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THE ROYAL
GEORGIA GAZETTE.
KINGSTON, ('Jamaica) July 28. -
Saturday and Sunday the
homeward bound ffi et, which
nv failed from Port Royal the be
w *-* ginning of this month, returned
to that harbour, with his Ma
-1 jehy’s ftiips Albion, Ptinctfs
JML/y\7s\/RM J* Royal, Ruby, and Janus, m
consequence of orders for that purpose having been
di'p tched to the Commodore by the Resource
frigate and Punch tender.
August 4. Early on Wednesday morning last
we had heavy rains, attended with moil tremend
ous gull 1 of windy which had a long continuance,
proving the null fatal to this part of the iflind of
any remembered since the year 1752. About eight
o’clock’ in the evening the whole horizon was .
y_ darkened, the wind blowing farioufly fiosn the
S. E. and varying during the night and moaning
KTadmoft every point on the eompafs; accompanied
„ with inicffantflnwers. r fhc horrors of this terrible
night were inceafed by difalters f the sea, .the
** wav6s intermingled,w ith, die c Wd§. daffled. upon the..
cvyr'y;tfae'hxrbour, (bine -
foundered at their dtfchois, and from the darkness
of the night several of the crews perished, nothing
could refill its/ury*—-difjUay feizedon every heart,
and daylight preferred a view of the melancholy
cataftropne!
On the-fh.ores and in the harbour were seen
numbers of ftiip wrecks and many dead bodies; trees
dallied to pieces and torn up by the roots; here a
wall or a fence levelled with the ground, and everjy
part of the sea shore exhibited scenes of deflation
mad the mofl agonizing diftrrfs ; every wharf in
town much damaged ; fine veflels, which a ftiort
rime before h.J taken their departure for Great
Britain and the American colonies with valuable
cargoes, now totally loft or coniidcrably damaged,
which cannot for fome time be repaired.
About midnight the hurricane was at it; height,
and at fix o’clock in the morning tire wind was
greatly appeased, though the sea continued in the
greatest agitation all the forenoon.
We cannot form an idea of the number of lives
loft, or particularize each veffd’s diltrefs or damage
fultained in the harbour; but fear accounts from
ether parts of the isl ind will bring advice of similar
if not much worse: We fear they have
not been exempted from the direful scourge.
several trees in atitLftbom-fpanifh Town have—
been torn up by the roots; several vefle’s forced on
shore and loft at Port Henderson, PafTage Fort,
and Greenwich; fome who-were at anchor the
pi ending day flill unaccounted for $ and toconeluJe
this dreadful account, several houses much damaged
at Poit Royal, btfides 22 fail of capital vedeL on
shore and loft in that harbour, viz. Green Ift and,
Watt; Carnatic, Gibbons; Mary, Erizwell; John,
Watson; 1 hetis v Hardy; Jamaica, Newton;
Mentor, WhiteflJes ; Kingston, Hurst ; Orange
Bay, Rofi. ; London, Peck; Henry, Logan;
Montague, Casey ; Arundel, Mann; George and
John, Dears; Chambers, Langley; Hope, Suns;
Dispatch, Towers; E’rendfhip, Ronaldfon ; Nan
ny, Drown ; Fame, Avion; True Briton, Stew
art; and Clarendon, Jordan.
Augufi 18. Tuesday his Majesty’s fhip'Refource,
Rowley, Esq. Commander, arrived from a
Cruize. To the northward of Cape Maize .lhe fell
in with 22 French (hips es the line, which, by the
courle they fleered, appeared to be bound for the
: Tlavana through the of ‘
An account has been received of the French
homeward bound fleet having failed from Uifpajoi
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The Pomona frigate, Capt. Nugent, returned
from a fuccefsful cru ze on Wednesday, with a ship
and two brigs They are chiefly loaded with su
gar, and w ere part of a fleet of nine fail from the
Cape bound to Boston. \
The ship Orange Bay, which was aftiate neaf
the Twelve Apoities, contrary to all expectation
has been got off, and for which the owners and
underwriters are principally indebted to J. Hender
son, Esq. who readily granted every assistance in
his power upon the occasion. A considerable part
ot the cargoes of several other veflels that were
move ashore near that place has been fayed,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1781.
Letters received from St. Elizabeth’s by yester
day’s post mention, that the scarcity of provisions
for the negroes is so great, in consequence of the
late storm, that many of the inhabitants are obliged
to purchase com at the exorbitant price of a bit for
fix ears, merely to keep their Haves from pei ifhing
until other proviflons can be procured.
Alonlego Hay, Augufi 11. A coriefpondent in
Weftmoreland has favoured us with the following
account I am sorry to acquaint you that the
florin of Wednesday has done so much damage.to
our flapping; it haVdrove aftfore two fliips, the
Christina ar.d Juno, a fma!l veflel of Nid’s, and
a brig belonging to Capt. Alexander Flamiiton is
totally loiT, and himfelf and mate drowned;
M’Kay’s wharf is carried away; Drs. Pinkney and
Ruecaitle, MefTs. Blake and Inglis’s new houses
ana Acres, are thrown down ; all the provision and
fine crops of com are cfeilro} ed ; the canes are ail
laid flat, an J there is hardly an tflate in Weftmore
land burhas fuffered in buildings. The Ulyflcs
has been drove to sea, together with a brig out. of
• Bluefleldsf; and .through tlie yvhble parHh of Sf.
Etebeth the.
and the cares greatly damaged.”
The accounts f.om Hanover are equally unfav
* ourah'c ; at S.ixham estate, in that pmfh, the
overseer and cooper were killed in a lioufe WKkh
had been thrown down by the violence of the
storm. - - . ’
St. Mary’s, St. Ann’s, and Trelavvr.ey*, have
all fuffered very conf.derabiy in their proviflons
and canes; and though we would not incline to
aggravate the damage done in this pariih, it is
neverthek'fl. certain that many of the planters ap
prehend thunlelves in equally as bad a situation,
in the article of proviflons, as after the hurricane
of the 3d of October last.
On Sunday last the ship Ulyfles, ■■ ‘Thomas,
Esq. Commander, went into Lucea harbour under
jury malls, with the loss of her bowsprit, being
alf the damage we understand flie na9 fultained.
... New York, September 8. Last Thurfdxy arrived
his Majesty’s ship Zebra from England, via the
Well Indies, with Government dispatches.
About the middle of June his Royal Highness
Prince William Henry, third son of our moll gra
cious Sovereign, who on the 21st of August entered
on his 17th year, took leave of their Majeitieai to
embark with the Hon. Admiral Digby on board
the Prince George oi po guns: The latter, with
it powerful reinforcement ‘to the fleet of our naval
Commander in chief, Admiral Graves, was to
leave St. Helen’s the fi.il fair wind, audit is sup
posed came through the Channel with the breeze
which brought out the Zebra.
Admiral Digby, with a formidable fleet from
England, is momently expe&ed on tnis couft.
Ycfterday ai rived the Dundas gulk-y, Capt.
Corre, with dispatches from the Right Hon. Lieut.
Gen. Earl Cornwallis to his Excellency the Com
mander iu chief. She left York Town last Monday
morning, and bring? intelligence, that'a F’reuch
fleet, coofifting of 17 fail of the fine, two of which
with two, frigates were stationed at the entrance of
York KTver, Tome of them were in James’s River,
and the remainder at the tail of the Horse Shoe in*
Chefupeak Bay ; those in Jamds River were sup
posed to be dilenibarking troops, destined to form
a junction with the Rebels under the command of
the Marquis de la Fayette, Add to be about 40
miles below Richmond] His Majesty’s fliips
Charon, Guadaloupe, Bonetta, with the Vu'cano
firefhip, were lying close by the batterierdf.Yo: k
Town, upon which, and those of Glouceller, on
the oppoflrc fide of the river, upwards of 150 pies.s
of cannon were mounted.
CbarleJloTvn, September 18. Yefterdty arrived
the sloop Polly, Capt. Devereux, in 16. days from-’
St. Martin’s ; lhe was bound for Savannah, but
two days ago fell in with 4 Rebel privateer brig of
12 guns, which chafed her close in to the bar, and
obliged her to put in here.
Sept. 2oi ~The following particulars of the ac
tion on the Bth inlt between the isl itilhforces under
the command of Lieut. Col. Stewart and tne Rebel
army under Gen. Greene, are given from undoubt
ed authority: 1
The Rebel army having been augmented by
recruits for their continental battalions and militia,
drawn from the difafFeded parts of North Carolina
and this province, to upwards of 4000 men, Geti.
Greene was induced to adl ofFenfively; the reports
he had of the weak state of our army rendered him
confident of success.
1 Col. Stewart was at the Eutaws, near Neilfon’s
Ferry, when Greene’s army crofted the Congaree,
but the latter’s great fuperimity in cavalry, and
punibers of his militia being mounted, gave him
every advantage of concealing his approach. Early
on Saturday morning a rooting party from the fe
yeral regiments in camp was sent out, and which
deS Woul<i c °vered by a very confi
ordered out that morning, which fell in with the
Rebel army on its march about seven o’clock The
firing that then ensued gave the firft information of v
tire enemy’s advancin’g. ~
Our line was immeJiitely formed,’ and a little
after eight o’clock the vyiiole Rebel army v/as op
posed to it. f) . • v
Ihe adlion immediately- commenced with a
both Mm lhe Rebel'cavalry came on with such
impetuosity as to make a considerable impression ;
at one time they had got into our encampment
but being vigorously charged were soon repulsed
and driven iqto the woods. AfteV a levere confilift
which lasted above an hour, the enemy gave way
in every quarter, and were obliged to relinquish the
field, on which they left near 300 of their dead ;
their wounded, amounting to three times that
number, were chiefly carried off; two brass fix
poundprs were taken and fome prisoners, among
whom is Col. Walhington, slightly wounded; his
corps of light horse is nearly annihilated ; we learn
that almost every officer in it is either killed or
wounded. Col. Campbell of the Mountaineers,
and U r t. Devant, who so conspicuously diftin
guiincd himfelf in leading the Forlorn Hope at the
liege of Ninety .Sx, were killed; Col. Henderson
is dangerously wounded. The number of their
officers of less note, killed and wounded, is very
considerable, especially of artillery.
i he loss fultained bflus is chiefly the prifonera
taken in the rooting party ; two officers and 60
privates were killed, 13 officer- and 280 privates
wounded; 50 of the latter, being the wjrft cases
and impracticable to remove, were left at the Eu
ta.vs. One 3 pounder fell into the hands of the
enemy, by the falling back of part of our line, at
the commencement of the aftion.
Our army remained two days on the field of
battle, the numerous wounded then incapacitating
it from making a forward movement. Gen. Greene
requelled a cessation of arms, which was refufed by
Col. Stewart. . 7
“T The army on the 1 tth fell back to Monck’s
Corner, fiom whence the wounded being sent to
town, and the neceflary refrdhments and supplies
received, it is now advancing in quell of the cne
my, who, in consequence of so gallant and com
pleat a repulse, have retreated with precipitation.
Deaths] Os the wounds they received in the
a£ii.oa of the Bth, Capt. James Shaw aiai Lieut.
John Troup, both of Brigadier General Skinner’i
brigade of New Jersey Volunteers.
Sept. 2j. Saturday afternoon a fire broke out
in Fenwicke’s buildings on White Point, but waa
happily prevented spreading any farther.
Same evening arrived his Majesty’s frigate Sole
bay, —— Everitt, Esq Commander, and the Sa
vage Hoop of war. We are informed that on the
5 m inll, off Cape Fear, the Sav ge fell in with a
Rebel frigate of 32 guns, named the Congress,
which (he engaged, andafter a fevereadion, which
l .lled for fix glaflls, and during which her mizen
maft was shot away, and her hull and rigging
much damaged, lhe was obi g and to ltrike to such
a vallly superior force. The Savage had th,e Maf
tcr Whitman) and. 4 men killed, and 13
wounded. The loss on board the Congrefl was
13 killed and 26 wounded. The Congress and
her prize were proceeding to the northward, when
the Solebay eight days after hove in light and gave
them chafe. The Rebel commander, as soon ai
he perceived the vcfftl bearing down upon him was
a frigate, very prudently made all the fltii he could
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