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twice to the Sheriff's, he turned to the executi
oner, and desired him to perform his office im
mediately. After hanging near an hour, the
body was cut down, and laid on the block, when
(the fire being previously kindled) the exccuti-.
oner fevered the head from the trunk, and ma
king an incision in his bread, took out the heart,
which, after a flight exposure, was committed to
the flames. The body was after this, being firft
ilightly scored, together with the head, put into
a verv handsome coffin and delivered to an at
tendant Undertaker for interment.
The manner of conducting M. De la Motte
from Tower to Newgate was very private, only
two hackney coaches being employed for the
Sheriff and his officers, but the concourse of peo
ple who affeiribled t# fee him from the windows
and in the streets, from Newgate to Tyburn, was
amazing, and molt of them were disappointed,
lor M. De la Motte having his hat flapped, his
face could not be seen but by those who were
very near the lladge, as it paded along.—When
Counfellor Layer was executed in 1723, he was
conducted from the Tower toTyburn on a fledge,
had on a black suit of cloaths, a tye wig, and his
hands in his hat, which lay before him, by which
means the populace had an opportunity of fee
ing him.
ANN A P ULIS, October 1^
Extras of a letter dated camp, at Trout-Springs;
September if,
" The battle of Eutaw, which was fought
the Bth instant, happened upon the fame spot of
ground, on which, according to the tradition of
this country, a memorable battle Was fought a
bove a century pail, between a body of peculat
ing Europeans and the natives of the foil: .Inf
the firft, we are told, 600 men fell, and we find
an Indian mount erected as a monument to per
petuate their glory. In the second, double that
number were killed and wounded ; but whether
this Christian nation will give such an honora
ble testimony of the great worth of those who
now sleep in the bed of honor, is a matter not,to
be expected. Our victory was complete, though
the rate of the day mingled sorrows in the tri
umph. The enemy will, very probably, leave
Monk's-Corner to-day.
" General Greene, who is one of the bravest
and belt soldiers himfelf, is highly fatisfied with
the behavior of the troops in general, but parti
cularly with owr brigade ; he saw them make a
charge with trailed arms through the hottest of
the enemy’s fire, and was so delighted with their
firmnefs and vivacity, that he rode up to me and
complimented them in the field. He has also
done it in general orders, and made the Virgini
ans a compliment in the fame stile. They be
haved with equal courage.
" If any former mifcondu& or accident in
war has left a stain upon the Maryland troops,
their exemplary conduct upon this occasion
Should obliterate it for ever. Around the monu
ment which I mentioned, four of our excellent
officers, and many df our brave brother soldiers
fell. Let them rest in that ancient bed of ho
nor. May their virtues only be remembered, and
their spirits enjoy eternal glory."
B A LTIMO R E, Odpber <6.
Extract of a letter from Nantz, August s;.
" Lately arrived here from America—Cap
tains Cole, Hanson, Dafhiel, Carty, Thomas,
JoGah and , in the ship Delaware."
Captain Folger, who arrived here yesterday,
in the schooner Antelope, in 3” days from Nantz,
advises that the combined fleets of France and
Spain, commanded by the Count de Guichin and
Don Louis de Cordova, confining of 48 fail of
the line, were cruizing, when he failed, between
Ufhant and Cape Clear, and it was reported,
had taken a number of rich British merchant
men from the Weft-Indies—That the British
fleet of 28 fail of the line, under the command of
Admiral Darby, lay at Torbay—That an em
barkation oi 4000 French troops was taking
place at Roch fort, declined for the protection of
the Dutch Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope,
and that 40,000 Spaniards were vigorously be
ficging,Gibralter, and had destroyed almost eve
ry house in the garrison.
P 111 LAI) E L PII lA, oa. 24.
Maybrick's-Creek, Schuh-Carolina, Sept.
SIR,
ID I D myfelf the honor to inform your Ex
cellency in my letter from Camden, that Gen.
Marion was dispatched on a secret expedition to
wards Pompon. The General fuc^teded in the
enterprize, and merits the higher encomiums
for his good conduct, judgment, and perfo^
bravery. Inclofed is his report, from which your
Excelleney will learn the particulars of the expe^
dition.
I have the honor to be, with great refpe&,
Your Excellency's molt obedient, and
Moll humble servant,
NAIH. GREENE.
His Excellency the President of Congress,
St Steven's, Sept. 3, 1781.
. A SIR, ; ,
IN my last I acquainted you of my beingready
to ma*ch to the southward; to the support of Co
lonel Hardin. On the 22d of Augult I began
my march, and the next day arrrvedat thdßound
(), where 1 expected to make a junction with the
Colonel, but found him very sick and his troops
not collected. 1 halted the 24th; and the next
day marched to the Horse-Shoe ; on the 26th,at
night I was joined by Col. Stafford with 150 men
and Major Hardin with 80, which made our
numbers about 400. The 27th I eroded the Great
Swamp at the head of Alhepo, and encamped
within 5 miles of the enemy, at Middleton's
plantation, on the south of Godfrey-Savanna.—
The day before 1 detached Col. Hugh Horry to
Chehaw, where, I was informed were 3 schoo
ners taking in rice, with a guard of 30 men, but
unluckily they heard of my approach, arid went
down the river before the party arrived. I sent
out parties to reconnoitre the enemy, u ho found
them in a post too strong to make any attempt :
Their force, by information, confifled of 180
Heilians, 150 British, 130 tories, and 80 of the
Queen's Rangers, equipped as dragoons, under
the command of Major Frazier. I was deter
mined to take advantage of situation ; the cause
way at Godfrey-Savanna was a good one, and I
placed a guard there (my whole body laying two
miles from it) with orders to defend that pass
until I could come up/ The night of the 27th
about 12 o'clock my patrole met the enemy,two
miles from this pass moving down Upon me, and
before I could get my troops in motion the guard
quitted the pals without firing a gun ; the ene
my passed and proceeded to Mr. Hyrne's plan
tation, near 'the fifh-ponds/ The morning of
the 28th I marched after themy but found they
were polled too advantageously to attack. I drew
up in order of battle in a wood, in fight of them, #
some few shot palled between my reconnoitering
parties and their picquets ; the, bad two men
wounded. I remained several hour's on the
, ground, but finding nothing was to be done, I re
tired to my camp. The enemy immediately
marched to Afhepo; on the 29th they paffedthe
river and marched to Col; Hyrne's plantation ;
I, at the fame time, ,pafled the fifh-ponds, five
miles above Afhepo, and encamped within three
miles of them ; trie 30th I went below them and
formed an ambufeade in a thick wood, within a
mile of Parker's-Ferry, about 40 yards from the
road which the enemy mull pass. Here I was
informed of there being upwards of 100 tories,
under a Col. Cunningham, from Dorchester and
Stono, laying on the Danks of the river at Par
ker's Ferry, waiting for Lieut. Col. Berin, who
commanded the enemy's force; my right divi
sion ofabout 8o men, was commanded by Major
Hardin, who I ordered to retire 100 yards from
the line, and to march up when the firing began
on the left ; my swordsmen, of 60 borfe, I lent
under Major Cooper, to fall in the rear of the
enemy to draw their attention that way, and to
follow them whenever they moved, and to keep
in fight, with positive orders to charge their rear,
at all hazards, so soon as the firing oecame ge
neral. In this position I waited until funfet,when
part of the tories from the Ferry came on, which
I intended mould pass, but they ^ifeovered one
of my men, and challenged; no answer being
given they fired, and I could not restrain the
men longer, they returned it, which made them
run back on the spur. I sent a few horse after
them, which forced them across the river , the
enemy hearing the fire and being on their way
down, immediately sent their cavalry to their
support; they came 011 in full speed, and re
ceived the fire of our whole line.
Immediately the infantry appeared before us.
and a heavy fire commenced, whicn continued
for some time ; but unluckily some villains cried
out they were flanking us on the right, which
threw us into confufion, and while we were rally
ing and forming, the enemy took that opportu
nity, carried oft their field pieces and wound
ed, and retreated on a trot, leaving twenty men
^nd twenty three horses dead cm the spot." We
immediately marched up and took possession of
the groud, and remained there three hours: but
my people having been without provisions for
twenty four hours, I retired two miles to refrefh
them. Early the next moining I sent a party to
bury the dead ; but the enemy coming up witli
their field-pieces and a ftiperior force, they with
drew.
We learn that General Lincoln received the
captured Lord Cornwallis ; and that the army
played up Vankey doodle, when the British ar
my marched to lay down their arms.
Head-Quarters, Continental Village, Off. >3.
The General is happy in congratulating this
army, on the following authentic and interesting
intelligence, received from the southward, viz.
That on the fifteenth instant two of the ene
my's redoubts at York-Town were stormed, one
by the American, the other by theFrench troops,
and carried with very little loss. These redoubts
gave the allied army, in a great measure, the
command of the other works of the enemy ; who
on the seventeenth beat a parley, and on the
nineteenth Earl Cornwallis with his army far
rendered to the allied army under the command
of his Excellency General Washington. 3500
regular troops laid down their arms---2000 were
sick and wounded in the hospitals. These were
exclusive of sailors, negroes, &c.
This signal victory, while it reflects the highest
honor on the allied arms, tends also to the ac
complishment of the American warfare, the esta
blishment of her independence, peace and happi
ness. This important event will be celebrated
F„I S H-K I L L, November 1-
We have juft' heard from Albany, that a party
of the enemy, upward of ;ooftrong, commanded
by a Major Ross, came down the Oneida Lake."
and committed depredations as usual; they burnt
twenty dwelling and several out houses, and then
crossed the Mohawk river. Col. Willett, with
his ufual' bravery, though greatly inferior to the
enemy, gave them battle ; tht action was severe
—'tis (aid he loft in killed and wounded, between
30 and 40 r 'They took his fi^ld-piece and am
munition cart, which he retook, but with the loss
of the ammunition.:— he kept the ground, drove
the enemy, who left feveh of their dead on the!
field, and three of his own men ;~ and it is not
doubted, but their number of wounded is net
inferior to his : The enemy retired about three
miles into the woods; Col.Willet took upwards
of twenty prisoners, A party was sent to en-.
deavotr to destroy their boats :---He went the
next morning in pursuit of the enemy.
The GLORIOUS VICTOR fy was ob
served last evening in this town, with exuberant
joy and fellivity.—A roasted ox, and plenty of
liquor,formed the repast ;-a number of toasts
were drank on the occasion—French and Ame
rican colours were displayed—cannon fired; and
in the evening, illuminations, bonfires, rockets,
and squibs, gave agreeable amusement to the nu
merous fpeclators.
At Newburgh, the occasion was oliferved in
the fame joyous manner; and to enliven the en
tertainment, they hanged and burnt the traitor
Arnold, in effigy. In New- Windfer, Frede
rickfburgh, and other towus, the fame brilliant
occasion was observed with demonstrations of
gratitude and joy.
I have the pleasure to inform you that Col.
Stafford, who sustained the hcavieft fire, and Co
lonels Erwin and Horry behaved like the sons of
liberty:
The enemy loft no time, but puffed the river
and retired towards Charleftown. A party sent
after them found a number of horses dead and
wounded on the road, amounting to upwards of
40 in the whole. 'The enemy had upwards of
80 men and fevefal officers wounded.
-I flayed the 31st to give some orders to Colonel
Hardin arid put that fart of the country in a bet
ter and more regular way of doing their duty;
and on the firft infant, at 11 o'clock,J left trie
Round O, and marched 42 miles that night.
Yesterday I arrived here and found the enemy
at Eutaw. As soon as my horses are, a little re
covered from their fatigue, I shall endeavour ta
annoy them. . ~ :
Ihave the honour to be, with refpecl,
Your obedient servant
:FRANCIS MARION .
Horn Major Gen. Greene.^
Published by order of Congress,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.