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BOSTON, December zS.
We learn from New-York, that about
fix $7 American naval officers who were
prisoners there, were lately sent to England
in a British man of war: Th^t the priso
ners, both French and Americans, who
a-e confined at that place, never experienc
ed worse treatment since the war than they
do at present ; their provision being small
in quantity, and very bad in qualify.
Th 6 loss fuftaihed oreMontego-Bay, Sa
^arinat la Mar, and St. Lucia, in Jamaica,
is competed at one million Serling.
By a vessel lately arrived from Cadiz,
in a paff^ge of 60 days we learn. That
the Count d'Estaing was at that place ire
character of commander in chief of the
combined' fleets in that port, which confid
ed of more that 40 ffiips of the line;
That Count Guichen had arrived there
with an addition of 1, men of war fam
the Weft-Indies, and,a rich convoy of
merchantmen : That the blockade of Gib
raker was mote ctofe than ever, both by
sea and land :That the garrison was in
great ftraitg for provisions and fuel :'That
the Courts of France and Spain had lately
concluded a treaty with the Emperor of
Morrocco, by which the latter engaged to
furnifh provisions for their ffiips and forces
employed in the blockade, which 1 used to
be tent to' the garrifon 1 of Gibraltar ; and'
that there was the highest probability that
the' place would be obliged to surrender
before the beginning of another year. It
is added, that should there be a necessity
gs making any attemps upon the works of
that fortrefs, the King of Spain had lately
rejeafed the prisoners in his kingdom to the
amount of several thousand, who were to
be imployed in that service, and have, be
sides a pardon, a generous reward.
It is reported that a change has lately
taken place in the Ministry of France ;
and that the Marquifs de Caftres is ap
pointed Minister of the marine department,
in the room of M. de Sartin.
It is reported from the city of New-
York, that Lord North, after having Te
cureQ a Parliament to the mind of his So
vereign, antThaving made ample provisi
on, in lucrative posts, for his family and
particular connexions, had resigned his
place as prime Minister, and gone up to
the House of Peers, and that he was suc
ceeded by Lord Stormont, late Ambassa
dor in France, and nephew to Lord Mans
field.
BALTIMORE, December - 12.
Among the remarkable pieces exhibited
in the London Gazette, none more deserves
the serious notice of the friends to Ameri
ca, than the plausible offers made by Great-
Britain to the State of Georgia, thro' the
channel of Sir James Wright's speech, at
the meeting of the Assembly, on the 9th
of May lad, wherein he prefects a sketch
of concessions which Great-Britain, after a
five years war, is ready to make to Ameri
ca, for those very pretentions for which
the war was undertaken.
After congratulating them on their hap
oy deliverance from the usurpation and
tyranny of the promoters of the rebellion,
as he is pleated co term it, and enumera
ting the blessings they ,ill enjoy under the
reval government; amongst which he has
not omitted mentioning the striking con
tr^ 'between real money and our fledhu
ting paper currency, be proceeds to infoam
them, that the king and parliament have
absolutely renounced the right of taxing
America, and referred only the n ower of
laying such impoftsas mav be rfhy Dry for
the regulation of trade, (a po^er which
,the warmed parozans of America never
conceded with parliament) and the net
proceeds of those impofU are in all cases to
be employed for the use of the province :
He centinu ^ by informing them, that he
is happy in having it in his power to de
clare that the king, in order to relieve his
faithful fubjeXs in that province, is graci
ously plea ed to remit all arrears of quit
rents, and that he generously popofes to
assign all those which may become due in
future, for the use of the province---that
the fines -and confiscations which may be
impeded' or adjudged in future, to his ma
j-fty, shall be aldo employed in the fame
manner.„
These are' the muff striking lines in the
concessions exhibited in^Sir James's speech ;
and if we c<old prevail on the British Lion
to fuffer his teeth to be drawn, and his:
nails pared, as the man in the'fable re
queued, when that beaff wanted ar ralli
ance with his family, such a speech might
be liftned to with less danger,; than it can
in the present state of that powerful coun
try that ffiles herfetf our Mother.
Extras of a letter from a' gentleman, dat
ed Waxaws, November 10.
"It is probable that something serious
will ^e attempted upon Camden, where
there are,not more tha? 400 men, 'com
manded by Col. Turnbull, of the New-
York volunteers ; Their works are not
formidable. The main body of the ene
my are at Winfoury, 40 miles S. W. of
Camden. Lord Cornwallis is very ill.
Col. Marian, has routed several parties
of tories, on the Santee, and has taken a
quantity of rum between Charleftown
and Camden." 1
The crew of the British frigate Andro
meda, lately wrecked on Martinico, all
periled, it is said, except 18 men. -
NEW - YORK. December g.
Extrad of a Letter from St. Kitts, by the Minerva,
in thirty days.
“ On the roth of O&ohs about to P. M. carat
on to blow a temped unt'l 2 A M. on the 12th.
Barbadoes is laid smooth ! not a vessel, f^ufe. fa.
p, work, tree or winged fowl lef on 'he Island,
About 3000 fouls periffied. Grenada and St. Vin
cent have shared the fame haple's <te. St. Lucia
has (offered almost as much: The Vengeance, Eg
mont, Montague, and Ajax all of 74 guns, diteaft
ed by the board, and gone to Antigua to rtfi . The
Andromeda and Laurel frigates lo^ at Martinico,
where the French behaved with the mod exemplary
feasibility, not considering them as pnfonen, tent ^ll
that remained alive, bei 28 ^ s, to St, Lucia.
Gaudaloupe has fiff#red much:fe for ever to be
remembered Experiment, which once passed round
Long-Island, and a French 74 drove ashore, St.
Eulalia's lower town received much damage; the
fhipsinthe road molly got to sea."
Extras of a letter from London <'ated OAober 3,
The elections ae now molly ove , and have,
turned out favourable to Adminiftratiqi. The Pa
triots are no $ ahttlt morhfitd. Her ley. Temple,
LutterelL T. Pownall, Gen. Howe, and many others
have been flung out. Burke has been rejected at Bri
ffol: Sir William Meredith has given up; and Mr.
Garoigne, a high governments man fucceeds,him
for Liverpool. Even Sawbridge failed for the city
of London."
N EWPO R<, D cember 22.
iL'4 F^day morning die! '?re, his Ex ellercy
CHARLES LOOTS DR TERNAY, KM,M of St.
John of Jerusalem, late Gove,nor of the Ifl^nds of
France and Bourb:n< and Chief Commander of the
French Squadron in the American Stas.—Wi Ta,
!c^& Z-1! and Ffyf&fhed Service,; Sas rri&«M
him the Confidence aad'Favour cf his -G ^ernment
and Country.- -Hi& Rem/nr vert the next Da, in
terred io Tii^y C.inrch Y.id id thia T&wn, attend
ed with ruibtary H.mras, &c. The command o(
the Fw, devolve: co M. Drstouch rs, Captain
?nd Brigadier of the naval A^y ; am Officer ir h^h
Eviration aroeng all R^nk^ of re French Navy,'
and wbo,,^KP€ thirl, d^ng uffiad himfelf in the
Battle of Ou'^ut.
H A RTFO RD, January * v ~ O -
A few days fiace the grand /
Army went into winter quarter
North River, and in the eastern
the State of New-Jersey. Head-i,
is established at New-Windsor.
We hear that a packet in 30 d
London, arrived lately in New!
bour. She was anchor/]off in the lucam,
and no person except the Captain was fuf
fered ro go on shore or have any communi
cation with the inhabitant of che city. It
is laid Ihe brought important dispatches,
after the delivery of which,, foe immediate
ly put to sea.
A New York paper of the Bth instant,
announces the death of Lord Drummond,
at Lisbon, a person notoriously known to
the cirzens of the United States.
A correfeondent assures us it may. now
be affirmt^with certainty, That the Dutch,
and alio tue Fortum
northern powers in t
the former with gex
heart, the motives of
so well-ascertained.
It js far from being improbable that the
negotiations for a general pacification will
take their rife from th- politics cf this
neutrality. If Great Britain chooses to
persist it will be like the rest of her blind
and deluded cond utL
CT"' H E idea Men of die several tortus inahis
I Stste, ar^ hereby called on (o make up, to the
$d of the present ym, their accounts of supplies
furn h i d therein, to the f^m^CT of the officers and
soldiers of the Connt&cat line of the army ; and to
tianfmit tl^ farce a, fcon af^t the expiration of said
yea: u possible, nnd without fail by the zot day of
January next to the committee at Wethersfield, ap
pointed on the,art of thh State, c„ meet a committee
from the faie iofficers and fcldi^t, to adjust their
accounts for the p^f^t year.
Oliver Elsworth, -
Erastus Wolcott,
James Wadsworth, > Committee.
Joseph ?. Cook, x , .<
John Broome, '
Hartford, December 21 1780
SIRAbeD out or the paduiQuf David spemao,
01 Granville in Augufi lafka dark red STBAR,
two ye^l eld p^fl, niafad,with a crep in the off
ear, and Q half penny entr he under fide of the
fame; the property of the- ofcriber. Any person
taxing r said &TEAR, and giving notice to said
Spelman, cr the subscriber, fj that the owner ma,
havehim a^ainJhall have a teafonabte reward, and
all neceffiiry charges pMd, by tlrir humble lervan',
GAD LANE.
Suffield, Dec/27, 1780.
S, RAYED fram Mr. Samuel Nap, in Norfolk
in September last, ^ likely half blooded celt,two
year old, a black mane Guided, a white firip in the
fact, white hind legs, grey tail, decked, no brandy
natural trotter. Also, strayed or Molen from Dr.
Gitup-in New Marlborough, the 13th of October
laß, a Slack MARE, fou'r years old, 13 hands and
ahalf high, a white Mrip fa the face, one hind foot
'white, one will eye, paces and trots. no brand, sup
posed to be ith fold. Whoever shall take up kid
MARE and COLT, and give information so that the
owner may have them, or either of them again,fhili
b* haadfomely rewarded, and necessary charges paid
by NATHAN LEWIS.
, Canaan, December 19th, 1780.
BOW-STRINGS and LOOPING for Hatters,
to be had of WILLIAM BEADLE, at We
thenfirld. for Wheat or Hard Money.
Wethersfield^ December 2g.