The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1776-11-22 00:00:00, page 1

THE VIssRGINIA GAZETTIL;
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[NBVEM_BER'22, i776.] WILLXAMSBURG: Printed by Dxxonsifsss HUNTER. [Np. 1320.]
- LONDONsiju/yx'x.
FPNIREMQNSTRANCE, we hear ' '
..0-0- S' lmsh'y. to be llid before theirssHIs preyarmg by our
5 5 s1r__lose h Yorke, our Amb sisilgh Mughtinesibs by
5 A , qttmg orth the Hlicit trade :;dor at the Hague,
{550-9 gwe_n. noswithsianding his li'h'nst t'he cncouragemenc
1 mltlons, to the Americzins silk y . repeated procla
. wj sertlemenn _ , who trode to th
. wnh goods oslhe Am ' e Dutch
m , and DutcahssEIfltmlshFd iq exchange with easslsictzn produce,, and
letter, received from )IZS'ZLZWG- si 5: ZWPOWdes:
M of Admim] (:: :opnvatccr b some persohz'attlzglsfox had been fitted
out in the nature ' , mention: th
kind by the ly n, to crul e for the Americ n (] on, by permis
m gon: ov pu ace, who demolished the mastsa fie m, bm'si had been
. A, Genclmun ",; asnd scuttled the vessel. " all her falls, threw
theyembuked for Aomziv szer's new sailed Scotch re im '
. corps. Th were ca, says, he never in his life 8in ent lost before
men and In] h' conEsed of days from fiftee m eld so despicable
A tone , ted;? it ,:eredpy writers dun." yea" Os age to old
. pondell Gn _ : e sinesse :
ing in . of the, Scolttiffinom enough to read ove th
.. bean;?" mad falhsihood. _ me, wluch exceed: that of Bmffisszssl:
m ukl um ppenl at sea, we hear ' "
of .. ocyahom ul- Ifany are taken from thzzsilsilsig Of the ship. Which
Wehlvi bough? ne 1"qu to have it asidded to thzsi'sihsiugh the hall:
flpsismrwshy "I: of wlrm oneen gement, and s , on the gazette.
ss 'the "Wbi'pons of ulu'u : cargoeo 'Msevenl more armed
M. _ Clent bo ! employed by Govemnsit. eaome} we know
um in , : at the mnsporu, lnd Wyn " "lef ! ss "(
,, it gon? who nm'awp . Lookattltclal'otsilwnctdeo victory
sslssbnct w ran Boflonsi wu ten thousand nen Mlnmu'si "
JWl-e _ monly m hu, d-nguuu am it '- tmss'ol-tio memwsi have
siss if ly'sic, be len :: te Piece: ofcannon, "don [12],! to ;"
m {I the se: nothing behind him. A Seetetlfye fofdn King's
til! upon holȝoqr ofaLotd. ofSut-wo
it]: did n' new negulation is going immediately to take lace, ' for
" ' an letten lId expressee to and from Americe. {"be Vefl'ele'
Wfi for that 'purpose are to consist of sin: armed swift fiilingxefl'ell,
w elch by" : Ueutenmt in the navy._ \ .
A fensible polissticll writer (the lother of the present state of Europe)
(aye, the ." if the whole hablnble world woe divided into three hundred
parte, th proportion of those parte to the several guarded of the glohe
would beluropp weary seven! Asia one hundred on one, Africl elihly
two," America ninety. Hence it appears that all Europe is not one : ird
u-luge a Anciez, nor does Greek Briczin make : chiniethctpen of
Europe. *Gmt-lritzin then is not equal to-one uinetieth Prtof at]
my doth one Mdnsirflpzqhn i: cM-ZBWBW. Thie
- :."qu addedto ntgreet , ' g "
image- seymasieonespondeuy) doepmfefchenner' hililyof
moneth 'ct ting theAmmme._
' lids thMimfirycnmewtlwkmledyoffome
si mneriahnns ' os'theCo ress. One —-, whoil ecletkto
[enume- in fluneighbourh .f Frenchchurchsheet being ,: Ne
you in lamb", where he mad gan], to disappove ofthe
. die of Govemmem lgei her edomes, end epprovmg of my
. rielnelud nsiknctwyresm their righu'nd libeniep from
. violltionz and bein : man of good lddnse, wn inned ineotbe best
" , poetical" y by the Tmsurerofch Congresc, who, when he
. e—inny. delivered : maple of letten to divide deliver upon his ho
noee . . piedgedhio honour that he would. Con
u-u-yeo hie finish, a soon n.:he ship arrivodin England, he put them
In : cover end directedthem to Lord Dmmoutb, and desired the Cepuin
go [and them with his peeket.
36. To the handes of ulohle Lotd in Adminiflntion. who was
. the day informed the! the trelsum of one of the northern eolom'u
FNpFAIRZCI- had come over, had brought of allege sum osFovinciel
; n.,si. with 'tis-X he had been entrusted; he ve it le hu ldvice,
that th. mey so brought of should immedine y be attached by Go
manent, or the treasurer be sent back by the first opponunity to account
With the peo le of the province from whence he came; for that, althouglssI
we were an ormmtely engaged in a contest about consiitutiunal point
(which every good man wished to see speedily accommodated) it wan by
no means our wish to be considered by the cblonifls as encouragen or
protectort of such land piratet or freebooten, as might fly hither from
justice, under c'lo'nr of having been friend: to Governmeut in that coun
t . ss si
rylugxst 6. Advice is received from Ruffla, that :] sail of men of war,
under the command of Vice Admiral Telmanow, are sailed from Cron
shdt, but to ,whzt palt'they ere bound remain! : secret.
The lst of july : French brig put into Fill, the Captain of which said,
in his voyage he spoke with no sail, stent and small, of Spanilh med of
war, bound to America. ss
A Ponuguese man of war, of 60 gum, commanded by Capt. Snitzel,
be: taken. on the coast of Brazil, twu Spanish merchant ships, and sent _
them to Lilbon. _ _
We heat- that : petition will he presented to the Secret of State for
the Americm department, by the mmhlma, tq cause the aptain of the
Yankey 'vzteer to be kept m custod to enswer to them for the property
he ha- .]siZ-ny taken, he being the ole owner of the privateer; and the
prizet, of course, willbe said in America for his account and emolument.
Extract qf'dlaurfim SAuuonY, Augy! 5.
" A letter from Exnouth. dated ]uly 31, says, " On Saturday the
z7th instant, off the Start, and on Sunday the ,.ssh, in Torbay, our pi
lots spoke with : large New England bsiuilt sioo , which mgtmted 14
carriege ne. Thess' countedjbout 40 men on oard, some b'f whom,
on the pi ot'e pmc , had their nlk'ed swords drawn. They in
of the pilou, i any East Indimen were ex Red, snd died many other
questions, which plainly proved it me an erican pgivateer." _
On Fridassy nighte!) expeesi arrived from Glnsgow, wnh fresh despatchee
fw Lad Genuine, from Lord Dimmore et Virgihie, brought
over by the y, Cayt. Hudson. vho m teken up there im- th}: pr
L-ld Deum Seven! pefl'cngen are come ov- in her. '
Jqqfl . Capt. ohnsim, of the Ylnkey privnteer, end Rose and
Had", Zapnine 'the two West Indiamen taken by the lbove prin
- deer, were sittin together in Iohnson'e eabin : few dale efder thiy m
taken, - when ]oinfon ning ilsiussdvenently laid down is cutless, sine
did Rodges nook dram of it by throwing him on hie beck, an'd
. [end the cuthse. The guard shtioned on.the qulner deek haviis else
hid down hitmnlast in order to forward, one of Rosi o:
fish, who had been let into the tent, immediately seizeditsi, and gave
deny; on which the men belonging to the Yenkey, end those of
the needunjmen (who ought to have been conhg ran u lnd one
of-fisieAmerie-oe heving caught up : seruhbing-b , end ! van'eingsictih
I MMingeIc-Rure, was told, by the man who held the eptlass, thee
ifhe si me one sick: funher-he would take hit heedofl, and ordered
him, and the rest of t e men belonging to the ptivmer, to go found,
(Rose end fled es, in the man tine, ling: broke open the-nned um,.
Cathohn on and nie crevwece me from the Yankey them two= !.
o'elock on Sunday morning, had it in sin! ere. now on hood the C....
quelhdor man of war. Cnyt. [ohnson comphine of Cepta Rose'e illiben]
behaviour, in suffering ( people to come on board since he mind. ,,
and insult him in the mak cruel and grass terms, though ; prisoner,.
end when his brother can"! to see him, after three years lbsenecte, cup; si
Rd'e would not permit them to talk : minute in private. - .
IfC Rose ho bended hie prisoners, it it not worthy the in '
fition o the Wa- to eompel him to produce them, that mass—
]:an may be o them, till they hue taken their wide? - - 73:
ept. ]ohnson is : native of New England. Previous to the [stud
unhappy difference between this country nnd America, he lived as I idea
chwt, its great repuce, et Portfinouth in New Hzmplhire, LIR winne.
he hzcdnthe meelsisimne w lawe hie house;;isint arm at the time when the
sun onsmou m May y Swan, and other I:"
of ", Which time he lo]! the le of hit property. The ' 'si'ss
dfi niting place, end depriving "m from carrying on hie tude, 5;
nshlved he go to sat in : prinmc, end aceordingly hired therk'ey so.
et u se. , ' '
'th'iewo . on board the above Fivnteer were some of those them
been spim up by Genq-ll Howe at Boflon, previous to his lening that *
place, ' . "
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