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HAMBURGH, August 24.
ACCORDING to authentic letters fiom Ha
nover, we learn, that counter orders were
received there concerning the embarkation of
toe Iloops of that Electorate at Stade, which were
dettined for Gibraltar and Port Mahon ; by which it
was presumed the Court of London had received
some favourable Proposals from the Americans, and
that matters would soon come to an accommodation.
LONDO N,
Augtfl 23. A negotiation of the most interesting
nature is carrying on between our Court and his
Prussian Majesty.
All the Officers in the French army and navy,
Who are,) England, have received orders to repair
to their refpedive corps with all expedition.
It is again reported that Lord Townsend will have
the chief command in North-America. He once
declared in the Houfo of Lords that with 10,000 men
he would march from one end of the continent to
the other.
Loft Friday t> Mercury Packet, fy.Drt ta^,
drived here in 8 Weeks from Falmouth, by
<wbom aye bofthe follraing Advices, viz.
Orders are issued from the War-Office for all the
officers of horse and foot feiving in Hanover to re
pair to their refp&&ive posts by the 26th of next
month on pain of being tafhiered.
August 24. A letter from Glasgow, Aug. if, fays,
« Mort than half a million of the debts due from
America to Glasgow, have, by the activity and
prudence of the Storekeepers, been recovered, and
sent home in the course of a few months pad. What
is owing to this country now is very trifling."
It is said that Lord Stanley has received a letter
from General Burgoyne at Boston, wherein he fays
that “ 20,000 men would be a feeble reinforcement
to the army there, in their present situation."
August 26 The report of the day is that the Em
press of Ruffin, in return for the service afforded her
in the war with the Turks, has offered Great-Britain
affiflance in quelling the dilhirb^nces ih the Colonies.
It is reported that the Miriiftry were by no m ans
unanimous about the issuing the late royal proclama
tion ; and it is the opinion of many, that healing
measures will certainly take place before the meeting
of Parliament.
It is agreed that Sir Jeffery Amherst does not su
persede General Gage as was firft meant. 'This hit
mentioned gentleman is to continue Commander in
Chief in America, whilst Sir Jeffery flays at home
to form one of the Cabinet in the war department ;
it being thought r perlon of his very great experience
must be more serviceable in the Council than the
Field.
Lord Pembroke's regiment, we hear, rs to do d^ty
in Ireland the entiling winter, and noY go to America
as has been reported.
Letters from Gibraltar Ming advice, that the Me
diterranean seas now f^arm with Barbary corsairs
since the defeat of the Spaniards at Algiers, and that
the Spanish men of war seem fearful of attacking
them ;, so that they plunder and carry off all the
Spanish merchant ships thev meet with.
It is certain fact that the militia of the different
counties of this kingdom will be embodied as soon
as the harvest is got in.
There are now gone arid going more artillery to
America than was last war, which is proof fufficient
that government is determined to crush rebellion.
Auguftg. Saturday last between fifty and sixty of
the foot guards, who ori promise of being made fer
jeants had offered to go to America, embarked on
board a vessel in the river bound to Boffon.
Letters from Paris mention, that (at the particular
request of the King of Spain) orders have been given
for fitting out immediately in the seaports of that
kingdom, 20 fltips of the line, which are to aflift the
Spaniards in subduing the piratical dates of Barbary.
On Saturday advice was received of the arrival at
Portfinouth of the Commerce, Capt. Mears, from
New-York, with dispatches for government, which
the fame day were brought to Lord Dartmouth's
Office.
Extras of a Letter from Goftort, Aug. i§.
" Information having been given here of many
thousand Hands of arms, ammunition, and f'everal
tons of gunpowder, being on board the Dutch man
of war which has been here for some time, bound to
Gibraltar, proper persons were sent on board, who
seized the fame, and lodged it on board the gwardfhips
atthis port ; and she this morning proceeded on her
voyage.
Extras of a Letter from Chatham, Aug. 15,
" Sunday last tailed from hence his Majesty's fri
gate Liverpool; of 28 guns, Bellow, bound for
America."
Yesterday advice was received that the Matty,-
Capt. Craig, from Philadelphia, is arrived at Dub
lin ; and it is said she has brought frelh advices front
the Cangrefs..
It is reported, that at the meeting of Parliament
the land-tax will be railed an additional shilling in
the pound.
The following is laid to be fact: On Thursday
last a noble Ear! came to town from his feat in Bucks
to his house in Pall-mall on particular business. The
fame day; soon after his arrival, the King being then
at the drawing-room at St. James's, hit for him, and
it was whispered he was to have been closeted, but
the fame afternoon he set off again into the country ;
and the next day, when he was again sent for, the
answer was, he was returned indiffeofed to S---e.
Extrafl of a letter from Portfmowh, Aug. 27.
" Last night arrived in St. Helen's Road his Ma
jesty's ffiip Roebuck, the Russia Merchant, and the
Elizabeth Transport, bound to Quebec. Soon after
arrived some more transports."
On Sunday and yesterday several ships arrived in
the river loaded with wheat, from Dantzic, Memel,
and other parts.
Aprofecution is commenced by Government against
Farfon H---e for his constitutional advertisement re
fpe&ing the Americans.
Aug. 31. All Ships now cleared out at Gravefend
are (trimly examined to fee that they have no fire
arms or ammunition on board defined for any part
of America. The like orders are sent to the inspec
tors of the out-ports.
“ Revived unanimously, That the sincere thanks,
of this Guild be presented to the Right Hon. the
Earl of Effingham, in testimony of our approbation
•f his public condu&, particularly exemplified in his
refilling to draw that f^rd, which had been employ
ed to tiie honour of his country, against the lives and
liberties of his fellow fubje&s in America, and bo
neiily and fyjritedly resigning a commission which he
could no longer hold consistent with the principles of
a true Englishman, or of a real friend to the intereffi
sf Britain."
Extras of a letter from Dublin, Aug. 25.
“ On the 17th ulr. at the Guildhall of this city,
the guild of Merchants agreed to the following reso
lutions :
jour nights facceffively. Yesterday they all met in a body
in 'Change lime, to tfer terms to the Merchants, but,
on being refused, they threatened to pull down the
'Change that night. The Magistrates and Merchants
planted 120 persons armed in the 'Change andat nine
o'clock las night, the sailors surrounded it, and were
fired onjrom within, "there were two faiiors killed,
and several wounded. I reckoned this morning sixteen
boles in one of Miss Williamson s foutters, and many of
the balls were Jound in the Jbop ; many other Jbops round
f the 'Change fared the fame Jate. The faiiors now
Igrewl grew defoeyate, on account of some of their party being
§ killed and wounded „ and this morning they have
broken open wareboujes for powder and mufets. At
l one o'clock they surrounded the 'Change, all armed,
some with mujkels and others with cutlasses, together
with three cannon ; they then boifed the bloody flag,
and began to fire on the "Change. How it wilt end I
cannot tell, hut have givenjou the earlies information.
All the boufes are Jbut up."
Eafl Friday jailed from Falmouth' bis Majeffs
frigate Lizard, with dispatches for the Governor of
Quebec.
Extra& of a Letter from Liverpool, Sept. r.
" No doubt but you have beard of the dreadful dis
turbance between the faiiors of this port and the Guinea
merchants, relative to their lowering the faiiors
wages. Such Jcer.es of difrefs I never before beheld ;
the clattering oj Jivords and cannon has so terrified me,
that I bardly know what I write. The firfl place the
Jailors proceeded to was the boufe of a Guinea merchant
in Whitechapel, who, they were informed, was one of
i theperfons that firjl jiredon them, which house, together
with all the furniture, they entirely dejiroyed. They
next proceeded to Mr. fames's bouje, the whole of
I which, together with great part of bis furniture,
! /bared the fame fate. It is impofible to form an idea of
the difrefs of the inhabitants, kaf night the riot-art
was read, which not having the dejired effort, the
faiiors were fired upon, when three were killed, and
fifteen wounded.-—A party of soldiers are arrived,
who bave secured about fifty of the ringleaders, and
the town is nowpretty quiet."
They write from Amferdam, that two bundtedhd
twenty ships were fitted out in thefeveral ports of Hol
landjor the Greenlandffbery ; seventy of which are
returned home clean : A circ^mfiance never known
before.
Extract of a letter frora General Burgoyne to a Noble
Lord, dated Boston, June 23.
“ Boston is a peninsula, joined to the main hri^oril,
by a narrow Neck, which on the firft troubles Gen. Gage '
fortified ;. arms of the sea, and the Harbour surround
the rest on the other fide, one of these arms to the north
is Charles Town, or rather was, for it is now rubbiffi,
and over it a large hill, which is also (like Boston) a 1
peninsula ; to the south of the town is a dill larger scope j
of ground, containing three hills, joining also to the I
main by a tongue of land, and called Qorcbefler Neck,
the Heights as above described, bsth north and south, (in
the Soldier's Phrase) command the town, that is, give
an opportunity of eroding batteries above any that you
can make against them, and consequently are much mirel
advantageous : It was absolutely neceflary we fhouldj
make ourselves meflers of these Heights, arid we pro-!
pored to begin with Dbrchefter, because from particularl
situation of batteries and Dipping (too long to defcribe,|
and unintelligible to you if I did) it would evidently be 1
effected without any considerable lafi ; every thing was 1
accordingly disposed, my two Collegues and myfelf, (who,[
by, the bye, have never differed in one jot if military
sentiment,) had, in concert with Gen." Gage, formedl
the plan ; Mow was to land the transports on the point)|
Clinton ia the Center, and I wa, to cannonade from the 1
Causeway or the Neck, each to take advantage of cir-!
cumftances: The o| erations must have been very easy , !
this was to have been executed on the /Sth. On the
17th, at dawn of day, we found the enemy had pushed
intrenchments with great diligence during the night, on'
the Heights of Charles T<wn, and we evidently saw
that every hour gave them frelh strength; it therefore j
became neceihry to alter our plan, and attack on that i
" Resolved, That the Sincere tharlks or this Otiild
be presented to the Right Hon. John Wilkes, Lord
Mayor of the city of London, for the essential servi
ces which he has rendered his Kirig and country, by
his ftrenuoas efforts in the cause of freedom, and for
his able, spirited, and judicious defence of the right
of the people to petition the throne."
Yesterday Col. Tchinfon, who lately arrived in
town from Boston, was at court.
Dispatches were sent from Lord Dartmouth's office
yesterday evening, by express to Portsmouth, where
a fliip is ready to fail immediately to carry them to
General Gage.
Lord Cornwallis, with several other young officers
and Gentlemen, have offered their services to his Ma
jesty, as Volunteers to go with the troops now defi
ned for America, which are accepted ; and their
equipages are preparing to embark.
Sept. 2. Wednesday evening two ladies of distinc
tion, having a dispute at a party of cards, repaired
yesterday morning in their carriages to a field near
Pancras, and fought a duel with pistols, when one
of them being; fiiot in the left arm, the affair termi
nated.
Yesterday a cabinet council was held at St.James's,
said to be on American affairs.
A letter from Corke fays, that ten fail of trans
ports arrived there to take on board some troops for
Bellon ; but orders have lately been received for ,the
troops hot to embaik till some men of war arrive to
take them under Convoy.
Sept. 5. Lafl Saturday's Gazette contains a fro
clarnationpubhjbed by the States General of the United
Provinces, dated Aug. 18, which absolutely prohibits
all exportation of ammunition, gunpowder, guns and
, Jbot, by flip belonging to the dominions oj Great Bri
tain, for the further term of a year, on pain, not only
of confifcation of the arms and ammunition, which
fball beJbihd there on board, but &lfo, oj a fine oj a
thousand guilders over and above, at the charge of the
Commander, whofeJhip Jhall be anjwerable and liable
to execution for thefame. And it is farther enabled,
that during the term oj one year, no gunpowder, guns,
foot, or other instruments of war, Jball be embarked
On board any other foips, whether foreign or belonging
so that country, to be transported abroad, without con
sent and permission of the College of Admiralty, under
wbefejurifiliflion the embarkation Jball be made, on
foot, or btber ammunition, which Jball have been
embarked without permifon, and aj ibe Commander's
incurring a fine oj a thousand guilders, on board cj
whofefoip the said arms and ammunition jball have
been embarked, and bis skip be answerable and liable
to execution for the said fine.
A letter from Liverpool, dated Aug. 30,fays, " The
whole ' town is in the greateji conjujion ! You fiow
there are a great.number of Guinea flips that go" from
this port ; butfir.ee the present difurbances in America,
as soon as they return, they are laid up, there being
now no fakjorjla&s ; this, together with the arrival
oj jewel al Greenlandmen, have thrown as many as
three thousand faiiors out of employ in this port. The
Merchants on this account have lowered their wages,
wbieb occajioned the Jailers to rife in great bodies, and
the, immedif tely went to allfhips that were ready to
fail, and unrigged them : tris has been praaifed for
pain of confifcation of fbe arms, gunpowder, guns,
flee. Row?, ns IlcAnd in coffim^J, was detached with
vbout two thousand men, and landed on the outward
Tide of he peninsula, covered with Dipping, without
opposition ; he was to advance from thence up the hill
which was over Charles Town, where the firength of the
enemy lay; he had under him Brigadier General Pigot;
Clinton and myfelf took our stand, (for we had not any
fixed post,) in a large battery directly opposite to Charles
Town, and commanded it, and also reaching the heights
above it, and thereby facilitating Howe's attack. Howe's
disposition was exceeding Soldier-like, in my opinion it
was perfect. As his firft arm advanced up the hill; they
met with a thousand impediments from strong tences,
and were much exposed. They were alio exceedingly hurt
by mufquetry from Charles Town, though Clinton and
I did not perceive it till Howe sent us word by a boat,
and desired us to set fire to the town, which was im
mediately dope; we threw a parcel of Shells, and the
whole was jnftantly in flames; our battery afterwards
kept an incessant fire on the heights; it was seconded
by a number of frigates, floating batteries, and one ihip
of the line : And now ensued one of the greatest feenes
of war that can be conceived; if we look to the
height, Howe's corps afeending the liill in the face cf
entrenchments, and in a very disadvantageous ground,
was much engaged, to the left the enemy pouririg in
freffi troops by thousands, over the land, and in the aim
of the sea our ships and floating batteries cannonading
them ; strait before ds a large and a noble town in one
great blaze ; the church ftceples being of timber, were
;great pyramids of fireabove the rest ; behind us the churth
steeples and heights of our ®wn camp, covered with
fp+Rators of the rest of our^army Which was en
gaged ; the hills rund the country covered with ipctfa
tors, the enemy all in anxious fufpence; the rar of
; cannon, mortars, and mufquetry, the crush of churches,
[fhips upon the flocks, and whole streets failing toge
ther in ruins to fill the ear ; the storm of the redoubts,
, with, the objects above described to fill the eye, and the
reflexion that perhaps a defeat was a final loss to the
British Empire in America, to fill the mind, made the
, whole a pi&ure and a complication of horror and impor
■tante beyond any thing that ev.i came to my lot to be
wonef, to.
I" I much lament Tom's* abfrnce---it was a fight far
' a young Soldier that the longest service may not lurwilh
, again, and had he been with me he would likewise have
I b^n out -,f danger, for excepttwo cannon bails that went
, an hundred yards over our heads, we were sot in any
I part o' the drirdion of the enemy's fho. A moment
I of the day was critical Howe's left were Daggered, two
; battalion, had been sent to reinforce them, but we
1 perceive them on the reach Gem ng in embarrassment
j whatwav tr march ; C.intern, then next for buhnels,
I tonic the part without waiting t r orders, t, throw him-
Ifelt into a boat to head them ; he arrived in time to be
of Service, the dav ended with glory, and she success
:rias most important confiddririg the afeeadanc, it gave
[ the regrhr troops ; but the loss was uncommon in
; Offir^i,or th e, n timbers engaged;
('Howe Was untouched, but bi, Aid-de-Camp,
Sherwin, was killed; Jordan, a friend cf Hewe's, who
came e* ga^e le de coeur, to fee the campaign, a >hip
mate of ours on board the Cerberus, and who a^ed as
Aid d^-Camp) is badly wounded. Pigot was unhurt, but
he behaved like a Hero. You will' fee the lift of the
loss. Poor Col; Abercrombie, who commanded the
Grenadiers, died yesterday of his wounds. Capt. Addi
son, our poor old friend, who arrived but the day before,
and was to have dined with me on the day of the action,
was also killed ; his son was upon the field at the fame
time. Major Mitchell is but very ' slightly hurt ; he is
out already; young Chetwynds Mound is also Right,
Lard Percey's regi merit has fuffered the inofy and behaved
the heR; his Lofdffiip himfelf was not in the a&ion :—
Lord Roden behaved to a charm ; his name is eftabliihed
for life,"
* His .nepbro, the Hon. Thomas Stanley, Est (and
1 brother to Lord Stanley) Tube is gone a Volunteer to Afton,
in bis Majtftfs service.
Sept. 6. The People of Ireland in general, we
hear, are extremely out of temper, and displeased
with the Court on many accounts ; but on none so
much as the arming 5000 Irish Papifls, for the
purpose of subduing their fellow protestant fubje&s
in America.
A true copy of the petition from the General
Congress, in America, to his Majesty, was delivered:
to Lord Dartmouth the firft of this month, and to
which his Lordship said no answer would be given.
A RICHARD PENN,
Sept.^m. ARTHUR LEE.
A report is current at the weft end of the town,
that Lord Harcourt has requested a reinforcement of
6000 troops, hadug received good information that
the Spaniards intend to pay a vilit to Ireland.
Portsmouth, Sept. i. Saturday lafl arrived at
Spithead, several transport, with artillery on board,
for 80,0 n..
IRELAND.
(Galway, Augt, 17. L,ft Monday the 28'th regi
ment received the route for Corke, whither the firft
Qv/fion is to begin its march hence on Friday the
2fh irritant, Arid will he followed by the second and
h^divifion the next day, in order to join the other
regiments who are to embark there for America.
Atblone, August 19. Yesterday arrived in town , one
company of the 17th regiment of foot from Stokef
town, two from Granard, and early this morning
two companies more from Carrick -^-Shannon, who
joined the remainder of the regiment here,, ai>dare
under orders for America.
Corke, August f 7. Yesterday Mafor Boyle Roche, Re
presentative in Parliarr-ent tor Tralee (wheris railing a
briy of men tor his Myefty's service) began recruiting
here, and met with great success, which is not turpriz
ing, if we confider his connexions, and the uncommon
I fupport he has received fr m the Noblemen and Gentle-
I men of this province.. His method of enlisting was un
; common as it was pleasing to those who viewed the pro
j cession, which was as follows:
Major Roche, bearing a large purse of gold..
Captain Cowley.
A great number of likely recruits,
A^ elegant band of music; consisting of French horns,
Hautboys, clarionets and bafEons, playing c God
save the King.'
A large Brewer's dray, with five barrels of beer, the
horse richly caparifon~d and ornamented
with ribbands.
Two Draymen with cockades to serve the beer.
The Recruiting Serjeant.
Drums and Fifes.
Another division of Recruits.
The Recruiting Soldiers.
Prodigious concourse of SDelators,
, The following speech was made by Major Roche to
the populace ;
Gentlemen, and Fellota Countrymen,
Being appointed, through the favour of our most ex
cellent Governor, to raise a bodv of men for the service
of his Majesty, I think it the most happy circumstance
of my life to be the instrument of leading' you to honour
and renown.
The laurels fought for and obtained in all parts of the
globe lart war, have procured us a fame so glorious as
not to be equalled by any people jn any age---A fame
not to be lulled by the aflaults of prejudice, nor the
effefsof time: Not an adfiun in which we were not
victorious, rot a siege in which we were not honoured.
Will you, my dear countrymen, permit those laurels to
fade, or thHe actions to be forgotten ? No, forbid it
Heaven ! jet us now that we have it in our power convey
to latest posterity a renewal of our fidelity, and a confir
mafo^of our loyalty. Amore critical period never pre
sented itfelf, n,or had we ever a fairer opportunity of
'Juf published, and to be fold b,
NOEL and HAZARD,
THE
LAW of LIBERTY:
A SERMON on American Affairs.
PREACHED at the opening of the Provincial
Congress of Georgia. Addre^d te the
Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth.
To ivbicb is subjoined,
An APPENDIX.
Containing a concise Account of the Struggles
Sivifferland to recover their Liberty.
By JOHN JOACHIM ZUBLY, D. D.
One of the Representatives of the Colony of Ge ra
©rgia in the Continental Congress.
" The commanding officer at St. John's has been so
polite as to let our battea as pass to the head of the rapids,
in order to rake in the baggage of the Chamblee garrison.
He behaved very genteely to Lieut, Lockwood of Water
bury's, who went in with the request from Major Stop
ford. r
“ The Major is a man of family in Ireland,
^ Major Brown has brought the colours of the 7th
regiment, which I have the honour to transmit to you."
Articles proposed by his Majesty's garrifen at Chamblee.
h Ihe officers and men not to be made prisoners, butt
to march, unmolefied, with their arms, accoutrements^
twenty-four rounds of ammunition each, drums Beatings
colours flying, and provision carts fufficient to pass by
the shortest road to Montreal, or any other place in the
provice of Quebec, at the option of the Hon. Major Stop
ford, the conirr.-ndihgofficer. 2, Officers and men to
be allowed their baggage. 3. Themen not to be decoyed
from their reginrant. 4. Women and children to be per
mitted to go with the regiment, and their effe& s , unmo
lested. 5. The ammunition and Hores of all kinds re
maining in the garrison, to be given up. 6. Hostages
to be given on both sides, for the faithful performance of
the above articles, and then to be exchanged.
An!wer to the above Articles by Major Brown.
L The garrison, officers and men, to surrender them—
selves prisoners of war. 2. In case the garrison surren
ders prisoners of war, to have all their baggage, agreeable
to their desire.. 3. It never was the intention of any
officer, intruded with the command of a party, now
befeging your fort, to take the advantage of decoying
the garrison after a foleran engagement entered into by
both parties, and conlequently your fears on that head
are groundless. 4. The women, and children shall be
permitted to go with the rest of the garrison, and take
their eftefts, provided the garrison surrender as aforefaid,,
5. The ammunition and Hores, &c. of all kinds to be
delivered up upon the faith and honour of the command
ing officer.
In reply to Major Brown's answer to the Hon. Major
Stopford's proposals, in regard to the surrender of Fort
Chamblee, Major Stopford having considered Major
Brown's articles agrees to the fame, although he could
wish the firft might have been as he proposed.
Major Stopford, replying in every article, on Major
Brown's honour, will give him up the fort any hour to
morrow mornivg.
Dewing ddf augment to the Uluftus Eoufe of Hano
ver, than the present, as his Majesty's deluded fubjefts
in America are in open rebellion, and like unnatural
children would destroy their ever indulgent parent, for
getting the torrents of blood fpilt, and heaps of treafu^
expended tor their preservation.
His Sacred Majesty now calls us, and our fidelity
obliges us, and I hope your inclination prompts you, to
obey the dictates of so good and lenient a master. Let us
then, my brave and loyal countrymen, join hearts and
hands, and cheerfully step forth in the glorious cause of
our Creator, 'our King, and our Country. We have it
in our power by unanimity and inexhaustible resource,
to reduce those daring rebels to a due obedience to
their Sovereign, and lubmiffion to the laws of their coun
try, which will give a fieffi conviction to all Europe that
Hibernian laurels have not faded by time, but on the
co' trarv a^e increasing in bloom and verdure.
It is computed, that fhoula the American w?<
continue but for thiee years, the very ex;ence of the
naval and military force, necessary to complete the
reduction of that continent, will amount to at lead,
ten millions fttrling,' over and above our usual peace
e(h,Lament. Add to this at lead as much more,
which we shall lose in trade, commerce, and manu
factures, befi leg the lives of 100,000 gallant En
gliftrnen, on the lowest computation.
NORTH-CAROLIN A.
Hillsborough, 25th of August, 177^.
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS)
Present 185 Delegates.
A paper purporting to be a proclamation irfued by his
Excellency Governor Martin, dated on board his Majesty's
ship Cruizer, at Cape-Fear, dated on the Sth of August
inflanr, direOed to the Moderator of the Provincial Con
vention at Hillfborough, being read:
Refaroed unanimzufly, That the said paper is falfe, scan?
dalous, scurrilous, mabcivus, and a seditious Libel, tend
ing to difuaite the good people of this province, and ta
stir up tumults and in furredions, dangerous to the peace
of his Majesty's government and the fafety of the inha
bitants, and highly injurious to the characters of several
Gentlemen of acknowledged virtue and loyalty ; and
further that the said paper be burnt by the common hang
man.
In Provincial Congress, HiSfoornugh, loth September 177f0
Refolded, That no perlon holding a military offices
from which he receives of expels profit, hor anv perlon
holding a lucrative office under any of the mi i ary com
manders in particular, or the army in general, shall be
capable to ad as a member of the Provincial Council,
or any of the Committee's of Safety, or a Reorefentativh
of the People in Congress (Officers and Commanders of
the Militia only excepted.)
PHILADELPHIA, November 4 .
By an Express just arrived from the Eastward we have
the following intelligence:
Extract of alerter from General Montgomery, dated Camp
before St; John's, October 20, 1775.
" I have the pleasure to acquaint you with the surren—
der of Chamblee to Major Brown and Major Livingston,
which l'ft headed about geo Canadians. We had not
abo% fifty cf our troops. Indeed it was the plan of the
Canadians, who carried down the artillery pad the Fort
of St. John's in bateaus. 1 fend you the colours of
the 7th regiment and a lift of stores taken. Major
Brown allures me that we have gotten fix tons of powder,
which w : th the blessing of God will finish our business,
here,-. M^f Brown offered trig service upon this occasion.
Upon this and all other occasions I have found him aftive
and intelligent.
" The enemy's schooner is funk, thev have not
been anxious to save her, else they might easily have pro
tracked her tate. I must now think ualeA some unlucky
accident befalls us, we /ball accomplish our business here,
as I shall fall to work in earnest on this fide of the water-
The troops are in high spirits. Col. Warner has had )
little brul hwith a party from Montreal. The enemy
retired with the loss of five prisoners and some killed ;
some of the prisoners (Canadians) are dangerous enemies,
and must be taken care of, La Mouche one of them-
That the Caghnawagas have desired 100 men from us.
I have complied with their request, and am glad to fini
they put so much confidencein us, and arc so much afraid
of Mr. Carleton ; not that I think they had any thing
to apprehend, tie has too much bufin^s on his hands
already to wish to make more enemies.
" I mail endeavour by means of the Chamblee garrison,
to obtain better treatment for AWen and the other priso
ners, as well Canadians as our own troops.
" I shall fend off the prifeners as soon as possible;
their number of women and quantity of baggage is asto
nishing-
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