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CHA&LEST@W N, (S.Carolina) Anguft 7.
*, The editors of the Royal Gazette, in
Order to apply themselves the more cloiely to the
Settlement of their private affairs, are under ihe
necessity of discontinuing their periodical la
bours for the entertainment and information of
the public. Should any intelligence, however,
that reflects honor on the Britilh name, be re
ceived before the day arrives on which that dire
ful event shall happen, the dread of which now
tills every loyal brealt with terror and dismay,
they trull that many will be found in this garri
son, patriotic enough to hear with pleasure of the
success of their country, and to rejoice at what
ever Ihall promote the General Good, while they,
though a part of the fame Whole, are. labouring
under every species of diltrefs. In such cases
the editors of this paper shall not be found defi
cient in the performance of what can be requir
ed of them as a duty, which gratitude will de
mand of them in return, for the many favours
they have received from a generous and indul~
genrpublic. . „
THE merchants and other inhabitants of this
town, are hereby desired to lend returns to the
Adjutant-General's Office, No. 9, Legare-ftreet,
on or before Thursday next, of all MILI 1 ARY
STORES now in their possession. It is hoped
a stria compliance with this order will prevent
the disagreeable consequences that mull attend
the disobedience of it.
By order of the Hon. Lieut. Gen. Leslie,
J. WEMYS, D. A. General.
RICHMOND, September 7.
Recent accounts from the north-weltern fron
tiers, fay, an action has very lately happened
between our troops under the command of Gen.
Irving and a large body of Indians, in which the
Indians were totally defeated, having had 92
killed and scalped, befidesa considerable number
wounded. Our loss is said to have been very
trifling. That this fuccelsful rencounter has
a&ually taken place is confirmed by accounts
from other quarters of the country, though the
particulars are not afeertained. This defeatwill
probably induce the enemy to lay aside their de
signs against fort Pitt, especially if it be true
that Gen. Clarke, with a view to co-operate with
Gen. Irving, had made a movement towards
the Indian country. Our south-western frontiers
has been greatly protested by these manoeuvres,
nor have the enemy had it in their power to do
any mifehief since the spring, except a small par
ty of five or fix northern Indians, who the be
ginning of last month killed two men in Wash
ington. The Cherokees, as we mentioned in our
last, are seriously disposed for peace, having
made the firft applications, and in terms unusu
ally suppliant. The formidable force in actual
preparation against them, and their late misfor
tunes in Georgia, may probably be the true rea
son of their present submission. In the month
of July, before the evacuation of Savannah, Col.
Brown, the British agent, essayed to conduff
from thence a considerable supply of goods and
ammunition to his adherents in the Cherokee
country : The whole was fortunately intercept
ed, and he himfelf narrowly escaped by flight,
and a ihort time after, as an escort was coming
down to meet Brown, not hearing 01 his fate,
they were met by Gen. Clarke of Georgia,near
the frontiers of that State, and totally defeated ;
several Indians and Tories were made prisoners,
andon the field made fubjedts of retaliation for
the cruel ufuage of Gen. Picken's brother, and
near 30 men, who were inhumanly put to death
in the towns last winter.
The preliminaries offered to the Cherokeesare
said to be,
I. To cease all kinds of hostilities with the
American states.
2. To restore all our captives: And,
3. To give up into our hands all the British ad
herents as prisoners.
Col. Martin set out early last month for Cho
ta, to receive the prisoners and propose the pre
liminaries.
PHILADELPHIA, September 14.
Extrafl of a letter from Amferdam,falv 11,1782.
" You will find that the Dutch fleet, confilt
ing of 19 fail, large and small, failed from the
Texel the Bth.
" This day's mail from England brought ad
vices as late as Friday the Bth, on that day Mr.
Fox, Lord Keppel, and Mr. Burke, went out of
the miniftry'; the reason is said to be the aver
sion which the king (hews to the declaration of
the independency of America. This event has
been forefeen here for some time; yet it has
thrown the people of England into as great a de
lirium and as general a one ashas been known;
indeed as few have escaped it as did the Influenfa
or Northern malady.
" The city of Geneva opened her gates the
latter end of last month to the troops belonging
to the king of France and the Duke of Savoy ;
what the confeljuence of this event will be I
know not.
" The French fleet arrived at Brest, with 18
fail of Newfoundland and other merchantmen
prizes, and it is added a 50 gun ship.
" From every appearance peace seems to fly
from us. I hope our friends in America will not
be lulled into too great a fecurrty."
Extrad of a letter from Amderdam, dated July 8.
" The talk of a peace which for some time
past has excited the general expectation of such
.an event, seems entirely to subside, and the prof
pea of it is now 101 l in a more vigorous prepara
tion for war."
Extrafl ofaletter froma boufe in Am fterdam totbeir
coreffcadent in this city, dated July id, 1782.
" We were some time agoamufed with the
idea ofpeace,but that isnow loft in great prepar
ations for a vigorous campaign in Europe."
The court of Peterfburgh is very industrious
in her endeavours to accomplish a separate peace
between England and Holland. Her minister at
Versailles, has made an infatuation to the French
Court, that her Majesty would be much obliged
to the king, if he would not make any farther
opposition to such a separate peace. To this in
sinuation the following wife and firm answer
.has been given :
THE king is very sensible of the new proof of
confidence which he has received from the Em
press of Russia, by being made acquainted with
the steps flie has takgi, and her sentiments re
fpe<fting a separate peace between Great-Britain
and the States General. His molt Christian
Majesty is fully persuaded that flic was actuated
only by sentiments of humanity, and therefore
takes the earfieft opportunity of replying with
the fame franknefs, as far as his Majesty is parti
cularly concerned in the verbal insinuations de
livered by the Prince Baratiniki. The king ever
steady to his resolutions, never to interfere in the
conduct of any other power, has not fought to
direct the deliberations of the States General,
either to excite them to war, or to prevent them
from making a separate peace. England having
unexpectedly attacked (he United Provinces
of the Netherlands, his Majesty used the most
speedy exertions to counteract her intentions,
by rendering to the States General, in the molt
disinterested manner, all the good offices in his
power, without exacting any acknowledgment
from them. If the States General think that
the services rendered to them by his most Chris
tian Majesty, together with the interest of their
own republic, engage them to persevere in the
common cause with the King and his allies—
the Empress of Russia is too wife and too just to
imagine that his most Christian Majesty would
attempt to dissuade them from a resolution so fa
vourable to the common cause ; and that he can
only rely on their wisdom, to determine what is
the most convenient situation.
The Empress is not unacquainted, that the
circumstances had induced the States General
to aCt in co-operation with the King; who flat
ters himfelf that the views of her Imperial Ma
jesty were not to engage him to desist from this
mutual conjunction, which neceflarily resulted
from the situation of those two powers with re
fped to England, and which would naturally
contribute to there-establishment of general
tranquility—this being the object of her Impe
rial Majesty's wishes as well as the monarch of
France.
September 18.
On Friday last arrived here the (hip Heer Ad
dams, in seven weeks from Holland. By this
ship Congress have received official papers rela
tive to the reception of Mr. Adams as Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States of Ame
rica, to their High Mightinesses the Lords States
General of the United Provinces of the Nether
lands. The resolutions of each of the provinces
on that fubjeCt having been taken feparately,viz.
those of Friefland on the 2®th February laft—of
Holland and Weft-Friefland, on March 2g—of
Zealand, on April 3 —of Oyervffel on April 5 —
of Groningen on April 9 —of Utrecht, April 10,
and those of Guelderland, on April 17th. On
the 19th of the fame month, their High Mighti
-Inefs the States General acknowledged the Unit
ed States of America to be an Independent em
pire, by receiving the hon. Mr. Adams in quality
of Minister Plenipotentiary from the fame. Oil
the 23d ofthe fame month, Mr. Adams had %
conferrence at the Hague with M. Van Citters,
President of the States General, proposing to
that body, in the name of his sovereign, the re
presentatives of the United States of America
in Congrafs allenabled, a treaty of amity and
commerce between the two countries; their High.
Mightinesses then appointed a grand committee
to treat, to whom Mr. Adams was introduced
in the usual form, by two noblemen, and laid be
fore them the plan of a treaty, which was im
mediately printed, and sent tothe differentmem
bers of the Sovereignty. Thus are three great
maritime powers united against an obstinate per
severing enemy. France has gained the hearts
of the Hollanders for ever, by her generous, no
ble and disinterested manner of proceeding,while
Britain has irritated them by in(ults and injuries
that can never be forgotten;
We hear an action has lately been fought,
near Fort Wheeling, between a body of Indians
and our people, in which the Indians had 9%
killed and scalped, and were totally defeated,
with little or no loss on our fide. Accounts
from various quarters seem to confirm this in
telligence, so that there is reason to believe it is
true.
The French frigates 1' Aigle and la Glorie, ar
rived in our river last Friday, after a passage of
60 days from France. The former of these un
fortunately ran ashore on a bar about forty miles
below Bombo Hook, and it is said will be loft.
Yesterday evening arrived here a number of
prisoners, lately belonging to a prize taken off
the Jersey coast, and sent into Egg Harbour.
Extract of a letter from Jersey, Sgpt. 13.
You have heard that Capt. Hyler, the ce
lebrated water partisan, is dead : From several
circumstances we are led to conclude that, his
death was occasioned by poison administered, in.
an ungarded hour, by some emissary of the Bri
tilh at York. He has been a severe scourge to
that nest of thieves for near four years past; all
their attempts to kill or take him ever proving
abortive; Fortune favoured this man in his ac
tive and patriotic exertions to the last : He with
stood the sword, lire and stratagems of English
men and Tories united, but sorry lam to fay,
was not proof against their poison."
A whig gentleman of good information in Bri
tain, writes, that "during the present war not
less than the sum of 215,0001. sterling has bem
expended in presents for the American Indians*
Six workmen are constantly employed at Bir
mingham, by the King's orders wholly in mak
ing tomahawks, scalping knives and a fort of
uiort muskets for the use of the fame coppc<
coloured gentry/'
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Nantz,
dated July 16, 1782.
" Have nothing particular here except the
combined fleet being out, consisting of forty fail
of the line and a great number of frigates. They
have sent nineteen prizes into Brest ; twelve fail
were bound to Quebec. The Dutch fleet is also
out, confining of twenty fail of the line, nine
heavy East-India Men, and twelve large frigates,
betides a number of cutters. The English fleet:
left Portsmouth with twenty four ships of the
line, and were to be joined by nine others. The
liege of Gibraltar is carried on with the greatest
vigour; i6,c00 French troops are there. We
have a report come over land, that the French
fleet in the East-Indies have gained a vitfory
over the English, and taken Admiral Hughes and
two other ships of the line. We have had a.
profpe& of peace, but it is now entirely off since
the advantage gained over Count de Graffe; the
British infill on keeping New-York and Charlef
town."
STRAYED from the fnbfcriber, some time ago, a Black:
Mare Colt, 2 years old, natural trotter, no brand, a
split in one of her fore hoofs. Also, a Bay Mare, 2 years:
old, natural trotter. Whoever will take up said Strays and
give me notice, shall have a generous reward and charges
paid, by SAMUEL SHEPARD.
Middletown, Sept. 26, 7782.
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