The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-09-11 00:00:00, page 2

LONDO N, June 12.
The following account is taken from this day's
Holland mail:
Amsterdam, June 16. Several letters from Pa
ris, of the 7th of this month, make mention of a
great advantage gained in the Eaft-Jndies by Mr.
De Orves. commanding the ships of his Most Chri
stian Majesty, over the fleet of Admiral Hughes,
commander of the British fleet in that part of the
world. Among these letters there is one, the tenor
of which is so important, that though the news
ftili merits confirmation, we cannot forbear pub
lishing it..
On board the Sphinx, in the bay of Trincomale,
February 14.
" I take this opportunity, of the failing of a
Dutch aimed ffiip, carrying to France the news of
the re-taking Trincomale by our squadron, and the
entire defeat of the English fleet under the com
mand of Admiral Hughes, made prisoner on board
the Superb man of war, by the King's ships I'An
nibal and I'Sphinx. Our fleet was much superior
to that of the enemy. Besides the Superb, we
have taken the English ships the Ganges and the
Royal admiral. M. de Suffrien may claim the
capture of the T atter, which he engaged five hours
and an half. The rest of the Engliih squadron
have been greatly disabled, and obliged to take
shelter under Fort-Anna. We have taken in Trin
comale 750 of the English troops, and 1500 Sea
poys. Ihe ship I'Orent, Captain Boyer, fell in
with one of the English squadron that was finking,
and saved the remainder of the crew. The English
have loft a great number of men. We had fifty
five men killed and twenty-four wounded on board
the Sphinx.
BOSTO N, Auguftif.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman,
in publick employment, residing at Amsterdam,
to his friend in New-England, dated 18th of
February, 1782.
" 1 here is one thing, my dear Sir, you'll par
don my repeating, and that is the attempts of the
English Ministry, by their agents, to bribe our
countrymen to supply them with masts. One Hun
dred and Seventy Founds sterling, have been offer
ed for every one, thirty inches diameter. I have
heard from good authority, that protections have
been granted by the Mini Fry to secure them against
Engliih privateers; the plan is to clear out for
Fiance or Amsterdam. I have been told this by a
gentleman who was requested to be concerned in
this infamous traffick, but who defpiled it. He
told me of two protections. It ought to be known
whether masts are b-na fide intended for France or
Amsterdam. Ought not bonds to treble the amount
be required '
Extract from the publick advertiser, a London pa
per of March, 1782.
“ It has been pretended that England has loft
all its trade with the Americans: 'I his is a gross
mistake. Ihe interest and inclinations of the Ame
ricans both lead them to trade with us, and we
may be very easy upon this occasion. The follow
ing extract of a letter found on board a veflel from
Philadelphia, bound for Amsterdam, and brought
into Plymouth, may serve to confirm this assertion.
" If you fend britifh hard ware, take care to
make the invoices in such a manner that the pub
lick officers may fufpeCt nothing : for English goods
are all liable to be seized. It will not be difficult
for you to procure certificates serving to prove that
they came from prizes made upon the enemy. As
to the other goods, the marks must be changed, and
new ones be put on ; you will also mark the price
in florins, and not in sterling money."
[lt is beyond all doubt, that the enemies of these
free states place great part of their hopes of final
kingdom, and the alteration of them any where,
and t< limit the duration of the act for the better
regulation and accommodation of his Majesty's
forces in this kingdom to the term of two years.
These benevolent intentions of his Majesty, and
the wilhngnefs of his Parliament of Great-Britain,
to second his gracious purposes, are unaccompanied
bv any stipulation or condition whatever. The
good faith, the geoerofity, the honour of this nati
on iff>rd them the lured pledge of a correlponding
disposition on your part, to promote and perpetu
ate the harmony, the liability, and the glory of the
empire.
On my own part, I entertain not the least doubt,
but that the fame spirit which urged you to share
the freedom of Great-Britain, will confirm you in
your determination to share her fate alfo—{landing
and falling with the British nation.
ly enslaving us, upon their trading with us; and
that from such a trade they have drawn no fmal!
part of their resources in the present war. They
who are engaged in it, would do well to pause a
moment, and afl< their own bosoms, whether they
do not virtually fell to the enemy the liberty, the
happiness, and even the lives of their fellow citi
zens. Is it possible to conceive, that a man of ho
nour, or even of common humanity, can in any
sense enjoy the gains be draws from the miseries
and the blood of his country' The merchants of
America honoured themselves, and highly merited
of their country, by the efforts they early made
against the oppressions of Britain, in the agreements
of nonimportation. It was a noble facrifice of pri
vate gain to publick good, which hifery cannot
fail to transmit with applause to future ages. Asso
ciations, it is said, are now forming against a dif
honourable, a fatal commerce with the enemy —-
Every good citizen must wish success to a design so
seasonable and so highly favourable to the publick
welfare. Should such associations among gentle
men in trade become universal, or even general,
they would produce immense good; they would
dash the hopes of our cruel enemies; they would
shorten the war ; they would save many lives ; they
would release many from the dismal abode of a
piifon-fhip or a dungeon; and would contribute
greatly to a permanent foundation for a fair and
free trade of these dates with all quarters of the
globe, to the perpetually increasing advantage of
the present and all future generations. What man
would not wish to ftaod upon so honourable and
virtuous a ground, and to afford his ftiuggling coun
try so important an aid ?]
PROVIDENCE, August 24.
A letter of marquelhip, of 16 guns, belonging
to Salem, arrived in the river yesterday from Port
au-Prince.—We are informed that on Thursday
flie spoke a schooner, that had been captured by the
Alliance.
A flag of truce which lately failed from Warren
for New-York, with a number of British prisoners,
is returned, not having been permitted to approach
the city nearer than twenty miles, nor to bring any
Americans in exchange.
Thursday evening, Captain Whipple, in a sloop,
arrived here in fourteen days from St. Chrilto
pher's.
FISH-KILL, September 5.
The army moved from Weft-Point and its neigh
bourhood, by water, to Verplank's point, the 31st
ultimo, where they are now encamped. 1 his move
ment, the firft considerable one which has yet been
attempted by water, was made with the utmost re
gularity and order.
Last week Mr. Peter Corne, late an inhabitant
of Peek's-Kill, with three other persons, who came
out to Stamford with a flag from Brigadier-Gene
ral Birch, were seized by Colonel Canfield, and
sent up to Weft-Point. This flag being a repeated
deviation from the convention fettled between the
British and American Commanders in chief, that
no flags should pass or repafs by any other route
than the post of Dobbs tciry: The persons are
detained as prisoners, to put a flop to any further
impositions of this nature.
I he Experiment, a British fifty gun ship, is tak
en by two French frigates, and carried into Che
sapeake.
PHILADELPHIA, August 28.
Extract of a letter from Fort Augusta, August 13,
1782.
" I am sorry to inform you that the Indians are
committing their savage barbarities on the poor de
fencelefs inhabitants of this county. From the
23d of last month to the Bth instant, they have kill
ed and captivated twenty-one of our inhabitants,
which intimidates the settlers so much, that those
who live above us, on both branches, are all pre
paring to come to the towns, and have given up
all thoughts of putting in any fall crops, which is
a plain demonstration that it is all over with our
county, if something is not speedily done by our
Legislative body at this fitting, to encourage the
people to make a stand The Bth instant a party
of Indians came to the house of John Lee, when
they took him, his wife and seven children prison
ers, also John Walker and three more that were in
the house, thirteen in all; the savages promised
not to hurt them, provided they made no noise,
and would go quietly along; but about a quarter
of a mile from the house they tomahawked John
Lee, John Walker, and two of Lee's children; a
young child of Lee's they threw against a sapling
The road to glory in a patriot army and free
country is thus opened to all.—This order is also
to have retrofped to the earliest stages of the war,
and to be considered as a permanent one.
The Legislature of the Rate of New-York has
lately passed sundry resolutions, relative to the pro
poling to Congress to recommend, and to each Rate
to adopt, the measure of assembling a general con
vention of the states, specially authorized to revise
and amend the confederation of the United States.
A person from the northward relates that three
or four vessels arrived in Canada river the latter
end of July or beginning of August, laden, among
other things, with a vast quantity of blankets, guns,
tomahawks and fcalpiog knives, for the use of the
savage allies of Britain at Niagara and elsewhere.
The trench ship l'Aigle of 22 guns, from Cape
Francois, with defpatches for M. Vaudreuil, is car
ried into New-York.
A Virginia paper fays, that “ Certain accounts
are received of an expedition being intended against
Fort Fitt by the British and their Indian allies.
From the vigorous measures adopted by this date
A copy of His Excellency General Washington's
orders for the purpose of distinguishing the vete
ran non-commissioned officers and privates in the
army of the United States.
Head-Quarters, Newburgh, Aug. 6, 1782.
GENERAL ORDERS.
HONORARY badges of diftindion are to be
conferred on the veteran non-commissioned
officers and soldiers of the army, who have served
more than three years with bravery, fidelity and
good condud.
For the purpose a narrow piece of cloth of an
gular form, is to be fixed on the left arm on a uni
form coat.
Non-commissioned officers and soldiers who have
served with equal reputation more than fix years,
are to be didinguifhed by two pieces of cloth, set
on parallel to each other in a similar form.
Should any who are not entitled to those ho
nours have the insolence to assume the badges of
them, they shall be severely punished :—on the
other hand it is expeded those gallant men who are
thus distinguished, will on all occasions be treated
with particular confidence and consideration.
The General ever desirous to cherish exertion
and ambition in his soldiers, as well as to fofter and
encourage every species of military merit, directs,
that whenever any singularly meritorious adion is
performed, the author of it shall be permitted to
wear on his facings over his left breast, the figure
of a heart in purple cloth or silk, edged with nar
row lace or bordering.
Not only instances of unusual gallantry, but also
in stances of extraordinary fidelity and essential ser
vice, in any way, shall meet with a due reward.
Before these favours can be conferred on any
man, the particular fad or fads on which it is to
be grounded, must be set forth to the Commander
in Chief, accompanied by certificates from the
commanding officer of the regiment and brigade to
which the candidate for reward belongs, or other
incontestable proof; and upon granting it, the name
and regiment of the person, with the adion so cer
tified, is to be enrolled in the book of merit, which
jvill be kept at the orderly office.
Men who have merited this last diftindion to be
fuffered to pass all guards and centinels which of
ficers are permitted to do.
and left for dead, but it is likely to recover; they
likewise tomahawked and scalped a woman and her
daughter, who are still alive, but it is the general
opinion they cannot long survive."
August 31. One of our readers has his doubts,
whether the Britifli are yet serious in evacuating all
the states; and fears that they are colliding all
their force to a point at New-York, with a view
of making one great effort against General Wash
ington. The late recall of the French troops t
head-quarters, may be ascribed to the General
forefight of such a measure.
September 4.
By the United States in CONGRESS aflembf
August 12, 1782.
Resolved, That Congress approve the conduct
of General Washington, in refuting to enter into
any difeuffion with General Carleton, on the fub
je& of the treason laws passed by the several states.
Resolved, That the States of America which
compose the union, being sovereign and independ
ent, the laws refpedively palled by them for their
internal government, and the punishment of their
offending citizens, cannot be fumbitted to the dis
cussion of any foreign power, much less of an e
nemy.