The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1781-11-13 00:00:00, page 2

It fe with the greatest pleasure T can inform your
lordships, that had only 12 men wounded in the acti
on, none of which appear at present dangerous. I
am the only officer hurt, having from a splinter re
ceived a flight hurt in my leg, which in all probability
will be soon well.
A good deal es injury is done 'o the ship in her fails
and rigging: In her hull there was no (hot of cdnle
quence that I at present know or, except one which went
through between wind and water, knocked down two
men in the magazine, and afterwards lodged in the
mafier's bed place.
In justice to my flip's company, I cannot conclude
without acquainting their fordfhips th the fleady
and resolute behaviour of my officers and crew on this
occasion, as it merits my warmed praises and admira
tion, and I hope it will recommend them to their lord
flops favour.
N. B. The Cameleon mounts 14 guns, fix pounders,
1 four carron des and 90 men.
August 9 They write from Bred, that advice has
been received from the coast of Guinea of a French
flawing ship having been furprized by an infurredion
of the negroes, who murdered the captain and mod of
thecrew; the mate finding no possibility of escaping
the like fate set fire to the powder room, and blew up
the ship with a great number of negroes on board.
letters from Barhadoes fay, that admiral Rodney's
fleet is at present inferior to that of the enemy in the
Weft-Indies, as ships frequently arrive to reinforce the
French fleet, and that he waits for some additional men
of war, which are now on their passage, to jdn him
before he can a& with a probability of success.
The Grantham packet boat, captain Bull, which is
arrived from the leeward islands, on the 20th ult. was
Chafed five hours by an American privateer, but wgia
coming on, and altering her course, the got clear from
her: The privater fired several (hot a the Grantham;
but they all miffed her, and fell Ihcrt
A gentleman who arrived in town last week from
Gibraltar fays, that when he left that place they hour
ly expelled a formidable fleet from Cad z to come a
gainst it-
Extract of a letter from Cork, July 26.
" Thursday last arrived at Cove the Defiance brig,
captain Griffiths, from New York, who declares, that
on he 21st of June, in Ist. 38. 35. N. Long. 64. W. he
was boarded by the American letter of marque, the
Congress. from Newbury to cape Francois, who plun
dered him oi h squadrants, two compasses, his journal,
log book, all the flap's papers he could find, cut the
fails from the yards, unbent his cables, and took the
best on board, together with two of his men, the vef
fef leaky, then left them to proceed in that wretched
condition for England : That on the 20th instant off
the Shellick rock, to the north of cape Clear, he fell
in with two French privateers, one called Le Frede
rick, mounting 20 guns, the other the Tartar, of 12
guns, both ofSt. Maloe's who ransomed him, leaving
him four days cruizing from the Cape to the Mizen
Head: They nad a hooker supplying them with frelh
provisions. The privateers had each of them a pilot
from more on board.
" This diy arrived at Cove the Ruzi, of and for
Brest, John Simmons, master, laden with naval Hores
from Rhode bland, prize to the Harlequin privateer
cf Liverpool."
The Thomas and Mary, Anderson, a cartel, is ar
drived at Kinfale from L'Orieut, at which place she was
detained by an embrgo feme weeks, until a large
feet failed, frppeCd for the Bast Indies.
The French prize lifi, given at the exchange cof
fee boule in Dunkirk, mentions, that the privateers
of that port have taken, from the xft day,of July to
theist 0. August, 17 prizes brought fafe to pure, pad
nine retaken, and had ransomed eight.
Orders are given by the board of works for fitting
up part of the MarfhaUea prison for the reception of
the Dutch pfifooers of war, untila carrel is feukd for
the exchange of prisoners, but that cannot be done at
present, as it is said the number of the Duten captives
here greatly exceeds that of the English prisoners in
Holland..
On Tuesday died, at his house at WaMworth, Bar
naby Woodhoufe, esquire, formerly a Virginia mer
chant.
August to. On Wednesday night dispatches were
received from Charl-Hown, brought by the Prince
William Henry Packet-boat, captain Peters; the fub
ftar.ce of which is said to be, that the rebel general
Sumpter had taken Augusta, butihad evacuated it
again upon hearing that lord Rawdon had been joined
by a reinforcement from England; and that general
Greene had railed the siege of Ninety Six, and had re
treated ; but that great part of his baggage had been
cut off.
Extra& of a letter from Gibraltar, June 30
« The frequency of flags of truce of late has caufd
a fufpicioa of their being only concealed spies, which
come here for no other purpose than to make their ob
legations on whatis going forward in thi^ garriton ; a
general order, theretore, has been issued by general
Elliott, that in future the boats so employed fhdll not
be permitted to come beyond certain limits, of which
the several centinels and others are ordered to be very
careful, on pain of the feve est punishment.''
August 13 Letters from Ireland fay, hat several
hoflile privateers are now cruizing off the Saltees.
They have done confidfrable damage of late to those
petty islands, deftroymg their vessels and craft, and
plundering the inhabitants of their property.
' On Saturday advice was received at Lloyd's that 142
fait of flups from London are ail fafe arrived at Peters
Extras of a letter from Amsterdam, by the Flinders
Mail, Aug. 4.
“ We are very busy here in making preparations
for carrying on the war with greater S/rii man. we
have bit erto done, being assured both by France and
Spain that they will drain every serve to diners tee
enemy as much as pohibte ; but notwithhaadm the
promises of those powers, the major part of Lie provin
ces are sick of the war, and would be glad to have
peace reHored ; our navy is not in so good a coridii.au
as we could with, nor have we sailors enough to man our
ships, and as we have taken so few of the Englilh prifo
ners there in not an opportunity ar present of agreeing
on a cartel for exchanging them ; agents are gone to
Genoa to contract for building four ships for the use
of tbs province,^ asd, if possible, to P ocure some sai
lors for theffervite of the.Hates.”•
A 'letter from Ver allies,dat.d July 30, fays, " The
Dutch ambassador is very pressing to thecourt, for the
loan of the shipwrights ami other artificers, which were
promised to the Hates by the king at the commence
ment of hostilities with the Englilh, and has certainly
received for answer, that as soon as the ships preparing
for service are Compleated, 200 shall be feut agreeable
to promise, and that 70 were already ordered from
Brest."
Extract of a letter from Limerick, , Iy '7.
“ Yeflerday arrived here uiiderjttry malts the B r i
ton privateer, belonging to this port, of 18 guns fix
and nine pounders, saving had an engagement with, a
French privateer of the fame force, which, laded two
hours and 20 minutes, in which the French had 16
men killed, and 12 wounded, and the Briton 11 men
kill'd, arfd nine wounded, and ail her rigging Shot a
war. The French finding she would not Hrike, took
advantage of this circumstance and iheered otf.
" We have Hill two French privateers cruizing on
our coast, which take every ship they meek"
August 14. , letter from Madrid to a Spanish mer
chant in London, has the following article: ' The
ministry and council here are much divided in their
opinion relative to the continuing the siege of Gibr.il
tar : some are for hazarding even the dcHruflion of
the army and navy to take it, others are for with
drawing the forces and fleet from before it to be em
ployed agrinft some other places where there is a pro
bability 0! success. However, a great personage de
chred that he would rifle every thing die to gain ^of
feffion of it, and has promised great honours and "re
wards to those officers and men who behave meftg
lantly in the taking of it, but it is the general opini
on here that if t e Englilh behave as bravely now as
they have done in former wars, that it will be im,of
fible for the forces 01 Spain to take t, as age . num
ber of men have loti their lives since the fi ge, began."
They write from Ldbai, that the Dutch have now
a powerful squadron in the Mediterranean, part of
wnich are failed for the Layant for he protection 0;
their trade from Candia and other places.
The last letters from Quebec mention, that the for
tifica ions of that place have been coiupleated accor
ding to a plan by experienced engineers, and is now al
lowed to be one of the Hrongeft fortifyed places in all
North America
Lord Cornwallis was joined on the 21fl of May by
2500 men under colonel JohuGn, wnich, added to the
force he had before, amounted, by the latter accounts
froin his iordthip, to 6472 effective men.
The Four Brothers, Murray, from Glafgew to Dun,
garvon, is takeri and ransomed for 200 Guineas
The Thumpfon, Tullock, from the llle of Wight to
Dublin, and the Good Intent, Cook, from ditto, are
taken and ransomed for 180 guineas each, the Betty
and Polly, Wage, from Exon for Liverpool, is taken
and ransomed for 220 guineas.; a|l by La Fantaite, of
Dunkirk.
The Favourite, Green, from Workington, is arrived
at Kinfale, after being taken 'off toe Santees by Pat
Dowling, and ransomed for 250. guineas ; when the Fa
vorite left tiiem, they said tney had ,7 ransomers on
board.
August 17. This morning at nine o'clock, his ma
jefly, the prince of Wales, with several if tne nobility,
will go to Greenwich, to embark on board tne different
yatchs for the Nore, to view admiral Parker's flee ;
lord Sandwich is gone before to make the necessary pre
parations on board his majesty's Ihip Fortitude for tneir
reception.
A letter from Copenhagen brings advice, that the
Dutch ambassador there has obtained leave for 500 sai
lors, and 50 Ihipwrights to enter into the service of tne
Hates, and they let off for Amsterdam on the 2d inst.
A letter from Paris, dated the sth infl. fays, that the
minißcra have received official advice of the failing of
the combined fleet from Cadiz upon the 21st infant, the
French, fquidrpn forming the van ; the opa ifh squa
dron, the centre and rear divisions of the line-in the
whole 49 fail of the litre, and commanded by lieute
nant general Doti Lewis de Cordova, and under him the
so lowing officers', Den M. de Gallon, count de Guichen,
la Motte Picquet, and M. de Beauffette.
Advice is received from jersey that a cartel ship is ar
rived there from St. Maloe's, by which tcey learn that
20 Ihipwrights weredrafted out of the dock yards there,
and had embarked on board a vehel in' which were
about 100 more from Brest and other ports, and that
the vessel Ivas jailed for the Texel under convoy of two
Dutch frigates.
The mail which arrived at the poft-office on Wednes
day from J niaica was brought to Falmouth by the
Sandwich packet, which failed from Port Royal the 2d
of July, in company with the firfl division of tne home
ward bound fleet, and brings advice, that the remain
ing part of the fleet were to'fail the two following days
in separate divisions; they were to rendezvous of tne
gift End, and to proceed from through the Windward
Passage, under convoy of the following ships, viz.
Princess Royal, of 90 guns ; Albion, 74; Ruby, 74;
Tamili e., 74; and the Janus and Pallas frigates. The
three latter will return to |amaica after convoying them
to a certain lattitude. On the 24th of June the brig
Nancy arrived at Port-Royal from New York. This
vessel failed in company with the Peggy, cap ain Ar
nold, and the Sail), Anderson; and on the stn inti,
they spoke to his majeliy's ships 1 earl and Iris with
two ships and three Hoops, having 500 of lord Monta
gu's new railed regiment on board, bound to that if.
land. Tne Fox frigate, the Fan. cape in Windsor, was
returned to Port Royal after a most fuccefsful cruize.
She captured a vessel from tne navaimah to Port au
Prince, with 14,000 dollars in specie, and 100 tons ot
logwood on board ; and likewise two brigs and a fchoon
er from Port au Prine4o FniDacipnia, with 80'00 piaf
tres on board, besides very valuable cargoes.
BOSTO N, November 1.
Upon the reception of fe important intelligence of
th : capture of Cornwallis, a salute was discharged be
fore his excellency's feat, the bells were set to ringing
[which continued the greater part of the day) the
fllips in the harbour, ;of different Rattans, displayed
(heir colours, and'difchargedlh/ir ^caßiton, as did also
the fortrefies.it )this town and ' harbour ; flags o f di
vers nanons were likewise difplayrd from fev^ralemi
rences and public buJciihgs; and:in trie evening were
bonfires and illuniinations in different parts of this town.
We doubt not. .the bread of every true American is
warmed with gratitude towards our illustrious general
the commander in chief of the allied army, and all the
officers and soldiers under his command, at the time of
this great event.
This capital ftr ke will more fully eHablifh the inde
pendence 0 these Hates in toe eyes of all Europe; and
will serve as another proof of the absurd folly of our
enemies in pretending to subjugate this continent to
their arbitrary government, and is a new cause for us
so rejoice in the kind aid and assistance afforded us by
our great and magnanimous ally, His Most Christan
Majesty Louis XVI of France, whose memory will ever
be dear to all true lovers of the rights of mankind.
Yefleidiy arrived here the brig Favourite, captain
Somes, from Copenhagen after a passage of 7 weeks.
Some ufefu ingenious mechanic is wanted, to make
a set of JAW PROPS, for the purpafe of fupporling
some drooping SPIRITS in this day of afflidon.
Philadelphia, Nov. 13.
The honorable Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
efq # is ele&ed Speaker of the General Assembly of this
Hate for the enfaing year ; and Samuel Sterett, efq ; is
unanimou'y re elected Clerk.
We are informed that a President and Vice President
of the Supreme Ex cutive Council of this slate, are to
be elected to morrov..
Extra& of a letter from New Jersey, dated November
8, 1781.
^ The Bri ifh fleet is returned and come too out-fide
of Sandy Hook, and reported, thatgrm&l Leslie, with
2500 troops, wDiciFhe took from on board the fleet, are
gc>ne roC'lt,rleft&wß." r '
EXTRACT from GENERAL ORDERS^
York Town, October 20, 1781.
“ The general congratulates the army upon the
glorious event of yesterday. The generous proofs
which his Most Chriitian Majesty has given of bis at
taenment to the cause of America, mud force convic
tiji ion tlie minds of the most deceived among the en%
m y, relatives to tne decisive good coiJequ-nc sos the
alliance; and inspire every citizen of chefe flutes with
fentirnents of the mofi unalterable gratitude. His fleet
the mod numerous and powerful that ever appeared in
these seas, commanded by an admir.il whose fortune
and talents,enfurc great events; an army of the most
admirable compofinon, both in officers and men, are
the pledges of his friendship to the United States, and
their co operation has Secured us th^ present lignal
success.
“ The genrr.il upon this occasion entreats his excel
lency count Rpebambeau to accept his mod gr teful
acknowledgments for his couyfel and affiftapce at all
times. He pref nts his warmest thanks to the gene
rals baron de Viominil, cnevalier Chatteieaux, mar
quis de St. Simon, and count Viommil, and to briga
dier general de Choiffy, who had a Separate command,
for the illustrious maGuer in whffi,oeyq@e advanced
the interests of the common taufe. He requeds that
count ^e Rociiambeau will be peafed to communicate
to the army under his immediate command, t e high
tense he entertains of the diibuguhhed merits of die of
ficers and soldiers of every 'corps : and that he will
present, 111 pis cam. 4 to the regimen, of Agenois and
Deux fonts, the two pieces of brass ordnance captu
red by tnem, ^s a tetbmony of their gad nt<y in Harm
ing the enemy's redoubt on the night .of ti^ 14th m-
Hant, when officers and men so universally vied %ith
each other in the exercise oi^very soldierly virtue.
“ The general's thanks to each individual of 'meri,
would comprehend tne whole army ; but he thinks
himfeif bound, however, by a^fton,'duty and gra
titude, to express his obligations to mjor generals
Lincoln, De la Fayette and' Sfeub n, for their difpo
htion's in 'the trenches. .'
'• logger.! Duportail and colonel Que r en?t, f or
the vigour an I knowledge which were conspicuous ii?
their conduct of Hie attacks ; , and to general Knox and
colon 1 de Abervftle, for their great care, attention and
fatigue, in bringing forward the artilJery and Horus,
and for their judicious and spirited management of
them in the parallels.
'• He requeHs the gentlemen above mentioned to
communicate his thanks to the officers and soldiers of
their relpedive commands.
" Ingratitude, which the general hopes never to be
guilty of, would' ' be conspicuous if him, was he fp 0-
mit the thanking,' in t^ warmer terras, his excellen
cy governor Nelson, for toe aid e has derhed froth
him and th. :militia under his command, to whose ac
tivity, emulation and courage, rtiu.cn applaufe'is due.
1 ne greatness of the acquisition will be an ample com
peufation for the hardships and hazards which they en
countered witn so much patrioAfm and firmnefs.
In-order to diffufe the general joy thr ugh every
breast, the general orders that those men belonging to
tne army, who now may be in confinement; shall be
pardoned, released, and join their r fpedi^e corps.
Divine service is to be performed to morrow in
the several brigades or dEdfions. The commander in
chief earnefby recommends that tee troops, not on du
ty, should utrverfally attend wdn that seriousness Jf
dtp )ttment and gratitude of heart which the recogni
tion of such re-iterated and ahonrfhmg interp firiot's'df
providence demands of us.".
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