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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 ----- j 1 i 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 - [N o . 136.]