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A N Order the King was r,^ L 1"
A^ e ^ ibis Mono, at ^ga,
' \ > Ohahi r ?nts to retire
c Ooi all the o ,
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is reported,
put all the. Pieces f a Me Bror/.r^, ^ lor%^,
in the belt Stateci
I LONp° /
Sept 27. On Thurify next will beaded
fr/mthe bank of Enfant one union
hundred t^nd pounds Exchequer O
The bills will belor one cached pounds e^cn,
and bear an Ligeti of three pence per diem,
which is nearly rive per cent:
ft is now allied, /hat the Emp^f
Ruffs, in conjunction with the iving of I ruttut.
has prOpoRQ terms oQe'acu to the Courts J
Versailles and Madrid, accompanied with inch
decorations as may tend to make them effec
tual;
NE W - YOR K, J^ # 10.
The Uhiform'of an Officer that lately com
maided at Elizabeths n, . cost him no
lels than f.icco Proclamation.
Genera! Waynef with his brigade, ba s , we
hear, left Bergen, and i^ V:cmro, and is
bone to Weft; Field f°r the Aniter : He ,<e^t
a vigilant Eve on the Gordon M Fowles Hook
for 'near a Week, but finding every Thing
prepared for his Reception, ho thought proper
to go off without malting any other Attack,
than firing a few Shot at their Picquets.
By the Inclemency of the Weather since our
last," several People have left their Lives.
About 1500 of General Washington's best
Troops are gone to the Southward.
The following BOOKS are just
published, and to be fold by
H. GAINE,
RULES and ORDERS for the better Go
vernment of h's Mjelly's Horse and Foot
Guards, and all other his Forces in. Great
Britain and Ireland, Dominions beyond
the Seas, and foreign Parts, from the 24th of
March, 1777. Published by his Majesty's
Command,
LETTERS written by the late Right Hon.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, EARL of
CHESTERFIELD, to his Son Philip
Stanhope, Esq; late Envoy Extraordinary
at the Court of Dresden: Together with se
veral other Pieces on various Subjects. Pub
jifhed by Mrs.EUGENIA SI ANHOPE, from
the Originals now in her Possession. In 4 Vols.
LELAND's HISTORY OF IRELAND,
from the Ir.vafion of HENRY 11. With a
Preliminary Discourse on the ancient State
of that Kingdom. In 4 Vols.
JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY of the En
glish Language: In which the Words are
deduced from their Originals, explained
in their different Meanings, and authorifed
by the Names of the Writers in whose Works
they are found. ,blLaded from the Folio
Edition, To which is prefixed, a Grammar
of the English Language. In 2 Vols. The
6th Edition, corrected by the Author.
The PRECEPTOR : Containing a general
Course of Education. Wherein the firft Prin
ciples of polite Learning are laid down in a
Way most suitable for trying the Genius and
advancing the Inftrudion ofYouth. In Twelve
Parts. Illustrated with Maps and ufeful Cuts,
viz. I. On reading, speaking, and writing
Letters. 2. On Arithmetick, Geometry and
Architecture. 3. On Geography and Astro
nomy. 4. On Chronology and History. 5. On
Rhetoric and Poetry. 6. On Drawing. 7. On
Logic. 8. On Natural History. 9. On Ethics
or Morality. 10 On Trade and Commerce.
11. On Laws and Government. 12. On hu
man Life and Manners. The 6th Edition with
Additions and Improvements.
The Works of ALEXANDER POPE, Esq;
in 6 Vols. complete, with his last Corrections,
Additions and Improvements, together with
all his Notes, as they were delivered to the
Editor a little before his Death, printed ver
batim from the Bvo Edition of Mr. Warburton.
DOUGLAS'S Comparative Description of
all the Muscles in a Man, and a (Quadruped,
Shewing their Discoverer, Origin, Progress,
Insertion, Use and Difference. To which is
added, an Accoant of the Muscles peculiar
to a Woman. With an Etymological Table,
and several ufeful Indexes. f
FLLOYD's BIBLIOTHECA BIOGRA
PHICA: a Synopsis of Universal Biography,
Ancient and Modern. Containing, A cir
cumstantial and curious Detail of the Lives,
Actions, Opinions, Writings, and Characters
of the most celebrated Persons, of both Sexes,
of all Ranks, in all Countries, and in all
Ages: Alphabetically disposed. Particular
ly, Emperors, Kings, Statesmen, Generals,
and ; Admirals ; Popes, Cardinals, Prelates,
Fathers and Arc-Heretics; Divines, Philofo.
phers, Historians, Orators, Civilians, Phy
sicians, Poets, learned Ladies, Painters, and
Players. Including also, the personal as well
as public History of our Sovereigns, from the
Conquest ; with many hundred Lives of Bri
tish Worthies, whose virtuous ACts adorn, the
Annals of these Kindoms. A Work equally
calculated to inform, entertain, and improve;
as preserving Memorials of noble Families,
and diftinCt Accounts of important Transac
tions and memorable Events; the several
Dates compared with the most accurate Chro
noligical Tables extant. The whole afford
ing a comprehensive Abftrad of Universal
History, and being in reality a convenient
Repository to be occasionally confuted for
the better understanding Authors, in Civil,
Natural, or Ecclesiastical Hiflory; Divinity,
Philosophy, Politics, and every other Kind of
Science.
Public Au&ion.
This Day at the Coifee-Houfe Bridge will
be fold,
10 Hogsheads Well India Rum,
A few Boxes best Caltile Soap,
100 Ib. Indigo,
3 Pair 4 pounders, with Carriages.
Cuningham and Wardrop.
Sale by Auction,
By BOWMAN and CODNER,
To-morrow, at 11 o'Clock,
At their Office,
No. 521, -Hanover-Square,
A complete Assortment of
Silks, Linnen, Cotton and
Woollen Goods.
Also, a Quantity of fashionable Mettal But
tons, a parcel of jVppaned Tea Ware, Snuff
and Roll Tobacco. &c. &c-
Public Auction.
This Day at 12 o'Clock, at Messrs. Totton
and Crofficld's Yard, will be fold,
By John M'Adam, and Co.
(For the Benefit of the Under-writers,)
A YAWL and LONG BOAT,
Belonging to the Strip Christian.
On 'Tuesday, at the Bridge,
23 Puncheons choice Antigua Rum,
18 Boxes of Candles,
30 Dozen excellent Port & Madeira Wine,
go Pair of Blankets.
Public Auction,
TO-MORROW,
At ii o'Clock, will be fold at the Coffee-
House,
20 Barrels best fuperfine Flour,
10 Wases of Geneva',
5 Medicine Chests with Directions,
10 Boxes of Candies,
5 Ditto, of Soap.
And at Half past Twelve, at the
fame Place,
A Likely Negro Wench, 18 Years old, Pro
perty is warranted, and moreover her Ho
nesty. For Particulars apply at the Office
of
HUGH PARKER, and Co,
Public yllußion.
TO-MORROW,
Between XII and I o'Clock will be fold at
the Coffee-Houfe,
12 Hogffieads of Mafcovado and Powder
Sugar,
20 Barrels of Coffee,
to Cases of Geneva, and
6 Boxes of Window Glass.
Templeton and Stewatt.
Dry Goods by Auction.
This Day, forenoon and afternoon,
By James Inglis,
At bis office in Weter-freet, No. 940,
WILL BE SOLD,
WOMENS blue worsted hole, mens ribb'd
and plain ditto of almoftevery kind
and quality, mens worked and yarn glovo,
and mittens, mens best buckfotn gloves, wo
mens gloves, velvet bound awd fan tail'd bet
ver hats, felt bats, fuptrfae and middling
broad-cloths, some of which cut pieces, Su
perfine and common coatings of the best co
lours, forreft cloths, very fine German serges,
a few of the belt fine kerfeys for genteel great
coats, red flannels, baifes, naps, common ker
feys, ready mace great coats of fuperfine
coating, fine rose blankets, a parcel of Itrong
coverlids, will suit for carpets,; hi^ h&rens
sh alloons, dui^its, cambists, some rich gowq
fluff's, buttons, twill, printed linnens ?^o cot
tons, ditto handkeichiefs, draw leather boots,
shoes, flops, &c.
^^N^M.WT^ < ?^r^
BOOTH and MbSIBR,
At their STORE Ao. 226, Qe^-Stree:,
Have for ^ale:
MADEIR A Wines
of the bril
quality, in pipes,
quarter cafo or
bottles,
Port Wines, in do. do.
Lisbon Wines, in do.
Claret,}
Sherry , Wines,
And other )
Old Spirits,
Old Rum,
Common Rum,
Geneva,
Arrack,
Brandy,
Shrub,
Molaffcs,
Rice,
Bottled Ale & Beer,
Vinegar,
Oil,
Mustard,
Pickles,
Gammons,
Fresh Rose Butter,
Cheshire and Glou
cester Cheese,
Raifons and Almonds,/ gallons each.
A generous Price will be given for empty Bot
tles, at the above-mentioned Stpre.
I'amarnds, #
Wet and dry Sweet
meats; '■
Pearl Barley,
Split Peafe,
Very high flavoured
Hyfon, Soulhong,
and Bohea Tea,
Double and tingle re
fined Sugar,
Powder and Mufeovz
do Sugar,
Coffee,
Chocolate, .
Apices of every kind,
Packing hilt in bar- I
rcls,
Indigo,
Starch,
Powder and frig-blue,
Hard Soup,
Candles, .
Guimarens, Plumbs,
and Peaches, in
boxes from 2 to 5
pound weight,
Macabau Snuff,
Vinegar, in kegs of zc
f^L/nk't , 7-4AVUL,
f, : Uto 6-4 ditto,
Mi tings,
’Duffils,
Mens mbb'd und plain
knit worked (locking®,
Wiole and half barrels
beef, put up for family
use,
Whole and half barrels
D ESERT E R 3.
<%ESE'RTEI) from his Majesty's Szd regiment
AB o fiot, Thomas Hynes and Bryap Conner,
quoted at Yellow-Hook ; Thomas Hynes by oc
cupation a labourer, is about five feet seven inches
and an half hi^h, flout made, frefh complexion,
light brown hair queued, grey eyes, and about 25
yearsof age, born in the province of Munster, in
Ireland, went off in his regimental jacket, faced
black, the number of the regiment on the buttons,
blue cloth gaiter trowfers, round hat with white lace.
Bryan Conner is about $ feet 6 inches high, Ben
der made, pale complexion, dark brown hair elub'd
behind, u, eyes, about 18 years of age, writes a
very good band, plays well on the fiddle, has a fear
on his fa e, # born in the province of Leiifer in Ire
land. Whoever apprehends these Deterteis shall re
ceive Two Guineas reward for each;
There is region to fu,e& th^t they either fold or
exchanged thir regimental cloathing. Whoever
1 can giveinformation on that head fy asto convi& the
perlon or persons who bought or exchanged laid
eloathing fh?ll be entitled to the Gid reward of Two
Guineas. There being likewise the strongest reason
to fifyea that the above Drferteis either now are, or
inn J to enter on boa;d ship, all inafters of vessels
and others are cautioned against harbouring or con
cealing Lid deserters as thy will answer it at their
peril. /.GUNNING, Lieut. Cob Szd Regt.
Public Außion.
This Day, dt XII o'clock, at the Mer
chant's Coffee-Hotfe,
WILL BE SO L D,
6 Chests of choice bohea Tea, and oae theft
of hyfon Tea.
By Thomas Ludlow, jun.
Sales bv Auction.
By Duucau, Barclay, ^ Co.
This DAY, XI o'clock, at their Aaaion-Rocm,
No 516, Hanover-Square,
A la<ge and valuable affo/troent of
Houfhold Furniture, Plate, &c.
CONSISTING OF
Elegant mahogany chairs and fences, dining,
fide board, card, drafting and tea-tables,
Four poit and field bedheads, and writing
deiks,
Mahogany and fifh-fkin cases with table and
defeat sets of Silver handled and camwood
knives and forks,
Large trier and dicffag glasses, oval fences
and girandoles,
Cupper-pLud aad worded window and bed
curtains, father beds and wilton carpets.
Silver tea kettle, bread-ba/ket, candledicks,
Elvers, mugs, sauce boats, spoons, &c.
Japanned tea-tables, waiters, and tea-urns,
Tea and ornamental sets of china, table lets
of china and queen's ware,
A variety of glass-ware,
A good eight day clock; some elegant final!
fiv<ids, hangers and pillals,
A pair of large aud very good .globes,
A parcel, of jewellery, a baadfome grate, a
quantity of very goot lkitchen furniture,
*c. &c. &c.
N. B. A convenient room for&e reception
of the ladies',
*fttt&tf*******^?^#****^
Theatre Royal.
(By particular Dtf r e)
THIS DAY, being the loth Idlait, wiL
be performed, the
TRAGEDY or
hr 1
^..^ft— £s%,&
To WH CH WILL FE AUD.D,
A F A R C E CALLED,
The APPRENTICE.
The Chara^ers by Gentlemen of the Army.
Tickets to be had at Mr. Petit's, and the
deferent Printers.
Places for the Boxes to be registered at Mr.
Petit's, next Door to the Theatre, otherwise
they cannot be hwpr. -,
T' e Doors tn be opened at §, and to begin
prehiiHy at 7.o'CloeK.
'['he ,lauAgers derire that Servants may be
feat to keep tne Pieces taken at Mr. Petit's,
for the B aes, otherwise they cannot be an
-Ifwerable for their bung tiled by other Com
pany;
Nd Money can T pofiblv be received at the
Door, as the Number of Tickets are idued
which the Huuie wipjioki:
No Pedon can be admitted behind the
Scenes.
VIVANT REX & REGINA,
Nl B. Aprincipal Performer in the Tragedy of
Venice PrejtrNp having bad the Misfortune to
break bis firm, the Managers popje to fabfitute
the Tragedy of DaigNs. in order to prevent the
Public being difappoiwed in Theatrical Arnnfe
. ?Hz?US.
Tickets taken for Venice Preserv'd, may be
either fed for Douglas, or returned.
To BE SOLD pt.
James Stewart,
By whoui^ out ret il, at his Stole, No. 955, 3ur
, hng's-hip, oppefite Rhinh ndti's china f/o e,
pmk',ter family 1 ^,
Exceeding fine ox tongues
in half fitkins,
Loaf sugar,
)Mufeovado sugar,
, Fine hyfon and fulhong
$ teas,
, Coffee,
Molafle,,
; Oki cane fpirjts. .
I STOLE N,
! /=\UT of a house in this city, last
1) Saturday, three SILVER
{ SPOONS, and a SILVER
chafed BUTTER BOAT. The,
were all made in England, and havt
the Sterling mark on them. The
C reft'on them, a Fowl, with a Branch
in his mouth. Whoever will return
the Lid plate to Hugh Gaine, ftiall
receive Two Guineas reward.
fat P uAPTSfI
And to be SOLD, wholcfaie and retail, by
HUGH GAIN E,
Ai his Book-Store and Printing-Office, in LlaHOTefl
Square,
HUTCHINS Improv'd;
BEING AN
ALMANACK
And Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and
Moon,
For the Year of our Lord, 1780.
CONTAINING,
The Lunations, Conjunaions, Eclipses, Judgment
of the Weather, Rising and letting of the Planets,
Length of Days and Nights, Courts, Roads, &c.
Together with ufeful Tables, Chronological Ob^
feri/ations, and uft%ul Remarks.
I A Humerous Reprimand.
2. A comical drunken Frolic.
3. The disinterested Arguments of a Boatswain,
4. An Inltance of Cruelty and Dissimulation.
5. An Instance of the Peifian Politics, in Refpe&
to their Marriages.
6. An Instance of Intrepidity and Greatness of
Soul.
7. An Instance of Presence of Mind, and the Use
of it.
8. An Instance of excessive Cevetoufnefs.
9. The Effect of Joy and Sorrow.
10. A comical Story of a Parrot.
11. A remarkable Instance of Providence.
12. A lucky Stiatagem.
13. The Unsteadiness of a Free-Thinker.
14. The fatal Effects of Jealousy.
15. An Instance that the Passion cf Love is fa
some Part of our Lives necessary.
i 6. A Providential Deliverance of the Duke
Orleans.
17. An Instance of Treachery and Pei jury.
18. A comical Passage between the King of Spain
and a French Ambassador.
19. A fortunate Prevention of a Plot at Venice.
20. Of the ill Effe&s of Gaming amongst the.
Cbinele.
'~r'AK.EN-up a lew Days ago, Two Cows.
£ Whoever has loft them, may have them
again, by applying immediately at Brooklyn
Ferry, Long-Hand, paying Charges, to
JOHN JOHNSTON.
PHILIP KISICK,
Vintner and Disitller,
At the upper end of Q^ten-ftrect, has for falc at hit
house, No. 125,
Servants Wanted.
A Decent Woman, who can get up fmalt
Linnen, and be ufeful at her "Needle.
Aifo a good Cook, and a Servant to attend at
Table. Enquire at Hugh Gaine.
%jl imported,
In the last Vessels from L 0 N 1) 0 N,
And to be fold by
HUGH GAINE,
At the BIBLE and Crown, Canover-Square,
BIBLES, Wed-India Pilots, Mari: ers Compass,
Repin's Ancient Ildlory, io Volumes,
School of Arts, Life ,f Colonel Gardiner, Pilgrim'#
Progress, Thomas a Kercpis, Paradifs Lrft and Re
gained, Young's Night Thoughts, Beftrn's Fourfold
State of Human Nature, Beveridge's Thoughts on
Religion, Johnson's, Young's, Bailey's, Firing's,
and Dyche's Diatonaries, Guthefy's and Sal
mon's Geographical Grammars, Quarto Bibles,Pope't
Surgery, Douglass on the Muscles, Macquire's Cby
miftry, Salmon's Gazeteer, Littleton'^ History of
England,YoungMan's Companion,Glrfi's Cookery,
Art of Knoving Mankind, Lloyd's- Byography,Bo#
Imgbroke's Mifeebancous Works, Thompson's Sea*
bms^Telemacbus, Vocal Music, 2 Vol. The Mosque,
Roderick Random, Fifhei's Arithmetic, Pope's Ho
mer, Anson's Voyage, Beetle on the Immutability
iof Truth, Watts's Lyric Poems, History of England,
by Question and Answer, Montesquieu's Letters,
Love's Surveying. Novels ; Tom Jones, Barlow,
Elvira, Man of the World, Unfortunate Union.
Antiquarian, Double Elephant, Atlas, Imperial,
R yal. Medium, Demy, Folio and Quarto Port,
Foolscap and Pot Paper.
Charts of Florida, Soujh^Caroliba, North-Caro
lina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New-England, River
and Gulf of St. Lawrence; some of them on Cloth,
with Rollers.
The very belt of Quills, Pens, Sealing Wax, and
Wafers § high and low priced Penknives cf various
Kinds; Middleton's very best Lead Pencils ; Slates,
and Slate Pencils.
Red and Black Ink Powder, Patent Ink Cake, and
Shining Sand; Sea Journals ready ruled for the
Navy and Merchantmen.
VERY fin, old Mrdeita
wine by the pipe,
quarter calk or dozen,
Ditto Sherry,
Ditto Lisbon,
Ditto Tenerife,
Ditto red port,
Claret by the dozen,
Landon porter by the hogs
head or dozen,
Taunton ale by the dozen,
English cyder by ditto,
Old Jamaica spirits by the
hegfhead or less quantity,
Ditto cane spirits,
Ditto Weft-lndia rum,
Holland geneva,
French brandy, Shrub,
A neat aflortraent of home
f?uh Gia and Brandy,
very littleinfericr to Hol
land or French,
All forts of the best of Cor
dials,
Molasses,
Single and double refined
loaf sugar,
Mufeovado sugar by the bafr
rel or lefa quantity,
Best hyfon end bohea tea,
Ball cbelhire and Glouccft^!
cheese,,
Best caltile soap by the box,
or less quantity,
Common ditto,
Candlesb, the box ct left
quantity,
Scotch barley,
Spermaceti candles b, the
box.
Mens beaver hats,
Ozen brigs,
Corks,
long pipes, pepper,
lAlffpice, cinnamon,
^Cloves,,
(Mace,
IN'muegS,