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N E W -YORK, March 20."
Kingflon, (Jamaica) December 26, 1778.
The Dreadnought privateer of ten guns, and fifty meti,
belonging to this port, and commanded by Capt. William
Weir, was taken the i6tli ult. near Cape Tiberoon, by
the brigantine La Victor, a French guarda cofta of four
teen guns and one hundred and twenty men, after a des
perate engagement of an hour; the commander, officers,
and men, of the Dreadnought, fought most gallantly,
but being at last boarded and overpowered by numbers,
were obliged to call for quarters. Capt. Weir, who had
been wounded in several places during the engagement,
after being boarded retreated to the round house, where
he was followed by a number of soldiers, who acted on
board the brig as marines, when resolving (too bravely)
to destroy his enemies, at the hazard of his own life, im
mediately fired a pistol among a number of powder flafks
apd cartouch boxes, which lay filled upon the table; the
explosion shattered every thing to pieces in the round
house, killed seven of the soldiers, and dangerously wound
ed himfelf and the rest. Capt. Weir died soon after being
carried on board the brigantine. The Dreadnought had
thirteen men wounded, who are all likely to recover, and
the La Vidor had nine killed and seventeen wounded.
Capt. Weir's death is much regretted by all who knew
him ; he was a worthy, honest man, an expert feamzn, and
gallant officer.
Montego-Bay, January 9, 1779.
Last Saturday fe'ennight arrived at Port-Royal, the Di
ligence packet from Pensacola, by which conveyance, ac
counts have been received, of a violent storm having hap
pened at that place on the ninth of October; fourteen fail
of vessels were entirely loft, among which was the Sarah
and Elisabeth, Foote, loaded with lumber, and intended
for this island ; the vessel being cast far upon land, must
be considered as a mere wreck, the cargo however will
be saved ; the water is said to have arisen upwards of twen
ty feet perpendicular beyond its usual height. His Ma
jesty's Hoops Stork and Sylph rode out the storm, but the
Hound sloop was obliged to cut away her masts. The
wharfs in general and stores were carried away, a great
part of the town being overflowed. The Comet packet
for this island, having failed a few days before, was loft in
the gale, but the Captain and people saved, as likewise the
mail.
By a letter received from Antigua, we are informed,
that the Jackall privateer, belonging to Bristol, Bernard
M'Davitt, commander, has taken a. large brig from Virgi
nia, bound for the coast of Guinea, loaded entirely with
tobacco, and carried her fafe into port.
By,he Captain of the Orphee, a brig bound from Bor
deaux to Virginia, but lately taken by the letter of marque
sloop Sir Peter Parker, Captain Jones, and brought into
Port Royal, and who left Bourdeaux in August last, we
are informed, that Charles Edward Stuart, the person
commonly known by the name of the Pretender, and late
ly arrived at that place from Avignon, and was received
with great acclamations by the populace. The shrewd po
liticians, with which that place abounds, have conjectur
ed bis destination is for North-America, while his zealous
partizans, who are not very numerous, greatly fear that
Mr. Keppel will intercept him in his route.
The theatre of Kingston, which has been some time shut
up, is speedily to be opened under the management of Mr.
Hallara. from whose theatrical qualifications the public
may expert their usual agreeable entertainment.
We learn from Barbadoes, that the inhabitants es that
island are in the greatefi spirits, every one vying with each
other who Shall best supply our fleet at St. Lucia, or in the
greiteft quantity. They have fortified their island in a
raoft refpedable manner, equal, if not superior to any
force that might come against it.
A considerable present is preparing to be Shipped from
Kingston, for the Mufquitto Chiefs at the Shore, by or
der of his Excellency the Governor.
BASSETERRE, (in St. Kitts) January 22.
Admiral Byron has sent fix capital Ships to look out
for the Chevalier de Fabry, who with fix fail of the line
and fix thousand land forces, was momently expected at
Martinique, as an advice boat had arrived there from the
Chevalier.
Neou-York, March 24. The sloop Lively, Capt. Stout,
has, off Cape Cod, taken a vessel laden with flour and
bread, bound from Philadelphia to Boston.
March 27. From an English paper of the twenty-second
of December we have received a confirmation of the Earl of
Carlifle, and William Eden, Esq; his Majesty's Commis
sioners, being at London on the twenty-firft of December.
Also, an account of the death of the Dutchefs of St.
Albans, and Mr. Scarlett the famous optician; Captain
Paisley is appointed to command the Sybil, a new frigate.
The budget was to be opened in the House of Commons
on the twentieth es January ; a French frigare of thirty
two guns from Toulon, was taken with a number of Spa
nish gentlemen on board, who were released and sent to
Cadiz from Gibraltar.
Letters received by the Romulus's fleet inform us, that
a very large reinforcement of men and flops are ordered
to fail for this port the beginning of March, for the pur
pose of carrying on the war against the Republicans of
this country with unremitted vigour.
LONDO N, December 22.
The Culloden man of war, arrived at Milford-Haven,
was one of Admiral Byron's fleet, and parted with him
on the Banks of Newfoundland, where she received some
damage, which obliged her to put into St. John's to refit;
from thence she proceeded to the continent of America to
join the Admiral, but not finding him on the coast, and
the crew being very sickly, went for Halifax, where, up
&n consideration, it was thought advifeable to return to
England. When file got into the Bay, the winds pre
vented her entering the Channel, upon which she went
to Milford-Haven, where she now lies.
The Culloden brought to England some French pri
soners from Halifax, in number about sixty, and one Mur
phy, late a Captain of an American privateer, who hav
ing behaved well, they put him on the quarter-deck as a
midshipman, w 1 ere he entered into a plot with the above
prisoners, to seize the flap, and throw the Captain over
board ; but just before they were going to puttheir scheme
into execution, the plot was happily found out, the
Frenchmen were secured, and Murphy, being tied hands
and feet, was flung over the poop, and in that condition
came to England, where he will be delivered up to justice,
too be tried for the conspiracy.
Yefletday an express went down to Falmouth, to erder
the bringing up the Spanish money taken on board a
Dutch fllip and carried in there, it being restored to the
owners. It is to be lodged in the Bank of England, and
amounts to about 180,cool, in coin and ingots of gold
and silver.
Two ships from South-Carolina bound to Nantz, chiefly
loaded with tobacco, having sprung a leak, and met with
great damage in their rigging, were obliged to put into
Lisbon to refit, but are flopped as prizes by a frigate who
is at that place.
The Little Nautilus, a tender to the sloop of war of
that name, has taken the Champion, from Chester in Ma
ryland to Nantz, with one hundred and fixty-^ine hogs
heads of tobacco on board.
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TH E Members of the Republican Society
are requeued to meet this evening, at Duff's, on
particular business.
Saturday, April 3,
Philadelphia, April 2.
TWENTY POUNDS REWARD.
LOST last evening, between Philadelphia and
Gray's Ferry, a black fattin CLOAK, lined
witn black India Persian, the hood lined with white
peeling, tuned wrong fide out, a broid joining lace
with edging round it. Whoever has found the fame,
and will leave it at Mrs. Russell's, in Second-street,
near Walnut-street, fha!l have the above reward. 1.
TO BE S O L D,
AVERY likely young Mulatto Man Slave, an ex
cellent taylor by trade, as well as a very good ser
vant for a gentleman : He has had the small-pox and
measles, is very healthy, and understands waiting at
table well, taking care of horses, riding, and driving a
carriage. Enquire of the Printer.
N. B. As the money will not be wanted till Septem
ber 1780, it may lay at interest in the purchaser's hands
on giving Security, or the em ffions out of circulation
will be taken.
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March "7.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ST OLEN last night, out of the stable of the sub
scri ber, in Benfalem township, a bright bay Horie,
about fourteen and a half hands high, half English
blood, round bodied, black mane and tail, trots and
gallops very light and carries very lofty, newly food
before, but no flioes behind, blind of one eye, the eye
ball being broke it lies flat, about ten years old, no
white hairs about him that can be remembered. The
thief took away a blind halter. Whoever lecures said
horse and the thief, so that the owner may get his horse
again and the thief be brought to justice, (hall have
the above reward, or Twenty five Dollars for the horse
only, wi:h ail reasonable charges.
Philadelphia, March 18.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
CTRAYED from the fubferiber, living in Arch
° street, oppohte the C'hu:ch Burying-ground, a redifh
brown CO W, with short legs and middling large body;
has a white face, with bewn hair round her eyes.
Any person who will bring said Cow to the fubferiber
(hall receive the above reward.
ELIZABETH MILLER.
BO HEA Tea in chests, hogsheads and barrels;
Coffee in tierces and barrels ; Sugars in tierces and
barrels; imported Salt; Green Tea ; genuine Batavia
Arrack in cases or less quantity ; Soap in boxes ; Enghfo
Cheele, Chocolate, Porter, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Wanted, a quantity of Black Bottles, for
which the highest price will be given.
Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, March '
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
CTOLEN on the eighteenth initant, from the fub
' scriber, one croL-bar luteftring gown, one white
rauflin ditto, one light chintz ditto, seven flrifts mark
ed E G, one light cotton gown, one (triped cotton pet
ticoat, one sprigged lawn apron, one ditto muslin, one
ditto Pnen ; several short gowns, two striped cotton, and
one purple and white ; one black figured gauze hand
kerchief, one flowered mullin, one lawn with striped
border, one ditto with Scolloped edge, and sundry wo
mens caps. Vendue-mafters and others are desired to
stop any of the above cioaths if offered for sale.
THOMAS GRESWOLD.
TALBOI, ALLICOCKE, AND Co.
At their store the south fide of Race street, between Se
cond and Third-streets, the fifth door above Moravian
Alley, have for SALE,
To be SOLD by the Subscriber,
Living in the Path Valley, Cumberland County,
A TRAC f of LAN D containing three hundred
and feyenty-eight acres patented, with allowance
of fix per cent, for roads, &c. situate in said Path Val
ley; on which are eroded a good dwelling-house, a
large barn, a well accustomed grist-mill and saw-mill
upon a never failing stream, a convenient still house,
together with sundry other out houses: There are about
fifty acres dear on said trad, of which about fifteen are
good meadow, and will admit of forty more being made;
the whole convenient for watering. One other trad ad
joining the aforefaid, containing two hundred and thir
ty-seven acres patented, with allowance, &c. on which
are erected a fmallhoafe and barn, about seventy acres
of arable land clear, about the one third of the whole
may be converted into meadow and watered. Both
tracts convenient to a good range of wood pasture, will
be fold together or apart as may best suit the purchaser
or purfhafers. One other trad in said Valley, adjoin
ing John Elliot, fen : containing two hundred and eighty
acres patented; no improvement. And one other trad
near Paul's Gap, in said Valley, containing three hun
dred acres ; no improvement.
4< WILLIAM ELLIOTT.
JO HN KID D.
The Plumb is a great diuretic, cleansing the reins of
llbne: It expels wind, and is a sovereign medicine in
the cholick and griping of the guts. It allays and carries
off four vapours, which occafon many disorders in the
bead. It opens all orftrudions in the stomach, lun^s,
liver, reins and bladder, causes a good appetite, and
helps digestion. It hath been found wonderfully fuc
ceisful to such perlons as are going into chronical dis
tempers, as aftbmas. phthificks, or shortness of breath,
dropsies and yellow jaundice. Now I hope all impartial
persons are fatisfied, that the medicine which works
upon such humours will almost reach any distemper, if
not too far gone, since corruption and putrefaction are
the fore-runners of all diseases; therefore no better
physic can be taken for all ages, texes and constitutions,
from infancy to an old age. These Plumbs are highly
serviceable to the female sex, from the age of fourteen
to twenty years, and from forty to fifty. Each box con
tains one dezen of these Plumbs, with printed direaions
given with each box.
SOLD by NICHOLAS BROOKS, at his dry
goods, pifture and jewellery (hop, in Second-street,
the fourth door above Black-horse Alley, in Phila
delphia.
SIGNS of WORMS,
PALENE SS in the face, itching of the nose, hol
lowness of the eyes, grating of the teeth when asleep,
dnlnefs, pains and heaviness in the head, a dry cough,
an itching in the fundament, white and thick urine,
unquiet deep, often darting, loft appetite, swelled belly,
gnawing and biting about the stomach, frightful dreams,
extreme thirds, the body decayed and lean, fits, often
vomiting, stinking breath, &c.
+§t Likewise may be had, Keyfer’s famous pills,
Hungarian oil, or the cripple-curing oil, Haarlem oil,
Daffy's elixir, Godfrey's cordial, Bateman's drops,
asthmatic elixir, and mod kinds of capital medicines,
&c. &c.
SO exceedingly valued by all people who have had cf
them in Great-Brivain and Ireland, for their tran
feendent excellency in the destroying worms of all kinds,
both in the bodies of men, women and children, by not
only breaking the knots in the duodenum, or gut next
the stomach, but they pass through the smallest paflages
of the body, and puige away thole ropy and finny hu
mours, which are the cause of those pernicious vermin,
and the source of many other difordeis; they are one of
the best purges in the whole world for gross-bodied
children that are apt to breed worms, and have large
bellies; their operation is mild, fafe and oleafant; the,
wonderfully eleanfe the bowels of all ftiff and clammy
humours which hop up the parts, and prevent the juice
of food from being conveyed to the liver and made
blood, which is often the case with children, and is at
tended with a hard belly, stinking breath, frequent fe
vers, rickets, and a decay of strength in the lower parts:
Likewise fettled aches and pains in the head, swellings,
old fores, feabs, tetters, or bieakings-out, will be pei
fedly cured, and the blood and skin restored to its ori
ginal purity and smoothness ; they purge by urine, and
bring away the gravel, and effeaually cure all obstruc
tions of the urine, or ulcers in the kidneys. They at
once strike at the true cause of the feurvy, and entirely
deltroy it, and all scorbutic humours and effe&s, root
and branch, so as never to return again; and what makes
them more commendable is, they are full as agreeable
to both tatte and light as loaf sugar, and in their opera
tion as innocent as new milk.
I have by these Plumbs cured a great many children
of whooping or chin coughs, and agues, whieh distem
pers are very common and troublesome to families, and
the want of these Plumbs are the ruin of many chil
drens constitutions.
These Plumbs enrich and sweeten the whole mass of
blood, cany off all gross, corrupt and putrid humours,
and create a frefti and healthy complexion in such a$
are afftft d by any putrid matter.
ON^ HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN on the eleventh inst. (March) out of the
house of James Crumbie, Stay-maker, in Second
ftrect, opposite the Golden Fleece, Philadelphia, nine
yaids of Jrifh ticken, about nine yards of bed white ca'-
limanco, one pair of white ticken days, two or three
pairs of Russia fleeting, one Russia Meeting bond, one
bread ticken, one yard and a half of dark blue caliman
co, a remnant of white ruffe!; likewise five pairs of
brown thread dockings tied up in a blue and white
handkerchief, one pair broad ribbed, with a piece cut
off the feet, they being too large, one pair narrow rib
bed, the other three plain. The above reward wili be
paid to any person who apprehends the thief and brings
back the goods, by JAMES CRUMBIE.
Na B. Said Crumbie carries on the Stay-making bu
siness as usual, and returns thanks to those Ladies who
have heretofore favoured him with their custom. He
has just received a frefh assortment of white ticken and
other articles fit for carrying on his hufinefs.
Dr. RY AN's incomparable Worm-destroying
SUGAR FLU MB S,
Necessary to be kept in all families ;
WAS FOU N D,
Jr the beginning of February last, in C^cil county,
Maryland, on the road leading from Cimen's Tavern
to the Brick Meeting-house,
△PARCHMENT POCKET-BOOK, con
* taining a quantity of Continental, Maryland and
Pennsylvania Bills, to the amount of forty-ei^ht and
one third dollars, and an order for a fmali sum of mc-
Th . e °™ n ". Proving his property and paying the
cob of this advertisement, may have it again by apply
ing to the fubferiber in Donegal township, Lancafcr
county, Pennsylvania. ROBERT CRAIG'
AT the lubferiber's SCHOOL in Letitia
Court, Philadelphia, Children and Youth are
taught, as usual, the modern elements of Speech; the
Principles of Writing, Arithmetic, Geometry and Mathe
matics in general ; the Practice of Surveying and Navi
gation, in particular; and Foreigners allo inftru&ed in
the United States vernacular, with grammatical propri
ety :—By his Friends' obliged, and the Public's devoted
ferrant, JOHN HEFFERNAN.