The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-08-18 00:00:00, page 2

Another Polacre arrived here last Saturday from the Hava
na, in which came General Campbell, the late Commander
at Pensacola, and several other officers. And
Yesterday two other cartels came up from Pensacola, which
we hear have brought the laftof the Garrison of that place.
The Province of New-Jersey have passed a law for railing
immediately the sum of 150,0001. for the payment of which a
tax is to be laid on Merchants, Fifherie6, Saw-mills, Grid
mills, Fulling-mills, Furnaces, Forges, Rolling and Slit-mills,
Oil-mills, Stamping-mills, Stills and Breweries, Tavern-keep
ers, Tan-yards, Ferries, all small vessels, every single man,
Slaves, Carriages of all Sorts, Clocks and Watches of all Sorts,
Plate, Stallions, and all kind of Horses, horned Cattle, lands,
improved or unimproved, hogs, &c. &c.
The inhabitants may discharge the above taxes in wheat at
,s. 6d. per bushel, Rye at ss. Oats at as. 6d. Indian Corn 4s.
Buckwheat 2s. 6d. merchantable Wheat Flour 225. 6d. per
cent. Beef 4d. per lb. Mutton qd. 1-2, salt Beef 100 s. per Bar
rel. Pork rd. 1-2 per lb. salted do. per Barrel 130 s. &c. &c.—
The money of the Province will be taken in discharge of the
above taxes, or certificates given by the contractor appointed
in such county agreeable to law.
, Promotions War-Office.
t,th Dragoons. John St. Clair, to be Cornet, vice Brad
fliaw, made Lieutenant in 33d regiment.
A Blank Coinmiffion, 13th September, 1779.
First Regiment Foot Guards. Lieut. Col. Frederick Tho
mas, to be Captain of a Company, vice Cox, made third
Major, 22d Feb. 1781.
Captain Thomas Collins, to be Captain Lieutenant, vice
Thomas, 22d Feb. 1781.
Ensign James Perrin, to be Lieutenant, vice Collins, 22d
February, 1781.
Ilon. Ensign George Ludlow, to be Lieut, vice Strickland,
promoted, 16th March, 1781.
Coldftream —— Captain William Anguftus Spencer Bofca
wen, to be Captain of a Company, vice Lovelace, who retires,
tft Feb. 1781.
Ensign Washington Shirley to be Lieutenant, vice Bofcawen
promoted, ift March 1781.
16th Foot. Lieutenant Thomas Ballmer, of 99th Foot, to
be Lieutenant of one of the additional Companies, vice Hafle
fon, who goes into the 99th Foot, 14th February, 1781.
17th Foot. Robert Fletcher Carr, Gent, to be Ensign, vice
Sinclair, promoted in the 57th Foot. 6th September, 1780.
22d Foot. Wm. Botelette, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Hugh
Wallace, Lieut. 11th Feb. 1779. 1
33d Foot. Dormor Vincent, Gent, to be Ensign, vice
Beckwith, promoted in 37th regiment, 18 Sept. 1780.
37th Foot. George Quarme, Gent, to be Ensign, vice
Marshall, promoted in the 7th Foot, 7th Novem. 1778.
Ensign Samuel Stephens, of the Weft-Norfolk Militia, to
be Ensign in one of the additional companies, vice Rose, de
ceased, 23d Feb. 1781.
43d Foot. Wm. Shaw, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Clarke,
who retires 9th November, 1779.
54th Foot. Jonathan Broomhead, Gent, to be Ensign, vice
Seaton, Lieut. 20th July, 1779.
Henry Pott, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Palmer, Lieut. sth
Sept. 1779.
57th Regt. Charles Erwin, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Tay
lor, made Lieut. sth Sept. 1779.
74th Regt. Major Rob. Montrefor, of 106th Footy to be
Major, vice Thos. Campbell, who goes into the 100th Foot,
7th Feb. 1781.
Bzd Regt. Richard Dodson, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Leslie
made Lieutenant, 10th September, 1779.
July 19. Tuesday arrived the private coppered (hip of
war Virginia, belonging to Messrs. Shedden and Goodrich,
with her prize, the schooner Susannah, laden with sugar, from
Port-au-Prince.
The fame day arrived thecoppered ship Emperor, 0634 guns,
with 900 hogsheads of rum, from Jamaica.
Tuesday arrived a polacre, Capt. Le Blond, from Cape-
Francois to Marseilles, laden with indigo, sugar, coffee, cot
ton, &c. a valuable prize to his Majesty's ships Pearl and
Iris; likewise the ship Betsy, with 1400 barrels of flour, bread,
provisions, &c.
July 25.
Copy of a letter to bis Excellency Governed FRANKLIN, from
Lieutenant-Colonel Upham, Commandant at Lloyd's Neck.
“SI R, Fort Franklin, July 23, 1781.
" I AM to inform the Honourable Board, which I do witli
infinite pleasure, that a party of Refugees on the evening of the
21st instant, embarked on board the Sir Henry Clinton and
Association, under the command of Capt. William Frost; 38
men of the party landed on the fame night on the rebel shore;
after which the armed vessel left them, and fell back to this
shore, under an engagement to return at a time agreed on,
having left concealed a fufficient number of boats to have
brought off the party in case of surprise or superior force.
“ Capt. Frost led his brave party to a wood about five miles
from the fliore, at the distance of half a mile from the Meet
ing-house in Middlesex, where they lay concealed until two
©'clock in the afternoon, when the good people of Middlesex
were assembled, and devoutly praying for their great and good
Ally. Captain Frost surrounded their fanftuary, and took
from thence fifty notorious rebels, their reverend Teacher at
\ their head. Their horses, forty in number, saddled and at
hand, were taken care of at the fame time.—The whole were
moved in the most expeditious manner to the shore, during
wlijch the rebels in the vicinity of Middlesex collected, and
harraffed them in their return, notwithstanding which, every
rebel and every horse captured, were conducted on board
the armed vessels, which returned to their assistance at the
time proposed. In the fkirmilh three Refugees were slightly
wounded.
" Capt. Hoyt of the Sir Henry Clinton, and Capt. Thomas of
the Aflociation, had great merit in their arrangements in
landing, covering and bringing off the party. I am at a loss
for words to express my sense of the bravery and judicious
conduct of Capt. Frost, nor do I think Lieut. Smith who as
sisted him has less merit. I beg leave to add, that Mr. Stinfon
and Mr. Fleming, of the Volunteers of New-England, who
served on the expedition as Volunteers, behaved in a manner
which did them the greatest honour.
" When the world shall know that thirty-eight men have
marched five miles through an enemy's country, captured fifty
men and forty horses, and conducted them the fame distance
through the fire of at heart an equal number of armed men to
their vessels, without the loss of a single man, either of their
party, or of their prisoners, I need not comment on the bra
very, coolhefs or alertness of the party.
" I have the honour to be, your Excellency's most obedient,
and very humble servant, J. UPHA M,
Lieut. Col. Associated Loyalists.
" Among the prisoners are the Rev. Moses Mather, Capt.
John Bell, Ensign Josiah Hoyt, and a number of other diftin
guilhed rebels."
The General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey has
paded a law to raise by voluntary inliftment, 450 men, for
Tompleating the quota of troops belonging to that colony,
in the service of the united hates; and also another art to o
blige the inhabitants to find i7i,.-colb. of beef at ;d. and mut
ton at 4kb per pound, for their fopport.
The Comtpe de Rochambaiilt and Mr. Wafliington, Lieu
tenant-General of the army of his Most Christian Majesty the
French King, having, with their united troops, presented
themselves for some days part at our lines in the vicinity of
Kingflsridge and Morriffiania, on Monday night last suddenly
decamped from the latter post; they were pursued ten miles
by some of Colonel De Lancey's Refugees, who took five
prisoners, seven horses, and about 12 yoke of oxen.
From a person lately from Albany, we have a narrative of
the most horrid murder that ever was perpetrated in any age
or country's Barbarians, bravoes and assassins will shudder at
the dismal recital, and lament the degeneracy of their species.
—ln the month of June last. Mr. Lantman, a gentleman of
large property and refpertable family at Kaat's Kill, was by
a rebel court sentenced to be hanged at Albany, for his loyalty
and attachment to the British constitution. On the evening
preceding the day appointed for his execution, three of the
most diabolical villains that ever disgraced humanity, viz. ■
Hendrick Wendell, the rebel Sheriff of Albany county, John
Tilgham, jun. who has been frequently employed by the mi
nions of Congress, as loyalist hunter, deputy provost mar
shal, human butcher, &c. and said Tilgham's deputifed de
puty, a most notoriously, infamous, Mr. M'Lauglen, entered
the city hall of Albany, and coolly, deliberately, and cruelly
murdered him. The inhabitants in the vicinity were greatly
ihocked by the repeated cries of murder, the affecting excla
mations, and piteous groans uttered by the unfortunate Mr.
Lantman, while these daemons were pra^ifing the excess of cru
elty upon him. To cover their brutality, the execrable trium
virate, next morning hung the body of the assassinated gentleman
on a beam in a low apartment of the gaol ; called in several gen
try of their own class, and forced in many others to view the
dismal fpedacle ; apologized for their condurt, by representing
the utter impossibility to procure an executioner, and the ne
cessity their Sheriff Wendel was under of avoiding to perform
that office in public him felf ;— although it was well known
that he deigned to dispatch a Negro slave, his own property,
some years ago, in a similar manner: But while the detestable
junto were exhausting their rhetoric to palliate their crime,
the expected express arrived from Mr. Attorney Clinton, titu
lar Governour of this province, with a pardon for the fallen
virtim of their infernal rage. Upon receipt of that intelligence,
a sonorous, involuntary groan issued from the distressed audi
ence, and the three appalled mifereants retired, covered with
eternal infamy, perdition, and the indelible Rain of innocent
blood.
The infamous old Gilliland, formerly resident in this city,
afterwards an outlawed bankrupt on Lake Champlain, and the
betrayer of Alexander White, Esq; the loyal Sheriff of Try
on county, is now frequently invited to the nocturnal meet
ings of the rebel cabal in Albany; to give a toast of his own
invention, which is, “ To the tree that furnifhed the coal,
“ that heated the iron, that made the ax, which cut off the
“ head of King Charles the First."
A gallant Indian Chief, at the head of about a hundred of
his loyal countrymen, and some loyalists, lately paid a visit
to Curry-town, near St Anthony's Nose, on the Mohawk-
River, made all the males in the settlement prisoners, but treat
ed the women and children with humanity and politeness.
Three hundred of the rebel militia were collected and sent af
ter them, but returned with precipitation, after getting thir
teen of their party severely wounded.
Fort Stanwix is certainly evacuated and destroyed by the
rebels, who have now abandoned all the fine settlements on the
upper run of the Mohawk'River. A number of the inhabi
tants of those diftrirts, having been directed by the mongrel
Mynheers of Albany, to fettle near and upon the Hell-Bar
rack, about fifteen miles distant from that city, were lately
commanded by the fame respectable authority to re
moved to the East fide of Hudson's River; but the old settlers
considering the Loyalists resident among them, as their belt
security, petitioned that they might be fuffered to remain;
which after some hesitation, was granred.
July 28. Last Thursday night a ferjeant and four of Col.
Delancey's Refugees went from Haerlem, and brought back
with them four continentals and one Frenchman.
Wednesday arrived at Sandy Hook, the schooner Surprize,
of 8 four, and one twelve pounder in her bow, with 37 men,
commanded by Capt. Ross, with the ship Sally, Captain Gar
dener, mounting 16 fix pounders and 37 men, from Cape
Francois to Philadelphia, laden with sugar, melaffes, &c. She
was taken by the schooner on the 22d inst. within the Capes of
Delaware, after a short, but smart engagement, which ended
in boarding her, a gallant defence was made, but she was
obliged at length to surrender ; the crew of the Surprize had
been reduced to 39 hands, having previously manned two
prizes, and had 28 prisoners on board, taken out of a snow flag
from Havana, prize to the Fair American and Holker priva
teers of Philadelphia. The Surprize's rigging was much da
maged, but she had only one man wounded. The schooner
General Arnold, Capt. Loughton, was in company, but did not
get down to them till possession had been taken of the prize
ship. Two days before, they ctefed a sloop on shore from
Havana, having eighty thousand dollars on board, but night
coming on, Capt. Ross deferred boarding of her till morning,
when he found they had got all their guns ashore, and ererted
a battery, which prevented any further enterprize against them;
they next day sent three gentlemen on board the schooner, who
were prisoners in the sloop, these gave information of the trea
sure. Capt. Ross has gained great credit by his cool and un
daunted behaviour, as well in the above action, as in retaking
the aforementioned flag of truce, which had 160 British troops,
and 30 rebels put on board to navigate her to Philadelphia.
There are many letters to Philadelphia in the prize from
Cape Francois ; one of them which is very lengthy, from Ste
phen and Aug. Ceronio, |dire&ed to Robert Morris, Esq; has
the following paragraphs in broken English.
Mr. ROBERT MORRIS.
Dear Sir, Cape, June 23d, 1781.
I AM extremely sorry to inform you of my being taken in
company with the brig Havana, a few leagues to windward of
Mount Christ, by a British frigate the Diamond, Sir Christo
pher Parker, commander, who treated us with humanity and
civility, and after three days of a genteel confinement he was
pleased to set us on shore at Habetil's Bay, whence from I
came down to the Cape, and found Capt. Vicarys fafe arrived,
his cargo landed, and a load of belt brown sugar already put
on board of him by our friend Mr. Gaur ; our misfortune was
inevitable, we were chafed by two frigates, soon got between
them, we did not strike to them, but after a whole day chafe,
and continual firing upon us of a mufquet and pistol shot.
The general joy with which the public has received me, gives
me the most pure proof of their attachment to my reputation,
to my honour, and to my success. I owe them a fatisfadion,
they with it, they demand it, they want to fee me victorious
over my antagonist the Intendant and Lavaud, the whole co
lony I dare fay is in expectation thereof: I find it necessary to
my reputation, to my honour, and to my fortune te be re-es
tablished in my former rank; and all considered my credit
would fuffer considerably in the present circumstances. I have
already been convinced how much you are zealous of my re
putation, of my honour and fortune, this last depend a great
deal upon that, and altho' you seemed of opinion of not asking
Congress for a new commiflion, yet when every thing taken
into consideration, you will find it indispensable for my own
honour and credit, I am not without ambition, jealous of my
reputation as any other men, when it is moderate : I am no
fe&ly confeious that the rank of Consul cannot afford me'an v
profit, my own reputation requires it p efcntly, the public will
be convinced that my voyage to Ame: ica has not been without
effe&, that Con grefs has full the fame confidence on me, ah
if this coinmiffion does not me good it will not be me harm
During my fray in Philadelphia, several members of Comm-fa
which acquainted me with the circuihdances, seemed inclined
to do me justice, and render me all the feryices in their power
I am pretty sure your influence and application to Congress
a commiflion of Consul in my favour in this place will &
chearfully granted, this will be a scale to my fortune for mu};
reasons : I hope you will do this for my honour, and for yo ur
own.
Mr. Lavaud, the pretended agent, has a sum of money ia
his hand belonging to the United State, proceeding from the
sale of the Saratago ; could not you obtain from Congress to
confer on me a power of attorney, and proper credential to
fettle with him ? You may easily conceive what is my meaning
if that could take place, I mean to remit the whole to you ia
payment of my debts with you, for I am realy afraid to loose
it, and my finances cannot afford it; in expectation of a fa.
vourable success of my demand, wishing you good health, I
am, your most humble servant, dear Sir,
STEPHEN & AUG. CERONIO.
The people of America will judge of the new financier's
views from the confidence reposed in him by his mercantile
correspondents. Mr. Morris is not now to learn how to make
his political character and Ration, fubferve his private emolu
ment.—Many have been in the practice of fleecing the public
under the pretext of patriotism.
The following are extracted from the Journal of the Spanish
Snow St. Joseph a flag of truce, from the King of Spain's Go
vernour at Havana, for this port, charged with the remainder
of the garrison of Pensacola.
July 18. At 10 P. M. law five fail, distance four leagues,
freering directly towards us.
July 19. The aforefaid vessels were about a mile distance,
one of them fired a shot at us, and hoisted rebel colours, we
immediately hove our vessel too, they sent their boat on board,
soon after a boat belonging to another of the Vessels came on
board; the two officers from these boats informed us, they
intended fending our vessel to Philadelphia; they immediately
hove her about and fleered for Cape Henlopen.—Two of the
vessels came along-fide of us, and ordered the two boats on
board them immediately, that the two officers must continue
on board the prize until further orders, presently afterwards
the two boats returned ; one of them brought 17 men anda
prize master, the other igand a prize matter. —The comman
ders of the two vessels that had taken possession of our foow,
came on board, strutted about the quarter deck, asked several
immaterial queftioris, and then returned on board again, car
rying with them the two officers that were sent on board us,
when we were brought too.
The above mentioned vessels were from Philadelphia, two
of them privateers, the other three armed merchantmen. The
privateers were brigantines of 16 fix pounders, and 120 men
each. The Fair American, Roger Kean, and the Holker, one
Eldridge, commander, after they had parted from us, the prize
masters ordered all the British troops off the deck, then laid he
hatches over, nailed them down, fixed four centries at each
hatchway, with positive orders not to fuffer a soldier, woman
or child to come upon deck, or any pretence whatsoever ; the
prize masters then came on the quarter deck, ordered the Bri
tish officers and the SPANIARDS below, with positive orders
not to come on deck ; they then fixed centries at the cabin
door and each gangway, with orders not to let a prisoner on
deck. The two officers who came on board our vessel at firft,
were the firft Lieutenants of the Brigs, one of them named
Swain of the Fair American, a New-England Man, his beha
viour was extremely insolent and abusive, often times decla
red, that if he had the liberty to treat what prisoners he may
take as he would chufe, be would hang them all. The other
employed himfelf in filching and pilfering, which when done
they at parting desired the prize masters to mind what they
were about.
July 20. At 9A. M. had a heavy hunder squall which had
near overfet the vessel, as the rebels did not take in fail early
enough, it split the mainsail and main-topmast day-fail to
pieces.—At 5 P. M. a privateer chafed, and was within gun
shot of us by seven, fired a gun at us, which the rebels our
commanders took very little notice of, as they expended to
reach the land before tne privateer could do them any damage,
as their intention was to run the vessel on the beach and make
their escape; but they were disappointed, the British priva
teer, named the Surprize, fired so briskly that the rebels ran
below and left the fails all laid to the mast ; never was a set of
wretches so terrified as they were.—The privateer's boat came
on board us, and as soon as we made our misfortunes known
to the Commander, Captain Ross, he ordered all the rebels,
except five, on board the privateer, gave us possession of our
vessel, and most graciously told us to proceed to our desired
port : His behaviour was generous and noble, andin every in
stance worthy of the character of a Brave British Commander.
Jul, 21. Saw a schooner, who after firing a gun brought
us to, she proved to be the General Arnold privateer, of New-
York.
Jul, 22. At 4A.M. we were brought to by a rebel priva
teer brig of 16 guns, her officers said they were Englishmen,
offered to covoy us to Sandy-Hook, provided we had any
goods on board that would make us liable to be taken by a
rebel cruizer, begged we would be candid and make known
our affairs to them, as they were friends to government, and
should be extremely sorry to hear that the British troops on
board us should fall into the hands of the Americans.—After
they found they could not make any thing by us, they took
with them the five rebel prisoners left on board our vessel by
Captain Ross, and then flood off.
Jul, 24. At 5 A.M. saw a ship at four miles distance, they
fired several shot at us, at fix we bore down, and they fenta
boat on board us, she was a letter of marque from Boston, of
26 guns, 18 of them wood, the Commander behaved very po
litely and presently dismissed us.
We learn from Albany, that one thousand boats are con
ftrurting there, and the troops in that county had been order
ed down to join Mr. Washington's the French Lieutenants-Ge
neral's army, and proceed to the attack of this city, the
plunder of which, when in bis possession, has been again pro
mised to his soldiers. From the fame quarter we have accounts
of great alarms from the Canadians and Indians, who have
killed and carried away many of their troops, and of those
inhabitants who have diftinguifned themselves by their cruel
ties to, and implacable treatment of the King's friends. No
currency will pass in that quarter, nothing but gold or silver,
which are inexpreflibly scarce.
TO BE SOLD,
By William-Kerr Ross,
At No. 2, 'J'radd-ftreet,
For CaJh, Goiern^ent Bills, or Produce,
JAMAICA Rum by the Puncheon, Mtifcovado Sugar by the
J Hogshead or Barrel, Port Wine in Pipes, Qnartercaiks and
Bottles; Soap and Caudles, Irifa Butter, and an Allortn^t
of Dry Goods fwLiblc 4c the Seafon.l