Gazette Of The United States

GEORGE-TOWN, July 3.

Extract of a letter from London May 6.

"Before you receive this letter, hostilities between this country and Spain, will commence; in which the latter (as you may collect from the papers which go by the Packet) is the aggressor, having taken five out of seven British vessels, trading between the North-West Coast of America and the East-Indies. A general war is expected, as well as another, astonishing and unexpected, revolution in America. We were never more formidable, either in power or unanimity. The general voice of England has, without waiting for the Royal Proclamation, denounced war and destruction against that branch of the House of Bourbon, now weakened and divided, through a glorious struggle to establish the equal and natural rights of man. The King of Spain, it is alleged has made some powerful alliance to enable him, in this crisis, to oppose the British fleet, strength, and resources. Our Stock-jobbers in the Alley, however, have formed for him, in one day, alliances numerous enough to vanquish the world ; but the next day, have been civil and courteous in another extreme, reducing his native sovereignty into a commonwealth, and divesting him of his dominions in South-America.—However, the English fleet is in motion. Ships are daily dispatched on secret expeditions, and the officers and men are reported to be unusually sanguine for action. How, or when this commotion may terminate, is out of the reach of human comprehension : But we may conclude, with certainty, that the produce of your country will command a great price during its continuance; and that Heaven may prosper you on this, as well as on every future occasion, is the wish of millions in this hemisphere."