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^f tiie world • nncl which is defended by
five hundred regular tr<ops,
The Loi ds of the A mir^ty are at a loss
for a room to try Admiral Keppel in,
some being thought too large, a^d others
too fmall^ but, if we may be allowed a
pun on ft) serious a fubjeft, most impar
tial people think there is no room for try
ing him at all.
The complaints of the Dutch ha^e been
redressed, by assurance that their flipping
is npt to.be molested by Britain, let their
cargoes be what they may, even French
or American property, naval or military
fibres, bound to any port whatever, are in
future to pass unchallenged. A fine har
veh for Dutchmen !
A few days since a very beautiful young
lad), niece to an eminent physician, eloped
fr< m her uncle's house with an oyster-man
in rhe neighbourhood. This man was
frequently at the house ti fee the servants,
and as Miss was fond of oyflers, often car
ried her presents of them which so engaged
her regard, that foe made proposals of
marriage to him, and set off immediately.
When the late Duke of Chandos, who
wa. Pay mailer to the land forces, had an
order from Parliament to lay before them
his accounts, ; n order to their being exami
ned, the Duke tent twenty carts fully load
ed therewith, fignifying that when they
were gone through, as many more mould
be forwarded from his office. Lord George
Germaine has not been quite so voluminous
with his papers lefpeajng the affair of Sa
ratoga, but he has already furnifhed more
than a fortnight's hard reading, not we dare
fay, with a view of frightening the Members
with a profound enquiry, though we are
happy, that the public spirited part of the
House will not be detered therefrom by a
ny apprehension of time or trouble on the
occasion.
CHARLESTOWN. (S
April 28.
Our last Advices from Georgia are, that
the B itifh Army and Navy there begun to
be verv sickly, and sensibly to feel the
want of provisions, having already exhaust
ed that part of the country which is in
their poss ffion.---That they fuffer most
from the want of flour; and had not been
able to procure even Indian corn meal.—-
That their dependence had been upon
New Yoik or Great-Britain, as well for
br^ad and flour, as for reinforcements, but
had received neither from either; and now
clearly fee, the impossibility of subsisting
the troops already there, much longer---
That the Jason Privateer of 22 guns, Capt.
Potreifirld, which had carried Jonathan
Brvan Esq; to New York, had failed on
her return from thence, with a victualler
and 6 trading veL'is, but mifearried, and
were foppofed to be taken by the Ameri
can frigates from Boston.---That 3 veffcls
1 he last letters from Puis mention,
that the loan said to be going forward,
6, four millions, p oves to be for forty
millions, of which the former is only for
the inrereft.
A number < f fafpicious persons (chiefly
Frenchmen; hold fcret cabals once or
twice a week, at the house of a nominal
I), di >r, not far from the Strand; and from
their regular correspondence with France,
it ha< been, and is vehemently fufpe&ed,
that rhe parties are spies, and hold a trea
sonable confederacy with the enemeis of
this country.
Arrived at Savannah last week, but without
bread, being from Tortola, Jamaica, and
New Providence.-- That being obliged to
use rice in dead of bread, had greatly dis
gusted the Hessians and new levies, --That
there are still remaining five hundred mise
rable captives on board the three prison
and the hospital Ihips, whp were very sick
ly and died faft, having a Doctor to attend
them, but without medicines, or any other
necessary or comfort besides beef and rice.
That the weekly allowance to each prison
er per week is five pints of rice, 41b. of
beef, and 2 gills of rum; and the provisi
on the fame as is supplied to the navy and
army. That meer distress, and no prof
ped of being soon exchanged, had indu
ced many of our fuldiers, and some ofour
seamen, on board the prif)n ships, to en
ter 'nto the Bri^fh fetvice, a# the oily means to
escape from hose aorfomjails., --That last Friday 13
la^ trafp arts rece ved orders to t^nd up their boats
to Sty>n tah for fix weeks pr vfi>n whteh they
had accordingly :aken in, with the neceffiry q^anti
ty of wood aid water; that tbe inval ds were a&u
a]ly put on board those tranfport#, and several of the
Georgia loyahils had also embarked, amo^gft them
William Tailfer Esq: and that it was given out
they were to fail for New Y>rk, urder corvey of
the Dtphine, a L verpocl privates fhpof 16 gens,
and the Hornet armed prize brig. -That when these
vessels are gone, there will remain at Tybee, Cock
fpur and Savannah the following Brit.fh vessels of
war, viz. the Fowey of 24 guns, the Vigilance
( rot in a condition to put to sea far any voyage) the
G eenwich armed sloop, the Comet Galley, the
Thunder Galley from $ Augustine all wit drawn
from their fate station at the mouth of Abe r con Creek,
and the Congress aid Lee prize Gall.es, both rtfi
ted. That Savannah has been fortified as well as
the nature of its fi nation would adaht, with batte
ries end lines. - That the enemy, being under some
apprehensions of an attack by sea, had last Sunday
began to level the find at Tybee, and ere& platforms
to mount cannon which it was supposed would be
taken from the V gilance; and the troops from rhe
out pofis were said to be marching down to the Vi
cinity ofSavannah.-- And that the late renewal of
the embargo here, had had he good effect to draw
20 Britilh privateers at once from the coast of Tybee.
where they had determined to proceed to cruize for
the French fleet in tbe Weft I hes.
PHILADELPH lA,May §.
Extrafl of a letter from Willas fbirgh April 27.
" A Gentleman, last evening f m the southward,
brings the agreeable account of G- eral Lincoln's
advantage over a part ofthe enemy's army, -vhe at
tempted to croft the river below Hm, to come upon
his back, left upwards of 09 killed and taken pri
soners. This ucr-dred by many."
May 11
Extract of a letter from Fort Pitt dated April 20.
' We have certain accounts here of a woman on
Cheat River, killing o.e Indian, wounding another
with a b;oad ax, a&d mat ng her escape. On my
way over th- Laurel Hill I card of Mr. Simpson's
son being taken by the Indians at hi plantation,
a d another man and woman n f that n ighbourhood.
About the 9 •, a party of four m? were f-n+exprefe
from this p<,ft for Hannahl T . and ev^ry one
found dead and scalped ahnv h^ren nrles from
this on the great road. 13th, Davd Morgan, cf
Mononahaiy ron y bet#,'sfi r ld ear a fort,
d (covered twcl ^ ^. cre~p nr nn 10 a few young
people who were a work nthe 6-M ; he gave the
children the alarm, and upon r he Indians pu-foirg
them, he ffiot down the forempfl : the nthe p: rfued
him, made a blow a r h m with his tomahawk, cut
off his little fi „r, and the second aim ft through;
they then cl f-d, and he draggled for the Indian's
knife which Mr. Mown got hold cf, drew it
through the hand of the savage and flatbed him ;
upon which they dfengayed : Mr. Morgan made to
the fort, and the other to the woods A party im
mediately set out aid found the one dead, and the
wounded fitting ; he afod mercy, and it was grant
ed ; but on their way in, he became farly, one cf
the party tomahawked him, and took in both their
scalps.-- 14th. at Cavil's mill a man who had fled
from the north fide of the Pennsylvania road, was
huning his horse, he discovered two Indians fleck
ing in a thicket, within a few hundred yards cf the
house, he fired and wounded one of them, then ran
to the house, where a few more joined him ; they
followed the track, found him and took his scalp:
they purf^d the other, but he made his efeape. --
16th, David Maxwell and his wife were killed at
Irofh^in within a few nrfes cf E achfeck'., oM
ro:« ; their daughter (1 young worn ) was takert '
fomeuimeayo. By this you miy obfive, tha f out
fruition it more alarming han yen have ever feefl $
it j nay the very place where the inhabitants fiv
to for security is now bee „-:: a dangerous frontier?
From the Pennsylvania Packet.
M r . Dunlap.
At the fallow ng Swe o r V>tes rd an important
question. may gratify the curious, I feud it to
you for publication.
ON the que^ion, fha!l Mr. Arthur Lee be re
called ? The Yeas and Nays being realised
by M'. Smith.
Sates. Yeas. Nays.
New Himpfh re. M # W.upple.
h&.lT.c.iUbßiy Mr. Gerry, Mr S. Ad m%
M.lrvdl,
Mr. Hulton.
Rhode T£and Mr. Collins, M.Eilery.
Con cAicut, M .Sherman,
Mr. Spencer.
N^W York, M w . Jay,
M s . Duane,
M : Morris,
Mr Floyd.
New Jersey, Mr, Fell, Mr. Wi^erfeooQ
Mr Scudder
Pennsylvania, M,. Atlee, -M^. Aunftrong,
M.MihlenbergMr. &arte,
Mr Wynkoop, Mr. Shippen.
Delaware, M Dickinson, Mr. Vandyke
Maryland, M. Paca.
M.Carmichael,
M.H ny
M.J jfcr.
Virginia, M.M. Smith,
M .G ffi%
Mr Fleming,
N. Carolina, M. Peim,
M. Burke,
Mr. Sharpe.
S. Caroline, Mr. D syren, Mr. Laurel.
Georgia nnrgprefeited.
Yeas. N 4 yg Divided.
N^w York, N.Hampftfre, R md^ )flu£
Maryland, Maffartufe rs, Pennsylvania,
Vrgiiiia Counra cut, Delaware,
North Carolina New Jersey. Sub Caroline
The Hon. M.R H L-e, from Vginia was at
his requel exceed. TheHon Megis. Plater, fiom
Maryland and M Kean fam Delaware, were net
in the Hmf? when the q.efbo,, wav called.
TRENT ON, Mayfe.
We learn that on the sth instant a fleet
of a^out yd fail of British Vessels put to
sea from Sandy Hook, with troops on
boad, said to be bound to the fourhward.
Tuesday fe'nnight a schooner and (loop,
both belonging to Philadelphia, arrived
there from Sc. Euftatia with valuable car
goes; Also a vtffel from Cape Francois,
with sugar and coffee.
POUGHKEEPSIE, May 17.
On Saturday the 8 h instant, was execu
ted at Albany, pursuant to his sentence,
William Il&ogbteling, for sundry robberies
whereof he was convifted. --This unhappy
youth began his evil practices by desertion,
from one of the Continental regiments rais
ed under the direction of this State, to
which he declared he was induced by his
step father, and others of the family; this
induced him to the neceffi y of skulking
and secreting himfelf until he was induced
to join a banditti of robbers-- Let his fate
be a warning to others, not to purfuade
those who have plighted their faith for the
defence of their country, to violate their
solemn engagements, left their latter end
should be like his..
TWENTY DOLLARS RE WAR D.
STRAY'D from cheSitofcobef hv oir , Tor
rin^ton. on the 10 h of April last, a Re?. R , n c
HORSE dark maze and tail, bis mane lies the
near fide ofhi> neck, three while stet/ a star in his
forehead, paces all, eight or nine years old. Also
a Yearling Mare Colt black rone one whj e foot, &
small white flrip on the end of hernofe, trot, aad pi
ces. Whoever sh UDake op said shays, and return
them to the fubferiber, fell have the above reward,
or ten dollars fcr either, and nereffary charts by"
JAMES BACOL
Terringfcn May 13 '779^