The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle — Portsmouth, N.H., 1773-08-27 00:00:00, page 2

WARSAW (Capital of Pdland) May rg.
THE following is an account of all the operations of th^
Ruffian army firice the armistice; The zgth of March
Major Bagdanow attacked So Turks near Turuo, and killed 13
men. The gift of the fame month Prince Gallitzin attacked
a corps of 500 Turkish cavalry, near Silesia, and killed 40 of
them. The Cossacks have takena yaft quantity of cattle, and
^bu/nt three mills. The firft of April Lieut. Ferfen, with 305
grenadiers, routed several detachments of Turks in the night,
and attacked those who were entrenched near Hufbal, on the
Danube, and killed xpo men, and one Emir Aga. The 2d of
April the Ruffians took several Turkish vessels on the Danube.
The 16th General Potemkin beat a corps of 2000 Turks, who
had come to an iPand in the 'Danube, opposite Likareft, ana
Billed 50b of them. The 20th Major Jochemfon took 39
Turkish vessels near Giergewo. The 26th and 27th Col. Ktl
tchka, with 60b grenadiers, 400 light troops, and 1300 Cos
sacks, with fix pieces of cannon, passed over the Danube, and
beat a detachment of zooo Turks, made one Aga prisoner, and
took a standard. The 28th the fame Colonel met a Baffa with
2000 men, 300 of Whom he killed, made 53 prifor.ers, and
took fix standards. The fame day Major Lalafz, with two re
giments ofCoffacs, overcoolc the Baffa Czerkies, plundered his
whole army, and even took his ftaff of command. The 30th
; 500 Tartars were attacked by the Cossacks, 300 of them killed
and 30 made prisoners. Theist of May, g®o waggons with
Turkish families, were taken as they were going towards the
Danube. Colonel Bogleman has defeated a large corps of Turks
opposite Giergewo, 1000 of whom were killed, and 38 made
prisoners. Among the prisoners which have been taken, are 1
Aga of the Janissaries, one other Aga and a Baffa,
A late Action of the Russians.
Kamintec, ^une 7. We have received from Warsaw a Con
firmation of the Advantages gained by Gen. Suwarow over the
Turks, with the following Particulars : The Ruffian General
commanded a Body of 12,000 Men, & attacked 20,000 Turks
in their Camp, He toolc several Bachas and twelve Pieces of
Cannon, The Turks had retired into a Fortress which was on
the Point of capitulating, on the Departure of the Courier.
The Ruffians have taken 51 Boats laden with Provisions and
'ammunition. Nut one Corps es Ruffians p&ffes the Danube
without gaining fume Advantage over the Turks, whose Cou
rage appears to be greatly exhausted. It is said that there have
been already some Mutinies in the grand Army.
Warsaw, June 7. A Courier is just arrived here from the
Army of Count Romanzow with Advice that Major General
Suwarow in the Night between the 9th and loth of May had
passed the Danube near Turtukaz, which he inverted wtilrt hit
main Body attacked a Body ofqooo Turks who were entren
ched near that Place. The Turks made a powerful Refinance
but were at length constrained to leave the Place, and left 1500
dead on the Spot. The Garrison of Tartukaz retreated on the
above Defeat, and the Ruffians took Possession both of the For
tress and Retrenchments. The General distributed the Booty
among his Troops, after which he ordered several Pieces of
Cannon which were taken to be thrown into the Danube,
burnt the Magazines, fifty-one Boats, arid reduced the Place to
Ashes. He only brought off four Pieces of Cannon, and Six
Standards. The fame Advices add, that Count Romanzow had
not parted the Danube, but that the light Troops under General
Wellman had made Incursions almost to Constantinople.
Otranto, May 31. We have received Letters from the Archi
pelago giving an Account that the Ruffians had landed several
thousand Men on the Iflahd of Negropont, where the Turks had
but a weak Ganifon; but a large Body of Arnautes marching
immediately to attack them, the Ruffians retired with Preci
pitation to their Ships after meeting a considerable Loss.
June 17. The following are the gross Sums granted for the
Supplies of the prefect Year: £.
Out of the finking Fund —— — 2,300,000
Land-Tax, at Three Shillings --- — 1,500,000
Malt --- -- — --- --- 750,000
Exchequer Bills, payable in 1779 —— 1,400,000
Ditto to pay off last Year's Deficienci % s '-- — 600,000
Ditto in course of Circulation for the prefect Year 1,000,000
Amounting in the whole to £, 7,550,000
Besides charged on the American Revenue 10,000
On the Produce of the Lands in the ceded Islands 50,000
And the Produce of the Sales of the French Prizes 20,000
It is said that larger Orders have been given within this week
for goods to be exported to America, than a^ any one Time for
three Yearspaft.
The Report of a Change in the Admini
flration continues, but varies as to the Ar
ran^ement ofMen. The Report most cur
rent on Monday was,
• That Lord Sandwich is to be fir# Lord
of the Treasury,
LONDON, June 17.
It is said that the Bill now drawing up by a noble Law Lord,
with refpe£t to the disposal of criminals, will contain among
other Things, that ho petfon shall hereafter be transported to the
Colonies, but be either sent to serve in the Ea.ft Indies, or be shut
ip for a' certain term, or for life, in strong houses, four of which
'are to be erected in every County, where those who are not bred
to trades are to be kept to hard labour. This regulation is said
to be in consequence of a remonstrance from the Provinces of
Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut, complaining of the inun
dation cf vagabonds from Great-Britain and Ireland,
Yesterday there was % Court of Common Council held in mat
ted gallery, at Guildhall. Mr, Wilkes moved an Address to the
King, on the birth of another Princess of the Hanoverian line
which was seconded by Mr. Reynolds. The motion was op
posed by Messieurs Trecothic and Sawbridge; and many of the
Commoners, on the ground of being indecent and offenfive to
his Majesty. A debate arose and on putting the quertion, about
io hands appeared for Mr. Wilkes's motion, and about 160
against it.
The late Marshall Belifsle, on his return from being a priso
ner in England ; said, if a man was mad enough to purchase the
British crown, there were patriots ready to fell it.
The Santa Maria, a rich miffing ffiip from India to Liibon, is
taken by pirates and carried into Madagascar.
Sunday morning a duel was fought near Cannonbury-houfe,
between an Irish gentleman, and a gentleman of Worcester-
Ihire (both fludents in the Temple) in which the latter was kil
led on the foot; his victorious antagonist has absconded.
Orders are given from the Admiralty Office, for the Dublin,
Bvyne, Triumph, Egmont, Terrible. Kent, and Resolution Men
of War at Portsmouth, to hecompleared with their full Comple
ment of Men, and victualled for fix Month's, in order to their
beingready for an Expedition immediately after the Review,
It is further infilled on, that four of the above Ships are des
tined for the Weft Indies, and that the Remainder are to pro
ceed immediately to America,
Mr. Jenkinfon, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer.
Duke of Grafton, firft Lord of the Admi
ralty. And
Lord North to be created a Lord, and
made Lord Privy-Seal.
It is fixed that Sir John Dalrymple is to
be one bf the Judges that are to go to India.
Mr. Cornwall will positively be Chancel
lor of the Exchequer, and Lord North con
tinue firft Lord of the Treasury, and be
made President of the Council.—Sir Willi
am Meredith is to have a Seat at the Trea
sury-Board.
sane 23. The Duke of Gloucester was so
ill on Monday Night as gave his Physicians
little Hopes (except an unexpected Change)
of their being able to re-establish him.
June 25 A Gentleman, just arrived from
Portsmouth, relates that notwithstanding
the Weather was very serene when his Ma
jesty went on board the Barfieur on Tuesday
to dine he was so excessive sea-sick that he
was not able to eat any Dinner. He went
to Bed about 11 o'clock the fame Night,
and was very much fatigued.— Just alter
his Majelty had entered his Barge, in the
Midst of the royal Salute, one of the Sons of
Neptune, being too eager in getting through
the Lubber's Hole, unfortunately miffed
his Step, & falling into the Sea, was drow
ned.— A French Nobleman, who came
there to fee the Review, was on Monday
Morning Seized with an appople&ic fit, and
now lies past all hopes of recovery.
Extraft of a letter from Portsmouth, June 22.
" The naval review planned by Lord Sandwich and agreed
to by his Majesty, has long been the fubjeft of cooverfation ;
expectation has, in this case, as upon every other similar oc
casion, out run possibility ; as soon as the matter was publickly
known, to have been determined on, circumstances which never
could happen, were boldly asserted to be part of the plan, and as
many lies have been plausibly produced on the fubjeft of this
nautical pageantry,as the boundless scope of fanciful imagination
could suggest. ------- - The road to this feapert was
on Saturday and Sunday last, a perfect fair ; at Godalming, a
moft every bed, that could boast a feather in it's tick was taken
up ; the George (Snelling's) was filled, and many of the private
houses were crouded with the customers carcases. On Monday
this town was infinitely more thin, and the read to it amazingly
clear : The bells of Godaiming, were, however, set a ringing
about eight, and the townsfolks flood at their doors, decked out
in their Sunday apparel, to gaze at, and make rude observations,
on those whose convenience suited to choose that town as a night
fttge. On the Tuesday, the road from Godalming to Portf^
mouth was lined with the country people, and from Petersfield
the bills were not more difcernable for their white chalk, than
red cloaks and farmers frocks which covered them ; at many
places the gazers fat on eminences a quarter of a mile distance
from the road^probably expiating the King would come in the
shape of a huge monfler, and be of a size to be seen from afar.—
At a quarter before ten, his Majesty, accompanied by an officer
passed through Pembroke rurnpike ; he tvas saluted there by
some guns from the house of Peter Tayor, Esq; on Portdown
hill ; His Majesty 'a chaise flopped about five minutes to take a
view of the sea, which there opens to the eye on a sudden, and
has a very fine appearance, giving at once the Isle of Wight, a
large extent of the coast, the whole harbour and town of Ports
mouth, and an unlimitted Space of water to the beholders fight,
near five thousand persons were placed on the hill to take a peep
at the King ; his pausing gratified their warmest wishes, and
they returned their thanks by loud huzzas, and all those tokens
of applause which the inhabitants of London and Westminster
have long since denied his Majesty. The King's chaise was
proceeded from Petersfield by a coach, in which the master of
the horse rode, with some other person of the houfhold ; a few
horse grenadiers accompanied his Majesty on the load ; his equi
page changed horses at Ripley. About a quarter before eleven
he entered Portsmouth, when the guns on the walls were fired,
and he was received with every military honor, &c. &c.
WILLUMSBURGH in (Virginia) July 22.
A Correspondent fays, that there is more
Wheat made, throughout the Colony, this
Year, than has been made in one Season
since Virginia has been fettled.
The Venus, Capt. Oliffe, is just arrived
with 70 indented Servants, some of whom
are acquainted with the Cloth Manufactory.
They fay that upwards of 18,000 people
have left Ireland since January last, to fet
tle in different Parts of America.
N EW-Y O R K, Aug. 12.
The many eminent Services of Mr, Stephen Sayre, a Native
of this Province, and now a refpe&ble Merchant in the City of
London, are likely to be rewarded by the popular Party there,
in a very distinguished Mark of their Esteem and Confidence,
He is nominated with Alderman Plomer, to be a Sheriff for the
City c'f London and County of Middlesex, in Preference of all
the junior Aldermen ; an Event that is not in the least doubted,
he will stand fair for Elevation to the highest Honors of the
City.
Within this Fortnight three Thousand five Hundred Passen
gers have arrived at Philadelphia from Ireland,
Capt. Thomson, in 36 Days from Cadiz, informs us, That
about 24 Days ago he spoke with Capt. Stephen Waistcoat, in
a Schooner from Boston, for Maderia, 35 Leagues to the West
ward of that Island.
s Capt. Pell, in 14 Days from St, Croix, acquaints ns that Ad
vice was received there, that a Hurricane had lately happened
at the Grenades, in which 8 Sail of Vessels were drove affiore.
The Sloop Miffifippi, Capt. Goodrich, with the Connedlicut
Military Adventurers, arrived here from the Miffifippi, but last
from Pensacola, the 6:h Infant . •The Country they went to
explore they hkg well, & laid out 23 Towplhips at thcNatchcz#
We hear from Gardiner's-Town, on the
River Kennebeck, that on the 9th Inst. a
large Dwelling-House (belonging to Sylves
ter Gardiner, Esq; of this Town) occupied
C^B^Q^Qrao.tf% .r%
Friday last the Sloop nlifflppi, Capt.
Goodrich, arrived at New-York from the
Miffifippi, but last from Pensacola, in 26
Days, having Paflengers, Cob Ifrael.Put
nam, Capt. Roger Enos, Mr. Thaddeus Ly
man, and Lieut. Rufus Putnam, who were
a Committed from the Company of Mili
tary Adventurers (Io called) sos exploring
the Lands bounded Weft on the River Mil
fifippi and North on the River Yafou, be
tween Lat. 32 and 34, Which Tra& of Land
was said to have been granted to General
Lyman and the Military Adventures : And
on Tuesday last Col. Putnam, and Lieut.
Putnam arrived here by Water from New-
York, after eight Months absence. The
general Account which they give is, that
they went 450 Miles up the said River a
bove the Island of Orleans, found the Lands
to be extremely fine, but very little cleared ;
the Climate good and healthy ; and thatPaf
fages up theßiver are perform'd with greater
Ease, (especially in the Spring Season) than
has been represented. A more particular
Account of their Doings it is thought pro
per to omit, till a general Meeting of the
Company, which it is expected will Ihortly
be held.
The following Account is received from
the Above Gentlemen, viz. "In the Month
of December last, as a French Boat was com
ing down the Miffifippi, about 20 Leagues
above the Natchez she was robbed of about
600 Skins, 600 Dollars and a large Quantity
of Flour ; and all her People were murdered,
(being three white Men and two blacks.)
the Villains who perpretrated this Crime
are supposed to be Jefhua Howard, Earnest
Hooper, Charles Holmes, Reason Young,
Richard Hollaway, and Abfalom Hooper,
most of whom if not all, were of the Regu
lators of North Carolina, except Haywood,
who was Servant to Col. Fanning. They
were all combined in a horrid Scheme to
rob all French Boats that should fall into
their Hands ; and the better to secrete their
Villanies, Haywood set out for an Indian
Trader ; in order to dispose of the Skins
they Should get,they all lived near theNatch
ez, and for the above Purpose went up the
River, where lighting with the Frenchmen,
they invited them on Shore on pretence of
trading with them, where they perpetrated
the horrid Crime by each Footing his Man :
The three Whites were killed cut-right,
but the Blacks only wounded. These Vil
lains propagated a Report, that this and
some other Mifehiefs were done by the Sa
vages, but the above Gentlemen found them
of quite a differentTemper,and think them
selves bound, in Justice to those Tribes,
(whom they found very hospitable) to give
the above Informat ion to the Public.
Boston, August 19.
Stephen Sayre, Efg; one of the Sheriffs ele&ed for the City
of London, is a Native of New-York, was in America a few
Years since :---A Gentleman well refpeded here, in the Year
1765 received the honorary Degree of M. A. at Harvard Col
lege, (fee the Catalogue under 1757) : And we hear that on his
Return to England married a Daughter of Dennis De Berdt,
Esq; and affifled that Gentleman in his advanced Age, when
Agent for the Hon. House of Representatives for this Province;
and since Mr. De Berdt's Death, upon Application made he ob
tained Leave for the signing the Grant of Fourteen Hundred
Pounds Sterling, which Grant passed the General Courethe last
Session, for Mr. De Berdc's Services.
Dr. Lee, mentioned in the firft Page of this Paper, was some
time since appointed Agent by the Hon. House, in Case of the
Death or other Incapacity of Dr. Franklin. - - - - - - - D*.
Lee is generally supposed to be the Writer of Junius Amer 1-
Canus, whose Pieces have often been reprinted in some of
the Papers here.
B O ST O N, Aug. 23.
Friday last his Majesty's Ship Mercury,
Capt. Keeler, failed for England.
The fame Day failed Capt. Wm. Davis,
in a Brig for London.
The Ship Alexander, Capt. Hunter, with
550 Passengers, & the Ship Hannah, Capt.
Mitchel, with SCO, are arrived at Philadel
phia, both from Londonderry.
The distressing Circumstances ofthe mid
dling and lower Chfs of People in Ireland,
it is said, has occasioned upwards of i 8000
emigrating from their native Country, since
January last, to fettle in different Parts of
America.