The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-04-03 00:00:00, page 3

BASSETERRE (S. Kitt's) Feb. 20.
A few days after the surrender of the island Ad
miral Hood left the road with his fleet, and where
he is now we know not. As soon as he went away
the Count de Graffe's fleet took their former por
tion in BafTeterre road.
) efterday morning his Excellency the Marquis
de Bouille embarked for Martinico. His Excellency
Count Dillon is left Governor of this island and
Nevis, with the regiment of Dillon of the Bri
gades, the regiment of RouGillon, and the regiment
of Auxerrois, each equal to TOCO men. And this
day also the rest of the troops and the fleet will de
part for Martinico.
St. JO H N's (Antigua) Feb. 19.
The English fleet left their anchorage at Basse
terre, St. Christopher, without any interruption
on the part of the enemy, on Thursday evening, and
are now coming into this road. We flatter our
feives it will not be long before they are joined by
Sir George Rodney, with his reinforcement, con
sisting of 11 fail of the line and two frigates.
We have learnt nothing with certainty relative
to our worthy friends and neighbours of Monferrat,
except that they were still English fubjeds on Sun
day last.
Just as this paper was going to press, we hear
(and we hope it is true) that Sir George Rodney is
arrived at Barbadoes with 15 fail of the line; four
of these, we presume, are bound immediately for
Jamaica, with troops for the reinforcement of the
garrison there.
B O 5 I O N, March 16.
We hear that the brig Phoenix, belonging to Sa
lem, late commanded by Capt. Thomas, was, some
weeks since, cast away near the capes of Virginia.
The men, it is said, were saved; but the velTel and
cargo loft.
om Sir Eyre Coote to Col. Braithwaite, nt Tan
re, dated the 6th ult. which was tranfinitted to
re Resident by Captain Edington (the Command
int at Palameotah) whb has' likewise advised him
o' the following particulars: That the Swallow
■cket reached Madras on the 22d of June, and the
dney packet also on the 12th ult. the latter hav
patted from the fleet the failed with from Eng
el on the sth of .April, in lat. 28 N. That the
ay commanded by Sir Eyre Coote, passed Per
-1 icoil on the 18th ult. with a view of effecting a
" i&ion with a large detachment of Bengal troops,
rich, with three battalions from the Northern
rears, had for some time been on their way to
adras, where, by the last accounts, they were
arly arrived."
:tra& of a letter from Sir Eyre Coote, to Colonel
Braithwaite, dated the 6th July, 1781, refer
red to in the above letter.
'• The third instant, I had the pleasure to ac
int you of the success of our little army in a
eral action on the firft instant, with Hyder Aliy,
ween Porto Noovo and Moteapollam. it lasted
ut hours, and was a hard fought day on both
es. The enemy's force confilted of 25 battalions
Infantry, 400 Europeans, and from 40 to 50.000
fe, and above 100,000 matchlock men, peons,
1 polygars, with 47 pieces of cannon well served.
r fecund line having occupied some heights by
ch our rear was secured, I advanced with the
: towards the enemy's guns, many of which, had
had a body of cavalry, must have fallen into
hands.
They made repeated attempts to force us with
horse, and kept up a britl< cannonade, which
1 long time our heavy fire could not silence.
ding at length to the steadiness, spirit, and
cry of our comparatively small number of troops,
retreated precipitately and left us masters of
field. Meer Saib received a mortal wound,
, among 4000 killed are many of the principal
cers. On our fide we loft very few officers, and
y 3 or 40'0 killed aid wounded. You will be
afed to communicate this fortunate event to all
2 southern garrisons."
Yesterday a requisition from a number of refpec
able freeholders of the county of Middlesex, was
delivered to Messrs. Gill and Nicholson, the She
riffs, desiring them to call a meeting of the county,
to take into consideration the present fituatibn of
publick affairs; when they appointed a meeting to
be held on Wednesday at Hackney.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Dec. 3.
" Monsieur Neckar is fully established in his office
as prime Minister of state, but will not be declared
publickly till the affairs of M. Maurepas are adjusted
in form and passed the King's approbation. This
is only a necessary form, although it takes up more
than fix weeks in concluding."
RICHMOND, March g.
A few days ago arrived here Lieutenant-Colonel
Lee, from the southern army, which he left on the
13th of Feb. and informs, that General Greene,
With the main body of the army, continued in a po
rtion north of Pon-pon river, within four miles of
Jackfonburgh; the light troops were Rationed on
the south fide of Ashley river, in the vicinity of Dor
cheder: That the Britilh army remained in their
fortified camp at the Quarter-house, preserving posts
on James-Bland and Hadrel's Point: That briga
dier General Marian, with the militia and corps of
Rate troops, was on the north fide of the Cooper
river, for the protection of the inhabitants of that
dißrid: That the operating force of the two ar
mies were nearly equal, including irregulars, no re
inforcements having arrived at Charleftown, though
very powerful bodies of troops were expelled in the
course of the ensuing month: That desertion pre
vailed in an uncommon degree in the royal army,
the spirit of difaffedfion was subsiding daily, and the
unfortunate inhabitants who had been deluded by
the arts of the enemy to oppose their country were
throwing themselves on the mercy of government :
That the warmest friendship fubfißed between the
citizens and the army, and the hardfiiips of Service
were mitigated by the constant and affectionate ci
vility of the inhabitants ; and the American troops
preserved a perfect fidelity, notwithstanding a com
plication of wants: 1 hat commissioners were ap
pointed by the Generals, Greene and Lehie, to meet
on the 20th of February, for the renovation of the
cartel, &c. and the mode of warfare was totally
changed, humanity having taken place of barbarity,
and civility of rudeness: Ihat Lieutenant Colonel
1 homfon, late Secretary to Lord Germaine, had
taken command of the British cavalry: That Gen.
Wayne had confined the enemy's forces in the state
of Georgia to the town of Savanna: And that Co
lonel White, at the head of his regiment of cavalry,
had routed a body of Indians, making eighteen pri
soners, and taking one hundred horles, with other
booty.
Lieutenant Colonel Laurens has fuceeded Lieu
tenant Colonel Lee in the command of the light
troops ; and Lieutenant Colonel Harmer is ap
pointed Deputy Adjutant General to the southern
army during the ablence of Colonel Williams, who
is on his return to Maryland.
To s7Ti7b,
At publick vendue,
THE farm whereon the subscriber now lives, at
I Raritan, on Monday the 22d of April, at 10
o'clock, on the premises, it will be divided into 3
small farms of about 120 acres each; they will have
a large proportion of woodland and meadow, and a
brook running through each of them that never fails
in the dryeft leafon; and, on one of them, a snug
dwellinghoufe, a young orchard, a good well of
water, and a brook running within a lew yards of
the door. The terms will be made known at the
time of sale, by
THOMAS FARMAR.
N. B. The title is indisputable.
March 28, 1782.
'YOUNGIRISHGREY,
WILL cover mares this season, at the Ruble of
the subscriber, in the township of Hope
well, Hunterdon county, at Four Dollars the fealon,
to be paid by the firß day of September next. He
is a colt of the old Irish Grey, his dam w, s got by
Bullerock, his grand dam was Doctor Bevins old
Ifollop, is near sixteen hands high, has two white
feet arid a blaze, remarkably well built, both for
Strength and beauty, a lure foal getter, and his colts
are allowed, by good judges, to be equal both in
size and figure to any colts whatever.
JONATHAN MUIRHEID.
April 2, 1782. 3wf
T'O BE SO LD,
At publick vendue, on Saturday the 6th instant,
April, at the dwellinghoufe of the subscriber, at
the corner of Queen-street, near Captain John
Yard's tavern in Trenton;
A NUMBER of horses, breeding mares, mares
with colts, cows, young cattle, a good waggon,
with gears complete, and sundry articles too tedious
to mention. The vendue to begin precisely at ten
o'clock on said day.
JOHN WITTMOR.
April 3, 1782. JW*
^LL~perfons indebted to the subscriber, are de
" fired to pay the amounts of their bonds and
accounts to Mr. Nathaniel Hunt, of ( ranberry,
with whom tire bonds and accounts are left.
3 w* WILLIAM VANDRILL.
TO BE L E T,
AVERY good Rand in a good part of the coun
try for a merchant, two rooms of the house
or more if wanted, and a tliop and cellar and Rore
house and a kitchen, in Amwell near Ringo's Ta
vern, on Trenton road. For further particulars
enquire of the subscriber living on the premises.
AARON VAN-DUREN.
March 26, 1782. 2wf
'T''HE great advantages arising from a healthy
and convenient situation for a town at the head
of a very navigable river, has made such places the
particular objects of many great and powerful nati
ons: The town of Lamberton on the river Dela
ware in Nottingham township, Burlington county,
has every advantage of health and beauty from its
healthy and pleasant situation, at the head of the
tide water, and convenience for wharfs for the easy
accommodation of veflels to and from the city of
Philadelphia: Many having applied for convenient
lots to build on in this place, has induced the pro
prietor of a fine level piece of ground at the said
town, to lay out a number of lots from 50 to 60
feet front by 300 feet deep, on a street of 60 feet
wide, running from the piefent road to Lamberton
to the river Delaware, and along the bank of said
river to the several landings, with a back street from
the centre of this to the present main street. A
plan of which may be seen at John Watlon's, or
at Randle Mitchell's in said township, Capt. John
Clunn's in Lamberton, and at Renffeiaer W illiams's,
Esq. in Trenton, who will inform any perlon inclin
ed to purchase, the terms either on ground rent or
see-simple, to whom good titles will be given.
March 26, 1782. gw
TO BE SOLD,
By the subscriber at private sale, or to be let,
AVALU ibLE gristmill with two pair of Rones
and three boults, all going by water upon an
everlasting dream, with 80 acres of good land well
watered and timbered, lituate in the township of
Alexandria, Hunterdon county, and state of New-
Jersey. On the premises there are 14 acres of
good meadow and more may be made, all well
watered; the place is very suitable for a merchant
or any gentleman to live at, where ail forts of pro
duce which the country can produce can be handily
taken in and very convenient to three landing places
for Philadelphia market, the landing places within
three miles of the premises on Delaware river.
There is on the premises one good frame house,
new barn, stables, barracks and Iheds, a good young
bearing orchard, of about two hundred apple-trees,
&c. for further particulars apply to the subscriber
on the premises, where the terms of sale will be
made known. The land joins Mr. Joseph Cham
berline's on one fide, and Mr. Daniel Turkey's on
the other, gw^ FREDERICK JORDaN.
House of Assembly, C'&ober 30. 1781.
THE petition from the legatees of Cornelius
Johnson, late of the township of Kingwood,
in the county of Hunterdon, was read, setting forth,
that they had petitioned a former nffembly for leave
to bring in a bill to amend certain deficiencies in
the last will and testament of the aforefaid I orneli
us Johnson, occasioned by the inaccuracy of the
Clerk who wrote the said will, and praying that
they may have leave to present a bill to amend the
said deficiencies;
Ordered, 1 hat the petitioners have leave to pre
sent the draught of a bill, agreeably to the prayer
of their petition, on advertising their intention in
the New-Jersey Gazette at lead fix weeks previous
thereto. Extract from the minutes,
M. Ewing, Jun. Clerk.
Notice is hereby given, that the subscriber intends
to present a bill at the next fitting of the Legislature
for the purposes mentioned in the foregoing extract.
CORNELIUS JOHNSON, son of Cornelius.
March 29, 1782. 6w*
STOLEN last night out of the stable of the sub
scriber, in Buckingham, Bucks county, a yel
low sorrel horse, fix years old, a white mane and
tail, trots and canters well, 14 hands and an inch
high, a Rar and some fiddle marks.—Also a black
mare 5 years old, 14 hands 3 inches high, a Rar
and a little white on one hind foot, paces a little,
and trots and canters. Whoever secures the thief
and horses. so as the thief may be convided, and the
owner get the horses, fliall have 24 Dollars reward,
or 16 Dollars for the horses only, and leafonable
charges, paid by
ISRAEL ANDERSON.
March 24, 1782. gw*