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1? New Tork frem Lo^toi, we Live the follow-,
r^ devices.
M ADRI D, Aupu, 2s.
^ E have advice from Monte Video,- that in
? V the morto of April kl the Purtuguefe
gone to attack that place with a squadron of five
thips and fame land forces ; bit that our Gover
hor repaired them and funk one of their Blips. On
occasion of this aft of hoitiiity, they have raised
at Buencs Ayres 11,000 tr >ops, which are incoi
ported with 1000 veterans, and part of them
will be employed in the defence of that colony,
whilst toe red go to attack the Portuguese in that
of ct. Sacrament.
Leghorn, Sept. 2. Letters from several Tuscan
officers at Aiicant positively aflert, that the Span
i.h fleet will undertake nothing more this year
against the Algerines ; on the contrary, the fleet
is separated, and the foreign veffcls difeharged.
LONDO N, September 15.
Large quantities of provisions have been feit
from Ireland for America, but no troops yet. —
'f he ,reai@u is obvious ; the regulars want provi
£g< $ s more than reiafurements at the present fea
ion#
Sept. 19. Last Saturday's Gazette contains
addreifes to his Majesty from the gentlemen, e'er
gy, merchants, manufacturers, and principal in
habitants ofthe town and neighbourhood of Man
chJter, in the county palatine of Lancaster; the
mayor, recorder, aldermen, bailiffs and commonal
ty of the town of Lancaster, in cimmon council
affembied; the mayor, bailiffs and burgeffs of
the borough of Leicester ; and from the mayor,
aldermen, bailiffs and common council of Liver
pool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, in
council assembled.
General Gage has applied to administration
for iofiruftioas, receding the disposition of his
trooos the ensuing winter, representing the ini
pofioility of remaining in Boston a single day after
the fruit sets 111, as the fleet will then be rendered
totally useless for the defence of the garrifun, and
the Provincials are determined to lay it in aihes
the moment that season arrives, and put every
man to the (word.
The detachments from Burgoyne's and Elliot's
light horse, being ordered to march to be ready
I for embarking for Boston, put black crape upon
toeir swords, and past in that truly mournful man
ner from Kenfingtoh to Brentford; and in their
way they met his Majesty, to whom they meant
to (hew that they disliked and detested the unna
tural (ervice they were going on.
Mott of the officers, particularly the field offi
cers and captains, of the regiments in Ireland,
ordered to go to America, (except those of the
46th) have^prefented memorials, soliciting leave
of absence, alledging ticknefs, &c.
It is held a certain fall, that, on account of
the difareeablenefs of the service, no offi :er of rank
or note hath gone to America without a gratuity
\ of toco or 590 guineas, bchdes all his other ap
pointments for table, hotfes, and servants, and
free t.aufpoiration to Button.
.The noble Lord who lately refined his corn
million, because he forefaw that American blood
would be u jaftdiably fpilt, we hear, has been
refused the privilege of keeping his military rank.
However oilier branches of trade may thrive,
the American, Well Indian, and African must
fink. The ludden decay of trade finally produccth
every species of disorder. The dreadful feene at
Liverpool is but the beginning of koine calamities,
ail chargeable 00 the Ministry. This feene of
horror and bloodshed will soon, in all probability,
be more than equalled at Whitehaven, Glasgow,
and other wedern ports. And who shall fay, that
none ofthofe violent sh ikings will ihake the throne ?
A morning paper of yesterday fays, “ The Bri
ti.h army now in America, together with the re
inforcement ordered for that part of the world,
will make a body of more than 20,000 men. To
ihefe are to be added 26,000 Ruffians, and 10,000
Hhffiaas, Hanoverians, and Wirtembergers; the
whole are to take the field in April next." —But
the writer of this splendid account has forgot a
very material article, viz 10,003 Canadians un
der General Charleton, as the French call him,
which will amount in the whole to 66,000. Our
correspondent adds, “ if Gage's army, not ex
ceeding 6000-men, are starving during the best
fealon of the year, which way are ten times that
number to sublist ?
We are credibly informed, that contrast >r
Melibh is gone down to Huntingdonfhire, to buy
up two thousand more flieep for the purpose offup
plying the army in Boston; As the far greater
part of these iheep will most probably die on their
piffage, and such as fu: vive, from the loss of flem,
&c. be rendered of little worth, (not to fay un
•wtiolefomc) by disease ; query, is not this dis
tressing the poor at home, without a probability of
affording the army any effcdual relief abroad?
And if government are reduced to such wretched
thins to support from 6 to 10.000 men, how are
the 20 or 30,000 foreigners to be provided for?
Private letters from Cork fay, that tho soldiers
who are to be lent to America murmur exceeding
ly. They are so averse to the fetvice, that most
of them have declared, if they are forced on board
the transports, they will take the firft opportunity
tode'ert. The letter adds, that this declaration
bag given great uneafines to the officers.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of rank near
Planchefer.
“ You ask a line of politics from me; alas! I
can onlv Ibiccrely lament the miserable state of
public affairs, and deprecate the mifehiefs and dis
traSions that mutt arise from the weak, oppreflive,
vimdiftive fydern of our American politics. The
trends of American freedom," however relpeffable,
are out numbered every where, arid the Ministry
leem to have the cry in their favour. Toryism
P H ILaDELPHIA: Printed by JOHN DUNLAP, at the Neveft PrintAQfoin Market-Street
Subscriptions at Ten Shillings per Annum, Advertisements, &c. arc thankful v 'received for this
pre 7s in this part of the country, and ern Ja
cobites and Non jurors are become loyal, and
address rhe King; witness their Manchester Ad
dress. I did not attend this business, or (as you
will believe) sign the courtly paper filled as it is
with fa!fr,oE and fictitious lo altv. The proposed
afTociarion has been sadly managed, their papers
dispersed onlv amongst the avowed friends of Vfi
riftry with us, who make them the pretext for
addressing. All the houses in Manchester, who
bare ever had any commerce with America, re
fufed to sign the address, as impolitic and unprate
fair
Extrafl of a Letter from Gofort, Sept. T 4.
" All the Ships in the harbour fitting for Boston
are nearly ready, and will go to Spithead very
Shortly.
Sept. 20. A report is current, that fevera?dfiin
guifoed perfensha ve heev.given to underfted that them
conduct nvith regard to the disagreement between
Great- Britain and her Colonies, has proved (0 dis
pleating, that a continuance of their attendance mid
be dispensed with.
The Minify are exerting all their interef to pro
cure addrefa in favour oj their measures againf Arne
rica from the different cities and towns throughout the
kingdom.
Bad measures may be applauded by bad men; but
those who are difinterefed, and in spite of arbitrary
threats, dare speak their minds, declare thy think
America bifry injured, wifo their brethren on the
other fide the Atlantic a foeed, issue from their troubles,
and those who catjed them an early impeachment and
a public execution.
An address to bis Majesty has been moved for at
Aberdeen in Scotland, but goes on more slowly there
than at either Glasgow or St. Andrew's, so that it is
a chance whether it will be carried. A number of
refpedable people are ayainft it, as they fa, it cannot
be pro ved that any opposition which is carried on [s in
tended again? the. Kina, but againfl bis Miniflers, who
are as heartily despised in Scotland as in England.
W'e hear from Aberdeen in Scotland, that the King's
Proclamation was read there laji week in due form,
but was far from being so joyfully received as some
p.orle expelled.,
Government have contrafled with Mr. MeViJh to
fupp'y tke troops at Bo, on with a very conJiderable
number of oxen, and 14,000 Jbeep, the large, and fat
teft that can be procured. Several of the oxen and
4000 of the fbeep are ordered to be feat over immediate
ly, alive, and the remainder as feqn as they can be
purchased.
It is said that the Duke of Northumberland has
freighted a flip for Bo,on, with jrejb provifons, for
the use of Lord Percy's regiment.
Borton is said to be no longer tenable. The govern
meat troops will, in confeqmnce, retire to Lon^-lfland.
Ex<ra& of a Letter from the Hon. Lieut. General
Gage to the Eail of Dartmouth, dated Boston,
August 20.
" Mr. Waftrngt'n who commands the rebel army,
has written to me on the fubjed 0, the treatment of the
rebel prisoners in our custody, a copy of wbofe letter I
transmit your Lordfoip, together with a copy of my an
Jwer. Major Skene, made prisoner at Pbilade pkia,
is fen! into Conneaicut, where he is to be confined with
some others ; and I under, and they make war like fa
vages, making captives of women and children.
'• The rebels are very numerous, and continue to
throw up works, in fame points nearer to the town
than before. Their advanced parties have been drove
back at Be,on and Charleflown, and their posts de
frayed. They landed a large body a second time at the
light house, where they made prisoners of a few ma
rines, pofled there by the Admiral, and ten or twelve
carpenters, who were repairing the house.
" A fleet of transports, who bad been out in search
of livefock, is just returned with about eighteen bun
dredjbe p, and above one hundred head of oxen, which
will be some ' elief to the trcops in general, and of great
benefit to the kofpita's.''
IPc bear that General Gage, on bis arrival in Eng
land, is to be c r eated Lord Lexington, Baron of Bun
ker's Hill.
They write from Hanover, that tie two battalions
of E^Gorate troops def inert for Port Mahon, have
;ecei ved orders to rendezvous at Stade, from whence
they are to embark.
The three battalons of Hanoverian troops defined
jo- the defence of Gibraltar, are expeßed to arrive at
Plymouth towards the end of this month.
Sept. 21. The corporation of limerick, in Ire
land, have voted the freedom of that city to the
Right Honourable the Earl of Snelburne, as a mark
of their refpe& and efteern.
The freedom of the above city was at the fame
rime voted to Cel. Eyre Maffy, of bis Majeftv's 27th
regimnt of foot as a mark of their approbation of
bis services.
Monday ( iledfrom the river with flour for the
troops at Bo So a, the Warner, Capt. Hammond.
By authentic accounts from Boston, the army
there is in a molt deplorable state, Lord Percy's re
giment can turnout only 130 men fit to duty, by
this time probably hair the n tmber, and 10a of
rhufe wounded at Bunker's Hill are since dead. The
Generals Gage and Burgoyne are coming home,
and ma be daily expected here. The latter of them'
notwithft nding his parade of the Englifo power in
his letter to General Lee, is coming to confi-m what
he lately wrote home, that “ 20,000 men would be
a feeble reinforcement in the prefect ficuation of the
army."
On Sunday evening arrived in town General
Gage's lady from Salisbury, and immediately wait
ed on their Matty's at Kew, where (he wis most
graciouflr received, and had a conference for up
wards of an hour, after which (he returned to town.
The government have contrasted with Felix Cal
vert and Henry Thrale, Efqrs. to furnith 5000
butts of strong beer each, to he (hipped with all pof
fiole dispatch for the life of his Majesty's troops at
Boston. A contract is alf> entered into with Mr.
Slade, to furnifh 5000 chal^on of coals ; and Mr.
Duffy, of Tooley-ttreet, a very large quantity of
potatoes; and on Monday a quantity of faggots
were (hipped on board several transports at Dept
ford. Happily there is a very large fleet of Colli
ers in the river, or it is imagined, the above exten
sive contract would greatly enhance the price of
coals, as they are all taken at the market price
which is a fufficient proof of the necessities of go
vernment.
In a letter from Boston, dated the 20th of
August, to a gentleman in this city, it is said, that
fourteen officers under General Gage had refi r ned
their cornmiffions, and would return home with one
of the firttjhips. Several reasons are affixed - one
amongst the rett is that of some officers from home
bein # promoted in the room of those killed or dis
abled in the late engagements. It is added, that
the General would have come home with his lady
in the Charming Nancy had not the above circum
ftan'e S-'p-ne? t de'Jh bit* ' : 1, lehr
Meetings of the freeholders of several counties, it
is laid, will be mod, in order to detei rnine whetner
t.iey shall give ibiLuctio s to their reprefcntatives
id Parliament, for their conduct the ensuing session
in regard to America.
Thirteen surgeons hav p received orders to em
bark for Boston by the firft (hip that fails for that
port.
A letter from Plymouth, dated September 17 'l7s,
" This day the transport from Bohou came into
Catwater, and a few of the men came on (hore,
when hardly ever were fecn such objects! some
without legs, and others witho it arms ; and their
cloaths hanging on them like a loo<e morning
gown, so much are they fallen awy by fickaetg
a^d want of proper nouiiflrnent. There were near
(fry women and chi dien on board, widows and
<1 Idren of the men who were (Ibn. Some of these
I have met in the Preet, 2nd they exhibit a mod
Chocking fpeCtacle ; and the vessel itfelf, I am told,
though a very large one, yet is almost intolerable,
from the ttench arising from the sick and wounded,
for many of them are hardly cured yet. There are
two more transports daily expected with invalids,
Mio failed fr an Boston with tue above."
Several young gentlemen of fc ne of the £fl fa
mii es in England, are gone cut to Boston, in th,
R'fhop, Capt. Willoughby, which tailed from the
river yesterday, as volunteers to serve under General
Gage.
kept. 22. A great quantity of small arms are
now getting ready at the Tower, to be whipped
for Bodun.
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, Sept. 17.
" We learn here, by the sick and wounded sol
diers who are landed, that ihereis not above 2000
soldiers, including officers, at Bota, fit to do
duty, and these are averse to the service. They
deciare that 60,000 men would not be able to
bring tht Americans under fubjedion. They fur
ther lay, that the Provincials used the prisoners
so well, that most of them desire to continue where
they are. Ail the soldiers (peak well of the Ame
ricans for their great humanity. In (hort, many
who were against the Americans, are now in fa
vour of them."
A yuung Nobleman, no less amiable for his pri
vate than illuftiious for his public virtues, has, we
hear, declared himfelf a friend to the plan on which
the London Affuciation is formed. It a not douht
ed'but an example of this find will induce such of
our Nobles as poffnfs the orinciples of p^triotifm,
to lend their aid to a feueme in favour of constitu
tional liberty.
It it rumoured about the Court that Lord Hol
d^neffe will rtfign his p< ft, and that Lord George
Germaine is to succeed him as Preceptor to the
Prince of Wales.
By the latert advices government have received,
there is every reason to believe that the Americans,
if they have not effected, have jet meditated the
capture of Canada.
Three merchant flips, freighted on account of
the Generals Howe, Clinton, Percy and Burgoyne,
laden with live dock, peafe, flour and porter, fiifo
ed vefterday from the river for Boston.
The Hon. Admiral Byron will be appointed the
second in command on the American station.
Effradl of a Letter from the Hague, Sept. 15.
" They write from Hanover, that Cal. de Scuei
ter, whose exploits last war made him well known,
has offered to the Regency of that Elaborate, to
raise a regiment to be employed against the rebels
'" America ; and he has obtained leave to go to
London to make a tender of his services there."
Sept. 25. Government has, we hear, con
trasted for 10,000 tons of potatoes from England
and Ireland to go to America, three thousand of
which one potatoe merchant has engaged to fur
nifli them with.
A petition to the King is sent over from the is
land of Grenada, praying that reconciliatory mea
sures may take place between Great-Britain and
her Colonies, as the effeds of the dispute are
greatly felt in Grenada and the other Weft India
i(lands.
The Union, Capt. Pearson, from Nantucket,
and the Eden, Capt. Marshall, from Maryland,
with some dispatches to Lord Dartmouth's office,
are both fafe arrived in the Downs.
This morning orders were sent down to Ports
mouth, Plymouth and the several dock-yards, for
the men to work double tides in order to repair the
several men of war that are put into commiflion,
and are Ordered to be got ready for failing with all
expedition.
Extras of a latter fr§m Barcelona, Sept. 6.
" They write from Alicant of the 20th ult.
that the night before General O'Reily, the Admi
ral Caftejon, and three other Generals, had failed
on board two frigates, under convoy of five men
of war of the line, as it is said, for Cadiz, where
it is fappofed these Gentlemen will meet further
orders."
A correspondent informs us, that an officer on
half pay applied to a Noble L >rd, his friend, for
a command in America, thinking it the likelie.l
way for promotion, which the other dilTuaded him
from fur the present, adding, that he thought
things were in a train of accommodation.
# The following fix regiments are coming home,
viz. 18th, 51st, and §o r h, from North- America
and the Wert Indies ; the 69th, from Gibraltar;
the 13th, 25th, and 2d battalion of the Royals
from Minorca.
The army and fleet at Boston have diferetiohary
orders to winter wherever they shall think it most
convenient and fafe.
WATERTOWN, Dec. 4.
Yesterday fe nnight a large ship being near the
light off Cape Anne, was ftreck with lightning,
which set her on fire, and burnt to the water's
e ^g e > "11 she funk. A number of cannon were
heard to go off, while (he was on lire, and 'twas
thought at firfl that die was at least a 20 gun ship ;
but we have an account from Boston, that it was
the Juno transport ship from London, laden ody
with hay for Burgoyne's heavy horse at Boston,
which will soon become light, if forage fails at this
rate — At the fame time a sloop being near her,
laden with wood and hay, b^und allo for Boston,
was likewise struck with lightning, which so difa
bled her, that (he put into the Gurnet, whe 11
,115 le "" t^drri: 5 5a,. vT^, and ^, rs
her into Plymouth.—On, Hell, miller o' the d top.
The (miles of Providence on the amencan
CRu'e, cannot but anirr re every ingenious mind,
and ftimnlate every friend of his country to pur
lue, with unremitted a dour, the raoft vigorous
measures for defeating the infernal defies of the
British Mi^irtry. And he who manifett, any
backwardness in the present glorious struggle for
preferring the Liberties of America, betrays the
basest ingratitude to almighty GOD.
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 2 .
Saturday last Capt. Abraham Whipp'e. in a
cruder from this place, took near Secones, a ichoo
nsr from Boston, in ballast, Matthew Chub, mas
ter. —(he h:d on board a cable and anchor for
one of the King's (hips at Newport, where (be was
bound for provisions, addressed to George Rome,
now on board the Rose man of war. The prize
is since arrived here.—Capt. Arnold, of Pa wtuxet,
whose vessel was taken by rhe enemy at Stoning
ton some time since, and carried to Boston, came
passenger.
Wednesday evening last the Gunner and fevea
seamen deferred from an armed schooner at New
port. The Captain and Lieutenant soon after
ventured on Rome's wharff in search of them, and
&ere made prisoners by a party from head quarters
on the island. The Captain is son to the Earl of
stanhope, and is the identical villain who lately
robbed a house on Prudence, in violation of the
agreement made by Capt. Wallace with the town
of Newport.
NEWPO R T, (Rhof.-lfland) Dec. 4.
Ten Thousand minute-men ffand ready to come
in for the protection of this island, on the shortest
notice; Five Thousand of whom can be landed an
the island in 24 hours, and the other in 24 more.
N E W-Y OR K, December ir.
By a letter from St. Jahn's, dated Novem
ber 24th, we are informed, that the Conti
nental troops have received intelligence, that
there were concealed under ground, about ten
tons of Gunpowder, and 7009 stand of final,
arms, that were to be put into the hands of the
Canadians and Indians, to assist the Ministerial
troops, and that they were digging for them, had
found several chests of flail arms, and likewise
had fifhed out of the lake, a royal ftaodard, and
a number of muskets.
Saturday night arrived here from our army in
Canada, Lieut. Norton, of Col. Clinton's regi
ment, Mr. Bean, Gunner, and Mr. Phineas
Champman ; who bring us the agreeable news
that all the (hipping that lay at Montreal, has
fell into the hands of General Montgomery, a
mong them the Gafpey brig of war, with all the
prisoners (Col. Allen excepted) lately taken near
St. John's : The fleet with Governor Carleton
on board, had failed for Quebec, but was inter
cepted by a gondola, and a battery eroded by
Col. Eafton, near the river Sorell, and there
taken, with about 150 soldiers, &c. among them
Col. Prefcot, &c. who were arrived at Ticonde
roga, a few days ago, on their way to Connecti
cut. That Carleton, Luke La Corn, and two
others, went off in a boat from the fleet before it
struck, but were taken Prisoners by Col. Arnold,
near Quebec; that General Wootter was left to
command at Montreal, and General Montgomery
was gone to assist Col. Arnold to secure Quebec.
I he (hip Minerva, Capt. Gregory, from Phi
ladelphia, bound for St. Kitts, fell to leeward,
and arrived at Jamaica the 26th of Oddber.
PHILADELPHIA, December 13.
We are credibly informed, that Gen. Burgoyne
and a great number of officers, who have refigoed#
are about to leave Boston for England General
Burgoyne we hear is going to England to get EE
bo-jjroom.
By the most authentic advices fr^m the Camp at
Cambridge, we are informed, that about the 17th
ult. Capt. Adams, in the armed schooner \V rren,
belonging to the United Colonies, took a larg
fchooner laden with fruit and vegetables of variot s
kinds bound for Boston. That on the 27th of the
fame month Capt. Manly, of the armed schooner
Lee, belonging to the United Colonies, ohfwrving
a fleet of vessels hound into Boston, found means to
separate a large brigantine mounting two fine brats
fix pounders, and a sloop which served as a tender;
from their convoy, took them both andcarried them
into Cape Ann, where the brigantine, when these
advices came away, was difeharging as fine a col
lection of military stores (powder excepted) as ever
was sent to this country, the value estimated st
20,000! currency—but to onr army ineftim able. As
this capture was made in fight of the other vefftb,
and at no great distance from Boston, there v a
reason to apprehend a violent effort would he made
to recover it, to prevent which General Washington
ordered four companies to march immediately to
cover the unladingthe veflel. Teams were irnprefl
ed from all quarters to bring away the Ifores, and
Col. Glover, in the mean time, to raise the minute
men, in the nighbourhood of Cape Ann, for their
immediate security.
Among the (lores, a complete lift of which is ve
ry long, are—2ooo nmfquets w tn acc nvremrn:s
complete—7s carbines with ditto— 105,000 flints
-80 set of horie-barnefs for the ^tillerv-- .200 ditto
for men --igocamp kettles---6o reams of cai trnbe
paper for 12 pounders--- 3< tons mufquet (hot---m
Ct. buck ditio---ii mortar beds of different fixes
for land service 10 tons junk 7 ammunition
waggons---1 50 carcalles 13 and 8 inch —4OOO empty
flannel cattridges-.-g s o emery fh^ls, from 13 inch
to 5 and an half—ll Ipire travelling carriages to,
12 pounders---20,000 cannon cartridges, from )z
to 3 pounders (empty). --3^o empty (hJIs-- 3400^
(hot ol differ nt kinds, hum 24 ^ j po^nu- -
meal'd powder, 2 barrels---port hres, 10- dizen---
1 5°° empty fiarnel cartiidges lor lignt 12 plunder!
---I brais 13 inch mortar—-m >rr r-bed tin ditto
complete---32 ^atch c>ats---bellowfes-- hand a d
wheel barrows----cailipers--.canv.s-- cb.K-.ds
---pincers---Innncls —(antherns—naos. -- fpo» - .
fwect and trunod.--lheepdkins---tcuL s. b- ii . b
a variety of imalier articles of less v? uc, mt etul
-necessary to equip a complete train of ardlo .