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, RICHMOND (Virginia) July 6.
The French legion, under the command of
Cen. Choirfy, marched from this city ou Thar,
day last, on their way to the northward.
The French army, under the command of Ge
neral Rochambeau, riiarched from Williamsburg
this week, in four divisions, on their way to the
northward,
Late European papers mention, that Hyder
Ali, after his defeat, had returned on Sir Eyre
Coote and fully retaliated his loss—Major-Ge
neral Moik is numbered among the slain.
Tnurfday lafl, being the anniversary of inde
pendence, was observed with public demonitra
tions of joy on that great event. The day was
announced With a Continental salute from both
towns. His Excellency the Governor gave an
entertainment, to which were invited the miicers
of Rate, the gentlemen of the corporation, and
other principal inhabitants .of the city, and such
officers of the army as were in town.
We hear one of the flag ships belowwith qoocl
sterling worth of goods on board, has been seiz
ed. It will be proper, fays a correspondent, nar
rowly to scrutinize this tranfaaion. It is not a
very uncommon circumstance for seizures to be
made by agreement, and by this means largecar
goes of Britilh goods are imported among us,
PHIL ADELPH I A, July : 3 .
On Sunday, the firlt instant, a party of the re
fugee horse-thieves, in_the neighbourhood of
Filh-Kill, in the most barbarous and cruel man
ner, murdered a. woman, whom they fufpe&ed
had given information of their being out, from
New-York, on the horfe-ltealing business. The
method these favagc mongers adopted to deprive
this helpless female of life, for her fidelity to her
neighbours, calls the darkest ihade on human
nature, and places r in in aynore inferior Rati
on than the molt ferocious tyger of the wilder
ness.
Another party of the fame infernals, about the
middle of last week, perpetrated a Gmilar deed
on an industrious farmer, near Crompond, State
of New-York. He had, all day, been mowing
in his field, but had returned to his house, and
was partaking of some humble fare which his
faithful wife had prepared. In this happy in
terval of rest, domestic peace and* enjoyment,
the murderers appeared at his door ; he at
tempted to escape, by running towards an op
posite door, but they ordered him to surrender,
or they would fire at him ; and in the confidence
that they would not offer him any violence, he
returned, but, Shocking to relate, was instantly
Riot by one of the villains, who, supposing him
not to be dead,-dragged him, with the aflirtance
of the others, out of rhe house, and battered his
head to pieces with the butts of their Muikets.
Let it be remembered that these horrid enor
mities have been committed by people, who have
come out from the enemies lines, since the com
mencement of Sir Guy Carleton's conciliatory
administration.---
Compare dates, and it will also be found that,
at ;he very time General Leslie proposed to Ge
neral Greene, a cessation of hostilities, an at
tempt was made by General Clark to surprise
General Wayne.
On Sunday last, off Sandy-Hook, the armed
boat Black-Joke, Capt. Willis, retook and sent
into port the schooner Albertus, late Capt. Sa
muel Brown, in ballast, bound from Bolton for
Ocracock. She was taken by the Warwick and
Aftrea, who were cruizing to the fouthwayd of
the Gapes of Virginia.
Extract of a letter from an officer in South-Ca
rolina, dated May 13 to a gentleman in this
city.
" Defection yet prevails among the Hessians to
a very great degree : In order to encourage and
facilitate it, the Go^rnor hath issued a procla
mation, which is hourly expected to be received,
offering to every deserter 200 acres of land, one
milch cow and two breeding swine ; this has so
cTeaually answered the purpofc, that they come
off in great numbers. It is conjectured by many
so a 1 they will very shortly evacuate that post, ma
ny negroes (the property- of Sir James. Wright
and Jafres Butler) having been leen removing
by water to Auguft'n*, and other circumstances
which seem to corroborate and fix this idea be
yond a doubt."
July %
A gentleman arrived here from St. Kitts, by
way of Baltimore, informs, that the Regulator, a
privateer of Antigua, sent her boat into the har
bourof St. Kitts, from whence they cut out the
fchponer , Capt. Dean of this port, and two
other American veflcls, and carried them into
Antigua. The French commandant difeovering
that some of the English on the island had been
concerned in the business, immediately seized
the vessels belonging to them, and demanded that
they should fee to the re-delivery of the Ameri
can yeffels, which after fume delay was compli
ed with, and the vessels sent back, when the mer
chants of St. Kitts were obliged to refit the vef
lels with rigging, stores, &£. of which the pri
vateer had plundered them, and then they were
delivered in good order to their ov^ners.
By agentleman^ arrived from St. Croix at
Baltimore, we are informed, That the States of
Holland received Mr. Adams at the Hague, on
the 19th of April last, in all form, and on that
day by a Manifefto, declared America Inde-
PUNDEn t ,---that no offers from Great-Britain
could procure any other answer, than that they
were determined to carry on a vigorous war ; and
in consequence, had begun by capturing one 74
gun Ihip and two small armed vessels, with their
convoy of transports, having Hessians on board,
all of which they carried into Norway.
Onthe second instant, in New-York bay,
Captains Hylar and Story, with two whale-boats
boarded and took the schooner Skip-Jack,
mounting fix carriage guns, besides swivels, but
Toon after burnt her, finding they could not get
her oft, it being at noon, in fight of the guard
fhip, and several other ships of war lying at San
dy-Hook. This schooner was tender to the
Admiral's ship. Hylar brought off the Captain
and ,or 10 hands, the others having escaped in
their boats on the approach of the whaleboats.
Captain Hyler, about the fame time, took
three other small vcffels, which were on the tra
ding scheme one of them loaded with calves,
sheep, &c. bound from New-Jersey to New-
York.
On Sunday last his Excellency Gen. Wash
ington with his luit arrived in this city from the
northward, and on Saturday Gen. Count Ro
chambean from Virginia.
On Monday evening the iflh instant, was ce
lebrated with great joy and feftivity, the birth of
the Dauphin of France, at the residence of his
excellency the Chevalier de la Luzerne, who
gave a most magnificent ball and splendid enter
tainment to a very numerous, respectable and
brilliant campany ofladies and gentlemen. The
engaging manner of the Minister, the judicious
ness of the diredors, the fatisfadion and joy that
diffufed itfelf on every countenance, manifefting
the unfeigned zeal oi every guest in support of
our ?'J° ce on t^ 6 pleating occasion, and the
affability and decorum of all, rendered it the
mod agreeable and delightful entertainment ever
seen or exhibited on this continent. The citi-'
zens were also complimented by his Excellency
the Ambassador, with a splendid display of fire
works. The number offpectators that attended
was great and unusual—We hope to be, favour
ed early enough with an exad description of the
whole elegant exhibition to insert in our next.
rhe French army, we hear, are on their march
to the northward.
On Sunday lafl, five whale boats, manned by
a number of refugees and negroes from New-
York u^der the command of a Capt. Kidd, for
merly of this city,came upas faras Reedy- Eland,
and took, it is said, five shallops in different parts
of the river. What other mifehief they may
have done we cannot yet hear.
An ORDINANCE fo r the better Distribu
tion of Prizes in certain Cases.
BE it ordered by the United States in Con
gress assembled, that so much of the Ordi
nance, entitled " An Ordinance, afeertaining
what captures on water ffiall be lawful," as or
dains, that upon the capture ofa vessel commis
sioned as a man of war ora privateer, by any of
the vcffels of war of the United States of Ameri
ca, the whole of the property condemned (hall
be adjudged to the captors; be and the fame is
hereby repealed ; and that in all such cases of
capture the whole of the property condemned
(hall be adjudged to the use of the captors, if the
vessel taken shall be of equal or superior force
to the vessel making the capture ; if otherwise,
one half only shall be adjudged to the captors,
and the other half to the use of the United
States, and shall, after condemnation, be so ap
propriated ; unless the United States in Con
gress assembled, in reward of distinguished va
lour and exertion, shall otherwise specially di
rest.
And be it further ordained by the authority
Done by the United States in Congress assem
bled, the 10th day of July, in the year of
our Lord, 1782, and in the seventh year of
our Independence.
Attest. , JOHN HANSON, President.
Charles Thomson, Secretary.
TRENTO N, July 17.
On Fhurfday the 1 Ith inft.fundry inhabitants
of this place met together on short notice,for the
purpole of considering a plan of affoeiation, to
prevent trade and intercourse with the enemy ;
and a draught being proposed, was agreed to
and fubfenbed by all present.
A committee was then appointed to takemea
fures for offering it to the inhabitants of thetown
and neighbourhood, to devise the best means of
rendering it effe&uaJ, and to call a generalmeet
in% °f the inhabitants of the town and country
adjacent, on Friday the 19th inst. in order to
determine upon such things as are necessary to
be done.
" We whole names are hereunto fubferibed,
being convinced that the King and Ministry of
Great-Britain, their agents and adherents, des
pairing of the conquest of these States by force,
are resorting to the aitsof duplicity and intrigue ;
that, among other devices, they are endeavour
ing> by means of those among us who are oppos
ed to the present revolution, or devoted to sor
did gain, to introduce into the country large
quantities of Brttifh goods, and to draw off our
money in payment for them ; thus they expert
to disable us from paying our taxes, roo us ofa
medium of business, and put an end to ouroppo
fition, in the lupport of which money is abfo
-Ilately neceflaty ; that care is taken to fend out
such Species of goods as are not only useless, but.
are likely to have the greatest effect in corrupt
ing themanners of the people ; that the better
to insure success, the highest encouragement ia
afforded to such as will engage in the traffick,
either personally or by connexion in interest ; ana,
on the other hand, every effort is made use of to
flint up, as far as pothole, all the channels by
which goods have been, during the war, import
ed among us, or the produce of the country sent
out to market ; that these among us who favour
this trade, either from the malignity of princi
ple, or the inordinate love of gain, are doing
every thing in their power to secure it under the
feigner appearance and cover of the law, and
that they have but too far and too often succeed
ed ; that they are endeavouring to slacken the
hands of thole who are disposed to be a&iye and
vigilant, in putting a flop to such intercourse and
traihek, by propagating an opinion that interfe
rence ofthis kind is mean and dishonorable: that
notwithstanding the salutary measures taken by
the legiflatufe, the evil is become so dangerous
and inveterate, that it will net be in the power
of the magistrates to correct and remove it, un
less the citizens in general exert themselves to
bring offenders to justice; that to approve, con
nive at, or not to use every means to destroy such
intercourse and traffick with the enemy, is not
only unworthy the chara&er of men of principle,
but a mark of difiefpe& and ingratitude to ana
tiori from which we have derived the most seaso
nable and effeaual aid in the progress of this re
volution, and whose exertions and fufferings in
our favour claim from us ,every possible acknow
ledgement and preference ; that such clandestine
traffick is a difeouragement and injury to the fair
and upright trader, and hasa baneful tendency
to lead away othersby the example ; And being
also convinced that it is the duty of every good
citizen to recoiled the glorious principles wnich
gave rife to the revolution, and to recur to those
principles, which, under Providence, have bro't
it to the prelent state, and will be the n)oft power
ful means ofbringing it to a happy and fuccefs
ful termination, we have associated curfelvea
for the following purposes:
1. We will, to our utmost, dete& and bring to
i u ^; c e all T^° ma Y b e > ' n an Y wife, concerned
in this pernicious traffick, and use every lawful
means to prevent and suppress it.
2. To which end we will, to the utmofl. of our
power and influence, strengthen the hands of all
officers, civil and military, in the difeharge of
their duty, and support the full and vigorous
CGtwion of & lawi.
aforefaid, That the refoTuuon of the 1,6 day of
November, 1776, giving to the commanders,
officers and men of ships or vcffels of war, a
bounty for every cannon and for every man be
longing to British ships or v&tels of war capture
tured by them, be and the fame is hereby, rc^
pealed.