The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW YORK. February 11.

By the brig Ranger, Capt. Roger Boyce, who left France on the 23d of December, 1782, and captured on the 6th inst. by the Eagle privateer, arrived here this evening, the following important letter was received.

Extract of a letter from the Rt. Hon. T. Townshend, Secretary of State, to the Lord Mayor of London, dated the 2d of December, 1782.

My Lord,

In consequence of my letter to your Lordship, of the 21st of last month, I take the earliest opportunity to inform your Lordship, that an express has arrived from Paris, who brings the preliminary articles for a peace, signed on the 30th of November, by the Ambassadors on the part of England, and those on the part of the United States of America, it now only remains to sign the same articles between Great Britain and France, to constitute a general peace: and this notice you will give to the public as soon as possible.

By letters received in the above vessel dated at Nantes as late as Dec. we are informed, that since the signing the preliminaries for a peace between Britain and the thirteen United States of America, as intimated in the abovementioned notification, that the Ambassadors of France had not acceded to them. They add, that the French express the most ardent wishes for an end of the war, and a restoration of the Olive-Branch.