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Weekly Register (Newspaper) - March 13, 1799, London, Middlesex Recall fled exempted from wet Vear. This did not permit the Cale of the people 31 offs majesty to be parallel. His it Jelly did not fed the Evere pref lure of that Heay Burthen but on there a by Tamer in in a country Lite it pref led with an of w night be too tool. And the influence of the Crown still tend As High As in the year 170. Or or. Tierney pledged Bim Feit to prove All he Fri advanced and asked Why the Crown Tould have All and the people All the Burthen ? Why were not places even to Home of the Young princes one lately returned from an unhealthy climate where he had served for door in years Mould have had the government of the w which had emoluments amounting to twelve thousand pounds per annul ? there was Alio the. Govern met of Ceylon with a salary a. To the iame amount j Why not give that to another of the princes ? this would fun Iii the Twenty four thousand pounds now called Tor. Though Dis people Feenie silent out of doors and a Tifty tub Dautive to their sufferings was it to be imaged they did not think observe or reflect r by what Thad Faid upon the matter he Only endeavoured to perform his duty while he wished As sincerely As or. Pitt or any other Man in the Houfe to fee the Royal family enjoy every Comfort and happiness that a fond and Gene jobs nation was always eager to bestow upon them or. Pitt replied to the arguments of or. Tierney j a Dafter a few words from the latter gentleman the Houfe divided. A for the reib Lution �3-Agaioft it 4 a Fira Ilar Resolution Ernest augur Bis was then . Monday March 11. Or. Mahew ring brought up the report of the poor overseer s of Litant Bill which after a Hoit Conversa Tomb tween or. Simeon and or Buxton was ordered to be recommitted on wednesday next. Twelve thousand pounds a year was then voted to Prince Edward and a similar Fum to Prince Augustus. Leave were in a Bill for tiling an annuity on the Princess Amelia. Or. I Wilberforce brought up a Bill for prohibiting the traffic of Flaves on the coast of afraid within certain limits read a first time and ordered to by read a second time on to Friday next or. Pitt moved for the Houfe to re live it self into a committee to authorize the i ale of certain Church and corporation lands. Several amendments were promo Ltd and in the committee and the further confide ration fixed for wednesday next. Income Bill or. Pitt proposed that the returns to the att Flors Fli Ould be Given in feared in the first instance and that none but the or a clerk ailing under their authority and duly worn Tofe Crecy Mould have Power to open the Faid returns. The term for delivering in returns was expended to this Day fortnight. Tuesday March 12. brought Forward his India budget and went into a minute detail of the company s affairs to which he Faid he wished to give the Gina text to foible publicity hat the Public As Well As Thouc concerned May know the truth. He then entered into an elaborate account the result of which was that in eleven years the revenues of India had improved to the amount 0?eleven millions much had been Laid of clandejthtttrade5 if As he believed 5,000,000. Annually might he supplied from India to Europe and Towt the capital of the ship Ping company could Only bring 2,000,000. It was indeed a serious consideration that 3 out off millions Tould he forced to come straggling Over Europe without the country enjoying the benefits which an extended Commerce might afford. If the capital and shipping of the East India company was not adequate to the enlarged Field of Commerce my was now opened Means must be taken to remedy we effect. Measures must be devised which would enable us to apply the Means and the enter prize of this co"ntr7 in Juch. A manner As to embrace that Commerce Ujj Ich tends cd much to the interest of the Empire. We hints he merely threw out at prefer. Before the end of the Scalion however he hoped to come Down with Home proportions on the fun left and whatever to Jenti whatever ability and information there was in the 1duiury Oak it t0 a exerted to extend and secure those vantages which Pur undisputed pre Eminence in in Trade enabled us to attain. Ship i Fejes. A add ton to our account of the Lofs of , we twit the following Circum Stantial detail from a Friend at Cuxhaven will not prove unacceptable to our readers. Feb. Ift at half Paft fix in the morning weighed Anchor wind ate. By n. Running Down Channel hip under guidance of dutch and engl Ifft pilots Twenty minutes after eight the Fulp grounded Newark s. Half e. And the beacons by w. Truck top Marls and lower Yard Hove Over every thing by eighty about the of hip decks started All the water except the ground tier firing final guns every Quarter of an hour got the top malt Over the fide to flirt up the hip. The ice on the ebb carried away All the Flores j again Hove Over provision wine and spirits and All the weighty materials the ship heeling Over to the Bank very heavy ice Pauling by wind blowing hard on the Lee More rendered All exertions abortive. Continued to lighten a flip ail night in expectation of getting her off in the morning tide \ blowing and freezing very hard. Feb %. The frigate not floating and the ice being very powerful the hip laying end on to the Tidei capt. Wallis and officers judged it Nec fiary to fave the lives of the people. Arrangements being made at fifteen minutes after one o clock the Ift Divi Floii went overboard on the ice when lieutenant Wright first lieutenant Fol Lowed with the right Hon. Or. Granville or. Wynne and or. Fillier walking on the ice by the Compass till they could fee the Beacon. From thence they took a new departure for Newark Koght Houfe. Snowing and very thick weather. At three discovered the l. H. At four got to Newark a March of about Jug Miles on the ice. Feb. 3. Muttered the filips company and found 1 x men with a woman and child fun prof de to have perished by the severity of thew Ather Anion Al the ice. One woman who had lain in Only a fortnight got Fafe to Newark. 1 feb. 5. People at Newark perceived the flip had swung round and drifted higher upon the Bank. Saw the colours flying with her Union downwards up posed to have been hoisted by Geo. He wages who was thought to have returned to the Ptiip for the fake of plunder and liquor As the Ensign was Down when every person left the hip. 6. Three quarters Paft fix left Newark with 70 seamen and marines or. Grenville and his Fuit for Cuxhaven. On getting to the River they bad to Cross found the it Ream very rapid Ariu to their Middle in water. Lieu. Wright was the Laft that got Over As he went Back to Theta France of or. Mason one of the me fengers whoa bund fitting on the ice 5 by Tho Ali France of two men get him to a Village called ducks. All experienced the most intense cold imaginable 5 Many deprived of the use of their hands and feet from remaining in the water of Long fever Alof the poor sailors must have perished if their officers had not made them go on j they wanted to Lay Down in the water to sleep to Reft themselves obliged to cutaway what few things from their backs which they saved in bags to pre serve their lives. Or. Grenville or. Wynne and or. Fillier arrived at Cuxhaven Juthe agents g. Har wards Elk. About half Paft eleven o clock having Only saved the things upon their Hacks very much cd haunted . Grenville saved his dispatches. Feb. 7. After renting one night or. Grenville and his Fuit let off for Hamburg on their Road to Berlin. Feb. 8. Or. Perry second lieutenant arrived at Cuxhaven with Twenty nine More men in pretty Good health. Or. Perry Faid in Anthony the matter had been to the ship and Laved a great Many of or Vigren Vilie s things. As Conje ured George Hodges had returned to the ship and broke open All the trunks Flea ing what he could carry and Matici Tufly destroy chg most. Of the remainder by heaving them overboard Sec Aman one of the sailors who was left in the ship drunk it being Impo foible to get him on Fevre used to be very buy searching for Money when he came Frum below to the Captain s Cabin if his Brea Daft was not ready he would five a and blaspheme 5 he left the ship with All the Money he could collect amounting to a considerable Fum Refl de in the officer s Belt cloths having Captain Walls Ena Uleis on his shoulder and a Filver candles tick in his hand j he had not gone far on the ice which was Loofe before it , and when he Faw that he was going Paft the ship and that the piece of ice on which he was could not come near he curled the ice officers and i hip and in that moment fell Between two pieces of it that Clofed upon him he was Feen no More feb. 10. Sunday the sailors by their own define attended by their officers went to Church to return thanks for their deliverance. Here is no accommodation for the poor sailors t All put on Board the different packets and Are intended to be fent to England As Foon As the ice . Several of them front bitten one or two have loft their hands $ and i believe one his leg. Received intelligence this Day from the Captain who remained at Newark with Home of his me very weak j or. Kent the Furgeon or. Bowes old Hupman Fon of lady Strathmore or. Tate boat Wafa and two sailors pet fitted in going once More to the Ptiip though contrary to thle Cap Taija willies my. Anthon Yaying to or. Kept of he dare not guineas accompany then they Auw to but nor returning at night and blowing hard with the frigate not to be Feen it was conjectured they a went to the Bottom j Faruqi lately however it proved not to foe on the sunday morning the proft Pine drifted from where the Lay with a Strong after to out of the Elbe arid got on the Aland of bal Fromi \ foe filled with water and from in a Ila. Above mentioned Gottage to Carfa Atria. Cart air Lis and the remainder of the Crew a Tri on the 23d of february having staid provisions began to run very care. \ or Wright first lieutenant of his majesty Slaten ship Proserpine has fent the letter for Public cation. " sir i have the pleasing information to Edna a to you for the Fatis faction of the Public and be More Paruso _ from in a Poil office packet with part of of his majesty s late ship the Profe it Cuxhaven Newark to lec and Crever _ after Fuffer incr Merable Hardin Ter from the time they quilted tha t Febi in he be Given to the Public at Home fun frequent period enlarged scale. It wms a up ring obliged to remain in order to wind up the Proserpine s accounts a c k in consequence of the apprehensions entertained of another Vuht fr6m the enemy on the Rich Abaft Admiral King Mill has if bed orders for All his cruise to be ready to fail at the Ihor Teft notice Poff Ible and All he Large hips have been cabled in for Tepu Pofe of forming one Cora Pacl Squadron. Margate March 10. On Friday mom ipg Gitter and two brigs being observed flu wad of Tito the usual track gave Fife to a fun Pinion their fing Ai Privateer Sandher prizes an order la Frago a i t Admiral at Felt and he jew us an Ajaj Tri Thal Robes Large of Keck for the purpose of Affif Ting is. Ia4lsxfoatiand without any other arms than divided Pike us went in Pursuit and after a Chace hours Caine up with and be capt the Brig of the a in to or escaped Froin Superior failing the prizes Are now lying in our pier and prove to be freighted with Corn and flour from Yarmouth bound to Liverpool. The Pray steer which is from 0 the Cairies Twenty men and was lately take from Home. Smugglers on this coast h they bad taken nearly All the hands out of the brigs and put fix of their own men into each who Are now confined in the Barracks Here till they can be removed to Deal. Or. W. C by after of the rope walk and Cap. Tain of the Volunteer artillery of this place went in one of the boats and def curves much Praise for his exertions on the occasion. The Rebecca Meyer from Lisbon to Bremen is Cut by the ice in the Wefer and Del erred by the Crew. The Fri Lam Edip Gion. From Gibraltar and. Plymouth to London is captured and carried into eerie pc the Amelia Bork from London to Hamburgh is stranded m the ice near Cuxhaven \ part of the cargo saved. The Severn plaited from London to Chepstow is captured and tarried into Boulogne. The Metia Margaretta Folkes 5 the Joanna Elizabeth Amcis and Vriend Chap Bolenius from London to Embden Are captured by the French. The Row Hyla Leuw from London to Embden is on More in the elms and it is feared will be loft the worthy Ann Drabe from Memel to London i on Tihoi e Ner kick Haven and full of water. A the bet Fey Fram from Memel to Newcastle is Cap. Tured near the Schaw and Lent into chriftianfand1 the Ann this from London to Bristol is got into Dover after being chased on Shore by a Proa Teery the Adeona Landoll from Memel Talor Doii is stranded near Ystad to. The Row Christ Ham Keran from Suriname and Mouth to Embden is to pour he Hanks Nea Texel. Z the Industry from Memel to Berwick Aurora from j. The Beffe i from Liverpool to Hull and the Georgei Dundee to new aft Are captured by the Anacion Privateer and fent for Norway. A 4 body Huml

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