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poods belonging to the States yenefal of
the United Provinces, or their fubjeds, or o
thers inhabiting within any of the territories of
the aforefaid States General, and bring the
tame to judgement in any of the Courts of Ad
miralty within his Majesty's dominions : And
to that end his Majesty's Advocate General,
with the Advocateofthe Admiralty, are forth
with to prepare the draught^ of a commission,
and prefect the fame to his Majesty at this
Board, authorifing the Commissioners for exe
cuting the cifice of Lord High Admiral or any
person or persons by them empowered and ap
pointed, to, issue forth and grant letters of
marque and reprisals to any of his Majesty s
fubjeds, or others whom the said Commiffio
mers shall seem fitly qualified in that behalf,
for the apprehending, Sizing, and taking the
flips, tefTels. and goods, belonging to the
States General of the United Provinces, & and
their vadah and fubje&s, or any inhabiting
within th: countries, territories, or domini
ons of the afore^id States General ; and that
such powers and clauses be inserted in the laid
cornmiffion as have been usual, and are ac
cording to former precedents; And his Ma
jeft'y laid Advocate General, with the Advo
cate of the Admiralty, are also forthwith to
prepare the draught of a commission, and pre
feet the fame to his Majesty at this Board, au
thorizing the said Commillioners for executing
the office of Lord High Admirals to will and
require the High Court of Admiralty of Great
Britain, and the Lieut, and Judge of the said
Court, his Surrogate or Surrogates, as also the
several Courts cf Admiralty within his Maje
sty's domiri ns, to take cognizance of, and
judicially proceed upon all and all manner of
captures, seizures, prizes, and reprisals of all
ships and goods that are or shall be taken, and
to hear and determine the fame ; and, accord
ing to the course of Admiralty, and the laws
of nations, to adjudge and condemn all such
ffiips. veff Is, and goods, as shall belong to
the Starts General ofthe United Provinces, or
their vaffJs and fubje&por to any other inha
biting within any of the countries, territories,
and d minions of the States General ; and that
such powers and clauses be inferred in the said
Commission, as have been usual, and are ac
cording to former precedents: And they are
likewise to prepare, and lay before his Majesty
at this Board, a draught of such instructions
as may b p proper to be feot to the Courts of
Admiralty in his Majefly, foreign governments
and plantations, for their guidance herein; as
^fo another draught of inftrudions for such
flips as shall be comraiffionated for the purpo
fa aforementioned.
^^^^^e^^^W^N^
Caries-Town, March I.
We arc well informed, that on the 19th ult.
the Rehd Par izan, Sumpter, made his long
prrjhd attack on the poll of 'Congarees,
nerfw: ich he lingered till the zzd, making
many LefLriual attempts, in all which he
wat^frrz ^fujb beat off, and,once by a small
party of fequedeted negroes. 1
lie next proceeded to Thomfoh's, and en
deavoured to gain that post, not aiming at
any thing so great, as the Block House ; but
here he met with the fame, or rather worse
fate, being re, tilled with considerable loss,
and obliged precipitately to retire.
Thus failed in all bis views, on the 25th he
crofted the Saruee ^ here his reception is not
like to be much better, having already loft all
his own baggage, and the waggons he had
taken in his progress—had many of his men
taken prisoners, and being, when the ac
counts came away, nearly surrounded by par
ties of the King's troops, which had moved
for that purpole.
Last Sunday arrived here the brigantine
Governor Martin, from Bermuda, in which
came passenger, Andrew Miller, Esq; and fa
icily ; ano the Hoop Richard, from Santa Cruz,
bound for New-London, prize to his Majesty's
ihip Assurance, laden with rum, sugar, &c.
: March §.
We ate happy to conclude our accounts of
Sumpter's expedition, with informing the
public, that on the 27th ult. be was so un
lucky as to fall in with Col. Watson, and a
detachment of Provicial Light-Infantry, by
whom he was entirely defeated, and his party
obliged to disperse, leaving behind them 18
drilled, feme prisoners, and mmy of their
hories ; so that only misfortunes seem to have
attended the progress of this Enterpriztr.
We have credible information for assuring
the public, that on the 13th of last month
Lord Cornwallis, with his army, was ad
vanced within 15 miles of the Roanoak, and
had taken up the ground which Mr. Greene
precipitately quitted the preceding day ; and
that by the latest accounts which have been
received, his' Lord (hip was then so near the
enemy, as hi, advanced guard to have fre
quent skirmishes with the rear of the rebels,
who were pushing to gain a ford of the Ro
anoak, and thereby make their [efcape; but
it was currently believed in the country that
a detachment of the King's troops had possess
ed th.mfel/es of the North Side of that River,
which would infallibly cut of off from Mr.
Greene, a retreat in that quarter.
- We further learn thata part of the Rebel
^gga^ fell i^to Lord Cornwallis's hands
soon after his passing the Yadkin, and that
the remainder was only preserved to them, by
the badness of the weather.
The fame accounts assure us, that the de
sertion from the rebel army surpasses what
has been experienced in any former period of
this war, and that Lord Cornwallis has been
joined by many Loyalists from Haw River,
who gladly fled to theprotcaion of the King's
turns.
On Saturday last deputed this life, Capt.j
Allan Cameron, of the New-York Volun-1
teers, an officer highly esteemed by all who
had the pleafureof his acquaintance. Yetter
day evening his rem<is, attended by a num
ber of Hessian and British officers, were con
veyed to St. Philip's Church, and interred
With the honours of war.
March. 6. On Tuesday and Wednesday last,
the following German troops landed here, viz.
Capt. Ruff and Weiss, with recruits from the
Duke of Bruhfwick ; Capt. Thoma, with re
cruits from Hesse Hanau ; First Lieut. Yariz,
with recruits from Anhalt Zerbft ; all whichl
recruits, together with three Hessian regi-|
ments, De Bose, De Huyn, and Ditfurth, under
the command of the General of his Serene
Highness De Bose, are to do duty in this
place till further orders.
Yeilerday afternoon arrived a small fchooher
from Cape Fear; when she left that place the
post at Wilmington had remained quiet and
unmolested for some time pad.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) February io.
Saturday last arrived his Majesty's flbop of
war Da Guay Touin, of 16 guns, express from
St. Lucia, in consequence of advice Admiral
Drake received from Great-Britain, by the
Childers flbop of war, of a hostile declaration
published in London, by order ofthe King in
C< uncil, on the 21st of December last, against
the Dutch, Sir George Brydges Rodney, with
22 fail of the dine, and a number of frigates,
was at sea on a craife when the Childers ar
rived at St. Lucia, and a faft failing cutter had
been dispatched, with inftrudions from the
Ministry to him, on the fubjed of this im
portant event.
NEW-YORK, March 17.
Last Thursday arrived the ship Nancy, Capt.
Miller, who left Gravefend on the 9th of Ja
nuary ; papers by this vessel inform us, that
in a Very short time after the declaration ofwar
againtt Holland was published, viz from De
cember 21, to January 9, Eighty fail of Dutch
ships, &c. with a man of war of 50 guns, were
brought to Portsmouth, and that three very
large vessels, laden with masts, bound to Brest,
were also brought into our harbours. Three
hundred and fifty commiffians against the
Dutch trade had been already issued; the
Channel fivarmed with the British privateers;
Admiral Darby had returned to port, but every
ship of his late fqaadron fit for sea, was out on
cruises ; that two 74 gun ships and two frigates
had been detached after several Dutch East-
Indiamen, which had failed at the instant of
eur Manifefto's being published ; that Teresa,
the Empress Queen of Hungary, and mo
ther of the present Emperor of Germany, died
on the 29th of November, an event that in all
probability will occasion a convulsion amongst
the European powers, and in its confequer.ee,
oblige the House of Bourbon to employ their
troops for the defence cf their own territories,
rather than hazard them to dillant countries,
in favour of a people who have hitherto de
rived very little advantage from their treache
rous intervention.
An authentic account of the proceedings of the
officiated Lojalifo,fationed at Bergen-Point,
under the command of Captain Ward;
On Sunday evening the nth instant a party,
confiding of 120 men, with a field-piece, com
manded by Captains Hauser and M'Michael,
matched from Bergen-point, and were joined
at the Three Pigeons by Captain Wa ' * n d
40 men, from New-York. They then
nued their march, during which the
fired upon several times, by a party 0
under the command of one Blanch.
Ward finding his men much fatigued
marches thirty miles through bad re
harraffed by the rebels, thought it p
return to the liberty-pole, where 1
halted till day-light, when the rebels
in force, the field-piece was fired upon them
and they immediately dispersed. The party
returned the fame day to Bergen-point, having
marched sixty miles in the space of 16 hours,
during which there were many skirmishes with
the rebels. Captain W>rd had one man killed
by a fell from his horse, four men slightly
wounded, and one horse killed. The loss of
the rebels cannot be afeertained, but from ap
pearances it is judged that some were killed
and a number wounded. Captain Ward took
two prisoners, Elias Day and one Hammel.
The following is as accurate a view as at
present can be obtained of the naval force of
Great-Britain on the American coast, un<'er
the command of Vice-Admiral Arbuthnot, ard
of France under M. d'Aftouches, Brigadier des
armees navales, general. The latter was seen
on Sunday last, about 30 leagues off the Capes
°f Virginia, at that time the wind not fair for
landing into Chefapeak'-Bay. The former
was left 40 miles distant from Cape Charles
about 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, by the
Captain of a small vessel, who departed from
the Bay on Tuesday night, at which time the
French fleet had not made their appearance,
nor did any person fee or hear of their being
in that vicinity. It is said the French fleet
had embarked two thousand of their troops on
board. As it is most probable that the object
of Mons. d'Aflouches is to land the French
troops at York-Town, (where 'tis said their
engineers have been long employed in throwing
up ' works) and joining the rebels collecting
there, aim at a defeat of the British force under
General Arnold, at Portsmouth, and prevent
the progress of Earl Cornwallis into Virginia ;
this sudden appearance of the Britilh fleet will
in all probability fruftrate the whole intention,
and may, in one great day of decifien, enable
our bnw§ Admiral to nink in §hc centre cf his
triumphant predeCefitos, 'Howard, Blake, Rut
fell, and Bofcawen.
BRITISH. FRENCH.
London 90 Le Duc de Bour-) s
Royal Oak 74 goneJ
Bedford 74 Le Neptune 74
Robust 74 Le Conqueraat 74
Europe 64 L'Eveille 64
America 64 Le Provence 64
Prudent 64 Le Jason 64
Adamant 50 L'Ardent 64
Pearl 32 Le Fantafque 64
Charleftown 32 La Gentille 32
Iris 32 Le Surveillante 32
Guadaloupe 28 L'Hermione 32
Savage 16 Le Guepe 14
The Fantafque left France armed en flute;
but now it is said the is refitted, and brought
again into the line.
Three ships which failed from this port some
time ago, with recruits on board for General
Dalling' sarmy, on their passage fell in with a
French polacre, 0f,2 nine pounders, which
they took after a short engagement, and two
pf them convoyed her into Montego-Bay, the
third, with the prisoners on board, was unfor
tunately cast away upon Hannagua.
Yesterday arrived a vessel from Portsmouth,
in Virginia, which left that post on Tuesday
night, and on Wednesday morning was chafed
by a frigate, detached from a fleet which is
presumed to be that of Admiral Arbuthnot,
bearing up for Chefapeak, distant about forty
miles. The rebels had shewn the/nfelves near
our pofts,[but perceiving the works too refpeft
able for an hazardous enterprize, retired, but
not till they had felt the chaftifipg of Colonel
Simcoe and his Rangers at the Great Bridge,
where they were defeated, and left a number
dead, on Monday last. The inhabitants, in
part of the Bay always possessed with the ne
cessaries of lifein great abundance, had with
the most friendly difpefition allowed a party
detached by General Arnold, to collefl forage,
&c. and held the most friendly intercourse
with them. A vessel had arrived last Tuesday
at Portsmouth, from Charleftowo, with a
confirmation of Sir George Rodney's having
taken possession of St. Euftatius, in the Weft
indies, with a vast number cf vetfels of the
several nations, be present enemies cf Great-
Britain, and that small squadrons had been
detached with the like orders against theilland
of Curacoa, &c. Accounts had been brought
by land that Lord Cornwallis had established
his Head-Quarters at Taylor's Ferry, on Ro
anoake, in the county of Mechlenburg, Vir
ginia, eighty miles distant from Petersburg.
BOSTO N, March 1.
Monday arrived a Freach Frigate in 67 Days
from Brest.
Yesterday arrived here the Ship Mars, Capt.
Sampson, in 11 Weeks from Nantz.
We are informed, that General Wadsworth
and his wife have lately been taken by a party
of the enemy from Penobfeot.
CHATHAM, March 14.
The Britilh fleet in the Weft-Indies, we hear
have committed another outrage on the vessels
in the road of St. Euftatius, similar to that at
St, Martin's last summer.
—SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.
ROUBJLET's.
WILL be To-morrow Evening the 20th
instant, and continued every Tuesday.
Any Subferibets not having received their
Tickets fincc the last Night, are desired to fend
to Roubale t's=-where they are lest—because
their Addresses were not known. In future a
Person will attend at Roubalet's every Thurs
day from 12 till 2 o'Ciock, to deliver back
, the Tickets of the preceding Concert.
' "TO'B El' O'L'
With or without the Fixtures.
AN elegant three story and an half brick dwelling
house, lituate in Great Dock Street, at the
corner of Broad Street, the property of Mr. Samuel
Fraunces, and for many years diftingui/hed as the
Queen's Head Tavern ; in which are nine fpacieuS
rooms, besides five bed chambers, with thirteen fire
places, an excellent garret in which are three bed
rooms well finished, an exceeding good kitchen, and
a spring of remarkable fine water therein; a most
excellent cellar under the whole, divided into three
commodious apartments; a convenient yard, with a
good cittern and pump, and many other conveniences
too tedious to mention ; the whole in extraordinary
good repair, and is at present a remarkable good
Hand for business of any kind, and will upon a rte
ekablifhment of civil government be the most advan
tageous situation in this city, from its vicinity to the
North River and New Jersey.
Proposals in writing will be received by JOHN
KELLY, Notary Public, No. 28, Hanover-Squate;
as no preference is promised to any person, the highett
bidder will be preferred.
By Order of the Commandant.
NOTICE is hereby given that the sale of sundry
articles lodged in the care of th: Provost Mar
tial, is poltponed until Monday the 26th instant, as
the Commandant is pleated to give a longer indul
gence to the Claimants.
The Proprietors upon application at the Comman
dant's Office, will obtain an order for the delivery
of their Effe&s agreeable to proclamation.
March 17th, 1781.
To the Connoisseurs import Wine.
TWO pipes of vintage 76, and five pipes of vin
tage 77> being the remainder but choice of the
Philippas remarkable fine cargo of superior wine
from Oporto diced in April lalt, may be tasted at
Mr. Cumpfton's, Np. bo, Hanover Square. To be
fold reasonable by ROBERT SMYTH.
Also one pipe of Madeira particular WIN E,
vintage 76, of excellent quality and flavour, and fit
for immediate use.
TAKEN UP the latter end of last October,
a small black MARE: Whoever she be
longs to may have her again, proving their pro
perty and paying charges, by applying to
Hugh Gaine
T 6 BE- setter
rrHJRTY-three acres of excellent L h Ni»,
1 adjoining the farm of Col. Roger Morris, hn4
bounding on the road and north river ; Twelve of
it may be mowed, $ acres fit for the plough, and the
remainder pretty welhimbered; and ' whole may
be easily improved. There is no buildings on the
land, but there are several beautiful situations for a
house. For terms apply to Benjamin Waldron, who
may be spoke with either at the fix mile flone on the
road to King's bridge, or at Marlton's wharf; and
who will give a good title for the fame.
To bo fold at fettbiic VENDUE,
By JAMES MACKRELL,
On Monday the 9th of April next,
A Good two story boule, in an excellent stand for
any kind of business, situated in the town of
Flushing, consisting of four rooms on a floor, with
a good cellar and kitchen, barn, out-houses, a good
garden, and a small lot of land, on part of which is.
a nursery of fine fruit trees, to be fold with of with
out the ftpek in trade, which cenfifts of an ?ffor<ment
°f dry goods, ironmongery, tin, glass, earthen ware,
and groceries. Also a fma'l farm, containing forty
acres of land, 15 of which is in wheat, with an ex
cellent orchard, a good house not quite fimfhed, that
has a fine nrolpe& over the water.
T O B E^ITO-L-d;
AN elegant and commodious BRICK HOUSE,
now in the possession of Mr. Lloyd Daubeny,
No. 30, Broad-street and corner of Princess-street.
There are thiee rooms on the firft floor, four rooms
on the second, three ceil'd rooms io the garret, a
convenient brick kitchen, with a cellar underneath,
a fmeke house in the kitchen garret, a large and
commodious dry cellar under the house, a (tone cil
tern, and a well of the bed spring water, with a good
yard and gangway, Also, a new three story Brick
House Adjoining, No. 21, Princess-street, now in
the tenure of Mr. Pitcher, in which there are nine
rooms, a good cellar and kitchen, a large garret, a
well of spring water, a good cistern, and a convenient
yard. The title indisputable, and possession to be
given the firft of May next. Application to be
made to JOHN NICOLL,
SAMUEL DEALL.
At No. 14, Vandam's wharf, near the ferry (fairs.
M~r^-VTrTr-L-Tr;
Locking Glass and Dry Good Store,
Is removed from No. 43, the. corner of Beekman
hip, Queen-street, and has for sale,
A Large assortment of locking glasses, girandoles,
tea cadies, tea chests, and gentlemens razor
c^fes. Also the belt London crystal crown glass for
pictures, cut and put into frames if required, and
looking glasses cat into any form, or taken in ex
change.,
To be fold cheaps
London hair powder, perfumed a< d plain; ladies
and gentlemens French white kid gloves, .well-made,
and the best of leather; also nauflin and Holland
gloves; a few pieces of. well chosen brocades and
mantuas, gown trimmings, flowers, &c. ladies re
markable fine bleached white court chip hats, adap
ted to the approaching season. Split cane for calalhes,
bonnets, &c. fuftians, jeans, and Holland stripe.
The above to be fold very cheap, for ready money,
at the Universal Store, or the Medley of Goods, No.
u%, next door to Meffis. Buch?nnan's, & Co. nearly
oppefite the Fly-Market, Queen-street. Also a few
remaining kegs of black paint, imported from a
noted oilman in London,
A CELLAR to Let.
- pußncirii^^
On Thursday next, at the Coffee- House will be fold,
By Taylor and Bayard,
Between one and two o'clock,
The following valuable lots of ground belonging to
the estate of the late Nathaniel Marfton, Esq;
deceased.
LOT No. 3, in Broad-street, in front 24 feet 6
inches, in the rear 26 feet 6 inches, 122 feet on
one fide, and 118 feet on the other fide.
Lot No. 4, on Golden Hill, in front 59 feet 6
inches, in the rear 54 feet 6 inches, on one fide 101
feet 6 inches, and on the other 93 feet 6 inches.
Lot No. 5, a house in Bread-Way, 21 feet &
inches in front, 66 feet 6 inches in the rear,'on the
North River; 123 feet on one fide, IoS-feet on the
other fide, with an alley. A more particular descrip
tion of said lots may be seen by viewing the drafts
on the day of sale, or before,; . our office.
Taylor and Bayard.
SALE by AUCTION,
By Duncan, Barclay, and Ca.
TO-MORROW,
Between twelve and one o'clock, on the premises,
THE good house and lot of ground, No. 3, Wa
ter-street, facing the Old Slip dock, and now
occupied by Mr. Christian Stamlar, the house is a
good brick building, two (tones high, with four fire
places, and a cistern in the yard. The lot is in
breadth, front, and rear, twenty-two feet ten inches,
and in depth on each fide, sixty three feet.
TO BE SOLD,
A Houfe in an excellent stand, between Burling's;
and Peck's-flips, in Water-street : The house
has four rooms with file-places, and three bed cham
bers; the lot is twenty five feet in breadth, and too
in length. One third of the purchase money is only
wanted, the remainder may lay in the purchasers
hands upon a bond and mortgage. Enquire at No.
55> Q^een street.
TO BE LET, "
THE large STORE of Robert Cromme
line's at the Crane, from the firft of
May next. Enquire of Thomas Ellison, No.
31, Beekman-ftreet.
LOTTERY.
qpHE plffeffors of undrawn tickets in the firft dafe
A ofthe New York Refugee and other Poor Lot
tery, are hereby notified, that the time for renewing
them will expire on Wednesday the 4+h of April.
N. B, A few tickets renewed in the second class,
are to be fold by the managers.
To L E T.
A GOOD HOUSE,
TO be let from the firft of May next, in
Little Dock-Street. Enquire of th,
Priß^r.