The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1777-01-27 00:00:00, page 2

Oflokr 17. The faPowirg melancholy Occi
dent happened last Week near Fort George.
Major Balfour, of the First or Royal Scots Re
giment, and his Brother, being out a Shooting,
the Major fired bis Piece at feme Birds, and cie
fired his Brother to fire also, who was preparing
to do so, when unluckily the Major ftept for
ward before the Muzzle ofhis Brother's Gon,
which went off,and lodged the Shot in the Majors
Head, who expired a few Hours after. The
Major was universally esteemed. No Words cart
express the Agony of his Brother on this melan
choly Occasion.
Yesterday Afternoon, a Gentleman was flop
ped, by a single Highwayman between Wandi
worth and Putney, was robbed cf a valuable
Gold Watch and about two Guineas. He imme
diately sent Information to the Public Office in
Bow-Street, with the Number of the Watch and
Description of the Robber; and in about an
Hour after one James Davis was flopped by Mr.
Cates, Pawnbroker, in Bedford Street Covent-
Garden, in offering the Brae to pledge, a d
being brought to the above Office, was after
an Examination committed to Prikn.
^ letter from Mr. Wright, owner of the sos
Harriot, to the Chairman of the Wfl India
, Merchants.
Sir,
" I eiteem it my indifpenfible duty, as owner
of the ihip Harriot, to acquaint the Committee
of Wert-India Merchants with the particulars of
the polite and friendly treatment received by
Captain Mill during the time that he w^s
obliged to refit the Grip at the Havann^h in his
late voyage homeward bound from Jamaica,
that they may be made public. They are as
follow ;
" 1 hat being in a hard gale of wind on the
28th of October last, thirty-fix leagues to lee
ward ci the H vatinah, the ship made so much
water that both pumps could ne-t keep her clear;
he was determined to run her into the Havan
rah at all events, not knowing whether they
would receive him or not, which he did on the
, 29th, and the Comm dore Don Jolin Baptiit
Bonnell sent a Lieutenant on board to inform
Captain Mill that he might have every thing he
wanted. Captain Mill waited on the Commo
dore, who ordered carpenters and other people
to work on the ship at half wages, and supplied
him with every thing at the fame price the King
cf Spain pays by contrad. The Lieutenant
was ordered to flay cooftantly on board to fee
that the people did their work compleat, which
he performed with the greatest putduality ; and
the Commodore himfelf came down every other
^ n ” in his barge to know what was wantir g.
'? fame kindness was shewn Capt. Mill by
Governor, who sent a party of the garrison
board to watch the unloading and loading of
Ship, that none of the cargo should be pil
l. The- fame kindness was £hewn Capt.
by two Merchants there, in letting him
warehouses at a low rate to stow his cargo
: bis ftp was repairing, and they advanced
;3&> dollars to pay his expences without
itercft, and took his bills upon meer fight
e fame, without any security of bottom
&C- Their names are Don Geronymo
,e Guercy, and Don Manuel Felix Rafch.
The ffiip was nine weeks there, and the Com
modore and Governor often sent for Captain
Mill to dine with them.
I am, Sir, your most obedient,
Humble servant
(Signed) John Wright."
The above is a true copy.
Ja. Allen, Sec.
On Tuesday last their Majesties took an airing
thro' the villages from Windfur to Beaconsfield,
in Buckinghamshire : Her Majesty happened to
get out of the chaise at aVillage nearßeaconsfield,
and fortunately flopped at a house were there was
, hiswife, and ten children ; —The fight of
or and numerous family so much affeded
lajefty, that ihe humanely gave them twenty
as: Aft rwards their Majesties paid a visit to
Boston, who refiles near the village, and
ed his Lordship would enquire into the state
of this poor family.
Yeftcrday Mons. De Saigas was presented to
their Majesties in the Orders ofhis Office as Cham
berlain of Hanover, with the Gold Key tied to
his Pocket op the right fide with a blue ribbon,
the fame as the Chamberlain of England. Mons.
de Saigas to: k leave of thtir Majesties, and he
and General Haldimand sets cut for Hanover an
Monday next.
We hear from Philadelphia, that sometime ago
one Rogers'a Baptist preacher, and a Mr. Com bes
of the Episcopal Church, and a Preibeterian Par
fan, name forgot, petitioned for a Chaplainfhip,
to a battalion cf riflemen; the concert was agi
tated with great warmth, by their several friends,
but the match was at last won quite hollow by
the Baptist.
Wednesday morning, about four o'clock, a
mefleager fr:m the Secretary cf State's office cal
led upon Mr. Akerman, at Newgate, for Tho
mas Conner, charged with the barbarous mur
der of a constable in Dublin, some months
since. This desperate ruffian complained
loudly ofhis having no notice of his journey
to London, were he is shortly to be tried,
and laid he was sorry Government took so much
unneceGry trouble about him. As he had re
peataily declared he would not be carried to
Ireland alive: he was doubly ironed, and the
constable who accompanied the King's messen
ger, acccutcred him with an iron belt, from
which arose two Chains that secured his hands.
A large knife was taken out ofhis pocket, just
before he was put in the carriage.
4 The Convicts have begun to Work on board
.the lighters at Barking-Shelf. They are chained
by the leg, two by two, and their food consists
ts legs and fains of bxs, and ox check, and
they drink fine'll beer.
Particulars of the loss of the French Ship called the
Lou fa, which was wrecked on Cape Bejador
in Biifdulgerid.
(CAPTAIN DEPUIS, Commander of the
_, Louisa, failed from Nantz, for the Coast
of Angola, the 4th of December, 1775. About
a fortnight after he left that Port, he met with
most exceeding bad weather, and on the 27th,
not knowing where they were, (for they had not
been able for several days before, either to set a
fail, or to take an ebfervatien) he confuted the
Officers of the ship, and on comparing their
Journals, they concluded that they were about
eighteen leagues to the Northward ofone of the
Canary Islands, cn which the weather clearing
up a little at four in the afternoon, they set some
fail on her, and at eleven at night, just as they
thought they saw land, all on a sudden the rud
der broke, and the vefftl rtruck on the sand, and
at high water. Immediately they cut away the
marts to lighten her, in doing which, the Cap
tain and one Seaman were washed overboard,
and the Seaman,drowned. At low water, which
happened just a;, break of day, they found the
veflel high and dry, and hll hands, being nine
teen in number, besides the Captain, went on
Shore, and then found they had got within Cape
B jador, inhabited only by Arabs, who live a
bout in tents without any fixed refider.ee or Go
vernment.
In this situation the Captain and his men be
gan to cred a tent with the fhip's fails, in order
to itore the provisions, and what they could save
of the cargo, which whilst they were doing, a
Troop of Arabs came down, who seized on all
they could in the night following ; the crew
however escaped, with what provisions they had
been able to colled, and entered into a design
of travelling to St. Croix, which they judged to
be about 150 leagues oft'; after hiving waked
about eight or ten leagues, they were met by a
nother Troop of Arabs, who ftripp/d them, and
after using them very ill, brought them back to
where they were fliipwrecked. The Arabs,
fr- m whom they had escaped, they found had
# fixed their tents there, in order to divide the
cargo of the vefLl. and what they could not im
mediately carry a'way, they very carefully hid in
the sands. The veflel they burnt, in order to get
the iron-woik belonging to her, which, as iron
was scarce in that Country, was to them very
valuable.
When the provisions of the vessel were divided
among io many people, it lifted but about ten
days, and the Frenchmen had only a small quan
tity of bean flour for their fubfiftance, which
they boiled in water; about the 10th of Janua
ry, the Arabs being in three different tribes di
vided the fhip's company amongst them, and
then parted, going upinto the country, where
they were fold and refold in several public mar
kets, and consequently exposed to the greatest
hardships,
Mr. Delpeche, the 2d Captain, and Mr. Fau
vel, First Lieutenant, (from whom we have this
account) ran away from the M^fter to whom
they were fold on the 19th of March, travelling
in the night, and lying concealed all the day,
but at length for want cf fubfiftance, they were
obliged to apply to some tents which they saw,
by which means they fed again into those vey
hardships which they had been endeavouring to
escape; at last, however, they were .brought,
and almost naked, to Mogadore, in the kingdom
of Morocco, on the 15th of April, where the
French who reside there, treated them with the
greatest tenderness and humanity. g
Mr. Chemier, Charge des Affaires of France,
on his representation of the above affair, had the
greatest success, for the Emperor immediately
Yesterday eleven convifts were removed from
the New-Goa), Southwark, and put on board
the Gulf at Woolwich, one of the machines, for
mifing bailaft. Six of the above Convids, are
to work ten years (being those who were capital
ly convicted at Guilford Assizes, and afterwards
repreived) the other fiveare to work for seven
years.
Notwithftandirg the reports of leathern
artistry having peen conftru&ed for the use of
the Bxtilh troops in America are not generally
believed, we -are afiured by a correspondent
that tuey are absolutely true, and that an inge
nious projector has brought them to such per
fefuon, that they may be difeharged ofiener
without danger, in a short space, than guns
made of iren, or any other metal.
A trial of the above field pieces, our corres
pondent adds, will be made in a short time at
Woolwich bfre Lord Townfhend, Colonel
Watson, and several other engineers.
Ii is an undoubted fact, that leathern artillery
were used with great success by the celebrated
Gurtavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, at the
siege cf Danrzig in the year 1628, and afier
waids greatly annoyed his enemies at the battle
of Leipfic.
During the cou:fe of last war government,
by laying a timely embargo on provisions in
Ireland, prevented the French and Spanish fleets
from rcceivi ig supplies cf provisions from thence,
which totally frustrated their fehemes, as it is
from that country they are enabled to lay in a
dock fufficiem to visual their fleets. The be
havi. ur cf the Americans towards our Forces
in America, in refuting to fell them provisions,
has had a like GALL Government in conse
quence has laid an embargo on Irish provisions,
except to their own fubje&; so that were the
French and Spaniards separately or unitedly
willing to tiifitt tne Rebels, (which, by the bye,
few give credit to,) they have it not in their
power to any great degree. As a proof of the
above it appeared lately in the Irish Prints that
the exports of provisions from' the victualling
ports in Ireland the year before last, on account
of the French alone, amounted to double the
quantity exported cn cur account, but all which
are now converted to the use of cur own fleets
and armies.
dispatched two special Officers to the Scuth-{
ward to repurchase and bring back all the French|
who Should be found in his kingdom. Sincel
which they had news of all the crew, except the
Surgeon, who had run away from his Matter,
and no tidings could be heard of him.
From a late ENGLISH Paper.
AS many of our medical gentlemen endea
vour to perfuadd their patients that tea and
coffee are prejudicial to most conftirutiohs, 1 fha 1
beg leave, through the Channel of your instruc
tive and entertaining paper te give the opinion|
of some of our most eminent physicians. Do&or
China, in his Treatise on Health and long Life,
fays, " We know that warm Water will, most of
any thing, promote and affirt digestion on weak ;
stomachs, and tender nerves, and by this alone
to a miracle, when cold mineral waters, bitters,
cordials, and drams, havedone rather more hurt
than good ; and tea is but an infufion in water,
of an innocent plant; innocent Ifay, because we
find, by its taste; it is neither poisonous, delete
rious, or acrimonious qualities ; and we are
certain, in its use in the countries it comes from,
which are larger than most in Europe, that they
receive no harm from it; but on the contrary,that I
it prompts both digestion and perspiration : how-1
ever, 1 fliould advise those who drink tea plen-1
tifully, norito drink it much hotter than blood-1
warm, whereby they will receive all its benefit,!
and be secure against all the hurt it can ppffibly do. 1
Dodor Charles Perry, in his Treatise onflervous|
Disorders, speaks of tea and coffee as follows :j
" 1 am. very hard of belief as to the clamours and
accusations that are raised against them, and am
very much inclined, in my private opinion to
hold them guiltlefs."—Dodfor Radcliffe, Doctor
Stukely, and D &or Geddard, strongly recom
mended bohea tea in many Cases, especially in
consumptive constitutions, drank with Cream or
new Milk.
[{^, The following Curi^fy is taken from a late
Bort m Paper. —We will only obfer% that as the
Sum total of this extraordinary Account, is to depend
;upon a Variety of Particulars, which are to be fur
!to feed by all the hones Men of the aforeJaid Town
^ B fton ; we may be assured it will be very mo-
I derate, and much' within the Bounds of the most ex
-Itreme Punfluality. By the Stile and Labour of this
: proofed ReJearch, it may be expedied, that the
}, Troops and Navy are to be sued for any Damages
§ alledged, in one of the Courts of Law at Borton.—
I A Correspondent would recommend these Accomptants
\ a more grateful Investigation,by prepefng an Inquiry
What Sums of Money the British Nation has expen
idedfince the firft Settlement of its Colonies, in defen
ding themfrom their Enemies, in ehublifting their
Trade, and in providing for their civil, military,
and commercial Efablifbments. If, afterwards,
I they would place one Sum total againf the other,
I and give the Subject a Moment's candid Confidera
-1 tion, they might perceive^ that they have been g
§ btfng their best Friends, by whom they have all
\ they possess, and but for wh.ofe Interpofitiou they
bad long fnce been under the Popilh and arbitrary
Dominion of a foreign Power.]
B O S T O N, November 21.
At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabi
tants of Boston, on Monday the 18th November,
In/lant, it? was voted, that the following Hand
j Bill be printed and delivered to the Inhabitants,
j for their Government in giving in to the Com
§ mittee an Account of the Damages they have|
a received from a SAV AGE Enemy.
ifr'flE Hon. Continental Congress, and the;
X General Assembly of this State, having }
resolved, that a just and well authenticated Ac-i
I count of the Hostilities committed by the mini-;
( fterial Troops and Navy in America, since:
March 1775, be collected, with proper Evi-(
dence of the Truth of the Fadis related, the [
Number and Value ofthe Buildings destroyed by!
them; also the Number and Value of the Vef-1
feis inward and outward bound, which have ;
been seized by them, as near as can be ascertain-|
ed ; also the Stock taken by them from the dif
ferent Parts of the Continent.
The Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, are
hereby notified, That Committees are appoint- :
ed for each Ward, to afeertain the Value of the 1
Buildings wholly destroyed, and the Expence of
repairing such as were partly destroyed ; also, to .
receive from such Peffons as have been Sufferers,i
a particular Account in writing, and on Oath,!
of the Lt ffes and Damages they have fuffered,
either in Merchahdife, Furniture, Plate, Money,
or other personal Estate.—And those who have
been Sufferers by the Army or Navy, are desired
to get their Accounts ready for the Committee
on or before the 10th of December next, when
the Committee will attend this Business, and call
upon the Inhabitants for said Accounts —And the
Inhabitants are further informed, That a fche-(
dule is delivered the said Committee, contain-;
ing the Method in which they are to proceed in;
afeertaining the fame.
The Heads of each Column being as follows.
Column I. Names of the Sufferers, and ofthe
public Buildings destroyed, or otherwise dama-1
ged-
Col. 2. Number and Value cf Dwelling Hou
ses, and other Buildings wholly destroyed.
Col. 3. Expence of repairing Dwelling Hou
ses and other Buildings partly destroyed.
Cel. 4 Expence of repairing the Meeting- I
Houles and other public Buildings made use of|
as Barracks, &c.
Col. 5. Damages sustained in Lands on the;
Neck, Common, and where their Works were|
ere&ed; and the Fences in every Part of the
Town.
Col. 6. Value of Heulhold Furniture destroy
ed, damaged or carried away, by the Officers
and others, as appears by the attested Accounts
lodged with the Committee.
Col. 7. Number and Value of Veffeh and
Cargoes, seized and taken.
Col. 8. VJ^efSt ^k, H y, GLn, Hfo
land other Buildings on the Thuds in the Har-
I bour, taken, deftrr yed or damaged.
Col. 9. Value of Merchandize and ether Ef
feds taken from the Inhabitants, as per Account
of Particulars.
Col. 10. Value of Salt thrown into the Sea,
Liquors stove, and other Articles destroyed.
Col. it. Yearly Rent of Dwelling H uses and
< ther Buildings occupied byte Officers, or im
proved as Barracks ; some of which were con
trasted for, and others taken by force, and no
Rent paid for either.
Col. 12, Yearly Rent of Houses occupied by
the Inhabitants that removed cut of Town, ma
ny cf which still remain Empty, as the Occu
piers are not returned.
Col. 13. Number and Value of Arms taken
from the Inhabitants, lodged in the State-House,
and destroyed by General Howe's Orders.
Col. 14. Value of Cannon and Stores, taken
cut of the Batteries, or destroyed, and all the
Town's Stock of Powder.
Col. 15. Charges of transporting Furnitui©
and Families into the Country, and back to Bof-
j ton.
I Col. 16. Sum Total cf the Losses and Dama
[ 1 A L T.'
THE best of coarse salt, to be fold cn benrd the sloop
Fame, lying at the New Pier, opposite the Ex-
S 'change. Enquire of Murray, Sanfom, and Cc. between
Beekman ana Burling's Slip.
SUPPOSED to be left at the 'Ferry
O Stairs the 2d inst. an eznaburg bag marked R. T.
containing thirty-fix pounds of bohea tea. Whoever
will bring the said tea to Hugh Gaine, shall receive Six
:Dollars reward.
y RANTED, a(^7ntityTf'H7^^Perfox,
$'V that can furniffi a Quantity of that Article,
may hear of a Purcbafer, by applying to Medeef Eden,
Brewer, on Golden-HiN, who will give the best Price
for good clean BARLEY.
A Day and Night SCHOOL,
OPENED by the subscriber, in the main street, twe
doors below Peck's flip: he undertakes diligently
to teach Latin and Greek, reading, writing, and arithme
tic. As he is driven from his living, with a large family,
in a destitute condition, he hopes he shall meet with en
courag^menf from the refpeAable inhabitants of the city.
TIMOTHY WETM&RE.
George and Jerenimus A. Remfen,
Has for sale at their itore between Coenties Market and
tiie Royal Exchange, uhokfale and retail,
MADEIRA wine, Weft- India rum,molaffes , sugar,
bohea tea, coffee, chocolate, loaf fwgar, fnuff,
cuecle, deck nails, beef and pork, bar iron, fkur, mi,
bread, pipes, &c. &c.
PUBLIC" NOTARY'S OFFICE;
By JOHN'C. KNAPP,
Attorney at Law, de B. R.
At No. 225, in Broad-Street, near the Old City-Hall;
BY whom the business of this office will be executed
with punctuality and dispatch, and such protzfta
;which for feme time part could not be made for want of
|a Public Notary in this city, may now be made and a
:proper certificate thereof will be given.
I The fame candid and^fatisfadt uy advicq as ufiigl, im
all cases of law and equity, and with ref,eft to the vali
idit, of deeds, wUls, and ora, <writip,-.
Executors and administrators inftrufhed in the repute
execution of their office, whereby to avoid the trouble and
£ expence which often arises from the wantof proper know-
I ledge therein.
:Charter parties, memorials, petitions, articles of agree
;'ment and co-partnership, arbitration and other bonds,
I letters of attorney, deeds, wills, mortgages, alignments,
I and all other writings drawn effeStuaiiy to answer the
[ purposes intended, &c.
E Y S E R's^
if Famous Pills, §
w °" k nown all over Europe, fortheir fy
I &c9f u P er i° r Efficacy and peculiar Mildness, in Re
;& perfectly eradicating every Degree cf a certain
; ^7 Disease, withoutthe least Troubleor ,Con-
I fi nement °
IThe Public maybe affured,that this ex-
I *( cellent Medicine is beyond any Thing, in all (so
'Foulnefsand Impurities of the Blood, having
'performed many aftoniffiing Cures (intbisand
the neighbouring Colonies) in Scorbutic Erup.
^) tions,Leprofies, White Swellings, Stiff Joints, fy
Gout, and Rheumatic Disorders, &c.
^ A late Supply,
(Directly from PARIS) {^
'°' ''° a '° ve "'ills,
May now be had of
* HUGH GAINE, ff
^f In Boxesof TO9.2CS. and 4os. e ^ c h, <^
Who has in his Hands a Letter from the '^
™' Widow Keyfer, and a Certificate from under {q
her own Hand, es their Genuineness; which (p
any Person may have the Perusal of by ap- )f
plying to him at his Book Store in Hanover rfy
Square.---Where the Public in generalcan be )£
supplied with most Sorts of
I@ Boo&s and Stationary Ware, fe
SIR, Paris, Bug-aftl, 1775.
IN Consequence of thx Letter with which you have
honoured me, the 14th of June last, I have lent
I you a small Box containing the Ante-Venereal Pills
you wrote for, and have been paid for the some. In
the Box you will find a Certificate which proves that
the Pills I now fend are of my Compofitign : And
have the honour to be finc&rely, Sir,
Your humble Servant,
Mr. Gaine, Printer and W. KEYSER.
I' Bookseller, at New-York.
Y The Widow of Jofepb Adrian de Keyfer, Esq;
I one of his Majerty's Pensioners and Provider for
the Military and other Hofpitais of this Kingdom,
I Do hereby Certify, to ail whom it may con
cern, That the Boxes of ANTI-VENEREAL
I PILLS now sent, are verily of my Competition;
the Truth of which, and to fatisfy all those who may
require it, I have given this Certificate. Sealed with
in Seal of my Arms, at Paris, theist of August,
17 7 5 . W. KEYSER.
(^) ^ S^ware ts C^rderftits.