| Description | Monday 2 o'clock, Margate, arrival of Captain Blackburn, a Barbadoes planter, at Broadstairs, news he brings from Sandy Hook of the movements of General Sir William Howe at Baltimore and Philadelphia, where Washington had marched with his army, an express from Burgoyne to Clinton of his having passed Albany, Clinton's preparations for an expedition, on 21 Aug General Sullivan landed with about 4000 men on Staten Island, their repulse and loss, further movements of the enemy |