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Col. ©5 I.ance'y’s Refu-ees vye(it from Hacrleriri, brought back with them tour continentals and one French •man. - • , • t at Sandy Hook, the schooner Stir ptlze, of eight 4, and one ia pounder in her bow, wi th 3tr nsca, commanded by Oapt. Ross, with the /hip Sally* Gardener, mounting f6 fix pounders and 37 mq,, from Ca'pe Francois to- Philadelphia, laden with fugir, melafies, &c. She yyas taken by The schooner on the aid just. within the Capas of Delaware, afters Awt but.fmart engagement, which ended in boarding her; a gallant de fence was made, but fiie was obliged at length to surren der j, the crew of the Surprize had been reduced to 3Q T.dmfs, having previoufiy manned two prizes, and had 28 pri loners on board, taken out of a snow flag from Havana, prize to the Fair American and Holker privateers of PhE Luft'phu. The Surprize’* r:gging was much damaged, but /he had only one mao wounded. The fthooner Ge neral Arnold, Capt. Loughton, was in company, but did Hot get down to them till poileflion had been taken of the prize lhip. Two days before they chafed a (loop on /ho,re from having Bo,opo dollars pn board, but night coming on Capt. Ross deferred boarding of her till morn ing, when he found they had got all their guns ashore, and ere&ed a battery, which prevented any further enter prize againfl: them ; they next day font three gentlemen on board the schooner who were priftners in the sloop, these gave information of the treasure. Capt Ross has gained great credit by his cool and undaunted behaviour, as well in the above afVi m’as Tii retaking the.afo.e menti oned flag of tr JC3, which hid 160 Ihitifh troops, and Rebels put on board to navigate herto Philadelphia. • Head Quarters, New Turk, jTftc 26, 17S1. The Commander ir. Chief has been pleased to make the following promotions : —;ad regiment: Lieut. Col. Crof bie, from 3d battalioa fioth regiment, to he Lieutenant Colonel, vice Yorke* removed to 33d; 24th ApVil, 178 y. 3d battalion 6*cth regiment s Major M*Arthur, from ft ft, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Cro/bie, removed to the izd regtrnenf. * jiftjregiment: tap?. James Campbell, from 33d, t > be Major, vice M’Arthur, promoted; 24th April, 17$ 1. —‘jk-rr 27. In obedience to his Majeflj’s Commands, Cel. the Right Hon. the Ea*-1 of Lincoln, of the find regiment of foot guards, is appointed to vs Brigadier General.jo the army in North America. Cans, Phillips,*of the 35t.11 regiment, is appointed Major*or'-: tb the arniy'tovice Sittallv SlgpffW h 1 duty with the brigade umler the- command of the E.vrl of’ Lincoln till further orders.- —July 7. 2iJ regiment: Capt. Henry Lvfaght, from regiment, to be. Major by pur chase, vice Erikincwft o retires; 30th Apiil, 1781. 63d regiment : Lieut. Gilbert Affleck, to be Captain by pur chase, vice Lyfaght, promoted in zzi regiment; 30th A pril, General Hospital: Dr. Richard Proctor to be Physician to the forces In North America, vice Morris, who is retired on half paV; 12th February, 17S1. Philadelphia , June 30. By a person from Winc’nefter In Virginia, whieh he left last Wcdncfday week, we hear that a desperate knot of Tories had been difeovered. A man, formerly a Heftian soldier, had been observed at Martinlburg several times busy among the Saratoga priso ners; upon flrnng suspicions of his conduct he was appre hended, when, to avoid immediate death* he confefied, after being twice ha r;e 1 up. A party were immediately fen* to examine the person whom he said was to be their Colonel, hie name this informant does not recollect, The Colonel was taken priToner, and, upon feirching: his houfc, they found a great number of guineas, Oopies of romir.iffi >ns and other papers, by which it appeared that Charles Lee, Esq. formerly a Continental General, was to be their principal Commander. A detachment of the militia light were immediately font ti Lee’s house, who, upon their arrival, were informed that he had rode out i a a great harry, and they went rn purfgit ofMdm. The mfnrmint alio fays that he was overtaken upon his journey by several pc-rfons from Virginia, who said it was generally believed Lee had got fafe into the Briti/h lines, July ii. The Hod. 8. Huntington having informed Congress that his ill date of health will not permit him to contbmeTooger to excrcife the duties of Prendent, and re queued leave of <bfencc, Congress proceeded to the choice of another President, and the ballots being taken, the Hon. Thomas M'KLean was elected. ’ . tad 1. C. TwO'M'SP'W't' Sgl*^~ A marvellous ty of er choice te’ pr efide m a RritrlCcijrefri — *Tlis is the ider lical attd infernal M'Vttan w: 5 pa (Ted fcmencs cf death upon tic Lyal Martyrs Roberts and- Carlijle fonts rime ago at Philadelphia. —__—— ■ ‘ July 25. The Congress have appointed Thomas Hutchings, Esq. formerly a Captain and Engineer In the Briti/h army, to be Geographer to the United State*. RAN AWA¥ from the fubferiber at Beulieon the 29th of August last, Two Negro Men, ~ Their names Abraham:and Billy, both country born. Abraham is a flout fellow, about 5 feet 1 1 inches high, of a dark complexion, 35 yeats old, formerly th* property cf Jonathan Bryan, Esq. has relations at.hi- plantation ( Brampton) and has a wife at Mr. DougVsls plan tat ToTTon Savannah river now occupied by Mrs. Morel. Billy is a flinrfellow, about the fame height, 27 years old, of a /ellowilh Complexion, has a wife that lived at the fame place, but has for these few weeks pad wrought in Savannah, and lives at a Mr. Cade’s at Yamacraw, her name is Doll. Both of the wenches are the property of Mrs. Mcicl. It is thought that they will be about Mr. Douglafs’s plantation or Mrs. Cuthbert’s, where they have acquaintances. Two guineas reward will be given for each of them, on their being delivered to Mr. Fgtcr Henry Morel in Savannah, or to th*fubfcriber at Beulie. Sept. 4l .781, A . 40W MQREfc. • ON t]ie breaking out of the Rebellion in tbis - the fu'ofcriber vefufed to receive any Rebel jnfoney, until he found it furniflred a pretence for withholding from him his jull de mands, and then he, in common with others, re ceived it, and disposed of it again to such as tohk it voluntarily from him in payment, until he was exchanged by (he Rebels, and permitted to embark for Great Britain on the lothofMay 1776- Be.-, fore his departure he paid John Mullryne, Esq. Meflas. Johnilon and Irvine, and several others; and jifter his departure his attornies paid lfaac jßaillou, Esq. and Mr. William Moft ? mostly, if not (mtirely, in Rebel moftev : And the Honourable the having palled no law to afeertain the depreciation of the* Rebel money during the different years of the Ulurpation here, the fub feriber therefore gives notice, to all to whom he (or his attornies on his account) p.nd Rebel money, that if they have f.iffe ed bv thole payments, he will leave it to any two gentleman of. cbaradler (one to be chosen on eich fide) to determine what sum the fuljfcriher ougnt to pay s on account of, and in ptoportionyto the dfepredatlor> <J fucH money, according tc the time it vva- raid, which award he will moll readily complv with. After the fubferiber’s :< turn to this province he received voluntary payments, in gold and silver money, at the present valuation, from Jame* Ro bertiou, Samuel Farley, Wiiiiam Jones, and Jo nathan Simpson, E a . ic l the Executors of Cle ment Martin the elder, Esq and atner% for debts due before the Rebellr&n ; bat having afterwards * learnt that doubts had aiilen a: to the p-oportion in which gold and silver ought to be received in payment of such lad mentioned debts, be therefore gives this notice, that if any gentleman from whom lie received payment in goid'and silver on such oq caiion as is lull menttone i Ih mld be diiTitisfied with .t% pay ment die made, the iublcriber is in such cate valuation of gold andfilver, to any t vo indifferent gentlemen, (to Ee-chofen as aforefaid) whoje a ward he will immediately comply with. Moll of the gentlemen last named were long ago applied to on this occasion by the fubferiber, and they then declared that they w'eie facisfied with the p ayments they made ; but one of them ben g of a contrary opinion, (and declining to judge, in his own dale) it was agreed to leave that nutter to arbitration ; and the fubfenher if. defirmis ol making thi notice general, ami propofmg the fame offer to all. This advertisement is infei red to prevent any complaint ofhardlhip; and it is earnestly desired that no per son will confider any thing herein as conveying an opinion in point of law, 01 prejudging aqy queltion that may hereafter come on in eitner of the calcs above deferibed. The fubferiber to the bell of his recollection, dffdmrggi eve- dtm 1; ; dgamft him ; but if any person h. s acclaim, he defines h ; m to afiert it now, when the fubferiber is abvt a::J on the spot. At the fame time he would earnGUy requed those gentlemen here, and in Saint Aujtufi.7 t;i,c, who are indebted to hind, to pay him, if he “thought it would aniwer atif pu pose. He do!;res no person will give credit to any one orj account ot the fubferiber, - A b a'GIvES, Savannah, September 6, 1781. mm | -Ti* mmm. . ■.l I■■ ■■ n “ -■ < 11 ■■ Notice is hereby given, T HAT the fubferiber was compelled, by being jmpr ifoned and o t her wife-iil tt to sign —a note of hand to John C\evi!l, t;f St. Philip’s pa rid), for ice guineas, or the value of 20 head of payable -the 25th November rjext, which . note, so urjuftly obtained, the fubferiber is deter mined not to pay, unless compellet 1 . thereto by law. DAVID GAINS. Savannah, Sept, a, 17S1. T o”b m ~S O L D, On Wednesday the 17th Odobernext, at the plan tation of Nathaniel Polhill, Esq. near Aber corn, Ellatc of Henry Cuyler, Esq. deceafcd, —confifling pf a few Head of Horses, Catt!e, Household Furniture, Sec. The conditions will --fee made known •en-the'-day of Erie. All iperfons having demands agaim'l the efiate are desired to fcndGn their accounts, properly at telled. and those indebted to make immediare pay ment to DOROTHY CUYLER, Adm’rx. STOLEN or flrayed away from the Common of Savannah, on Saturday evening the ill ” infiant, A large Bay Elorfe, 14 hands high, with a bla7.e down his face, and hind feet white. Whoever will deliver the said horse to the lubicriber (hall receive a reward of one guinea and reaionable charges. ANTHONY NORROWAY. ..5 th Sept. I7SI - ■ -r ■ j * %* The; MILITIA LAW may be had at the Printing Ofiicc, frice is, Sd. fehip Wrights. T WO Ship Carpenters would be glad to b| employed by the Merchants, and Public!? in general. They will engage to do their business ilia workman-like thinner, onpeafonable tertns. Apply to Wm. GRINDROD. •” ■’ mmmmtmm if ■ Si m ii -m- . * ‘ \ 111 1- ON the 3 ill of August I difeovered & man; whom I immediately puifited, and after coming up with him I was informed that arfinalL party of white men were then before me going off to /\ugolta with a negro fellow and a girl about 12 years old. About fixxfclock that day I came up with them, exchanged fome (hot, and released the negroes, who talk but little English, and cannot tell owners names. The owmers of said ne groes may have them, on paying reasonable charges,” and applying at the plantation of the Hon. James Hume, Esq, to Absalom Hophr. IN pursuance of a Writ of Attachment to the Provost Marshal of the Province of Georgia, in the several causes undermentioned direcied, 1 Have attached, in the refpedlive Causes, >the property and efftds following: Benjamin AttJkjy % Mm- V v I A Negro Woman, nam- Mary Edl Ex- I d Kate, i D the poffcfioaof r / tSc plain tiff. -fes Bell , de- I 5 1 ceased. J l A Negro Man- named Peter Bar J. J . A Wharf,Lot in the John Foulis , town of Savannah, situate verbis v ’ between the wharf of Tho* ‘ Daniel IP'oleeon. mas Netherclifc amHnglis, ‘ . ‘Jenkins,, an 4 Gibbons. James llaberjham. *- J 1 tm \ J \ The following Sir Jam,, .Wrigh” Bar,. Nl^a:S o .pte. ■ vpr r n t rlamplhire, l*nm- NA/ u i * *y n -’ M ur *go. Old r, , Paul, Prince, and \J V*leJi2t}l y Jlij Cf 1 T\ ; 1 Ti A (^1 r\ ‘ JI \ Dick, Men Slaver; •y 1 //. rUS jiL Minabak Pcildah, Jm„. n altar ./*,. Bc .la. Sue, Juno, Mary Bulloch, anciCumba versus , 71 Cl< J Tf r. 1 1 cy the procerty of N,k A able 11 lTnbcrl y 7° nes ’ W.Jones theabfent y debtor. A Plantation orPar (ccl of Land, contain ing by ellimat 1 r: 50^ 1 acres, be tie. faaic more cr lef:, n. C ::ift Conx-'per and ‘Telfair s ! Church pnnftl,. tiie versus y property pf the de- Wtlliath Gibbons jun. fendant, joining lands : =of ihe huate of WiL liam G.bbons, de ceased, and near or • ■- - adtoirting lands of J N'-W. Jones. r A Negro Wench named John stirk, Hannah, and a Mulatto Boy veffus - y named Wiiiiam; also fomc Samuel St irk. \ Books and Wearing Appa- J m Together with all the dwelling houfrs, build ings, he.editaments, rig’nts, members, and appur tenances, thereto feveraliy and be longing and appertaining, the property ot the le veral defendants above nameti, bis, her, or tlieir heirs or assigns, forever, as it is fnid T Wherefore every foii and persons claimirg the lame, or any J pnrt or parcel thereof, have hereby notice to ap pear in hi, Majeliy’s General Court in Savannah, at the return of the said writs, on Tuesday the 4th day of September, to shew catife why the said premiles, attached as aforefiud, fltould not bead judged the property of and belonging to the namtfd refpeftive defendants and ahlent debtors. LEWIS JOHNSTON, Pro. Ajar. Monday, 3d Sept. 17S1. “ “ SAVANNAH, September 6. SOME people from the back country report, that the beginning of last week one lame* Tillet, with a few loyal militia and Indians, fell in with a pa'ty of 20 Rebels, near Col. OatlceV 11 at ion on the Ceded Lands, when they killed 18 of them ; the other two escaped to their Colonel, who with the few men left at that poll immediately fled towards Augusta. • ■ ‘Eh arid ay lall arrived here,..the schooner Swift, Capt. Hunter, in seven days from New Provi dence. He informs us, that on Sunday the sth of August, the privateer schooner Lion, Capt. BelL carried >n there a brigantine, Young, Mailer, from Philadeipni', bound tp the Havana, with joo barrels of flour; a If* aft hooper from North C>.