The West India merchants, who were in the utmost anxiety for the arrival of the packet from the West Indies, have been most agreebly relieed from their apprehensions. The account of the insurrections in Martinique, which we received through France, and which has been since confirmed in the National Assembly, naturally alarmed them for the …
Orders are sent to Plymouth for the Echo sloop of war, Capt. Drew, lately arrived from Newfoundland, and now lying in the Sound, to get ready for sea, and proceed with all possible dispatch to New York–to acquaint the American Merchants, that the British ports are open for the importation of American wheat :–It is …
“What mighty contests rise from trivial things;” That the present Revolution in France is a consequence of the Revolution in America, cannot admit of a doubt. The American Revolution originated in Adams, a very insignificant Bostonian. Not that this Adams had the least expectation of American independence, when he fomented the opposition to the stamp-act; …
The American Congress having declared it to be the interest of the United States to encourage agriculture, by the cultivation of large plantations, and to purchase their merchandize from Europe, have in consequence considerably lowered the duties on such merchandize. They have also resolved to sell four or five millions of acres of land, instead …
” Living out of the World” To the PRINTER. Sir, ABOUT two month ago I went to the country to pay a visit to a friend in a remote county; and though I am much of what may be called “a newspaper man,” I never thought of ordering my papers to be sent down to …
The MERCHANTS trading to North America, Prior to the year 1776, ARE desired to meet in the Merchants Hall, on Friday the 18th December, at 12 o’clock noon, on business of importance. Glasgow, 12 Dec. 1789. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 14 December 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/35.
Lord M’Donald, to his great honour, adopted a most liberal plan of establishing, at his own expence, not only one, but a number of free-villages, on his extensive domains. By this plan, proposed to his Lordship by Mr. Fraser, the settlers are to have perpetual feus of the lands, subject to a very moderate quit …
Government are now engaging 1800 tons of transports, on contract, to carry over the felons under sentence of transportation to Botany Bay. The victualling the convicts on the voyage is included in the contract. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 28 August 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/14.
Extract of a letter form Philadelphia, dated 25th May, 1789. “I have travelled through several of the States and see no appearance of the poverty which you hear so much boast of in Britain–every where I meet rather with extravagance. Indeed they procure too easily to be frugal in their out-givings. All the manufactured goods …
THE following extract from a late publication, entitled, ” A State of the present Government of the Province of Quebec,” will give the public some idea of the Canada Bill, which has been so much talked of an procrastinated so long, and at present pending in Parliament. The work we understand to be the production …