SIR, Gibraltar, Aug. 20: FIND myfelf highly honoured by your obliging letter of yefterday, in which your excellency was fo kind as to inform me of the arrival in your camp of his Royal Highness the Compte d'Artois and the Duke de Bourbon, to ferve as volunteers at the fiege. These princes have fhown their judgment in making choice of a mafter in the art of war, whose abilities cannot fail to form great warriors. I am really overwhelmed with the condefcenfion of his Royal Highness, in fuffering fome letters for perfons of this town to be conveyed from Madrid in his carriages; I flatter myfélf that your excellency will give my moft profound refpects to his royal highnefs and to the Duke de Bourbon, for the expreffions of efteem with which they have been pleafed to honour fo infignificant a perfon as I am. I return a thousand thanks to your excellency for your handfome prefents of fruits, vegetables, and game you will excufe me, however, I truft, when I aflure you, that in accepting your prefent, I have broken through a refolution which I had faithfully kept fince the beginning of the war; and that was, never to receive or nifhes me with an excufe for the liberty I now take of entreating your excellency not to heap any more favours on me of this kind, as in future I cannot convert your prefents to my own private ufe. Indeed, to be plain with your excellency,though vegetables at this feafon are fcarce with us, every one of us has got a quantity proportioned to the labour he has bestowed in railing them: the English are naturally ford of gardening and cultivation; and here we find our amufement in it during the intervals of reft from pub lic duty. The promile which the Duke de Crillon makes to honour me (in proper time and place) with his friendship, lays me under infinite obligations: the interefts of our fovereigns being once folidly fettled, I fhall with eagerness embrace the first opportunity to avail myself of lo precious a treasure. I have the honour to be, &c... Copy of a letter from the Right Hon. L procure, by any means whatever, fents his compliments to the ORD George Gordon preany provifions or other commodity for my own private ufe; fo that, without any preference, every thing is fold publicly here; and the private foldier, if he has money, can become a purchafer as foon as the governor. I confefs I make it a point of honour to partake both of plenty and fcarcity, in common with the lowest of my brave fellow-foldiers. This fur Earl of Shelburne, and begs his lordship will do him the favour to inform him whether his Majesty's prefent cabinet approve of the declaration made in the letter, faid to be written by Sir Guy Carleton and Admiral Digby to General Washington: "That his Majefty, in order to remove all obftacles to that peace which he fo ar dently Bently wishes to rettore, has commanded his minifters to direct Mr. Grenville, that the independency of the Thirteen Provinces fhould be propofed by him, in the firft inftance, instead of making it a condition of a general treaty?" Lord George would not have afked this question to fatisfy any private curiofity; but he thinks it his duty to the King to acquaint Lord Shelburne, as prime minifter, that great bodies of the people in the united kingdom of Scotland, are daily preffing Lord George, in the ftrongeft terms, and in the most affectionate expreffions, to write his fentiments to them on the prefent ftate of public affairs in the united kingdoms; and Lord George finds, a mong other serious matters, that the late latter, faid to be written by his Majefty's commiffioners at New York, not being publicly authenticated in the London Gazette, alarms the fufpicions of those who ardently with for peace with their brethren, that that letter is a forgery, and that peace with A. merica is not intended: and on the other hand, not being contradicted by the King's prefent fervants, it caufes the greatest anguish and difguft to thofe who have confcientiously approved and supported the American war. The people of Scotland are much diftracted and disturbed with this apparent mifunderstanding in the cabinet of the united kingdoms, thinking the honour of the united kingdoms is trifled with; and they are anxious in the higheft degree, to receive fome information that they may depend upon in fo affecting a concern as the in dependency of America is to their own national, particular, and im mediate intereft: Lord George therefore hopes Lord Shelburne will condefcend to inform him whether the propofal of independency, in the letter faid to be written by the King's commiffioners, is, or is not, a measure to be adhered to by his Majefty's prefent adminiftration? Lord George has the honour to affure Lord Shelburne, that he wifhes he could understand and approve of the measures of the King's counfellors, that he, and thofe who act with him, might have an opportunity of demonftrating the uprightness and loyalty of their proceedings and intentions, and of exerting them. felves, according to their vocations, to the uttermoft of their power, in fupport of good government, the true intereft of the people, the honour and happiness of the King's Majefty and his pofterity, and the true public liberty, fafety, and peace of the three kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland. Welbeck-ftreet, 08. 16. 1782. Letter from the Rev. Mr. Wyvill Lord Shelburne, inclosing the fecond addrefs to the electors of Great Britain, agreed to by the committee of Affociation for the county of York, Oa, 17. 1782, with his lordship's anfwer thereto. My Lord, York, OЯ. 17, 1782. TAKE the liberty to inclofe, for your lordship's perufal, a manufcript copy of the fecond addrefs to the electors of Great Bri For the copy of this Addrefs, fee the State Papers. tain, agreed to by the committee of affociation for the county of York, at a most numerous and refpectable meeting held here this day. It contains their juft acknowledgements of your lordfhip's diftinguifhed exertions in the general caule of parliamentary reformation; and expreffes their grateful thanks of your generous endeavours to accomplish a coalition on the principles adopted by this affociation, and other refpect able bodies in different parts of the kingdom. Thefe, I beg leave to affure you, are the genuine fentiments of this committee; and not more warmly felt by any one member of it than by, my lord, &c. Earl of Shelburne. SIR, C. WYVILL. Botwood Park, 24 08. 1782. I was yesterday honoured with your letter of the 17th inftant. -The repeated approbation of the committee of the county of York, gives me perfonally the greatest fatisfaction; and I am happy to find nearly the fame opinions which I expreffed to this country laft year, more ably, as well as more fully, inculcated in the addrefs you do me the honour to inclofe to me. Their perfeverance muft command general refpect, and will, I truft, conquer every difficulty in fo found a caufe. As to myself, I am still ready to enter into the ftrictest and most unequivocal union with any public mau or public body of men, who may be deemed, in point of national weight and opinion, competent to the effecting thofe important ends. Words cannot exprefs how much I am alarmed at the public fituation at home and abroad; or my apprehenfions for what may be the refult. The difinterested zeal, as well as temperate conduct which you have fhown in the public fervice, has impreffed me with a refpect with which I inuft always remain SHELBURNE. yours, &c. The Rev. Mr. Wyvill, 1 The 1782. The following authentic Extracts from the Corn-Regifter, are take from accounts collected from the Custom-house books, and delivered to Mr. John James Catherwood, by authority of Parliament. An account of the quantities of all corn and grain exported from and imported into England and Scotland, with the bounties and drawbacks paid, and the duties received thereon, for one year ended the 5th of January, 1783. The following is an account of the average prices of corn in England and Wales, by the flandard Winchefter bufhel, for the year 1782. N. B. The price of the fineft and coarseft forts of grain, generally exceed and reduce the average price as follows, viz. Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per bufhel, 6d. 3d. 3d. 3d. 6d. |