appeared before the fort of St. Donaes. The centinel prefented his musket with the bayonet fixed to defend the entrance, but not being able to refift a great number, he was made prifoner, as well as the Major Commandant of the fort, with all his men, which were only three. The Auftrians alfo took poffeffion of the forts of St. Paul and Job. After having kept the Dutch foldiers fome time under arreft, the Auftrian troops fet them at liberty, and they are returned to l'Eclufe, where preparations are making against any farther furprize. Dantzick, Nov. 11. In the night of the 8th, we were much alarmed by the firing of smallarms at a distance, which gradually approached: we at first thought the Pruffians had attacked fome of our out-pofts; and the Pruffians, ima gining we had made a fally, beat to arms. In the morning, however, we found that five fishingboats (three of which were Pruffians) had with a fair wind endeavoured to gain an entrance into our port, laden with provifions, the Pruffians firing at them all the way: happily, only two men were flightly wounded, but the fails were fhot through and through. The Pruffians would certainly have made themfelves mafters of these barks, if one of our officers had not threatened to fire upon them if they fired once more at the boats: upon this the Pruffians ceased their fire, and the boats entered our city. Some public prints fay, that the Pruffians pay ready money for all they confume on our terri tory; but, fo far the contrary, it cofts the territory of this city every day 700 ducats for the fupport of the Pruffian foldiers and horfes. The courts of London and Vienna have charged their refpective ministers at Petersburgh to make the ftrongest reprefentations in our favour to the Emprefs of Ruffia; in confequence of which we hope for the powerful mediation of that court in our prefent critical fituation. Rome, Nov. 1I. Letters from Naples give an account of fresh earthquakes in Calabria, where a contagious distemper is likewife broke out, attended with great mortality. Utrecht, Nov. 13. We have accounts from Dantzick, that the people of that city still continue to refift the demand of the King of Pruffia, Some days ago the magiftracy were assembled to deliberate, whether, in their prefent diftreffed fituation, it would not be better to confent to the requeft of the King of Pruffia; the people, who fufpected the fubject of their deliberation, affembled about the town-house, and threatened the two burgomafters in the feverett manner, if they fhould dare to make the leaft ceffion to the Pruffians. The Dantzickers flatter themfelves with the hopes of fome affiftance from the court of Warfaw, to which they have lately fent a courier. The phrenzy of the populace is fo great, that they lately fired at a Pruffian dragoon, and wounded his ho:fe. Manheim, Nov. 15. The letters from Munich cannot fufficiently extol the polite and affable conduct of the King of Sweden during his abode in that city. On his arrival, the monarch alighted at the city gate, and walked up to the houfe where he was to lodge. On calling for the hoft, he asked for the apartments intended for the king and his fuite. Being informed of the price, You afk too little,' faid he; kings do not come every day to lodge with you.' Upon this the hoft replied, The honour done me by the monarch fills my heart fuficiently; why 'fhould I make him pay more than another? Some perfons who occupied the first and fecond floors of that houfe, were preparing to quit them; which the king perceiving, prevented, faying, that his majesty had good legs, and could very well get up to the third ftory. At the fame time, the monarch's retinue arrived; and honeft Albert (the hoft) found with furprize, that he had been speaking with the king in perfon. The k the play; the host gave a ball, at which were pre3D 2 fent ng went to fent upwards of 200 perfons. The king fpoke with great affability to the widow of the learned Oofterwalt, who was prefent. On his departure, his majesty made a prefent to the host of a gold watch and chain, befides 24 ducats, with leave to put up his picture or arms for his fign. Paris, Nov. 16. This day, between eleven and twelve o'clock, M. Montgolfier's aeroftatic globe was let go at the Caftle of La Muette, carrying with it, unretained by any cords, the Marquis d'Arlande, a major of foot, who is to fail through the air as long as he pleases, having carried up with him the means of furnishing aliment to the stove, which is fufpended at the lower part of the machine. The aerial courfe of this officer fuppofes either an ind fcreet courage, or the discovery of fome new method of directing the globe. Utrecht, Nov. 17. Their High Mightineffes having received a memorial from the government of the Auftrian Low Countries relative to the taking poffeffion of certain forts by the Auftrians, have refolved to propofe to the court of Bruffels the nomination of certain commiffaries to regu late every thing amicably: thus we flatter ourfelves that this occurrence will not disturb the good harmony which fubfifts between this Republic and the Emperor. The above memorial fets forth, that the Fort St. Donat, St. Paul, and St. Job, as alfo the village of Doel, are all fituated in the limits of the Auftrian territory, according to the regulation of 1664; and that the convention of December 22, 1718, never took place. Paris, Nov. 17. For fome weeks paft a great number of waggons have been continually filing off through Cambray and Valenciennes, laden with cannon, bullets, mortars, bombs, powder, tents, mufquets, &c. Different conjectures are formed refpecting the defign of these unexpected movements and preparations, Amfterdam, Nov. 20. On the 26th ult, an exprefs arrived at Prague, from the commander at Graz, informing, that the plague had broke out in Dalmatia, and the territory of Venice. The next day a fecond exprefs arrived at Bar, with the melancholy news, that this dreadful fcourge had manifefted itself in the city of Venice. GAZETTE. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. Munich, Oct. 27. The King of Sweden arrived here the 22d in the evening; and on Friday the 25th, he fet out early in the morning for Infpruck, to purfue his journey to Italy. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8. [This Gazette contains his Majefty's order in council, which directs that the importer of any tobacco, being the growth or production of any of the territories of the United States of America, and imported directly from thence into the ports of London, Bristol, Liverpool, Cowes, Whitehaven, and Greenock, or either of them, in the manner expreffed in the order of the 6th of June laft, fhall be at liberty, till further order, to enter into bond for the payment as well of the faid duty, commonly called the Old Subfidy, as of all the further duties due for fuch tobacco, in the manner and with the allowances mentioned in the faid order: and that if any tobacco which has been or fhall be fo imported, during the continuance of this order, from the territories of the faid United States, into the ports of London, Bristol, Cowes, Liverpool, Whitehaven, and Greenock, fhall be taken afterwards, within the time limited, out of the warehouses wherein the fame fhall be fecured under his Majesty's locks at either of the above ports, to be exported directly from thence, the bonds which have been, or fhall be entered into for payment of the faid duties, fhall be difcharged in the manner directed by the feveral acts of parliament in force. [Alfo an addrefs to his Majefty from the Freeholders of the county of Inverness, in which they gratefully acknowledge his Majefty's paternal goodness in the late fupply of provifions fent to the poor of that county, which has proved a most feafonable relief to many of his Majesty's fubjects,reduced through want of fubfiftence to a moft deplorable condition.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER II. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15. Ceremonial of the Introduction of his Royal Highness George Auguftus Frederic Prince of Wales, into the House of Peers, at the Meeting of Parliament, on Tuesday Nov. 11, 1783. His Royal Highness having been, by letters patent dated the 19th day of August, in the fecond year of his Majefty's reign, created Prince of Wales and Earl of Cheer, was, in his robes, which, with the collar of the order of the Garter, he had put on in the Earl Marshal's room, introduced into the Houfe of Peers in the following order. Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod, Deputy Earl Marshal of England. Deputy Great Chamberlain of England. Vifcount Stormont, Lord Prefident of the Council. THE CORONET, On a crimson velvet cushion, borne by Viscount Lewisham, one of the Gentlemen of his Royal Highness's Bed-chamber. His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES, Carrying his writ of fummons, fupported by his uncle his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, and the Dukes of Richmond and Portland. And proceeding up the Houfe with the ufual reverences, the writ and patent were delivered to the Earl of Mansfield, Speaker, on the woolfack, and read by the clerk of the parliament at the table, his Royal Highness and the rest of the proceffion ftanding near: after which his Royal Highness was conducted to his chair on the righthand of the throne, the coronet and cushion having been laid on a ftool before the chair; and his Royal Highness being covered, as ufual, the ceremony ended. Some time after, his Majefty entered the Houfe of Peers, and was feated on the throne with the ufual folemnities, and having delivered his most gracious fpeech, retired out of the Houfe. Then his Royal Highness at the table took the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and made and fubfcribed the declaration; and alfo took and fubfcribed the oath of abjuration. NAMES of thofe nominated for fheriffs by the Lords of the Council, at the Exchequer, on the morrow of St. Martin, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord 1783. Bedfordshire. John Wingate Jennings, of Harlington, Efq. William Gibbard, of Sharnbrook, Efq. William Goldfmith, of Streatly, Efq. Berkshire. Charles Dalbiac, of Hungerford Park, Efq. Edward Thornhill, of Kington Lifle, Efq. Bucks, Richard Schrimpshire, of Amersham, Thomas Wilkinfon, of Weftthorpe, Efq. John Edwin, of Great Brickhill, Esq. Cumberland. John Chriftian, of Unerig, Efq. William Brown, of Tallentire Hall, Efq. William Henry Milbourne, of Armathwaite Caftle, Efq. Cheshire. Peter Leigh, of Booth, Efq. Henry Cornwall Leigh, of High Leigh, Efq. Thomas Willis, of Swettenham, Esq. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. William Camps, of Wilburton, Efq. Henry Morley, of Ely, Efq. Thomas Shepheard, of March, Efq. Cornwall. William Harris, of Corgenny, Efq. Jofeph Beauchamp, of Pengreepp, Efq. Sir William Molefworth, of Pencarrow,Bart. Devonshire. Montague Edmund Parker, of Whiteway, Efq. Thomas Lane, of Coffleet, Efq. Dorfetfhire. John Pinney, of Blackdown, Efq. Honourable Lionel Damer, of Warmwell. Derbyshire. Samuel Heathcote, of Littleover, Efq. John Radford, of Smalley, Efq. Anthony Mony, of Great Warley, Efq. Gloucestershire. Giles Greenaway, of Barrington, Efq. John Raymond, of Fairford, Efq. John Niblett, of Gloucefter, Efq. Hertfordshire. William Phillimore, of Aldenham, Efq. Jacob John Whittingdon, of Bovingdon, Efq. Richard Bard Harcourt, of Pendley, Efq., Herefordshire. Sir Hungerford Hofkins, Bart. James Walwyn, of Longworth, Esq. Sir Edward Boughton, of Vowchurch, Bart. Kent. Sir John Boyd, of Danfon, Bart. Charles Booth, of Steedhill, Efq. Sir John Brewer Davis, of Hawkhurst, Knt. Leicestershire. Charles Grave Hudfon, of Wanlip, Efq. William Vann, of Belgrave, Efq. Thomas Vowe, of Hallerton, Efq. Lincolnshire. George William Johnston, of Witham on the Hill, Efq. Henry Hare Hart, of Leverton, Efq. Charles Chaplin, of Blankney, Efq. Monmouthshire. Chriftopher Chambray, Llangfoift, Efq. William Rees, of St. Bride's, Efq. Thomas Lewis, of Chepftow, Efq. Northumberland. Sir Francis Blake, of Fowbray, Bart. James Allgood, of Nunwick, Efq. John Payne, of Welford, Efq. Norfolk. Thomas Durrant, of Scottow, Esq. Nottinghamshire. Pendock Neale, of Tollerton, Efq. Sherbrooke Lowe, of Southwell, Efq. John Lenthall the Younger, of Burford, Efq. Efq. Somerfetfhire. Sir John Miller, of Bath-Easton, Bart. Andrew Guy, of Enmore, Efq. John Edenfor Heathcote, of Longton, Efq. Bart. Richard Prickenden, of Malts Hanger, Efq. James Payne, of Chertfey, Ffq. Jofeph Boultbee, of Baxterley, Efq. Thomas Bund, of Wick, Efq. James Sutton, of Roundway, Efq. Robert Nicholas, of Afhton Keynes, Efq. Yorkshire. Sir Thomas Turner Slingsby, of Scriven Park, Bart. William Danby, of Swinton, Efq. Richard Langley, of Wikeham Abbey, Efq. [This Gazette contains also an addrefs to the King from the merchants and principal inhabitants of Exeter, congratulating his Majesty upon his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales having attained his age of 21 years.] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. attempt upon the city of Bednure, in case the intelligence then juft received of Hyder's death proved well founded. In pursuance of these or ders, the general proceeded to Cundapore, which he reduced after fome flight refiftance, and from thence reprefented, in very strong terms, that the condition of the army was not fuch as would warrant the attempt upon Bednure, but that nevertheless he should make the trial; and this advice of his intention was conveyed in a letter from Cundapore, dated the 19th of January, and received here the 8th of February. The general's reprefentation of the danger of the enterprize, and fatal confequences of a failure, was expreffed fo forcibly, that we did not think it proper, after an opinion given in fuch strong terms by the officer who was to execute the fervice, to perfift in exacting a compliance with our above-mentioned orders; and we therefore, though with reluctance, difpatched difcretionary orders to the general to defer the attempt, at the fame time recommending to him to give due weight in the fcale to the advantages Hyder's death would afford him, which in our opinion more than counterbalanced the objections which might in ftrict prudence be urged against the attempt. The fervice, however, had been performed before the dispatch of our orders; and, on the 14th of February, the prefident received advice in a note from Captain Torriano, commandant at Onore, of our army having forced the Gauts, and gained poffeffion of the city of Bednure. Advice of this important event was shortly after communicated to you by the president. Subfequent reports, and intelligence collected from private letters, made us very impatient to receive a relation of his fuccefs from the general himself, as we foon understood that a treaty of a particular nature had been concluded with Hyat Saib, the governor of Bednure under Hyder Ally, and that he was continued in the government of that city with an authority little inferior to what he held before we had become mafters of the place. On the 26th of February, Colonels Macleod This Gazette does not contain any intelligence. and Humberston, and Major Shaw, the principal officers of his Majefty's troops, arrived here from the army, which they left fome days after the SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22. At the Court at St. James's, the 21st of No- furrender of Bednure, but we had still no letters vember 1783, PRESENT, The King's Moft Excellent Majefty in Council. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25. OUR laft letter left General Matthews, with his whole force collected, in poffeffion of Onore, and under pofitive orders to make an immediate from Brigadier General Matthews. These genftating their reafons for quitting the army. tlemen, on their arrival, each gave in memorials, Mangalore furrendered by capitulation the 9th of March, after a practicable breach had been nearly effected. Carwar, and other forts in the Soundah country, had been likewise reduced by a feparate detachment under Captain Carpenter; and fome forts inland, a confiderable distance to the eastward of Bednure, by other detachments. tioned, dated the 4th of March, he taxes the In the letter from the general above-menwhole army in terms the most severe and unqualified, but altogether general and indifcriminate, with offences of the highest criminality. He fays, that after the furrender of Bednure, the flame of difcontent broke out amongst the officers, which rapidly spread from thofe in the immediate fervice of his Majesty to the Honourable Company's fervants 2 |