duke Paul Petrowitz her fucceffor.-The King of Pruffia has alfo directed his letter patent, to the respective states and inhabitants of the hitherto Polish waywodeships of Posen, Gnesen, Kalish, Sieradia, the city and monastery of Czeutochowa, the province of Cujavia, the province of Dobrzyn, the waywodeships of Rawa, and Plotzk, &c. in the circle of the boundaries, and alfo to those of the cities of Dantzic and Thorn; by which those districts are taken under his protection. The prefent acquifitions made by Pruffia, though vaftly inferior to what Ruffia gains, (or feizes,) are indeed very important; they contain above 1061 fquare German miles, 5000 English miles fquare; 262 towns or cities, 8274 villages, 1136389 fouls. Poland contains about 9500 fquare leagues, and of this territory the emprefs and the Pruffian king have violently grafped 5500-that is about eleven nineteenths, or above feven hundred miles more than one half!!!

OSTEND, May 6. Captain Clements, who commands a fquadron of British veffels, deftined to co-operate with the English, Dutch, and Hanoverian, troops, in the fiege of Dunkirk, fent a fummons to General Pascal Kerenveyer, the commandant, in which he says, "I invite you, Sir, and all the inhabitants of Dunkirk, to take into ferious confidera tion the fad effects which will refult to

you and your families, from refufing

this conciliatory offer, to prevent a farther effufion of blood, and for putting an end, on your part, to a war so destructive to the true interefts of your country. I am fent to offer you the protection of a great and honourable power, until your conftitution shall be established on a folid bafis." To which the Commandant returned the following answer:

SIR,

"I have received the letter you took the trouble to write to me to announce your plans, and the orders with which you are charged. I have only a few words to say in reply, and these are, that neither I, who have the honour to command in Dunkirk, nor any of the inhabitants or citizens, will ever liften to any propofal tending to dishonour the French name. It is ufelefs therefore to lofe time in epiftolary correspondence, which would become tedious, and be at least illegal.

Do me the honour to attack me in a military manner, and I thall have that of anfwering you, for it is in this manner that difcuffions ought to be determined between people of our cloth."

FRANKFORT, May 9. Yefterday Landau was again fummoned to furrender. The commandant Gillot read the fummons of General Szekuli, together with his anfwer to it, upon the parade. The latter was, "That he would not give up the place fo long as there was one ftone upon another.”

ALTHOUGH the report of a duel be. tween the Duke of York and the Prince of Orange, as inferted in most of the public prints, was not true, yet a very ferious mifunderstanding has lately fubfifted between them.

When the British guards were in gar rifon at Dort, it was iffued in general orders by the Prince of Orange, in abfence of the Duke of York, that any officer leaving his poft fhould be fent to prifon (a prifon fomething like Newgate in London.) This, though a cuftomary order with the Dutch troops, was fuch an indignity offered to the high fpirit of the English guards, that they applied to the Duke of York, who is faid (taking part with his countrymen) to have expreffed himself with much warmth to the Prince of Orange upon the occafion; and here, we are informed, originated the misunderstanding between them. Another circumftance, tending to widen the breach, happened as follows:

During the time Captain V. C. Berkeley commanded the fleet of gun-boats in the Maefe, he was out one morning in the boat, reconnoitering the enemy along the Moerdyk fhore: paffing near the yacht of the Prince of Orange, becalmed, he was hailed by her, and directed to "take the yacht in tow." Captain Berkeley, on this, asked whether the Duke of York was on-board? and, on being told that he was not, but that the hereditary prince was, he replied no farther to this ftrange requifition than to fay, "that he was a British officer on fervice." This however was not fatisfactory, and a peremptory order immediately followed, which Capt. Berkely only anfwered by ordering his men to row off. The next day, being on-fhore near By ten fluice, a party of Dutch dragoons, headed by two officers, rode down upon him with cocked piftols, and, after ufing much infulting language, took him into cuftody. Captain Berkely faid, he held himfelf a prifoner to thePrince of Orange;

and

and immediately wrote to the Dutch admiral, Melville, informing him of the extraordinary treatment he had received, and that he had ordered his gun-boats, in confequence thereof, to act only in their own defence. He likewife fent a full ftatement of particulars to the Duke of York, requesting inftructions from his R. H. for his future conduct. What pafled, on this very fingular occafion, between the Duke of York and the hereditary Prince of Orange, is not known; but certain it is, that in the courfe of the day those two diftinguished perfonages came down to Captain Berkeley, when the Prince of Orange difclaimed all know-ledge of the order, either about towing the yacht or for taking Baptain B. into cuftody. He declared that the officers of cavalry were then in irons for their unwarrantable conduct; and apologised to Captain Berkeley in the fulleft, though not the most unembarraffed, manner, for the infults he had received. And here the affair rested.

PORTSMOUTH, May 2. On Sunday morning arrived at Spithead his Majefty's fhip Edgar, of 74 guns, Capt. Bertie, with two prizes, namely, the Dumourier privateer, of 22 guns and 200 men; and a Spanish register ship, called the St. Jago, from Lima, in South America, valued at upwards of 800,000l. which had been captured by the Dumourier privateer, about 200 leagues to the weftward of the Lizard. The captain of the Spanish register ship took the French privateer to be an Algerine Corfair, having never seen the new National colours, or heard of the war; and, from a dread of being made flaves, ftood an action of five hours, in which he had ten men killed, and thirty-feven wounded. His upper works were entirely fhattered, and his people having been at fea from the time he left Lima, could no longer fupport the fatigue of the action, and struck their colours. After the was taken, all the fpecie, amounting to upwards of 500,000l. and weighing upwards of 60 tons, was moved into the privateer, which kept poffeffion of her prize only eleven days, when, falling in with the Phaeton frigate, Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, and four fail of the line of Admiral Gell's fquadron, fhe was obliged to furrender herself a prize to the British frigate. It is remarkable, that while the privateer was unfhipping and re-shipping the dollars, the weather was fine and calm; and that after this bufinefs was effected, the wind immediately veered about, and springing up a brisk gale, carried them right into Admiral Gell's fleet.

The St. Jago was registered by the Spanish government for 800,000l. fo that he is doubtless worth a great deal more, and by far the richest prize ever carried into Britain, not even excepting the rich Acapulcho fhip brought in by Lord Anfon, which compenfated for or gilded over all the miscarriages of that celebrated voyage.

May 10. This day, between ten and eleven o'clock, the treasure taken out of the above prizes, and conveyed to the gun-wharf, was loaded in 21 waggons, provided by Meffrs. Badger and Clarke, in order to be conveyed to London. The waggons were escorted by a party of the life guards, amidft the acclamations of thousands of spectators of all defcriptions.

LONDON, May 14. This morning, from half past four, till near fix o'clock, the above 21 waggons, loaded with Spanifh treafure, and folid bars of filver, weighing from 165 to 167 pounds each, occupied the streets of this metropolis, in their way to the Tower. They were escorted by a detachment of horse, accompanied by fome naval officers and British tars. They were received at the Tower by the governor, officers, and garrifon under arms, and conducted to the parade with drums beating, colours fly. ing, and bands of music playing. The British flag flew triumphantly over the tri-coloured one of France upon every waggon, and a vast concourfe of people lined the roads and streets, and kept up one continual fhout of acclamation and triumph. The fpecie has fince been removed to the Bullion office in the Bank.

The following is a ftate of the cargo of the St. Jago Spanish register fhip, as taken from the books of the Commander of Le General Dumourier:

In the privateer Le General Dumourier, 680 chefts of dollars, 3000 in each. 33 ditto of gold, jewels, and plate. Suppofed value 2,400,000 Dollars, In the Spanish fhip the St. Jago. 4,800 Quintals of copper. 2,666 Cafes of bark, of different weights 2,400 Quintals of cocoa. 11,250 Pounds of fine wool.

450 Ditto of extract of bark,
520 Quintals of pewter.

4,620 Pounds of different medicinal

roots.

250 Ditto of balfam of Peru. 145 Quintals of white fugar. 27 Prepared hides.

12. Barrels of Peruvian honey. 4 Ditto of Peruvian wine. 11 Cafes of Peruvian fruits.

The

years old, read the burial fervice, and afterwards, on the tomb, delivered a fermon on the occafion, from Micah, ch. vii. ver. 8, 9, before at least two thousand auditors, whom curiofity had led to this extraordinary funeral. The great concourfe of people prefent occafioned fome rioting, which but ill accorded with the folemn ceremony. The deceafed, notwithstanding his eccentricity, was a man of good moral character, and a liberal benefactor to the poor in his neighbour hood. His tomb is covered with paffages from fcripture, and hieroglyphical figures. The following dreadful accident happened a few days ago, in Waterford harbour:-The Pilot cutter, commanded by Lieutenant Gunter, was about to fail with some veffels under her protection, and on firing a gun for the convoy to get under way, the perfon on duty ualuckily mistook the gun, and fired one loaded with fhot, which killed a corporal on board a transport on the fpot-his head was completely fevered from his body. MAY 23. The following fleet, under the command of Lord Hood, commander in chief of all the fleets, failed from Spithead for the Mediterranean, viz.

St. George

Egmont

With another ship of the ordered, 15 frigates, firet cutters, &c. in all 60 penda to be joined with a fleet of 3ferent rates belonging to Sp.

As this iminenfe force ca tended to act only against the in that fea, not above one number or ftrength, and as ry out a number of flat-bott there can be no doubt wh that both Toulon and Marf attacked, and probably at th -Hence the month of June be pregnant with the mo events of the whole campaig public may depend on feel faithfully recorded in this from official documents of thentic kind.

PLYMOUTH, May 24. cutter privateer, of Londor 12 guns, commanded by C liam Seward, is arrived fro to the Westward. On the the fell in with a large Frenc man, mounting 12 guns, v commanded by Capt. Jan V the engaged for two hours when the Refolution lugg belonging to Guernsey, con Capt. Le Lacheur, mounti alfo came up, and engaged continued for five hours lo

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