The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-08-31 00:00:00, page 2

According to the last letters from St. Euftatia, the
squadron ofßyron had returned to St. Chriftopbers
the 12h. The 8 firft vessels of the English line
which criga ed with ours are in a deplorable fituati
on fimo of them make a great deal of water, so that
they will not befit for & without such a repair as
cannot be had in the inlands. Byron was anchored
in the bay of S\ Chiftopbers with 20 ffiips and 2
frigates, he was there waiting for 3 transports which
were m ffiag. It was thought that when he had col
le&ed all his fl et he would fail for Antigua. Two
fillers, deserters inf fm us that the flip of the Eng-
IXh Admiral alone had 188 men killed and wounded
in the aChon and that Barrington had received a
wound in the left arm
The fchQjner Lightning, commanded by Mr, Ra-
gagement between Count D'Eflaing and Admiral
Byron, July 6.
Ship's names, kil. wound. Ship^oames, Lil. woun.
Le Languedoc io §4 Le Tennant, 2 21
Ls Cesar, 19 64 Le Yele, 11 36
Le Robufte 5 45 L' H:&or. 5 24
L' Aumbalg 31 41 Le Guerrier, 1 18
Le Fezdant 3 64 LeMagnifique 9 34
L* Mhrfeillois, 0 4 Le Pro e&eur, 1 14
Le Viillaint. 1 12 Le Diademe. 13 41
Le Veageur, 9 37 La Provence, 6 16
La Fantaque, 19 43 Le Dauphin Royal, 520
L' Artefien,
Le R fl.chi, 6 50 Le Sphinx, 9 50
L^ F.er, 2 10 L' Amphion, 4 38
Le F& Rodrigue, 2 23 ■ 1
Total. 176 773
11 the moment in which the aflion began, officers,
foidiers and sailors, gave marks of that patriotic ardor
which characterizes the French people. The cries
of long live the King; refoaided thro' all the sh ps
of the squadron, and during the whole adion, the
chara&2r of the French marines was not disgraced.
In the midst of the horrors of a naval combat, in which
we were inferior in numbers, because all our vessels
did not engage, the orders of the Admiral were at
tended to and executed withan admirable precision.
A? nearly as it Las been pcffible toeflimate, the num
bers of cannon fired on board the French fqaadion,
they were supposed to amount to 20.696, cf these
4148 were fiom the Languedoc. This ffiip received
32 balls in her hull, and many in her rigging, ne
vertheless, thanks to the wisdom cf orders which
were given, and the skill with, which the Captains
executed them, none of our vessels were difmafted,
whilfia great number of those of the English, have
fuffered very considerably.
The 7th Mons. the Count D'Eflaing, after having
convinced himfelf that their remained no more ene
mies for him to fight, in the lat. of Grenada, return
ed to anchor, where he repaired the (mall damages
which his squadron had faffered. The following
days he gave his attention to the efiablifhment cf
good order in the 'flind, and left the command of it
to he Count de Duat. The 14th he sent off for
France, the King's frigate, the D it ett,a board of
which, My Lord M Cartney, the General t fficers,
Majors. Colonels and fficers of Jaftice of the island
were embarked. I: is find that when the Eayifh
Governor received orders to set eff for France; he fell
into so great a passion that he to e off his frill and
threw away the ensigns of the order of the Bith, with
which he was decoated. The 15th in the evening
all the squadron set fail, with final! wind^ from the
fouh-eait, which continued the <6'h and 17th; the
18th at day break it ap^esed before our road bearing
for Fort Royal, at 8 o'clock in the morning tacked
about under foil faj. It is supposed the Count D'Ef
taing proposes to pass to Guadeloupe, and from thence
to St. Chriftophers.
The particular manoeuvres of the general officers
and Captains who by their skill and zeal contributed
greatly to the victory of this day, the manner in
wheh they mutually fuflained and supported each
other, the small vessels which thought themselves in
their place at the head or rear of the line and which
in fituatiocs which were net theirs refined an enemy,
whose fleet was only composed of large flips, which
after having attacked with boldness, conduced them
selves, with a great deal of art and firmnefs, the well
directed fire from many vessels, the chearfulnefs of
the crews, who did not commit an a& unworthy of
themselves, through a long and bloody a&ion, would
require that we should speak of the sh ps separately
and of each particular.
This victory, one of the most diflin,uifhed which
the French navy has ever obtained, not only hum
ble# the pride of our enemies and renders us matters
of the seas, but i: an advantage which it was necessa
ry to purchase at the expence of blood and lives, and
those brave men who fell in this a&ion.
A RETURN cf the killed and wounded in the en-
always inferior in number to the EngLffi, who came
to the attack already fen med and with the advantage
es the wind
FISH-KILL A@- 2 6.
Extract of a letter freman officer, at Paramus. Aug. 21.
" On Thursday morning, the 19th inst. at half
past three o'clock, an attack was mace on the enemy's
works at Paulis Hook , which, after a feint refinance,
the garrison furreadered themselves prisoners except
Major Sutherland, and about 15 of his men who,
under cover of the night, made their escape to a
small-block-house, on the left of the fort. Our par
ty was commanded by Major Lee, of the horse. The
approach of day, and the vicinity cf the main body
of the enemy, made it impossible to bring off any
lores. We had possession of the artillery and ma
gazine. The prisoners amount to 154 rank and file,
and seven officers. Our loss did not exceed two kil
led and three or four wounded ; the enemy's about
30 or 40 killed."
About the 15th instant, a British Packet with the
mail for New-York, was taken by a privateer out of
Egg Harbour, commanded by Capt. Taylor; mount
ing '4 g uns ; the mail and crew with the passengers,
forty five in number, were carried on boaid the pri
vateer, and brought into that port- The Packet Was
the fame day retaken by a Brr Jh fleet, supposed to
be from Georgia bound to New Y rk, that convoyed
a number of vessels. Two offi ers cf note were pas
sengers---T e prisoners and mail was immediately
lent to Philadelphia
BOSTO N, August 26.
Saturday last arrived at Salem, th. Saltm Packet,
Capt. Cook, in about 30 days from Bilboa We
have been favored with an English Paper which
came in this vessel containing the fallowing Par
LIAMENTARV INTELLIGENCE refpc&mg the Spa
nifh Manifesto, or Refc^pt, delivered in by Count
D'Almodovar, with fume debates thereon,
LONDO N.
HOUSE ofCOMMONS June 16.
The novelty of the Spanish Ambaffad r's hav
ing delivered in a Mimfefto i. e. a de larition of
war (for no on? expelled it, and least of all
the Minister himfeh) together with the expectation
of the King's Message thereupon, a prodigious croud
of strangers blocked up the door, and filled up every
avenue leading to the house, a little after two o'clock,
under the moftexpreffive impatience and a^xety for
an introduction, while scarce a member came d^wn
without a friend or two, who had forestalled
him the other fide Weftmiriffer Hall
Lord North having entered the house during the
time the Speaker was attending the Lords- on the
Kn,t commission to give an agent to the bills, his
Lordship; upon the Speaker's return, acquainted the
house that he had it in command from his Mgety,
to lay btforethem a true transition cf ,ue manifesto
delivered by ^e Spanish Ambassador, with a mef
fafe from his Myefty refeeAmg the fame.
behau, which left Bayonne the 20th oi]^, arrived
in bit road (Marriuico) by whom we are informed
that the Count D'O/vilhers, named by the King, vice
Admiral of France, was cruizing with 33 fh:ps cf
the line, at the mouth of the channel, that he was to
be reinforced by a Spanish Squadron, conpofed of 40
flips of war, that the English squadron had not then
appeared, he adds that Ireland had revolted, and
that the Court D'Veaur, Lieutenant General of his
Maje y's Armies was to make a defeent there, at
the head of 24 oco men-
Extract of a letter from Pierre, Martinique, July 22.
•- A packet has just arrived from France in 31
days pahage; bringing certain advices of a speedy
declaration of Spain, and that the French Beet con
fiding of 32 Arps of the line has failed towards Co
runna to join 20 Spanish ships. An expedition is
carrying on against Ireland; 25,100 troops ate ready
to embark on the coast of France in order to attack it.
6,000 troops have failed lor America, where the
English mean to make their last expiring efforts this
year."
SPANISH MANIFESTO.
ALL the world ha c been witness to the noble im
partiality of the Kin,, in the midst of the dis
putes of the court cf London with its American co
lonies and with Francs. Btfi les which, his Majes
ty having learned that his powerful mediation was
desired, generou fly. made an offer of it, which was
accepted by the Belligerent Powers, and for thin mo
tive only a ship of war was sent on the part of his
Britannic Majefly to one of the ports of Spain. The
King has taken the most energetic flops, and such as
ought to have produced the most happy effeA, to
bring those powers to an accommodation equally
honorable to both parries ; proposing for this end
wife expedients fur smoothing difficulties, and pre
venting the calamitiee of war, But altho' his Ma
jefly's proportions, and particularly those of his
ultimatum, have been conformable to these which
at other times the court of London itfelf had appear
ed to judge proper for an accommodation, and which
were also quite a: moderate, they have been rejected
His Majesty likewise declared to that court, that
at the time their differences with that cf Paris might
be accommodated, it would be absolutely necessary
to reflate those which had arisen, or might still ante
with Spain, and in the plan of mediation which was
feat to the underwritten Ambaffadcr the 28th of last
Sep embir and which was by him delivered to the
British Mineftty in the beginning cf October ; a plan
of which Lord Grantham was apprized, and cf which
he received a copy. Hi# Majefiy declared in pefitive
terms to the belligerent powers, that in cer fideratien
01 the insults which his fubjt&£ and dominions had
fuffered, and hkewife cf the attempts levelled againff
his rights, he should be under the hec&ffity of taking
his part, in case the negotiation, in^ead cf being
continued with sincerity, should be broken off, or
should produce no effeA.
The causes cf complaint given by the court of
London not having ceased, and that court flawing
nodifpofition to give reparation for them, the King
has resolved, and orders his Ambassador to declare,
that the honor of his crown, the protection which he
owes to his fubjeßs, and his own personal dignity,
do not permit him to fuffer their insults to continue
and to neglect any longer the reparation of those al
ready received; and that in this view; notwithfland
ing the pacific difpefitions cf his Majesty, and even
the particular inclination he has always had and ex
pressed for cultivating the friendship cf his Britannic
Mjtfly, he finda himfelf under the difagreable ne
ceffuy cf making uft of all the means which the Al
mighty has intruded him with, to ebtain that justice
which he has fplicited by so many ways without be
ing able to acquire : In confiding crAhe jufiice of
his cause, his Majefiy hopes tl at the consequences
cf this refoluticn will not be imputed to him before
God or man, and that other nations will form a fug
table idea of this resolution, by comparing it to the
conduce which they themselves have experienced on
the part Of the Brinfh minißry. Signed,
LE MARQUIS D'ALMODOVAR.
London, 16 June, 1779.
in a manner that fully prover ri e little defy ^F^h
the British cabinet has to refle-e p-^eto E^-p: . a .d
to preserve the King's friendfl: p. I<:ffe&, the con
duct of that cabinet, with regard to his MajeCy,
during the whole conrfe of the ne^cciation has hod
ferrits objea, to prolong it for more than eight months
either by vain pretences, or by answers which could
not be more inconclusive ; whilst in the interval,
the insults on the S,an.fh flag, and rhe violation cf
the K nft territories were carried on to an incredi
ble excess; prizes have been made, ships have been
searched and plundered, and a greatnumber of thera
have been fired upon, which have been obliged to
defend themselves, the iegi£crs have been opened
and torn in pieces, and even the packets of the court
have been found on board rhe King's p:c'et boats.
The dominions of the crown in America have
been threatened, and they hay^gone to the dreadful
extremity of raising the Indian nations, called
Chatcas Cheroquies and Chicachas against
the innocent inhabitants of Louisiana, who would
have been the v Aims of the rage cf these barbarians,
if the Chatcas themselves had not repented, and
revealed all the feduAibM the English had planned.
The sovereignty of his M^^fly in the province cf
Darien, and on the coaftef St. Blas has been ufarped;
the Governor cf Jamaica having granted to a rebel
Indian, the commission of Captain Genet al of those
provinces.'
In short. the territory of the Bay of Honduras has
been recently violated by exercifiog a&s cf hostility,
and other exceff:s against the Spaniards, who have
been imprfoned, and whose houfrs have been inva
ded ; besides which, the Court cf London Las hi
therto negleAed to acccmplifh what the 16th article
cf the last treaty of Paris stipulated relative to that
coast.
Grievances so numerous, so weighty, and recent,
have been a: different times the object of corcplaints
made in the King's name, and stated in memorials
which were delivered either to the British Ministers
at London, or transmitted to them through the chan
nel of the Engliffi Ambaflador at Madrid; but altho'
the answers which have been received have been
friendly, his Majesty has hitherto obtained no other
fatirfadion than to fee the insults repeated, which
lately have amounted to the number cf one hundred.
Tae King, proceeding with the sincerity and
candor which characterize him, has formally declar
ed to the Court of London, from the commencement
of it's disputes with France, that the conduct of
England should be the rule cf that which Spain would
hold.
KING'# MESSAGE,
GEORGE R.
TH E AmbaiTador of the King of Spain hav«
ing delivered a paper to LordVifcount Way
m„utb, and fignified that he has received Orders