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r^'l hftd thefuif ration, and fad endeavour „do Without
the aflijarce desired, and which cue hope now to accompli,, by
toe did ofafmall unexpected supply to the treafary.
It must be an extreme nectfit, that will induce me to make aj^
milar application, and I hope tbo, who may fercofter serve the
fate and city in like exigences, will meet with,better Japport, and
more just and generous returns. fySEPd REED.
New-York, February 12.
Extras of a Letter from Portsmouth, in L irginia, dated fan. 26.
“ The following gentlemen are appointed at Portsmouth:
Lieut. Peter Hunter,' 80th, to be Barrack-Matter and Judge-
Advocate, Lieut. Murray, Queen's Rangers, Town-Major,
and Lieut. John M'Donald, Both, to be Secretary to Brigadier-
General Arnold.
" Our animated and very excellent commander, haying
declared a strong disapprobation of marauding, plundering,
and dissipation, I am sure never did an army adt with more
perfect decorum in may whole knowledge and observation:
there was but the following instance of irregularity; some un
fortunate pigs and sheep came in the way of a corporal and
two privates; they were sentenced to receive 500 lathes each,
and the corporal sent to the right about."
King,on, (Jamaica) February 10. Saturday last arrived
his Majesty's Hoop of war Du Guay Touin, of 16 guns, ex
press from St. Lucia, in consequence of advice Admiral Drake
received from Great-Britain, by the Childers sloop of war, of
a hostile declaration publilhed in London, by order of the
King in Council, on the 21st of December last, against the
Dutch. Sir George Brydges Rodney, with 22 fail of the line,
and a number of frigates, was at sea on a cruise when the Chil
ders arrived at St. Lucia, and a faft falling cutter had been dis
patched, with inftruftions from the Ministry to him, on the
fubjed of this important event.
Basseterre, (St. ChriJlopher) Feb. Is. The following is an ex
tract of a letter from St. Euftatius, dated Feb. 14. —" The
,riße, discipline and decorum is kept up by the military here ; a
bomb battery and federal new fortfeations are con,ructing ;
Tumble-Down-Dick point, and the hill that commands both it,
the town and the harbour, are to be strongly fortified; it is
imagined that 'Statia will be made a second Gibraltar. The
money, goods, fbipping, ^c. taken here, is astonishing ; 2,100,000
pieces of eight, 76,000 of which was in the poor chef, the re
mainder belonging to the Company, have been taken ; 630,000/.
was found on board the Dutch Admiral's fbip, and four days ago
afhip arrived from Amferdam with 32,000 light foes on board,
be,des a very valuable cargo of ftlks, fattins, velvets, ^c. Ves
sels abe daily dropping in from different parts of France, Holland,
and America; the number of shipping in this harbour at the time
of the capture is nearly doubled,nee that period. La, quantities
°'f u p ar , tobacco, cotton, &c. are now /hipping off on board
the empty vessels in order to proceed with the 25 fail of Dutch
flips taken by the Monarch for Europe, which are to be convoyed
by the Dutch Admiral's ship, which is now repairing for that
purpose. They talk of a general con,fcation of property, but I hope
there will be a line of diflinflion drawn between the friends of
Great Britain and the difaffeCted ; several of the merchants who
have been concerned infapporting the ' American rebels, as well as
the French i/lands, are sent on board the men of war, and are to
befent to England in the frftfleet, together with the Governor,
Fifeal, and. other Dutch officers. . The Jews it is said will be ba
n,ed. Also 1500 Dutch vessels have been taken or defrayedin the
Texel or Channel ; and Admiral Digby has been sent three months
ago, with eight fail of the line, to the Ea, Indies, to size the
Dutch spice glands. Imay now fay that the Dutch are compleatly
ruined, and that they will not be able to enter into a war with
Great Britain, but mu, accede to any terms imposed upon them."
New-York, February 17. The following prizes were brought
into this port last Tuesday, by his Majesty's ship Charleftown,
Captain Evans:
Brigs Rattlesnake, Charity, Lango Lee, Royal Cedar, and
Jenny, laden with James River tobacco, taken by the Charlef
town. Schooners Bctfcy and Peggy, Fly, laden with James
River tobacco. The schooner Polly, from St. Euftatia, taken
by the Amphitrite in ballast. Mary Ann armed schooner,
from Rhode-Ifland, taken by the Swift. Surprise privateer,
and two schooners her prizes.
Prizes left in Elizabeth River, in charge of the Charon, &c.
a new ship, 11 ports of a fide, lower mast in.
I new brig, 8 ports of a fide, no mast in except the bow
forit. Lark sloop, cargo fold, except salt, from Statia, by the
Charon. Jack schooner ditto, from ditto, by the Amphitrite.
Brig Kitty, captured by the Hope, the failed from Charlef
town last December.
Schooner Sally, from St. Euftatia by the Swift. Brig Wolf,
coppered, taken at Hood's Point, James River, by the Swift;
this vessel was through the treachery of her owner conducted
into' Chefapeak some time ago with a valuable cargo from
Liverpool, bound to New-York; several hoops and schooners
were aifo taken.
Yesterday arrived a schooner from St. Euftatius, for Chefa
peak, prize to his Majesty's armed brig Swift, Captain Alpin.
On Thursday evening, arrived in town, Col. Innes, Colonel
Turnbull, Major Wemyfs, and James Simpson, Esq.
Feb. 19. The St. Luke, John Clarke, Master, with soldiers
eloathing, and other goods for the Congress and Mons. Lu
cerne, the French Resident, was taken 14 hours after failing
from I'Orient, which he left the 29th of October, under con
voy of the Ariel, Paul Jones, which in a gale of wind was
dii'mafted and near foundered.
We hear there are very great commotions in Connecticut,
on account of their heavy taxes ; and that the people in gene
ral begin to fee and think of the dreadful situation they have
brought themselves into: That three whole parishes (one of
which is in Rhode-Bland Government, the other two in New-
London County) have declared their aversion to Congreflional
Measures, and caused the British Commissioners Proclamation
to be read off at a Town Convention, which produced a
meeting of their Assemblies.
By late accounts we learn, that Ethan Allan has been a few
days ago at Albany, with a guard of 24 men ; that he islaying
up provisions of every specie in his State, and is determined
to oppose the Congress and all their adherents; that numbers
of people daily flock to him, and that Liberty Poles are erect
ed in'many parts of the Counties of Albany, Dutchefs, &c.
with red Flags, and that the people declare they cannot nor
will not pay the taxes lately imposed on them.
Feb. 21. On Thursday evening last, a party of 180 of Co
lonel James Delancey's Refugees, under the command of
Major Huggerford, went to North Castle, from whence they
brought off three Rebel Lieutenants, and 12 privates, burnt fix
of their houses, to retaliate in part, for those lately burnt by
the rebels, belonging to the Refugees.
Captain O'Reilly, of the second battalion of Hessian Gre
nadiers, is promoted to the rank of Major, in the regiment de
Bose, vice Major Du Buy, now Lieutenant Colonel in laid re
giment.
Feb. 26. On Friday evening last, Capt. Cornelius Hetfield,
with a party of five men, Refugees, from New-Jersey, pene
trated the centre of Elizabeth-town, and attacked a Captain's
command posted there ; the Rebel Captain John Craig, and
10 men were made prisoners, and fafely concluded to Staten-
Island, without the loss of a man on the part of the Refugees.
' Prizes sent infnee our la,.
The schooner Centurion, Boyd, and brig Fanny, Tanner,
both from Philadelphia for the Havana, by his Majesty's ships ;
another of his Majesty's ships was left in chafe of a brig and
schooner from Philadelphia for the Havana alio ; a fifth failed
in company, but fire got aground ih coming down the river.
Ensign Henry Hamilton, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Miles preferred. 18th September, 1780.
22d reg ; ment. A blank commission for an Ensign, vice
Dunn, preferredin 63d. 18th September, 1780.
33d regiment. A blank commission for an Ensign, vice
Codington preferred. 17th August, 1780.
42d regiment. Captain-Lieutenant Rutherford, to be Cap
tain, vice M'Pherfon, preferred in 71st regiment. December
3D 1780. i
Lieutenant Robert Potts, to be Captain Lieutenant, vice
Rutherford preferred. December 31, 1780.
Ensign Kenneth Callender, Lieutenant, vice Potts. De
cember 31, 1780.
Volunteer William Edmonftone, Ensign, vice Callender.
December 31, 1780.
43d regiment. Ensign Jasper Defbrifay, from 17th foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Wier, preferred in Europe. Sep. 18, 1780.
60th regiment, 3d Bat. Major Wm. Crofbie, from 7th regi
ment, to be Lieutenant Colonel, by purchase, vice Steel,
who retires. May 6, 1780.
60th regiment, 4th Bat. Major Beamfley Glazier, to be
Lieutenant Colonel, vice Fufer, deceased. May 6, 1780.
Captain Timothy Newmarfh, from 7th regiment, to be
Major vice Glazier, preferred. August 10, 1780.
63d regiment. Captain Lieutenant John Roberts, to be
Captain, vice Croker, deceased.
Ensign Benjamin Craven, from 2zd regiment, to be Lieu
tenant, vice Wm. Cope, deceased. Sept. 18, 1780.
Ensign Thomas Dunn, from 22d regiment, to be Lieute
nant, by purchase, vice Robertson, preferred in 71st regiment.
Sept. 18, 1/80.
71st regiment. Captain Patrick Campbell, to be Major, by
purchase, vice M'Pherfon, promoted in Europe. October
26, 1779.
Lieutenant David Robertson, from 63d, to be Captain,
vice Campbell, promoted. Sept. 18, 1780.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel M'Pherfon, from 42d, to be
Major, vice Ferguson killed. December 31, 1780.
Ensign Colin Chifholme, to be Lieutenant, vice Ogilvie,
deceased. Sept. 18, 1780.
Ensign John Stewart, Lieutenant, vice Alexander Frazer,
deceased. Sept. 18, 1780.
Ensign Patrick M'Dougal, Lieutenant, vice Arch. Camp
bell, killed. Sept. 18, 1780.
Captain Lieutenant Norman M'Leod to be Captain, vice
Charles Campbell, killed. September 18, 1780.
Lieutenant John Nairn to be Captain Lieutenant, vice
M'Leod, preferred. September 18, 1780.
Ensign Duncan Campbell, Lieutenant, vice Nairne, pre
ferred. September 18, 1780.
Lieutenant Thomas Frazer, to be Adjutant, vice Alex.
Frazer, killed. May 25, 1780.
76th regiment. The hon. Captain Francis Needham, from
17th Dragoons, to be Major by purchase, vice Donaldson,
who retires, August 10, 1780.
80th regiment. Lieutenant Thomas Bibbey, from 24th
regt, to be Captain Lieutenant, vice Titler, promoted. Sep
tember 18, 1780.
82d regiment. Ensign William Duncanfon to be Lieute
nant, vice Arbuthnot, promoted, September 18, 1780.
Finucane, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Duncanfon, preferred.
September 18, 1780.
Ensign George Walker Stewart to be Lieutenant, vice Snod
grass, drowned, September 18, 1780.
Captain Lieutenant John Moor, to be Captain by purchase,
vice Baird, who retires. September 18, 1780.
Lieutenant John M'Pherfon, to be Captain Lieutenant, by
purcbafe, vice Moor, preferred. September 18, 1780.
Ensign Peter Dumafs, Lieutenant by purchase, vice M'Pher
fon, promoted. September 18, 1780.
A blank commission for an Ensign, vice Dumas, preferred.
September 18, 1780.
Ensign George Stewart, Lieutenant, vice Graham, who
retires. September 18, 1780.
A blank commission for an Ensign, vice George Stewart,
promoted. September 18, 1780.
17th Light Dragoons. Captain Lieutenant J. S. Bradshaw,
to be Captain by purchase, vice Needham, promoted in 76th
regt. August 10, 1780.
Cornet John Jones to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Cook,
who retires. November 25, 1780.
March 5. Saturday last the brig Content, Capt. Haley, ar
rived here in 19 days from Providence.—Six days before he
failed, a brig called the Content, from Cape Francois, was
brought into that island by some English prisoners, who rose
on the Frenchmen on their voyage to St. Euftatius.
The above mentioned French brig left Cape Francois the last
day of January, and at that time there was only one ship of
war there, which was the Rebel Frigate Confederacy ; neither
were there any accounts at that place of the capturing either
English or French men of war or transports.
Last Friday 7 rebel prisoners were brought to town ; they
were on Thursday attacked by a party of Colonel De Lancey's
Refugees, near the Saw-Mill, when about 6 were killed.
Paul Jones is arrived at Philadelphia from France, in a ship
called the Ariel, of 20 guns.—On the passage thither his Crew
made an attempt to take the vessel ; for which ten of them re
ceived sentence of death, and are expected to fuffer in a few
days. Mr. Samuel Wharton, a passenger on board, loft his
life a short time before the ship arrived.
Capt. Pindar, in the ship Triumph, of this port, has taken
a sloop loaded with molasses, and carried her into Providence.
March 7. Last Monday one of his Majesty's (loops of war
arrived in four days from the Chefapeak; many letters by this
vessel are expressive of the great exertions used by Brigadier-
General Arnold, whose post is already made very formidable
by new works, on which are mounted a number of heavy
cannon and field-pieces; so that Portsmouth the head-quarters
is now secure against the united enterprizes of France and of
the Congress. A very refpedable fort is also conftrufted at
the Great-Bridge, where also a fufficient number of brass
cannon are mounted ; it is ten miles from Portsmouth, the key
of the country, commanding the grand road to North-Caro
lina, The leading inhabitants of Princess-Ann County,
having been informed) that General Arnold's intentions were
to maintain a British garrison in their country, declared they
would co-operate in all measures to drive out every man dif
affe&ed to his Majesty's government, secure tranquility to that
loyal county, and fapply the troops with all forts of stock and
provisions, which has reduced the prices to very moderate
rates, and enabled General Arnold to form a magazine of pro
visions, which was to accompany a detachment of between
400 and 500 men, to move on the 28th of February up James
PROMOTIONS.
HEAD-QUARTERS New-York, March 2.
The Commande^o Chief has been pleased to make the
following Promotions.
rfh Foot. Captain William J. Darby from 17th foot, to be
Major by purchase, vice Crolbie promoted. August 10, 1780.
Captain Lieut. H. C. Selwyn, to be Captain, vice Newmarfh
preferred. Anguft 10, 1780.
Lieutenant James Burrowes to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice
Newmarfh preferred in the 60th regiment. Sept. 18, 1780.
16th regiment. Ensign John Hamilton to be Lieutenant,
vice Brecher, deceased. 18th September, 1780.
17th regiment. Lieutenant Laneford Miles to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Darby promoted in 7th regiment. 18th Sep
tember, 1780.
River, and make a diversion in favour of Earl Cornwallis,
these were under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Tho
mas Dundafs.—There were accounts received at Portsmouth,
that his Lordihip with seven hundred cavalry and four thou
farid infantry having crossed the Dan, a branch of the Roanoke
River, about one hundred and eighty miles from Portsmouth,
and was proceeding with great expedition in pursuit of. the
rebel army under Mr. Green. The Generals Steuben, Gre
gory and Muhlenburgh had collected all the force they could
assemble and gone to oppose his Lordship, whose object was
supposed to be immediate possession of Peterfburgh, a very
important post on James-River. General Leslie, with an
other army is advancing by quick marches to support his
Lordship's operations.—Wildness and despair has seized the
inhabitants, their troops and leaders.—The passage of the
Yadkin was an event which greatly increased their dismay,, for
it was presently succeeded by his Lordship's eroding Jefferfon
and Tayler's Ferry, on Roanoke, which separates Virginia from
North-Carolina; the latter Ferry is computed to. be about
80 miles distant from Peterfburgh.
March 10. On Friday last one Strickland, of Newton,
Long-Island, an artificer following the rebel army, came to
Capt. Ward's post at Bergen-Point, where, fufpeded, and
charged with being a spy, and also that he was the person ap
pointed to murder the late Major Andre, he was brought to
this city, and now lodged in the Provost.
Extrafl of a letter from Portsmouth in Virginia, dated Feb. 23.
“ Nothing material happening to us on our passage, I refer
you to the publick newspapers refpe&ing our fuccefsful march
to Richmond, and other parts of Virginia, till we arrived
at this port, during which time I had the honour of being the
whole time near our noble General; he has been pleased to
honour me with the command of the cavalry. I have 18 men
mounted belonging to our troop, and recruiting daily horses
arid men, so that in a short time we Shall, I flatter myfelf, be
able to raise our quota of men, arid if properly equipt as
horsemen, do something that will raise the reputation of the
corps, and do honour to our troop.
'tYou will perhaps be surprised when I assure you as a fadt,
that with a ferjeant and 12 cavalry of the American Legion,
and about 70 of the 80th regiment, under Major Maxwell,
marched 20 miles into Princess-Ann County, and brought
off a large quantity of cattle, and beat up the quarters of a
Rebel Commissary, took his stores, and conveyed them fafe
to this place, with only the loss of one man wounded, who
was centry."
March 12. Paul Jones, on his passage from France, in the
Ariel, of 26 guns, we are told fell in with a privateer belong
ing to this port, supposed to be the Triumph, Captain Pindar,
of 16 guns, with whom he had a very smart engagement ; but
Jones being too powerful for the British privateer, She Struck ;
and at that juncture there appearing great confufion on board
the rebel Ship, the Triumph set all the fail She could carry, and
got clear.
Paul Jones left I'Orient the 18th of December, and has
brought European intelligence later than we received by the
last Packet; no part of it has yet transpired in Philadelphia:
His whole cargo was about 30 tons' of gunpowder.
It appears by an arrival at Wilmington, in Delaware, in 47
days from Cadiz, that the Count d'Eftaing's fleet was in that
port the 26th of December, and that the Count had not been
at sea Since he repaired his Ships.
Yesterday a brig from Boston for Philadelphia, called the
Success, Capt. Brown, loaded with salt and some spices, was
sent in here by one of his Majesty's frigates.
Gen. WaShington, we hear has detached 2000 of his best
Continental troops to the southward, in order to,affift their
military operations in that quarter.
Ne^-Tork, March 17. Last Thursday arrived the ship
Nancy, Capt. Miller, who left Gravefend on the 9th of Ja
nuary; papers by this vessel inform us, that in a very Short
time after the declaration of war against Holland was published,
viz. from December 21, to January 9, Eighty fail of Dutch
Ships, &c. with a man of war of 50 guns, were brought to
Portsmouth, and that three very large vessels, laden ' with
malts, bound to Brest, were also brought into our harbours.
Three hundred and fifty commissions against the Dutch trade
had been already issued; the Channel swarmed with the Bri
tifli privateers; Admiral Darby had returned to port, but e
very ship of his late squadron fit for sea, was cut on cruises;
that two 74 gun Ships and two frigates had been detached af
ter several Dutch Eaft-Indiamen, which had failed at the in
stant of our Manifesto's being publilhed ; that Teresa, the
Empress Queen of Hungary, and mother of the present
Emperor of Germany, died on the 29th of November, an
event that in all probability will occasion a convulsion amongst
the European powers, and in its consequence, oblige the House
of Bourbon to employ their troops for the defence of their own
territories, rather than hazard them to distant countries, in
favour of a people who have hitherto derived very little advan
tage from their treacherous intervention.
The following is as accurate a view as at present can be ob
tained of the naval force of Great-Britain on the American
coast, under the command of Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot, and
of France under M, d'AStouches, Brigadier des armees na
vales, general. The latter was seen on Sunday last, about 30
leagues off the Capes of Virginia, at that time the wind not fair
for Standing into Chefapeak-Bay. The former was left 40
miles distant from Cape Charles about 7 o'clock on Wednes
day morning, by the Captain of a small vessel, who departed
from the Bay on Tuesday night, at which time the French
fleet had not made their appearance, nor did any person fee or
hear of their being in that vicinity. It is said the French fleet
had embarked two thousand of their troops on board. As it
is most probable that the object of Mons. d'Aftouches is to
land the French troops at York-Town, (where it is said their
engineers have been long employed in throwing up works) and
joining the rebels collecting there, aim at a defeat of the Bri
tish force under General Arnold, at Portsmouth, and prevent
the progress of Earl Cornwallis into Virginia ; this sudden ap
pearance of the British fleet will in all probability fruftrate the
whole intention, and may, in one great day of decision, enable
our brave Admiral to rank in the centre of his triumphant pre
decessors, Howard, Blake, Russel, and Bofcawen.
BRITISH. FRENCH..
London - - 90
Royal Oak - - 74
Bedford - - 74
Robust - - 74
Europe - - 64
America - - 64
Prudent - - 64
Adamant - - 50
Pearl - - -3%
Charleftown - - 32
Iris - - - 32
Guadaloupe - - 28
Savage - - - 16
The Fantafque left France armed en flute; but now it is
said the is refitted, and brought again into the line.
Three ships which failed from this port some time ago, with
recruits on board for General Dalling's army, on their passage
fell in with a French polacre, of 12 nine pounders, which they
took after a short engagement, and two of them convoyed
her into Montego-Bay; the third, with the prisoners on board,
was unfortunately calt away upon Hannagua.
Yesterday arrived a vessel from Portsmouth, in Virginia,
which left that post on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday
Le Duc de Bourgone - 80
Le Neptune - - 74
Le Conquerant - 74
L'Eveille - - 64
Le Provence - - 64
Le Jason - - 64
L'Ardent - - 64
Le Fantafque - 64
La Gentille - - 32
Le Surveillante - 32
L'Hermione - - 32
Le Guepe - - 14