The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-02-01 00:00:00, page 2

great support and success, if they fend him a proper force.
Among other things, it is said, he has promised to raise two
thousand men for the service of the ministry in Carolina. If
he has so much interest and influence in the province, why
did he run away from it ?
Sir Jeffery Amherst's peerage is at present suspended. The
ministry are aiming by every means, to bring that General to
take the command in America, but he will not do it, not
from scruples of cohfeieuce, but from repeatedly declaring,
and sincerely too, that the force to ad, is not confiderabie
enough to effect what is expected. Sir Jeffery is not let into
the secret of the intended demands to Parliament, beyond the
twenty-five thousand already voted ; the rewards to be given
him hereafter, will not, it is said, take place till the whole
arrangemement is fettled, and Sir. Jeffery approves and
accepts.
The Ministry have been most severely treated, upon their
imagining twenty-five thousand men Sufficient for the reduc-.
tion of America. This they readily submit to, rather than
open the rest of their plan sooner than it can possibly be
helped. This is their usual spirit of keeping Parliament as
ignorant as possible of their designs ; and reducing their bufi
ne§ to the mere matter of their votes..
Fraser's ragiment of Highlanders is to have one Colonel
Commandant, two Lieutenant Colonels, four Majors, and
two thousand privates. The several officers are to raise their
own men.
An old master of a ship out of employ obfervs, that the cus
tom-house quays are now quite neat and clean, no way in
cumbered with naval Stores, tobacco, oil, timber, pot-alh,
peltry, whalebone, rice, indigo, and other gross materials
from North-America ; nor are they cumbered up, as they used
to be, with numbeflefs bales, trunks, calks, cases, and every
other fort of package.of all kinds of. English manufactures for
that country; no, it is now quite otherwise; the quays are
as neat and clean as the parade, and the waiters and other
officers (having leisure time on their hands) Stand ready, and
obligingly run to deliver you a penny post letter, call you an
hackney coach,, or any other errand by which they have a
profpe& of getting a penny or two.
James Harris, Esq; his Majesty's minister at the court of
Berlin, arrived in London on Monday last. He had but four
days notice to fettle his affairs and leave that kingdom ; the
reason is not yet known, but it is conjectured his Prussian Ma
jesty intends making feme incursions into our German do
minions.
Yesterday the Right Hon. John Sawbridge, Lord Mayor of
this city, went in the city barge, accompanied by the late
Lord Mayor, and the different companies, in. their barges, by
water to Westminster, where he was sworn in at the Exche
quer bar, before the Curfitor Barons, and then returned to
Guildhall, where a very sumptuous entertainment was pro
vided.
The Duke of Gloucester is certainly dead ; the news is not
declared, that ministry may have time to fettle the disposal of
his places.
It is confidently asserted in the city, that the court of Por
tugal has entered into a treaty with the court of Spain, to
give the Spaniards all the assistance in their power, in case
they Should be at war with England: and, that the Spaniards
are to give them the like assistance, in case they ffiould be at
tacked by any European power. 3? .
Lord George Germaine, during the latter park pf the late
King's reign, was held in such a light, that, the courtiers even
refuted to pay him the compliments due to his rank; Lord
George is now a favourite at St. James's, and in the high
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read to preferment.— Tempos m^tarttur, et „„ m^am^r cum
illis. .
NEWPORT, January 15.
We mentioned, in our last, a sloop which had put off from
this town to carry a number of families up the river, with their
household furniture, provisions, &c. and that She was ftopt by
the men cf war, who took out a quantity of provision, not
withttandiing ftre had Captain Wallace's pass. The fame ves
sel after She had been to Warwick, and landed feme of her
freight, in going to Updike's Newtown with the remainder,
the fore part of last week, was met with and taken by Captain
Ayfcough, who brought her down to this harbour, took a con
fiderabie quantity of furniture, clothing, &c. to the amountof
several thousand dollars, then dripped her, and let her drive,
affi ore on Goat-ISland.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1.
A gentleman arrived here in three weeks from St. Euitatia
inf rms, that the Pomona man of war, and the Argo and
Lynx Hoops, were cruizing off that island, and had taken seven
or eight American vessels, and sent them to Antigua; and
that they had advice from Antigua, that twelve or fourteen
Store-Ships, bound from London for Bolton, were arrived there,
having been blown off our coast, and more were daily arriving.
On the 17th ult. the General Assembly of Rhode-IHand
adjourned to the third Monday in February. During their
fitting, the House ordered another regiment to be immediately
railed., for the defence of that colony.
Lalt Monday Brigadier Gen. Prefcot was removed from his
apartments in the city tavern, to the new jail, by order of
the Hon. Continental Congress. It is said he was guilty
of cruelly treating the prisoners taken from the Continental
army in Canada, particularly Col. Allen, lately sent home to
England, in iions.
The following is the copy of a letter from , Mr. Ethaa
Allen, the person who commanded the party of the provincials
which were defeated near Montreal, and who was alfd taken
prisoner, to General Prescott, on the General's ordering him
into irons and to he closely confined.
“ Honorable Sir,
"In the wheefof transitory events I find myfelf prisoner,
and in irons. Probably your Honor has certain* reasons to me
inconceivable, though I challenge an instance of this fort of
economy of the Americans during the late war towards any
officers of the crown.
" On my part, I have to assure your Honor, that when I
had the command, and took Capt. Delaplace and Lieut. Fel
ton, with the garrison of Ticonderoga, I treated them with
every mark of friendship and generosity, the evidence of which
is notorious even in Canada. I have only to add, that 1 ex
pert an honorable and humane treatment; as an officer of ray
rank and merit Should have, and fubferibe myfelf your
Honor's molt obedient humble servant,
ETHAN ALLEN."
In CONGRES 3, January 30, 1776.
Resolved, That NO APPRENTICE whatsoever be inlifted
within the colonies of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Lower
Counties on Delaware, and Maryland, as a soldier in the
army or navy of the United Colonies, without the consent of
his matter or mistress firft obtained in writing, and that all
apprentices, now inlifted as foldiersin s aid army or navy, with
out such consent, be immediately difeharged from the service,
on the application of his master or mistress, upon payment of
all just and reasonable charges of their inliltment.