The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-09-03 00:00:00, page 1

BALTIMORE, August 28. ~
By a gentleman who arrived since our last, in a short pas
sage from the Weft-Indies, we are favoured with the Cork
Evening Post of the 17th June, from which we have ex
tracted the following articles, viz.
MADRI D, May 16.
THEY write from Lifbon,,that the weak and lan
guid condition of the King occasions some commo
tions at court. The noblemen attached to the
Queen want to confer on her the management of
affairs ;, whillt the Marquis de Pombal, and several grandees
are for placing the government in the hands of the Princess
of Brazil. Some politicians think that his Catholic Majesty
will support the right of the Queen of Portugal, his fitter ;
which the Portuguese seem indeed to exped, and are there
fore preparing against all events.
LONDON, June 10.
This day his Majesty reviewed, on Wimbleton common.
General Burgoyne's regiment of light dragoons, who are on
their march to Portsmouth, to embark for America.
Extract of a letter from Barbados, dated April 13, 1776.
" As great a hurry as I am in, it is impossible to let drop
my pen without touching upon the public calamities of our
country. Indeed it is, especially when I fee myfelf likely
to fall one of the firft vidims, or my poor slaves rather, to
the general Scarcity of provisions. We are upon our last hog
shead of half rotten beans, and have no other resource than
to some more than half rotten lhip corn, and the only corn to
be brought into any of the towns. Is this the way the Mini
stry are to come at conquest over the American rebels, thro'
the deftrudion of a set of the most loyal fubjeds in all the
King's dominion's? Almost !- ."
The following letter is said to have been sent to Gen. Howe
in America, from a member of the Council at New-York.
" Sir, New-York, May 11, 1776.
' " As I have not a doubt of my last letters to administra
tion convincing them that this city and province is the
only spot in America for carrying on the war with effed
against the rebels, and that in consequence the forces ex
peded this spring, as well as those now under your com
mand, will be ordered hither, it may be necessary and ad
vifeable to fend the army through the Sound, between Con
re&icut and Long-Island; of the latter it will be proper to
give a defcription—lt is one hundred and thirty miles long, is
very fertile, abounding in wheat and every other kind of corn,
innumerable black cattle, sheep, hogs, &c. isvery populous,
and Suffolk county in particular, as well as the other parts of
it, all good and loyal fubje&s, of which they have lately
given proof, and only wait to be assisted by the King's troops.
The ifl'and has a plain on it at least twenty-four miles long,
which has a fertile country about it, is twenty miles from the
city of New-York ; Connecticut oppofice to it; New-Jersey
about thirty miles distant; Philadelphia one hundred and ten,
Maryland one hundred and thirty; Rhode-Bland one hundred
and fifty miles ; so that in this fertile island the army can sub-
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1776.
435
A Few hoglheads of very good GENEVA to be fold by
Adam Zantzinger in Market-street, between Third
and Fourth streets, Philadelphia. *
CAME to the stable of the fubferiber on the twenty-firft
of this instant, a small GREY HORSE with a saddle.
The owner, proving property and paying charges, may have
him again. ELIJAH WEED.
Philad. August 28, 1776. *
WAS loft on Monday the second instant, about noon,
between this city and the four mile stone, on the
Wiffahickon road, a short KEY of an iron chest. Whoever
has found the lame, and will bring it to the printer, Ihall
have FOUR DOLLARS reward- . :
Philad. Sept. 3, 1776. 1
fift without any fuccour from Britain or Ireland, and in five
or fix days invade and reduce any of the above colonies at
pleasure. Add to these great advantages that the possession
of the Narrows, and Nutton island, would be the destruc
tion of this city, but of this I think there would be no need,
for all the principal inhabitants are a,t heart with the crown,
particularly all my brethren the members of the Assembly,
but as the mob now commands, prudence forbids them to
declare without a military force. You have many with you
who are well acquainted with the navigation of the Sound.
The spot which I advise you to land at is Cow bay.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 17.
A correspondent wishes some able hand would undertake
to describe Gen. Lee's march from Boston to Charleftown,
and would point out the remarkable circumstances of his
meeting Gen. Clinton at New-York the day he arrived there,
of his finding him in Hampton road when he came to Vir
ginia, of. Clinton's leaving Cape Fear just after his arrival
in North-Carolina, and of his unluckily meeting at fort Sul
livan. The world must hare an high opinion of General
Lee's activity. ,and vigilance, when they read of his march
of more than eleven hundred miles, and of the circum
stances attending it throughout; and Clinton himfelf must
look on Gen. Lee as his evil genius, thus haunting him
along a coast of such vast extent, and meeting him at lag
at Philippi.
Master Alexander Silvex, a little gentleman who was taken
at Norfolk, gathering strawberries in a garden, and dis
charged, and again taken at Gwyn's island in the sloop Lady
Charlotte tender, and who is said to be a relation of Capt.
Squire's, was put to school in this city by order of the Coun
cil, and is now very happily fituatedi
A letter from Hillfbofough, North Carolina, dated Au
gust theist, informs us that the Indians have committed some
outrages on the frontiers of that province, have put to death
many individuals, and murdered several families, but we
hope their career is, before this time, flopped by feme
thousands of the militia that were marching against them.
[Num. 253.
W. SMITH."