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BALTIMORE, February ii.
On Saturday last the ship Iris, Captain Cole,
arrived here in a short passage from St. Croix.
Extras of a letter from a gentlemen at St. Croix,
dated the 15th ult. brought by the Iris, Capt.
Cole.
" Mr. Gouverneur this moment waited on
me, and mentions, that a gentleman just from
St. Thomas's, brings an account of the arrival
of the Adromache frigate at Barbadoes. She
failed from England the 10th of December, and
brings accounts, that a general cessation of hos
tilities had taken place with all the powers at
war."
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. i 9.
By the United States in Congress Aflembled,
January 17, 1783.
On the report of a committee, to whom wf
referred a letter of the 19th of December last,
from Major-General Greene, giving informati
on of the evacuation of Charfeftown by the Bri
tish, and of our being by that event in compleat
possession of all the southern States:
Resolved, That the thanks of the United
State in Congress assembled, be presented to Ma
jor-General Greene, for his many signal and
important services ; and that he be assured, that
Congress retain a lively sense of the frequent
and uniform proofs he has given of prudence,
wisdom and military (kill, during his command
in the southern department :
Resolved, That General Greene be desired to
present the thanks of the United States in Con
gress assembled, to the officers and private sol
diers under his command ; who, in all the vicis
situdes of season, under the numerous inconve
niences oflong and rapid marches in a country
pondered and desolated by an enemy greatly su
perior in force, have surmounted every difficulty
and danger, and manifefted such bravery, perfe
verence and fortitude, as to do honor to them
selves and to the cause they have so zealously and
fuccefsfully supported.
CH ARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
WAR-OFFICE, February 14, ,7 8 3-
Information which refpe&s the Continental
officers capturedin the southern diftri&,has been
transmitted from the War-Office to the execu
tive authorities of the several States : The offi
cers, by applying to the Governor of the State in
which they reside, will be made acquainted with
its purport.
The officers and privates of the militia, who
were made prisoners of war by the British troops
in the southern department, including the States
south of the Delaware, have been accounted for
by the enemy, and are at liberty to enter into a
full activity of service.
W. JACKSON,
Assistant Secretary at War,
*, The Printers in the several States are re
queued to insert this notification in their Gazettes.
FI SH -KI LL, February 27.
On the 20th inst. a detachment of the second
regiment of Dragoons, under the command of
Lieutenants Rnea and Hawley, added to Capt.
Brewster's command of boatmen, boarded and
took one of the enemy's privateers in the found,
mounting eleven carriage guns and four swivels,
25 stand of arms, and navigated by 21 men-—-
Her Captain was killed ; it is said his name
was Johnson, late of New-Haven ; several of
the prisoners are wounded ; not a man of the
detachment was hurt. It was an affair exceed
ing well conduced
We are informed by a person from the lines,
that there was a hot press in New-York last
week.
It is with pain and regret we mention the
death of Lieut. Col. Barber, who was unfortu
nately killed at camp the nth inst. The cir
cumstance that led to this unhappy catastrophe,
we are told, are as follows : Two soldiers were
cutting down a tree, at the instant he came rid
ding by it was falling, which he did not observe
till they desired him to take care, but the fur
prize was so sudden, and embarrassed his ideas
so much, that he reined his horse to the unfor
tunate spot where the tree fell, which tore his
body in a (hocking manner, and put an imme
diate period to his exigence in this life. Pane
gyrick is too commonly paid to deceased persons
in News-Papers, and many have often had cha
ra&ers bestowed on them when dead, which
they never possessed when living ; but in justice
to Col. Barber we cannot help mentioning that
he was, in domestic life, a most tender and af
feaionate husband, a kind parent, an entertain
ing and improving companion ; and as to his
ST. PIERE, (Martinico) January 9.
THE American frigate Alliance, Capt. Barry,
arrived in our road last night. She failed from
I'Orient the Bth of December: The Captain re
ports, That our squadron failed from Brest for
Cadiz four days before his departure: That he
converted with the Captain of a corvette, who
was charged with dispatches from Dr. Franklin,
for announcing to Congress, that the prelimina
ries of peace were signed. This corvette had a
passport from the King of England.
Jan. 16. The interfiling articles of intelli
gence brought by the Alliance, was inserted in
our last atthe moment of her arrival. We shell
now give a more particular account of the intel
ligence brought by Capt. Barry :
Capt. Barry having carried several of the Ja
maica fleet into the ports of France, failed again
for the British coast, in order to pick up more
of this scattered fleet ; but contrary winds oblig
ed him to return to I'Orient. A packet-boat
from Philadelphia, which has been dispatched
to France by Congress, anchored at I'Orient at
the fame time with the Alliance. The Captain
of the packet, on the 6th of December, received
a letter from Dr. Franklin, ordering him to hold
himfelf ready to fail at a moment's warning, ad
ding, that he was going to dispatch him to Phi
ladelphia, in order to announce, that the preli
minaries of peace were signed the gd of Decem
ber ; and that he at the fame time should receive
a passport from the King of England. Captain
Barry, who is a gentleman of veracity, and the
second Commodore of the Continental Marine,
saw this letter in the hands of the Captain of the
packet, and read it himfelf several times over.
A merchant, who arrived last Friday at Do
minico from Barbadoes, in a Danish vessel, has
reported, that three hours before his departure
from Bridge-Town, the Anson man of war, of
64 guns, commanded by the son of Admiral
Rodney, arrived there from Europe, in 22 days
passage, and brought intelligence, that the preli
minaries of peace were signed the 2d of Decem
ber : That Mr. Barry, appointed to the govern
ment of Barbadoes, was on board the Anson ;
and that the fleet under the orders of Admiral
By a St. Kitts paper of the 24th of January,
we learn that the frigate la Venus, from Cadiz,
to that island, parted with Count d'Estaing 30
days after the latter had failed from Cadiz, who
had with him a fleet ofg2 or 55 fail of the line,
and 30,000 troops, bound to Cape-Francois.
Capt. Cornwell, in a sloop of 10 guns, from
New-York (who has for some time been very
active in taking our vessels in the Sound) was
taken on Thursday last by a sloop of 4 guns, fit
ted for the purpose at Fairfield, with 44 conti
nental soldiers on board.
Last Sunday arrived here the schooner Betsey,
Capt. Daniel Goffe Phipps, in 18 days from
Sandy-Point, St. Kitts; he informs that Capt.
Lewis, in a brig formerly the Monmouth, own
ed at Newbury, was cut out of Basseterre, St.
Kitts, by a British privateer, about the middle
of January. Tne brig was loaded and ready to
fail for the continent. About the fame time a
schooner belonging to Virginia was cut out of
the fame place.—American produce had fell
greatly on the profpe& of peace.
Capt. John . Quinlin, in the.brig Holker, of
Philadelphia, has taken the following veflels in
the Weft-Indies : General Elliot, 14 guns, from
Antigua, every man killed and wounded but
three; Lion, from Anguilla, Capt. Fat, 10
guns ; ship Mary, 18 guns, 12's and 9's, 75
men; brig from Newfoundland., and a cutter
from London, all taken in 21 days.
The Holker had taken 16 prizes in the course
of fix weeks, including the above.
Capt. Phipps failed with the Holker, having
the Lion as a tender, now call'd the Count Dil
lon.
military abilities, either as a soldier or discipli
narian, none excelled, and but few equalled
him, for he had arrived to the top of his profef
fion, and was particularly ufeful to the army in
general, who sadly deplore the loss of so worthy
a character, so untimely (lain.
NEW-LONDON, February 28.
Saturday last Capt. Bishop, in the brig Cato,
arrived here from St. Kitts; and the schooner
Seaflower, Capt. Prince, from Grenada.
We hear that the ship Hunter, Capt. Sage,
from this port, who had been out on a cruize
from Martinico, had been chafed by a British
cruizer, thrown over her guns, and was arrived
at St. Kitts.
Pigot, soon afterthe arrival of this ship, dis
charged their cannon. We are yet unable to
fay, whether this was done as a salute on the
arrival of the Governor, or as a token of rejoic
ing. It is added, that the Anson, during her
passage, saw two French vessels, a frigate and a
corvette, to which she did not give chafe. How
ever this may be, we have no doubt but the preli
minaries of peace have been signed at Versailles.
OOHE Hon. Gourt of Probate for the diftrid of Hartford,
1 having allowed one year from the date hereof to the
Creditors to the estate of Mr. JOHN WEBSTER, late of Clafe
tenbury deceased, to bring in their claims against said eltatej
the Subferibers, Administrators to said estate, hereby Noti
fy said Creditors, that unless their claims are exhibited with
in the time limited as afore said the, cannot be allowed.
And all persons indebted to said estate, arc desired to make
im meditate pay ment to
STEPHEN TREAT, )Admini-
ELIZABETH WEBSTER.)ftrators.
Glaftenburv, Feb. 4, 1782.
AT a Court .t Probate held at E.ft Windier, for the dif
tri& of East Windsor, on the Sth da, of February, 1783.
Onnah Porter and Stephen Treat, administrators on the es
tate of JON ATHAN PORTER, late of EaR-Hartford, de
ceas'd, now move this Court, to limit a time for the credi
tors to said estate to bring in their claims to said admini
strators, which this Court approve of Whereupon this
Court allows seven months to the creditors to said estate, to
bring in their claims to said administrators, after said ad
ministrators shall h,ve polled up a cop, of this order of
Court, in fomepublic place in Eaft-Hartford, and causing
the fame to be inserted in the Conneaicut Courant for three
weeks successively,
A true Cop, of Record,
ARODI WOLCOTT, Clerk
Juit PUBLISHED, and ready for Sale,
AN Evening's Improvement. Shewing,
the Neceflity of beholding the Lamb of
God. To which is added, a Dialogue, entitled,
The kind Master and dutiful Servant.
Written by JUPITER HAMMOND, a Negro Ato belong
ing to Mr. JOHN LLOYD, of Qnera'i Village, onLong^
ifond, nro in H^rtfud.
EBENEZER BARNARD, jun. gives notice to all people
that have any demands on him, a&ing as Agent for the
State of Connedicut, or on his own private account, ta
exhibit the fame f^r settlement.
Hartford, F ebuary 27, 1783.
TO be fold and entered on the firft of May next, a good
House, Barn and four acres of good meadow Lind, ly
ing in Wallingford in Connidicut, three miles from the
meeting house, on the post road to Hartford ; said land has
an excellent good ouhuiJ on it, of more than one hundred
trees ; the house has been improved & a tavern for a num
ber of years, and is much wanted as such Also, fundr,
other pieces of land, lying not far from said house, con
taining in all about fifty acres, properly divided into plow
ing, paltering and meadow land, cuts about ten tons of
hay ; all or a part of said land may be purchased with said
buildings, and a licence to keep a tavern a year from next
May, it will be fold on reasonable terms, a good time for
payment alowcd, and an indisputable title given, by apply
ing to AARON HACKLEY.
Wallingford, Feb. 22, 1783.
ALL Persons indebted to the estate of GERSHAM WOL
COTT, late of Wethersfield, deceas'd, either by Book
or Note, or for Rates, are hereby notified and desired to fet
tle with the Subscribers, who will attend on said business at
the dwelling house of the deceas'd, on the second, third and
fourth Wednesdays of Match next, from one o'clock after
noon till nine.
ELISHA WOLCOTT, ) Adminfr
JOSIAH WILLA RD, ) ftrators.
Wethersfield, Feb. 25, 1783.
N E W-Y O R K. February 19 ,
Head-Quarters, N. York, Feb. 18th, 1783.
Should -here be any Persons, at present with
in the Lines, whose Houses or Lands have been
withheld from them on account of Offences or
supposed Offences against the Crown, they are
desired to make their refpe&ive Claims to the Of
fices of Police in New-York, on Long-Island, or
on Staten-Island, who will report the fame to
the Commander in Chief.
All,Perfons without the Lines, who have aban
doned Estates within, are desired to fend their
Claims to the Offices of Police aforefaid, and all
Persons occupying Estates within the above def
cripticns, are itrißly enjoined to take due Care
thereof, as they will be made answerable for any
Damage,Wafte, or Deftruaion,that may hence
forward be committed on the fame. They will
likewise permit any person authorifed from ei
ther of the abovementioned Offices, to visit the
said Estates, and take Inventories of all Effects
thereunto belonging.
_ OL. DE LANCEY, Adjutant-General.
T O~TTE S O L 1), At'
BEARDSLEYS & HOPKINS's Store,
Belt FISH and BLUBBER OIL, on Reasonable
Terms.
Cash will be given at the above Store, for
Bills of Exchange on France, or in Exchange,
Medicines or a few articles of European Goods,
at a generous rate.
Hartford, March 4, 1783.