The Virginia Gazette

LONDON, APRIL 22.

Sir Joseph Yorke, the English Ambassador at the Hague, has presented a very spirited memorial to the States General of the United Provinces, in the name of his master the King of Great Britain, wherein he represents to their High Mightinesses the evil consequences of the negociation carrying on between them and France, "for the protection to be given to the transportation of all sorts of naval stores, and the danger to which they will expose themselves by listening to proposals which will oblige them to infringe a neutrality which they have so often declared they wished to support, and which at once attacks their independence, as the basis of their government, and threaten nothing less than their disunion. At the same time that the end of all these intrigues is manifestly designed to cause the republic to quarrel with the King, and to bring on a war between their High Mightinesses and Great Britain, under the seducing pretence of a perfect neutrality and the interest of trade, of which the King can no longer remain an indifferent spectator, and therefore finds himself obliged to lay before their High Mightinesses the danger into which France wishes to plunge them."

Sir Joseph submits that his Majesty had ordered him to add, that he cannot depart from the necessity he is under of excluding the transportation of naval stores to the ports of France, and particularly timber, even if they are escorted by men of war; and that the example which France has set of favouring some members of the republic to the detriment of others, so directly contrary to the union and independence of their High Mightinesses, the King hoped never to be obliged to follow, unless a condescension to the views of France obliges him to take that method of making amends to those members of the republic, who are hurt by the partiality of his enemies."