The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1776-10-07 00:00:00, page 3

By His Excellency the Honorable WILLIAM
HOWE, General and Commander in Chief
of all His Majesty's Forces within the Colo
nies lying on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova-
Scotia to Wefl-Florida inclufroe, life. ^c.
WHEREAS there are many Deserters
from His Majesty's Service now in
Arms in America against their rightful So
vereign, and engaged with the declared
Enemies of Great-Britain, in a most cruel
and unnatural Rebellion, to ffiake off all
Obedience to the conftitutienal Authority of
the State : And Whereas the Heinous
ness of their Crime, not admitting of any
palliative Considerations, will necessarily ex
clude them from the smallest Claim to Mercy,
if they Should fall into the Power of His
Majesty's Troops. THE COMMANDER
IN CHIEF, being anxiously desirous to
warn them of their Danger, t@ withdraw
Confide rations on the present revolted State of
America, addreffedto its Inhabitants
at large.
WHILST America retained her Al
legiance, Great-Britain was the
Guardian of America : Ever since her Revolt,
she has proposed Terms of Reconciliation,
and through His Majesty's Commiflisners,
still leaves open the Door for honorable Ac
commodation. —But the Colonies have now
-levied War against the Parent State; that
War must be prosecuted with Vigor, with
EfFea, untill America submits to the consti
tutional Authority of Great-Britain.
The employing German Protestant Troops
(whose Renown for Valour is equalled only
by their Princes firm and steady Alliance to
the King of Great-Britain) is a Measure at
this critical Juncture full of true Wisdom
and good Policy : The deluded Colonists
running wildly after the Shadow of Liberty,
have loft the Substance. The present Ar
mament will restore the Americans to Free
dom —to that Freedom which is enjoyed
under a British Cenftitution : It will relieve
them from the most degrading Speeds of
Tyranny, Republican Tyranny. Every dis
passionate and Well disposed American, must
despise the Idea of Republicanism. The
Experiment has already been made during
the Usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, and
Experience has ffiewed it, by the Reftoratidn
of King Charles the Second, to be totally
incompatible with the Magnitude and Majesty
of a great Empire. It is a System of Go
vernment fit only for the Citizen of a small
.State. —Monarchy, limited Monarchy, can
alone preserve Liberty to the Subject, and
give Energy to Government.
Let not then the deluded and deceived
Americans, passionately follow Courses that
muff lead them to Deftruaion, nor longer
continue under the falfe Persuasion, that
Greal Britain means to make them Slaves ;
which their own Senses, if they will consult
them, and the Experience of their own do
mestic Situations, must contradia. But let
them give a friendly Attention to the hono
rable Declarations of His Majesty's Com
miffieners for restoring Peace to America,
and let them accept the Blessings of Peace,
upon such favorable Propositions as will
Strengthen the Union of the British Em
pire.
When the fame unlawful Conpefs, by
their felf-affumed Authority, with a View to
the Deftruaion of the Commerce, Credit,
Power, and every Being of this Country,
have recommended and been able to enforce
Non-Expertation and Non-Importation A
greements, in open Defiance to the Laws of
Trade, established and admitted, for/Ages
between Great-Britain and the Colonies in
America, and by long Experience found
highly advantageous to both Countries :
When the fame rebellious Aflemblies, by
specious Addresses to the People of Great-
Britain and Ireland, and other Parts of your
Majesty's Dominions, are attempting to se
duce your Majesty's loyal Subjects from their
Duty to your Majesty and their Country,
and to give Countenance and Support to the
violent and unconstitutional Proceedings now
carrying on in America :
At a Crisis like this, perhaps as impor
tant as is to be found in the British Annals,
we think we owe it to your Majesty, of
whose just, mild, and gracious Government
we have the fulleft Experience, we owe it to
our Country, we owe it to ourselves, to take
this Opportunity of expressing our most
hearty Abhorrence and Detestation of these
undutiful and traitorous Fra&ices of your
Majesty's Subjects in America, and of ador
ing your Majesty, thafwe are ready and wil
ling with our Lives and Fortunes to give your
Majesty every effectual Support and Assistance
in our Power, for vindicating the Rights of
Great-Britain against all it's open and secret
Enemies whatsoever.
Then will the Fleets and Armies that now
occupy their Coasts and Frontiers, be no
longer the Scourge, but again become the
Proteaors, as well as Pride and Glory of
both Great-Britain and America.
them from their present desperate and crimi
nal Situation, whereby they may escape the
ignominious Death of Traitors to their
KING and Country, hereby offers free and
full Pardon to all such Deserters, who shall
surrender themselves at the Head Quarters,
or to any Division of the King's Army, on
or before the 31st Day of October, 1776.
GIP EN at Head barters on York
I,and, the 30th Day of September, 1776.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's Command,
Robert Mackenzie, Sec'ry.
NEW-YORK, Odo. 7.
His Majesty's Forces are now in Possession of
the City of New-York with all the Harbour and
Sound, of Long and Staten Illands, and nearly
oi New-York Island. They are also in Poffeffiyn
of Powles-Hook, and command the East-River
and Connecticut Sound. All this has been ob
tained with Very little Difficulty and Loss on the
Part of the Troops ; the Rebels, after the Bat
tle, or rather Rout of the 27th of August, hav
ing never attempted to face the Soldiers, but fled
every Way with the utmost Precipitation. They
quitted Works, which they had been laboring
upon during the whole Summer without scarce
the Conflia of a Day. The King's Forces are in
remarkable good Health and Spirits, and teem
resolved to convince the World, that they not
only bear the Name but the Nature of Britons ;
and, while that they fight with their usual Ardor
in the Cause of the King and Conftiturion,
they know how to treat even ungrateful Rebels
with Pity and Humanity. They confider, that
many of them are seduced and milled by design
ing Men, who under Pretence of Patriotism, are
facrificing the Interests and Happiness of this
whole Continent to their own sordid Interest and
Ambition.
The King's Troops have not sustained the Loss
of 100 Men.; while the Rebels, by the best Ac
counts; cannot have loft fewer than between 4 or
§OQO in killed, wounded, and taken Prisoners ;
to mention nothing of Deserters, who leave them
daily.
The Leaders in the Rebellion have been very
fond of Arguments drawn from the Success
granted by Providence upon their Undertakings.
It is proper therefore to examine how the Matter
stands on this Ground. In the firft Place ; the
Rebels h^ve bad some Thousands down with the
Camp Sickness (a Disorder almost as contagious
as the Small-Pox) at one Time; while the King's
Army have not had twenty affected with Diseases
of any Kind. In pretending to attack theTroops,
they' were cut oft by Multitudes; while only
about go Soldiers, and they principally through
their own Rafhoefs, were destroyed. The Rebels
have loft the fiaelt and best Part of the Province
of New York : The Regulars have obtained it.
The Rebel-Army is dismayed, ar.d in great Dis
tress for proper Cloathing: The King's Troops
are in high Spirits, and well fuppfed with Neces
saries of every kind. In short, there is scarce a
Circumstance, but which tends to (hew, that
God is fighting against these Incendiaries as well
as Man, and that he will not prosper a wicked
Cause, carried on by wicked Means for a treafen
able End.
" My dear Brother, I again fit down to ac
quaint you, that I am in perfe& Health, &
present, thanks be to Almighty God for it,
hoping these may find, you all in the fame.—
You'll find by the incited, our Intentions to
wards the Three Rivers, where Part of the two
Battalions of Jersey, and two Battalions of
Pennsylvanians, with 600 of Col. Stock's Re
giment were, who met with a heavy Repulse,
were obliged to retreat, and are coming in by
small Parties ; the Particulars I can't at prefer
On Thursday last arrived here from England,,
the Daphne, Captain Chinnery, with feveraid
T^.foir vn^r Convey. bav;"= on h ^9rU th?!
XVIIth Regiment of Light Hoffe, under the
Command of Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt.
So vast a Fleet was never seen together in this
Port, or perhaps in all America, before. The
Ships are Rationed up the East-River or Sound,
as far as Turtle Bay ; and, near the Town,
the Multitude of Masts carries the Appearance
of a Wood. Some are moored up the North-
River; others, in the Bay between Red anb
Yellow-Hook; some, again, off Staten-lMand;
and several off Powles-Hook, and towards the
Kills .The Men of War are moored chiefly
up New-York Sound, and make, with the
other Ships, a very magnificent and formidable
Appearance. Five Men of War have been
detached from the Squadron into th. North-
River above Greenwich, probably to assist the
Operations of the Army against the Rebels,
who still remain on the Northern Extremity of
this Iftand, and on the Heights about Kingf
bridge.
It is said, the Flora Frigate of 32 Guns,
commanded by Capt. Brisbane, is preparing
to fail, with several Transports under Con
voy.
We are informed by a Gentlemanjuft escaped
from New-England, that the Rebels have lately
carried many hundred Head of Cattle from the
East-End of Long-Island, to New-Londen in
Connecticut, and that their Privateers are very
busy in negotiating this find of Business, and
have moreover committed some of their afual
tyrannical and oppressive Ads, upon several
loyal Subjects in those Parts.
The savage burning of this City by the New-
England Incendiaries, will be a lasting Monu
ment of their inveterate Malice against the
Trade and Prosperity of this Colony, as well
as of their rooted Difaffe&ion to British Law and
Government. They had long threatened the
Performance of this villainous Deed; and this
is the best Return that the People of Property
in this City, who have espoused their Cause,
are toexpe& for their heedless Credulity.
Extras of a Letter found in the City of New-
York, on Monday September l6tb, being the
Day after the Rebels retreat from this City.
North Side Sorel, June ii, 1776.
Dear Brother,
where they plcafe, for we have not more than
10 Days Provisions now, for the want of which
we shall be oblig'd to retreat, if not fupply'd
soon. Our Army at present, at Canada, is cal
culated at 4000 at the most, and the third of
them dying with the Small-Pox, at our Main
Foft, which is Sorrel, where there is not above
1500 effective Men, and then our Situation is
inch,that if the Enemy will, they may cut off
our Retreat to Shamblee by Rivers each fide of
us, wrich if they do, and then attack us in the
Front with their Shipping, the Lord Almighty
only knows who shall survive to carry the Ac
count of obt Hardships. They are great enough;
for wc lay cohftantly on our Arms, and have
several times lay on cold wet Turff all Night,
at our Alarin Post. Our brave Liberty Boys
are almost wore off their Legs, by Reason of
such severe Duty Night and Day, but still keep
in good Spirits, thank God for it. I must now
Conclude, and beg the Prayer of you all; if you
know of Mr. Lowry's coming up to us, who is
our Pay-Master, pray draw two Month's Pay,
and fend hard Cash for it, if poflible, as Con
gress Paper Money is of no Use. Mr. Ander
son isnow waiting, as he is going as an Express.
My Love to you and all the Family. Adieu,
your Brother,
JACOB KEMPER, jun.
^o Mr. Daniel Kemper, Merchant, 7
at Ebzabetb-To"wn, Ne^-Jerfy. )
A true Copy taken from the Original, by
Jambs Cotton.
TRINITY CHURCH.
The Body of the Church was 105 Feet long,
The Chancel, 16 Ditto,
The Steeple, 32 Feet square.
, Whole Length, 153 Feet.
It ' Breadth of the Church, 73 Feet.
The Spire, 180 Feet high.
The Organ in said Church, consisting of 25
Stops, cost 850 Guineas, and efteem'd by the best
Judges to be as good a one as any in London of
the Price.
I ^ WANTE D, by the Printer hereof,
Britt,) Printing Ink : If any Person on
' board the Fleet has such an Article for Sale,
ji they eppty ipeedily) will meet with a
:furchafoi at the Printing-Office in Hanover=
square. -/
DRY GOODS, &c.
At the North-Haft Corner of Beekman's Slip, is conti
nued THIS DAY, and untill the vobole is fold.
WILLIAM TONGUE,
Has also to fell in Hanover-Square, a variety of neat
HOUSHOLD FURNITURE,
And also by wbolefale, for the Gentlemen of the Navy
1 and Army, and others,
BOURDEAUX CLARE T,)
Burgundy, Madeira, (
Teneriffe, Red Port, ( WINES.
Annada, superior to Sherry,'
Brandy, excellent Comae, Spirits 4 Years old,
Antigua Rum, best Holland Geneva,
Mo^ffes, Cloths,
Flour, Hefiery,
Coffee, Ozenbrigs,
Hams, Writing Paper,
Silks, salt,
A Quantity of Medicines, Mufcovado and Leaf
Sugar, Bar Iron and'Nails.
He has also sundry Vessels to dispose of from 50
to 120 Tons ; and wants to purchase a good Ship
of about 300 Tons burthen.
N. B. Good Bills of Exchange are negociated
at Mr. TONGUE's Office.
JAMES DEAS,,
Perukemaker and Hair-Dresser,
SINCE the late dreadful Fire has removed into the
House he formerly lived in, at the Corner of Broad-
Street, near the Exchange, wh6re he hopes to be em
pln,td by his former Friends and Customers.
SMITH and DEAN,
SILK DYERS and SCOURERS,
Late of the Broad-Way, have removed into Maiden-
Lane, below the Ofwego-Market :
WHERE they carry on their Business as usual.—
Ladies and Gentlemen who please to favour
them with their Orders may depend ora having them exe
cuted n the best and neatest Manner.
Alfa Copperas and Allum to be fold.
To be SOLD at
RHINELANDER'S
STORE,
The Corner of Burning's Slip,
FINE burnt and enamel'd china bowls, from
half a pint to eight quarts; burnt and ena
mel'd china table setts compleat ; blue and white
china do. do. burnt and enamel'd china tea lets
cempleat ; burnt and enamel'd do. cups and
saucers ; blue and white do. do. burnt and ena
mel'd china plates ; blue and white china do.
China, Glass Ware, Earthen Ware,
AND,
LOOKING GLASSES,
A pretty general assortment.
acquaint you with, but our Men have come
with about 300 kill'd, wounded, and taken,
among whom are two Colonels, one Major, and
General Thompfem, whom we can learn no
thing from. We march'd in Batteans the next
Day as a Reinforcement, but found the North
Side of the River so firmly man'd; that it was
impotable for us to land to assist them. The
Number of the Enemy was at least 7000 Re
gulars, with Field Pieces, Ammunition, and
Provisions plenty, when our Friends for Liberty
had nothing but what they could lug on their
hacks, through Swamps and Woods; after
landing we made a bold Attempt to assist, but
found it in vain, by Reason of a Ship and Bri
gantine coming up from the Fleet, which in
Number is 39 Sail, who fir'd upon us very
hard, but hurt none, which is astonishing, for
we were within about 100 Yards of them. By
the best Accounts we have from Quebeck, there
is at least 18,000 Troops arrived, who, if they
make a bold Push, will drive us co
The SALE of the
, AvO .,/ 4l , v NUTTED
Book Seller, Stationer, and Book Bind; ,
Has for SALE,
At his Shop opposite the Coffee-Houfe,
Paper, quills, ink powder, sealing
WAX, ACCOUNT BOOKS, fit for the A RMY
©r Navy, ORDERLY BOOKS of various Soria, &„
The said NATTER binds all Kind of Printed
and Paper BOGKS, iri the neatest Manner, on the
shortest Notice.
To be fold on board the Brig Sukey, William Bro^n,
Ma,er, laying at Beekman's Slip,
Excellent RED PORT WINE,
In Pipes, Hhds. Quarter Calks and Bottles,
Capers, Sallad Oyl, Cordials and Molasses;
JLSO,
Prime Irish Mess Beef and Fork in Tierces .1
Excellent PORTER, and SCOTCH ALE b
To be SOLD by
HECTOR MACOME,
At a Ware-House near the Crane,
Crommeline's Wharf.
To be fold by publick auction or vendue, on
Wednesday next the 9th of O&ober,
THE hull and lower masts of the ship Generous
friend, Thomas Williams, late master, as ffie
new lies Branded on Dennys's freef, on Long-Island. The
file to commence at 12 o'clock fame day, at Dennys's
beach; payable in Sterling money to James Stewart,
vendue master,
Narrows, Long-Inland, 4th ©doher, 1776.
VALENTINE NUTTER,
Book Seller and Stationer,
. Opposite the Coffee-House,
'°"" PENCE per pound for the
best white LINEN RAGS, and so ingpropor
tien for those of ad inferior quality.
*§* As there are a great' abundance of thia *effary
article laying about the ftrects, it is hoped the poor chil
dren in town will lose no time in colle&ing them, for
^^^ e y ^L/eceiv- all due encouragement.
GENER ALTpOSYTW
—&. New-York, October 6, 1776.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, That this O^ca
A be ppen every Day for the delivery of Letters, h, CT
Eight in the Morning until Twelve, and from Three in
the Afternoon until Six; and all Captafris of Ships
have brought from Europe Letters for America, are da
fired to fend them to this Office, that none may be de
livered to difaffedted Persons.
O BE'Sl7^
THE Brigantine Lord Howe, Burthen 120 Tons, *
prime Sailor, ind well foutid with Materials, well
calculated for the Weft-India Trade, now lying at Beek
man 8 Slip: For farther Particulars enquire Of Mr. Afoy
on board, or at his Store on the Dock, where he has for
Sale, good Weft-India Rum, Molasses, Tobacco, and
Red Pott in Battles.
“ARCHIBALD [WILSON,
At his store in Queen-ftrect, near the Fly.market
Has for sale,
IRISH butter, candles, English cheese, barley, Scotch
X amalc a rum, port and ffierry wine, raopee
and plain fnuff, mens fine and strong shoes, womens'ftuff
ffioes, pigtail tobacco, Sheathing paper, mens thread hose,
Infla linens, Meetings, Russia drab, dowlas, whited brown
and colour'd thread, coarse broad cloths, writing paper,
pint and needles, coarse printed cottons, table cloths,
Oznaburghs, German serges with trimmings, Liverpool
salt, by the barrel, &c. &c.'
Imported in the Nautilus, Ca,t. William Jardine, for
the Use of bis Majesty's Army and Navy in North-
America, and to be fold by
JOHN BAINBRIDGE,
At Capt. Carleton's, in Broad-street,
Near the General Post Office,
BOURDEAUX claret, burgundy, Madeira,
Teneriffe, red port, and Annadee wine,
Holland geneva, Canary drinking glaffei, ozen
brigs.
Spruce for brewing Beer,
ANY Person willing to,fwpply Tuch Quantities of
SPRUCE as m?y be wanted for brewing Beer for
His Majesty's Fleet at New-York, are desired to fignify
the Terms on which they will engage to furniffi it, ia
Letters, sealed up and dire&d for Mr. Geqrge Cm xr^
rt, Agent for Victualling the said Fleet, at Captain
Henry Law's, Harbour Master, in Water-Street,
near the Fly-Market, on or before Thursday the loth
Inftant._
To be SOLD,
A FINE Brigantine about two Years
bur^n ^ out ito Tma, ^qL . '
a very good Vcffel, and well fOund.-App^ to'
WILLIAM TONGUE, Broken
SCRIVENER'S OFFICE,
Eflablifhed in 1764, by
JOHN C. KNAP P,
Attorney at Law, de B. R.
WHO again constantly attends, and on the usual
easy fees, gives the most candid and fatisfa&ory'
advice as well in all cases of law and equity as touching
the validity of deeds, wills, and other writings, Exe
cutors and Administrators intruded in the
due execution of their office, whereby to avoid the trou
ble and expence which often arifea from the want of
knowledge therein.
Sea-faring men, and other strangers who fre
quently meet with difficulty in matters not altogether re
lative to the law, will be particularly assisted.
Petitions, memorials, articles of agreement and
co-partnership, arbitration and other bonds, deeds, wills,
mortgages, alignments, and every other kind of writing
drawn effe&uaily to answer the purposes intended, andall
other the general business of this office executed with ftrie
integrity, and the most immediate dispatch.
fit Mr. Knapp hopes he will Ihortly be enabled
through the favor of his friends to supply the public
with cash as usual, on approved security real or personal.
A middle aged woman servant, is wanted in a small
family.
Broad-street, October 7, 1,76.
Just arrived in the ship Molly, and to be fold by
THOMAS M'K I E,
In the store formerly occupied by meffrs. Curfon and
Seton, betwixt the Old Sip and the Coffee-Houle
Water-Street ;
IRISH beef in barrels, prime mess pork and peas, fine
May butter, faperfine ^our, oatmeal and oats, fhell'd
barley, old Wert-India rum, Port and Lisbon wine in bot
tles, strong beer in do. men and boys leather breeches
men and womens leather foes, Hogikin saddles full
mounted, tann'd leather, Irish linens, callicoes, lawn,
printed handkerchiefs, fine lace, thread, garters, mens
worsted and thread hose, mill'd gloves and caps, canvas,
ozenbrigs, coverlids, blankets, white frize and plaiding,
fai lews jackets, writing paper, locks and hinges, bow and
felling axes, spades, hoes, mails, saw files, mould and
dipt Candies.