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thick was represented to the Congress by
Dr. B. Rulh, Dr. Cadwallader, and Dr. Bond,
in written "Memorials. That dillru^ful Junto
ordered a Committee of themselves, composed
es « Mr. Wilcot, and a Thomas M'Kean of
New Callie, to come to us and fee our Situa
tion, and State cf Health.
Mr. Wi!cot talked like a moderate Man,
but the violent, raging Rebel KLKcao, intro
duced himfelf by abufih, in the grossest
Terras, the King, Parliament and Ministry 5
the whole Army, and Navy; and particu
larly Lord Dunmore and General Prefcot. He
told Ms,' for our Comfort, that we fliould be
retained fer Retaliation, that if Allen, or
Proflor, or any of their Leaders were execu
ted, we fhauhl ihare the fame Fate; said we
ought to think eurfelvcs very happy not to be
in Irons, as their Prisoners were always kept
in Irons by the British. In Order to preserve
os for that Purpose, he ordered our Windows
to be opened; after feme Time an Order
came from the Congrtfs permitting us to walk
two Hours' every Day, with two Centinds, in
a hot, nafly, fuffbeating Yard cf the Goal.
But this was allowed us only for a few Days.
All this Time the Coaler charged us four
Dollars a Wack each, for our Diet only, tho'
very indifferent, and Twenty Shillings a Week
for Fire and Candle. The Congress allowed
us only two Dollars weekly each, so that this
infamous Villain the Goaler, extorted every
Farthing of Money from us, as far as cur
Credit then wenld go. But being determined
not to run in Debt, I refufed to pay them any
more than the Congress allowed, and was 0-
bligcd to fabhft five Weeks upon Bread and
Water alone. The Goaler's Name was Tho.
Dewces, as tyrannical, cruel, infamous a
Villain as ever exiffed. Some Time before
this Major McDonald, and Twenty-five Pri
soners from Carolina were brought to Goal,
forced to march all the Way from Carolina
on Foot. They were confined in three close
Rooms for fix Weeks, and were then allowed
the L bc^y of the Goal only every third Day.
The Congress in July, put in two new Goa-
Ters cf the Name of Jewell, if pofhble more
true, and tyrannical than the former, and
endued the old Gea er, and all the Debtors,
and Criminals, to another Prifen; and kept
cnly what they called Prisoners of State in
ours. The Cruelties prattifed there are al
most incredible, and at lead equal to the
Spaniih inquisition Prison. The Goal was
guarded constantly by one Ccntinel on each
Side without, two in the Front, two in the
Yard, three in the Faffage below, and three
within in the Puffagt above, .and the Guard
Room in the Prison. The Reftridions on as
were so severe, that we were net allowed to
fpcak to any in different Rooms. Sept. 20th,
Jewell, accused me of f,eaking to Col. Con
nolly, and ordered a Serjeant and nine Men
to carry me into a nafly Guard Room, then
into a damp cold empty Room, where I was
obliged to, lie on the bare Floor, and that gave
me a violent Cholick. I was extremely 111,
without any Care, er Notice taken of me,
and lay in that lick hclplefs Condition, lock'd
tip in a Room by myfelf, without the leaf!
Affi^-nce whatsoever. Soon after that, I was
seized with a Difentery, which continued on
me for seven Weeks, and reduced me to the
Point of Death, yet fill 1 was lock'd up
without any Care, Attendance, or Notice.
DoR Benjamin Rush, c.ne cf the Congress, a
Man eminent in Phyhek, but as eminent, in
Rebellion, and still more so in Deceit, after
tantalizing me with Hopes of a Parole, Ex
change, an Profe£or.s of very great regard,
^nd Commiseration, ene Day informed me,
that many Members cf the Congress, said
they per fonally knew me to be so determinedly
inimical to the Ann rican States, and that I
had always used such Interest and Influence
against thc/n, that I need not expect any Kind
of Indulgence whatfeever, not even to save
L'fc. [To be continued.]
E<k^^mWs^^ R&O|^^
By Cayt. -— — of the Unicorn, from
Glasgow, ewe have the flowing Advices, viz.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, Jan. 25.
War-Office, January 21, 1777.
^yOURTEENTH Regiment of Foot, En
sign Thomas Parke, from the4sth Regi
ment, is appointed Lieutenant, vice Andrew
Laurie.
iph Regiment of Foot, Robert Walker,
Gent, to be Eniign, vice Henry Murray.
Lnhgn William Falconer to be Lieutenant,
lice Harry Ditmafs. .d
17th Regiment of Foot, Enfigri Frederick
Augustus Wetherell, to be Lieutenant, vie#
William Stone Mortimer. Amiel, Gent,
to be Ensign, vice William Affie. Captain
Lieutenant John MRherfon, to be Captain,
vice Sir Alexander Murray, First Lieutenant
Thomas Welch, from the 23d Regiment, to
It Captain Lieutenant, vice John M'Phcrfon.
George Inman, Gent, to be Ensign, vice
William Bumbury.
22d Regiment cf Foet, Second Lieutenant
William Prodor, from the Royal Fenfible
Americans, to be Ensign, vice Alexander
Hamilton. Capt. Lieutenant Andrew Grant
to be Captain, vice George Barclay. Lieut.
Robert Lindsay to be Captain Lieutenant,
vice Andrew Grant. Ensign Charles Shawe,
from the 64th Regiment, to be Lieutenant,
vice Robert Lindsey.
z;d Regiment cf Foot, Second Lieutenant
John Vkikinfon, to be firft Lieutenant, vice
Benjamin Bernard. Delaval, Gent, to
be Second Lieutenant, vice John Wiikiufon.
Second Lieutenant William Wells to be fird
Lieutenant, vice Thomas Welch. Edward
Price, Gent, to be second Lieutenant, vice
William Wells. Captain Lieutenant Frede
rick Mackenzie, to be Captain, vice Grey
Gioye. Firl 'Ließenant Thomas Gibbons $
to be Captain Lieutenant, vice Frederick'
Mackenzie. Ensign William Russel, from
sth Regiment of Foot, to be fifft Lieutenant,
vice Thomas Gibbons. First Lieutenant John
Blucke to be Adjutant, vice Frederick Mac
kenzie. Second Lieutenant John Campbell.
to be firft Lieutenant, vice Richard Bailey.
Michael Jackson, Gent, to be second Lieute
nant, vice John Campbell. Serjeant Major
Robinfon, of the 28th Regiment, to be
Quarter Mailer, vice Richard Bailey. Lieu-;
tenant Thomas Willis, from the 49th Regi
ment, to be Captain, vice Joseph FerguGn.
27th Regiment cf Foot, John Gordon,
Gent, to be Enlign, vice John Arbuthnot.
28th Regiment of Foot, Captain Lieute
nant John Sheppard, to be Captain, vice
Charles Dering. Lieutenant William Taylor
to be Captain Lieutenant, vice John Sheppard.
Ensign Dominick Foster Dalton, to be Lieu
tenant, vice William Taylor. Richard Hum
phries, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Dominick
Foster Dalton.
31st Regiment cf Foot, John Hayward
Smith (Clerk) to be Chaplain, vice Edward
Bromhead.
LONDON, February it
Extract of a Letter from Lifan.
" The Zephyr Sleep of War has brought
in here two Prizes; one of them the Argo,
Capt. Ward, but cannot learn the Name of
the other.
We are afereu, that another Draught of
eight Men from each Company of the Guards
will soon be made, and embarked to serve in
America.
On Saturday Advice was brought to Lord
Suffolk's Office, of the Death of the Right
Hon. Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart, in the South
cf France, (\yhere he went for the Recovery
of his Health) Member for the Shire cf Rox
burgh, Treasurer of the Navy, Keeper of the
Signet in Scotland, and a Coramiffioner of
forfeited Estates in that Kingdom.
The late Sir Gilbert Elliot is Succeeded in
Title and Eilatc by his eldest Son Gilbert El
liot, Esq; of Lincoln's Inn, Counfellor at
Law ; who, it is said, will be a Candidate to
represent the County of Roxburgh, in the
Room of his Father.
Charles Jenkinfon, Esq; it is said, will be
appointed Treasurer cf the Navy, in the
Room of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bart, deceased.
'Yefterday a new Writ was iffed for clewing
a Member for Roxburghshire, in the Room of
Sir Gilbert Elliot, deceased.
Admiralty Office, fan. 27, 1777.
Capt. Griffith, of his Majesty's Ship the
Nonfuch, has sent to Plymouth a Rebel Pri
vateer of 10 Guns, and 80 Men, called the
Charming Sally, Francis Brown, Commander,
which she took the 16th Inflant, to the West
ward of Cape Finiflerrc, and belonged to
Dartmouth in Maffachufets Bay.
And by a Letter received from Vice Admi
ral Gayton, dated the 16th of November lass,
it appears, that since his Letter of the 4th of
that Month, the Cruizers of his Squadron
had taken and sent into Port Royal, five more
North American Vcffels.
Feb. 3. We have the strongest Assurances,
that Dr. Franklin's Residence in Paris, is
merely an AT of Self-Policy ; ana that the
French Court, so far from treating with him,
look down upon him with the most fevereign
Contempt.
Lord North will on Monday next, appoint
a Day for laying some Papers before the House
of Commons, and founding a Motion on them
relative to the Settlement of America.
It is said, that Provision is making for fend
ing to America, early in the Spring, not less
than 14,000 Land Forces, including Germans.
The Bill presented to the House of Com
mons of Tuesday last by Lord North, is for
enabling the Commissioners for executing the
Office of Lord Admiral of Great-Britain to
grant Commissions, 01 Letters of Marque, to
the Commanders of private Ships and Vessels,
to take and make Prize cf all Ships and Ves
sels, and their Cargoes, belonging to, or
possessed by, any of the Inhabitants of the
Colonies of Mafi'achufet's Bay, Rhode-Bland,
Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Penn
sylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Dela
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina,
South-Carolina, and Georgia, for a limited
Time.?
Notice is given, That on Wednesday next,
a Mail will fail from Falmouth, for New-
York, by which will also be sent the Letters
for Halifax, &c.
The New-York Packets now employed
mount 16 Guns, and carry 50 Men, the fame
as the War Establishment.
Yesterday, another Draught was made from
the Foot Guards, in Order to form a Troop
of Light Infantry to go to America.
The Harvest of the American Privateers in
the Bay and on the Coasts of Spain and Por
tugal, is at length put an End to, by the
French forbidding them to bring any Cap
tures int® their Ports ; and it is supposed, as
the fame Politics are gfed at Madrid as at Ver
sailles, a like Order will issue through Spain,
as already has to France.
A Letter from the Frontiers of Turkey Dec.
28, fays, " The Difeontent and Cor.fufion
which reign throughout this Kingdom, and
particularly at Constantinople, is so great,
that the most dangerous Consequences are to
be expelled, if some proper Measures are not
soon taken. Happily hitherto we have not
been in Want of Provisions, if that Ihould
happen, it would put 2 inilhing Stroke to our
present Discontent, and, added to the present
Circumstances, might not only put the Life of
the Grand Vizir, but svea that of the Graud|
Signior ia Danger,"
“ On the morning of the 17th infant, Fort
Macintosh at Sitilla, was attacked by a large
party from Florida. The garrison on the
Stickade confided cf about fifty men, com
mand by Capt. Richard Winn, of the South
Carolina Rangers. The enemy kept up a
smart fire on the garrison for about five hours,
after which Lieutenant Col. Thomas Brown,
cf the Florida Rangers, came with a flag, and
required the garrison to surrender, threatning
that in case of non-compliance, no mercy
would be Shewn. Capt. Winn demanded an
hour to confider, which was agreed to ; in
answer to the proposition he soon informed
Capt. Brown, by a feijeant, that they were
bound in honour net to comply with it, and
that if they should fall int® their hands they
expected ts be treated as gentlemen, and pri
soners of war. The ferjeant returned with
Lord and General Howe's proclamation ;
Capt. Winn bid the enemy defiance ; a smart
fire immediately ensued, and was kept up on
both sides for an hour. Next day Lieut. Col.
Fufer, of the Royal Americans, the command
ing officer of the enemy, sent in a message to
Capt. Winn, and desired he would fend out
some of his officers to fee the forces and the
preparations for the attack. This was com
- plied with ; all the officers, excepting Capt.
Winn, going out. On their return, they in
formed him of the enemy's force being vastly
superior to his, and of their being provided
with five field pieces. It was -therefore deter
mined to furfender, and at twelve o'clock the
enemy were put in possession of the fort. The
garrison were allowed to keep their baggage,
were disarmed, and excepting two officers,
Lieutenants Caldwell and Miller, are sent to
Augustine, were dismissed on their Parole, to
be considered as prisoners of war until an
equal number is exchanged. They were es
corted some distance, to proted them from
the savages, who were very unruly. The force
of the enemy was about a thousand men, five
hundred of them Regulars, one hundred Flo
rida Rangers, and the rest Indians. Of Cap
tain Winn's men four were wounded. The
loss of the Enemy is not knewn, but fevers!
were seen carried off. Col. Harris who went
with a party from Fort Howe to the affillance
of Winn, fell in with a superior number of
the enemy, and was obliged to retire with
the loss of fix men killed and taken."
On Friday last John Jacobs was executed
here, pursuant to his sentence, for iffuimg
counterfeit paper money, knowing it to be
counterfeit.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2.
The Randolph frigate, Capt. Biddle, having
sprung a mast at sea, is put into South-Caro
lina to refit.
On Mcmdiy'laft James Molefworth, a traitor
and a spy, was executed on the Common near
this city. It appears by sundry evidences and
own confeffion, that he had been sent from
Nro-York to procure pilots Dr conducting the
Eritiffi fleet up-the river Delaware te tAis city.
Adthmtic Letters from Vienna, dated Jan.|
13, declare, that the Person Array, under the ,
Command of Zendi Kerim Khan, had taken.
the City of Bagdad, after a Siege cf fevenj
Weeks, by Capitulation. The Garrison con-1
filled of 6000 Horse, a 1000 Aftafs, dnd;o,cco
Janiffarie#, most of whom were Tradesman, ;
and very ill disciplined. The Christian and
and Armenian Families were treated with great
Lenity by the Conquerors. The Surrender
of the Place, it is said, was owing to a Purple
Fever which raged during the latter End of
Autumn with great Violence, and carried off
near a fourth Part of the Inhabitants.
Bagdad formerly belonged to the Persians;
it is 250 Miles from Baffora, and is situated on
the East Bank of the River Tigris in Asia; it
is about three Miles in Ciicumference, has a
very flrong Cadle seated by the Side of the Ri
ver; there has lately been built an additional
Town without the Walls, which was destroyed
by the Vanguard of the Persians, upon toeir
firft Attack upon the City in the Month of
July last. Bagdad was formerly the Capital
of the Saracen Empire, till it was taken by tne
Turks in 1638, who kept it till its late Surren
der to its old Mahers. The celebrated Tho
mas Kouli Khan besieged it two Months with
out Success,
The above Advices mention that the Persian
Army was in full March for Aleppo, and that ;
thefc Tranftdions have occasioned a great Dil-1
turbance at Constantinople among the Janifia-1
rie% 30,000 06 whom, upon being ordered to ;
join Seraikier Audi Pacha, had mutinied, and :
refufed to depart without a considerable freej
Gift from the Grand Signior.
EDINBURGH, February 3.
Extract es a Letter frem a Baufelier of Brifisl,
dated January $, 1777.
“ We are kill under the mod dreadful
Apprehension these dark Nights. I have just
had two cembuftible Matches brought into
my Shop that were laid in a Houfc near me;
and another I find has been picked up next
Door to the Poft-Office in Corn Street. This
Afternoon a House was discovered to be on
Fire in Nichola Street, but was happily put
out without doing much Mifchief. Almost
all the Gentlemen in the City keep Watch for
thcmfelves. I have been on the Patrole once,
and in two or three Nights it comes to my
Turn again. Fielding's People were within
half a Hour of taking John the Painter,
Yesterday ; and this Day it was found he was I
on board a Vessel at Pill. I hope he will feon
be taken ; but I am afraid there must be a
great many concerned ; it is very Grange that
none are as yet detefled."
Charieftown, (S. Carolina) February 27.
We have been favoured with the following in
telligence from Georgia.
NEWPOR T, April 5;
; Lad Tharfday a party of rebels, under the
I command of one George EAcock, came inte
I the house of Mrs -Charles Slocum, of Nurth
I Kington. His son coming to the door, was
immediately collared by cne of the banditti;
young Slocum clinched with him, and would
soon have made him repent his rafhuefs, had
it not been for the interference of the rest of
the gang. His farther, feeing the feuffle,
calne out of the house to interfere ih the be
half of his son, when the infamous Babcock
difeharged a pistol at him. The Ball entered
a little below his heart, and he died in about
three hours. Not content with the misery
they had already occasioned to this unhappy
family, they took both his sons and dragged
them before their Assembly, who in their
clemency permitted them to return under 3
llrong guard to attend the funeral of their
murdered father. The mourning relatives
were accordingly escorted to the grave by
this unfeeling clan, who immediately upon
their return home, carried both the young
men off to Providence goal. This unpara
lelled barbarity is said to be occasioned by
the information of some villain that escaped
from this ifiand. Every bread susceptible es
the miseries of its fellow-creatures mull feel
for this unhappy family—A hulband murder
led!I ed! a number of orphan children deprived of
him to whom they were wont to look up for
I support ! and, to compleat the tragic feene,
; two sons whose presence at home might in
:fome measure have alleviated the loss of their
:parent, are likewise torn from their wives,
expecting soon to Ihare the fame cruel fate !
And all this performed by men who have de
corated their rtandard with the specious names
of Liberty and Justice.
Eine Oftentliche Bakanntmachung.
"NT ACHDEME der General-Major
l^ PIGOT, in Eifahrung gebracht hat,
casz die Bibliothec zu des Koenigs Hohen
Schule gehoerig, wie auch die Bibliothcc, der
Bibliothec-Societset in der Stadt Neu-York
ZuH<endi<r, find bcraubet worden, so wohl der
Buccher, als auch eines Theils des Fhilofo
phifehen Iriftrumenten-Satzes, naturlicher und
anatomiefcher rariccten, u. s. f. & ^ird hiemit
Icdermacnniglich Zuivffir.gemacbt, dasz in denern
Buechern Zu der Hohen Schule gehoerig das
Wapen dcr Hohen Schule, oder das Wapea
der Zu Fortpflanzung des Evangelii errichteten
Societaet fell gernacht oder figiret flehet, und
dasz in denen Buechern der Stadt-Bibliothecs-
Gefellschafft das Wapen befagter Gesellschaffc
figirit ift; oder, dasz die Zerfchiedene so
entwendetc Buecher fonften so gezeichnet find,
dasz ledermann wifien kan, weir, feibige aller
feits Zugehceren. Und alien Pedonen, in
deren Haenden einige der befagten Buecher,
oder einiger Theil des Philofqphifchen Inftru
menten-Satzes u. s. f. dermalen find, auf Wa
ferley Weife he auch zu deren Behz nicegen.
gekommen feyn, wird hicdurch auf das
fchserffste anbefohlen, dieseloigen innerhalb
EINEM MONAT H dem Erhwhrdigeß
Herra Pfarrer Houfeal, wohnhafft in Littlc-
Queeri-Street, in No. 10, in diefer Stadt, ein
z&haendigen, Zu dem Gebrauch derer aller
feitigea Eigenthums-Herrn : —Oder fie werdeu.
dem Profos gefenglick ueberliefFert und ge^
ftraffet warden als folche, die gellohlene Gun
ther einnehmen und verhelen.
NEU-YORK, den 26ften Merz. 1777.
VON HEISTER.
PROCLAMATION.
INFORMATION having been made,
to Major General PIGOT, that the
Library of King's College, aaf ithe Society
Library in the City of New-York, have been
pillaged, as well of the Books as of Part cf
the Philosophical Apparatus, of the natural
and anatomical Curiosities, &c. PUBLIC:
NOTICE is hereby given, That in the
Books belonging to the College, is placed
either the Arms of the College, or of the
Society for propagating the Gospel; and that
in the Books of the City Society Library, is
placed the Arms of the said Society ; or that th@
several Books so pillaged, are otherwise fa
marked that no one can be ignorant te whom
they refpeaively belong. And all Persons in
whose Hands any of the said Books or Appa
ratus, &c. now are, by whatever Means they
came into their Possession, are hereby ftfi&l,
ordered within One Month, to deliver the fams
to the Reverend Mr. Houfeal, Minister of tho
ancient Lutheran Trinity-Church, living in
Little Queen-Street, at No. 10, of this City,
for the Use of the refpeaive Proprietors; or
they will be committed to the Provost, and
punished as Receivers of stolen Goods.
NEW-YORK, 26th March, 1777 .
Rt. PIGOT_
MAJOR Donkin prefects his Compli
ments to the Gentlemen that intend to
fubferibe to The Cclleflien and Remarks on the
Science in War, towards railing a Charity for
the Widows and .Orphans of Soldiers; and
requests they will compleat their Subferiptions
to Mr. Gaine, as none can be received after
this Month.
§*§ The Paper is new engaged, and the
Work will be put to Press next Month, and
finiffied with Expedition.
Brought forward, £. 145 133
Capt. Edward Williams, Royal Art. 0 10 6
Z^7Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham, 3 3 0
^^ > Capt. Reyner, 1 10
)Lieut. — 110
To be Lett,
A- Very convenient dwelling h^f. in Little-Queem-
A Greet, now occupied by Mr. James. It has levea
fire-pisres, a good cellar and kitchen, a neat garden with
fiverri cxctJ'eat fruit trees, cillern, -&c. &c # Fer terms,
'?9y : ° William Laight.