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We hear, that by the vigorous measures of Gen. Pickens,
and the powerful interposition of the Spaniards, the distur
bances among the Indians on the head waters of the Mo
bille, are entirely quelled, and that no farther dangers are
apprehended from that quarter.
Lately arrived in Hampton road, several flags from New-
York, for t^ tobacco due for the purchases made of the
British capitulants at York. Another flag vessel has also
lately arrived from Charleftown, but in violation of her
lag, and contrary to the la rs of nations, has seized and run
off with a vessel and cargo belonging to this State. Such
flagrant breaches of faith, added to the barbarous massacre
of prisoners, in the perlons of Col. Haynes, Capt. Huddy,
and others, must mark the perfidy and malice of our ene
mies in the strongest colours.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.
Extra# of a letter from his Excellency General Washington
to Congress, dated head-quarters. May 10, 1781.
" Just as I am closing these dispatches, a letter from
Sir Guy Carlton is handed me, covering sundry printed pa
pers ; a copy of which, with the papers, I have now the
honor to inclofe to your Excellency, together with the copy
of my answer to him ; and I flatter myfelf my condu& here-
in will be agreeable to the wishes of Congress."
Head-Quarters, New-York, May 7, 1782.
S I R,
HAVING been appointed by his majesty to the command
of the forces on the Atlantic ocean, and joined with Admi
ral Digby in the commission of peace, I find it proper in
this manner to apprize your Excellency of my arrival at
New-York.
The occasion, fir, seems to render this communication
proper, but the circnmftances of the present time render it
also indifpenfible, as I find it just to transmit herewith to
your Excellency certain papers, from the perusal of which
your Excellency will perceive what difpontions prevail in
the government and people of England towards those of
America, and what further effe&s are likely to follow ; if
die like pacific disposition should prevail in this country,
both ray inclination and duty will lead me to meet it with
themoft zealous concurrence. In all events, fir, it is with
me to declare, that if war must prevail, I shall endeavour to
render its miseries as light to the people of this continent as
she circumstances offuch a condition will possibly permit.
I am much concerned to find, that private and unautho
rized persons have, on both sides, given way to those passions
which ought to have received die strongest and molt erfen
rial controul, and which have begot a&s of retaliation,
which, without proper preventions, may have an extent
equally calamitous and dishonorable to both parties ; tho'
as it should feera, more extensively pernicious so the natives
and fcttlcrs nfthis country.
How much soever, fir, we may differ in other refpe#s,
upon this one point we must certainly concur, being alike
farntfed to prtfMTC Cb<,4HRC of hag^h^ra kvru jfr
RICHMOND, May „.
fy an officer who left the southern army the 28th tilt, we
have the following account of an attempt to surprise Gen.
Greene's camp.
Captain Pendleton obtained a flag with a view to mitigate
the severity of the imprisonment of his brother Henry Pen
dleton, Esq. Chief Judge of South-Carolina, who hadbeen
lately taken by the enemy, and upon his return Hopped at a
gentleman's house, where his servant exchanged saddles,
mounted the Captain's horse with his portmanteau and
went into Charleltown. Captain Pendleton sent in a flag
requesting his servant, horse and portmanteau, to which re
quest he was informed, the horse and portmanteau he
might have, by fending for ; but the servant having claim
ed their protection could not be delivered up. Upon which
he Cent ferjeant Peters of the Maryland line, who was Gen.
Greene's cook, whom they bribed to corrupt the ferjeants
and men of Gen. Greene's army ; for which purpose a con
siderable sum of money was advanced him. Upon his re
turn to Gen. Greene's camp, he made several overtures, and
finding himielf foccefsful, he went twice to Cbarleftown or
the Quarter-House, for money, &c. and returned in the
morning early enough to pass unnoticed. In the last of
these excursions he finally fettled the plan with the enemy.
The ferjeants of the army who were concerned with him
were to secure all the officers at a certain hour, and fire a
gun as a Signal. One hundred and fifty of the enemy'shorfe
were at the fame time to be within one mile of the camp,
and upon that signal were to rush in and take posse ffion of
the officers, while the ferjeants marched the army where
they were desired. Thus, was every matter finally fettled
with the enemy.
The next night ferjeant Peters had the conspirators ga
thered together, to fall upon the necessary measure to put
the plan into execution. Fortunately one of the ferjeants
wives fufpeded something was going forward ; curiosity
prompted her to follow them and lilten, by which means
she difeovered the whole plan, and communicated it to
Gen. Greene next morning ; upon which the the ferjeants
and principal conspirators were apprehended ; but refufed
to enter into a full acknowledgment, until after the party
of 150 cavalry of the enemy (who had remained all night
waiting for the signal, within a few hundred yards of our
picket) had made their escape next morning, which was in
consequence of their not hearing the signal. Peters had
previously pointed out the way, by which they were enabled
to get so near the picket.
A ferjeant of the Pennsylvania line, who was at the head
of the revolt in the Jerseys, in 1780, was immediately shot.
Peters is condemned to be hanged, and theofficer understood
he was executed two days after he left camp. A number of
others were concerned, whose fate is not determined.
Extras of a letter from Ebenezer, in Georgia, April 17.
" The garrison at Savannah appear very peaceably in
clined, their number, from the best accounts, does not ex
ceed 800 ; deserters daily come in to us, and their troops
are greatly difaffeded. The Hessians are nor trusted on ad
vanced guards.
66 A detached party from the horse of this State, com
manded by Col# Jackson, having the advantage of a house,
defeated about jo of the enemy, commanded by a Major
Dill ; after the enemy's firing once, seventeen balls of
which puffed through the house, they retired ; our party,
however, returned the lire, and Dill fell dead on the spot.
“ Our men are in general hearty, and free from alarms,
while the enemy have lain on their arms every night since
our arrival."
The gallant Capa Hyler has lately taken four vessels near
New-York ; one of which was re-taken, and the other
three the captors run on shore and Gripped.
The refugee boat Old Ranger, bound to cruize in this
river, was drove on shore near Egg-Harbour, by two boats
from Cape-May, who have also captured two coasting
schooners, carrying on illicit trade.
The following is an extra# of a letter from a gentleman in
South-Carolina, to his friend now in this city, brother of
the late Mr. John Lining, who was most barboufly mur
dered near Charleftown, dated May 18, 1782.
9 In all my letters to you, I have been evercareful to in
form you of the declining Rate of your brother's health; I
conceived it my duty, gradually to prepare you for the loss
of such an one. To keep you no longer in suspense---he is
no more I Happy would I be, if I could here stop---His na
tural life could have spun out but a few months longer,—
bur, unfortunately for him, be was situated too near Gharlef
town, Two ruffians fitted for the execution of such a deed,
were detached from thence in the night---Not all the hor
rors of the night, the tears, the intreaties of your good old
mother, his wife, his lifter, nor two little infants ; nor even
the helpless situation of himfelf—who had long loft the
wfe of every limb by the gout-—could restrain them. They
inhumanly murdered him, and left these tender relatives to
bemoan their wretched fate---a situation to be felt, butnot
described.
Captain Lippencutt not being delivered up, to fuffer for
the murder ofCapt. Huddy, according to the requisition of
his Excellency General Washington, orders were given for
the British officers in Lancaster, to cast lots afhong them
selves who should fuffer in place of said Lippencutt ; the lot
fell upon Sir Charles Afgill, a Captain in the Guards. Last
Thursday he passed through this city, under a guard, on his
way to the American camp.
Thursday last a flag schooner arrived here, after a passage
of 10 days from Charleftown, with a number of persons on
board, whom the British have sent off from that place.
Wednesday last, the Rhode-Ifland regiment of regulars,
commanded by Major Olney, left the barracks, in order to
join the main army on the banks of the Hudson.
In consequence of a requisition from his Excellency Gen.
Washington, Sir Guy Carlton has engaged to give fafe
passports for vessels, to convey the virtuous families banish
ed last year from Charleftown, to any part of South-Caro
lina notin potfeffion of the enemy.
Captain Quiglev, in a small boar, with three men, on
the 23d ult. in fight of a 20 gun ship, and a fort on Staten-
Island, boarded and took a brig bound to Halifax, and con
duced her into Egg-Harbour. sheis said to be w<%th near
40001.
" The murderers immediately repaired to Charleftown,
4fd, no doubt, were received withopen arms, as the greatest
villainies afford the belt recommendations in thatvile place,
yhi^ 5 now ^6 fafg asylum of the grcA^ft iflyictics,"
I have to inform your Excellency, that your request of a
passport for Mr. Morgan to go to Philadelphia, will be con
veyed to Congress by the earlielt opportunity ; and you
may rest allured, that I will embrace the firft moment to
communicate to you their determination therein.
Many inconveniences anddiforders having arisen from an
improper admission of flags at various posts of the two ar
mies, which have given rife to complaints on both fides—
to prevent abuses in future, and forthe convenience ofcom
munication, I have concluded to receive all flags from
within your lines at the post of Dobb's-Ferry, and nowhere
else, folong as the head-quarters of the two armies remain
as at present.
preach, and individuals from aKperieocing such unnecc Car,
evils, as can have no effed upon a general decision ; eveiy
proper measure which may tend to prevent those criminal
excesses in individuals, I shall ever be ready to embrace,
and as an advance on my part, I have, as the fiift a# of my
command, enlarged Mr. Livingston, and have written to
his father upon the fubje& offuch excesses as have puffed in
New-Jersey, desiring his concurrence in such measures as
even under the conditions of war, the common interests of
humanity require.
I am further to acquaint you fir, that it was my intention
to have sent this day a similar letter of compliment to Con
gress, but am informed it is previously necessary to obtain
a passport from your Excellency, which I therefore hope to
receive, if you nave no objection, for the passage of Mr,
Morgan to Philadelphia for the above purpose. I have the
honor to be, with great refpe&, your Excellency's molt obe
dient, humble servant,
(Signed) GUY CARLT 0 N.
His Excellency General Washington.
Head-Quarters, May 10, 1782.
S I R,
I HAD the honor last evening to receive your Excellen
cy's letter of the 7th, with the several papers inclofed.
Ever since the commencement of this unnatural war, my
condu& has borne invariable testimony against those inhu
man excesses which, in too many instances, have marked
its various progress.
With refpe# to a late tranfaftion, to which I presume
your Excellency alludes, I have already exprefled my fixed
resolution—a resolution formed on the molt mature deli
beration, and from which I shall not recede.
1782.
THE letter of the lothfrom the Commander in Chief
being read, enclosing a copy of a letter to him from Sir
Guy Carlton, dated head-quarters, New-York, May 7,
Refolded, That the Commander in Chief be, and hereby
is dire&ed, to refufe the request of Sir Guy Carlton, of a
passport for Mr. Morgan to bring dispatches to Philadel
phia. Published by order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
N. B. The certain papers transmitted to Gen. Washington
by Sir Guy Carlton, 66 from the perusal of which" fays he,
" your Excellency will perceive what difpefitions prevail
in the government and people of England," were only news
papers, votes of the house of commons, for Monday the
4th of March, and a printed paper, entitled, “ A Bill to
enable his Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with the re
volted Colonies in North-America.''
I have the honor to be,
Your Excellency's, &c.
, (Signed) G. WASHINGTON-
His Excellency Sir Guy Carlton.
By the UNITED STATES in Congress affcmbled, May 14,
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Subferiber, last Wednes
day night, a Black MARE, 14 hands high, natural trot
ter, 5 years old, shod before, blaze in her face, remarkable
short neck, carries her head high. Whoever will return
"aid Mare to the owner, shall have a generous reward ans
charges paid, by „MQS EVCN,
WWbcnfcld; Dice 14, 17%
TO BE SO L D,
A Dwelling HOUSE and two arcres ofLAND, about half
a mile from the meeting house, commodiously situated
on the road leading from Lanefborough to New-Provi
dence— Also, about 75 acres of good LAND, about one
mile from the iron-works in Pittsfield, and half a mile
from a grist-mill and saw-mill ; said Land is well watered,
and of an excellent quality for plowing, pafluring and moy -
ipg—Alfo, a 50 acre Lott, with a great quantity of pine
timber on it, and a very convenient stream for a saw-mill.
For further particulars inquire of ESACK SPRAGUE in Piof.-
field, or SAMUEL BUCK in Lanelborougb.
Lanefborough, June 6, 1782.
STMTEof CONNECTICUT, ff
Hartford County, May 21, 1782.
PXJELI C NO TICE is hereby given, to all whom it doth „
may concern, That Libels are filed before the Hon, Jabeß
Hamlin, Judge ofthe Count, Court, in the count, of Hartford,
against the following vessels, their tackle, apparel, guns and
cargoes, viz. The brigantine Jolly Tar, a vefyel of war, mount
ed with ten guns —the other a schooner, with a cargo, conffting
of flour and tar, both taken from the enemy upon the high seas,
and sent into the count, of Hartford, b, David Brook,, comman
der of the privateer brigantine called the Sampfen : ^ndfor the
tryal of thejuflice of said captures a Maritime Court will be
held at Hartford, in said county, on the firft Tuefda, of July
next, at whith time all persons claiming property in either of
said vessels ma, appear, and shew cause (if any the, have) wh,
the vessels aforefaid, their tackle, apparel and cargoes, should
not be adjudged lawful prize to the captors and thesr associates,
agreeable to the prayer of the libellants.
By order ofthe Judge,
GEORGE WTLLTS, Regifler.
N. B. The Treasurer, Committee of Pay Table and Col
lectors, are desired to look out for said Orders if they should
be offered for payment or exchange.
New-Hartford, June 14, 1782.
STATE of CO N NEC TI CU T, ff.
Hartford County, May i£, ~?<,
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, to all concerned, That a
Libel is filed before Jabez Hamlin, Esq; Judge of the
County Court, for the county of Hartford, agair ft the bri
gantine Matilda, her tackle apparrcl and caigo, viz. turn
and sugar, William Auffin, late master, in favour of Nathan
Post and his associates, commander of the priv atecr brigan
tine called the Marshal, who took said brigantine Matilda
upon the high seas, from the enemies of this and the United
States, on or about the loth day of May last, and has sent her
into said county : And for the trial of the justice of said cap
ture, a Maritime Court for said county will be held at Hart
ford, on theist Tuesday of July next, at which time all per
sons claiming property in the aforefaid brig may appear,
and shew caule (if any they have) why the said brigantine
and her cargo, should not be adjudged as a lawful prize to
the captors and their associates.
By order of the Judge,
_ GEORGE WYLLYS , Regtfter.
STATEof CONNECTICU T, ff.
Hartford County,
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, to all concerned, that 2
Libel is filed with the Hon. Jabez Hamlin, Esq;
Judge of the Maritime Court, in the county of Hartford, by
Jonathan Clark, jun. and Jonathan Doan, both of Chat
ham, in said County, against the sloop SALLY, Abnec
Stocking, master, and her cargo, consisting of pine boards
and shingles ; which said vessel and cargo are said to be
employed in illicit trade with the enemies of this and the
United States, and has been seized by lawful authority, and
is now held in custody of law: And forthetrial ofthe justice
of said seizure a Maritime Court will be held at Hartford, in
said County, on the firft Tuesday of July next, at which
time and place, all persons claiming property in said sloop
and cargo may exhibit their claim, complying with the
rules and regulations of law therein, and they shall be heardi
Dated in Hartford, the 11th of June, 1782.
By order of the Judge,
GEORGE WILLYS, Regiffer.
ON the road to Litchfield, between Hartford and Land
lord wiard's, a bundle ofPapers, among which was
about Ten Pounds in Bills of this State, one Pay-Table
States Money order, in favour of Col. Samuel Canfield, sos
the sum of Forty-one pounds ten shillings, signed by Willi
am Mofely ; one order on the half-crown tax for five
pounds eight shillings in favour of Capt. Stephen Griffin,
the blank filled up with a different hand from the signers ;
a number of other papers of value to the owner. Whoever
has found said Papers and will return them to the fubferibes
at New-Hartford, or leave them at the Printing-Office, or
fend the owner word, will thereby manifeft a difpofitton to
do to hisneighbour as be would be glad to be done by, and
shall have a further reward of Two Forty Shillings bills and
the thanks of their humble servant,
AARON AUSTIN.
Raft India and German Manufafiures,
Imported in the last Vessels frem Holland,
Are now ready for Sale at
Thomas Hopkins's Store,
In HARTFORD,
Among which are,
BOLTING Cloths. Nankeens.
Black and white Gauze. Brown and white Linen?
Taffaty and Persian. Writing Paper.
Black Sattin. German Steel, &c. &c*
Chintz and Callicoes.
Pullicat, Romal and Banda
na Handkerchiefs.
June 15, 1782.