The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1777-06-09 00:00:00, page 1

ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at gos. per Cent.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
3 lb. 402. for 14. Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Loaves of a letter Weight.
PuNbhed January 10, 1777.
By His Excellency
Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
Knight of the most Honorable Order of the
Bath, one of His Majesty's Commissioners
for restoring Peace to the Colonies, General
and Commander in Chief of all His Maje
fly's Forces within the Colonies lying on
the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova-Scotia to
Weft-Florida, inclufiye, &c. &c. &C.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a plentiful Supply of
Vegetables, arid of frefh Provisi
ons of all Kinds, will greatly tend
to the Preservation of the Health
of His Majesty's Troops and others; and the
railing large Quantities of Hay, and other
Forage, will very much conduce to His Ma
jesty's Service, as well as be of general Use :
In Order therefore to give all due Encourage
ment tp all His Majesty's liege Subjects, so
that they may chearfully exert themselves in
raising such Supplies, under a full Assurance
of enjoying all polfible Protection info doing,
I have thought fit to iifue this Proclamation,
ffiialy charging and commanding, that ' no
Person or Persons whomsoever, under any
Colour or Pretence whatsoever, presume to
trespass upon any Inclofure belonging to any
other Person or Persons, or to take or carry
away any Produce from the Owner or Owners
thereof, or to break down, destroy, or in any
Manner injure any Inclofure or Fences what
soever, now standing, or hereafter to be ere&ed,
as they will answer for the fame at their Peril.
And to the End that this Proclamation may be
more ftridly observed, I do hereby further
charge, require, and command all Officers,
Soldiers, and others, to seize and deliver over
co any Officer commanding any Part of His
Majesty's Forces, or to the Provost Marshal,
all such Persons as they shall find anting in Dif
cbedience hereto, in order that such Offenders
may be brought to condign Punilhment for the
fame; hereby declaring that any Neglect
herein shall be confident! and punished as a
Breach of Orders. And I do further charge
and require the commanding Officers of any
®f His Majesty's Forces, and Provoll Marshal,
from Tirhe to Time to receive into Culiody all
such Offenders as flrall be brought to them as
afofefaid, and duly to make Report thereof.
Given under my Hand at Head Quarters,
in New-Ycrk, the Twentieth Day of
March, 1777.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
By His EXCELLENCY
Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
Kifght of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath,
one of His Maj fty's Commissioners for restoring
Pesce to the Colorries, General and Commander
in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces within the
Colonieshing on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova
Scotia to Well Florida, inclusive, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS for the more speedy and effiaual
Suppression of the unnatural Rebellion fub
fi^ing in Not th-America, it has been thought proper
to levy a Number of Provincial Troops, thereby
affording to his Majesty's faithful arid well-dis
posed Subjects, Inhabitants of the Colonies, an Op
portunity to co-operate in relieving Themselves from
the,liferies attendant cnAnarchy and Tyranny, and
in restoring the Bkffings of Peace and Order with just
and lawful Government: As a Reward for the
Promptitude and Zeal wherewith his Majesty's
faithful Subjects have entered into the Corps now
raising, and as a further Encouragement to others to
fellow their laudable Example, I doheieby, in Con
sequence of Authority to Me given by his Majesty
promise and engage, That all Persons who have, or
do hereafter, inlift into any of the said Provincial
Corps, to serve for two Years, or during the present
War in North-America, and dial! continue faithfully
to serve in any of the faidCorps agreeable to such their
Engagements, shall, after being reduced or disbanded
obtain, according to their refp<&ive Stations, Grants
of the following Quantities of vacant Lands in the
Colonies wherein their Corps have been or shall be
raised, or in such other Colony as his Majestyfhall
think fit.
Every Non-commissioned Officer zoo Acres,
Every private Soldier, 50 do.
The fame to be granted to such of the said Non
commissioned Officers and Soldiers as shall perfohally
apply for the fame, by the Governor of the tef
pe&ive Colonies, without Fee or Reward, fubje& at
the Expiration of Ten Years to the fame Quit-Rents
Monday, fone g, i„%
NEW-YORK
AND
WEEKLY
Containing tbe cartieß Sobites
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANGVER-SQUARE.
as other Lands are fubje& to in the Province within
which they shall be granted, and fubje& to the fame
Conditions of Cultivation and Improvement.
GIVEN und,er my Hand, at Head Quarters,
in New-York, the 21st Day of April, 1777.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
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/^L £NI IA, (in ^patr.) 'Jan. 4.
THE 23d of last month don Jacques
Rives, Alcadeof Loreha, near Accoy,
with his son, about fifteen years old,
being a little distance from their house, a
large and ferocious wolf suddenly appeared
before them, seized the boy, and bit him se
veral times on the head before the Alcade had
an opportunity to afford his son any fuccour;
but he immediately left the boy and attacked
the father, whom he also bit very severely.
The wolf left them and attacked a drove cf
pigs which were driving that way. Those that
were wounded cried out, upon which the
others fled. The wolf followed them to the
gate of a park, but as he could not enter, he
took the road towards the village, biting every
thing he met. Several persons being soon
alarmed they came to the resolution cf destroy
ing him, and the young people arming them
selves with guns and clubs began the purfait.
Two of the young gentlemen get up with
him, and one of them being attacked he de
fended himfelf with his fifts, and at last seized
the wolf by the throat and held him so faft that
the other had an opportunity of plying his
club. This boy is 23 years of age, very
small, and appears quite delicate. He is
wounded in four places. Proper precautions
have been taken to prevent any bad effects
from the bites of the wolf.
a^mjerdam, Feb. 12. We have just received
advices here from captain Kinfbergen, com
mander of the Amphitrite, a frigate belong
ing to the States, and now on a cruize, That
on the 23d of December, he saw at some diF
wise a large ship, to which he gave chace,
an/sl fired a gun to bring her to, and before
he came up to her hoisted his colours, and
when, as he thought, within hearing, hailed
her ; the answer he could not diflindtly hear,
but his people thought it was Spaniih, and he
concluded she was a Spaniih man of war of 60
or 70 guns, and Ihe had two tier of ports,
though the lower ones were down on the ac
count of the sea then running very high.
Capt. Kinfbergen wished him a good voyage.
The Spaniard not underhanding him, as it is
supposed, tired a broaohde of the gun-deck
with mufquetry into the Amphitrite, which
captain Kinfbergen was bound in honour to
return, and being a-stern, raked him sorely.
" Capt Kinfbergen's rigging being dama
ged, and his fails Ihot, he could not make
fail so fall as the other vessel, and therefore
foe proceeded on her voyage, the Amphitrite
had nobody wounded."
A letter from Rotterdam, dated Feb. 10,
fays, that a fire broke cut in their harbour on
bi ard a ship used to the Greenland trade,
which was fortunately got under, otherwise
it was expected great mifehief would have
been done.
Peterjburgh; JOT I, It having been agreed
between the empress and the King of Naples
to receive ministers from each court, her ma
jesty has nominated count Kizditz P.)fen
mofky as ambassador to the king of the two
Sicilies.
“ The Prussian colonel baron Cocceji took
leave of the empress cn Wednesday last, and
set out for Berlin. It is said he goes with dis
patches of the utmost importance."
Genoa, Jan. 28. The magistrates have
published an ordnance forbidding strangers,
of all ranks whatever, to stay a night in this
town without a written permission. The in
habitants are forbid also letting their lodgings
without leave in writing from the magistrates,
under a penalty of co to 500 livres, and in
case of disobedience, imprisonment and cor
pora! punishment is to be infilled as the case
deserves."
Paris, Feb. 1. Mr. Necker (though a pro
testant) had the honour lately to be admitted
in the King's Council of Finances, of which
he is effectually a member though not one
nominally ; this superiority of the young mo
narch is unprecedented, and is a strong ground
to hope for these unhappy wretches which
have been so cruelly tormented in the South
Monday, 49 Min. after 12
Tuesday, 43 Min. after 1
Wednesday, 23 Min. after 2
Thu fday, 7 Mih. after 3
HIGH-WATER at N
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Friday, 44 Min. after 3
Saturday, 26 Min. after 4
Sunday, 4 Min. after 5
Moon's F. ^u. next Taurf.
W-YORK, this Week.
of France about their religious principles, by
men who never had any.
Lifan, 'Jan. 14. The Dutch frigate the
Zephir, commanded by Capt. May, arrived
here last Saturday. Ihe next day all the
ships of the fame nation hoisted their colours,
and made other demonflrations of joy, on
account of the deftrudion of the naval forces
es the King cf Morocco.
Madrid, Jan. 20. We had here some very
severe frofts toward the end of last month, to
which succeeded very damp cloudy weather,
quite uncommon in this country, which has
occasioned much sickness here.
L^aurric, in Italy, Feb. Ifr The continual
tempests which have laffed here for federal days
past, have dertroyed many ihips, particularly
a French vessel, from Matfeilles, laden with
sugar, &c. to this place. The two Friends,
with grain, was thrown on the Morocco coast;
and aCofEcah ship, with wine, is totally loft.
Rome, Feb. 19. The Ex Jesuits and their
Adherents have spread a report, that the
month of March next an important event
would happen at Rome, and that the Rorriifh
Church would probably be bereft of a Head
by the death of the present Pope. This re
port has reached the ears cf the Holy Father,
and although it only deserves to be despised,
yet as the like report prevailed previous to
the death of Pope Ganganelli, it does not fail
to cause some uneasiness.
Ferfailles, March ;. Le Sieuf Ozanne, ma
rine engineer, has had the honour of present
ing to the king, the plan and perfpedive views
of the port of Toulon, being a part of the
collection of French ports taken by order of
his Majesty.
Hague, March 9. Yesterday being the anni
versary of the prince ftadthulder's birth-day,
when be entered into the 30th year of his age,
his serene highhefs received the compliments
of the members of the government, and other
persons of distinction.
LONDON, March 7.
The following melancholy accident happened
on Tuesday morning last at Spithead: As a
Capt. Talbot of the Weft Indies, together with
his wife and children, his father, and eight ser
vants, were proceeding in an open boat to go
on board an outward-bound Weft-Indiaman, in
which they intended to fail, a fuddeir squall
of wind sprung up, which overfet the boat,
when every foul on board, mariners and all,
to the number of eighteen, periled. —Capt.
Talbot had net long been come over from
abroad, in order to purchase some capital
plantations which were contiguous to his own,
and having fettleTthat affair, was on his re
turn to take poffeilion of them.
Yesterday a forgery cf a very extraordinary
nature transpired, the substance of which is
as follows : —Mr. Digram, a person brought
up to the law became intimately acquainted
with a gentleman cf the fame profeffion, the
latter of whom communicated to his pretend,
ed.friend, that he had two thousand by Him,
which he ffiould be glad to purchase some si
necure place with; in reply, he was told, he
was the most fortunate man living, for a gen
tleman of his acquaintance, at the fame time
mentioning Mr. Frazer, of the Secretary of
State's Office, had procured leave from Lord
Weymouth, to accept of his resignation in'
permitting him to dilpofe of his patent plate,
as writer of the Gazette, which was a clear
annuity of 300 b per annum. The most pro
found ftcrecy was to be observed, and the
matter to be wholly fettled between Mr. Fra
zer and the lawyer. In a few days the gen
tleman had brought to him Mr. Frazer's re
signation in form with the office seal affixed to
it; upon which he paid down two thousand
guineas, which the former pocketed, and at
the fame time telling him he had, by great
interest, procured him fix months leayL cf ab
sence. Yesterday, however, the gentleman,
who we are informed lives in Gray's-inn,
waited upon Lord Weymouth, in order to re
ceive his Lordship's function to take upon him
his new purchase, when his Lordship fending
for Mr. Frazer, the 'whole came out to be the
grossest impofaibn.
March i;. The late Sir Jolhua Van Neck,
who di^d last week, was reckoned the richefl:
Merchant in England, and one of the faireft
in point of character. He died possessed of
no less than eight manors in one county, be
sides his beautiful Villa on the banks of the
Wheat per Bushel, 9s. od.
Flour, 30s. od.
Broun Bread, 255, od.
Wed-India Rum, Bs. od.
Nev-England do. ss. od.
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GAZETTE:
TH E
MERCUR Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufeovadb Sug^fy ,$L 10s.
Single refin'd ditto, 2s. 9?
Molasses, 3s. 6J
Beef per Bartel, go% od
Pork, 51. 10s
Foreign and Oomefli^.
Thames. The whole of his fortune is com
puted to be above half a million of money.
He has left feyeral children.
A few days ago a melancholy accident hap.
pened at a small village, called Pium,;oL
about three miles from Penrith: A ^ #
and bis wife having occasion to go inn A^
fields about their work, ieft their two cuii&cr.
in the house (one about id months, the other
about four years old) whom they locked in.
thinking they would divert themselves untid
their return ; but on coming home in the
evening, they found both the children lying
dead upon the hearth, It is fOppofed that the
younger one had fallen into the fire, and the
elder in endeavouring to help the other, had
shared the fame fate.
A letter from Sudbury, dated the 14th of
Feb. has the following article :—" Last night:
the following unhappy affair happened within
two miles of this town ; farmer Cartwright,
and his son, having been for a load of Hour
to the mill, the old man got up to ride home,
and the son driving too near the river, the
ground gave way, the waggon and horses all
fell in, and the son endeavouring to save his
father was drowned, and all the horses. The
bodies of the two unhappy men were fcoii
taken out."
From Cumberland we learn the following
piece of extraordinary intelligence :~ Oa
Sunday the 26th ult all the streams of the
river Lyne, between Purdon's Brock anti
where it joins the river Efk, (being about a
mile and an half) ceased running from eight:
o'clock in the morning till twelve, so" that:
several people passed over dry ; the pools
flood like log standing ponds. What makes
it more remarkable, it rained almost the
whole time.
Extras bf a letter from Faris.
" Feuds have run high in this metropolis be
tween the two Countess's ; 'tis agreed by the
voice of the public that Lady B has beat
Lady K-—hollow, and has turned out her
pupils in better order; many challenges have
pad d between these two ladies ; they have
defied each other to return to their own coun
try. Lady B—vows she will visit England
this Spring ; Lady K swears she will venture
to Ireland, where she has never shewn her face
since her contrast was dissolved with the late
Mr. D---: Such f ciety we live in at Paris;
we numbered nine divorced wives the other
night. Lady B calls herfelf a widow be
witched. Lady L , lately returned to En
gland, declared she was not parted from her
Lord for crim. con. with an, man, but her
temper Was so infernal, no one could live with
her but her own dear child 1 , and their
difpbfitions being alike as two bullets of one
calibore.
Extrafl of a letter from Warfeuw, Feb. 22.
" It is said, that the Ruffian troops now in
Poland, under the command of the generals
Szyfkow, Romanies, and Gefdorft', have re
ceived orders to march to the frontiers of
Turkey."
The following is the flatement,, returned
by the Polish commissaries, of their tranfafti
ons. It bears date the 18th of January last :
" The Bth of this month, the Prussian
commissaries transmitted to us their requisiti
ons, to which we have returned the following
answer:
“ We make no doubt, but that the Prufli
ans are very desirous of retaining the pcTefi
on of the territory of GORSNO, and chiefly
of the sorest belonging thereto, from whence
they may get wood for the repairs of the for
trefs of Grandentz: If, however, the restitu
tion we have desired, agreeable to the treaty
cf Warfaw^ concluded on the zzd of August,
1776, should, in the end, be complied with,
it is yet to be feared, that his Pruffan ma
jesty would* destroy the sorest before the limits
are a^jufted.
" The Pluffians, who are in possession of
the frontiers where we now are, and where
we have no troops to prote& us, aft as the
sole mailers of those frontiers, and that, in so
extensive a manner, as we have not now time
to relate. But we are informed, that a Prussi
an lieutenant, named d'Oftian, with a sub
altern officer, and twenty hussars, came in the
night as for as Rypen, and carried off the
Sieur Gotorolki, son to the Notary of Rirf
bourgh, and he now remains a prisoner at
Borduica."
Fine Salt, 10% od
Coarse Salt, Bs. od
Indian Corn per Bu. 6s. 6d
Coffee, / is. 9.1
Chocolate, 265. per bo.