The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-02-28 00:00:00, page 2

I"! 'ct ' v '—
T, " our] ssnct'Qn Mr: diredc fombk fortun'
) the ilclcfg emmeo! of his wed ", '\ suom & um
hgenm'icty of our people, we have rivzlled thc'Euvq-emn in um lad sci
ences; , but it mny-weli be doubled whether we llodd not hivebeen at
this day in the depth: of ignorance And wretchedncsz, jud we neuer e:
juknqed mon " bas-piuqss, ad : aiLl-r Mans." dun we did
mid: George Ill. And had our ancekmsikmctctnothing of the bles
"iiagc bf liberty, had they not bled for !! lum. to seem it to the
.chctsul ;md iusaumessd pro Je of jpplsii ,. I:- hld they not find
ssc jb'y ic hour, or had we ; wi?- on fiif : rod of iron, we
Sight indeed have been in suclusi As of misery lnd ignorancg :: not to
Knpw Let me the' rsii hlsps mankind, or how to vindicnc them; but
_ ly . able oypctgifion. insulu, end 'disszsipqlical cnuelq we experienced
ss er'lsis ctsfigll, must have driven put to despair," which would easily
ssie us to " unkind against the whole, power, a: be tall: it, aflbc
m muhy." But she diffissuhy he finds now in conquerin Americu,
I; Mishly un'ihotn (6 hu- usi power, achircd urely by : merciful
indpl'tnce ofba'k'uul molhcr country, ignorant ' che wonderful fffrcti
produced h nnnniqity _and zeal nmon [! : brave ple, ngglssing for
lhesidclrr righu and priviiegu. zm, your umble servant,
si AN A M E R ! (1 A N.
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... ,B'O ST ON, Januaryctt3. si,
- PERSON who lately lest fldifu, inform, m: : sm day: before
'" "" 'FM siu'"1siass"' "S.":- sssi'".ss.'fi"p.siu'si""'si' fsi'si
, ' :: t ne, wit tie
.M'wGenet-ctllchew Yorktctnndthlt he manam."
(who mnmnde-nt Misu) lnnext dey dedm on 'ehnnp, um unt
wsith France m inniuble, animate dame'd rebel- (n hellied net)
n'hld fill bold Amid in Mon. silk llso repom, thlt when th
Jiesinm were add et lb] m, they took :. ded: en spun neither num,
m, nor c 'Id. - - -_
We learn from Hilifu, that in ended bt-ig named the Indeyendence,
"a taken by Dlwfon and I mnsport ship, nnd carried to fort Cnmber
land. l'hc brig engaged Dau son some time, but the thtp running up
along (".-(e, hdving soidiers on bound concealed, who iutt-sstmly rot'c up
um! sin-d : vol'ey of tctmatl arms into the hng, obliged her to itrike.
[( as rsi-p wtnt the brModem-e, Czqzuin Sampson, would have
t'tlu-n ]):l-Ntul". before: the shtpsie'ame u ), had hit men ltood to their quar—
ters; two or theee ut'whom, tsit i: tzctiJ, hekffled for leaving thun
It is : fact th or ;- Hrfsifln offiaer of rank, who was lately mld; ptil'oner
by the armv of the United State, lflinned to on offitet ut' Dttt-nction,
that the Hsisliau troops yere now yond lest in number than they were wlun
thuv sil'st lunded tn Nc'si York. - "
Scsie-sinl prize. have ta'eiy atrived within this State, which were taken
by th" Union, \Valhingtonsi and Tyrannicitle atmed ve si'els.
PRUHDENCE, jan. 18. A letter frolntNIut-ris'suwn, New ]L'l'si'ctV,
to a Gttmzman nere, int'ormt; that in the late nctton between the mititit
and W'cthtccuers, ; Colonel ot'dsagoons wan killed, whose lots was much
l'unet'sile-ct hy t'ttectencmy
d'uatdtsst- hit sicneml Arnold arrived here from the westward.
_ sttc't-ltv nigh: last some men from the cm-my's shnpa that Irty at Pru
dence tsi-t fire to a house on th'tt illttnd, wuich was eommttntcztcd to one
or two Ltitv-r buildings, and gave rise to a t'eptsirt that the umn) ]t ;d burnt
th mwn otsi Newport. These were the onty bttcttltnngs that remained on
,- the tth ld after Wallnce's cxpcu'it'mtt up the bay lzttt wmter.
C'tptain Ayru, who lately went with ;t flsitg of (luce lo Ncwpurt, t'e
tustted on Wednesday. and brought with him about 50 Antct'tcatts, in
exchsimesie for : number of tsiit'unerz he delivered there.
.0n briday morning, lit week, a ptrty of out troops from Seconnct,
With one I! And one in pountlcr, dtovc the Ccrhetus man of wu from
Fogland {:rry. She returned- the fire brilkly for sometime, and [lightly
ct si wunn-led ucte ofuu: men; but vut at length obliged to put to sea, and
ie'sincc armed at Newport. By certain accountt received from thence,
. we hunt, that she was cunstderably dumaged in her bull, and had 6 men
killed, an} n number wounde-l.
We heir that General Clintnn has sailed from Newport for "England
in flteAsia man of war, and that Earl Pcrcy (whom General Unge t'o
Mighlv commended for hie agilit in the Lexington rettezt) now c-zm
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manus the mittiflcrial troope at hodc Ill..nd.
"& jant. 25. A Newpott paperof I'hursday se'nnight cnnmint an Iddl'esi
' stout the Tositcts to General Ctintun, entreating hun to ute hit influence
V ( uith the pictet ded cuanmiflluner: of peace, that through hit intercesswn
" they may " tmce mule enjoy the Kinds molt gracious rutection."
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Sinct si-mct last a vefl'cl arrived in a netghbouring State tom hhrtin'teo,
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A Gen- -n.:m who came in her informs, that : constderable number of
lrbss-ssts hate lately arrived there from Funce in some shi : of war, and
si (hue.,body of topoo tmn will soon be assembled aUtal 'tfland. He
M i.:rzftflf-tzsif Was?"
new LQMWy-f _ si
who Ind:- anew WEMHFMWD
liclsilnnlficen oodbhltendffl as
English, told Pf'sisil'sv that}. col :: were to m ! e
for the daminiSnsM th': hit *e es fli'icfiinnfl WM
"0 s-llmi-Bsb mvxmnisilekssmfiw- . ., .. . , .,. ssss
cig'fliuctism. :: prisoner in New York, (lated ib: f ,. !776.
" The clilhe'lsis of ale risopeys canot be'qo had I, words;
20 or 30 du: every day; ! sicyvhe m help unbulsiledj "
countrymu lum: die'djay coid and nunger, perlshed '
mon necessarscsis gt' lise'. 7 lm't seeflsiisij'ct Thiljj ffl' it
:!euug (I myse'sf had well sir si parisheg unqqsiiej ;- _
people cln have no sdn osshc bmblxdyl' pdtcyflsiloshmgc
treatment but n—emliation. , ! ever dctpsiw revenge, [hat
thepublir must be in this else jufl ayd n :t-n' die due ( mi
ospur murdered ctcuun'u ctmcfl. andssdfit' Talbne ffi'plwefl 'vor,
in the like simationn dlher than expetienee, aglin Whebniiy 'Msi
insuhs, ma ] fall b the sword of'tle Hefflant, —- -3 '- '4 ss -.
HARTl-XORD, :}ch. n., Lalt Snturday about to Bfiflshdsicersina
ss soltlicrs cant: to town lr'om thsie wellwzrdjsssi about} Wo-m mob filed
way to this phce. They are plrt of the god Who m lately taken yffl
sonen at Pritzrcton. " ' " ' ' -*'-'- '
By the last account; from our army at and near Klngsbddge. we ne
informed, that the Hon. General Head], with his y.- hzd suiroumied
sort lnde ndcnce, except one narrow pa _ taken up the ledd- -
brid e, nown by the name of Dykeman :, nnd'it was thought they
wott d soon be in posseflion of that fortresl. - - ss ss A
FlSI-l KlLL, jeu. 13. We learn the recmirini service gon oft"
briskly in this State, and that the regimenu orde'red to e mited in it will
soon be full. ' '
By the last accounts from [.th Ishml we are credibly informed that
atsizer the dcscat of the cne-n at mnton, General Howe ordered all th'e
mctt'zc inhuivimma ol Long I and, eagzblc of bearing arms, immediately
m lupzll' to New Yurk, to rcinforce t e British atmy; and that the w'omen
;mJ chiiJi rn wene reduced to great extremities by being there lest destitufsie
and exposed to the ravages of the troosis left sorxhe defence oslhe island.
it is cvnfideully assented, that the ing of Great Britain hath agreed
v-i'h the Prince of Hessc, to send to his Highncss's principzlity as many
Amul'icnn 'sox'ics as my he necesifuy to replace the Hesfians who may
in knllul or taken prisoners by the Amelicam.
NEW YORK, 74". 10. On Monday last Mr. CHARLES LEH
ma: lnoughl to this cn) lrom Brunswick, and put imo cuRody of a strong
s'tlzelJ
hIajm' French, who lately escaped out of prison 'tn Conntcticut, whetsi'e
he hrta beentreated with gtflt sevcrity, is safely arrived in town. '
The shi Lord North, C-sstptain Ross, arrived hete yesterday from An.
tssictsiuft, mnrhrought in with him : btsiig ftom St. Mnrtim, bound to Phj.
l.tde!phta, with salt and dry goods. si *
PHILADELPHlA, l-"eb. ". A London print, ofthe zd o! Decem
- ]u't', it is mid, waksifound in ; prize lately taken. andemrried into : post
i.: the Malsachut'etts State, wherein was inserted an account, that an
English cutter had taken and carried to England, : vcfl'el from France
bound to Americn, with despatehel, by which they, learnt, that the
Court of France were determined to zffilt the Amet'icans with : powefful
ilsi-ct in the spring; that on the British Court": receiving this account, the)
immediutely gave order: for fitting several large ships, and that :500
t'canten were pressed in one night to mtu them. '
. Extract q/"a [merfl'om London, Na-uzmlm' !.
" Rectsiuitin parties are sent into different parts of German], on the
part of Great firitnin; recruits are also daily raising in the different part;
ot'this kingdom, add to this, thut all Scotland n ransncked for men,
One thousand Romm Catholics ate alt'ezdy raised in ]reland, to whom
the oath of supremacy is not adminiltered. and the different shipo of w"
now buildin . not only in the public, but private yard), show plainly
that Englan has no thoughts of arace with Amet'ica. An embargo
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just laid on the expoitation of provi tons; the fall of flocks from 7 to 5
per cent. to or :: ship: of the line lateiy put into commission; the honest
press that he: been known for many year: all over the kin dom, and
five pound: bounty offered to seemen, influence: every per on to think "
that in European way is inevitable."
A luge transpatt with Hessmn recruitt. and. art of the Scotch Fusilecn,
driven off the coast of Ameriel and dismasie , it arrived at Montset-mt.
On Fl'idly lah was brought to town. : number of Hefstctr. :v-d British
prisoners, which, together .with those mentioned in our len, unite nen
one hundred brought in within a week.
Ftb. 15. A; officer, pkjrrind from head qumut, intermo, that