The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1781-11-14 00:00:00, page 3

dofely engaged for some time by two large ships;
the engagement continued till half after eleven o'clock,
very obstinate and bloody. Our ships, my own in.
eluded, were very much disabled, and had received
so much damage that they were not capable of being
manoeuvred any longer. The English Admiral un
doubtedly (offered equally, for he hauled his wind
to the eastward. At noon I hauled down the signal
for engaging, and stood to the westward, in order to
repair our damages as much as possible, which were
very considerable. At half after twelve the Briti.h
Admiral wore his ships with their heads to the N. W.
and lay by to repair their damages also, one of which;
a three decker, had loft her main top mast overboard.'
At noon we observed in 55 : 56 north latitude, the
point of Teracus, in Norway, bearing N. N. E. 1-3 N.
distant thirty Dutch miles. As the fhi >s of war were
in a bad Rate for defence, I made a signal for the
convoy to proceed with the frigates Medenblibk and
Venus, and take best advantage of circumstance to
evade an enemy. The Batavia falling a little offfrom
the wind, having loft her mizen-top-maft, wh^ch like
to have fallen on board, and her fore-yard being en
tirely disabled, the officer informed me that the Cap
tain was wounded, and that the ship was so much
ihattered, she could not be governed; I sent two fri
gates to assist her, and to tow her, if necessary ; but
before they reached her, she fell off before the wind
and came very near us. Capt. Kingibergen sent a boat
with Capt. Aberfon, in which was also Capt Sta
ringh, to report the bad date of their ships; I in
formed them that as soon as we should be 'a little
more refitted, that we might be able to work our
ships, we should proceed back again. Capt. Dedel
made a signal of being much damaged: Capt. Van
Braam of being in a bad situation. I ordered the Ze
phyr to them, who reported that Capt. Van Braam
had received several shot under water. I directed her
to relieve them with all they should require; not
withstanding which Capt. Dedel fired several signals
of distress, and stood away to the southward towards
the coast of Holland; I made a signal to speak with
Capt. Van Woenfel, and detached him to the aid of
Capt. Dedel, and continue with him till his arrival
in port. Between four and five o'clock I gave the
signal to make fail to return, which being repeated,
all the ships mads what fail they could. I pallid
near Capt. Braam, who informed me he had several
shot under water, and that it had come in upon him
very faft, but since he had rather diminished by his
pumps. By the approach of evening every ship was
under tolerable fail with us.
The Admiral de Ruiter has a great number killed
and wounded, and is, as are a 1 the other ships, very
much damaged in the hull, masts and rigging; but I
hope, with a favourable wind and the afliftance of
God, to gain some port in the Republic.
I fend the present by Count Welderen, who will
be perfonaliy able to give your Serene Highness a
more particular account.
I have the honor to recommend myfelf to the gra
cious protection of your Serene Highness, and am,
with refped, your most obedient and most humble
servant,
J. A. ZOUTMAN.
On board the State Ship Ad viral de Ruiter, bring
under fail in the North S% the qtb of A^ft,
1781, K,kdu,n bearing S. b, E. 18 Dutch 'miles
distant.
N. B. All the ships officers and people have shewn
an intrepid courage, and fought like lions, as well on
board my own snip, as throughout the fleet ; indeed,
through the whole, I have the greatest reason to ap
plaud their bravery.
Lift of killed and wounded, viz.
killed. wo. in all.
fPriace Hereditary 8 30 gg
I Admiral General 8 40 48
Seven ships | Argo 24 „
that fought { Batavia x 8 40 4
in the line | Admiral de Ruiter 45 87 fy
I Admiral Piet-Hein 10 58 68
(Holland 25 45 7o
^Belona 1 45
4 frigates. ) '#"._ 3 5 ,8
° ) Medenblibk
1 Venus
TOTAL, 142 394 536
Zephyr sloop of war."
Spy, sloop, of 16 guns.
Ajax cutter.
Note, Two of the above frigates, with the Spy,
Zephyr, and Ajax cutter, attended on the fleet dur
ing the engagement, while the otiier two frigates
guarded the convoy.
All the fleet of men of war under Admiral Zout
mau arrived in the Texel in fafety, except the Hol
land ; and the convoy all got into the Fly without
any being loft. The cause of their return to their
own ports is evident ; having advanced on their voyage
only 18 Dutch miles from the Texel, and about 12
from the Fly, so that their ports must be almost with
in fight, and the wind being right a-head to proceed,
and fair to return.
BOSTON, October 25.
Extract of a letter from Paris, of the 6th of Augufl.
" By a courier just arrived from Cadiz we learn,
that the fleet confiding of 36 Spanish ships of the
line, and 19 French, failed the 21st of lad month, and
that the fame day the fleet under the command of
&?:'" d , cri "°"' "kewife put to sea with an em
ka ,°" ° f '^T t^P^-The combined fleet
the"' c °^ ot difcuver ^ t courfi
the Duke de Crillon took.
% rived h erc th e Brig Favourite, Capt
Somes, from Copenhagen, after a passage of 7 weeks.
o ' R ^° Y I D E NC ETT&ber 20.
of^hii, ,%field. m the schooner Jolly Bacchus,
, arrived here fi om Nantz on Thurs
day last, after a passage of 6r days. Two gentle-
„ "'h () , me lingers with him advise, that §7
fail of the line, French and Spanilh, were to fail from
'," ''"'"' lad, tor Gibraltar, the liege of
which place was going on with the greatest vigour,
and with every apparent profped of success, 60,000
troops being emploved,—They further inform,
ftl'7 j as ^ any flect in the channel when th^
tailed A Butifh fleet was luppoled to be in the North
sea, where the Dutch had 15 fail of the line.
„ FI SH-KJ LL, Nov 8.
xtract of a letter from a gentleman in Albany,
u November 3.
r 1 1 ' u " n ° w received an account, that
-°"' d " " as '" a second engagement with
K '' ln .Tryon county, about 14 miles above
ln " h ?ch Captain Walter Butler, and
' others, were killed and fcalpid, and twenty ta
ken prrfoners. OurOoL, only one, out of Captain
Moody s company. The Oneida Indians behaved
we in the action, and deserve much credit."
B"T IMO RE, Odober 16.
« f °' 4 ! '" er f r ° m Nantz, Aueuft 15.
r here "° m America--. Captains
Cole, Hanlon, Dafhid, Carty, Thomas, Jotiah, and
Captain Folger, who arrived here vefterdav, in the
schooner Antelope, in 35 days from Nantz,' advises
that the combined fleets of France and Spain, com
manded by the Count de Guichen, and Don Louis
de Coraova, confining of 48 fail of the line, were
crumng, when he tailed, between Ufhant and Cape
!t was reported, had taken a number of
.^ch^tmen from the Weft-Indies---
That she British fleet of 28 fail of the line, under
the command of Admiral Darby, lay at Torbay---
1 hat an embarkation of 400 c French troops was tak
{,f e at R ° chfor L declined for the protection of
the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope,
and that 40,000 Spaniards were vigorously befiegipg
Gibraltar, and had destroyed almott every house in
the garrilon.
nI 1 Y A, ° ELPHI A, November 7.
On Monday last, pursuant to the Articles of Con
federation, a fufficient number of deleg ,tes for the
states having met, the United States in Congress af
fembied proceeded to the choice of a President for
the enfumg year, and the ballots bring taken, the
Honourable JOHN HANSON was elected.
On Saturday last arrived here Col. Humphry, Aid
• '° L His Exalknc y General Washington,
with despatches to Congress, containing returns of
the prisoners, & c . taken at York and' Gloucester.
This gentleman brought with him the. 24 standards
men loned in the returns as b lor ging to the different
British and German regiments. They were met on
the common- by the city troop of horse, and by
them paraGed through two or three Greets of the
city, preceded by the colours of the United States
and 01 France, to the State House, and there laid
a. the feet of Congress, to the great joy of a nu
merous concourse of fpedtators.
TRENTON, Nov. 14.
Lettei s from agentlcman of good information in
Holland, dated the I, ft of August, mention, That
the interests of the United States of America advanced
with great rapidity in tn c United Province, and
from some late ict of rhe Stae -G. neral, the highest
hopes of a political c->nne&ion between the two
countries were entertained. The following acts are
taken notice of.—Their ordering a number of British
prrfoners, brought intocue of their ports by an Ameri
can cruller, to be detained in their gaols, in order that
they may be exchanged for Americans or returned
to the captors.—Their licensing vefbls to fail to the
pores Ci Boston and Philadelphia.—Their inftruaions
to their cruisers to act in corjunction with their allies
the French, Spaniards anc Americans, and to carry
their prizes into any of the ports of France, Spain,
the United States of America or Sweden, as may be
most convenient.—The writer observes, that from
the nature ot their constitution, the Republick of
the United Provinces are flow in their publick mea
sures, but firm and persevering in whatever they have
once agreed upon ; and that the negociations fecm
to be ripening much faft c r tban is customary in mat
ters of such confiquence.
The Honourable the Congress, by a Proclamation
dated the 26th day of October last, has recommend
ed to the several states to lit a part the THIRTEENTH
day of December next, to be religiously observed
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Remainder of the returns, omitted the two last weeks
for want of room.
Bergen. Council, I heunis Dey, Esq. Affemßy,
Peter Wilson, Isaac Blanch and Garret Leydeck cr ,
Esquires.
I R^^ Council Elijah Hughes,Efq. Aftmbly,
t h^ d J^ ^ ^ lel llaud alld Hugh 11a.
. thOtne, Esquires.
w^™"^ "^ ht ^ Capt. Hyler, of New-Brunf.
p uith a gun-boat, and a small party of men.
went to the Narrows, where he captured a^hip with
14 or „ hands, and brought her off, with an intent
to run her up Raritan River, but near the mouth ihe
in ucN > got aground, where, as the enemy ap
proached in force, he was obliged to set her on fire.
wasloaded with rum and pork, several hogflieads
° ' c farmer he got out and brought off, with the
ptifoners. '
The British fleet returned to the Hook about a
week ago.
* .". 'piece signed Emelia is received, and is
omitted this week for want of room.
Let the Publick beware. ''
0N the night of the 18th of October last, the
Y houle of the iubicriber vias robbed, amom it'
other things, of the following certificates, viz.
° "'th" name ° f Md J° r William Montgo-,
"'o'° r Twenty-five Pourd, dated September
25, 1780. No. 173, in the name of Ezra Black, for
Five Hundred Twenty.eight Pounds Fiiteen Shil
lings continental money, dated January 26, 1780.
Ao. 238, in the name of Joihua Fortyth, for Tbirty-
, en . P ° u "'' T '° Shlll i"gs, dated lune 26, 1789.
the , na , me ° f tfaac Field, for One Thousand
IHandled and Sixty Pounds continental money,
dated January, ^ No . 240, iu the name ot Je Ite
Bunting, tor 1 wo Pounds Five Shillings, dated Au
fill 17, 1780. The above signed by Edward Tho
mas, Contractor tor Burlington county. No. 2c 'in
t^ tha " Williams, for Thirteen
Eight Shillings, dated September 26, 1781. No.
, the name of Marmaduke Curtis, for One Pound
lhngS . and .T^r^ce, dated January 23,
P 1 J" the nameif John Thorn, for Nine
^ S -^ ed June ", ^r. No. 9 , in the name
^rkb^de, f T Ten Pou, cis On Shillings
^y Ifc , 1781. Ihe four last signed by John
butler, Comradoi tor Burlington county. One cer-
: n , lc ^ me of Thomas Walton, for Two
A h 'h"'i and T^Pence, dated Feb.
Ch ft'V’iJ I '"'' by J °" ph Brown , Collector for
Ch c tt cr fte!d, county ot Burlington. One in the
GIT Ez , Black, for Three Pounds Severn
f" % s "^ Eleven -Pence, dated Febrt ary ic , r~Br
^i"°° °n' ™ "'' ot George Bul!
n P °^" ds Sw< en Shillings' dsix
dalr February IC , i 7 Br, signed by ditto.
P ublick ire hereby cautioned agaii ft tak : v
argument on any of them, fl oull p fo be
hardy enough to off c rt ; cm ur that purple
Ch^dd, Nor , 6 , ^HAM CHAPIN.
TO BE~SC)l d"
the '"- op ^fie the'college.
R ° l F, gu ° powder, cnarfe linens, h,k
modes and fauns, black sewing silk, „b.rds
pocket handkerchiefs, salt; one larg! yoke cf oxe^
in good order. , lo bhck pe?p e r ^f d | ma ^
• he i ''' ^° 2 ' by la '^ ° r fmaL quantities —
Jalmanacks at the printer's price ; —and several
° a i!" c ^ . J OHN BENIGN,
k f ^ en f ° r cte lin ^ and old
brals and copper.
__L'J°. Ce ™?. Nov -. 1 2, I 781. jw#
Publick Notice is hereby given,"
^ e f ° bf cnber, pursuant to an order of
the last fe£ion of the Afrembly of New-
Jertey hath leave to bring in a bill to invest the
„ o certain lots of land in Trenton, pur
— d by Abraham Cottnam, Esq. deceased, in
his life time, of Daniel Coxe, Esq now a fugitive
with the enemy, in the executors of the last will
, .f h %, d brahara Cottnam, for the uses in the
laid will mentioned.
^J^COTTNAM. 3 w# °
ty—AS taken up in the rownfhip of-biaid^
,' . , , about two weeks ago, a large bright
bay horse, between fourteen and fifteen hands h gh,
with three white feet, branded on the near buttock
with the letters W. 1. The ownei is defined to
prove his property, pay charges, and take him av ay.
)he horse is now inthepoffeffon of William L
dike, jun. at Mr. Samuel Henry's mill.
^November 12, 1781. g w
CT REAi COaTS were exchanged at the
Ji house of John Hullin, in Pennington, bv
a person unknown. The person is desired to return
the one he has in pofTeffion to the lubferiber imme
diately, and get his own. My coat is grey, with
pale red buttons. ASHER HOW ELL.
_Noyember 5, 1781. lw #
W A'FrT-irD7
At the store of NEIL and POOL, in Trenton,
A Quantity of good PORK, for which the
highest price and ready cash will be given. 3 f