The Newport Gazette

BALTIMORE. July 6.

To Major General Lincoln, passed through on Sunday in Major Rich., Aid de Camp, this [city] on his way to Philadelphia, from South Carolina, having left Gen. [something] through [the] country. The intelligence brought by this gentleman is, in substance, as follows:

That the British forces from Georgia, command of General Prevost, appeared in amounting to about 3500 men, under the in the vicinity of Charlestown on the 12th of May, and demanded its immediate surrender, the town being well fortified, and the garrison declaring his force to be 7000 strong—the firm, a peremptory refusal was given to the insolent summons—That General Prevost finding himself unequal to the task of reduction against of determined resistance, with his feeble ill appointed army, after remaining two or three days in the neighborhood, force and took possession of John's Island that, prudently deemed, with his whole (contiguous to James's Island) or the air. where they were encamped on the ground. in sight of their ships, in which they had an uninterrupted communication—That the camp of the enemy was about 12 miles from Charlestown—That General Lincoln's army, consisting of 3000 men, was securely posted on the main, opposite to the enemy, where he was watching their motions; but it was the general opinion in Charlestown that General Prevost after his late failure would not so venture on another attempt against the capital. unless he should be considerably reinforced—That the garrison of Charlestown and Fort Moultrie were in the highest spirits, and were determined to hold out to the last extremity, though the enemy should presume to besiege them.—Major Rich. adds, that while the army were near Charlestown, a detachment of Count Pulaski's Legion captured a number of them with gallantry: but, being overpowered by numbers, besides crossing of their [something] and so prisoners, who were supposed to be in irons—and that on the night of the 1st May, the nth Maj. Hager, with a small detachment, returning from an excursion from to town, was unhappily fired on for the enemy by our picket—the fatal alarm was given—and a tremendous cannonade and discharge of musketry, poor Hager, and 16 men more, out of 24 who went out with him, were killed on the spot—event which has profoundly the sensibility of the country's.