The Virginia Gazette from Williamsburg, Virginia • Page 2

Vlt llamnton a rifleman killed and fnday bemg rainy and muddy fc a man at the diltancc lauc care, immune mie 1 moving out The (even white pntoners men on ft crd ith board the Hawke tender at Hampton nayev vy 7 rue himfelf defip was to attempt to deftrov the magazine or and that his mad iiefs and folly made him return the fenti rtars fire; Whoever harrow efcane. N' DON, October 6. GENERAL Howe, fince he took the command of the army, in order to 1UWV Jll LUC 14 7illllUlf Cy UII IrlUay laftjb'egan a fmart cannonade, when 93 fhot were fired from the feveral batteries Tn. 1 .1 fliipa Rofe, 1 uh iixgunsi txclunVtd fume foot with a party euiereu i. men Jameftown, without any manded 300 (heep, wheh not bemg com.

The freauent depredation, committed on plied with, between 8 and 9 0 Mock they 1 1 i a i jmvv nre nuun mc luwu the rivers by the tcnaers nave pruvucu isltJ i tn tiurnlt thrir people coming on fhore, wheh they exped 10 treat, incm wuu, wak w.v morninff, it being very dark and rainy, women and children, in great di trels the fenlinel on duty at the treafury fired (dark and. rainy js. it was) were obboed upon fome perfons, whom he hid repeat to leave their habitations, and feck fliclter edly cHallenKcd without receiving any an in the adjacent country. Between 9 and foW Vnd fnrnpAino. thev Were armed.

10 o'clock a committee was appomica 10 and that they might return', he hung his go on board, who (ct tied the matter, by blanket upon lo'me pales, and ftood with' giving or felling 40 fleep. In the fmall his gun ready cocked to fire at the flafliof defenctlefs town of Bnftol were near 100 their Runs. In about half an hour a gun perfons very Tick, and dead, at the time Was difcharged from behind the treafury, of this firing; and are affurcd, that the' ball from 'which ftruck clofe to the tQ fick perfons adyally died of the right. blauket, aind the fentinel fired a fecond .1.. O.R V.

October 12. om time. JL he captain or me guara at me inagaiine I hearing the report of guns, wem lpmcuiaiciy wiyua niidiiucwvuuicm, trt nrlpavniir to'intcrccnt the villains uoon their retreat and it is laid faw three nien at whom he fired," without fuccefs, it be riir Wirr re dm dark. Next morning TT is faid general Gage is actually failed for England. General VVafhington has heard from col.

Arnold, who had then palled the Carrying Place, and was going to embark on the rircr Chandler; and writes, that federal parties were fent after them, but he was. afTured there were no forces of could gin no other intelligence than that confequence to refift him jLt Quebeck, two of three men, in blue jackets, had where it is thought he is arnvea. A BKI DG OcJober u. creek, by fome I jit has been iulpeaed that capt. Monta no nc uur pvdtcci as the perfon, and that his JL i from Beverley, having been on a was cruife in the bay, wai folio wed, oh her return into port by the Nautilus man of war.

lhe privateer ran a grouna in a cove a little without Beverley harbour, where the people fpeedily afTembled 11 I 1 1 1 3 His excellency general Walhington ha xtrippcu ncr, ana camea ner guns, occ. been pleafed to appoint John Gis Ag afhore. rhe man of war was loon with a ai er of Virginia, afliftant quar in gunfliot when (he alfo got a groundi temnfter general in the continental army She however, Jet go an anchor and of Profpcd and Winter bringing her broadfiide to bear, began 'to Jntlis fire upon the' privateer, 'The people of 'iDeathfl John Prentis, efq; ofthis Salem and Beverley foon returned the city; nierchant, after a tedious illnefs. compliment from a number of cannon on 2 i at ro a Nov. 4.

By lettersfl received laft night from Philadelphia, we have the melancholy intelligence of the death of pur belo ved Speaker, the Hon. PEYTON Elq; On the 23d ot October of an apoplexy. His remains were interred Un the family burying place of tnr 1 more, Keeping up warm and wen directed fire on the man of war for two or three hours and jt is fuppoftd did her confi derable damage, aruj probably and wounded fome of her men; but before they could board her, which they were preparing' to do, the tide rofe about 8 o'clock in the evening, when (he cut her cable and got Some of her fiiot truck one or two b.uildings in Beverley but no lives were lp. pn our fide and the privateer damaged 'very little, if any NEW SY li October 19., BY accounts, jlated the 4th of October, vye arc informed that general Montgomery vjs carrying on his approaches towards fort St. Tohn's with the utmoft vigour, and that the officers and men bear atn.oXpury, w.tn the reverities of that m.A, out aomg any otfter damage than wound firmneft and fortiinjle.

mg One man hi the aim and killing two cows. NEWPORT, October 9. HPHIS town having been threatened to vvc hear that major Charles Pretton, of his majefty 's 6 th or Cameronian rcgi ment, commands i the poft of St. John; brigadier general Richard Prefcott, licu teuant rnlnnpl nf th li41iro1 rnn.i;n. be fired on from the men of war, on leers, commands in Montreal? and hh account or the armed torce which made itt excellency govemour Carleton in the city appearance here, fundry of the mhabi and citadel nf 7 account Part then ul Yefterday morning died at his lodges 1 The carts, in this dtv Michel CreCn, efq: of the Tl re of Vinia.

fi captain in jucruiu inat tne ltreeti and rnnrl ww UI rme men; a gentleman of great reputation as a. fohtterj" anil highly eftccm, ed as a citizen. His remains will be 400 yards. poor women and were much e. fhc Wed in looking out for fome place of ol war, attended by all the military ol Uiu 1 v.i...

nitw nni nf their ellects. oeen ireaiea wuu rcawiiuiia.wwj, them.admhted to fis and another Saturday r. dnii Glaffrow. andSwan. abngwi micnarKcuu, ftd'one 0r two fmall bomb moVtart, three Jbty connneo, ana wui U.M rAU.

or tour lenucrs, 'fmall Ihuadron (commanded, is ral wood making in all 5 fail, ala" went cn the ntrer. Cud, by capt. Montague; a tew aay.uncc rr r. continued it upward of an hour in which coiitmued it upwards otai time a number of Hot went through the houfes of William Bradford efq; and capt. IngrahamV damaged the church' a little, and feveral (boos.

ftablcs. Sec, The I I A I October 23 BY an exprefs arrived at Hartford, on the 8th inftant, from Ticonderoga' we have certain intelligence that our pcoplc are in poiTeflion of Montreal; that they have taken a quantity of provifions going to the enemy at St. John's, intercepted a letter from the commander of the fcrtvto general Carleton informing hinr that they had "not more than three weeks provifion, and muft fpeedily give up, unlefs Tome relief could be had We are farther advifed, that our people had intrenched near the fort, were about to attack it, and that articles of capitulation had been propofed by the but rejected by general Montgomery.4 'L. Lait monday morning, before day, a tranfport fliipa ppt. Hallings, wasftrand ed on Brigantinc beach, on the coalt of New.Jerley.

Ihe had on board capt. Duncan Campbtlf, lieut Sims, two (tr jeants, and 21 privates, bound frcmBof ton (as they fay) for New Yoik, on a recruiting party. captain and lieutenant got off the beach on tuefday in a fmofl boat, and are fuppofed to have gone towards Amboy, but it execled they will be taken. Capt. Hallings, Vnli thrteLf the folcliers, were brought here laft fatoi day evening, under a guard; the reft of the foldicrs ill be'fecuied.

Before they quitted the vellel they threw overboard feveral pieces of cannon belongingvtd the 1 Veflel, 60 mulkets, and two barrela and a half of powder. The veflel left Bolton lhe yth of October, in company with a 20 pan lhip, and one tranfport, with fome troops bound for Halifax. No other (flips of war, or troops, had failed. General Gage wai to fail in a day or two, in a merchant fhip of 16 guns. The 48th and 59thregimenti bieing greatly reduced, the privates are incorporated into other regiments, and their offtcers going home.

The object of col. Arnold's expedition was not known at Bofton, but fuppofed to be cleftined againft Halifax. Beef at Bofton was 9d. ftcrling per pound, mutton a quarter of a dollar, and tills of exchange fold at 20 per cent, difcount. ExtracJ of a letter from Quebeck Sept, 17, We have accounts frorn St.

John's, where the king's troops are in garrMbn, that the continental troops were laying liege to it The confufion this has thrown every thing into is inexpreflible Proper perfons were immediately employed in collecting what iip.naclians they could, in order to take up arms and I have the plcafure to affure you, that they met with little or no fucctfs. Was a vigorous effort to be made on your fide, this country would be your own. The tools of ment are in full employment, fome in ob ferving the conduct of the Canadians, and others in watching the motions and actions of the Engliih Americans, who can neither fpeak nor flir without in being known." We hear from Canada, that the lieute nant govcrnour who commands at Quer beck, during the abfence of Carleton, ha about joco Canadians embodied; but they are fo ftrongly fufpected, that it is thought prudent not totrult them with a larger quantity of ammunition than lour round. AH bur accounts, both publick and privrfte, from London, feem to threaten deltrhJtion to America, and breathe nothing but war, fo that our own virtue and cout rage are' all we have to depend on for th maintenance of our rights and privileges. We h.car that dr.

John Kearfley, and Leonard Snow den, arc 'fen tenced to be imprifbned, for a limited time, in the back counties, fur their high wuuics tijgaiuii iius country..