The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1777-07-14 00:00:00, page 2

In the county of Dutchefs, at the house of
the Widow of Pinion Weftfall, occeafed, in
Rhinebeck precinct,—at the house of John
Stoutenburgh, in Charlotte precintt,—at the
house of Captain Jonathan Dennis, in Beek-'
inan's precinct,---at or near New-Hackenfack
church, in Rumbout precinct, -Land at Mat
thewPauerfon's, in Frederickfburgh precind.
In the county of Tryon, at the house cf Jo
hannis Veder, in the Mohack diitrid—at the
house of John Dunn, in Conajohary diltrict, -
at the Church in Stone Arabia, in Palatine
diftrift.—at the house of Fretlerick Bellinger, in
the German Flatts diflrid,--at Smith's Hall,
in Old England diftria,—and at the house of
Alexander Harper in the townlhip ofHarpers
held. . ■ ,
In the county of Cumberland, at thehoufeof
Seth Smith, in Brattleborough,--atthe house
of Luke Znoulton, in New-Fain,-- at the
Court House in Weflminfter,--at the house of
Tarbell, in Chefter,--ac the Town-House,
in Windfor,--and at the house of Colonel Marih
in Hertford.
In the county of Charlotte, at the new Pref
byterlan Church, in New Perth--at the house
of Anthony Hofthagle, in Kingibury,--at the
house of Nathaniel Spring, in Grauville- and
at some convenient place in each of the Towns
of Manchester, Danby and Cattle-Town.
Ardin the county ofGlocefter, at such pla
ces as the fheLft' of the Did county, by the
advice of the-County Committee shall appoint,
for the convenience of Electors within the
fame.
. And that the Sheriff of every county, shall
order the Elections to be held in each place
above mentioned,/in his county, on the fame
day under thedireffion of two reputable Free
holders; one to be appointed by the County
Committee, the other by the Sheriff, to attend
at each of the places, where the Elections are,
as aforefaid, directed to be held in every
county, who shall jointly superintend the said
Elections, and return to the Sheriff of the'
county in which such Elections are held, true'
poll lifts of the Elections in the several places,
for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Senators
and Representatives in Authority ; which lift
the Sheriff Ihall transmit under his oath of
office,, to the Council of Safety, as far as the
fame shall relate to Governor, Lieutenant-
Governor and Senators, and ihall cast up the
greatest number of votes for the Representatives
in Assembly, and make return of the names of
inch ofthera as are duly elected; in the manner
that has heretofore been usual and customary;
and'thecouncil cfSafety shall, upon receipt of
the poll litis of the Election for Governor, Lieu
tenant Governor and Senators, examine the
fame, and declare who is the Governor, who
the Lieutenant Governor, and who the Sena
tors so chosen, and shall administer to the said
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the oaths
us allegiance and of office, 'The said Elections
within the several counties to be so held, as
that the nerfons thereby chosen 'may be assem
bled at Kingdon, in the county of Ulster, or
such other place as the said Council of Safety
ihall appoint, on the firft day of July, next;
Provided', if by any unforeseen accident, such
Elections cannot be held, then the laid Council
shall order Elections at such other time or
times, as shall, in their opinion, be most con
ducive to'tbe general interest pf the State.
And' IT is further Resolved, That
Pich' ,Freeriders as h'ave'Hed fr m the fopth
e?n parts of this State, and are now actually
refluent in any of the other counties of this
State, Biair be entitled to vote within such
counties, for Governor and Lieutenant Go
vernor, as if they had actually possessed Free
hplds'within the fame. And th^t in case an
Efe&idn "in" any county should be held, by
reason of, thy death or resignation 'of the She
riff, or for, any, other eagle, that the Council
of'Safetyty,or,the'Governor', in case he shall
be fivorbinto his office,ffoTue orders for an
Ele&idn tty {Reprefentatives, in Assembly, in
such county, and' .appoint a returning officer
to hold the fa,e. And u,e.re no county.
Committee shall be in being, or such Com
mittee Hiall' negieff to appoint returning effi- ,
cers foj; the places above-named in such coun
ts, that the person for that purpose appointed
by the,Sheriff, ihall alone hold the Election,
and make return to the Sheriffin like manner,
as is "above directed.
An? w,hereas it is impradicable for the
inhabitants of the foutherh diftrift of this
State, to chufe Senators to represent them in
the Senate thereof, or for the counties of the
Did difeift, Welicheder excepted, to ele&
Representatives in AiLmbiy; and it is rea
sonable and right to give to the, said diftri&
and counties, a proportionable ffiare in the
Jtyiflatioh of the whole State, as far as is po.f
fible in its prefect circumdances; therefore
RkSQgvED, That Lewis Morris, Pierre Van
Cortlandt, John Morin Scott, Jonathan Law
rence, William Floyd, William Smith, of Sus-;
folk, Isaac Rocfev^k, Doctor John Jones and:
Philip Livinghon, be, and they hereby arel
appointed Senators for the southern diitrid of
this Stated and in case of vacancy, such va
cancy to be filled up by the choice ' of the As-•
fttnbiy: And that Abraham Brashes, Daniel
Dunfcomb, Evert Bancker, Peter P, Van
Zandt, Robert Harpur, Abraham P. Lott,,
Jaco, bus Van Zandt, Henry' Rutgers, jun. and
Frederick jay, be, and they hereby ' are a'p-'
pointed Reprefenthrives in Agemblv of the
city and county of New-York ; Philip Edfall,
Daniel Lawrence, 'Benjamin Coe and Benja
min Birdfall, of the county of Queen's ; Bur
net Miller, David Gelftdn, Ezra L'Homme
dieu, Thomas Trcdwell and Thomas Wickes,
of the county ' of Suffolk; William Boerum
and Henry Williams, of the county of Kings;
and Joshua Mercereau and Abraham Jones of
the county of Richmond ; and in case of va
cancy, futh .vacancy to be filled up by the
choice of the Senate. Provided always, that ,
none of the laid Senators or Representatives
in Assembly so appointed, or hereafter to be
appointed as aforefaid, ihall continue longer
in office, than until the Electors they repre
sent, ihall respectively be in a capacity of
electing.-
By Order of Convention.
ABM. TEN BROECK, President.
Attest. JOHN MCKESSON, Secry^
R OM E, April \2.
TH E following event happened in the
firft antichamber of the Vatican iait
Wednesday, viz. Two pilgrims, came
to the above-mentioned room, and asked per
mission of the Sivils guards and servants to
hay there till the Pope, whole feet they wished
to kiss, should come put of the Palace, which
was granted according to custom. Some mo
ments after, when the Chamberlains opened
the doors for the Pope to come out, the two
pilgrims advanced a little, and at the fame
infant a perlon drelfed like a hermit palled
through the door of the hail, and acting the
ideot, wanted to press through into the anti
chamber, which the guards and servants pre
vented. The hermit then began to use vio
lence, but being again repulled, he said in a
fort of Polish jargon, that he wanted to kiss
the Pope's feet, and immediately advanced to
I the second antichamber, where only the pre- r
fates and people of rank are admitted. The .
guards feeing the inference of the hermit, fol
lowed him, and with the help of the servants
'forced him out, and at the fame time drove
away the two pilgrims, who seemed to inter
cede for the hermit, as if through compaflion.
in the tumult one of the Swiss guards felt an
almoil insensible pundure in his fide, which
he did not then take notice of, but about half
an hour after the Pope had passed to the
church of St. Peter, the soldier found himfelf
very ill, and was carried to his quarters, when
he was difeovered te lbe pierced in his fide
with a very small instrument, which rather
railed some suspicions, and the whole affair
was told to the Majordomo, who ordered the
pilgrims and the hermit to be immediately
taken; the former were seized the next day,
but it was some time before they could find
the Hermit, which they dt last did, notwith-j
handing he had changed his dress, and cut off j
his beard, and they are all three now confined
in prison. They found upon the hermit a I
small case, which contained a ftilletto, which,
by means of a strong spring, would fly out|
and back again immediately. These prisoners |
have been examined, and are to be tried. I
The wounded soldier is at the last extremity,
although nothing has been spared to recover
him, but all without any efficacy, as the point
of the internment with which he was wounded
was so strongly poisoned that a wound with it
must be incurable.
This event has alarmed the Pope very much,
as there is' all the reason in the world to be
lieve that it was intended against him, and
has called to his mind the difeevery made of
the cannon at the Castle of St. Angelo being
charged without any person being able to find
out who did it, which event actually happen
ed, although the court of Rome have done alt
they could to make people believe ft was not
true.
raris, April 21. It is reported here that our
Court has made a new treaty with England,
by which, to avoid alldifpujxs, a larger ex
tent than formerly 'is fixed upon in Newfound
land for our cod fifh^ry, which was the occa
• Don of ,he embargo' put On our vessels for
I feme days, as the Ministry thought it right
Ibefore their departure to let the armed vessels
ktaow how far they might go, beyond which
'they Would run a rifle of being taken, accerd
'ing to the above mentiohed treaty ; which the
American war renders necessary. It is also
said,. that besides this, there is another treaty
between the two Courts, by which that of
London is to disarm 12 of her largely men of
war, and ours not to go on in arming four
men'of war and some frigates which were go
ing forward. Time will shew how true this is.:
,In the mean while Count D'Eafting, who is
Vice-Admiral, is going to take the command
:of : a Squadron of observation in the Medi- ~
terranean.''.
Deux Ponts, April 21. Mr. Arnoldi, Curate
of Groflinden; in the County of Darmftadt,'
has established a School for Deaf and Dumb
Persons, upon the fame footing with that very'
reputed one set up at Hamburgh by Mr.
Heineckis We might be apt to doubt of the
Succefe of such Undertakings, if there were
not many Instances of the like existing. At
Paris the Abbot Delepee, a very refpedable
Man, inftru&s both Deaf and Dumb with an
almost incredible Success and Patience, and
many Princes and great People take pleasure
to.be present during 'the Time he is intruding
his Pupils, who may be said to underhand fix
Languages, firft, the Language of Signs,
invented by Mr.. Delepee, by which they ex
plain every Thing with an amazing Rapidity ;
second, the Language of• Pronunciation, as
they can, by the Motion of the, Lips, find out
all that is said, 'and anfiver immediately,
third, the French, fourth, the Latin; fifth,'
Spanish; and sixth, Italian. They answer in
Writing in any of these Languages you choose,
and write very faft, but their Speech is very
disagreeable, and their Pronunciation falfe.
LONDO N,
May r. Yesterday by virtue of a commission
from his Majesty, to the Lord Chancellor, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Farl of
Dartmouth, they notified the royal assent to
the following bills, viz.
The bill sos improving and preferring the
navigation of the Thames from London-bridge
tq SuinesfrThG bill ;o enable the president |
and Scholars,of Magdalen college, Oxford, to
grant leaies of lands, houses, tenements, &c.
their ellate, in St. John's # Southwark.
The bill for building a new church in Buck
ingham. , "'
The bill for making a navigable cut or
canal from the Trent, in-the lordlhips of Saw
ley and Long Eatop, in Derbyshire, to or near
Langley-bridge, in the laid county.
The bill to enable die York buildings Com
pany to fell their elites in Scotland to dis
charge incumbrances.
The bill to dissolve the marriage of John
Braithwaite, Esq; with his wife Elizabeth
Plowden, andto enable him to marry again.
The bill for opening streets of communica
tion between Wapping, Ratclift-highway, Old
Gravel-lane and Virginia street.
The bill for better lighting, watching, find
paving the Street in Newington, Surry.— And
also to several road, inclolure, and private
bills, in all 49..
Yesterday the, House of Lords gaye judg
ment on the appeal of Blair against the Ayr
Bank Company, by affirming the decree , of
the court of leffion in Scotland in favour of,
the respondents. Lord North brought up the
civil lilt bill from the House of Commons
which was read the firft time.
^ This day the civil lift bill read a second
time in the House of Lords, and committed
for to-morrow.-,— The Earl of Radnor put.
some questions refpe&ing the civil lift accounts,
which were fatisfadorily answered by the
Lord Chancellor.
This day Mr. Sawbridge made his annual
motion ^ the iJgufepf Commons for Shorten
ing the duration of Parliaments, which was
101 l on a divifipn/by 9.8 votes against 28.
A motion was made for leave to bring in a
bill for procuring a better supply of marines
and seamen for his Majesty's navy, and orders
given to prepare and bring in the Same.
May 3. This day the following bills re
ceived the Royal Assent; by commission, viz,.
An ad for more effectually amending widen
ing, and keaping in repair several reads there
in mentioned, leading from a gate in the
town and county of Poole, called Poole; and
for repealing two Acts of Parliament, of the
twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of his late
Majesty, relating to the said roads ; and also
for applying a certain sum oi money therein
mentioned towards paving and repairing a
certain Street or way within the said town and
county.
An act for continuing the term and powers
of an aft made in the twenty-ninth year of
the reign of his late Majesty, for repairing
and widening the road from the eighteen mile
stone beyond Willoughby Hedge, through the
town of Mere, in the county of Wilts, and
through Wiacanton to Charlton Houthon, and
from thence to Milborne Porte, and from Wil
loughby Hedge afptefeid, to the weft end of
Long Lane in Kilmington, and from Win-
I canton aforefaid, to the Sherborn turnpike
ICrofs Gate on Cattle Hill, and from Wincan
ton to Sparkford, in the county of Spmerfet.
In a Committee wen,t.through the bill for
allowing the exportation of wheat, &c. to the
sugar colonies in North-America, and to the [
Bait-Indies.
The following is an extrafl of a letter from an
officer on hoard the DiJeovery Sloop of War,
Capt. Cook, at the Cape of Good Hope, dated
Now. 26, 1776.
“ We arrived here the 10th inst. after a
passage attended with very fine weather, in
good health and spirits, much more so than
when we left England ; having loft but one
man (a corporal of marines) who unfortu
nately fell from the bowsprit, and was drown
ed. We have taken in provisions of every
kind for thirty -months; also two stallions,
two mares, some bulls, cows, rams, ewes, and
variety of fowls from England, so that the
islands will be flocked in a few years. Omiahl
is in good health, and high fpi,its. We tail
to-morrow, and when you will hear from us
again, God only knows.”.
r A letter from Peteriburgh mentions, 'that
the Empress of Russia ha's ordered a fivord of
very fine workmanship, enriched with jewels,
Ito be sent as a present to his Royal Highnefs
the Prince of Wales-."'
I A bill is ordered to be brought into the
.House of Commons to prohibit all intercourse
with the' rebel colonies. *.
May 5. The committee of ways and means
: came to several resolutions, which were or,
dered to be reported this day."V
A bill to authorize the carrying of captures
therein mentioned into any of the ports in
North-America, was' presented, and read a
firft time.
The bill for the better supply of marines
on board his Majesty's Ships of war, merchant
Ships, and oth^r vessels, was presented, and
read a firft time.
IThe bill to empower the churchwardens,
and other parish officers, throughout the king
dom, to make returns of all charitable dona
tions received for the benefit of the poor, was
read a firft time, and ordered to be read a
second time. , ''
WILLIAM TONGUE,.i
Broker and Auctioneer, at his Office in
Hanover- Square,
HAS to dispose of, Spermacete whale oyl by the
barrel, ship bread, hour, d/tmeal, beef, pork, nails,
excellent Liverpool beer, best Newfoundland codfish, salt,
filmon, fine Florence oyl in half cherts, ' fpetmaccte candles
and hard Lap by the box : Sundry dry goods, a set of capi
. tal surgeon's inftrumnrs, wines, rum, excellent fpiriis,
brandy, and most o&r articles as usual.
JUST imported in the Edward, Lawrence; & Hannah,
Watson, from London, and now opening for Sale
by WILLIAM HERVEY, at the Houfe' formerly
occupied by Jacobus Lefferts, at the Fly Market- , a neat
Assortment of European and Eart India Goods, whokfalt
and retail, fuitabß for the Season,
S^YTis cequefted that any Captam
Xbf a £h ; p,' or other geat'-man, that now has or
may have a box, letters, or other commands for Michael
Newman, (^ an entiga in the 35th regiment) from
England, Inland, or eUewaere, wilLpicafe to fend them
to Mr. Gaine's printing office.
,Just imported in the very last veffrh from London, and
will 'e d'feofed of Whole ale and Reta 1, by
RICHARD SAUSE,
At his Hard-ware Store in Water-street, near the lower
end of the'Fly- market, a small but general assortment
of CUTLERY and HARD-WARE, among which
{[, With a variety of articles in the silver, jewellery,
hard-ware, and cutlery way, too tedious to mention.
N. B, At the fame place, case will be given for old gold
and silver, tortoile fheil and ivory.
To BE SOLD BY
DAVID SEABURY,
In Smith-Street, No. 353,
. The following Articles, wholesale and retail,
just arrived from London ;
BROWN Russia meet
ings,
Brown and white Iri/h
Meetings,
Scotch ofnaburgs,
3-4 check and striped linens
and Hollands,.'
Yard wide and yard and 3-8
wide cotton checks,
3-4, 7-8, and yard wd. Irjm
linens, from is. jod, to
63. per yard,
Brown holland linen,
Light and dark ground pur
ple callicoes and chintzes,
! Furniture callicoes,
;Plain and check'd muslins,
Black Barcelona handker
chiefs,
;Eoglim and India Bandanoe
ditto,
Silk and cotton romall do.
Black taffeties,
Black, coloured, and striped
per fians,
White and light coloured
ft wing silk,
Cl'oth coloured ditto,
Nankeens, with buttons
and twist,
Striped and plain ginghams,
Black, blue, and brown
durants,s
terms, viz.
INDIA chints, muffins,
and handkerchiefs, of
various forts and patterns
English chints, and printed
linens
Long lawn, silk, and other
handkerchiefs
Irish linen
Coarse and fine cambricks
Long lawns
Platilloes royal
Silefias; brown and white
Russia and Irish faceting
Ravens dock, dowlafs'
' ,Brown and white ofnaburghs
Fine white drill, long cloths,
cotton and linen
Checks' ,from g-qths to
6-4ths wide
:Plain, corded, and flower'd
dimity
Yard-wide India dimity
Cotton counterpains
Marfrilles quilting
Dutch cords
Fine copper-plate and quilt
ed ffiapes for waiffcoats
Cotton velvets, thicksets;
and corduroys, of different
colours
India janes and jannets, of
different colours, plain
and figur'd
Corderets, fatinets, Loret
toes, grandurels, and
foowdenets of different
colours
Dy'd pillow fuftians
Yard-wide draw-boys, &e.
Patterns of futes of fuper
fine broad-cloths of vari
ous colours, with lining
. and trimmings compleat
Sute, of bread-cloth ready
made
Waistcoats and breeches
Jackets, troffers, frocks,
drawers
Cotton and check feirta
Ruffled and plain flirts
are the following :
/, REEN and,white ivo
ry carving, table, and
aciart ferriled knives and
forks
Block ebony, cam-word,
buck and Iplit bone ditto
Ruaors' penknives, feiffars,
pocket, butcher and oiftcr
knives
Flam'd flore, and double
pocket ditto
Horse feiffars, ox and horse
fleams
,A variety of door, chest and
other locks, hinges, bolts
and screws
Shoe knippers and joiners
pincers
Hand, tenerit, fa4i, compaft
and seft wood saws, with
a variety of carpenters
rules ami compasses
Best awl blades and fooc
tacks
Carpenters and shoe ham
mere
Candlesticks, fconces,brafs;
bag locks and fi kies
Netting pins, brafi and iror
Wife affofted
Hooks and eyes
Brass drawer handles and
cloak pins
Brass escutcheon pins and
awl hafts
Jult imported, by
William and Minton Collins,
From London, in the Shifs Edward, Effingham Law
rence, and the Hannah, Thomas Watson, Command
ers, and to be fold by them, at their Store the King's
Arms, Great Dock-street, upon the most rcafonablc
STOLEN or STRAYED,
ALIGHT chefnut mare about 14 handsand half high,
^marked on the right Moulder with the letters
A No. 2R. Whoever will bring the said mare to John
Smith, in Coppes's-ftreet, near the Whitehall, mail
receive Five Dollars reward, and no questions afcd.
Hunters half do. and twig
whips
Gilt, plated, pinchbeck,
steel and common mod,
knee, arid flock buckles
Metal coat and vest buttons
Silver top'd cruit franfes
o'laving boxes and brumes'
Powder machines, bags and
down puffs
Tooth, buckle and ffije
bruffies
4 variety of low priced poc
ket books
Enamelled, japanned, fnuff
and tobacco boxes
Edweezers, black hair pins
aad key swivels
Peeble, cypher, silver and
common sleeve buttons
Flat, gilt, graved mam feala
and triang e do. in silver
Sail palms, white and brass
thimbles
Temple fpeaacles, pocket
looking glalles, and
pinching irons
3rafs scales, and steel-yards
Tilt links, silver and metal
m>e elafps
Razor strops, tea tongs and
double worm gim blets
Buckling and common horn
combs
Pocket ink pots and steel
plysrs.
Black, blue, cloth, green
and white callimaricocs,
White Cyprus gauze,
Womens black and coloured
callimancoe shoes, \
Flanders bed ticks,
Womens purple leather
mitts, plain an^ flowered,
Brown drab,
Blue fagothees,
Wiltons, caflimers,
Superfine cloths, with
trimmings,
Brown and white thread hose
White and red flannels,
Scotch handkerchiefs, 1
Printed, linen and cam brick
ditto,
' Cambricks and lawns,
Brown buckram,
(Quality and mac binding,
Gartering,
Tapes and threads,
Sciffars, penknives, cuttoe!,
Table knives and forks,
Childrens burnt bone knives
Ivory and horn combs,
Common and best London
dewing needles,
White-Chapel ditto,
Darning ditto,
Pint qlb. and 41-2 Ib.
Men and womens silk, cot
ton, and thread hose
Men and womens black and
grey worded hose
Black and coloured worsted
breaches pieces
Mill'd and ftrip'd caps
Mens fine hats
Sailors hats, plain and bound
Mens cdurfe and fine shoes
Womens callimanco and lea
ther shoes
Refin'd sugar
Raisins, cloves, mace, oina
mon, and nutmegs
Compleat table and tea sets
of India china, plates add
diflies
Bowls of different sizes
Mugs, cups and saucers, &c.
A compleat assortment of
stone, delph, cream-co
lour, and glass ware
An assortment of Birming
ham and Sheffield ware,
confiding of knives and
forks
Pen and clasp knives
Razors, feiffars,cotk-fcrews,
buckles, buttons, &c.
An assortment of iron ware,
confining of qd. 6d. led.
zod. zqd. god. qod. and
deck nails, locks, bolts,
hinges
Carpenters, joiners and coo
pers tools, &c.
Crown, and all other forts
of writing-paper
Sets of epunting-houfe and
other books
Ink powder
Sealing-wax, wafers,'quills,
&c.
Pins and Needles
Nests of Trunks, brafs
mounted.
And sundry other articles too
numerous to mention.