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TIHtRSDAY,: Ma* 2 3) i THE 1 GEORGIA SAVANNA!}: Printed From the Aktigu a PHIGOOOOK J N .the 41 ft instant the jfcji fc-g ‘whole French fleet made *\ P’ S-* u aPPetran<{c.©ft'Mont ■!£ Tt-rrat i and on “.Friday k and trorning that detach meat •. thereof which is com-, foarided by le Compte de Barras was close In with the town, when a flag of truce was sent with a letter from the Compte, ftquiring a furreoder of the island, and accompanied bv a draft of articles of capitulation. As any oppo fitioii to so a force was not to be thought of an immediate fuiren dfr tssiif l |hst, Lift of officers killed and wounded at the siege of Brim fine Hill in St. Cbriffo pher. Killed, Lietsts. Wilson and Clerk, Quartermaster Shungar, ift battalion Royals. Lieut. Wefterna and Surgeon Boyce, 15th. Wounded. Brigadier .General Fra zer, Capt. Wallace, Capt.Buckeridge, and Lieut. Pemberton, ill battalion Royals. Return of the French and British forces at the reduction of Demarara> January 30, 1782. —’ French forces! Ships names. Guns. Commander'.’. L’Jphigene 32 Compte K. rtamt L’Aimable 32 Cheval. Sufmnet Le Rofli>nol 24 Cheval. Kfrfaint Le David 24 M. Dombidau * *<• A'l. rr n 11. de la Beau me LeChaifedufTe i8 p |euV;njl Le Caesar “ 6 M. Gerard Guns 136 1280 seamen. Reg. Due dt Lauzan 35° Ditto Fori iuo -From Cayenne 120 Marines 120 690 land forces, i British force to oppose them. Ships names. Guns. Commanders. Oror.oque 21 W. Tabourdin Bcrbu Ja 17 F. Pendar Sylph 18 J. Giacme . Stormont 14 J. Douglas Brisbane Henry 6 Lieut. Rotherly Rodney 14 Capt. Pap*l. 90 guns.-—376 seamen. No land foices. This armament failed from Roch Fort the Bth of October, 1781, with a con voy to Cayenne, and arrived there the Bth of December. Off Cape Finifterre they loft an armed victualler of 18 nine 1 pounders, with provisions for the squa dron for seven months; off Cayenne; on the Constable Rocks, they also loft t brig of the fame force wjth th c Lse, uu • The articles of capitulation have not yet reached us. The officers deemed ptsifoners of war, and seamen at liberty 10 ft: rvc t * - “.'h. • -i-’ ; 7*W/&St.Luci aGaZette, March} 1. St. Martinique March 7. Friday morning filled from our road, a small American squadron, confuting of four (hips and three brigs; they stood to the northward, but w nrc ignorant of their detonation. The Holker, which came in t u water, failed again immediately with them. March 21. The American brig i Holker came into our road on Friday last, with an Englifli brig, which (he took off Tortola. The litric American squadron which fh* failed with, having appeared off that ifland,found that ab pefftlFthe vef&fs r?W were” in that port had had the good fortune to escape, and take reFuse under the Fort of the Daniffi iflandor St. John. In the morning of the 19th the • grand fleet made their appearance off our road, under the of the Cmronnc of 80 guns, eftnminded by M. de Methon ; the Magnifique of 74, bv M. de Macarty; the Dauphin Royal of 70, by M. de SennevHle, two Fri gates and a sloop of war *. they left B*eft the 13th of FebaTV. This rtwct, consisting of 60 failure greatest part of loaded on *hc v King’s ic tovint, could not get to an anchor, ei ther in our roul or at Fort Royal, ’till the 20th. We know not at present the exadt number of” troops that are ar rived. A confi iyrable number of trans ports, bound to the East Indies, fepa rnud fr<mv them in a certain latitude, •■having for ihrirlconvjy four fail of the line. KINGSTON, (Jamaica) March 16. his Majesty’s packet boat the Swaiio v, Capt. Green, with the mails from in 28 days, anchored in the harbour. On the 24th ult. Capt. Green took a French ” snow, from Bourdeaux to St. Domingo. March 23. Saturday last arrived here the Cork fleet', under the protection of his Majesty’s ship Invincible, Capt. Saxton, and Martin sloop. The (hip HeClor, Cox, from Lon don for Nevis, came down with the them. Capt. Cox, on difeovering the Fre.nch colours displayed there, bore away, and on his passage down captured ’ a larg£ (hip from Bourdeaux, laden with wine and flour, which he has con ducted into this harbour. A ffoop, prize to the Invincible, from Sj. Vincent’s, also arrived on Sa turday. % , ■turc, Cop >l, and hit m a cruise, he Advcn rbados that mentioned I, 29 days red at that he icth of 178*. (N*. 16.. J ROYAL GAZETTE. bvJAMKS JOHNSTON. February; and the matter said that the London fleet was Cos follow him the next day, under amffcort of eight (hipt of the line. April 6. Monday the schooner E clipse, Hill, and , Fdroes, eight days from the island of St. Thomas, arrived Royal. “Letters by these vcffcls announce the failing of the outward bound East and Weft India fleers from Portfmoutk, under a strong convoy, which had Bren dilperfed, a few days after they left the land, by a violent tempest. Capt. Hill fays, that advice had been received at St. Tho mas’s, before he failed, of the loss of fou?l>f the fleet, vi£ tfillfiip Capt. Izat, to windward of Antigua, which was blown up in difeharging her stern chafes at a vcffel which Capt. u at conceived to be an enemy ; the Au rora, Venus, and London, from Brif. tol, off Barbuda; Capt. Izat and his people, only excepting two or three, unfortunately perUhed by the explode on; all the officers and crews of the others got fafe on shore, but the veflcls and cargoes are entirely loft, A flag of truce lately anived at An tigua from St. Kitts brought advice of the failing of Count Dillofffrom thence with two 50 gun ships and two frigates on a secret expedition; that the French were indefatigable in their efforts to render Brimstone Hill impregnable, by enlarging and llrengthenirg the forti fications at that very important post, and that they had already in the mod (hameful and wanton manner violated the specious capitulation granted to the unfortunate inhabitants of St. Kitts. Tur fday his M sloop Childers, Capt. M‘Kay, with two prizes, enter ed this harbour; one of the prizes it an American brig, called the Lady Green, mounting 14 four pounders, fitted out of New London; she had a severe cOnteft with the Childers for upwards of an Jtopr, and had many of her crew killed and wounded; the o ther is a Spaniard, in ballad. Capt. M‘Kay gallantly cut-these two prizes out of Cumberland harbour, where there was no traces of an encampment. On Thursday, a brig, prize to the Hercules privateer*, the ship Tartar, Austen, from Africa; and his Majes ty’s (hip Southampton, Affleck, Esq. from convoying the Grantham packet through the Windward Passage; an chored at Port Royal: And yellerday the lhip Rumbold, Molineux, from Africa; and his Majesty’s fchponer En deavour, Ferkins, Esq. fronii a cruise, with a brig and schooner her prizes. On Saturday 4aft, in the Windward Passage, Capt. Molineux was warmly attacked by a French privateer of 24 guns, and full of men, which he beat off after an hour's gallant defence, with the loss Os three men killed re . I See the fottrtb Page. J