The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1779-02-01 00:00:00, page 2

" Col. Howard, of the i ft reg. guards, killed.
Lieut. Col. M'Donald, oftheyift. Lieut. Col.
Andruther, of theSzd. Lieut. Col. Stevens,
of theColdftream reg. Guards. Gorden For
bes. Major of the 7th reg. G. Barklay, late
Major of the 75th reg. Hon. Charles Cach
ort, Captain of Athol's Highlanders. Second
Major of Lord Cathcart's Legion. John Slo
wer, Cornet of 17th reg. light dragoons, taken.
ON. 31. Captain Rogers, of the Stormont
Edl Indiaman, on bis passage from St. Helena,
t^ok a French snow under American colours,
of which he firft learned of koftilities being
commenced between England and Franca.
Cant. Rogers thinking himfalf in danger of
being taken if he continued with his prize,
released her, joined the other Drips, and ac
quain cd them with the dangerous situation
they we e in, but fortunately saw no priva
tes or French men of war.
The Seahorse EaR Indiaraan fell in with a
French brig in the Channel, from Marseilles,
hdea with cannon and Herts. The Ca,t. of
The zd infant three regiments of Prussian
and two of 9axon cavalry, went into canton
ment aGerman mile and a half from this place.
Gen. Mneliendorf was attacked in his retreat
cut of Bohemia by a large body of Croats, but
he repulsed them with considerable loss.
His Prtrffian N 4 ,jefty remains still near Schatz
lar. The Emperor, we are informed, has re
moved to Munchengratz, having left Prince
Albert to command at Konigfgratz, and Mar
shal Laudon is still between Budyn and
Welwarm.
Bertin, Oa. 3. According te the last ac
counts from the armv, the head-quarters of the
King's forces were still between Stfxzlar and
Litbau, but his Majesty has detached foine
troops to cover the frontiers of Silesia, and has
advanced his left wing to Spitzberg ; nothing
material has passed except a 'few skirmishes
between the advanced polls.
Berlin, 080 6. The last letters from Sile
sia advise, that the Austrians, greatly superior
in number, had attacked the body es artillery
commanded bv Lieutenant-general Werner, in
hopes of making an easy conquest of them be
fore the arrival of the Hereditary Prince of
Brunswick ; but that the General had made fit
flout a refinance thatthey were obliged to retire
with a loss of 300 prisoners, exclusive of the
dead. They add, that what rendered the affair
decifire was; that the Prince having heard at a
dihance the report ^fthe artillery, had hasten
ed fell gallop with his cavalry, which forced
the enemy to retire with great precipitation.
LONDO N,
C£. 29. Yesterday morning the Pursers of the
Zingfton, Capt. Maw, the Duke es Portland,
Capt. Sutton, and the Seahorse, Capt. Arthur,
from Bengal, arrived at the East India House,
with the packets of said ships, and brought
an account that the Stormont, Capt. Rogers,
arid the Royal Charlotte, Capt. Cotton, were
arrived all fife in the Downs on Tuesday. The
five Crips lift St. Helena the 21st of August,
and failed together, without convoy; and
though they made the coast of France in their
wav to England (being utterly unacquainted
with there being any hostilities between France
and England) they only saw one French priva
reer. The Pursers of the Stormont, and Roy
al Charlotte, are hourly expected.
There are five ships more to come heme from
India this year, and the Bcleifle of 64 guns,
which failed from Plymouth in Jane last to St.
Helena to convoy them, is expected bask with
the fleet the end of next month, or the begin
ning of December. /.
/ L? of the principal Officers killed and taken by the
Americans in the Eagle packet.
p.^f?ofa letter from Si s G^^ Collier, date! on |
(or,',-? Ra:^mV} in Harbour, Sept. 8, '77,
IGAVEthe II ^ur to inform your Lordlhips
(it Vice Adrn ; rdlT fo^ filled fiom hence on the 4th
... , ..fr bis Al^hA (hips Princef< Royal, Cullo
•- !, Di,a,non I, 3^l D/jweh, and H >pe (loops, to
the tytrdron under the command or the Vil
to^ot Howe.
\ French flrp of 74 guns, called the C^ar, m
r^rd about 18 daysagoat Bollon, in a Shattered
condition, having had a warm u&ion with the lbs,
who n'ad killed and wounded 50 of her men,
amon'gft which number was her Captain, Monheur
Bon Linville, who hsloft his arm in the aaton.
The French squadron under Le Cample D'
Ed^nfe, after being difyerfed in a hard gale of wind,
which'difmafted two of their principal ships, arrived
finely at Bottom where they are at prelent refitting.
I have the fatisfa& on to inform their Lordthips,
that the troops computing this gArrifen ate very heal
thy, and in good fpirits,' and, from the many addi
tional batteries and works, there is great region to
believe that any attempt of the enemy again# this
pace would prove abortive. „
I have dire&od his Majesty's armed brig Cabot to
proceed Mth these dispatches to England, with the
utmolt expedition.
N. B. Lieutenant Dod, in his passage, fell in with
the Hinchenbrook (loop, one of Vice-Admiral M@n
taph's Iquadron, on the Banks of Newfoundland,
vhofe commander informed him, that Commodore
Evans, in the invincible, had put into St. Johns in
that iihnd ; rt nd having repaired her damages, had
again pr.needed to tea.
Drefibn, 08. 7. His Royal Highhefs Prince
Henry of Prussia's head quarters dill continue
at Ottendorf, about 3 German miles from
Dresden. Ten squadrons of horse and five
.battalions of infantry passed through Dresden,
on the ilt infant, and proceeded towards Stol
pen, Neultadel, Bautzen, and Gccrlitz ; at
which place they are cantoned, under the com
mmdof Major ' General Knovelfdorf, and are
to form a cordon along the frontiers on that
tide, which is to extend ^s far as Prince Beren
bergh's near Zi taa. Ihe fame day 100 Sax
on-horse guards marched to, the heights above
Filnitz, where they arc Rationed to protect
that place from the incursions of Croats, small
parties of whom have at times approached very
near to it.
TO BE SOL D,
A Good FAR M, pleafantiy situated on the Main
road to Fluffiing, on Loig-lILzS, one mile and a
half diftantfrom the landing, from which boats are
palling two or three times a wwsk to New-York. The
farm contains about lie acres, well wooded, meadowed
and watered ; there can be made about 3. barrels of cyder
one year with another, with a variety ol other good fruit.
The dwelling-house is one story aid a half high, contains
nine reams on a floor, and is very convenient for a
flore or tavern ; there is two good bares and other out
houses. For particulars, apply to James Morrell,
in Flushing, or Robert Morrell, uroa the pre
mises. A food title wi& be given fee the fame.
the brig went on board the Seahorse, nnd ac
knowledged himfelf their prisoner, but they
being ignorant of any hostilities being com
menced, let him go.
From the Granada Gazette, Decent. 24,
St. George's, December 26.
r^HE latest letters from St. Lucie, represent affairs
A there to be in the date as we mentioned in eur
lad. The Count d'Eftain^, notwithstanding the
intrepidity he is said to peflels, had not dared to at
tack Ad. Barrington, whole petition has been con
siderably ^lengthened by additional batteries. The
following iketch of the proceedings on both tides
will fei ve to give a more just idea of the real situation
of things, than all the reports that have been lately
circulated.
Mr. de Ktifaint, of his Majesty's drip the Iphigenia,
has taken, after a chace of 48 iours, the Ceres Goop of
war, the fitted faller the English had is these Idas. He
has alto taken a loop from Barbados, with provisions for
the English flset.
The frigate La Chimere, belonging to Count d'Eftting's
fipiadron, which was left in the Delaware, arrived a;
Fort Royal the 21st iuftant, after a passage of 17 days.
15th. Saw the French fleet elofe to ns ; but they
fortßßa ely kept manceuvreing all morning, which
gave us an opportunity of getting most of the trans
ports out of our way, and of forming in haste as
good a line as we could do in the time, which ftreach
ed from East to Weft nearly. The French fleet being
obliged to come from the North, were exposed tn be
raked by all cur ships in advancing ; for which reason
so fjon as they came within random shot they bore
away to the Weft, and laid their b&dfides to curs.
About 12 o'clock the French Admiral bore down in
this way, and gave his fire chiefly to the Boyne, as
file appeared the largest /hi, : nine of his fleet fol
lowed his example. The Englilh fleet did net wish
to fire at so great a diftanc% but when there was no
appearance of their coming nearer, it was impossible
to prevent the sailors of the different ships from giv
ing them a broad fide. At a quarter after four the
French Admiral came down again with 11 ships of the
line, all of which gavetheir fire as before to the Eng
lifli fleet,and tacked about half ,aft five ;in this days
aaion some men were killed on board the Prince of
Wales,and on board of foms es the transports. The
Ariadne, which was amongst the transports, had her
foremaft half cut through; the Boyne was twice bul
led, and had several shot in the rigging but no body
killed nor wounded : The French had one ship dis
abled, by having her mast ftruek, several others had
their rigging fluttered.
16th. The French fleet was off all day ; we ex
p&ed a very serious attack,they came te an anchor at
rive o'clock, at a Bay t@ Windward of the Carenage
17th. We learn from the array that the French had
landed a vast number of men in the sight, and drove in
fomg of our out pofti.
iSth. The French fleet still at anchor; the French
army attacked our grenadiers and light infantry, who were
very strongly polled under the command of Gen. Mea
dows, on a peninfuia formed by the Carenage on the South
and the bay where the French landed on the North ; the
attack was spirited, and foppofed to by made by 3000
French. Gen, Meadows had about ige® drawn up in
three liner, one behind the others on th# face of a pretty
steep and very rugged hill; the French were obliged
to advance in columns at above 30 abreast, on account of
"W"'' '"' a branch of the sea, which at one place coa
traus the communication from Geo. Meadows post co
the main land very much ; in this situation the French
in advancing were mowed down by our troops and beat
back. They returned again with all the troops they
could mufter,faid to be 700 a men, and were again repair
ed, without even forcing Gin Meadows firft line. We
had killed and wounded about 130, amongst the firft a
Captain Hay of the Grenadiers; amongst the wounded,
Gun. Meadows slightly, Major and Lieutenant Harris,
and one or two other officers. The French had near 400
killed, and we may fuppefe wounded in proportion.
19th. Fleets as they were, no firing heard to day, nor
any intelligence from the army.
24th. Since writing the above, nothing worth men
tioning has happened. The French fleet are under way
and I am not certain whether or not they mean to attack
us. We are much afraid the French have taken the
Ceres. We took this morning a ship from Salem, named
th# Bunker's Hill, full of men, mounting >3 fix pound
ders. She failed the second current, therefore Byron must
have had fair winds.
MARTINICO, December 24, 1778.
According to advices from St. Lucie, our troops at
tacked, on Friday last the iS:h inst, at day-break, a post
of the enemy; but the details we have received of that
adioa, and ty ulterior operations 0+ our land and fra
forces, are fc uncertain and so vague, that we tn ift defer
laying. a faithful relation of threw btfoe our readers, until
we have carelull) col.cited the most interesting circum-
Aances.
14th. The remainder of the troops wer? landed
very early, marched up to the Government house, si
tuated on a very high hilf between &Carenage and
Grand-cul-defac ; the troops had about two or two
and half miles to march, thro' the woods, in a very
deep bad road. Some little opposition was made by
the Governor and a few French soldiers, with a field
piece ; one man only was killed. We got pofktlion
of the house that forenoon ; the French retired after
spiking i'ome pieces of cannon, and \ ft our troops
in poffeflion of the Government house, good Bar
racks, Hospital and innumerable offices. At
40'Clock this afternoon, we were at dinner with the
Admiral, when we observed a signal from the Ari
adne (cruizing toWindward) for a large fleet ; went
on board of our ref,e&ive ships which were immedi
ately cleared for action : such of the tracfptrts as
could be got into the Grand-cul-de-fac were got in
with great expedition, and it was intended to form a
line with the seven line of battle ships, on the outside
of them.
bis Majefo's Ship tbe Bo,ne, at the Grand-cul-de sac
of St. Lucie, tbe %tb December 1778.
" On the evening of the 12th I failed with the
fleet fr% Barbadoes, on an intended expedition a
gainst St. Lucie.
The 13th. Made St. Lucie early in the morning,
at 3 o'clock anchored with the whole fleet est Grand
cul-de-fac, a little to the south of the Carenage;
moll part of the troops landed that night and took
poff.ffioh of the neighbouring heights witbouto,po
fition./
Extras of a Letter from a Gentleman dated on board
J. CORREE,
Pafir, Cook and ConfeNioner, at No. Izo, Hanover?
Square, facing Mr. Hugh Gaine's,
^qTHEkE Ladies and Gentlemen will be fwp
vV plied with all forts of Paltry, Cakes,
Sweatmeats, jellies, Ice Cream, &c. Entertainments
will be provided abroad, on timely notice being
given.
smaller Quantity.
Matters of Vegcls, Sutlers to the Army, Seamen,
and others, who may purchase to fell again, will
have large allowances made to them. And as
said M'Ready is an old inhabitant ofthis city, where
he has conduced the Tobacco Business as extensively
as any person whatsoever; he flatters himfllf he is
capable of informing adventurers in his way of the
qualities molt likely to answer belt in the Welt-In
dia Inlands, &c.
All orders dire& d to said Store, or to the Mann
fa&ory in the Bowery, will be properly and expedi
tiously attended to.
TO be fold, the noted and very commodious Ferry,
known by the name of Ryerfon's ferry, at tbeeaft
end of Staten-Island, and at the entrance of the Kills,
it is a pleasant situation, and commands a great deal of
business; there is one hundred acres ot good hnd, and
two orchards, a dwelling boufe with § rooms on the firft
floor, and 4 rooms on the fecorad story, a garret, a cel
lar kitchen and cellar, a well at the door, two new
wharfs which form an exceeding fine harbour for ferry
and other boats. An iadifputable title will be given.
Any perfm inclining to purchase the above-mentioned
Ferry, may know the terms by applying to Hose Ryerfon,
at the Lower Ferry.
The terms will be made easy tn the purokafer, and
poffe&i on give the fill cf Ma,
WHEREAS Catharine, the Wife of the
Subferiber, has eloped from her Bed and
Board, I do hereby forewarn all Persons from cre
diting her on my Account, as I will pay no Debts
of her cowtraaing.
PETER RUSHTON.
- R /VR. HEPBURN, Attorney, and Advocate
at Law, and Notary Public, has remored his
Office from Queen-street, to No. 481, Handv@r-
Square, next Door to Mr. Hugh Gaine's, where he
Elicits the Favours of his Friends and tie Public,
assuring them that his bast Endeavours hill be used
to give Satisfa&ion to those who may oblige him
with their Business.
D'ENNIS~I^R^
BEGS leave to inform tbe public and his parti
cular freinds, that he has opened his new store
of SNUFF and Manufactured TOBACCO in
Water-street, eppofite the Cofte-houfe, and next
door to Mr. Valantine Nutter's, Stationer, where
he intends to keep a general assortment of Manufac
tured Tobacco and Snuff es the very belt qualities,
viz.
Fine and Common Pigtail,
Fine and Common Roll Tobacco,
De, Do. Cut Do.
Kitefoot for fmoaking of ths milJeft Kind,
Scotch Snaffin bladders,
Rappee Snuff in Leaden Cannisters,
Leaf Tobacco by the Hoglhead, Barrel, or
Public Au^ion,
This Da, AI o’Clock, at tbe Cofre-Houfe IL i.w,
Will be SOLD,
Seven Hogsheads Loaf sugar.
And one o’Clock at tbe Cefte-HouJe,
The fine sloop NANCY THORNTON,
prize to the Gabbier, built in Virginia on
the Pilot boat conftradion; she is quite a
new vessel, fails remarkably fattand will make
an excellent cruizer, she is abundantly well
found in Materials, and may be fitted and lent
to sea at a small Expence.
At tbe fame time will be fold,
The Brig BOLD DEFIANCE; they lie at
Wells's wharff, and the Inventories to be
seen at the office of
THAT oa Thursday next, the 4th Day
of February, is appointed for Pay
ment to the Officers and Company of his Ma
jesty's Ship Ardent, of their several and re
fpedive Shares of the net Proceeds of the
Schooner Catharine, captured the nth of
December, 1778, by his Majefly's Ship Ar
dent, under the Command of James Gam
bier, Esq; condemned as a lawful Prize by
the Court of Vice- Admiralty for the Province
of New-York; on which Day such Payment
will be made on board said Ship, by the Sub
scribers, Agents to said Captors, and who re
side in the City of New-York.
JAMES DICK,
FREDERICK W. GEYER.
January 30, 1779.
TO- MORROW,
At Cunningham and \Vardrop's
AuUiorte.Room, No. 23, Wall-Street, op
posite the Coffee-Houle, will be fold, '<
An Assortment of Dry Goods.'
L E N,
OUT of the pefidge of No. 853, Hanover Square,
in the night of Friday, the 22'd inftint, a large
black Leather T>unk, containing a number of ruffied
and plain shirts, flocks ftekines, bendkerchiefs, cm
vats, dimity waiftems arid breeches, two pocket memo- .
raudum books, with private letters, &c. A fmali seal
skin portm^tua „mtk, containing a number of public
and private papers, that can be of no benefit to any but
the owner# Whoever will raeke a difeovery of th?
theft, and the letters and papers 'fayed, shall receive
Five Guineas, and upon recovery of the wholq
Ten Guineas reward, by applying to Mr, Gaine.
N. B. The greater numberof the shirts mentioned
above, are marked I. W.
If the trunk, papers, and pocket memorandum books
are returned to the place from whence they were taken,
or left in an, place where tbe owner can get 'them, the
thief will be welcome to the other articles.
4 LL persons having any just demands on the
estate of Cornelius Cornell, late of
Flatbufh, Long-Island, deceased, are hereby re
queued to call on the fubferiber and receive their due ;
and all those who are indebted to the lame, are de
sired to call and fettle with
GILLIAM CORNELL.
New-York, fan. 29, 1779.
Notice is hereby given,
Cuningham and Wardrop.
Irilh BUTTER in Firkins,
Just imported, and to be fold by
ROBERT GAULT,
At his store in Water-street, nearly opposite Mr.
Jafeph A licocks.
& NTIGUA rum, and Muliovado sugar, in
hogsheads, tierces and barrels to be fold by
SMITH RAMADGE,
No. 845, Hanover-Square.
He has also for sale, cearfe Irifli linnens, and 9-6
fleeting, callicoes and chintzes, fuperfine and mid
ling broad-cloths, buff caffimers, sewing silk, flan
nels, hosiery, Scotch and coloured threads, brown
and white drillings, dewlafs, cotton checks, printed
snd check handkerchiefs, &c.
UN-AWAY from the lublciiber, living in
Chapel-street, last Tuesday morning, a negro
man named YORK, about 5 feet high, of a yellow
cast. Had on when he wegt away, a blue coat with
fiver twill buttons, and a white jacket with the fame
fort of buttons, blue breeches, with white metal
buttons , a new blue duffils great coat, bearer hat,
almost new, cocked sharp. Whoever takes up said
negro, and brings him to his raafter, shall receive
EIGHT DOLLARS reward.
SAMUEL PEARCE.
^3^S^#^WW3W
IOK EYS E R's%
1 Famous Pills, |
C° w ell known all over Europe, for their g
% D^perior Efficacy and peculiar Mlldnefs, in
© ,erf>aiy eradicating every Degree of a certain @
$ Disease, without the least Trouble or Con- Q
finement.
X The Public may be affurcd,that this ex
ceilent Medicineis beyond any Thing, in all
9 Foulnefsand Impurities of the Blood, having 0
^ performed many aftonilhing Cures (in rbiand Q
^)) the neighbouring Cornier) in Scorbutic Erup- G&
A cions, Leprohes, White Swellings, Stiff Joints, g
Gout, and Rheumatic Difnrdera, &c.
g A late Supply,
(Directly from PARIS) —
g ' Of the above Pills,
_ May now be had of
@ HUGH GAINE, §
^ In Boxes of ios.zos.and 40s, each,
Who has in his Hands a Letter from the Rh
§ Widow Keyfer, and a Certificate from under
2 her own Hand, of their Ganuinenefs; which
any Person may have the Pcrufal of by ap- W
re plying to him at his Book Store in Hanover @
® s <uare. —Wherethe Public ingeneralcan be (g
(applied with most Sorts of
@ Boo^s and Stationary Ware.
0 A pamphlet given with each box.o
6) ^
BW^^WW^ ®
Just publifred, b,
JAMES HUMPHREYS, jam.
AND
VALENTINE NUTTER,
And to be fold at Nutter's Stationary Store oppofife
the Coffee-Houfe,
The DUENNA,
A new^mic Opera, as performed at the Theatre
Rsyal in Cevent Garden.
The Publishers think it needless to fay any Thing
more in Favour of this celebrated Performance, than
that it had a Run of Sixty-two Nights last Winter in
London.
To be LETT, from the fol c^h
A LARGE comm dicus H^ in
Ititer, fronting William Ri cel, with 7
Ronins having Fi e Places in cacti ; a g,sd S'able for
Harfes, a Pump and Cistern, and a Work ^9bp ad
joining. Enquire of El ward Burling jißßcekmat %
Street.
Winthrop & Kemble,
Have for SALE, at their Store, No.ii JEale^
Street.
PORT wine in pipes, quarter-calks, ar!
bottles, Madeira in ditto, diltw, Mufeo
vado sugar in hoglheads, tierces and barrels,
loaf sugar, claret in cases of fix-dezen, nai
and a tew boxes of fpermaceti candles, grec^
and fufhong tea. .
To be fold, and entered u„n on
before tbe Month of May ensuing,
ACvnvenicot House, two stories h Ji, as good
as new, with # a>.good lot of ground, a 1
bake-heufe, 10 William-ftr&et. For particular
apply to the Printer. ,\
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S T 0 L E N,
TyROM theßrigapttive Jean ^Alexander Chomp
r son, Mister, now lying at Murray's Wr„,#~,
□French built Boat, I'quare Stein, with three fixed
Beams, the Middle one having a Standard under it.
Whoever will difeover the frid Th<f, and give In
formation to Emanual Walker, No. 853, Hanover-
Square, or to Capt. Thorn,fon, on board, fliall be
well rewarded for their Trouble.
'"n'° ' e LETT, a large Brick House, in Dock-
A street, with a Store-House at the Side of it,
and a good Stable fronting Bayard-ftreer. The whale
very convenient for a Merchant. Enquire of Hugh
Gaine. A good Kitchen Gardner wanted. Apply^
above.
To be leafed for a Term of Tears,
TWO LOI IS of GROUND, formerly the
property of Mr. John Martin, deceased. The
lots are mod pleasantly Glutted at the lower end of
the Broadway, arid oppefite the battery, havi% a
handforae profpea of the North and East Riv ers,
They being near the Whitehall-Slip, where all the
beats frequent, as well from Long and Staten-
Islands, as from the Men of War and Transports,
renders it a most advantageous place of bufnefs.
Any person inclining to Icafe the above lotts either
separate or together, may know the terms by apply
ing to VALEN FINE NUTTER, Stationer, oppo
site the Cotfse-houfe.
FOR SAL E,
A Few Hegfheads of OLD RUM, and Barrels of
Irifli BEEF. Also an Assortment of DRY
GOODS, on the lowest Terms for ready Money.
Apply to George Graham, No. 20,, Q^een-ftreet,
near the Fly-Marita.