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HARTFORD, O&ober 23.
Extra& of a Letter from an Officer at St. John's,
OHober 1.
“ On the i6tb of Sefet. we left the Ide flux Noix, in
order'to lay Jiege to St. John's: We had before sent a
Party of too Men to Cbambly, who hearing thatfome
Regulars mere transporting Provifons to St. 'John's,
attacked them, took two Prisoners, and a considerable
Pri%e, and then began to fortify about taco Miles dis
tant from St. John's, in . order to cut off Communica
tions, expelling soon a Reinforcement from our Army,
but, being discovered by the Enemy at St. John's, a
Party of zoo Regulars sallied out with Field Pieces,
and our Men being but half their Number, and poorly
fortified, mere obliged to retreat to the Woods.
" in this Action Capt. John Watson, in Col. Hin
man's Regiment, moas badly mounded, but is like to
recover. We mere then on our march through the
Woods for their Relief, but too late! When me came to
the Place at which the Battle was fought, wefound
the Enemy in pofffon of our Brea,-Work : They gave
us a very heavy Fire, and then retreated back to the
Fort. Col. Alien with a Party, bathface bad a Bat
tle near Montreal, and is taken a Prisoner, with four
teen more. We have font up St. John's, and expert
fan to be in pofeflion of that Place. We are con,until
playing on them with our Cannon and Bombs. The
Canadians are chief, on our Side; The Indians- are
for us."
Our Intelligence from St. John's is as late as the
tenth Infant ; token they were bombarding that Place,
&nd it was expelled the Enemy would soon surrender.
WATERTOWN, Odober 23.
Tuesday night two floating batteries went down Cam
bridge River, and fired on the town of Borton ; and by a
person from thence fines, we learn, that one of the halls
killed a bombadier in his tent, and anotherwent through
the lamb tayern. What other damage was done we have
not heard. A 9,pounder split in one of our batteries, and
badly wounded $ or 6 of our people.
NEWPOR T, Oflober 23.
Last Monday the Swan Capt. Ayfcough failed for
Boston, with 2 transport ships, several wood vessels,
&c. The Swan, it is laid, is to proceed from Borton
to England. The above veflels carried round the
live-dock that was bought of the Brentons, that
which was extorted from Bristol, the R^ftaken
from Dutch-Blind, &c. ndi'tis thought is all the
supply of that kind the munfterial forces will ever
receive from this quarter, as the sea-coasts of this
colony ate now pretty well guarded.
By a letter froma gentleman at Falmduth, Muffa-.
chufetts-Bay, to his friend in this town, dated 08.
9, we learn, that 14. fail of transport ships were thus
in Penobfeot-Bay, in quest of wood and other necei
faries- that Col. Cargill with a body of men had
gonein search of them, 'twas hoped he would pre
vent their getting any supplies ;---Perhaps it was this
fleet returned to Boston, last week, which occasioned
the report of a number of ships and troops having
arrived there from England.
PROVIDENCE, Odoberzr.
rr'H E Committee of Ipfpedion and Correspondence
g for the Tow,n of North-Kingston, being convened
in said Town on the 7th Dry of October, 1775, tame
into the fallowing Resolves, viz
Whereas Stephen Boyer, of said Town, being accused
of carryinga Quantity of Cheese to fqme of the declared
Enemies to America ; and he being present before this
Committee, hath daringly endeavoured to iuftify hirnfed
in so doing, and faith that he further intends to fend a
Quantity of Barley and Cord to George Rome, one ofcur
faid'Enemies:
Resolved therefore, That the Did Stephen Beyer is an
Enemy to American Liberty, and ought to be hereafter
treated as such ; and it is recommended to the Public in
general, and ftri&ly required of every Person in this
Town, that they forthwith break off all Dealing with
him, and that a Copy of this Resolve be inferred in
the Providence Gazette, and Neport Mercury.
A true Copy.
CA MBkIDGE, October i^'
Since our last arrived in Tbwn; the Hon; Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Lynch, and Benjamin Harrison,
Squires, from Philadelphia, a Committee from the
Continental Congiel's ; the honourable Matthew
Giifwold, Efu; Deputy Governor, and —-Wales,
Est; of Connecticut ; the Honourable Nicholas
Cooke, Esq; Deputy Governor and Commander in
Chief of Rhode-Ilhnd ; and the Honourable Jolin
Wentworth, Esq; Prefidentof the Provincial Con
gress of New-Hamp(hire.---As the Time for which
the present Army is raised will expire in two or three
Months, these Gentlemen, with the Members of
the Honourable Council of this Colony, are ap
pointed to confer with his Excellency General Wash
ington, on the Subject of forming and eL^iihing
another Continental Army, for the Defence of the
invaded Rights of the United Colonies.
The following address was presented to Lord Dun
more, by the corporation of Norfolk, in conse
quence of Mr. Holt, printer,- of that borough,
being robbed of his printing materials, and his
servants carried off, by order of his Lordship.
To his Excellency the Right Hon. John Earl of
Dunmore, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Gover
nor General of the colony and dominion of Vir
ginia, &c. &c.
WE his Majesty's faithful fubje&s, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Common Council of the
borough of Norfolk, in common hall aflembled, beg
leave to represent to your Lordship, that on this day a
party of men under the command of Capt. Squire, of
the Otter (loop of war, lying in this harbour, landed
in the most public part of this borough, in the most
daring manner, and, in open violation of the peace
and good order, seized on the printing utensils belong
ing to an inhabitant of this town, as well as the
persons of two of his family.
We beg leave also to represent to your Lordship
that this a& is both illegal and riotous ; and that,
together with a musket ball fired into the town yester
day, from on board the Kingfifher, has greatly alarm
ed and incensed the inhabitants, and has occasioned a
great number of the women and children to abandon
this borough ; and that, if these arbitrary proceedings
pass unnoticed by your Lordship, as chief magistrate
of this colony, that none of the inhabitants are fafe
from insult and abuse. We therefore, as our duty,
represent this matter to your Lordship for your inter
position.
We, my Lord, as men, and as a Common Hall,
have ever preferred the peace of this town, and have
never prevented the ships of war and others, from
Witness, GEORGE THOMAS, Clerk.
NEW-HAVEN, October 25.
Our General Assembly have nominated the five follow
ing gentlemen delegates for the next Continental Congress,
viz. Hon. Roger Sherman, Hon. Oliver Wolcott, Hon.
Samuel Huntington, William Williams and Titus Hofmer,
Efers. The three frit named to attend.
Wi/liamfourgb (in Virginia) Oslo. 14.
“ Gentlemen,
I Was an eye-witness to a party, belonging to the\
Otter [loop of war, landing at the hour and place ;
you mention, and did fee them bring off two of the fer-|
vants belonging to the printer, together with bis print- 1
ing utensils ; and I do really think they could not have ;
rendered the borough of Norfolk, or the country adjacent .
to it, a more essential service, than b, depriving them of;
th£ means of poisoning the minds of the people, and ex-!
™ -hem the spirit of rebellion and petition, and by
ter means drawing inevitable ruin and defruffian on
Bmfelves and country. As to the illegality of the art,
afraid feme of you, in this very common ball as-,
I ped, ought to blufo wbenyou make use oj the expref- :
; as I know you cannot but be confeious that you
rove, by every means in,our power, totally fubwrted
jibe laws and constitution, and have been the adviftrs ?
[ and abettors in throwing off all allegiance to that Ma
lieffs crown and government to whom you,rofe^s your- !
selves faithful fubjeds. As to the musket ball being j
I fired into the town, Ido believe there is not a man in
j it that is not fatisfied it was an accident ; and such a ;
| one as, I hope, will not happen again. But with 1
regard to your having ever preferred the peace myour §
town, there is a recent proof of the contrary. As to 4
,our not repelling the insult, as you callrit, or taking §
prisoners the /mallparty that was on fonre, I impute it ;
to feme other reasons (yromyour drums beating to arms j
during greatest part of the time that the party was on\
I foore) than to, our peaceable intention. As to,cur lap i
j requisition, Ido afore you that every means in ny|
I powerfall be employed, both with the Navy and a r nr, }
I to preserve the peace, good order, and ba,,inefs oj the \
inhabitants oj the borough of Norfolk, Jo long as they 1
behave themselves as faithfulfebjerts to bis Majefy. I)
expert, at the fame time, that if any individual fall l
behave bimfelf as your printer has done, by afterf.ng ;
the characters of bis Majestys servants, and others,
in the mofl feurribus, falfe, and scandalous mariner,
and by being the infligator of treayn and rebellion
against bis Majefly's crown and government, and, on
do not take fueb Jieps as the law diverts to refrain such
offenders.
Ido then expert you will not be far,ri fed j the mili
tary power inter,ofes to prevent the total difolution of
all decency, order and government. But I promise the
printer, on m, honor, if be will put hinff and ser
vants under nr?protection, that they,halt rot meet with
,the leoft insult, and tty Jball be permitted to print
. every occurrence that happens during these unhappy dis
putes between the Mother Country and her Colonies, be
only confining;bimfelf to truth, and re,refuting mat
ters in afair, candid, impartial manner-on both fdes.
This I hope, will convince you that I had nothing
more in View, when I requeued Captain Squire to
prize the types, than that the unhappy deluded public
might no longer remain in the dark concerning the pre
fect contef, but that tty Jbould be furmfed with a
fair re,refutation of jaffs, which I know never can
happen wbilf the press remains under the contreulof
its present dirtators. DUNMORE.\
Philadelphia, October 27.
Extra&s from the Votes of the H OUSE of |
REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESD A Y, October 18, 1775.
A Member presented at the table a letter from the 1
Continental Congress to the Committee ofJ
Safety for this province, inclofng certain resolves ofl
the laid Congress puffed the ninth and twelfth of this
infant, which were read by order, and are as they
refecaively follow, viz.
“ Congress Chamber, Ort. 12, 1775.
" Gentlemen,
“ The present fituatien of affairs renders it abfo-1
lutely neceflary in the opinion of the Congress, for 1
the protedlion of our liberties, and fafety of our lives,
to raise several new battalions, and therefore the
Congress have come into the inclofed Resolutions,
which I am ordered to transmit to you.
“ The Congress have the firmeft confidence, that
from your experienced zeal in this great catife you
will exert your utmost endeavours to carry into exe
cution the said resolutions, and raise the battalion
recommended to be raised with all possible expedition.
" The corainiffions 1 will fill up with the names
of the persons you determine upon, immediately on
the receipt of the lift. I am, Gentlemen,
Your molt obedient servant,
JOHN HANCOCK, President."
To the Gentlemen of the Committee
of Safety for Pennfyivania.
In CONGRESS, Monday, October 9, 1775.1
“ On motion made,
“ Refolded, That it be recommended to the Con
vention of New-Jersey, that they immediately raise,;
at the expence of the Continent, two battalions con- ?
I fifting of eight companies each, and each company ;
of sixty-eight privates, and officered with one Cap-[
tain, one Lieutenant, on^ Ensign, four Serjeants,
and four Corporals.
" That the privates be enlisted for a year, at the ,
rate of Five Dollars per calender month, liable to be|
difeharged at any time on allowing them one month'sl
pay extraordinary.
" That each of the privates be allowed, instead of ,
a bounty, a felthat) a pair of (hoes, and a pair ofj
yarn Hockings ; the men to find their own arms. ||
“ That the pay of the officers for the present be
the fame as that of the officers in the present Conti-"
nental Army, and in case the pay of the officers is
augmented, the pay of the officers in these battalions:
I fliall in like manner be augmented from the time ofj
their engaging in the service." ,I
OCTOBER 12, 1775.
« Resolved,
" That each Captain and other commissioned of
;ficer, while in the recruiting feryice of this Continent,;
;or on their march to join the army, shall be allowedl
Two Dollars and Two-thirds of a Dollar per week j
being supplied with pfbvifoi^ & fnyotter fiecerfariel,
and have carefully avoided offering any insult to any
of his Majesty's servants. We had therefore hoped,
that the inhabitants would never have been molested
in their lawful bufineft. We are sorry, however, to
have itin out power to date this fa& to your Lordship;
which we muff and do think a gross violation of all
that men and freemen can hold dear.
Allow us to observe to your Lordship, that if the
inhabitants had been disposed to repel insult, that
they were fufficiehtly able either to have cut off, or
taken prisoners, the small party that came on shore ;
and this we hope, is another proof of their peaceable
intentions.
We the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council
of the borough of Norfolk, do mod earnestly en
treat your Lordship that the Captains of the men of
war may not reduce the inhabitants to the dreadful
alternative of defending their persons, or tamely fuf
fering themselves to be abused, and request that y^ur
Lordship will interpose your authority to put a final
flop to such violent infringements of our rights, and
to order the persons seized on by Capt. Squire, to be
immediateby put on shore, and the property to be re
placed from whence it was taken.
Td the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council,
of the borough of Nortulk.
Ordered to lie on the table.
• Upon motion, The House took into consideration
part of the memorial from the Committe of Safety, re
commending the appointment of a Commodore or Com
mander in Chief of the armed boats provided for the
defence of this city and river, and after feme time sent
therein, Refolded, That it is the opinion such an officer
is at this time necessary, and that; it be referred to the
Committee of Safety to cenfider of, and report to the
House, a person proper for the service.
SATJJRDA Y, October 21, 1775. A. M,
" A petition, from the Committee of Privates of the
Aflociation of the city of Philadelphia and its diftri&s,
was presented to the House and read, felting forth, That
the petitioners have lived to fee the unhappy time when
the liberties of America must be finally loft, unless pre
served by arming the inhabitants thereof in their defense ;
that the strength and power of the enemy, and the deter
mined spirit with which the war is likely to be prosecuted,
render the utrroft efforts of this, as well as of the rest of
the United English Colonies, absolutely neceffarv. That
the petitioners do therefore humbly pray the Honourable
House in their wisdom to recommend to their constituents
some general plan of a militia law, which @" equally
extend to ail the good people of this province, and that
any indulgence which may be thought neceflary to be
granted by the House to any freemen of the province may.
be equally open to all, and granted on such terms as the
Home may think adequate to the many difficult and dan
gerous fe/vices of those who arc willing to hazard their
lives and fortunes in defence of their country ; —that this
the petitioners are periuadcd would give such general
fatisfaftion to those who have already aflociated, that they
would cheerfully exert their utmeft anilities in the ser
vice of their country.
~READY "MONEY,
For any. QUANTITY of large or small
Old Brass and Copper,
By JAMES BYERS,
In WALL-STREET.
^& Three Pence per Pound will be
giren for the heft Sort of good, d[y, clean
LINEN RAGS, and so in Proportion for
thole of an interior Quality.---by H UGH
GAINE.
for their subsistence ; and that the men who enlist,
ftiall eash of them, whilst in quarters, be allowed
One Dollar per week, and One Dollar and One-third
of a Dollar when on their march to join the army
for the fame purpose.
“ That the Piefident transmit to the Convention
of New-Jersey, blank commissions to be filled up by
the said Convention to the Captains and Ipbaltern
officers in the said two battalions, and that the ap
pointment of the field-officers be for the. present sus
pended until the Congress shall take order oh that
matter.
The form of the enlistment to be in the following
words, viz.
“ I , have this day voluntarily enlisted
myfelf as a soldier in the American Continental army
for one year, unless sooner difeharged, and do bind
myfelf to conform in all inltqnces to such rules and
regulations as are or shall b.^ eltablifhed for the go
vernment of the said army."
Resolved, That a limilar recommendation issue to
the Assembly or Committee of Safety of Pennsylva
nia, to raise one battalion on the fame terms as those
ordered to be raised in New-Jersey, and to be officered
in like manner.
Refolded, That the men enlisted be furnifhed with
a hurting shirt, not exceeding in value One Dollar
and One-third of a Dollar, and a blanket, provided
these can be procured, but not to be made pare of
the terms of enlistment,
Ordered to be on the table.
By order of the Congress,
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
A copy from the Minutes,
Charles Thomson, Secretary.
THURSDA Y, O&o. 19, 1775. A. M.
Pursuant to the ref^lurion of yeherday, the House took
into confederation the motion for a re-appointment of the
present Committee of Safety, with the addition of feme
new members, and approving the persons propofed,—
Refolded, That Benjamin Franklin, John Dickenfcn,
George Gray, Samuel Miles, Robert Morris, Benjamin
Bartholomew, George Ross, Michael Swoope, John Mont
gomery, Edward Biddle, George Tayler, Bernard Doug
herty, Samuel Hunter, Daniel R^Lrdeau, J-hn Cadwa
lader, Andrew Alien, Joseph Read, Owen Beadle, Henry
Wynkoop, §ntbony Wayne, Francis Johnson, Richard
Reily, Nicholas Fairlatab; Samuel Morris, junr.'Thomas
Wharten, junt; Robert White. George Clymer, Samuel
Howell, Merchant, Alexander Wilcox, John Nixon, Ja^
Meafe and ' James Biddle, Gentlemen, be, and they are
hereby appointed a Cimmittee of Safety for this province,
during the enfuin-g year.
Refilled, That any seven, or more, of the said Com
mittee, with the President, or, in his absence, the Vice-
Prelident, be a board for tranfa&ing any business that
may properly come before them.
The fame day the House relumed the consideration of
the petition from the Committee of the city and liber
ties of Philadelphia, refyefting the manufacture of falt
petre in this province, and after a debate of foine length,
Ordered, That Mr. Hillegas, Mr. Gray, Mr. Morris,
Mr. Brown, Mr. Pearson, Mr. Siongh, Mr. Swoopr, Mr.
Montgomery, Air. Chreift, Mr. Kachl-on and Mr. Doug
herty, be a Committee to inquire and report to tne House
what progress has been made in the manufacturing blt
petre in thecity of Philadelphia, what sum is required to
prosecute this business to effect, and whether it be expe
dient to encourage miking the said article in a more ge
neral way, among people in different ports of the coun
try, by advancing the price already offered, or by any
other probable means not hitherto attempted in this pro
vince.
FRID AY, October 20, 1775.
A Petition from the Committee of the city and liber
ties of Philadelphia was presented to the House and read,
setting forth, That the Honourable the Continental Con
gress has “ recommended to the inhabitants of all the
united English colonies in North-America, that ail able
bodied effective men, between sixteen and fifty years of
age immediately form themselves into regular companies
of militia," &c. and that although a confidetable num
ber of the freemen of this province had before the said
recommendation associated for the purpose of defence a
gainst all invaders, yet the said fecofamendation has not
been fully complied with, and, in our opinion it is be
come absolutely necessary that general regulations fliould be
made to'take place throughout the province—that this
Honourable House being the body from whom the people
inoft earnediv wifli to receive the regulations which are
become so indifpenfibly necessary, the petitioners do most
ebrneftly pray that this Honourable House will recom
mend to the inhabitants ot this province such military
regulations, as, in their wisdom, they shall think will
: carry the said recommendation of the Honourable Conti
nental Congress effectually into execution—that the pe
titioners, being ferafible " there are forne people, who,
from religious principles, cannot bear arms in any case ;"
with not to do “ violence to their confeidnees," but as
by the exertions of the Aflociators, the liberty, property
and lives of those people will be equally defended with
their own (without any danger to the lives, liberty or
property of the said people) the petitioners farther pray,
that the terms of exemption may be adiquete to the dan
gers, loss of time arid expence incurred to thole who
shall aflociate under the proposed regulations#
The 6th Irritant fever:l Addiefc were presented to
General Gage previous to his Departuie for Engkad.
By a Letter dated Head Quarters, Cambridge,
October 22, 177 $, we can Tine the Public that the
Report of the burning the Town of Falmouth, 13
without Foundation.
Next Sunday publick Colleaion% are to be mark ia the
Dutch Churches of this City for the poor Children at their
Free School, and such other of their Poor as at this Day
of publick Distress stand in Need of Charity. The Col
lections are to be made in the Old Church in the Morning
in the North Church in the Afternoon, and in the New
Church in the Evening.
A Pair of found grey Horses, well
broke to the Carriage, with a Curricle
and Harnejs, to be jpd at Stevens's Li
very Stables.
ON Wcdueiday ncx. will be fold at the coffee-houfe
at noon ; a valuable negro man, about 21 years
old, has lived with an officer in the army, understands
th- care of horses, is very handy and remarkably f&ber.
*** Superfine 8-4 Bath coatings, green, blue and red
pmniftens, white, yellow an i red flannels, cadimancoes,
durants, tammies, calliopes, chintzes, muslins, silks,
futens, perilous, hardware and English flafs, well sorted
in hoes, with many other Uafomible articles, may be had
at PAIRICK M'DAVlTr's Store, in Queen-f Feet.
RO^E IS fHEREBY (fivh^
r?- HAT a Constitutional Post-Office
§ is eltablifhcil in this City, by the Post-Master-
Gereral of all the United Colonics on th, Continent
of North-America, from whence the following Ports
are regularly riifpatched:
To Philadelphia on Monday, Wedmefday
and Friday.
To Albany on Thursday.
To Hartford, in Cenneaicut, on Thursday,
lAnd to New-Lon don, Newport, and FRO I ,
VIDENCE on Monday.
IThe Hartford and New-London Ports convey
I Letters and Packets as far to the Eattward as Portfr
;mouth, in Neiu-Ham,Jhire.
EBENEZER HAZARD, Port Matter.
I N. B. The Office is kept at Ned and Hazard's,
I neat the Colfee-lioufe.
NEW-Y 6 R K, O&ober
To T^E PRINTER.
^Newark Mountains, ON. % 17^5.
Last Thursday the following surprising and afte&inV
Affair happened ih this Parish, to insert which ra
your Paper, may perhaps answer some benevolent
Purpoles to Mankind.
AS two Persons, the Father And a Son were
employed in a Field about lowing, the Father
in cutting off the Top of a large Tree that had been
blown down, which contained a vast Quantity of
Dirt and Stone in its Roots, rhe Body of which la,
up some height from the Ground 1 No footer had he
cut the Log off, but the Part lemaiirqg with thi
Root righted again with a prodigious Force and
Quickness, which tossed the Father with great Vio
lence on the Ground, at tne fame Liftaht the Son,
who was following the Plough, puffed under the
Root, and was crushed to Death in a Moment! the
Father recovering beheld the doleful Spectacle, with
out being able in die leap to difi nga#e the Body.---
The young Man was a very amiable Person, and of
a truly religious Cbar^t.---E/fyed are the Dead
that die in the Lord."
Capt. Thomas Trowbridge, in the Sloop Union,
arrived here the 19th intt. from Martinico, in Ba lad.
On his Paflage few a Raft, which appeared to be
made of Spars, from the Wreck of a Topsail Schoo
ner ; upon it was lalhed a Chett, on which lay the
Body of a dead Man, who appeared to be about 30
Years of Age, with short bl.ck Hair : Had on a
Check Shirt, and a blue Sailor's Waifeoat, and
seemed to have been dead about 10 Days. In the
Chest were two of Davis's Quadrant's, and two Log
Bo,ks, which, however, did not mention the Vessel,
or Mailer's Name, nor whence he came, or whither
bound. On the Lid of the Chest was cut with a
Knife, Ifcac Row, Master. N. B. The latt Reck
oning began ip Latitude 42, and ended 27. The lalt
Day's Work was the sth of October.
Last Tuesday a French Brigantine from Cape
Francois, which had sprung a Leak at Sea, came
into this Pert to repair.
Wednesday latt being the Anniversary of his Ma
jesty's Accession to the Throne, the fame was observed
with the usual Refpe&; at Noon a Royal Salute
was fired from his Majesty's Ship Afis, commanded
by George Vandeput, Esq; and his -Excellency Go
vernor Tryon received the Compliments of the ho
nourable Gentlemen of the Council and the Gentle
men of the City.
The following is the Substance of the Examination
of Elijah Cable, of Fairfield, in Connecticut,
taken on Friday last before the Provincial Congress,
viz.
That he left St. John's on Friday the 13th, that
there is about 4000 Men at that Place; General
Montgomery is on the South Side, and the Canadians
on the Eatt Side ; the Bomb Batter') is 66 or 67 Rod
from the Fort, that they had let one Barrack on fire
in the Fort, with the great Mortar commonly called
the Old Sow. On Saturday the 14th, when he was
at the Ifle-a-Noix, a very heavy firing began early in
the Coining, and continued until Night, and then
began the next Morning, and continued until Ten
o'clock, when the bung ceased ; what was the
Event of this Action he could not tell, the Wind
being fair he set tail. He met General Woolterneac
Ticonderoga ; our People had taken from the Regu
lars^bme Blanket Coats, Stockings and Shoes, four
Ho^fheads of Rum, and some Wine ; that a Party
of t^e Regulars went cut in a Floating- Battery to
drive eff our Canadians, about 500 in Number, who
were at work on the East Battery, but were repulsed
three Days successively. Saw several Indians when
he came away : Our People lie on the North Side,
about Thiec Opalevs of a Mile from the Foit, and
often go up and kill the Centinels. Provifions'
plenty, and the Men in good Spirits ;---our Army
had lately received a Reinforcement of 6eo Men
from different Quarters : —General Montgomery has
a Sloop, a Schooner, and two Row-Gallies, each
has a Twelve Pounder, and c^ht or nine Swivels; a.
Boom is across at Ille-a-N,.x.---Our People shot
,several Holes through the King'is Vcffel after fire was
hauled up.—No Snow when he left St. John's.
Satuiday lad Cay t. Q^cKehbofs arrived here from
the Camp at St. Johns: He confirms the above
account, with this audition, that the Buttery Jaft con
ftru&ed would rake the Parade in die fort at St.
John's.,
A Letter frotn a Gentleman at Powles-Hook, dated
Lit Saturday,^ 4o ' Ctok, P. M, to his Friend in this
City, fay?, IT am just arrived here from Ticonderoga,
where nodding material hrs lately transpired, ba in hourly
Expectation ot the News pt St. John's being taken, as
vert heavy Firing was heard on Saturday Jaft.'T
We hear that the late Raihs hive c^ufed such
Floods above Albany that many Bridges a()udt that
P ace have been carried away, as well as great Quails
titles of Boards and Timber.