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give up the caufe as ill fupported by thofe 
who are mott interefted. 
IRELAND. 
It appears, that, befides fome fymptoms 
of infurrection in the northern parts of the 
fifter kingdom, feveral depredations have 
lately been committed in the vicinage of 
the metropolis, accompanied with horrid 
cruelty: the Lord Lieutenant held a coun- 
cilon the 24th of O&ober, when a procla- 
mation was ordered to be iffued, offering 
zool. for each of the barbarians who had 
murdered Mr. Allen, the fteward of the 
Lord Chancellor, in his bed at his Lord- 
fhip’s houfe, at Mount Shannon, near Li- 
merick. A proclamation was alfo ordered 
at the fame time, directing vefiels from 
Philadelphia and New York, or any part 
of the ftate Pennfylvania, to perform qua- 
rantine, on account of the epidemic fever 
prevailing there. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
From what was ftated in our laft re- 
fpecting the fituation of the Britifh army 
in Holland, it was by no means difficult 
to anticipate the total failure, and confe- 
quently the relinquifhment of that unfor- 
tunate expedition; but the moft painful 
anxiety arofe from the apparent difficulties 
which would attend. the embarkation of 
the troops in the face of a powerful and 
conquering enemy. Happily the public 
mind was foon relieved from this anxiety 
by official difpatches from the Duke of 
York, dated Schagen Brug, October zoth, 
announcing a cefiation of hoftilities, and 
that articles of capitulation had been en- 
tered into by the Englifh and Kuffians, by 
which they had fecured their peaceable and 
unmolefted embarkation. 
By the principal articles of this capitu- 
lation it was ftipulated, that the mounted 
_ batteries taken pofleflion of at the Helder, 
or at any other pofitions within the line 
o¢cupied at the time of the agreement, by 
the-combined Englifh and Ruffian army, 
fhould be reftored in the ftate in which 
they were taken (or, in cafe of improve- 
ment, in their prefent ftate), and all the 
Dutch artiliery taken therein be preferved. 
That the cpmbined Englifh and Ruffian 
army fhopld evacuate all the territories of 
the Dutch Republic by the goth of No- 
vember, 1799, without committing any 
devaltation.— That 8000 prifoners.of war, 
French and Batavian, taken before the 
prefent campaign, and detained in Eng- 
and, fhould be reftored without conditions 
Monrtuiy Mac. No, it. 
State of Public Affairs, 
to their refpeQtive countries. The choice 
of prifoners to be determined between the 
two Republics. 
Agreeably to this convention that part 
of the Englith and Ruffian army who had 
{urvived the battles and difficulties which 
they had encountered during their fhort 
abode in Hotiand were embarked for Eng- 
land as fpeedily as pofble. The remains 
of one regiment-in particular which arrived 
at Margate, confifted of 400 men, which 
on its embarkation from that place for 
Holland confifted of goo men. Several 
other regiments fuftained a much feverer 
lofs ; which, in the whole, was not lefs in’ 
the Englifh and Ruffian army than 15,000 
men. The Duke of York, and feveral 
officers of his ttaff, arrived in Weftminfter 
-early in the morning of the 4th of Noe 
vember. 
Thus ended an expedition prepared at 
an enormous expence, and of which fuch 
fanguine expectations were entertained by 
his Majefty’s Minitters. 
Captain Young, of his Majefty’s fhip 
Ethalion, ftates, in a letter to the Admi- 
ralty, that on the 16th of October, in lati- 
tude 44 deg. 53 min. longitude 9 deg. 53 
min. he difcovered three fail, evidently 
men of war, fteering S. E. the fternmoft of 
which proved to be his Majefty’s fhip 
Naiad, with two frigates of the enem 
ahead, after which he made all poffible 
fail in chace; the next morning he came 
up with the headmoft, and, after firing 
two broadfides, and a running fight of an 
hour, fhe firuck to the Ethalion; and 
proved to be the Thetis Spanifh frigate, 
of 36 guns, and 250 men, from Vera Cruz, 
bound to Spain, with 1,411,526 dollars, 
and a quantity of ‘cocoa on board. The 
Ethalion in this a€tion had neither killed 
nor wounded; the Thetis had one man’ 
killed, and nine wounded. 
Captain Pierrepont, of the Naiad, chaced 
and took the other frigate on the 18th, 
after fhe had rounded Cape Finifterre, and 
fhoved very clofe to the rocks of Monte . 
Lora. The Britifh frigates, the Triton 
and Alcmene, were in company with the: 
Naiad, and all three clofed with the enemy: 
emidit the rocks of Commanurto, at the 
entrance of Maros, when the Spanifh co- 
lours were hauled down. She proved to 
be the Santa Brigada, and had on board 
1,400,000 dollars, independent of a cargo 
of equal eftimation. In this fortunate ac- 
tion the Englifh had one man killed, and 
ten wounded. 
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