The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1779-08-14 00:00:00, page 2

PHlLADE LP H I A, JULY 29.
N the 16th insiant C: (. lngersol, in the Monmouth, ntook the
(loop True Blue, o Snlem, : prize to the Galnea; and on the
lgth took the schooner Band, which was bound from New Yelk for
St. Bulhtia, but taken by the Mncmni. maken by the Gteyholnd floop
md sent for New York, then she un taken by Capt. lngersol, who the
flute day took the floop Calumbil of 10 gone Clpt. Bodson, from New
York for Mnlnp.
By : Gentlemen from New York we are informed, thlt the Galntea
lnd returned from : erulse off Bodon bay, where he fell in with the
Mineru, : French frigne of 31 um, who ve hel- : sense drubbing,
killed the Lieutetmtt and fever metr; an could the Mine": have
left her convey, the would probably have shewn the Galatee the tny into
'Boflon.
We ere also told that the cutter Rmnge. of New York, hid got into
New York in : th'attefed condition, having only 3! men out of 85 St for
duty -, and reported, that they had received their dttfling from . nbel
friglte, being ashamed to say they were so mauled by the bren Clpt.
An m, in 1 13 gon merehmtnmt. si
'Fhe two hndardl mentioned in hie Excellency's letter in one laft,
were brought to town llR Sundxy morning, by Mr. Amher.
Renmt o] "douce ndstm: tuum! Stony Point, ]uly : 5. 1779. alight.
Ordmu. lust, ; t'elve pounders. ] thm under; 'mm, ztwenty
four pounden, : ei hteen pounden, nnd I twe ve younder; brass how.
iderlineh, 1; h cmornn nineh, :; 5} inch, :; 4} osaainch, 1.
Thirty spouse! with Ram and rammer headl. 9 ladders with [hue, "
wadhooks with staves, 4 dra -ropel with puts, 4 draught chlim. 34
_ hundspikes, ] ! aprom of leaf, " net, so bout; lo buckeu, 40 bot
tom: of wood, to inch, 5 budge barrels, 4 brushes !orkitt, to hand
harmwz, ] cm fling complete, 14 hsge and 7 small caflouehec, : iron
crown, 5 .unle cap, : compasset, lo pound: of tallow ctndlel, (13
oileIoths. Flnnd :Wtdgu filled. Twenty four poonden, 603. ::
pounden "74, three pountten 395, twenty 8 inch huits, thin, eight
and forty 4} inch manne. lium,. One hundred end fony fix :
each howitz, m hondnd end forty ;} and two hundred md forty 4}
inch namn. PmrurtriQufi-bd Eighteen pounden ! zl. Bw.
zgteen pounded too. mulket within]! sins:. Three sunnele, n.;
drove lad imed, uGt mulket flinu, ,} pound: of la, :.
homen, ! horn, " mund hidet, 4 hand end a ball: hooks,
,} set: of men: honest, 6 hand hatehen. n.} tom of bank, . complete
tnnsile 'n, 3 banefirop. : cutting knives, : poring knives Iith hl'xk ss
end , 9pooodl'ofht. zifontndti-glndeh, :mosewynndsdnrk
We, 1 bin of HanhenZh lit, laho'ntofy M. . copper
:: nlhuud semn, Motofnrlinc, leon). milk. and
mld. M," gourd"!- !! bind. cerned. 4dnly. end 4 mealed
yond'- iodonnpcn inn, upuchnfofnnu. zpfidfim,
Wil—M. Ifuhmofppt foe luting. ntoekmwitd
0, ! Riehe vnth ire:, 40 spoken for niling sun., and 3 sun.
MNMp—Hss Fel- twelve pound." an rounds, ,; me. To
w um". T-en fm yonder- 304 mode. un use. twelve
founden ,00 made, me _ en you south, "6 case. She, ufi
puu'm-sim. For ' Inch. 40, formskinch. lo.
G'upujubmw. 'Twent four maden 93, inhegeeighteen pounden
45, to melt manus. Leflfiu. Twenty four undern uo, eigh
ueu pounden nal. Thmy nine sheep [kine, go nthome of lkid and
rhtmele rope, 3 stile: two feet busy, 4 puir of scifl'on. stew. Ten
each fixed to, empty 74, I inch fixed 13. empty 90. 3} inch fine] at,
empty 14], 4} of un tnch fixed 40. empty 1605 5 sctapn foe (helle,
noo sponge tackka. " spake. ( lhoveln, 1 tnrpaulins, totompiom,
; ssoffipen end : labontory tum, ,790 tuhel. :: poundo of mine, 30
pnmmg wuu, : set of bnse weig t: tum 4 pounde to I of on ounce,
: pound: worfled, 84 with so: 14 mien. in the use ( lb: [erse
Wu Fut'ty sets of large hot bon, end zm nail. for ditto.
For the an {best-tb. One fo hallows. one envil with back iron,
doe ng flee, ] tew iron, in one coal clsh.
thun q' arm endeth" articla wiuw bdire.
One hundred and thttty ton: tenn. 9 when. * hossemen- tents, ,
wall not:. 334 muficy !F'sih hayonetz. and to; cumch bosixet.
PuN-shed' order of Chin . _
bCHARLF-S OMSON. Sce'n.
lma f : leto- Ifrom Martinique, lad ]lsy 8.
." It seeme positive thu ! ] the power! of Europe hue conspired to
dablish our independeney. Nothing but our own miscondofi can coun
tend their good intention. By the interference of Rush end Prince,
,elce in nkond to the Emperour and King of Pmflia. By the medi.
nay influence of the Court of Versaillee, the difference thzt suhfifled
between Rush lnd the Porte. are finally settled, end satisfactosily
adjuhd. A spirit of me philosophy seeme to have introduced itself
it eo-m, which inclinee Prince- Io pusenbe happinesl or their sub'ects,
Uy eonsulting their peace end mquillity, to- the splepdedssprospezto of
military fame. The [(in of Pmfil. that scourge ot natrom, whose
lspiring view: have spend pulnion end diltseu throughout an em ' ,
seems to hurt awoke fro- : illufive dreams of ambition, end wxshee
to lttone for the miseries be hn cnused to mankind. He it now un
advocate for universal peace. nnd hu entaed coniointly with Spain into
the mediation of the dispum between Great Britun. France and ss
Amence. '
The tzking of the iflzndn of lufz end Guemsey is confirmed.
CHARLESTOWN, jsuu 7.
THE second e: ition of the British army (of the successful issue of
which. the hlh end Scotch, end the Royd Americen newf
yepen, hue been i] ed with pompoue prediaione for above . twelve
Jaonth "10 to render themselve. matter: of thin town it now it In end,
(and has proved equally is not more dfirctffu] to their um, than 61le .
Is! attempt in the yeu' 1776. Their army under the command of Bri
gldiet G_eneul Pmafl, mead- of two bmlione of highlqnden (the
,tfi rcte'unent) two tegimenu o Heffiam, one battllion of the doth,
Mtqmgenu of North Amiem new leviee, Colonel Brown". corpe of
sidfidone or 15 In horse, to which were muched : lerp—body ot' du most
Wss benSitti and horse thieves, thn perhapl ever were collected
w nysi when, finde: sick dinRion es M'Gitt (dignifid with the
title of Colonel) : corps os l'ndirml, with negro lnd white fiup dif
guised like them, and uizout lsoo of the most savage disafected
people, seduced tsom tue bukk sculemcntl of this state end North Camm
entered this thte the goth of April lum By :t rapid march, the Milk:
of the bet! guidet, a season uncommon]! (""out-idle, end taking mu ct
that could not bet'uspected, thin respect" e body arrived before the town,
quite unexpected tue t ith of May. On the nth, they preci itately
withdrew by night; and have ever since been healing fron' (! te
ishnd, till they ha-e etcaped, though not without an attack in theirlinee
on the zoth of ]une (after having beensi twice in vein invited out)
wherein they suffered scvesel , elpecialiy tlicis cotpeofhighlanden. lf
flripping even women and c ildren, and the very neglect. of all their
cloathin ; cutting up all the feather bed: that our people should have
none th ic on, and cmying off the ttcken; tobing every where all the
plate and money that could be found; deliroyin passen of all kinde;
cutting up or dashin to pieces every k-nd of uses houshould suteiture;
wantonly shooting wn all kinds of live flock; burning housee, and
carrying of some thousand. of negroee and houses. are meritorioue and
glornout actt, we are vunmted to say, thn no British umy ever did
acquire more glory then that commndsid by Brigadiet General Augufline *
Prevofl; but what could not be Iccumpishcd by an army to which such
honourable corps men- attachcd ? ,Psiuticulm of this notable expedition
will be published, ad soon as they can be proper} eohected and erran ed;
thou !: the whole of which we are petsisitaded i the information we ve
alrea y received can be depended upon, there will notsibe the len! cause
for censure on any part of the conduct of the Honourable Col. Muitland.
Major Skelley, Culonel Thomas Brown, one of the Heflien Colonelt,
end some few other officer- who did not come divefled of pdiunefs and .
humanit . '
71!) tye. The :lthos las! month 35 Amerieem, under Col. Twiggs,
at Mr. ]amu Buttler's plantntion in Georgia, tought a ,; ny of 60 picked
British suldten, monly gren sithen. ct-nmundt-d by Capl. Mulier, as ]
the oath ngimentg killed tour, among them Capt. Mulier; end Lime;
Swiiiten of the 71R, wounded eleven, and took 33 prisonen. The
wounded, amssng them ! ofieen, were permitted to go to Savannh on
paroie. Ousi pzrty had on:!- one man wounded. ]: 'u assented, (bet there
wn found in CPP-ss Muller ! pocket. an order from hie superiou' e-cei
not to in quiet to .mv inhahnant that should be found in um" but
we on; ! not to Five etsied'tt to such an afl'enion until proved to be a '
"she hie Pof \' Cut. ]usiAh D.:rrel, lady mind from 'M
ailed from (sin- ifle de Re, the loth of Mny lad], with a largene" 4 -
vesinvoy of u t'quadton of men of war, commended by M. de ]:
Picquets confining of ; ship! of 74 sinne, a of 64 [tun. end 4 tee
of 30 end 36 S'PW having a number of tunspoeu wish a large y of
troope unbound, amougfi them two ]rish regioun said to be ddtss'nell ::
In nugnentmon to Counl'ctde Shingk sone in she Wea ladies' Ceyx,
Dame] pained with them o, Naduu- On the lash of ]vle be L'.
Beet of nywndn of no sin, which he 'udged robe frbm the Wel [lik'
bound home. When he lest France, apt. Po! ]onee un in".- one
a ship o! agone, another of so, and one of to, which joined 'isih song
American Rnnmn, m shortly to sail ste- von-l' Orient, .. en en
"?"??- Mim' m n.;- —.ss.ss'...,ct inw—
part: of thin Rue, and took lviewd'ChnDeb-u. ye hear; lum
art e t emy t )
w Georgie, and put remain u Part Royd ibnd. with their l—du.
The brig Sany of thia port, Clpnu ]ofeph Even, fiel- it. uhfie,
it arrived lefe at Edenton. Noeth Ceroliu, thither lhe else ended m
rieet, : (hop end : schooner iron Georgia, leden with nnd due. lad
timber, bound for New Yolk. -
ltsi we me to give my erectdit to the inforlntion of IRSJnniK Ca '
lately arrived here, charged with defpnehee w Coug , the in open—
dence of the United Stues of Anterica, un publiekl-y receglded I
flavenneh, on the oth day of him lain and puhlch notice !: the sum
time given to all person- inclined to it out 'vateen to cruise 1.an th!
Enghlh; thnt eommifliom would be great them on the tl day of ]uly._
The same Captain eddt, thn an undergo m hid in all the dipping
et Huvznn the next day, and none suffered tndpnt uttvro with money
foi- Phihdelphia, end hit with despatehet; that there wete ; ship. ofthe
line at Hanna when he left it, : mote ready to bunch. end leven] otherl ss
on the Rocke, and no less than [I (signe! ofP w gi'gu-I in port,
monly new, uid of the length et 74 gon:, carrying ed to 30 eightee
pounden upon one deek. - .
WIL LlAhlSBUKG, Aucul'l' 34.
Y Capt. Steel from St. Euflatu, whoil arrived utthe Eefiern Chose.
B brings the agreenble news of the Count de Elhing having tuen
Gsiemda and given Admiral Bymn : good dmbbin , took one frigate.
end drove the test of the fleet into St. [(in-, four o which hefew lowed
in himself very much shnteredz at Cept. Steel it a man of vencity. we
may depend on thin piece of intelligence to be true. We hue bed one
other mrival from France, in which clme pzfsenger the Rev. Mr. Ford,
who hue blought very interesting despatehet to: on'rese, which in kept
! profound (beset.
so;) as :: [mer fin- n ffizerlat can; nor for: Montgomety, lad
\ 14 21, 1779.
" You muR und 'ubtedlv betctore this h-si-ve seen the partimlln of our
' gioriou and successful enterprise at Stoney Point, near King'e fury,
which renders it uu-t-eexflsiusiy to give n detail of faste, which will come
ofieiall from his Excellency; but at ] had the honour to commend nll the
t gon our state employed on this service, lthink it my duty in 'uRioe
to ! se brave men, to inform you that the front platoon of the alar
hope eonsilted of three fowths Virginius; the front of the tun guard
eom sed of volumeen fmm tue cfllumn were Virginizm, end the front
of eolunm were Poley's hzttzlivn, composed of four companies, nll
Virgininnt. and Fleury's a Virginia and : Pennsylvanin companiee;
two serjeentt and five of my men who were in the sorlorn hope were eithel
killed or wounded. -
" ] have the ha pinese to say that every officer and foldiet under my
ss' command, behzve with a degree of hravery peculiar (n ] conceive) to
those who are detetmined to be free. They surmounnd every danger end
difficulty without confusion or delay, far surpassing any enterprise in
which ! have had an Mive part. ] wish neither thanke not eewml.