The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-11-04 00:00:00, page 2

Philadelphia,. Nov. 4.
Extras of a letter from airofficer c mm inding Militia
141 ihe southern department, dated October 6tb,
1780.
“ I have the mortification-to inform you, that Lord
Cornwallis has at length made his Head-Quarters in
Charlotte, when he arrived the 26th ult. not without
eppofitiom from colonel Davie our gallant partitao,
with a few light tr>ois, who difput # d tae passage of
tiie enemy, wherein captain George Locke, with one
or two others, uniortuihtily fell.
“ I have final! parties ol observation in every difif
fcftc<f qukrter. The tories, at present, are quiet, ex
cept about 500, who plunder th- country under pre
tence of being part 0: their king's army, and even toofe.
apprehend great danger. Colonel D.vie with a small
detachment of my brigade furprized 100 of them two
miles in the rear of the enemy's lines tiiree days be
fore they left Wax ^aws,— killed fourteen on ti.e fpo f ,
wounded near forty, and brought off fifty horses, and
as many faddies, and a number of guns, without the
lofsof a man.
" Lord Cornwallis dined with old Mr. M'Cree, three
miles from Charlotte, four days since.——Captain Dix
on, whom I had lent with fifty men as a guard on that
quarter, visited the family the fame evening and
broughtoff the old gentleman, his fona Robert, John,
Richard and David, together with the famous tory
colonel Roberts, ore regular quarterma Per and eleven
of the red coats. Parson M'Cree, the other son, ap
pears to be our friend.
" Yefterdiy three hundred British troops, with fifty
waggons, advanced to Mr. Bradley's 011 Long Creek,
(eight miles N. W. of Charlotte) in order to take in fo
rage. Twenty rifle men, detached to that quarter for
a particular purpose, fired on the enemy, who retrea
ted.whh great precipitation and took off their wag
gons empty."
ExtraA of another letter, dated October nth, 1780.
" I have the pleafur? to inform yop that colonel
Ferguson, so much adored by the tories and British,
with one hundred and fifty of hitmen, w^re killed in
the action on the summit of King's Mountain,; ampng
the flam is th+notod tory colonel Vezey Hufond.
Eight hundred end ted, including almoff all them lea
ders, are our prisoners, and on their way to Virginia
under a proper guard.
" Captain Dixon is a good partisan. By him and
others the enemy's foraging parties fuffer daily.
'' I have feat about forty prisoners to Head Quar
ters.
" The enemy, I believe, were preparing to advance,
but hope they are now disconcerted. Should the vic
torious militia join us, his Lordftup wqnld do well to
recollect the fare of Burgoyne. About Sixteen or
seventeen days jxft colonel Davie and myfelf, with five
hundred horse, half ft irved, and three hundred infan
try, have been on hard duty, within less than eighte a
miles of the enemy's main body, changing our pofi~
tion every night, to guard against furprite.
" Inclofedl fend you a proclamation issued in Char
lotte."
NORTH. CAROLINA.
By the right honourable CHARLES Earl CORN
WALLIS, lieutenant general of his majesty's for
ces, &c. &c. &c.
P R 0 CLA M A T I O N.
WHEREAS the enemies to hie majesty's go
vernment, continaing-to practice every artifice
and deceit to impose upon the mind's- of the people,
have as induftrfoudy as falfely propagated a belief
among the people of this country, that the King's ar
my indiferimmately makes ww, And commits ravages
upon the peaceable inhabitant#, and those who are in
arms and open rebellion aga^nft his majesty's authori
ty: [think it proper, in order to remove such falfe
and injurious impressions, and to restore as much peace
and quiet to the country afi may be peffibl 1 during the
operations of war, hereby to assure the people at
large, that all those who come in to the polls of his
majefiy's army under my command, and faithfully
deliver up their arms, and give a military parole to
remain henceforth peaceably at home, doing no offence
to his ma jelly's government, will be protested in their
persons and properties, and be paid a just and fair
price in gold or silver for whatever they may furnifh
for the use of the King's army ; it being his majesty's
most gracious with and intention rather to reclaim his
deluded lubjede to a sense of their duty, and obedience
to the laws, by justice, and mercy, than by the force
and terror of his arm#.
Given under my hand and seal, at Head-Quarters,.
in Charlotte Town, this twenty seventh day of
September, one thousand seven hundred and eigh
ty, and in the twentieth year of his ma^fty's
reign.'
. CORNWALLIS.
By bis lordship's command,
J. MON EY, aid decamp.
SOUTH-CAROLINA, August 1780..
Copy of lord Cornwallis's letter to lieutenant colonel
' Neilbet Balfour, commanding at Ninety-Six.
“ I have given orders thatall the inhabitants of this
province, who have subscribed and taken part in the
revolt, Ihould be punched with the greatest rigour;
and also those who will not turn out, that tuey may
be imprifone , and their whole .property taken from
them or destroyed. I have also ordered, that compen
sation be made, out of their eiiates, to the persons
who have been injured by them. I have ordered in
the most positive manner, that every militia man,
who has born arms with us and afterwards joined the
enemy, Ihall be immediately hanged. I desire you
will take the most rigorous measures to punilh the re
bels in the difirift in which you command, , and that
you will obey, in the firifteft manner, the directions
1 have given in this l^^r relative to the inhabitants
Of this country,7
(Signed,) f CORNWALLIS/'
AWAKE YR DISAFFECTED,
SHAKE OFF YOUR DELUSION ;
BE WISE, AND REFORM.
fT 19 a favorite doctrine, which you and your fedtt.
cers firenuoudy inculcate, that the arms of Bri
tain are employed, not for the deftruaiou, but for the
protection of this country. Do you not, in definite
of the cleared evidence, affect to perfft in this error ?
In vain has it been denounced >y r.>y rtcommi^o'u-rs,
tnat since your country cnnot be Cubdued, it ihall be
desolated. In vain do you fee, from the north to the
south, the flames lighted up by the united hands of Sa
vages and Britons your churches, Cities, towns, and
villages laid in ashes; your citizens and hufbindinn
flaugutered, or confined to ruin and didrfs. And,
oh! what piodehy woufd with to conceal, can you hill
be ihfenfible of the violations repeatedly offered to te
tender tae deiencelefs sex, whom even savages know
how to revere. Do you not perceive, that injuries so
unpardonable mutt fix ah i fuperable barrier to a re
conciliation with the oppressors ; and that they can
only be prompted to these outrages by nab.ee and a
third for ptw.der ? yet yob obhinately perfecere in
your infatuation. What reasons doyou aflign for your
attachment to so cruel an enemy ? you are driven to
ascribe all the barbarities which are daily perpetrated
to Indians, or to intemperate or enraged partizans ;
you lament them : but you are [ rt rfw.:ded th.t,hey
are not approved bf your gradous Kihg; nor coun
tenanced b, hil igreat and confidential minifiers or mi
litary commanders. Often h?< r e you been to 1 .!. that nei
ther the king cr his mimher : , fn one fitigie inftahce;
have r probated the unexampled outrages winch have
fiained his a,ms, and incurred the "odium of mankind.
On the tontrarY, from the imperious Vaughan, to the
fyeophantic Sutler, the rileft incendiaries have been
promoted and'rew tied, retarded for aßions which
cannot be remembered Without horror ; and which will
draw down Curses do the authors and their advocates,
as long as 1 tear shall remain for fullering, innocence.
Ltd Cornwallis nia, claim an exalted rank amongst
Fritifh foes for honour and humanity, Befi les tne
arrant grs of birth and education, which ought,to in
spire liberal and benevolent .fentiments,' he has in his
favour an official testimonial "from his royal mailer's
immediate representative, hr Henry Clinton. Ina let
ter of the gth ult. rd THE ILLUSTRIOUS CHEIF,
'whole private and military perfections, mark him at
once astie favourite of Heaven and the Saviour of his
country, fir llenry aff&t6'"that be iswell acquainted
" with lord Corowgilis's humanity : that he cannot *u
" tertain the le ft apprehension that he will ,flair, the
" iuflre of his King's arms by afts of cruelty" (co
rered, alas as the, ire with guiltless blood, they aomit
of no additional Bain) “ and that he is incapable of
“ ftrefning the laws to take away the life cr liberty,"
&c.&c.
Let then his lordship's condufl give you one more
foecimen of British faith and clemency • and if you
pill rush on yous own perdition, never complain that
you wanted, among innumerable proofs of treachery,
cruelty and deraftation, that which is now offered for
four conviction-
The proclamation of the 27th of September, which
ushered his lordship into North Carblna, appears in
deed to breath the spirit of conciliation and humaniiy.
Protection and fafety, without exception, are offered to
the people at large, on condition that they submit to
his power, by • redwtitar, furrend'er of their arms, and
" by remaining peaceably at home," it being, adds his
lorofh p, " his majesty's most gracious vrifh and intent
''tion, rather to reclaim ids deluded fubjeds to a sense
" of their duty_and obedience to the laws by jullice
“ arc mercy, than by the force of his arms."
Infatuated as you are, you will imagine that in those
profeffiong his lordship wasfincere. But turn, howe
verr lufrmtly, your byes for a moment to Sputh-Ca
roiina. ^There his Lordship and his coadjutors, had
praflifed the fame mas to blind and delude; there too
they had promised protection and fafety; there they
had sealed these engagements by a capitulation, and
other afls, the mod solemn and sacred among all Na
tions; but when, flushed with a traufient superiority,.
they imagined a fold footing was eftabliihed, and that
they had no more to hope from the acq triefcence, or to
fear from the resentment, of the unhappy people who
had fallen under their power; the scene was chan
ged _—By an arbitrary Adict, at which Nero would
have blushed, all the inhabitants, without diftinßion,
who had taken part in the present glorious Revolution;
nay, all who would not basely renounce their princi
ples, and become a&ive traytors and parricides, are
condemned to the most rigorous punishment; their
w ole property is wrefied from them, or defiroyed.
As for the individuals, who from terror and com
phlfion had joined their impious arms, and after
wards, from a.fenfe of duty, returned to the cause of
their injured country ; they a-e consigned to military
execution. Gracious Father of Mercies! without the
form of tryal ; without a moment for reflection; with
out refpe\ l to age, or number, or gircumfi^nces, they
a^e " ordered immediately to be hanged!'? fuch'a
flagrant violation of the rights of humanity, of the
principles of jufiice, of the obligations of truth and
honour, requires no comment. Read and judge for
yourielves.
If you obfiinatfly continue, against the fond calls
of duty, to kiss the hand which is reeking with the
blood of your countrymen ; the time may come, when,
in just punishment, that very hand may plunge the
dagger into your own vitals. But, whatever may be
your fate, in proportion to the weight of oppression,
the patriot is elevated above the regard of ease or inte
rest, nobly ftrugling against every impediment, he
fifes to arms. The southern states are at this hour co
vered with hosts of heroes, determined to refeue their
country from the bondage to which it is devoted. By
their victories and fuceeffes a glorious profpeC t opens
to view : Cornwallis already seeks his fafey by a pre
cipitate flight; and North-Carolina groans no more
under his tyranny.
THE GHOST OF MONTGOMERY.
Copy of a letter from major general Smallwood, date
New-Moravian-Town, October 16th, 1780.
" Dear Sir,
" On my route to the Yadkin T was informed, on
the 14th inst rnt, at captain Lindsay's, about twelve;
miles foutu of.Guilford court-house, that the tories in
t e upper part of fuiry county had embodied and
marc, ed down thtougi Richmond to the &d Moravi
an Town, with a view to cross at the Shallow Ford,
in their way to join the British; their firength was
reported to be nine hundred.
" On their way they plundered, disarmed and pa
roled mmy of the inhabitants; and determined to
imprison and carry off others who had been mote ob
noxious.---This induced me to march with all possible
expedition to this place, with an intention to attack
an I intercept them.
“ I arrived here about rz o'clock yeflerday, and
immediately sent out scouts to obtain more certain in
telligence of their real, strength and situation, and in
the interim assembled obout two hundred militia Vo
lunteer horse, mofily with riffles, and proposed march~
ing at io o'clock laftnight, in order to surprise them
at break of d-.y this morning, as I was well allured
they could have no intelligence of ,e continental
horse in this quarter; but upon th return of my
scouts last evening they informed rru, the enemy had
attempted to cross the Shallow Ford on the Yadkin
river, about 15 miles from the Moravian Towns, the
day before, when the, were attacked and defeated b,
majot Cloyd, with one hundred and sixty of the Vir
ginia and Carolina militia, just as colonel Paisley, who
had ben detached with three hundred and eighty men
from Sumner's camp, had arrived within a mile of the
feene of aftion. Fifteen of the tories were found dead,
and four wounded ; but it is supposed they loft more,
as~ these were found scattered in the woods. Our loss
was one captain killed, and four privates wounded.
No priffmers were taken, the tories being well mount
ed made their escape in that woody part of the coun
try ; but I have ordered the volunteer militia in pur
suit, and m 4 ke no doubt they will fall in with many of
them. I have directed Colonel Paisley to return with
his detachment to Camp, for which place I shall march
immediately with the e&valry.
I am, &c.
John Penu, esquire, member of the
board of war, North-Carolina.
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