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/ Monday, December 4, 1780.
N E W-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
By SAMUEL BIRCH, Esq;
Brigadier-General,
And Commandant of New-York, &c.
^ PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the fafety of the City and
the preservation of the (hipping re
quire the wharves to be kept as clear as possi
ble during the winter.
It is therefore ordered, That after the 20th
day of December next, no vefiel be allowed
to lay at, or near any wbaiff of this city,
without having previously obtained permits
from the Superintendent of the port, and
coming within the following descriptions.
Private ffiips of war, and trading vessels, to
have permits not exceeding ten days, for re
pairing, fitting out, loading and unloading.
Captured vessels to have permits for the
disposal of their cargoes, not exceeding fif
teen days from the date of their condemnati
on.
All owners, merchants, and masters of
such vessels (not employed in the service of
government) as intend wintering at New-
York, are hereby Ordered to remove their
vessels to Newtown Creek, by the laid 20th
of December.
Any person offending against this Procla
mation, will be fubjeft to one month's im
prisonment in the Provost, arid to the payment
of such fine as (hall be adjudged by the Police,
for the use of the City Funds.
Given under my Hand, in the City of
New-Yark, the 29th Day of No
vember, in the Year of our Lord,
1780, and in the Twenty, -firil
Year of his Mgefty's Reign.
SAMUEL BIRCH.
By Order of the Commandant,
JOHN St. CI.,AIR. .Secretary.
HIS Excellency the Commander in Chief,
having fignified to me, thro' his Secre
tary, Capt. Smith, That the Lords of the
Treasury have been pleased to order, that
Rent should be paid for the Houses occupied
by the Troops in Boston, from the Time they
wentinto Quarters until the Place was evacu
ated, and which were the Property of loyal
Subjects, residing there, whose Names and the
Sums due to them, are fpecified in a Lill ac
companying said Order. —1 do therefore, in
obedience to his Excellency's Directions, give
this public Notice, that thole Persons whose
Names are expressed in that Lift, or their At
tornies, properly authorized to receive the
fame, on their Account, by calling at my
Office, in Water-ltreet, they will be paid the
Sums due to them refpedively.
Wm. CROSBIE,
New-York, Nov. 24, 1780. B. M. G.
The following is a particular Account of the lat 6
dreadful Hurricane in the Ifl^nd of Jamaica.
From the CORNWALL CHRONICLE.
MONTEGO -BA Y, O&ob e r 7.
ON Monday night the 2d instant about 12 o'clock,
there came on a storm of wind and rain, which
continued with unremitted perseverance and violence from
the S. E. until 12 o'clock on Tuesday ; the weather ap
peared then to be a little moderated, and continued fb
much abated until between three and four o'clock in the
evening, as to furnifh no immediate indications or an
approaching storm. About four o'clock the wind leemed
to be quite southerly, but increased (accompanied with
incessant rain) to such an amazing degree, .as about dark
to threaten general ruin and deftruftion. The darkness
of the night added now freth horrors to thegeneral appre
hensions; and, a circumstance which on ordinary occasions
would have been considered as peculiarly terrifying,the im
mense and prodigious slashes of lightning, which regularly
focceeded each other,was an alleviation to thegeneral con
itenatim, and the only f entity to the very few, whose
particular factions p- m ted er inclined tiiem to ven
ture through the ftrtets to afford comfort and relict to the
distresses of their neighbours.
About twelve o'clock, from the best of our information,
and our own recollection, the storm began to abate; but
the many instances of devaluation and distress which even
then presented itfelf to our view and which we began to
be appri fed of from different quarters of the town, aborted
fuggeftiohs to the mind, which rendered the approach of
morn truly terrible. Cur descriptive powers, ,ve acknow
edge, are inadequate to the talk of impreflin^ <ur read
ers with proper ideas of the many and variegated scenes of
calamity and diftrrfs which the new day presented to our
view; the face of nature seemed totally changed; the
mountains, as if weary of their load, an^ drooping under
the,preffure of a superior influence, which they could
neither support nor refill, had adopted a new form^ and
appeared dismantled of thole lofty verdant trees, which
constituted their grandeur and excellence, and formerly
had rendered thrm beautiful and agreeable to the fight.
It is impoffibU at present to recount the particular
losses of every individual ; many houses inthis town have
been destroyed: Among the principal fufterers are, Mr.
Vincent, Dr. Moxterffied, the estate of James Lugg, Mi.
ASSIZE 0, F BREAD.
Flour at 41. per Cent.
Publirtied September 29, 1780.
A White LOAF, of the fineft FLOUR,
to weigh xlb. for 16 Coppers.
Onutnuig tk miun ati^ico
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
HIGH-WATER at N EW-Y O R K,
THIS WEEK.
Monday, 49 Mih. after 3
Tdefda,, 28 Min. after 4
Wednesday, 4 Min. after 5
Thursday, 45 Min. after 5
Whitaker, Mr. Steo hert, and the barracks at Fort Fre
derick. The darknes of the night rendered iiimpoffible
to attend to the fare of the Lips Ladies Adventure and
Lenox, which were in the harbour when the storm com
menced; the molt probable and favourable conjedure
which could be made, u on their being miffed in the
morning, was their having put to sea in the night; and
no symptoms of wrecks having yet appeared to discredit
this conj^aure, we are in hourly and impatient expedi
tion of feeing them, or of hearing of their fafety. All
the smaller craft in the harbour, together with the flip
Peter .field, which had been preserved and repaired after
the Lipwreck of last February, are totally loft; and the
brigantine Jane, which had gone down a few days before
to great River, a place of apparent fafety, had been drove
affine, but we are informed will be got off with very little
d maze.
Ou[ informations from the country are truly alarming;
few estates in this prilh have rfcaped without some da
rn ge ; many sets of works and dwelling houses are thrown
down, and canes in general have fuffred much, but the
loss of all the Plantain Walks without exception, is an
aggravation of the general calamity, which cannot fail of
exciting fenrimeats of companion and regret for the con
dition of our fellow; creatures, who may fuffer for the loss
of the most effemial fart of their support.
What we have yet' recited falls fir Lorr of the accounts
which we hourly receive of the damage done in Hanover
and Weflmereland. On Lucca Bay only two houses re
main Raiding, and his Mij&'s sloop Badger, which
happened to be in th e harbour, notwithstanding her being
held by three anchors a-head, was drove affine by the
violence of the florm, whh the loss of her masts, but we
are informed will be got uff. An univcrfal devaluation and
ruin has prevailed in the country, all the eftatec and
works are almost totally destroyed ; the dwelling houses
or B itchcLr's Hall, S .It Spring, CamMeton. Kendal, d»d
of the whole par L in general are thrown down and in
ruins; numbers of negroes, and many white people, are
Lid to be last; those of the latter description, who have
yet come to our knowledge, are Medes. M. and S. Dips,
gentlemen of the Jewdh nation, much refolded and re
grtted by all their acquaintance, and a carpenter at
Haughton Town estate.
Our accounts fr m Wedmoreland are not authentic ;
from f,megen 1 men, however, who are arrived from the
aflizes held there, we learn, that Savanna la Mac is en
tirely cemolifhed, rmta finglshoufe having refilled the
violence of the storm, but Mu Lopez's, and that all the
Lining in the harbour are drove affiore. We have no
authority for faying any thing of the situation of the
estates in that parifli, but there is too much reason we fear,
to apprehend that they have fuffered equally with those
in Hanover.
in alleviation to these accumulated feenes of differ and
distresses, we are neverthdefs happy to infirm our readers,
that our information from Windward is much more fa
vourable than we expend; few estates in Trelawney
having fuflained any other loss, than that of feme Plan
tain Walks thrown down, and cane pieces lodged, and
that the damage done in St; Ann'sis Lil! left considerable.
S'* ^^gc ^' a Vega, Oaober 12. At Savanna la Mar
on the aiternoon of Tuesday the third instant, about 3
o'clock the wind began to blow very hard from the south
east, accompanied by heavy rains, and by four had ac
quired such strength as to tear the trees up by the roots,
and drip the houses of their fhingl.es. Between five and
fix, the sea began to rife, and continued for near an hour
to swell to a most amazing height, overflowing the ill
fated town of Savanna la Mar, and the lowlands adjacent,
from this time till eight o'clock, the force of the winds
and the impetoofity of the waves, overthrew and demo
liffied every house in that unfortunate place, and buried
most of the inhabitants in the ruins. A little after eight,
it began to abate, but nevertheless continued to blow very
hard until midnight, when the wind veered round to the
westward. No pen can defcrite the horrors of the feene
which the morning preferred to the fight of the few who
survived to lament the fate of their wretched neighbours;
theearth ftrewe'd with themangled bodiesof the dead and
dyiqg, some with broken limbs, who in that situation had
been toffid about during the storm, and afterwards left on
the wet naked earth, tolanguifl i out the night in agonies,
with no hand to help or eye to pity them. Humanity re
coils at the contemplation of such unheard of calamities;
and every feeling heart must melt at the bare recital 1
The names of the unhappy fufterers which we have
yet been able to le rn, are, the Comptroller of that port,
Mr. M'Dowal, Dr. K'ng, his wife, and two assistants,
Messrs. Forbes and Dallas, and four children, Mr. Nilbet,
a carpenter, Mrs. Ailwood, and three children, Mrs.
Gibson, ani two children, Mr. John Fitzgerald, Doctor
Lightfoot, Mr, William Antrobus, jun. Messrs. Aaron
Touro and Moses Nunes, and the nephew of the latter,
Mifa Pefoa, a child of Mr. Payne, Mr# M'Lean, his
wife and children, Mrs. Slap, Mrs. Little, three Quadroon
children,and a great number of negroes. We are informed
by gentlemen who are just arrived from that quarter, that
the bodies of eighty white persons have already been
found, and many more arc expedited to be dug out of the
ruins, and that it is thought not less than 490 whites
and negroes must have perished in and about Savanna la
Mar.
The ships Henry, Princefe Royal, and Austin Hall,
then at anchor in the harbour, with two or three drog
gers, were driver from their moorings, and carried a can
fidcrable way up into tire moral's; from whence it will
be importable to get them off. The Princess Royal had
four anchors out, and the crew were attempting to ge fr out
a fifth, when the wind carried it fairly off the deck some
distance into the sea, One of the ships went over the
fort, the parapet of which, at other times, is about fifteen
feet above the level of the water. The Trimmer, a pac
ket from Rattan, which lav at Bluefields, was likewise
sent afliore, but all the hands were laved, though force
belonging to the other vessels were IML
Throughout the whole parfh es Weftmoreland, from
the best information we can obtain,there is not a dwelling
house, out- house, or a set of works on any of the elates
left Banding. -The canes, corn, plantain trees, and every
^rodu&ion of the earth destroyed. At one estate, Blue
Callie, report fays that 20c negroes were killed in a boil.
fob ^^
Q^ @3^-%^ '^ &^^
!Friday, 27 Min. after 6
Saturday, to Min, after 7
Sunday, 59 Min. after 7
I Full Moon, the tith.
THE
ing house, whither they had fl'd for shelter : Along the *
sea coast many dead bodies feathered ab mt, probably driven|
ashore from fume wreck, meet the eye of the paffenger,and ,
one uniform icene of desolation and devaftatjon overspreads |
the face of that part of the country.
From St. Elizabeth, our.accounts are much mere fa-|
vourabie# Some estates there have fullered, but in & far 2
less degree, than those in Weftrnpreland, Hanpver and St.§
James, over which the greatest force of the hurricane %
seems to have pafled. At Black River a few houses are 1
overthrown, but none of any confluence. Some plan- |
tain waiks, canes and corn-pieces are likewise deftroyed.|
A letter from Lucea fays, that upwards of 460 petfens, N
white and black, perilhed in that town and .neighbour-,|
hood.
A gentleman from Savanna la Mar gives the following
relatio.qof the fatal catastrophe of that devoted town!|
On Tuesday the 3d instant, about one o'clock in the 0
a'temopn, the gale began from the S. E. and continued
increasing with accumulated violence, until four, when it ,
veered to the south and became a perfect terapeft, which §
lifted in full force till near eight, it then abated# Thep
sea during the last period exhibited a most awful feeue ; |
> the waves,,.fwellcd to an amazing height, rubied with an|
impetuofty not to bedefcribed, on the land, and in a few §
minutes determined the fate of all the houses on the Bay.
Those whofestrength ?pc prefenceef mind enabled them to|
seek their fafefyin the Savanna,, took refuge in the mite- §
table remains of the habitations there, most of whichj
were blown down, or so much damaged by the storm, as |
to be hardly capable of affording a comfortable shelter toj
the wrenched fnff.rers. In the court -house forty performs, ,
whites and of colour, fought an asylum, ^tmifecably pe- §
riffied by the preHure of the roof and tides which fell upon |
them- Numbers were feved in that part of the house of *
Mr. Findlayfon, that luckily, wjthftood the violence of|
the tempest, himfelf and another gentleman had left it
• when the wind forced open the door and carried away |
the whole lee fide of it, and fought their fafety under |
the wall of an old kitchen, but finding thgy must ineyi-|
.tably pfrim in that situation, they' returned to the house, |
; determined to meet their fate. About,ten,he waters be,|
gan to abate,^nd at that time a fmayt shuck of an earth-g
quake was felt, All the small vessels in the bay were
drove affiore and dallied to pieces. The Drip Princess
Royal, Captain Rurchwin, Henry, Rchardfon, and Au-
Gin-HaU, Austin, were forced from their anchors, and
carried so far into the mprafs that they will never be got
est. > The earthquake lifted the Princess Royal from her
beam ends, righted her, and fixed he? in a firm bed ;
this circumstance has been of great use to the surviving
inhabitants, for whose accommodation Le how serves as|
a h^ufe. I
The morning uffiered in a fcenc too Locking for de
fcrintion. Bedies o' the dead and dying frittered ^bout
the watry plain where thetown flood, pfefented them
selves to ' the agonizing view of the fen of humanity,
whose charity led him in quest of the remains of his un
happy fellow creatures! The number who have perished
is not yet precisely aftertained, but it is imagined 50
whites, and 150 persons of colour are loft. Amopgft
them are numbered DoamKing, his wife and four child
ren ; his partner, an assistant, Mr, NiLet, a Carpenter,|
and 24 negroes, all in one house. Doctor Lightfoot, and
Mr# Antrobus were found dead in rhe ftreets# In the
whole parish it is said there are not five dwelling houses, *
and not one let of works remaining; the plantain walks
all destroyed ; every cane piece is levelled ; several white
people, and force hundreds of negroes killed#
In the adjoining parish of St. Elizabeth, although the ;
face of the country wore a less horrible afpe& than Weft
moreland, much damage is done and several lives loft.
Our accounts from Lptea, though not particular, are|
terrible indeed V The town, except two houses, those of
Messrs. A. and D. Campbell, and the Adjoining tenement
of Mr Lyons, levelled to the ground ; many lives toft,
and in the whole parish of Hanover but three houses
finding; not a tree, buffi, or cane to be seen; univer
sal desolation prevails! Of the, wretched victims to this
violation of the course of nature, we can only as yet -
name Messrs. Aaron and Solomon Dias Fernandes, twog
ancient gentlemen of the Jewiffi nation, one aged eighty|
one and the other eighty, of refoeaable and venerable
characters, three young ladies, Misses Samuels,,ar Green-
Iflaud. The elegant house of John Campbell, Enquire,
at Salt Spring, Kendall and Campbell Town; and that
of Mr. Chambers at Bachelor's Hall, no longer adorn;
that rich aud fertile parish. Captain Darlirig/Mrs.' Dar
ling, and Mr. Moxham, were dragged out, barely alive,|
from the ruins of an arch that supported a'flight of fteps,k
under which they had Laltered themfclves. Fourteen|
or fifteen people of colour were buried in a Bore that -fell (
in upon them.|
Extract of a letter from Black-River, October in;
'' On Tuesday last the storm began at this place, @nd J
was very violent till about three o'clock, P. M. when it,
increased to such a degree that it is beyond all defcripifotr,.,
the sea was five feet deep all over the bay, it carried war '
every out-house on the bay, and greatly damaged all t'h&'d
dwelling houses by making a pa&ge through them; 1
luckily no lives were loft. The Lip A&ive which by ,
in the harbour was drove on Lore, but is on a bank of ]
find, and the Captain experts tn get her off again. A 1
schooner from Lutea, loaded with salt, was dashed tog
pieces, and every thing loft, the crew very fortunately got $
affiore. The Trimmer packet' boat from Rattan is cast
away to leeward of Bluefields, but the mails and crew
are fived.”
Extract of a letter from Mr. Nicholas Rotberam, Montego-|
Bay, ORober ^. l
" A Lieutenant and a few men belonging to his Ma- %
jefty's Lip Phcenix. arrived here yesterday evening in a |
boat, and brought an account that tome days ago, in a
gale of wind, the ship sprung a leak and filled to the |
lower gun deck ; fortunately for the ship's company, 3
who must othetwife have all perished, Le rtruck almoftl
immediately, and Sir Hyde Parker, with all his people
(except about thirty who were loft by the mainmart go
ing overboard) got on Lore, add found themselves threel
leagues to the caftward of Cape Cruz in Cuba, that they §
had got their guns, ammunition, provision, &c. on Lore,l
and had fortified themfcives till relief qould be sent them
from this Island."
Wheat per Btrfiici, 26s# od.i
Flour, 70s. oil.;
Brown Bread, 70s. drib
Weft-Iruba Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od;
PRICE C U R R R N T, in N E W.YO R K.
[No. teo)
GAZETTE:
THE
MERCUR Y.
I Mulcovario Sugar, 51.
ISir.gb retn'd ditto, is.
IMolartec, xs.
Beef per Barrel, SI.
iPork, 81.
ffntdga an^ iOflmeffick.
This Day is fublifeed, and to be bad of
HUGH GAIN E,
At bis Book Store in Hanover Square;
LIVES
OF THE
British Admirals:
Containing a new and accurate Naval Hifiory,
FROM. THE FARLIEST PERIODS;
By Dr. JOHN CAMPBELL.
With a continuation down to the year 1779,
INCLUDING THE
Naval tranfaaions of the late and present war, and
an account of the recent difeoveries in the southern
hemisphere, written under the infection of Do&o
Bet kenhaut.
The whole illustrated with corre& maps, and fron
tispieces, engraved from original designs.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
At the above Store may as be had most Sorts of
Stationary, viz.
Elephant, imperial, royal, medium, demoy, long pert,
pro patria, and pot paper, of the very best forts ; thick
and thin quarto post, gilt and plain; long post and pre
patria, gilt; the very best wax, wafers,.quills, and pens;
leather ink pets, and pewter ftandifheg, fcaies and dividers,
copper-plate copy books and flips for schools, Middleton's
best black lead pencils, pounce and pounce boxes, sand and
find boxfs, vel um for drum heads, blotting and marble
paper, imbAt.d paper, parchment prickers, red tape for
tying up records, round rulers, &c, &:,
LIKEWISE,
Violins, German flutes and fi es, gentlemens and ladies
pocket book,.whh arid without instruments; battledore,
and Luttle-cock', horfemens pistols, and very neatpocket
ditto, of various prices ; best rafori, with and without cases,
beautiful cutteaux de chafe, powder horns and Lot pouches,
'mathematical instruments, Hadley's quadrants, Laving
boxes# horse whips, patent blacking and Loe brushes, hard
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powder and Let, temple fpeftacles, a very great variety of
Doland's SPY GLASSES,
Of difF-rent kib<h; gold fcaies arf weight; &% &c. &e.
No. 43, the corner of BeekrhWh'^ flip, Queen-street,
HAS imported in the fleet from England, a large
affortmeut cf looking-glasses, adapted to the
present mode of town and country ; also tea cadies,
tea chests, and gentlemans razor cases, with various
articles of dry goods as usual.
N. B. Captains of vessels may be fopplied with
black paints, by the keg or a larger quantity, cheap
for cash.
A good dry cellar, to LET; enquire as above.
Any gentleman that has, or may hereafter have a
house to LET, will much oblige by fending me
their address.
Juitimported from Liverpool, Dublin and Cork,
and to be fold on reasonable terms by
Hugh & Alexander Wallace,
A quantity of fine flour, best mess beef in barrels,
ditto in half barrels,
Ox tongues in half barrels
Best refe butter in firkins and kegs,
Choice mould and dipt candles,
A few boxes of soap,
Old French brandy in pipes and hogsheads,
Soldiers shirts and Rocks, Iri/h linens,
A few crates queen's ware,
Old Jamaica and Antigua rum,
Choice port and Lisbon wine.
MARSTON&RAPALJE,
HAVE for sale, in Wall-street, the Corner of Smith
ftreet, at the house lately occupied by Governor
TRYON,
gunpowder of a superior Choice Madeira, Lerry,
quality, warranted good, and port WINES, in pipes,
well adapted for tnufquetry. and quarter calks.
Fine and coarse grain, Excellent F RENCH
glar'd,,and uf^lazed, in BRANDY, in pipee
tin barrels and half barrels# and anchors.
Hyfon,.and congo TEAS, A parcel of high proof
in charts. J'AMAICA RUM, in
COFF^t, in feroons and puncheons.
&^; 7 MUSCOVADO and
j, ,r POWDER SUGAR, in hhda
To be let, the whcle or part of a large three story
Wfc*br<e and Immediate possession given.
, - '.O be fold, and poffeflion given the firlt day of
I May next, all that lot of ground near Brook
lyn Ferry, now in the tenure of Mr. Thomas
Horsfield, known and described in a certain map by
lot No. 1 ; on which is a new brick duelling h. use,
of two Tories, a bakeboufe, a large Itorehoufe, and
a brewhoufe with two large coppers ; that part of
the lot on which the buhdirgs are, fronts a street
of about 110 feet, and the other part joins the river,
about 60 feet. For further particulars enquire of
Mr. Gabriel H. Ludlow, at Number it, Wall-
Street.
Very neat
Mathematical Instruments,
Sold by Hi Gaine.
ros^Fine Salt, is. do<
od/Coarfe Salt, is. do.
6d#bndian Corn perßu. 10s. do.
od/Certee, is# da®
ios.iChocolate, x6s.pm Do.