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fy e heir that a brig, prizeto the John, laden ^^; salt,
arrived at Salem on Ihurfday last,
Friday lad arrived here, Captain Jarvis, in a schoo
ner in 23 days from Martinico, he.informs, that 7 fail
of 'Count D'EftiMgL . fleet had arrived there from
Georgia, the day before he failed, that it was reported
the Count with 10 fad of the line has gone to France,
in order to take command of the combined fleets, that
the other 8 fail are to tarry in America till further or
ders,
PROVIDENCE, December 18.
We learn that letters are received at the Westward
from Col. Broadhead, Commandant at Fort Pitt, inform
ing that foine Canadians had arrived there, and brought
advice, that the several tribes of Indians which had been
driven from their towns by Gen, Sullivan, in his late
expedition, were in a flarving situation; that they had
apolied to the Commanding-Officer at Niagara, and de
manded provisions, alledging that he had been the camb
of all their misfortunes, by prevailing on them to strike
the Americans; that for prudential reasons he had for a
short time afforded them a scanty supply, but on receiv
ing advice from Qiebec, that no more provisions were ex
pected to arrive from England 'till the ensuing spring, he
was obliged, for the preservation of his garrison, to re
fufe the savages any further fuppert, in consequence of.
which they were dying in great numbers.—Thus, by the
spirited exertions and perseverance of this brave and a&ive
officer, under every difficulty, and the happy success of
the expedition, our frontiers are entirely secured against
the incursions of a perfidious savage enemy.
POUGHKEEPSIE, January 10.
The very remarkable and long continued severity of
the weather (the like not having been known, as we are
informed, by the oldest man living) has flopped all the
avenues of intelligence, and almost cut off all social in
tercourse between people of the fame neighbourhood.
The incessant intenseness of the cold, the great depth and
quantity of the snows, following in quick succession one
on the back of another, attended with violent tempers
of wind, which for several days made the roads utterly
impassable, has put a flop to business of all kinds, except
such as each family could do within itfelf. Andas many
were slenderly provided with necessaries for subsistence,
we have reason to apprehend, that we mail shortly hear
many melancholy accounts of private difirefs in the couth
try; and that from the sea coafls and vessels at sea, the
accounts will be dreadful.
PHILADELPHIA, January 27.
At a Meeting of the AMERICAN PHILOSO
PHICAL SOCIETY, the 21st inst. the following
Gentlemen were chosen Members, fe.
His Excellency George Washington; Esq; General and
Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States
of North America.
His Excellency the Chevalier De La Luzerne, Minister
Plenipotentiary of France.
Monsieur Marbois Secretary to the Embassy of France.
His Excellency Thomas Jofferfon, Esq; Governor of the
State of Virgrnia.
Mis Excellency John Jay, Esq; Minister of the United
States at the Court of Madrid.
His Excellency Henry Laurens, Esq; late President of
Congress.
The Honorable John Adams, EIL late Member of
Congress."
Tne Honorable William Carmichael, Esq; Secretary
of the Embassy to the Court of Madrid.
Major General Arthur St. Clair.
Major General Anthony Wayne.
Col. William Grayson, of the Board of War.
Col. Hamilton, and Col. John Laurens, Aids du Camp
to His Excellency General Washington.
Baron de Stuben, Infpeftor General of the American
Army.\*•
Major Vallancey, Second Engineer of Iceland, and
Secretary tot^ Society of Antiquarians in Dublin,
Timothy Matlack, Esq; Secretary of the Supreme
Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania.
The Rev John C. Kuntze, Rector of the German Lu
theran Congregation, Philadelphia.
The Rev. Mr. James Madison, President of William
and Mary College, Virginia.
William Churchill Houston, Esq ; Profeffw of Mathe
matics of Nassau College, and Delegate in Congress for
theSrate of New-Jersey.
Dr. William Brown, of Virginia.
Mons. Touroon, Engineer of the Southern army. And,
Robert Erfkiue, Esq ; F. R. S. Geographer of the U
nited States.
Letters from Williamsburg fay, that by a gentleman
from Charleftown, and also by a Charleftown paper, the
Spaniards have in^efled St. Augufline; that General Pre
voft with his whole army had left Georgia to aid that
place, but his affi dance came too late ; and that Penfaco
1a had submitted to the Spanish arms.
On the morning of the 15th inst. Major Lee detached,
from Burlington, 40 men, under the command of Cap
tain Patten, in weighs, who, before next morning, were
along fide the guardfllip, laying froze in the ice near San
dy Hook; but finding that the ice for several yards round
her, was cut, so that they could not board her, they re
tired to a small diflance unperceived, where they furpri
zed two schooners and a sloop, made the men prisoners,
burnt the vessels, and then returned without the least h>fs,
bringing with them the prisoners and what plunder they
thought proper.
The French [hip Tfabella, (mentioned in the let
ter from a merchant in L'Orient, in our last) was
from the Su, ar islands of France, taken on her passage
by the British, and retaken by Captain M'Neal, and car
ried into France. A French recaptor of a prize, above 24
hours in the enemy's ofteffion, is, by the laws of that
kingdom, entitled to the whole, and the former owners
are divested of all claim. In this case, the question was ;
if this extended to an American cruizer?
Copy of a letter from Count D'Eftaing to Madame the
Marechale de Monchy. July 12.
" Madam,
" HE is well in health as excellent in conduct. He
has already fought the English by sea andland. He has
nd two balls in his cloths. An assault ard a navil
combat are the small amusements h^ has enjeyed within
four days time. The troops of his division love him.
Yes, Lady Marecbale, ot his division; for I entreat
you to believe M. the Viscount de Noailles commanded
one. It did not indeed consist cf twenty thousand men,
but it was brave, vigorous, ar.^well conducted. 1 (hall
recommend my fellow-foldier, and Lieutenant-General
jn coadud, (meaning the Viscount de Noailles) for a
Cross of St Loirs and the rank of Brigadier, the mo
ment I (hall land him in Europe.
" I beg you ro solicit this favor for me ; I declare to
you it is already merited. I will not promise you not
to quarrel with Monsieur your son foirctiir.es, for I am
by nature forrewhat of the pedagogue, and his ardour
is really excessive ; for instance, he had nothing to do
with a naval combat.
" Accustomed from my birth to lay under obligati
ons to you, believe me, I conjure you, that I fancy
jmyfelf the private Governor of the most charming and
worthy of Pupils. I (ball perform my office in cog. but
(hall not be the less ex:a, and Sometimes impatient.
I am, &c.
D'ESTAIN G."
Mr. DUNL AP,
AS the bill for the gradual abolition of slavery,
in the State of Pennsylvania, will he puffed into
an Aft during this Session of the Affrmbly, please to
give room in one of your firft papers to the following
hint :
By the operation of this A&, a number of persons
will in the course of time become free fubje&s, and
have to provide for themselves. It is therefore cf great
consequence both to the public 2nd to the negroes so
become free, that they should find themselves capable
|of becoming good citizens. But if their owners or
"matters, regarding only of their own immediate interest,
are only attentive to extort from the negroes a severe
service ; it is to be feared, many of them when libera
ated by the operation of the law, may become a bur
den, or a nuisance to the public. I would therefore
propose, that the owners or matters of every negro child
born after the puffing of the Aft, fhdl, at the birth of
the negro child, make a report of such birth into some
office of the county, and give security in four times the
sum that one year's fchoohng for reading, writing and
cyphering usually costs, that the said child (hall at some
time between the years of it and 20, be kept at some
good School for 1 year, cr a time equivalent, which
bond (hall be taken to and for the ule of such child,
and may be sued by him when become free by the course
of law, either against the said original owner or such
other matter or mistress in whose service he ma, have
been for twelve months at any one period after he is 12
years of age. This is not injoining any new duty ; for
no person poffeff^d of a child eithera s a slave or a ferrant
for years cannot think himfelf acquitted either in law or
confeience from the great duty ot capacitating the child
to receive inftru&ion, especially in the great principles
of religion.
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FOR SAL E,
A T
JOHN OLDDEN's Store,
In Second street, two doors below the Church,
A QUANTITY of Gum Seneca,
English Whiting,
Spanifb Brown in kegs,
A large assortment of Knives and Forks,
Hyfon Tea,
Brass Wira,
Imported G. B. and country-made Wfol Cards of the
best quality.
Copy of a letter wrote by Mons. the Cernt D'Eftaing,
Vice Admiral, to M, the MarechaN de Monchy.
On board the Languedoc, in the read of
Fort St. George, Grenada, July 12.
" My Lord,
"TH E firft time that M. the Viscount de Noailles
hunted in the park of Verfadhs, he no doubt lent you
part of the game—So my Lord Macartney, son in law
ot Lord Bute, goes to Bourdeaux to lay his fwerri at the
feet of My Lady Marechale,
" Your name, my Lord, rallied us in the day cf as
sault, and was happy as ths example of the Viscount de
Noailles was ufeful to us. His knowledge in the Ait
Military was displayed the eve of the attack in ve^y
great manoeuvre?, though performed with a small body
of men. Infza, he behaved like a Lieutenant. General,
and I am superior to him but in age.
" I wiil try to employ him frequently and often to re
train him. ' He appears very well fariified with me,
though I am told he fends a long narrative in which he
speaks but little of me : There is not so much h?rm in
thia as in having his cloaths pierced with English balls,
and assisting, a little against my inclination, at a naval
combat where he had no bufineft.
" I will keep him for you, and lead him back toyou.
I esteem and Gherilh him; and the favors you have al
ways (hewn me give him a relpe&able and sacred claim
on the utmost extent of my abilities to serve him.
I &e.
D'E STAIN G."
TAKEN UP between the Black Horse
and the Buck Taverns, on the Lancaster Road,
by the fubferiber, living in Eaftown townihip, Chester
county, a roan MARE, about twelve years old,
sixteen or seventeen hands high, branded PP. The
owner by proving his property and paying charges
may have her again.
January 16. WILLIAM HANNAY.
Philadelphia, January jg, 1780.
To be SOL D by Public AulWn,
On Saturday the 2g:h instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Coffee he use,
AL ARGE four flor, biick ^Hbufe, and. Let on
which it stands, on ilv north fide of Chefnut ftiect,
near Front- street, at preftnt occupied by Do&or Yeldall.
The home is twenty-two and %h.ilf feet frontmen Chef
nut street, and twenty feet deep: There are fix rooms
in said house, with a ne place in each rcom, two gar
rets, executive oi the parlour and (hop, a commodious
kitchen under the house, a cellar for provision, arid a
large v&ult that runs to the middle of the (erect, (uffici
ent to contain wood for the winter, all in good repair.
Also a wooden House, and Lot on which it stands, se
venteen and a half feet front on Chefnut street, and twen
ty feet deep, a go >d kitchen under the hcufe, and a vault
that runs to the middle of thythect. The whole clear
of ground rent,
T,he fixation of these houses render them valuable,
being convenient to the water and#markct. The titles
indisputable.
HE MEMBERS of the LIBRARY
'°MPAN Yof Philadelphia, met pursuant
to advertisement on the 6th instant, not being compe
tent to the passing of a Law with the concurrence of the
"^^°' s present, adjourned the business of the meeting
to Tuesday the fi;ft day of February next, at which day
it is hoped every Member defircus of keeping the Li
br^ry open will attend in person or by proxy at the
Library Apartments, to determine on the Law rr nticn,
ed in the said ^dvertifement . Unless immediate (b us be
taken, this public and beneficial Institution, which has
hitherto done honor to its founders and fupporteis, will
become totally useless. ' ,
fa% 10. ANDREW ROBESON, Sec.
LEWIS W E +'s-£
Of Philadelphia, SCRIVENER,
HA S removed 10 Arch Greet, the second or third
door bem# the house which is right opposite to
gates of the Engliffi Church Burying ground; ^here
he continues to draw alt manner of Writings or trans
fering and firing the property and possession of real
and perionul estates, fettiemems, covenants, and ag ee .
Hunts of any kind ; States of the Case and Argum nt#
upon titles of land and rights in claim or controversy
to lay before Counsel, Judges. Auditors, or Arbitrators'-
Letters of Attorney or Agency, to tranfaa business in
,countries : Also Petitions, Memorials or Ad
cirenes to Congress, and its several Departments si Com
mittees, to the Representatives in Aff.mbly, th: Piefi
dentin Council, and Courts of Judicature. He also
translates into Enghih any foreign Contres, or other
Public "' ture > from the French, G rman .
Hollanddh, and Latin languages. 6,
TO BE SOLD BY
JOHN DUNLAP
( Bound or unbound )
ANY QUANTITY OF
DILWORTH's SPELLING BOOK
Printed on fine strong paoer and 4 new type'
N. B Those who buy by the thousand (hail have a
large allowance.
Father Abraham's A LMANACKJ
For the YEAR 1780,
To be SOLD by J 0 H N DUNL AP.
Pbikid^l:% 'laißtay 25, 1780.
NT OTI C E is ^eby^ven, That the
^ Subferibers, being a Committee ch Grievances
appointed by the Honorable House of Aflembly, will
mvet in the Library Room (up ft^irs) in the Stale
House, ar half pad Nins o'clock in the mornings ot
Mondays, Wednefda+s and Fridays, during the prefect
fitting of the General Afkmbly.
CHARLES W. PEALE,
ROBERT KNOX,
ARTHUR WATTS,
DAVID THOMAS,
JOHN WHITEHILL,
JAMES DIXON,
ABRAHAM SMITH,
JONATHAN JONES,
JOHN R ALSTON,
JOHN BURD,
ROBERT MARTIN.
TO BE SO L
ON E Lot of Ground situate on the cast fide of
Fourth and south fide of Union-streets, on which
it elected a good three story brick hcufe ; the lot is
sixteen feet on Fourth-street, and extending on Union
ftreet forty feet; fubjeft to a ground rent of four pounds
currency per annum.
One other Lot of Ground adjoining the former, twen
ty feet on Union-ffreet, and extending eighty feet, or
half way from Union street to Pine-firret, on which is
ere&^d a good two-dory brick house ; fubjt& to a
ground-rent of fiv^ pounds currency per annum, paya
ble to the Pennsylvania House of Employment.
Two other Lots of Ground on the east fide of Fourth
ftreet, and near Walnut-ftrget, with t^o good houses
and kitchens thereon e.e&ed; the lots are each seven
teen feat front gnd thiiy-three feet in depth; clear of
ground-rent.
The whole will be fold together or separate, as will
best suit the purchaser. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE S O ~L~p7~
ATHREE story brick HOUSE, and LOT near
an acre, lituate =n Q een fht&t, in the Northern
Liberties. Alio a twe-fto^y brick HOUSE adjoining
the lame; both clear o. ground rent. Fr particulars
and terms of sale rßquire'of CHARLES "JONES,
in McCullough's Allg, between Race and Vine-streets,
Philadelphia.