The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg, Va., 1775-06-16 00:00:00, page 6

islands, for want of boats to convey them,
until at length a mud scow was procured,
into which 40 of the country people obtain
ed :: pass to the island. The immediately
jumpe}! on shore, upon winch the-King's
tictobps retreated on board the lighter-,
being pursued by the 40 provincials ln
their haste they ran the lighte'rs on shore,
Within gunshot of the inhabitants. They
continued fixing at each other, until the
lighter: floated, when they made the besi;
ot their way to Boston . We hear the
British troops" lost 8 men, and that the
provincials escaped without loss. ss
The Ladiea in Bristul township hue 'evi
denced a laudable regard to the interelt
of their country. At their own expense,
they have furnished the regiment of that
county with a suit of colours and drums,
and are now making a collection to supsi
ply mushetssi to such of the men as are not
able to shpply themselves. \\'e hear
the Lady wh) was appointed to present,
the colours to the regimcnt gave in charge
to the soldiers, Never to desert the colour;
of the Ladies, if they ever wished that the
Ladies should lzst under their banner-:."
Extract of a [sister from Bostnn, May 22,
* " l have to acquaint you, that a' fire
broke out in the barraeks (Mr. Benjmnin
Davis's store) by which means, in about
two hours, the whole of the (tares on the
town dock were reduced to ashes, except
two. The treatment of the sentries was so
cruel that they would not permit the in
habitants down the whars , until the flames
were __so violent that they could not exert
themselves, to extin iill the fire, much
more to save any conhderable quantity of
their effects: The owners of the llores
are saidssto have suffered greatly."
Extract of another letter, of the/tune date.
" Mr. B-uhad got all the goods out
of his store on the whars, ready to be put
into a boat, which the man of war's; bO-it
'came and took away, by which meansthey
'were all burnt. The sire _might have
been soon extinguished, could the people
have got the engines as usual; but the
General had taken them away a sew nights
before, and the fire raged for a full hour
before any of them came. It was i:
'c'olock before the last came, and the fire
broke out at hals after 8 in the evening.
It is expected General Gnge will sally out
when he receives more forces, but he will
find it impossible to penetrate far into the
ss country ." *
Extract osa'letterfi-amsi New York, May 23 .
" A few hours ago a person arrived
here from Boston, who brings an account
that several transports, with asew troops,
arrived there from Ireland. He likewise
mentions ,that the people inlreland wouldle t
no more transports take in any provilions,
and that the troops os horse which were
coming out had entirely declined to come.
The former occasioning a sinall skirmish,
those troops which were already embarked
on board the vessels were obliged to disem
bark, in'order to defend themselves and
buell the people, in which stay seven offi
cers were killed."
WlLLIAMSBctUPsissssGi 7unc16.
. ss E learn from Bedsord, 'that Major
CflAles Lvncn, one of'chereprc
sentatives for that countv, has brought
the minufactory oi'GUNPO VV DER to very
great perfection, and has erected a mill for
that purpose . Hsie hasnot yet made any great
quantity, but whlt of it has been tried b
the rifle-men is much a proved of. He
likewise makes SALT ETRE in abun
dance, as pure and good as ever was im—
ported; and it is (hid he has discovered a '
SULPHUR. MINE about 50 miles from
him, where more, may be made than
Would serve the whole continenc.
The Eijzaheth, Barron, in 7 weeks from
London, iljllst nrrived injames river. In
longitnde 64, lntitnde 36,si he spoke a
schooucr srom Marblehead , 'out sive days,
the master of which assured him, upon his
honour, that four days before he sailed &.
general engagement had ensned between
the regular troops and the provincials, in
consequence of" their siring at and killinfi
a number of dt'agc'zofl horses at some illan
near Boston, all of which they destroyed,
except three, which are now in the provin
cial camp . Six hundred osthe King's troops
were killed in'the engagement, and a great
proportion of oilicers, with the loss of
only between 50 and 60 osour man.
This day, about 1 2 o'clock, the Gosiver
hour returned the following answer to the
addresl of the Hon . the House of Burgelses,
which was presented 'tohim this morning,
by delegates, on board the Fowev.
Gentlemen of the House of 'BurgeffZ-s,
T in with real concern I can discover no
thing in your address that I think' ma
nisests the srnallest inclination to, or will
be productive of , a reconciliation with the
mother country . ct
Extract oj'd letter from one of the Virjqinia
(lelegates, to a Gentleman ( now in this
city) datedP/zila'delphict, jane 3, r775.
" Nothing very material has occur-red.,
since ! wrote to you by our Speaker. The
enclosed paper contains thy incipal intel
ligence, by which you w ill ee we havcsshad
two more small afi'airs, wherein we have
proved victorious over our enemies. The
tal-zing of the iloop and schooner in lake
Champlain by the Connecticut men, and
the burning the lmttoes prepared by Ge
neral Carleton, I suppose you haire hear:
of. We are now masters of that lake,
and thereby can put our enemies to great
diliiculty in invading our provinces, or
attempting to regain 'l"iconderoga and
Crown Point. The latter, however, it is
expected will be attempted; and therefore
the (long!-es: l1.we ordered up 1006 men
from Connecticut, which, added to those
already there, will make about 1600.
Burgoyne, Clinton, and Howe, are ar
rived at Boston with 600 mcten and 28 dru
goons, with their horsel. Boston remains
closely besieged by 9000 provincials, and
their nu-nber will presently be augmented
to 15,ooo. They have sent for, and
brought up, several piece: of heavy bat
tering cannon, whichlookslike an attempt
to force Gage from his sh'onghold. He,
it seems, has seized the provifions sent for
the poor, searchcd and seized in private
houses the provisions of individtmls, and
yet refuses to let them quit the town.
This mustpresently produce samine in that
devoted city, and willjuffisy (before God
and man) the llrongelt attack on the
town: since it is better that some should
die by the sword, than that all should pe
riih by samine.
" Every body here wishes to know
how our Assembly goes on. It is hoped.
and expected, that the good sense, spirit.
and patriotism of Virginia, will still diisi
tinguish her amono- the colonies.
" We wait the arrival of the act for
restraining the trade of the coiOnies, besore
_ any thing can be done about amore early
stop of the exports; so that, a diligent
despatch ma gctss the ships away in time.
" BusinelZ multiplies so immensely on
m, that no man has the least hope: of the
Congress gettin r tip in less than six weeks
or two months fijom this time. Some say,
we must remain until the disputc is accom
moduted. So you see we are finely off,
chained down to perpetual business, far
remote from our best connexions. Hea
ven put an end to thin confusion,- with the
destruction of those infernal enemies to the
British empire who persuade these wicked
measures." '
Extract of :! letterfi-om London, April 27.
" Lord Eflingham'l regsiiment, now in
Ireland, wsius ordered to Amcrica; on v. hich
his Loi'dfliip sent a letter of isicsictrsinn'siinn ",
Londsi Barnngmn, lccrctaissy a; wan-, dsi
darlng, that he never would afl-st 11] can-,
ing measures into execution against tire,
Americzms, which, si/rompsincfjle, he ab_
horred, and had opposed, m his place, in
the Houle of Lord;. Barrington declined
laying she letter of resignat'wn bcfmc The -
King, saying, it should come through the
Lord Lientenant of Ircland, as the rcsizi,
ment was there. Lord Efiingham rclzlic—d,
he might do as he )]cascd with the [am-;
but, that he won d not go 16 Americn.
This nobleman's courage and galluntry isss
as in'dispntabie as any man's in the woi'ld.
This may he dependccl on as met, tnougn
it has not appeared in the_L0nd0n pusspers.
ct " A sjzsi'ssiom' speech, said to'b-e delay-er.
ed by General l'zurgoyne in the House of
(;ommons, is printed by adminiliration,
and sent over to America to be distributcd,
in order 10 deceive the people there, with
respect to the principles and intentions of
this wicked nian. The hest reply' to this
speech will be, for all the Americcm prin
ters to publish one of ]nniua's letters,
where he gives the sstrue character of Coioz
nel (now General) BURGOYNE." _
At the court of chr and Tetminer,
held last Tuesd'ay and Wednesday at [the
Capitol, the following criminals' were
l ronght to their trials, and received sea.—
tence accordiiss-gly viz. jamea Hopkinssi,
from Orange, and Henry Mansening, from'
Augusta, thrhorsestealing, James Dufli'ey,
from the same county, [or burglary, and
John Martin, from Cumberland, for forg
ing tobacco notes: Death. Henry Mzilsi
kell, from Cnmberland, sorsorging tohac-l
co notes, was "ordered to he sent to kills
borough, N. Carolina, being suspected'ol'si'
felonious practices inthat pr'ovince'; and
Robert Cloud, from Prince William, for
murder, i: laid over to Odtoher court.
AT a committee held for james City
county, on Ttiesday the Gth day of
june 1775. '*, -
The committec being informed that—
Casit. Mitcheson, of the Molly, from
\Vhitehaven, consigned to Meli. Eilbeek __
and Ross, merchants at Norl'olk and Pes-jr .
tersburg, had lately arrivcdin james riv'd'
with a large quantity of merehandise, and
it being represented to them that therdsi'
was great reason to suspccsit an attempt
wonid be made tolnnd some osthc articles,
either in this or other counties, the com-_.
mittee came to the following resolution?!
' Hesolwd, thatit-be enrnesictiyrecommcnflo "
ed to the several select committees, who
were formerly appointed by this commit
tee sor such purpose, that they exerttheir
utmost yigilance and endeavours to preyffl
any part of the cargo from being landed
or disposed of within this county , andsiis
they shall discover an attempt of the shrt;
that they immediately give notice thereof
to the chairman. - '- -_
Rdblved, that it be also recommettded;
to the committces of the several counssiies
to use their endeavours to iiultrate an at
tempt to commit ib Hagrnnt a breaeh'ctofsi
the resolutionsofthe Contincntal (Long-rest;
and particularly to the committce of the
eounty of Dinwiddie to inquire strictly—into
the conduct of Mess. L'ilbeck and R-oss,
and that they would prevent any of the
said goods from being landed or dilposed
us within their counties.
. The committee took into consideration
ithe late expedition of Patlick Henry, Esq;
nd the Gentlemen voluntee rs from Han
bver and several other counties, in order
to obtain satisfaction for the gunpowdcr
removed from-the publick magazine by
order of the Governour; and resolved,
that their thanks be presented to all those
Gentlemen, for rendcrhvg this country sosi
essential a service. And it was ordered,
that these resolutions should be published
in the Gazettc. si '