The Pennsylvania ledger, or, The Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & New-Jersey weekly advertiser — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-07-20 00:00:00, page 2

Thomas Whiting, John Hutchings, Champion
Travis, Thomas Newton, jun. and George Webb,
Esquires, Commissioners of Admiralty.
Edmund Randolph, Esq; Attorney General.
Thomas Everard, and James Cocke, Esquires,
Commissioners lor fetling accounts.
July 5. Lad Tuesday was taken near the capes,
and moored fafe in Hampton creek, by Capt.
Richard Barron, a sloop from Providence with a
large quantity of limes, pine-apples, turtle, &c.
-allo two carriage guns, and 14 swivels.
W 0 RC E STE R, July 5.
We hear that Capt. White, in a privateer fchoo
pcr belonging to Salem, has taken and sent into
Beverly a sloop with 150 puncheons of rum, said
to be bound from Antigua to Ireland, which he
took in his passage for the Weft-Indies.
N E W P O R T, June 24.
Captain Campbell, lately from Antigua, via St.
Euftatia, informs, that a little before he left Anti
gua, a vessel from Georgia belonging to Mr. Samuel
Brenton of this place, was seized there by a man ol
war, with all her cargo, confining of lumber, in
digo, &c r Mr. Brenton, then present, urged his
being a friend to government as a reason for his
being favoured, but the Admiral told him the
a& of parliament by which he was seized, made no
provision for friends to government ! He then plead
ed the lame to the Marlhall for being indulged in
buying the indigo at a rifoderate price; but the Mar
shall laid it was difficult to determine who were
friends to government, or to that purport, and that
he should buy the indigo himfelf to ship to England.
Just so would all American tories fare, should this
country be conquered agreeable to their wishes; but
be assured the fun, moon and stars Ihall fall, the
ocean cease to roll, and all nature change its course,
before a few Englilh, Scotch and German Haves
Ihall conquer this vail continent.
H A R T F O R D July 8..
Since our last, several regiments of foot, ordered
to be railed in this colony, together with three re
riments of the troop of light horse, have marched
for New York, to aflift in the defence of the capital
of that invaded province.
Last Wednesday puffed through this place, Gov.
Franklin of New-Jersey, on his way to Gov. Trum
bull at Lebanon, and last Saturday he returned from
Lebanon to Wallingford, where he is ilationed
N E W-L 'O N D O N, July 5 .
The Council of Safety have given orders for the
and political right,; and that they are both equally
destructive of the inalienable privileges of an xEn
glifhman, and the natural rights to which all man-,
'kind are enisled, if not Dripped of them by fraud,
force, or injuflice.
L^d.Su,sth. I prefame the noble Duke in the
blue ribbon mifunderllood what I laid; for I do
not pyefume his Grace had any intention of misre
presenting my words. Ido not lay or mean, that
1 had any doubt whether the Commander in Chief,
though a junior officer, had a right to command
the dclßm General. 1 positively and unconditi
onally afllrrcd, he had, and only referred to the
noble Lords present,, conversant in military affairs,
in proof of that ahertion. As to the other point
the nobfe'Duke Giuded to, the fame rule which
prevails in refpecl of the Commander in Chief, will
of course take place- in the.perfon of whoever may
,be appointed, or happen to fueceed him.
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Cri A Ri- LSTO WN, (South Carolina.)
Z May 31.
ExtraC of a letter from Savannah River, May 13.
“ All the Creek Chiefs that were .expected are
down, sind seem well disposed; I hope we Shall be
able to keep them quiet. I have seen letters from
the Cherokees ^latc as the 7th infl. The middleand
lower towns seem to remember the.good talks at
Fort Charlotte, and fay, that if rite Over-hills are
for mifehief with the white people, the great ridge
of mountains Ihall divide them, for they will have
no hand in it. Henry Stewart, Captains Colbert
and Gift are in the Over-Hills; they came up the
Miilifippi from the Chicafaw landing, with a large
supply of ammunition, were attacked in the way by
the northward Indians, who killed 3 or 4 of the
Judi ins and took or dedroyedapart ofthe,powder."
W I LL 1 A M S B URG, July 4.
A gentleman from North-Carolina brings advice
that an express was arrived at Wilmington, with
an account of eight fail of Clinton's transports be
ing drove affiore off Charleftown, and one of them
totally 1011, with several men.
A few days ago Lord,Durmore sent a flag from
Gwynh-lilmd with a letter for General Lewis,
wherein he proposes an exchange of prisoners, and
wants his countrymen, the Highlanders. His Lord
ship lent no account of the prisoners in his polLflion,
and it is much doubted whetherhe has a fufficient
number to answer his purpose.
The following gentlemen are appointed to the differ
ent Offices in the New Elan of Government.
Patrick Henry, jun Esq; Governor.
John Page, Dudley Digges, John Taylor, John
Blair, Benjamin Harrilon of Berkley, Bartholo
mew Dandridge, Charles Carter of Shirley, and
Benjamin Harrison of Brandon, Councellors of
State.
§ince our last several of the new raised regiments
of Connecticut troops arrived in town, and appear
to be fine a body of men as any engaged in the pre
sent grand struggle for liberty and independence.
Among them the light dragoons, between 5 and
600, who came to town yesterday and paraded on
horseback through the city, made a noble and mar
tial appearance ; and as this corps are composed of
the fubdantial yeomanry of a lifter fiate, nothing
could be more agreeable or animating to all true
friends of their country. Some of these worthy
soldiers affiled, in their present uniforms, at the
firlt reduction of Louilburg, " lank leen cheeks and
war worn coats," are viewed with more veneration
by their honefl countrymen than if they were glitter
ring Nabobs from India, or Balhaws with nine tails.
On wednefday lad, the Declaration of Independ
ence was read at the head of each brigade in the
Continental army, polled at and near New-York,
and every where received with loud huzzas, and
the utnn.fi demonstrations of joy.
The fame evening theequeftrian statue of George
111. which tory pride and folly raised in the year
1770, was, by the tons of freedom, laid prostrate
in the dirt ; the just desert of an ungrateful tyrant!
The lead wherewith this monument was made, is
to be run into bullets, to assimilate with the brain
of our infatuated adversaries, who, to gain a pep
per-corn, has loft an empire. * " Quos Deus vult
perdefe, prius dementat."
* Lord Clare in the Horse of Commons, declared
that a pepper-corn in acknowledgment to Britain's
right to tax America, was of more importance than
millions without it.
N E W -Y O R K, July's.
In pursuance ml the declaration for indepen
dency, a general goal delivery, Rith refpe& to
debtors, took place here on Wednesday.
Last Friday morning it was reported in town,
that Lord Howe was arrived ar Sandy-Hook, with
a large fleet from England. -Between one and two
o’clock P. M. two (hips hove in fight and joined the
fleet at the Watering place; about an hour after
a ship fuppbfed to be the. Phoenix-, of 44 guns, a
frigate of 28, and three tenders, gotunder way at
Staten-Bland, and flood up for this city. The
army soon took the alarm, and in a few minutes
every man was at his Ration, well provided with
all necelTaries for a vigorous defence; but as soon
as the ihips came ne^r Bedlow's Ifiand, they incli
ned towards the jersey shore, to avoid our batteries
that then began to play upon them from every
quarter on hot sides of the river; and notwith
standing they mull have received considerable da
mage, they Rood their course up Hudson's river,
firing several broadsides as they went along, with
out either killing or wounding any of our people,
who on the occasion behaved with uncommon bra
very. A strong Southerly wind, and the tide of
hood facilitated, the Ihips getting above the batteries
near the town, but we hear they were roughly
handled about 12 miles up the river, from whence
they have not yet attempted to return, but we
hear laid at Tarry-Town, about 30 miles up the
river, on Saturday evening.'
Several Ihot went thro’ different houses in the
town; two into the hottie of Mr. Verdice Elsworth,
at Powlis Hook, three into Capt. Clarke’s house at
Greenwich, one of which went thro' the front and
lodged in a brick wall at the head of Mils Clarke’s
bed, in her chamber, a second went through the
house, and the third destroyed several trees before
the door, and tookits course into the woods.
A ball allo struck the House of Mr. Daniel Phoe
nix, and from that took its course to the new dwel
ling of Mr. Chrillopher 4 with, in the opposite fide
of the street.
immediate removal of all the hock, &c. from the
islands lying off this port.
Extract off 1 a Letter, dated Southampton ( Long-
Ifand) June 25, 1776.
“ Two of our privateers took a Ihip and a Hoop
from England, and carried them into an inlet call
ed Nichol's Gut, in the South-bay. The ship had
on-board five gentlemen, their wives, children,
firvants, and household furniture, intending to fet
tle on some pleasant part of the conquered lands. I
hope we Ihall be able to fettle them all as these are
fettled, viz. in a jail."
N E W-Y O R K, 7^,11.
Capt. Johnson, in a small privateer from Bos
ton, has taken and carried into Cape Anne, two
Ihips, one of them a large three decker from Jamai
ca for London, with 400 hogsheads of sugar, 200
puncheons of rum, 30 bags of cotton, and a large
quantity of pimento, &c. with several ladies passen
gers. The other a ship from Antigua, bound to
Bollon, with 490 puncheons of rum, &c.
Last Wednesday noon a soldier belonging to
one of the regiments on Staten Bland, being in li
quor, and having wandered from his companions,
got upon the meadows near Elizabeth-Town Point;
which being observed by Col. Smith, who h^d the
command that day at the Point, he sent over a par
ty of men who took him prisoner.
N E W-Y O R K, July 17.
Since our last two flags of truce have been sent
to his Excellency General Washington, but we
hear they have been botli rejected. The particu
lars we have not been able as yet to learn.
We hear,the two men of war, with their three
tenders (mentioned in our iaft) have got up within
eight miles of Fort Montgomery, where, we hope,
they will meet with due chahifement before they
make their appearance amongst us again.
We hear from Poughkeepsie, that thirty-two
persons difaffefted to our common cause, endea
voring to dilhrm the friends to liberty, have been
taken up by order of the Committee of that place,
who have ordered them to Ridgfield jail.
PHI LA DEL P H I A.
^CONGRES S, Jul, 11, 1776.
The Marine Committee, in pursuance of the or
der of Congress, reported that they have called be
fore them divers of the inferior officers belonging to
the ihips Alfred and Columbus, and having heard
their complaints against the Captains Saltonftall
and Whipple, in their presence, are of opinion that
/the charge against Capt. Saltonftall does not ap
pear to be well founded, and that the charge a
gainst Capt. Whipple amounts to nothing more
than a rough indelicate mode of behavior to his
marine officers. Whereupon Resolved, That the
Marine Committee be directed to order the Cap
tains Saltonftall and Whipple to repair to their re
fpe&ive commands, and that it be recommended to
Cape. Whipple to cultivate harmony with the offi
cers. Extract from the Minutes,
Charles Thomson, Sec.
By Order of Congress,
John Hancock, Prefdent.
Ln C ONGRES S, July 19 , 1776.
Rejected, That a copy of the circular letters and
of the declarations they enclosed from Lord Howe
to Mr. W. Franklin, Mr. Penn, Mr. Eden, Lord
Dunmore, Mr. Martin, and Sir James Wright, late
Governors, sent to Amboy by a flag and forward
ed to Congress, by General Washington, be pub
lished in the several Gazettes, that the good people
of these United States, may be informed of what
nature are the Commissioners and what the Terms,
with the expectation of which the infiidous court
of Britain has endeavoured to aphufe and disarm
them; and that the few, who hill remain iuipen
ded by a hope founded cither in the jullice or mo
deration of their late King, may now, at length
be convinced, that the valour alone of their country
is to save its liberties. Extract from the journals.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.
“ EAGLE, off the Coast of,the Province rs
MaffachufTets-Bay, June 20, 1776.
«SI R,
BEING appointed Commander in Chief of the
ihips and vessels of his Majesty's fleet, employed
in North-America, and having the honor to be by
his Majesty conftifuted one of his Commissioners
for restoring peace to his Colonies, and for granting
Pardons to iuch of his fubjeds therein as Ihall be
duly felicitous to benefit by that effect of his gracious
indulgence; I embrace this opportunity to inform
you of my arrival on the American coast, where my
firft object will be an early meeting with Gen, Howe,
whom his Majesty has been pleased to join with me
in the said Commission.
V In the mean time, I have judged it expedient to
issue the inclofed Declaration, in order that all per
sons may have immediate information of his Majes
ty's mjl gracious intentions : And I desire you will
be pleased forthwith to cause the said Declaration
To be promulgated, in such manner, and at such
places within the province of New-Jerley, as will
render the fame of the mod public notoriety.
Affiired of being favoured with your assistance in
every measure for the speedy and effectual restora
tion of the public tranquility, I am to request you
will communicate, from time to time, such inform
ation as you may think will facilitate the attainment
of that important object in the province over which
you preside. I have the honor to be,
with great RefpeH and Consideration,
Sir, your mod obedient humble firvant,
H O W E.”
By RICHARD VISCOUNT HOWE of the
Kingdom of Ireland, one of the KlNG’s COM
MISSIONERS for restoring peace to His Ma
jesty’s Colonies and Plantations in North Ame
rica, &c. &c. &c.
DECLARATIO N.
WHEREAS By an a& passed in the last ses
sion of Parliament to prohibit all trade and
intercourse with the colonies of New Hampshire,
MaiLchufett’s Bay, Rhode Ifiand, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Penfylvania, the three
Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia,
and for other purpofes~ therein mentioned; it is
enaCHd that “ It Ihall and may be lawful to and
“ for any person or perlons, appointed and au
“ thorifed by his Majesty, to grant a Pardon or
“ Pardons to any number or description of pr 6ns,
" by ['reclamation, in His Majesty's Name, to
" declare any Colony or Province, colonies or
“ provinces, or any county, town, port, dillrift,
“ or place, in any Colony or Province, to be at
“ the peace of Elis Majesty;" and that “ from
“ and after the hiding of any such Procl nation
“ in any of the aforefaid colonies or provinces, or
“ if His Majesty Ihall be graciously pleased to fig
" nify the fame by His Royal Proclamation, hen,
“ from and after the issuing of such Proclamation,’