The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser. [volume], April 05, 1783, Image 2

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LIS BO N (Portugal) Nov. 10
The Court has publithed an edi&, to ac
knowledge the flag of the Uhnited Scates of
£America, and to give free entrance into chis
port of their vessels,
FISH-KILL, March 23.
Concurring accounts, received by ex
press from Philadeiphia, agree that a 2 GE
NERAL PEACE between all the-powers
et war, was {igned the 20th of Jan. last.
LAUS DEOI |
The following letter, just come to-hand,
gives a fursher confirmation of this impor
tant event.
“ Last night, about 11 o’clock, the Com
mander'th Chief received a letter from Mr.
Patker, contractor for the*army, dated Phi.
ladelphia,March 23d, ecquainting hiny that
a packet arrived that afternoon fram Cadiz,
and broughe the very agreeable intelligence
of a General. Peace being signed ‘on the
20th of January last, and that hoflilities
were to cease in America the 20th of this
month. With this letter came one from
Mr. Floyd, a Delegare of Congress for this
state, to his Exceliency Governor Clinton,
on the outside of which is *A general peace
was concluded—To be forwarded by ex
press™ From both these avthorities I frmly
believe that most desirable event has taken
place, and on which Imoft sincerely con
gratulate you: -~ |
* 1t is supposed that the news coming By
the way of Cadiz, was in confegueace of or
ders being sent to that place to stop the fail
ing of the combined fleer.”” |
Government is hurrying off the Tories
to New-Scotland : they are ordered to be
ready by the firik of April ¢ tiofe who do
not go, are not to have any more aillitance
from government : the tvlve months pro
vision they were to receive,is reduced to fix,
—=They are the greatest pictures of distress:
Admiral Digby has thirteen different
squadrons cruising off our coasts. He has
one eighth 01-all prizes taken, besides some
other pequifites. It is reportes that they
are putting their artillery on board their
véfTels. | e | :
“Sir Guy Carleon is going he* d Ge
neral Grey is expedted totake the . »and.
A new Commissary General s hikewife ap
pointed. ‘Moft of thie barracks are burnt at
Huntington. It is feported they were set
on fire by the foldters : they are exceedingly
diffatisfied with the service, the foreign
troops in particular. Manmy of the Tory in
habitants on long I{land felling off their pro
perty, to go te New-Scotiand with she
Loyalists. = 1
We bear that Mr. Ll.—d et brig ot
of New:York last week, loaded with {lt and
dry goods. It is said he had permission
from Sir Guy Carlton. She went into New-
Havea ; and it is reported, that there were
goods on board, to the amouat of 30,000
R |
. NEWLONDON, March 23.
Lat Thuriday night was brought inte
port by the floop'Firey- Trial, Capt. Thomp=
son, 2 galley from New-York, with 6 brass
bowiiz, 2 9 pounders and 33 men, .
About the {ame tine the Hancock and
Hampton-Packet drove ons of the enemy’s
gallies athore on Pluinb-Ifiand, which Was
bzat to picces; the people belonging to her
(being upwards of 20) were brought in.-
5. B 0.8 T O\N Al g,
Last Saturdayan Express anived with an
Account that a Flag had‘arrrived at Dare
mouth from New York,with the noted Col.
Thomas Gilbert’s and fucdry other Refugee
Families on board :=on which ki Fxcel
lency immediately summoned his Council,
who, we hear, without Hesitation, indulg’d
them to depart the firt Wind: :
Tuesday morning last about two o’Clock,
& Fire broke out ia the Kitchen of Capr,
Job Bradford, which did confiderzble Da.
mage, but by the ofual Alertnels of the In
habicants it was soon extinguifh’d.
Extra@ of a letter from an American gen
tlethan of high rank at Parisdated No
vember 18, 1482, * '
“ The King of Great Britain by a ‘com
miffion under the grear seal of his kingdom,
has. conltitated Richard Osgood, Efg; his
comrmifioner to treat with the MiniQer
Plenipotentiary of the ¥nited States of Ame.
rica, and has given hiim full powers, which
have Been exchanged. b
Thus Great Britain has {hifted suddenly
about, and Trom persecuting us with unre
lenti & bowels, has uncénditionly and un
equivocally acknowledged wus a {overeign
ftaje and independent pation. |
leis farprifing that the fhoald be the third
power 10 make this ackoowledgensent. She
has been. negociated into it for ———and
~——=peremptoitly refufed to speak or
hear betore we were put upon an equal
faot, ——mim—would have treated mithout,
buc nobody would bin him.” ,
_ His gracious majesty, King George rhé
third,is che most odious snd dereftable name
that can be mentioned ¢ the loyalists at
New York ; theéy efecrate lim as the authot
of their ruin, who hath now balely deserted
theti. Tkhey now find themsfelves reduced
to the direful néceflity of elther abandoning
theit native country, with every thing hor
rid befdre them, or staying and ruoning thé
risk of fufferiniz an ignominious death,
Saturday daflt. Caprain Wailtcoat ih 4
iffiog vefel, arrived at Providence, after
a passage of 160 days from Amilcidam—
Infuranceé hiad beerr paid upon her.
- Several persons have arrived ih towd
from New York within a few days past 3
they inform ws, that the poor Bricith peni
tents are preparing for a {péedy embarkati
on ; and thzt there is no iterruption i
pafiing to and froni the city. |
We leatn that the packet whick arrived
at Chester with the important intcligence
of a general peace having taken place,
brought 100,000 crowns, part of 4 loan
from Fraoce. RR S
) BAL E-M, Apfil 4 |
Oa Saturday last 2 cectain illard vras de
tected, at Beverly, in attempting to pass 2
state note of (. 200, whichappeared to have
been altered from a smaller denomination—
fuppofed to be £.30. He was apprehended
and carriéd betore Justice Batchelder; and
desiring to be admitted as evidence for
thre fiate, he discovered 2 number of bis ac
complices, viz. James Ford of Boston;
Burr of Broo%fifi‘d,——TCorbie)tt lff C%;fie
mont, —e—w—— Ke and arker 3
of Nottingham.y This iafi is said to ‘bcqz
Fuftice ¢f the peace. W
©Of the above infamous gang, we have heard
ot none being yet taken but Willard., It is
hoped, however that fogood a lock out will
be observed, as that all of themt may be spee
dily apprehended, and meéet the just recom
pense of their villanies. B
A prize ship, which arrived here on Tues
day last, failed from England about-the rlth
of February, and was captured in the Wett-
Indies, on the 12th ult. by the privateer
thip Grand Tutk, Capt. Pratt, of this port,
— This prize is loaded with proviffons,is near -
400 tons burthen, and though, when taken,
she mounted 22 nine: pounders, and carried
70 men, she fruck withous firlng a gun,
The above prize had 8 number of Englitk
papers and Magazines on Loard ; but the
latest and most material; which contain the
Preliminarics of Peace, signed at Paris on
on thezodh of January; were taken on beard
the privateer, which is not yet arrived, The
papers which came home in the prize, are
no later than the 14th of January, and con
tain notbins interetting.
. The Grand Turk has also taken, and car
ried into port with her, a privateer ship be
longing to one of the Britith Wes-India
islands—She was farfnerly 2 privateer from
this port, calied the Roecbuck. .
Yeßerday returned into pori, the privatecs
brig Lively, Capt. Brookhoufe, who failed,
on the 25th ult.in pursuit of a privateer luop,
and 2 brig wbich the had taken, as mention
¢d in ourlaft. Although Capt. Brookhoufe
miffed the cbjeéts oi his pursuit, he,how:vcr,
off Pencbfcot,eaptired two small privateers,
from that place, 2rd brought them in with
him. . But these, as well as the brig (whick,
belongs to Newbury- Port) being taken aftez|
the day on which bofiilities were to ceafey
rnuft be returned to the original owiiers. |
L ONDON, November 16. |
. Description. of a Monument ereéted il(
Westminster- Abbey, for Major JOHN AN|
DRE, designed by Robert Adam Esq; Ar
chiteét, and execuied in statuary marble, b}
Mr. P. M. Van Gelder, Sculptor, |
This Monument is composed of 2 fzrcol;
phage, elevited o 3 pedettsl, upos the pa-\
nel .of which is engraved the following in
folplen @ o o
Sacred to the MzMmory of
... M™Major JOHN ANDRE, .-
WEo; raised by bis Merit at an early peric®,
g ¢+ of B e, eAo
to the tank of Adjutant-Genetil of the Bri
tith Forces in America; and employed
in an important, but hazardous en
terprize, fell a facrifice to his zeal
e LB
XlNGimd COUNTRY,
On the second of Oétober, 1780, |
AGED TWwENTY-NINE, | Sa
Univérfally beloved and efteenied by the
Armiy in which he fetved,
i, .. And lamented even by his Foes, . .
HisGraciousSovereign KING GEORGE 111.
has caused this Mopument to be erected. :
. On the front of the firbphage, General
Wathington is represented i his tent, at the
inoment when he had received the report of
the Couft-martial held on Major Andre ; at
the fame time a flag of truce arrived from
the Britith aimy, with & letter for General
Wathington to treat sos the Major's life.
But the fatal sentence being already passed, -
the flag was sent back without the hoped for
clemency in bis favot. Major Andre receiv
ed his condemination with that fortitude and
resolution which had always marked his
charaéter, and is reprefénted going with un-
Shaken spirit to meet his doom, &
~ On the top of the farcophage, 2 figure of
Britannfa reclined )aments the prematuré
tate of so gallant an officer : the Britith lion
too feemeinftinétively to mourn his untime
v, oo e R
Thursday the 10th of A prilk
next,at PUBLIC VENDUE, willbe _
a Continuztion of the sale of part of the Es
tate of the }xte Honorable Danizy Wark-
RER, Efg; deceased. At the fame time wilF
be fold several Houses and valuable Lots of
L2nd ; the sale to be at the Boufe which
Mr. James Whitaker now lives in, at ten
o’clock beforenoon. Jonathan Warner Ad
ministrator. Portsmouth. April sth, 1783,
LL pserions that bave accounis opes with the'
A. eftace of Widow Mary Tiltos, lste of Porif
moutk, deceased ; aré desired to call ox the fubferiber
(one of the adminifrators of said estate) at Mr. Elijsk
Tilion'’s in' Portsmouth, where attendance will be gi
ven from the 14th to the 1g h inflant. EAOA v
April 2d, 1783 DANIEL TILTON. -
A Pew to be fold in the South
Meeting House. Enquire at the Printing?
Office, Port{mouth, :