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Extras of a letarfrcw: d-bany, ,ulf 21.
•• '!} last accounts from the rtor: ' '^d are,
Ja: Major rates, of the firft Ncuv-York regi
urcy Kith the treofts under bis command, has
AardooM Fort George, but previous thereto all
Mefores, to the minutes article, were removed
brerthere: to Fort Ed-veard. Part of the enemy
fid remain at Sheenflorougb, whether they vsttl
proceed ox from thence and endeavour to penetrate
the ccuntry, is jet uncertain ; but fbould they at
tempt it, there is reason to expefi they will meet
with a warm reception.
“ Col. Shene (who is to be Governor of Ti
conderoga, Crown- Point, <sc.) is with a body
of the enelm, at a place called Cafletown, about
18 miles this fide Mount Independence, where be
is employed by proclamations, threats, and flatter
'd Jfccbes, to endeavour to per/uade the weaker
fort, from their allegiance to the States, and to
remain idle fyeaators of the ruin and depreda
ions carried through their country ; few of them
suave yet joined, and there is reaJon to expeft few
of Cm will, as Colonel Warner is near him wish
a body of troops to off he him in bis defgns.
" General Nixon with about loco men, lies at
and about Fort fun, to obfrutf the feaffagc and
intercept the enemy's floats, of whom our people
daily make prisoners. The day before jeferday
five were taken between Fort Finn and Skenfbo
rcugh ; three of them appeared like Indians, nd
upon being wafted, were found to be torses, who
•wore gone over to the enemy from the neigbbour
te^d of Fort Ldward.
'' General Schuyler continues his bead quarters
at Fort Ecward, where be has a referable ar»,
of continental troops and militia, all in high Jpi
rits. The fund will be made at Mojes Creek,
about four mile, on this fide of Fort Edward, a
place well formed for define.
" There is nothing from the we/lward, all is
#eace there. The Six Nations are gone to hold a
conference with Sutler and Sir 'John Jobfon, at
Gfwc&o ; after which, they have stat word by
two Indians, they will immediately come down
and bold a conference with the comtatfouers at this
" P. S. The rcafons assigned by the Council of
far for evacuating Ticonderoga, remain as yet a
ferret, and mus continue so till Congress think
proper to ma e it public."
Extras of a letter from Fort Stanwix, June 27.
" There is not a4prefect any appearance of our
'being attacked, by the enemy : he are however
making ah the preparations for a defence, which
the fate of the garrijon admits, the Six Na
tions are in general friendly, and seem revolved
tax to take an afiive part agaixft us. We are not
therefore under any apprehensions , from the bod, of
indans, though we have reason to far some
^ijebief will be dore by frolling individuals,
wbe do not govern tbemfelves by the sentiments of
the nation to,which they belong. Arecent infance
cf barbarity fews that this fear is not ground
ay's ; I was but just come into tbe fort, when we
received tbe disagreeable news of tbe cruel treat
onent of Caps. Gregg, and tbe murder of one
Matchfon, an alert private : Two Indians, about
Free quarters op a mile from tbe fart, having
fred upon them, killed Mattbifon on the spot, and
wounded tb^ Captain in the back ; after jcalping
them both, the juvage^ ran off wish precipitation
Gne cf cur dogs lighting upon the spot where the
unfortunate vifiims were lying, m^de tfr firft dij
ecvery ; run to feme of tbe jolliers, banning back
.^ tbe tragical sage, and returning to fe soldiers,
wtb evo, apptnance of umafnejs, be excited
an anxiety in them to know what might be tbe
.wt/e cf Jucb extraordinary motions. This cir
-nmjhave was the means of, saving the life of
-apt. Gregg ; bis wounds were imm diuttL drej
,cd, .and ae now lies under tbe care of Dr. Wocd
vf, who treats him with tbe greatest a tention
^.d tendernejs ; bis recovery is probable. A
number of Sachems end Warriors ft cm the Oneida
defile and Erijkte, soon waited upon Col. Gan/e
---7 cort, and exprffd th ir forrowfor tbe accident,
'farting their innocence, throwing tbe, blame upon
the lory Indians, and declaring their readin Js 0
„ every means to difeever tbe murderers andbing
4»em foj&fice ; a^umber of them went cut with
two cf cur Jeouting parties to find out tbe vil
a 'ns, but tbe, returned without coming up with
Friday las arrived the Eagle Packet, Capt.
Lewis, in 7 Weeks and 3 Days from Fal
mouth ; by whom we have tbefolkwing Ad
vices, viz.
X l ' i< A NCFORT, April 29.
/"J- HE Porte has made an offer to the C< urt
& of Vienna of a coniiderable sum of
re ,ney, to remain neuter in case of a war
! erween the Grand Signor and the Ruffians,
to which proposal the Porte has not received
any cecifve arlwer. Till an anfoer is given,
the Turks will come to no final resolution
^kh refoed to her conduct towarcs Raffia,
bring firn determined to feel the pulses of the
<l+ercnr Courts, before the will accuiefce in
Ce demand of the Empress of Russia, or dif
r'te them by the fivord.
C/i9. Authentic letters from Vienna an
m ui ce that they have received advices there
C< m Constantinople, that the Porte, through
him perfuafen of the Minister of their Impe
ria! Mickies, had likened to the propolals
Voich the Ruffian Minilier hath made for
Longing about an accommodation.
f^, April 27. The Noftra Signora de
Calvados arrived here, reports, that the was
iought coo about 12 leagues off the Rock of
if.^on, by an American privateer, of 16 guns,
who boarded her, rummaged her papers and
<^o, and took out fcveral chells, as also four
'.& Treads of wine, and then buffered her to de
pft, using a number of scurrilous names tc~
w%rds them, on account of the orders of their
t'< ^rt concerning the American Dipping which
m^h: arrive in the fcr:ral ports of iortugal. ,
I CudL, Marfo aS. Several companies of
I Volunteers have been draughted off for Spa r
Iniffi Ameirca.
The last accounts from Gibraltar mention,
that the Englilh frigate the Levant, Captain
Murray, brought in there an American pri
vateer of <8 guns and 100 men, which she
took off Madeira, and the above-mentioned
frigate is failed upon a cruize with the priva
teer, whom she has manned with 60 men.
Hague, May 27. Our last accounts from
Hanover, dated the 23d of this month, men
tion, that Colonel Faucit, the English Com
midary for the foreign troops taken into Bri
tifli pay, set out the 21st for Bremer Lehn, to
embark the new corps of the Chaffeurs, railed
at Heffe-Caffel, and destined for America.
It was thought belt for them to take Whipping
there, to avoid the many detentions the other
corps met with, who were often vififed, and
obliged to be landed, particularly at Mentz,
Coblentz, and Duffeldorp, which put them to
great inconvenience, and was the cause of their
iiofing many men.
LONDO N,
May 19. This morninga Messenger arrived
I with some dispatches from Sir jofeph Yorke at
Ithe Hague, which were immediately sent to
§ his Majesty at Kew. Some difpatch.es were
I also received from the Lord Lieutenant of
llreland.
I They write from Lifhon, that the Inten-
Idant of Marine had sent orders to the Gover-
{ nors at all the sea ports, that fhbuld any Ame-
I rican vessels putin there through llrefs of wea-
Ither, they should be ordered out immediately
lon the dorm abating, but on no account to
furnifh them with provisions, or fuffer any of
their crew to go on shore without imprison-
) ment.
, A new frigate, which is to be called the
Laurel, is going to be built for Government,
under the inspection of a Captain of a man of
war; she is to mount 40 guns, 26 of which
' are to he iS pounders, which file is to carry on
I one deck. She is likewise intended to carry
( a number of cohorns, and to be provided with
close quarters, and when finifhed will be the
I largelt frigate that ever failed in the Britilh
INavy.
lOn Friday last news arrived at the Admiral-
Ity from Plymouth, of five American prizes
!being brought into that Harbour within these
f five days past.
l Extract of a letter from Rotterdam, May : 3.
§ " I have this moment received advice from
[ Oftend, that Cunningham, Beach, and twenty
Mmore of the Pirates, were thrown into goal at
&Dunkirk, last Friday, by orders from the court
I of France, who ordered the ships they had ta
-Iken to begiven up to the owners. Cunningham
I fays, that he put the Dutch Mail on shore
between Nieuport and Dunkirk the sth inst.
that it might be sent to Paris to Dr. Franklin,
who is there ”
On Friday in theafternoon Capt. Kelly, of
the Joseph, bound from London to Hamburg,
taken by Cunningham, and carried into Dun
kirk, arrived in town from the above port,
where he had been to foli cit the release of his
, ship; but was told by the Governor, that he
;mult procure from Lord Weymouth ^Letter of
: Credence, and then his flop should be delive
f red up to him ; and that the Prince of Orange
packet boat should also be delivered up ; and
; on Saturday morning he was to wait on Lord
;Weymouth, and then return to Dunkirk again,
i May 2-. Yelterday being the anniversary of
1 her Majetty's birth day, who then entered the
;34th year of her age, their Majesties received
§ the compliments of the Nobility on the occa
; iion at Kew ; and at night there was a ball for
all they & ung Princes and Princesses, and fe
:veral of the young Nobility.
IColonel c ir Thomas Spencer Wilson is ap,
I pointed to be Major General in America only.
Lieut. Col. Hecdofr Munro to be Major Ge
neral in the East Indies only.
Lieut. Col. John Campbell, of the 57th re
giment, to be Aid de Camp to the King.
Extract of a Letter from Milford, Ma, 14.
" The Terrine man of war has just brought
in here a privateer of sixteen guns ; his con
sort had taken four vessels off Scilly the day
before, and carried them into a port in France.
Dr. Dodd was yelterday waited on by a per
son whole face he did not at firft recoiled, but
who soon convinced him that he had, four
years fi :ce, been the means of preventing him
from the dreadful fin of felf destruction. The
man repeated his story pathetically, and said,
he could not relt without endeavouring to shew
his gratitude by doing something to serve his
bed benefactor in his present unhappy situati
on. He declared he had told his case to a
Noble Duke, his patron, who was much struck
with the singularity of it, and advised him to
fee Dr. Dodd, and get him to state it in a Peti
tion, which he promised to deliver in person
at St James's. The unfortunate Divine, after
thanking his visitor for his very friendly pur
pose, begged him to give his own ideas of the
fatt to the Noble Duke, who had so kindly
proffered to deliver the Petition to his Majesty.
Letters from Hanover mention, that the
troops of that Electorate have been considera
bly augmented, and are ready to thke the field
on the ihorteft notice.
1 he Court of Lisbon has absolutely entered
conditionally into a new league with Spain ;
on this account the Spanish troops are with
drawing from the frontiers of Portugal ; and
affairs in South America are put into a train
for being finally adjured.
Jt is generally undei ttocd that when the pre
sent Fad-India charter expires, which will be
in the year 1780, the territorial poff.ffions of
the company will be annexed to the Crown,
and the Company confined to its proper pur
faits, those of Trade and Comnz.ee.
Lord Weym,.u;h has fignined to the Pofl
mailers General, that the Prince of Orange
packet boat is ready to be delivered up at
Dunkirk, to any person they may fend over
to take charge of her.
May 23. Yelterday the House of Commons
met pursuant to thejr last adjournment, when
the report of the resolutions of Friday last on
the supply was made and agreed to.
The following Message was then received
from his Majefly:
" G R.
" His Majesty relying on the zeal of his
faithful Commons, thinks it neceifary to desire
that they will make provision for the extraor
.dinaries of the American Rebellion, that may
arise in the c urfe of the ensuing Campaign,
and for the Gold Coinage."
Resolved,
That this House will to-morrow morning
resolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole
House to take his Majesty's Message into con
sideration.
A Cabinet Council was held last night at
Earl Gower's house, at Whitehall, at which
the Great Officers of State were present, said
to be on the c mfideration of some inftrudions
to be lent to Lord and General Howe, which
were laid before his Majesty this day by Lord
Weymouth, with their determinate ns on the
fame, or rather opinions, as they are said to
have differed. ?
The Baltimore provincial privateer, of 16
guns, is put into Bourdeaux, in a very leaky
condition, which it is imagined she has re
ce. ed in some engagement with one of his
Majesty's cruizing frigates.
Lord Chamberlain's Office, Ma, 22.
Orders for the Court's going into mourning
on Sunday next, tbe 25th instant, for four
days, for her late Highness the Princess Fre
derica Carolina, widow of the late Prince
Maximilian of Hesse, viz.
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet,
coloured ribbons, fans, and tippets, or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver
fluffs, with black ribbons.
The men to wear black coats, and black
or plain white, or white and gold, or white
and silver fluff waifcoats, full trimmed, co
loured fivords and buckles.
On Tuesday Capt. Kelly, having obtained
a letter from Lord Weymouth to the Governor
of Dunkirk, set out for that place, in order
to take charge of his ship, the Joseph, which
was taken by Cunningham, the Court of
France having ordered the said vessel to be
delivered up. Capt. Kelly will proceed from
thence to Hamburgh, to which place he was
firft bound.
Yelterday Capt. Storer, of the Prince of
Orange packet-boat, set out for Dunkirk, in
order to take charge of her, the Court ofFrance
having likewise ordered that vessel to be given
up, and the privateer to be fold, to pay the
expences the French have been at on account
of the two vessels.
Yellerday as his Majesty was going into St.
James's, the foreman of the jury who found
Dr. Dodd guilty at the time of his trial at the
Old Bailey, delivered into his Majesty's hand
a petition in behalf of that Divine.
Extract of a letter from Portfmoutb, Ma, 22.
" His Majelly's ship Brittol is ready for
going out of the harbour, which, if the wind
permits, will be to-morrow or next day ; she
is the next ship intended as convoy to New-
York."
" General Robertson, now at Portsmouth,
will go out Paffinger in the Bristol."
May 26. Lait Saturday's Gazette contains
his Majesty's Order in Council further to pro
hibit the transporting of gunpowder out of
the kingdom for three months, from the 23d
of this instant May.
On Saturday a Messenger was sent from
Lord Weymouth's Office, with dispatches for
Sir Joseph Yorke, Ambassador at the Hague,
and from thence to proceed with dispatches
for the Lords of the Regency of Hanover.
The following extraordinary article appear
ed in the St. James's Chronicle of Saturday :
Two Gentlemen (masked) went to the house
of the Executioner in Paris, and after binding
his eyes with a handkerchief, put him into a
coach, and drove him some miles distance from
the city ; there entering a house, they con
duced him into a large room, hung with
black cloth, and a table covered also with
black, on which flood a block, with an axe
lying by the fide of it. In a few minutes a
young Lady, dressed in deep mourning, and
followed by four Judges, or men dressed like
Judges, but masked, came in, and ordered
the Lady to lay her head upon the block, and
the Executioner to take it off, which he did.
It was remarked that the whole tranfaelion
was conduced with as much silence as secrecy;
the Lady neither spoke, prayed, nor lamented.
After the execution, the fame men conduced
the Executioner to his own house, in the man
ner he came out. No body can tell, but it is
most probable that it was the Countess de
Barre. She had a house not many miles from
Paris ; and on a person's intimating his suspi
cions to a Frenchman, who knows pretty well
what is done, he nodded assent.
The French officers who were confined on
board the guardfhip at the Nore, have been
released through the influence of the French
Ambassador, on condition of immediately re
turning to France, and never more setting foot
in America during the present war.
Letters from Dunkirk have been received,
which fiy, that the packet and the other vessel
would fail from thence as the next tide, having
been delivered up to Captains Storey and
Kelly, who have been treated with much ref
ped and friendship.
His Majesty's new ship Conqueror, of 74.
guns, -is now fitting out for immediate service ;
she is already c^mmiffoned, and the command
given to Capt. Graves.
A large veflcl calledthe Mercer, Capt. ,
from Virginia fol -France, laden with 506
hogsheads of tobacco, filltick, fiaves, &c. is
taken by the crew and carried into Whiteha
ven, after being 57 days from the capes of
Virginia.
A French man of war, which carried an
Admiral's flag at the mizen-top-maft head,
foundered in the channel off Bayonne on
Thursday fe'nnight, and it is believed every
foul on board perished; the sea running so
high that no boats could keep it.
We can from undoubted authority, assure
the public, that the Earl of Chatham propo
ses to go to the House of Lords nextThurfday,
the 29th, or the day following, if his health
will permit him, in order to make an import
ant motion relative to America.
Extras of a letter from Portfmoutb, Ma, 2s.
" His Majesty's frigate the Valiant, is just
now come into this Port, after being out some
time cruizing, and has brought in with her
an American prize, which she has taken,
called the Effingham, from Charies-Town,
South-Carolina, for a foreign market, with
about 200 barrels of rice and indigo.
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, May 23.
" His Majesty's ship the Foudroyant has
taken and sent into this port an American
prize, called the Lynch, Capt. Adams, from
Nantz, bound to America."
The Brothers, Hill, from Cork to Bour
deaux, is taken and sent into Plymouth by
the Valiant man of war.
The French Court, we are told, has ordered
eleven men of war, which they had fitted for
lea, to be put out of commission, viz. Five at
Brest, three at Rochfort, and three at Toulon.
They write from Madeira, that a rebel pri
vateer, called the Little John, is taken afte,
a severe conflict, by an English sloop of war
of inferior force, and carried into that port;
to repair her damage before she can be lent to
England.—The commander of the privateer,
who was f-rmeriy an officer in the English
navy, ran five of his men through during the
action, whom he could not keep to their quar
ters.
Another draft of one hundred men from
the three regiments of guards, it is Ibid, will
be made the beginning of next month, which,
is the last draft that will be made from that:
corps this year. It is amazing hqw willing
the above troops are to shew their zeal to
serve their King, and a grateful people; were
they permitted, almpft every private soldier in
the three regiments would turn out volunta
rily to chaflife his Majesty's rebellious fubjeft's
in America, and bring them to a sense of
their duty.—Such brave men cannot be too
much applauded.
?&y 28. The negotiations which Lord
George Germaine mentioned in the House
of Commons, between Dr. Franklin and the
French Ministry, which by some were treated
with ridicule, adually had a foundation :---
The Americans offered to assist France in con
quering all the British Islands in the Weft-
Indies, and to guarantee the possession of
them. This has given our Court such an ad
vantage in their counter negociations, that no
circumstance could have been more fortunate.
May 30. A Messenger was font last night
with some dispatches to Lord Stormont, said to
be on account of some advices relpedting the
French officers that are prisoners at Jamaica,
received from Admiral Gayton.
Extras of a letter from Liverpool, May zy.
" This morning a fine American sloop cal
led the Ceres, Capt. Olborn, from Charles
Town, South Carolina, for Nantz, was brought
in here by fix Englith Sailors, who rose and
took her in the passage; her cargo consists of
ISB whole, and 52 half Barrels of Ree, 15
Tierces of Indigo, and 9 Hogsheads cf Tobac
co. Capt. Osborn failed a little time since in
the employ of Mr- Roberts of this Port, whose
snip and cargo he ran away with, and fold at
Santa Cruz. He was much wounded in the
affray, and, as he seemed a desperate fellow^
the Sailors to get rid of him, delivered him to
a fifhing boat on the Coast of Ireland. When
she failed from South-Carolina, her crew con
sisted of 14, beiides the Captain.
June 2. There is advice that Gen. Howe
has actually left New-York with all the troops
he could mutter, and is gone, by the way of
Cheefapeek Bay, to make an attempt on Phi
ladelphia, leaving the New-York volunteers,
militia, and other American troops, with
some of the men of war, and rioft of the fri
gates, to take care of that city and province.
A large American privateer is taken near
Kinfale, and carried into Dublin. She mounts
fourteen nine pounders, and sixteen swivels.
The Brothers, Hil, from Cork to Bourdeaux
with provisions, brought into Plymouth by
the Foudroyant, was taken under the Prohibi
tory Act for the exportation of provisions from
Ireland, unless to the British Dominions, Colo,
nies excepted.
June ;. The report is confirmed by letters
from Conftantinop/e, that the Porte has offered
terms to Ruflia towards fulfiling the articles of
peace, which it is thought, will be fully fa
tisfadory, and prevent a frefh rupture with
those powers.
The Duke of Cumberland it is reported will
shortly hoist his flag at Spithead; and this is
said to be the reason of his sudden return from
the Continent.
Admiralty-office, ^xne 3.
Capt. Allen, ofhis Majesty's ship the Albior,
has sent into Plymouth the Conliant Friend,
an American brig, from South Carol na,
bound to Bourdeaux, laden with rice and lii
digo, which she took the 19th of last month
Yellerday Sir George Howard's regiment
marched from Chatham to Fort£mou§b, 1^ vt-