The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1778-09-28 00:00:00, page 1

New-York, Augurt 7, 1778.
TT° vessel is to lie near any wharff, uniefs by a
, W permit signed by the Superintendant of the
port, and that only to load and unload, and are then
to have an anchor a-stern, to be able to haul off im
m^L/ely when ordered, or in case of fire.
A ;''a obedience to this order is necessary for the
faftty 0 this city and the (hipping. The mailer of
zoy n ^tf^t or other vessel that does not observe it,
fcJi be severely punished.
By Order of Major-General JONES.
CHA ROOKE, Aid-de- Camp.
Neiv-Y°ork, Augu/i 21, 1778.
"^Thaving been c.eprefented to Major-Ge-
J necaf Jones, that many inhabitants have
goods saved from the fire in their possession,
the owners of wh : ch have not applied for
them: It is she General's orders that tl&
immediately fend such goods to the Mayors
office, in Wall-street, where .the owners may
apply. Any person detaining or concealing
such goods will be deemed guilty of theft, and
punished ace Singly.
F order of Major-General Tones.
CHARLES ROOKE, Aid de Camp.
Forage-Office, Ne^v-York, Sept, to, 177,8.
q~'HE farmers on New-York Illand, Long
& and Staten-Illend, are hereby required
immediately to thfafh out their Grain, as the
STRAW is wanted for the use of his Majesty's
troops, for which they will be paid at the
uftial rate, on producing certificates of the
.delivery from the Deputy-Commissaries at the
different posts of Brooklyn and Flushing, on
Long-Bland; at Cole's Ferry on Staten-Illand;
and at Kingsbridge, Marlton's Wharff, and
Bear Market, on New-York Island; with the
fame allowance for transportation as they re
ceived lass year.
GEORGE BRINLEY,
Commissary Forage.
^^^^ te^TCV^nmim^faMsffira^ ^
DESERT ED
I 'ROM th: Dorothy and Catharine transports, Ro
' bertGatitee; roarer, the 17th inst. two apprentice
1 in, vz. DanLirorbes, about 5 feet high, smooth face
and thick h,s: Had on when he deserted, a white flan
nel tender jacket, with a blue upper one lin'd with white,
around hat, long trowfers, and Shoes without flockings,
wears his,WW black hair. Robert Hall, about 4 feet
10 hr hrs high, dark thin complexion, much pitted with
the Goa I pox, wears his own Short da-kcolour'd hair:
Had on whence deferred, a blue jacket, Dutch cap, long
troffers, and Shoes without flockings. Whoever ap
preh^df the said lads, and delivers them on board the
John and Jane, in the North. River, Shall have half a
je r*ward for each.
^HOM A S LYN°Cir
In Luke^Street, No. 32,
I,E'LS himfeif ex.eediogly distressed, that his de
-1 parture from hence lays him under the necessity of
informing ijsbpends, that if the refpe&ive accounts due
to. l?im fine, the arrival of General Howe in this city,
are^t^pardoff by the 26th inflarit, that he will'be un
der the veryjifay.rieable rectffity of putting them in the
Lands of hie ,attorney, with positive orders to infotce
immediate.payment,/ ~., , ffm
Said LYAQt nas for (ale, on 'he most reasonable
terms, fa r ^ only, the best pert wine,that was ever
imported in this city, by the, quarter ^ft; or dozen ; very
old Madeira,,Sherry ^ud Lifb^n wine ; ^choice claret of
various prices, as jn quality and flavour ; Jamaica and
cane Spirits,. London and Scorch porter, brandy, salt,
corks; flth.a few cheßs of congo, fibglo, and &Shpng
teas.
fa/7 imported in the Mary, Capt. Dunn, and now
opening at
RHINELANDER'S Store,
The corner of Burling's Slip,
A large and general assortment of
IRONMONGERY and CUTLERY,
Confuting of,
KNIVES and forks, Cross-cut, , mill and pit
Penknives, saws,
Cutteaus, qyfter knives, Carpenters, coopers, fad-
Sciffars, shears, razors, diets ,and Shoemakers
Shoe, knee, and dock articles, very generally
buckles,^ assorted,
Snuff boxes, _ Frying pans, gridirons,
Sleeve buttons, Bellowfes,
Money foales, Shovels and tongs,
Stilliards, Brass and iron candle-
Table and ted spoons, flicks,
Coat and v«ft buttons, Sad irons, teR cocks,
Shovels and spades, 'English and German steel,
With a great variety cf other articles, all which
will be fold on the molt reasonable terms, for cash.
^ China, glass, earthen-ware and looking-glas
ses, a large and general assortment as uf^l.
RUN-AWAY from J?cob Milfor,d, living in KA,g
freet, No. 21, about 14 days ago, a n^ro boy
ii years old, has a fear in his bck, occasioned by a
scald : Had on whea he went away, a shirt and trowfers,
All persons are forbid to harbour or conceal said lad, and
whoever secures him and brings him to his said matter,
(hail receive Two Dollars reward.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
2 lb. 6oz. for 14 Coppers, and in the faMe
Proportion for Loaves of a lesser Weight.
JAMES ROBERTSON, M. G.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 355. per Cent.
Published February %, 1773.
Monday, September 28, 177^
NEW-YORK
AND
WEEKLY
Containing tbe eariieff Unices
83° Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE Atm CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
just imported in the Ship Greenwich, and to he fold by
m LEE anef WILKINSON,
No. 234, £>ueen-Street,
Best London for per in hogsheads,
Ditto, in BARRELS,
Ditto bottled, in Calks of 12 Dozen,
Dorehefter Beer, ditto,
Beef in Tierces. Also,
A few Kitts of choice PICKLED SALMON.
To be SOLD by
EDWARD BARDIN,
No. 15, near the Ferry Stairs, the following
Articles,
RUM by the hoglhead or barrel, old French brandy
Jamaica Spirits, wines, claret by the dozen or box,
Holland geneva in cases, ditto in jugs, Taunton ale by
calk or dozen, the best London porter, molasses by the
hogshead or barrel, the best brown sugar by the hogfbead
or barrel, loaf sugar, tea and coffee, paper by the ream,
fnuff by the bladder or bottle, soap and candles by the
box, sweet oil by the box or battle, indigo, spices, coarse
and fine fait by the barrel or buffieL
just imported in the Penn/yFuania Packet, by the
Jubferiber, RICHARD GREAVES; and is now
opened at the fore of Mr. Isaac Kipp, in Duke
flreet, tbe following GOODS, chic's be will fell
<very lowfar Cafb, by tbe Piece, viz.
A GOOD Assortment of fine and coarse broad
Cloths ; blue, claret, and mixed Coatings ;
blue and mixed Duffels, fine Rose Blankets, and
striped Duffel Blankets.
ParceT^l^Ußn^^
CHEESE, just arrived in the Ship UNION
from Liverpool, to be fold by
Hugh and Alexander Wallace.
TH()MAI BARROW/
In Broad-ftreef, near the Main-Guard,
Has fsr Sale,
OLD linked oil, Red lead,
Whiting, Prussian Blue,
Putty, . Yellow oker,
White lead ground in oil, Best large painting brushes,
Ditto dry,' Fine tools of various Sizes,
Ver,digreefe ground, Camel hair pencils and tools,
Vermillion, Gold leaf,
Most of the above articles will be fold by the quantity,
at a small advance for ca(h. Colours mixed for (hip
painting, warrantedto dry without the use of Spirits of
turpentine.
TO BE SOLD,
AN exceeding light well-built PH/ETON, and a
pair of well broke BAY HORSES, with stars,
eight years old this graft.----Alfo to be 'difooOd cf, an
excellent N EGRO WENCH, with her two girls, one
ten the ether fix years old. The woman is fit either for ;
town or country, as (he is complete mistress of the bufi.
nefs belonging to both. Sold for no fault, tbe owner
intending for England in the firft fleet, having no farther
occasion for them. For particulars, enquire of Hugh
Caine.
For Newry and Chester,
The SHIP
FORTUNE,
%§t' # ^s¥< THOMAS Stringer > Matter;
H'°R freight or passage, agree
I 1 with said Master, on board
the fpip,' laying near tbe Albany Pier.
A few Pipes of
Choice old Madeira WINE,
OF the London market quality, which has had the
benefitof two summers in mis city, ^0 be fold by
JOHN ELLIS, No. 953, Water-ftrcet, near Burling's
Slip tt ./
rftf^. For Dublin, Nenvry, or Belfafi,
&W&" e '"^ FANNY,
William Stewart, Master;
(To fail with the firft convoy)
BRITISH built : For freight or passage ap
ply to Hamilton Young, or 'the master
on board.
For GL AS^Ov;
'" "''' ' the "'" convoy)
A The Br ^ ntine Nancy,"
J AM *S °ScsrMGFR, Master ;
about 300 hoglb^s
tobacco., She is a new vessel,
\ve!T!ot^l77^^rcma'rkably 'faft, has good accommoda
tions for three or four passengers, and is now ready to
take on board her cargo. For freight or passage apply to
t/ie master on board at Brpwnejqhn's „wharff, or to Gil
mour and Walin, N 0.853,.853, Hanoyer-Square, and. No.
43, Wall-street.
For GLASGOW,
r "' Bri ^ BETSEY,
James M." Arthur, Master;
^tyj^fo,L:es -at Bache's Wharff, and will be
re^iy with the firft Convoy.---For Freight or
Passage apply to the Capt. on board, or to Thomas
Simplon, No. 911, Water-Street. The Betsey fails
rpma kably faft, is quite new, and has good Accom
modations for Fa&gCTS,
Monday, 58 Min. after 2
Tnefday, 46 Min. aftei 3
Wednesday, 34 Min. after 4
Thursday, 28 Min. after 5
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
THE
Friday, 16 Min. after 6
Saturday, 3 Min. after 7
Sunday, 52 Min. after 7
F:rjl barter this day.
Tbe ADULTRESS more cruelly punifoed than
with death.
(Translated from the French.)
ft- -^ ING CHARLES the Vlll&of
& /"France, having occasion to fend
tf^&. ' nt ° G erman y about forte a-'
O fairs°fthe utmdftbonfequence,
fixed upon a nobleman, named
Bernage, in whom he reposed the highest
trust and confidence, to execute a commission
of importance. As he travelled day and
night for expedition, he arrived late one
evening at a certain callle, where he beg
ged- to be admitted to repose and refresh him
felf; and urging his being a stranger, and not
very well acquainted with the .country, at
length, with great difficulty he obtained ad
mission. As soon as the owner of the castle
was acquainted with the quality of his guest,
and to whom he belonged, he ihewed him
every mark of pol;tenefs in his power, at the
fame time apologifed for his not being admitted
sooner, owing to the gates being constantly
barricadoed on account of some domestic trou
bles, and the apprehension he was under of
being surprised by some of his wife's relations,
who were maliciously disposed towards him.
Bernage then told him the cause of his jour
ney, and that it was to render some particular
services to the king his master. He was then
Shewn into a most splendid apartment, and,
after some little converfatlon, conducted to a
hall, hung with the richest tapestry, where
they found the table Spread for supper, which
was Served with great elegance; at which time
there appeared from behind a tapestry a most
beautiful woman, dressed in the deepelt black,
but her head without any hair, or external
ornaments. After the matter of the house and
Barnage had waflied, they carried water to the
lady, whp walhed also, and then took her
place at the end of the table, without speaking
to any one. Bernage could scarce keep his
eyes off her, as She appeared one of the most
beautiful women he had ever seen, only that
her face was rather pale, and her features tin
ted with a melancholy cast. After She had eat
a little, She was Served with wine and water,
brought her by a Servant, in a vessel of a most
Singular kind, being a human Skull, the holes
of which were flopped with silver, from which
She drank two or three times, and, after She
had supped, and washed, She made a curtefy
to the master of the house, and retired, with
out fpeakingone word. Bernage was exceed
ingly surprised at what he had seen, and which
appeared to him so very extraordinary and
Shocking, that he became very dull and pen
sive. This, his host perceiving, said to him,
" I do not wonder, Sir, at your being aftonilh
ed at what you have seen at my table; and I find
Something that appears to me so worthy and
honest about you, that I cannot refrain from
difeovering to you a circumstance which has
for a long time made me. from the happiest,
the molt miserable of men.—Stranger as you
are to me, I wish to vindicate myfelf to you,
that you may not think me capable of acting
with so much cruelty, without having had the
greatest provocation to juftify it. The lady
which you just now saw, is my wife, whom I
have loved with as much tenderness and affec
£tion as ever man did a woman. I rifqued
every thing for the fake of marrying her, and
brought her here, in Spite of my relations.
She profeffed to have the fame love for me;
and I would have hazarded a thousand lives to
have protected her's : we have lived a long
time together, with all ,the affection and har
mony possible; and I was esteemed, by every
body who knew me, to be one of the most
happy men living. —But being obliged to
take a journey upon an affair of honour,
ffic loft her's, and forgot the love and duty
flie owed to me, and became enamoured
with a young gentleman whom I had brought
up in my house. This I a little suspec
ted when I returned, as I perceived some
thing which gave me no small uncafinefs : but
still I so passionately loved her, that I was not
able to mittruft her. At length, however, my
eyes were opened, and I saw that which I fear
ed more than death. My love then turnedin
to fury and despair, and I observed them with
attention,, and feigned one day to have occa
sion to go into the country ; instead of which
1 concealed myfelfin the fame chamber, which
file at present occupies. Soon after my we
- tended departure, She entered the apartment,
followed by the young gentleman whom I saw
tak^ thofc liberties with her, that She ought to
; Wheat per Bulhel, tie. od.
IFlour, 355. od.
Brown Bread, 60s. od.
IWert-India Rum, ss. 6d.
[ New-England do. 4% od.
[No. 1406]
GAZETTE:
THE
MERCUR Y.
PRICE CURREN T, in NEW-YORK.
Mufeovado Sugar, 5!. ios.i
Single refin'd ditto, is. of
Molasses, z % 6d.|
Beef per Barrel, £}. gd.l
Fork, 81. xos.j
ffotetyn -and Domeflicß.
have allowed to toe only. But when I per
ceived that he was leading her to the bed, I
could contain myfelf no longer, and darting,
from my concealment, killed him in her arms.
—But the crime my wife was guilty of seemed
to ; me of so heinous a nature, that to murder
her, as I had done her gallant, was not, I
thought, fufficient punishment for her offence;
I therefore conceived a misery for her to en
dure, which I believed to be more insupport
able than even death, which was, to ffiut her
up in that very apartment which she had cho
sen to rob me of those rights that were my
due; and in a cabinet within the appartment I
have hung up the Skeleton of her gallant: and
that She may be kept in continuil remem
brance of her crimes, instead of a cup, I have
ordered her to be served at table with drink;
out of the Skull of that ungrateful wretch who
seduced her, to the end, that she may fee him
living, whom by her fault she has made her
afflicted enemy, and the remains'of him whose
death she occasioned, by prefering his happi
ness to mine: by this means she constantly fees
two objects, at dinner and supper, which af
fli& her most, namely, a living enemy, and a
deceitful friend, both produced by her own
guilt; in all other refpeds she is treated with
humanity, except that her head is constantly
Shaved, the hair bejng an ornament which be
comes not an Adultrefs, no more than a veil
does a wanton and immodest woman, for it is
a mark of having loft both honour and chas
tity. Now, if you chufe to fee and fptak to
her, I will conduct you to her apartment." —-
This offer Bernage gladly accepted, as he had
great curiosity to hear her speak. Being in
troduced, he found her fitting by a good fire,
in a very elegantly furnilhed bed-chamber;
when her husband drew back a curtain which
hung before a large case where the bones were
placed of 'the man who had dishonoured him:
yet, in spite of the permission given to Ber
hage, he almost feared to speak to her, left he
Should offend her husband, or aflid her. The
hufoand perceiving it, said to him, " If yoa
have any thing to fay to that unfortunate wo
man, speak, and you will perceive in what
manner she now locks upon her own fad con
duct"—lf your patience, Madam, said Ber
nage to her, i^ equal to the torment you
fuffer, I look upon ,ou as the most extraordi
nary .woman in the world." The fady, with
tears Streaming from her eyes, and with ^
grace and humility not to be described, repli
ed in the following terms? —•' I confefs, Sir;
that my crime is so great, that all the punish
ments which this lord here (whom 1 am not
worthy to call husband) can inflict upon me,
cannot be equal to the grief 1 feel for having
injured him," —ln faying which fire wept
molt bitterly. The gentleman then taking
Bernage by the arm, conduced him into ano-i
ther chamber. —When Bernage was taking
leave of his Toft, he addressed him thus : —, —•
" The esteem I feel for you, and ,the great
civility that you have shewn me, Strongly ur
ges me to interest myfelfin your welfare and
felicity. It seems to me, that after you have
had Sufficient proof of your poor wife's re-,
pentance, you Should pity her bufferings and
forgive her .• copfider, Sir, you are Still
young, have no children, and it would be a.
great pity that futh a house as your's Should
be loit for want of an heir, and that those
Should inherit your wealth who have not, per
haps, an atom of regard for ycu."
The gentleman who had resolved never to,
part from his wife, thought seriously on what
Bernage had said, and was sensible of the just-,
fiefs of his remark; and promised him, that
if she continued to conduct herfclf with that
humility and sorrow which She had hitherto l
done, he would, in a Short time, pardon her 1
transgressions. Bernage, as soon as he returned
to court, informed the king, his master, of this
extraordinary affair; whereupon the king sent
some of his officers into Germany to make fur
ther enquires concerning this matter; and was
so pleased with the description Bernage had
given of the beauty of that unfortunate lady,
that he sent his painter also, Jean de Paris, to
paint that lady's pidure, provided he could
obtain permission of her husband.
The gentleman who wished much to have
children, and had long felt some compaffioa
for his wife, at length had pity on her, and
took her once more to his arms: after which
they lived in perfect harmony, and She brought
him an heir to inherit his fortunes.
1 Fine Salt, ±g. 61
Coarse Salt, rs, od
/Indian Corn per Bu. 7s. od
ICoffee, is. gd
IChocolate, 265. per Do.