The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1782-05-08 00:00:00, page 2

veterans.
Montego- Bay, (Jamaica) March 12. Sunday arrived
here, the brigantine Nancy, Captain Ilanifon, from Chailcf
town, in 16 days.
Kingflon, March 16. Saturday was sent in an American drip,
prize to the Ulysses, and on Sunday a fliip from Cape-Ann,
loaded with mans and fpari from the Havana, a prize tothc
Southampton.
Tuesday arrived the Swallow packet, Capt. Green, in
twenty-eight days from Falmouth.
A brig from Bourdeaux, loaded with wine and flour for Cape
Francois, was taken by the Swallow on the passage; she was
one of the fleet that had been dispersed in the gale of wind of
the 12th of December, and returned to Bfert from whence "ha
ving received information of their being refitted and intended
to fail on the 10'h of February fix: had put to fca in expedi
tion of joiningthem.
Wednesday arrived the brig Abby, Capt. Taylor, in five
weeks from Liverpool; on Thmfday the drip Jamaica, Capt.
Shute, in ft welks from Bristol ; the |hip Budjn five weeks
consist of fhnr and other provisions. " trm % .chiefly
Cavtstyifyu&.au..£ ruM. t „ qnrr with fir Pcarh
Dutch Faft-Inoiaman, prize toCommodore Johriftom/s faua
dron; flie had been fourteen weeks from St. Helena, and on
the 27th of January parted company with the Commodore
«nd fix other ofhis prizes from India.'
. March 23. The Cork fleet arrived last Saturday, under
convoy, (from the Windward JRands) of his Majeftv's shi p In
vincible of 74 guns, Charles Saxton, Esq; Commander, and
iLMartiu sloop of war ; viz. Shi,3, Pallifcr, Smith -St
Ann's Planter, Wcrtleach ; Daniel, Jolmfon, and Minerva'
Hunter— Brig;, Duke of Leinfter, Corry ; Thomas, Wilkins •
Jane, Newton; Sarah, Hellet; Bolter, Watson; and the
Ann, M'Neil. Those bound to the Northfide ports are «one
round escorted by the.Martin ; also arrived the fliip Heftor
Capt. Cox, from London; the was intended for St. Kitts, but
finding that island in the hands of the enemy, proceeded for
this place, and on thepaflage captured a ship from Bourdeaux
Ihden with wine, flour, and dry goods.'
The fleet left St. Lucia the 7th instant, at which time Sir
C. B. Rodney was there with 37 ships of the line, lying at fu
gle anchor, with their topsails loose, in readiness to fail uponl
the tirft emergency ; several fitift failing vessels having been '
properly Rationed to bring to him the earlfcft information of
the appearance of the expected fleet from Old France.
Sunday camein a brig in ten days, from St. Thomas's, chief
ly laden with flour.
Tuesday arrived the ship Adventure, Capt. Coppiertone in'
forty-two days from Bristol ; and his Majesty's fliip Victor from
a cruize. The Adventure called at Barbados and St. Lucia
a_priizelakcn by the Swallow packet was. arrived at Barbados;
also the fliip Concord from Portimouth, which place the left
the ictb of February, and brings advice of the London fleet for
the Wert-Indies being intended to fail the following day, uu
der convoy of eight Drips of the line. It is said that ten of the
French ships had dipt out of Martinico, and that Count de
GraT^TArith the remainder, were blocked up by Sir G. B.
Rodney ; Sir Samuel Hood with a part of the British fleet re-'
maining. at St. Lucia.
London, War-Office, Jarncar, 26. Promotions, foth regi
ment, ift Battalion; Peter fainter, Major.—Bßth regiment
Thomas Brumby, Quarter-Marten
Montego-Bay, March 23. Saturday lart arrived his Majesty's
sloop of war Martin, W. A. Merrick, Esq; commander, with
the fliip Daniel, Capt. Johnson, from the St. Lucia, one of
the long looked for Cork fleet, having the day before, teen
fafe into their refpe&ive ports on the north-fide, the St. Ann's ]
Planter, Baigrie and three brigs.
The Martin came express from England with dispatches for
Sir Geo. B. Rodney, and failed from Spithead the 10th of
February. * The London fleet for this island was then at Spit-
Bead, and expected to fail the next day, under convoy of a - o
gun fliip. By the Martin we are assured that the Rigid: Hon.
Wefbore Ellis, Esq; is appointed Secretary of Slate for Ame
rican affairs, in the room of Lord George Germaine. That
on the 7th of February an enquiry into the conduct of Lord
Sandwich came on in the House of Commons, wh^ch was de
bated till half part two o'clock in the morning, and decided in
)is.Lord fl rip's favour by a majority of only 23, there being
,73 members present. That all hopes of a peace with Hoi
^nd are entirely laid aside, the Dutch being busily employed
n tbe Texel in equipping a squadron of 17 Drips of the line
xpefleato be ready in the spring..
WEST-INDIA INTELLIGENCE.
KINGST O N, (Jamaica) March 9.
ON Saturday by command of his Honour the Lieut.
Goverhour, agreeably to the advice and consent of a
Geheral Council of War, martial law was proclaimed at
St, Jago de la Vega, Port Royal, and in this town ; and on
Monday a proclamation was made for laying an embargo on
all fllips and vessels in the different ports of this island.
• The House of Assembly having voted 40,0001. to complect
the out ports, and paired an ad for establishing and declaring
additional rules and articles of war, was on Sunday adjourned
to Tuesday the 19th instant.
The brig Convert, Capt. McNaughton, from Charleftown,
arrived on Saturday; likewise the fliip Reginald, Capt. Ham
mond, from Africa. .The schooner Rainbow, Capt. Dorrell,
from St. Thomas's ;—the Tartar, Moro (a flag of truce) from
Cape Francois; a schooner from St. Auguftme, and his Ma
jerty's fliip Jamaica from a cruize.
A company of Col. O'Dell's Royal American Rangers came
in th" brig Convert, and Capt. Moro of the Tartar, mentions
four Spanish ships of the line, three frigates and a sloop,
having arrived at Cape Francois before his departure ftom
thence. . , n
Sunday returned from a cruize his Majeffy s flop Clydes,
with two prizes; an American brig of 2% guns, laden \rith fait
fifli ?nd lumber; and a fchooncr from Hispaniola, Thepri-^
foners on board the latter assert, that General Don Gaocz ar
rived from the Havana at the Cape 0 in theft. Juc ,ptifle of
80 guns, the 2zd ultimo; that Don Solana is as to follow the
General in a few days, with eight Blips of the lint, and BLOO
troops ; and that Don Galvez, on his passage froin the Havana,
in lat. 27: had fallen tn with a Fleet from Jamaica, and captured
a fliip of 22 gurts. Several other vcllels of which fleet ard said
to have been taken by a French frigate and an American cruizer.
The prisoners further report, that engineers had been diG
patched to found Cumberland harbour, and to mark out an
encampment for 20,000 men.
Arrived from a cruize his Maiefty's Armed bug Childers,
^ith a sloop her prize ; also a fchooncr in ten days from St.
'7 homas's, chiefly laden with flour. / *
We hear the Admiral has offered his Honour the commander
in chief a battalion of seamen and marines from the iruadron,
consisting of 800 men, to do duty in the forts; and that an
other battalion of 500 fchmtn is railing from the merchant
ships in the harbour of Kingston, for the fame service.
The publick works at the out-posts, and other parts of the
island are carrying 011 with a most amazing degree of expedi
tions The militia ardent, spirited, and indefatigable, per
form their duty with a 'rteadinefs. that would do honour to
'Kington, March 30. Sunday his Majefly's fliip Southamp
ton arrived from a cruize; off the coast 'of Hffpaniola, on the
19th instant, she difeoveredlo ships ofthe line, with 8 fnicller
vessels that appeared to be frigates, and on the following day
they went into the Cape ; there were 110 transports wteh them,
nor did they shew any colours.
We are infoi med, that a person of veracity, who arrived on
Thursday in a dug of truce from Port an Prince, positively at
ferts, that a central ffckiicfe prevails among the Spanish troops
encamped at the Cape, from 40 to 50 dyin^ of a day; that
provisions are wy fierce there, and that it was 0 thought they
would ihortly be reimbarked for the Ravana.
On the other hand, it is said that the arrival of the rein
forcement under lAui Solana, was daily exported, and that all
neceflary preparations were niaking there lor the intended at
tack of this island being carriedinto execution, immediately
ui the arrival of the Brest fleet.- . .1
April 6. By the Juliana, Smith, which arrived on Thursday
the 38th ult-at Port-Maria, in &a days from Liverpool, and a
week from Tortola, we have a confirmation of the failing and
difpepfon of the outwairt-bound Raft and Weftlndia fleets.—
Capt. Smith fays, that while he lay at Tortola, a Danilb sloop
arrived there frar# Antigua, in which came pafftnger a Mr.
Smith, an inhabit ant of the latter, u ho mentioned, from his
own knowledge, the arrival of two or.three ofthe London fleets
there, which had been feparatt d. from the main bodyin a heavy
gafe of wind, a ft w daya after they had cleared the Land's
iindof England.—The Juliana encountered the fa&k ftormthe
ijthof February. : ' 0 •
Lor federal day sbefore the failing of the Juliana, five Ame
rican privateers, with a number of volunteers on bohrd front
Martinico, blocked up thc-harbour, and insulted the courts of
Tortola: which coining to the knowledge of Sir George B.
Rodney,:with the triffing addition, that the island was taken,
be dispatched the frigates Santa Monica am! Convert, with the
Germain and Experiment ffoops, tochafthe. and difpoffqfis the 0
invaders : .however, previous to their arrival, the 20th ultimo,
the enemy tlwught properto disappear.
This Dauiih hoop also brought information, that a flag of
truce had arrived st Antigua from St^ Kitts, with advice of
the failing of Count Dilton from thence, with two fifty gun
Blips, and two: frigates, on a fecrct expedition. That the
French were indefatigable in their efforts to render Brimitone-
Hill impregnable, -by enlarging and ilrongtheinng the fortifica
tions at that very important port, and that they had already
in the mail Shameful gud wanton manner, violated the J,c~
cious capitulation wanted to the unfortunate inhabitants of
St. Kitts.
The fame day also, his .Majerty's ffoop Childers,' Capt.
M'Kay, with two prizes, and the Ihip Kingflon, Fowler, en
tered this harbour.—One of Capt. M'Kay's prizes is an Ame
rican brig, called the Lady Green, mounting „ four poun
ders, fitted out of New-London ; ihe had a revere contest with
the Childers for upwards of an hour, nna had many of her
crew killed and wounded ; —the other is a Spaniard, in ballast.
Capt. M'Kay, gallantly cut these two prizes out of Cumber
land harbour, where there was no traces of an encampment.
The Grantham packet, Capt. Bull, failed frogn Port-Royal
on Friday the 29th ultimo, with the mails for great Britain.
On Thursday, a brtg,~flize to the Hercules privateer; the
fchooncr Little Hero, , and ship British Hero, Hill; both
from Georgia ; the ship Tartar, Austen, from .Africa ; and his
Maiefty's ship Southampton, Affleck, Esq; from convoying
the Grantham packet through the Windward Railage, anchor
e tat Port-Royal : and ycherdaythe brig Arrow, fromacruife;
the ship Rumbold, Mo'ineux, front Africa, and his Majetty's
schooner Endeavour, Perkins, Esq; bora a cruize, with a brig
and ichooner her prizes.°
Col. Odell came passenger in the British Hero, and brought
a few recruits for the Loyal Aj^rican flangers.
April 13. Isis Majeriy's hoop of "2* D'Ertifick, Capt. Ri.-
vette, alived bn Tuesday in fix days from St. Lucia, with dif
patcheafiom Sir George Bulges Rodney. She lwings.au account
Qf tsi ': '' -~-h -^.4lQ.a- u,ribfy ffl,<fci ,)Vn/oy ot the Prinecis
Caroline, Endymion, Alanq, Andromache, and a feerihip.
They failed from St. Helena the nth of February ; the account
brought from St. Thomas's of their having becnditpei cd in a
gale of wind, as mentioned in our last, proves to have been
without foundation. - 0 .
The four last mentioned vessels have the 14th regiment on
board, laid to be completed and bed appointed in his Majesty's
service ; the 69th is likewise come out in the fleet; but Whether
intended to proceed to this place or remain at the Windward
Islands, is not of a certainty known.
The ship D'Eftifack was sent out with difratches from ad
mmiftraticn to Sir George Rodney; but meeting.with a pale
of wind in which the buffered fcverely, was obliged to put into
Lifoon to refit ; while she was there a courier arrived from
Madrid, to notify it was Maid, to the-Spaniih Miuiitei at the
Court of Portugal, the Turrender of the island of Minorca to
the arms of his Catholiek Majesty.. an ler the'Duede Crillon. A
circumfance on v hich the garrison built their greatest hopes
of security, proved, it seems the caute of this mrtovrard event.
7 here were provisions in the magazines in St. Philips for a very
confiderable.length of time, which unexpectedly became pu
trid and occahoued an inflection, on the difeorery of which the
Gorernour found himfeifchliged to capitulate.
We are informed that Sir Geo. Rodney being apprehensive
that the attack of this island n igh; have already been commen
ced by the Spaniards, 0 affixed by a French armament from the
Cape, gave Capt. Revette orders to approach it with the grea
test caution, and in case &f his observing the enemy ;ipon the
coart, to endeavour to regain St. Lucia with the utmost expe
","°"° . " cannot be doubted but his determination is, in case
of his cither recciving alariniug intelligence from hence, or of
the French fleet escaping out of Mat tinique, that he will imme
diately come down here with all his force.
1 he brig Fox is arrived from Georgia, also his Majeftv's
fliip Resource, from conveying the Grantham packet, and the
Endeavour the sloop of war from a cruize, with two prizes
floops,^ chiefly laden with .coffee.'
An American br ; g, chiefly leaden with flour, taken by his
Majefty'sflup Porcupine, Capt. Taylor haslikewifcbceufentin.
Lady Julaaa.
Define
Pallas
Nancy
Eagle
Diana
Jamaica Planter
Britannia
Hervey.
Anson
Bridgewater
Nathaniel Bayly
Princilla
Ann
Salt River
Two Sifters
General Gaytoft
New Salt Spring
The following are the names ofthe vessels intended for this
island, and it is Hid they will be escorted down here by four
ships of the line, as soon as the Cork fl -et arrives to join them
at St. Lucia, and which was hourly e-odded, viz.
British Queen .Sally'
Athky
Fiiendihi,
Mai , Ann
Prince George
Kingilon
Worcester
Black River
Juno
Atiantick
Ladr Taylor
Ottri ^gton.
True Love
Trelawny
Ladies Adventure
Old Ifai bour'
Olive Branch
A fccond Trelawny
A Lift oj llis Majeflfj Ships toAerthe C^aTCTd cf Sir &ZORGE
Brydges Rodney.
Line of Battle, in Gref fit Bay, St. Lucia, April 3d, 1782,
Frigates. Guns. SLibs. . Commanders. 6. Men.
lizard 32 Royal Oak Capt. Barnet 74 600
Alfred Boyne 74 600
L^Nymphc36 Montagu Bowan , 4 600
Yarmouth Ferry ' 64 500
~(Rear Adm.SirS.Hood? ,
Champion 24 Barfleur fo pt Q^ |9O 767
Monarch Reynolds 74 600
Zebra: 16 Warrior Wallace 74 600
Bediqueux Sutherland 64 500
Centaur Ingle-field 74 6j>
Shrevfbury Wert 74 600
Fit. William-Wilk'nfon 64 500
_(Commodore Affleck , ,
Bedford fopt. Grave ^4 6,
Convert 32 ^ Ajax Cbarrington 74 550
Repulse Dumarcfquc 64 500
e Canada Cornwallis 74 600
St. Alban) Inglis 64 500
Fortunee 42% Namur Fatifhaw 90 750
§ Adm.SirC.B.Rodney?
Flora 40 Formidable s ; r c f 9O 900
Duke Symons 90 750
Sybil 28 ^ Prince George Williams @0 750
Pegafas 28^ Intrepid Molloy 64 joo
Resolution Lord R. Manners 74 600
^Prothee Buckner 64 500
^Hercules Savage 74 foo
"^America Thomson 64 §od
Germans y 6 Ruffcl Snmarys 74 600
Furydice 24 Prudent Berkley 64 500
Triton. 28 Fame Barber 74 jj,
Santa Monica 3,6 Anson: Blair 64 500
Torbay Gedoin 74 600
P„, vrTeQ , § Rear Adm.F.S. Drake?
Pulnclssac fcapt. KnatcEball f7° 577
Conqueror Balfour 74 600
• Nonfuch Trefcort 65 5:00
Alcide - Thompson 74 600
• g?nt Cornhh 74 600
biarlborough Penny 74 600
Accidental Frigates oppofte the Center. Di-Afion.
The following have not yet their place in the Line made public^
* Magnificent, lutucl, 74 \, Q
* Agamemnon, _ Caldwell, Q ^q
.. Valiant, Gardener, 74 60Q
* Leffrte Eaf-Tr.tia fleet to tie foutlicard of Madeira.
Ships arrived with the London fleet:
Princess Caroline 54 Endymion 44
Alarm 32 Andromache^
Robufte 74, repairing at Antigua..
Summary of the. above.
§ 5 of 9° r .44
1 21 - 7'4 ' 2 42
1 - 70 I 40
1 >2 - 64 2 36
1-54 .4 32
— 3 28
40 Blips of the line beffdes the ? 2 24
Robufte J —
14 frigates,
2 ffoops and 3 - fire-fhip<.
Of the above, fhculd the service require it, 38 are ready tp
come to Jamaica :—they are the belt appointed fleet that ever:
api>cared in the Wert-Indies, and are moflly overmanned, the
Formidable, in particular, has above 900 men, of whom not
one is fiek!
The wirok fleet with the Compte de Grafie consists at pre-,
sent of only 36 fail of the line.
A fleet from Corke, for the Wert-Indies, having failed much
about the fame time that the London fleet, already arrived at-
Saint Liicia, failed from St. IJeteo, °" KOcmey detains,
- ~^' rcl es its appearance, and then, we
understand, proposes conducing them both down under the
prot-chon i of his whole squadron, having received certain in
teibgence that bhe rechi&ion of this island is a fixed point with
'T'’ ^° , tb " the great fleet under M. de Graffe
at Martinique is only kept there to deceive the British com
^aica" "' '"" ™"° °" "' """ d '"" to thc fafet Y ° f
From the Antigua Chronicle of February 16+
in ? ant "^ French fleet made its appear
°ff Mo^^rat; and on Friday morning that detachment
7'-°"^ 18 com ^ a ^ (d b y Ie Corupte de Barras, wa s
close in wnthe town, when a flag of truce was sent from the
iLender of the island, and accompanied
, a . d ,',foLyticlcs ot capitulation. As any oppotition 'to so
formmable a force was not to be thought of, a immediate sur
render tooi <place.
1""T^ 1 ^ °2' ce ^ k ^ ed and wotmd ed a; the siege of Brim
''^Ch,?Pher's. K^d, Lieutenants Wilfok
and Clerk; Qyarter-Mafter Shungar.—xft. battalion Rovals
lieutenant V eftenra, and Surgeon Boyce, 15th. Wounded-
Richer -General Frazer, Capt. Wallace, Captain Buckc
,ridge, and Lieutenant Pemberton: ift battalion Royals.
' n „r" r ° ° f ,' h ° r '™ h ^ E " tilh f ° rces * the reduction of
Demarara, January 30, 1782.
1, French forces.
o'o primes. Cum. Commanders.d
L/P^gene 32 Count Kerfaint 4>"
r"n"rc b#e , 32 Chev. Sufannet
24 Chev. Kerfaint 4/^
i''';,"^. 2 4 M. Dombidau'
Le^ ^ ^ ^ B^Reuvens
Le Calar 6 M. Gerard
n , gnus 236 i2<o Teamen
Regiment due de Lauzon 3,0
Ditto Foil 1Q O
, From Cayenne
Marines )co
r r '7° Fand forces
Lnglifh force to oppose them:
^ W.Tahourdine
"^^ 17 F.Pendar
, ^ L.Gr^me
^ J..Dowlas Brifo
," y - • 6 Lieut. Rotheriv
Rodney l 4 Captain Paul'
v ?°^ s 3/6 seamen
„ No land forces.
r a .'™ ment "" I£d from Rochfort the Bth of Odober.
""i h a conv °y to Cayenne, and arrived there thu
^rtt- OT ?p cFtoiftme the, fat „ fe^
<ir of 13 nine pounders, with provisions for thefauadron for
foen months; off Cayenne, on thc Constable Rock, they also
lust a of the fame force with ihe C^far. The articled of
cipumation have-not yet reached us. The officers deemed
pirfoneis of war, and seamen at liberty to serve.
(%tifo) March % On Friday morning
0 • °^ r r a '\ . a " Amcr ' can squadron, confining ^
f ill fluj-sand three brigs; they stood to the northward, but
v e arc ignorant of their destination. The Holker v hich ^m,
in to water, failed again immediately with them."