The following Articles were left out of our last Paper, for want of Room and a Sufficiency of Types:
CHARLES-TOWN, July 1.
Last week two of the anchors and cables left by Sir Peter Parker's squadron near Sullivant's island, when they silently withdrew from the attack on Fort Moultrie, in the night of 28th of June 1776, were weighed, about 480 yards distance from that fort, and brought up to town: One of them was the Bristol's (of 50 guns) Sir Peter's own ship. These make 8 of that squadron's anchors and cables, that we are now in possession of, besides 16 of the guns (fine double-fortified 9-pounders) belonging to the Acteon frigate, which was burnt in the morning of the 29th.1
Last Friday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, a sloop came in sight from the Eastward, off Bull's Island. At the same time 3 ships appeared coming up from the southward and standing to the northward. At half past 6 in the evening, the ships were observed to tack and stand to the eastward, the sloop with them, and towards the close of the day they all hawled off to the S.E.—The same evening Capt. Dillingham, late master of the sloop Betsey, of and for this port from Bedford in New-England, came to town from Bull's, and informed, that the above-mentioned sloop was his: That he had been chased the whole day by 5 ships (two of them without those that were seen from town) three of whose boats pursued him so closely, that he was at last obliged to quit his vessel, which they immediately after boarded and carried off.
Three of these ships and the sloop were again discovered on Saturday, in the S.E, with crowded sail, as if in chace to the southward. And that night Capt. Cornelius Schermerhorn, in the scooner Swift, of this port, arrived from Cape Francois, who informed, that he had been chased from 4 o'clock in morning, by 4 ships, with a scooner and a sloop in company; That, as the wind was very light, they sent 7 boats in pursuit of them; but that by incessant rowing he at length got clear. He adds, that in the morning, he passed the mast-head of a sunken scooner, which he imagined had been taken and scuttled by the above ships of war.
As none of these vessels have come in sight since, and the wind has been easterly, it is not improbable, that they were passing ships, destined for, and have proceeded off St. Augustine, St. Juan's, or St. Mary's Rivers.2
The anniversary of the repulse of a squadron of the British navy, under the command of Sir Peter Parker, in their attack upon Fort Moultrie, on the 28th of June 1776, and of the retreat of the British army, under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton, falling this year upon Sunday; the public rejoicings upon that glorious occasion, were deferred till monday.—The morning was ushered in with ringing of bells, and a display of colours from all the forts and shipping. At noon the forts (beginning at Fort Moultrie) each fired a salute of 13 guns. At one o'clock the like salute was fired from each of the following vessels of war, viz. the Oliver Cromwell and Defence, state ships of Connecticut;3 the Notre-Dame of this State;4 the Tartar and Volant, private armed vessels;5 and the Tonyn's Revenge and Ranger, prize privateers late of St. Augustine.6 And at night, the illuminations surpassed all preceding ones: King Street, and environs, in particular, appearing uncommonly brilliant; and the Notre Dame making a very grand appearance—
