CALEDONIAN MERCURY, Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 14, 1779  Page 2 has a few items on the Revolutionary War including: "...from Rhode Island says that in some of the rebel papers it had been asserted that Plymouth docks & town had been destroyed by the French..." and "...that General Prevost had been repulsed twice in his attack upon Charlestown [Charleston]; the town had offered to capitulate..." (see). Page 3 has an item from Philadelphia: "The depreciation of our money & the high prices which every thing has got to, is one & the same thing..." with more. Also: "...recent accounts from the Susquehannah inform us that a party of Colonel Butler's Loyalists & Indians had cut off the settlement at Penn's Valley & afterwards retired without losing a man." Also a letter from the Rappahannock in Virginia, and one from New York (see).
Four pages, folio size, great condition.