The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-01-10 00:00:00, page 3

7 A truce bon, .euith some person- uken prisoner: by the Georgiam
wat- some week: (go sent to St. Augustine. lnd returned lboul ten days
since to Snmnah. Account: received by her of the Asiugultincrs being
in greet went of provisi'om, end that the scarcity wan gctunlly so great,
seem! ssons, inorda to avoid Ren/ing, had taken theisipassagee in the
packet on for Falmouth._ Col. Lawfun, and some other Vu-ginians,
mentioned in : former peper to be prisoner: at St- Auwttsiine, wese, pie
vioue to the arrive! of the truce bon, kept ciosectprifi-nexe in the castle,
but on the tteatmentbur captivel received being made known, they have
been allowed the liberty of the town.
- ], it said there it some kind of : proposition made from St. Augustine
to Georgie, to suspend pil theWgzm-re by land and on riiess, plun
deriub'stelling Negroq, &c. Ail'ehe Negroee entried from hence and
Genrgie were heed :! worken the sortificatiomz but the property had not
been yet-elmed. ss - - ss
ct Thegen'ison of St. Augustine, we m informed, don not eneeed Soo
soldien, most of them fouigpeu. The whole gacrison end inhabitant
had been very fickiy. '"*
Brigadicr General Have arrived et Savznnah from this town on Wed
nesdz lzn week. '
* A reach floop, with : valuable elrgo of n,ossoolh. of gunpowdcr,
sikc. got on Clpe Ro'maine Shoul- som time la! weese. The vessel and
- _ ' oere entire] lot}, but the crew saved. '
uesdey est : large Bermuda floop, loaded with felt, unfor
tunetely struck on the" Bzr, coming in She soon went to yieeee, but _
che crew were all slved'b aschooner coming in at the same tune.
7 ' By two veflele arrived inee our lest from the Well lndiee, we hzveae
Wts of in armed hri "of 16 gone, commended by Czpt. Chrittophcr
ss ipple, hsse'mg takets the Portllnd nu- ofw of 0 gone. lt ie
siid the mile: of : Dhsite vessel, which be spoke with, ed him into the
dure,- b informing him that the Portlnndss then insight, win : lerge
Well ln iamaq; he, fuspeflilg nothing, immediately bote-down,' and
h'l'ue discovered hie errot. -
' ' The above vefele hrin account! of the greeeest plent of metehnndise
it for this tude beingin psdnimvhere the French w the Anteri—
une every eneoungemm; - the: they " 'otea all our trading veflizls with
. them, and the: lo sailo's the line, an zo frigetee, were expected there
from France. ' '
' sixty barrel- of gunpowder hnve errived here since om- lull.
Advieec from the back country infort- us, that Col. Wiiliamson had
med ztruee of 27 dlye to the Cherbkee lndiane. Another congress,
he ne told, is to be held at Seneca about the middle of tnie month.
. This eftemoon the brigmtine of war Comet, Cept. Edward Allen,
nmmed from : eruise, Wllh : floop and fchooner prizee, which he took
of St. Auguflitie ler las! Thursday night. The schooner ie called the
Mary, Capt. Weleh, belon ing to Lwerpool, bound to Augustine,
from St. Vch'e, with to ogshheads of rum, eo bllTell of su ar,
hear goode, : Negroee, &c. The floop is the Georgia, _Cnpt. of
(me, end from ]amaicz for St. Augustine, with 7 punchcons of sum,
: hogsheads of Museovado suger, ! hogshefl and ! pssuncheon of refined
sugar, " Negroes, &c. &c. ss
B 0 8 T 0 N, December 5.
AST Saturday aftemoon Capt. Barhe, in : vessel belon in to
Newbury, arrivedvats unm, from Bilboa, in 30 dayt, witsiw om
amesiiafl'enger Mr.George ebqt of Bcverly, merchant, wboinforml,
dun ! 'e niflt and French ponl ere open to our cmisen end their
grim, an that they permit the American vessels to (: the Americnn
:! in their Portt; and that both the Courts of Madri and Versailln
were determined to revent the Rustans coming to Amcterica,-— [Tbit .
ba credited, a: ! : natural dictatr of tbrjoumlefl pfig.) .
' e her that : Bevetly privaleer had taken five etssty mspono, be
in part of I flee! of near zoo sail, bound home from ew Yolk, whether
wtth design to bring over some Ruflinnl, or fetch provistons, time will
NEWPORT, Dlt- :. A Gentlemen who united in town on Sutur
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dny, from Boflon, informs that : privlteet' from the ezstward had lately .
nken I ship with dry goods, &c. whose cargo cost 37,oool. sterling.
WM lsil !brsuMa-u off :: dulautioa mad: before :: magistrate at
! - ' .ss ]nmnica.
G-ptr'l'dmei, ]: : es Georgia, but ]m from Attguline, in the
sch'mer Ptggyss 55 5- >tember 6, between Cape Nichola Mole and Cape
Mnize, was ho-I'ded b_ the MIiJRont' English (signe, Capt Gardiner,
who firtd tobring them "o; at the same time a French highte to wind
wnrd bore down upon him, end fired I shot to leeward. hotfled out their
inmce, and sent their first Lieutenam on board him. who very ,rtrticu
arly inquind if hie vessel wn sr- m the Unitcd Stltes of America, and
if he wanted Man) ifso, he was willing to render him but smicct.
Being answered in the negntive, he fheered off, but continued eta small
distance, during the time Czpt. Gardiner was examining the paper: of
said schoonet', of which protection Mr. Talmash informed Cz (. Gardi
ner, while they were wnthin hail of each other, upon whieht te English
frigate thought proper to dismiss the schoonet', who proceeded on h'er
voyage to ]amztice; and the two ships sieered one course." -
BALTlMORE, january :.
lo C 0 N G R E 8 8, Demnbn 31, 1776.
Thin morning CONGRESS received the following letter from General
Wnsmncron.
8 ! R Heat! Quarun, Newtown, z7tb Dltmber, 1776.
I
HAVE the pleasure of congratulatmg you upon the succese of an
enter rise, which lhad formed against a dtmchment of the enemy
lying in g't'cnton, and which was executed yesietday momin .
The evening of the zgth, ] ordered the troops intended for thin service "
to pat-ade back of M*Kenky's serry, 'that they mi ht begin to pass as
soon as it grew dark, - intafiuing we should'be. ab' esito throw them all
over, with the necessary erti lery, by. t_z o'c10ck, and that we might usil,
arrive at Trenton 5): 'five'in the morning, the distance bein ebout nine
mile:. But the'qmtity of ice, made thnt night, i plsslgegf
the boat: so mich,-that it was three o'clock before thsilrtillery mld 11]
he got over, and near four before the troops took up Mrline ofmeh.
! formed my detzehmc-nt into two division. one tomneh up the loss:
or river sond, the other by the upper or Pennington fold. Ae th duri
, stone had nearly the same distance to march, ] ordered each of them int.
mediately upon forcing the out gulrdl, to push directly intothe town,
that they might charge the enemy before they had time to form. The
upper division arrived at the enemy'l ldvanced post exnctly It ! o'clock,
and in three minutet after, ] found. from the fire on the lower rood,
that sihqt division him: also got up: The out tard- made btft ! small
oppo tion, [hang , 'or that numben, they be wed! well kespin
up : cow retreeting fire from behind h't'msee. cry ? '- :
We presindy saw their main bodz—tormed, but) from this motion,
they seemed undetermined how to a . Being hard pressed by our
who had elmdy got pofi'efl'ton os pflrt of their lrtillery, they .:
to file off by ! road. on their right. leadintr to Princetnn; but wffiz
their intention. ] threw a body of troope in their viy, which w.
ately checked them: finding. from our disposition, thee they were
snrrounded, end they must inevitably be cut to piecee, if they made my
further resiihnce, they agreed to lay down their :rme. The manda
that submitted, in this manner, wn ryofficen, and 886 med. Col.
Rohl, the commanding officer, and seven others, were found wounded
in the town. ! do not exactly know howmany they had killed; but !
sancyss not above twenty or thirty, 'as they never mode any t'egullr Band.
Our lzss in very uifling indeed; only two officer: end one or two prinui
woun ed.
! find that the detachment of the enemy consisied of the three "Mild .
-regissmente of Landspatch, Kniphausessn. and Rohi, amounting to lbout
1500 men, and a tt'oop of Blillsh light-hotse; but immediately upon the
beginnin of the attack, all those who were not killed or taken, (bed
directly :: the road towards Burden-Town. These would Ii ewik
hue Men into our hande, could my lan have been-com letely cln-iod
into ueeution. General Ewin was to ue crolied before (say it Trenton
setry, end taken posseffion o the bridge leading out of town; . but the
qvmtity of iee wan so great, that though he did every thing in hie power
to effect it, he could not get over. Thin difficulty also him
Cadwnlladet from croffing, with the Pennsylvania militia, from Briltnlt'
he got portos his foot over, but finding it impossible to embnrlt hie mil.
tery, he me obliged to desist. ! am fufly eonfident, that could the
troops under Generals Ewing end Cndwnliadet have passed the river, !
should hue been able, with their affistance, to have driven the enemy
from all their Pofls below Trcnton; but the number: I had with mebei
inferior to them below me, and a strong battalion of light infentrybeing
at Prineeton, above me, ! thought it mon prudent to return the same
evening with the prisoners, and the arttllery we had taken. We found
no Bone of any consequence in the town.
In juRice to the officers and men ! must add, that their behaviouru
this occasion reflect: the highest honour upon them. The dlsicnhy of
[sing the river, in a very severe night, and their march through a vio
ent storm of snow and hail, did not in the least nhate their ardour. but
when they came to the charge, each seemed to vie with the other in pres
smg forward, and were I to give ! preference to my partic'ilhr cospt, I
should do great injuffice to the others.
Colone'; Baylor, my sisit Aid de Camp, will hlve the honour of deli.
veting this to you, lad from him you may be made uquainted with any