The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1778-12-02 00:00:00, page 2

and are commanded to' burn the city of New-York
and Newport upon their departure.---That certain
intelligence had been received at New-Yorli that
Dominica, Montferat, Nevis, St. Kitts and Antigua
are in the possession of France.---That all the prifonefs
on Rhode-ifland are removed from the provost's on
board prison ships, one of which is rigged, the other
has her yard atha'ut and topmasts launched. Since
the above orders, the tories are officious to fend pro
visions and comforts to the American prisoners.
The crew belonging to the Somerset of 64 guns,
lately drove ashore near Cape-Cod, arrived here on
Saturday last.
Nov. 19. A letter from an officer of diftinaion,
dated at Providence, November 17,1778, fays, "Ad
miral Byron's fleet, or rather a part of it, is in New-
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 3.
q^HE plague is now spread throughout Conftanti
-1 nople and its environs, which occasions a very
great desertion among the Christian inhabitants, and
even among the Turks. Many Blips in the harbour
are infested, in which number are two French, one
Venitian, and one Ragufean. By the belt accounts,
the number of burials have feme days amounted to
nearly one thousand.
port ; some empty transports are arrived, and there is
great appearance of a speedy evacuation. Yesterday
a^arge difmafted ship came into the harbour, suppos
ed-to be of 74 guns. A very heavy firing was heard
at sea the 13th, which lasted seven hours.
Such is the general difeontent of the convention
Notwithstanding what may be said by the minifte
rialifts, it is a fadt, and cannot be contradicted, that
the camps on Warley common and Coxheath, tho'
they consist of sixteen thousand men, could not, if
there was a necessity, turn out fix thousand stand of
arms fit for service. Every regiment (not Lord
Pembroke's cavalry excepted) complain of their
firelocks. This complaint is the more alarming, as
government cannot supply the army with any other
arms than what they get by contrast from Dutch
merchants at Amsterdam ; and it is notorious that
the arms manufactured in Holland are of a very in
ferior quality to those made in England, as well in
materials as the workmanship.
August 4, It is reported at the Weft end of the
town, that M. de Sartine has sent fix ships of the
line to meet our East-India fleet, under the command
of M. de Rofiere, to convey them frefh news from
Europe. May Heaven preserve them from such a
meeting, which would most undoubtedly return us
very melancholy accounts from our India trade.
The Swift, Park, from Newfoundland to Barba
does, is taken by an American privateer, 4 leagues
off Barbadoes, and carried into Martinico.
August 6. A vessel was dispatched express to Lord
Howe on Sunday last, supposed to contain orders
relative to the removal of the army, and what is to
be their destination, it having been determined in
council, so far back as the beginning of last March,
to evacuate Ne^v-fork.
A Gentleman who arrived here a few days ago from
St. Croix, reports that they had an account at that
place, that the French had attacked Monferrat and
had been repulsed ; he also reports that the cruizers
and privateers from the British Islands in the Weft-
Indies were very numerous, and fuffered scarcely any
thing to escape them.
There is a report, said to come from Rhode-Ifland,
that there has been another action between Count D'
Orvilliers and Admiral Keppel, without any material
advantage on either fide ; and that the Spaniards had
made an unexpected and vigorous attack at Gibralter.
As it is certain that the Brest fleet put to sea a second
time on the 16th of August last, and the British failed
about the fame time, and by the last accounts there
was no abatement in the military preparations of
Spain, we have been daily expecting some authentic
and important tidings.
The troops of convention, who began their march
from Cambridge and Rutland, on Monday last, for
the Southward, have been disappointed, it is said,
of the money as well as the provisions they had a
right to expe& from the British Commander at New-
York, insomuch that the Generals Philips and Redei
fel, have been obliged to pledge themselves as homa
ges for the payment of the bills drawn for the neces
sary support of these troops and their officers. —
[Whoever considers the late and present drains on the
boasted purse of Britain, quhicb her madness increases
every day, cannot wonder to find that it now grows
low.]
troops which marched from Cambridge and Rutland,
for Virginia, the last week, that numbers have left
them on their march, and returned to Cambridge,
determined, as no provision has of late been made
'for them, to fcek it wpere it may be found.
August 18. Accounts from France, by yesterday's
mail, fay, that the Toulon fleet, since its failing, has
taken four of our Levant nips, worth 100,cool,
sterling, and carried them fate into port.
By intelligence that may be depended upon from
Rhode-inland, it appears that Admiral Byron's fleet
failed from New-York the firft week in this month,
with upwards of 100 fail of tranfpprts, having troops
on board, and generally supposed to be bound to the
Weft-Indies. —That the enemy's remaining force
have orders to evacuate New-York and Rhode-ifland,
BOSTO N, November 16.
LONDO N, July 30.
POUGHKEEPSIE, Nov. 23.
By accounts, tho' not circumstantial, from the
northward, the enemy have struck us in that quarter
another blow, which they had long threatened, and
we had reason to expect, but seem to have made no
more advantage of the intimations than if we had
heard nothing at all of the matter.—A body of the
enemy, confiding of about 700 Savages and Tories,
under the command of Brant and Butler, with a com
pany of British soldiers came down to Cherry-Valley,
which they entirely destroyed, massacred several of
the inhabitans, men, women and children indiferi
minately, with Col. Alden, of the Continental'Army,
some officers and privates of his regiment ; and made
prisoners of Lieut. Col. Stacey (of the fame regi
ment) with a number of the inhabitants, men and
women, whom they carried off with them, after
having invested and attacked Fort Alden, (a small
picket fort in Cherry-Valley) without effect.
On Thuriday nightlaft, in consequence of a pro
clamation of the legislature of this State, the notorious
Claudius Smith, was brought to town and strongly
secured in gaol, together with a man found in his
company, and supposed to be we of his associates.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.
On Friday arrived in this port Capt. Martin, in a
letter of marque schooner, from the island of St.
Croix, which he left the 28th of October : On the
7th of November he spoke a sloop from Georgia,
bound to St. Euftatia, out 8 days: On the 9th he
fpokea schooner from N.York for St. Auguftine,which
had failed in company with a fleet of 119 fail, with
5000 troops on board, bound to the Britiih Weft-
India Islands ; this prize is daily expected. Captain
Martin brought a cargo of rum and wine.
Monday morning came into this port the letter of
marque brigantine Lady Gates, Captain M'Norton,
in three weeks from St. Euftatia, with a valuable
cargo of dry goods, &c,
And on Tuesday afternoon arrived the brigantines
Morning Star, Capt. Symonds, and Industry, Capt.
Curvin, letters of marque, from St. Euftatia. The
Industry's cargo consists chiefly of rum ; the Morn
ing Star has brought 1700 bushels of salt, with a
quantity of rum, &c.—Near the Capes of Delaware
Capt. Curvin saw a 50 gun ship standing out to sea,
he thinks after a chafe.
Beside the above, eleven fail of vessels left St.
Euftatia, bound to different ports in these States ;
one more is expected in here.
By these vessels we learn, that a large quantity of
provisions had arrived at Antigua from England, for
the use of the forces expeded there from America ;
barracks were also building at Barbadoes for the re
ception of troops. Engliili gentlemen with their
families and property were daily arriving at St. Eu
ftatia from St. Chriftophers, which, it was thought,
would shortly be taken by the French troops at Mar
tinique.
Ten thousand French troops are assembled at Mar
tinique, where they wait the arrival of a fleet of 15
fail of the line from Toulon ; these, when joined by
the Count d'Estaing, will make up an armament su
perior to that of the Britifli in the Weft-Indies, and
we may daily expert to hear of the most important
events from that quarter.
Before the above vessels came away a Dutch vessel
had arrived at St. Euftatia, which on the 28th of
September last fell in with the French fleet, consisting
of 33 fail of the line, making towards the channel of
England, and the next day in the mouth of the chan
nel he spoke with the British fleet of 9 fail of the line,
who were to be joined by 21 fail more, and that
both the fleets expected soon to meet, when, it was
expected a decisive , action would ensue.
A gentleman who came paflenger in the Industry,
and who left England the 15th of July, assures us
that it was commonly talked of as a matter of fa&,
thas new Commissioners were to be appointed on the
part of England, to come to America; that their
powers were also to be new, one of which was to
acknowledge the independency of these States ; and
to make the best terms they could.—Although such
a measure would be the most politic that Britain could
at this time think of, yet there is reason to believe
her infatuated counfellors may go on, nor hop till
their folly and wickedness lead them to compleat
deftruaion.
Extract of a letter from a feady friend to America
at the Hague, dated August 19, 1778.
" We have just received a confirmation of the news
that a corps of Austrians were cut off in Bohemia by
an hardy march of the army of Prince Henry of Pru ffia:
Besides what the former loft in the action, 30 officers
and I^oo non-commissioned officers and privates wyre
made prisoners ; most of them of the regiments Geif
tugg and Caprara. Three cannon and three flandards
were taken. The glory of the plan of this march,
which connoisseurs admire, belongs to Prince Henry;
that of the execution, in forcing abbatis and entrench
ments, to Lieutenant General Belling. What
heightens it more is, that the famous General I.au
don, who distinguished himfelf so much last war, was
obliged to retreat with his whole army.
" The English, after all their bonfires, chimes, &c.
begin to difeover that the naval combat near Uihant
was not to their advantage. Mr. Franklin has been
pleased to fend me a Pennsylvania Gazette, of which
I hastened to avail myfelf in our papers, as you will
fee by that of Leyden, which accompanies this. We
admire the dignity of his Excellency the President's
anfwer,—the Roman auflority of W. H. D's— the
well supported irony and Attic salt in the letter of
An American to the Britifli Commissioners. I will
publilh this piece in Dutch and French : It is maflerlv
and will make an impression. y
" We expert with impatience to learn your treat
ment of the enemy on their retreat, and likewise
the arrival of Count d'Estaing."
Copy of a letter from the fame Gentleman to an emi
nent person in another city of Holland, dated "fulv
27,1773. J
SIR,
Being charged by the Plenipotentiaries of the Uni
ted States of America to transmit you the annexed
copy of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce, con
cluded between France and the said States, with the
alliances of the lugheft esteem and consideration
which they have for you in particular, and for the
honorable members of the regency of your citv in
general; I acquit rnyfelf of these orders with all
the fatisfadion and eagerness which, are dictated by
my refpedful devotion to the interims of that State.
The Plenipotentiaries request you, Sir, not to com?
municate this Treaty in iuch a manner as that any
copies may get abroad, until they haye given me
notice that they may be published, and put into
every body's hands. I carried a similar copy this
morning to Mr. , with the fame request. I add
a Proclamation of Congress, which I have just re
ceived, and the communication of which I think
will give you pleasure: It will appear in the Gazettes
' n F renc h and Dutch, and must give as much fatis
fadtion to all the maritime powers, as it does honor
to the equity and wisdom of Congress.
[The answer to the foregoing letter to be in our next.l
Dec. I. By a gentleman from New-York we learn,
that a few days ago the baggage of the British com
missioners (Lord Carhflc and Mr. Eden) was put on
board the Roebuck man of war of 44 guns, in which
they were shortly to embark for England, as it is said,
in a most violent pet.
Whereas great publick injury arises from the pre
sent purchafcs of wheat in the forage department:
Refolded, 1 hat lor the future 110 wheat be purchas
ed for forage by any person for the use of the United
States, unless Congress shall order otherways.
Extract from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
All Printers are desired to insert the above, and con
tinue it in their news-papers.
T RENT ON, December 2.
We hear from Bafkinridge, in Somerset county,
that the inhabitants of that neighbourhood, and those
of the most adjacent parts of Morris County, have
fallen upon a method to detect horse thieves and
robbers ; for this purpose they have chosen a Com
mittee, who have appointed a number of men well
acquainted with those parts, and properly equiped,
to scour every part of the country, which will make
it difficult for those villians in future to make their
escape from publick justice.
We hear that Col. Ward, Muster-Master General,
and Lieut. Col. Bradford, Deputy-Mutter-Master
General, were on Friday night last kidnapped, while
in bed, by a number of Tories, at Kakiate, near the
North-River, who carried them to the enemy, in the
city of New-York.
Inconveniencics in the present Constitution and
form of government of the State of Pennsylvania
having been complained of by many of the inhabi
tants, the General Assembly of the said State,, at the
instance of all parties, have unanimously resolved.
That the sense of the people be taken by ballot, on the
firft Tuesday in April next, whether the present con
stitution be confirmed, or a 'Convention called for
framing a new one, or amending that now in force.
Somerset County, Odlober 21, 1778.
XT OTICE is hereby given, that inquisitions have
been found against David White, Bernardus Le
grange, Joseph Arrofmith, George Rodney, Richard
Chmpton, jun. and John Smith, for joining the army
ofthe King of Great- Britain ; which inquisitions were
returned to the last Court of Common Pleas, holder
at Hillfborough, in and for the county of Somerset.
And upon proclamation being made no person ap
peared to traverse the fame,
FRED. FRELINGHUYSEN, Commissioner.
~T" O BE SO L D,
By Public Vendue, at Croffwicks, Burlington
County, upon Saturday, the sth current,
A Number of COWS and STEERS, fit either
for present killing or keeping.
rw§ JOHN TAGGART.
GA ME to Long-Bridge farm, about the 4th No
vember last, a dark brown MARE, about 14
hands high, and has white hind sect. The owner
is desired to come, prove property, pay charges, and
take her away.
_iw§ THOMAS WETHERILL.
CA ME to the plantation of the fubfenber, in
Springfield township, Burlington county, State
of N. Jersey, about the end of July last, a large pide
BULI,, supposed to be four or live years old, with
out brand or ear mark. The owner is desired tc
come, prove his property, pay charges and take him
away, or he will be fold for the fame.
Nov. I, 1778. JOSEPH BIDDLE.
In CONGRES S, OHober 26, 1778.