The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-09-09 00:00:00, page 2

Mead quarters, New-York, August ry, 1783.
OR D E R S.
The Commander in Chief has received the following
Inftruaions from his Maj~ily, which are to be en
tered into the Regimental Boric of the several Corps;
and : is F xctllen y makes no doubt but the Contents
will be firißly comp ied with.
G EORG E R.
XU 7 H'EREASwe have thought fit that the
^V forces under yonr command, in North-Ameri.
c , b e so t with reduced ; our will and pleasure is,
t ^ in the doing, thereof, 1 ou, or the persons appoint
tby you for ^ is Service, do cause the following
j/ftruAions to be duly complied with ; and all officers
a^d folders °f° ur said troops are hereby required to
yi id obedience thereto, as they shall answer the con
ttry at their peril. , ,
ift. The 3 ' and 4th battalions of our 60th, or royal
American regt, of foot, commanded by our trufly and
^} beloved councilor general lord AmherfL The
zd 'attMion of our 84th +regt. or royal highland emi
gonts, commanded by yourfelf, and our four corps
rrfp<aive:y commanded by our trufly and well belov
ed col. Edward Fanning, our trusty and well beloved
I r ut. col. Robert Donkin, our trufly and well beloved
feot. col. Borniftree Tarleton, and our tru fly ana-well
beloved lient. col. John Graves Simcoe, are to be
entirely disbanded as (00a as the fame can possibly be
done.
zdly. Cur several regiments of foot refpeftively com
mncEd by our trufly and well beloved lieut. fen.
G rge Morrifoo, ourright trufly and well beloved
coufnf and coancel or earl Cornwallis, our trufly and
f! beloved brut. gen. fir Fyre Coote, our trufly
a - wel beloved lieut. gen. Marifeo Frederick, our
nvi) and well beloved lieut. gen. John Campbell,
and theih battalion of our 42d or royal highland regt,
of foot, commanded by our trusty and well beloved
general John Murray (commonly called lord John
Murray) are to be forthwith reduced according to the
,l;n hereunto annexed ; and it is our will and pleasure
tnat you, or such person or persons ns you shall ap
point for this service, do as soon as poffibL take care
coat each of said regiments be formed and conlift of the
numbers mentioned in the said annexed plan, and no
more ; and that all the non commiffiomd officers and
private men of our said regiments, over and above those
numbers who are le's fit f r service. be discharged: In
the doing whereof, as likewise in re disbanding the
lev ral battalions and corps fpecihed in the firfl article
of thele our infiruHionf, the following directions are
to be duly observed.
gdly. Before 'uch d Finding and reduction you are
to cause an exa& muftr to be taken, or in case that
cannot conveniently be done, effective rolls to be made
of each troop and company of our said regiments, bat
talions and corps, nod to transmit to our secretary at
war, for our information, an account of their conditi
<n and numbers at t le time of difb.nding and redadi
on, together with a lid of the name! and rank of the
commissioned officers hereby to be disbanded, f pecify
ing: also, if any of them hold other commissions to
which pay is annexed.
4'hly. Our intention bring only to pay off, at pre
sent, and clear the non-commissioned officers and pri
vate men of our said regiments, battalions and corps,
and give an allowance of half-pay to the commissioned
officers entitled thereto, from the time of difbinding.
Y^u, are to take care, before the difoinding and reduc
tion, that the quarters of each troop and company be
duly cleared.—That the accounts between the men and
their officers he made up, and that they be fully fatisfi
ed and paid their arrears, rioppages, bounty, and all
other just pretensions, up to the day of their difeharge
inclusive; whereof the Red officers are to take acquitan-
Ces and difeharges from them, refpedivey distinguish
ing each head of payment.
sthly. You are to take care that the arms delivered
out of our floras of ordnance, to the disbanded men,
and indented for, be returned thither again, and ac
quitances taken for the fame.
6thly. You are to take care that each non-commif
fioaed officer and private man, hereby to be difbandd,
be permitted to carry away with him his cloaths and
knapsack, which he now wears ; the dragoons to be
allowed their cloaths and cloaks, now in wear.
7'dy. You are to provide a passage for all the dis
banded commissioned officers, and for as many of the
ron commissioned officers and private men difeharged
from the regiments which are to bereduced in this efta
blithment, according to the plan hereunto annexed, as
shall be dehrous of returning to Great-Britain, either
by wiring vessels or otherwise, as you shall find best for
our service, and lea ft expensive to the public, and cause
them to embark with their wives and children, under
the command of (uch di creet commissioned officers as
you shall think necessary to take care of them on their
passage, during whic 1 they are to be subsisted.
Bthly. And we bringpleafedto allow each non-com
miffioued officer and private man of the battalions and
corps hereby to be difbtnded, fourteen days fubfi fiance,
as of our royal bounty, to carry them to the places of
their former rtfidence, and the like bounty, to such of
the non-commissioned officers and private men, of the
regiments hereby to be reduced as shall desire to con
tinue in America. Our will and pleasure is that the
said bounty money be paid to them reipeftively on the
day of their difeharge, and to such of tlum belonging
to the said regiments left mentioned, as shall desire to
return home; t e like bounty money is to be paid up
on their disembarkation in this kingdom, except to the
run who may have been ehlifted in Scotland or Ire
land, to wnom in comfideration of their homes being
more diflant, we are pteafed to al ow 28 days fubfif
taive^and rtcrpts are to be taken for the said bounties,
all wind) *acqu tlaces, difeharge and receipts are to
be tranfrcitted to the agents of the said corps, to be
produced to our secretary at war, as vouchers for the
fee r?l payment: herein directed.
othly. You are to order the commissioned officers,
wuom you shall appoint to take care of the men on their
pillage, to End to our secretary at war authentic lifts
attehdin the bed manner, of the names of the non
commissioned officers and private men and when dis
miffed in Greif-Britain, and to give them passes, in
case they shall def/re the fame, to the places of their
former residence, allowing them a reasonable time to
repair thither, and ftridly charging them not to travel
with any arms, or more than three in company toge
ther, upon pain of the severest punishment.
And to the end the said non-commissioned officers
and private men may be sensible of the care we have
taken of them, on their difmiffion, you are to cause
these our directions to be read at the head of each
troop and company, for a more ready compliance
with our pleasure hereby fignified, and fee that the
fame be put in execution.
Given at our court of St. James's, 9th day
of June, 1783. in the 23d year of our reign.
By his majesty's command.
R. FITZPATRICK.
Our trufly and well beloved fir Guy Carle
ton, K. B. arid commander in chief of
our forces in North America, exclu
sive of Canada, or to the officer com
manding in chief our force's forihe time
being.
"Plan of the eflablifhment of the several regiments
to be reduced, referred to in his majesty's orders and
inflruaions to fir Guy Carleton, dated the 9th of
June, 1783.
Lieutenant General Morrison's regiment.
Field and flaff officers,
Colonel,
Lieut, colonel,
Major.
1 Chaplain,
1 Adjutant,
I Quarter inafter,
I Surgeon,
1 Mate,
5
One company grena
diers.
1 Captain,
2 Lieutenants,
2 Serjeants,
3 Corporals,
z Drummers,
2 Fifers,
48 Private men,
60
Total. 471
Five regiments of foot, commanded by,
33d, Charles earl Cornwallis.
37th, Sir Lyre Coote,
42d, Lord John Murray.
54th, Lieutenant general Frederick,
57th, Major-general Campbell, of the like numbers,
viz. 47v
N. B. Six commissioned officers, remain en second,
being 2 captains, 2 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, belonging to
the 9th and 10th companies of each corps.
It is moreover ordered, that the 17th infantry, 33d,
37th, 42d, 54th and 57th regiments are to held them
selves in readings to'embark for Nova-Scotia, where
they are to remain till further orders.
The 17th dragoons, the 7th foot, 2ad, 23d, 38th,
40th, 43J, 70:1., 76th, 80th and 82d regiments, to hold
themselves in readiness to embark for Europe.
The 17th regiment of light dragoons, the 70th, 74th,
76th, Both and Bzd regiments a r e to be disbanded as
food as they arrive in Great Britain, in the mean time
the eflablifhment of those corps (thedragoon regiment
excepted) are to be reduced to 400 privates, which
reductions are considered as having taken place on the
26th of June, 1783.
During the voyage home the officers and men are to
be put under the usual floppages of three-pence per
day each, for provifiobr.
All such men as have entered into marching regi
ments of infantry since the 16th of December, 1775,
and such as have entered into any other corps since the
9th of February, 1779, are now entitled to their dis
charges, provided they have been three years in the
ferrice from the date of their alteration ; otherwise
they will be entitled thereto upon compleating that
period of service. All men under these circumstances
will be difeharged, and passages provided for them
home, except such as may desire to remain in America.
Shbu ! d the regiments which continue in America, be
by this means reduced below their intended peace efia
blifhment, they may be compleated by such of the
men entitled to their difeharge, or dismissed from the
difbinded or reduced corps, provincial as well as re
gular, as shall appear to be in every refpeft fit for the
service, and shall be willing to be re-attested therein,
without any limitation. For which purpose a bounty
not exceeding FIVE GUINEAS, each man, may be
offered, to be paid tuem on their being attested anew,
in the manner before mentioned ; the amount of which
is to be charged to the non effective funds of their re
fpeftive regiment, into which the men shall be incorpo
rated.
T he 3d and 4th battalions of the 60th, the king's
American regiment, queen's rangers, Britifli legion
cavelry, detachment of the garrison battalion, New
York volunteers, British legion infantry, l^yai Ame
rican regiment, iff, 2d and 3d New Jersey volunteers,
Ift and 2d De Lancey's, prince of Wales American re
giment, Pepnfylvania and Mary.and loyalists, Ame
rican legion, and guides and pioneers, and the men
who wish to be difeharged in America, are to hold
themselves in re-dinefs to embark for Nova Scotia;
where, on their arrival, those corps will be difbanded',
uulefs any of them should chuft to be dimiffed at this
place.
The non commissioned officers and private men of the
bnd forces, who may be reduced in Nova Scotia, and
wish to become fetticrs in that province, will be allow
ed grants of lands, at the rate of two hundred acres
to every non-commissioned officer, and one hundred
acres to every private man, exclusive of what lie shall
be entitled to in right M his family, difeharged of all
One company,
1 Captain,
1 Lieutenant,
J Ensign,
2 Serjeants,
3 Corporals,
2 Drummers,
48 Private men,
290. Five Companies
more of the fame.
One company of light in
fantry. .
I Captain,
2 Lieutenants,
2 Serjeants,
3 Corporals,
2 Drummers,
48 Private men,
58
fees of office and quit-rents for the firfl ten years. And
as a further inducement to them to become settlers,
each man shall be furnifhed, out of the public flores,
with the usual rations of provisions allowed to him for
one year, and shall be permitted to retain his arms and
accoutrements.
Returns to be given in immediately to the adjutants
general's office, of all such men as are entitled to their
difeharge*, (pacifying whether they mean to go to
Great-Britain or Nova-Scotia.
His majesty has been pleased to grant to the king's
American dragoons, commanded by lieutenant colonel
Thompson, permanent rank in America, and half-pay
upon the reduction of the regiment.
SALE M, August 2Y.
We hear that a ship is fitting at Boston for an in
tended voyage to China ; that her cargo out, in money
and goods, will amount In value to 1 50,0001. and that:
she will fail the ensuing fall. Many eminent merchants
in different parts of the continent, are said to be in
terested inthfsfrft adventure from the new world to the
old. • -''—■"————-'■.
NEWPOR T, August 23.
Last Sunday morning was married Hemry Edwivi
Stanhope, esquire, captain of the Mercury British
frigate, to Miss Peggy Malbone, of this town.
HARTFORD, S e Pt. 2.
Lal lWednefday the wife of Mr. Ephraim Fisk, of
Killingfworth, was delivered of four promiffng children,
two sons and two daughters, which weighed in all
twenty-four pounds and three-quarters. The mother
and children were all in a fare way to do well.
Philadelphia^ Sept. 9.
Copy of a letter from fir Guy Carleton, to the Presi
dent of Congress.
SIR, New-York, 17th August, 1783.
THE June packet lately arrived, has brought me
find orders for the evacuation of this place; be
pleased, fir, to inform Congress of this proof of
the perseverance of the court of Great-Britain, in the
pacific fyflem expressed by the provisional articles, and!
that I shall lose no time, as far as depends upon me, in.
fulfilling his majesty's commands.
But notwithflanding my orders are urgent to acce
lerate the total evacuation, the difficulty of affigding
the precise period for this event is of late greatly in-'
creased.
My correspondence with general Washington, go
vernor Clinton, and Mr> Livingston (your late fecrera
ry for foreign affairs) early suggested the impediment&
tending to retard this service. A letter to Mr. Livirj :~
flon of 6th of April, two more to general Wafhingto a,
of the 12th of May and 10th June, with several to g< i
vernor Clinton, fiating many hostile proceedings withi in
the sphere of his authority, are those to which I refe; r,
copies of some of these letters I enclose, though I at n
doubtiefs to presume, the Congress to be informed < >f
all tranfaaions material to the general direction of their
affairs.
The violence in the Americans, which broke outdoor t
after the cessation of hoflilities, encreafed the number *
of their countrymen to look to me for escape from t
threatened defiruaidn, but these terrors/have of late been t
so considerably augmented, that almost all within these
lines conceive the Safety both of their property and of
their lives depend upon their being removed :y me,
which renders it impossible to fay when the evacuation
tan be compleated. Whether they have just ground to
assert, that there is either no government within your
limits for common protection, or that it secretly favors
the committees in the fov^reienty they assume, and ate
anally exercising, I fliall not pretend to determine;
but as the daily gazettes and publications furnifh re
peated proofs, not only of a difregerd to the articles of
peace, but of barbarous menacesdrom committetsforrn
ed in various towns, cities, and diGrißs, and even at
Philadelphia, the very place winch the Congress had
chefen for their residence, I fiiould shew an indifference
to the feelings of humanity, as well as to the hofeor^rrtU
interest of the nation I serve, to leave any of the loy_,
alifis that are d^firous to quit the country, a prey &
the violence they conceive they have so much c^fe-tc^
apprehend.
The Congress will fence dheern how much it will de
pend on themselves and the fobordinate legiflarures,^
to facilita e the service 1 am commanded to perform bjr
abating the fears they will thereby diminish the number
of the emigrants : but fiiould these fears continue and
compel such multitudes to remove, I shall hold myfelf
acquitted from every delay in the fulfilling my orders
and the confluences which may result therefrom; and
I cannot avoid adding, that it makes no (mail part of
my concern, that the Congress have thought proper to
fafpend to this late hour, recommendations flipulated'
by the treaty, and io the punaual performance of which
the king and his miniflers have expressed such entire
confidence. I am, fir, your excellency's
most obedient, and mod humble fervent.
GUY CARLETON.
His excellency Elzas Boudinot, Esq;
An ACT to encourage the speedy apprehending and
bringing to Justice divers Robbers, Burglars and
Felons.
Seßion r. YJCTIEREAS Cal b Paul, John Paul,
Robert Steel, Aaron Doan, MahlcQ
Doan, Edward Connard, Henry Connard, Jeremiah
C>op t, Arnos White, Jofepb Doan, Abraham 'do^n
Levi Doan and George Sinclare, have been do' v attaint
ed by outlawry, in the fuprene court of foria state",
several robberies, burglaries and felonies, by th A m cr
milted within the fame; not w ith flailing which ar '.""
ders they continue to perpetrate the b*e cffen < '"*
tin great ddquier, terror and impoveri£fc of , ^to
the good citizens of thb commonwealth : And ^y
Gideon Vernon, Thomas Bulla, Amos Wi' Whereas
ward Richardson and George Burns, & re so ^^ "
charged, and it appears to the iegifln ure fr^d and
good cause to fufpeß and charge ther t^" ther '"
of them, with being accomplices in ' A, and every
the afo<u~