The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1779-11-09 00:00:00, page 1

JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be fold by the Pointers hereof ^a by the
several P>h Rudert from this Office;
THE
Connecticut ALMANACK,
For the YEAR of our LORD,
1 7 8 0.
— ctTarTe STOWN/ Stt
SINCE our last, we have had no direct
advices from either of the armies em
ployed upon the Southern Expedition. All
we certainly know, is, That Count 1)
Elbing did land as many troops as he
thought neheffary at Beaulah, nearly cp
pofite to the Orphan - House, twelve miles
from Savannah, in the night! between the
iitli and 12th inst. and without the least
opposition ; and that a communication had
been opened between.him and , Gen. Lin
coln ; that General Lincoln had been join
ed by General MTntolh ; and' that the
head quarters of cur army, a week ago,
were at Cherokee hill, nine miles from
Savannah : That General Count PuLfki
was advanced with the cavalry, and had
not only taken an^advanced picket of the
enemy, but allb furprized one of their Cap
tains and three, privates at Ebenezer :
That Colonel Maitland had abandoned
Port- Royal Iflarid, with the whole force
he had there, on the 12th inst, after break
ing off the trunnions from the cannon, dud.
having buried upward or 200 men. ,Liv
ing behind-also 300 negroes, for want of
means of tranlport^tipn ; That hisembar^
kation was mad# father. huffily, ^ boatd
the Vigilante, the.Guides, and fqmg other
final! craft, with an intent to pufn through
Skull-Creek, and join Gen. I^evofi at
Savannah : But, $ is doubted w.^th^
he has been able to &CT ffigjuo&M ; it
is rather believed; ,that his veff& are.block
ed up in Skull-Creek, and his troops com
fined to Hilton-Head Illand ; the troops
heembirked are said to amount to be
tween 6 and 700, 2QO of them lick and
wounded ; some fay 600 effu^ivrs, and a
bout 400 invalids.
In the mean time, the expedition Well
ward, under General Williamson against
that part of the Cherokee nation of In
dians, that remained attached to the inter
est of our enemy, has succeeded beyond
our most faeguine expectations. The
General has burnt seven of their t^whs,
destroyed all their provisions, and obtain
ed their submission, without any blocd
fhed. Alexander Cameron, Esq; (who
' succeeds Mr. Stewart, as the Britifn King's
superintendent of Indian affairs) with
great difficulty escaped falling into the
General's hands, notwithstanding the great
refped the whole nation bear to that gen
tleman.
The enemy, before they quitted their
post at Ebenetzer, burnt their magazine
o TUF number 772;
TUESDAY, November 9, 1779. T H is
CONNECTICUTC OURANT,
AND T HE
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
HARTFORD: PRATED BY H U DSO Nto G OODW IN, NEAR the Great-Brwce.
there. The small-pox, we are told, rages
most violently among the Creek Indians
at present, so that they will be hardly able
to do any thing for their British brothers
this campaign. .i
Just as this paper was going to press, letters
were received from the camp of the
Charleftown militia, dated at Zubly's
ferry, last Friday. The following is an
extract of one of them :
“ We reached here yesterday, are to
cross Savannah river this day at noon,
and suppose shall join General Lincoln's
army to-morrow. The news from the
other fide, is chiefly as follows, and you
have it as I, viz. That Count D'Eftaing
had landed two detachments, one at Brew
ton's plantation, with thirty-fix pieces of
biafs cannon, the other at Girardeau's
point: That the active and enterprizing
Gen. Count Pulaski, with the cavalry. ,had
so thoroughly cleared the way, and broke
up all the enemy's advanced posts, as to
afford Major General Lincoln the oppor
tunity of in interview with the French
General, st the Orphan house, on the i6th,
when and where the plain of operations
sis fettled: That feme dfthe French men
or war had got into the harbour; and pos
sessed themfdves of all the British flipping
beLow.Brewton's, ardorpft them the Fowey
man of war, which, tho' grounded, had
bb@got<^ the fleet: that the
feTfficatiGns at Savannah Were but trifling,
confining only of nine redoubts ft6-^
aßdjabhatis: That rhe force to dtleno
th^fe, con-fitted ofabout 1-000 tegtitas, and
1200 militia, refugees'a„d proteerion pen
cry : Th# Sir Jame. :Wright. Governor,
fee. was in Savannah : That Col, Mait
l.nd h^d nor bfeg ^v to <ge& a. jun&i
on with Gen^riitevoK, and it was sup
posed had b@?itpp^4 hi an attempt to
get tlio Skull-Creek, yefterday,morning,
when We heard a heavy cannonade : That
the enemy's foTdiery, in general were much
diffatis&d ; and tho' ic was pretended,
that Savannah would be. defended, even
the officers gave their opinions- publicly,
that it must capitulate : And that General
Prevoft had applied to the Counr D'l^fta
ing, for a fafe conduct and permission to
remove his lady, place, and effects to Flo
rida: To which the gallant French Gener
al politely replied, ' •That it was impossi
ble he could have any objection to what
concerned the lady ; but the plate, he had
been informed, was obtained in such a
way, from the Allies of hie King, that he
was confident the General could not mean
to disgrace bimfelf with keeping poffiffion
of it. ”
PHILADELPHIA, October 26.
The following is a true account of in
telligence received the 23d infant from
Charleftown, South Carolina, in letters
and news papers to the 2d inst. of the cp
perations of the cembined armies under
His Excellency the Count D'Eftaing and
Major General Lincoln..
Colonel Maitland, with so many of his
troops as were inclined and able, bad made
his escape frem Beaufort, and joined Ge
neral Pievcft at Savannah, leaving behind
him his whole hospital, artillery, baggage
and ftorcs. The Colonel, in order to ts.
fedhispurpofe, must have plunged through
swamps, bogs and creeks which had never
been attempted before but by bears,
wolves, and run away Negroes.
The enemy weie thorny fortified by
lines, redoubts and abbatis in the town of
Savannah, where the tyil is chit fly sand and
the furface level; their number about
gcco, exclusive of negroes and other rub
bage which General Pievcft had seduced
to join him. .
Count D'Eflaing had landed 5000 troops
and formed a jurdlicn with Gen. Lincoln,
who must have had under bf> cerrmand
about 40C0, CQunt Pukfkiand General
M'lntcfh bad t^n detached southerly,
piobably to secure the town of Sunbury,
about 40 miles diflant ficm Savannah, and
to intercept retreating parties by lar d and
inland navigation, which in that country
may be attempted with great prefted of
fucccfs. 9 :
The Allies finding General Provost so
fticngly entrenched had determined, after
a fiuitkfs fun mons, to make regular ap
proaches, in preference to a general afault.
The woiks would be cempkat on theist
of October, and it was expected the bat
teries, confuting of 38 pieces of heavy can#
non and eight mortars, would open in the
fame infant on the 2d or 3d.
Sorties in two attempts had been made
by the besieged, on our working parties ;
in both instances the assailants were beat
back, and luffered greatly in killed and
wounded.
The Sagitaire had taken the Experi
ment, commanded by Sir James Wallace,
after a brave resistance. It is laid that on
board the Experiment were General
Vaughan, or some. other British General,
and twenty other officers, aid cafli for pay
ing the British troops in Georgia ; that
dispatches had been found on board, in
forming of an embarkation of 4000 men
at New-York, intended for Georgia and
South -Carolina; in conftquence of which,
ten ships of the line had been detached by
Count D'Eftaing for conveying them in.
.This may^ccount for the fleet which lately
appeared at the mouth of Chefeapeake.
The Ariel, Fowey, and a (loop of 18
guns, British men of war ; a large ship
with 2200 barrels of bread and flour, a
large quantity of beef and pork, 4000 suits
of clothing, &c, and all the enemy's Bore