this perfuafion; and I have now the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that the inhabitants from all parts of the province flock with their arms to the ftandard, and cordially embrace the terms which have been offered.

To establish the public fecurity, and check every attempt to disturb the peace of individuals, I iffued another proclamation, feting forth a reward of ten guineas for every committee and affembly man taken within the limits of Georgia; and two guineas for every lurking vil. Jain, who might be fent from Carolina to moleft the inhabitants. A late fruitJefs attempt of a rebel-party, fent across the Savannah to plunder the plantations on this fide of the water, has infpired our rifle-dragoons with double alacrity, and has pointed out the propriety and happy confequences refulting from their being ready to oppofe every banditti of this nature.

Capt. Stanhope of the navy, who commanded the flat boats of the fleet, and to whofe exertions we are much indebted, went with Lieut. Clarke, and a number of armed boats of the fleet, and boarded an armed brig, two floops and a schooner, who interrupted the paffage to Abercorn, by which means the navigation of the river to that post was happily opened. The Comet galley and armed floop Greenwich are now ftationed to cover the mouth of Ebenezer creek: the two rebel-galleys who were formerly there, have retired to Purisburg,

Having, in the space of ten days, fettled the frontiers of Georgia in a state of tranquillity, and having formed fuch a difpofition of the army as I thought most expedient for fhutting up all the avenues leading from South Carolina, I turned my thoughts to Sunbury, and vifited the town of Savannah on the roth inftant, where Com. Parker with Col. Innes, who was left commandant of the town of Savannah, had, with uncommon abilities, unremitting zeal and attention, regulated fully to my fatisfaction every public tranfaction in the lower diftri&t of that province.

A letter from Gen. Prevost that evening, topped my intended excurfion to Sarbury, by the agreeable intelligence of his arrival from the fouth, and of his having taken the fort after a short refiftance. The particulars of which your Lordship will learn from himfelf, as I expect him hourly in town, and have detained the packet for that purpose.

All the rebel-cattle within reach of ou pofts, have been ordered for flaughter and to be falted up for the use of the na vy and army. We have alfo given fuc encouragement to the farmers to brin in their bullocks, hogs, fheep, poultry &c. as cannot fail of establishing goo and reasonable markets at each of ou pofts.

I am now preparing to march with a the light troops, and a battalion of th 71ft, to Augusta, with a view to fecu that important poft, and give every po fible encouragement, protection, and aid to his Majesty's loyal fubjects in the bac countries of both the Carolinas."

The letter concludes with due praif of the army and navy, and of Col. Inni the bearer of the difpatch.

A return of the ordnance and stores take

and of the killed and wounded, is fubjoine

Of the King's troops Capt' Charles Came ron, rft batt. of the 71ft regiment, and Pet Campbell, 3d batt. Skinner's, and 5 ran and file, were killed; and Lieut. French, Delancy's, I drummer, and 17 rank and fi were wounded. Of the Americans, 1 col nel, 3 majors, 11 captains, 15 lieutenant I chaplain, I quartermaster, a furgeons, mate, 2 commiffaries, I mustermafter, 3 ferjeants, 7 drummers, 5 fifes, and 370 ran and file, were made prifoners.

"By Hyde Parker, jun. Efq; Comme

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dore of a fquadron of his Majesty fhips of war, and Lt-Col. Archibal Campbell, commanding a detachmer of the Royal Army, fent for the reli of his Majefty's faithful fubjects i North and South Carolina and Georgia A PROCLAMATION. THEREAS the bleffings of peace freedom, and protection, moft gra ciously tendered by his Majefty to his de luded fubjects of America, have bee treated by Congrefs with repeated mark of ftudied difrefpect; and, to the dif grace of human nature, have had no ef fect in reclaiming them from the bloody perfecutions of their fellow-citizens; bei therefore known to his all Majefty's faithful fubjects of the fouthern provinces. That a fleet and army, under our orders, are actually arrived in Georgia for their protection; to which they are defired to repair without lofs of time, and by uniting their force under the Royal standard. refcue their friends from oppreffion. themselves from flavery, and obtain for both the most ample fatisfaction for the manifold injuries fuftained,

To

ing. For each rebel committee or affembly man brought into any of the military pofts, a reward of ten guineas will be paid to the perfon or perfons who bring him and for every rebel who is found lurking about the country a like reward of two guineas will be paid upon his be ing delivered over to any of his Majefty's officers.

Given at Head Quarters at Savannah, this eleventh day of January 1779, and in the nineteenth year of his Majefty's reign.

ARCH. CAMPBELL. GOD fave the KING."

Maj. Gen. Prevost to Lord George Germaine, dated, Savannah, Jan. 18. Extract.

I think it my duty to acquaint your Lordship, that, pursuant to Gen. Sir Henry Clinton's orders of 20th October, received Nov. 27. following, I collected all the troops of every kind, which could poffibly be fpared from the neceffary number for the defence of the fort and garrifon of St Auguftine.

Permit me, my Lord, to mention to the praise of the troops now with me, the unexampled diftrefs under which they have laboured for a number of weeks for want of provifions; their fpirited excurfions, at a very great diftance, in a country extremely difficult of accefs; and the chearfulness with which, for days toge ther, under the moft fevere fatigues, they lived only on oyfters. All refources of every kind being exhausted, notwithftanding all the industry and activity of Lt Col. Prevoft, who exerted every finew to relieve our wants, not a word of complaint was heard; the anxiety to fhare the toils of reducing Georgia, and to promote the King's fervice, made every thing eafy, and wa patiently borne by the men, who faw that their officers had no better fare than themfelves. At laft, when the joyful news came, that the troops from the northward were arrived off the coaft, thofe with me were foon ready to co-operate with them. Our artillery and ammunition coming by water in open boats, the only poffible conveyance, as we were unaffifted by any kind of naval force, retarded us fome time, as we were obliged to take a long circuit to avoid the enemy's galleys; however, the activity of Lt-Col. Prevoft, who had made a forced march in the night, and furrounded the town of Sunbury, to prevent the enemy from efca

ping, in cafe they defigned to abandon the fort, afforded us fome means of bring. ing a howitzer and some royals, with which we foon obliged them to furrender the garrifon and fort at difcretion. The prifoners, including the officers, amounted to 212; they had a captain and two men killed, and fix wounded. Cr the fide of his Majefty's troops only on private man was killed, and three wound ed, notwithstanding they had two gal leys and an armed veffel firing at ou trenches for three days, befides twenty one pieces of cannon mounted in th fort. After fettling a garrifon in it, an ordering the necessary repairs, I proceed ed to Savannah to take the command the army come from the northward, h therto commanded by Lt Col. Campbel to whom I beg leave to refer your Lord fhip for the particulars of his fuccefs: gainft the enemy, and the fteps he h fince taken to fecure the country alon Savannah river."

A return of the garrifon in Fort Morr (now Fort George), at Sunbury in Georgi commanded by Maj. Lane, and of the ort nance and ftoies in it, Jan. 9. & 13. is ful joined. The garrifon confifted of 1 majo 4 captains, 9 lieutenants, 1 adjutant, i mat 14 ferjeants, I drummer, 172 rank and fil

Capt. Hyde Parker, of the Phoenix, i a letter to the Admiralty, dated in Sa vannah river, Jan. 14. and 15. fent b Capt. Stanhope, gives an account of th operations of the fleet; from which w have only to add to Col. Campbell's ac count, that the intelligence from th two men brought from Wilmingto creek, was, that the rebels had tw row-galleys in the mouth of Auguftin creek; that the batteries which had bee erected for the defence of the river, wen much out of repair, and very few troop in the town, but that a number was ex pected to arrive every day; that on the ift of January Lieut. Clarke of the Phoe nix was detached with row-boats about feventeen miles up the river above Savannah, upon information that the late rebel-governor of Georgia was at a plantation on the South-Carolina fhore; that unfortunately he did not get the goverpor, but returned, with one Bryan, a notorious ringleader in rebellion, a captain lieutenant, about twelve or fourteen prifoners of other denominations, and a gun-boat, which the rebels had fitted for the defence of the river; that in the operations in Savannah river one Bri

tish feaman was killed, and five were wounded; and that the number of prifoners taken by the British squadron in the Savannah river was 106. Lond. Gaz.

THE troops deftined for the Weft Indes were put under my orders the 24th of October. The imbarkation having been mmpleted, I received Sir Henry Clinton's ructions the 29th; and we failed from Sandy Hook the 3d of November, in a gle of wind that continued feveral days; otwithftanding of which Com. Hotham, by his care and attention, contrived to keep the fleet together, and brought us afe to Barbadoes the 10th of December, without the lofs of a transport.

The Count d'Eftaign by chance, certainly not from information, failed from Boton the very day we left the Hook. H feet was difperfed in the gale of wind, which our tranfports weather. ed. He was, however, in courfe of the myage, fo near us with a part of his quadron, that a brigantine with horses, which we loft the 27th of November in the night, fell into D'Estaign's hands the next day.

Having fixed the plan of debarkation with Adm. Barrington, the fleet failed from Barbadoes the 12th of December. The referve, which confifts of the 5th regiment, the grenadiers and light infantry of the army, was landed at the Grand Cul de Sac, upon the island of St Lecie, the 13th in the evening; with which Brig. Gen. Meadows forced the heights upon the north fide of the bay, which were occupied by the Chev, de Micaud, with the French troops under his command, and the militia of the island. He took a field-piece which fired upon the boats that carried the troops afhore, and a four-gun battery which annoyed the shipping at the entrance of the har

Gen. Meadows, after a fhort halt, was directed to continue his march, and to occupy the important poft of the Vigic, which commands the north fide of the Carenage harbour.

Brig. Gen. Sir Henry Calder, with four battalions, guarded the landing place, kept up the communication with the fleet, and occupied feveral posts upon the mountains which look down upon and command the fouth fide of the Grand Cul de Sac; from whence it afterwards appeared that the French intended to bombard our fhips, if they had not been prevented by our prior poffeffion of ground from which we could not be forced.

The laft white flag was not struck an hour before the French fleet and army were difcovered from the Gouvernement, juft become my quarters.

The 15th, in the morning, the French fleet ftood in for the Carenage, believing that we had not got poffeffion of that part of the island: but the Languedoc being fired upon and ftruck by one of their batteries, M. d'Eftaign favoured us with a broadfide, and then bore away with his fleet and transports. They, in appearance, were much difconcerted, and at a lofs how to act; but at last, after much hesitation, they bore down with twelve fail of the line upon our little fleet, which covered the tranfports with our provifions in the Grand Cul de Sac, He made two attacks upon Adm. Barrington, one in the morning, and the other after dinner, both without effect.

The 16th, D'Eftaign landed about 9cco men, which had been collected from the French islands, with an intention to take poffeffion of Barbadoes, Grenada, and St Vincent; in fhort, according to our information from French reports, every British fettlement in the West Indies.

The 17th, in the morning, I withdrew two advanced piquets from pofts which I never intended to defend, and from whence a fhot was not fired. That move, I imagined, encouraged the enemy to attack Gen. Meadows's corps,