Dunlap's Pennsylvania packet , The general advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1777-08-12 00:00:00, page 2

fy, °f " e MEMORIAL prefnted the 26th ®f March,
1777, to the Kinj of Great Britain, by Count P/el
^G Qvo, <,the states General of the United Pro-,
Vinces." * '
' SIR F/;. * ° '' r ';;fo
IT is with 'the most profound refpe& t!fat the ,8-"
derwritteu Envoy Extraordinary and Plentyd^-''
tiary of their High Migh iheffes, in consequence of the
orders which be has just received, has the honor of
rep- eating to ^mr M j~ft<, that the Memorial pre
tented by b§ A /of 4 1 r 0:1 the twwty-firft oflaft
month, hat sensibly 'if d ; dtir^ and that they 6*d
th mf^ves A/ ;ed to brar tie cumdai*ts avd re
, lews c muffed therein, as if rheir Hgh Mighti-
Lt;.so:r:'u? ddof wxh^ng ^ ^iny M jefty
by fr^nd 7 affira c s, to winch fids give toe lie.
They are likewise affedei by the menacing to-^t which
reigns throughout the MriiorW, and which appears
to their High Mightiness too little confinant with
what is received and ought to have place between
Sovereigns and In impendent Powers, and more, espe
cially between neighbours, who have b:en so long
united by the ties of bar n^ny i.H friendship.
Their High MightineiTes thi k that ®n all occasion;
and particularly in these unhappy troubles of yohr
Maj rib's American Colonies, they have done towards
your M/jefty all that could be expected of a good
neighbour a^d a friendly affedi mate power.
As their High Mighriae£s, Sire, set the grea'eft
value upon your M jetty's ftiendfhip, they wild to do
every thing io their power as far as is confident with
the dignity and honor of the State, to cultivate it
more and more; but, at the fame tint?, Teycinnt
conceal from your Majeft, the painful Unferiuns w?;„
this Memorial has caused them.
It is entirely from the motive of (hewing your Vta-
Jftv every poflih'e attention, and to prove that their
High Mightinesses wish to neglect Nothing that may
conduce to the investigation of the truth of faces, upon
which the complaints seem to be founded. That they
have refolded to make this examination in the matt
ex,editions manner, and to clear it from ^ll ted ouf
nefs and delay. For this pu.pofe, their High M:ghti
ruffes have let afi le the ordinary form, always uedin
similar cases, of asking for a written state of the case
from their officers, and persons employed by them and
their Colon es; and they have already defpatched their
o r ders that the Commandant of St. Eadatia appear
before them without de ay, and as fpeelily as poflihle,
to give the ^ceffary informations of all that has paired
in the inod of St Euftatia, and of what has come to
' -h r knowledge relative to the American Colonies and
• Hs command , and to lay before
:s hisctftft in t^'e p'&
The un.fr.... is ordered to acquaint your Ma
jesty of this refomtion, and to declare that th^r Hgh
Migh^aefTes make.no difficulty to disavow, in the
mol'c excels terms, every aft or ma r k of honor that
may have bean given by their officers and persons in
to theviffAs of your Majesty's Colonies,
may give hw&dter, as far as fich afror
,oor may be of a nature from whence it
ruy be concluded that the Independance and Sove
reignty of the Cid Colonies are in the least acknow
ledged.
The underwritten is farther charged to acquaint your
mt their HighTifon eff:s have given orders
. rce to.the Governors and Commandants of
~:ciiUsuries co the Weft Indies, and have again en
joined them, in the frrori^eft terms, to observe ftridtiy
their placards and orders ayaimt the exportation cf.
military ft res to your Mgcdy'sAmerican Colonies,
and to hate these oners' executed with all pcfhole
rigour.
Lord Suf./k's answer to the foregoing letter of
Count Weldern.
SIR, London, April 10, 1777.
r^^ H E King having taken cognizance of the Me
& modal which you add'eff.T to his Majesty the
26th cf Bft month, in consequence of the orders that
you hud r chived from their High Mightineffis, orders
me o affine you that his X jfty accepts it with fa
tisATon; at the fame time, that he cannot perceive
that the Mem mial presented by his Ambassador to the
Spates General of the United Provinces,fe firft of
Feb-uary, contained any thing contrary to what ought
to have place between Sovereigns and Independent
Powers. In the feriour circurn ftancts in question,- his
M j- y has felt the affair which made the principal
fwj A ,f his comp Act the more fenfibiy, as it was
occafuned by the indecent proceedings ofa Governor
in the service of a.neiyhhour that has been lo long
r, ^^yawith hi« M ; ty qv ^e ties cf harmony and
ritual frieodfOTp. Hrs .ft ly lias 'learned, with
peafore, that their High Mightiness have fulfilled
his expectations; that they have recalled their Go
vernor; that the in/uh is disavowed, and that orders
are despatched to the G>verfnwrs and Commandants in
the Colonies of their High M^hrineffes -in the Well
Indies, to observe ftndlv the placards and orders
again# the exportation of Military ftmes t® his Ma
jury's American Colonies now in rebellion; and bring
peTyded that thsir High Mighrineff-s will attend to
the 11 ift execution cf then ordinances, tikes pleafare
in putting an end to all fir frits cf regret, which the
cenfequenecs of the eff^nfive coii^a of the Governor 1
of St. Euftatia may have cafec them. 1 fave^e
honor to be, with the most prfefl consideration, Sit,
&c. ' uFFOL K.
'°^W LIAMSE G, August 1.
, W^d^^Ly last arrived f r k river a Dutch ffiip,
Hen wifr%lt, and fame . pods.
The public are cautic. pinft receiving coun
terfeit Continental bills a' 1 Thirds of a
They are done from a r - late, on * yeliowifb
paper, aad so ill done as # be discovered.
P, < >t^T_ ,IA, 31.
Wedbefday hft arrives aveffeifipu the Weft
Indies, laden wih fair ar ^ffes.
Welnefday la* Captain ii the Malfebafetts,
belonging to this ^aie, a rirriq a Lfe port, with a
valuable cargo, in 4.0 days I> Nantz in France.
Captain Harridan, in tis "yranoicida (who was
lately reported tn have b n) foiled io company
with Captain F+fk, and n laily looked for.
Tharfday last arrived • port, a prize Hoop,
bond'd from Halifax for 'ork, laden with dry
goods dusk and cordage lalfo a prize Ichoones
laden with fib, Wuhbir . , bound from New
foundlaed for the W. # ° s.—Both the f e prizes
were taken by a fmali I. y -belonging to this port,
cornmmTd by Cam. Rrri.
Sanieday arrived fife in/ a schooner from Mar.
tinico, belonging to the States, laden with la.t,
some dry goods, and a f rels limes.
Captain Pknim from ico, failed iv com >any
with Captain Seth Storer brig beioogirg to S tco,
and parted company wiri he B.h inftarit, in l at.
I og. # pox@l > ^ri
Capt. Leaped DAnmie : Weathersfield, in toe
sloop Beriby was arrive. Aartinico, as was al£3
Captain Eleazer G>odri': t Merrigalddt.
Ado the fame day aw :<afe io port, a prize brig
laden with rum, &c. b 0 r om St. Kitts for Ire
land, taken by Captain ' ciberlain of the State of
Coßoeaient. She is ti - pwze taken by him, but
the lecond arrived, ant * part of a fleet of about
l6p fail, which failed f^ . Kitts the beginning cf
June, bound to dofrre •' # ts; the other prize, 1
fchooQjr laden with ru v loon expert to hear the
arrival of io some fafe [ The prize matter of the
above brig informs, the w an American priva
teer fall in with part of wowe deet (which had fe
oa ated fro^ the convoy be five, and ftind to the
northward from the re ^er. These pries were
taken on the 3 I of Ju'j , :. and as there were many
privateers fyoke with c* ; nithe fame lawitu le,
we era initop of ri „ . akrs a good account
of many more of them!
It is currently reprn - that three prizes laden
with fugar^are fafr a . ar fume of the eattera
ports.
,N E W-LO O N, 7^, 25.
Lal Sabbath, about lock in the afternoon, 23
fail of dr,pi ig appear-' inward of mh harbour,
coming" down the Sounc :r a furbreeze, and it was
apprehended might be b < .0.0 the harbour; alarm
guns were fired and thrr^ps go^aader arms; but it
f^an appeared that the . # e bound further eastward,
and by Go set they hau ^.dy puffed the western Point
of Filho's Bland..
Capt. Nies, id the fehooner Spry, who had
been matching the mo?ow : of the above fleet from the
time they came through H ; Gate; arrived at the bar
Sou 's mouth jaft ast . it went by; he had ieveral
fox fire? s' him w':e- . Gotten Reef, but at too
great a distance to inj adn. Cap:. Niles learnt by
a dekrter from the flep . ew Yo k, whom he brought
in with him, that the above were a fleet of victuallers,
bound to Ragland, under convoy of the Niger frigate,
and that they had orders to touch at Newport. It is
laid there were a considerable number of invalids on
board.
Last Friday afternoon a flag returned here from
Newport, with several prisoners, chiefly tick through
ill usage. The Tuesday before, the enemy carried
three prizes into Newport, but we don't leara what
veffcls they were.
PROVIDENCE, July 26.
Authentic advice was received here on Monday morn
ing by express, that 40 fail of ships and other vessels
from New York were seen tin the Weftei.n Sound the
evening before, fleering towards Rhode-liked. As
there was a probability of their being the van of the
enemy's grand fleet, who might have it in view to pe
netrate the C3U try by way of this town, orders we.e
:fibwu ior the Lf^tk to hold themfelyes in r^adinefe,
and expresses difpatc,ed to the MahacTwe"© jrare^
requefrpg affiftaace, if neoeffary. The fleet disappear
ed on MoAdOT and the mailer of a vessel, arrived at
Bedford from Sou h-Cafolind, informs, that he fav 21
fail the sane day, fleering S. E. from Block lil^nd,
didant about three Imgues-, —The bigheft praise is due
to the Militia of this and the MalLchuletts State, who
at this busy season were with great spirit assembling in
arms to defend their country.
The ri:et above mentioned are foppofed to be empty
traofpcHS or vidtaalUrs, bound te ^urqpe under con-
On Moil lay a iloop was taken for Point-Judith, by
a (mail privateer. She was beund from Newport te
Lang-Band, for wood.
FI S FI ~K I L L, Auouftl
We lea'rn from the Northward, by 2 f%ld.tr whobad
been made a prisoner on the retreat from Ticonderoga,
but had fioce made his escape, that there were in the
house in which he was confined, 170 of the enemy woun
ded, and that in an open tielu near that place he had
seen 130 of their dead.
Extraft of a letter from Fort St ?mjix, J&\ 20.
“We have received frequent intelligence he r e that
Sir John J Trifon has ordered Co! Butler to fend abont
200 Indians tg visit the .mt and peris alriping, wh®
were to set out the 3d ts August from — near Ofwegb.
And that Sir J ha, with about 1000 troops, made up
of British, Tories, and vagabond Ca^^ws, are with
fabler, and all the Indians they can meric follow as
loon as possible."
Extraft of another letter fr^m Fort StrnnwY, f/y 28.
" Yel'erday this garrison w.s alarmed by the firing;
of four guns, whes a party were immediate y (ent out
to the place, which Was about 500 yards frora the fort;
but the villains were AT, saving (hot, fca'ped and to
mahawked two girls, and wounded a third. The girls
bad been out gathering rafberries. By the be« drico
veries we could make they appeared to h.-ve been f<ur
Indians who perpetrated tlie'e mu'd'rs. We had four
men with arms who bad just sassed by that place; but
these mercenaries of Britain came not to fight, bet tr»
lie in wait to murder; and it is equally the fame torthem
if they can get a scalp, whether it be from a soldier or
an innocent babe. These Indians we are informed are
feme of those sent cut by Sir J. no Johnsen, Col. Close
and Butler.'.
Extract of a letter from All^ny, Angufl 4.
'' As to news we have but little of.consequence; cur
army have daily Ikirmilhes with parties of Indians and
Regulars.—Fhe Indians daily Icalp men, women and
children, and by what I can learn there is ver, little
difference between the Regulars and Indians, for where
Miss M'Crea was butchered and scalped, a large num
ber of Regulars were at a little distance, fpedators of
the horrid aft.
" Gur army will come to Stillwater this day or to
morrow; Col. Warner's party encreafes, he has aow
3000 with him and daily receives reinforcements."
The latest accounts fay, the fleet cf (hips which ho
vered about the Capes of the Delaware disappeared.—
Various are the conjectures about their dedication; —-
Some fav they are bound to the Eastward, to land at
Rhode Ifiand or near ir—others fay they are bound up
the North River, and that the embarkation of part cf
the troops was a maotyuvre of the enemy to draw <
sort divide «ur array; to fapport their opinion they f
ther fay, that the greater part cf the Brik(h army were
left on Staten Bland; that a number of waggons are
col!eaed and code-ting at Kinglbridye, and that they
are daily iocreafig their army there. In Ihort, the
news from that quarter are vague and indeterminate,
wherefore little dependance is to be put upon them.
H :wever, we may rationally conjeSure that the enemy
are meditating a blow Somewhere, and we must not be
idle, bur keep a good look cut in order to repel it.
In COUNCIL of SAFETY for the Statz
of NENTO RK, July 30, 1777.
A PROC L AMA TIO N.
WHEREAS His Excellency George Clinton,
Enquire, has been duly efefted Governor 6f
this State of New-York, and hath this day qualified
himfelf for the execution of his office by taking in this
Council the cTs required by the Constitution of this
State, to enable him 10 exerqile his said office: This
Council do therefore, hereby, in the name and by the
au hvify of the good people of this State, proclaim and
declare the fail George CLINTON,! Esquire, Gover
nor, General and Cown^ander in Chief of all the Mili
tia, and Admiral of the Navy of this State ; To whom
the good people of this Stale are to pay all due obedi
ence, according to the Laws and Constitution thereof-
By Order of the Council of Safety
PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, Frefident.
GOD S/IUE THE PEOPLE.
PHILADELPHIA, Augufll2.
Last week died at New York,
Mrs. ELIZABETH FRANKLIN,
The Wi e of William Franklin, Esq;
Late Governor of New Jersey.
She was a Lady diflirguilhed by a
Refined Education,
A peculiar sweetness of Manners,
- And dear to her friends
For the 1-in ruis of her Heart:
She filled her Station in life
With a dignity that commanded Rtf^, LL
And aa affability that engaged th% ' °°
Her circumftanc^t'f' a1uent,
ifratrc exemplary,
Her death unfortunate.
A sincere Friend
Pays this final! tribute to her Worth,
And embalms her Memory with
A Tear.