The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-05-19 00:00:00, page 1

To be SOLD at PUBLICK SALE,
On THURSDAY the 24th Day of May infant,
At TEN o'Clock in the Forenoon,
At my Vendue Store, No. I, Broad-street,
Sundry DRY GOODS, viz.
MOREA and Callico.Gown Patterns, printed Jean Jacket
/Patterns; Silk, Linen and Romal Handkerchiefs; black Sat
tin Mantras, white thread and cotton Hose, black Silk and Velvet
Stocks Chintz Covers for Beds, Damask Table Cloths, plain I.av/ns,
Silver 'and Gold Binding, ditto Hat Bands and Loops, Silver Shoe
and Knee Buckles, Stone Shoe and Stock ditto, Figure Shirt Pins,
Mason's Stone Broaches, Gold and Silver Epaulets, and sundry other
Articles • also a compleat Mahogany Writing Delk, with four Stools,
I By JACOB JACOBS, L. V. M.
Charlefo<wn, Ma, 22, 1781.
THE subscribers intending to go to Britain by the firft op
portunity, request those indebted to them, will please
immediately to make payment ; andfuch as have claims agamic
them, to call for a settlement on
' CAMPBELL, STEVENSON, & Co.
f No. 19, Church-street.
rrniE copartnership of Hare & Dennis being dissolved by
[ mutual consent theist instant, EDWARE HAR.^ car
ries on business by himfelf, at No. 105, Broad-street. ^
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Robert Cuning-
A ham deceased, Merchant, of Charleftown, are requested to
make speedy payment; and those who may have any demands a
gainst him, will please give in their accounts, to
" WILLIAM ROBB, & Co. Administrators,
No. 4, on the Bay,
Who have for SALE,
Cordie of different Sizes, including one Cable ri< Inches; Sail
Cloth from No. I to 7, Mens Shoes and Pumps, Broad Cloths, Ker
ffoes ^d some fov Pieces of Manchester Stuffs, &c Also Port
Wine in Pipes and HogSheads; Souchong, Congo and best hymn
TEAS.
BY PERMISSION.
To be SOLD at PUBLICK SALE,
By JOHN MORRIS,
On WEDNESDAY the 6th Day of J.UNE next,
To begin at TEN o Clock,
At the Store lately occupied by Mr. Sampson Clarke, No. 30, on
the Bay, near the Exchange,
A large and compleat Assortment of
DR Y GOODS,
Among which are,
Irish Linens, Cambricks, Ofnaburgs, Broad Cloths, Ker
fey mires, Sattins, Luteftrings, Callicoes, Silk and 1 hread Stock
ings, Check Shirts, Soldiers ditto, T rowfei s, ^c, &c. Also, a
Quantity of Soap and Candles in Boxes, and Salt in Barrels ;
being late the Property of the said Sampson Clarke.
A N D,
On FRIDAY the Sth Day of June,
In the Exchange, at TWELVE o'Clock,
A HOUSE and LOT, No. 30, on the Ba X> ne ar the Ex
change, an excellent Situation for Trade. _
A HOUSE and LOT, No. 19, Beresford s Alley; and,
A vacant corner LOT,of LAND, situated on the South cide
of Queen,ftreet and the Bay.
CONDITIONS of SALE.
One-third of the Purchase Money to be paid down either in Cash
or Government Bills, and four Months Credit for the Remainder,
with approved Security, paying Interest. ,
Possession will be given in ten Days from the Sale, upon the Terms
being complied with.„
The Property may be seen, by applying at^o^go^© p e ß°g' ° r
Cbar!e%%vn, Flay TT, 1781. I
A Few Calks of very fine Sugar—Jamaica Spirits—and a
few Pipes of Madeira Wine, to be fold by
t • GEORGE MOWATT, & Co. No. 4 G Bay.
r TWO compleat SADDLE-HORSES, for sale. Enquire of
I WILLIAM BURT, No. I,
Queen-Street.
WANTED TO CHARTER,
A VESSEL that will carry toco or 1200 barrels of turpen
tine. For particulars, enquire of
ALEXANDER & LESLIE, No. 10, Tradd-ftreet. J
To be Let for One, T<wo or Three rears, and Entered upon
immediately.
THAT large LOT in Meeting-Street, known generally by
I the name of Marley's Stabler, 252 feet deep, and 100 feet
front, with the following buildings thereon, viz. a convenient store,
properly fitted, fronting the Street, No. 114; two dwelling-houses
within the yard, large and commodious Stables that will contain 200
horses, with fodder houses, and every other conveniency proper for a
hostler. Apply in Broad-street, No. 64, to
^76,1781. FRANCES S. PINCKNEY.
JACOB JACOB S,
Licensed VENDUE-MASTER,
BEGS leave to acquaint his friends and the publick in
general, That he intends carrying on the VENDUE BUSINESS
in all its branches, for which purpose he has hired a very convenient
store and cellar in Bread-Street, near the Exchange, No. I, for the re
ception of such goods as his friends may please to favour him with ;
to whose interest a hri& attention will be paid, and flatters himfelf
with the hopes of giving general fatisfa&ion, being well conversant
in that branch, having followed the fame many years in Georgia and
in this province. f/-
THE VESTRY of St. Philip's, Charlestown, give
this Publick Notice to the Inhabitants, that all Fune
rals in future, Shall be between the hours of 6 o'clock in the
morning, and 6 o'clock in the evening.
JAMES BENTHAM, 7 , Wardens
LAMBERT LANCE, $ °
IT is requeued of all persons indebted to William Bryce,
late of Charleftown, merchant, deceased, to call and make
payment; and those to whom the estate is indebted, will
please make their claims known, to
t JAMES M'MURRAY, Administrator.
SOUTH-CAROLINA: Printed by R. WELLS & SON, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majestx.
ROYAL
VoLo I.
From SATURDAY, May 19,
American Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, March 21.
THE latest accounts from Canada inform us, that a body
of rebels, from 450 to 500, having marched from the
Illinois with a design of attacking the British post at
le Detroit (in which they were favoured by a number of the
difaffedted in that settlement, who had concealed 500 stands
of arms to assist them in the defeent/were intercepted by a
body of troops, militia and Indians, and every man of them
put to death. Their detected confederates at Detroit were
sent down under guard to Montreal.
March 26. We hear that the rebel troops under the com
mand of the Marquis la Fayette, destined for Virginia, em
barked in boats, in order to proceed down the Chefapeak
with the greater expedition, thinking the bay was in possession
of the French fleet ; but on the way, to their very great sur
prise, they were prevented proceeding by some armed vessels
ordered up the Bay by General Arnold, and the Marquis with
the greatest difficulty reacted Annapolis last Saturday week.
By the above judicious manoeuvre of General Arnold, Mon
ficur and his reinforcement will be obliged to march by land
about 160 miles, besides crossing five large rivers ; which in
all probability will retard their operations 12 or 14 days longer
than they expe&ed.
From the Newport Mercury, dated March 31.
A Relation of the going out, and of the Sea Engagement between
the French Fleet, commanded b, the Chevalier lD'AsTOveflEZ,
and the British, commanded by Admiral Arbuthnot, on
the 16th infant.
r rHE gale of wind on the 21st of January, having had confe
£ quences which put some equality in the naval forces of
France and Great-Britain, in North-America, the Chevalier
d'Aftouches took advantage of this circumstance to flop the
depredations and plunders of the enemy on the coast of Virgi
nia. For that purpose he sent with the greatest speed a 64 gun
ship and two frigates, under the orders of Mons. de Tiley,
Captain of the navy. His orders were to go to Chefapeak Bay,
and to endeavour to destroy the little British fleet there, and,
the frigates which protected it. The enemy having taken the
precaution to put their vessels out of danger, in the small river
of Elizabeth, Monsieur Tilly could not completely fulfil the
object of his mission ; —his expedition, however, was not fruit--
less, he took or destroyed ten ihips belonging to the enemy,
and brought to New-Port, the Romulus, of 44 guns, which
he had taken at the entrance of the bay. The success of this
firft undertaking, and the great desire of Mons. d'Aftouches to
give an efficacious fuccour to the hate of Virginia, made him
take -the resolution to renew the attempt with greater force.
He fitted out his squadron, armed the Romulus, and to en
sure as much as possible the success of the expedition, the
Count de Rvchambeau sent on board his men of war and the
Fantafque, (a pink)a detachment of his army, under the or
ders of the Baron de Viomenil.
On the Bth of March in the evening, the fleet got under
way; the contrary winds drove.it the following days to the
south-east; however they took the advantage of the variety
of the winds, approached the coast, and on the 14th in the
morning difeovered Cape Charles in Chefapeak Bay. The
south winds which blew very hard, did not allow them to rife
in the wind so as to go into Cape Henry; on the contrary, they
were drove northward, and tacked about two whole days.
On the 16th at day-break, the wind hill continuing to blow
from the fame quarter, but with less force, and the weather
foggy, the fleet having their larboard tacks on board, a frigate
Was difeovered two gun foots to windward ; the Admiral made
signal for chafing, but a Short time after many large Ihips
appearing through the fog, he did not in the least doubt but
the British had got intelligence, by some enemy to America,
of his going out, and that the weft, and north weft winds
having made them run more large than the French fleet, they
were arrived almost as soon as the French fleet on the coast of
Virginia. In consequence of that reflexion he called back
, the chafe, and the wind fhifting to the north-east in the fame
instant, he made signal to form the line, with the larboard
tacks on board. The British fleet were then two leagues off
to the southward, Peering the fame course. At 9 o'clock,
the French fleet wore round a-head.by the counter march,
at half an hour after the British did the fame. At half after ten
the Admiral feeing that the wind increased, and that he was
approaching the shallows on the north coast of Virginia, made
a signal to take the larboard tacks on boarl, and to wear round
before the wind by the counter march. The Chevalier d'Af
touches was conscious that not having got into the Chefapeak'
before the enemy, his expedition could not take place; he
knew it was .impossible to land his troops, even from the men
of war, under the fire of a superior fleet; his only care was for
the glory oft;he arms of his King, without endangering his fleet.
The enemy taking advantage of their superiority in failing
and force, continued to rife in the wind, crouding a great deal
of fail, and having their Larboard tacks on board. At noon
they wore in the French fleet's wake; a little before one their
van approached within half a league of the rear of the French
line, and they seemed to have a mind to attack to the leeward.
Till then the Chevalier D'Aftouches had worked his ships
so as neither to avoid nor seek the engagement, because he was
sure that even the happiest issue of it would hinder him from
fulfilling his principal object ; but the honour of the King's
arms, which he niuft sustain before America, would not let
him give room to the British to boast that they had pursued
him,'even with a superior force, and took the resolution of
attacking himfelf, by falling on their van, wearing round by
a counter march, and fighting them on opposite tacks, to
leeward, that his ships might with facility make use of their
lower deck guns.
At one o'clock the headmoft ship of the French line was
within gun shot of the enemy's, and a few minutes after the
engagement began. The van of the British fell to leeward,
and the van of the French fleet did the fame, to keep up with
the enemy, so that those two parts of the fleet fought for some
time, running before the wind; a little before two o'clock,
the Admiral feeing that the manoeuvre of the British van did
not allow it to run more to leeward, made his fleet haul in
the wind, with larboard tacks aboard by a successive motion,
which made his whole line file off upon the van of the enemy.
This manoeuvre had a complete success; their fore mog Blip
had scarce bore the fire of the sth French snip, when ihe fell
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to leeward, took the wind on her starboard fide, and left the
line, accompanied by a frigate which came to her relief; how
ever, the rear of the British fleet had kept to windward, and
was near enough to fight the French rear while it was making
a motion to get in the wake of the head of the line. This
attack of the enemy's van did very little damage to the ships
that sustained it; however, the Conquerant fuffered a great
deal, because after having fought with the British van, she
sustained all the fire of the centre. She especially fought with a
three decker ; the loss of her main-top-fail yard, and of a great
part of her rigging, compensated the damage done the Con
querant.
A quarter before three, the fire having ceased on both tides,
and the French fleet being a-head and to leeward of the Bri
tish, the Admiral made a signal to form promifcuoufiy the line,
larboard tacks aboard ; in a short time this was done, and the
fleet ran under small fail, in expectation that the enemy
would attack a second time ; the Admiral then proposed to
wear round of them, and fall upon their van, but they had
been so ill used in the firft encounter that they did not think it
prudent to expose themselves to a second ; and during the rest
of the day they kept to windward and a-stern, without taking
the advantage of their superiority in failing to renew the fight.
In the beginning of the night the enemy's fleet fell to leeward;
and the French fleet continued to run to the South-East with
very little fail and all its lights hung out. The next day the
enemy were not to be seen ; and the Chevalier d'Aftouches,
though the advantage was on his fide, was obliged to renounce
his hopes of fuccopring Virginia, and in consequence fleeredi
towards New-Port, to repair his Ihips that had been damaged,
and to put them in a condition of undertaking new operati
ons.
Too much praise cannot be given to the intrepid firmnefs
shewn by the Captains, officers, crews and troops. Their cou
rage has made a compensation for the number and fuperior
ftrength of the enemy's ships, and the expedition would have,
been fuccefsful, had it been depending on the superiority of
courage.
The loss of the fleet amounts to 80 men killed, or dead of
their wounds, 120 wounded. Among the firft are sincerely
lamented,/ M. de Cheffontaine, Captain of the navy, and M.
de Kergu, Ensign.
N E W-Y O R K, April 7.
The following is copied from a Publication of Mr. David
Claypole's, dated Philadelphia, March gi.
Intelligence from the Southward.
Head-Quarters, Iron Works, North-
Carolina, March le, 1781.
SIR,
SINCE I had the honour of addressing youmExcellency last,
there have been some changes in our circurnftances. On
the 2d, Lieut. Col. Lee, with a detachment of riflemen,
attacked the advance of the British army, under Col. Tarle
ton, near Allamance, and killed and wounded by report,
about thirty of them. On the 6th the British moved down
towards High Rock, either with a view to intercept our fores,
or cut off the light-infantry from the main body of the army,
then advanced near seven miles ; but they were handsomely
opposed, and fuffered considerably without effecting any thing#
This manoeuvre occasioned me to retire over the Haw river,
and move down the north fide of it, with a view to secure our
stores coming to the army, and to form a junction with several
considerable reinforcements of Carolina and Virginia militia,
and one regiment of Virginia eighteen months men, on the
march from Hillfborough to High Rock. I effected this busi
ness, and retired to Guildford Court House.
Our militia had been upon such a loose and uncertain foot
ing ever since we crossed the Dan, that I could attempt nothing 1
with confidence, though we kept within ten or twelve miles
of the enemy for fevefal days. The enemy kept close, seem
ingly determined that we Should gain no advantage of them,
without rifquing Something of consequence.
I have the honour to be, with great refped and esteem, your
most obedient humble Servant,
NATHANIEL GREENE.
His Excellency General Washington.
Camp, at the Iron Works, ten miles from Guildford
Court House, March 16, i?Br.
SIR,
ON the roth I wrote to his Excellency General Washing
ton, from the High Rock ford on the Haw river, a copy
of which I enclosed your Excellency, that I had effected a
junction with a Continental regiment of eighteen months
men, and two considerable bodies of militia belonging'to Vir
ginia and North Carolina. After this junction, I took the re
solution of attacking the enemy, without loss of time, and
made the necessary difpofitidn accordingly, being persuaded
that if we were fuccefsful; it would prove ruinous to the ene
my, and if otherwise, it would only prove a partial evil to us#
The army marched from the High Rock ford on the 12th,
and on the 14th arrived at Guildford. The enemy lay at the
Quaker meeting-house on Deep River, eight miles from our
camp. On the morning of the 15th our reconnoitering parties
reported the enemy advancing on the great Salisbury road.
The army was drawn up in three lines ; the front line was
composed of the North-Carolina militia, under the command
of Generals Butler and Eaton ; the second line of Virginia
militia, commanded by Generals Stevens and Lawson, form
ing two brigades; the third line, consisting of two brigades,
one of Virginia and one of Maryland Continental troops, com
manded by General Huger and Col. Williams. Lieut. Cob
Washington, with the dragoons of the firft and third regi
ments, a detachment of light-infantry, composed of Conti
nental troops, and a regiment of riflemen under Col. Lynch,
formed a corps of observation for the Security of our right
flank. Lieut. Colonel Lee, with his legion, a detachment of
light-infantry, and a corps of riflemen under Col. Campbell,
formed a corps of observation for the Security of our left flank.
The greater part of this country is a wilderness, with a few
cleared fields interspersed, here arid there. The army was
drawn up on a large hill of ground, Surrounded by other hills,
the greater part of which was covered with timber and thick
underbrush. The front line was polled with two field-pieces
just on the edge of the woods, and the back of a fence which
ran parallel with the line, with an open field due&ly in their
front. The second line was in the woods, about three hundred
yards in the rear of the firft; arid the Continental troops about
Numb. 24.