The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-02-01 00:00:00, page 3

From a Martinico Paper, of the 2d of D mem
ber, we have taken the folio wing extrafls.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 1.
rpHE Captain Pacha, who was said
to have been disgraced, still main
tains his place against all the efforts of his
enemies. His glory, and the superiority
of his genius, have vanquished those who
wished to have destroyed him. The Grand
Seignior has sent him at the head of a squa
dron of 29 Ihips of war, and a land army
of 30,000 men, to subdue and punish the
Albanians, who have revolted in the Morca.
The firft news we have received of this ex
pedition, was express charged with twenty
eight heads of the Rebels, which the Cap
tain Pacha sent to his Mefter, to prove
how promt he was to execute his orders.
The Admiral will need all his own
firmnefs to surmount the obftacEs he will
meet with among the Rebels. When he
arrived at Serez, a city of Macedonia, he
was disappointed of the provisions neces
sary for his troop 0 , which he had ordered
to be collected. He demanded the reason
of this disobedience : Two or the princi
pal inhabitants replied; that they wanted it
fortheir own soldiers. Irritated with this
answer, he ordered them to be ft'rangled on
the spot. But this execution, far from
intimidatingtheAlbaneans, animated them
to vengeance ;and the Ottoman troops
did not triumph till after a bloody battle,
and a con fiderable loss. Iris oelieved the
Captain Pacha will have much to do to
restore quiet to the Morca : The Rebels
are preparing to (hot up the entrance of
that Peninful?, and we pre assured, that
30,000 are already affembted at the Iftamus
of Cornith, which itmuff now be extreme
ly difficult to force.
it is said that the order that has been
given to prevent the English from trans
porting their merchandize from India to
Serez, was solicited by their Ambassador,
at the desire of their India company, who
loft by that channel a duty of 30 per cent,
which they draw from all goods directly
brought from Asia to England.
Two Ruffian officers, the one a Major,
the other a Lieutenant of Hussars, have
arrived here from Petersburg, having been
sent as couriers from that Court. They
have brought to the Count de St. Priest,
Ambassador from France, the prelents
which their Sovereign have made him.
The thickness and workmanship of the
ensigns of the order of St. Andrew, they
delivered to him, may be judged of by
the price of the star alone, which amounts
to 20,000 piaftres: The diamond sent to
his lady is valued at 18,000. The Em
press added three bills of exchange, of
5000 crowns, which the Count de St. Pried
is to dispose of as he pleases. The Count
de Panin, and Prince Potemkin, have, at the
fame time, wrote him a letter, to congra
tulate him on the success of his negociati
ons. The penetration, the diferetion, and
the address, with which this Minister ter
minated the differences that threatened e
ternal discord between Rtfa and the Porte,
deserve the highest eulogiums. The ge
neral opinion of all Europe is, that the
Ozarine, far from answering the follicita
tions of Great-Britain, has declared herfelf
mediatfefs in the quarrel with France, and
that she is determined to forward a peace,
that shall not be disagreeable to the Court
of Versailles.
From2W#/fa'sNew-Y3tk paper, Dec. 16.
BY'AUTHORITY.
The following is a faithful Transl ition of the
Count D'Eftaings'SUMMONS sent to
Major General Provost, requiring a Sur
render of the Town of Savannah to the King
of France:
COUNT D'Eftaing fommons his Ex
cellency Gen. Provost, to Surrender
himfelf to the arms of his Majesty the
King of France : He admonishes him,
that he will be personally answerable for
every event and misfortune attending a
defence, demonstrated absolutely impofli
ble and useless, from the superiority of
the force which attacks him by land and
by sea. He also warns him, that he will
be nominally arid personally answerable
henceforward of the burning previous to,
or a: the hour of the attack, of any ships
or vessels of war, or merchant Ihips in the
Savannah river, as well as of magazines
in the town.
The Situation of the Morne de I'Hof
pital, in Grenada, the strength of the three
redoubts which defended it, the dispro
portion betwixt the number of French
troops now before Savannah, and the in
considerable detachment which took Gre
nada by assault, flwuld be a kflon for the
future. Humanity requires that Count
D'Eftaing should remind you of it, after
this he can have no reproach to make to
himfelf. Lord M'Cauney, had the good
fortune to escape in person on the firft ch
fet of cur troops, forcing a town sword in
hand, but having shut up his valuable
effects in a poll deemed impregnable by
all his officers and engineers ; it was im
possible for Count D'Eftaing to be happy
enough to prevent the whole being pil
laged.
Signed ESTAIN G.
Camp, before Savannah, Sept. 16, 1779.
BALrIMORE, December 21.
His Excellency General Utah n^ton, having we
arc told, rece ved cer ain intelligence that a large
embarkation of trot pi (amounting to upwards of
8000 me ) w^s taken place & New Y, k destined
to make an arack on Charleftown on South Carolina,
Las detac erf firm the gra^d array a body of three
thousand Virginia and Narth Carolina troops, for
the better defence of that importan place. A part
of thefa troops arrived at the Herd of Elk, a few days
a%o, and hav^fi ice embanked and failed down Che-
Bp-ak, to Portfmopth, or Sutlk, in Virginia.
A body of 25:00 North Carolina Militia were ac
cording to the left accoun 3 preparing to march in
to South Carolina, to affirt in defending that State'
io case the enemy Should pry it another visit, which
it is generally beloved, they will do.
Another body QfMilitia, f om Vrginia, will It is
fid, be fptedily ordered for Soath Carolina, unless
the enemy ffiould make a dive;fion into Chefapezk,
as force apprehend they will, with a view of facili
tating their more Southern operations,
BOSTO N, January 27.
A letter from an officer at the grand army, dated
the id instant, mentions, That our troops were a
boat entering into comfortable hut# for the winter;
that they were in high health and fphits,and that the
inli^men-s were ^oing on with great rap dity, up.
wards of 15000 of those brave fellows have already
engaged to ferVr daring the war or ('n their cwn
phrafi) " to take the last touch," b ing virtuously
rcfolved to face the foes of their country while a re
glment of them ftu|l remain on the continent.
It it now ascertained that Congress have ne^ccl
ated a conGdezable lean with a foreign power. We
are informed that bill, of exchange will faon be rea
dy for purchasers at twenty for one. The?e is the
greatest probability, that in a short time cur paper
currency will be on a much more refptaible footing
than at pzefent,
The mode of taxation recommended by Congress,
we are told is generally adopted, and will be pro
dudve of very happy confrdu^rce?,
Reports from Philadelphia, by persons
of credit, mention, that the currenev rises
in value faft, at that place; CongreF pa
ying determined, at all events, not to. m:
any more money : And in order to defray
public expences, until such time as that
taxation will produce a fufficienev, they
have resolved to draw bills to the amount
of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds Iter
ling, on Spain and Holland ; at the 'x
penditure of which, (if needed) they mean
to draw for a further sum. It appears
from this, as well as other concurrent cir
cumstances, that a project is or will soon
be adopted, which will edablifh the cur
rency cn a more solid balls than it has hi
therto stood.
It is further added, that at the request
of the northern members, it was debating
in Congress, to have that arguft b dy
move, in the spring, to some part of New-
England ; as those members do not tnj >y
a good state of health at Philadelphia, in
the summer season.
HARTFORD February I.
" Departed this Ifta. N rtkamp o< tie ev*n
ing of the 7 h ulth^v^n, jft enter ^ upon hi <43d
ye r Mj Jonathan Allyn an officer in Ga.
N xon'b B igade. He rece ved into his body wo
balls by an accidental shot cf one that artompanied
him to hunting ; which unt.-p-&ed and awful pO
- war the ccgafon of hit death. He lived
but a few hour; aft?r bp waa wounded. The du
ties of a son, a brother an hifbaid, and a faithful
and brave officer were with alacrity ar d chea ful
nefe difehared by him. For raany^ytvs he had
made a public prefiffion o:chrift ; anhy a d enter
tained an hope cf a itfirreQion to a glorious immor
tality ; which did not leave him in his nearest ^p
preaches to the other world. The probabib y of
an exchange to his advantage is a source of comfort
to the mourners."
%, The Weficen Mail not arrived at this Publi
cation.
Height of the Mere try in Farenheits Standard
, Thermometer.
January 1780. Sunrafe. 2 o'clock P. M.
23d day. p below 0, 16
24 6 30
2§ 16 below 0, 19
26 6 below 0. 28
27 2 below 0. 28
28 8 below 0. 18
29 20 below 0. 7
Tie lowest the Mercury has fallen, within seven
years pift, before.the present winter was 14 below
0 ; so that Tuesday morning the 25 5 was 2 de
grees colder than it has been with a seven years;
and Saturday morning the 29th 6 decrees colder,
perhaps the coldest day within the memory of the
oldest man living. N- G.
In CONCRE S S, October 30.
Whereas the appropriation cf v>canf land, by
the. feverai States, during the continuance of the war,
will, in tie opinion of Congress, be attended with
great mifthieb : Therefore
Resolved, That it be earneflly recommended
to thtS ate of Virginia to recorder their late Afi of
AJ.mbly for opening their land office ; and flat it
berecrmmended to the said S ate, aid altoibe S ates
similarly circumstanced, to forbear fettling or issuing
warrants for unappropriated lands, or granting the
feme during the continual ce of the prefeot rar.
THE dilatoriness cf many cf the towns in this
State, in Applying the Cloathing ordered by
the General Assembly, nec^ffrates the fubferiber to
call on them in the most puffi g terms, to forward
their several proportions immediately, as otherwise
their troops mufi fuffer. Likewise requests all the
Committees to call on him for a fetikroent cf then
accounts.
CHAUNCEY WHITTELS^Y,
(P rchafi. g Clothier..
Middletown, Jan. 25. 1,80.
TAKEN up by the fubferiber in Wethersfield,
a daik brown HORSE trots and paces, heel
cork'd ill round, one white eye, his mane cuteff,
both hind feet white, a ffiort white freak in tie
face, abouCio years old. about 14 hards ard half
high. The owner is desired to piove his pre petty,
fay charges and take biro away.
JOSEPH STODDARD.
Newingfon, f^Luary 22, £789.