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NEW-YORK, Av.guft 24.'
^ome Particulars of the Britifo and French Fleets.
On Tuesday the nth Infant, a most violent Tem
eft arose, which continuing until Friday following,
onperfed both the Fleets. On Sunday the French
Rear Admiral, fup|ofed to be Mons. Beflj, of the
Le Zele (the Zealous) a Ship of 74 Guns, and ra
ted to have 900 Mfn, bore down upon his Majesty's
Ship Isis, commanded by Capt. John Raynor, of 50
Guns, who permitted not a Gun to be fired until
his Enemy approached very near the Isis, when a
fierce Engagement ensued, and continued, it is said,
about an Hour and an half. The Rear Admiral's
Fhe being very much dire&ed against the Ilia's Rig
ging, rendered her utterly incapable of putfuing the
Zele, who wore round, and being one of the belt
failing Ships of the Count D'Eftaing's Squadron,
escaped from Capture merely by Flight ; during the
Action a Quantity of Papers were observed to be
thrown out ot the Cabbin Windows of the Zele.
On Saturday Afternoon his Majesty's Ship Re
nown, of 50 Guns, commanded by Capt. George
Dhwfon, fell in with the Languedoc, of 90 Guns,
and rated to have 1100 Men, about thirty Leagues
South East of Sandy-Hook ; this capital Ship had
been difmafted in the Storm on the 11th Instant. The
Renown attacked her on the Quarter, and kept up a
steady Fiieagainft her from 4 o'Clock till Dark, in
tending to renew the Engagement in the Morning;
but the French Admiral availing himfelf of the
Darkness of the Night, brought his Ship to an An
chor, by which Means the Renown became separated
three or four Miles from him. At Day-break, Capt.
Dawson observed the Count D'Eftaign, attended with
several other Ships of his own Squadron ; which
occasioned the 50 Gun Ship to bear away, and he
thereby escaped from a Superiority, to himfelf, in
vincible.
His Majesty's Ship Preston, commanded by Com
modore' Hotham, of 50 Guns, and rated for 350
Mtn, fell in with tire Le Tonant, of 84 Guns, and
rated for 1100 Men, said to be commanded by
Mons. Bougainville, a Gentleman who in the last
War had the Honour of serving his Sovereign in
Canada, and is allowed to be an Officer of distin
guished Abilities. This Ship had loft her Bowsprit
and Fore-mast, on the iith Inftanr. The Preston
raked her Fore and Aft a considerable Time, and
would certainly have made a Prize of her but for the
Intervention of several other Snips of the Toulon
Fleet, which occasioned the Prelton to leave her to
their Troteaion.
Lord Howe's PUBLIC ORDERS.
The Bravery of the Officers and Ship's Company
of the Isis, amongst which the Volunteers from the
Transports and the Soldiers of the 23d Regiment,
have been particularly noticed, in a late Action with
a French 74 Gun Ship, bearing a Flag at the Mizen
top-maft Head, and thence supposed the Zele; and
the distinguished Ability and Resolution of Captain
Raynor, shewn on that Occasion, claim from the
Admiral this public Acknowledgment of their meri
torious Services, by which they have furnifh d a
bright Example for the Imitation of the British Fleet.
The Ferret Galley, Capt. O'Brien, is cast away
near Shrewsbury, in the late violent Gale of Wind,
and the Crew are Prisoners on their Parole, at Prince
Town, in New-Jersey: They are 30 in Number.
Capt. Bridger Goodrich, of the Schooner Ham
mond Privateer, about 20 Leagues to the Southward
of the Hook, fell in with the Brig Black Prince, of
12 Guns, and 48 Men, which, after a short En
gagement struck to the Hammond. Capt. Good
rich had one Officer of Marines and one Seaman
wounded; the Richmond Frigate, Capt. Jedouin,
Commander, at the Time of Action was about Five
Miles distant.
Capt, Davis fays, that Admiral Barrington arrived
at Barbados with the London fleet about the latter
end of June.
Monday last arrived here the Schooner Z'meriah,
Prize to his Majesty's Ship Pearl, laden with Sugar,
Coffee, Indigo and Cotton---She was taken in Lati
tude 39, 12, bound for Connecticut, from Okia,
South Sidq of Hispaniola.
Extract of a Letter from London, dated Jul, 3.
' " An Ambassador extraordinary from the Court
of Madrid has arrived at St. James's, with the molt
pofiuve ATarance of the pacific Disposition of his
Catholic Majesty, and that he never will recognize
the revolted Colonies as Independent States, nor
fuffer his Subjects to have any Intercourse with them.
This Determination of the Court of Spain has also
been announced in Form atVerfailles."
Tuesday at Noon died Thomas Ord, Esq; Cap
tain in his Majesty's 28th Regiment of Foot.
The Count de Eltaing with Eleven Sail of large
Ships, two of them difmafted, were seen going into
Rhode-Ifland last Thursday Evening; and a mod
uncommon Cloud of Smoke was seen to ascend in
the Air about the Time that it was supposed the
Count got to an Anchor.
Sent in since our last by Sir James Wallace, a
Privateer Sloop of 12 Guns, and a fmail Sloop from
Coracoa for Egg-Harbour, belonging to a Number
of Farmers in East-Jersey : The Supercargo's Name
Middleton.
K, The Inhabitants of this City, and Parts ad
jacent, are desired to be cautious not to purchase any
articles of eloathing, linen, or any Part of the Ap
pointments or Necessaries of a Soldier, as they will
be liable, on Conviction, to pay a Penalty of Five
Pounds Sterling, or to fuffer three Months Impri
sonment, for every Article so purchased.
We can assure the Public, that the following is a just
Account of the miserable State of the Frontiers of the
middle Colonies, intending from the back Parts of
North-Carolina, to the upper Parts of Hudson's River,
in the Province of New-York.
Soon after the cruel and perfidious Massacre of the
Great Cornstalk, an Indian Chief, by the Whigs, when
in public Treaty with G neral Hand, the Indians at
tacked Fort Whelin, about 70 Miles from Fort Pitt,
down the Ohio, by a Stratagem drew out the Garrison,
confining of 70 Men, and killed all, five Ten, who
made their Escape into the Fort. After some Time they
began a fecoad Attack, carried the Fort, and put all the
Garrison to Death; this Success, with others that at
tended many subsequent Incursions, occasioned by the
Evacuation of Fort Dunkan, distant about 40 Miles from
Fort Whelin, and an entire Evacuation of those exten
sive Settlements lying South and South Weft of Fort
Pitt, between the Ohio and the Monongehela, down to
the Redstone Settlement on the Borders of Maryland.
Early in the Spring, a Number of Friends to Govern
ment, grown defperare by the Cruelties and Oppreflion
of the new States, made their Escape to Detroit and Ni
agara,and beingj med by the Indians with some Regular
Troops, have lately come down and drove in the difaf
fe&ed to Government who were fettled on the Kittan
ning, at Morris Cove, and the Standing S^one, and have
opened the old Indian Path leading from Prefque Ille,
down French Creek, and the Ohio, and from the Mouth
of Ki/kemeheras, by Franks Town, as far as the Great
Narrows, from whence there is an high Road leading to
Carlifle, in Extent about 30 Miles.
The Public has been informed of the Success of Col.
Butler, in taki>g three Forts, and doftroyi% the Whig
Selfement at Wiomiig, consist ng of 6000 Inhabitant:
We row hear, that that Gentleman having formed a
uj^ Lodgment and a large Magazine of Provisions on
the upper Part of Sufqueharina, has come down again,
taken the County Town of Northumberland, lying on
the Forks of that River, and the Town of Sunbury on
the East Side opoofite to Northumberland, drove before
him all the difaffeded out of that Country, ,nd advanced
within eleven Miles of Harris's Ferry; his Mde of
Proceeding is wife and prudent, and pramife a Continu
ance of Success; he gives every Encouragement to the
Loyalists; to such as choose to stay on their Farms, and
submit to the Crown, he given Protections ad lecures
their Property from the P undtr of the Indians who are
governed by him in all Refpeas; and those who are wil
ling to join him in arms he embed is into his corps and
ft engthens his Party. His exatt Numbers we have not
yet learnt, but it's certain, that many of the well af
fedted to Government daily jin, and 'is said he is in
considerable Force. From those Movements the interior
Parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, are
crouded with the miserable and unhappy Families of the
difafraed from the Frontiers, who having left all their
Property behind, are now subsisting upon the Charity of
others.
We also hear from the Northward, that the Settle
ments of Cherry Valley, Springfield, Popatunk^ Min
fink, Sunbury, and Andrews-Town, have met with the
fame Fate by other Parties of Loyalists and I d ana.
Those Parties have hitherto carried Vi&ory wherever
they trode, and we are informed, that notwithstanding
the Endeavours of the new States to raise the Militia
agairft them, they have been attended with vsry little
EIF-A.
Col, Butler, whose Progfrefs has been so very focc^v ul,
was an Indian Officer under the late Sir William John
fen during the late War, and was afterwards one of his
Interpreters, being out of the Indian Department some
Time before Sir William Johnson's Death, which hap
pened in 1774; he was again appointed by Sir William s
Successor in Office, Col Guy J^hnfon, whom he attended
to Canada in 1775, in Consequence of Cob Juhnion s
Orders from the then Commander in Chief, to proceed
with his Corps to co operate with Sir Guy Carlton, after
which Mr. Butler was, by Col. Johnson, appointed to
act as AHiftant Agent or Deputy, at Niagara, whither
he was ordered in October rs that Year. The last Cam
paign Cl. Claus, an old Officer of much Experience in
the Department, being by his Majesty's Orders appointed
to the Command 'nf the Indians in Brigadier-General St.
Lexer's Expedition, Mr, Butler brought a Body of
Whites and Indians to join them agreeable to his Orders,
which Indians, with other Tribefr affemblea for that
Pur.pofe, attended only by a fmail Detachment under Sir
John Johnson's Command, totally routed the Rebels Re
inforcement sent to Fort Stanwix, killing the General,
and near 500 of his Men.
Mr. Butler's Son. a young Gentleman of much Me
rit, appointed an Officer ip the Department of Indian
Affairs by Col Johnson, and now in the Bth Regiment,
having been sent on Duty to the German Flats, was there
made Prisoner, and fuffered very cruel Treatment, but
has now happily got out of the Hands of his Oppreff^rs.
The Indians, whose attachment to Government, and
the Treaties they entered into in 1775, before the Su
perintendent, deserves much P aife, began early this Sea
son to advance into the Settlements. Joseph, jtie Indian
Chief, sent by Col. Johnson through the back Country,
took infinite Pains, to assemble them ; and after drawing
the Mohawks frem their settlement, part of which has
been destroyed by the Rebels, and placing their Families
in Security in Canada, he in May advanced against the-
Troops, &c. placed at the rich Settlement of Schoary
and Cobus Kill, in this Provsnee, where, with only ice
Indians, he, by a Stratagem, drew out above 300 Men
to follow him, whom he ambufeaded and cut est, taking
294 Scalps, and destroying above 150 Houses and Barns,
from whence the Rebels derived great Resources, whilst
Lieut. CoL Butler, one of Col. J hnfon's Depuri'S, was
likewise advancing to those Settlements, against which his
Judgement and Success have been particularly announced
in our Prints.
Public Auction.
This Morning XI o'clock,
-At the Ceffehoufe, wdl he fold,
FORTY baskets of raisins,
Two bales of writing papgr,
.One ditto womens callimancoe quilts.
12 o'clock, on Murray') wharff,
A quantity of Fustick
On Wednesday, I o'clock,
At the Merchant's Coffee house,
The brig FRIENDSHIP,
As she now lays at Brafher's wharff burthen
about 90 tons, Philadelphia built, cedar frame,
a remarkable fail sailer, ballafird and fit for
sea.
On Thursday,
The schooner QUEBEC,
Ready fitted for sea : She is about 4 or $
years old, fails remarkably faft, about 6g tons,
will carry guns, and has swivel docks already
fix'd, now laying at Van Zandt's wharff.
Also the sloop EAGLE,
Burthen 100 tons, as she now lays at Bache's
wharff. Inventory to be seen at
John M'Adam, & Co's, office.
At private sale,
Jamaica spirits, mufeovado and loaf sugar,
coffee, fpermaceti candles, a few bags flops,&c.
PUBLIC'AUCTION.'
To-morrow,
At the Merchant's coffee-boufe.
Will be sold,
TWO quarter calks Malrafey wine,
Three hogsheads choice single refined
loaf sugar,
Sixty half hampers cheese,
Ten casks best bottled porter.
TO-MORROW, 11 o'clock,
Will be fold at VENDUE, at the Coffee-
House bridge,
SIX barrels mufeovado sugar,
Two casks of the best French brandy,
A quantity of rum, with
A variety of dry goods, &c. &c.
By PATRICK WALKER.
F O U N D,
A POCKET BOOK containing sundry papers of some
value to the proper owner. Whoever it may be
long to shall have it again, proving their property, and
paying charge,. Apply to Hugh Gaine.
UTVE GFrNEAS-Remrd.
LOST on Frida, evening last, in this city, a small
plain gold repeater fafbioned watch, maker's
name J. Vigne, London, No. 4572. Cypher 1. S.
engraved on the back of the watch. Whoever will
return the said watch to Hugh Gaine, with the seals
belonging thereto, foall have Five Guineas Reward
,1
Sales by Auction,
By BOWMAN and CODNER,
This day at 11 o'clock,
On the Albany Pier,
25 hogsheads Mentferat sugars,
YyROM on board the snow Hope. Perlons
wanting to purchase the bed of sugars,
will find this parcel worthy of their attention.
N.B. The sale will be continued to morrow
at the fame place, when it is expected the
cargo will be finifhed. _
By BOWMAN and~O)DNER;
On Thursday next at the Cpffee-hou®,
The schooner Charming Polly,
BURTHEN eighty tons, as she now lies
below the Coffee-houfe, Inventory to be
seen at their office.
Public AuElton.
By DANIEL M'CORMICK,
This day, at the Coffee-houfe,
JQ hogsheads of excellent molafies,
10 barrels of mufeovado sugars, and.
About 8000 white oak hogshead haves and heading.
Tomorrow,
1, puncheons of Granada rum,
6 butts of fine old sherry,
6 hogsheads of French rum,
4 casks of loaf sugar.
On Wednesday,
A few cases of claret,
Ditto of sweet oil,
- 6 casks of bottled porter,
And fix kegs of pearl barley.
Tobe fold at public VENDUE,
At the Coffee-House,
On Wednefda, next between 12 and 1 o'clock,
The brig BETSE Y,
NOW lying at Ten Eyck's wharff, near
the Albany dock, burthen about 120
tons, a remarkable handsome vessel, stout
built, well fownd, and fails remarkably faft,
Inventory to be seen at
DANIEL M'CORMICK's.
P UB LIC SAL E,
To-morrow at I o'clock.
Will be sold,
At PATRICK M'DAVITT's
Vendue-House,
An assortment of dry goods.
On WEDNESDAY,
At one o'clock will be fold, on Brownejohn's
wharff, near the Ferry Stairs,
Ninety-fix hogsheads of choice pram's River
TOBACCO,
Being the cargo of the sloop Adventure, taken by
the Enterprize, Paniel Squires, Esq; commander.
And on Thursday,
Will be fold on Hallett's wharff, at I o'clock,
The cargo of the brig LIBERTY,
Confining of
x 3 O hogsheads of the very best
Virginia TOBACCO,
Prize to his Majesty's ship Nautilus, John
Beecher, Esq; commander.
P. M'Davitt.
Imported in the brig Chance, and sloop Maria, from
Tortola, and to be fold by
THOMAS THOMAS,
On Coenties Dock, this DAY,
Choice Muscovado Sugars,
And the very best High-proof RUM,
Low for the Cash.
To be fold at private sale.
The sloop CHRISTIAN,
BURTHEN 50 tons or thereabouts, fails remarkable
well for her bulk, being a wide fi t vessel, of an
ealy draught of water, was built on Long-Ifland.for the
wood and hay business, is about two years old, and well
found with fails, rigging, boat, &c. Mounts 5 swivels.
For further particulars enquire of Thomas Crowel, at
No. 1065, corner of Beekman's flip.
L O S T,
ON the night of the 3d inst. in the confufion occa
sioned by the fire, a Puncheon of IRONMON
GERY, marked on the head IMC, No. 2. It was
taken out of a cellar belonging ta Mr. James Wells, in
Little Dock-street, and it is hoped it was removed by
some person from the friendly motive of preserving it for
the owner. If the person who has it in poff^ffion will
give information to the printer of this paper, the favour
will be gratefully acknowledged, and any charges attend
ing it readily paid ---Should it have fallen into the hands
of any person dishonest enough to offer it for sale, it is
requested that the articles and person may be ftop'd, and
information given as above. It contain'd HL hinges,
iron squares, planes, chattels, felling axes, coopers and
carpenters adzes, two dozen bench hatchets, and twelve
setts bed screws.
hor Freight or Charter,
(To any part in G.Britain
or Ireland)
%h^^§W§The Ship HERO,
James Miller, Master;
Burthen 220 tons:
SHE is a stout new vessel, well found, has
good accommodations for paflengers, is
now ready to take a cargo on beard, and will
fail with the firft convoy. For terms apply to
the Captain on board, off Brooklyn, or to
Lauchlan M'Lean, at No. 38, Wall-street.
THE partnership between Henry
Cruger and John Madard, of the city of Bristol,
merchants, being by mutual consent dissolved the 15th
of June last. The fubferiber is directed to give notice,
that all accounts depending on, or with the said partner
ship, are to be fettled by Henry Cruger, now residing in
Bristol, where he intends to carry on business in future
VAconncaed with said Th
AN FERRY;
New fork, August 21, I„&'
IT having been represented to Major-Ge
neral [ones, that many inhabitants have
goods saved from the fire ih\their possession,
the owners of which have not applied for
.them: It is the General's orders that they
immediately fend such goods to the Mayor's
office, in Wall-street, where the owners may
apply. Any person detaining or concealing
such goods will be deemed guilty of theft, and
punished accordingly.
By order of"Major-General]o^ES.
"CHARLES ROOKE, Aid de Camp.
Public aubfion, for Case only,
THIS morning, at TEMPLE TON and STEW
-1 ART's auction room, below the toffee-houfe,
will be fold, the remainder of the cargoes of the pri
zes brig Benjamin and snow Jeune Pouline, viz.
MEDICINES, WOOLENS,
LINENS, DUCK, &c.
With several pipes, half pipes, and quarter casks
Mad-ira arid red wine.
TO-MORROW, near the fame place,
Two pair double fortified three pounders, one pair swi
vels with foot, some f.vivel blonderbuffes and mufketr,
fix pair of new swivels, with ten pounds of fliut, and
ccmpleatly fitted.
One o'clock, at the Coffee-houfe,
The prize sloop General Gates,
Burthen about 00 tons, well found, now lay
ing below the .Coffee-houfe.,
On Wednesday,
The prize schooner SALL Y, burthen
about 50 tons, laying at Murray's wharff.
On Tburja,,,
13 hogsheads of best Virginia tobacco.
One o'clock, the sloop POLLY,
Burthen labout 60 tons, well found, a faft
sailer, and nearly new. Inventories of the
several Vessels to be seen at Templeton and
Stewart's office, where may be had, a rifle
gun, English make, of the new conftrudtion.
— F _.—ft—-
IN the street the zift inst. A BLADDER of SNUFF.
The owner may have it again, proving their pro
perty and paying charges. Enquire at James Hughfton's,
No. ic-79, Water-street.
To be' L ETT,
A READY furnifhed room for a single
gentleman, in a commodious part of
the town. Enquite of the printer.
Choice London FOR PER,
In Hogsheads,
To be fold at No. 29, Q^een-ftreet.
~AKEN up ne^r the four mile ftohe, a ftray'd
I milch Cow. Any person proving their property
and paying charges, may have her again by applying
to the.printer, or to Henry Preyor, Herdiman to the
General Hufpital.
To BE SOLD BY
WILLIAM SCHEVIZ,
At the house of Mr. Joseph Allicocke, next
door to the Coffee-houfe, viz
Molasses in hogsheads,
Mufeovado sugar in tierces and barrels.
And a few barrels of
High proof Antigua rum.
To be fold for want of employ,
A Likely adive negro girl about 13 yearj
of age, has had the small-pox, &c. —
Enquire of the printer.
r^^AKEN away, from on board the (loop Experiment,
on Thursday night last, in irons, a negro fell w
named James Sturrup, and supposed to be concealed in
some hcufe or vessel in the harbour : He is about 6 feet
high, of a yellow complexion, and about 45 years, old.
He is a good seaman, has many grey hairs in his head,
and a remarkable white tuft of hrir in his forehead, near
his face. Five guineas reward will be given to any per
son that will deliver the said fellow to Messrs. Moore and
Neat's.
Wants a wet nurse's place,
A Woman with a good bread of mdk, will ei
ther go to Europeor day in New-York. Any
one wanting fueh a person, may be provided by ap
plying to the printer.
N. B. She can undertake cookery.
EI GHT New swivels compleatly fitted.
One hundred shot for ditto,
To be fold at public NE ND UE,
At the Coffee-House,'
To-morrow,
By DANIEL MCCORMICK.
—^Q BE g Q££ ) by
WILLIAM PERRY,
No. 294, Little Dock-ftaeet, three dcors east of the
Exchange,
BRISTOL BEER, and „n casks of ten
TAUNTON ALE, J dozen each,
London porter in hampers of three doz. each,
Double and single Gloucester cheese in tubs,
Bristol tripe in kegs, Currants,
Bristol bacon, &c.
THOMAS GALBREATH,
BEING finally resolved to leave this country, intend
ing for Britain as soon as he can fettle his business ;
therefore ^ this acquaints the public, the dock of goods
he htf@Fßand will be fold on exceeding low terms, by
the quantity, for ready money only. And all who a're
indebted to him, are requeued to fettle their accounts
immediately.
N. B. The goods are exceedingly well aborted, may be
seen at Mr. Galbreath's store, No. 219, Queen-street,
near the Fly-market.
A SOBER man and his wife (having no charge) that
has been used to attend sundry families of note, are
willing to attend a gentleman's family to London. En
quire at the forage magazine, next door to Mr. Van
Dam's, near the Ferry Stairs.
rTOTTIT HoLLi n s;
TAYLOR,
TAKES this method to acquaint the gen
tlemen of the Navy and Army, that he
lately moved to No 22. Fly-Market, where he
carries on his trade in all its branches, in the
most fafhionable and speedy manner.
N. B. Good encouragement will be given
to Journeymen.