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The young duke of Athole is raffing a regiment, of
the fame number, on his own estate, in which he does not
even afka command. B-fiJes the king's bounty-money,
he gives two guineas to each recruit, which is 2000 gui
neas out of his pocket. But, tempering zeal for his
country with humanity to his countrymen, he obliges
himfelf to maintain the families of the recruits who go
from his estate, if they need maintenance, and never, du
ring his life, to raise the rents upon the families of fu-h
tenants as do resort to his standard.
Lord M'Leod, anxious to wash away the treasons of
his family with his own blood, is railing a regiment of
the fame number, on the estate to the pofieffion of
which he was born. True courage is ever modest. He
has not even alked from government to be restored to his
estate, as the reward of his service; and the generous
followers of a fallen family are vying with each other
who shall firft help to raise it up again, by Ihowing thclr
attachment to their sovereign, and to his lordship.
The city of Glasgow are raising and eloathing, at their
own expence, a regiment, also of IOQO men, rank and file,
against those very Americans, at whose mercy above a
million of their property lies, and, with an honest confi
dence in his Majesty, have left the nomination of their
officers to him. They raised a great sum to maintain
the family, of the recruits in their absence. And they
made them and their families freemen of their corpora
tions for ever,
Thecity of Edinburgh arc raising and eloathing a regi
ment of the fame number. They have, indeed, recom
tnended a lift of officers to the king, submitting it to his
royal pleasure. But they did so on this principle', that
they thought it would prove a double incitement to the
ardour of officers, to find, that the applauding voice of
their country, as well as the approbation of their prince,
were to bear testimony to their merits. With this view,
the most delicate, and even scrupulous attentions, were
ihewn in maaking up the lift of officers recommended.
The perlon pointed out for colonel (Sir William Erskine)
was one in whose favour England, Ireland, and Scotland,
would have united, and to whom America alone could
wish evil. Although the member for the city (Sir Lau
rence Dundas) was the firft to fubf.ribe to the regiment,
and fubferibed 1000 guineas, and is the perfun without
whom perhaps it had never exifled ; yet the town-council
put numbers into the lift, who, or whose connections,
vote against his family in rheir elections ; because they
resolved to confider military, and not political merit, in a
regiment on which their own honour depended. Mr. M-x
---well, one of the magistrates, gave up his own fun, ne
phew to the late Col. Maxwell, once the brave comman
der of the British grenadiers, in competition for a majority
with an officer elder in rank, although he could have had
three votes to one on his fide ; and said, with the honest
bluntness, but true dignity too of a British merchant,
“ That his son Ihould owe his fortune to his' own sword,
and not to his father's vote." Though the author of the
prefect paper was the firft gentleman of the county who
fubferibed, had some pretentious, by relation, upon many
•members of the town-council, and has four brothers
drawing their swords in their country's cause; yet, the
town-council refufed him a step for one of those brothers,
till it should be examined whether his commission, or that
of his competitor, was a few weeks prior in date to the
other, and referred the dispute to the war-office. Far
from feeling a wrong, he who recommended, thanked
the corporation fur the justice of their procedure.
The families of Argyle, of Gordon, of Seaford, and
of Lord M'Donald, arc each raising regiments of 1000
men, rank and file, in their own estates. Lord Seaford
makes this wife and fair condition for his people, that
they Ihall be disbanded in their own country.
The city of Aberdeen has offered to raise a battalion of
500 men at its own expence.
Smaller towns are offering to raise companies at their
own expence. Many corporations, within their own
limits, and many individuals within their own estates,
are offering bounty money to foldicrs, some to the extent
of five guineas a man.
But, amongst just compliments to higher rank,, let
not the brave and generous commons of Scotland be for
got. They catch fire from the looks of each other, in
their own and their country's cause. Many recruits have
refufed to take bounty money at all. .In one of the city
regiments the levies are at the rate of 50 men a day.
There are private centinels in the city regiments worth
some hundred pounds ; when one of them was alked why
he left his own business and embarked in this one, his
Spartan answer was, ' Principle.' Tradesmen in Glas
gow, worth 2col. have fubferibed half their fortunes.
A club of 100 common weavers in that place, draughted
fourteen of their number for recruits, and made up a stock
of 350 L to maintain their families in their absence.
One thousand common manufacturers there collected
1000 guineas ; and the trades, as bodies corporate, fub
feribed between 5 and 6000 guineas. Two sixpenny
clubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow collected tool. each.
The link boys at Edinburgh, about 30 in number, gave
30 guineas. The affluent may sneer at the recital, but
they should blu/h when they do ; for, the voluntary mite
of the poor is a more sure, and far more pleating proof, to
a virtuous prince, of the affections of his people, than
all the incense of the rich.
Yet the people of Scotland, than whom none know
their own intererts better, know well, the men of land
estates, that they cannot let a man go from the estate
-without the loss of 10s. a year to themselves; and the
corporation, that they cannot leta man go from town,
without the loss of thrice the sum to it.
When the writers to the signet, b, an unanimous vote,
gave 500 guineas to the Edinburgh regiment, they spoke
the voice of Scotland in the following finple but manly
words of their vote : “ That the world may fee the un
happy contek is not the cause of a ministry, or any
particular number of men, but the cause of the legisla
ture, animated and supported by the whole body of the
nation, as well individuals as communities."
In the preferments given in the new regiments, no
officer, or almost no officer, has got more than one step
above his former rank; so that the interests of the old
army have been attended to, preserved, and promoted ;>
at the fame time that the hands of government will be>
strengthened with the very belt of all armies, a new army
in the flower of youth and spirits, commanded by veteran
officers.
There is a military Servant to the King, now in Scot
land, who, on every occafiori, and fometimea with tears
of transport in his eyes, gives testimony to the zeal of
that country in which he commands; I mean Sir Adol
phus Oughton, not a new, but an old foidier, who gained
his rank and hisribban by fighting, not by lecruiting ;
and at the firft beat of whose drum,' although he is no
Scotsman, many thousands in Scotland would start up to
follow wherever he and honour led the way.
'From these exertions in a Britifli cause, Scotland,
however, claims no superiority in merit over England.
It was with pleasure that ihe saw phe town of Manches
ter firft lead the way in the bright line of national duty.
She marked not with insult, but with regret, the contrail
between the common-councils of Edinburgh and of Lon
don ; that, while the one were presenting an addiefs at
St. James's, with the offer of a regiment, without ex
pence to the public, the other were, at that very hour,
at Guildhall, employed in framing a resolution not to
give a single man, or a single penny, in the cause of their
prince, their parliament, their city, and their country.
But Scotland remembers, and remembers well, that
England, by raising 22,000 new levies in fix weeks, in
the reign of Charles 11. saved herfelf from a French war,
and Holland from conquests; and that King William,
by raising the fame number, in the fame space of time,
saved England from a French invasion, and secured the
foppreffion of the Irilh rebellion. She knows from hi
story, that nations which join liberty to wealth, arise
only stronger from defeat. And ffie trusts, if communi
ties and individuals in England and Ireland were to make
the fame noble efforts which ffie has made, that foreign
nations would fhiink at the found, and that America
might be brought soon to repeat of the fatal Ihm-livGd
laurels flic has gined.
— 7ANTED, a wet nurse and a servant
,y ' boy.—Enquire of the printer. ,'[
.Fresh Ship Bread.
A Few thousand weight of freffi ship bread to be fold
by THOMAS HORSFIELD, at Brooklyn Ferry j
also a few bolting dothk " '
Public Auction.
At the Coffee-houfe, this Day,
Will be sold,
The remainder of the CARGO of the
Ship Good Hope,
Confiding of,
SALT in lots of 2000 bushels.
To-morrow, ^
At Templeton and Stewart's
Auction Room, below the Coftee-houfe,
A quantity of DRY GOODS,
Linens, Ch cks,
Woollens,- Cambricks,
Hardware, Tea, &c.
At the Coffee-House,
At IX o'Clock,
Coffee, Molasses, Tea, &c.
At XII o'clock, at the Merchant's Coffee-houfe,
Lying at Coenties Slip.
ALS O,
The Schooner B ETSE Y,
Lying at Griffith's wharf. Inventory to be
seen at THOMAS LUDLOW's, jun.
On Thursday,
Will be fold at the Merchant's Coffee house,
at X!1 d'clock,
The brig SEA NYMPH.
Inventory to be seen at Thomas Ludlow's, jun.
This Day, at the Coffee-Houfe,
Will be fold at publick Auction, by
Bowman and Codner,
THIRTY firkins of excellent butter, six
teen calks of ship bread, twelve ham
pers Cheshire cheese, a few boxes of citron,
twenty pieces of callicdes, &c.
The Commissioners from the Royal Army, could
not, we hear, fettle the Cartel for an Exchange of
Prisoners with thole of the Rebels, the latter inciting
on being considered, as Commissioners from the
Independent States of America.
The A&s lately published here, and the fame that
are in this Dav's Paper, we hear are beginning to
work in New-Jersey, some locking upon them to
be quite latisfa&ory, and others fay, nothing less
than Independency will fuffice.
Those People who refufe to go as Soldiers that are
drafted in Jersey, muff either pay 200 1. Fine, or
remain in Goal 9 Months.
To-morrow, 1
Will be fold at public audio,n,
By order of the court of vice admiralty for
the province of New-York, at Griffith's wharf,
The CARGO of the brig Sea Nymph,
CONSISTING of
SALT, LINENS, and NAILS,
THOMAS LUDLOW, jum
Mailhal.
The sale of the cargo of the Sea Nymph, was de
signed for lalt Thursday, but was deferred on account
of the weather.
NEW-YQRK, April 27.
The Brig lately taken by the Rebels and carried
into Egg-Harbour, was from Cork for this Port,
consigned to Messrs. Franklins, the Master's Name,
Callan, and now in Goal at Trenton.
The Number of Men now employed in building
the Fort at Weft-Point, amounts to no less than
' s °°- . ~ .
The 23d instant, was appointed a Day of public
Farting and Prayer throughout the Province of New-
Jerley.
The University of Oxford have been pleased to
confer the Degree of Doctor in Divinity, upon the
Reverend Samuel Seabury, of this City.
Last Thursday the Sons of St. George, in full
Assembly, at Hicks's Long Room, celebrated the
Anniversary of their Tutelar, and thrice renowned
Patron. The firft Personages in this Country ho
noured the Meeting with their Presence ; a very ele
gant Entertainment was provided, and the inoft per
fe& Order, good Humour, and Hilarity preiided,
during the Day and Night of the Feltival.
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Major
General Tryon to the Command of the 6ilt Regi
ment, vice Major General Barlow, deceased.
Departed this Life at her Seat in Suffolk County,
on Long-Inland, the 9th inst. aged 70 Years, Mrs.
Elizabeth Floyd, (Widow of the late Col. Richard
Floyd) She was religious, humane, and charitable,
and her Death is lamented by all who knew her.
Her Remains were decently interred in the Family
Burying Ground at Brook-Haven the 12th inst.
MARRIED.] On Monday last, the Rev. Mr.
Benjamin Moore, to Miss Charity Clarke,
eldest Daughter of the late Major Clarke.
By the Packet we have received an Account of the
Death of James Wallace, Esq; one of the
Commissioners of his Majority's Victualling Office,
aged upwards of Eighty ; he was many Year's a
very able Servant of the Crown He has left a large
Estate to his Son Sir James Wallace, Commander of
his Majdt's Ship Experiment,
The Raleigh Rebel Frigate, of 32 Guns, arrived
at Portsmouth in New-Hampshire, on the 6th of this
Month.
Prizes sent in since our last ; the Snow Le Fran
cois, with Dry Goods, Wine and Brandy, from
Rochelle ; and the Schooner La Loup, with Salt,
from Domingo; taken by Lieutenant Wright, of
the Dunmore Brig, Tender to his Majesty's Ship
Otter, in Lat. 36, 25, five Leagues from the Land.
Also, the Sloop Little Anne, Capt. Yates, from
Bermuda, for Virginia, by the Letter of Marque
Ship Levant, Capt. Martin.
A fine Sweedifh Snow by the Lizard Frigate,
Capt. M'Kenzie, and we hear there are now at the
Hook, a French Ship or two, of Force, with a Brig
and Schooner, all Prizes to the Lizard.
The Schooner R A CHEL,
Will be fold this day,
At Fublick Auction,
This DA Y,
,A parcel of kitchen furniture,
Some carpenters tools,
2 cases of very neat knives and forks,
6 Barrels of mufeovado sugars,
And a few calks of London porter.
ALSO,
The Shop HENRY,
Burthen about 50 tons, now lying at Mur
ray's wharf, prize to the letter of marque
Loyal Subject.
TO-MORROW,
20 pieces of fail canvas,
20 calks of nails,
20 boxes of soap,
And a parcel of cheese.
On Wednesday,
10 puncheons of Jamaica spirits,
jo tierces of Barbadoes kane spirits,
And a few puncheons of Well-lndia rum.
On Friday,
6 hogsheads of rum.
On Thursday,
Will be SOLD,
At the Merchant's Coffee-House,
10 Puncheons Weft-India rum.
Publick Auction.
TO-MORROW at 10 o'clock,
At the Coffee-House,
Will be continued, the file of the goods damaged
on b aid the fllip Stanley, Capt. Langford,
Consisting of
Blankets, Rugs, Cloths, See.
On THURSDAY,
16 mahogany chairs,
3 looking glasses, &c.
^^w^rareNZ^a^^
Public Auction.
On TUESDAY,
Between I and 2 o'clock,
Will be fold at the Merchant's Coffee-houfe,
The Schooner NEWPORT,
As she now lies at Murray's wharf, con
demn'd as prize to his Majetty's ship Solebay.
And the Schooner ESTHER,
As she now lies at Van Dam's wharf, is well
found and of easy draft of water. Inventory
to be seen at JOHN M'ADAM, and Co's,
office.
Public Auction.
On Friday next, I o'clock,
At the Merchant's Coffee-Hou/e,
Will be fold, the SHIP
Viscount De Veaux,
As she now lies at Murray's wharf; a strong
built vessel, and fails remarkably faft, burthen
Near 600 tons, Frigate built,
Is well found with fails, rigging, anchors,
•cables, &c. has
18 feveh pounders,
6 three ditto, with carriages,
Shot, &c. &c. compleat.
Inventory to be seen at JOHN M'ADAM,
and Co's, office, and the materials on board,
• at any hour till the tiipe of sale.
Public AuQioii]-
By DANIEL M'CORMICK,
At the Coffee-Houfe,
Frcfh Garden Seeds,
EARLY peafe and beans, onion, carrot, parsnip,
turnip of Hi forts, letuccof all forts, fpinnage, beer,
endive, Italian and solid celery, cress,, mustard, rape,
paffley, asparagus, collifbwer, brocoli, meldh, thyme,
sweet marjorum, summer and winter savory, pot marjo
rum, hyfp, bazil, bhlm, marigold.
HOWE's genuine ACID
Public Auction.
This Morning at XI o'clock,
AT the house of Bryan Conner, a little
below the Coffee-houfe, will be fold,
A variety of DRY GOODS,
Consisting of,
Superfine Broad Cloths,
Ratteens, Chintzes, Thread,
Frizes, Callicoes, Hats,
Coatings, Stockings, Silk, &c.
Linens, Sheetings,
N. B. The sale to be continued at the fame
place, on Wednesday morning, X o'clock.
By JOHN MCADAM, and Co.
Public Auction.
To-morrow morning, XI o'clock,
Will be fold, at the Coffee-houfe,
By John M'Adam, and Co.
10 hhds. high proof Wef-lndia rum,
10 hhds. loaf sugar,
10 calks bottled porter,
4 ditto coffee,
, A few cases salad oil, calks of corks, and
a quantity of foals and heels, &c.
For making PUNCH,
Prepared from thejuice of lemons and oranges only';
a large tea- fpoonful is fufficient for a quart of punch
being equal to one good lemon, or orange, consequently
this acid is the best and cheapest fubflitute for frefh fruit
that ever was invented. It has been found peculiarly
ufeful for the army and navy ; three tea-fpoonfuls a day,
continued for fix weeks, is a fufficient cure in the worst
symptoms of the feurvy. Sold by the dozen or single, by
DAVID MITCHELSON,
Corner of Water-ftrect, to th# Fly-Market,
Stirling, £.390 8 ,
This Evening,'
Will be presented at the Theatre Royal,
in John-Street, the Comedy of the
RIVAL S,
With MISS IN HER TEENS.
f*f The Doors to be opened
at half after five, and the per
formance to begin at seven o'clock.;
Vivant Rex & Regina.
D' DUCK and PIGEON SHUT,
of the very best fort, fold by Hugh Gaine,
.by the half dozen of pound.
WA NT ED,
A PERSON with a good character, who will under
take house work, and cooking ire a final! family,
-Two-NEGRo men,
ONE an excellent farmer, and the other a good
bolter, to be fold, only for want of employ. One
i 25 years old, and the other about 4c. For particulars,
apply to H. Gaine.
^^^ BARB,
A N elegant full-blooded Ear
b^ry horse, will cover the
- " ensuing season, at Six Dollars
rV '' e ht^e, at J hn Ackerlej's,
at Rockey Pond, about the mid
die of the island. His figure,
spirits, activity, 2nd good temper, are surpassed by few
horses in America.
TO BE LE
AN excellent CELLAR, at the lower end of
W<ll-ftreetb For farther particulars, apply
to Hugh Galne.
Vo B T LAT;
AVERY good dry CELLAR, between the
Fly-Market and Burling's-Slip. For farther
particulars, apply to Hugh Gaine.
Wanted, in a small family,
A WOMAN servant for cooking and houfework §
likewise, a careful woman to attend Upon young
children. Enquire of the printer.
Public Notice is hereby given,
THAT Mrs. MOSES, in Broad-street, opposite the
Port-Office, can cure any body of the FEVER
and AGUE, that they never will be troubled with it
again. gm„
WHEREAT Martha, wire of me the fublcn^
her, has for reel ms beftknown to herfelf, ab-
Loaded from my bed and board ; these are to Caution all
persons from trusting her on my account, as I am deter
meed to pay no debts of her contracting from the date
hereof. GABRIEL LEGGETT.
Weft-Farms, April 22, 1,78
A Convenient HOUSE, No. 96, nearly opposite
to John Woods, Esq's. the upper end of
Queen-street, to be let from the firlt of May. En
quire of Mr. Thomas White, in Wall-street.
Wanted to H I R E,
A Good House Maid, either white or black ; such
a perfjn, may hear of an advantageous place
in a genteel family, by applying to the printer.
F^LIVERPO OT;
The Ship LYDIA,
J° SEPH D° DD - Milter,
(To fail avitb the firft Convoy,)
G'°R freight or passage, ap
ply to Mr. Hamilton
Young, or the Matter on board, at Murray's
.Wharf..
IF Margery Hutchinson, wife of the late Capt. Hutch
inson, of the city of New-York, is yet alive, or
Anne Haly, lifter to the above mentioned Margery,
and will apply to Hugh Gaine, they will hear of a filler
of theirs who would be glad to fee them. Anne came
to America in the Year 1745.
WHEREAS the partnerfhi, of Murgittroyd
and Dvryee, will be dissolved theist of May.
All persons that have any demands on them, are desired
to bring irf theif Accounts that they may be difeharged ;
and all those that are indebted to them are defiied to make
speedy payment.
DESERTERS
From his Majesty's Ship Perseus, the Honour
George Keith Elphinstone, Commander;
JAMES SAVAGE, a black, about 5 feet 10 inches
bign, born at Charleftown, shout 29 years of age';
he it strong, well made, and a little marked with this
small-pox, /peaks good Engliffi, and has been bted to the
sea: Had on When he left the ship Perseus on the itch
inst. a Dutch cap, blue jacket, and a pair of long trowfers.
DAVID BLESDEN, about 5 feet 10 inches high, 34
years of 'age, of a yellow complexion, rather flat faced,
light coloured hair, broad backcl, had on a hat, bin:
jacket and trowfcrs.
SAMUEL NEWBORNE, about 24 years of agt,
near 6 feet high, has ffiort light hair, and has a clownish
appearance.
JOSEPH YOUNG, a boy, about 14 years of a^t,
has red hair, his face much freckled, tifually wore a light
coloured jacket, white waistcoat, and canvas trowfeH.
The three last mentioned were born at Bermuda, and
left hia Mfyfiy's ship Perseus, on Wednesday evening the
23'nft, and are fUppofed to have gone to Long-lfland.
Whoever will apprehend of inform that they may be
apprehended, any of the said deferrers, shall receive for
each toe fufa of 40s. sterling; and any perlon or persons
harbouring or protecting them, ihall be ptofecuted accord
ing to law.
MR. THOMPSON, town adjutant of New-York, .
having received from Lieut, Col. Donkin, in Phi
ladelphia, Eighty-five pounds thirteen shillings and seven
pence, to be distributed to the orphans ,and widows of
soldiers in New-York and Rhode Ifbnd, the fubferibing
corps may receive their pro portions^tr^fe house in Mai
den-Lane, along with their boks,
N. B. DT^ibuted at Philadelphia, {,204 tg 0
D>. New-York and Rhode-Ifland, 85 13 7
Public Außibn.
THIS DA Y,
At the Merchant's Coffee-Houfe,
Will be SOLD;
A quantity of nails,
Ditto of ironmongery,
Ditto of brushes,
imported in and damaged on board the Anp
Neptune, Capt. Jones, from Bristol.
To the PUBLIC