The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1779-05-20 00:00:00, page 2

BOSTON, m, i.
ON Tuesday I&ft Joseph Dummet, merchant, of this
town, by the vigilance of the Committee of Corre
spondence here, was apprehended and tarried before a h/ga-'
giftate. He had been fsfp&ted of a criminal correspondence
with the enemy for Tome time, and upon searching his pa
pers, many letters were found to Jonathan Clarke, C^mmif
fary of Troops of Convention, to persons t Rliode-Ifland,
Halifax, &c He was bailed by the Maagiftate before
whom he appeared; but last Wednesday, by a special or
der from the General Assembly, now fitting, he was com
mitted to close cuflody.
By late accounts from New-York, we are informed,
that there are but two ihips of any considerable force in
that port, of which the Rainbow i§ one.
The private fliip of war, Governor Trumbull, fitted
out from Norwich, is taken by a British frigate, and car
ried into St. K ; tts.
At a Court of Oyer and Terminer held in Dutchefs
county, State of New-York. laac Youngs and William
Jaycocks, were capitally cenVißed, the former for horse-
Realing, and the latter for bringing counterfeit money
from the ensmy---Tnis lift offence being of the mos lper
aicious tendency, was made capital by a late aft of that
Legislature, whereby it is declared, that whosoever shall
bring any counterfeit bills of credit, emitted by Congress,
or that State, or any of the United States, within the
power of the enemy, knowing them to be counterfeit,
shall fuffer death. The above criminals were executed
-on tiie zed of April last.
POUGHKEEPSIE, May to.
We have advice from Warwafink, in Ulster county, that
on Tuesday last the 4th instant, a party of the enemy, ccn
, lifting of 3© or 40, supposed to be chiefly, if not all, of the
Tory inhabitants, burnt 4 dwelling houses and 5 barns in
that neighbourhood, at the Fantine-Ki!l, and killed fik
people, besides three or four more who were supposed to be
burnt in the houses
Advice of the mifehief being brought to Col. Cortlandt,
Rationed there with his regiment, he immediately marched
in pursuit of the enemy, whom he twice got fight of on a
mountain, exchanged some shot with, tho' at too great a
distance, and endeavoured to surround, but in vain, they
all made their escape. They took prisoner and released, a
woman, from whom we received the account of their
number.
We hear from the Nine-Parthets, that on 'fhuffday
night last, a gang of villains forcibly entered, and plun
dered the house of Mr. Daniel Annin, whom they treated
with great ab^fe and inhumanity ; and on Saturday night,
a parry supposed to be the fame gang, broke open the
house of Mr. Jacob Carl, who attempted to fire at them,
but his gun slashing in the pan, they shot him thro' the
body, and he now lies past hope of recovery. The villains
after flaying a fliort time to plunder, went off with preci
pitation.
We have heard of some villanies of the like kind, lately
committed in the neighbourhood of New-Windsor ; and we
near, intelligence came yeflerday to town, that a party of
the enemy, supposed to be the fame that lately did the mif
ehief at Famine-Kill, have since appeared at Woodflock,
near,Kingfton, where thpy have barat some houses, and
committed other depredations.
A Correspondent has sent us the following letters.
To Colonel SNYDER.
Cburcbland, May 4, 177,.
,DEAR Str,
I take this opportunity torinform you, that Lieut. Post
and myfelf and Hezekiah Dubois, came last night from
Woodstock, on our way home, with the horse that was
stolen from Jacobus Wof, and made our lodging there,
and after midnight we were furprized by 2 party of Colo
nel Butler's Tory rangers, who demanded of Wolf to
open the door, that the, wanted the three rebels which
were in his house, or clfq they would set the house on fire,
upon which the Lieu eoant and myfelf took to the loft, but
finding it difficult to remain there, we resolved to come
down and furreader, which being done they disarmed us
all, and then tied the Lieutenant and took him along; they
had bound me also, but (aid if I would take the oath they
would let me go, which I not being inclined to do,- they
took a hatched and were ready to split my brains, I then
found myfelf obliged to make a promise, never to take up
arms. They also said that they h^d witched for us three
or four days. They have also been at Hans Winne's house
and took the arms from him. They have also been at
Jeremiah Snyder's, but he not being at home, they quit
ted the house, and told Winne, that if Snyder had been
home they would have taken him oaly a hundred yards
from the house, and there hrve taken his crown. You may
easily think what situation we were in. I am, your hum
ble servant,
CHRISTIAN WILL.
A written paper was left by the party, containing the fol
lowing words, viz.
This to be left at Johannes Snyder's, Colonel at King
fion.,-;
, ^y 3 , 177,.
" My compliments to Col. Snyder, SIR,
" I will inform you that I am well, I wifli you well, I
would let you know that I have not forgot you, I would
desire of you that you would keep your f outs home, so as
not difirefs the inhabitants, or else you may exped 2 hea
vy hand of the British forces, that they have robbed the
bread of thefathcriefs children, which begged to the Britons
for a piece. I did not come out to diCurb one of your in
habitants, which you have rifeld of the forces wnat you
could for to drive at me, which you may expect that some
of your inhabitants will be rifeld with a heavy hand. Sir,
I desire a mess friend to lay down his comthiffion. Jeremiah
Snyder has been the werft of them all, he may exped that
we will have him dead or alive."
Lieutenant Post, of Colonel Butler's rangers, is taken
by this party. ,
FISH-KIL L, May 23.
Extract of a letter from Fori Schuyler, dated April 3©.
" In pursuance of Col. Van Schaick's order, I left this
place accompanied with a Lieutenant, Serjeant, and Cor
^ral, of theist New-York regiment, and thirty Indians,
•a an expedition against Swagotflia ; e, my arrival there
the 25th inst I sent three Indians to reconnoiter the gar
rison ; In the mean time I difeovered an Indian can® com
ing up Black River with two Indians in it; I detached a
party after them, who took them prisoners and examined
t :em. Thelndians I sent to reconnoiter, returned with 3
Brihfh prisoners, who t®id nearly the fame as the Indians.
Our van took another prisoner, who agreed with the for
mer. I then moved nearer the garrison, and found it im
possible to surprise if, but concluded by some means to
draw them out, which I very happily effected, by making
the Indians shew themselves in the ikirts of the woods :
Part of the garrison sallied out ; I endeavoured ?to draw
them as far in the woods as possible, but the Indians ,were
so warm, that they scarcely had entered the skirts of the
woods, before they began their fire. The enemy retreat
ed immediately, leaving two dead behind. We'purfued
them within forty yards of the garrison, when we received
a heavy fire o' artillery and muf^uetry, which obliged us
to take to the woods. We £hen returned to this gar
rison.
"The following information we received from the above
prisoners. That the garrison was commanded by Captain
Davis, of the 31st regiment, with a Subaltern and 40 men,
and four pieces of cannon : That they had received a letter
from the Commander in Chief of Quebec, informing them,
that he could not fcpport them this year, and they must
ad on the defenfive, but that next year he would fend a
lar e army That the enemy were fortifying the garrison
©f Buck- Island, and that it consisted of, two hundred men,
who had a disorder am^ng them, of which 1 they died very
fall : Tnat General Haidiman's Aid-de-Camp passed Swa
gotfha yefierday, with orders to the commanders of the
back Settlements.,"
On the morning o'the last Lord's day, a partyof Tory
Refugees from New-York, who had taklen t e advantage
df the night, came up the river in boats to Ciofter Land
ing, and furprized that little town, situated in Bergen
county, about twenty miles from New-York. They kil
led one man, burnt seven houses, seven barns, and much
abused the people. A fdiv militia gathered and followed
them in their retreat to their boats, and kept up a conftast
fire on them, and doubt not but several of them were kil
led and wounded, as some were seen to fall. The Lents
and David Peak were among the number; theft men, some
time ago had gon? off to the enemy.
The end of last and the beginning of, this week, thirty
of the noted Clove gang of villains were taken and proper
ly secured. One of them was killed, and another badly
wounded: They made some ufeful difeoverfo. Some of
their ftplen foods ate found. We learn that fifteen of the
fcme kind of fellows, friends to order and gone nment, as
they are termed inNevv-York ? are taken up at the Nine-
Farmers.in order to make them yet more order, and friend
ly ^ government.
T R E #N r O N, Me, 19.
On Friday last the following officers arrived at Eliza
beth-Town from New-Vorx, on parole, viz. General
Thompson, General IF t^rbury, Colonels Houfecker,
Potter, Allison and Webb. Two Subalterns in the land
service, and two Captains and some others in the navy,
were at the fame time exchanged.
By a gentleman who arrived here yefterdry evening
from Essex county, we are informed that a considerable
bidy of the enemy landed in Bergen, county on Monday
last ; but their i yentioas are not yet knows.
We hear Mr Zedwitz, late a Lieut. Cel. belonging t©
the State of New-York, in the fer;re of the United Spates,
was, a few daysa,o, taken up near Morris-Town, dreff-'
edin womens cloaths. Abo^t the time t e Eritifli army
'•ok possession of New. York, he was tried by a Court-
Martid and fo&nd guilty of attempting 'to give informa
ton to the enemy, for which he was sentenced to impri
sonment during the war. He lately made his efcape'mom
Reading, and was thus disguised endeavouring to get to
New-York. He will how probably meet the puniforwent
his treachery juflly merits.
PHILADELPHIA, May le.
Ek rafl , a letter from (a,e Francois,
" A flip is just arrived from Bourdeaux, the Captain
of which reports, That Great -Britain has alked of France
a ceffati^n of arms; but our Court returned for answer,
that ike would not assent to it without the concu-rence of
America.—We have taken from England, since the com
roeneement of hoftiliti -s, twenty nine frigatesand twefrps
of the line. It is expected Barrington, at St. Lucia, must
surrender or burn his flee', as he buries near fifty es his
men every day. Barrington, altho' he is far fuperiot in
ships, avoids an engagement with the Couet de Eftainz,
who is constantly watching life motions, and will net quit
it till he fees the end of it.''
On the 6th toftant the brig Monmouth, Capt. Ingerfol,
took the brig Confian. e, Capt. DeVeratax from New York
for Surrinham . and the sloop Nancy, Capt. Buhyan, from
Providence for New-York; and the fame day retook the
brig Neptune, late Capt. Newman, from North Carolina
for Rotterdam, taken some days before by the Daphne's
tender, and sent them into fafe ports.
Capt. Collins, in the brig Hibernia, in coming round
from Egg-Harbour, fell in with and retook the brig Sally,
Capt. Paine, captured by the privateer Sally, Capt Wiel,
on her passage from Surrinham, with 163 Iwgflieads of mc
laifes, for Eoftch.
On the sth instant/ at a Court of Oyer and Terminer
and General Gaol Delivery, holden at Lancader, for the
county of Lancaster, before the Jud es of the Supreme
Court, Thomas Taylor, Dte of Cocohco towhfliip, was
tried and found guilty of highway robbery, on John Her
digo ; and on the 9th, at the fame place, "Katherine Fifli
er, spinster/ charged with murdering her bastard child,
was also found guilty. At Reading, in Berks county, on
the 1 ith of this month, before the fame Judges, Thomas
Crouch, tried for burglary and larceny, committed in Ex
eter townfllip, on the dwelling and goods of John Hechler,
was pronounced guilty by the Jury. All these were fen
tenced to be hanged —The execution of these offenders,
is, we hear, ordered on Saturday thw s th day of June next,
at Lancafier and Reading refpedively.
The schooner Chance, Capt, Smell, of Egg.Harbour, of
two guns, has retaken and'fent int@ a fafe port, the flop
Industry, late Capt. Hirvey, from Bermuda for this Con
tinent, who had been taken by the schooner Buck, of 3
guns, Capt. John Stout, belonging t© Robert and William
Pagan, @fNew-Y©rk.
A letter from Martinico indofed the following :,
A LIST of the ENGLISH FLEET at St.Lu^t'
Guns.
The Prince of Wales, 7, ^X^ ^o'
^°y ne , 68
Nun-Such, 64 ° ^ 3c ^
St. Albans, 64
Preston, 53 ,^^t>^
Isi s , 50 j>n.O—<^sf»
Centurion, 50 o^^^CS^
Venus, 0 ^^Q^— 0
Aurora, ^^^
Ariadne, 20
Weazle, 36.
Snake, 16 3 . 1
Barbados, 12 ^ ^ ^j^^
Carcase Bomb, % ™ 0
Pelican, 12 T^'?^?
The Princess Royal, ,0 ^ ~.^',
, Royal Oak, .74 ^^s°°„
Conqueror, 74 °
Grafton, 74
Cornwall,
- Sultan, % ° c ^
rune, % U^
Albion, 74
Monmouth, 64.
Trident, ° 64 _ ~"8
Diamond,"
Pearl, : ^^
•tar, j 2 ^»
The Suffblk, 74 ^^^9.3
Vengeance,„
Magnificent; 74 . ~
Elizabeth, , ° ^Y :P
Defiance,'
Centaur, 7+ «^=[c:'
Vigilant,
Rtfource, , ,8
Andromeda, 2 8
Pomona,
Etna, (bomb) 1% o^™^
7efuvius, (ditto) "
Two bomb tenders, of j6'^ - ^
The Janus,
1 he Ftench have taken two English flo®ps of war, viN
The Cereo, of 18 runs,
The Weaz'e, is
LIST of the FRENCH FLEET nowat Martinique.
Guns.
The Languedoc, ,©
Tonnant, 1 g +
Cadar,
Mirfeillois,
Zel6, %
Hedor, „
ProteHeur, 74
Guerrier, ,4
Fantafque,L
Vaillant, 64
Provea e, $ 64
. The following ffiip; are the reinforcements, received
here since the Count D'Eftaing's arrival.
Guns.
The Robufle, 7 ^
Magnifique, 74 Under the command of
dauphin Royal, 74 Q Count de Chace.
Vengeur, 64
^^ "°°P' at St# Lucias At their firfl landing in
\ Ithe army confided of 7030 men, but from un
doubted accounts, ire now reduced to 3000 men, occasioned
by the unhealthmefs of that Iflahd, and what was killed
111 capture and defence thereof.
L .''" '' enc ' f haye about 7000 men in this Island ;a
a°d 2060 at Guadeloupe.
1 British fleet has fuYered greatly, by the unwhole
feme fixate of St. Lucia, and it is supposed is the rea-
Ifrnd „ m ' ra Byron's never goigg out of fight of that
f c AT b.
'f' f. A rLACK prerents his most refpeaful com
& • pliments to eighty-two (polit^nefs fays) Gentle
men, an authentic Ijft of whose m mes hath been, for some
time p ft, before the public, for some of whom he has a
real ^d great esteem. He observes, that, to serve party
purges fajs folate cbaratier has been daubed and
dragged before the public in several late very low per
'? r r °° ce } to which it is his prefect intention to make no
direct reply; but, fh©uld they be continued; and any
Printer think prop ^ to disgrace his paper with such in
famous produftioafy retaliation; in this case, like that of
w? , will become indifpenfi I ly necessary ; and
the Printer will not add to the scandal ®f his paper, by
'°°° e ' liberty wh : ch he grants to another. He
will be compelled to try his hard at characature. 'Tis am
1 natured business, and he would pals it by, though there
is choice enough before him, and a foffit ient temptation
P re ;?' s nfelf, in some very ftrou.g charafterifhc features,
w^ch need very little heightening to make them qu ; te
fine cn^racaturcs, and wlich would afford a diversion to
the, pwbhe that would, as some have wittily said, beat
cotri h^htrug. These may be given, as occasion requires,
in hng e .figures, or in groups properly varied---here &
hbh ,u'>' ? c character in full view—there, a little retired,
a low one or two in private Efe, like Hogarth's puppy,
marling at a cat, in his pißure of Paul' preaching at
Athens. There is, however, o^e gbarafler, be it what it
may, perfectly secured by its prefect insignificancy :
Without a word being said about it, the air, the manner,
thefrat and five,ger of the man render him as ridiculous
as words can make him, or there is any occasion fbr him
to be.
For the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
Extempore on hearing of the death of the celebrated Da
vid Garrick, Esq.
ARRICK is dead ! —So prattles Fame
The bard replies,-.-it cannot bel
Garrick and Nature arc the fame,
Both form'd for iuQQrUlity.
Guns.
The Sagitaire, ' 50
Jphigeme, 32
Boudeufc, 32
Chimere, 2 6
Amiable, S z
Alemene, 32
Lively, 2 4
Ceres,}£
Weazle, 16
Eiligente, 3z
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