The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1780-12-19 00:00:00, page 2

their corps in motion immediately, and <n their ffde to
pursue and endeavour to attack general Sumpter.
Lieutenant colonel Tarleton executed this service with
his usual aßivity and military addreO. He procured
good information of Sumpter's movements, and, by
forced and concealed marches, came up with and fur
prized him in the middle of the day on the ißth r near
the Catabo fords: he totally deftrfyed or dispersed his
detachment confiding then o' 700 men, killing 150 0^
the spot, and taking two pieces of brass cannon and
goo prisoners, and 44 waggons. He likewise retook
I'oo ot our men, who had fallen into th ir hands part
fy at the action at Hanging Rock, and partly in es
corting some waggons from Congarees to Camden : and
he released 150 of our militia men, or friendly country
people, who had been seized by the rebels. Captain
Campbel, who commanded the light infantry, a, very
promifin, officer, was unfortunately killed in this af
fair. Our loss otherwise was trifling This action was
too brilliant to need any comment of mine, and Will, I
have no doubt, highly recommend lieutenant colonel
Tarleton to his majefly's favour. The rebel forces be
ing at present dispersed, the internal commotions and
infurreftions in the province will now subside. But I
shall give direction to inAid exemplary punishment on
fume of the most guilty, in hopes to deter others, in
future, from fperting with allegiance and oaths, and
with the lenity and generosity of the British govern
ment.-.
On the morning of the 17th I dispatched proper peo
ple to North - Carolina, with directions to our friends
there to take arms and assemble immediately, and to
seize the mos lviolent people, and all military Stores
and magazines belonging to the rebels, and to inter
cept all stragglers from the rotated army ; and I have
promised to march withe at lot's of time to their sup
port : some necessary fupphes for the army are now on
their way from Charles-Town, and I hope that their
arrival will enable me to march in a few days.
My aid de camp, captain Ross, will have the honor
of delivering this dispatch to your lordfllip, and will
be able to give you the fulled account of the state of
she army and country. He is a very deferring officer,
and I take the liberty of recommending him to your
lordihip's favour and patronage.
I have the honour to be, &c. CORNWALLIS.
Field return of the troops under the command of I etr
tenant general earl Cornwallis, on the night of the
15th of August, I'7Bo.
Royal artillery. 2 lieutenants, 2 ferjeants, 15 rank
and file.
Light companies. 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 1 ensign
i adjutant, 11 ferjeants, 1 drummer, 129 rank and
file.
23d regiment. 3 captains, 6 lieutenants, 1 adjutant
j 3 ferjeants, 8 drummers, 261 rank and file.
33d regiment. 1 lieutenant colonel, 5 captains, 4
lieutenants. 2 ensigns, 1 adjutant, 1 surgeon, 1 mate,
13 ferjeants, 1 drummer, 269 rank and file.
ill battalion 71st regiment. 2 captains, 14 lieute
nants, i ensign, 1 adjutant; 1 quarterma Her, 1 mate,
14 ferjeants, 6 drummers, 114 rank and file.
2d battalion ditto. 1 captain, 3; lieutenants, 3 en
signs, 9 ferjeants, 94 rank and file.
Volunteers of Ireland. 1 colonel, 4 captains, 4
lieutenants, 6 ensigns, 1 mate, 23 ferjeants, 11 drum
mers, 253 rank and file.
British legion of cavalry. 1 lieutenant colonel, 1
major, 2 captains, 3 lieutenants, 2 cornets, 1 adju
tant, i surgeon, 12 ferjeants, 2 drummers, 157 rank
and fi'e.
British legion of infantry. 4 captains, 4 lieutenants,
9 ferjeants, 3 drummers, 106 rank and file.
Royal North-Carolina regiment. 1 lieutenant colo
nel, i major, 5 captains, 6 lieutenants, 4 ensigns, 1
adjutant, 1 quartermafttr, 1 surgeon, 16 ferjeants, 8
drummers, 223 rank and file.
Pioneers. 2 lieutenants, 3 ferjeants, 23 rank and
file.
Volunteer militia. 1 lieutenant colonel, 1 major, 3
captains, 5 lieutenants, 4 ensigns, 8 ferjeants, goo
rank and file.
Total, i colonel, 4 lieutenant colonels, 3 majors,
31 captains, 46 lieutenants, 23 ensigns, 6 adjutants, 2
quartermailers, 3 surgeons, 3 mates, 133 ferjeants, 40
drummers, 1944 rank and file.
signed RD- ENGLAND,
a&ing deputy adjutant general.
Return of the killed, wounded, and miffing, of the
troops under the command of lieutenant general
earl Cornwallis, in the battle fought near Cambden,
South-Carolina, on the 16th of August, 1780.
Royal artillery. 1 lieutenant, 2 rank and file
Wounded.
Light infantry. 1 ferjeant, 6 rank and file killed;
¥ ensign, 5 rank and file wounded.
23d Regiment. 6 rank and file killed; 1 captain,
17 rank and file wounded.
33d Regiment. 1 captain, 17 rank and file killed;
1 lieutenant colonel, 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 1 ensign,
4 ferjeants, 72 rank and file wounded ; 1 rank and tile
miffing. , 1
ift battalion 71st. 1 lieutenant,^ rank and file kil
led ; i captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 ferjeant, 22 rank and
file wounded;
2d battalion ditto. 1 ferjeant, 4 rank and file killed;
1 ferjeant, 8 rank and file wounded.
Volunteers of Ireland. 17 rank and file killed; 1
lieutenant, 2 ensigns, 2 ferjeants, 1 drummer, 64 rank
and file wounded.
Legion of cavalry. 4 rank and file killed; 1 ferjeant,
3 rank and fife wounded ; 2 rack and file miffing
Legion ofinfantry. 1 rank and file killed ; 1 lieute
nant, i ferjeant, 10 rank and file wounded ; 2 ferjeants,
3 rank and file miffing.
Royal North-Carolina regiment. 3 rank and file
killed; i lieutenant colonel, 1 lieutenant, r ensign, 3
ferjeants, 8 rank and fi'e wounded.
Pioneers. 2 rank and file killed; 1 lieutenant
wounded.
Volunteer milit'a. 2 rank and file wounded'; 3 rank
and file miffing.
Total. I captain, 1 lieutenant, 2 ferjeants, 64 rank
and file killed; 2 lieutenant colonels, 3 captains, 8
lieutenants, 5 ensigns, 13 ferjeants, 1 drummer, 213
rank and file wounded ; 2 ferjeants, 9 rank and file
miffing.
To th! PUBLIC.,
Do&or Shippen's Vindication,
continued.
TH E many and dirc& proofs I have already laid
be+oreil<e publi, of the Hli laity and fi lelity
Mit'% wh'ch l h*ve diftharged the duties of my
offi e, oughtto overwhelm my ac-ulers with iharreand
(OatufioH.
I n>w add a number of certificates from the m it re
f |enable per Ont in the medical iin* r as conmu nt nd
H mpeachable <e ! tim< nies<# the untruth ,n.,linfullice
with whch I have been accused : ; I ribs with the pub
lic to execute j fbee np^n thole, who unrrt^e Ipecious
pretext O' |udie good a-e re-by iubveitmg the olt
principles o' if, by rendering the chsra-Tr of every
hontft man anfife from the bakd aid blacked calum
n es.
I HAVE (tippled the place of a Gniar fur geon, in
the middle diftrid, fi; ce the ITft of August, and dur
ing that tine I have nevr known the sick or wounded
firmed with bad or adulterated wine, rftith^r has there
been any orn Tdun in the quantity of storer, &c, order
ed by me; the sick and wounded h've had as much at
t ntwn paid them, and ih-ir circumftanr^s made as
happy, by the director genera 1 , as the picfnt times
would admit.
Lititz April % FRANCIS ALISON, junr.
1778. senior fuigecn, G. H.
Yellow-Springs, fame 18, 177%
D^r Sr R,
WE, th- under-w : itten, having occasionally met to
gether at this post, were n >t left alarmed th n incenird
when we wete told that do&<rs Ruth and M rgan
fhpuld Kill purlin you wi it unrelenting imru of n v^ge
and defamation. Our information is: Fhai, f-oin the
complaint of there gert'emen to Cungreb, ,cu are at
reigned of neglect of duty and infidelity in your office
as director general. We m ; ke no det r t, ' i, but tint
the whole bodv of your femors, through the c n.ineat,
(whom you ^ell know to be the eyt;if inlp#a t on and
arms of execution- within the hospital deperm ent) wil
exptbit virtue, hofio, and truth enough to uipott you
on this occafi n, with their hone# and united teft-mo
n h, again# every effort of vindictive spleen and ca
lumny ; originating, not from public but partial
views; nt to C MFoRT but to confound om pte
fent happy arrangement ot hospital goveinmtnt; which,
we must acknowledge, is principally derive! fr m re
modern, combined endeavours of you and you? subal
tern officers, to promote tie hospital interest % We fa •
titer afleit it as our opinion, (and the cpinior, we be-
I tve, is prettv general,) that since the date cf doctor
Rufh's fuperct ffion and exit from amongst us, our hos
pital's improved, and the hospital government was uni
form. Doctor Me gan's reign existed before cur time ;
but the unanimous teftimbny of many officers, who have
a&ed under him and you, is consonant in averting—
That his hi mission proved another lucky era of
change in the hospital department.
We, however, on our parts, unsought and unsolicit
ed by you, or any man, unit fluenced by any views of
partial or p ruzaning influence, do hereby avow and
declare to the world : That from the dale of ourref[ec.
tive commiffi^ns, on the hospital Gaff, through all the
posts ^rd hospitals in which we refptßively exerciled
command, we never had cause to complain of you, as
d reßor, either in the purveying or prescriptive lines;
and that we think the charges, at prefect exhibited
a„:nft y^u, of negl<& of duty and infidelity in office,
are as malicious ns they are falfe and unfounded.
We remain, dear Sir,
Your obedient humble servants,
BODO OTTO, Senior ph,, and furg.
JAMES FALLON, ieuior pby.and furg.
INjuftice to Dr. Shipper's charader, I do certify,
that it is my opinion, the sick fold ere<: Bethlehem dirt
nut fuff?r from the director's wai t of care, attention, or
humanity : that he always ditched they should have
every thing that was comfortable, and they were always
well fupplitd with every necefla, y the corn ry could af
ford : nor do I know any tiring culpable in Dr. Shippen s
conduct; on the contrary, from my part cular and per
sonal acquaintance with the Defter, I have very ; ceat
r.afon to believe him possessed of the ftri&ft hon*#v
and integrity : as wi:nefs ray hand at Bethlehem, this
loth day of M rch, 1780.
NICHOLAS GARRISON, Senior Surgeon.
I DO hereby certify, that during the Space of two
yesrs, in which I have acted as a senior surgeon in the
hospital department, under the direction 0! Dr. Wil
liam Shippen, no instances of the truth of any clapes,
lately exhibited by doctor Morgan rginft ths dire&or
general have come to my knowled e: On the contrary,
as far at I have had opportunities of judging, the duties
es dirt&or general, as they related to tie holpit^ls,
havebea ably and faithfully fulfilled ; the 6 k being as
amply provided with all kinds cf stores as rhe times
would admit, and every n%tffary attention paid to them
tc render them as comfortab e a# pcffi#e<
In the execution of his office, the direacr, without
descending from the dignity o' his Ration, has ever
used the power committed to him with that moderaucn*
which has merited the efte'nt of his officers, among
whom harmony b?s prevailed ; and in ever, rejpeß,
within my knowledge, has appeared humane, vigilant,
and solicitous for the comfortable accommod; non or
the sick. WILLIAM SMITH, le^r LQcn.
Philadelphia, Jul, 3d, 1779.
Manheim, A^ril 15, 1778.
THIS is to certify, That I never knew art wine or
other stores adulterated in the hospital department tin e
I had the h mor to be in it, which has been ever free
the j 8 h of Sep ember, 1776, to the prelent d-te, ?nd
that doiftor Shippen's orders to me has ev-r been, tolet
the sick have every thing I judged neceflay, which I
have ever endeavoured to fee done ; and ever ordered me
so make just retutns, which bus always been done.
DAVID COWELL, Luo, fu-gcon.
I DO hereby certify, That i hiv^aed as fa geon's
mate in bindry hospitals ; that I have fern de&or Shippim
at rhem all, enquiring about their condition, and giving
direaions concerning them ; that they have been well
Supplied with 'll neceflaries tie country afforded, is well
as fogar, mol. ffes, wine, and other hospital Acres; that
I came to a& in Reading in January 1778, and con
tinued till t>e hospital was broken up; that while I
was here the sick did not fuller for want cf care in tha
futgeons or a proper supply o' ho'pitxl stores,
JOHN CTTO.
I DO cert fy, That I attended at the hospital in Beth,
frehem as tensor surgeon three months and upwards,
commencing the std of September last, during all which
t : me we wer* plentifully fuofliet with stores ofall kinds,
fefficient for the sick and wounded, nor had I any reason
to lu^ea any of our wine to be adulterated, except one
cask of port, whici w: all fafpe&ed the waggoner had
drank freel, ol (and .upplyed the deficiency with water)
ou the road from the taftwgrd, which I am per,waded
tire D. G. knew nothing of as he w<s not at that tim^
there, nor had be as I believe ever seen it.
Except about ten da\s, I was the only senior 'u^eon
there, and drew the orders for wine on the comm ffary,-
which wm 9 to ray cr:a n kno# le^ge, alw ys pun&ual
ly and fully complyed with. During the three month#
wr had, to the best of my knowledge, between eight and
nine hundred: men admitted at furdry times, but can
rot remember any return ts exceed 388 ftattd patients,
out of the whole number: in the above t.me, died 34.
We were two or three times mu;h crowded for some
days, occafidned by large parties coming from camp;
but always on complaint being mav'e we obtained re
lief. Fr m the moving date cf the hospital in the be
ginning, it war amcfNmpolfible to make out furh exa&
re;urns of th^ fi.k and wounded as we could have wished;
but ihedireflor general always infilled on our punaua
liep, which, after rhe firft two or three weeks we were
able to co np y wih: I can also certify, with truth, that
ever finer I have Leer in the firv ee^ (and that is now
eighteen months,) the dirta r general always difired
me to have every thing provided forthe sick and wound
ed, that money could procure, to make them comfort-
MGSFS SCOTT, senior furgcan 4
Fpbrit% April 10, 1778
N B. Upon computation, allowing four feet for
each patient, we concluded the haute at Bethlehem
would contain 360 without crowding.
M. S.
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Phi'ad<!yb^, Decern' er 16 ; 1780.
BY virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias, to
me dueaed, will be Sold by Public Vendue, 011
Friday, the Twenty -ninth instant, at Ten o'clock ia
the forenoon, at the late Dwelling House of Joseph
Bulkily, the corner of Fi th and Market streets, all the
HOUSHOLD GOODS of Aid Joseph Bulklev: Confift
wg cf Feather Beds and Bedding, Tabbs, Chairs,
Looking- Gaffes, &c. &c. Taken in Execution as the
property of laid jofeph Bulkley, at the suit of William
Davey. WILLIAM WILL, Sheriff.
Just Imported and to be Sold, on the leweft Terms, By
By Wooddrop and Joseph Sims,
At their STORE in Water-street, midway between
Spruce and Pine-sheets,
Scarlet Broadcloths, green, buff and white
Caffimers, Wiltons, silk and mohair Buttons and
Twrft,a quantity of French 'ewing Threads, Callicoes,
Brittan las, Gauzes, a box of assorted Cutlery, ex
cel ent Bohea Tea in chefti and h<!f chests, &-. &c.
A few doz^B of elegant CHINA BOWLS, &c. &c#
' T~O ~B~E L~E T,
And entered upon the frft day of March next,
A SMALL PLANTATION, cn the weft tide of
PAL unk road, about one mile and three quarters
frem she city, a jo ring to the plantation belonging to
Israel P mberton, dece-ftd, now in the poffeffon of
Conrad Seller- There is thereon, a good House and
K tchen, a Well of good Water, nil Stabler. For
Trms enquire of JACOB DUCHE, in Front street,
ruxt to the turner of Chefnut-ttreel.
JAMES NEWPORT,
At his Distillery Score,
In Th'rl street, between Market and Arch streets,
H.s for SALE, cf rxcellert Quality.
.And Spirits of Wine,
Proper for raifiag low proof L quors, or for Medici
ral Purpoks
N. B. He flb the above at a small prefit, and give#
goal encouragement to tLofe who buy of him to fell
again*
The Front Parc of a House,
GENTEELY FURNISHED,
T OBE LETT:
Also, A STABL E behind it;
In Front hrrtt, a few do^rs -hove the Ciffcshuufk
Erqure cf the Printers.
To be Sold, by E. Pirkefon,
At the figo cf the Thre- tuns, in Third-street, Le
tween South and Shippen- fleets,
Best Spandh Segars,
Made by FRANCIS SMITH, from Laly. D.c. ft.
Brandy,
Geneva,
Weft-india Rum,
Philadelphia ditto,
Annifeed Water,
Clove ditto,
Orange ditto,
Mint Cordial,