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Georgia Parole, or Coup de Grace, *
he refer ved for Col Dunn, #Capt.
Paddy Carr, and the rest of the
yirtuous Fsw. This finall party,
after paflang almofl: in fight of Col.
White and the rebel dragoons at
Hirfhman’s, returned on Tuel'day
mo;ning, with a conliderable booty
of horses aid arms, without the
lcall loss. s”
On Saturday last departed this
life, in the 18th year of his age,
Mr John Meek.,
‘“ .
. NEW YORK, January 22.
A BRIG from St. Lucia, bound for
this port, was lately taken by two
rebel privateers, and ordered to pro
ceed for Philadelphia, but was soon
after retaken by the Pandora, and Teen
two days ago by the prize brig Venus
(leering for Sandy Hook. • : - :
A schooner from New England for
Porro Rico was sent in litre last Friday
by his M a jelly's frigate the. Atnphi
- trite, Robrrt Biggs, F.fq. commander.
She is loaded with cycler and onions.
_ We hear from Glouceftcr in Virgi
nia, thir, on the firft of this month,
died, univertelly ‘regretted, Mr. Rich
ard Auchmuty, of his Majcfty’s Gene
ral Hoipital, second son of our late
worthy Re&or.
CbarlefUxvriy March 2. Yrftcrday
evening the Rebel privateer brig,
which the Ouc de Chartres was left in
chafe of, as mentioned in our last, was
fent'in here.
Last night his Majrfty’s packet-boat
Halifax; Capt. Bolderfon, arrived in
* fix weeks and p.vo days from Falmouth.
Lord Cornwallis and Lord Rawiion
were arrived in England before the
packet failed.
Parliament have voted tcj r ooo tea
men for the present year.
REBEL INTELIIgESCE.. ‘
Pougbkeep/u'y December 31. A cor
respondent has favoured us with the
following particulars relating to the
horrid murders committed by James
Yates, viz. That being then (the sth
of November) at Pitts-town, in Albany
-county, in the neighbourhood where
it happened, he had an opportunity of
hearing the relation from a number of
perfon9, who all agreed in these parti
culars : That the said James Yates had
nothing remukable in his character,
which was rather an infignificant one,
and that he had never difeovered the
least signs of insanity 1 that the morn
ing on whi£h this tragedy was perpe
trated he ran naked about half a mile
to the house of his father and mother,
who were ancient people, and told them
he had killed his wife and children y?
they dd not believe him, but however
went > lis house, and found it as he
had said. .His wife, and infancacrofs
her bread, were lying dead on tjie
a small didance from the hoqfr, sup
posed to have been endearboTthg to
nuke her est ape i the other threnkhil
drfen were found dead in the house j
they were all supposed to have been
killed with a club, which was found
“lying by his wife, as their heads were
all bjruifed and bartered to pieces. He
had like wife killed his dog, two horses,
and two Cows v in the body of, one of
the cows, which was not quite dead,
an ax was found (ticking. The Coro
net's Inquetl had not then lat on the
bodies, nor was the murderer bound,
his brother laying he could prevent his
doing any further mifchu*ft When he
wts (hewn the bodies, rfe said they
were not his wife and children, but
that the woman was an Indian squaw.
These are ail the particulars that have
yet come to our hands of this (hocking
affair. v
BoJJoh , December 20. On Friday last
the Honourable Samuel Adams, Ste-
Pk. cn Higginfon, and Samuel Buret,
Elquires, having at the late Town
Meeting been appointed a Committee
c*prefs the moft cordial esteem and
aftedtion of the inhabitants to the Ho
nourable Major General the Marquis
de la Fayette, prefente<| to him the
following Address: * 1
To the Honourable Major General the
Marquis de la Fayette.
* SIR,
WE have.the honour of waiting u
pon you, in the name and by the. di
reiftion of the inhabitants of Boston, in
town meeting aflembled, in Fjneuil
hall, to express their sentiments of joy
on your fate return to this metropolis.
We Iffure you from them, that they
still bear jn their minds a grateful re
membrance of the early disinterested
and decided part you took with Ame
ricans, while they were icfiftmg alone
the hand of Brstilh tyranny.
Your facrifice of domeftick enjoy
ment to the caufc of God and humani
ty, your generous exertions in a foreign
country in support of that great cause,
and the fucccfs which has crowned
those exertions, so dangerous to your
own person, have, in the opinion of
the town, added a luftre to your ex
alted rank, and give your name a place
in the firft lift, of American patriots
and heroes. “
It is with regret they have been
made acquainted that your present vilit
mull be lhort \ but, though your re
sidence in the town would have afford
ed them unspeakable fatisfadtion, they
will acquiesce in your departure, from
a regard which they owe to their coun
try ; being fully persuaded that your
presence in Europc at a critical con
jundture will give you the opportunity
of rendering moft substantial fervree to
the joint interest of France and the
United States.
The inhabitants moft fervently pray
the Almighty God to take you under
his protection, to guard you from dan
ger in your voyage, and to give you
an happy meeting with your family,
your private connections, and your
native country, alluring themselves,
that you will there be embraced with
every sentiment of gratitude and affec
tion, and receive the approbation of
the King your lovereign.
L“~” Boflony Dee. 14, 1781.
. To which the Marquia returned the
following Anfwcr:
Gentlemen ,
THE past obligations I have been
under to the inhabitants of this capi
ta), and the favour they, now confer
upon me, have jmprefled my heart
with the moft lively sentiments of At
tachment and gratitude.
r To have been admitted among you ;
from an early period, in defence of the.
caul'e of liberty, wiH for ever be the
happiest ciriuniftance in my life. Bur
it becotncs more particularly so, when
it is so kindly remembered by those
who fiift began the noble contest, and
who have ever since been so conlpicu*
ous in its support.
Nothing could induce me to leave
this continent, even for a (host period,
before I had the fatisfadfion to fee my
friends in town. Be plfed, gen
tlemen, to accept my moft refpedlful
acknowledgments for your good wiftiCs.
The height of my ambition would be,
to have it in my power to juftify your
confidence, and particularly to gratify
tfiofe affectionate sentiments which for
ever devote me to this metropolis.
La FAYETTE.
Ex trail from a sotb of January Sermon
preached by the late Dr. Pickcrinr,
TN letting forth the miierable diftrac
• tions of those times (Cromwell's)'’
of uproar and rebellion, 1 (hall borrow
the words of an Address prefonted by .
the Anabaptists to King Charles the
Second before his restoration $ beesufe
will furnifh us wjjh a gcod gene
ral notion of the confufion and misrule
of those days, and at the fame time
give us a tolerable idea of the true
character of that great man,-Oliver
Cromwell.
44 We must confefs, fay they, (and
all the fectariea of those times might
hive joined in the confeftion) we must
confefs we have been wandering—de
.... viating, and roving up and down, this
way and that way, through all the
dangerous -untrodden—uncouth paths
01 fanatical cnthofuftick notions, ana
now at last, but too'late, we find our
lelves intneated and involved in so
many windings, labyrinths, and me
anders of knavery, that nothing but a
divine clew of thread, handed to ua
from Heaven, can be fufficient to ex
tricate and restore ui. We know not
—we know not whether we havejufter
caufc for (hame or furrow, when we
take a reflex review of past adtions,
and confider into the commiflion of
what crimes, impieties, wicked neffes
-•-and unheard of villainies, we have
been led into--cheated—cozened-**
betrayed by that grand impostor that
1 oathlomc hypocrite—that opprobrium
of mankind—that landscape of iniqui
ty—that; fink of fin—that compendium
of baseness, who called himfelf our
Protcdtor.**
Anecdote of Cafimir 11. King of Poland.
HEN Cafimir was Prince of San*
domir, he won at play all the
money of one of his nobility, who,
i neenled at his ill fortune, (truck die
Prince a blow on the ear in the'heat of
>affion. He fled immediately from
t luftice, but being pursued and overta
ten, Tie was condemned to lode hit
head j but the generous Cafimir deter
mined otherwise: ** lam not furpfif
od,” said he, “ at the gentleman*!
condufl; for not having it in his power
to revenue himfelf on fortune nowon
der he (hould atr-.ck her favourite.*'—
After which he revoked the (entente,
returned the. nobleman his money, siul
declared that he himfelf was faulty, as
he encouraged by hit example a per
nicious pra&ice, that might terminate
in tnc ruin es hundreds of his people.