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Conftantinople, April 17.

the young Sultan, born the 17th of March iaft, the Grand Vizir, and all the other minifters of HE peace which France has found means the Porte, Thefe prefents coft 300,000 rou to procure to this empire is of the great-bles. The empress has alfo made a prefent of eft importance at this time, as it will in all 1000 peasants to Mr. Stackieff, her minifter at probability give the Porte an opportunity of Conftantinople. eftablishing tranquillity in the interior part of thefe dominions, where diffentions were daily augmenting.

Madrid, Apr. 22. We have received advice, that juft as the Portugueze governors were going to deliver the islands ceded by our treaty with the court of Portugal into the hands of. the commiffaries of this crown, the negroes took up arms and oppofed the ceflion. It is faid they are fupported by a certain power who would not willingly fee thofe islands in our hands, as it would prejudice their negro trade. Some fhips and troops are gone out of Lisbon to prevent the confequences of any fuch revolt. Naples, Apr. 27. After fo many months drought, and fo many prayers offered up to heaven for rain, we had a fhower which lasted about twenty minutes; but the lamentable flate of our country for want of more rain caufes inceffant prayers to be offered up, and a fofpenfion of every public amufement for eighteen days.

Paris, May 14. The Royal Louis is fitting for fea as f.ft as poffible, and three men of war have received orders to be ready to fall on the shortest notice; fix firefhips are also arming, and the fquadron under the Chevalier D'ELpenouse is expected at Breft from L'Orient.

Hague, May 15. The ftates general have published a placard the 3d inftant, to the fol lowing purport:

The States General of the United Provinces, &c. to all to whom thefe prelents fhall come, health. It having been made know to us, that notwithstanding the ancient placarts of July 27, 1627, and April 26, 1653, forbidding the inhabitants of this country to take warlike commiffions from other powers, fome fubjects of this republic are nevertheless fuf· pected to have engaged with fome of the belligerent powers, to diftrefs the navigation and commerce of other powers at war, with whom we are, and with to continue in amity, by equipping and arming for fca, fhips, under cover of other flags; a conduct which is contra

Civita Vecchia, in Italy, May 1. This country is in danger of fuffering from a great fear-ry to the right of nations, to the fubjects of a ety of grain of all forts, from the long continued drought; the wheat is very much damaged by it, and the oa's entirely left, as well as the hay and other fodder for cattle. The price of coin is greatly raifed, and the exportation of peale and beans, with which the Pope's dominions ofed to abound, is forbid.

Cenfantinople, May 4. On the evening of the 19th a dreadral fire broke out here, which burnt furioufly tot 17 hours, and reduced 2000 houfes to alhes, 700 of which were palaces belonging to the most confiderable of the Turks. There failed from the harbour yesterday 29 Turkish vefcis completely fitted out, among which number are eleven large fhips of the line, and feven gailies, bound to the Morea,

Peterburgh, May 14. The court has fent a courier to Conftantinople with the following prefents for the French ambalador, viz. the enfigns of the order of St. Andrew, and a magnificent fnuff box, fet with diamonds; alfo fome fine furs, and a fuperb ring of one large brilliant for the ambafladrefs, valued all together at 50,000 roubles. The ratification of the treaty, by which the differences between Ruffia and the Porte are ended, will next week be fent to Conftantinople, with prefents for the Grand Signior, the favourite Sultana, VOL. X.

neutral power, and to our upright intentions, as it may tend to the prejudice, blame, and dihonour of the republic: for thefe caufes, after mature deliberation, we have ordained, and do ordain, that no inhabitants of the u nited provinces fhall fend any ship to fea, either from our ports, or thofe of any foreign powers, nor have a part in arming any hips that fhall fail as privateers by virtue of fuch commiffions, or partake either of any lotles or gains that may accrue from fach captures, under pain of being punished according to the exigence of the cafe, as well in their bodies as their geos, agreeable to the tenor of our precedent placarts, and further to be obliged to pay all dam ges that they have caufed, &c.

Breslau, May 16. The principal articles of the peace concluded at Tefchen are, 1, Aufria reftores to the Palatine Houfe all that part of Bavaria occupied by her troops, except the diftrict of Burghaufen, which the Court of Vienna keeps as an indemnification of her pretenfions. 2dly, that court gives up to the Elector Palatine all the fiets poflefled by the late Elector of Bavaria. gdly, it grants to the Court of Saxony the fum of fix millions of florins, payable in 12 years. 4thly, the imperial court infures the Duke of Deux Ponts an

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equivalent fatisfa&ion And sthly, it recognizes the validity of the rights of his Pruffian majefty to the margraviates of Franconia, fo as never to raise any obftacles to their re-union to the primogeniture of his house. The treaties of Weftphalia, and all the other treaties concluded fince between their imperial ma jefties, and the king of Puffi, namely thofe of Breflau and Berlin in 1742, that of Drefden in 1745, and that of Hubert fberg in 1763, are by the prefent treaty of peace tully and entirely confirmed.

Drefden, May 16. His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Pruffia is ftill here; but the different divifions of the Pruffian army will all be in motion to-morrow, and in a few days will have entirely evacuated this electorate.The courier from his Pruffian majefty with thefe orders arrived here on Friday night; and they will be the more readily executed, as every p cparat on had been made for this purpofe. The greatest part of the Prufian artillery is likewife embarked on the Elbe, and many of the veffels are gone for Magdeburgh to which place the whole (except the field picces of the different regimen:s) is to be conveyed.

Vienna, May 19. The peace was figned the 13th inftant; and his Pruflian majefty, the moment he received the news of the lignature, fent orders to his troops to evacuate all the Auftrian territory, without waiting for the expiration of the term of 16 days, fixed by the treaty for that purpose.

Peter fourgb, May 21 On Sunday the new born Great Duke was baptized at Zorico-Zelo, by the name of Conftantine; the empress was the fponfor. After the ceremony the foreign minilters and nobility dined with her imperial majefty at a table of two hundred covers. this occafion feveral promotions were made in the civil and military departments.

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Vienna, May 22. The imperial troops are on their march to their different quarters, according to the peace establishment. Te Deum wil be fung to-morrow with great folemnity in the cathedral of this capital.

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Main Aibert Sr. Hypolite Ten trigates, four corvettes, two lougres, ten brulots, and two gallotes, feveral armed bombs &c. in the whole 54 fail.

Rouen, June 14. Extraordinary movements are making in Normandy, and Bretagne, one hundred and fifty veflels are hired for his majefty's ule at Havre, Granville, &c. capable of transporting 25 000 men A quantity of chaloups are building to facilitate debarkations; and all the English in thofe ports are ordered to remove themselves to the diftance of fixty

Hamburgb, May 25. We have received certain advice, that he Emprefs of Ruffia, after having fo gloriously contributed to the re eftablishment of peace in Germany, had deter-leagues. mined to use her utmost to procure an accom modation between France and Great Brit in, and that Prince Repain was going to London for that purpose.

Berlin, May 31. Peace was proclaimed here with the ufual folemnities on the 22d inftant The Pruffian and foreign minifters returned from Silefia the beginning of last week; and the king arrived on Thursday the 27th, accompanied by the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick.

Copenhagen, June 1. A Ruffin fquadron, compofed of two men of war, two frigates, and a corvette, paffed this place laft Friday, and are gone to anchor in the Sound. This fquadron, it is affured, will be reinforced with

Haque, June 15. Baron Thulemeyer, the Pruffian minifter this republic, orefented a memorial last Tuesday to the States General, in which, by order of the king, his m fter, he requires an exemption of the augmentation of the duty called laft & wyl gele, in favour of the fhips of Pruffian fubjects. This duty has been lately doubled, in order to raise money for the ficing out of 32 men of war. This requ-ft embarraffes the states, bec uie on the one hand it they should refufe the king of Pruffia, he would not be pleafed, and if his request is granted, other nations will no doubt require the fame favour, which would not answer the end intended by their high mightinefics by doubling the duty.

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LONDON.
From the LONDON GAZETTI.

Admiralty Office, May 29, 1779′ Extra of a letter from the Hon. Vice Admiral Byron to Mr. Stephens, dated on board bis Majefty's foip the Princess Royal, off St. Lucia, the 2d of April, 1779, received the 28th inft.

"THE hip British King, in the fervice of the treafury, being bound from hence to Cork, I take the opportunity to give their lordships fome account of the proceedings of his majefty's hips under my command.

The fquadron under commodore Rowley having arrived from England on the 12th of February, in good condition, I fent him, with the fhips named in the margin, to cruize to windward of Martinique, in hopes of preventing a junction between the ships expected from France, and thofe at Fort Royal; he failed upon that fervice the 19th of February, but was recalled a few days after upon my receiving advice of M. de Graffe, with four or five fail of the line, fome frigates, and ftere fhips, having got fafe to Martinique. Since then detachments from the fleet have occafionally cruized to windward, and others between the islands of St. Lucia and Martinique, for intercepting fuch of the enemy's veffels as might attempt that channel, and at the fame time to give protection to our small craft, when reconnotring the ftrength and pofition of the French fquadron in Fort Royal Bay; one of thefe detach ments, under command of captain Gritch, was carried greatly to leeward by the current on the 15th of laft month; their fituation must have been obferved from Martinique, and I thisk the profpect of thefe fhips not being able to regain this anchorage probably occafioned the enemy to make a movement; for M. d' Eftaing, with four other flag officers, and fifteen fail of the line, with tome frigates and fmall vaffels, having previously embarked a number of troops, came out of Fort Royal Bay the morning of the 18 h, at which time feveral of the hips under my command, that had been cruizing, were taking in a fupply of water at the Cul de Sac, and capt. Sawyer, with three fail of the line, and a fifty gun fhip, were to windward of Martinique. With the rest of our force, I flipt and put to fea the moment the French fquadron was difcovered, and made for

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them with all poffible expedition; but although equal in number and flrength to the hips I had collected, they returned to the protection of their batteries, without putting it in my power to bring them to action. I flood clofe in with Fort Royal next morning, and had a full view of the enemy's batteries and hips; but their only movement upon our approach was to get under fail, and work further into the Bay: I therefore tacked, and ftretched towards this place, but a ftrong lee current kept the fquadron feveral days at fea.

The frigates that are upon this flation have been kept cruizing to windward of Barbadoes, and among the islands; but no prize of confe-, quence has been taken by any of them, except the ship Governor Trumbull, an American privateer of twenty guns, and one hundred and fifty men, which the Venus took off St. Chriftopher's the 6th of last month, after feveral hours chace."

The gallant Sir James Wallace is apppointed commodore of a fquadron of fix frigates, to cruize between the Bahama ifles, and the capes of Virginia.

May 30. The packet which arrived lately from India brought news exceedingly favour able to the company: the expedition fent out by governor Hafting from Bengal to Berar, under Col. Leflie, to oppofe the French intereft in the Maratta ftate, had accomplished their purpofe, though the colonel was dead, and many men had fallen by fickness, and the exceffive fatigue attending the march. On the 10th of July Col. Leflie attacked Aumrood Sing, the Raja of Boondelehund, and defeated' him, with confiderable flaughter, at a village called Mow, not far from Chetterpoor; the lofs on the English fide being only five feapoys killed, and twenty feven wounded. The army confifted of fix battalions of feapoys, and one company of native artillery, which on their march were joined by a regiment of cavalry, and a body of horie from the province to Owde.

The camp on Warley Common was marked out, on Mouday laft, by Col. Roy, deputy quarter malter general, affifted by two gentlemen of the corps of engineers. The whole will confift of twelve regiments, befides two with the park of artillery. Col. Roy will a'fo go to Coxheath in a few days, to mark out the encampment there, which will confit of eighteen regiments in front, and two advanced, one of

Suffolk, Magnificent, Sterling Castle, Med-which is to be at Rys, and the other at Haftway, Centurion, Ilis, Preston, Carysfort. ings, and the troops will begin to move toUn 2 wards

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