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Foreign And Domestic Intelligence.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE KING of PRUSSIA has given the most solemn assurances to the EMPE-BOR , by the Marquis de LUCCHESSINJ , of his fixed resolution to continue the war , in ' -concert with the Austrians , ' with tlie utmost vigour and exertion . The KING of SPAIN has published a Declaration ,, in which he declares his objeft to be , "'' ¦ ' ' ¦'¦' . ' '¦ ' - ' " To establish a form of Government under an Hereditary Monarchy , with the
reserve of treating hereafter , when the French troubles shall cease , concerning the mo-. dificatlbns which its more solid establishment ' may be thought ' to require . His Majesty is fully persuaded that such are' the sentiments of his Britannic Majesty , his Ally ! " ...-. ¦ 'An article from Magdebourg says , the reason why M . LA FAYETTE , LAMETII , and the other French Officers are removed from'here to Gla ' tz and Silesia , is ,. the expected arrival of a number of their countrymen prisoners of war . M . LAME TIT has enjoyed but a poor state of health ever since he came ; ' but by the KING of PR
USSIA ' S leave , his mother lias attended him . All thpse prisoners are said to have had the liberty of reading , and to have been well supplied with books from persons possessing libraries : ¦ - ' General Field-Marshal MOLLENDORF arrived at Mentz , Jan . 31 , and received the Commandin Chief ofthe Army from the reigning Duke of BRUNSWICK . The American President having represented the expediency ofthe States of Ameri ca being always in a state of . defence , in order to repel any armed force pr power , the
Congress have come to tlie resolution immediately to build and equip twenty large frigates , and raise an augmentation to their army of ten thousand men . Accounts have been received at Jamaica from St . Domingo , that 16 more parishes of tharisland , - which had not been devastated by the Negroes , had applied to our Gp-. verhor at St . Nicola Mole , to surrender on the same conditions as the other pare of the island in possession of the British forces ; which proposal had been acceded . to , and a force sent for their protection ' . ' ' Giafar Han , sovereign of the Chiras , one pf the ' most powerful princes of Persia ,, has lately been dethroned by his brother , 'Mehemec Han , . who entered into the possession of his dominions . This new Persian ' usurper is now threatening the Turkish dominions with a powerful invasion . -, '
' A far more formidable enemy has lately arisen in Arabia , who menaces the Sublime Porte with no less than a total subversion of the Mahometan religion , and destruction to the reign ofthe successors of tiie Caliphs . This enemy is Scheie !] Hujabi , who is at the head of a numerous Arabian tribe , encamped between Mecca and B . issora . He professes to deny the divine mission of Mahomet , the sanctity ofthe Alcoran , and alj the religious ceremonies of Mahometanism . He and his tribe are continually adoring the Divinity in the'open field , despising the institution of mosques , or temples . The father of this Arabian chief , an old man pf 80 , is the . founder , and principal priest pf this new sect . ,. ' -..--. ¦
ACTION BETWEEN the ANTELOPE and L'ATLANTE . THE Antelope packet sailed from Port Royal with the mails for England , on the 27 th November . On the 1 st December , not " farfrom Cumberland Fort , on the coast of Cuba , she perceived two schooners , which scoo'd directly for her , anel hoisted Spadish coiou-. s . Mr . Curtis , Master of the packet , suspecting theija to be privateers , bore away for Port Royal , butL'Atlante outsailing her ' consort , persevered in her chase , which she continued till four o ' clock , when phe wind falling , she rowed and came up with the packet , and after exchanging several shots , the privateer sheered off . At five o ' clock in the following morning , she rowed off again , grappled the Antelope on the starboard side , and used every endeavour to board her ; but these en ,
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Foreign And Domestic Intelligence.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE .
THE KING of PRUSSIA has given the most solemn assurances to the EMPE-BOR , by the Marquis de LUCCHESSINJ , of his fixed resolution to continue the war , in ' -concert with the Austrians , ' with tlie utmost vigour and exertion . The KING of SPAIN has published a Declaration ,, in which he declares his objeft to be , "'' ¦ ' ' ¦'¦' . ' '¦ ' - ' " To establish a form of Government under an Hereditary Monarchy , with the
reserve of treating hereafter , when the French troubles shall cease , concerning the mo-. dificatlbns which its more solid establishment ' may be thought ' to require . His Majesty is fully persuaded that such are' the sentiments of his Britannic Majesty , his Ally ! " ...-. ¦ 'An article from Magdebourg says , the reason why M . LA FAYETTE , LAMETII , and the other French Officers are removed from'here to Gla ' tz and Silesia , is ,. the expected arrival of a number of their countrymen prisoners of war . M . LAME TIT has enjoyed but a poor state of health ever since he came ; ' but by the KING of PR
USSIA ' S leave , his mother lias attended him . All thpse prisoners are said to have had the liberty of reading , and to have been well supplied with books from persons possessing libraries : ¦ - ' General Field-Marshal MOLLENDORF arrived at Mentz , Jan . 31 , and received the Commandin Chief ofthe Army from the reigning Duke of BRUNSWICK . The American President having represented the expediency ofthe States of Ameri ca being always in a state of . defence , in order to repel any armed force pr power , the
Congress have come to tlie resolution immediately to build and equip twenty large frigates , and raise an augmentation to their army of ten thousand men . Accounts have been received at Jamaica from St . Domingo , that 16 more parishes of tharisland , - which had not been devastated by the Negroes , had applied to our Gp-. verhor at St . Nicola Mole , to surrender on the same conditions as the other pare of the island in possession of the British forces ; which proposal had been acceded . to , and a force sent for their protection ' . ' ' Giafar Han , sovereign of the Chiras , one pf the ' most powerful princes of Persia ,, has lately been dethroned by his brother , 'Mehemec Han , . who entered into the possession of his dominions . This new Persian ' usurper is now threatening the Turkish dominions with a powerful invasion . -, '
' A far more formidable enemy has lately arisen in Arabia , who menaces the Sublime Porte with no less than a total subversion of the Mahometan religion , and destruction to the reign ofthe successors of tiie Caliphs . This enemy is Scheie !] Hujabi , who is at the head of a numerous Arabian tribe , encamped between Mecca and B . issora . He professes to deny the divine mission of Mahomet , the sanctity ofthe Alcoran , and alj the religious ceremonies of Mahometanism . He and his tribe are continually adoring the Divinity in the'open field , despising the institution of mosques , or temples . The father of this Arabian chief , an old man pf 80 , is the . founder , and principal priest pf this new sect . ,. ' -..--. ¦
ACTION BETWEEN the ANTELOPE and L'ATLANTE . THE Antelope packet sailed from Port Royal with the mails for England , on the 27 th November . On the 1 st December , not " farfrom Cumberland Fort , on the coast of Cuba , she perceived two schooners , which scoo'd directly for her , anel hoisted Spadish coiou-. s . Mr . Curtis , Master of the packet , suspecting theija to be privateers , bore away for Port Royal , butL'Atlante outsailing her ' consort , persevered in her chase , which she continued till four o ' clock , when phe wind falling , she rowed and came up with the packet , and after exchanging several shots , the privateer sheered off . At five o ' clock in the following morning , she rowed off again , grappled the Antelope on the starboard side , and used every endeavour to board her ; but these en ,