The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1781-05-07 00:00:00, page 1

By His EXCELLENCY
Sir HENRY CLINTON,
Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the BAT,
General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty s
Forces within the Colonies lying on the Atlantic Ocean
from Nova-Scotia to Welt-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS there are several Deserters from the
British and Foreign Troops under my Command,
who are serving with the Enemy, or are concealed in the
Rebel Country : I have thought fit to issue this my Pro
clamation, offering a free *46 unlimited Pardon to all
such Deserters, who Ihall Surrender themselves to any of
his Majesty's Troops before the firft Day of June next.
And whereas there are many of his Majesty's European
Sublets at this Time serving in the Rebel Army against
their King and Country, who, stung with Remorse, and
sensible of the Heinousness of such an unnatural Pro
ceedihg, would be anxious to return to their Allegiance,
did not their Demerits, before their Arrival in America,
m:ke them doubtful of meeting with Proteaion and
Support within these Lines. Ido therefore hereby pro
mise to all such who shall come in before the above men
tioned firft Day of June 1781, in addition to, the Benefits,
Proteftion and Support, to which they would be entituled
tinker any other Proclamations, to procure for them his
Majesty's most gracious Pardon, for all Felonies and Trea
sons (Murder excepted) which they have heretofore been
guilty of, provided they will take up Arms id his Service,
and give their Assistance to the quelling this unnatural
Rebellion against bis Government.
Given under my Hand at Head Quarters, in New-York,
the tenth Day of April, 1781.
H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's Command,
JOHN SMITH,
General Pardon.
Sr. Excellentz Herrn Wilhelm Von KNYPHAU
sen, General Lieutenants und Comn;anGeuis en
Chef des in Kneniglich Grofs-Britannifchen
Dierften ftehenden Auxiliair Corps Fuerfthch,
Heffifcher Trouppeo, Ritters derer Fuerftiich
Heffifchen Ordens, etc. etc. etc.
ALLEN und Jeden von denen Fuerftlich FL fli
fchen Trouppen in Nord America delertinen
Unter oofficiers und Gemeinen so entweder bey denen
Feinden noch dienen, oder fich in devon vom F^nd
betfetzten Landen noch verborgen halter, wird hier-
Jurch bekannt gentacht, dafs fie einen fieven und
voelligen Pardon erhalten fallen, wenn fie fich vor
dem if ten Tag des naechlt Kuenftigen Monaths
Juny, 1781, bey denen Koeniglichen trouppen ein
finden, und bey Ihren Regimentern darauf Stellen
werden.
ASSIZE OF BREAD.
Flour at 4.1. per Cent.
Published September 29, 1780.
A White LOAF, of the fineft FLOUR,
to weigh zlb. for 16 Coppers.
Gegeben unter meiner Hand New-York den
ti/€„ April, 1781.
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf. Befehl, Sr. Excellent^,
Justin Henrich M<tz.
By SAMUEL BIRCH, Efy
Brigadier-General, and Commandant 0, the City oj
Nevo-York, &c. ^c. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the public carts
are to attend as formerly to cleanse the city
wards, agreeable to General Pattifon's Proclamation
of the 6th of April, 1780.
RULES to be fri^lj observed by the
Inhabitants.
1. On the day appointed for the carts to go through
any ward, the inhabitants thereof are required to
bring out their dirt, and rake and sweep up all the
dust and filth in the streets, before the r refpeaive
dwelling-houses, stables and other buildings, as far
as the gutters adjacent, into heaps, on or before
eleven o'colck in the forenoon of said day. And
none after that time.
2. After the carts have pafled through the streets
of any ward, no dirt, filth, or rubbiih whatever is to
be brought into those streets until the next succeed
ing day Vor cleansing them.
3, No tubs or other vettels of water are to be
thrown cut of the windows ®f any building into the
facets.
4. No fifli or any kind of meat is to be cleansed
in the Greets, or under any of the public pumps.
5. Buildings destitute of necessary houses, the
landlords are to ere& them, and upon their negle&
or refufal, the tenants shall procure such to be eie&.
cd, and the expence thereof fltall be deducted out of
the rent.
6. No broken glass, oyster or clam (hells tg be
thrown into the ftieets.
Any person offending against any one of the rules
aforefaid, shall forfeit and par as a penalty, the sum
of 40 s. for every offence, half of which is to be paid
to the informer, the other to be applied towards the
city funds.
S. BIRCH.
By order of the Commandant,
John St. Clair, Sechy.
To be let, on a repairing Icafe, at a trifling rent,
ABOUT 60 feet by 70 of a WHARF, advan
tageously situated on the North-River, at the
bottom of Little Queen-street, well calculated for a
Timber Yard, having depth of water fufficient for
"iy vessel to come along fide. Also to be leafed,
sundry lots adjoining the above. Enquire at No. 5,
P^ Street. April 10, 1781.
Monday, 30*7, 1781.
N E W-YOR K
A N'D
WE E KLY
Containing tbe eatiieft aubuu
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
Police Office, Nero-York, November ±O, 1780.
Quality, Weight, & Price
BREAD,
By Order of the Commandant.
THAT on and after Thursday the 23d inflant, all
bread made of sweet flour of the fi ft quality, must
be baked into long loaves of two pounds weight each,
and Damped with the initials of the baker's name, and
fold for Sixteen Coppers each loaf
And all bread made of merchantable flour of an infe
rior quality, must be baked rf nto round loaves weighing
two pounds and one half each, Ramped with the initials
of the baker's name, and fold for Sixteen Coppers each
loaf.
Monday, 40 Min. after 9
Tuesday, 39 Min. after 10
Wednesday, 37 Min. after 11
Thursday, 32 Min. after 12
Any baker or retailer of bread, who shall be convicted
of demanding or receiving any more or greater sum than
Sixteen Coppers for each loaf of bread as above men
tioned, fhali be fined TEN POUNDS for every such
offecce.
In order that the above regulations may be duly en
forced, Balthafar Creamer, is appointed Lifpc&or of
Bread, with directions and powers conft ntiy to visit the
several bake houses in this city, and to make leisure ot
all such bread. as he may find deficient, either in the
abovementioned qualities, weight, or flam%- -The
bread seized, to be immediately sent to the city aims
house, for the use of the poor, and report made to the
Police of the cause of failure, the quantity and the
baker's name from-whom it was seized, that the fame
may be published ; and upon conviction of a second of
f-nce, that the offender may moreover be fined Fifty
Pounds, and an entire stop put to his baking, if found
guilty of a third 1 ffence.
ANDREW ELLIOT, Superintendent General.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor.
PETER DU?OB Ma^ftrare of Police.
Smith Ramadge
INtends embanking so? Europe with the firft con
voy, he therefore requests those t'rt are in his
debt to make Speedy payment, and all peifons who
have any demands against him aie dtfired to fend in
their accounts for payment.
The remainder of his goods now on hind will be
disposed of for cath on very reafcnable terms.
They corfilt of
IRISH linens,from 3s. 6I
A to Bs. per yard,
Scarlet, blue, white, Lon
don brown, and game
fuperfine broad-cloths,
with rattinets and trim
mings,
3-4 lutettrings, armozeens,
Ducapcs, fattins,modes,
and prongs,
Black and, coloured Barce
lona handkerchiefs,
Spotted bandanoes and 10-
mail handkerchiefs,
Sewing silk, cambrick and
lawns,
Scarlet, red, yellow, and
white flannels,
Princes (tuffs and fattinets,
His DWELLING-HOUSE, N 0.35,
Hanover-Square,
And STORE-HOUSE, No. 10, Water-Street.
Are to be difpo ed of at private sale; the latter
may be made into a commodious Dwelling-House
at a final! expence; it has hearth for fix fire places.
Just imported from London, in the (hip Nancy,
Captain Miller, and now for sale, by
VALENTINE NUTTER,
Stationer, No. aa, opposite the Coffee-Houfe,
A LIST of the army for 1780, gentlemen's pocket
" journals, and memorandum books for 17$!,
ladies do. with the herd dref for 1780 and 1781,
with a variety of country dances, and receipts very
ufeful for ladies, the polite repository, it being a
very elegant ufeful pocket book for ladifs,—-Gold-
fmith, an almanack fir 1781, etwee pocket books,
suitable for ladies and gentlemen.
Reflections on the life and ptogrefs of the Ame
rican war. Common place arguments.
Widow and no Widow. Fatal Filfehood. The
Times. Chapter of Accidents. Zoraida. Siege
of Gibraltar. The Manager in Distress. Shep
herdess of the Alp~. Deaf Lover, Law of Lom
bardy. Lady of the Manor. Battle of Hidings.
Maid of Bath. Cozeners. Sir Thomas Overbu y.
The Fathers, or Good-natured Man, &c. &c.
Johnson's, and Fenning's Dictionaries. Entick's
Spelling Dictionaries; Guthrie's Grammar, Bo
yer's French Grammar. Rofs's do. Ward's Latin
and Greek Grammar. Lowth's and Allie's do.
Mair's Book Keeping. Hill's Arithmetic. Dil
worth's School Master's Assistant. Bailey's O id's
Metamorphosis. Boyce's Pantheon. Young Man's
Companion, Young Gentlemen and Ladies Monitor,
HIG H.WATER at N E W-Y O R K,
this we £ K.
THE
Superfine black ruffed,
durants and moreen.
Men and womens @k,
cotton and worsted hole,
Callicoe and chintzes,
Ribbons and laces,
Jean fuftians,
Womens caNimanco shoes
Mens, youths and boys
London made leather
ihoes,
Supefine hyfon and fu
fhong teas, from London
Old coniac brandy,
Muftaid, tut per tine soap,
Hair powder and fta ch,
IWith a few barrels of belt
mess pork,
Friday, 26 Min. after
Saturday, 18 Min. after
Sunday, 8 Min. after
Full Moon this Day.
By Order of his Excellency
General ROBERTSON,
I Am directed and authorifed to demand and
receive all GROUND RENTS due. or
that may hereafter become due, for Grants
heretofore made by the Corporation of this
City; It . c nfequence thereof, Ido hereby
give Notice, that due attendance will be given
at my Office in Pearl Street, every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday Mornings, between
the Hours of nine and one, in order to receive
the fame; of which all concern'd are requir'd
to take Notice.
JOHN SMYTH, City Treasurer,
New-York, March 1, 1781.
i^Bw^^ W&^
P^^^'^^lLf qrf'll /
The beautiful bright Bay Horse
Young Forrester,
WII L cover to the firlt of Mav, at Mr. John
Hutchinson's tavern, near the 4 mile hone,
Yoik-IflanJ, and the remainder of the season at
Benson's Mill, near Harlem, on fa d Island, at Two
Guineas and a Dollar the f afur, or one Guinea and
a Dollar the single ler;w Young Forrester was got
by 80l ForreHer, out of a veiy capital Mare; he
is tiling 5 yeais old, 15 hands three inches high,
remarkably strong, bony and-a^tive, fee ffon ble
mish; he is thought by very good judges to be the
surest foal-getter on the Continent, and the most
likely to get good hunters, road and carriage horses.
Bold Forrester was got by Bold Tom, his Dame by
Crafts's Forrester, and imported from England by
Mr. Huichinfon, at a very great expence. A true
pedigree, as witness my hand,,
JOHN HUTCHINSON,
N B. The money to be paid at the liable door,
or before the Mares are taken away.
O^^^^^^^^,o
LONDON, yan. 19.
INFORMATION being given to the
Secretary of State, that there were seve
ral emissaries of rank and fortune in
this country from the enemy, who were
come for the purpose of procuring intel
ligence, and that Don Francisco Gormaney
Macannon, the Spanish Jesuit, had broke his
parole of honour, and had set off for Har
wich, in company with a Monsieur Francis
Cotty, to fail for the continent, messengers
were dispatched after them, and they were
taken and brought back. They underwent
a ftri& examination, and it appeared that the
former had been tampered with by the ene,
my, and offered large sums of money to go
over. They are now confined in the house of
a King's Messenger.
At the fame time it came out, that several
foreigi ers were dispersed in different parts of
this country, to procure intelligence, and con
vey it to the enemy. A Gentleman was point
ed out to Government as a spy, by two foreign
ers of mean appearance, who had been taken
up on suspicion some days before, and who
were the messengers that carried the letters
from place to place and also to the Conti
nent.
This unfortunate person goes by the name
of De la Motte, with the title of Baron annex
ed to it, and has for some time past resided at
Mr. Otley's an eminent woollen-draper in
Bond flieet, at a rent of one hundred pounds
a year. At the time the officers entered Mr.
Otley's hcufe, the Baron was out of town, but
had left a man servant in his appartments,who,
together with every person in the house, was
taken into a kind of temporary custody, not
one being fuffered to go out of the hcufe, Mr.
OUey excepted. The BaxoA did not mtuß
Wheat per Bufliel, 265. od.
Flour, 70s. od.
Brown Bread, 70s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.|
PRICE C U R R R N T, in N E W - Y 0 R K.'
[No. 1544]
GA ?7 V T T 17.
THE
MERCU R Y.
foreign jinb^
Mufcovado Sugar, §l. ros.
Single refin'd ditto, is. gd.
Molasses, is. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
IPork, 81. lOS.
till late on Friday evening, which was two days
after the officers had been waiting for him.
He came h, me in a post chaiie, and to pre
pent any suspicion arising, his own feryant was
permitted to open the door. Care was imme
diately taken to secure the door; and at that
instant his servant informed him that he had
been in custody for two days. On this in
formation he endeavoured to cieftroy some pa
pers which he had in his pockets, but was
luckily prevented by one of the officers, who
instantly seized him; a feuffle enfufd; and
had there not been more assistance, it is proba
ble an escape would have been effected. Being
properly fecu.-td, and all bis papers taken, he
was privately conveyed to Lord Hiilfborcugh's
office, whrrj he under-went a long examina
tion, and w^s the fame evening committed ^
close prisoner to th^ tower.
Mr. Otley underwent an examination at
the Secretary of S ate's Office, touching his
knowledge of his lodger; and gave the most
clear and fatisfaftory account of his manner
and behaviour, during his residence in his
houfe.iMr. Otley was then replied to in the
politest terms, and thanked for his upright and
judicious behaviour, in conducting himfelf fa
prudently as not to let this important transac
tion transpire, until such time as he was fife,
iy fecureo.
The papers taken from Baron de la Motte,
are reported to be of the highest importance ;
they leave no doubt cf his being the identical'
person who has so indefatigable and induftri,-
cully been the immediate cause of coming to
the knowledge of our figna's,which the French
have of late, v^h so much success, made use
of to the great aloniffiment of this country,
Among his papers are particular 1 fts of every
ihip of force in any of our yards or docks, the
complement of men they have on board at the
time of their fail . g, with remarks of their
being well manned, when Ihort of the Itipuiat
ed number, &c. He has ever gone so far as
to furnifh the most accurate lift of the f amen
in the different hospitals at Porifmouth and^
Plymouth. If this Ihould turn out to be 4
sass, which we have nottheim llelt doubt but
it will, the mystery is at once explained ho#
our Ships are captured, and oyr Schemes fruf
trated, while such gentlemen as these ^re Suf
fered to exist.
In con sequence of the intelligence procured
by the examination of the Baron, a messenger
was dispatched about eleven o'clock cm Friday
night to apprehend a person who lives at Wick
ham, near Portsmouth, on suspicion of high
treason. He is a German, and 'has been in
America. Some time ago he fettled at Wick
ham, a small town about eight miles from
Portsmouth, at which a number of the officers
belonging to the dock have houses. and keep
a pack of hounds, and spend the greatest part
of their leisure and social hours. Into this
society, it seems he found means to introduce
himfeif, by taking a genteel houfe,and keeping
a set of hunters. He received his intelligence
from them in the hours of enjoyment and con,
fidence ; and by being on the most intimate
and friendly footing, he had free access to all
the magazines and store-houses in the yard.-re
The messenger, attended by Mr. Clarke of the
Public Office, in Bow-street, got to his house
about seven o'clock in the morning, just as he
was going to mount his horse to go a hunting.
He Shewed no signs of embarrassment or fear;
but Ihifted his dress, and gave the meffenger@
the keys of all his drawers and chest , with
the utmost read?nefs and composure. His pa.
pers were all fecur§d. There was ready mo
nev & bank notes in his fcrutoire to the amount
of about 300!. The notes which he had in
his poffeflion were all icl ones, and those of
Picquet were i§l. notes; and what is singular,
and serves to (hew the communication, they
were all drawn payable to the fame person,
and dated from the bank on the fame day —
He was brought to town of Saturday evening,
but too late to be examined that night. The
box containing his papers was therefore locked
up and feared, and the key delivered to himfeif;
and vefterday at two o'clock he was brought
up to Lord Hillfb rough's Office, where he
underwent an examination of two hours and
an ,half. The r fult of the examination we
are not yet acquainted with, but he was again
delivered into ,he custody of the meffenyer.—•
He seemed hims If to be confident tha no
proof could be brought of gyilc ag^in# h^
from bis papers.
Fine Salt, 2s. da,
Coarse Salt, is. do.
Indian Corn perßu. lot. do,
Coffee, is. do.
Chocolate, a6,.pei Do.