The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1776-08-24 00:00:00, page 3

THE VIRGINIA GAZ'ETTE.
.f your attachment to me, and your Ready attention and adherence to the
nue interest of you_r country, which you_ have shewn in the whole course
of your important delibentions, afford the hi hest satisfaction.
No attention: hae happened in the state o totsieign affairs since our
weeting, and itis with pleasure ] inform you, that the assurances 1 ave
received of the dispositions of the seven] power: in Europe promise a con
tinuance of the general tranquillity.
Gentlrmm of the Hmfl q/"Comuwu,
it was with real regret and concern that ! sound myself under the ne
cessity of asking of my faithful Commons any extraordinary supplies. (
thank on for the rendiness and despatch with which they have been
nnte , and they are the more acceptable to me, as you have shewn in
5: manner of 11in them, an equal regard to the exigencies of the ser
vice, and thense of myz: le. And you may be assured that the confi
dance you repl'e in m'e ] be used With prn : fmgality, and lpplied
only to the purppses for which it wan intended).e
My Lord: ad Gentle", \
We are en in : t national cause, the proseention of which
nisi inevitab y utten with man difficulties, and much expence;
but when we consider that the essenti si htl end interests of the whole
empire Ire deepltyI concerned in the issue o? it, and can have no safety or
security but in at conflitntional subordination for which we are con
unding, ! am eonvinced that you will not think any price too high for
the pnsenation of such objectl.
I will'flill entertain : he that my rebelliotu subjects may be awakened
to : sense of their duty, will ivRify me in bringing about the fa
mrite will! of my heart, the restoration'of harmony, and the re-eltab
lithment of order and happinesl in every Part of my dominions. But if
. dnesubmiffion should not be obtained, tom such motives, and such :
disposition on their , ! trust I shall be able, under the blesing of
'Providenee, to efi' nate it by' a full exertion of the great force with
which you hue entrnsted me.
fl'u lb: LORD CHANCELLOR, ly bit M A]ESTY* s
: flies,
My Lord: ad Gentlemen,
!t'u hie Majefty'l wyll vyiil and pleasure that this Parliament be pro
. to'l'hursday the first day of Augufi next, to be then here holden,
,Mthil Pariiament it eceordingiy prorogued to Thurfdny the first day of
- nnt. "
laud ofe !:mrfm Emznnu Town Pomr (Now ]erfq)
, ' ' (lated Azctlfl 7, 1776.
" I was ordered, byaCol. Chev ier, to wzit on two Gentlemen, Mess.
'Madison and ]obnsom one of whom it : clergynun, and both native:
of Auguh county, 'Virginil, who wind in the Lord Hyde packet from
,Fllmoutb, It Suten iflind the zgth of ]uly, and heve brought Ipere
sifrom London to the szd of May, which are now here, and kept or the
use of Geneml Weshington, who, it if said, will be in town to-morrow.
A copy" of the Ki of En land's speech ie inclosed. The :bove-men
tioned Gentlemen eft the i and this mornin with Lord Howc'e appro.
'hetion, end inform that Lord Cornwallis an Generzl Clinton, with all
the croopt. arrived theme on Thtu'sda lust from Cerolina, :; : teinforce
mt prepantory to the atuek on ew York, which these Gentlemen
By would, in their opinion, be made in less than a week, without wait
ing for the'arrivzl of the remeinder of the foreignere, who were hourly
ss looked for, having sailed three days before this ship. That the troopl
now on the iflznd amount to about twelve thousand, and those expected
'swill make the enemy twenty thousand strong.
" The current opinion of the British General: is, that they will find
ss-no difficult in taki esion of New York, but are much afraid that
-' she rebel: In the en m) will destroy it, as they speak most contemp
tuoufly of un, looiting upon m even undisciplined rabble; and that they
are eonsident of effectmg : junction with Burgoyne from Canada, and
'lhereby facilitate the so jection of this countr . The Gentlemen add,
that the enemy ere inueh dilrefl'ed for want o fresh ovifione.
" The English pepen inform the: the Minerve, inning, from Phi
hdelphin, m arrived et Londonderry in five weeks, loaded with 310
]! do of flufeed, end till: she was immediptely mtde : prize as,
being Americm property. 'An-erticle mentions that on the queltion for
ind denee in_.Congreso the Penhsylnnia Deler voted against it,
lad m consequence thereof the other eolonies keyt a yellow eye over them.
The papen contain man other metten, but I cmnot keep themssany
longer, cribe p edlue."
Ne ' . " Tower Bill, London, May n., 1776.
I "ment: to Mr. , and begs his care
of th' _ , si, _ mzy sely on it that the Frengn
si " " 'si " ' , "it
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Minish'y is changed; the pacistc men are turned out, and the s irite'd
men. friends to America, are to come in, viz. Duke de Choil'ue , &c.
&c.—Therefore : French wan, or stabmiffion la America, is inevit-ble.
The [tocks, from the battle of Lexington to this da , have tellen up
wards of fix per cent. : loss on the national debt of at east seven millione.
These thinge (hduld be publicly made known. e '
To Mr. ."
The above letter ie from his. , of London, to Mr. Madison,
one of the Gentlemen mentioned in the letter from Elizabeth Town, and
cznnot be doubled.
By a Gentleman from Sooth Carolina, which he left about the zoth
ult. we learn that two soldiers had deferred from Clinton's troopt, who
confirm the Account given by the slilors, dansmitted by General Lee,
end sunher add, that the English troops were zSoo; that they had pro
mised themselves the pleasure of breaktaffing at Sullivzn'e [fiend, dinin
at Fort ]ohnson, and supping at Charlestown; but they wet e tem'bly di —
asipointed, as they went glad to get off with a very severe drubbing;
t at the bris which was sent to England with the Captain of the Com
modore'e shzp l(the Bristol) who had lost his arm, had returned, as the
Clptain died oon after be left the shet,. and his body me buried on
Long Ifland the 3d ult. that the English soldiers began to grow very
sickly; thet they are much dissatisfied withssClinton's conduct ; that they
even say, they suspect that he keepe a private correspondence with Ge
neral Lee, and that it wan rumoured in camp that he was under en ar
rest; that it was re rted among them that they were to go to New Yorlc;
and that the Brilto is so much shattered that the Commodore he gone
on board the Ex "ment, where he hoifisied his broad pendent theph ult.
The desertere asizrlinforme, that in the cannonade : shot fwm the son
took of three midshipmens heads, whd happened to stand in : sunge, znd
that one of them use the son of : nolileman.
The above Gentleman further informe, that about the middle of las!
month thewhole English fleet :! Charlestown appeared in mourning, from
whence it is eon'ectured that the Gommodore, sir PeterPu-ker, was dead
of the wound: he received from a splinur in the engagement at Sullivan's
ifland. —
By : Gentleman from France we learn, that the French have fitted
out two Been, one from Brest, the other from Toulon, who were to
nndeuoue of Ca St. Vincent, and that the Duc de Charcres we: to
have command o the whole; that the carpenter: in the Kin ": yerd:
were kept hard to work, even on Sunday: end holida ;; that al the na
. Ill lnd nflitaryjiuea wexe engaged for the use of ! Kin ; and that
all the failorl in France were ordered to be regillered immed ate! ; 'that
the French fleet off Cape St. Vincent's, had taken an American lhip From
an English man of war; that the French were fnrtifying Dunkirk ; that
an : intion was on that score made to the French Ambassadour, who
said he master bad ! right to do as pleased ;- that the King of Pomp}
un sshke to die; that the King of Spain had marched a lage body of
troops to the eonfineu of Portugal ; that the English House of Common -
me adjourned in Ma , end the Irish House of Parliament dissolvdldz
that the first division o the troops destinedfor New York, sailed then!
the uth ofMly with Lord Howe; but ther it wu thought the (wend
and third would notszil for: long time after.
Extr-d 9!" a letter Bnunswrcx, Jup 31.
" Our post: which we found almost without any defence, are now pret
ty well seemed. We have zbout five thousand troope at the different fla—
tlom, from Newark Bay round Staten lfland Sound to 5. Ambo . Heid
quarters are at Amboy city, where our greatest strength lies. he Ge
nerals have wished the troops to havebeen more forward; nothing would
please them more than hastening them along. The strength of the enemy
very uncertain. lt wan generally agwed the had Booo effectin nen
when first arrived: Since when a considerab : number of vessels have
arrived; it it said zooo Highlanden have joined them,—l do not be'
lieve it,——they have sentinels all round our side of the iflmd. Ind the
house: nnd burns appear to be full. Their chief enclmpment is said
to be on the sea or bay side next to their [hipping ; but we have great fei
son to believe they have a considerable encampmcnt alsh behind sun iq
mediately opposite Amboy, an in less than half an hour after oil": In on —
the shallops began, a large body were seen coming over that hilf. ] he-'
have they m uninformcd of our numbers, and believe dmn to be greater
than they are ; and are apprehensive of our going over. T hue can
non planted along the (hose; but concealed from our view. n the little
Ifflis we bed, their fire discovered more than we were now of. Their
shot an 6, 12, and 18 pounders, such were pieked up.
Tuesda last arrived here the ship Fliendship, Capt. Mukly, of m
tone h'tmhen, sent in by the Repris-l, loaded with sow, mo, &i.
. houndfro-tcmeda for London. -
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