The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-05-01 00:00:00, page 2

BALTI M O R E, April io.
Since our last the Marquis de la Fayette, with
his division of Continental troops, in a number
of transports, failed from the head of Elk (where
they have undoubtedly arrived) from Annapolis,
the British ships having left their Ration off the
harbour of that place, and gone do<vn the Chela
peak.
A fewdaysago, 47 transports arrived in Hamp
ton toad from New-York, having on board a
body of British troops, under the command of
Major General Phillips, destined, itis said, to re
inforce Earl Cornwallis, who by the latest ac
counts, was making forced marches towards
Wilmington, on Cape-Fear river, and had reach
ed the difaffetled Settlements on Cross-Creek,
on that route. We have various, accounts of the
number of troops with Gen. Phillips ; some fay
they amount to 3500, while others assert they
consist of but 1500.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Anna
polis dated on Sunday last.
" Two ships and a brig appeared off our har
bour this morning, about an hour by fun, and
immediately flood down the bay. They were
out of Gghtby 11 o'clock. It is said 6 ships are
gone up Potowmack, and that they had destroy
ed Col. Richard Barnes's house, and robbed him
to a considerable amount.-—They have, it is re
ported, also burnt Priest Hunter's house.
Just as this paper was going 'to press, advice
was received 01 a number of valuable houses, and
other property, at Lower Marlborough, in this
State, having been recently burnt by the enemy.
PHIL A DELPHI A, April 18.
Yesterday evening was sent in here by the
Fair American, a sloop loaded with rice and tar,
late bound from Charleftown for New-York.
At the fame time arrived the ship Chatham,
Captain Smith, from Hifpaniol.
Extract of a letter from Gen. Greene's head
quarters, Col. Ramsay's, Deep river, March 30.
" I wrote you on the 23d inst. from Buffaloe
Creek, since which we have been in_purfuit of
the enemy, with a determination to bring them
to action again.
" On the '27th we arrived ,at Rigden's Ford,
12 miles above this, and found the enemy then
lay at Ramsay's Mill, from which it was imagin
ed they meant to wait an attack, our baggage was
accordingly left under proper guard in our rear,
and the army put in motion without lots of time ;
but we found the enemy had eroded some hours
before our arrival, and with such precipitation,
that they left their dead unburied on the ground.
Our men had fuffered for want of provisions in
this exhausted part of the country, that many of
them fainted on the march, and the difficulty of
procuring any immediate supply, prevented our
further pursuit. The enemy are on the route to
Cross-Creek and Wilmington.
" From undoubted information we learn, the
enemy's loss, in the battle at Guilford, amounted
to 633, exclusive of officers, and ffioß of their
principal officers were killed or wounded.
" Nothing but blood and daughter has pre
vailed among the whigs and tories, and their in
veteracy against each other must, if it continues,
depopulate this part of the country.
" Since we re-crossed the Dan river, we have
taken at different times, upwards of 120 British
prisoners, and several officers.
“ The enemy left 70 of our wounded who had
filleninto their hands in the action of the 15th,
behind them ; except these, they have taken but
few prisoners ; not so many as we took of theirs
notwithstanding they kept the ground.
",Lord Cornwallis issued the following pro
clamation, soon after the battle at Guilford, and
in two days after retreated towards Cross-Creek,
leaving the deluded people, who had submitted
after that action, to the vengeance of their injur
ed country, from whom.they may perhaps receive
better treatment than their unhappy neighbours
in South-Carolina met with from his Lordship,
who, trailing ton former proclamation of this
fort, had no sooner delivered up their arms and
given their parole, than they were called upon
to bear arms agairiß their fellow-citizens, and
revolting at the idea, immediately left, their habi
tations, which have since been intirely destroyed,
and such of them that afterwards fell into their
hands, have been hanged without even the form
of a trial."
By CHARLES EARL CORNWALLIS, Lieu
tenant-General of his Majesty's forces, &c. &c.
P ROCLAMATIO N.
WHEREAS, by the blessing of Almighty
God, his Majesty's arms hare been crowned with
signal faccefs,Ry the complete victory obtained
over the rebel forces on the 15th inflant, I have
thought proper to issue this proclamation, to call
upon all loyal fubje&s to stand forth and take an
active part, in reßoring good order and govern
ment. And whereas, it hath been represented
to me, that many persons in this province, who
have taken' a share in this unnatural rebellion,
but having experienced the oppreflion and injus
tice of the rebel government, and having seen
the errors into which they have been deluded by
lalfhood and misrepresentations, are sincerely de
tirous of returning to their duty and allegiance.
I do hereby notify and promise to all such per
sons (murderers excepted) that if they will sur
render themselves, with their arms and ammu
nition, at Head Quarters, or to the officer com
manding in the diftritt contiguous to their rc
fpe&ive places of residence, on or before the 20th
day of April next, they will be permitted to re
turn to their homes upon giving a military parole,
and shall be broteded in their persons and proper
ties from all fort of violence by the British troops,
and will be reilored as soon as possible, to all the
privileges of legal and constitutional government.
Given under my hand at Head-Quarters, this
18th day of March, 1781, and in the 21st year of
his Majesty's reign. CORNWALLIS.
By his Lordtbip's command,
Henry Broderick, A. D. C.
April 21. Accounts were ycllerday received
from Martinico, that 14 fail of French and Spa
nish Riips,of the line fell in with a fleet from
Cork, confiding of about 130 fail, and that the
greateß part of them were taken. A cutter
which left the Cork fleet, and arrived at St.'
Lucia about the 12th of February brought this
news'.
CHA TH A M, A PRIL 12.
Last Monday night Capt. Baker Hendricks
went from Elizabeth Town to Staten-Island, and
brought off one Lieutenant and a private of the
Refugees, and one inhabitant.—Previous to the
above, a party went ojer and brought off a Cap
tain.
We hear from Brunswick that some whale;
boats belonging to that place made a very fuccefs
ful cruize to Long-Island this week.
F I SH-K IL L, April 26.
On Saturday last was executed at Poughkeep
sie, pursuant to the sentence of a court-martial,
Henry Weekes, and Ackerly ; ----- Famili
ar, who was also condemned to fuffer at the fame
time, is, we hear, respited till Ju'ne next.
Last Monday evening, one Butler, who lives'
in the mountains, onthe road to Frcderickfburgh,
vbas Riot by some ofthefculking mountain thieves;
we learn his wound is mortal: He isagood Whig,
and has a small family of children.
We hear that Adm. Arbuthnot's squadron,
which lately failed to Virginia, arrived at New-
York a few days ago.
NEW-HA V E N, April 26.
Early on Thursday morning last, the guard
house on the eaR fide of our harbour, near the
battery, was difeovered to be nearly destroyed
by fire, and John Howe lying dead near the house,
the refl of the guard, (eleven in number) who
were stationed there the evening before, miffing,
supposed to be taken off by a party from Long-
Island in whale-boats, who set the building on
fire, and that Howe being on centry was Rot
dead; but whether any others were killed or
wounded, is not known, as theparty who did the
mifehief got off undifeovered, and no accounts
have been, received of them since.
B O S T O N, April 23,
We learn that Capt Thorndike, of Providence,
has re-taken a valuable Dutch snow, of about 300
tons burthen, and carried her into Martinico.
Each forernaßman's share we hear amounted to
between 2$ and 2600 weight of coffee.
Last week three thoufarid suits of eloathing
complete, arrived fafe in port, belonging to the
continent.
We hear that Capt. Parker is fafe arrived at
Plymouth, from Surinam.
Thursday last Capt. Oaks, in a letter of marque
arrived here from Martinico, and brought in
with him a prize brig in ballast, bound from
New-York for Lisbon.
Same day arrived here Capt. Atkins, in 32
days from Cadiz,
Cadiz ®b March, 1781,
" The blockade of Gibraltar is continued with
unremitted vigor by the Spaniards. "The land
forces employed in the feige are commanded by
Mr. Alvarez, and those of the navy by Mr. Bar
celo. It is reported that Admiral Darby, com
mander in chief of the British feet, a'ndwho has
under his immediate orders 22 ships of the line
besides fifties and frigates, is fhoitly to attempt
fuccouring the garrison. To prevent this if pos
sible, Admiral Cordova has been for some weeks
past, and is Rill Rationed between the Streights,
and Cape St. Vincents, with 30 ships of the line,
frigates, &c. The Emperor of Morocco is a de
clared partizan of Spain, and will not permit the
extraction of provisions from any of his ports by
the Englilh.
" Mt. de Graffe is appointed to the com
mand of a squadron to confiß of 25 ships of the
line, which, it is said, will fail this spring for
America and the Weft-Indies ; and Count D'
Eftaing will remain with the command of the
grand European fleet. The Englilh have taken
several hundreds of Dutch vessels ; but have hi
therto condemned none, in hopes, no doubt, of
being able to effedl a compromise : The Dutch.
for this, however, do not relax their preparations
for war, and feera resolved to chaßife the teme
rity and injustice of their enemies. By different
eui£ls they have prohibited the sale of their ves
sels to foreigners; have laid a general embargo
for a limited time ; augmented their forces by lea
and land ; granted letters of reprisal, and made
liberal provision for those who may be maimed
or disabled in the service of the Republic. The
spirit of privateering is so prevalent among them
particularly in Friezland; that even the women
throw in their jewels and trinkets to be applied
in the equipment of cruizers. As a.member of
the armed neutrality the States General have
claimed the afhftance of the Empress of Rus
sia in repelling the outrages of the common ag
gressor ; no answer is yet received, but private
.citers from Petersburg encourage a belief that
her Imperial Majesty will give a favourable one :
if so, Sweden arid Denmark must also by treaty
take a part, and then it is hoped England will
at length be awakened to a sense of her folly and
infatuation, —recognize the independency of A
merica, and restore peace to Europe. To accel
erate this happy termination to the war, how
ever, nothing will contribute more effectually
than unanimity and vigor in the councils and
operations of America.—Every, the lead apear
ance'ofdifunion, inability or relaxation there, re
vives the vain hope of conquest, and leads to one
exertion more."
April 26.
According to accounts from various quarters
there is reason to believe that the Dutch will not
fuftrin the whole loss in the seizure of Statia and
their flrips by the Britiflu TheEnglifh merchants
arc said to be deeply iriterefted in the property
thus violently wrested from the Dutch, and must
in the circulation of commerce be greatly affeaed
by it. The fleet that failed for Holland from
Statia,- just before Admiral Rodney arrived there
and which h&purfued and captured, was it is f?id
insured in England, ; and this, it is probable,
will be found tobe the.cafe of many of the Dutch
merchant vessels feizedjin Europe. Britain, by
its rupture with Holland mull lobfe a large vent
of its manufactures, which the neutrality of that
country greatly favoured. So that though the
immediate captors of Dutch property may be en
riched by this Rep, the British merchants and
manufacturers must fuffer greatly by it.
Private letters.from Europe, of good authority
mention, that the King of Fruffia had proceeded
far in, ifnot actually compleated, a negociation
in favour of the several contrasting powers ofthe
armed neutrality, and for the protection of their
territorial dominions, in case they should be
threatened upon accountof any Rep taken by these
powers in the Congress of neutrality.
The report lately propagated of the death ofthe
Empress ofßuffia, probably arose from the de
cease of the Empress of Germany, which can
haye no influence upon the political system of
Europe. Her Imperial. Majesty of Russia still
lives, and is at the head of the armed neutrality^
which' owes its exiftenge chiefly to her irifeeno;
and negociations, - prij.'
The following is an extract of a letter from Porte
au-Prince, to a gentleman at Salem, dated
March 14, 1781.
." You hav^'wirhout, doubt heard of the cruel
'event of St. Euftatia; if one half of wb^tfe^re
ported is true, Admiral Rodney. h&& behaved
much out of character; we could not tavetex
pe&ed worse treatment in the age of barbarity)
He has sent aboard his vessels all the m4rcE@nta
that were there, part of whom are to be sent to
England, and has delivered the town up to a ge
neral plunder : Few French merchants only have