The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Our late advices from the Southward mention, that the Count de Grasse sailed from the Chesapeake about the 5th of the month: His destination remained a Secret: He had left, according to these advices, two thousand of the brave forces he brought with him from the West Indies, under the command of General Washington.

Our enemies at New-York appear not a little chagrined that Clinton has been so completely outwitted by General Washington & the Commanders of the land and sea forces of our Allies. The British General concluded that New-York was the first object of the allies. Confident of this, all the reinforcements and stores designed for Cornwallis, he detained at that place, and accordingly the fleet remained there; this rendered the conquest over Cornwallis more expeditious; tho it is allowed on all hands, that this boasted British hero made no such exertions as might have been expected, considering the great force he had with him. Burgoyne fought two bloody battles before the convention of Saratoga: and was upbraided by Cornwallis in a British Parliament for not having extricated himself. And yet this very Cornwallis, after having assumed much importance for having run through a country thinly settled, and exercising much barbarity upon it's inhabitants, when he found himself opposed by an army in condition to attack him, surrendered after a single sally.

The Court of France seems intent on bringing the war to a speedy and happy issue. It may be relied on that ten thousand men were embarked at Brest in the beginning of October; and that a strong fleet was soon to sail with this embarkation; the design was kept a profound secret, but if we may judge of future events by the past, it may not be long before our enemies in some quarter or another, may feel the weight of this respectable force.

The allies have triumphed this campaign, not only in the field of battle, but on the stage of virtue. Their humanity has been equal to their valor. Whoever considers the past conduct of Lord Cornwallis and Lord Rawdon, and the forces under their orders---the shameful breach of the capitulation of Charlestown, the manner in which the principal inhabitants of that town were sent to Augustine; the burning of Beaufort, and many other towns on the Continent, not from the necessity of war, but the base principles of malignity and revenge, and the innumerable acts of barbarity with which the Britons have stained themselves and the nation in the American war; whoever considers all this, must be astonished at the generous terms granted to Cornwallis and his army, when they were so totally in the power of their conquerers: Some are ready to regard them as an excess of generosity, considering that our enemies have always been disposed to impute every thing of this kind to our weakness and timidity: But in the present circumstances of the war, it demonstrates an unexampled magnanimity, which, tho' our enemies are incapable of doing justice to it, will raise us still higher in the estimation of Europe, and gain the applause of the world. For humanity, however, Britain may have forgotten it. is by the common consent of nations, more than ever honored and respected.