... -oBltuntarp contributiong. arkTZ1 J ?? -.al Q - Town Hall, Aberdeen, Feb. X7 1798. A T a numerous and refpeblable Meeting of the th urgeffes, and other nhabitants, held here e this day, by requef: of the Provof o and Magi- Pe trates, for. promoting a Volun1tary Caontriblut.:o0 to I Government, RI! Tbe LORD PROVOST in the (hair; c It was ?? re/olved, ed FirJl, That at a time when the war is ...

... ,Iut~tigiece from UWopi's Lt. FROMs Feb. 6, TO FBs. 9. THE Fanny, (tranfpoit) Robinfon, from Cork to Halifax, was run on board of by the Briton transport, and ?? crew and troops 1aved. Renou's fquadron have captured between Goree and Benin, on the coaft of Africa, 2 veffels, and were going from thence to Baffa, to take two ?? lying there. The Diana, Irwin, from Africa to the Weft Indies, is ...

... IO ND ON, Feb. 9. INTELLIGENCE from FRANCE. o 'Paris papers to the 6th inf. are received, c n from which the following are extracs. ' he ii domellic intelligence of France is unintelef- i] ing, except wbhat regards the preparations for h invading England. P PARIS, Feb.5. 7 Fifteen thoufand French troops are at Car- Irenge, for the purpofe, it is faid, of taking' o hoftile meafares againf& ...

... VOL[UNTARr SUBSCRIPTIOJ7. This day, a Meeting of the Merchants, fe Bankers, Traders, and other Inhabitants of ri the City of London, to a number much greater c] than the extenfive. area of the Royal Ex- t change would contain, was held on that Em. tI porium of Britifh Commerce, for the purpofe P of promoting the Voluntary Suxbfcription for t( the defence of the country. A The Lord Mayor, who ...

... ?? -Obinbargo, -JFeb.- 13-.1- V0LUNVT.4Rr CONTRIBUTIONS. , The WVriters to the Signet have fubfcri;-ed Two Thoufand Guineas for the fippott of the State. In addition to the many Patriotic Ex- amples fhewn by the Public at large, it gives us great pleafure to mention, that of the Re- cruiting Officers, and Parties iii the Edit- burglh-diflria, who on Friday, at their pa- rade, unanimoully ...

... -parlialnoltarp pteluffente.: HOUSE OF COMMONS. :hurfdajy, Feb. 8. i- .A'r Wil/iam Duzndal inioved, that a niwv r- writ be iffued for Clackmananlfhire, in the fl room of Sir Ralph Abercrombie; who has if accepted the Chiltern Hundseds.-Orderud. is Mr Pitt gave notice, that on Maoaday fee n- is night he ?? move for the Houfe to go 1, into a Committee, to confider of the Reports f- of the ...

... AGRzCU'LTURE, &c.-EiCL1aND. Report for Januarn'. T&e Wheat markets have not fluftated fd much of late, owing to the flabknefs-of im- portatbon from the Baltic, aid lefs abundant fupplies of our own growth: The crop of lafi year is found to be corifiderably exhaufted. The growing, plants are much improved in mqftdiftilas, andcarry a good fpringcolour. Beau and Pea fowing has been much impeded ...

... Far the ABERDEEN JOURNAL, - he - TS - / . ML PRINTEA, Aberdeen, Feb. i6, 1798. THE; prefent low price of Corn, efpe- I.. cially B3ear and B3arley, has filled our aewfpapers with addreffes to farmners, and re- folutions of farmer focieties. We all know what the immortal farmer, Hay, did with his yoke ; let us now fee, what his brethren can accomplifh with their pens. Permit me, an impartial ...

... %Iberbe I N the Memorial from the Farmers in the prcf- _ bytery of Ell _ ninferted in the journal of the ., _ * X _ _ -_ t_ _ . ?? .5 or - s,6th curt. it has been omitted to mention, that the h chief caufe of the low price and want of fale of z lean cattle, and extravagantly high price of beef is, that fo many Scotch fills have been flopped in . confequence of the late diftillerv laws. It is ...

... LanDan, M. 1,2. o INTELLIGENCE from FRANCE. ir Paris papers were received this morning td k- the 9th infl. The chief part of tbei cOn- e- tents are, as ufual, invedive againft the Bri. c- tiih Government. ge General Menard has addreffed a proclam a. y? tion to the Pays de Vaud, flaiing, that th' of French army bad at firft approached theii vo frontiers with the view only of preventing I a the ...

... nteluhgencu tram inLlopb'5 Mlt if FaRO Feb. 13, To FEB. i6. !r THE Eagle, Hubbard, from Liverpool d to Gibraltar, is taken and carried to I'Orient. S, The Jupiter, Cook; Lydia, Horner; is Betfey, Highland; Levant, Clark; Char- I milly, Dunn; Triumph, Anderfon; Beaver, is Gardner; Alderney, Chace, and Commerce, le Clerk, Engliih South Whalers, are captured by the Spaniards on the coaft of Chili ...

... oregoing Rofolutions, the II ommit beg kbemive j add'ress henejfeb e I to the Ph Ic. I THE caufe in which we are engaged is com. mon to us all; and we doubt not, that the mea- fu,-es which have now been adopted by the in- habitants of the city of Aberdeen, upon this im- portant occafion, in aid of Government, will be approved of by all ranks of perfons in this part of the country. The enemy, ...