The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-08-29 00:00:00, page 2

Sunday Mr. Houston, spoke a schooner from New
'< he matter of which informed him that ten fail of the
7 rumbuUT fleet had been carried in there.
After hiving indiferiminately plundered this unhappy Pro
vince, without regard either to friend or foe, the Rebels have
a F ; Wb thought fit to disclaim such procedures; with this
ITv,eA perhaps more from the idea of impliedly vindicating
their pad, than reclaiming their future conduct, Mr. Rut
led^, the titular Governour of South-Carolina, has published
the following Proclamation:
SOUTH-C IROLINA.
By bis Excellency John Rutledge, Efa; Governour and Com
manner in chief of the said State ;
A PROCLAMATION:
^xriEREAS many persons taking advantage of the late dis
• turbed and unfitted condition of the State, and hoping
in the confufion and disorder occasioned by the calamities of
war to escape purifiiment, have committed the most wanton
aid rapacious aUs of plundering; some under colour qt in
ch minifying themselves for losses which they have sustained;
other , under pretence that the persons to whom such property
belonged, are tories or enemies of the State; and others,
from a wicked and in >rdinaT desire of acquiring wealth by
any mean, however un/uftinable, and from any persons, whe
ther friends or foes: And whereas the public fafety requires,
that the most effectual measures should be taken for suppres
sing such an unwarrantable and pernicious practice, inasmuch
as gbod and faithful fubjedts should be secured and protested
in the full and free enjoyment of their property, and no man,
although criminal, fheuld be deforced of his estate but by due
course of law : I have therefore thought fit to issue this Pro
clamation, ftri&ly forbidding all persons from plundering,
taking, or holding the property of others under any pretence,
or for any cause whatever; warning persons possessed of such
property, of the danger which they will incur by continuing
to withhold it, arid charging them immediately to restore Inch
property to the owners of it, unless such owners are with rhe
enemy ; and in that case, to deliver it to the Brigadier-Gene
ral of the diftrift in which it is, as they answer the contrary
at their peril ; for speedy and effectual punishment Shall be in
fhded on the offenders: And I do direct all Justices of the
Peace diligently and faithfully to execute their office, and to
life all lawful means that mav be necessary for apprehending,
feeding, and bringing to justice, such persons as are or may he
accused of die above-mentioned, or any other criminal offence.
I do moreover command all military officers of this State to
give such aid and assistance to the civil magistrates, as they may
require for that purpose : And I do exhort all those who know,
or have reason to believe, where any plundered property is
concealed or secreted, or by whom it is possessed, to make
discovery and give information touching the some to the nearest
magistrate, in order that proper heps mxy be taken for the
recovery thereof.
GIGE N under my Hand and the Great S~al, at the
Hi,b Hide of Santee, this ;ft" day of August 1781, and
in the sixth year of the Independence of America.
-JOHN RUTLEDGE.
By his Excellency's Command,
JAhn-Sandford Dar r, pro Secretary,
Extracts from Rebel Papers.
Salem, ( "h/craets-fa, ) JA, 31. Captain Cowell, in
lat. 48 —so, efl in with a British Ship from Liverpool, bound
for New-York (on the 29th uh. about one o'clock, P. M.) and
engaged her yard arm and y ard arm, upwards of two glades ;
but he finding the British Ship to be of much fnperior force,
the mount ng 32 guns, sou, fix and nine pounders, after the
Maquis had eight men killed and fourteen wounded, her
hud, masts, yards, rigging, and fails being much damaged,
Captain Cowell thought proper to leave her, he not having
men enough to give her another broadside: he supposed the
loss of die British to be very great, as there was a continual
run of b'ood from the 'hip's (cuppers:
New-Torb, A!&// 4. Yesterday arrived the Blip Alexan
der, of 20 guns and 51 men, commanded by Capt. M'Lean,
who left Port Chafcow on the 12th of June. On the passage,
ofTthe Banks of Newfoundland, they fell in with, and closely
ei gaged a rebel priva+eer of 24 runs and full of men; their
quarter gabcry was foot away md rigging so much damaged
as to prevent a purSuit of the enemy, who went off suddenly,
and had the advantage in failing; when they bore away, it is
supposed to be in consequence of some fatal injury from Capt.
M'Lean's fire, a.it is said She suddenly disappeared, from
which it is conjectured file went down : The Alexander had
two men killed arid seven wounded; the execution done upon
the enemy is unknown.
Wednesday was sent in here by one of his Majesty's lhips, a
privateer schooner, mounting 16 guns; flie was taken a few
days since in the Chefapeak.
'Baltimore, ( Maryl nd) Augufl 7. The invasion of Mary
land being part of the plan of the British cabinet, (as appears
by Lord Germaine's intercepted letters) the late embarkation
at Portsmouth, of ab<ut 2000 British troops, and the subse
quent motions of the fleet, have given just cause of alarm to
the inhabitants of this and the counties adjacent, who are
now exerting themselves in every diftrid, to take the field at a
moment's warning.
, AR. ESTOWN, September i.
Y me .lb A % Master of the Success cartel schooner,
; >n Thursday from Philadelphia, informs
a l of last month, at five o'clock P. M. in
Y guide ,4, he fell in with Admiral Hoon's
?gof fourteen line of battle Ships, three frigates,
and two fireships, then out fourteen days from
Jr. Houlton was hvernl hours on board the Bar
.:al Hood's fliip; the fleet was well manned, a
:body of troops were distributed in the different
.; he whole in good health and high spirits. The
ien Easterly, and he left them fleering a N. N. W.
courfY ,
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman at the Marquis de la
Fayette's Camp, dated Mallion-Hill, Anguji 1, 1781.
" It has been for some time reported, that the embarkation
from Portsmouth was designed to add up the Bay, and Balti
more has been particularly mentioned. Commodore Baron,
who is watching their motions, writes the Marquis, that on
the goth o c July, 40 fail of the fleet weighed from Hampton-
Road, wi s h 12 barges, tub of men, and flood towards the
capes ; but having gained the proper channel, endeavoured to
Land up the Bay ; the wind not being favourable for this, they
came to anchor."
It is repot ted, that a detachment of Earl Cornwallis's army,
under, the command of Brigadier. General O'Hara, have landed
in Glou&Ocr county, Virginia, rear the mouth of York liver,
in the vicinity of which, on New Point Comfort, it is affect
ed, they arc to ered a strong fortification.
By the latest ar munis, there was no appearance of the ene
m/f fleet in our Bay.
The Alaref de la Layette, at the head of a body of troops,
is on his man h northward.
Generals Wayne, Morgan, and Campbell, with their ref
pcHi\e corps, were, by the ITAI accounts, about 30 miles
011 the south fide of James river.
“ It is said to have arisen from the nature of the service
“ the men were employed in, different from what they ex
“ pe&ed." rWhat-idea men could form of the nature of
service whom, you tell us, came out to perform none, is not
easy to be devised; indeed, Mr. General, it is a foleeifm in
conception which required a peculiar kind of head to mature
and language not less United to deliver. But as this is only the
brat of yifion, its fairy birth must have been without pain,
and its exigence in air.
“ They came over as settlers, not as foldiers."-—'Tis
truly wonderful what notion these men could form of becoming
settlers in a country where, in the ftime period, you tell us
they were not designed to remain. I have the honour, to be^
Mr. General,
Yours, &c.
fi.ila.Wyh, f„fiE C. Xlift the houfc of YL
Cooper, in Vine-Street, Las ErCck with lightning: although
the Shock was severe, and the house crowded with a number
of the unfortunate Carolinians, who lodge there, little
other damage was done than melting part of the hilt of a
fivord belonging to one of these gentlemen. Such is the
charge of munificent heaven to the forked lightning, not to
hurt one of thefe'VIRTUOUS 8 EXILES !!
New-Torb, Aug?Jl 11. We have the plcafure to felicitate
the public upon the arrival of his Majesty's Ship Amphion, of
thirty-two guns, John Bazely Esq; commander, [this gentle
man was Sir Hugh Pallifcr's Captain, when in the Formi
dable, he eminently distinguished himfelf in the action oh the
coast of France, on the 27th of luly, 1778] from Bremer Lee,
in Germany, after a paflage of ninety-three days, with the
Oftriciie and Britannia armed Ships, and twenty-three fail of
transports, having on board two thousand nine Hundred and
eighty-eight German officers and privates, &c. &c. They
took on the passage a ship belonging to Newbery-Port in
New-England, bound to France, loaded with fill) and lumber,
and retook a brig from Glasgow to New-York, both arrived.
Alft)this da, arrived the celebrated rebel frigate named the
Trumbull G thirty-two guns, after an engagement with his
Majesty's ihip Iris, also of thirty-two guns, commanded by
Captain Dawson, with five hundred barrels of freth Philadel
phia flour and bread on board, bound to Cape-Francois.
The Trumbull loft three men killed and five wounded: Be
fore the action, which lasted upwards of an hour, she loft her
sore-top-mast in a gale of wind. Capt. James Nicholson,
commander of the Trumbull, had been deceived by informa
tion, as he came down the Delaware, that the British cruiz
ers were to the southward, which occasioned his steering to
the northward, where the Iris was ranging, and fell in with
her in the night. Three more prizes are sent in by the British
cruizers, bound also to Cape Francois.
There were twenty-eight fail under her convoy, and they
are all scattered so as to afford hopes of most of them being
captured.
The privateer flpop Mercury from New-London, is sent in
by the Monk; and the Belifarius privateer is taken by the
Medea and Amphitrite.
Th the PRINTERS of the ROYAL GAZETTE.
Gentlemen,
BY infeiting in your next Gazette the following extract, from
a late public dispatch, with the subjoined remarks on it,
you will oblige A CORRESPONDENT.
Extract of a Letter from Major-General Greene, dated Head
barters, on the High Hills at Santee, fidy 17th, 1781.
" THE late reinforcement which arrived in Charleftown 2-
“ mounted to a little more than 2000 men, and had orders only
“ just to call there, but were not expelled to be wanted, and
" were to have gone to the Northward. One of the regiments
" mutinied a few days since at Dprchefter; in quelling which
" near an hundred men were killed and wounded: It is said
" to have arisen from the nature of the service the men were
“ employed in, different from what they expected. They
" came ove ias settlers, not as soldiers."
Now, I challenge the woild to produce so many wicked
sentiments, stupid principles, audaciously falfe assertions, and
monstrous absurdities, crowded together into so small a com
pass. [Hide General Lee's JlriAures.]
To Major-General Greene, &c. &c.
SI R,
THE above extras from one of your public dispatches has
greatly afronifhed me, and the more so, as I have hitherto
considered your former ones as not greatly uncandid, a circum
stance for which I gave you some credit: In them small succes
ses received as few lights, and considerable defeats as little
shade, as is customary in such productions; but, perhaps,
even this stretch of candor was displeasing to your rulers; and
you determined to make amends for the offence by a facrifice
of all such appearances in future; and surely, Sir, this could
not have been more effectually carried into execution than by
the unblushing mode in which you have authenticated, to the
Public, accounts as improbable as unjust, and which serve
only to evince, either the badness of your information, or a
total want of it.—But let us more closely examine the curious
parts of which this minute, but replete period is composed.
" The late reinforcement which arrived in Charleftown a
“ mounted to a little more than 2000 men, and had orders only
“ just to call there, but were not expected to be wanted,
“ and were to have gone to the northward."—To reduce an
enemy's army more than one third of its numbers is the most
effectual method, Mr. General, to defeat it; and, as you
have left no other mode of doing it untried, it was but fair
to make use of this last expedient ; which, decking your brows
with unfanguined laurels, could not but be the most pleasing
style of conquest to those who have hitherto followed your for
tunes:—but is it not amazing, Mr. General, that even 2000
men fliould be sent out where they were not wanted ? I vow!
it is flrange that these Britons should always fend reinforce
ments by such circuitous routes to their destination.
“ Ont of the regiments mutinied a few days since at Dor
“ chester, in quelling which near an hundred men were killed
"and wounded." I protest all this is so vifipnary, that,
without the fame inspiration, there is no replying to it ; nor
have any accounts been received here of a mutiny in America
later than that of the Pennfylyania Line; and how many men
were killed and wounded, in suppressing that, has not, as
yet, reached us.
TO BE LET,
T''° ve .ry convenient good ROOMS upon the Ground
Floor, in Church-street : Also, a large Mahogany Count
ing-House DESK to be fold. Enquire of ;
R. SMI I 11, No. 21, Broad-street.
jHE fubferiber intending for England by theist of No
.V,ber next,,defires all persons indebted to him to difeharge
their refpe&iye debts by the 15th day of September, as he it deter
mined to put in suit all debts that can be come at, without diftin&ion
of persons. Aho, those who have legal demands againfl the estate
of Mr. John Matthews, late of St. John's Parifc are desired to
give in to me a state of their accounts properly attested, by the above
time, otherwise they will be excluded. | JAMES LYNAH.
CDar/tfewn, if Seb:erEer, 1782,
LIG HT HORSE.
ALL active YOUNG MEN, fit for Light Horfeme n an/
willing to serve his Majesty King GEORGE, for '
space of Two Years, or during the present Rebellion have
now a fair and honourable Opportunity of revenging them.'
selves oh the Authors of the ' many Cruelties and horrid NOT
ders committed on their Relatjons, Friends, and Fellow Sub*
je&s; of teftifying their Loyalty to the best of Kings and
mamtefting their Abhorrence to this unnatural and uforo.
voked Rebellion; by applying to Lieutenant-Colonel George
Campbell, commanding The King's own American Regiment
now quartered in this Town, who has power to raise a Body
of Light Horse, to be attached to, and serve constantly with
the said Regiment. Each Loyal and smart youn& Recruit fbll
receive FIVE GUINEAS Bounty, and a CROIVN to drink
his Majesty's Health, be provided with free Quarters; a good
Horse,, Pay, Cloathing, Arms, Accoutrements, and ever?
other Requisite fit for a Light Dragoon, such as a Cap and
Helmet, a Brace of good Pistols before him, a keen edged
Sword by his Side, and good Boots and Spurs. Thus equip,
ped as a Gentleman Dragoon, tie must carry sure and certain
Victory, -acquire Honour to himfelf, and render Service
his Sovereign and injured Country.
Savannah, sth June, 1781.
GOD SAKE THE KING.
N.B. Aby person who brings a Recruit shall receive a re.
ward of Half a Guinea. Such serviceable, aaive, able and
young Dragoon Horses as are to be fold, will be purchased,
and a generous Price given, by applying at the Colonel's
Quarters, the yellow House near the Weft Gate.
GEORGE CAMPBELL,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Commanding
WANTED TO RE N T; ~
A Small convenient HOUSE in any public part of the'
town, Enquire at No. 46 on the Bay.j
LEFT at my House, which was difeovered by my negro
wench, a SILVER WATCH. The owner may have it
again, on paying for this advertisement, and a small gratuity
to the wench for her honesty. Apply to the Printers.
PETER DU MONT.
To be disposed of at Private Sale.
A SMALL TRACT of LAND on the upper end of
John's-lfiand, containing 250 acres. Enquire of the
Printers.
ALL persons indebted to the late co-partnership of Green
wood & Walker, either by bond, note or book-debt,
are earnestly requested to fettle the fame as soon as possible.
t JOHNWALKER.
MAS I ERS of vessels, and inhabitants of the town, may
be Supplied with BEER, at a reasonable price, at the
Brewery of Charleftown. W cm -
Wanted to Rent,
A SMALL HOUSE, or TWO ROOMS unfurnished, if
on the Second floor the more agreeable, with proper ac
commodations for a Small family. Enquire of the Printers# 1
~TO BE LET,'
THE convenient and well Situated STORE, No. 108, Broad.
Street. Apply to j JOHN & ADAM TUNNO.
r rHERE are a few more PEWS in the north and south
gallery of St. Michael's Church, to be let. Apply to
August 15, JOHN M'CALL, jun. ? Church
t EDWARD LEGGE, inn. I Wardens.
and WTLIHAM RUSSEL, beg leave to acquaint the
J Pubuck in general, that they carry on the Shipwright, mast,
pump and block-making bulinefi, in all their branches, on Russel's
whaif, next to John Rose, Esq. Any perfan in want of any thing
in the above line, can be served on the fliorteft notice, having a num
ber of prime hands employed that way. They will also engage to
cut house timber, or load Ships with timber, plank, spars, &c. asfoen
as any person in the province.
N. B. Any gentlemen having fquarers or lawyers to hire or dis
pose of, they will, by applying to us at the above wharf, receive ge
nerous offers adequate to their abilities. j u l, 7 tb, 1781. j °
—— —— 'to BE SOLS; —'
A House and Stores, at Beaufort,
VERY^ compleat for an extensive trade, formerly Mr. De
failure's. Apply to Zephaniah Kingsley, in Charlef
town.,
T O BE HI R E D,
A LIKELY mulatto HOUSE-WENCH, and some Negro
Women. Enquire at Messrs. John & Adam T^nno;
Np, 48, Bay.j
F 0 bIIC AUCTIO N;I
On TUESDAY the 4 th Infant, '',
At Cur VENDUE-STORE, No. 3, Bread-Street|
For read, Case,
bhigfheads Weft India and four Hotheads 1
O 2 Ifoc^and 2 Tierces ditto '
2, Barrels pew irrth Flour
12 'I ierces ditto Rice
4 Hogfh'eads Loaf Sugar
2 Pipes Madeira, (New-York quality)
2 dk;o Por:
2 B°^N™^^ Betters, containing about 30 dozen
I Box rdh hooks, assorted
A I, S 0,
A large and valuable affortmenr of DRY GOODS
Trim Lr^ns, Che cks, Calicoes, Chintzes, Cambricks. Lawm'T™
™^ d ' Thr e ad Stockings, Superfine, fine and
Cloths.; Kerfeyrnires, Mens white and black Hats, Nankeen^
Linen, &c. & c . &c. q
L IKE IKISE
A valuable NEGRO FELLOW and his' WIFE; the Ml
very active, and a good waiter; the wench a good cook and wT'
woman, for whom an undoubted title v-ilrbe given.l
Sebta^er 1, 1781. IVATSON & DENNISTON
pu b l ic A ifcFrToTr™
On TUESDAY next, the 4th of September'
^ TH r £r, rE dew, ''
Will be SOLD on the Premises
By II U GHRISK, & Co.
A WOODEN HOUSE, between No. 47 and 48,
Bay, containing 20 feet front and 16 deep, wh^h
either be removed or remain on the lot, upon parn^,,
year ground rent. 14 0 4a, 1
To be Sold on Thursday, the aotb September, at iCAfo
before the EXCHANGE,
—ART of the FRAME of a New BRIGANTINE 1m
A at Cochran's Ship-Yard, on Charleftown-Neck?
, :eel ' a ' d 24 ' eet I'carn ; her stern and stern ports,
her Ribbs, and many other timbers fixed ; being fold under
tachment by order of the Board of Police.
JOHN DAVIES, Sheriff.
Cnarltfomm, Augrf o^b, 1781.