The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1779-09-04 00:00:00, page 2

Shj Jame. Wdltm-sfux luving been on a! expedition to them,!
of Funce (where on the tlth of May, in the Experiment, dish"—
Richmond, Pallas, Unieom, some other friptn, the Cabot bm
several lug-suil ]crsey vessels, he no :shore end took the Done c '
fri ate of 34, sun., and hunt the Vlleor of 56', lnd the Recluse i 34,
ons scuttled : cutter of 16) hn saihd for Geofgil, with- som knowing
one:, who have been emb-rked in consequence of what Govemout
]ohnlton alluded to, when he declned in Pnliameht, that he hid made
use of other meam thnn petsulfion end lrgumeot. to execute hid seem
commisiiun, when in America: What those meam ven, tho pteso-t"
time: you compllin of. and the depreciation of your money, demonhnte.
Prihteefing from the British inunds i: nlmosi at Ill end; plenty of
European good- m ing in upon on, and if your produce it but
lowered to a reasonab e price, you will hnve un inundltion os necessaries
fnom many uartert, notwithlhndin there Ire so mony British (hidden)
Agenu emp oyed to engross and ui the price of the one, that you my
not be able to purchase the other,- upon term: tending to excite general
discontents, to destroy all confidence, and producejhat anarch and
confusion, 'Which alone can give the Bnsitish Miniliry : glimpse ofyhope
to bring you back to her shndard.
PfllLADELPHlA, Augnst 24,
5 ] R, PAIAMH, August—SD', l779v
' MOVED from the camp at Ramopogh, to fleckensaclt New Btidjssesi
I that evening] sent off Major Lee who had taken greet path; to gem :
knowledge of the enemy't situation, with about qoo men, m_ older to
summe the gzrrison of Powlet Hook, which they affected before day
light next morning; and brought ollbout 160 psit'ortese, y'hteh ] have
sent on to Philadelphia. The killed and wounded lett behth :: uncer
tzm, at it was necessary for the troope to come off before day appeared.
They ere all returned safe to camp, with the loss of not more than four
or five; after : march of upwm'ds of 80 milee in less than three days.
lsalther patticulan you wilt no doubt receive thtough hie Excellency
General Washington, this ] unite on my way to camp It leopogh
And with sweete regard and esteem,
] am, your look obedient humble senznt,
STLRLING.
Hie Excellency ]ohn Jay, Esqz
Publzjbuf Ay order of Caugflsx.
CHAKLBS THOMSUN. Send.)
ptrlct of . lam- frau : Gentleman o! Cadiz, lo bit friend a! Dram.
Tehetifi'e, deem! ]uly 4, 1779.
" The British, Spamilh, and French fleete wele all at se. hfl month.
the former met in the thenne] by a Danith ship; it confined of 9 dipt
of the line and frigates. Thzt of Fratnce eontitted of a thipe of the
line, ere- off the Groyne, from which place they went to iotned by a
Spanish sell of the line. "
" The 8 "th grand uadron ailed the-aad in the nothing from
,.Ydis, eon 'gnit " of;:sniiosshelineudfiipm, and
' pyosedto be gone apinh Gibealmz wheutnqe nue nued
; ing. lmwmwshm nwhiehiepn 'Mthe
3. ng'e edifi, forbiddhg. the mussel? man. Nsssifi
fmm treding, eom ndin , or having intercourse nith
of Great Bntnin; l' avise ia Cnhdieh Majely't deeleud'on, ma..
forth his nashhs for eoluneneiag hofilitietct with Great Britath. The
flute infomte, of the taking the OKerly lah lmtiamen My lah.
by BMMJh ffimsimo cemed her intXMerle-x." si ss . .
clean Worms, ioga. Angu es, "19.
" On the uth iaflntwe atrived et Tioga wtthont dmage trowest
tion. ] will not attempt a deseti ' of the country betwee- thu end
kaiug, lel you should sup e it in: slihle for en envy to move
wit such up" silly through it. Rety difieuhy that mountain. sum",
lld defilee cou throw to our way we eueoontered; and notwithmmdmg.
the In"? dngemn Smtions we were plead in, not a lndien eve:
yeden himself to our view.
-*' On om- wey up, Colene] Proaor, who commended the fleet of
banemx, landed a few men and burnt atwn called New Kitnn-ing.
ehout fifteen mile: below this. On a rock before the town the lndiane
had peintede face, one half red and the oththhek, endlematicel of
theirdark and hloojy methodot' pso ' war.
*' On the night the tath influx. the side arm moved from this
aee to Chemtmg, in order to surorise : number of ln jane that ley then}
About day bnak we arrived, but they having previous intelligence of our
march, evlcuated the town, and mind to : height several milee beck,,
The town va- set on she. end the light ilfantry otdcrtd to move fomudt
some distann from the town the Indians find an them, sitteen sell, si:
killed and nine wounded, among the Inten- Clgctdn Cerbury andeutant-ct
Bulenof the nth Pennsylvmie regiment. r them without hein me
In! flaggend. returned the fire, and instantly eherged them with zed
hassonett. General Hand led on the chuge with that inn" id firmnet'e
which never faile ofsuceese. The lmhant not willing to wait t !: approach
of our bayonete. fled wtth preeipitation. What loss they sustained we
have not been able to ascertain. I believe it vesy nifling.
" A Frty wae sent over the Cayuga branch to cut down a lesse field
of corn opposite to Chemung. A few lndiane having crept up near the
field sired upon them, kined one man and wounded five, so thatous whole
loss amounted to seven killed and fourteen wounded.
" Atter ye hzd eompleted the desh-uaion of the corm the arm
mitedimmedtalely back to Tioga. Perhaps :] greater and difficult usstnre
never 'I! performed; in act houre we marched at least 40 mile: through
I wild and mountltnoee country. Du'ring the whole of thit time, General
Gpllim. with]!" nel tmwearied dl'igeflcc, attended to every part of
hue army. path:- ned? stratagem of war to" effect : cum lete surprise,
and "would in _all he ity have succeeded had not the dixanee been so '
pen. Nm andia the General'l ill lete of health, he he- in every
tom exerted himse in : molt furprismg manner, and pllinly shewn
that-Iothtng but his induflry could have out thie army so soon in motion.
Wh- men to npfl stout hu Mvity and enterpnse some future time
. . W— ..chtmfrm Boflu. dml Amid, 17 .
" Alum go!; hue been fixing here ill thin menting. A fleet in our
qu coming m. we know not yet whether it sin in English fleet of on:
fleet returning from Ponobscot with success or misumct-ge, or whether
it in : fleetsiot jamniu ship, which we have repen- by : vessel fron
fen, that sin mec I ship from ]amaica, uNed the London, the pnsszdlliu'
of which desired him, in ease he got into pot: before him, that he would
'mfoxm the Navy Board, the Prssovidsince, ()Qeen of Francq_ lad Rm ,
continenm sngatos, had flllen in with I fleet ot ]mmcame p, has en
lnd mnned three, and wan then in the midst of 40 or 50 sail, pickin
nnd choosing." . - '
Extract qf-uotb'n' letter fron Boflon, [up]! ", 1779.
" Captmn Manly hu taken : new frigate, pnvnte propeuy, built in
Nova-Scotil, wax going irom ..Hsisilit-ix to New York for her compliment
ofmen and gone. She had 14 gun sion board, end wn toceeding to York
soi' !! moun- ]: is said she lind . ly " men betose : mzst. She has
ltrived at Newbury Part."
WILLlAMSBU KG, ScPssTzMizx 4.
lNCE our. last we have had lwo nmvah, the tchooMs Hnnnah. Cape.
Riehudsslnklton [rout Amltetdam. end the Mulny, Capt. Kilgonr,
— in 16. days from St, Euttzttil, they bring no late mtelhgence of the
"Mind! end Btiush fleets. CApt. lnklton in hie passage took asi-junain-r
man tolded with zoo bogshenlt of sugar, &c.. _but not bem; litle lo mld: ss
sssihet, 'wu obliged to xcept of : t'ansume foe ssoolssltetl'mg. Mm. ; .
. brought : hohage for the due tt'ormame thrseuf. - -
Tu-ylaudjr— lb: EYDiN anrrn. Apri! ,.
Priute letten [tom Pnrie inform: un, that on the agth o! Much m ct
held at Vertiillet, : gteat council, relntive to the matter: upon the e
in the conference: at ] eschen, the fignnure of the weatiee me re
by the insertion of some clause: forugn to the principal subject, viz.
The French Miniltry intend to mnke good use of their mediatton to had
the flute; concerned in that business, to ucknowledge the Ameskul inde
deney, under the denotmnsi-tion of the tepubnek of the Ancien
mited State" the eontmc'lin parties ire now;): nvetsise to this demnd,
though foreijn to this intent , but the? with, on theit- tide, thlt France
would tcknowledge the ulidity of the iviston ot' Pohnd, end confirm it
by her assent. Thu reeipsoc'tty is so natural, so lgreeahle to thejtmdo.
ud intenlh of ance, that it il not lupposed she will refuse it.
le extract fron th Martinique Gaum of jujt :, 1779.
The esth ut' jane the frigate ]: Blznche of 36 gous, commandedz
Monsieut de la Gzl fi'onicrc, being one of the squzdrun o! Munsimls
la Mothe Picquet. came to inches in the bay of Pan Royal, after havin'
hid an engzgement with the ]upitsir an English se gon ship; this lain
doe: the greatest honour to the French navy, end deserve: mention a
: mnfl hemick e: loit. A vessel of the convey havinsibeen sepund
from the fleet and Falling to lcewud in a ltotny night, e commended _
thnsiw out I stgml for the ]- Dllnche to go and convey he: buek lo the
fleet; she soon came up with, and took her in tow, when thejtt
attacked the srigateh Blanche. (:.Kh thlt wxfitlmsz sueeesew '
: upeiorhy-qsshne thou in 'tee. but ect " h ' th' '
- working of the jupiter't lowgdeck gent; the trip!- MW
injury; Monsuur de la Galishnien, wont)- dssthe not he
s the mule of the Jupiter whld the utmlinmpjdity,
returned herite so wi otoufly ther (be we: obliged to Iteer of, thee 'I
very hot nction; the la Blanche purtued hersor the !pue es Us Ill hour,
but the ]upiter being : better title: than the frtgnte, out sailed he:, '
notwithshnding the damage she had received in the er pgemt, musietsiu
de la Galissonitre thought ptoper to give ovet the pursuit, thlt he might,
not he ('epanted from the cun'oy.
F 0 R 5 A ]. E.
TRACT of LAND acpoiling the town of Mind. A
um um be made to the nme. Also a considenbb number . hflf
use lon in lb! s-id lown.---\Vanled : czpital sum of money; the bnnker
to secure Iumself.—'.* ! inund to set out for Fractu- :: soon as my akin
will permit, lnd to reuun as soon as convenient.
WlLLlAM COUTTS.
F 0 [( 5 A !. E, ' si
SEVERAL GOOD BEDS AND FURNITURE
Apply to me in King & Queen.
(p) " JOHN GARDNER.
To be SOLD, jor nag; many, an Thursd-y th nzdy' Scptembcr,
-' a: Hammon, _ .
fMY HOUSES in:! three LOTS ndjozning, wheron is : hrge
and caininodious bnick dwellinghouse, with 4 room: above lod
ow, kitchens, lhchl, ind all other neressnry oulhmxses for I large
be]
fsizmily. There is :\ wooden addition to the dwdlinghousc of 1 room
thou and below, which. together with : kitchen and panof : flabk'. !
shnll rel'etve so long as I lb) in the country. As no person will punhlfil -
without vnewing me premilu, : slllhts description is um-ecessar .
(:I) . MARTHA MlCH LL.
Puncs Gionne, luzust 25, 1779.
LL who have claim: agamfl the elh'e of Captain Richard Davit.
A late of Naf mond. decuscd. are (] sum] to :. pIy, and shosc who
are indebted m requclkd to make immed-ne pay men: to
- THOMAS DAVlS. Adminiflrzm
- Bornoun' connhouse. {ugufl so, in,.
TAKEN up. in Bmtmn count), (swelling into the back countns
in:! now in my cusiody. : nezro woman named HANNAH. who:
had : pnsc with her, signed by yolm Hundg, who (he sayt' " humble:
md live: in Henry" county. She if a lion! young woman, Mild
yem of age, the tocl of one of her feet seems to hue been bui'ltoff
when young. The owner is desired to prove hit pro y charged
and take her away. (lfl) GEORGE 15? CEKNSON.