Sept 3 1793 London, August 28. - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

Sept 3 1793 London, August 28.

LONDON, August 28.

By letters from LORD HOOD's fleet, dated off Toulon on the 21st instant, we
learn that **** the preceding day a flag of truce had been *******
by his Lordship, proposing an exhange of prisoners. The officer who went in
the flag reported, that at Toulon all were in consternation and confusion.
Sixteen sail of the line were lying in the harbour, and four or five more
sitting out. An exchange of prisoners is however to take place. - Lond. P.

We are happy at being able to assure the public, from undoubted authority,
that a late paragraph, relative to the plague raging at Grenada and
Dominica, is without the least foundation.

Since the signing of the cession of the Polish territories to Russia, which
took place on the 9th instant, it is said the King has signified his
resolution to resign his crown,, and pass the remainder of his days in
Italy.

All the colours captured at Valentienne having been presented by PRINCE
COBOURG to the DUKE OF YORK, have been brought to Ostend, under an escort of
English horse, and from thence they are to be brought to London.

In the longer report of the proceedings of the Convention (which our limits
will not permit us to go over) we meet with fresh symptoms hourly of avowed
atheism. The execrable DANTON appears to be the Pagan Oracle of the day.
LACROIX, in combating a request made at the Bar by the peaceable members of
the Anabaptist sect, exclaimed - "The Constitution is our Gospel - Liberty
is our Deity, - I acknowledge no other !"

A humourist at Paris proposed, that all orders to general officers should be
sealed with the impression of the guillotine. The Convention, being
remarkably attached to freedom, ordered the proposer to the Aboaye prison.

Lord EDWARD FITZGERALD and ************MELA D'ORLEANS, are arrived in
England from Ireland.

Three regiments of foot are ordered to serve as Marines at the siege of
Dunkirk.

Admiral MACBRIDE yesterday received the command of the naval expedition
aginst Dunkirk; a service which may be very approprietly alloted to a
commander, who once paid so adventurous and successful a visit to that
harbour in an English cutter.

The French, in the late action between the Nymphe and the Cleopartra,
availed themselves of a terrible invention: it is a cannister called the
cap of liberty, into which they put 750 musket balls, and fire them out of
an eighteen pounder. One of these caps swept the Nymphe's forecastle, and
either killed or wounded every man upon it. The Cleopatra was very little
torn in the action: no more than twenty bullet holes can be counted in her
hull.

A female, in the dress of a French midshipman, was, last week, brought to
bed of a fine boy in the Mill prison, at Plymouth. The sailor and her
infant are well taken care of.

In the philosophic society of Basle, a premium was proposed for the
encouragement of population. One of the members declared, he would not
venture to deliver his opinion on so weighty a subject, till he had
consulted his wife !

The affair of the Lincelles, on the 19th inst. is a sufficient proof, that
if the Dutch are slow by sea, they are swift by land.

COSTS OF SUIT. - A cause was lately determined in one of the northern
counties, where a claimant proved his right to an estate valued at forty
pounds in a year, and it appears that in the progress of the business, he
sold an estate which brought him eighty pounds a year, the whole produce of
which he paid to his lawyer, for costs of suit.

A schoolmaster, in Leicestershire, was lately apprehended on a charge of
uttering treasonable expressions of and concerning his Majesty. The words
were " I do not think that his present Majesty will cut any figure in
History". The justice did not venture to commit him, but applied to the
Attorney General for advice, whose opinion is said to be as follows:
" I do not think that an action will lie for these exxpressions - on
looking into the most eminent Historians, viz. PLUTARCH, LIVY, and
SUETONIUS, amongst the antients, and HUME, SULLY, and CARDINAL de KETZ,
amongst the modern, I am of opinion that the persons who cut the greatest
figure in history were great rascals, and of course, that by the expressions
alluded to, the defendant will, by a well-informed jury, be supposed to have
conveyed a compliment to, and not a sarcasm on our most gracious Sovereign."

BRILL, AUG. 20
A detachment of draughts from several regiments, now in the Seven Provinces,
marched yesterday, to join the Dutch army in Flanders. They form a
battalion of 1000 men.