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and Capt. Bedkin, officers of his corps, who
anting upon this occasion as # volunteers, pro
ceeded at the head of the right column, and
entering the redoubt among the firfl, by their
gallant example contributed to the success of
the enterprise.
Our killed and wounded you will perceive
by the inclofed return. I sensibly felt at a
critical period the loss of the assistance of
Lieut. Cel Gimat, who received a raulket
ball in his foot, which obliged him to retire
from the field. Capt. Bets, of Lauren's corps,
Capt. Hunt and Lieut. Mansfield, of Gimat's,
were wounded with the bayonet in gallantly
entering the work, Capt. Lieut. Kirkpatrick,
of the corps of foppers and miners, received a
wound in the ditch. Inclofed is a return of
the prisoners. The killed and wounded of
the enemy did net exceed eight. Incapable
bf imitating examples of barbarity, and for
getting recent provocations, the soldiery [par
cdevery man that ceased to refill.
. 1 have the honour to he.
With the marmeft efeem and attachment,
Sir, pur mo# obedient bumble servant,
A. HAMILTON,
Lieut. Col. Commandant.
.Major General the Marquis de la Fayette.
Cam,, before York Tomn, O&7. Ifo 1781.
RLTUR N of the killed and wounded of the French
troop fiice the beginning oftbefege of York.
From the 6th to the 7th of October,
in making the firft parallel. Kill. Wounded.
Main attack, 0 1
Attack up the river at the left, 0 7
One officer of the artillery wounded,
From the 7th to the Bth.
In making the batteries upon the firft parallel.
- Main attack, 0 6
From the Bth to the 9th.
Continuation of the batteries.
Main attack, 1 1
From the pth to the 10th.
Continuation of the batteries,, 0 2
Attackup the river, 0 3
from the loth to the nth.
Th? batteries firing.
Main attack, 1 1
, , From the i.!th to the 12th.
Opening the fecoud parallel.
Main attack/ - 0 4
Attack tip the river, o- 3
Extra's from Robe? Papers.
PHILADELPHIA, Oft. 31.
Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton's report to Major-Ge
neral the Marquis * la Fayette, mitb a return, /
^bich mere omitted las publication fir woant [
ofrecm.\
SIR,I
I HAVE the honour to render you.an ac-1
count of the corps under my command, in f
your attack of last night upon the redoubt onl
the left of the enemy's lines.
Agreeable to your orders, we advanced in
two columns with unloaded arms, the right
p^npofed of Licut. Col. Gimat's battalion and
my own, commanded by Mejor Fish. The
left of a detachment commanded by Lieut.
Col. Laurens, defined to rake the enemy in
K-verse, and intercept their retreat. The co
lumn on the right was preceded by a van
guard of twenty men, led by Lieut. Mans
field; and a detachment of sappers and mi
ners, commanded by Capt. Gilliland, for the
purpose of removing obftruaicns.
The redoubt was commanded by Marjor
Campbel, with a detachment of British and [
German troops, and was completely in aj
state of defence.
The rapidity and immediate success of thel
assault, are the bell comment on the behavi-1
our of the troops. Lieut. Col. Laurens di
ftinguilhed hirn felf by an exafl and vigorous
execution of his part of the plan, by entering
the enemy's work with his corps among the
foremoft, and making prisoner the command
ing officer of the redoubt. Lieut. Col. Gi
mat's battalion, which formed the van of the ;
right attack, and which fell under my imme-I
diate observation, encouraged by the decifive|
and animated example .of their leader, ad-|
vanced with an ardor and resolution superior
to every obftaole. They were well seconded
by Major Fifb, with the battalion under his
command, who, when the front of the column
reached the abbattis, unlocking bis corps to
the left as he had been direfled, advanced
with such celerity as to arrive in time to par
ticipate in the afl'ault.
Lieut. Mansfield deserves particular com
mendation, for the coolnef% firmnefs, and
punctuality, with which he conduced the van
guard. Capt. Olney, who commanded the r
firft platoon ofGimat's battalion, is intitled:
'to peculiar applause. H^ led his platoon in--
to the work with exemplary intrepidity, and
received two bayonet wounds. Capt. Gilli-j
land, with the detachment of sappers and mi
ners,, acquitted themselves in a manner that
did them great honour.
I do but justice to the fevera! corps when 1
have the pleasure to assure you, there was
-not an officer nor soldier whose behaviour, if
it could be particularized, would not have h
plai.ro t? the warmest approbation. As it
.would have been attended with delay and tof,
to wait for the removal of the abbattis and
p^llifades, the ardor of the troops was indulg
ed in paffieg over them.
There was a-happy coincidence of move
ments. The redoubt was in the fame mo
ment inveloped and carried on every part.
The enemy are intitled to the acknowledge
ment of an honourable defence.
Permit me to have the fatisfa&ion of ex
pressing our obligations to Col. Armand,
Capt. Segogne, the Chevalier de Fontivicux,
NEW-LONDON, Od. 19.
I Lalt Monday the brig Sampson, Captain
Brocks, and the schooner Freedom, Captain
Brainard, anchored at the harbour's mouth;
the former, in company with the Young
Cromwell, lalt Saturday tok a large brig
from Quebec, 6 weeks out, bound to New-
York, laden with lumber ahd eflence of
Spruce.
Capt. Brooks, last Monday fe'rnight, saw
a fleet of 4^ fail, chiefly brigs and sloops, off
Sandy-Hook, under convoy to 2 frigates ; —
he supposes they were a fleet of victuallers from
Corke, and that they got into New-York that
1 day, the wind being fair.
Offi^M^^^.^^O
LONDO N,
A letter fiom the Hague, by the lalt mail,
has the following article, " We have great
reason to believe here that some plan is in
agitation for a negociation to be entered into,
in order to bring about a general peace, as
expresses are passing daily from hence to Peterf
burgh. Private conferences are almost daily
held with the Ruffian, the French and Spanish
Ambassadors. It is the with of moll people
that the present war may not be of much longer
duration, as it greatly affie&s the trade of the
federal Provinces."
The Cochrane, Captain Bolton, of Clyde,
lupon her passage from Charleltown to Virginia,
j was attacked the 12th of April by the Miner-
Iva privateer of Virginia, mounting 10 guns,
I and manned with 50 men. The Minerva how
-lever, after having five of her men killed and
;upwards of twenty wounded, and loting her
Imainmaft, struck in lets than fifteen minutes.
IFive days after the Cochrane, proceeding with
I her prize, was again atteked by the Fair
lAmerican privateer of Philadelphia, mounting
;fixteen guns, and manned with upwards of one
I hundred men, which she obliged to iheer off
, after an engagement of three glaffes,' and af
[ter having killed her Captain and federal of
I ler meh, and wounded a number more. The
iCochrane, on leaving Charleftown, had only
; 31 seamen and 12 passengers in all, eight of
whom were wounded in both engagements.
A letter from Madrid.to ,a Spanish mer
chant in London has the following article.
.The ministry and council here.are much divi-
From the 12th to the 13th.
Commencing of the batteries on 7 f
the second parallel,j
Two officers wounded.1
From the 13th to the 14th.
Continuation of the batteries, 1 28
Attack up the river, 0 3
From the 14th to the i;th.j
Attack of the two redoubts of)
the enemy down the river,
Six officers wounded.
TOTAL.— 50 127 §
Nine officers wounded, two of them are since §
dead.
Return of the kilted and abounded of the American I
army, from the zSih Sept. 17^1, the day of the;
invefiture of York, to the form of the enemy's
redoubt, on tire night of the 14th October jol
luiuing, iuclufwe.
From the invelliture of York to the opening of
the firft parallel on the evening cf the 6th
oa. exclusive.
Continentals, killed, 1 ferjeant, 3 rank and
file..—Wounded, 1 Colonel*, 2 rank and file.
Militia, killed, 1 rank and file.—Wounded,
6 rank and file.
From the opening of the firft parallel to that of
the second on the evening of the 11th Oft.
exclusive.
Continentals, killed, 2 rank and file.—
Wounded, 3 rank and file. Militia, wound
ed, 3 rank and ftle.
From the opening of the second parallel to the
14th October, inclusive.
Continentals, killed, 1 Capt. 3 rank and
file.—Wounded, I Capt. 7 rank and file.
Militia, killed, 3 rank and file. —Wounded,
7 rank and file.,
At the storm on the evening of the 14th O&.
Continentals, 'killed, 8 rank and file.— :
Wounded, 2 Lienr. Cols. I Major, 2 Capts. $
I Capt. Licut. I Licut. 1 ferjeant, 28 rank
and file.
Total Continentals, killed, 1 Capt. I fer
jeant, 16 rank and file. —Wounded, 1 Col.
7. Lieut, ditto. 1 Major, 3 Capts. 1 Capt.
Lieut. I Lieut. 1 ferje„ant, 40 rank and file.
Total Militia, killed, 4 rank and file.—
Wounded, 16 rank and file.^
Officers killed at the-opening of the second
parallel.—Capt. White, cf CoL Vofe's b'atta
lion infantry. Wounded at ditto, Capt.,
Gobelin, of Gen, Hazen's regiment.
Officers wounded at the storm.—Lieut.
Cols. Barber arid Gimat, Major Barber, In
fpe&or to light infantry Jivihon, Capts. Ol
ney and Hunt, of Col. Gimat's battalion ofl
infantry, Capt. Lieut. Kirkpatrick, corps of
fappersand miners, Lieut. Mansfield, of Col.
Gimat's battalion ofinfautry.
* Colonel Scammell. since dead.
EDWARD HAND, A. G.
Published by order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'ry.
The returns of Lord Cornwallis's army are
not yet arrived. A gentleman from the South
ward has brought the following particulars,
viz. 7000 under arms; 1000 fedmen; £0 kef
fels, 30 of which were funk; 60 pieces of
brass ordnance, and too ofiron; 900 barrels
of beef and pork, and 300 of flour; 200 bar
rels of powder. The number of Bands of
arms, refugees, negroes, &c. he dues not
know. •.;!.:
Carenage, Sept. 29. On Tuesday Tail arrived
here the (hip Rawlinson, Captain Daggers,
;and brig Jenny, Captain Gill, from Liverpool,
& which place they left the beginning of Augutt.
I Also the ship Dick, Captain Campbell,, from
I New-York, which she left the latter end of the
fame month. The above veflels were chafed
to windward of Barbadoes, by the Galatea and
Medea French frigates, but luckily escaped
from them in the night.
Yesterday arrived here from Martinique,
Captain Robertson, and the officers of the
British Lion, from Quebec, bound to Barbados,
who was taken, after a very gallant defence,
by the two frigates that convoyed the lad fleet
from France.
N° '"" "'"' tbe frf Convoy)
The Ship BLENHEIM,
Christopher Millar;" Mafte-;
W LLL known foi her excellent
'7 acc ou mbdatioT'. "For freight
or pdflage apply to William and James
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RICHARD SMITH,
No. 11, Queen-Street, near the Fly-Market, has
imported and is now landing from fqndry Ships
in the Fleet.
a General and well chosen assortment of Piece
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fold on very reasonable terms by whokfale for Calk.
Also, a general assortment ofarticles in the Grocery
Branch; Militaiy Shoes, Boots ad Shirts of the
belt quality.
N. B. Anfoffortment of Hardware, fine fiefh
London Flout, Porter in Hogsheads, Cordage arid
small Cables, Sail Cloth from No. 1, to No. 8.
Twine in Hogsheads, Earthen and Glass Ware well
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ANN WHITE, Executrix.
ded in their opinion relative to the continu
ing the siege of Gibraltar; some are f>r haz
arding even the dellrudion of the army and
navy to take it, others are for withdrawing the
forces and fleet from before it to be employed
against some other places, where there is a
probability of Success. However, a great
personage declared that he would rifle every
thing else to gain possession of it, and has
promised great honours and rewards to those
officers and men who behave most gallantly
in the taking of it; but it is the general
opinion here, that if the English behave as
bravely now as they have done in former wars,
that it will be impossible for the forces of Spain
to take it, as a great number of men have loft
their lives since the siege began.
A few days since a.man named John Bofel,
eat the following enormous meal at the' Royal
Oak in Tupton near Chester,field, viz. Forty
feven duck eggs ; thirty-four hen eggs; two
large potatoes; four penny loaves; and one
pound of hog's lard ; he also drank'orie gallon
of ale. He devoured the wnole in the space
of three hours.
July 31. Mons. de la Motte, [condemned
for high treafon] on Thursday evening before
his execution, fat till past twelve o'clock
playing at drafts with the Warden that at
tended him in the Tower ; hr: then went to
bed, and slept so found, that when the priest
arrived at three o'clock in the morning, he
was found snoring violently. He immediately
arose on being awakened by the Confeffor,
and prayed with great calmness, fervour and
resignation, till half past five, at which time
the sheriffs arrived, and conduced him to
Newgate.
o ^to^^PScotto ^^^^^^^
BASSETERRE, (St. Kitts) Sept. 8.
With pleasure we can assure our readers,
that, within the course of this week, no less
than 73 000 feet of lumber, and 237,000
Singles, have been imported into this road.
This, we hope, willjhortly reduce the present
most exorbitant price of those very necessary
articles.
St. JOHN'S, in ANTIGU 1, Sept. t 9.
On Saturday lalt bis Excellency General
Shirley, reviewed the Militia troop bf Carbi
neers on the Government ground. They
made a very fine appearance, and went though
a vast variety of toahouvres on horseback and
on foot, with "firings, marchings, &c, &c. with
an exadnefs and dexterity that might do hon
our to Regulars. His Excellency expreft his
utmott fdtisfa&ion at their discipline and
adroitness.
r St. John's, (ANTIGUA) Oaober 2.
I: isfaid that > certain account has arrived
at the French, ifonds, of an alliance having
taken placcbetween Russia and Great-Brirain,
to which rGrtugal has also acceded ; and fur
ther, that there was no doubt but the Empe
ror would very speedily enter the lifts on the
f>me fide: But we do not find that this in
teresting and important intelligence is con
firmed by thelaft advices from London,
The French fleet confining of 24 fail of the
line failed from the Cape the zd inlt.
The French fliip of the lire called '['lntre
pid, of 64 guns, accidentally took fire at Cape
Francois, a few days before the failingpf the
above fleet, and was blown up. The crew
were all fared. , f :
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