The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-12-25 00:00:00, page 1

SALEM, December 6.,
Last Sunday the privateer flrip Marquis de la
Fayette, Capt. Reed, arrivedherc from acruize,
during which he captured a Packet irom .l^ng
land, bound to New-York. Front the Eng
, lifli papers found on board the prize, we have
extracted the following Advices, viz.
Constantinople, Augull 11.
HZ' h ave accounts that the plague has this
YV year destroyed upwards of 40,000 persons
in Salonica, the capital of Macedonia, near half
she inhabitants of Grand Cairo, and at leaf! one
third of those of Alexandria.
Peterfburgh, August 24- „ The Empress has
sent some young people to China to learn the lan
guage, the arts and Sciences of that empire, and
at the fame time to establish a cqrrefpondence in
those parts for the advantage of commerce. A
proposal is also to be made to the sovereign of Chi
na to receive a Ruffian Envoy Extraordinary, who
is to reside at Pekin, and to fend one in return to
this country, together with some young men to
learn the manners and customs of Europe.
Dublin, August 21. It is computed that not
four out of ten of the drips bound here escape
being captured by either American or French
privateers.
LON DO N.
Sept. I. We have received (by the way of
France) the following intelligence of Hyder Al
ly's retreat from the Carnatic : Early in January
the British troops took the field, Hyder's army
being then encamped near Ponamalee; being
apprized by his bircas of their approach, he mo
ved to Coverepauke, from whence he marched to
Calar, where Sir Eyre Coote came up with the
rear ofhis army; the advanced of the British en
gaged, and cut Qsf great part ofhis bazan, or mar
ket, and a considerable quantity of different forts
of baggage, with some heavy artillery, mostly
country pieces. By Mulawaugle they had ano
ther skirmish, in which the British wereyHori
ous. Hyder, after getting into the Tanjorc
country, imagined he would have prevailed up
on that Sovereign to haveafiifled him with troops
and provisions; but the King finding Sir Eyre
was closely following Hyder reiuled to grant any
assistance, upon which his army pillaged several
villages, &c. The King likewise ordered 20,000
men to alTemble, to prevent Hyder's army com
mitting any further depredations, and were rea
dy to join the English army in driving him en
tirely from that quarter. Hyder finding himfelf
deserted by his former allies the Nezam Van
Ally Cawn, the Mahrattas, and the King of pan
jore, but above all, being neglected and disap
pointed by the French, sent his son to Bangalore,
his principal fort in the Mysore country, with all
hi,infantry, and kept the field with his cavalry,
burning and destroying every town and village in
his retreat. It is computed that Hyder Ally ha:
loft more thap 18,000 men in the different ikir
raifhes, besides some artillery, baggage fee.
Though our affairs in America have lor a long
time wore a prosperous appearance, and Lord
Cornwallis, with the troops under his command,
has done as much as human wisdom and human
efforts could accomplish, circumftauced as he has
been, yet we are forty to find, by the latest ac
eounts from that country, that a spirit of rebelli
on and refinance to legal authority Rill exists to a
very extraordinary degree, even in the provinces
supposed to have been in the King's peace. The
date proclamation issued by the Commander in
€hies, offering a premium and protection to cn-
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TUESDA Y, December 25, 1781.
lift for a short period, does not meet with the en
couragement that was naturally expelled from
such a measure ; neither have we ever had thole
fatisfaftory reports of recruiting the army on that
fide the water properly authenticated, though of
ten expressed with confidential aflurance by the
belt friends of government. A fault there aflu
redly is, and has been long, in some part of our
conduct, or in the cbnftitutioii, which theDaemon
of Discord has raised in this once happy country,
which no efforts on our part have as yet subdued,
or produced any Reps leading to that derivable
measure.
The report has got abroad, that Lord Corn
wallis, wearied out with dutyand fatigue, is up
on his return, for the recovery ofhis healths
Publick notice was given on Sunday laity at
each of the foreign Ambassadors chapels, that the
Pope had dispensed with the observance of Fri
day as a faft day, in favour of the Roman Catho
lics of this kingdom.
Extract of a letter from Amdeidam, August 23.
" We have had very vi&t dorms on our
coast, whieh have done gr r at homage. In the
night of the 20th, at about I.CcU o'clock, a Swe
dish man of war, called thy Sophia Albertina, of
72 guns, and 5^4 men, commanded by Captain
JohanGuftaafMaimHchilrold,having seven Ihips
bound for Cadiz under her convoy, had the mif
fortune to be wrecked on a place named the
Haaks ; the. masts were broken, and the flrip en
tirely gone to pieces by three in the morning.
Only about 25 of the crew weie saved by means
of some pieces of the wreck, and the Dutch men
of war's boats which lay in the road. The se
cond matter was the only officer who was saved.
A merchant fhipof the fame nation, J. W. Unear,
matter, bound from Stockholm to Brest, shared
the fame fate : the mailer and two men only
were saved. The Portuguese flhips the Santa
Anna Francisca du Silva Cotte de Maria, Capt.
Felix Josue de Souxa; and the Johanna, were
both loft. They fay another Swedish flrip, la
den with copper, has foundered. A hundred and
fifty tons of pitch and tar, with several mails, and
other pieces of wreck, have been driven on shore;
from whence we fear several other flrips have
peri flied.
" Wehearalfo from the coasts about Nordwyk,
Catwyk, Schovening, &c. that several ihips have
been call away. The General Barker Englilh
Eaft-Indiaman, which was driven on shore tome
months ago, is now entirely gone to pieces."
On Monday lad an attempt was made by the
American prisoners confined in the Old Goal, at
Yarmouth, to escape; they had bribed, the cen
tinel with a silver watch and eight guineas, with
part of which money he purchased a coat for
himfelf, intending to go off with them. At one
in the morning he unlocked their rooms, but,
unluckily for them, the relief coming to the goal,
the sergeant difeovered their design, and secured
the prisoners and the trufly centinel, who is to be
tried by a Court-Martial for his treachery.
This morning at four o'clock died, at his houte
in Goodman's Fields, George Hayley, Esq,; Al
derman of Cordwainer's Ward, an eminent mer
chant of this city, and one of its Representatives
in the last and prefect Parliament.
Since this paper went to press an express is ar
rived at the Secretary of State's office from Gov.
Johnftonc, by which we are informed that he has
taken a Spanish Manilla flrip with a very large
cargo; and that the Governor was at Buenos
Ayres,where there if a revolt of one hundred
thoufind men, under the command of two Eng
lish oilicers.—ToLr/cV/ Chr^ri-fc.
• It is calculated that the annual returns toSpain;
including about one fourth more, which is not
registered, in order to evade the King's duty, a
mount to about 3,904,600!. flerling; and as the
regitter ihips now on their way home carry the
produce of two years, the fleet tint was to have
failed for Europe last year having been detained
on account of the war, Spain will receive, if her
ihips arrive fafe, the sum of 7,80g^2c01; Gerling.
The Swedish fixty-forir gun flrip, lately loft 011
the coast of Holland, was absolutely freighted
with tirhber for Brelt ; and the Empress ofßuffiz
has declared no power on earth shall hinder her
fubjeds from the free exportation of the produce
of the country, " Free ihips, free goods!" is
now the language of the Northern Powers ; and
how shall we (Tays a correspondent) prevent their
doing what they fay, -they are determined upon?
All the various Accounts of this week, however
contradictory in fomerefpeHsamongthcmfelvcs,
tend to realize and confirm our appfehenfions of
Minorca being invaded, the tiemendoirs slate of
Gibraltar, and the danger of our homeward
bound fleets of merchantmen.-
North-America is drawing towards a crisis.
Lord Cornwallis is in such a Situation, that, if he
gains vi6bofies,.he can get nobody to, carry home
his dispatches; He writes nothing himfelf that
we know of, but by a dittant proxy; and the
New-York Gazette Extraordinary inuft suppl,
the place of the London' Gazette. .The fame
New-Y ork Gazette .is silent about what is doing
at New-York, as it is loquacious of what isdoing
elfewhere/.— Mean time General Washington
and the French General have the alTurance to
attempt to besiege our Commander in Chief and
hi^army in New-York.---If the Mountain will
not come to the Man, the Man must go to the
Mountain,.,,
The Eaft-tndia Houle is in much higher spirits
With the late good news than before ----The only
anxiety that now hangs over them is for their
homeward-bound ships, which share the danger
from the combined fleet, in comn.^ with other
mercantile ship%
Sept. 4, '.fhe intel!igen'de :clrived at Lifhon,
by the way of the Brazils, from Capr. M'Dowal,
of Commodore Johnilone'i fqpadion, gives us
room to hope, that before this ' time the 'effects of
the expedition arc alrchd, frit by the Spaniards,
and that they will icon have reason fordy to re?
pent of having become the dupes of French coun
cils and encouragers of colonial rebellion. Capt.
hFDowaH was detached from the fquadfon to
convoy a packet of the. Eafi-India Company torii
certain latitude, and having the@"ieft on hoard,
(who brought the tilings of the rebellion in
South-America early last winter) went to land
him where be could moft,conveniently find Iris
way to encourage the natives tillthe arrival of cur
squadron, which has not only some troops under
an officer of established military reputation on
board, but also forty thousand stand of arms,
which by the no ^ er in which they 'were riniK
ed, could be intended ferno other country. The
Spaniards, c;t off.from the return, of the gold
and fib er mines of South-A merica, will find 00
great resources in Old Spain, and but very little
from France.
Sept. 12. No authentic accounts bas been re
ceived of the combined fleet having captured a
single flrip of any confluence fin.ee their ap
p a dice in the Channel, which is said to be ow^
(No. 883.)