The New-Jersey journal — Chatham, N.J., 1782-09-18 00:00:00, page 2

liltYirlt Britain, is infinitely more than a balance
to the success of Rodney. Th. Fleets of France
and Spain, now abroad, are matters of the channel,
abd the Dutch of the North seas. The trade and
navy of Britain may fuffer greatly before the season
closes : Already, besides the stroke intht Eatt Indies,
twenty two of their Quebec and Newfoundland fleet
have been taken ata blow. The people of France
are in high spirits for prosecuting the war, and the
minillry are making prodigious exertions, without
distressing the people, for augmenting the navy.
There is the fame favourable appearance in Hol
land. The spirit of the people in the American
States is the fame it ever was since this important
dispute began. They are determined to have a ge
neral and lase peace upon the foot of absolute in
dependence, or none ; and are more ready to pay
taxes for such a purpose than our enemies imagine;
a profpea of peace, as is natural, may too soon re
lax them, but new efforts of the enemy will more
certainly rouze and invigorate them. The spirit of
the people every where rises against the horrid trade
with the enemy, pradifed by too many for the fake
of infamous private gain. The town of Boston in a
late meeting have already chosen a refpe&able com
mittee to consider in what manner this spirit may be
most effedually directed. And as this execrable
trade is the chief instrument which our enemies now
have to imploy against us, every motive of honour
and public interest calls upon us to wrest it out of
their hands.
Tuesday hft his excellency the Governor, Gene
ral Choice and his suite, his Honour the Lieute
nant-Governor, the HonourableCouncil, and Presi
dent of the Senate, with their families, the Consul
General of France, and a large number of other
gentlemen and ladies of diftinttion, dined on board
the Triumphant at the invitation of his Excellency
the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Commander in Chief of
rhe armament of his Most Christian Majesty now in
the harbour of Boston.
On Saturday last his Excellency the Governor,
the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Gen. Chorfie, and a large
number of French and American Gentlemen of rank
and dilbnffion, dined on board the Duc de Bour
goine, a flag ship of 80 guns, at the invitation of
of the commander, the Chevalier d'Efcadre.
RICHMOND, August 31'
By late accounts from the South western frontier,
we learn, that a Captain Looney, who was taken
prisoner by che Indians last March- having been set
at liberty by them, has returned home and confirms
the intelligence of the peaceable disposition of the
Receding part of the Cherokees situated on the South
ern branches of the Tenefee, and on the sources of
the Mobille They had collected all the prisoners
in number about go, with an intention as a prelim
inary, to deliver them to Col. Martin at Chota the
igth infant, after which a deputation of the Chiefs
would attend at such place as should be appointed to
receive talks and agree upon such terms of peace for
the whole nation, as the commissioners on the part
of this country fn dl think proper to perfcribe. The
arrival of Captain Looney gives the people of that
quarter an intire confidence in the sincerity of the
Indians, and will probably induce the Carolinians
to lay aside the expedition they had formed against
them.
PHILADELPHIA, S^. 11.
Last Saturday afternoon Mr. J. Sanfum arrived
here express from general Greene's head quarters
near Char eftown, which he left on the 6th ult. He
brings us a confirmation of the agreeable and im
portant news of the certainty of a speedy evacua
tion of that place, near fix hundred persons having
come out of the town and agreed to the terms pre
scribed for them by government ; other particulars
are contained in the following extracts of letters
from that quarter, dated the igthof August.
We expe^l to take possession of Charleftown by
thefirft of October next, perhaps sooner ; as the Brit
ish are making every preparation to evacuate it ; the
veliels were all careening, part of the cannon remov
ed, ard the powder. &c. &c. perhaps sooner than the
ift of October, I fay, as they momently exped the
transports from New Yo^k for that purpose.
“ Tin loyalists have had their meetings at the state
House inconfeqaence of the occasion, and propoled
that they, with rhe refugees (a parcel of the molt
abandoned wretches, and may be justly stiled the
refuge of tie eartu) and the Ethiopians would man
the lines and defend the town, but this they have
mifearried in; as general LefLe told them, he could
not answer to leave behind him any of the cannon,
ammunition, «rms or (lores, &:. belonging to the
king; he has afo ordered a return of all kinds of
ammunition and other warlike (lores in the possession
of persons who have them for sale : which indicates
he is resolved that nothing of the kind will be left for
their diabolical purpose; I am credibly informed,
be fays, that if the king's troops cannot defend the
place, how could a rabble expert to do it against the
forces of the United States. Ballingal, Champneys
and others were great orators at their meetings ; some
of them threatened, if they could not keep the town,
to plunder the poor inhabitants of what little they
have lef, and then cleftroy the metropolis; but in
this also they are difappoirited —as the general de
clares that a proper guard will be left on the embar
kation of the troops, with orders to put those to death
who (hould commit any depredation or plunder.
The Virginia Gazette of the 31st ult. fays,—there
is arrived in York river, two cutters from Bergen in
Norway ; also a vessel from the Havannah, loaded
with rum and salt, and about ieven thousand dollars.
On her passage she captured a packet from New-
York for Charleftown, which is arrived in a lase port ;
the despatches were thrown overboard.
Extract of a letter from Port au Prince dated Aug.l4.
“ By an arrival just from Old France, we have re
ceived the agreeable advice that M. de Suffrein has
obtained a complete vi&ory over the enemy in the
East Indies having taken fix 74's and 30 fail of mer
chantmen, with cargoes to a very considerable a
mount. You may depend that this is as true as the
defeat of count de Graffe."
TRENTON, September 11.
On Thursday last John Rutherford, Jacob Mor
ton, and Silas Arnett, Esquires, were admitted to
practice as attornies at law in this date.
PAR I S, June 24.
The last letters from Cadiz are of the 14th ult. but
inform us of nothing more than what we learn by
the Courier Extraordinary: the fleet has received or
ders fcr failing; 22 Spanifli and 5 French were rea
dy: the wind blew constantly from the weft, and
seemed not inclinable to fhift; we therefore suppose
the fleet to have hoisted fail the 27th or 18th. At
its approach, M. de la Motte Piquet will depart from
Brest, with ten fail and the convoy for the Antilles
and North America.
Paris, June 26. Notwithstanding the formida
ble preparations for the continuance of the war, it is
certain, that the salutary work for a general peace is
not loft fight of, which, perhaps, is not so distant as
several circuroftanc& might incline us to presume.
The Court of London hath manifefted, we are allu
red, some serious dispositions for commencing nego
ciations for that purpose. Mr. Grenville is to be
immediately veiled with the title of Minister Pleni
potentiary to our Court; and the latter will not de
lay to nominate a person in the fame character to
that of London: In a word, every thing seems to
announce a serious intention to bring about a peace,
and we are assured, that a packet boat has been esta
blished between Dover and Calais, to facilitate the
correspondence between the two Courts.
LONDON, July 7.
A letter from Paris, received on Monday, has the
following article: " We imagine that the terms pro
posed by the English Ministry for a peace are not ap
proved of here, because there are now greater prepa
rations making in all parts of the kingdom for car
rying on the war with spirit than there have been
since ilfirft brokeout. America is the bone of con
tention ; if we would give up the Americans we
might make peace on our terms, but this Court has
entered into so ftri& an alliance with those people,
that they cannot do it with honour, and therefore
orders are issued for railing men both for sea and
land, as fall as possible; and it is raid, that notwith
fianding the loss we have faflained in the Well In
dies, we shall be able by next Spring to fend out a
more powerful fleet than we have vet done; but be
fore that time I hope matters will be compromised,
and peace restored to both kingdoms. It is what
the people here in general with for, as this war has
been severely felt."
CHATHAM, September 18.
Last Thursday morning a person in the
neighbourhood of Bottle-Hill, near the
Great-Swamp, being very early up, disco
vered two armed men pass by, one of
which he supposed to be Caleb Swezey,
jun. (late an inhabitant of Black River,
but had joined the enemy, and having
many connections in this county who
harboured him, was enabled, by their
information and assistance, to commit se
veral atrocious robberies, which induced
the governor to offer two hundred dol
lars for apprehending him) and accord
ingly gave information, when Captain
Carter and his officers, with ten of their
men, took the necessary ffeps for appre
hending them ; and knowing the propin
quity between Isaac Badgley's wife and
Sweezey, sent a perlon to lay in ambush
near laid Badgley's house to be a spy up
on their conduct, and, if possible find
out their lurking-place, when he saw
Badgley's wife carry victuals into the
swamp twice. Being thus fully inform
ed, the party entered the swamp some
miles from Badgley's houle to prevent
the least alarm being given, and pro
ceeded to within a few rods of the
house (placing sentinels as they passed at
the avanues it was supposed they would
endeavour to make their escape through)
when they suddenly came upon them,
and being unprepared for defence, the
flints being out of their pistols, they en
deavoured to make their escape by flight,
when Swezey received the fire of one of
sentinels, which put an end to his exig
ence in a few minutes ; the other, one
John Parr, who was concerned in the
robbery of Mr. Stewart's house of Hac
kett's Town, was slightly wounded and
taken, and is now confined in Morris-
Town gaol.
The Magnifique, a 74 gun ship be
longing to His Most Christian Majesty,
having been lately loft by accident in the
harbour of Boston; and Congress being
desirous to manifeft on this, as well as on
every other occasion, the high sense they
entertain of his Majesty's generous exer
tions in behalf of the United States, have
been pleased to inftruft their agent of
marine to present, in the name of the
United States, the America, a new 74,
to the Chevalier de la Luzerne, for the
service of his Most Christian Majesty.
General Gates commands the right,
and General Heath the left wing of the
American army.
A Dutch vessel arrived last Wednesday
at Philadelphia from Holland, brings a
confirmation of the glorious achievements
of our allies in the East-Indies, with some
addition to the account published in our
last paper. She has also brought aquan
tity ofcloathing for the American army.
It is said, in a late European publica
tion, that the King of Spain, being sen
sibly touched with the reverse of fortune
which the French fleet met with in the
Weft-Indies on an occasion where it was
only exposed for his service, has given
to the King of France twelve ships du
ring the rest of the war.
Late accounts from New-York men^
tion, that a number of families are pre
paring to embark for Nova Scotia ; they
carry with them farming utensils an/
provisions for one year, a donation from
government.
Notwithstanding the pacific difpofitim
of the Britilh for some time pad, we are,
doubtful they are only finefling, and en-f
dcavouring to throw us off our guard ;
but we arc happy to hear that His Ex
cellency General Walhingwn is prepared