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mee igneral Howe, Capt. Salkeld. , Ste -Iet York 0 fate as thie’ gd of February, and brings advice that nothing of any importance had hap ‘pened fings the 3 gfs January, who are s7sh 12 5 chingly intentes ined; ance esc eeedingly intense,--which made“1t .impossible:for any’ thing mnde ta be done: Lord and General Howe were both: at New-York on the: 3d of Pe breatys 7 _. The above'ship. brings:several, New-York’ Ga zettes, in which are the following: articles. Prom the Niwh-Yore: Gaze vpyn Fan 235 sed “30, published by permission.of General Howe, . Saturday, ‘morning Jatt a body of rebels: fép jofed . about fous, ‘rhuafand,”'. appeared‘on the heights near ‘Kingsbridge, vainly‘imagining to possels themselves of Fort: Independence, in afid sndnch: wefe’ stationed,. a party: of Heshings. about fow humilird one: 92 parity, the combyphding officer endused: Babes to fotthersrooped the’ fore, Wien One Heath, a rebel General, ‘Sent in a luminous of very, extraordinary..nature, intimating, “that: Ay, wishes to ‘prevent the effusion of blood, ‘had’ int o duced him to offer honourable forms to “fach as: were least concerned:in the war ;alluring ‘them : ‘them: (the Hessians) they should be treated with‘ ree lenity their, brethren taken in the Jerseys how ex perienced; but excepted the Americang;“dadsinly fitted ‘that the garrison should surrender in fifteen, ar oa seat oe. Feasted wiucinen ain, and e doughty general after 4.or. 5 hours pregoste rous parade, and flying a few thot at Maite time's quarters, who was very vigilant in’ observing the enemy's motions, ‘thought proper,to rétige ag h has not since made any advances,. Accounts: from the Jerseys say, that: feares day passes, without: some skirmishing,mall- par ties of the rebels, lurk by the road side; to murs der the lonely traveller, who is o'unfortunate na to fall in their ‘way.——Thursday ‘latt-General Vaughan, ‘in Consequence of ‘intelligence receiv ed of a party of rebels being in ‘a wood four of five miles from Amboy, “made adni-excursion to wards them, at the head of the 6th regiment, when one of this party happily observed: « 2vil lain levelling ‘his piece at the General through a wall, and’ fon: dispatched. bith ¢“two-tor thre “others: bhared: the fame’ Fate in the wood, and ‘the'rest’ made’ a most? dexterous rewreat 5 ‘We had ye man.only Tightly landed; . Reay. bra Gng.a number of the fame gentry came down | farprize amall party of the King's troops exe, the bridge in Brunwick, when they were surroas ed and thirsty taken prisoners without the fors: 2 man.” And , on z to Tuesdey last,, the : for s acties nist, where fkirs “heed ibe [ed about four hundred dead on-the- feld, and fie hundred. were taken. prisoners3 .the Joly of the Kig's woope were very mepallodejables NEWCY OR Ky yanco “Last-week, as thé’brave 28th, ‘on their seem fam efcorting the provision wapgant'to Aaiboy in the Jerseys, was marching thro’ theggmods” to, their quarters; fortunately fell in -wieh'@talking party of the Americans, who “have inféited that ‘good for some time.” Col. Abercrombie,with a light dragoon, first’ discovered the famous. pars tizan’s Randall and Comics behind a farm-house. The former thow'the'Colonel’s horse, and wounded the dragoon in the neck; he the jumped over a rail fence, the light orse pursied and shot him through the shoulder, then ‘offered him quarter, which he refused: he’ then engaged him with his word, and obliged him to submit, which, Comes perceiving, cried out, “ Damn you, Randall, will you take quarters from such a bloody-back-scoun drel'.?? lest he soon found himself reduced to the same dilemma, and they are now safely lodged in Brunswick guard-house.. The troops engaged martly, and the Americans retired with consider able loss. .A few of the 28th were wounded. ’ From Albany we learn, that the American party, are ‘still, there pursuing their persecution; that lately were ordered for banishment .to. Boston, Major Edmerton, Henry Cuyler, Cornelis Glen, Joan Stephebior, and Peter Van Sthaack, Elgrs. This: remarkable; ‘ during’ this rebellion, that ‘upwards of 400 serkons have heen feat ‘pisfeders to New England,’fom the city ‘ahd-cousty of “Albany, foreiF loyalty and dttachment to King and Government. ot [It is reported that Philip Schuyler, an Améli a General, and Philip Livingston, @. ‘great ‘promoter of the present disturbances, are inclined, by proxy, take the benefit of pardon by the proclamation of his Majesty’s commissioners. Extract of a letter from Greenich, March 12. «« Last night the. General Howe, Capt. Sal eld, arrived here from New York, which place e left the 3d'of February, but brings nothing few, only that.1560 men, by Gen. ‘Howe's or ers, were returned to New York ‘from “Rhode Iland; and, since the unfortunate affairs of the effanrs, the Americans under Gen. Washington re increasing daily 5 that they are continually attacking Gen., Howe’s ‘out-posts, by which the army is much harrassed and‘annoyed in their can jronments.”” , Extra of a letter from an officer, dated January gy near Braapsidhe s¢ I am stationed at one of our out-posts; and find our duty very ‘sévere, owing to the incie ence of the réason,’ which is much colder than ever'I felt it; ‘and we are obliged to be continu ally on our guard, as the rebels are flying about gullaeall bodies ready to take any advantage that may occur. * We ave Sad several: Hele ftis maifies. ee Pecis sath ee ‘have “now: eee ae rons, 2 ae, “and I propose:to pass id a few days to Brunskick, ‘to vit Qepesarant’, = +28 letter from an officer in the ‘Jerseys of a: ‘prior date to the above Jan, 19). has the , following ‘parage, ¢° Our ™ ‘trope in ‘the Jerseys: amount only to. 7000 mens AS: Da footy, a3. we get‘our rein forcement. from Rhode “Wand, a new movement : take . pie at’ present our Sut-ports 2 are obliged to adt, ‘which it is impossi ble. they fan lug CF 205. x8 xs :the weather:is ex ceedingly cold.” Extra -of a Fitter from an oficer, of the 42d cegi strt, to this, friend in Glasgow, dated ‘Braa invichy Fanv16s 17770 + Qurregiment should have:beesfnog in win ter quarters at Burlington .. bug the: unfortunate iaait.. of the. pot.of:Frently piled, t oned-our closing in of the cent proftnetine of. communication.. We: are every day alarmed by‘our enemies, who fight more like savages than 4 ‘civilized: people ; parties ‘of them, .infest the ‘country: around sus, to distress the inhabitants; who they think prietily to us,. and lie in: wait for faitr express, or “any mall -party that imay be pass dog. from one-post to another.. General Vaughan’s gid-de-camp. was this instant fired upon by’these: gnurderers’, 2¢:he was coming this way with fome: ‘orders = a ball went through the cap.of a light horseman who attended him.A few days ago, ‘six soldiers of Prdfer’s corps were sent out for some hay, having no arms bit their swords 5 ten'rebets samé-upon-them,presented their pieces, and told them they were. dead: men. if they did not for gehder':fesing no other alternatives; they com plied,” and gave “up their swords.... “he: rebels made them: march on their front. but.one.of Fra et's men, “more~ knowing: than. the. rest...in formed them, ‘that av4s not the way, in which the aegeslars marched their prisoners.. .that.it was un: soldier-like,. ¢. or desired to. march in the cen ‘ter, so that there .should’be a prisoner between two of the guard; which was, then,agreed to;he them mate his design known in Erle to the rest ; each seized two rebels, got their swords, and put ‘them all to death,excepting one who escaped.”— ‘Glafen Foursal: ‘he a Qa
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London Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 15, 1777
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