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&e. Lo ' not filch an c fifed on the spirits of the people, as to..
ruAe the difference of twenty thousand men to America ?
XX. Whether, in the defeat of Brandywine, General Sulli
van was really the person who ought to have been censured?
XXI. Whether, if Duke Ferdinand* had commanded at
Germantown, after having gained, by the valour of his troops,
and the negligence of his energy, a partial victory, he would
have contrived, by a single stroke of the Bathes, to* have cor
rupted this partial -victory into a-defeat? ~
XXII. Whether our portion at Valley Forge was not such,
that if General Howe, or afterwards General Clinton, had
been well informed of its circnrnftanc.es, defects, and vices,
they might not, at the head of ten, or even eight thousand
men, have reduced the American army to the fame fatal ne
cessity as the Americans did General Burgoyne ?'
XXIII. Whether the trials of General St.. Clair; of which
Court Martial General Lincoln was ptefideht/and' that on
General Lee, were conducted in the fame forms, and on the
fine principles ?—Whether, in the former, all hearsay evi
dences were not absolutely rejected ; and, in the latter, hcar
fay evidence didmot eonftitute a very confiderabie part ?
, XXIV. Whether, if the Generals Schuyler and St. Clair
had been tried by foe fame Court Martial that General Lee
was, and, instead of Congress, General Washington had been
the prosecutor, those gentlemen (unexceptionable as their con
duct was) would not have flood a very ugly chance of being
condemned ? And whether, ifinflead of General Washington,
Congress had been the prosecutor, General Lee would not
probably have been acquitted with the highest honour ?
XXV. Whether it must not appear to every man, who has
read General Washington's letter to Congress, on the affair
at Monmouth, and the proceedings of the Court Martial, by
which General Lee was tried, that if the contents of the for
mer are faffs, not only General Lee's defence must be a tissue
of the most abominable audacious lies, but that the whole
string of evidences, both on the part of the prosecution and
profited, must be guilty of rank perjury, as tire testimonies
Of these gentlemen, near forty in number, delivered on oath,
fcircely in one article coincide with the detail given in his Ex,
ecllcncy's letter?
* In me of the numerous publications which have lately infefted
Philadelphia, it was brought as a crime against Mr. Deane, that
h~ had, directly or indirectly, made some overtures to Prince Fer
frang of Brunswick, to accept of the command of the American
f>ty—who must, of cowrie, have superseded General Hfa/bington.
QAs crime appeared to. all the foreign officers, who are acquainted
• w f tb the Prince's reputation as a soldier, in so verf. ridiculous a
g^ht, that they can never think orftedk of it.without being thrown
pic violent fits of laughter. '
To.be SOLD at PUBLICK VENDUE,
' On'THURSDAY the 14th Day of June instant,
Before the Exchange,
FIVE NEGROES, late the property of John Potts, and fold
under execution by order of the Board of Police.
;. JOHN DAVIES, Sheriff.
' A SAILLOFT
TO be let by the month, quarter or year ; it is situated on
one of the most frequented wharfs in town. For parti
culars, enquire of GEORGE TUNNO,
J No. 91, Broad-street.
MR. James Carmichael having assigned over, all his ef
jate -real and perfonak a, allo his bonds, notes and books of
accounts to the fubferiber for the payment of his debts, h'e hath to
jequeft that all indebted to him. -may difeharge the fame' without
.delay, otherwise they may depend that accoufiTs, bonds arid notes
.will be fried for without dillin&ion.• ft# '
• The fubferiber has for file, TWO HOUSES in King-flrect, No.
31 and.<o, the poffeflion of which may be given immediately. -1
f A/fod, 1781. t' ' LEWIS LESTARjETT^
'THE falc of the cattle; horses, &c. advertised to have bden'
I on Wednesday the 13th of June instant, at the plantar
Hioifeof the late Capt. fames Akim in St. Thomases Parish, is,
from unavoidable reasons, postponed until a future day. ^-
1 - - ANN AKIN; Administratrix,
• Who once more requests all those indebted to the ellate of
The said deceased, to difeharge the fame immediately. *c.
A good Negro Cooper.
r rd be lured by the month, a very good Cooper Fellovy,
. rnaAfrcf his hufinefs, with a set of .tools. Any gentle
,man in trade wanting fyeh a -hand, may apply to Messrs.
. Cooke & Webb, or at N 0.5, Queen-street.
. N, B. Wages expected tor him, Two Guineas per month. ±c.
:— . _— _____ —_— .— _
THE fubferiber's very bad,Bate of health having prevented
his tranfa&ing fcarccly any fort of bulinefs for three years pall,,
m order now tp obtain money for his subsistence, and also to answer
feme final! pecuniary engagements, he offers for sale (by permission)
the following LAND'S, viz.
lot acres on the Cypress Swamp, formerly belonging to Mr. Sa
xnuft Hamlin, deceased.°
413 acres on Goofecreek, where Mr. Samuel Weft formerly re
f&d. '.:..y'
These places are improved, are valuable, and may with a few
hands be rendered extremely profitable.
.&o acres unimproved on the Four Holes, surveyed for Mr.
George; Hamlin in 7736.
These lands will be fold for less than one half, of their real value
. to any person whom it may suit to pay one half of the purchase mo
. Twy, and a rcaforable time will be; given for the payment of the re
mainder. For further particulars, apply at No. 11, Queen-street, to
, # . + ,; , " I W. GIBBS?
}) UN away from the fubferiber about the middle of last
N month,TWO NEGROES, named WiLtand Sall.-—Will is a
young fellow, about 20 years' of age, five feet fix inches high, black,
'-and ibrnetlang pock-marked, is-a great thief and l,ar, remarkable
lazy, aim loves rum ; he carried with him- a bright brown coloured
Ke-fey^re coattee, waistcoat and breeches, a drab coloured broad
- cloth ditto, with old spangled buttons, a hat with a yellow band,
. and -.the croMm covered with the skin of a large bird; as both the
suits of eloathes were made for me, they are considerably too large
• for him.' This being ,-therfifrh time of his having eloped from me,
. wiihopt apy cause, and for which he has never received any punifh
mentf.l hope whoever apprehends him will be so good as to give him
• a fyere vieppipg. Hehas now enticed away with bin), a young
.mulatto orjnußee wench named Sail, about r 8 or 20 years of age,
five feet two or three inches hi@, flat nosed, is a. remarkable Iyar,
vrty artful, and tells a phufible tale; the carried with her a red ne
gro doth jacterdr strapper,ri white plush ditto, a yellow .quilted pet,
tscoafy autyfome other.eloathes not known 1 have had information of
* the Wow having been seen in town; but as he has a number -of relati
ons living upon Wadmelaw and Edifto Inlands, I hate rcfoi to believe
• thtf'udH&lk about there —I will give FOUR DOLLARS to any
person for delivery of each to me, or to the Keeper of the Sugar«houfe
-in Cbwlettovch : And in order to make an example, and to prevent,
: as mricb.^ poflible, the villainous practice of harbouring runaways, -
>I gull give a.further,reward of TEN.GUINEAS on receiving proper
proqf of then? or either df them being harboured on board of any vef
• fid, or by any white person on fliore ; and TWO GUINEAS if by a
negro, such proof enabling me-to prosecute the offender to convidliob.
J. W. GIBBS.
N. B. They left me onJVadmdaw bland, to which place I had
• gone for the benefit nt my health.f
Coarlefvwn, June 8, 1781.
, , Admiralty-Office, March 13, 1781.
, Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant Inglis, commanding His
Majejlfs f/oop .Zephyr, to Mr. Stephens, dated Shithead,
Marchyi, 1781.
" —LEASE to acquaint their Lordflrips of his Majefty’s'
l"floop Zephyr, under my command, being arrived at
Spithead from the coaff of Africa, after a parage of lifty
feven days.
~ "I likewise have the honour of acquainting their Lord
ships, that on the 31st of Odober last, being just returned to
Goree from a cruize, received intelligence from Governour
Wall, of a French frigate of 24 guns being in Gambia River,
and had taken two transports andtwo'floops there, wooding
and watering for thegarrifon of Goree. I immediately fail
ed, with the Polly letter of marque, mounting 16 ihort four
pounders, with 30 men under my command, agreeable to the
advice of Governour Will.
" On the 2d of November, at eleven A. M. being at the
entrance of the river, saw four fail at anchor off Barra Point,
found them to be one of the transports, two flcops, and a
French frigate; the trapfooxt mounted 16 guns, and was,, as
I heard, manned with Frenchmen and negroes belonging to
Albedra, on the banks of Gambia, and interested with the
French. At twelve, the trahfport and two-Hoops were set on
Ifire, the other transport being burnt the preceeding day. At
one P. M. the enemy's ship being under weigh, and the Ze
phyr within piftol' shot of her, a warm adion ensued, and
lasted till four P. M. when through chafing, the Zepifyr and
enemy grounded (afverv hdar Tow water) as close to each other
as before, which occaffoned the action to be renewed with
redoubled violence, hence' more resembling two batteries on
shore, than a sea fight. During the greatest part of the action,
the letter of marque was anchored three quarters of a mile a
stern; but notwithstanding a continual fire was kept up by the-
Zephyr and enemy till fix, when the enemy struck, with the
loss of 12 men killed and 28 wounded ; the Zephyr 2 killed
and:4, wounded, her bowsprit, main top-mall, and main-yard
shot away, her hull, mails,yahds, fails, and rigging very much
Mattered, insomuch th>t,;with the greatest difficulty, ,pn the
12th we arrived at Gofeei,During the whole of the action,
the Ztpfyr was inthc^tmQft danger from fire rafts, both, un
der tlf bows And fferny luckily the deftfudive intentions.of
the enemy proved abortive. 7 .
" After hoarding thfthemy, found her to'be the Senegal,
(Lieutenant Commandant Allury) "the French King’s ship,
mounting; 18 fix pounders, nd 126 men, but fought the Zephyr
with 22',' bivirfg to tranfydtting gun*. “She was formerly the
Racehorse, commandedby Lord Mulgrave, and lately, the Se
negal in his Majesty's fernce. As the was of great detriment.
to his M^jefty's trading fubjefts on the coast of Africa, the
taking of her.gives me the utmost pleasure and fatisfadion.
“On our arrival on,the ,12th at Goree from Gambia, Go
vernour Wall gave n)^ information of two vessels being off
Senegal Bar, taking.in gutiw Ready to. ad consonant with his
information, though in so Shattered a condition, and the Se
negal not condemned,, from which the property of the cap
tors was at flake, we chearfully consented to proceed in pur
suit of the apparent success; but the wind being at N. E.dfe
redly contrary, and. th^ Zephyr in an infirm situation, after
beating five days out ^t'fea, the ^ip s were obliged to return
to,Goree, in order torefit on purpose we might a second time
be able to atrempt the expedition.
“ On our return the condemnation of the ship Senegal was
entered upon, and the Judge Advocate demanding an inven
tory,proper officers and men were sent from the Zephyr for
that purpose, and .that.of refitting her for the aforefaid ex
pedition ; but alas! through some unknown cause, on the aid
of November she was unhappily blown up, ; wirh the loss of
Lieutenant George Crofts, and 22 others, officers and seamen,
fpectfied by the inclofedJift. ._ *
'' I flatter rnyfelf their Lordships will shew all necessary in
dulgence to the officers and feamen's friends, who nobly and
gallantly supported me ia the late action, and unluckily dif
fered by the above accident.
A Lift of the Officers and seamen, belonging to his Majefly's
Sloop Zephyr, who were blows. Up in the French King's Fri
gate la Senegal, Lieutenant Allery, Commander, on the azd of
November, 1780, — ,
. George Crofts, Lieutenant George Williams, able.
Francis Fyffe, Mate ~ John Oakes, ditto
Laud. Rutherford, able. Cabel Cornwall, ditto
T. Harris, Boatswain . , Andrew Buchanan, ditto
W. Tramplett, Gunner. . W. Forfyth, Capt. Ser.
Thomas Nefbitt ? Clerks John Lawlers, able.
J.Croker, Captain's Mafi^ .. Thomas Smith, 'ditto
J.;Parminter, Sailmaker.. William Baker, ditto
P.M'Kewen, Qu. Gunner Thomas Cross, ditto
Henry Clark, abfe. Tdhn Hall, ditto
- Mark Short; ditto ^~~ ihomas O'Hara, ditto
Henry Fudge, .dittoJ
London, March 14. A^ourier is arrived at Paris from the
. Congress to demand a fin^l ahfwer receding the loan, which
has been so ' loh&foltftra^ of the French ca
bjffl on,^is,roje&; is„already pretty, well known ; they ei
.thef.caririot orwill not affi ft Them with Money. ~,With this
''ulfiniatuni 'all Cohgreffiofiil rule and auQiorityTnufV expire !
„The L'or,d^ of the Admiralty have issued a frefh order for
all persons on the navy lift who do not give in an account of
the places of their abode, to be immediately struck out,
The sixth regiment (Sir William Boothby’sfenow on their
march to Portsmouth, having received orders to embark for
Jersey, in addition to the troops now doing duty on that Is
land.
ExtraCl of c iletter, dated Cadiz, Feb, 9, and received by yefler
day's Dutch mail. '
“ Our fleet being completely ready, and the wind favour
able, it put to sea this day under the 'command of D. Louis
de Cordova; it consists of 30 ffiips of the line, and fix frigates;
besides others of the latter kind,, anq some less considerable
.which are dispersed, and upon the look out to watch the moti
ons of the Englifh.".'''
On the aid of july; 1,64, Gibraltar was besieged by Sir
George Rooke and the prince of:Heffe. {n five hours time
fifteen thousand shot were .poured in, the enemy beat from
•their guns at the Mole Headland some redoubts being taken
by Capts. Whitaker And eighty articles, of capitulation were
signed qn. the mornings of the 24th, and the ^nglifh marched
in and took poflefljpn the fame evening. Thefort being then
. mounted with Tio cannon to the sea; and the twonecks of
land well secured, -the -Prince of 4leffe<leeteed<whtahe enter
ed and examined the ,vo&s that fifty men ought to defend
displace against 5000, as 'fong as they had provisions. What
have we now to dread ; ~
A coi refponlent has received advices from France which
confidently aflert that the court has peremptorily refufed to
- aflift Congress with anydiard money., Arid that every fcben e
used by Mr. Franklin to negociate a loan with the merchants,
has proved abortive.~/
E\t h aA of a letter from Chatham, March 10.'
" Last TLurfday his Majesty's ,hip Fame was put out cf
commission.
^ Yesterday about noon was launchcdfrom this yard his-
A Majefty's ship Dolphin, of 44 guns. She is put into commf
hon, and Capt; Blair appoiatedto thecommandof her.
European Intelligence.
CharleJlown, June 1, 1781.
A MISTAKE having occurred in Lord Cornwallis’s Pro-'
clamation of the 7th of July last, for regulating the Va
lue of Specie, current in this Province, by 'the Omission of
ONE-THIRD OF a penny in the Value of a Guinea ; I am there
fore direded by the Commandant, to lignify to the Publick, that,
hereafter A GUINEA weighing ydwt. 7 gr. Mall be received
and paid at the rate of One Pound One Shilling and Nine-
Pence One-third of a Penny, the fame being conformable to the
Mode in which the Troops and Publick Departments are ac
counted with.
By Order of the Commandants
H. BARRY, Secretary, & D. A. General.
JULIUSSMIT
INTENDING, to leave this Province in a Mort-time, will
dispose of his remaining STOCK of GOQDS on very low terms
at his fore, No. 95, Church-hreet, confining of thg foMowiiig arti
cles, viz. elegant brocades, striped and plaimfilks, iattins; 'perfrans,
modes, gauzes, muslins, dimities, laces, Blockings, kerfcyinire(
chintzes, callicoes, linens; &.c. &c. &c. very fine hyfon tea, and :
few hogsheads of claret. He reqpefts all persons indebted to him will
fettle their accounts as soon as poflible, to prevent him the'difagreca
ble necessity of leaving them in the hands of an Attorney. - °
April lotb, 1781. ,
WANTED immediately, two or three boys, -white or
black, as apprentices to the coopering butinefs. For
particulars, apply to Alexander Murray, No. 7, Union-street,
or to fames Alliflbn, on Burn’s wharf, where the Coopering
Business is carried on to the utmoff perfection, and at the most
reasonable rates.^
Robert dillon and john brailsford, acquaint
their Friends, That they have entered into Copartnerfhip,
under the Firm of JOHN BRAILSFORD, & CO. and will dispose
of, at their Store, the Corner of Queen and Union Streets, at the
lowest Rate, for Cam or Produce, the following Articles, viz. Ma
deira and Port Wine of the firft Quality,. Coniac Brandy; Jamaica
and Weft-lndia Rum, Gin, Mufeovado Sugar, Nails, &c. &c. &c. *6.
To be let on Shares, or to be fold,
A TRACT of LAND containing 300 acres, within ten
miles of Charleftown, between Wando and Cooper Rivers,
well timbered with oak and pine wood, within half a mile of the
landing, that a vcffel of any burthen may come to it without any
difficulty, and as good rice and corn land as any within that distance
of Charlcftown. For further particulars, apply to Mrs. Martha
Edwards in St. Thomas's Parish, or, in Charieftown, to
I WILLIAM BURT, No. T, Queen-street.
WHEREAS Mrs. Mary Wilson, widow, executrix, re
siduary legatee and devifee of Mr. William Wilson, late of
Charleftawn, Merchant, deceased, hath this day assigned and made
over to me, on behalf of rnyfelf, brother and other creditors, all and
singular the estate and effects of the said deceased ; I therefore give.
Notice to the creditors here (if any such there be) to render me a.
state of their refpedive demands, on oath, on or before the firft day of
July next ; and those anywise indebted to the said estate, to make im
mediate payment, otherwise they must be sued without diftindicn;|
the settlement of the deceafed's concerns in this country admitting
of no delay : And such persons as paid off their accounts to the fail
William Wilson, in the depreciated currency of 1777, 1778 'and 1779,
are desired to mate such payments good in the legal money of the
country, otherwise they will be forthwith sued without diftin&ion.
Chartfa,n, April z 6, 1781. GILBERT WILSON.f
RUN -away on Tuesday the 29th of -May, a MULATTO
MAN named WILL,-about-22 'ye@rs of age, with a very bulhy
- head of hair, and a xernarl^able fear on. each" cheek and in his fore
head; had 'oh a blue negro cloth coat, with red cape and cuffs, speaks
with the Virginia or North-Carolina accent, and by teeming fimpli
-1 hty will be apt'to gain belief, being a most artful, dengnetg 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
'Triy person harbouring or employing him in Charlcftown or the bar
.o9^, and FIFTEEN GUINEAS on the conviction of any mailer,
seaman or other person concealing him with a design to carry him offl
this province, will be paid to the informer,.by ''
+ ROBERT JOHNSTON. !
" Arrived from Shcernefs t!ie Iphigenia to be ~t?j f, %
Captain Hope is to command her.
“ Gorie out of dock the Belton, of 60 guns.
“ The (hips building hbthis yard are the Atlas, of 90^,
the Leviathan, of 74 guns, audthe Diadem, of 64. °°
," The Mips under repair are the Blenheim, of 7dguns
Arrogant, of 74, and Apollo frigate."
The date of the troops at the Dutch settlements in the Bast
Indies is nearly as follows:
At Batavia and country adjacent, 1300 European fiddlers
and seven battalions of Seapoys.'
At Calcutta, 400 European ditto, and five battalions of
Seapoys.
At Tranquebar, 100 Europeans, and two battalions of Sea
poys.'.
At Point de Galle and the Inland of Ceylon, 300 Europeans
and ' four battalions of Seapoys. ' '’
And in the inland garrisons, about 900 Europeans, and ten
battalions of Seapoys, exclusive of three troops of cavalry
and fix companies of artillery. •'
At the Cape of Good Hope, 300 European infantry.
The naval force of the Dutch in the EaR-Indies is no more
than one (hip of 70 guns, one of 60 guns, and one of ;o puns
upon account of the States ; one Of 60 guns, three of 40 guns'
and several country-built g^rbs, from 12 to 20 guns, upon i/
count cf the Company, '.
Mr. Fox may declare that any peace is preferable to n war
carried on by such blundering ministers, yet would -be the fin't
to attack every article of one, if made upon inadequate terms.
But fortunately ministers have perhaps an easier held for n%
gociatiorr that ever any of their predecessors pollened. In all
former war§, the juterefts to be fettled at a peace, were not
only very numerous, but extremely, difficult to be reconciled.
In the present there is not a doubtful question that cannot
resolved in a moment : The -motives that carried his Majesty
into the present war, have all along beemfo just and equitable
ffia.t none of his neighbours in their numerous manifeftos, have
ever pretended to claim a single town, or a foot of territory &
him# His only aim has been to.reduce the rebels of America
to obedience. The houie of Bourbon and the Dutch have
endeavoured to support them, but in vain. Their own divid.
ed state, and the exertions of the abominable tyranny under
which-they groan, have done much more for our cause than
all our fleets and armies. Our enemies are convinced of two
circumstances : firft, that they cannot establish the,American,
independence, without exertions infinitely greater than afo
they have yet made ;.fecondly^that if the war continues apr
longer, all Europe must be involved in it, and that they are
likely to have enemies arise that, will demand all their ftre^tt
and attention. These, profpeds throw the objects they fo.r.Qt
for, at so great a distance, that the war has'an appearance
wholly different from what it lately carried ; and must, in the
nature of things, dispose them very cordially to peace. The
clouds that lour in the North, if they burst, might kindle a
war that would Make the French monarchy to its. foundation,
and call for other resources than, the ^economical savings of a
Genevois! All this speaks peace';and what is better,.a peace
to be easily and fpeedilv fettled.