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Conflantinople, Feb. 20.

E are at laft delivered from the ravages of the plague, which has ceafed, after carrying off 160,000 perfons. Our annals have no records of fo dreadful a contagion as this laft has been; the occafion of its ceafing muft, no doubt, be in great measure attributed to the intense coldness of the weather; which, however, has not been without its fatality, as 40,000 sheep, which were coming from Walachia, and 160,000 others, which were on their way from Afia, have died of the cold on their way, together with their fhepherds, 40 in nember. This has made mutton very scarce, and very dear.

important tidings from Conflantinople, that through the mediation of fome powers, the affairs of Ruffia have taken a very different tura from what was expected, and that a peace between Ruffia and the Porte is confirmed. For the future the Princes of Moldavia and Wallachia are not to pay even the half of what they did annually to the Porte; and Ruffia, as they have obtained a free trade in the Black Sea, will give the Porte fome advantages relative to Crimea. A courier arrived with this account to the Ruffian ambassador.

orders to be at Hanover, Hamelen, and Harbourg, to be exercifed in the management of the cannon and other neceflary manœuvres. The king has been pleafed to augment the pay of thefe fubalterns and foldiers, and his majesty has published an ordinance, enjoining the officers to apply themselves better to the manceuvres of the artillery.

Minden, March 14. Every thing is in motion in the electorate of Hanover; the officers are in waiting, and the foldiers are ordered to Stockholm, March 2. We fill continue to join their regiments immediately; the fubalhave the most extraordinary mild and open fea-teins and foldiers of the artillery have received fon that was ever known in this country, infomuch that the paffage to the fea is navigable; and fome fhips, that have wintered here, intend to fail in the courfe of the week; and we are expecting the arrival of others from abroad. Drefden, March 7. An account is just received here, that on the 28th of laft mon h, early in the morning, the city of Neu"adt, in Upper Silesia, had been attacked by a detach- Madrid, March 19. Sixty-three fhips of the ment of Auftrians, compofed of fifteen bat-line are in our roads ready to fail, 44 at Cadiz, talions of infantry, and three regiments of 15 at Ferrol, and four ar Carthagena. cavalry, under the command of General Stein, and fummoned to furrender, and on the Pruffian Commandant, Col. Winterfield's refusal, the enemy cannonaded the town, which was fet on fire by the bombs. The garrison confifted of the Hereditary Prince of Prutha's regimens, which retreated towards the Fruffian troops posted in that neighbourhood.

Bref, March 8. The wo ks at the pot and arfenal are carrying on with the ufual activity. As foon as the men of war are out of hand, they will fall down into the road. The St. Efprit, of 80 guns, failed on the 5th. alfo the Bien Aime, of 74, each of which has taken four months provifion on board.

Drefden, March 10. This day his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Pruffia published, by order of his Pruffian majesty, a general fuf. penfion of armis; and the fame was fignified to the Auflrian generals on this fide.

Stockholm, March 19. Mr. Sayre, deputy from the American congrefs, has just left this city. Nothing tranfpires concerning the fuccefs of his negociation at th's court.

Paris, March 19. M. de Sartine, minifter of the marine department, has wrote the fol|lowing e rcular letter to all captains of armad veffels, privateers, &c.

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Capt. Cook, who failed from Plymouth in July, 1778, on board the Refolution, in company with the Dilcovery, Capt. Clarke, in order to make fome difcoveries on the coafts, asiflands, and feas of J pan and Callifornia, being en the point of returning to Europe, and as fuch difcoveries are of general utility to all nations, it is the king's pleafure, that Capt. Cook fhail be treated as a commander ofa neutral and allied power, and that all captains of armed veffels, &c. who may meet that famous navigator, fhall make him acStockholm, March 10. The fleet fi ting out quainted with the king's orders on this befor the protection of our commerce will confifthit, but at the fame time let him know that of three 70 gun fhips, and feven of 60 guns; on bis part he must refrain from all hoftilione frigate of 40, two of 36, one of 54, and ties. one of 24, belides a yacht of intelligence; four of thofe fhips, with four frigates, are to fail immediately, and the reft are to follow by the beginning of May.

Warsaw, March 13. We have received the
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Paris, March 23. The Vifcount de'Arrot, colonelf infantry, is arrived here with advice that a iquadron of his majefty's hips have tak in the forts and establishments of the Englith at Senegal, on the Coast of Africa. The Ff

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following are the particulars of that event: The fquadron under the command of the Marquis de Vaudreuil arrived before Senegal. It was compofed of the Fendant, of 74 guns; the Sphinx of 64; the Refolu and Nymph frigates; with the corvets the Lunette, the L' Epervier, and the Lively.

The 30th the Fendant anchored before Fort St. Louis, built on an island fo named, protected by an arm of the fea, and a tongue of land. After exchanging a few shot the commander hosted a white flag, and asked to capitulate. The fea running high that evening, they were not able to land, but next morning the Duc de Lauzun received the capitulation, which was presented by the Sieur Robert Stenton, governor for his Britannic Majefty. The garrifon were made prifoners of war, and the troops of his Moft Chriftian Majesty took poffellion of the fort, comptoirs, and other ef tablishments on the river belonging to the Englith.

We found in the fort 26 brafs cannon, 56 of iron, to mortars, and 8 pattereroes.

The Duc de Laufun has made every neceffary difpofition for the evacuation of the Iẞand of Goree, from whence the garrifoh, artillery, and ammunition, are to be tranfported to Senegal.

Hague, March 23. Baron Louis Charles d'Erthal, commiffary from his Imperial Majesty at the Diet, has been unanimously elected Prince Bishop of Wurtzborgh and Bamberg, in the room of the late Count de Seinfheim."

to 30 ships of the line, and 35 frigates; fecondly, to increase the land forces to 45,000 men ; thirdly, to repair the fortrefles of this republic: and fourthly, to furnish the arsenals and ma | gezines with every thing neceflary in cafe of need; and as all thefe would require arms, ammunition, fhip-building timber, &c. the prince fubmitted it to their High Mightinefles, whether it would not be proper to fufpend any further exportation of thofe articles, which would at once make any granting of convoy unneceflary. This propofal made much impreffion on the affembly, and was not oppofed even by the deputies of Amfterdam; and the four points were taken into confideration by all the members ad referendum; and we wait impatiently for the re-affemblage of the States which will take place to-morrow, to know what refolutions their High Mightineffes will conclude upon.

Paris, March 29. Madame Elizabeth, fifter to the king, is perfectly recovered from the meafles. This diforder has been almost epidemical here for fome months: the Countess Jules de Polignac having had it, the queen went to fee her, after the infection was thought to be over, nevertheless her majesty has caught that diforder, but in fo favourable a manner that it is imagined the will foon be well again.

As Monfieur Duchaffault's wound is not likely to be foon cured, Mr. de Guichen and the Count de la Touche Treville will take the command of the fecond and third divifions of the feet under Count d'Orvilliers. The Count de la Touche Treville is arrived here from Bre to receive hits majelly's orders.

Vienna, March 24. Our laft accounts from Tefchen fay, that the negociations of peace advance but flowly; the pretenfions of Saxony Hague, Apr. 2. The States, after very warm to the allodial fucceffion of Bavaria meet with debates relative to the two points of augmentgreat difficulty. We are affured, that the me-ing the forces of this republic, and granting a diators have propofed three or four millions of convoy to the Dutch ships, have at laft refolved to fet afide the augmentation of the forces for crowns to Saxony, which have been refused as being too little; and that, on the other hand, the prefent, and to grant a convoy to all their the Elector Palatine feems far from confenting thips not loaded with contraband goods, which to the payment of fo large a fum; fo that the naval flores, &c, are not reckoned according to difference between Saxony and the Palatine the treaty of 1674. The aflembly of the States Court is perhaps what keeps things fo long in feparated yesterday. hand. According to the above-mentioned propofal, the Elector Palatine was only to pay half the above fum in money, and the other half by the ceffion of Middelheim and Wilfenteig, in Swabia.

Paris, Apr. 4. We learn from Naples, of the 19th of March, that the government there have formed a defign of putting the marine of that kingdom on a more refpectable footing: the king having applied himfelf with great afGdeity for fome time paft to concert with his miuifters the arrangements requisite for the exThree of their xebecs, they likewife inform us, are getting ready for a cruife, in company with a king's frigate; and for the better procuring officers for the fea fervice, a certain number of the marine guards are lo ferve on board the ships of fuch powers as are in alliance with that court. His majesty, we are told, has bestowed many gratifications and augmentations of pay to Pefcara, (the commander in chief of his fquadron) the inspector of his arsenals, the deputy-infpectors, Daneto and Bologna, and several other officers of that department,

Hague, March 26. In the fpeech made by the Prince Stadtholder at the affembly of the States before their feparation, his Serene High-ecution of it. nefs reprefented to them that the proceedings of the Court of France, which might even be deemed infults to this republic, might be in a great measure attributed to the defencelets ftate The United Provinces were in at present; and therefore to maintain this republic in its rightful independence, and the enjoyment of its privileges, immunities, &c. and to preferve that exact neutrality upon which the court of France laid fuch refs, the Stadtholder propofed the four following points to their High Alightingfles: first, to augment the navy

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LONDON. Liverpool, March 19. ESTERDAY airived here Le Modefte, of 500 tons, from St. Domingo, pierced for 24 guns, mounted with ten 6 pounders, a French letter of marque, with forty men prize to the Dragon privateer of this port, who took her on the 16th ult. in lat. 47. long, 20. When the ftruck the fea ran fo high it was impoffible to board her, upon which the was or dered to fteer towards Ireland, and carry a light, the Dragon keeping clofe on her quarter, drove her along in this manner until the 19th, when the weather becoming more moderate, an attempt was made to man the prize, in which all the boats belonging to each fhip were ftove. The impatience of the Dragon's crew was now rouzed to the utmost pitch, and regardless of all danger, five feamen stripped themfelves naked leaped into the fea, fwam to the prize, and took poffeffion. The prize-mafter could not fwim, but went a-long fide on a raft, and, with thefe five brave British tars, carried the Modelle into Scotlard, in company with the Dragon. This unparalleled inftance of British courage fo aftonished the French, that they declared none but Englishmen would fo much as have thought of, much lefs undertaken it.

March 22. Yellerday morning the baggage belonging to the officers and private men draughted last week from the foot guards, amounting to 400, were fent off in waggons for Portsmouth; and this morning, at feven o'clock, they fet out from the parade, in St. James's Park, on their march to the abovementioned place, where they are to be shipped for America--Moft of the men turned out vohunteers.

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fn ; on which occafion there were fuppofed to be prefent at leaft an hundred of the nobility; the principal of whom were, the duke of Northumberland, and duke and duchefs of Argyll, the duke and duchefs of Leeds, the duke and duchels of Hamilton, the duke and duchefs of Devonshire, lord and lady Hartford, lord and lady North, the foreign ministers and their ladies the bishop, &c. Lady Hertford and lady Weymouth attended as the ladi's in waiting. Her majesty appeared to be in perfect health, and was drofled in white The fponfors were his molt ferene highnefs the duke of Brunfwick, the duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, and the princefs of Saxe Weimar. The above an ut perfonages were reprefented by tve Earl of Hertford. Lord High Chamberlain, the Earl of Afhburnham, Groom of the Stole; and the Countefs of Egremont, one of the ladies of her majesty's bed-chamber. The company did not break up till near eleven.

26 Since the official accounts have been received of the capture of Pondicherry, difparches of a very important nature are arrived. Thefe dif patches contain in substance the following intelligence: that the Rajah f Poonah had ceded to the English East Ind a company a very confiderable quantity of land near Surat, which furrounded Bombly. The firft fruits of this ter ritorial acquifition w ll be the cotton trade, which wil he wholly engroffed by England. This intelligence, added to the acquisition of Pondicherry, renders our triumph in the Eaft complete.

Great numbers of the New York privateers have been manned with deferters from Mr. Washington's army: they have, by the best accounts, come in in fuch droves, that general Clinton thou t he could not difpofe of them better, than by fending them to exchan e a few fhot with their new allies the French.

Edinburgh, March 29 At a refpectable

Prince William Henry, his majesty's 3d fon, will foon be invested with the order of the Garser, and there is to be an ioftai:ation at Wind-meeting of cit zens, in the high couaci-house for in August next.

here this day, called by the lord provoft, the From the LONDON GAZETTE. petition of the Roman Catholics, praying reAdmiralty Office, March 23, 1979. Captain lief for damages fultained by them in his city Fielding, of his majesty's fhip the Sultan, ar- and Glasgow, and other matters relative thererived yesterday at Spithead, with difpa ches to, were laid before them by his lordship. Affrom Major General Grant to lord George Ger- ter debating for fome time thereon, they apmain, containing the particulars of the reduc-pointed a committee to draw up a ciofe repretion of St. Lucie, and giving an account that M. D'Efting, with his whole flect, had taken refuge in the harbour of Port Royal, in Ma t'nien, and that Vice Admiral Byron had made a difpofition of his fleet to prevent his escape.

24. Last night the new-born prince was chriftened in the council chamber, St. James's, by the name of Octavius, as being the eighth

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fentation of facts in defence, and unanimously ag eed to make full reftitution to the innocent fufferers, &c in order to w pe off this offence to government.

31. The Louifa Elizabeth, a French Eaft Indiaman, bound to France, is taken by a Brifto! privateer, and carried into Valencia, in Ireland; he is valued at 100,000.l sterling,

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