The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-06-02 00:00:00, page 1

the Right Honourable FRANCIS Lord RAWDON,
Colonel, commanding a Corps of His Majesty's Forces in
^UTH-CAROLiNA, & c . and NISBET BALFOUR, Efaure,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Commandant of Charlestown, 15c.
* I _ LTHOUGH Attention to the ge
nera! Security of the Province, has
obliged His Majesty's Troops, for the
present, to relinquish some of the up
per Parts ° f it 3we truft ' that it: is
A unnecessary for us to exhort the Loyal
Inhabitants of those Diftrids to Rand
firm in their Duty and Principles ; or
iff to caution them a ga^ lhe insidious
Artifices of an Enemy, who must
shortly abandon to their Fate, those
unfortunate People whom they have deluded into Revolt.
But being well informed, that many Persons sincerely at
tached to His Majesty's Cause, have, notwithstanding, been
forced to join the Enemy, as the only Mean^ ^ preserving
themselves and their Families from the savage Cruelty of the
Rebel Militia, until Escape should be practicable ; We desire
all fiich to be confident, that they run no Rifque of fuffering
from us, through indiferiminate Vengeance, reminding them,
that the Britifli Governsent never extends its Hand to Blood,
without the moil convincing Proofs of intentional Guilt.
And we advise all Persons in the above Predicament (as
likewise those who, from the Oppressions of the Enemy, have
been obliged to quit their Possessions) to take the earliest Op
portunity of coming in, with their Arms, to any Post or De
tachment of the Royal Army. We give them Assurances of
every Support, and of every Endeavour, on our Part, to mi
tigate their prefeut Sufferings : Further declaring to them,
that we shall feel ourselves no less bound to reward the Fideli
ty of those who have remained unihaken in their Allegiance,
than to inflict the Punishment due to reiterated Perfidy. Nor
fliould we give them this Invitation, were we not certain that,
in conjunction with the Army, (daily expecting powerful Rein
forcements) their Exertions will very shortly reinstate them in
the full and peaceable Possession of that Property, which they
will thus have only yielded for a Time, to receive again with
confirmed Security.
GIVEN under our Hands, in Camp, at Monk's Corner,
this twenty-fourth Ha, of May, 1781, and in the t^wen
tyrfrft Year of His Majesty's Reign.
RAWDO N,
N. BALFOUR.
By Order of his Lordship?
and the Commandant, §
H. BARRY, Dep. Adjut. General.
ROBERT DILLON and JOHN BRAILSFORD acquaint
their Friends, That they have entered into Copartnerfb ip,
under the Firm of JOHN BRAILSFORD, & CO. and will dispose
of, at their Store, the Corner of Queen and Union Streets, at the
loWeft Rate, for Cath Or Produce, the following Articles, viz. Ma
deira and Port Wine of the firri Quality, Coniac Brandy, Jamaica
and Weft-Tndia Rum; Gilt, Mufeovado Sugar, Nails, &c. &c. &c. *b.
For Private Sale, by Permission,
A Good BRICK HOUSE and LOT of LAND, exceed
ingly well calculated for both a private family and a store,
being No. 19, Church-street, (where Hugh Rifle, & Company's Ven
due Store is.) Also, a small but convenient HOUSE and LOT of
LAND, No. , Water-street. For the terms, (which shall be made
very easy to the purchaser) or a view of the premises, apply to
1- JOHN PORTER, No. 19, Church-street.
I HEREBY forbid any person or persons from purchasing
the corner Lot of Land on the south fide of Queen-street
and the Bay, advertised by Mr. John Morris for publick ,
sale on Friday the Bth instant, as it is my property.
MARY DARLING.
Charleftown, sane 6, 1781. If.
\ ror savannah, in Georgia,
^ The fine Copper-bottom'd Letter of Marque Sh p
AMAZO N,
Capt. Francis Dollard;
Mounting 16 nine pounders and two coehorns,
and will fail in a few days. For freight apply to
the Captain at Eveleigh's wharf, or at No. 48, Bay. t #
+l^= For New-Providence,
' The Schooner
SPEEDWELL,
f^l^% John Dorrill, Master;
E^^U^^For freight, apply to the master on board at the
Mm. 7 Wharf. £
TO UN away on Tuesday the 29th of May, a MULAT 10
MAN named WILL, about 22 years of age, with a very bushy
head of hair, and a remarkable fear on each cheek and in his fore
head ; had on a blue negro cloth coat, with red cape and cuffs, speaks
with the Virginia or North-Carolina accent, and by teeming fmpli
city will be apt to gain belief, being a most artful, defining fellow.
FIVE GUINEAS reward will be paid for apprehending and deliver
ing him at No. 2, St. Michael's Alley, TEN on the conviction of
any person harbouring or employing him in Charleftown or the har
bour, and FIFTEEN GUINEAS on the conviction of any master,
seaman or other person concealing him with a design to carry him off
this province, will be paid to the informer, by
r f ROBERT JOHNSTON.
n 'HOSE Persons whose Horses were impressed and valued
on the 16th of April last, are desired to call at the Quar
ter-Matter General's Office, No. 2, on the Bay, for payment,
as soon as possible, as no claims on this account can be ad
mitted after the 30th of June next. They will please to bring
a certificate of the value of their horses, from one of the ap
praisers.—Those persons who furnifhed horses at Monck's
Corner, to the detachment under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Small, are also requested to call for payment, bringing
certificates from him of the value of their horfes^
Charlestown, 28th Ma,, 1781. J
A WOMAN who has been used to children, and is quali
" tied to educate them, would be glad of employment in a
genteel family. Apply to the Printers. —N. B. She would not
object to live in a healthy part of the country. *E
SOUTH-CAROLINA: Printed by R. WELLS & SON, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
ROYAL
Vol. I.
From SATURDAY, June 2,
From the LONDON GAZETTE, of Saturday,
February 17, 1781.
At the Court at St. fames's, the 16th da, of February, 1781.
Present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
WHEREAS, upon the commencement of hostilities against
the States General of the United Provinces, his Majesty
thought fit, by his order in council of the zzd of December
last, to declare his royal intention to allow all ships belonging
to the fubjeds of the States General, then in any of his Majes
ty's ports, to depart with their cargoes (except fiich part
thereof as shall consist of salted provisions of any kind, or of
naval or warlike stores), and to grant passes for the said ships
and cargoes, except as before excepted, to proted them from
capture by any ships of his Majesty, or his fubjeds, in their re
turn to some port of the United Provinces; but inasmuch as
his Majesty was intitled to expe& and demand the fame treat
ment from the States General of the United Provinces for the
ships and cargoes belonging to any of his Majesty's fubje&s,
his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Council, was pleas
ed to order, and it was thereby ordered, That all ships and
merchandise belonging to the States General of the United Pro
vinces, or their fubjeds, then in 'any port of his Majesty's
dominions, should remain and be detained secure and unmoles
ted within the fame, until it should appear that the States
General of the United Provinces were disposed, and intended
to proceed upon the fame ideas of good faith, with reflect to
the ships and cargoes of any of his Majesty's fubjedts remaining
in any port belonging to the States General of the United Pro
vinces. And whereas his Majesty has received certain advice,
that the States General of the United Provinces have declared
and concluded, by their Placart, dated at the Hague the 26th
of January last, That as soon as the Dutch ships shall be permit
ted to depart from England, the English ships shall be no lon
ger detained in their ports, but immediately be permitted to
depart, and be provided with passports as therein mentioned.
His Majesty, taking the fame into his royal consideration, hath
therefore ordered, as it is hereby ordered in council, That all
Blips and vessels belonging to the fubjeds of the States General
of the United Provinces, together with the persons and car
goes on board them, (other than and except salted provisions
of any kind, or naval or warlike stores) which are now detain
ed by virtue of the afore-mentioned order in council of the
nd of December last, in the ports of Great Britain, Ireland or
other ports of his Majesty's dominions, or which had been
seized and brought into any of the said ports by any of the ships
of his Majesty, or his fubjeds, before the order for general re
prisals against the States was iTued, and have been already de
clared, or shall hereafter be declared, by sentence of the court
of Admii alty, to be the property of the fubjedts of the States
General, be forthwith, or as soon as such sentence of the court
of Admiralty hath been pronounced, released, and discharged,
with free liberty to return to their refpedive ports, and that
proper passes be granted them for that purpose; and his Majes
ty's principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners
of his Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and the
Governors and Commanders in chief, or other proper officers
at the said several ports of his Majesty's dominions, are to take
notice of his Majesty's pleasure hereby fignified, and to give
the necessary directions herein as to them may refpedtively ap
pertain. W. FAWKENER.
[Here follow three other proclamations; the firft for taking off
the quarantine (which was ordered in council the 15th of De
cember) at present subsisting upon all ships and vessels coming
from Dantzick, provided they shall have no goods or merchan
dise on board the produce of Turkey or the Levant, which may
fubjed them to the rules of quarantine, agreeable to the order
in council the 28th of September last, advices having been re
ceived by his Majesty's Consul at Dantzick, that the distemper
which lately broke out with such violence in many places of the
Ukraine and Wolkynia, and at firft thought to nave been the
plague, proves, upon examination of the Physicians and Sur
geons, nothing more than a malignant fever, easily cured by
proper medicines. The second to prohibit the exporting, or
attempting to export, out of this kingdom, or the carrying
coaftwife in this kingdom, any fort of copper in sheets, or
copper in bars, for fix months, from the 16th instant; and the
third, for prohibiting the exporting out ofthis kingdom, or car
rying coaftwife, gunpowder, faltpetre, or any fort of arms
or ammunition, except in those cases where his Majesty has
thought proper to permit and allow the exportation and car
rying coaftwife, the above articles under certain conditions
and reftridions mentioned in the said orders, for three months,
from the 23d inftant.]
Whitehall, February 17, 1781.
By the Antelope packet, which failed from Charleftown the
18th of January, dispatches have been received from the Earl
Cornwallis, Major General I eflie, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Balfour, of which the following are extracts and copy.
Extract of a letter from the Earl Cornwallis to LordGEorcs
Germain, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,
dated WynneJborough, December 18, 1780.
As your Lordship will doubtless be glad to hear bv every
fafe opportunity, the state of affairs in the Southern Diftrid,
I have the honour of transmitting to you a copy of my letter to
the Commander in Chief,, on the 3d of this month. As this
letter explains fully our past operations, and present situation,
I have only to add, that Major-General Leslie is fafely arrived,
with his whole fleet, at Charleftown.
Extraff of a letter from the Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry
Clinton, dated Camp, at WynneJborough, Dec. 3, 1780.
I had the honour to inform your Excellency, that Major
Ferguson had taken infinite pains with some of the militia of
Ninety-fix. He obtained my permission to make an incursion
into Tryon county, whilst the sickness of my army prevented
my moving. As he had only militia and the small remains of
his own corps, without baggage or artillery, and as he pro
mised to come back, if he heard of any superior force, I thought
he could do no harm, and might help to keep alive the spirits
of our friends in North Carolina, which might be damped by
the slowness of our motions. The event proved unfortunate,
without any fault of Major Ferguson's., A numerous and un
expeded enemy came from the mountains ; as they had good
horses, their movements were rapid. Major Ferguson was
tempted to stay near the mountainsdonger than he intended, in
European Intelligence.
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to WEDNESDAY, June 6, 1781.
hopes of cutting off Colonel Clarke on hisreturn from Geor
gia. He was not aware that the enemy were so near him; and
endeavouring to execute my orders of pacing the Catawba,
and joining me at Charlotte town, he was attacked by a yery
superior force, and totally defeated on King's Mountain.
Wynnefborough, my present position, is an healthy spot,
well situated to protean the greatest part of the Northern Fron
tier, and to assist Camden and Ninety-fix.
Sumpter having passed the Broad-River, and joined Branan,
Clarke, &c. I detached Major M'Arthur with theist bat
talion of the 71st, and 63d regiment, after having sent my
aid de camp Lieutenant Money, to take the command of it,
to Brierley's Ferry, on Broad-River, in order to cover our
mills, and to give some check to the enemy's march to Nine
ty-fix. At the fame time I recalled Lieutenant-Colonel Tarle
ton from the low Country. Tarleton was so fortunate as
to pass not only the Waterree, but the Broad River, without
General Sumpter's being apprized of it, who having increa
sed his corps to one thousand, had passed the Enoree, and
was on the point of attacking our hundred militia at Wil*
liams's House, fifteen miles frora Ninety-fix, and where, I
believe, he would not have met with much resistance. Lieu
tenant-Colonel Tarleton would have furprized him on the
South of Enoree, had not a deserter of the 63d given notice
of his march: he, however, cut to pieces his rear-guard
in passing that river, and pursued his main body with such
rapidity, that he could not fafely pass the Tyger, and was
obliged to halt on a very flrong position, at a place called
Black Stocks, close to it. Tarleton had with him only his
cavalry, and the 63d mounted, his infantry and a three
pounder being several miles behind. The enemy not being
being able to retreat with fafety, and being informed of
Tarleton's approach and want of infantry by a woman who
passed him on the march, and contrived by a nearer road to
get to them, were encouraged by their great superiority of
numbers, and began to fire on the 63d, who were dis
mounted. Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, to save them from,
considerable loss, was obliged to attack, although at some
hazard, and drove the enemy with loss over the river :
Sumpter was dangerously wounded, three of their Colonels
killed, and about 120 men killed, wounded or taken. On
our fide about 50 were killed and wounded. Lieutenants
Gibson and Cope, of the 63d, were amongst the former,
and my aid de camp Lieutenant Money, who was a molt
promising officer, died of his wounds a few days after. Lieu
tenant-Colonel Tarleton, as soon as he had taken care of
his wounded, pursued and dispersed the remaining part of
Sumpter's corps; and then, having assembled some militia
under Mr. Cunningham, whom I appointed Brigadier-General
of tbe militia of that diftri&, and who has by far the greater
influence in that part of the country, he returned to Broad
river, where he at present remains, as well as Major M'Ar
thur, in the neighbourhood of Brierley's Ferry.
It is not easy for Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton to add to
the reputation he has acquired in this province; but the de
feating one thousand men, posted on very strong ground, and
occupying log-houses, with 190 cavalry and 80 infantry, is
a proof of that spirit and those talents, which must render
the most essential services to his country. Lieutenant-Colo
nel Tarleton commends much the good behaviour of the
officers and men under his command; and he particularly
mentions Lieutenant Skinner, of the 16th regiment of infan
try, who does duty with the legion, as having distinguished
himfelf.
Extract of a letter from Major-General Leslie, to Lord
George Germain, dated Cbarkfloovn, December 19, 1780,
I did myfelf the honour of writing to your Lordship, at
sea, on board his Majesty's Ihip the Romulus, the 27th ult.
From hard gales, and contrary winds, we did not get here
before the 13th instant. The troops are all arrived in great
health. We met with no loss except our horses. Commo
dore Gayton paid the greatest attention in keeping his fleet
together, and disposing of his light armed vessels for the
protection of the transports. I found orders here to march
up the country, with about 1530 men, to join Lord Corn
wallis as soon as possible. The want of horses and waggons
prevented me proceeding on my march untill this day.
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour, Comman
dant of Cnarlefto^n, to Lord GEORGE GERMAIN, dated
Cbarltfown, January 16, 1781.
My Lord,
I am honoured with Lord Cornwallis's directions to address
myfelf to your Lordship during his absence from this Province,
and to have the honour of informing your Lordflrip, from
time to time, of the state of the army, and the situation of
affairs here.
By the last dispatches from Lord Cornwallis, which were
dated the 11th instant, the army was then in motion, and
advancing towards North-Carolina, so that his Lordship
would reach Bullock Creek, between the Catawbaw and
Broad Rivers, by the 16th; to which I am happy to add,
that the troops under his command were, at that time, in
the highest health.
The latest accounts of the enemy inform us, that General
Greene, with his army, is at Hayley's Ferry, on the Eastern.
banks of the Peedee.
In order to co-operate with Lord Cornwallis's views on
Cape Fear River, and to afford provisions and other supplies
for his army, a small force of about 300 men, under Major
Craig, of the 82d regiment, will fail from hence with the
packet. Captain Barkeley, of the Blonde, with the Delight
and Otter hoops of war, convoy this corps, and will co-ope
rate with the troops on this expedition, which, I trust, will
be fuccefsful, and give us possession of Wilmington, and of
this very essential communication.
It is with pleasure I acquaint your Lordship, that many of
the principal inhabitants of the Province, and feme who held
the chief offices under the late rebel powers, have reverted to
their loyalty, and declared their allegiance to his Majesty's
government.
I have also the fatisfaaion to acquaint your Lordship, thrt
Major Ross and Captain Broderick are arrived with the dis
patches; and as the former gentleman has mentioned to me
your Lordship's great anxiety to receive frequent information
from hence, and as there has of late been no eligible con
veyance, I have, from these motives, taken upon me to
change the course of the packet, by fending her directly home;
to which I have lem the rather induced, as a ship of war
Numb. 28.