The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1780-07-26 00:00:00, page 2

By Capt. Coggefball, in the letter of marque febooner
Sally, nuho arrived at Providence on Sunday the 2d
fuly, in 35 days from Port /'Orient, <we have the
following advices, extracted jr^m French and Eng
lish papers, viz.
LONDO N, April 8.
I IT E are informed from Berlin, of the iith uh.
'V that mention is made in the public prints there
of two Chinefc persons that have been preferred to
their Imperial Majesties by the Count de Brolii d'
Averfa; and that the following is the description of
these young Asiatics: They are of .. middle Nature,
their foreheads and noses are flat, have very final!
eyes, andfwarthy completions; their heads, which
are bald at the fore part, are ornamented behind with
a very long and thin tail, which reaches as low as
their heels ; their hair is finer than silk, their feet and
hands very finall, and their voice refemblcs tinging
rather than talking. It has been observed that whi e
they are difcourling they Ihut their little eyes, and
continue speaking without looking at any body. Itis
certain they were greatly furprized on lirft feeing
the snow, which was entirely unknown to them,
and they imagined it to be linen spread over the
mountains.
Extract of a letter from Cork, March 20.
" We are sorry to hear that the Penelope frigate,
Capt. Jones, after having taken feme Spanilh prizes,
was herfelf taken by the Spaniards, in the following
manner ; A Ludden wind arising, many of the Pene
lope's hands were upon the yards taking in the fails ;
which opportunity the Spanish prisoners embraced,
and having killed Capt. Jones, with most of his offi
cers, they overcante the remaining crew, and carried
the (hip into Cuba."
Advices are received from Holland, that a body of
French troops, to the amount of 2c,c00 men, are on
their march along the Flcmifh coast, where they are
going to take up their flation, and that this has caused
no final! alarm in the Dutch dominions.
We are assured from Petersburg, of th? 3d ult. not
withstanding what has been averted to the contrary,
th it the Court of Rullia will not depart from the re
solution the has taken of observing a Aritt neutrality
during the war ; and that the Ruffians .ire now equip
ping, with the utmoll dispatch, fifteen ships of the
line, and fix frigates, to put to sea as soon as poffblc,
for the protection of the trade and navigation of that
empire.
April 11. Commodore Walfingham has at length
failed ; his destination, with tliat of Admiral Graves,
is uncertain. The squadron of the latter is said by
some to consist of fix ships, others of nine, and that
they are both to join in a certain latitude, and after
leaving their convoy in fafety are to return to form a
fleet of observation in our seas, and tojoin those ships
which are to compose the channel fleet, in order to
prevent a junction of the combined fleets. It is pro
bable that we Ihall be able shortly to give a more fa
tisfaftory account of the force and destination of the
squadron of Admiral Graves. In general, for some
days past, the news-papers abound with speculation.
The last accounts via Holland has so strangely altered
the system which they so indultrioufly propagated for
truth, that their fertile geniuses are exhausted. They
read and read again the declaration and memorial of
the Court of Russia, which seem to tell the Holland
ers, " Join with us, and they fliall no longer search
" your vessels, nor seize your merchandize." They
not only find in that declaration nothing that confirms
the account so often given of powerful fuccours to be
granted by Russia, but it shews us that this fame Rus
sia, in obliging all the maritime powers to a ftrift
neutrality, which cannot but be disadvantageous to
us, is also leaving us tied hand and foot to the dan
towards the end of the action. As you know my
opinion, I leave you to judge how much I was fur
prized to read in the New-York paper, that you had
loft only seven men killed and nine wounded. —I do
not follow your example, Sir, I confefs to have had
ten men killed and thirty-seven wounded ; two of my
officers, with myfelf, are among the latter: You fee
I am not afraid to speak the truth, because I have no
reason wherewith to reproach myfelf. I shall finilh
this letter with an observation that must occur to
every military man. —Ifyou loft fewer men than I did
and your ship less damaged, what reason had you not
to continue the aftion? As you saw the miserable
condition of my rigging, and the impossibility of my
manceuvering and of Itcering any other course than
before the wind, whilst your situation put it in your
power to take the advantage of the wind for the pur
pose of retreating. You are either deficient in truth
in not acknowledging your loss, or else you wanted
Ipirit in declining the combat, when your loss was so
trifling, conlidering the advantage you had over me
from the good success of your diol, and you know
very well that no American frigate ever appeared in
our fight. I request you to answer this argument,
and to permit me to suspend my opinion of you until
you have fatisfied me, or that, fortunately, the chance
of war should again bring us together, to give us an
opportunity of trying our skill, which I solemnly de
clare to you I mod ardently desire. 1 wait your an
swer, and am, with those fentiinents with which your
firil conduct inspired me, Sir,
Your most humble
And most obedient servant,
(Signed) La TOUCHE.
Hawker, Ffq. Captain of)
the Britijb frigate the bis. )
On Monday the 10th inf. Mons. de 'l'ernay arrived
at Newport, Rhode-Ifland, with a very formidable
fleet of blips and a large body of land forces, lent to
the relief of these United States by his Moll Christian
Majesty, with whose assistance we hope very soon to
extirpate from our territories those invaders of our
rights, the apostate Britons.
Last Thursday Thomas Graves, Rear Admiral cf
the Blue, arrived at Sandy-Hook from England, with
five ships of the line. We are told they are very bad
ly manned.
On Sunday last three of the enemy's dragoons swam
their horses, with their accoutrements, from Staten-
Island, and came over to our people at Elizabeth-
Town.
We are informed that the spirit of desertion is very
prevalent among the enemy. Nolefs than 15 of their
light horsemen deserted in a body on the 6th instant,
with their horses, arms, and accoutrements; fix of
them came into Frederickfburgh, and nine to Gen.
Howe's head-quarters ; and that scarcely a day elapses
without more or less coming off to some of our posts
on the east fide of Hudson's river.
Night before last five or fix of the refugees came over
to Newark and carried off Major Hayes, Jullice Can
field and son, and Zophar Lyon.
gerous confederation of three powerful enemies, and
gives us to underhand that the wish of Europe in ge
neral, and of that Court in particular, is that we
should make peace immediately. If they are obliged
to give such an interpretation to a step of this kind,
what inference can we draw, but that the indepen
dence of America, secretly acknowledged by every
other Court in Europe, must soon be by that of St.
James's ? —After having fuffered the distresses of a
war, and drained of our resources, we ihall think
ourfelvcs happy, after all our grandeur, to be ranked
at the conclulion of a peace amongst the independent
nations.
Capt. Efek Hopkins, jun. who arrived here on Sun
day last from St. Martin's, informs, that a fleet of
12 Spanish ships oftlie line are arrived at Guadeloupe,
with 12,000 troops. He also advises, that previous
to the arrival of ibis fleet there had been a third action
between the French and British fquadrous in the Weft-
Indies, wherein the Britons were worked, and fled,
leaping our allies masters of the sea.
The 2d instant arrived at Providence, a schooner,
in 35 days from L'Orient in France, in which came
John Williams, F.fq. by whom we learn, that the
Count de ChafAult failed from France the 2d of May,
with 7 fail of the line, 5 frigates, and about too fad
of transports, with 10,000 troops, bound for these
United States. The fleet has pruvifions for the troops
for nine months. They have allo a turn of money to
the amount of two millions of crowns.
By a gentleman who came patkngcr with Captain
Coggelhall we learn, that a fleet of seven fail of the
Ine, and five frigates, with about 100 tranfport c ,
having on board 10,000 fine troops, failed from Brest
fir America the 2d of May last, which was 26 days
before he left Port L'Orient: That I he combined fleet,
defined for the channel of England, confined of 65
drips of the line, ready for sea, and was to be com
manded by the gallant Count D'Eltaing : Tliat in
consequence of Great-Britain's having ordered Dutch
vessels to be captured within certain latitudes, their
High Mightinefles the States General had direful
50'lhips of the line to be got ready for tea with ail
dispatch: That the Court of Russia had also deter
mined to proted tlie trade of their fubjeds from in
f.ilt; for which purpose their marine force had been
put on a very refpeftable footing, and the other ma
ritime powers that are not at war invited to join in a
Retentive treaty : That the commotions in Ireland had
not by any means subsided, and that it was generally
bcl.eved the Britilh ministry would be compelled to
grant every demand made by the oppressed people of
that country.
Extract of a letter from Antigua, dated sane 10, taken
in a prize brig bound from that place for Georgia.
" We are perilling for the want of corn and water :
Many of the poor in the country have died with hun
ger ; and the owners of estates give their negroes two
days in each week to get what they can 10 supply
themselves."
The fame day also Capt. Hopkins arrived at Pro
vidence, in 14 days from St. Martins, by whom we
learn, that about the Bth ult. 12 fail of Spanilh men
of war of the line, with 12,000 Spanilh land forces,
arrived at Guadeloupe—the French grand Weft-li
dia fleet, confiding of upwards of 20 tail of the line,
were at Martinico —Our allies are in high spirits.
The Conititution qf Government lately eltabhihed
by the inhabitants of this date, has been read, and
admired, by some of the best judges in other Rates.
It is indeed worth defending, that it may be enjoyed
by ourselves, and transmitted to our descendants.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March 21.
" The Court de Rochambeau set out this day for
Brest, where all the officers of his army have orders
to repair by the 25th of this month. Itappear., tint
the Chevalier de Ternay's squadron is to convoy tin t
army to America, and tliat after the Count Duchai
fault fliall have escorted the troops with 12 ships of
tile line to a certain latitude, he is to return to Breit."
PROVIDENC E, July 8.
C H A T H A M, July 19.
BOSTO N, July 6.
ply with these reasonable terms, who Ihall be found
in arms hereafter in favour of the rebellion, shall not
/be treated as soldiers and prisoners of war, but as
banditti and robbers.
On the 29th of last month the following vessels of
wir, viz. The Guadaloupe of 50 guns, the Roebuck
of 44, the Delaware, Hancock, Licorne, and two
other frigates, palling our capes from New-York,
and difeovering a fleet of 22 or 23 tobacco ships just
going out, put in after them; in which they were
joined by 7 privateers from 10 to 20 guns, who have
for some time infefted the bay. They all however
fortunately escaped up James river. On the 2d inst.
they had fallen down, and five of the men of war
were out of fight from Hampton, the others with the
privateers making the belt of their way out ; the on
ly mifehief they did on the north fide of James river
was the landing a boat and plundering two families
of their bacon and some cattle.
/'July 5. We have authentic intelligence, dated June
I 26, from Cross Creek, in North-Carolina, that Gen.
Clinton had failed from Charleftown some days before
with 5000 men, his destination not known; that a
garrison of 800 men are left at Charleftown ; that
Lord Cornwallis with from 2500 to 4000 men are at
Camden, 600 horse two miles above that, under Tar
liton, who mall'acred Col. Buford's party after they
had begged quarters ; and about 600 men of the 71st
r gt. at the Cheraw hill, on Pedee, between Long
Bluff and Anson courthouse ; this last post is about 60
miles from Cross Creek, in a south-west direction.—
Here they are colliding magazines of provinces, the
river lands affording grain and forage, and the barren
country between that and Cross Creek abounding
with cattle, and inhabited by Highland emigrants.
Gen. Clinton, previous to his departure, issued a pro
clamation, difeharging from their paroles all who had
taken them, and requiring their immediate attend
ance to fwe.tr allegiance and bear arms in favour of
his Sovereign, declaring that all who refufe to com-
In justice to the memory of Capt. Adam Wallace,
who fell in the late adion at the Wax Saws, in South 6
Carolina, we think ourselves bound to give the pi?^
lie the following account of Lis bravery on that un
happy occasion, as it is certified by a number of of
ficers and soldiers of Col. Buford's regiment, who
were eye witnesses to the tranfadion. When the e
nemy made the attack, Capt. Wallace was polled on
the right; after the exchange of several shot, Col.
Buford ordered his men to ground their arms, to
which Capt. Wallace so far complied as to cease firing,
but infiead of meeting with that reception which the
feelings of humanity dictates, or that clemency which
our conquered foes have ever received at our hands,
no quarter was given ; on which he ordered his men
to fell their lives as dear as possible. He bravely de
fended himfelf against a number who assailed him on
all sides, and was seen to make several lunges at Col.
Tarliton, who commanded the enemy's party ; whilst
thus engaged he received a blow in the back of his
neck, which nearly fevered his head from his body,
and was found dead on the field with a British officer
at his feet : Thus was massacred a man whose bravery
merits universal applause. Col. Tarliton the next day
publickly mentioned his bravery, which he said en
titled him to immortal honour.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) June; 28.
The Blip Adventure, Capt. Reeves, of 16 guns and
60 men, in 17 days from St. Croix, with a cargo of
rum, sugar, salt, &c. is fafe arrived in James River.
About 40 leagues east of Cape Hatteras, he fell in
with the brig Hammond of 18 guns, and the flcop
Randall of 10 guns, two privateers from Bermuda,
both which she engaged near three hours within pistol
shot, and obliged the Hammond to strike ; but being
so much disabled in his fails and rigging, and the wind
light, he could not get possession of the brig before
the sloop towed her off, and got clear. What is
femething remarkable, Capt. Reeves had not a man
hurt during the engagement. Between the Capes he 1
saw ii fail of privateers, which were in a chain from
Cape Henry to Cape Charles, but not one of them
attempted to come near him. The brig Gen. Wayne,
Captain Nicholson, and the schooner Grand Tyger,
Captain Smith, parted from him the 9th inst. in lat. 22.
We have the pleasure to inform the public, that
Richard Randolph the younger of Curles, George
Carter of Shirley, and Robert Bolling of Peterfburgh,
Esquires, have undertaken, in the prefect emergency
of their country, to raise each a company of volunteer
infantry, to serve one year from the time of their join
ing the army ; and that this tender of their services
h is been accepted by His Excellency the Governor in
Council, with an assurance that the counties in which
fich men Ihall be raised, shall, during the time of
their service, have credit for them on any future ser
vice of the militia. The patriotic example which
these gentlemen have had the glory of setting, we
doubt not will catch throughout the several counties,
and convince vur enemy that a people can be never
c mquered, on whom misfortunes have no other effeft
than to route them to superior exertions.
Last evening the men of war came too, a consider
able dittance below the old fort. Several of the pri
vateers above, and two others, a ship and a brig, op
polite thereto, which two, together with those above,
were obliged to weigh and hurry down as fail as pos
sible, occasioned by the fire of a 12 and 4 pounder.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the independence
of America, it was celebrated in this town by a dis
charge of 13 cannon, &c. from Shockoe hill, in ho
nour of the United States.