The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1780-05-01 00:00:00, page 1

N E W-YORK
.AND
WEEKLY
Seiner Excellent^ des Herrn General Lieutenants von
KNYPHAUSEN, Commandeer vox Senter Ma
iefleet Trappen duf Ne^-York IJland, Long - Wand,
Staten Island, und denen da<von abbangenden Pof
ten, ^Ct ^c. ^c.
DENEN Inbabern von Lxndcryen unri Gerten
wird hiedurch Ille Aufmunterung und Schutz
ertheilet um eineri reichlichen Vofrath von Getraide,
Foufage, und Gemuefe aniuziehen.
Wer fich unrerftehet Vieh oder andere Prodißte,
fie mcegen Nahmen haben, wie fie wollen, von L^n
dereyen oder Gerten wegzunehmen,oder zaruimren ;
an Haeufern, Gemuefe, oder Obft^Gaerten, und L^n
dereyen einigen Schaden zu thun ; oder lontt, aut
was Art es fey, jemandes Eigenthum unrechtmae
figer Weife anzugreifen, foil, wenn Welches gegen
ihn bewiefen wird, mit der aeufferften Strenge Ara t
werden. D
Diejenigen, welche von Uebertretern dieter re
clamation belgidigt zu fey n glauben, haben fich,wenn
fie Einwohner des Diftrids von New-York find, mit
ihren Klagen an den Coinmandanten der Stadt zu
wenden ; im Fall einer Weitern Entfanung aber dem
Commandirenden Officier des naechften Pollens von
Seiner Majefet Truman davont Anztege zu thiuy
damit, wenn folche gegruendet, ihnen Gf rechtigkett
wiederfahren, und das ndethige reinediit wer en
moege.
Gegeben under meiner Hand im Haupt - Quartier
eilften Meertz, im Jahr infers Herrn etn taufend
fieben bundert und acbtztg-
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf Sr. Excellentz Befehl
Justin Henrich Motz,
ENCOURAGEMENT and prote&ion is hereby
given to the Possessors of Farms and Gardens
for the Purpose of railing plentiful Supplies of Grain,
Forage, and Vegetables.
Whatever Person or Persons presume to take away,
or to destroy Cattle, Stock, or other Produce of any
Farm or Garden; to do any Damage to Houses,
Gardens, Orchards, or Lands; to break down
Fences, OT otherwise to injure private Property, shall,
upon Proof thereof, be punished with the Utmost
Severity.
Any Persons who may think themselves aggrieved,
by a Non-Observance of this Proclamation, will,
« if Inhabitants of New-York Diftri&," make their
Complaints known to the Commandant of the City;
if in Situations more remote, to the Officer com
manding the nearest Post of his Majesty's Troops,
in Order, that if well founded, they may obtain pro
per Redrels.
Given under my Hand, at Head-Quarters,
the Eleventh Day of March, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
KNYPHAUSEN.
By his Excellency's Command,
JUSTIN HENRY MOTZ,
Chief Judge Advocate, Hess.
European and East-India goods.
Which they have for sale at their (tore in Water
street, between Burling and Beekman's Slips,
among which are the following articles, viz.
nUPERFiNE sweet kiln dry'd flour, best (hip bread,
' made of fine flour, cordage, anchors, linseed oil,
gilt and hair trunks, Yorkshire hams, iron chests,
brandy,white wine vinegar, turpentine soap, candles,
mess pork, rose butter, long and short pipes, men's
and women's (hues, porter, milk biscuit, whitening,
starch, chalk, raisins, steel, nails, fnuff, nutmegs,
cinnamon, cloves, mustard, caftor hats, and lemon
.*, A few Chests of the best
SUSHONG, CONGO, & BOHEA
TEAS, to be fold. Enquire of H.
Gaine.
T~is the Commandant's Order, That the
Rents ordered by the Commander in Chief
to be collected for the Use of the Poor, &c.
due the firft Instant, be immediately paid to
John Smyth, the City Treasurer, and that
in future those Rents be paid halfyearly, with
out farther Notice. Attendance will be given
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Morn
ings, in each Week, until 12 o'Clock at the
Treasury in Pearl-Street, to receive the fame.
Office of Police, Andrew Elliott,
13th Nov. 1,79. D. Mathews,
Peter Dubois.
MURRAY,SANSOM,&Co.
Have just imported in the Ihip Polly, Captain
Yetinan, from London, a general and neat as
sortment of
Monday, May i, 1780,
By bis Excellertcy
Lieutenant-General KNYPHAUSEN,
Commanding his Majority's Forces upon New-
York Illand, Long-Bland. Staten-ULnd. ted
Ports depending, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 3 1. los. per
Cent. Publilhed February 18, 1780.
A White Loaf of the fineftFLOUß, to weigh
% lb. for 14 Coppers.
F. H. Ober Auditeur.
PROCLAMATION,
Containing tk earlier auuicef
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
By JAMES PATTISON, Esq ;
Major-General of bis Majefifs Forces, Com
mandant of Nezu-York, &c. &c. k^c.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is highly necessary and expedient
for the salubrity of the air, and the health of
the inhabitants, as well as for the fake of" that decency
and good order which ought to be observed in every well
governed city, that the public ftretts sh mid be kept
clean and free from nuisances of every k^nd.
I have therefore thought fit to issue this Proclamation,
ftri&ly forbidding all persons to throw out or lay down in
an, of,the streets, lanes, alleys, docks, flips, open »,j
ofground or ruins, (to the southward of Fresh Water)
from their dwelling houses, stores, tables, yards or cel
lars, any dirt, filth, garbage, broken ware, or other
rubbish ; but do hereby order that they regularly caufy
the fame to be carried away once in every week, at their
own expence, and thrown into the open lots in the
Swamp, (near thr Jews rurying ground) which are un
der water.
Andlt is further ..itefted, that
fOf the South Ward on
-every Monday
Of the Dod^-Ward on
every Tuesday,
• Of the Ealt Ward on
TheINHABITANTS< Weu^ty,
} Of Mont^omeiy Ward on
every Tnupd.y,
Of the North-Ward on
.„rry Friday. A^d
Qf^he Weft-Ward on
I every Saturday,
Do cause to be raked together and swept up ' in heaps pa
the streets before their refpeai ve dwelling houses, stores,
or stables, all the dirt, daft and filth, which the common
intercourse of this city may occasion, in ofd#r that the
fame may be taken away by the public carts employed
for that purpose.
Any performor persons, who shall be conviAsd Before
the Police of n-gleA, or refufal to*:comply with theft
orders and directions, (hall, for every tuch offence, be
fined at the diferetion of the M igiftraies of Police, in a
fu, not exceeding For ty Shillings currency, ~be
paid into the handsuf the Treasurer of the city funds for
the use of the paor,
The inhabitants are a!fo ftriAly enjoined and required,
not to incumber any of the ibe<cr, lanes, alleys,
wharves, or piers of the city, with any kind of lumSr
that may impede the free passage thereof, on penalty of
having the fame removed at the expence of the proprietor,
and being fined, at the direction of the Police, in a sum
not exceeding Ten Pounds currency for each offence.
And to the end, that the salutary intentions of these
regulations may be fully answered, 1 do hereby nominate
William Hill, acting officer under this Proclama
tion, with inftruaions to report all delinquents to the
Police.
Given under my Hand, in the city of New-York,
the 6th Day of April, in the Year of our
Lord, One Thoufaud Seven Hundred and,
Eighty, and in the Twentieth Year of his
Majelly's Reign.
James Pattifon.
By Command of the General,
John L. 0# Rbome, bcc'ry.
THE Commissioners and Governors of the
Royal Hospital tor Seamen at Greenwich,
having empowered me, by Commission, to receive
forfeited and unclaimed Shares of prized Bounty
Money within the Province of New-York, accords
ing to sundry Acts of Parliament.
I do hereby call upon all Perlons, that are or
have been concerned in Agency for Prizes con
demned at the Court of Vice Admiralty at New-
York, to account and pay to me Inch Sum or
Sums of Money as may ne remaining in their
Hands at the Expiration of three Years from the
firft Distribution, which then becomes due and
payable to the Use of Greenwich Hospital, accord
ing tb the Intent and Meaning of the laid A&s.
The Form and Manner in which the Agents
are required to inake up their Accounts is lodged
at the Superintendent's Office, in Water itreet,
for their Infpettion.
ANDREW ELLIOT.
New-York, gtb March. 1780,
Superintendent's-Office.
THE Lords Commiihmers of hi* Msjefty's
■ Treasury, having ordered me to coded and
receive the Duties upon ali dutiable Prize Goods
that have been condemned at the Port of New
York since October 1776. Ido hereby require all
Agents, as well those of his Majesty'., bmps of
War, as of Privateers, Letters of Marque, &<.
that they do immediately call at the Superinten
dent's Office in Water street, and pay, o^rredbie,
to the Directions of the Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury, all such Duties arising froth dutiable
Prize Goods that have been condemned to such of
his Majetty's Ships of War, Privateers, Letters of
Marque, &c. for which they acted 31 Agent;
and that they do in future before Condemnation
of any dutiable Prize Goods, make a Return to
the Superintendent's Office of all such dutiable
Prize Goods, that the fame may be weighed and
gauged. The Accounts which the Julge of the
Admiralty has detired the different Agents to
make out and deliver to me, pauft be iworn to
before David Mathews, Esq; the Mayor.
ANDREW ELLIOT.
New-York, September 10, 177%
Monday, 6 Min. after
Tuesday, 40 Min. after
Wednesday, 16 Min. after
Thursday, 5 Min. after
HIGH-WATER at N
^t»^^w^^
7 Friday, 57 Min. after 9
7 Saturday, 52 Min. after io
8 Sunday, 46 Min. after 11
9 New Moon, 4th.
W-YOR K, this Week.
T H 13
By Order of the Commandant,
rhe following RATES are established for Ferri
ages, between this City and Brooklyn.
T7°R tranfportipg every peifon from the city of
X New-York, to Long-Inland, or from Long-
Island to New-York, 6d.
For every Horfc or Beast, as.
For eveviy live Calf, Hog, Sheep, or Lamb, 6d.
For every dead Calf, Hog, Sheep, or Lamp; 6d.
For every Barrel of Rum, Sugar, Molasses, or
other full Barrel, ° j s . 6d.
For every empty Barrel, 6d.
For every empty Pipeor Hogshead, is, 6~d.
For every Bead's Hide,' ,64.
For every undressed Calf, Sheep, or Deeilkin, id.
For evety Pail of Butter, 4d.
For every Fiikin ot Tub of Butter, ^d.
For every Bushel of Salt, Wheat, Grain, Seeds,
or any other thing fold by Budisl, ^d.
For every full Pi,eor full Hogshead, Bs.
Forevery Board of one Inch, or one Inch and an
Half, 4 d.
For every Waggon, £s.
For every Pair of Cart Wheels, 4s.
For every Cupboard, Press for Cldaths, or
Writing Desk, . \ss.
For every full Trunk or Oheff, as. 6d.
For every empty Trunk op Chelt, is.
For every half Barrel of Flour, or any other
half Barrel, 6d.
For every Barrel of Bread, js.
For every Big pf Bread or Meal, ,1.
For every Gammon of Bacon, Turkey or Goofazd.
For every Dozen of Eggs, id.
For every Dunghill Fowl, Brant, Duck, Heath,
Hen, or Rabit, id.
For every Dozen of Pigeons, Quails, snipes, or
any kind of Loader Birds, 2d.
For every Hundred Weight of Trod, Steel,
Shot, Pewter or Lead, and of Iron, Copper or
Braft Kettles, &c. is.
For every Hundred Weight of Gain Powder, 2s. 6d.
For every Scythe or Sith, id.
For every Fitkin of Soap, 4a.
For every Cheese, 2d.
For every Corn Fan, 6d.
For every Hundred cf ShihgUfy is. 6d.
For every Cedar Bolt, fl.
For every common Bag of Cotton Wool, zd.
For evecy Bale of Cotton Wool or Hops, 3s.
For every Coach, > j 29.
For every Phaeton, Bs.
For every Chrife or Chair, ss.
For ever, tingle Sleigl,, 3s.
For every double Sleigh, 4s,
For every Piece of Ozenbrigs, 4.d.
For every Piece of Blankets or Duffins, zs.
For every Piece of Cotton, Penniltone, Flan
nel 01 Frize, 6d.
For every Piece of Broad Cloth, Kerfey,
Strouds, Half thicks and Druggets, 6d,
For every Piece of Durovs, Cillimancoes,
Shalloons, or other duff, and for every ,
Piece of Girlix, Holland or other Linen, 2? o
For every Hundred of Fifli (called Sheeps-head)
. 4s.
For every Hundred of Bast or Shad, is.
For every D>zcn of Perch, 2d.
For evety Hundred Weight of Copperas,
Allum or Brimitone, 1$„
For every half Dozen of Wool Cards. id.
For every Saddle without a Horse, 3d.
For every Cale with Bottles, 6d.
For every Looking Glass to Two Feet high
and upwards, 6d b
For every Hundred Weight of Rice, ^d.
Articles not enumerated in Propoitian to their Bulk,
If any Ferryman shall ask, demand, or receive any
more, or greater sum for Ferriage, than i; dire&ed
to be taken by the aforegoing Rates, report thereof
is to be made to the Officers of the Police, in order
that the Offenders may be brought to punishment.
ANDREW ELLIOT, Superintendant Geri.
D. MATHEWS, Mayor.
, PETER DUBOIS. Magistrate of Polite.
Office of Police, Jan. izth, t,so.
James and Harry Peters,
Have jor file, at their fare the corner of Peck'd-
Slip, facing Queen,rest, the folbwing articles,
vise.
Tf^EST-INCId RUM
' 'Tenerife mine
French bran.ip
Be, brown ,ap
Mould and dip'd candles
of 'be fir, quality
A quantity oj jfb mad:
chocolate
Coffee and rice /
ALSO,
A general iffortment of firafonable
DRY-GOODS,
Whslefate and F^ail. ts.
Turlington's genuine Balsam,
Anderson's Pills, Hooper's Pills, to
be fold by HUGH GAINE.
I Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.
Flour, , 80s, ot
I Brown Bread, 955/ oul
IWeft-India 'Rum, ss. 6d.l
[1 New-England do. 4s. ®d.l
Be, indigo
Hfon. Son,tong, add
Bobea Teas
Brim/Hne and copperas
Powder and foot
Rar lead
A quantity of filler, ne
Flour, and frefh baked
Ship Bread, &c. &c.
GAZE T t E:
TM£
MERCURY.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 51. log.
Single refin'd ditto, is. ,d.
Molasses, a& 6 d.
Beef per Barrel, fl. o d.
Pork ? 81. losi
foreign anti DomettieL
Just imported, in the Ship Polly, Captain YetmAn,
from London, and to be fold by
Lindley Murray;
At his ,Store, No. 10, Water-street, between &
^upeurtendant's Office and the Coffee-Houfe, th#
to lowing articles, viz.
BEST OWJinfeed oil in ca&s and jar^,
black; red, white, black, blue; and preen
paints; whiting ; candles; yellow turpentine
, re , ed su g ar m tierces; white wine vinegar &
/oalbaft thin sheet lead ; small bar lead; ravena
duck, Irilh Sheeting ; seine and sewing twine ; white
rope from z 1-2 to 1 inch; deep sea lines, hand d%
dt to, Bonnet ditto; flax and hair cloth lines*
b^ cords and hamber-lines; broad and narrow
bunting; common spy-glasses; telescopes from
[° '5 guineas; a variety of Hadley's quadrants}
°?' s ^ nr ,, od compares; hearth, paint, tar and!
whue-wafli brullies; double battle gun-powder in
leafed pound papers; anchors ; cables ; hawsers, and
rope of all dernenhons; Hamburgh line, houflirie,
:', r '°, '"' a g enera l assortment of articles in the
Ship-Chandlery business ; all of which he will difpbfa
°-^^^ ° r re^il^pon the most reasonable terms.
"WTNT E
A Single Man capable of a&ing as a STEWARD
the ALMS-HOUSE of this City. None but
Perlons 01 good chara&er and who & be well re
command d, need offer themselves. Application to
,„ide to the Vertry on Thursday next, at § o'clock
P. Mi at the Alms-House. .
^" "^^ <'* & ^ ^ ^
p^^r brig Robert, of gum,, , and ,
A P'^ders,Capt. Netherfall, belonging to New-York,
pu. uro St. John a Ri ver in Eaft-Ftorida sboet 4 week*
* vi^ ty an engagement betwirtt Charleftown and
i"' '"V rebel cutter ° f 16 fix pounders, which
lafbd fever, ,| ,ffrs, The brig loft her bowsprit, had hot
ngg^g and Lils orc almost to pieces, and received to
mu h dAmagein her hull that flie had fix feet water in
her hurt, when the cutter bore away arid got fato ffioll
water, and thereby saved herfelf from being taken.
Capt. .Netherfdll had his Lieutenant, Boatswain, and $
or 3 of his people killed, and some wounded, and toward#
the end of the aftion was reduced to the neceffit, of ioa^
ing his guns with cutlasses and crow bare, and even hre^
to pieces the carboufe and iron pots to use as Hngtidge.
, Lately died at St. Anguftine, Lieut. C&
L. V. Ful?r, of the 60th regiment of foots And Chariot
Will am Mackinen, Esq; formerly of this Province.
Lag Tuerdav fe'nnight in the afternoons whiflwlnL
attended by a Ihower of hail, threw down fix of feveri
houses in Sunbury and the neighbourhood, and did eoAfia
durable damage to many other buildings. A young mart
of the name of- Stewart, and a negro fellow, were killed
by part ot the houses falling Upon them, and federal otheft
were very much hurt. Great numbers of Trees wert also
blown down in this storm. Some of the hailstorm. it%
fajd. measured three inches diameter.
The schooner Kitty, Charl, be Kaf, matter, from
St. Euftma, bound to Virginia, prize to his Majetya
late fliip the Defiance, arrived here a few days ago.
New Providence, Feb. if# This day was brought rft
here, by the brig Tiger, Capt. John Outten, a French
gall?/, fom Marseilles, bound to Boston, loaded with
winei, imall arms, bales of dry goods, fewelsry,
The French Captain had several of his men killed', and
fought the brig two or three glafits. Two or three days
after was brought in, by Capt. Tinker, of the fluop Re.
venge, a brig of 250 tone, from Port au Prince, for Bos
ton ; after an engagement of fix glares Cape, Tinker
boarded, and bad the good fortune to carry her. The
day following was brought in, a sloop belonging to
Charleftown, Capt. Stone, taken by the privateef ihlp of
war rhe Queen, belonging to New-York , the fa from
C uracua. richly laden.
March 9. & Phe ret , at Charleftown, we are informs
ed, have blown up their light house, and painted black
he fid: next to the sea of their church steeple, which
termed as a land-mark to vessels coming on the coast.
Geo ge Wells, President of the Rebel Councilat Au*
ru la, was lately killed in a duel with James Jackson,
so me-iy of this place.
The Rebel forces at Augusta, it is said, do not exceed
200 men, and are composed of railitia and fomeindepenc
ant c, mpanies under the command of Oen. Williamson.
The brig Endeavour, which was loaded with ftaves at
O^chae, and taken during the siege of thia place, is re^
taken, and carried into Jamaica.
The Bellona letter of marque, belonging to Briftd,
het taken arid sent in here, a brig from Martinico, bound
to Burton, 1 •
Yesterday arrived in the Corke fleet, the Hon. James
Hume, Esq; Chief Justice of East Florida, and his Lady,
Miss Harlot Tannant, and William Thomson, Efy of
Lo do;u
The New-Providence privateers Continue to be Yer,
GiccefUul ; among other prizes lately carried into that
island are a polacre from France for Boston, loaded with
wine, fit and dry goods; a brig of 3 gu n s, and a
schooner from the Weft-Indies, bound to New^England 1
and a lloop from Charleftown bound to the Weft-Indies.'
Tre Cere^ fteteffiip. of ig guns, arrived at TybCe'a
few ray,ago after a parfage of 13 weeks from England.
M # ch 2 . His Excellency Col. Maxwell failed from
Tybee last week, in the Qgecn letter of marque ffiip,
New Pro vilence.'
March 16. Mondar fe'nnigbt a brig, nine weeks
from England, was off St. Augustine, to which place £he
was bound. The advices she brings we are told, are 1
That ihe failed with a large fleet of vessels, convoyed by
27 line of battle (hips, out of the Channel s That Caph
Fine Salt, hi. d#
Coarse Salt; Is. da
Indian Corn perAtta tot. da
Coffee, m do
Chocolate, ( i6s o pet'Dor
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