The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1780-08-08 00:00:00, page 2

L O N D O N, May 12.
A dispatch was r%eived yeflerday, at
the Admiralty, from Admiral Gfrhbier-at
Plymouth, containing the following mod
unhappy and melancholy intelligence :
That a terrible storm happened on Tues
day last off that harbour, which ha^ (hah
tered several (hips then lying off the dock,
and that there was every reason in the
world to believe that two of the best men
of war in the service, the Ramilies of 74,
and the Bienfaifant cf 64 guns, had both
been loft in the violence of it. They
were attempting to make the port when
the temped began, and were driven off
to sea, in spite of every manoeuvre they
could use to the contrary. They were
seen from the heigths both difmafled and
and all the pumps going; Soon after
they disappeared totally, and no account
of any kind has been finct received con
cerning them. At this peculiar crisis
of national diftref, this is a very great
misfortune, which is rendered so much
the more terrible from the circumstance;
ithat all the hands to the am >unt of up
wards of 1000 men, must have net with
a premature death on this Locking oc
casion. The Bienfaifant was one of the
fwifteft failling vessels in the service, and
they were both in a fiate of complete
equipment, both as to building ard men.
The loss which this event will be attend
ed with to this kingdom cannot be efli
mated at less than 140,000!. independent
cf the immense inconvenience which must
arise from the deprivation of so large a
number of brave and experienced seamen.
A few days ago the bellman of B fton
in Lincolnshire gave notice of no less than
22 sales, being the effects of different far
mers, graziers, &c. in that neighbour
hood reduced to a state of poverty, ow
ing to the low prices of grain, and the
exorbitant rate their farms are rented at.
As nothng can save this nation from
its impending ruin but a Arid economy
in every department, it is therefore re
commended, that the band of pensioners
be not forgot ; that useless corps cost the
nation 22,0001 a year.
Should Mr. Put be fufficienfly recov
ered to attend his duty in Parliament this
day, it is expeded thata motion will be
made to address his Majesty to remove
the Right Hon. Frederick North, com
monly called Lord North, fromthe of
fice of firft C mmiffioner of his Majefly's
treasury, and Chancellor of the Exche.
quer —The special ground of complaint
is not spoken of, but it is presumed that
it will be taken up on this idea, that his
Lordfliip has exerted his influence, as
Minifler to counteract and defeat the pe
titions of the people.
AMSTERDAM, May 4 .
The French corsair, the Jean Bart,
Capt. Colling, cf 24 guns, and 210 men,
bro't into the Texel, last Monday, two
English ships destined for the Greenland
fishery
We also learn, that the corsair, Ie Duc
de Coigny, has carried 13 English pri
zes into Morla ; X; and that the other
French corsairs have not been less for
tunate in their cruizes in the channel,
having take% since the 24th of March,
22 English sh ps, which they have carri
ed into the said port.
PH ILADELPHI A, July 25.
fhurfday the 19th instant, the firff
and fecund Pennsylvania brigades, com
manded by Brigadier General Wayne,
marched from their refpe&ive encamp
ments for the purpose of collecting and
bringing oft those cattle in Bergen coun
ty, immedia ely exposed to the enemy.
After executing the order, General Wayne
on his.return visited a Block-house in the
vicinity of Bergen- town, built and garri
fo M by a number of Refugees to pre
v. nt the difagrecable neceflity of being
forced into the Britilh sea service. This
work was found proof against light ar
tillery, when a part cf the fird and fecund
Fennfylvania regiments were ordered to
attempt it by affault.when after forcing
their way through theabatis and pickets, a
retreat was ihdifpenfablj necessary, there
being no other entrance in the Block
houfeliuta fubterraneous passage fuffieieut
only for one man to pa's. Ouroh con
fills of 69, including 3 officers, Lilleda- d
wounded. 'Lieutenant Moody and fix
of his party were taken on their return
from an extortion to Sussex.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March
23, V^.
" We are hourly in egpeQaticn of
great news from Hodand, Ireland, Eng
land and Spain, but above all from Ame
rica and the Weft Indies. By the Eng
lish papers you will perceive the violent
fermentationfin England, which hasariferi
to such an height, as to produce a Con
grels in fad, and it will soon be so in
name. The proceedings in the House
of Commons on the fourteenth, which
were terminated by a resolution of the
Committee of the whole House, t? abd
ifh the Board of trade and plantations,
carried against the Miniflry after a very
long and warm debate by a majority of
eight voices, is not only the mod extra
ordinary vote which has passed in the pre
sent reign, but it leads to very extensive
consequence%
" I believe it is very true, that this
Board has been the true cure of the qar
rel of Great Britain against the Colonies,
and therefore may be considered as a na
tural object of national resentment; but
a resentment cf this kind alone, would
not probably have prod ced this effe&.
" Whether it is the near approach of
an election, that intimidated the Members
ot the House of Commons ; or whether
the Committees, petitions, associations
and Congress, have alarmed them; or
whether the nation is convinced that A
merica is indeed loft forever, and conse
quently, that the Board will in future be
useless, I don't know.
" Be this a; it may, the English nati
on, and even the Irish and Sc; tch nations.
All parts of the world will draw this in
ference from it, that even in the opinion
of the House of Commons, America is
loft. The free and virtuous citizens of
America, and even the 0 vim and vici
ous, if there are any still remaining of
this character, under the denomination of
tories, must be convinced by this vote,
passed in the Hey day of their joy for the
successes of Admiral Rodney's fleet, that
the House of Commons despair cf ever
regaining America. The nations fub
je& to the House cf Bourbon, cannot fail
“ There is nothing more aftmfhin,
than the inconfiftancies of the patriots in
England. Those, who are mod violent
against the Minifry, are not for makn<,
peace with Frarce and Spain ; but they
with so allure America into a fepaiate
peace, and persuade her so join them a
gain* the House c f Bourbon. One
would tick it impossible, that one
man of feufe in the world Could seriously
behete, that we could thus basely violate
our faith, thus unreasonably quariel with
our bed friends, thus madly attack cur
felves to cur bitterest enemies. But thus
it is."
RICHMOND: j^ ¥z;
By a!: & from ^.,Hbxwy fobel Jr y i.^
rc i/^n^ th^ e^ny ^t not b?3a higher up
^-c:r ~ tian the ^:xfa<# ; they h^ ?%%&-
cd to Ctmd% ^r! ^.: ,ty <nc!r% th, mfelv-r.
T tirlo ^cf M r^ cTdirn nun oA aIQ to %
rw, tl*y h^ve 4 oco /ten at Croft CT&ond ^ eg.
ny r^ 2 Mady at a nburet warning< /^ W ?! j.
Ivlfoe H:riW & CT&7,Oi 7^.^ ir>„
whmil ^,w!m^ : pro mere G.^^ aQ
t'^ f^d /uela 'V^ arty of .0 e\ ^%- Cr^ .'-
ba ^dbi# killed f&f cf them, gad <am three'
haubel,'fo^^.-
T R E N T O N JULY 2 <.,
On e rh^ht cf the i 4 h irf v S^ jmt B r,LM,%
cfih N^ L vies, dele, el fbm Stre^ III? d, Ad
brought off C panSr#a.d% wife two prm e$, f
fix borfa, and a confidevYr foniof h:a nw Q'
Tb?oe-#c s <pt of wlui at d 9:, in t:i.for%
a^e ^m^i^? ,cod ; end ^ z.r* °.s ^ &^t a show
fcr frui< cf a!m< fl every kind, uiat been
for mt y ytan h?ck.
N E W - H A V E N, Auecsr 3.
T e feginaing of h^ week, the B.mfh a^y L±
Bast Chrler, and mi ced to N w York.
About the fa ne 1 ^ a fleet e mt : fro^ Nrw-Y, ~ lv
and tint into Tnd.wen ha^wr, whir i. <rfb
wth those then there, am jotted to ab.w.t r?6'
LafiMwhy th, ^^< fa, to b av , Hond'a^v ;
and h 4 Wgiwa.d which is the ia4 1„02t
'*'^ '^d of tiem b^ <v^ there „„, h ff ,e h?:',
of troep. on bntrQ torth? accounts dity.
A f fr^^ w' 0 came m the fi^t from Nr& Y ±
tn K^ndinfon, and ar^v^d here on Sa.jr.hv.hrt3
"V'^ 3hrd fr ^tt cf p CT,, wet ~fcft h
HJI Gate, the ^ti; floras, and men fav,d, but the
viwfi left
Sat udy f/nn;*t. h the morni?-. a fjr<H ~<
va^er from New Y<»k, run in ^T Cora o &%
and took es c+iut 30 head'of wtU.
to put the fame interpretation upon this
tranfaTion Holland, and all the northern
powers, l with the Empress of Russia at
them head who are all greatly irritated
against England, for their late violences
against the innocent commerce of neutral
powers, will draw the fame consequences.
" The politicians of Great- Britain are
too enlightened in the hhlory of nations,
and therife and progress of causes and
effects in the political world, not to fee
that all these bodies of people will, in
consequence of this vote, consider the
Colonies as given up for loft by the House
of Commons ; and they are too well in.
hru&ed-not to know the important con.
fiquences that follow, from having such
prints as these, thus fettled among the
nations. I cannot therefore but confider
this vote, and the other refpe&ing the
Secretary of State for the American de
partment, which arose almost to a ba
lance, a a most important declaration cf
the sense cf the nation.
“ The firft probable consequence of it
will be ore further a'terflpt, by offering
some specious terms, whch :hey know we
cannot in just ce, in hon >r, in co^fc'ence
accept, to deceive, seduce ard divide
America, throw all into corf Ten, here,
and by this means gaining an epportuni.
ty to g< vern.