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CiIaRLESTOWN, (S. Ca Ui,,) ,U 2.
) LaR Saturday a very valuable little, fleet. be
'cngfng to this pore ar rived here trom )t Hu
'.. cia, and one of then :he I ’'ter oi Clique
brig Hercules, commanded by Captain JUi b
Young, brought in the Eritith armedtch^aer
Eagle, of z carriage guns '- hvi,eh anl 27
men, tender to the Experiment ihan of war,
of 30 guns Coinin' d # re Sr James Wallace,
which Captain Young took the day be ore, ana
had been ont bat 4 days from I .bee, for in
telligence, and to look into this harbour. Fne
fame night arrived here, Monk Ee Vicount de
Fov^anges, from his Excellency the Count d'
Eitaing, who is not far diltaut, with a power
ful fleet and land focc. of ff,:r great and good
ally, his moll Chrillian Majrfty, comepurpom
j, to the relief of these invaded dates. We
expect important in exigence every hour.
Ext^a of 4 Utter from Charta-Eoien, South-
Carols, $/»!. 8.
This moment we have received advice that
Captain Detriville, of the artillery, had cap
tured at Pinckney's inland, an advice bsat on
her way from Savannah to Beaufort, with or
ders to Colonel Maitland, sho was Rationed
there with about 900 British troops, to quit
Beaufort and retreat to Savannah, a French
fleet having been difeovered on the coast. A
Captain, a Lieutenant, and 8 men were made
prisoners in the veffcl ; and it is therefore high
ly probable that Colonel Maitland and his
command will fall into our hands.
September 30.
The Sieur Gerard, Minister Plenipotentiary
of France, being expected shortly to leave
this State, the President and Supreme Execu
tive Council took leave of him lull Wednes
day in the following address c
SIR,
THE President and Supreme Executive
Council of Pennsylvania, would not do
jdlice to their own feelings and your merit,
if tkey fupprefs'd their withes for your future
prosperity and happiness, and their regret,
that the commands of your Prince, and the
bad Rate of your health, have abridged your
relldence among us.
The favour of your Sovereign, we trust,
awaits your faithful services ; and if the affec
tionate regard of this board can add to your
happiness, be allured that you possess then? ip
a very high degree.
Your eminentfervices in forming the union
between the two nations, and your conduct,
which has had so happy a tendency to conci
liate and cement our affections to the Monarch
and people of France, must fully juftify, in
the opinion cf the world, this special mark of
our attention and refped, and transmit your
name to poßerity among the firft and molt di
ftingui(hed friends of this rising empire.
With sincere wishes for your fafe and happy
arrival in your native country, Sir, we 'bid
you adieu.
Signed in behalf of the Council unanimoufy,
JOSEPH REED, President.
His Excellency's Anfaer.
Gentlemen,
r r'HE flattering marks of esteem and re-
X gard which you are pleased to shew me,
affed me with the most lively gratitude. I
esteem myfelf happy in having merited your
approbation, and the testimony which you
give to the zeal with which I have endeavour
ed by all the means in my power to confirm
your confidence in the friendship of the King
my mffler, and the union and good under-
Handing between the two nations. It is with
infinite fatisfaclion, gentlemen, that I take
this occasion to acknowledge the disposition
you have shewn in the course of my embassy
to contribute to the fame salutary end, by the
manner in which you have exerted the autho
rity you have been entrusted with.
Penetrated with these sentiments, gentle
men, and with the confidences due to you in so
many refpefts, nothing remains but to pray
you to accept my thanks fur all the regards
which I have experienced from you, as well as
a public Minister as personally, and my wishes
for your happiness and prosperity.
GERARD.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1779.
In General Assembly of Pennsylvania; Tues
day, September 22, 1779.
SIR,
THE representatives of the freemen of
Pennsylvania, in General Assembly,
now wait on your Excellency, to express their
sentiments on the very essential services you
have rendered to America; and they have di
refted me, their Speaker, to give you their
fineere thanks for the early, zealous, and truly
disinterested part youhave taken in fapport of
their rights, and of the rights of all men. I
assure y u, Sir, it gives me infinite fatisfa&ion
that I have this opportunity of declaring to
you in the behalf of the house, and of all the
freemen of Pennfylvama, that your name and
your fevices to America will he held in grate
ful remembrance, so long as the love of liber
ty and our extensive empire shall remain a
inongft the nations.
We wish you a fafe and happy voyage, a
perfect recovery of your health, 'and a most
gracious reception by your magnanimous and
illudrioos Monarch.
Signed so order f the house, %
" JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
Attest. John Morris, Jun.
Clerk of the General Assembly.
To bis Excellency the Sieur Gerard, Minifer Ple
nipotentiary from his most Chrifian Majeflj, to
the United States of America.
His Excellency made the following anfiver
in the French language. Translation thereof
being as followeth :
7) fSmh' and Mergers of she General Ab
J,m'f of the State of Penffroania,
Gentlemen,
W'HCN the King, my matter, was pleased
to honour me with a ffiare of his con
fidence relative to the great and glorious cause
of America, I regard the happiness of fuc
ccedn< therein, as the higheß point of my
ambition. Tne approbation with which the
General Assembly of Pennsylvania, in the
name and behalf of the sensible and enlighten
ed citizens of that State, have been pleased to
honour my conduct, is one of the moll flat
tering rewards that I could willi to obtain. It
infpirvs me with an eternal gratitude, and in
creases the sincere fentimen<s which I enter
tained for their glory and prosperity, as well
as for those in particular, who exercise with
so much honour, zeal and capacity, the ligi
flative power with which they are entrusted.
Be pleased, gentlemen, to accept these as
surances, and my sincere thanks for the oblig
ing wishes you form in my behalf
, GERARD.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 17,9.
PHILADELPHIA, October 2.
In C ONGRES S, Sept 24, 177^
Resolved, that the thanks of Congress be
given to his Excellency General Washington
for ordering, with so much wisdom, the late
attack on the enemy's fort and works at Pau
lus Hook.+
Resolved, That the thanks of the Congress
be given to Major General Lord Stirling, for
the judicious measures taken by him to for
ward the enterprize, and to fecur^ the retreat #
of the party.
Revived, That the thanks of the Congress
be given to Major Lee, for the remarkable
pruderoe, address and bravery displayed by
him on the occasion; and that they approve
the humanity shewn in circumstances prompt
ing to fetferity as honorable to the arms of the
United States., and correspondent to the noble
principles on which they were assumed.
Resolved, That Congress entertain a high
sense of the discipline, fortitude and fpiric,
manifefted by the officers and soldiers under
the command of Major Lee in the march, ac
tion and retreat; and while with singular
fatisfaaion they acknowledge the merit of
these gallant men, they feel an additional
pleasure by considering them as part of an
army in which very many brave officers and
soldiers have proved, by their chearful per
formance of every duty under every difficulty,
thai they ardently wish to give the truly glori
ous examples they now receive.
Refolyed, That Congress justly esteem tie
military caution so happily combined with
daring activity by Lieutenants M'Callifter and
Rudolph in leading on the forlorn hope.
Resolved, That a Medal of Gold, emble
matical of this affair, be Rruck, under the di
redion of the Board of Treasury, and present
ed to Major Lee.
Resolved, That a brevet and the pay and
subsistence of Capt. be given to Lieut. M'Cal
lifter and Lieut. Rudolph refpeftively.
Resolved, That the sum of Fifteen Thou
sand Dollars be put into the hands cf Major
Lee, to be by him distributed among the non
commissioned officers and soldiers of the de
tachment he commanded at the the attack and
furprize of Paulus Hook, in such manner as
the Commander in Chief Shall direct.
Resolved, That the pay and subsistence of
Captains be allowed to Lieutenants Gibbons
and Knox, the officers who led on the forlorn
hope in the attack on Stoney Point, and also
to Mr. Archer, the bearer of the General's
letter and Volunteer Aid, to commence from
the date of their refpedive commissions of bre
vets voted by Congress the 26th day of July
last. Exira& from the Minutes,
Monday evening last an unhappy affair hap
pened in this town, which is as follows : Early
in the evening one Richard Collingwood, late
a British prisoner ; but at the time of his death
a sailor belonging to the Continental ship
Queen of France, went from his lodging in
company with others, armed with clubs, &c.
said Richard swearing he would be killed or
kill somebody ; they went into the market
fqu?.te, where they met, or were met, by a
body of armed men, supposed to be French
men, and after changing feme words, four
pistols or mufquets were fired from the latter
party, a ball from one of which entered the
lower part of said Richard's back, and came
out a little below his navel, of which wound
he died in about an hour.
N E W- HAVE N, Odo. 6.
Maffachufet's Assembly have passed an Aft
(which is now in force) to prevent the export
ation, either by land or water, from that Rate,
Rum, wine, or any ether kind of Spirits, mo
lasses, sugar, cotton, wool, Ihecps wool,
wool cards, flax, salt, coffee, cocoa, choco
late, linnen, cotton and linnens, woolen
and cotton goods of all kinds ; provisions of
all and every fort; live dock, fhocs, skins and
leather of all kinds.
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NEW- YORK, October 12.
Yesterday arrived the ship Sir George Col
lier, Capt. M'Niel, the Schoner Hammond,
Capt. Kidd, and the Sloop Lord North, Cap
tain M'Donald, being part of a fleet of priva
teers owned by Messrs. Sheddan and Good
rich. Last Friday fe'nnight in lat. 36, lon.
71, they fell in with the Ship Clementina,
one of the transports that failed from this port
under convoy of his Majefly's ship Renown ;
she had been difmafled in the late violent gale
of wind, and when the privateers came up
with her, lay a mete wreck on the water;
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
BOSTON, September 27.
befoies her crew there wfc 1T men,^! ng
ing to the 44th regiment 01 b^ard, wno v etc
distributed among the pivateer.. ? 7 ter
taking out some necessaries, tne wreck was
feur.led and set on fire
Last Wednesday the above-mentbne 1 priva
teers took the Brig Sally,. Capt. Armitage,
of fourtcen three pounders, belonging to Phi
ladelphia ; She had been only one day out
from tne Capes of Delaware Same day
they captured tne Schooner Htw<, of twelve
guns, belonging to Egg-Harbour. Ihe
former bad 66 rebels on boarj> and the latter
70. Tliefe prizes were Drought in here yeltei
day.
N E W-Y O R K, Oa. 13.
We are informed, that his Majcity's tßip
Solebay, Capt. Svmonds, has sent into Sandy-
Hook, another of the transports with troops,
which some time ago failed from henc< under
the convoy of the Renown, Capt. Dawson,
and was separated from the rest of the fleet in
a violent gale of wind.
It is fail the above transport, having on
board a number of Hessian troops, was rc
taken from the enemy by the Solebay.
MENS plain and ribb'd worsted Rockings,
Cotton and linnen check handkerchiefs,
Cotton and linnen checks,'
Dowlas and Irish linnens, 'Q
Tammies and Durants,
Calimancoes and Ihalloons,
White and brown buckram,
Broad cloths and coatings,
German serges and velverets,
Mill'd and plain plaiding,
Ofnaburghs, —
Flee mill'd caps,
Blunifh threads,•
LIKEWISE,
Weft-India rum in hogsheads,
Teneriffe wine in pipes and hogiheads,
Malmfey in quarter calks,
B :ef in tierces and barrels,
Bohea, finglo and congo teas in chests,
Flour in barrels,
Cordage.
TO-MORROW,
Will be fold at the Vendue-Houfe, No. 30,
A haodfome Assortment of
GOO D S,
Lately imported,
With 13 Hogsheads of belt Jamaica S?IRITS,
16 Calks of Currants, a few Tierces of
Beef and Perk, 6 Four Pounders, 3 Pairof
Two Pounders, an Anchor about 800 Cwt.
P. M'Davitt.
W ANTE "D,
THE WIRE-WORK of a FLAXSEED
SCREEN: If not new, a second hand one will
anfver. Enquire of Hugh G^ine.
Public Aubiion.
On Tuesday 12 o'clock at the Bridge, will
be fold,
By John M'Adam, and Co.
30 Puncheons London proof Jamaica Spirits,
Old and high flavoured, 50 per cent, above the
common proof of Spirit usually imported in
this Country.
MONDAY the 11th of October, 1779,
eloped Catharine O'Neal, and carried
offwiih her a quantity of cash from her husband
John O'Neal; I forwarn all persons trusting
or harbouring her on my account, as 1 will
not pay any debts of her contrasting after the
present date, October 18th, 1779.
JOHN O'NEAL.
Gold Scales and Weights, to
be fold by Hugh Gaine.
NEW-Y OR K, Oao. 14.
Veßerday arrived the privateer sloop Lady
Dunmore, Ca,t. Crew, belonging to Messrs.
Sheddan and Goodrich's fleet of private thips
of war; on the 20th of Sept, in lat. 3 , lon. 70,
he took a Spanifo foow, which proved to be a
packet from the Havannah bound to Coruna
in Old Spain. Captain Crew sent the (now to
Bermuda, but brought the mail hither. He
also brings the melancholy accounts of the
privateer brig Spitfire, Capt. White, which
foundered in the Gulph of Florida, in the late
storm, and all her crew were drowned. Capt.
White was a native of New England, a most
worthy honest man, and zealous Loyalist ; by
courage and intrepidity he had amassed a
very handsome fortune at the expence of the
base inveterate enemies to his Majesty, and
all his loyal fubjeds. His death is sincerely
lamented by all who had the pleasure of his
acquaintance.
NEW-YORK, Odober 16,
Yesterday arrived the Schooner Carlifle, of
8 Guns, James Walcott, Commander, in 21
Days from Bermuda, off which liland he met
with and engaged a very elegant Letter of
Marque of 16 Guns, she hailed from Phila
delphia, when Capt. Walcott desired them to
Strike, which they answered with a Broadside,
when the Carlifle lay under her Quarter for
fifteen Minutes, pouring in Broadside after
Broadside, in some little Space of Time the
Letter of Marque totally disappeared, which
made Capt. Walcott conjecture the must have
funk.
Thus ended the Carlifle's Cruise of nine
Months, in which Time Capt. Walcott has
taken 28 Sail of Vessels, and sent them to Ja
maica and Bermuda.
Thomas Buchanan, & Co.
Halve for sale at their Rore in Queen-Street,
No. 212,
Public Notice h.rehy given,
CT''llA'r Weduefda, next, the zo:h ihhai t,
is appointed for Payment to the Officers
And Crew of the Privateer Schooner Experi
ment, of their I<ve:al and refpeClive Shores
<f the net Proceeds of the Schooner Theodb
hus, taken in Company with his Majeßy's
Ship the Delaware, of Money recovered from
the Expedition to Nantucket, of the Brigan
tine Fanny, Sloops Active, Fancy, and Beefy,
taken in Company with the Tryon, Capt# n
Sibbles; the Schooner Lark, taken in Com>.
pany with the Brig Sir Andrew Hammond,
and Schooner Sutherland, and of Prize Mo
ney received from the Agents of the Army and
Navy employed on the Expedition to Virginia;
on which Day such Payment will be made by
the Subferiber, Agent for fajd Schooner.
EDWARD BRISBANE.
Jull imported, and to be Sold by
Hugh & Alexander Wallace,
BEST Mess and Cargo BEEF in Tierces
and Barrels,
Do. PORK, in whole and halfbarrels,
Do. TONGUES, in half barrels,
200 Barrels of SUPERFINE FLOUR,
zoo Do. of SECOND, Do.
50 Boxes of belt LIVERPOOL SOAP,
7 Calks of Hardware, containing
CARPENTERS, JOYNERS and COOPERS
Tools, &c.
16 Pair of Guns, 9 Pounders,
22 do of 6 do.
25 do cf 4 do.
20 Howitzers, 6 do.
24 Swivels, with a quantity of round and
cross Bar shot to each.
2 Chests of SMALL ARMS with Bayonets.
I Box of Basket hilred CUTLASSES,
1 Do. ofßrafs hilted SWORDS,
A Large Parcel of
GRAPE-SHOT.
New-York, October 12, 1779.
BOOKS'and PRINT-S?
By Auction,
On Thursday the 21f of this infant, O^ober,
nvill begin to be fold by Auction,
At Tongue and Tronfon's
Store, No. 911, in Water-freet, (Mr. Heitman's
House)
A Large and valuable Colle&ion of the belt and
most modern BOOKS in all Branches of po
lite Literature, viz. History, Voyages and Travels,
Poetry, Plays, Novels, Arts and Sciences, Physic,
Law and Divinity, &c. &c. including a great Va^
riety of Books of Entertainment by the best Au
thors, mostly new and well bound, many of them
elegantly finished. Also, a Number of humourous,
political, and fatyrical Prints, some by the molt
eminent Matters.
FINE quill bark,
If ft powdered Je
fuh's.birk,
Fin- ficcotrine aloes,
French verdigre.ue,
Crude fal arujontac,
Opam and camphire,
Cartor 'nd creamer tartar,
Fire Turkey and E if- .
India Gumarabic,
Turkey and India Rhu-1
barb,
Minna's and Itingl fs,
Gums and Mercurials, ?. general assortment, with
every other article io the merited way,
so be had nvhhfde and retail, of
Richard Speaight,
DRUGGIST, No. #r, Qyeenfreet,
Who has I k^i e tor f?.le, a general MLitment of
Parent Medicines and Perfumeries.
Medicine Cherts for the Niv v and A m y, complex,
ed at the fhortefl notices
Hours of Sale each Day from Ten in the Morn
mg, until after Twelve, and from Six in the Even
ing until after Eight.
N. B. The above Goods were imported (in the last
Fleet froro Great-Britain and Ireland,) by the Pro
prietors, with a View of entering into that Business
in this City, but some particular Circumstances
obliging them to return home, the whole will be fold
without Reserve.
MSS. Catalogues of each Day's Sale to be seen
at the Room, previous thereto.
Anatomical Preleaions.
DR. CLOSSY's belt refpe&s to the Gentlemen
of the General Hospital, and begs leave to
inform them that the course will begin on Monday
October 25th, at one o'clock, as usual.
To be L E T,
A Large convenient two story HOUSE, in the
Broadway. Its situation h well calculated for
business, either in the dry good or grocery way.
Enquire at No. 33, John-ftieet, opposite the Play-
Houfe<
Also to be S O L D,
A few puncheons of high proof Jamaica fpin'ts,
at private fate, and a few boxes of mould and dipt
cm Iles'.Enquire ns above.
70 be SOLD out oj the Brig Gunton, from Corhe,
By Francis Sullivan,
Lying at Nan Dam's ivharf, Fly-Market,
NEW ROSE BUFFER to fokins and keg,,
mess beef in b.ricls ard hdf barrels, mess
poik in ditto, meats tongues in half barrels, new
foperfine flour in barrels, itirch, hair povider, linens
and cottons, &c. &c.
As said Sullivan means to return in the next fleet
for Ireland, would give oond encouragement to
wholesale purchasers of ny of the above articles.
FRESH IMPORTED,
A large quantity of genuine
Drugs & Medicines,
From one of the firft houses in London, among
^uhich are,
True magnifo) alba an !
borax,
?me hired fag, ar>d pearl
bar lev,
Part >r tmitic, and epica
cuma,
Powder'd jalop & filoop,
Bilfrn peruvian,
Sweet foirirs nitie,
Liquorice juice and root,
Qlaub-r and Epsom salts,
Erne Lockyet's pills, with
bwks,