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her. But if the exifting fraternity, 
my fellow citizens, be the bonds. 
by which you wifh a connection 
with Britain, I am not a delegate 
fit for your choice; for though I 
f{tood alone in the Commons of 
Ireland, I would move the repeal 
of every law which binds us to Eng- 
land on thofe or on any fuch terms. 
I will neither be conquered by 
England or France; nor are we any 
more bound to a difadvantageous 
alliance to one than we are to the 
other; and before England, the fac- 
tions of Ireland, and the admini- 
ftration, I fpeak it, if itis more the 
true intereft of Ireland to form an 
alliance with France than with 
England, fhe is free to adopt it.” 
He has been fince arrefted ona 
charge of having publifhed a fediti- 
ous libel againft the government. 
Diep lately at Copenhagen, of a 
{carlet fever, Henry Callifen M.D. 
profeffor of furgery in the univer- 
fity of Copenhagen, and furgeon 
in chief of the Danifh fleet, &c. 
author of feveral papers inferted by 
the Medical Society of Copenha- 
gen in their Tranfactions; and of 
an elementary work intituled, 
“ Principia Syftematis Chirurgiz 
hodiernz,” publifhed at Copenha- 
gen in 1788, 8vo. 
7th. Aged about 70, Mr. Rich- 
ard Adams, gardener at Eaft Sheen, 
in Surry, who cultivated 40 acres 
of afparagus for the London mar- 
ket, and has been known to receive 
3001. in one day for this article in 
Covent-garden. 
13th. At Berlin the queen dow- 
ager of Pruffia. 
FEBRUAR Y. 
2d. A motion was carried in the 
Common Council for an addrefs to 
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his Majefty on the abrupt termina- 
tion of the late negociation, and 
pledging the refources of the cor- 
poration of London in the vigorous 
profecution of the war. 
10th. The fix original pictures 
of Hogarth’s Marriage a-la-Mode, 
once belonging to Col. Cawthorne, 
were fold by auction for 1000 gui- 
neas to Mr. Angerftein. 
The Speaker of the Houfe of 
Reprefentatives officially announc- 
ed that Mr. Adams was eleéted 
prefident of the United States, by 
a majerity of three votes. The 
numbers were, for Mr. Adams, 71 ; 
for Mr. Jefferfon, 68. The latter 
has accepted the office of vice-pre~ 
fident. 
11th. The court of King’s Bench 
paffed fentence of two years im- 
prifonment and hard labour upon 
Mr. John Smith, a bookfeller in 
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, who had been 
found guilty of felling an obfcure 
political pamphlet, entitled ‘ The 
Rights of Citizenfhip.” 
14th. Sir John Jervis, with fif- 
teen fail of the line, attacked the 
Spanifh fleet, confifting of twenty- 
feven fail of the line, off Cape St. 
Vincent, and captured four. of 
them; in which action there were 
300 killed and wounded on board 
the Britifh fleet, and 603 on board 
the four Spanifh fhips which were 
taken. 
20th. On account of the extra- 
ordinary run upon the northern 
country banks for fpecie, they 
have been.moft of them conftrain- 
ed to ftop the payment of it for the 
refent. The following hand-bill 
has been circulated on the occa- 
fion at Newcaftle:— 
“ Newcaftle, Feb. 20, 1797. 
“ As the very great demand for 
gold, which has continued for fome 
A 4 time, 
