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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Extract from The Hague reports Paul Jones sailed per States General orders, while Capt. Cunningham went to Paris instead. English Ambassador received States General's response to his memorial; Dutch cities protested a forceful clause but were overruled by majority vote.
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LONDON,
December 9.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Nov. 25.
LETTERS from Amsterdam give an account that Paul Jones, in consequence of the injunctions of the States General to sail with the first fair wind, had actually sailed, but that the famous Capt. Cunningham, who escaped out of prison in England, and was to have gone with Jones, has altered his intention, and is gone to Paris.
The English Ambassador certainly received the answer from the States General to his last memorial on Saturday, the substance of which has been already published; and we are further informed, that the cities of Dordrecht, Haerlem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Schiedam, and the Brill, particularly the third, have protested highly against the contents of the answer, and have even had their protestations registered, and in which they required the expression "to oblige Paul Jones by force to sail, if he would not do it by fair means," should be erased from the said answer, as being incompatible with the dignity of the republic, and may, in future, be prejudicial to it, &c. But the corps of Nobles, and the other towns, reported, that it was not time now to be taken up with such minutiae, and persisted that the answer should be delivered to the English Ambassador as it was; for which there was also a majority of voices in the Assembly.
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The Hague
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Nov. 25
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paul jones sailed; capt. cunningham went to paris; states general's answer delivered to english ambassador as is despite protests from dutch cities, by majority vote.
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Letters from Amsterdam report Paul Jones sailed per States General injunctions, but Capt. Cunningham, who escaped English prison, changed plans and went to Paris. English Ambassador received States General's response to his memorial on Saturday. Cities of Dordrecht, Haerlem, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Schiedam, and the Brill protested the answer's contents, demanding erasure of clause to force Paul Jones to sail, citing incompatibility with republic's dignity; protests registered but overruled by corps of Nobles and other towns, who insisted on delivery as written, supported by majority.