The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-03-16 00:00:00, page 3

The printer was favored with the following by a gentleman
who came passenger in the Swallow packet ; he requeued
that it might be exhibited to the public without any alter
ation, which is ftrialy complied with. Two other gentle
men, passengers, corroborate the fame intelligence.
" A gentleman, who came passenger in the Swallow
packet, gives the following intelligence: Having read a
paragraph in the last New-York Gazette, tending to mislead
the good people of America, and lull them into a fatal secu
rity, until the government of England have accumulated a
great army in the bowels of this much injured and oppressed
country, he does assert, from the belt authority, that tne intel
ligence above alluded to, is falfe and groundless ; the con
trary being the fad. The intention of fending Commissi
oners here being merely to bribe, corrupt and divide the pro-
riflemen, who was taken prisoner. He is committed to the
Bridewell at Bristol, until farther orders.
By a letter from Cork, dated Dec, 23, we are informed,
that the Marquis of Rockingham transport, that failed.from
Portsmouth, with the thirty-second regiment on board, was
wrecked between Cork and Kinfale the twenty-second, when
Lieut. Marlh, Ensign Sandiman,. the Captain of the ship, all
the crew, except four, with all the women and children, and
upwards of an hundred soldiers, were drowned.
By the last advices, fro^ the coast of Coromandel we learn,
that Mahomed Ali Khan, Nabob of Arcot, who is nearly in
a date of dotage, had applied to our M y for their assist
ance in fixing the succession of his government on Omiral
Omrah, his second f n n, in prejudice to the elder : That this
commission was entrusted to the conduct of some inferior ser
vants of the Company, who have been promised their douceurs
upon its success. Our correspondent, who favors us with this
intelligence, is perfectly acquainted with the characters and
dispositions of the two brothers, and wholly ascribes this con
du&of the father to a jealousy inherent in Asiatic Princes in
their decline, who are always then alarmed at feeing their im
mediate successor too popular during their own lives. He
paints the eldest son in the. molt amiable, the second in the
most odious colours, owing to his cruelty, pride, craft and
duplicity. He trusts that our S' , who mult have all
the tender feelings of a father, will not stain his honor by
joining in such an unnatural scheme.
The continental - army, assisted by a large body of militia,
are now carrying on the siege of Boston with great vigor. Last
Saturday night our artillery at the fortreffes of Cobble-hill
and Lechmere's-point, below this town, and at Lamb's-dam
in Roxbury, bombarded and cannonaded the town ;. the fol
lowing night the fame was continued with great briskness ;
and the whole of Monday night the artillery from all the
above fortreffes played incessantly. Our Ihot and shells were
heard to make a great crashing in the town, but we have not
learnt any particulars of the execution done thereby. The
enemy returned the. fire, from their batteries at West-Boston,
and from their lines on the Neck, very vigorously. They
threw many shells into the battery at Lechmere's-point, one
into the fort on Profpea-hill, and one or two as far as fort
No. 2, within a quarter of a mile of the College. On Mon
day night we had two killed, Lieut. Mayo at Roxbury, by
a cannon ball; and a man at Lechmere's-point by a (hell,
which, with one or two wounded, is all the loss of any con
sequence, that we have sustained. We have had but little
firing since Tuesday morning.
CAMBRIDG E, March 6.
N E W-Y O R K, March 14.
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vinces, that the whole may be the more easily swallowed up
and reduced to the most abje& state of conquered countries ;
which idea the present retraining bill muh make evident to
the meanest capacity. All American property whithersoever
found being rendered, by the ad of parliament that autho
rifes the crown to fend out commissioners, legal plunder'; and
under the presumption of its being pirated, is by the procla
mation of the belt of Princes, hearing date, St. James's,
Dec. 22, 177'5, apportioned out in fliares among the royal
pirates. That the court of France have ^eneroufly inter
fered through the court of Sweden, and thereby prevented
the embarkation of the Ruffians, which has reduced our
humane prince to the necessity of fending his hungry, though
confidential Hanoverians to take charge of our garrisons of
Gibraltar and Minorca, in order the better to enable him to
carry on his mild Scheme of cutting the throats of his Ameri
can fubjeds. Because they have the presumption to look
upon and hold the honest earnings of their industry to be
their own property."
Extract of a letter from Montreal, February 26.
" We have nothing material new from camp before Que
bec, except a few deserters now and then, who report that
there is a Scarcity of provisions, and that General Carleton
has promised the sailors in town one hundred pounds each,
and two hundred acres of land, wherever they choose it, if
they will defend the town till a reinforcement comes in the
spring.—Capt. Lamb and the rest of the prisoners, we hear,
are well."
A sea Captain arrived in one of the last vessels from St.
Piere's, Martinico, fays that the French in that illand speak
highly in favor of the Colonies, and several principal persons
informed him that they only waited for us to declare inde
pendancy, to attack the Englilh islands with their whole
force, which is much greater than has ever yet been reported
here. The letter from which the following extract was taken,
was copied by the Captain himfelf by permission of his mer
chant in St. Piere's, by whose spirit we may form a tolerable
guess what causes the hasty mission of Commissioners to treat
with us, backed with the whole force of the nation to expe
dite the negotiation, viz.
" PARIS, Dec. 26, 1776. Our young King has abolished
the office of Farmers General in this kingdom, and has fet
tled that every province shall have its own Assembly, composed
of three estates which will raise the taxes according to the sum
each province should contribute.
" The Clergy, whohave never been taxed, are now paying
an imposition of the twentieth part of their revenue. The
King has borrowed one hundred and twenty thousand pounds
to supply the charges of the crown till such time as matters
are fettled to his purpose.
"Louis the Sixteenth has annulled the revocation of the
Edi& of Nantes issued by Louis the Fourteenth against the •
Protestants. These people have thereby obtained the free ex
ercise of their religion, whence we hope that about five hun
dred thousand manufacturers, which persecution drove to' Old
England, will again return to their native country, especially
as they cannot find employment at present in that iiland.
" Mons. De la Chatelois, imprisoned in the last reign for
having represented the truth to Louis the Fifteenth, has been
restored to all his places and dignities by his prelent Majesty,
and compensated by a pension of eight thousand pounds."
A correspondent fays, “ Whereas it must be allowed by all
who have the leak preteufion&to good breeding, that nothing
PHILA DE LPHI A, March 16.