Independent journal, or, The general advertiser — New-York [N.Y.], 1787-08-08 00:00:00, page 2

the three regiments W foot which arc to eta
barK for Quebec, at Cork in Ireland, are Lieut.
General Burgoyne’s, the 4th; Major General
Stopford’s, the ^th, and Major General Wyn
yard s, tne 20th : the transports which carry these
from Ireland, are to bring home the 29th, Lieut.
General Tryon’s; the 31st, Lieut. General
Clarke’s, and the 34th, Lord Frederic Caven
dish s. None of the other regiments, either in
America, the Weft Indies, or at Gibraltar, are to
be relieved till next spring.
Fhe mod fafhionable undress at present exhi
bited by ladies of diftinftion, and tade, is the
Austrian robe, and Orleans cap ; the robe consists
of a fine mullin, trimmed with lawn ; which is
plated as final! as pofiiblc, it is high in the neck,
and thrown open to difeover a coloured silk waid
coat, which is usually worn with it—the cap of
white tiffany, plated in a manner to correspond
with the robe !
I A letter from Corunna, by the way of France,
fays, that the Santa Maria, Don Antonio de
Colven, Commander, was arrived there from the
Havanna, after being plundered of several chests
of dollars, and other things by the crew of an
Algerine galley. The Spanifln Commander ex
claimed against their proceedings, faying, it was
a breach of the peace the Court of Madrid had
re ’.de with the Dey. The Algerine Capt. replied
.that he had only added according to his orders,
which if he had not clone, his head mull have been
forfeited.
Mr. Haffings daring the latter part of his go
vernment in India, had arrived at that conium
mate height of wickedness, that he used to fend
home private intimations of his intention, to some
ofthe Directors, writ en on pieces of mufhn, which
certain applications brought out to view. Three
of the } ieces were brought home to one of the
committee on Saturday night in order to be ex
amined, and to prove that nothing can escape
them.
V/he i this kind of evidence can be got a?, it
is always the belt, because Should it prove of no
use to the cause; unlike other testimony, it may
always be turn-’d into fbmethi ig—a judicial cap
—a lawn Sleeve—or a habit of justice.
The following is f id co be a copy of a paper
left by the unhappy young gentleman who lately
shot himfelf with two piltols in Queen-Street,
Wellminiier :—
‘ Let the legislature, from mme, and ths ex
ample of thouiands, and, if they will not, let
the public at large, deprecate the head that plan
ned, and the heart that executed the baneful and
deftradtive plan of a Lottery.
•' Not that I edeem my example to merit the
commiferat on of numbers, as I ought to have
k own better than to form inch sanguine expec
tations ; but the futile hope of providing, per
haps for a wife and infant family, and giving up
a certainty, though too circumscribed to main
tain them from darving, for an uncertainty^
which, from the advantage taken of the pubj|j .
in that inftan.ee, can but rarely prove benef,ci al.
‘ Life is a jest, a bubble, a vain illufir <n [
Shadow, and merely ideal : lets defitr.ble even
than a dream ! I’ll be trifled with it no longer.
Let thofo who drag alcng wearily th e unwelcome
burden, and-who have not spirit to lay it down
—let them endure its tauntulating ! I’il no more
cf it?
Buer.”
Bill the'Confuls have rep ied to this letter,
Hat they will tranfenit a copy of it to their re-
Bftive Sovereigns, witha l poflible speed ; And
H Moorish Majesty is so impressed with the idea
Hhis requeli being granted, that he has told the
Hgliih Consuls, he will next year have a fleet in
■ American seas.
■Amidst the variety of frauds praftifed in regard
■Meditcrriaean pafles, to obviate which, a bill
■s been introduced into the House of Commons
■ Ireland, a coirespondent has favoured us with
Re fcilowlng account ofone detected about twelve
Knths ago in the city of Tunis, on the coast of
Rrbary :—A large E di country built (hip was
Rarded by a Tunisian xebecque, and though the
■after produced a Mediterranean, pass and other
■apers, certifying thac (he was a Britiih (hip,
lamed the Sr. Patrick, of Waterford, yet as the
lorfair’s Engliih linouilt could not understand a
liigle word of the jargon spoken by the captain
Ind crew, who said they could (peak nothing clfe
■ut Irish, the Moors brought the vcflel into Tunis ;
/here, on being, examined by Mr. 'Trade, the
Jritifn consul, this Irish crew turned out a set of
mbec Boors, who had poflefled themselves of a
urged or fraudulent Britiih pass, to which they
vere as well entitled as they were to (peak the
ri(h language, of which they knew not afyllable :
he event, as was expefled, became tragical—the
hip was condemned and fold, Capt. and Mate
tere ordered the baftinadd for their imposition,
and then, with the rell of their fellows, fold for
Raves. '
■ O N D 0 N, April it—May 3®.
■ Emperor of Morocco feme time iince font
■ Pacha of Tangier, a letter, which he or
■to be communicated to the different Con-
■ following is the tenor of it:
|orde r my servant Alcr.ys Mohamet Ben
■ nc Tck y toaflemble all the Consuls in Tan-
| n 'May u 1 to them, That owing to the num
rteamen 1 who ai rtiually periih. I desire
p ITe m r friends, to lend me a fufficient
k bt pilots a nd fe;. men-, to inftrufl my fai-
L ine art of n.wiga ; on, pamcdiarly in the
L, c an j Mediterranean Teas, ten to each
I who (hall have co mma id of the fame, with
Lcalomed pay and. alfowamjes, and thefol-
Ip nd Tailors dial t beundet their orders. The
mis are desired 'to pay a proper regard to this
L-E that my (hips may allo mid their way t >
Ead and Vv eh Indies, Ai J Mre me a speedy
Ext rad of a Leite
“ I never in nv r Pans, April 22,
manner, as at the / bfs was affected in inch a
vice, or mats lor performance of a funeral fer
prelent. It w? tae dead, at which I was lately
Sacchini, per f ? s requiem of the celebrated
Band, and t’ rormed by the whole of the Opera
in the Cap 'V 1 * °Qb e Cathedral of Notre Dame,
opening' nemns Church, rue St. Honore. The
fu). T / 1 the ceremony was inconceivably aw
felves . ^ moment th- Prieils pre fonted them
and ' o , 0 the altar, muffled drums, kettle-drums,
the j. “‘ er urne nts, emitted tones that affeded
t< r dee P mingled with
, r f " , lel! power was umverfal, and irrefift
i old, the giddy and the
| gmv foemed equally imoreSPed by it. The
gruad Orcaeftra next arrested our attention
which, in th w part, an Abbe of the CathS
was heard wita peculiar delight, and whose me
fodious tone recalled to the rapt foul Sacchini’s
magic powers.
*4# U AS s
annua! Grana Englilh I ’rif
tion) two of ’the . of^ ia a ce. * i
and one oF the House ■ 4 nets p . I
When Geo rgc the St' V. R'
his establishment was ios.oO'- / - When
George the l id. vi is Prince of ' ’ 00,000].
was equal to i20,c00l« at P re fo n ^. "g^mnted
taxes, and 0 ther circumstances afie dn. g the
of money, make ac l ga ^ a rence Cj -Zojjer
cent.
When Mr. Erflcm? . the other day,,to we’l.«ii
fwered Sylveiler Doug. ' as ’ d * d so* 11 the some
happy manner that m'us retorte. . re Judge
Blackflone— '-out of thy ? condemn
thee— and Io quoted Sylve 4 ter -iter,
in refdtition of Sy 1 vedie ml ’ o ' J 2 la ^ ^J/caker!
WftJ, th? celebrated bru l!e J 0
and has challenged Jomflont '“’ u i 0; “ ve
hundred ga neas, which chalk '“’ e li ti Ccll
cepted. Ihe offer was to hgh t 1 ’
or en a Rage nineteen feet sq. ai T C J ' ‘TJ’ 0 1
of the latter. Ward has also ofrei 1 j ^ orn
Mendoza and Humphrcvs, within -n
Johnson and Great Ben, who try the. a b a> *‘^
each other within this fortnight, w c y ma .e
up and deposit their money (fifty g ‘ inea s) 0,1 .
Bath March 2. The Earl of Mansfield has
accepted the Prefrdency of the Bath General Hof
pi tai.
On Tuesday the firft stone was laid of the new
C. r cfocnt building on Lanfdown-Hill But what
will Bath be, when not only two Crescents a
Square, and a new Street are finifhed, but also
a complete village is added to it on Mr. Pultney’s
ground, near the new bridge? And it is confi
centiy find tnat such advantageous terms have
>ccu offered by that gentleman to builders, that
they wiL certainly be carried into execution.
Tuesday. . ,
Some days ago, Mr. Cowper, on hi. 1 ro f t 0
Lord Oxford’s vvas followed and fecureh
people at Barton Mills, who took him c 1 1 • pi
cion that he was the noted Barrington, h -- e
extraordinary length of his fingers. Mr,. Con
per humoured the thing till he was carried to Lord
Oxford’s, at which place the matter was ter rignt,
and the countrymen who secured him, nerejn
fbrmed that they had miflaken the man, rhat the
gentleman was a L awyer, &c. &c. ‘ A Lawyer !’
laid a disappointed rustic, ‘ Aye, aye, I thought
thole long lingers were not given him for no
thing.’
Near Galway, in Ireland, there was a duel
fought some time ago, wherein one of the esm
batants, Mr. Darcy, being afflicted with the
gout, and unable to (land, fired at his opponent
from his caly chair.
On the firft appearance of Dr. Johnson’s Dic
tionary, a country fchoolmaller was so taken ith
the fvfquipedalia verba; of the preface, that he
could not refill the impulse of writing a letter to
the pompous lexicographer, which he superscribed
ir. these words :— ‘ To the moll deuteronomical
Polydoxologift, pauthophilological Linguist, Mr.
Archi Rabbi, Sopht Diotrephis—S. Johnson,
Esquire.
Sir James Johnftone’s speech in the Iloufe yes
terday, was nearly literally the following :
Mr. Speaker,
The Hon. Gentleman tells us we are not to
dare to fufpeft Sis conduct—Sir, I, for one, don't
underffand inch language, I dare fufpeft an
man—l dare fufpcfl the Hon. Gentleman—l d v
‘ you. Sir, the Chair—\ dare fufpe<R M - e
all I you
Sir Junes Johnflon, whose fpceches ar
pithy, and very wife, thinks with propri j (hort,
while iberty is flourithingin this count' .ety, that
o ight to have the liberty of JuiJudiit ry, a man
ple fcs. Nothing can be so natural 'whom.he
while we arc in danger of havingc a right, and
for speaking, the lead fatisf.fti mr throats cut
left us is to think for ourjtlws. on that can be
The fiicceeding year 1788
century since the ever memo » being exidt'y a
number of public bodies in uable Revolution, a
ready preparing to celebr tffu kingdom are al
lee with Angular markj c <‘-e this national Jubi
bation. iplcndour and appro-
Hie fifhionable pouf for a Lady’s head ar
P^WedaP^ Lhvty
hmple at the beginning, that is, in front, but
spreads majekically with gorgeous plumage, at
the collateral branches of the over-fpreadm" yel
low-craped machine. The purple Hbbons, with
yellow flupes and gaufres (wafers), are tied in
quadruple and fo^iuple knots, in allusion to the
ntneate state of affairs. The Simplicity, and
the progrefflve grandeur of the cap, are acknow
ledged jo be just emblems of the pristine and
pi dent Situation of the Ex-minister, whose name
it bears?
or Machias, and also ar
affidavit containing a particular account of their
footings and of their destination. They are
now under the care of the overseers of the poor
of Newbury-port, who are making such provision
for their necessities as hospitality to lingers
and humanity to our fellow creatures require’
untid such tune as they can find employment ’
ln 7 rmatlo . n of the Public is inserted
the following Deposition :•
The Deposition of Arthur HU Cilmore, ^d
rat others, <vbo cam& paPenaers from t-d j
heard ch. Brig
8 AHE TH, .J > tai »
THAT on rhe mh of March Dfl
wards of one hundred persons of both fox^T ’ihir"
i tosSrfgss?* ™
ned away her bowfprir, Ipr ung her for^ a„d
Last week a set of inforna' ^uao ly ab
th roats cl twenty-two (been ? 11 /‘p 11 ’ 4 ot
ana nine more at Gdlojin’r UnS
organ, for the purpose of ta^ J Mount Merriqn,
the (kins and carcafos h? G:een, near Still
feene of buchery. There - ln g ou L tne fat dnly,
ous in this (pecies of de ,en left on the
doubted but the perpe' IS . °. mcl:ain g so atroci-
rigid degree of punill ?rc 40011, that it is not
To every person SW ‘ lu ^ er the moii
perity of lieland,
iure to find, that • tvho wl Jes well to the prof-
Grand Canal is , K raUlt a ^rd particular plea
by the payme • he S f ea * natlona l woik of the
orantofi6c ’immediately to be encouraged
die oonJudV « *" “7 Parliament
cacy whir an aid.that we trull will enable
feclual bf rS t 0 ^ lv . e “ tliat Tpeed and effi-
ii cannot (ail of rendering the molt es
„ -nefits to the kingdom.
New-York, August 8.
On tne 29th u't. arrived at Ncwburry-Port
ne Schooner —, Captain Elliot, from Ma
chias, haying on board twenty men and fourteen
women, m tile most wretched and diftrefied cir.
cumftances. They brought with them letters
Machias, and also "
I hend revenuetuttTe by thc To*nl
[ board .too hotheads of^r'r^^ 317 ’ has On
’ cheons of Z r
Dundrui 1, to the northi^ ln tbe of
vessel falls in every refpeQ i° I As
Her cargo, be condemned as a hwfol n ’
.On the 1 Pi. i„ft. a d J n ^ al P rize -
place near Ennis, bctwee^f o ^
were partners in a lot of o-mn f P CJ fons who
rhe panlh of r racie ; Th^combi^^ I '
eac/flde, a and /
h ‘- a .^ k P ia ce between the father and fou/fo
agam-ft two brothers, one of whom was k H
the ip^t, and the other fn , billed c
that he is fmee dead ; the father a
fortunate men coming -d
twp fohs, were attacked 1? t It
H-by the murderers of his cSftT oS
content with having one of them a co n “
them, and the other drawing his Jaff b‘ .t’ r" 01
tacked the poor - nher and his mrvivip before
waom they allo left welieriin- j n r k e ; at-
10 defparctely .rounded as t
doubtful. 'fie murderers im, ' . 00 ^’ an ^
fconded, and have not since bee • recover >'
f the dbgrace of his owner’s feelings and genero
? iity noofFerot recompcnce has been made to
1 the Surgeon who by his great care, attention
and &ill performed the miraculous cure, notwith
itanding he was at that time labouring under very
great dikyefs, and ? .d aded on the occasion from
a P arc principle of humanity.
t J‘‘f( 30. 1 hurlday Jail anchored at Cow Bay
the Ihip Belifarius, Capt. Sill, in 2 8 days from
biexa Leona, off the coall of Africa, having on
board a few new negroes purchased there foAhe
markets on the Mutquito Shore and the Bay of
Honduras The above (hip failed from Piy
mou n on the 6th of April lail, bound for Sierra
Leona, with two ether vcffels for the fame place
a 'f in ^ C government, and under con-
voy of his Majeffy’s ihip Nautilus, with about fe
yeu hundred and fifty blacks on board, who ’ . d
ueeu ordered into exilement to that idand, is we
have lately m mioned,. Of 250 that were on
; rd tiW , no less a number than 100
t,ie of the putrid fever. What
number may have died on board the other trans
, ports we are not informed of.
,ate of the brig Mercury, loft
‘ E C en > d Ot GfeatHene ‘ i ga,requeftsour
po-wvmg that her deftruHion was evidently ow
ing to a urong-ice current and heavy swell—and
taat it was Cape Nichola Mole,not Port-au-Prince
where ms boat put in fora supply of provilion,—
SI ou!d this paper ever come to the hands of
Capt. boume, m his most Christian Maiellv’s
ferv.ee, Capt. Elmfley reqeells his accepranccC
allied S'f?*-' 13 ,!? ‘J' generous aMance
aimiued lu<4 while in diftrcfs.
I N G o 1 ON, (‘Jamaica) June 27.
•:e valuable negro (lave mentioned in a pub
cion about fix months pall, to have cut his
coat from ear to car in the goal of this town,
-com the great dislike he had to his owner, has,
we hear, to the great furprize of the faculty, been
since perfcftly cured, and fold for 120' —Yu to
| T^ ; 'Tffkng l /p Ono . J J 4 ’.
lon m the small scale T 1 l ^ r e — ri ' Q d
of the yawls or smack " • Z n ^ rcto ^ ore 5 inltead
rigged veflels °. r '^rries, fouare
inland, for" t*he p-irpo^ the
commodi-iestoa^re',/,, Janani £ contraband
fonptfon being alar?e l<^ this de '
moro.’.np- brouo ht- m.J.L ■ ‘ was yefferllay
H OUS E of COM M ON S, May i r
Lord Hood rose to ni; u
House to a matter of 77 arte ntion of the
therefore the sooner it w^cle^ , rcne< ? io ^ ^3
His Lcrdfoio said 2 A arcd u ? the better,
polite to him] had o 7 WednTfSylXfed^
P r effiop m debate, which h-l‘ U* d -? ex ’
as an insinuation that ' , en . c °nfidered
3 not tWhis duty i 4
getherwith m. Ci ; “f 0 ”;'"* ■»-
a= has coutra^d so r f a “ S?
happy hufoand was forced to 71 ’ ' her Un "
put her in a convent, bat as ih? • H °
rellmg woman, 0 „ account of her benml"’’
mon failles of wb . 1 ,. De ‘' ufy,uncom
cloyfteis, mnnyofhira^ in the
liverance, butkove ‘ nX"
bTa^/rfJS Wht> c ^d\t
the fore-runner of a M^ifX i? 'r r? I®' 1 ®'' 1
toexculpate himfelf, ™S lr ’‘ he tries
the authors of the infamous ibY’Y""^®"' 1
poor Coruman. 0 a gainst
ft-.? -?,. R LX," f s f'” o6 our ,a <i.
I TII c .?’ 1 Bermuda.
SaHy Smith ’ Tujks -i^and.
Antigua.
Dolpnin, Hughes S*- tu,
A, ? 1 nomas.
Chafe Charleston.
Schooner Two .
application forfeveral years to thefubieA
he has contrived a machine with which herep^e
lents various figures inJ l icpru-
ekftric fluid MJ and , dtvlces b }' means of the
1 p * ;ic “ lar ®
m J ^b’bmons produced by this com
A .evert pamphlet. ■ circulated at Pari,,
!.l. B. aumarcha ,s so fi ducin? a cert-in T?a
Coruman, a Panker's w ,le
: Was other wife materially damaged—th/
in the night when this accident http/ : it was
tae J>a(Tcngers could dillindly hear * ened, but
tae hood’s crew, and often hear ti cries of
heaven for affillance, and that C 'f m implore
I merciful to them—f.om which might be
1 and irom the inhumanity el Ca r circumltances,
brig, would grant no afl- C 1 the snow or
verily belie ve> foe (loop and' -d mcc, Deponeits
1 aat immr diately afcerthi. c cre ' v were foundered,
and the p? ifo n oers and r< , cata fo’°phe,deponent3
°n such j] lor t allowanc' -^ e: -pt oner, were put
. cr mpelled by / provisions that they
Cl :^ an- and othe . to part with their
v e£), for p t 0 the crew of
jo- Tine' r ‘- dns to keep them front
p na'on their ‘ fcve f al w ^ks severe sos
, afeway harb- „ P aiEl J e ’ tne ve Ael made Port
r .airs and- dLr » and there received lome re
days upo- 2° fC • —' lnd af:er k° 7er i n £ many
1 ;“ n , e P« into Ae har-
H rt T' r n L p, l ]inore » Chriflopher Cabcry
Hugh Dowdall, Edward Hufe 7 ’
^ter Murphey.
■ j ly } 1787. S-ujorn before us t
Stfphhn Jo NE3 a
James Avery, j J u ft' Pads,
By an advercifement, in the A miuu.. „
zette of the loth of May Jail, we find, that m in'
gen mas audpailofophicphvfician refidin o-in th-t
bd^to t foeefo^ 13t r e,y appHed inda^a
me air to a species of amusement very djferent
fom any thing hitherto attempted. *AI
ntenfe application for several vet. m
M' 1 ’ ^ l “fo-;<iver, about twenty miles so m
in4 CU i aS ■ t t laC pIdCS ’ Upon the of July
imt. landed, the major part of the paffentr;
&c. amounting to neariy about efohry Vr’
sons of both foxes, the Captain telling^TemM,
provisions were exhauffed, and that he could nor
carry them to Baltimore, but that the country
adjacent was rich and populous, and that the town
of Mon was no more than one day’s travel from
the place of lanamg. That said Captain un
juftiy detained watches, wearing ^rd, and
many articles of value, from thole he landed
i hat during the passage fix men died, and'de
ponems bclivc their deaths were occasioned by the
bad Usa ^ e -ved
y m (a.d Captain, viz. That Thomas M‘Don
was brought upon deck and received foch pL
mlament that ne died (aid night, as Deponents
believe they never feeing him afterwards.^
hat i atrick MjMullen was punished four dif
forent times with Much foverity that he languished
a few days and died. That Timothy Murphy
XX one rbM °“ S P^fo^ent that his fide
was laid open, ana mortified, and during rb..
blood !IVed Z hIS excrcment wa s clotted
h l ?io Col Wted matter—in this condition
Im languifoed a few days, and died.
miat three others being foized with-fevers
were totally n £g le-ed, andperifhed through S
of cai e, or proper pom ilhment— That some of
mSk/ofo m ° ft and
01 cuts received on boird rb..
VCi&L Uepouents F^