Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-07-22 00:00:00, page 2

,flail to. Wh n the Cherokee failed from New
jok. t cp, ces 0 freh pr. visions were as follows;
bT?O vea 18 k uerpund; turkies 16s. fowls 6s.
t„.Bs. etch ; milk 1 id. per quart; the pice of hay
w^s at 10L the hundred weight.
HOUSE of L OR D S.
Wednefto, .4, ri! 9, The Earl ofSoffok. as er a
(hurt introduce ry speech, delivered the following mef-'
sage, which was -ead by the Lord Chancellor.
“ GEORGE R,
" It gives his Maj fly much concern to find himfelf
obligedt> acquaint this Houle with the difficulties he
labou s under, by reason of debts incurred by the ex
pences of hish^ufhNd, and of his civil government :
which being confined on the sh day of January last,
do amount to more than 6c0,000 ! . His Maiefty rely
ing on the loyal and affedidnate attachment of this
Houle to his perlon and government, which he has
experienced on so many occasions. doubts not of their
readiness to concur in enabling him to discharge this
debt; and for making f\me further provision for the
better fu?port of his Majeft/s Houlhold, and dignity
of the Crown. G. R."
Very large orders are now executing in town for
New York, to the amount of 50,000!. among five
houses only.
L O N D 0 N.
.April 14. Digram's informs ion to Lod Suft^fc,
of a pretended conspiracy agai ft the K ngs i'e, was,
that hi# Majesty was to have been killed with a wind
cun, on his" return from Kew to Buckingham haufe.
Whitehall, March 20.
Coty ofa letter from Governor Tryon to Lord George Ger
maine.
'M, Lord, New York, Feb. It, 1777.
THE fuccefe that accompanied my endeav< or to
unite the inhabitants < f this city by an oath ot allegi
ance end fidelity to his Majeity and his government,
has met my warmest wiffies, 2970 of the inhabitants
having nullified thereto in my presence. The Mayor,
Recorder, and Aldermen Waddle were employed in
admirilftring the oarh.
I have tb^ '2'is'adion to affare your Lordship, 2$
the invitation to the people to give tni# voluntary tes
timony of their loyally to bis Mijefty, and his govern
ment was rn.de ever withou ? shadow of compulfim,
i gave me peculiar <a is'adion to lee 'he cheerißneh
v n hw och they a tended the fummors. I verify be
lieve Te r e are nt ere hundred ci izert#. who have not
availed ihem elves ot the opportunity of thus teftifying
their attachmr t 0 g v rrm^nt. The May r, free I
went th ugh the 'eve al w^rus. has abetted fifty more
ren, and is aiya!d gto 'h? dumber, which makes
the ut ^e sworn in t * cirf 3020, which added to
th Lat Red 00 S 'ten Isl nd in the three counties of
I/u,li d and 1, Wtftchefter county, (all which
amounted to 2600) makes tke whole amount to 5620
mn.
Thus, my Lord, I have used my heft endeavours
to Secure the 6 eli<y if the inhabitant of this govern
m „t, within rho^e diftr:3s hrn h which t^e KingT
droops have moved. I have affixed the Genera § that
sh .u?d he rem ve all hi° tro ps f om this city, there
wuid not be the leift rift of a revolt fdm the inha
bita ts ; button the contrary, was confident large num
fee s whu'd take a share in the defence of the town
agidf the rebels.
The loyal inhabitants of Queen's county received
the 800 ftaod of arms, deft ibuted by the Genera's
ternuffibn, with demorfTatiors of „y. and wi~h a
pr sassed r foiutitn to u'e them in defence of the Bland.
lam anxious that f>me grace from government may
fpeeddy be expended to this loyal quaver of the pro
vince. I Lave the honoui to be, &c
W. TRYON.
B O S T O N, W 7.
L^ft week arrived at a 'aft port a p- ze Which m kes
the i" . I tknad r he fix hieut in by Capt. Ffk,
in one if the Site vefr 3. She came from T~/fham io
E gland w u s take infven days after fai'irg, her
loading fab pr vfi s, and bud to Newfoundland:
FT al'o to k /nothe v ffl 'rom laid port, which be
give to the prifft ah or6oin number,—The fol
lowing aracies ue xiradted from Engiifh pape sf. ucd
on ho id he vz
From the LONDON GAZETTE,
p 4 R I S, March 10.
If is ass rted, that the Conrt has feat orders to
Count Duchaffault to fail with his squadron the
firft fair wind. It confi Is of twelve (hips of the line
and fix frigates, and is Did to be bound to the French
fettiem nts in the Wed Indies ; and it is hkewife said,
that orders have been sent to Tout n, to au nient the
squadron there with fifteen men of war and frigates.
Mr Loudon, Albany, July ft, 1777.
A report has been induftrioully propagated that the
medicines in the northern, we e left at Ticonderoga
when our army retreated from that place ; I conceive
it my duty to inform the public through the channel
of you- paper, that the medicines ate fared, and were
lent off to Fort George some days before the retreat ;
a very in~onfiderabje part thereof having fallen in the
bands of the enemy.
'JONATHAN POTTS,
Deputy Director General.
PHILADELPHI A %/)22/
Copy *f a Letter from General Sr. Clair to Congress,
dated Fort Edward, July 14, 1777.
SI R,
CONGRESS may probably think it extraordf
nary that so much time flh.^d have elapsed before
they heard from mt, after a step < ffuch consequence as
the evacuation of the ports that had been en^wAc! to
my care; but it was not in my power to write whilst on
Pe march to this place. lam sorry t# find that my
le ter to General Schuyler the night the evacuation
rok p'ac has nat erne to his hands, as for wa tis
that, though he has doubtless inf wined Congress of the
matter, he could not give thrift the reasons that indu
c:d it ; they we e these—-
Seeing that the ports of Ticonderoga and Mount V
depeuder.ee wefe nearly inverted, and having intell gerc?
by my Ip es that they would be complexity so intwm
ry four hours, uheh we sh uld be cut iff from all pof
fibirity of (ucc ur: That te bareges of the enemy
were r eady to opn, and the whole of oer encampraert
on the iconderoga fi +e ex/ofed to their fire : Confide
ring at the >me time the weakness of the garrison, that
the effidive numbers were not fufficient to man one
half of the works and that conlcqueotly the Wholv
muff be upon c^nftant du.y, which they could ntpT
fibly long sustain, and that of course the places with
the garrison mart inevitably in a very few days fall in*o
the enemy's hands. I law no alternative bin endeavor
ing to evacuate them, and bring off the army. Where
upon I called the General Officers together, to t^ke
their fenriments: They were uranitn>ufly of op nion
that the places Ihould be evacu ted without the lead
Idfsoftime, and it was accordingly le ab mt that eight,
the fifth infant. After embarking in boats as much of
our Cannon, p-dvifions auddiaes ds was p< ffible with
the boats which were ordered to S'keen&rottgh, I sent
Co'onel Long, an aßive, diligent, .good officer, to take
th/ command there, with his regiment ahd he Invalids,
until I should join hira with the army, which was to
march to hat place by Cafileton. The body 0 r tie
army reached Caftletan the next evening, thirty mi.es
from Ticonderoga, and twelve fr mi Skeenfotrhugh;
bur the rear guard, under the command ot Col War
ner, whicn, with the ftraggters and infirm, amount'd
to near twe ve hundred, flopped (hurt of hat place fix
miles, and were next morning attacked by a firing de
'fachment the enemy had sent to hang upon our rear and
retard our march. Two regiments of M/fria wh
had left us the evening before and had halted abnti two
milei from Col. Warner, wyre immediately ordered to
hs affiftanee, but to •, get lurprize they ma ch d
directly down to me; at toe fame tine 1 revived in
formanen that the e emy were in possession a Skeenf
borough, asd had cut off all out boats and armed vef*
fels. Ihs obliged me to change my route, that I
might n tbe put betwixt two ti es, and a the lame
rime be able to brig iff Col. Warner, tow torn I lent
orders if be Lund the enemy too strong to retreat to
Ruland, where be wetVd find 'me to cver him, that
place lying nearly at an equal distance from b? h: Be
fore my orders retc cd him his party was dispersed,
after having for a considerable time lultand a very
warm engagement, in which the enemy iff. red so much
that they pursued but a imal distance :—^Our Ins I
cannot ascertain, but believe it does not exceed fir.y
killed and wotored. Abovj two hundred of the party
have j med me at Rutland and since, but great nu fi
bers of them arc did miffing, and 1 lulped have got
d.wo into New-England by the way of Number Four.
After a very fariguAng mahch of seven da,s, in which
the army fuffered much fr< m bad weather a d want of
provisions, I joined General Schuyler the i#th mill
It was my original plan to retreat to this plaqe, that
I might be be^xt Gen. Burgoyne and the inhabitants.,
and that the Militia might have lumeihing in this quar
ter to colled to; it is now effected, and the Milina are
coming in, so that I have the molt sanguine hopes that
the pr grefs of the enemy will be checked, and I may
vet have the fatisfa&ion to experie. ce, that although
I have loft a post, 1 have eventually laved a Stare.
Perhaps I may be cenlured, by thole who are unac
quainted with the Situation I was in, lor not fooer call
ingthe Militia to my assistance. I think I info med Con
gress that I could not do that for want of provfi ns; and
as soon as I got a supply 1 did call for them, and was
joined by near nine hundred the day before the evacu
avion, but they came from home so ill provided that
they could not, not did not propose to flay with me but
a few days. The two Maffachu'etts regimen sos Mili
tia I kewife, Which compo/ed part of thegarrifon, gave
me notice that their time expired in two days, and they
intended then to go home In vain did! beg of their of
fictrs to exert every influence they had over them, and
from their subsequent behaviour, 1 am fully perluaded
the officers are most to blame. They kept with me,
however, for two days ofithe march, but their conduct
was so licentious and disorderly, aad their example be
ginning to affe& the Continental troops, 1 was constrain
ed to fend there off.
Inclofed is a copy of the Council of War, in which
you will find the principles upon which the retreat was
undertaken. As I found ail the General Officers so
fully of opinion that it (hould be done immediately, I.
forbore to mention to them many ci cumftances which
might have influenced them, and which I fhoule have
laid before them, had they-been of different leDtiments;
?for I was, and AIR am, so firmly convinced ©rile he
I ceffi y, as well as the propriety oi if, that X believe {
I lh aid have ventured upto it, had th^y been every cue
I against it.
I have the utmpft confidence in the candour of Con
fcl% and persuade myfelf, notwithftanain^ the lols
c^ey have sustained, when they h^ve impartially consi
dered, that 1 was polled with little mote than two
tTufand men in a place that required ten thoufard t^
d&\ nd it ; that the e two thousand were ill equipped,
and wo sea mid, not above one bayonet in ten an
arm effnia l in the defence of lines; that with these
two th erand I have made good a retreat from u der
the ne'e of an army at left f?ur times Ter numbers,
and have them now betwixt the enemy and rhe crurtry,
ready to :& against them, that my condu& will appear
a least not deleting cenferL
I have the honour to be, &c.
Ar. St C LAI R.
P & The enemy's force, from the best acc@un %in
3500 Britilh, 4000 Biunfwick and Meffe Hanau, 200
In ILns, and 200 Canadians.
The Honorable John Hancock, Esq;
& a Council of General Officers he d at Ticonderoga,
July 5, 1777.
P R E S E N T,
Major General St. CLAIR.
Brigadier General DE ROCHE FERMOY.
Brigadier General POOR.
Brigadier General P ATTERSON^
Col nel Commandant LONG.
GEN ERA L St. Clai r reprefehted toT-e Coun
cil, that as therein every reason to believe that
the batteries of the enemy are reaJy tm op@p upon the
Ticoadero, fide, 2nd that the camp is very much ex
pfed to their fire, and to be et filaded ?n all quarters;
dad as there is also 'reason to expert an attack upon
Ticonderoga and M:unt Independence at the fame time,
in which case neither could draw any tuppurt from the
other; he d^fires tfeir opinion, whether it would be
must proper to remove the tents to the low g curd
where they would be less ex o'ed. and wait the attack
at the Ticonderoga lines, er whether the wrote of the
troops ffiould be drawri ever to Mmnt lodepebdance,
the more eff^ually to provide for the defence of taat
port.
At the ferrite time the General begged 'ea^ to inform
the r a tha the wh^e of cur force consisted of two
thousand and eighty-mine effective ra k and me, includ
ing one hundred and twenty f ur a^tifrers unarmed,
befidt's the corps farutery, and ab n ni^ eha < el
militia that have joined us, and cannot flay ju < a few
days.
The Council were unanimouflv of opinion, th t it is
impossible with our force to defend Ticonderoga end
M. cat iodependance, and thar theronrs ca, non aid
stores Tould be lemeved this night, if poffibie, 10M unt
Independence.
2d. Whether after the div Ton of the army at Tj.
c r nderoga har retreated to M mn b Independance, we
shall be in a Situation to defend tha ? p- ft, or in case t
carn-t be defended, if a retreat into <he country will
be p r a&ca le.
The C. unci! *.re unanimously of opinion, that : as the
-nemy have already nearly Surrounded us and there
remains nothing more to invert us complex ly bur their
occupying the neck of and betwixt the lakes and the
east creek, wh c'. is not more ban three quar <rs o' a
mile over, and possessing ibemfelves of the Narrows
b twixt us and Skeerfberough, and thereb cu rnf ff
all communication with he country; a retreat ru?ht
to be undertaken as 00 as p ffible, and that we Grail
be very f^tunata to efliA it.
Signed, A, St. Clair, M j.Gen.
De Roche Fermoy B G^
Enoch Poor B G.
4 true copy taken John Patterson, B. G.
from the original. Colonel Commandant Lon 0;
Isaac Budd Dunn, A D.C.
Pub i/hed by order of ! onprefs,
CHARLES THOMSON Sectary.
Extraß of a letter from a gent ernan ot liourdeaux t®
his triend in this Lit), dated May 17, 1777.
" 1 h ve the honour of advising you of ou. r arrival
in this city in good health, afie having been two morths
on the r< ad, and fuffered all th fe blasts Nep ure when
irritat d is capable of irfli4tirg
“ We tock a prize the 18th of April, the other fide
of the Azores, that ? ef GlafgoW'he 4th of the firae
month, she had on boa d two p ffengers, one of which
was a Mioifter, going to L^k° Champlain, the (hip was
going to Quebec, this fame Minister told us news the
most disagreeable, viz.
“ i hat the Count d' Arteis,the King's brother, was
in London very well received at that Court, and pro
bably was adjusting meafuies to reduce the Continent
of America, that Mr. 1 eane had 'wrote a very fpirit
eft letter to Lord Stormont, AmbrfLdor at our Courfy
propofiog to him an exchange of fame prisoners he na
med, for others detained in England, and that the
terms of this letter being very f F i i ed, the said Lord
had lent the fame to his Court, who returned it to him,
ordering him to show it to Mr. Ge St. Jtrmain, and de
mand fatisfa&ion for so great an insolence offered an
Ambafidor, that in this interval Mr. Deane had been
afTaffinated in his coach between Paris and Verfaille,