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A few Copies of the Second Edition of
Striaures on Common Sehfe,
May be had of the Printer.
A few Copies of the
Military Guide,
FOR
YOUNG OFFICERS,
,By THOMAS SIMES, Esquire,
In Two Volumes, ^urge Octavo, embellished
with a Number of Copperplates,
(Price Three Dollars)
May be had of the PRINTER hereof.
EIGHT Thousand Acres of Good LAND,
in the County of Albany and Province
of New-York, To be Sold by CHARLES
WHARTON. *,
JONAS PHILLIPS
In Market-freet, between Front and Second-greets,
GIVES this public notice, that he is under the
necessity of fettling all his Accounts, with
those he has. had any dealings with, in this or the
neighbouring provinces, as he will Ihortly enter
into a Copartnerfllip; he therefor^begs it as a par
ticular favor, that all who hive any demands against
him will immediately furnifh their accounts thatrfhey
may be iettled and paid, and those indebted to him,
will difeharge their refpe&ive ballances, as soon as
possible, in order that the settlement of his affairs,
may have no delay.
Said Phillips has for sale a neat assortment of
Merchandize, which he will fell exceeding cheap
for cash only, confiding of the following articles,
viz. Oznabrigs, checks and Holland stripes, fine
Britannia, Meetings and other linens, cambricks,
cotton caps, gauzes, silk and oil-cloth umbrelloes,
Skeleton wires, girls and boys worded dockings,
fattin quilted petticoats, womens velvet collars, whip
cords and fiihing lines, sheep (hears and Shoemakers
hammers, hand and pit saws, from fix feet to seven
feet and a half, writing paper, indigo, flcrence oil,
Holland geneva in cases, cinnamon, cloves, tent &
. frontiniac wines, Mufccvado Lugars, Scotch and
Spanish fnuff, and sundry other Goods too tedious
to.mention. He continues the Vendue Bufmels as
usu tl, any Gentleman who are pleased to fend their
goods either for public or private sale, may depend
on ' his utmoll endeavours for their interest.
N. B. \ny perlon who has dry goods to dispose
of, on application co the said Phillips, will find a
ready purchaser, and the CaSh paid on the delivery
of the Goods.
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1 °" °' P^ladclpbia,™) ^^^ whom it may concern.
Pennsylvania, &)
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Court of Admi
ralty mill be held on Tuesday, the fifteenth day
of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the
fame day, at the State-boufe, in tb^ city of Philadel
phia, then and there, to try the truth of the falls al
ledged in the bill of John Barre, Commander of the
brigantine of warcalled the Lexington (who as well
*c.) against James and Jofoua, Negro saves, late
ly taken on board the prize sloop called the Edward,
commanded by Richard Boger. To the end and in
tent that the owner or owners of the said fades, or
of either of them, may appear and foew cause, if any
they have, why the fame ftould not be condemned ac
cording to the prayer of the said bill.
By order of the Judge,
% \ ANDREW ROBESON, Regifer.
T™ ° BE SOLD by the fubferibers, a likely
1 Negroe BOY, between 14 2nd 15 years of
age, is a complect farmer for his age, remarkable
strong and healthy and has had the small pox; he
is fold for notfault whatsoever, but is a part of the
estate of Jojeph Severns deceas'd, for further parti
cuhrs enquire of Benjamin Severns in Benfalem,
Bucks county, near the new Frefbyterian Church.
John and Benjamin Severns, Administrators.
Buch County, September 14, 1776. *
Oflober 12, 1776.
WEEKLY ADVERTISER.
Or the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey
S A T U R DAY, October 12, 1776.
LONDO N.
(Admiralty Office) June 8.
BY letters received from Vice Admiral Shuld
\ham, dated at Halifax the 25th of April last,
it appears, that on the 15th of that Month, Capt.
Furneaux of the Syren, one of the frigates under
his command, took a brigantine belonging to the
rebels, which was carrying, from Philadelphia to
Charles-Town in South Carolina, a company of
artillery, consisting of a Captain, commissioned by
the Continental Congress, and 79 men, most of
whom have since entered into his Majesty's service
with General Clinton , It also appears, that the
other cruizers of his fquadrom had intercepted and
taken 44 merchant ships and veflels belonging to his
Majesty's rebellious fuhje&s in North America; and
that Captain Barkley, of the Scarborough, who
had been lent to Savannah, in the Province of
Georgia, for provisions, had set free 13 velfcls rich
ly laden, whicli had been seized and detained there
by the rebels.
Admiralty Office, June IT, 1776.
By letters from Captain Douglass, of his Majes
ty's fliip the Ifi„ dated Quebec the 18th -and 15th
of May, received yesterday by Captain Hamilton,
late of the Lizard, who arrived from thence in his
Majesty's fioop the Hunter, it appears, that the Isis,
which failed from Portland on the nth of March,
having fuccours on board for the relief of the place,
made the island of St Peter's, on the nth of April;
that he had from thence with the greatest difficulty
made his way, pressing the Ship by force of fail for
fifty or sixty leagues through large fields of thick
ice; that on 21st of April, when he got clear of the
ice, he made the island of Anticoftie, and the fame
evening 4 entered the river St, Lawrence; that on
the 30th he anchored in a snow (form near the Pil
grim islands, and from thence, as the storm cleared
up, observed successive fmoaks from Cape to type
towards Quebec; and that, after,various obstacles
from togs, calms, or contrary winds, he arrived
on the i4tli of May near Isle aux Couftres, where
he was joined by his Majesty's ship the Surprize, and
Martin' loop, which Sailed on the 20th of Marell
from Plymouth, having likewise fuccours on board.
Captain Douglas adds, that having Secured here
all the French pilots, and every hour becoming
more precious, he gave orders on the sth of May
to Captain Linzee of the, Surprize, to make the belt
of his way, and give notice to Governor Carleton
of the approaching relief. Captain Linzee arrived
in view of the town at fix o'clock the next Morning;
and after answering the private Signals from the
garrison, came to anchor in the bafon or ' Quebec,
between the rebel battery on point Levi and the
lower town, where the Ills and Martin came to an
anchor also, very soon after; and the Several de
tachments they had on board were immediately land
ed. Captain Douglas further observes, that the
General wifely availing himfelf of the different im
pnffions which the arrival of the Ships had made on
the minds of the rebels, marched out to give them
battle, but that they as initantly retreated; on
which Captain Douglas ordered Captain Linzee
and Captain Harvey of the Martin Sloop, with a
province armed vessel to proceed up tfie river as far
as the rapids in hopes to annoy them in their' re
treat whicli was attended with good effect, as it hin
dered the parties on the opposite Sides of the river
from joining in their flight towards Montreal. He
represents their flight to have been very precipitate,
as they left not only their cannon \ undischarged,
their ammunition, Scaling ladders, intrenching
tools, and provisions, but even many of them their
mufquets.
The Surprize and Martin were farther fuccefs
ful in taking an armed Schooner belonging to the
rebels, carrying four 6 pounders and 6 three poun
dears, but the men escaped ihto,the woods; they
also recovered his majesty's Schooner the Gafpee
which in the last winter had fallen into the hanejs
of the rebels, and had been funk by them, but was
soon weighed and found to be not materially dama
ged. It also appears, from Captain Douglas's let
ters, that on the Sth of May his Majesty's ship Niger
arrived with three transports,having on board the
47th regiment from Halifax; and that on the 10^,
THE
Captain, Douglas speaks -highly in commendation
of the Captains and officers of the Ships employed
to carrv fuccours, for their perseverance and exer
tion in the many difficulties thy had to encounter
in the passage thro' the gulph, and in every other
part of the Service.
A few days since a poor laboring man, at Auborne
in Wiltshire, aged eighty-seven, Succeeded ^0 an ef
t^te of nine hundred pounds per annum, and near
one hundred thousands pounds in the funds.
The last mails from Ireland contain a very remark
able, though unfortunate, article of intelligence;
that there died in the city of Dublin, all on the fame
day, the three most capital paper makers in that
kingdom; and, what is dill more remarkable, they
all died within two/hours of each other.
Yesterday Captain Page, of the corps of engi
neers, were presented to the King by Lord Vifeount
Townfhend, and most graciously received. His
Majesty was pleased to fay much in favour of his
conduct at Bunker's Hill, on the Seventeenth of
June, under General Howe.
On Saturday morning some experiments were tri
ed at Woolwich, before Lord Viscount Townfhend,
Lord Amherst, General's Harvey and Defaguliers,
and a number of other officers, with a rifle gun,
upon a new conftpuaion, by C%;:.m Feguivu, of
the seventieth regiment ; when that gentleman, un
der the disadvantages of a heavy rain and high
wind, performed the four following things, none of
which had ever been accomplished with any other
small arms. First, He fired during four or, five mi
nutes at a target, at two hundred yards distance, a:
the rate of four Shots each minute.- Secondly, He
fired fix Shots in one minute. Thirdly, He fired
four times per minute, advancing at the fame time
at the rate of four miles in the hour. Fourthly,
He poured a little water into the pan and barrel of
his piece when loaded, so as to wet every part of the
powder, and in less than half a minute She fired as
well as ever;, without extracting the ball. He Hfo
hit the Bull's Eye at one hundred yards, laying
with his back on the ground; and, I notwithstanding
the unequalnefs of the wind and wetness of the wea
ther, he only milled thy: target three times during
the whole course of the experiments.
Mr. Foote, on Wednesday night, appeared in
the character of Lady Pentweuzle, with a head dress
in the utmofl extravagance of the lafnion. The
breadth of the tete, which was a yard wide, was
stuck full of ostrich feathers, and even if the tout
enfemblr had not been of itleif'a Sufficient Satire on
the monstrously absurd mode of decorating the head
now prevalent among the Ladies of Ton ; the mo
dest and decent stile of the (Queens head drefs' would
have Served to have rendered ft so. her Majesty
laughed exceedingly' &hen Mr. Focte came on so
ornamented, and as it was designed to continue the
roar of the house, the whole fabric of feathers, wool,
and hair, dropped off Mr. Footed head, and re
mained on the stage as he went off.
St. JOH N's, (In Antigua) August 24.
This morning arrived in this harbour, the sloop
Elizabeth, Robert Burchal, commander from Tor
tola, bound for Newfoundland, which veftl with
those under mentioned were taken by a Pirate schoo
ner firted out in Maryland, called the Enterprise,
0f.12 guns and 70 men, commanded by a james
Campbell, the sloop was returned in order to con
vey those who were not wanted 10 assist in the navi
gation of the vessels So taken, viz.
Ship Lancafiire, Captain Jones, for Liverpool,
—brig.— , from Grenada for Ireland, —ship
Black RiVer, Captain Currie, from Dominica for
Briftol,—brig.- from St. Croix for Dunkirk,
belonging to Guernsey—snow James, Isaac, Hig
gins, from this island for I^ncafhr—the brig Har
riot, Captain Hammond from Barbadoes for Cork
was Spoke with by Captain Higgins in lat. 28, and
when the pirate took polLffion of his vefel a brig
was in fight, to which they gave chafe. The Capt,
of the pirate informed the prisoners that the Ame-
Qaptain Lutwidge, of his Majesty's ship the Triton,
arrived with the Lord Howe and Bute transports,
having troops on board, together with the British
Queen, Agnes, and Beaver, victuallers from Eng
land. °
Numb. XC.