Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-06-03 00:00:00, page 3

fair ' 7 :- ^^zer of^ rfil, woo, on the thir #
teenth instant, met, and, under Erfiih colours, fail
ed federal days in company wi'h a ilocp from Kings
ton, in Jamaica, ILac Cbb, Mailer, cie^red'Dr Ha
lifax, and furnished with American as well as Ja
maica papers : Thcicfue, at the fame time, in fight,
elTthe Havanma, cr% through the Gulph, a ship
of twelve fix pounders, with forty men, one Foster,
Master, from Kiagfton, bound fur London, having a
great quantity of ipecie a^d Indigo on board, laid to
be worth 100.0001. Herfiog; and a brig of eight guns,
foil of bale goods, one Ffeebody, Master, cleared for
Gafpee, also furnished with Bri ifh and American pa
pers, tint belonging to said Freebody, and a Mr. Dol
beir of Jamaica, which veifeis, it is supposed, have
mot yer puffed this coati.
The Hind Frigate, with eleven fail of tranfportsr,
from Ireland, passed in fight of St. Enttatia, on
Sunday, the thirtieth of hi month, bound far New.
York
The Pearl Frigate, a few days before, on her way
to New-York, took a (ingle decked brig, said to be
from this State, just going into St. Euftatia, the Mate
of which was kiifed during the chace.
A great number of American vessels have lately
been taken by the men of war on the Antigua ftati
oa ; and by piratical vessels cruizing without com
miffiohs, from Antigua, Anguilla, Tortola, and Do
minica. By the latter, no less than twenty-nine fail
had been lent into Tortola alone. These pirates cate
felly avoid falling in with the ncn of war, by which
means such as escape the one fall into the hands of the
ethers.
From St. Euftatia we are advised, that a privateer
belonging to Philadelphia, has lately taken seven fail
cut ofa Cork fleet, and carried them all lase into Mar
rroicQ.
It has been hinted to us that there are many agents
dispersed throughout this Continent; feme from Ja
maica, who come through Hispaniola, and others from
St. Kitts, Antigua, &c. who come through St. Eu
ftutia, for Intelligence, and to reap some of the fruits
of the American trade: For which purpose Dutch or
French vULIs are purchased by tome at foreign islands,
and appear as the property of foreigners ; and others
tome through foreign ports, under the difgu : eof per
lons that have been taken, thereby gaining confidence,
and tranfaaing their business with toe greatelt ia&E
BOSTO N, May 22.
At a General Court Martial, held in this town last
Week, by Order of General Heath, Lieut. Col. Tho
mas Farrington, of Groton, State of Madachufetts,
being found guilty of receiving and puffing counterfeit
Money, knowing it to be luch, was unanimously ad
judged to be discharged from the A?my, and rendered
incapable of afting any more as an Officer in the Con
tinental Service. He was committed to Goal on Mon
day last, to be dealt with by the Civil law, according
to hrs att'oeious Crime.
Last Friday one—Hart, belonging to Duke's Coirs
ty, State ofNew York, was appre ended at Providence,
being charged with bearing a Cpmmiin>n under Mr.
Howe, and was then recruiting. He was the fameday
tried, found guilty, and executed on Saturday follow
ing.'
°Laft Week a certain Rev Mr. Martin, who is well
known in this Town for boasting of his Expbits at
Breed's Hid, on the 17th of June, 1775, on tbe P art
of the Americans, was taken up at Greenwich, State
of Rhode-lflaad, repairing fir (he Enemy.
PHILADELPH I A, fee 4.°
Extrafl ofa letter from His Excellency General WASH
INGTON toCongrefs, dated He d Barters, Mid
dihook Camp, 3$ Ms, 1777-
< c .[ have the pteafure to communicate a very
• “ agreeable piece of intelligence which (have received
“ from General Farfons, of the dedruaion of 12 of
" the enemy's vessels in Sa;g Harbour, upon the east
•' end of Long Bland. Ig^you his letter at length,
“ which I think refcds high honour upon the conduct
" and bravery of Colonel Meigs, his officers and men.
New Haven, May 25, 1777°
Dear General,
HAVING received information that the enemy
were collecting forage, horses, &c. oh the tail end of
Long-Bland, 1 ordered a detachment from the several
regiments then at this place; confuting of 1 major, 4
captains, viz. Throop, Pond, Mansfield and Savage, 9
fubaltems, and 220 non commissioned officers and pri
vates, under the command of Lieut. Col. Meigs, to
attack their different pdfs on that part of the Bland,
and destroy the forage, &c. which they had collected.
Col. Meigs embarked his men here in 13 whale-boats
the 2tft instant, and proceeded to Guilford; but the
wind proving high, and the Ga rough, could not pals
the Sound until Friday the 23d: He left Guilford at
ene o'clock in the afternoon of the 23d with 170 or
his detachment, under convoy of two armed hoops,
and i^ company with another unarmed (to bring off
prifonews) acrafs the Sound to the North Branch of
the iffand near Southhold; where he arrived about 6
o'clock in the evening. The enemy's troops on this
branch of the Island had marched for New York two
^„ before; bat about 60 of the enemy remaining at
a place called Sag, Harbour, ne^r 1^ miles dribnt, cm
the South Branch of the Blind : He ordered the whale
boats, with as many men as could be transported, a
cross the Bay, over land <0 the Bay, where they re im
barked to the number of 130, dat about 12 o'cl>ck
arrived fafe across the Bay, within ab^ut 4 mil s of the
Harbour; where having secured she boats in the wood
under the care of a guard, Cob Meigs formed his little
remaining detachment in proper order for attacking the
different posts and quarters of the e°emy, and fecu ing
the vessels and forage at the fame time. They march
ed in the greatest order and silence; and at two o'clock
arrived at the Harbour: The feve-al divisions, with
fixed bayonets, attacked the guards and pofE afoned
them; whilst Capt. Thrsop, with the detachment un
der his command, f cured the vessels and forage lyitg
at the wharf: The alarm soon Hearne general ; when
an armed schooner of ,2 guns and 70 men, lying with
in I^o yards of the wharf, began a lire upon our troops
(which continued without cessation for about three quar
ters of an hour) with grape and round (hot ; but the
troops, with the greatest intrepidity, returned the fire
upon the schooner, and set fire to the vefEls and fo
rage, and killed and captivated all the soldiers and sai
lors, except about fix, who made their escape under co
ver of the night. Twelve brigs and (loops, (one an
armed vessel with 12 guns) about 120 tons of pressed
hay, oats, coin, and other forage, 10 hhds.. of rum,
and a large quantity of other merchandize, were in
tirely con timed. It gives me great fatistadion to hear
the officers and soldiers, without exception, behaved
with the greatest bravery, order and intrepidity^ Col.
Meigs having finished the butineis on which ne was
lent, returned lase with all his men to Guilford by 2
o'clock, P. M. yesterday with 90 prisoners; having, in
25 hours by land and water, transported his men fill
90 miles, and luc<;eeded in his attempt beyond my molt
ianguine expectations, without having a single man kill
ed or wounded. It gives me lingular pleasure to hear
no difoofition appeared in any one ioldier to plunder the
inhabitants, or violate private property, in the foallett
degree; and that, even the cmaihmg, and other am
cies, belonging to the paTooera, the soldiers, with a
generality, (not learned from British troops) hate,
with great chearfninels, reached to them whe<e they
have fallen into their hands.
Major Humphry, who waits on your Excellency
with the account, was in the action with Col Meigs,
and will be able to give any fuither necuTary informa
tion. A lift of the pritoners it inclufed,
I am, Your Excellency's
Most obedient humble servant,
(Copy) S A M> H. PERSONS.
His excellency General iVaJhingten.
A LIST of prisoners taken at tee ea, end of Long Island,
by Lionel Meigs.
Rank. Nasses.
I Captain Raymond.
2 Commi&ries Chew and Bell.
10 Meters of veffels^
3 Serjeants;
1 Cm,oral.
45 Privates.
27 beamer.
iSoidier iick, whose parole was taken.
90 Prisoners.
6 killed.
96?
2dj/% 1777. MMifted by order ofCongref,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
Extract of a 'letter jrera fails, written by a Cern lonian
of confderation, and in the employment of Government.
" In Europe we begin to be Icofioie that it is the
utmost degree of barbarity to arrogate a deipoti.m over
opinions. Already many of our colleges admit prottf
tant scholars, our converts even at laris are iuil of
young Enghfh girls, of whom no enquiry is made about
their creed, and the day is not far distant when man
kind will be convinced that the emigrations of their
youth, trade and toleration, are fi ken bands better
adapted to conned people together than treaties or
conquest."
V/e hear the enemy at Bninfwiek have lately been
reinforced with three brigades from Rhode Blaid and
New-York.
By a gentleman from South Carolina we learn, that ,
seven French vessels had lately arrived there, loaded with
dry goods, &c.
I he army of the United States, now in the field at
different posts, amount by an exad calculation, to near
30,000 men. They are all enlisted either for three
years, ^ during the war.
We hear the Honorable Cengrefs have ordered a
monument to be erected in Connecticut to the memory
of the late gallant and venerable General W ooster.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
IH AVE seen a piece published in the Pennfylvarfe
Packet, of Tuesday last, figged A Lover of Peace
and Order, which I 'do not think written with all that
candor and moderation which its author afferfs. The
persons in opposition to the present Conftnutiori, have
declared in plain and express terms what they want,
and ail they want. — 1 hey have declared that they want a
Convention chaßu by the people tube called, to alter,
a™end, or confirm tefr part, of BG present f^m#
of g iverr.ment, as that Colver, ion (hall think require
to be aliened, intended, or coohrnird. notwith^andirf,
which this Lover of 1 eace ml Order, modettiy tells u^
that " What vhe perfens in the oppolitEn intend, the
people err • cipher fee surjufe ^N With equal ma
rt ^y he hints to us. " hat it is fufoe&ed that f<rie
per f ors behind the <ura n encourage tie meaftues,
(of the oppofcio•)'w^h a defies to oU/fF Ct this State
to the general c^u'e, and to break the union—that
there is a fnfpicion <: a design to Dim an At iJiccracy,
and that a few gentlemen of Philadelphia, were deter
mined to (offer no government to poke place hut that
of themfelves"—Whenever any complaints of the pre
sent cooftirution are thrown out, this is the mode in
which the advocates for it Rufwer them, and whnt is
wanting in arpimnt is m^de up in declamation. Will
this Lover of Peace and Order produce one man of c m
dor and judgement-in the whole State, who wi'l stand
forth and declare he believes any perlon in the
oppofirion ever harboured the smallest wi(h ini
npical to the hue Yes of this State or to these of
America, for until be does this his infinw^tiins.muft
remain unsupported by any thing but the @/c dixit of
an anonymous writer, opposed to the public declarati
ons if men, long kno^n and well known in this City*.
For my own part J am (rimetimes at a loss to know
what cur Confthutioi is, or how far we ?.e bound to
be governed by it. I have, 1 confefs, seen the frame
of government as pub ifhed by the late Convention;
bin I have alloteen an oath, which t ex ; ne sigdineG
to be taken, laid aside, and another fubftiiu<cd in its
pla&e. The trouble, the expence, the improper time
of calling a Convention, have been the general o' jeCri
ons to the measure, now a meafue is proposed that
will occasion double the trouble, and double the ex
pence—and with refpeC f tothe impropriety crthe time,
cannot we learn to be wife from the coronet of a frier
State, who with the enemy in the bewe s of the c un
try, forked a rational system, capable bf producing
harmony, order and good governor*.
aCITIZE?-
'CC<*X(.W^'C^VXX^^^
Just pMbt, ed, aid rev felling fry
S TYNER AND CIS T,
In Second-street, fix Dors above Arch-#r%%
''T' HE Lovsof our Country. A SERMON,
2 Preached before th^ Virginia Troops in Ne^-
Jersey. By JOHN HURT, Chaplain.
To be R ENTED annually or for a term
of ye^rs on Dale, and may be entered on immediately,
JT ARFORD or BUSH MILLS, finite at the
head 01 Bush River, in Harford County, Maryland.
'1 ne mills are new and compleat, built with I+, Y
feet 1c g and 45 fete wide, three \i s G^r
cedent dream. 0. w ter, having, t ' ws^ im.
three pair of itones, two of them ~.,:, <,-u r is 01boult
ine nobs and packing cherts that win contain 4.0 barrels
of ft >ur, with holding geers and wind tin, all going by
water, and a boult ng chelt for country use. They are
lituate dole on tide water, and with a moderate expence
a canal mi,ht be made for vessels to come up to the null
tail, whi. h is now piadded by battcaus, canoes, &c.
abo it 30 inths water carriage 10 Baltimore or the Head
cf Elk; I. is accounted the bed fixation for purchasing
wheat in tie county. There is alto a saw mill nearly ad.
j ining the corn mills, and 30 acres of improved meadow,
am .shout 40 acres of very good upland, moltly iro Ibfed,
a fmitr.'s th * rith a good ht of toL, betides sundry
other out-houiH, ftahies, &c. For terms sppy to
IACUB GILES, Jun. OrJ Agalite for
WILLIAM COX, j.!.tcob GTs.
— —— <- — .
A BOUT a year ago two L ADDERS
^ere left at the house of William Appleby,
distiller, on the Dock, rear the Store Bridge n Second
ftreet, by David Caldwell, and one Skillen, maions )ne
of said Ldjers about 28<ee r in length, the ot^er to
They have already been twice ad vet tiled in public pi. ;
cf this city. The owner proving his property and paying
expenses, may have them by applying to said Appleby.
N, B. A quantity of Cordials and fomaßum to be iol
on region ble terms, for ready money, by said William
Appleby. § May 3%, 1777.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED or STOLEN from James Bartram's,
near Gray's Ferry, ever Schuylkill, a brown bay
HORSE, about fourteen hinds hi, h, paces a travel,
trots and cartels ; I don't remember that he has any
particular marks, but think he is (had ail round ; his
hind Ngs look trick, black mane, tail and legs. The
person who Retires the said horse, so that tF owner may
have him again, shall be entitled to th Reward,
with reasonable charge, paid by the fuH living in
Front-street, below the Drawbridge, Phil, 1.
PRESLEY BLAK T( N.
Philadelphia, May 28,
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD
C T RAYE D from the upper end of Front-ftreen
Sairday bit, a light bay MARE, quarter r
about fourteen h^nds high, five years old, .0
made, drags her hind feat, the near hind so % arid
the near fore hoof cracked on the outline, aim L grown
out, no (lines on, not trimmed on the to, <fms herd, ;
trot's and paces. Whoever takes up the abc eMire and
brings her' to Mr. Joseph Paul's, at Frankford Bridge,
fhhl'receive the above Reward and reasonable charges,
P' db y 11 JOHN COTTMAN.
Several articles, ^c. are omitted ibis week for want
of room.