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GENERAL Is^^ ADVERTISER.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
As you have given General Arnold's Address to the
United States a place in your paper, I beg the fol
lowing extracts front his defence, delivered before
his court- martial at Morristown, January 21, 178°,
may be published likewise.
“ Y FLATTER myfelfthe time is not far off when,
" I by the glorious eftablilhment of our independence,
" I shall again return into the mass of citizens. 'Tis
" a period I look forward to with anxiety." Page 44^
“ I have looked forward with pleasing anxiety to
" the present day, when, by the judgment of my fel
“ low soldiers, I shall, I doubt not, fland honour
" ably acquitted of all the charges brought against
“ me, and again (hare with them in the glory and
« danger of the present just war." Page 55.
“ The last part of this charge is of a serious nature
" indeed; it is, that while. I prohibited others from
" purchasing, 1 privately made considerable purchases
<c for my own benefit. If this part of the charge is
" is true, * I stand confeffed in the presence of this ho
'' nourable court as the vilefl of men. I stand flig
" matized with indelible disgrace ; the disgrace of hav
<c ing abused a place of high trufl and importance to
" accomplilh the meanest and molt unworthy pur
'' poses ; the blood I have spent in defence of my
"country will be infufficient to obliterate the stain."
“ On the honour of a gentleman and soldier I de
¥ dare, to gentlemen and soldiers, that the charge is
falfe." Page 43, 44.
If gentlemen and soldiers in the British army con
sent, after reading the above extracts, to serve under
or with Mr. Arnold, or even to keep his company,
they will, forever, in the opinion of gentlemen and
soldiers, disgrace the profeffion of arms. If their par
tiality to the cause they are embarked iro should lead
them to wink at his intended treachery at Weft-Point,
they surely cannot absolve him of having convicted
Limfelf of being a Lyar and a Rascal.
A SOLDIER.
* That it is true, is now proved by a contrast sub
scribed with his own hand, to divide the plunder of
the city, obtained under the fandion of his office, as
-well as by many other documents and memorandums
found among his papers.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) October 4.
Extract of a letter :ropi Colonel George Rogers Clarke,
to his Excellency the Gove^nour, dated Louisville,
August 22, 1780.
BY every possible exertion, and the aid of colonel
Slaughter's corps, we compleated the number of
'IOOO, with which we crossed the river at the mouth of
Licking on theist day of August, and began our march
the 2d. Having a road to cut for the artillery to
pass for severity miles, it wgs the'6th before we reach
ed the firfl town, which we found vacated and the
greatest part of their offers carried off. The general
condud of the Indians on our march, and many other
corroborating circumflances, proved their design of
leading us on to their own ground and time of a&ion.
After defiroying the crops and buildings of Chelecau
thy, we began cur march for the Picawey settlements
on the waters of the Big Miame, the Indians keeping
runners continually, before our advanced guards. At
half pad two in the evening of the Sth, we arrived in
light of the town and forts, a plain of half a mile in
width laying between us." I had an opportunity of
viewing the situation and motion of the enemy, near
their works.
“ I had scarcely time to make those dispositions ne
cessary, before the action commenced on our left wing,
and in a few minutes became almost general, with a
savage fiercenefs on both sides. The confidence the
enemy had of their own strength and certain vidory,
or the want of generalship, occasioned several negleds,
by which those advantages were taken that proved the
ruin of their army, being flanked two or three different
times, drove from hill to hill in a circuitous direction
for upwards of a mile and a half; at last took Shelter
in their Arcing holds and woods adjacent, when the
firing ceased, for about half an hour, until necessary
'preparations were made for dislodging them. A heavy
firing again commenced, and continued severe until
dark, by which time the enemy were totally routed.
The cannon playing too briskly on their works, they
could afford them no shelter. Our loss was about 14
killed and 13 wounded, theirs at least tripple that num
ber. They carried off their dead during the night,
except 12 or 14 that lay too near our lines for them
to venture. This would have been a most decisive
firoke to the Indians, if unfortunately the right wing
of our army had not have been rendered useless for
some time by an uncommon chain of rocks, that they
could not pass, by which means part of the enemy e
scaped through the ground they were ordered to occupy•
" By a French prisoner we got the next morning
we learn that the Indians has been preparing for our
reception ten days, moving their families and effects ;
that the morning before our arrival, they were 300
[ Published every Tuesday and Saturday#]
Lucille
PHILADELPHIA, ORober. 24th.
At a court of Admiralty Sessions, held at Philadelphia
for the date of Pennsylvania, the 25th of September,
1780, before the honourable Thomas M'Kean, esquire,
and his associates, justices of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, and the honourable Francis Hopkinfon,
esquire, judge of admiralty in Pennsylvania:
James Sutton was tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged, for piracy, in carrying off the private ves
sel of war called the Chevalier de Luzerne, to the ene
my.
William Smith, William Rogers, and Peter Ander
son, were tried for 'larceny, in dealing from captain
John Gray, at sea, a quantity of gold, and were acquit
ted.
Bills of indictment were preferred to the grand jury
against Stephen Decature, Roger Kean, and Peter
Day, for embezzlement, and returned ignoramus.
At a court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal
Delivery, the 25th day of September, 1780, before the
honourable Thomas M'Kean, esquire, and his associ
ates, justices, &c.
David Dawson, attainted of treafoti by proclamation
of the honourable supreme executive Council of Penn
sylvania, was ordered for execution..
James Read was tried, convicted and sentenced to be
hanged for uttering counterfeit continental money to
John Nowland and James Gallagher; a third bill was
found against him by the Grand Jury, and a fourth re
turned ignoramus, for the fame offence.
Richard Chamberlain was tried, convicted and sen
tenced to be hanged, for uttering counterfeit continent
al money to Margaret Pinchon and John Murdoch.
John Steelman was tried for having in his custody
eight hundred and sixty-seven counterfeit fifty dollar
bills, with a fraudulent view to pass the fame, and be
ing convicted wasfentenced to stand an hour in the pil
lory and pay a fine of one thousand pound.
James johnflone was tried for a highway robbery^ and
.acquitted.
The following negroes, to wit, James, Nat, Cato<
Daniel and Jem, were tried and convicted of Dealing
four hundred gallons of rum from Robert Morris, efq;
and Were sentenced to make him reflitution, to the
value of the rum, pay a fine of ten th'oufand pound to
the state, be severally whipped with twenty-one lathes,
pay costs, &c.,
Eleanor Hains and Ann Clark were convicted of re
ceiving from the said negroes some of the folen rum,
and were fined each of them in the sum of two hundred
pound.
Conrad Pidgeon, John Shee, Michael Clark and John
Hains, were also tried as receivers of the said flolen
goods, and acquitted.
A bill, preferred against Michael Stofflet for arson,
in burning the dwelling-house of Samuel Kerliug, was
returned ignoramus.
Joseph Richardson, was difeharged by proclamation,
no person appearing to prosecute him.
The French frigate La Gentille arrived at New-Port,
(Rhode -IBand) from Brest, it is said brings advice,
that the Congress of the neutral powers, to which the
belligerent powers were invited, were to meet about this
warriors, Shawanefe, Mingoes, Wiandatts, and Dela
wares. Several reinforcements coming that day, he
did not know their numbers: that they were sure of
defiroying the whole of us; that the greatest part of
the prisoners taken by Byrd, were carried to Detroit,
where there were only 200 regulars; having no pro
visions except green corn and vegetables. Our whole
store at firft setting out, being only 300 bushels of
corn, and 15001 b. of flour ; having done the Shawanefe
all the mifchief in our power, after defiroying Picawey
fettlenlents, I returned to this post, having marched
in the whole, 480 miles in 31 days. We deftfoyed
upwards of 800 acres of corn, besides great quantities
of vegetables, a considerable proportion of which ap
pear to have been cultivated by white men, I suppose
for the purpose of supporting war parties from De
troit. I could wish to have had a small store of pro
visions to have enabled us to have laid waste part of
the Delaware settlements, and falling in at Pittsburgh,
but the excessive heat and weak diet shew the impro
priety of such a step. Nothing could excel the few re
gulars and Kentuckyans that composed this little ar
my, in bravery and implicit obedience to orders.
Each company vying with the other, who should be the
most fubordinate."'
CHATHA M, CHober ir.
Last week a privateer sloop fromthe Eaflward, run
into New-Utrick bay, under English colours, sent her
boat ashore and got vegetables, add laid there until next
day, when the Light- House guard was relieved from Sta
ten-lfland. The officer that was relieved, supposing it
to be one of their tenders, went on board the sloop,
when the whole guard, confiding of one captain, one
lieutenant and forty rank and file, were made prisoners.
The sloop immediately got under way, and came off
with them.
time, for the purpose of fettling the rights of neutral
nations, refpeding commerce: it is not improbable *
general hegociation for peace rtiay be brought on the
tapis at this meeting.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman of Georgia, dated
in Virginia, September 20, 1780.
“ I arrived at Hillfborough on the 19th ult. where
I met General Gates from his defeat. Our loss, thank
God, and our brave regulars who flood and charged,
the enemy, was inconsiderable, in comparison with,
our firft information. Our army is again collected and
collecting, and the General proposed marching again
on the 15th inst. I shall soon follows The spirit of re^
venge breaths through the troops and militia ; and ever,,
honest whig burns With ardor to renew the combat-
Our countryman, the fuccefsful Colonel Twiggs, has
once more diflinguifhed himfelf in action, as has also
his brother officer, Colonel Few, by his gallantry and
death. Lhefe brave officers plucked laurels in the
midst of carnage and deftruftion."
ExtraC tof a letter from St. Euflatia, dated Sept. 20;
# “ We have now the great pleasure and fatisfa&ion to
inform you, that the combined fleets fell in with^s4 fail
of merchantmen, under convoy of a 74, and the South
ampton frigate, bound to their islands, of which the,
cuptured 50 of the merchantmen; it is reported there
were five Eaft-Indiamen among them. The account is
bro't by the Southampton, which arrived,at St. Kitts
a few days ago, after a narrow escape ; we don't hear an,
thing of the 74- , . ~
" By an acquaintance from St. Kitts we are told,
that general Prefcot there has been warned by general
Vaughan, at Barbados, to prepare against an attack by
the French, for that a large armament might be mo
mently expected in this quarter, who would immediate-'
ly proceed against that and Antigua; should this be
the case we shall certainly have them for our neigh
bours.
" Since the foregoing, we have been able to collect
some further particulars, refpefting the capture of the
enemy's merchantmen, bound to the leeward islands;
the number that failed from England was 57, including
5 for the Eaft-Iridies, and 11 transports for Jamaica,
with 500 troops of the new railed regiment for that is
land ; and as many for the East-Indies, Their convoy
was the Ramillies, of 74 guns, the Thetis and South
ampton frigates. -They fell in with the French and
Spanish squadron at midnight, so that there is no fay
ing the exact number that was taken, but from the men
of war escaping to Madeira, and laying there eight
days, in which time being joined by no more than 4 fail,
it is reasonable to suppose the others were taken. The
combined fleets were about 30 fail, from Toulon, Ca
dis, &c. and were in lat. 36, long. 17. By contrary
winds the British fleet were drove so far to the south
ward, that the Thetis was dispatched from Madeira to
admiral Gerry. The Ramillies and Southampton are
gone down to Jamaica."
ARNOLD, thy Name, as heretofore.
Shall now be Benedict no more ;
Since, instigated by the Devil,
Thy Ways are turned from Good to Evil,
'Tis fit we brand thee with a Name,
To fuitthy Infamy and Shame ;
And finte of Treason thou'rt convicted,
Thy Name fliould now be malediCted;
tlnlefs, by Way of Contradiction,
We stile thee Britain's Benediction.
Such Blessings, (he with lib'ral Hand,
Confers on this devoted Land ;
For instance, let us only mention,
borne Proofs of her benign Intention:
The Slaves she sent us o'er the Deep,
She bribes to cut our Throats in Sleep ;
To take our Lives arid Scalps away, ,
The savage Indians keeps in Pay,<
And Tories, worse by half than they. J
Then in this Class of Britain's Heroes,
The Tories, fayage Indians, Negroes,
Recorded Arnold's Name shall fiand,
While Freedom's Blessings crown our Land;
And odious for the blacked Crimes, t
Arnold shall stink to latest Time's.
7 '~r WAS Arnold's post, fir Harry fought, .
1 Arnold ne'er enter'd in his thought,
How ends the bargain? let us fee,
Trie fort is fafe, as fafe can be,
His favourite per force must die,
His view 's laid bare to ev'ry eye ;
His money 's gone—and lof he gains
One fcoundrell more for all his pains.
Andre was gen'rous, true, and brave,
And in his room, he buysa knave.
'Tis sure ordain'd, that Arnold cheats
All those,, of course, with whom he treats
Now let the devil fufpeC t a bite
Or Arnold cheats him of his right.