The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-12-12 00:00:00, page 2

Lieutenant-Colonel Abercrombie, the former com,
mending on the right, and the latter on the left, for
their attention and exertion on every occasion. The
detachment of the 23d regiment and marines in the
redoubt on the right, commanded by Captain Ap
thorpe, and the subsequent detachments commanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston, deserve particular
Commendation; Captain Rochfort who commanded
the artillery, and indeed every officer and soldier of
that distinguished corps, and Lieutenant Sutherland
the commanding engineer, have merited in every
refpedt my higher approbation; and I cannot fuffi
cient/y acknowledge my obligations to Captain Sym
monds, who commanded His Majesty's ships, and
to the other officers and seamen of the navy, for
their zealous and active co-operation,
I tranfmjt returns of cur killed and wounded ; the
T oss of seamen and town's people was likewise con
siderable.
1 trufeyour Excellency will please to hasten the
return of the Bonetta, after landing her passengers,
in compliance with the article of capitulation,
Lieutenapt-Colonel Abercrombie will have thg
honour to deliver this defpatch, and is well qualified
to explain to your Excellency every particular re
lating to our pall and prefect situation.
I have the honour to be, ewitb great refyefy Sir,
Tour most obedient, and most humbleferwaut,
(Signed) CORNWALLIS.
Return of the billed, mounded and miffing, oj the Briti/b
arm,, fiom the 2&b September to the 19th October,
1781,
[/-Total.—-2 Captains, 4 Lieutenants, 13 Serjeants,
4 Drummers, 133 rank and file killed. 5 Lieutenants,
z Entyi, 24 Serjeants; 11 Drummers, 285 rank and
file wounded. 1 Major, 2 Captains, 1 Sub Itern,
3 Serjeants, 63 rank and file miffing. Total 552.
M AD RI D, August 7.
THE winds having at last permitted the combined
l fleet to fail, they left Cadiz on the 21st ultimo,
in the morning, confining of 49 ships of the line, in
the following order of battle :
FIRST DIVISION.
Blue and White Squadron.
El San Miguel, Spanish, 70
L' Invincible, French, 110 M. de Chertzay.
El Rayo, Sp. 80 Don Guixal.
ELBrillante, Sp, 70
Le Dauphin Royal, Fr. 70
La Concepcion, Sp. 96 DonMiguelGafton
La Sircua, Sp. 7°
La Camilla, Sp. 60
La Gtiicia, Sp. 70
Le Roval Louis, Fr. no M. Beauffet,
El San Rafrel, Sp. 7°
La Santa Labella, Sp. 70
SECOND DIVISION.
White Squadron.
L'A&if, Fr. 74
EISm Carlos Sp. 80 D. Vicente Tenedos
Le Hardi, Fr. 64
El Angddela Guardia Sp. 70
Le Proterteur, Fr. 74 , . .
Lafrutilirii Trinidad Sp. 112 Gen. Don Luis de
La Africa, Sp. 70 Cord. command-
El San Domingo, Sp. 66 ing the whole
Le Zodiaque, Fr. 74 combined fleet.
L'lndien, Fr. 64
El San Fernando, ,Sp. 84 D. Hernando Ang.
THIRD DIVISION.
Blue Squadron.
El Ven^dor, Sp, 70
El San Damafo, Sp. 7°D. Antonio Forno.
Le Bien Aime, Fr. 74
Le Septentrion, Fr. 64
El San Pedro, Sp. 70 , n ,
Le Majeftueufo Fr- D° Mde Rochechou,
Le Guerrier, Fr. 74
El San Joachin, Sp. 70
El San Juan Bautifta, Sp. 70
II San Jullo, Sp, 70
£1 Or ente, Sp. 70
Le Terrible, Fr. iioM.de la M. Piquet
El Terrible, Sp. 118 D. AntoniaValdes.
A light Squadron under M. de Guichen.
FIRST DIVISION.
La Bretagne, Fr. 110 M. de Guichen.
El Gloriofo, Sp. 78
Le Lion, . Fr. 70
Fil Serio, Sp. 64
Le Magnifique, F, 74
El Meno, Sp, 64
Le Robufte, Fr. 74
SECOND DIVISION.
El San Vincente, Sp. 80 D. Ignacio Tofla.
Le Fendant, Fr. 74
El San Pablo, Sp. 70
L'Alexandre, Fr. 64
El San Loranzo, Sp. 70
Le Triomphant, Fr. 8o„ M. du Parillon,
N. B. The officers whole names are Be set down,
are either Admirals or Commodores.
B OST O N, November 24.
Extract of a letter from?a gentleman of high rank in
Holland, dated July 25th, 1781.
" We are very fallible of what America must ex
pect from qs, and fee! too much for its disappoints
meat and our tardintfs in seeking revenge for such
attrocious insults and injuries. It has been a fubjeft
of wonder to Europe, and to ourselves a cause of
painful femfatiop; though we are frill pervaded that
we, Shall fee, our nation fully avenged. The slowness
of measures here having been more owing to.the
baneful influence of a court than to a want of a pro
per Spirit in the nation; who, on the contrary, give
us reafori to dread, from their refinement against
some leaders, the worst consequences. True patri
otism however seems to gain the afeendency with us,
from which we hope the happiest efforts may result;
and that finally that iniquitous and haughty power
(instead of bringing the world at her feet, to un
conditional fubmiflion) will be puniflied for the wick
edness of her measures. It is now in the State of a
ruined gamester throwing its last stake—Nick or
nothing. —All in the East-Indies is in as forlorn a
Bate as in America. In Short, their situation in all
quarters is so deplorable that though an honest Briton
cannot behold it without weeping, yet he fees no
Safety for himfelf or posterity from being enslaved,
but by further disgrace and ruin tp their arms, in
hopes that the remainder of virtue left among them
will, at last, from difpair, unite in attempting to
drag from the feat of power the wretches who have
perverted it to their ruin by every kind of corruption.
•' May the good genius of your riling Rates, guard
them from any kind of it, and preserve their virtue!
And may our former virtue be restored to us, that
so we may be the more worthy of that union we so
earnestly with for, and to which we dirert all our
labours. We flatter ourselves it is not far off,"
Nov. 26. Upon the great and ever memorable
event of the complete conquest and capture qf the
British army, under Lord Cornwallis, by the allied
forces in Virginia, the Captains of French Ships cf
war in this harbour, gave a ball last Monday evening,
to the Governor and Council, the Commodore, and
principal officers of the American navy and army,
and a great number of the firft ladies and gentlemen
of the town. —The ball was opened at 6 o'clock, at
11 a moll Splendid flipper was provided, at which
more than 60 ladies were seated. The brilliant ap
pearance exhibited on this occasion, has not at any
time been surpassed—every thing was conducted in
the mod perfect order, and the joy of the evening
was complete.
Since our last arrived in a fafe port, the prize Ship
St. Mary's packet, near 400 tons burthen, with a
cargo consisting of 491 hogsheads of fngar, 10 hogs
heads of rum, and 6co bags of ginger. She was
bound from Jamaica to London, and was taken by
the privateer brig Cato, Captain Briggs of Salem.
Last Tuesday the privateer brig Fox, Capt. Neill,
returned to Salem from a cruize.
Nov. 29. Our enemies at New-York appear not
a little chagrined that Clinton has been so complete
ly outwitted by General Washington and the Com
manders of the land and sea forces of our allies.'
The British General concluded that New,York was
the first object of the allies. Confident of this, all
the reinforcements and Stores designed for Cornwallis,
he detained at that place, and accordingly the fleet
remained there; this rendered the conquest over
Cornwallis more expeditious; though it is allowed
on all hands, that this boasted Brififh hero made no
such exertions as might have been expected, consider
ing the great force he had with him. Burgoyne
fought two bloody battles before the convention of
Saratoga; and was upbraided by Cornwallis in a Bri
tish Parliament for not having extricated himfelf,
And yet this very Cornwallis, after having assumed
much importance for having run thro' a country
thinly fettled, and exercising much barbarity upon
it's inhabitants, when he found himfelf opposed by
an army in condition to attack him, surrendered af
ter a fißgle i'ally.
The Court of France seems intent on bringing the
war to a speedy and happy issue. It may be relied
on that 10,000 men were embarked at Brest in the
beginning of October ; and that a strong fleet was
soon to Sail with this embarkation ; the design was
kept a profound Secret, but if we may judge of fu
ture events by the past, it may not be long before
our enemies in some quarter or another, may feel
the weight of this refpertable force.
The allies have triumphed this campaign, not on
ly in the field of battle, but on the Rage of virtue.
Their humanity has been equal to their valour.
Whoever confiders the past conduct of Lord Corn,
wallis and Lord Rawdon, and the forces under their
orders —the Shameful breach of the capitulation of
Charleftown, the manner in which the principal in
habitants of that town were sent to Augustine ; the
burning of Beaufort, and many other towns on the
Continent, not from necessity of war, but the base
principles cf malignity and revenge, and the innu
merable arts of barbarity, with which the Britons
haje Rained themselves and the nation in the Ame
rican war ; whoever confiders all this, must be asto
nished at the generous terms granted to Cornwallis
and his army, when they were so totally in the pow
er of their conquerors. Some are ready to regard
them as an excess of generolity, considering that
our enemies have always been disposed to impute
every thing of this kind to cur weakness and timidi
ty. But in the present circumfrances of the war, it
demonstrates an unexampled magnanimity, which,
tho' our enemies are incapable of doing justice to it,
will raise us Rill higher in the estimation of Europe,
and gain the apphufe of the world. For humanity,
however Britain may have forgotten it, is, by the
common content of nations, more than ever honour
ed and refpedted.
NEW-LONDO N, Nov. 30,
The vcflcl mentioned in our last to have run afhere
on Block-Bland, proves to be a ship of about 4CO
tons, which failed from the Chefapeak, bound to
Europe, laden with naval-Rpres, indigo and tobac
co, and was taken by a Bntilh cruizer, who order
ed her for England, but she was soon after re-tafen
by a Salem privateer, and afterwards again taken
by the fame British cruizer ; and there being a num
ber of Americans left on board they got command
of the vellel; and in running in for land, in a gale pf
wind last Saturday night was a week, they run on
Block-Island, where the veffcl is 1011, but her rigging,
guns, and part of the cargo is saved. Several final!
velfels from the main have loaded from the wreck.
We hear that last week, Major Davis and Captain
Grinncl, being ashore at Sagharbour with several
men, were betrayed and taken prisoners by a Heffan
Major and about 20 light-horse. Davi^ and Grinnel
had two armed boats with them, which the enemy
were about setting on fire; but Captain Wickham in
an 8 gun Roop from Stonington,, about the fame
time coming to, near the boats, pretexted and
brought them off.
F I SH-K I L L, Dec. 6.
We hear from New-York, that the Heffiaus and
other German troops are called home by their re
fpehtive Princes.
C II A '1 H A M, December 5.
Last Saturday night, seven refugees trem Staten-
Island landed at Haißead's Point, with the expecta
tion (as their leader told them) of meeting feme of
their quondam friends with fat cattle; but Captain
Dayton having notice pf their intention, collected a
party of men, and knowing the route they were to
take, laid in ambush for them, though unfortunately
a muddy place in the road had turned tsemia little
out, and obliged his party to fire through two fences,
otherwise, in all probability, they would have killed,
every one the firft fire; however, they killed one,
mortally wounded another, and took three prisoners;
the other two, favoured by the shade of the night,'
and a good pair of heels, made their eicape. Three
of their party were left in the gun-boat, but hearing
a boat of our's coming cut ot the creek, puffied
over to the Staten-Bland shore, nevertfiekfs fli c fell
into the hands of Lieut. Randolph.—lt seems their
leader, Swain Parcel, was a deserter from our army;
but, in order to obtain forgivetiefs, and make feme
atonement for his crime, had pretioufly concerted
this plan; he was to have brought over twenty
men; but unfortunately, when on the point of em
barking, ten wete recalled 011 some urgent business.
In CGiifequeiice of Parftl's information, David
Oliver, a villain who has long been the fupportcr of
the illicit trade, and a dread to the inhabitants on
the lines, was taken the fame night concealed in a
hoiife at Rahway. As he was secreted and without
arms, it is more than probable we &1I have the
plealure of beholding his exaltation in a few days.—
It is not impossible that Parfcl was sent on purpose
to execute this bufioefs.
The London fleet will fail from New- York in about
eight days. Lord Cornwallis goes home in the Ro
buß, and Gen. Arnold and his family in the Edward,
a twenty gun ship,
PHILADELPHIA,
Nov. 23. It appears from all the London prints
that the national hopes of success are intirely found
ed upon the events of the campaign of 1781: the
meft sanguine among them allow that if fofoething
great is not done this year, the ration will soon be
reduced to a most deplorable situation.
The British fleet have failed to the Southward:
The most probable conjecture is that they have in
view the evacuation of Charleftown ; a meafape that
would be very prudent—it is not unlikely however,
that it will be done under the direction of the Count
de Graffe.
The united fleet of France and Spain lately cruiz
ing in the channel of England, consists of 53 fail of
the line, and is greatly fyperior to the Englifb. The
Dutch are straining every nerve to increase their ma
rine, and if England ihould obßinately persist in this
war another year, will have a fleet at sea fufficient
with the aid of their allies to annihilate that of Bri
tain. as well as their commerce.
By the latest advices from Carolina, different par
ties from the American army were harraffing the ene
my to the very gates of Charlcßown—one of these
had taken a Captain and 23 soldiers, stove 40 hogs
heads of rum and brought off a number of horfts and
Rores.
December 4.
The inhabitants of this city were much pleased
last Tuesday evening, by the brilliant exhibition
of a number of transparent fetnes, designed and ex
ecuted by that very ingenious artist, Mr. Charles
W. Peale, who had previoufiy prepared them for
the purpose of celebrating the arrival in this city of
our illustrious Commander in Chief. During the
whole evening the people were flocking from all
parts cf the town to obtain a fight of these beauti
ful expressions of Mr Peale's reiped and gratitude (