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RICHMON D, September 14.
General Clarke who commanded at Savannah,
it is said to his credit, was very careful in pre
venting the burning of the town, which feme
incendiaries had attempted at the evacuation,
'and extended his care lo far as to leave 2 gu nd
behind untill Gen. Wayne had taken poffedion.
Gen. Wayne then permitted the guard to pro
cced on to General Clarke.
The orders for the evacuation of St. Augus
tine, we hear, are countermanded, and Colonel
Brown is sent there with the Indians anti tones.
An expedition againit that post, by letters from
the southern army was said to be in contempla
tion.*
The noted Whaland, who has been cruising for
some time pad and taken federal vefTels in Che
sapeake bay, was captured by a galley from Ma
ryland, he surrendered himfelf, it is laid, by ca
pitulation, and restored the whole of the prizes
that he had then in pofieflion.
P H I I, A DELPH I A, Sept. 21
A friend of humanity and generosity has com
municated to us the following letters, written
after the taking of the frigatcof his inoftChrit
tian Majetiy, l'Aigile : Though they have not
been transmitted to us officially,the publicmay
rely upon their authenticity.
Letter from the Baron de Viomenil, to his Ex
cellency the commander of the English squa
dron in the Delaware, dated Sept. 15, 1782
sir,
THE Count de la Touche, commanding the
Eagle frigate, which fortune has just
now thrown into the hands of your Excellency,
is to such a degree my friend, and is so particu
larly dear to the Duke de Lauzun, the Marquis
de Laval, and all the other French officers who
were on board his frigate, that I flatter myfclf
you would not disapprove of my fending to your
Excellency a flag, in order to intreet you to in
form me if that officer is flill in good health, in
this case we shall have no farther uueahnefs, be
ing all perfectly persuaded, that there is no nati
on that honors more than your Excellency's, the
merit and diftinaion of an unfortunate officer.
All the attentions Mr. de la Touche will meet
with in his present situation, will be looked up
on by us as if they were personal to every one of
us ; and I beg your Excellency may be persuad
ed, that we shall remember them forever with
the warmed acknowledgements.
We are also particularly interested in the fate
of Mr. Du Quefne, who is in every refpe& dear
to us, and your Excellency will afford me the
greatest pleasure by informing me of his situa
tion.
Mr. de la Touche had likewise on board of
his fliip a younger brother, of whofc fafe L y we
wish to be informed, as well as of the other offi
cers who were under his command ; they de
serve all, by their gallantry and their zeal for the
King's service, that your Excellency may honor
them by your attention.
If you find no inconveniency to return to the
officers, who were pafl'engers in this frigate, all
the servants belonging 10 them, you will render
them a service they will never forget.
I beg your Excellency to receive withkindnefs,
the toffyrances of the most perfect confederation,
&c.
Signed, BARON DE VIOMENIL.
Answer of Commodore Elphinftone, to the
Baron de Viomenil, dated the 15th, Septem
ber, 1782.
SI R,
TA M this instant honored by your letter, which
is the effect of tender feelings and an excel
lent heart. 1 have lent your letter OM. hi
Touche, and I hope you will receive his anfaer
by the officer. Let me assure you that J have
fludied to render the situation of that brave and
distinguished officer as comfortable as the con
fufion of my situation would permit ; the great
fit attention is due to his merit and goo] con
duct ; and if I may presume to ofFer an opinion,
no officer could have exhibited more courage or
address in the conducting of bis maker's ihip.
Jd. La Touche has been as attentive to the inter
est of the land officers as they could here wish
ed; some things have bc<n Lived, but muh will
he loft, owing to the great number of men on
board, and their being of different nations, left
the whole night by themselves, as my men were
all employ'd to save our frigates, which were
bpth aground; since which time n variety of
things have been thrown over-board on attempt
ing to get off l'Aigle. Permit me to allure you,
that my orders hare been +xprefs to save every
thingforthe owners, ex ceping public itioney and
Imerchandize ; and 1 h^e the Chevalier de la
Fouche is nitrified with my coiidutt, as well as
&ith that of ihe diEcersT have the Conor to com
mand. hl. de la roacue, M. Son F'rere, and
Mons; Du Qtefoc have their-paroles ; and the
necefiby of getting upon my m.ripn -prevents me
i.e/n pcam^ng in'l'the other -officers to depart
on me iHme terms. As lam well convinced
you muff b'eanxious fen the date of your friend,
I do not detain your boat a moment but beg
thaf+ou Will beheld me to be, with great eltceni,
You's, Ac.
KATH I.LFHINSTONE.
SerTEMßdk 25.
This fummcr's drougth, which has been the
greater ever known here, has so dried up the ce
dar fwkmps in Kew-Jerfey, as to render them
combulrible. Oue ol them has unfortunate
ly taken lire, and a Lately forc'i of the extent
of above 20 miles in length, and f;cm 8 to 10 in
breadth, has been consumed root and branch.
It is said, the fire has pern irated from fix to ten
feet below the furface ol the ground, and mocks
all attempts to extinguith it. Some think it is
probable that it will finally extend from our ri
ver to the sea shore.
B () S T O N, October t.
Yederday fc'nnight arrived al Beverly a brig
of 16 guns, late in the service of his Britannic
Majesty. The crew of the Hope (a fmail priva
teer lately captured be her) being prisoners on
board her, to the number of 21, rose upon the
brig's people, in number 02, while laying in a
final! barbout on the Labrada snore, overcame
them, and took the command ofthe vcffel, which
they had the good fortune to arrive fafe in port
with.
H ARTFOR D, October 8.
Wednesday the 2;fh ultimo the Commission
ers met at Tappan, tor the purpose of fettling a
general cartel. The Honorable Mijor Generals
Death and Knox on the part oftheUnitcdStat.es.
On the 26th they proceeded to open their re
fueHive powers of commiflion :---thofe on the
part of the British not being fudiciently exten
sive nor derived from the proper source, render
ed their intended negotiation-abortive and nu
gatory. ' f
*, The great length ofthe Debates in the Bri
tifb Parliament, obliges us to omit several Eldver
tifements quitch nuere prepared for this days Paper.
N E W- YO R K, September 18.
Extract of a letter from London, dated July 2.
" Peace seems to be at as great a didancenow
as ever. We flattered ourselves that Lord Rod
ney's success over de Graife would have been pro
duffive of it, but notwitbiiaudingthat, and our
victories in the East-Indies, both Dutch and
French seem as obstinately bent on the pro
fecurion of war as ever.
This country seems, were we to judge from
appearances, to be indifferent to all these ani
mating mmivesthat rufed her toherenvied great
ness. Twofaritions divide this nation, the Rock
iugham and Bedford interest, as it is called, the
firil seems governed by republican principles,
and mean more than they are willing should meet
the eye, are iheeed for giving the American in
dependency,* and indeed every thing they shall
aik,which the latter as ftrenuouffy oppose. From
the divisions of the minillrv who are composed
of the above factions, it is thought they will not
hold heir places long; parliament itfelf does
not seem inclined to fupportthem, but a few days
longer (such are the changes here) the minister
was left in the minority, a proof of the fhortiiefs
of their reign. For this reason it is thought a
new parliament will be summoned, on whom
they mav have more influence than on the pre
sent. Though the public is poor, individuals
are rich, the elegance oftheir equipages, dredes,
and living, exceeds all description, and Hyde
Parke for horses, carriages, and ihew, exceeds
the splendor ofthe world: every thing, not ex
''epting independency, will be granted America;
:be war wrih her never was popular, and the ill
success attending it makes it execrated. The re
publicans mourn over any advantages obtained
against their brethren, and the nation at large
never fincerelv rejoiced in them. Re-union and
advantages arising from commerce by mutual
intercourse of mtefeft and good ounces are the
wife of all, so that unlcfs ror countrymen arc
infatuated, pace is not far off.
The Masuis of Rockingham's death is a great
blow, to the new ruinißry, and how far it may
effe& the interest of America, time alone wi^
discover, but I am persuaded America may now
have everything ihe can with; but in her hour
of success, and puffed up with insolence, and the
counsels of violent and interested men, she may
reject them, and make this nation desperate,
who roofed from her Lupor, and in desperation
may yet adc pt such a system as to make the lov
ers ot America forever lament her present aliena
tion from thp parent ft?t%"
^ PUBLIC VENDUE,
ON Turfda, tie jsth Day efOflobcr infant, at the Dwelling-
House ofStebhen ^uftin at Hartford, allhis Huushcld Fur
iiHure together jvith fenaft Unices of Dry Gooas, the Sale to
be continued until t^e Day following if neceflary.
N. N. Said o4hft.i has an excellent good Milch Cen that
will Calve mahout 4 W eeh,\c&fyofe of.
"SUS^UEHrtNNAH,
TVAHEREAS the Trial of the Cause between the State of
Pv Connecticut and the State of Pennf)lvam4,witto reflect to
the Lands on Sufiuehannah River, and the weftetn Extension of
the State of Connecticut, is to be heard and tried at Trenton in the
Jerseys, on the 12th Day of November next : And whereas at a
Meeting of the Sufquehanndh company held at bVindham the 9th
Day of March 1774. said Cotapanf vottdro pay a Tax of Four
Dollars on each whole R^ht, and Two Dallars on each half Right
in said Furchafe to afliff in defraying the Expences of the Trial if
said Cause, and making the necefery Preparations therefor, in the
said Sufeuehannah Company, and the Committees of said Compa
ny, who are mating Preparations therefor, are of Opinion that one
half said Tax mill be Efficient for the expected Trial.
These are therefore to define the Proprietors ofthe said Suf^ue
hannah Parchafe, without delay, to pay fh to Samuel Gray of
Windham, Treasurer of faid* Company, Two Dollars cn each
whole Right, and One Dollar on eIJ) half Right, cr to Colonel
Either Talcott of Glaftenbury, by him to be delivered to said Trea
surer, in Part of said Tax, to be improved by the Committee of fold
Company for the Purpose mentioned in said Vote.
N.ATH'I WALES, i^)
}REN'r RALDU IN, ) ,
JEDI FLDFRqIN, ) C^^ttec.
SAM' iGRAT.)
Windham, September 30,-1782.
QT RATED or Stolen from Oiefuhferibers pasture, cn or about
J the firft infant, a Bay MAIIE, near 14 bands high, black,
mane and tail,well set, four seats old, very handsome and fyright
ly, has a flow pace, trots and canters well, no shoes on when went
away, is one of the Wildear's Celts, was bred aud lately came
from Sandisfeld, and is lively t 0 Jhar that way. Whoever will
secure the Mare and return her, or notify the f^bferiber, shall
have a generous reward and all necessary charges.
Justus rilet.
Wethersfield, September 30, 1752.
^ Farm to be Sold in the town
of Marlborough, State of Vermont, containing 250 acres of ex
cellent land for plowing, mowing and pasture, exceeding well
watered, too acres under improvement, on which was raided the
'"ft feafen fevcrat bundred bus Pels of Grain, andabout $0 tons of
excellent good Day, and a much larger quantity might be mowed
the next year with a small matter of labour, an Orchard of more
than one hundred apple trees, mifity begin to bear, and a fine
grove of sugar trees, a large new NoVf partly finished, a new
targe Barn well finished, with many curious conveniences
Marlborough lies about 6 miles from Connecticut river. It is a
county town, will soon be a great place ofbufnefs ; they have a
meeting heufe built and a minifer fettled. Said Farm isftuat
ed near the centre of the town, on a great road, and well acco
modated for a Tavern or any public bufnefs. Goods of any kind
Will be accepted for payment, or some part in Land if in the State
of Connecticut, or a time of payment given with feenrity. The
pl .-e may be entered upon the 7th. of February next, also a quan
tity of ha) in the said Earn will be fold with the Farm to acco
modate any purchaser, and a good title given, by
JOSEPH PEASE.
Suffield, Otiober 1, 1782.
CITRATED or Stolen out of the paflure of" Timothy Locmis of
J Torringford, the evening after the 2d of October infant, a
large Bay well made HORSE, and in good flesh, a small far in.
his forehead, some white on the nose, white on both hind feet, shod
all ro%nd, paces and trots, mofi natural to pace, the property of
thefubferiber. Whoever will take up said Horse and thief, if
stolen, shall be well Rewarded and all necessary charges paid, by
JOEL LOOMIS.
Taft-Windfor, October 4, 1782.
One Iboujand Bufoels of Peas,
for ivhich CaJh will be given, if delivered within
three (Vecksjr&w then, Ac, by
GhuRGE MERRIL.
Hartford, Oflober 8, 1782.
Fl few Firkins of good Baller,
for nuhich Cufo Mill be given. Enquire of the
Printers.
di F E TV F R E N C~ H
Gun Locks arid Barrels,
To be SOLD CHEAP, By JOHN THOMAS. ,
Hartford, October 7, 1782.
N. E. Cashwdlbe given for a Quantity of JUNIPER
BERRIES.
EXCELLENT Bohea TEA to be exchanged
, for Cash or good Butter, by the fubferiber
in Torriugford, or Landlord Thomson at Go
flien. fames fobnfon.