The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-11-24 00:00:00, page 2

C AD I Z, July Ifo
There are now in this port three mips of 86 guns,
2i of7o urns, and 4. of 6o guns, beftdes 6 frigates,
2 zebeques ard 2 hie ffiips. Beftdes We expe&
from Carffiagena one flip of yn ^uns and tv/o fri
gates ; and from Ferrol, the Saint Trinity, of 114
guns ; they are also fitting out ail the vessels in these
two departments which are fit to put to sea.
Bilboa, July 28. Wn Lave at Cadiz twenty
eight ships of the line completely armed, and more
are arming at Ferrol and Carthagena. Yesterday I
offered so lay one hundred pia res that our Court
would not engage in a war with Great-Britain this
year, and was immediately taken at my word. I
mud con'efs there is a <reat probability of our Court
faking part wi'h that of France, in which case E ig
land must withdraw her troops from America. It is
certain the En,lifh are re enforcing thh garrison of
Gibraltar.,
WILLIAMSBURG. 00.9.
The African rade. by the accounts of the most
feufible men in England, is totally destroyed.
Intelligence from the foatb weft frontiers of this
Sate.
C 1. Clark, with a body of militia, has taken
pUTeffion of Fort Charters and the other weflern
p th between the river Ohio and Miffifippi. The
Commandant is on his way to this city, a prisoner.
Co. Boone the famous partisan, has lately crossed
LeOiio with a small detachment cf men, and near
the Shwanefe towns repulsed a party of the enemy,
and brought in one scalp, without any loss on his
fide. Major Smith has marched with three compa
tiies of the militia of Washington county tc fuppert
the garrisons in Kentucky The noted Cherokee
Chiet Cheu Connafaen, or Dragging Canoe, is late
ly dead which event it is likely will unite the na
tion in the intereß of America.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.
Extras of a letter from Baltimore, dated October
3U177 8 >
" Tuis morning a vessel arrived in 21 days from
Statia, and brings an account of the French having
invaded St. Vincent r . A letter which I saw- men
tons a flpcp having arrived at Statia from Barbados,
which intended calling at S. Vincents, but feeing
the French fla^ displayed there, she run past. Same
le. er men ions the report of its being taken having
preva led there feme days,"
Lafl Wed i efday was executed on the common of
this city according to their sentence. John Ro
belts and Abraham Carlifle. The unhappy prifchers
behaved with the greatest refolufion
Passi, near Paris, Au^uft 12 1778.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to inclofe a few news pa
pers and a letter from Spain ; they contan all the
news, exc-ping that the men of war at Toulon have
gone cut and taken 4 rich ships, belonging to the
Engl sh find to be worth four millions ofl vies.
I have the honour to be, with all possible refpe&
you r me? humble servant, John Adams.
President Lawrens.
Pubhfhed by order of Congress.
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
BOSTON, Nov. 19
A letter from an officer of diftindion,
dated a Providence, November 17, fays,
" Admiral Byron's fleet, or rather a part
of it, is in Newport; some empty trans
ports are arrived, and there is great ap
pearance of a speedy evacuation. Yester
day a large difmafted ship, came into the
harbour, supposed to be of 74 guns. A
heavy firing was heard at tea the 13th,
which lasted seven hours."
Such is the general difeontent of the
Convention troops, which marched from
Cambridge and Rutland, for Virginia, the
last week, that numbers have left them on
their march, and returned to Cambridge,
determined, as no provision has of late
been made for them, to seek it where it
may be found.
A person last Friday from the Cape,
Tys, two large vessels were discovered
bottom upwards on Nantucket Shoals, the
beginning of last week. They are sup
posed to be two of those ships who were in
company with the Somerset the day ihe
lan on shore.
There is a report, said to come from
Rhode-Ihand, that there has been another
aflion between the Count D'Orvilliers and
Admiral Keppel, without any material ad
vantage oh either fide ; and that the Spa
niards had made an unexpected and vigo
rous attack at Gibraltar. As it is certain
that the Brest fleet put to sea a second
time on the 16th of August last, and the
British failed about the fame time, and by
the last accounts there was no abatement
in the military preparations of Spain, we
have been 'daily expecting some authentic
and important tidings.
By intelligence that may be depended upon from
Rhode-Inland, it appears that Admiral Byron's fleet
failed from New York, the firfl week in this month,
with upwards of ico fail of transports, having
troops on board and generally supposed to be bound
to the Weft-Indies. - That the enemy's r,emaihihg
f ree, have orders to evacuate New-York and
Rhede Island, and are commanded to burn the city
of New-York and Newport upon their departure ;---
1 hat certain intelligence bad been received at New-
York, that Dominica, Montferat Nevis, St., Kitts,
and Antigua, are in the possession ofFrance.---That
all the prisoners on Rhode Island, are removed from
the provoh's on board prison-ships, one of which is
rigged, the 0 her has h& yard a tha'ut, and topmalls
launched S nee the above orders the tories are offi
cious to fend provisions and comforts to the American
prisoners, , --
We are informed that the masts of a large-ffiip,
funk at Nantucket Shoals have lately been seen, sup
posed to be one of the British fleet, of which the
Somerset was another.
The crew belonging to the Somerset of 64 guns
lately drove ashore near Cape Cod, arrived here on
Saturday last.
NEW-LONDON. Nov 20
Saturday Capt. Cornelius Anable in a floen ar
rived here in eight days from Newbern in North
Carolina ; he was tw ce chaced on his paffve : The
day he left Newbern,he fp ,ke the Mader of a vessel
Ml 0 le£ St. Ciox 15 days before who informed
him that St. Christoper's was attacked by a French
army; that the whole island was subdued except
the fort on Brimstone Hill, which being ffiort of
provisions it was thought muff soon frrendcr ; and
that about 108 families, with'their effeAs, had left
that island and gone to St. Euftatia, St. Croix, and
other islands.
HARTFORD, Nev. 24.
Saturday last the troops under the command of
the Hon. Major-General Putnam, marched from
their encampment a West-Division for Danbury.
Fredercldby gb 12th November.
Our latest authentic advices from New York are,
tbat on the 3d instant the British fleet of 108 fail,
supposed 0 haveon bo^rd 8000 troops, failed frefa
that place, bound it is " pp%ed to the Weft Indies
---the Embarkation fill continuet-.-thiny of the
merchants we?e packing up, and the Tories grow
more and m>re alarmed- Rum and mobiles are risen
very high, In a late New-York paper, there is a
letter from New Provide.ee, which mentions, that
9 fail of Frenc ship ofthe: ne, were arrived in the
Weft-Indies, and that an expedition was going on
again!! J-muca.
A Correspondent observes in refpeA of the treat
ment of the Britiffi Commiffigners and their over
tures Tiat the frying, inquisitive, penetra
ting spirit of the Americans is wrong and fool
ifh when only blind obedience is requeued, and
would be much more acceptable. Mr. W. H. D.
is guilty of ; g ? ofs abuse of plain truth and
strong reasoning, by applying them in a case
which wa: never intended to be handled in that
way, and preferring them to perfous whose milky
conftitutio is could not be supposed to diged them.
Ariflophanes is unpardonable to think of driving
these peaceable comm ffioneis out of die country
Upon the Hudibraftic trot, as they do bad women
out ofcamp, with the rogues march. Mr. Common
Sense is the only man whose humanity deserves re
commendation -he haspioufty covered the : r bodies
with dirt, which were indeed grown very offenfive.
But what can juflity the fircaflieal sneers of tie A
nigricans, at hearing their last speech ? It is pa
ganiffi thus to insult criminals in the moment of
their dep irture, and ridicule their dying declaration,
which perrons as they neaily approach their pubic
exit, seldom fail to make ; even Governor Johnfo.),
who defeended like Jove in a ffiower of gold, when
he found his rape upon liberty was not like to suc
ceed, made his dying declaration and funk into
darkness. May his brother commissioners soon fol
low him, and no one impiously presume to wake
their memories from the slumber of endlefi obivicn.
It must he confeffed, that the Britons are truly
INIMITABLE in sublime description, of which the
following er-ad of an account from Rhode livid,
published by Mr. Rivinjton, is a curious fpecimcn,
After a short quotation from Bnikeff^r, applied Id
the Americans, he fays.
Tnefe poor devils had been employed on re
doubts and intrenchmenis, exposed to intolerable
heats, without a drop of Cherisance from Dk,
Stephens, nothing but mere pellucid to assuage
their thirlt which occasioned ddtempers to prevail,
and their numbers to grow precious thin, so that or
ders so? quitting the island were received as a re
prieve from immediate perdition.
The following is a corre& Lift of Ships loft by
his Britannic Majefiy, since the war with
America :
No. of guns.
24 The Mercury on the Chivaux-de-frize in th.
North River.
64 Aug,Ra DQ„ e river.
32 A ftigate,J
28 Liverpool on Long Island.
32 Juno,
28 Cerberus,-
32 Orpheus,
32 Lark,
20 Rose, ) Burnt and funk at Rhode-If,
32 Grand Duke,|
14 King Fisher,
16 Swan, I
And a galley, J
20 Drake, taken by Capt. Jones in the Ranger.
32 Syren, calt away on Point Judith.
It A^ lAf Carolina.
20 A irigarc,
20 Merlin, drove Whore by Count D'Eftaing.
0" I And their tenders carriedinto C.F.
32 /Active,,
18 Thunder Bomb, n
16 Senegal, I by Count D Efog.
U Alert''} Taken and tarried into Brest.
64 Somerset, castaway at Cape Cod, Capt. and
crew taken.
A Galley cat away rear Egg-Harbour,
Hotham tender cast away at Cape Henlopen.
A guard fhp, mounting eight 12 pounders, and'
one 32 pounder, taken in Seco^et passage, and
carried into Groton by Ma,or Talbot, in a
small sloop of two guns.
PACK E T S.
One from Harwich to Helvoet, taken by Captain
Cunningham, and carried into France.
The Weymouth from Falmouth to Jamaica, car
• ried into Boston.
Le Defpencer from Falmouth to Nedr-York, taken
by Captain Malally, and carried into New-
London.
The Harriot, from Falmouth to New- York, taken
by Capt. Newman, and carried into Newbury-
Port.
STOP THIE^ and MARE."
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD,
STOLEN from the Subferiber, at Hartford^
on the evening of the 20th inst. a likely SOR
REL MARE, a little rising of i^hands L' s fi, 1
natural pacer, and high carriage, branded with the
letter A on the left shoulder ; ffie Las a small fiar in
the forehead, and a white spot, in the ffiape of a di.r'
mond, on her nose, between or rather below the
nclrds, ffiod all round, her ta 1 long aad bulky ;
Said Mare had on when fiolen, an old faddie and
bridle, the left skirt of the faddie tore off. Whoe
ver ffiall secure laid mare and thief, Ihall have the
above reward, or Twenty Dollars for the mare or
thief, and all neceflary charges, paid by
.Thomas Sanford.
N^v. 23, 17,8.
ON Wednesday the 2d of Decembr next, ^
11 o'clock will be fold at Public AuAiun, at
New-London,
8) Ho^fheads Tobacco,
A few Cafc Sugar,
6 Hogsheads Rum,
A few Bales Cat.on.
Also the fine Bermudian built Coop Lord How^
about 100 tons burthen, wuh her Apunr'enancet,
and eighr 3 and 2 Pounders.'
Nov. 12 17,8.
SIXrYDOLLKbREWARD.
O I O LEN on the nfehtof the 12th inst. from
tLe Ift Pennsylvania Brigade a three year old
MARE, Hrawbevy roan, witha dark mane and tai l ,
newly nick'd, carries well, her head partly browft,
strait limb'd a natural tro ter. about 14 hands and a
halfhigh, ihod al round. Whoever takes up fail
Mare so that the fubfenber gets her and Secures the
thief, shall have the above reward, 36 for th^ thret
and 30 for the mate, with reasonable charges pa^
by THOM AS BUCHAN AN,
Capt. ift Penn's. Reg,
Camp, near F^dcrickfbut,, 14th Non 177^