The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-03-06 00:00:00, page 2

LONDO N, Dec. 3 .
Wednesday morning the Dutch Admiral Byland
failed through the channel, with four men of war
and two frigates, and as Commodore Stewart is
failed to meet him, it is highly probable an action
will ensue.
Eight fail of Ships are arrived at Dartmouth, from
Newfoundland, and nine at Poole.
The Baltic fleet, of 30 fail, arrived fafe in Yar
mouth Roads on the 24th of November; 20 more
were also fafe arrived at Hull.
The foreign mails bring an account of the death
of Compte de Maurepas, Minister of France, at 81
years of age; and of the Emperor's accession to the
Armed Neutrality.
The Empress of Russia lately entered into con
versation with an English gentleman on travel, on
the date of the British empire: She asked him, if
the Parliament voting and paying troops, was a
proof that luch troops were in actual service. He
answered, certainly. Then said her Imperial Ma
jesty, you cannot be distressed, for you have 406,000
men in pay, and so long after the opening of the
war, they must be distributed where most wanted,
and in efficient employment. The Empress, how
ever, remarked that 80,000 men were aligned on
the parliamentary record to North-America, the
Weft-Indies, and the coast of Africa; and as our
islands were entrusted to the defence of a few hun
dreds, there must be 70,000 in North America,
which made the power and prowess of the Ameri
cans very conspicuous.
The Navy Slop Office, established under Lord
Wifehclfea's administration of the navy, has pro
duced to government since its institution a clear pro
fit of 70,0001. betides paying all expences of ma
nagement, officers, &c.
On St. Peter's day, the 29th of June, the Ro
mans were entertained with a fight the most pleas-
S I R,
AMERICA can never be subdued by our arms,
unless the people can be alienated from their
own rulers, and allured into a voluntary submission
to our government.
Were it possible for America to be forced into a
temporary submission by some wondrous turn of for
tune, such a growing people could not be long kept
in obedience, unless their spirits could be reconciled
to the yoke.
A bold and civilized people, who have once been
made jealous of their liberties, will never assent to
a voluntary dependence on a foreign power, while
they think themselves able to assert their freedom.
The millions of money annually expended in A
merica, for the support of our forces in that coun
try, since the beginning of this war, are the most
powerful arms that they could be supplied with
agaiall ourselves, and will either enable them to
make a fpecdy renewal of their efforts,tf they should
be baffled in their present struggle, and reduced to
make treacherous concessions; or if, what is much
more probable, the aera of their allowed indepen
dence should now arrive, will furnifh them with the
means of the most rapid progress in every line of
improvement.
It is absurd to hazara the almost certain and im
mediate loss of our Wed-India islands, by an ob
stinate perseverance in the American war, on the
idea, that if the Americans become independent, they
may some time or other make these islands appen
dant on their own empire. The subjugation of A
merica, if it were certain to be effected in the end,
would not compensate for the loss of the Weft-India
islands in the accomplishment of that objed.
ing to them, and the most flattering and soothing to
their vanity, namely, the tribute sent by his Sicilian
Majesty to his holiness, as Lord Paramount of Na
ples. On this occasion the Pope attended by the
sacred College, and all the Prelates, Princes and
nobles of his court, received from the hands of his
Excellency Don Philip Colonna, Great Constable
From the Supplement to the French Gazette of No
vember 20.
VERSAILLE S, Nov. 19.
THE Duke de Louzun, Colonel of the legion
of his name, and the Sieur Dupleffis Pafeau,
Captain of a Ihip, arrived here this day, charged
with defpatches to the King, with an account of a
naval engagement on the sth of September, and to
inform His Majesty that the army of Lord Corn
wallis, confiding of 6000 men, which had retired
and entrenched themselves in York-Town, on the
river of that name, in Virginia, capitulated on the
19th of Odober last, and surrendered prisoners of
From the London Evening Post.
To the PRINTER.
Copy of a letter from the Earl Cornwallis to his
Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, dated 1 oik- 1 own,
Virginia, October 15.
SI R,
LAST evening the enemy carried my two ad
vanced redoubt's on the left by storm, and during
the night have included them in their fecund parallel,
which they are at present busy in perfecting.
My situation now becomes very critical. We
dare not Ihew a gun to their old batteries, and I
expert their new ones will be op_n to-morrow morn
ing. Experience has shewn that our frefh earthen
works do not refill their powerful artillery, io that
we shall soon be exposed to an assault in ruined works,
in a bad position, and with weakened numbers.
The fafety of the place is therefore so precarious,
that I cannot recommend that the fleet and army
should run great rifque in endeavouring to lave us.
I have the honour to be, with great refped, Sir,&c.
(Signed) / CORNWALLIS.
His Excel. Sir Henry Clinton, K. B.
Admiralty-Office, November 27, 1 781.
Captain Melcombe, of His Majesty's sloop the
Rattlesnake, arrived at this Office late on Sunday
night from America, with defpatches from Rear-
Admiral Graves to Mr. Stephens, of which the fol
lowing is an extract;
London, at sea, October 29, 1781.
In my last letter, by the Lively, Captain Manly,
I delired you to acquaint the Lords Commifioners
Whitehall, November 27.
Extract of a letter from Sir Henry Clinton to the
Right Hon. Lord George Germaine, one of His
Majesty's principal Secretaries of state, dated on
board the London, off Chesapeake, October 29,
1781; by Captain Melcombe, of His Majesty's
Hoop the Rattlesnake, who arrived in town bn
Sunday night last.
AGREEABLE to the information which I had
the honour to give your Lordship in my last
defpatch, the fleet under the command of Rear-
Admiral Greaves failed from Sandy-Hook on the
16th instant, and arrived off Cape Charles the 24th,
when we had the mortification to hear that Lord
Cornwallis had proposed terms for capitulation to
the enemy on the 17th. This intelligence was
brought us by the pilot of the Charon, and some
other persons who came off from the shore, and
said they had made their escape from York on the
18th, and had not heard any tiling there since the
day before. The Nympth frigate allo arriving the
next day from New-York, brought me a letter from
his Lordihip dated the 15th, the defponding tenor
of which gives me the most alarming apprehensions
of its truth. Since then we have been plying off
the Capes with variable and hard gales of wind to
the ptefent hour, without being able to procure any
further information, except from two men taken 111
a canoe, whole report exactly corresponds with the
former.
Comparing, therefore, the intelligence given by
these people, and several others since come in, with
the purport of Lord Cornwall's letter, a copy of
which l have the honour to enclose for your Lord
(hip's information, we cannot entertain the lead
doubt of his Lordship's having capitulated, and that
we are unfortunately too late to relieve him; which
being the only object of the expedition, the admiral
has determined upon returning with his fleet to
Sandy-Hook.
I beg leave to mention to your Lordfh,p, that the
army is under the greatest obligations to the Admi
rals, the Captains, and the officers of the King's
ships, for the chearfulnefs with which they submit
ted to many and great inconveriiencies for our ac
commodation on this service.
of Naples, a White Palfrey, with 7000 ducats, sent
by Ferdinand IV, King of the Two Sicilies, as a
tribute for his kingdom, and an acknowledgment
that he holds it as a fief of the Holy See. Nothing
was omitted that could give eclat and splendor to
this ceremony—the day before and after, the palaces
of the nobility, and the whole town were grandly
illuminated, and superb fireworks were played from
the Cattle of St. Angelo.
The spirit of the Americans is roused in support
of their cause, no less by defeats than by victories.
The blood of their brethren inflames their resent
ment, no less than victory inspires new ardour to
attain the end of their labour and their servitude.
Hence General Greene has been doubly recruited
after his defeats; and for every soldier we fend to
supply the place of the fallen, we fee two Americans
rile up to oppose him, after the dangers of the at
lantic are palled over.
of the Admiralty of my having puffed the bar of
New-York with the British fleet, with 7000 of the
army embarked, to go to the relief of Earl Corn
wallis at York, in the Chesapeake.
The fleet accordingly failed the moment the troops
were put on board, and proceeded the fame day (the
19th) for the Chesapeake.
The 24th we received intelligence from a black
man, who was pilot of His Majesty's ship Charon,
a white man who belonged to the Quarter-Master
General's department, and another black man, who
had made their escape together from York, that
Lord Cornwallis had capitulated on the 18th inst.
the day before the fleet failed from Sandy-Hook.
The 25th one of our boats brought off some peo
ple from the shore near Cape Charles, who gave
the fame report of the capitulation.
1 he 26th His Majesty's ship La Nymphe joired
us from New-York, and brought defpatches from
Lord Cornwallis, dated the 15th, a copy of which
is enclosed, and leaves little room to question the
truth of the other intelligence. The three people
being still on board and questioned again, and known
for what they reported themselves to be by several
persons helped itill to coroborate: I therefore de
termined to detach the Rattlesnake for Europe to
give the earleft information to their Lordships, that
government may be prepared to receive the parti
culars.
BOSTO N, Feb. 18.
It is said the principal commercial and manufac
turing counties in Great-Britain, have given their
members positive orders not to vote any supplies
until government shall make proposals of peace to
the belligerent powers, and that the United States
of America are particularly mentioned.
The day before the storm last week, several fifh
ing boats belonging to this town, went out, with a
fair wind, in order to catch a fair of fifh; but the
next day a storm arose which drove one of them,
Woodward, Skipper, afnore on Cape-Cod,
whereby he, and one Goddard were froze to
death on the foie-caftle, (the boat being filled with
water) two others were provide* tially preferred.
1 uefday last the Dean's bage, with 12 or
hands, coming from one of the islands to go
board the Dean, as soon as file itruck the ship over
set, whereby Mr. John Frazier a Midihipman and
one other person was drowned. The body of Mr.
Frazier was taken up and brought to town last
Thursday, and interred last evening.
Feb. 21. Yesterday a letter of marque ship, of
20 guns, from London, bound to New- York, prize
to the privateer Junius Brutus, of Salem, arrived
fafe in port: Her cargo is 1500 barrels of flour,
some bale goods, &c. &c. She left port the latter
end of November: An account of the capture of
Lord Cornwallis and his army, was received in
England before she failed.
I he Viper letter of marque, of 10 four pounders,
bound from Nantz to Philadelphia, laden with salt
and bale goods, and valued at 60001. sterling, is
taken and carried into the isle of Jersey. There
were three American schooners in company, who
escaped.
Last Monday a brig arrived at Newport belonging
to the southward, in 15 days from Cape-Francois,
the niafter of which brings a further confirmation of
the taking of St. Kitts by the Count de Graffe; and
it was generally believed at the Cape that Antigua
was in possession of the Fiench before he failed from
the Cape.—Five days before this veffcl arrived at
the Cape she met with Capt. Wadgley, in a brig
from Newbury-Port, in a very bad htuation, having
loft his masts 3 days after he left Newbury, and
had a very long passage, but happily arrived at the
Cape 8 days after he was spoke with.
We hear fiom Pepperrell, that on the night of
the 13th inst. the dwelling house of Capt. Nutting
of that town, with the greatest part of the furniture
and other effeds, was confirmed by fire, occasioned
by a person's leaving a candle burning when he went
to deep:—A caution to persons to extinguish their
candles when they retire to red.
A specimen of African humour.
On the arrival of the news of the capture of
Lord Cornwallis and his whole army, one African
meeting another, salutes him thus:
"O! how do Cuffee. You hear about Corn-
I should have been happy to have tried every
possible means to effe& a relief, could we have ar
rived in time; that profped being at an end, I de
termined to leave this station, and return to New-
York.
N. B. The copy of Lord Cornwallis's letter,
above referred to, is the fame as that printed in the
foregoing defpatches from Sir Henry Clinton.