The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1782-07-24 00:00:00, page 2

A few days ago, a New-England brig, outward
bound from Alexandria, commanded by Captain
Simmons, was attacked, with great vigour, by two
of the enemy's barges, near the mouth of Potomack.
After a desperate conflict, the assailants were re
pulfedf with the loss of between twenty and thirty
men killed and wounded, eighteen of whom, it is
asserted, were buried on an adjacent island. The
Captain and the people of the brig behaved, on this
occasion, with a bravery that hath deservedly gain
ed them the applause of all who have heard of their
gallant defence, which was attended with many
singularly heroick exploits, the particulars of which
we have not yet obtained.
On the eighth instant the schooner Greyhound, a
beautiful boat, laden with salt, peas, pork, bacon,
and some dry goods, &c. the property of Messrs.
PROVIDENCE, June 29.
On Thursday Captain Mowry Potter, in a (loop,
arrived here from Gaudaloupe, after a passage of
25 days.
We learn that a privateer schooner, belonging
to New-York, which accompanied the enemy's fleet
into the Eastern found, is taken by the brave Ma
jor Dimeck, of Falmouth. The schooner had quit
ted the fleet to cruize in Boston bay, where she
captured two vessels from the Weft-Indies, which
were retaken by a letter of marque. The priva
teer afterwards cruized off Nantucket, of which
Major Dimeck being apprized, he embarked at
Falmouth in a whaleboat, with fourteen men, and
landed at Nantucket, where, quitting the whale
boat, he re-embarked with his crew in a small
wood-vessel, boarded the schooner as she lay at an
chor off Nantucket bar, and carried her in a few
minutes without lols, although her crew confined
of 29 men. The Captain of the privateer we hear
is badly wounded.
A Hoop from New-York, bound to the Weft-In
dies, is taken by the Randolph Privateer, and car
ried into New-London.
A small schooner from New-York, laden with
flour, is also arrived at New-London, prize to the
NEW-LONDON, June 21. ,
We are informed that Sir Guy Carleton has vi
sited all the prison-ships at New-York, minutely
examined into the situation of the prisoners, and
expressed his intentions of having them better pro
vided for: That they were to be landed on Black
well's Island, in New-York harbour in the day
time, during the hot season.
July 12. Monday evening the brig Hancock,
Captain Champlin, returned from a cruize, having
been closely chafed by two ships, but by throwing
over three guns, and starting her water, she got
clear.
The brig Enterprize, of twelve guns, and fifty
men, the Olive-Branch, of 140 tons, having on
board a valuable cargo, a letter of marque brig of
14 guns, 200 tons burthen, with a cargo of lalt,
&c. are all taken and carried into Eastern ports.
The sloop Fox, Samuel Howel, master, of this
port, from the Weft-Indies, has been taken by the
enemy, and re-taken by a Salem privateer, and car
ried into an Eastern port.
BALTIMORE, July 9 .
" There was captured, a few days ago, by the
militia, at the mouth of Edifto river, a schooner,
bound from Charleftown to Savannah, with offi
cers clothing, &c. to the amount of £. 7,000
sterling."
July 16. On Saturday last the schooner Somer
set and Felicity, of this port, the former command
ed by Captain Jones, and the latter by Captain
Wing, arrived here in 16 days from St. Crpix. By
these vessels we learn, that it was reported and be
lieved at St. Croix, that the States-General of the
United Provinces had acknowledged the inde
pendence of the American States, and had, on the
29th of April, received Mr. Adams as their Am
bassador. That a Dutch squadron had captured,
in the North-seas, a British ship, of 74 guns, a
sloop of war, a cutter, and a number of transports
with Hessian recruits for the British service, and
had carried the whole of them into a port in Nor
way.
were escaped. Not finding the General, and per
ceiving the inhabitants muttering to arms, they fled
with precipitation, and in their retreat they found
a son of the General's, whom they carried with
them. Early next morning, passing through Co
rinth, they dragged several people out of their
beds, whom they obliged to take an oath of neu
trality, till exchanged.
NEW-HAVEN, July 11.
Furnival and Gerock, of this town, was taken in
Hooper's ftreights (in Chesapeake) by that notori
ous renegado-pirate, Joe Whaland. The prize was
sent to New-York, but Mr. Furnival (who was
unluckily on board) the dripper and hands were set
on shore at a place called Dan Quarter, near De
vil's Isle, after being detained 24 hours on board
the barge, during which time Mr. Furnival was
plundered of his money, watch, hat, and indeed
every thing that the thieves could lay their hands
on. Mr. Furnival saw several other bay-craft fall
into the fangs of the fame vultures, before he was
released. One Timmons (two of whose brothers
were executed, some time ago, on the eastern shore)
was Whaland's Lieutenant.
On the loth ult. the ship marquis de la Fayette,
Captain Olney, from Providence, Rhode-lfland,
bound to this port, laden with rum, &c. was chaf
ed ashore by a Britilh frigate, off Currituck-Inlet,
where the vessel was loft, but the greatest part of
the cargo laved.
RICHMON D, July 6.
To His EXCELLENCY
The Count de ROCHAMBEA U,
Lieutenant-General, and Commander tin Chief of
the army of His Mod. Chriltian Majesty, in Vir
ginia :
The ADDRESS of the Mayor, Recorder, Alder
men and Common-Councilmen of the city of
Williamsburg.
SIR,
WE the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and
Common-Councilmen of the city of Willi
amsburg, wait upon your Excellency, for the last
time perhaps we shall have the opportunity now,
that the service no longer permits your stay here,
in order to pay our just tribute of gratitude for the
protection you have afforded us in your military ca
pacity, and to express the high fatisfaCtion we
feel from your conduct in the more private walks
of life, and the happiness we have derived from
the social, polite and very friendly intercourse, we
have been honoured with by yourfelf, and the offi
cers of the French army in general, during the
whole time of your residence among us.
We request your Excellency to communicate to
those gentlemen, these our most refpeCtful senti
ments, and with them to accept our warmest wish
es for the health and happiness of every individual
of the army, and our fond hope that the occasion
which now calls you from us (whatever it may be)
may crown you with glory, as bright as that whose
pursuit firft brought you to our acquaintance, and
whose effects are our quiet for the prelent, and in
some measure our security for the future. Accept
too, Sir, our devout with, that after having attain
ed the great object of your commission, you may
return to your native country, high in the favour
of your lovereign, and receive, as the just lewaid
of your atchievements, all the honours a patriotick
King can bestow.
Io the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Com
mon-Councilmen of the city of Williams
burg:
Gentlemen,
NO I HING can be more flattering to me than
to receive these personal marks of your ap
probation, and to find myfelf authorized to trans
mit the like to the troops which 1 have the ho
nour to command. Happy to serve my Sovereign
in giving effect to those noble and disinterested prin
ciples which attach him to the cause of America, I
feel an additional fatisfa&ion in having fought in
Virginia, under the auspices of a Virginian General,
whole glory, equally celebrated in both hemis
pheres, shines with particular luftre in his native
country. Necessary as i found it to separate my
felf from him in the very moment that our mutual
efforts had been crowned with the most brilliant
success, I could not, gentlemen, but be pleased
with the circumstances which have enabled me to
form with you an intimate connexion, a connexi
on wholly independent of the great objects of the
war, and of publick affairs. During the time I
have spent with' you, I have enjoyed these social
qualities by which the inhabitants of this great and
fiourilhing country are so eminently distinguished.
In this moment of our necessary separation, I can
have no greater consolation than to express to you,
not only my sensibility and my gratitude, but also
that of all the individuals who compose this corps
of troops, which you have cherished in your bo
soms, and which you have attached to your in
terests forever, by all the ties of reciprocal friend
fhip and good-will.
Lb Cte. De ROCHAMBEAU.
PHILADELPHIA, July i,
Extract of a letter from an officer in South-Caro
lina, dated May 13, to a gentleman in this city.
" Enclosed you have a copy of the proclamation
issued by the Governor of cur state, offering free
pardon to those of our deluded citizens now in the
Britilh lines, with a few exceptions. Since this,
sundry inhabitants have left Savannah, amongst
them are, Sir Patrick Houston, Mr. William Hou
ston (late from England) Major Douglass, and
others of less note, although they are expressly ex
cepted in the said proclamation.
“ Desertion yet prevails amongst the Hessians to
a ver y great degree: in order to encourage and fa
cilitate it, the Governor hath issued another pro
clamation, which is hourly expeCted to be receiv
ed, offering to every deserter two hundred acres of
land, one milch cow, and two breeding swine:
this has so effectually answered the purpose, that
they come off in great numbers. It is conjectured
by many, they will very Ihortly evacuate that post,
many negroes (the property of Sir James Right
and James Butler) having been seen removing by
water to Augustine, and other circumstances which
seem to corroborate and fix this idea beyond a
doubt."
STATE of GEORGIA.
By the Honourable JOHN MARTIN, Efqui%
Captain-General, Governor and Commander in
Chief of the said state.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS many of the citizens of this state,
from local situation or mistaken policy, have
been seduced from their allegiance, taken protecti
on from, and joined the arms of, the enemies of A
merica, who, now feeing their error, would wish
to return to their allegiance and attone for their
past conduct, by assisting their fellow-citizens to
rescue this country from British tyranny and op
preflion, an event that must inevitably take place :
from the united exertions of the continental and ci
ther troops assembled for that purpose. Moved
with compassion for this class of citizens, and being
always more inclined to forgive than to punish,
where it can be done consistent with the peace an
happiness of the people; I do therefore, by and
with the advice and consent of the Honourable tl
Executive Council, issue this my proclamation,
hereby offering full pardon and protection to all <5
tizens and others, fubjeCts of this state, now with
in the British lines, except those who have been
proscribed in a former bill of attainder, those who
have held or now hold any civil or military com
million under the crown of Great-Britain, all mur
dcrers, and those whose names are underwritten,
viz. Samuel Douglass, Thomas Gibbons, Davi
Zubly, junior, John Glen, Lachlan M'Gillivray.
John Fox, junior, Luke Man, Levi Sheftall, Na
thaniel Hall, Alexander Wright, Bazil Cou per,
John Smith, George Fox, George Cuthbert, Francia-
Coddington, David Delegall, Philip Delegah,
Christopher Frederick 1 ribrer, Jacob Blinle
James Pall, senior, Philip Dill, senior, Andrew
M'Lean, John Douglass, James Seymer and John
Charles Lucina, on condition, that he or they, on
or before the 15th day of March next, surrender
him or themselves to the Honourable Brigadier-
General Wayne, or the commanding officer for the
time being, and do duty in such corps as he shall
direct, until the enemy are compelled to abandon
this country, or made prisoners.
Given under my hand and the great feal 4
the said state, at Ebenezer, the twenT,
eth day of February, One Thousand Se
ven Hundred and Eighty-two, and in the
sixth year of the independence of Ame
rica.
JOHN MARTIN.
By his Honour's command,
Abraham, Jones, Secretary.
Extract of 2 letter, dated Head-Quarters, South-
Carolina, May 19, 1782.
" The state of Georgia has passed a bill, confis
cating more than three hundred estates. The fir' 1
sale of which is to commence in June; the terms 7
years credit; a mortgage of the land for landt
property, and personal security for personal pro
perty and the interest. They have also granted
General Greene 5000 and General Wayne 40c
guineas in land, &c."
An Ordinance for the better distribution of priz
es in certain cases.
BE it ordained by the United States in Con
gress assembled, that so much of the Ordi
nance, intitled, " An Ordinance, afeertaining what
captures on water shall be lawful," as ordains, that
upon the capture of a vessel commissioned as a mau