The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1781-09-22 00:00:00, page 3

Charlestown, September 26.
E now give the Public from Authority, a detail of the
W important success that has attended the loyal and ani
d exertions of our friends in North-Carolina ; who under
Tcondud and guidance of Col. Fanning and Col. He&or
'«Neil entered Hillfborough on the 13th instant, after a
" e d march 0f45 miles, attacked the troops Rationed there,
Col. Litterel and 15 men, and taking Governour Burke
"th his Suite and Secretary, also 13 Continental Officers,
"a between 50 and 60 privates, prisoners ; 'among the
% are Colonels Drayton, Tharlfton and Reid. On the
of the party with the prisoners, it was attacked by the
:tel Militia, cclleded under a Gen. Butler, to the amount
men , posted at Linley's mills. The Royal Militia rc
°. d t h ree fires before they were enabled to make any op
' when they charged with great resolution, not the
Ift dismayed by the unexpected fire of the Rebels, who re
-4 A part of them rallying in a neighbouring field, were
charted and inftan'ly dispersed, with the loss of 60
and many taken prisoners. On our fide, 40 were leit
"th: field. Such was the regularity and good order obfer
during this spirited action, that not a single pnfoner
'c^WNeil who fell in the firft onset, is most deservedly
regretted: his activity, conspicuous zeal and forwardnefs on
very occasion, merit the warmed acknowledgement.
' Col. Fanning was wounded in the affair, out not so much
as to prevent his continuing in the command of his brave com
? This gallant party met with no further interruption in the
route from thence to Raft's Swamp, where it arrived with
prisoners, about tl^ . 20th, after a march of near 300
miles. Major Craig joined them on tne 23d instant, wuh
troops from Wilmington.,„ :
The Highlanders- behaved on this occahon, as dunag te
whole march, with their usual intrepidity. The Loyalists
were daily joined by numbers of their tellow-fufferers, in luen
manher as to render, at this instant, their force ver, formi
dable, and from which the mod important and deceive con
fcquences may be expected.
On Saturday evening arrived his Majesty's frigate oolebay,
_ Everitt, Esq; Commander, and the Savage sloop
ofwar. We are informed, that on the sth instant, oh Cape
Fear, the Savage fell in with a Rebel frigate of 28 guns; named
tie Congress, which due engaged, and after a severe action,
which laded for fix glasses, and during which her mizen-mad
was Rot away, and her hull and rigging very much damaged,
ft was obliged to strike to such a vastly superior force. Ihe
Savage had the matter (Mr. Whitman) and 4 men killed, and
wounded. The loss on board the Congress, was 13 killed,
and ^wounded. The Congress and her prize were proceed
ing to the northward, when the Solebay eight days after hove
in fight, and gave them chace. The Rebel Commander, as
soon as he perceived the vessel bearing down upon him was
afiigate, very prudently made all the la.il he could, and esca
ped. The Savage being unable to carry fail enough to keep
up with her, in consequence of the damage (he had fudained,
was soon after retaken without any opposition. Captain Stir
ling and most of the officers belonging to the Savage, were on
board the Congress.
By a cartel schooner, returned from Philadelphia, several
Rebel papers have been received, from which the following
European and American intelligence is extracted.
lais, Jlie 5. All rhe ships taken from Admiral Hotham's
^'b have by order of the Court entered the port of Brest,
pe foil there, where a great number of purchasers are al
^Y arrived. They have been judged legal prizes, except
which will be restored. She had been taken by an Eng
privateer, that had put her under the protection of the
convoy of the st. FuTatia fleet. The States General did not
Pi.in any claim on this occasion, although the contrary ap
, I trs in several of the Holland Gazettes ; all the claims came
^ Bankers, or other individuals, who have all been hoik
kted in their pretentions by the Council of Prizes. They have
pealed from that sentence to the Council of State, who in a
^ days wid give a definitive judgment in this great contest.
f.me 14. Yesterday a cause was tried before Lord
ift.sadd and a special jury, to determine whither policies on
^ch fhips,infured in London as neutral ships, before the war
Holland, and captured after the rupture,
^uld be binding on the underwriters to make good the loss;
The Solebav failed about four weeks ago from Sandy-Hook,
in company with the fleet under the command of Admiral
Graves, confiding of 19 fail of the line, one 50 gun sh,, and
several frigates, in quest of a fleet of French men of war, said
to be lying in Chefapeak-Bay. The British fleet appeared off
Cape-Henry the morning of the sth instant, upon which the
French fleet, then at anchor in Lynhaven-Bay, immediately
Dipt their cables, and Rood out to sea; in the mean time one
of our frigates run into the Bay and cut away their buoys, by
which they must inevitably have lof all their anchors. After
several manoeuvres on both sides to gain the weather gage,
part of the British fleet got nigh enough to engage the rear of
the French line. The French Admiral, as usual, avoiding as
much as lay in his power a close engagement, the action pro
ved undecifive, no material injury being done to a single ship
on our fide, although the fi "ng continued for amove an hour.
Ten or twelve ships of our fleet could only be # brought to ac
tion; but we may reasonably suppose the ships they were op
posed to must have fuffered a very considerable loss of men, as
the fire was directed chiefly agamft their huds. Our who^e
lofb in killed and wounded amounts to 133 men.
The two Fleets were not more than one league distant from
each other when the Solebay left them, 17 days' ago.
On Monday last the sloop Betsey arrived here from Ber
muda. By her we learn that a number of prizes have lately
been carried in there ; one of them a large Dutch snow from
iAmfterdam, bound for Baltimore, by the privateer brig Ham
mond, with a full cargo of dry goods, which fold for near
twenty thousand pounds sterling; a Spaniih ship and polacre
from Havana, laden with cocoa, &c. by the Hornet sloop of
Mr; and a schooner from Baltimore, with 500 barrels of
flour.".'
DEATHS. In the 77th year of her age, Mrs. Judith
I Swinton, a native of this province.—Mrs. Elisabeth Ma
ihewes, wife of Mr. John-Raven Mathewes.
A verdict was given for the plaintiff, fubjeft to the opinion of
the Court. It is said, upon the final determination of this
question will depend insurances amounting to 200,000!.
June 16. The day fixed for the riling of Parliament is the
20th of July. ~
,Thc Hector privateer of London, Captain Jefperfon, arrived
at Mahon the 21st ult. with aSpanifh snow with wine, and an
American vessel with rice, &c.,a Neapolitan ship with timber
on account of the King of Spain ; and in company with the
Hannah, carried in a Genoefe snow, with 200 pipes of wine,
Spanish property.
The Eari of Carlifle privateer, of Corke, has taken and car 7
ried in the Elizabeth, a very large ship from Curacoa to Rot
terdam. Report fays, the is worth 35,000!.
Monday the Sampson man of wgr, of 74 guns, lately launch
ed at Woolwich, failed for Portsmouth; ihe is to be follow
ed by the Princess Carolina, one of the 50 gun ships lately ta
ken from the Dutch, which has lately been docked.
The violence and rapidity of the late-fire at the Opera-
House at Paris, baffled every endeavour to extinguish or flop
its pcogrefs; it is impossible to describe the consternation of
the populace, when it approached the Palace of the Due d'Or
leans, which adjoined the Opera-House, and to which, in spite
of every effort, the flames at last communicated, beginning at
the apartments of Mons. Ie Duc de Chartres, which were in
tirely consumed, with every part of the superb furniture ofthat
quarter of the Palace. Happily, however, the flames were
extinguilhed before the whole of the magnificent pile was de
stroyed.,
June 21. On Sunday morning Major St. George, Aid de
Camp to Sir Henry Clinton, set off for Portsmouth toembark
immediately for America. He is charged with important dis
patches from Government to the Commander in Chief, con
tainihg amongst other particulars, the directions of admini
stration concerning the expedition, which he has been lately
meditating.
A frigate has been ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty
to proceed with all poibble expedition with the above officer
to New-York, his speedy arrival there being of the utmost
consequence.
Admiral Darby has received orders from the Admiralty, to
take every ^poflible precaution for the fafe arrival of the re
maining St. Euftatia prizes, in the ports of Great-Britain, be
fore he proceeds on the particular object of his present expe
dition, which we understand is to parade before Brest. He is
to dispatch a frigate to Commodore Hotham as soon as he gets
into the Bay, to inform him of the British squadron being at
sea, and the Commodore is immediately to leave Ireland, and
proceed under this formidable protection to England. This
extreme caution, tho' doubtless very laudable, seems to con
vey, that these ships are not of that inferior value which they
have often been represented.
It is now generally thought to be decided on by the Em
peror to open the port of Antwerp, as he has already declared
the freedom of Oftend.—Jofeph, in his political career, turns
out a young Frederic of Prussia; the fame active genius for ouar
and commerce seems to possess him, and in one refped he is
superior to his atchetype, as his inclinations seem to tend to
the latter as the fared means of strengthening the empire, and
adding to the happiness of his fubje&s.
Extract of a letter from th 2 Hague, June 15.
" On the 6th a deputation of the merchants of Dordrecht,
Haerlem, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam, presented a request to
their High Mightinesses, praying them that the fitting out of
the men of war destined for the Weft-Indies might be forwar
ded as much as possible?
" It is reported that a corps of French troops, some fay to
the amount of 20,000. men, have entered Geneva at the re
quest of the weakest of the two parties, which has caused great
confufion and difeord., If this is true, that city may be in the
fame situation that Strafburgh was in formerly, and it may end
in the fame manner.".
Boflon, August 23. Captain Stone, in a letter of marque
flrip, bound to the Weft-Indies, from Falmouth, Cafco-Bay,
fell in with, and captured a ship from Georgia bound to Lon
don, and brought her fafe into this port last Monday; the is
laden with rice, indigo, hides, sago, &c. &c.
Ne^v-York, August 28. The rebel army, under the com
mand of General Washington, left their encampment at the
White Plains last Monday; and we hear some of the Conti
nental troops are gone up the North-river. The French army
crossed the Hudfoh on the 23d inst. and proceeded on their
march for Chatham, eight miles from Elizabeth-Town, where
their artificers have been buildings ovens, Ac. for more than
ten days. Part of Dayton's brigade is also at Chatham, anda
York provincial regiment is now Rationed at a place called
Vaux Hall, four miles from Newark; the troops now in that
neighbourhood amounts to at least fix thousand, and their
greatest distance from Staten-Iflandtis not more than nine
tniles. ; w.
Augufi 29. A brig from Madeira with wine, taken a few
days ago by a rebel privateer, was retaken by his Majesty's
ship Solebay, and arrived here last Sunday.
The following is a lift of the British Weft-India fleet, which
arrived here yesterday, under Sir Samuel Hood's command.
LINE of BATTL E.
„ „ o Sir Samuel Hood
Barfleur - 98 Captain Knight
' Admiral Drake
Princeffa - 74 Captain Knatchboull
Invincible - 74 Captain Saxton . „
Alcide - 74 Captain Thompson
Alfred - 74 Captain Bayne
Ajax - 74 Captain Carrington
Lord Robert Manners, (brother of the
Resolution • 74 noble Duke of Rutland, and son of
the ever loved Lord Granby
Centaur - 74 Captain Ingieheld
Intrepid - 74 Captain Molloy
Terrible - 74 Hon. Captain Finch
Montagu - 74 Captain Bowyer
Shrewsbury - 74 Captain Mark Robinson
Belliqueux - 74. Captain I,owen
Monarch - 74 Captain Reynolds
FRIGATES.
Nymphe - 44 Captain Ford
Santn Monica - 44 Captain Lindsey
Fortunee - 44 Captain Christian
Sybil - 28 Captain Rodney, son of Sir George.
A sire-ship. A sloop.
On board the fleet are the 40th and 69th regiments.
Extract of a letter from an officer, dated Tork-To^n, Virginia,
August la,.
•' The last division of the Portsmouth garrison arrived last
evening in town. Gloucester point is strongly fortified, where
Colonel Dundafs commands, having with him the 80th regi
ment, that of the Hessian Prince Hereditaire, and Colonel
Simcoe's. The rest of the army are encamped immediately in
front of the town. At eight o'clock last night all the light in
fantry and the legion marched towards Williamfburgh ; it is
conjectured they have fallen in with a certain Lieutenant Colo
nel Innes before this, who commands the advanced corps of
the Marquis de la Fayette's people. He has been very busy of
late in collecting vast numbers of cattle for their army; it is not
improbable that the Colonels Abercrombie and Tarleton be
fore sunset may release a tolerable portion of them, if they can
ANY person or persons having PEWS in St. Michael's
Church tb hire out, will please to intimate the fume to Abra
ham Pearce, Undertaker, No. 33, Broad-street.
N. B. Coffins and Funerals decently furnished. ,
^rHE fubferibers give this public notice to all persons that
are any ways indebted to John Fri£p, late of St. Helena, de
ceased, to call and make immediate payment ; and all those to whom
the said deceased is indebted, to bring in their accounts, properly at
tefled, to the fubferibers on St. Helena.
WILLIAM FRIPP, 7
Sept. 26, 1781. WILLIAM FRIPP, jun. Executors.
* JOHN FRIPP, J
For Sale by Private Contrast,
A HOUSE and LOT in Union-street Continued, contain
ing 40J feet in front, and iro feet in depth ; the house con
tains four rooms, and a small fliop in front adjoining ; likewise a
well of good water. For further particulars, enquire of
* PETER PROW, No. lofc
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Mr. William
Hales, late of Charleftown, deceased, are hereby requeued
to make payment; and those having demands against said estate,
arc desired to render accounts of the fame, to
LAMBERT LANCE,? ,
t JOHN COX, f Executors.
A GUINEA REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber, about the 17th instant, an
Indian man Have named Malcolm, he is a native of Jamaica,
his mother was a Mufketto-Shore Indian, and he fays his father w:s
a white ^an; he is about 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, has black bushy
hair, and had on when he went away a linen shirt and trowfers, i a
great drunkard; he is supposed to be gone into the country. All
persons are hereby forbid from, harbouring said Have. Whoever de
livers him to me,at No. 30, on the Bay, or fecurcs him in the Sugar-
House, shall receive the above reward, and all necessary charges.
, # FRANCIS MILLER.
For SAVANNAH in a few Days,
Governour Martin,
For Freight or passage, apply to
ALEXANDER TELFAIR,
. No. 90, Church-street.
(BY PERMISS I O N.)
There will be a CONCERT and BALL
on MONDAY the Sth of Odober next, at the State-House.
TICKETS for admittance to be had at Mrs. Stewart's, No. 22,
on the Bay, and Mr. Abercromßy's, No. 2, Queen-fireet, at
Half a Guinea each.
To begin precifel? at Seven o' Clock in the Evening.
TO BE LE T,"
A Small HOUSE, containing three rooms, suitable for a
single person. Enquire of the Printer.s
A LL re. sons indebted to the estate of Mr. William Ed
wards, late of Charleftown, Saddler, deceased, are de
sired to fettle the fame with either of the fubferibers, as early
as possible ; and as many of the accounts have been long
ft?nding, it is hoped none will require any longer indulgence.
A MARTHA EDWARDS, Executrix,
'! THOMAS HARPER, Executor.
bhly overtake that body of freebooters. The Marquis's mam
body is about 20 miles from Williamfburgh; a party of them
have been routed, about 20 killed, and as many made prisoners,
by Colonel Tarleton."
Last Thursday arrived she of his Majesty's frigates from
Cbefapeak Bay, which flie left last Sunday; by her we learn,
that the British troops in Virginia, have rendered York Town
and Gloucester impregnable. ; r
August 31. Arrived here under convoy of the Richmond,
the Dutch prize flrip Margaritta Catharina, captured some
time ago by the Goodrich privateer, owned by Messrs. Shed
den and Goodrich of this city. The Margaritta Catharin
Was from Curacoa bound for Amsterdam, with a cargo 01
400 hogsheads of lugar, a large quantity of indigo, coffee,
cotton, &c. The Goodrich has also taken and sent into
Chefapeak another ship from Curacoa defined for the fame
port, with a similar but much larger and valuable loading.
The privateer sloop Jack o'th'Lanthern, formerly of this
port, but taken some time ago by the rebels, was sent in here
yesterday by the Goodrich. ,
At the fame time arrived a prize brig and a sloop, loaded
with corn, &c. sent in by our cruizers.
His Majesty's fl)ip Iris, Captain Dawson, has taken the brig
Jolly Tar, from Philadelphia, laden with flour, bread, beef,
porK, &c. He has also retaken the brigantine Samuel, bound
from Jamaica for Bristol, with rum and sugar.
September 4. Last Sunday evening was sent in here, by one
of his Majesty's ships, a small rebel privateer schooner, of eight
guns, out from Newbury-Port, on a cruize.
September 8. Last Thursday arrived his Majesty's ship Ze
bra, from England via the Weft-India, with government dis
patches,
About the middle of June his Royal Highness Prince Wil
liam Henry; third son of our mod gracious Sovereign, who
on the 21st of August, entered on his 17th year, took leave of
their Majesties to embark with the Honourable Admiral Dig
by, on board the Prince George of 96 guns : The latter with
a powerful reinforcement to the fleet bf our naval Commander
in Chief, Admiral Graves, was to leave St. Helen's the firft
fair wind, and it is supposed came through the Channel with
the breeze which brought opt the Zebra.
Admiral Digby, with a formidable fleet from England, is
momently expelled on this coast.
Yesterday Arrived the Dundafs galley, Capt. Corre, with dis
patches from the Right Honourable Lieut. Gert. Earl Corn
wallis, to his Excellency the Commander in Chief. She left
York-Town last Monday morning, and brings intelligence,
that a French fleet, consisting of 17 fail of the line, two of
which, with two frigates, were Rationed at the entrance of Yorl;
River, some of them were in James's River, and the remain
der at the tail of the Horse Shoe, in Chefapeak Bay; those in
James River were supposed to be disembarking troops, destined
to form a junction with the rebels under the command of the
Marquis de la Fayette, said to be about 40 miles below Rich
mond. His Majesty's ships Charon, Guadaloupe, Bonetta,
with the Volcano sire-ship, werelying close by the batteries of
York-Town, upon which, and those of Gloucester, on the
opposite fide of the river, upwards of 150 pieces of cannon
were mounted.
Charle/lozun, September 2<, 1781.
I AM direded by the Commandant to give public notice
to the inhabitants of Charleftown, that such of them as
may have any complaints to make relative to the billets on
their houses, do attend at the State-House, where a Board of
Field Officers will hear and redress their grievances every
Monday and Friday. JAMES FRASER,
$ Ading Barrack-Master.