The New-Jersey gazette — Burlington [N.J.], 1783-03-12 00:00:00, page 2

PROVIDENCE, February 22.
Last Sunday afternoon a packet-boat from New
port, bound for this place, having freight on board
to a conliderable amount, was taken near the north
end of Prudence by a refugee boat from New-
York. Intelligence being received of this affair at
Newport, Captain Nicholas Webster, with seven
teen volunteers, embarked on board a small sloop,
and went in pursuit of the enemy, who next morn
ing perceiving her approach, and finding it impossi
ble to avoid her or gain the Sound, desired the
owner, Mr. Cahoon, to resume the command; the
packet (towing the armed boat) was accordingly
conduced to the south ferry at Narraganfet, when
the refugees, eight in number, got on shore, and
attempted to escape ; five of them were however
soon taken, and the others were lecured next day.
Great merit is due to Captain Webster and his
crew, as well as to the people on board another small
boat that put out from Newport, for the alacrity
and expedition with which they pursued the refu
gee plunderers.
A brig from Jamaica, laden with 180 puncheons
of rum, arrived at Newport on Monday last, prize
to the privateer General Rochambeau, Capt. Read,
who, it is said, has also taken a sloop laden with
wine.
Thursday evening Captain Daniel Aborn arrived
here, in seventeen days from Grenada. He failed
in company with the ship Hero, Capt. Trefetheren,
of Portsmouth, and parted with her on the Bth inst.
Captain Folger, in a brig from this port for Vir
ginia, was lately captured by an enemy's cruizer,
and re-taken by the General Greene privateer, of
Newport. The brig, in attempting to come into
Rhode-Ifland in a fog, was cast away at Point-Ju
dith on Wednesday last.
been torn up, and the ambassadors ordered to leave
Paris immediately; that the grenadiers of the regi
ment Armaniac had arrived at Baffaterre, Guada
loupe; they came out in the above frigate; they
were taken in the Ville de Paris. The Venus had
been detained several days at Cadiz, in order to
bring the news of a peace, but on the contrary,
brought out orders for the war to be prosecuted
with the utmost vigour.—The frigate failed about
the middle of December."
From the St. Lucia Gazette, dated January 25.
LONDO N.
White-Hall, December 5.
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of
London.
My Lord,
SINCE I had the honour to address your Lord
ship on the 23d ultimo, I have received the further
commands of his Majesty's Minister to acquaint your
Lordship, that an express has arrived this day from
France, with a certain account that the treaty be
twixt Great-Britain and the States of America was
signed at Paris, on the 30th of November.
I have the honour to be, &c.
T. TOWNSHEND.
Accounts from Martinico yesterday report, that
defpatches were received from the court of France,
by the Venus frigate, after a paflage of 21 days,
that a separate peace had absolutely taken place
betwixt Great-Britain and America, and that the
negociations between Great-Britain and France
were entirely broke off.
CHATHA M, March 5.
Friday the 21st ultimo, the French sloop L'Ami
able Catichette, from Guadaloupe for Virginia,
prize to his Britannick Majesty's cruizers, was
brought into Sandy-Hook, when she was re-taken
by the prisoners, who endeavoured to get her up
the found, but being strangers to the channel, tun
her aground the south fide of Staten-Island. Sup
poling it to be the main continent, the Captain
went ashore, and developed the whole matter to
the inhabitants, who made him prisoner, and plun
dered him of a large sum of money.—Necessary
steps were taken for securing the vessel and cargo,
but before it could be effected, the whale-boats
from Brunswick came down, and, after some re
fiftan.ee, re-captured the sloop, a gun-boat, and two
pettiaugers, which they conducted to Brunswick,
and are likely to prove a valuable acquisition to
those enterprizing heroes.
Accounts from the northward fay, that Colonel
Willet, who, some weeks since, left Albany with
500 volunteers, on a secret expedition, has, by a
coup de main, reduced the garrison of Ofwego, si
tuate on the south-east fide of Lake Ontario, and
three hundred miles from Albany.
By recent intelligence from New-York we learn,
that the provincial corps, or new levies, are to
be immediately disbanded; and those who choose to
go to the wilds of Nova-Scotia, or to the mountain
ous barren island of Newfoundland, where for
five or fix months in a year the earth is covered
with snow, will have vessels provided for them.
We also hear that upwards of seventy transports
are wooded and watered: It is supposed they will
carry off most of the troops.
We learn, from good authority, that the Spanish
squadron, consisting of 13 fail of the line, have
actually failed from the Havanna.—They are to
touch at Porto-Rico, take on board their army un
der General Galvez, and proceed with Admiral
de Solano to attack Jamaica.
BALTI M ORE, February 25.
Extract of a letter fiom St. Christopher's, dated
January 31, 1783.
" The talks of peace arc now, in some measure,
subsided, and though we have no later accounts
from England than the Bth of December, at that
time the negociations were still going forward at Pa
ris : —However, our Governor, Count Dillon, fays,
they are since broke off, and thA the Count d'E
staing is on his paflage to these inlands with 52 fail
of the line and 300 transports.—A short time will
discover how true this is."
From the ANTIGUA GAZETTE.
St. John's, January 22.
The Leander man of war, of 50 guns, Captain
Payne, has had a terrible engagement with a 74
gun ship, under Spanish colours, on Sunday last,
between this island and Guadaloupe :—they fought
one hour and 35 minutes, and parted under cloud
of night. The Leander is said to have received
some damage in her masts and rigging, has seven of
her men killed, and is put into English harbour
to refit.
From the St. Christopher Gazette.
Basseterre, January 25.
On Thursday last arrived here the ship Pilgrim,
Captain Baxter, from Oftend ; this vessel failed the
17th of December, and brings English papers as
low down as the 7th ; by what we can colled from
them, Mr. Strachey had arrived from Paris express,
with the important intelligence of the treaty of peace
being concluded the 30th of November; the Queen
Charlotte had arrived express from India, with Ad
miral Hughes's defpatches, by which it appears,
that he had had a second engagement with M. Suf
fiein, which ended exa&ly as the firft did, namely
a drawn battle; the force on both sides was in the
firft, 9 British to 12 French, and in the second, 11
British to 12 French.
We have just been credibly informed, that after
the treaty of peace had been agreed on by the dif
ferent ambassadors of the belligerent powers, the
States General refufed to accede to it, which en
tirely broke off the treaty; so that it is next to a
certainty that there will be at least another cam
paign.
Jan. 29. Yesterday was sent in here by the A
merican privateers Holker and Surprize, the pri
vateer schooner Lyon, Captain Gums, alias Fat,
of 10 four pounders : the belonged to Angulia.
On Saturday last arrived here the letter of marque
ship General Knox, Captain Filher, from Philadel
phia, loaded with flour.
Arrived also the American privateer ship Hunter,
from Salem, but last from Martinique.— i'his ship,
in company with the Grand lurk privateer, was
chafed by 4 British line of battle ships, and obliged
to throw her guns overboard.
Seven or eight armed barges, principally manned
by white and black refugees, are now cruizing, in
quest of plunder, in our bay, and have taken seve
ral small craft. —Amongst other depredations, a
party of these desperadoes landed, a few days ago,
from the notorious Joe Whaland's barge, and burnt
the dwelling-house, and other buildings, of Mr.
Benjamin Mackall, on Patuxent, in Calvert coun
ty, whole loss is estimated at £. 3000. —Since this
exploit, Whaland has been in chafe of his own fa
ther, who is arrived here, and thinks himfelf for
tunate in having escaped the horrid fangs of his
graceless renegado son.
March 4.
Extract of a letter from St. Croix, dated Janu
ary 16, 1783.
“ I have letters from London to the 2d of De
cember, and from the manoeuvres of Mr. Secretary
Townfhend, people were expecting a peace before
parliament met ; but I conceive his letter to the
PHILADELPHIA, March 5.
The Royal Gazette of March 1, has the following
extracts of letters, said to be found on board the
brig Prudent, bound from Cadiz to Philadelphia,
but captured by the Fair American and sent into
New-York.
From Quintin, Brothers, and Co. to Lacaze and
Mallet.
Cadiz, 21st Dec, 1782.
" The hopes that we had of an approaching
peace are vanished: Orders are come to accele
rate the departure of the expedition that has been
preparing in this port : —lt will consist of at least
50 men of war, and 12 to 15000 men. The Brest
divifon arrived here this day, and the departure of
the whole is fixed to the 15th of January." —
From John Mallet to his brother Michael Mallet.
Cadiz, 24th Dec. 1782.
" The Count d'Estaing animates the operations
going on here in luch a manner, that I make not
the least doubt his expedition will fail in January;
there will be five flrips of no guns ; it is not ex
actly afeertained, whether the number of the men
of war will be 50 or 55.
" We have some favourable accounts from the
Raft-Indies; our fleet, after three actions with that
cf Admiral Hughes, have forced a paflage into the
bay of I'rinquamale, the principal port in the island
of Ceylon, where they can winter—the English
hold firm pofTeffion of the principal fort—Mr. de
Buffy has sent from the Isle of France 2400 men,
with two new ships of war, to dislodge them —the
convoy are to stand for the Cape of Good Hope,
in order to pass with 8 or 10 thousand men, to the
coast of Coromandel, from whence they make no
doubt, but, with the assistance of their old friend,
Hyder Ally, to drive out the English entirely.
" It is said that the restitution of Gibraltar to
Spain, and the liberty for all nations to trade in
tiie indies, without either having any fortifications,
are the two points which have flopped the peace,
for the independence of America is no longer the
fubjed of contest."
Anotherletter dated December 24, fays, that the
Marquis Fayette had arrived at Cadiz, and was to
take the command of the land forces bound for the
Weft-Indies.
Saturday morning a refugee galley, called' the
Lady's Revenge, arrived here. She mounts a long
eighteen pounder and two large carronades, &c.
was taken near Duck-Creek by Captain Snyder,
commanding an armed schooner belonging to this
state. The galley was chafed ashore, and the crew
escaped, together with the crew of a small boat
called the Black Duck, which also came up on Sa
turday morning. These boats have lately been ve
ry mifehievous in our bay.
Sunday morning a flag brig arrived here from
Bermuda, with a number of prisoners taken in ves
sels belonging to different ports of America.
The resignation of the fuperintendant of finance
having occasioned mucli conversation, the printers
are happy in being able to furnifh their customers
with copies of Mr. Morris's letters on that fubjeT,
to Congress.
Lord Mayor ol London, calculated to frame the
King's speech aid facilitate means for railing more
supplies—it is 6 inconclusive. The great bone of'
contention, it is said, is Gibraltar, which the French
and Spaniards are struggling hard for; but it is
equally clear the English will not readily acquiesce
to relinquish it.
“ The Marquis de Bouille formed an expedition
against Antigua, a few days since, with a consider
able body of troops, but he narrowly escaped the
clutches of Admiral Pigot, and was obliged to re
turn without effecting any thing: This is all the
news I can give you from this quarter, for the
French fleet, expedited from Europe, is not yet ar
rived."
The American frigate Hague, Captain Manly,
it is laid, has been lately chafed ashore at Guada
loupe, by his Britannick Majesty's ship Dolphin.
1 he Hague, during her cruize, has taken 5 British
velTels, several of them very valuable.
The British sloop of war Raven, was captured
on the 17th of January, by the Refolue French
frigate, and carried into Martinique.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Suffolk,
Virginia, to another in this town, dated the
19th ult.
" A vessel is just arrived at Edenton, from Nantz,
fire failed the 25th of December. The Capt. re
ports, the preliminaries to a general peace were ac
tually signed—and that hostilities in those seas were
to cease in forty days from chriftmas."