The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-02-04 00:00:00, page 2

RICHMOND, Jan.m
Extrad of a letter from Major-General Greene,
to his Excellency the Governor, dated Head-
Quarters, South-Carolina, dated December
20, 1782. _„
“ I congratulate your Excellency with great
pleasure, on the evacuation of Charleftown—
The enemy left it on the 14th instant, and on
the 17th the fleet weighed anchor and put out to
sea. Those vessels which contain the Britilh re
giments, are destined, it is laid for Jamiaca, and
those which contain the German troops, for
New-York."
Great outrages, it is said, were committed by
the officers and fo'diers of the enemy previous
to the evacuation of Charleftown, proceeding
from an unwillingness to pay of their debts
In one fray, it is asserted, a merchant of distinc
tion was put to death.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18.
On Tuesday evening Major Burnet, Aid-de
camp to the Hon. Major General Greene, arriv
ed here, in 21 days from Charleftown, with djf
patches from the General; of which the fol
lowing is an extract
Extract of a letter from Major General Greene,
to his Excellency the President of Congress,
dated Head-Quarters, Dec. 19, 1782.
" I have the honor to communicate to your
Excellency the agreeable information of the eva
cuation of Charleftown, and beg leave to congra
tulate you upon the event. ,
“ The enemy compleated their embarkation
on the 14th, and the fame day fell down into
Rebellion road, and on the 17th crossed the bar
and went to sea. It is said the Hessian troops
are bound for New-York, and the British for
the Welt-India islands.
" General Wayne with the legion and light
infantry (as General Gift was absent, and too
unwell to continue his command) had been be
fore the enemy's works for several days previous
to the evacuation. General Leslie, by his Ad
jutant General, hinted to General Wayne,
through Mr. Morrice Simmons, one of the citi
zens of Charleftown, his apprehensions that an
attack from us might lay the town in allies, and
that if they were permitted to embark without
interuption, every care should be taken for its
preservation.„ .
" Knowing the impossibility of doing the e
nemy any material injury on their embarkation
in a fortified town, and under cover of their
Flipping, and being well informed, that some
attempts had been made by some of the refugee
followers of the British army before the place,
I directed the General to make the fafety of the
town the firft obje&; and that if a treaty was
necessary for this purpose, to enter into one, ra
ther than expose the place, for the little advan
tage which might be obtained over the rear
guard. The General accordingly, from the in
timation of the Adjutant General, very jud:ti
oufly agreed to let them embark without moles
tation, they agreing not to fire upon the town af
ter getting on board.
" The conditions being understood by both
parties, the town was evacuated and possessed
without the least confufion, our advance falling
close upon their rear. The Governor was con
duced into his capital the fame day, the civil
police established the day following, and the
day after the town opened for business.
“ This important event gives us compleat
possession of all the southern States. The ftruge
gle and conflia has been long and severe ; But
when it is considered thatthe enemy had upwards
of eighteen thousand regular troops, besides se
veral thousand militia and negroes, employed
for the reduction of the southern States, I hope
it will be found that the progress of the southern
army has been no less honorable than impor
tant, and that it will merit the approbation of
Congress through every stage of its operations.
I should be wanting in gratitude to the army,
was I to omit expreHing my warmest acknow
ledgements for the zeal and activity with which
they attempted and persevered in every enter
prize, and for the patience and dignity with
which they bore their fufferings. Perhaps no
army ever exhibited greater proofs of patriotism
and public virtue. It has been my constant care
to alleviate their distresses as much as possible,
but my endeavours have been far fyrt of my
wishes of their merit.
“ The Secretary at war and Major Burnet,
one of my Aids, who will have the honor of de
livering this dispatch, will communicate to your
Excellency, fueh farther particulars as you may
wish to know of the force and situation of the ar
imy under my command.
Published by order of Congress
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
Wednesday the Bth instant, his Excellency the
Count de Rochambeau, with his suit embarked
at Annapolis, on board his Molt Christian Ma
jesty's frigate le Emeralde, for France.
We hear the enemy have carried off the bells
belonging to the churches and other public edi
fices in Charleftown, and committed many enor
mities besides that of sacrilege.
A body of refugees have made a lodgment
near Duck Creek, in Delaware State.—The le
gion of the Duke de Luzun have marched to
rout them.
Died, on Sunday morning last, Mr. RICH
ARDSON SANDS, formerly of New-York,
merchant, universally lamented, and on Tues
day his remains were interred in St. Peter's
church-yard, attended by a very refpe<stable
number of his fellow citizens.
JANUa RY'2l.
Friday night last, a number of prisoners, un
der condemnation, made their escape from the
old goal ; but being soon after difeovered and
pursued, two of them were taken, and confeffed
that they were let out by a Negro (belonging to
Mr. Reynolds, the jailer) who procured ialfe
keys, and has made his escape. As those culp
rits are royal refugees from New-York, they
will probably bend their course towards that ci
ty,—a receptacle, under British administration,
far all the Canaille and Excrescences of America.
Reports from Elizabeth-Town, mentioned the
arrival of a packet at New-Yorl from England,
but that no late advices had yet transpired.
It is also reported from the fame quarter, that
the Indians have destroyed several of the royal
refugees, who went to form a settlement in No
va Scotia.
ALBAN Y, January 20.
On Tuesday morning lalt at 6 o' clock, Died
in the fifty-feventh year of his age, The Right
Honorable WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Earl
of Stirling, Viscount of Canada, Major General
in the service of the United States, and Com
mander in Chief of the American forces in the
northern department. On the Thursday follow
ing his remains, attended by the troops in town,
with a numerous and refpe&able concourse of
inhabitants, were interred, with the honors of
war, in the Low Dutch Church of this city.
While the immediate relations and friends of
his Lordfllip, are difeharging their tribute of
grief on this occasion, the decided and unshaken
part, he has invariably a&ed in the cause of bis
country, mud render his memory sacred to all
who feel themselves interested in the welfare of
America, or rights of mankind. His conduct
whether in council or the field, while it refleas
honor on his country, has secured to himfelf the
reputation of a brave, difeerning and intrepid of
ficer. Those who have fought under his ban
ners, need not be reminded, with what cool
ness and gallantry he led them to aaion; and
while their bosoms expand with the sigh of anxi
ety at the deep wound the service has received
by his Lordship's death, they will derive some
consolation from the refleaion of having had the
honor of acting under a General of his distin
guished talents and valor.
HARTFORD, February 4.
The immense loss which the enemy sustained
by the late tremendous hurricane, has reduced
their navy and trade to a more deplorable situa
tion than before their so much boasted victory of
the 12th of April last. It is very remarkable
that almost all the ships captured by them at that
period, have been d^molifhed by the immediate
hand of Providence, The He&or and Glorieux
both foundered at sea, and the Ville de Paris was
left in distress by the other vessels in company,
and has not since been heard of. The Ardent,
it is said, returned to the Weft-Indies, greatly
injured by the storm. To this diminution of
their navy, are added, the Royal George, funk in
Portsmouth harbour, the Ramilies and Centaur
also foundeted at sea. Of ten ships which were
convoying the Jamaica fleet to Europe, not more
than four escaped deftruaion; and near forty
vessels of their convoy have been captured or loft.
RECEIPT of Continental Taxes from the
State of Connecticut.
For the Month of January, 1783, Received
Sixteen Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy,
one Dollars.
HEZ. MERRILL, Receiver of Taxes
for Conne&icut.
Died, last Wednesday, Mr. Zebulon Spencer,
in the 77th year of his age.
The following extracted from a late London
paper.
Extraff ofa letter from Paris Oaober 6.
" On the firft of this month Mr. Fitzherbert
had a long conferrence with the Comtes de Ver
gennes and d'Aranda,Meffieurs Gerard de Brants
zen, Benjamin Franklin, and de Berkenrode,
and presented frefh letters of credence, by which
his Britannic Majesty authorifes him to sign a
treaty, in which that Prince and his Parliament
proposed to acknowledge the independency of
the Americans, as a prelude to the great work
of peace; at present the arrival of ministers from
Congress are waited for, and certain intelligence
of the evacuation of the fourteen united provinces
by the Englifli troops, before the conferrences
can go on.
" It is said that Mr. Gerard de Rayneveld,
firft secretary of the navy, was sent to London
by the Comte de Vergennes, to get the aft which
establishes the independency of the Americans
signed by King George the third and his Mi
nisters."
It is now said that Earl Cornwallis will suc
ceed General Burgoyne, as commander of the
forces in Ireland.
The Have trade to America is pursued with vi
gor by Congress. It is humouroufly remarked
in one of the last letters relieved from that part
of the world, " that a negro cultivating tobacco,
" speaks better Englffethan half the mopkeep
ersJinLondon!"
THE Colleges of the State and Town Taxes in Corn*
wall, on the lift', A D. 1776, 1780 2nd 178 r, here
by give notice to the several non-resident Proprietors of
Lands in said town, who have not paid their taxes granted
on fail lifts, that their lands will be fold at public vendue,'
according to law, on Monday the 17th day of March next,
at the public sign post in said Cornwall, said vendue to con
tinue until a fufficient part of said lands shall be fold to
difeharge the said taxes and lawful costs, viz. Benjamin
Burgis's heirs, Caleb Baldwin, Sarah Brown, Jacob Per
kins's heirs, Samuel Jobnfon, Samuel Hoar, Matthew
Keeler, Ephraim Sanford, Samuel Sanford, Samuel Ro
berts, Benjamin Spragues heirs, Nathaniel Harrison's heirs,
John Waterbury, Sumnel Gmmmons's heirs, Josiah Ben
ton, David Comftork, George Nichols and Daniel and
Joshua Lathrop.
JOSEPH BARCE,
MATTHEW PATTERSON, CollcaoW
NOAH ROGERS,
Cornwall, Jan. 30.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me in wrir
ing, by more than one fixteeuth of the proprietors of
the Township of Calderburgh, in the State of Vermout, to
warn a meeting offaid proprietors, to take into considerati
on the contents of a letter from his Excellency Goernor
Chittenden, refpe&ing said township; second, to trans
mit to him the names of the Proprietors or Grantees;
third, to choose a Standing Committee to manage the pru
dential matters of said township, and fourthly to choose a
Clerk, and any other matters that may be thought proper#
Accordingly the Proprietors of said township are hereby
warned to meet at the house of Mr. Knox, in Hartford, ore
the I3th day of February next, at five o'clock in jhe after
noon, for the purposes aforefaid.
WIL. ADAMS, Proprietors Clerk.
Hartford, Jan. 30.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commi flioners b,
the Han. Court of Probate for the Diftria of Mid
dletown, to receive and examine the Claims of the Credi
tors to the Estate of Lieutenant Return Meigs, late of Mid--
dietown, deceased, represented insolvent, DO hereby give
NOTICE, that we will attend on said Business at the dwel
ling House of Mr. Ephraim Fenno, in said Town, on the
firft Mondays of the four following Months, viz. March,
April, May and June next, from two to fix o'Clock in the
Afternoon.
THOMAS GOODWIN,
WENSLY HOBBY. Commi^onerf.
Middletown, Jan. 26.
GRINDSTONES
To be Sold, by WILLAM KNOX, at the water fide a little
north of the ferry, in Hartford, at which place Cash is giv
en for Corn.
February 4, 1783. ,
RUN away from the Subscriber, on the night of the 20th
inst. a Negro Boy Named JUBA, 18 years of age, 5 feet
Binches high, had on when he ran away, a white Jacket
with Sleeves, a brown corduroy Vest, a pair of buck-skin
Breeches, a pair of Boots, a white holland Shirt, and an old
beaver Hat. Also took with him a small horfemans Port
manteau containing the following articles viz. a fyperfinc
fcatlet broadcloath Coat, faced with blue and trimed with
pruffion binding and white buttons^ a pair of blue eloath
Breeches, a white cloath Vest, a Shiped silk and linnen do.
oneholland Shirt ruffled, 3 white Stocks, a black leather do,
witha falfc collar, a short blue Jacket with Sleeves, a pair of
Shoes, Shoe-Brush and Black-Ball. Whoever will take up
said Neg to and deliver him to me, or to John Whiting, Esq;
of Windham, shall receive a generous reward and all neces
sary charges paid by their humble Servant,
FRED. J. WHITING, A. 2d. R. L.D.
Newtown, January 27, 1783.
Law's Collection of Music,
To be fold at the Printing-Qffice.