The Freeman's journal, or, New-Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth, N.H., 1777-03-08 00:00:00, page 4

Whole Number in New-Jerley; 8,226
The present Statian of all the British Trosps.
44 Reg'mertsin America,viz. The 4th, gth, 6:h,
#th, 8 .k, gth, 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th,21th
224, 23d, z4th, 26, 27th, 28th, 2gth, 31t, 33d, 3 (th,
sst7, 37:h, 38ch, goth, 42d, 43d, 4 41h 45th, 46th,
47(!‘3, 49‘}], gzd,_ ;34, Stth, Sgth, S?lh, ()Zd, 6333
&4th, 71, two Batwilions. _
2 Battalions in Jamaica, viz. theist and gth Bat’
talions of the Goh.
t Battalion in Antigea, viz. the 2d Battalion of
the Hoth,
1 Battalion in Grenades, viz. the 3d Battzlion of
the Goth, "
z Repiments in Misorca, viz. the glft and 614,
4 Regimznt in Gibrakar, viz. the 12ib, jsqib,
§oth, acd §B¢h,
9 Regiments in T elarnd, via. the 3d, 11th, 19%h,
goth, 327, 36:h, 66th, 67th, and 68. '
17 Regiments in Britain, viz the Ift of 18, the 2d
of Ift, zd, 13th, 218, 25:h, 48th, ;oah: sGth, 75th,
€gth, yoih, 411, or Invalids. Ina:l 70
Extrai? of aletter from Morris Town, dated Feb. 1,
January 25th. A Corporal of the Guards defert
%g%d to vs. ;
. % 25th, Twy Dragoons were killed, #nd one of 13d
deserted.
© a7th, One of 71t and cne Ranger were taken,
" 28th. Two Highlaatiers were taken.
£g'h. A Serjeant-Major of 3d Pattelion of 7:it
deleried, |
goth. Seven Highlanders were taken. 3
gl(t. A Se:jcant of 42d deserted.
* In this thort detail, I include none wlio have
deserted over to, or been takken by the detachment
‘gnder Genera: Putnam, who commands at Prince
gown - from the deserters & prisoners we are inform
ed, thst their army which now lies at Amboy and
Brunswick, are totally depriv'd of freth previfion—
that their allowaiea of (alt 13 only 4 ib. of bzef, and
4 b, of bread, with 2 guart of rum to {ix per day~—
that they are badly paid—that the'r duty is excifiive
kard, owing to. the [requent 2larms, which our ad
- vanced pariies give them—that forage is very fearce,
-#~d that thelr fizuation is extremely disagreeable. ——--
The Biiufh army at present are so circum/leribed,that
Gen. Howe must son ¢ither quit the Jerseys intirely
or malte a vigorovs pulh.~~the lauer it is thowght he
will do when joined by Clinten and Peircy, who we
hear have 28t Rywode llapd ¢ T hope our recruits will
pet ia virae enough, to pievent Gen. How's getting
{o far into the Couzrry as he has done thoogh since
drove back,’
The follawing detail f thy examist force this avay may
got be unjfatiifalliry y we hawe it from a viry intel-
Vigent fericant whs deserted from their army @ few
dayr age . ,
: ; Twops at Branfwick.,
B ranadiers, 1400
Light Isfontry, 1400 } §oo
Melio» Greuadiers, | 700 e
T A & Brwfwick Ludding. .
g Regineals of goords, ey
‘» Buxader, gth, 23. h, 49%h, and g7°a- } 1500
monning 10, oeE ¥
A Booooy -At Uilspequa. .l
g 4 or Highlsad warch 7&{ - A
ng Tows, 334 303, & 71} jou wn} Iyon
Reinforcements early Ihis Yeav,is confirmed by
Accounts from otber Quariers.—--The Advice
& the above Letter is timely given, and it is
Boped will be timely applied.——=lf any of the
Warks for the Defence of the Harbour are un-
Frnifbed or su)céfary Supplies wanted, #o Time
4540 beloft. Neither the Severity of theWinter,
wor Rain, sor Smows, binder our Brethren at
the Soutbward from doing Business. Tbhey dig,
dbey march, they fight. A Word to the Wife is
Jufhcient.
Tbe following is @ true State of the Farces ander G:a
Howe, taken February 4 1777 ; brough: by a Gen
tleman nwbo lately made bis Escape from Niaw-York,
Britith from Halifax, 7,500
King’s Guards, 1,076
Cliston's from Caroling 4.600
Highlanders, 2.000
" Hefliane, 8000 -
Waldeckers from Quebeé, 450
Recruits from Germaony and freland; 1.000
New-Levies in America; 2,000
, — 25,626
DDOC3 3 0 W,
Highlanders taken, 1 050
Unfit f&- Duty, 2.500
Loft in Jetley, 2,800
Loft by different Bogagemeats & Sick. 3.000
fa Rhode-ll{land, § 000
In New-York, 2,000
On Long-I{land, 800
On Staien-Ifland, 300
e [ 7.400
Whole Number, 25,626
Dedacttion, £7,400
FOR LT SEMOUTH
Last Wednesday the Armed Sloop Satisfa®ian, John
Stevens Commander, sent into Falmouth Harbour a
large Prize Ship, from:London, bound to Confiznti
nople : She was taken off the Rocks of Lifbon—ier
Loadiagis Tin Alum, Pepper, Indgo, Bail Goods,
’and Do&or’s Drugs: Shé is 8 very valuable Prize, 7
We hear the famous Capt. John Shepard, who!
made his Escape out of Exeter Goal last Week, and
for whom an hundred Dollari Reward was offered for
taking him up, is now fafely convey’'d to the above
Place. |
v 3 The Boston POST leaves the Post Office every
Tuesday Morning at Nine o'Clock. The Falmouth
POST every Saturday Morning ; asd both return on
Uridays. Office Hours Fridays in the Afterncon,
and Saturdays in the Foienoon.
7 On Account of anocher new Regalation of the
Post Riders, this Paper will be publithed on Saturdays
about 1z oo'Clock before Noon, with the most mate
rial News that arrives by both Pofte, reserving the
other of less Consequence to the next Paper; also the
Pieces of Amusement, Specualation, &c. unless some
vary ex'raordinary Intelligence should arrive by Ex.
press or otherwise, ( as may be daily expelled, as the
whole of the United [ndependent States are now in
Arras, and determin'd to make a wigorous Puth, and
not be subjected to any one Power on Earth !
B O 8 T O N, Mack 6, 1779,
t% A Letter from an Officer of D:ltintiondated
tlzad Quarters, Morris-Town, Febroary z¢, 1577,
reccived late last Evening, fays :— [ must inform
you that on Sunday last, about 1000 of the Ecemy,
that came out 0a a Foraging Party, were attacked by
a few of our troops, who retreated a little Way, aad
were {oon reinforced to the Number of 400, when a
heavy Fire began with Cannon and Small Arms ; the
Enemy were drove into Brunswick ; their Loss of kijl
sd aad wounded, very great; the Country People
{ly, they earried 7 Waggons & a Cart Load of them
in ; v 1 left on the Field ; 7 taken Prisoners last nignt ;
four Heffrans taken ; our Loss 3 killed, and ¢ woun
ded : Our Succeffss exceed Delcripiion.™
Captain Brown, in the Privateer Boftor, of this Pere,
has taken and sent into North-Carolina, a Ship and
Schooner, from Guinea, with Negroes, boand to the
Weft-Indies ;He tock allo a large 3 Deck Ship,
laden with Rum and Sugar, from the Wcft-ladies,
bound t 2 London. ,
Capt. Pirkham,in a brig frem London, bound
te St. Augufline, en khis passage put into St. Mar
tin's, on some business ;—————the =4l on board
cloathing for a regiment of {oldiers, military stored &
dry goods ;g&'., the whole farritre, plate, &c. of
-the governor of St. Augeftine, & {everal pentlumen,
paflengers ; who, being sfhore one evening, Capi.
Pinkham weighed anchor, and food to Sea, and is
fafe arrived at North-Carclira. '
We hear that the Hen, Major Geaeral LEE has
been wied by a Geaeral Conrt Martial at New-Ys k,
for Delertion from the Britith Army, and hoserably
ascquitted. Itis {aid ke w now en Al Paralc of Hen
sw i that Chy,
At Ambof: s
Waldeckars, ons brigade, §oe ’
6ih brigade, consisting of Iyth, 40th, 55th, } 1650
70th, 1050 }
Oa Staten Island.
7th and 56th mostly without arms, |
being lately exchinged, fay, §Qo } e
At New-York.
The sth brigade, 67z }
One Heflizn brigade, 700 1432
And 6o light hotfe. 60
DRy
‘ Total. 10282
Exiraftof a Leiter from Morriftown,New Fer
fey, Feb. 1%,%1377, _
““ The enemy have retired to Brunswick and
Amboy, where they are jo narrowly watched by
our People, that they cannst get the least forrage
wilthout fighting for it. In these fkirmifbes,we
hawe, for the mo/t par?, got the beiter of them ; [o
that they do net venture out now, in left bodies
than 12 or t 3 hundred men.—Our army are in
goed /pivits, and arve grewing better every day.
The Southern troops begin tocomein, and if the
New- England States cxert themselves in fending
their's ferward, I think there will be a geod
chance of firiking abold fivoke. —This winter’s
campaign has been of-infinite service to our cauye;
and 1 liek upom our fueccefs as an earnyt of the
blessings which a kind providence has in flore fora
much injured people. IVhat the event of the next
campaign will be is uncertain, but if we get eur
army together early, it will be one flep towards
bringing it to a happy clofe.—~By advices from
England, a war witk France and Spain [cems
almost inctitable : [hould this take place, fare~
well to the pride and tyranny of Great-Britain.
A few days since a company of wolunteers, head
ed by the Parson of the Parifb, a churchman,
came in from Virginia : I mention thiy as an
instance, that there are some exceptions to that
almost general rule,that churchmen are fories.”
Rxev2& of & Letfer from an Oficer of Difiin&tfofy
in the Continental Army, dated Peck's Kill,
Feb. xr, 1779, :
“ The two Regiments from the County of Wors
cefter, I lefi lak Week 2t a Place called Boundßraok;
five Miles from Brunswick, where layed about five
or fix Thousand of the Ervemy ; General Wainer
was well and in good Spirits, and so ®as all cur Mewg
the rest of the Maflachufeus Militia, ‘with Genera]
Lincoln, are now crossing the River for the Jerfiza -
The Enemy lay intirely flill, excepting Foraging Par
ties, which they fend out once or twide a Week; who
have always beea dogged back again, with Loss, -
They heve, according to the beit Accounts, loft firce
Christmas Day,or the Batile of Trenton, Four Thou
{fand Men, killed and taken P:ifoners ; and with
fmsll Loss on our Side, that some R 0 fay (hiny,
and none more than forty. The Teties i the leifieg
are txking the Advantage of General Wifhinoion’s
Proclamation, and delivering up their Protettion: &o.
Itis {aid thele two Governma=nts were never Arndr in
the Interef of America, than at this Mom nn"
Froms the Crafifman, or Say’s [ Britiz ] JOURNAL
Extral? of a letter from a Merchant at Bairbaces Seer 8
“ The Ranger, a privateer biig of 16 guns, sized
out here to cruize againfl the Americaas, has bro. ght
into Carlifle Bay an American armed {ihooneref ien
carrizge guns, from Brell, bownd 10 Philadelphia, on
board of which were found several leiters, 2monp
others was one addrefled to the Hon. | hn [lancser,
Elq; from one Mr. Hamtlton, an American Gepile:
man, who has be¢n some time at the Conit of Vers
{ailes, I jult had a fight cf it, cannot remember tha
perticulars, but have as neas as poflible, foat you the
contents, which are #s follows,
“ §ir, I have the bappinefsto acgmaint you, thag
yeumay iffare the Congrels, that the trench Minifry
perfeétly acquieflce with ihe proposals which Mofi-s.
Needham, Guasirg, and myfelf, had the honour to
lay before them. 'They have sent otders for s number
of ships of war (o be fitted for sea witl: allpoflible ¢if
patch ; and a frong squadron will certainly fa'l f-om
Brest tor Philddeiphia £atly in the menth of Novem
ber ; & they will also have a very formidabi: fqna.
dron, two bombs and a fire ship ready again® {pring,
which they intend to fend to Quebec.
Signed, FRED. HAMILTON.”
Extra® of a lstier frors He m:,":w'g,tf', Qdekher 16,
* The great intimacy which now subsists betwean
the Cosrts of Vienna, Verlailles and Madrid, cae
nave no less a tendency than to overthrow the present
{yfler and ba'lance of Europa. We are s{lured from
ihe befl authority (hat within these ten or twelye days
a very extranidinary treaty was fertled between Au
stria, Frarce and Spain; and the Count de Breieulle,
the French Ambeflador at the Coirt of Vienna, fe
out from latter place to Paris but a few days ago, with
the new treaty signed by the Emperer and Empress
Queen. It is & matter of fafl, that orders have just
been iflued from the Cour: of Vienra tothe respec
tive arsenals, to calt sem thou/and pieces of cannon, of
different sizes. It would be right down madnels to
suppose that all this is a 2 matter of mere {peculation,
and that Europe can long enjoy peace.”
¥ 1§ H«K 1 L L, Febmary 27y
Exteaét es a letier from an officer at Morris-Town,
dated February 21,
“ ¥ have the pleasure to acquaint you, that a few
dsps ago a party of Geperal Putnam’s division, at- '
tacked and defcated a party of Tory soldiers, in Mun
mouth, killed 2 number, & took about 40, with thei¢
arms, and cne Maior Stockton, an idfamous Tory,
who sommanded them. [7he sbiwe Major Stockton;
is the identical wilain that betrayed bis Excellency Geny
L E E into the bands of the enimy.} e
Extra® of a lezter fram Morris-Town, February 25,
“ The zoth inst four Heflan and two ¥ricith fol
disrs came over 1o us, Yeflerday v 2 Tories and one
Englith Captain, were brought to Head-Quarters,
This motnir® we have teceived an account of 12
of the encimy’s light horse being taken, by ovr brave
and vigilant {couts. A French veflel is jult arrived
a2t Philzdelphia, but no news has ss yet transpired.”
H. 4 R T PO R D: Math 3
We hear that Major Roge:s, commander of 2 pack
of infamous Tories stationed at Kingfbridg has lately
been brole by order of General Howe. for alting g
part corfiftert with himfelf ; and that Major Frenchy
late prisoner of war, in this town, fucceds kim in
commsrd on that station. -
PROVIDENCE, March 1.
Friday {e’'nmight a Party of our Troops landed on
Rhoce [{land, and brought off a Quantity of Hay and
Oatr, Capt. Tyler, in the Spitfire Galley, attended
the Landing, and gallzntly fultained the Enemy’s Fire
from a Battery of fix Guns, for several Hours, whick
was briskly returned, bat with what Effelt we have
nce yet learnt. When the Troops hzd compleated:
ihe Se vice aflign’d them,theSpitfire drew off; The was
cenfiderzbly damaged in her Hell end Rigpirg, and
had fevern Men v cunded. oae of them mortaily,
" NEW-HAVEN, Feb. 26.
© We hear that two Privarecrs of considerable Force,
have beenla'ely sited oat at Martinico, and manned
with Frenchmen, but- oflicered with Subjeéis of the
Usiied States, who are commiflioned by Congress,
On Szturday 122 2 small Flag Veflel arrived frem
Nev-York, with shirts and Stockirgs, for the Prifamy
@3 ia thie State, tekeg at Privcoica tho gd iy,