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NE May i. OlJ ThtirfdaV lift afnved hit Majefy's fhip Galatea, Capt. Jordan, tnd brought in cutter carrying 16 runs, commanded by Captain Cunningham, who hat diftinguifhed himfelf on many occafions, Without any comroiflion he took two packet bound from Harwich to Holland, sell of piracy which otcafioned nil outlawry He afterwards commanded privateers in the European, Weft India, and North American feas. Cunningham was a notable cruifer in the Weft Indies, giving intelligence to the fount d'Eftaing of the motions of the Britifh The cutter is named the The Grantham packet was attacked on her approach to Sandy Hook by a rebel fchovtier from Egg Harbour, which, after being pelted with forae well leveled foot, was obliged to ftieer off. Ext8 of a Utter from London, dated March j.

reinforcements for America will be very ample; aooo men are jo VcT to the Well lmjies, where a grand pufh will be made, the militia will be entanped as laft year, no dread of an invafion, and reft allured the imhpen lence ot America will not he acknowledged by Great Britain what (he Xiits as a nation. News of decided fuccefles are ex petted from the Baft, Indies. You may be allured that the fevcral regiments of lev 1 litis riiltd in Ara rica iince the commencement of the rebellion are eftablifhed, with rank and lulf pay. fl A HAM (NculerCes) Mav 4. hear from undoubted authority from New York, that four regiments of the enemy are actually embarked for fea, and from ciicumiiinw it is thought that a general embarkation will fhortly take place.

MxfraJl of a Utter from General Schuyler to General Washington, dated Albany, April 27, 1779. Laft night Capt. Graham, of Van Scaick's, delivered me defpa'ches atom inn umccr, aaviung me 01 uie lucceis or me troops 01 me unuea States, under his command on the enterprife againlt Onondaga. The fecrecy, difpatch and propriety with which Col. Van Scaick had executed his ord rs, da him great honour, and he is highly fatisfied with the cond ift of the qmceis and troops that accompanied him on the expedition." Saturd ty laft arrived at a packet boat, 39 days from Breft; fhe a few hours after receiving her orders and delpatches from the court (he broueht very tew privat.

letters hut large delpatches for Congrefs, and th; Miniltei of France at Philadelphia, which will probably determine arrangements pf Europe for the enfuing fummer, and the ifTue 0 the peociations of the Maquis d'Almodav the Spanilh Ambaffodotir at Tncfe defpatches wtre immediately forwa.ded with a proper to Philadelphia. By this pack which left Bielt the beginning March, we learn, thatthearmamentsofFrar.ee, our good ally, were goihfi on rttlJ with rapidity and luccefs) that the fpirit of the nation was high, and theii cruilers agjinlt the Brit fli fuccelsful; particularly that ff ft A rt t7linfi. hxA tak.fi nn? anl la lA th nlhr? that tu nivurafmn of the French and Americans was much nu re Life and unmolefted in the I urpean leas, than it had been, by the captuieof many Britilh armed vtlTels particularly that the By of Bilcay had fome time been free, i manner; dFr in their cruifer; that the armament of Spain were continued with equ il farneftnefs with th ofe of France, lo that fliould no take place tl whole Spantlh naval power would be in a cordifion to aft the enfuingr fummer. To davs before the above packet lft Breft, five (hips of the line, and jjt number of frigates, with fome troops, tailed for the Weft Indies, as an additional. reinforcement to the Count d'tftaing 1 and fome time fevn Tail of the line, with tnnfports, and a proport.on of frigates, and 6000 troops, iad gone frcm Friiue to the Ea'l Indi s.

A 5 W.N, April 3. intelligence given by feveral deferters and American prifoners arrived latel fromGtorgia, it would appear the arc preparing ffot the removal of pirt of their forces. Thfir tro ps are eginingto veryickly, and rice being ferved out to them in lieu of fl. ur, has caused a general difcontent among the foldicry, who defert daily. ExtraB of a Utter from BJ ck Swairp, April 15.

A party of 30 favag'es, either Indians or Britifli painted as Indians, croflV Savannah river three nights fmce, a few miles below Puryfbuvgh, 'proceeded to the houfe of Capt. Hai tfton. fei fire to the buildings on the plantation, murdered an fcalprd an old negro wcrnan; the family no would tuve mettnc fame fate, had they not bctn fortunate enough their efcape." jSome defcrters arrived here within thefe two days, infos wi that 50 Indians ftafinnrd in thfwamin oppofne Pur; (burgh, prin cipally wih a view to prevent defertion in the Britilh armv. Captain Be ulev hi of the brig Nancy from Rhode Ifland for this port "taktrr the aid inltant, by a privatetr Coop belonging to the Goodricnes, and commanded by one Landsfield, who gave Capt. Bentley and fome other pnfaners at to come afhie, infonns of his feeing on the 1 8th infant in lat.

34., ng. 71, a fleet of about 50 fail, fome of them large flearine an E. N. E. comfe.

And hr mfter of a brig, who arrived ihere on Frida lift from Rhode Ifl td, mentions falling in on the of the 20th in the gulph off Cape Hattcras. with fiite large fliips, two of 'which carried lights. Accounts joft recfived from Puryfburgh, ention Major Moore being and arrived there; and that he fay, it was currently reported believed in Savannah, that th. Jalon armed (hip, tf 10 guns in the government's rvic, having on board money for the troops in jGeorgia, with tx fail of viftuallm under her convoy were taken by three can or French frigates off the capes of Virginia: and that this ir cUigence had caufed a general dejeftion there, particularly among the Soldiery wholiad not received a 7 pay for three months paft th it the Tories who were fettled up the countiy, were removing into Savannah, bci? triuch alarmed by a late movement of General Lincoln's army. The 'accounts alio mention that a party of Indians had arain croffed a little Puryfburgh, but were driven back, without effecting any oufchief, by ontof ouYpcOjUctpurdfe I 1 A Al 5 JJ ri MAY 72, BY advices which his Excellency the Govcrnourhas received from the Illinois, we learn, that Mr.

Hamilton the Govcinour of Detroit, came down this fpring with a party of regulars, Canadians and favages, and retook the poft of St. Vincents, on the Wawbafh, garrifoncd by a fmall detadunent from the Illinois! That the brave and gallant Col. Clarke, confidering himfelf as reduced by this event, to the alternative of hazarding every thing on one defperate effyrt, or of abandoning our Weftern acquifitions. determined to march with his whole force, confuting of about 150 men, including fome militia of the place, and make a vigorous attarlr nn thf innu. Tli rranermpnte mtp far fhi ntirtv) ur as judicious as the enterprife itfeff was heroic and arduous; ne found Mr.

Hamilton with his party in the fort, which he immediately befieged, fo clofety and vigoroufly that in eighteen hours the whole were made prifoners. A fcalping party of Indian, which Mr. Hamilton had fent out, returned to the tort Toon after the fui render of it to the American arms, with the favac trophies of their fuccei'sj and inflantly fufferedtbe vengeance due to tiieir outrages on humanity; Col. Clarke has fent in Governour Hamilton, MonGeurDcchang, judge of the court at Detroit, and a Capt. Lernott, with about 45 prifoners.

They were when laft heard of at New London, in Bedford county. The exprefs which Col. Clarke fent with the particulars of this expedition, was murdered by the favages on his way, and the defpatches deftroyed It is alfb laid, that a very large quantity of goods brought from Detroit, for the porpofe of rewarding the barbarities of their Indian allies, was taken at the fame time by Col. Clarke A letter from the Capt. commandant at Detroit to Governour Hamilton has been intercepted, which conplains that lince the departure of the latter, the inhabitants were all getting traiteious hearts.

The enemy by the laft accounts, after having burnt the town of Suffolk, deftroyed the provisions there, and plundered its inhabitants, retreated to Portfmouth, where they are falting the provifions they have taken in their depredatory excurfions to the adjacent counties. To fhew the barbarous arid unmanly dilpofition of thofe invaders of our country; we fubmit to the publick the following fafts, authenticated by the teftimony of ne of the parties concerned. Four boys viz. John Phripp, Thomas Walke, Thomas Lawfon, and Peter Bowdoin, who were on their way from Mr. Andrews's fchool near Suffolk, to their parents in Princefs Anne county, were overtaken by three of their light horfc, and after (hiking one of them with a cutlafs, and the molt abufive language, robbed them of their flioe and knee buckles, handkerchiefs, money, and all the clothes they had," teeing them at the fame time, they might think themfelves fortunate in not meeting with the Heffians inftead of as would not only have robbed them, but would have put them to death.

How are the laurels of the Britifli valour fallen, when, women and boys arc now become the objtfts of their vengeance. By a Gentleman from St. Euftatia, we are informed, that a Dutch frigate of 36 guns, after an engagement of three hours, funk a Britifh frigate of 18 puns, for refilling to deliver up a New England brig which they took ithin three leagues cf Demcrara, only the Captain and two Lieutenants were laved, who were feet to the Britifli Admiral at St. Kitts, immediately on the Dutchman's arrival at St. Euftatia.

Ext raft of a Utter from General Schuyler to Congrefs 1 i Five hundred troops have made a forced march from the frontiers of New York, into the Indian country, and have effectually furprifed a principal fettlement of Onandaga; they burned their town, deftroyed a quantity of provifions, took fome arms and ammunition collected there, killed it Indians, and made 33 prifoners. This bufinefs was effefted without the lofs of a man on our part, and having marched out and in l8o miles, in five days." Lalt week was married Doftor James M'Clurg, of this city, to the amiable Mifs Selden, of Hampton. DEATHS. Jasper Clayton, Efq; of Gloucefter county, after a fhort illnefs Mrs. Elizabeth Camm, rdift of the late Rev.

and Honourable John Camm, deceafed. Captain Goodrich BousH, at Norfolk. Claudius Peter Cary, fencing who was endeavouring to get out of the enemies way, died with fatigue in the Difmal Swamp. Lemuel Newton, at Kemps lauding, in Princefs Anne county. I WOULD fell for cafh or tobacco, the following lands, qiz.

400 acres in the county of Powhatan, whereon is all necefl'ary houfes, in good order, and the land good for coin, wheat, and tobacco, alio 700 acres in the county of Brunfwick, 100 of which is low grounds 35 miles from Peterjlurg, the plantation in good order for working or 10 bands, the land is good for corn, wheat, and tobacco, 1000 bearing apple trees, chiefly of latter fruit, equal to any in this ftate, with or 300 peach trees Any perfon may fee the land applying to the overfeer vm lisv viuiii4V0 anu mivw lilt "rF1;" IXJ 111 frwutuuM county. AARON HASKINS. FOR SALE, THE fhip WILLIAM, burthen about a 50 hogfheads of tobacc with her fails, rigging, anchors, as flie lies at LeedJlowxt in Rappahanock river. Apply to tlie fubferibers in Frederieljburg. JAMES ADAM HUNTER, Richmond, May 5, 1779.

AS there was not a fufficieat number of members of the Richmond ropery, to hold a meeting, when laft advertifed by James Llarfden i I am inllruftcd by the directors, to rcqueft a meeting of the faid company, at Gabritl Gaits, the 8 day of next month, and it is deiired, if any of the behalf, as there will be matters of material importance to confider of. (i) SAMUEL PARSONS'. A I ao, 1779. I HEREBY fcrewarn all perfons frotvi dealing with my wife Frances GUI, alfo from entertaining of her, for fhe has deferted her bed and board; therefore, I have determined sot to pay any debt that fhe ma contraft. (a) PETER GUU.