A large quantity of rigging, fails, blocks, tar, and other stores not enumerated. 1 ship loaded with tobacco. I ditto. I ditto with mahogany and logwood, with a number of fmaller veffels. In the Dock-yard, I frigate ready to launch, burnt by the rebels at our approach. I ditto larger, keel only laid. 1 brig, pierced for 20 guns, on the stocks. I floop ditto. A large quantity of mafts and yards, with timber, plank, iron, and other ftores, to a very confiderable amount. Upwards of 3000 barrels of pork deftroyed, with ftores, &c. at Suffolk; alfo a large quantity of different fpecies of provisions, at Sheppardefs, on the Nanfemond. 22 veffels, with a confiderable quantity of powder, taken and deftroyed up the South Branch, by the navy. At Norfolk. 1 ftand of colours; fails and canvafs prepared for the ships and veffels on the stocks; four 4-pounders, one 6 ditto; 7 hogfheads of tobacco; some stores and other provifions. A brig with 8 guns, and a floop burnt up the West Branch. (Signed) EDW. MATTHEW, M. G. Return of Iron Ordnance and Stores taken at Portsmouth, Virginia, May 11th, 1799. Iron guns on fhip-carriages.-Nineteen 6-pounders; three 4pounders; fix 3-pounders. Total, 28. Spare carriages, 9. Firelocks, 400. Bayonets, 263. Pistols, 3. Half-barrels powder, 8. Whole barrels, 2. H. ROGERS, Lieut. commanding a detachment of Royal Artillery in Virginia. N. B. At the Dock-yard, omitted to be included, four 6-pounders. Return of Ordnance and Stores taken in Fort Nelfon, near Portsmouth, in Virginia, May 11th, 1799. Iron guns on fhip-carriages, nine 24-pounders, 2 nine ditto, eleven 6 ditto. Total, 22. Iron guns on travelling carriages, four 4-pounders, two 3-pounders. Total, 6. Round fhot, 768 twenty-four pounders, 80 nine ditto, 311 fix do. 89 four ditto. Total, 1248. Bar Bar fhot, 17 twenty-four pounders, 12 nine ditto, 27 fix ditto. Total, 56. Grape fhot, 28 twenty-four pounders, 30 fix ditto. Total, 58. Chain fhot, 10 twenty-four pounders. Cartridges paper filled, 77 twenty-four pounders, 28 nine ditto, 63 fix ditto, 94 three ditto. Total, 185. Handfpikes, common, 350, ditto flawed; 200; Powder in whole barrels, 18; ditto in broken ditto, 20; wadhooks, 10; ladles with wadhooks, 6; ladles, 14; fpunges, 11; fearchers, fets, 2; damaged powder-barrels, 3 1-half, Iron truck-wheels, 6; fpare carriages 9. Signed as before. Return of Iron Ordnance taken at Suffolk, May 17th, 1779. Two 3-pounders on field-carriages. Return of Prisoners. Belonging to a French ship burnt, I captain, 3 lieutenants, I enfign, I furgeon, 17 failors. Virginia Militia, 2 captains, 2 lieutenants, 8 privates. Nine inhabitants, notoriously difaffected; 5 left fick in the hofpital by the rebels. Note 134. Return of Ordnance and Stores, taken and destroyed, at and near Newhaven, &c. on July 6th, 1799, by a detachment of the army under the command of his Excellency Maj.-Gen. Tryon. IRON ORDNANCE. Mounted on garrifon carriages, 2 twelve pounders, 2 nine ditto. On travelling carriages, with ammunition boxes, fide arms, &c. &c. complete, 2 nine pounders, 4 four ditto, 2 fix ditto. Given to the Royal Charlotte, a privateer belonging to the refugees, 4 nine pounders. Taken off by the navy, 2 fix-pounders, Taken and destroyed by the Royal Fuzileers, in the action at Norwalk, I three pounder. Taken and destroyed on the Rock battery, and on the east fide of the entrance of the harbour of Newhaven, 4 three and fix pounders. Total ordnance deftroyed, 23. Stores Destroyed. 300 flannel cartridges, with fhot fixed to wooden bottoms, for the above ordnance. 17 barrels of powder. A laboratory, with a very confiderable quantity of mufket cartridges, and ordnance stores. Return Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Miffing, at the repulfe of the Rebels at Stone-Ferry, South Carolina, June 20th, 1779. 1 Major, 1 lieutenant, I enfign, 4 ferjeants, 19 rank and file, killed. I Major, 3 captains, 5 lieutenants, I enfign, 7 ferjeants 1 drum. mer, 85 rank and file, wounded. 1 Rank and file miffing. Officers Killed. Lieut. Rod. Murchifon, 1ft batt. 71ft regiment. Enfign William M'Kintosh, ditto. Major William Campbell, 1ft batt. South Carolina Royalists. Officers Wounded. Capt. Colin Campbell, 1ft batt. 71ft regt. Lieutenant Frafer, ditto. Enfign M. Murchison, ditto. N. B. Lieut. Wallace, fince dead of his wounds. Heffians wounded. Major Endemon, Lieutenant Widekin, Lieutenant de Griesheim, Lieutenant Engalhard. Note 135. Lift of the Fleet that accompanied Sir George Note 136. Lift of the Enemy's Fleet taken or deftroyed. Lofs fuftained by the troops under Brigadier-General M'Lean. Killed, and dead of wounds, 28. Wounded, 35. Miffing, 11. Lieutenant M'Neil, and Lieut. Graham of the 82d regt. wounded. Lofs Lofs fuftained by his Majesty's fhips during the fiege. The lofs fuftained by the enemy in killed, wounded, and taken, amounted to 474. Note 137. Lift of the French Squadron under the Comte D'Estaing, that went against Savannah. First Divifion.-M. de Bougainville. L'Iphigene, 36 36 Chev. de Marigny. |