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:<MAN's JOURNAL; or, New
/amp^u^e Gazette.
^.rUOVRNAL
to thc^r Coomers.
FEIS P^er, No. 26, complects the
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d, Jdhr, and it is found
.y-t ;e T, r the Publishers have
for oOr Tii..;. oy the Rife of Paper,
th= ex fivaganr Demands for the Necef
cf JTO, »hije tdey have been obliged
furrOh th^'aper at a fix'd Price, and the
pave been at Liberty to ask what
f ind some of them refufe four
4.hi ^y they paid for the fame Arti-
M hs'paft;—in short, if they were
jp. cee. 2 n the fame Channel, they must in
.iubly mpoverifh, starve and ruin them-
Q V ^ S in J plentiful Country, which would be
mull unnatural Rebellion in this enlightned
.ye, and acre especially while we are con
ending & the inestimable jewel LIBERTY.
^ r Contention feens to be almost bro't to a
rids, wh the, we f 11 be Freemen or Slaves.
One lid Pufo vote, perhaps, with the
juthern Truy, n in a great Measure, fet
e th" Point # ARC then, How to proceed as-
Tward., i^ planning, contriving and put
. ng in Execution'thofe Schemes that may be
ropofed hy the learned and ingenious Politi
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Public Paper as much in cllabThing on a
ffo bars, those Liberties and Privileges they
have gain'd, as there was a Necessity of these
Ihha id neceffar, Vehicles for overthrowing
.fifr and tyrannical Power, and bringing
,V ^ht those wild Projectors, wrong head
entbufiaftic Promoters of the present
cr^aura!, cruel, and bloody WAR.
;" ere seems indeed a Necessity of publifh
-Irr ^ our Countrymen and Fellow Citizens
, senes of Action, and the Occurrences of
present Day—therefore 'tis propos'd to
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file's Office in Portsmouth, to be fold out
Al who may apply, at such Prices as shall
, - npert with the Prices of the Stock and
.'er Things.
The next Paper will be at 9d. single to
- A fe who intend to be constant Customers,
• to transient Customers, and cheaper to
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I'here will be a Number of the Papers to
LA at the Printing-Office in Exeter.
From the PENNSYLVANIA PACKET.
In COUNCIL of SAFETY.
Lanca/te, November 8, 1777.
ORDERED,
ff^H AT
be authorifed and required to collea without
delay, from such of the inhabitants of the
county of as have not taken the oath
of allegiance and abjuration, or who have
aided and assisted the enemy, and from such
well-affected persons as may be able to spare
them, arms and accoutrements, blankets,
wollen cloth, lincey woolfey, linen, shoes and
Lockings for the army, that they appraise the
fame, when taken, according to their quali
ties allowing at the following rates, viz.
For a new single blanket, three pounds,
and in proportion for inferior kinds.
For strong, large, well-made shoes, twen
ty five (hillings per pair. For good yarn Lock
ings, twenty-two Killings and fix-pence per
pair. For good well manufactured cloth,
three quarters wide, one pound ten Killings
per yard. For good lincey woolfey, yard wide,
fifteen (hillings per yard. For good yard wide
linen, for soldiers shirts (about an eight hun
dred) fifteen shillings per yard. For good
tow linnen, eight shillings per yard.
And that the fame be delivered, when so
taken, to the Clothier General, or his agent,
with whom they are to correspond in the dis
charge of this business, and that they draw
on the said Clothier General, for the amount
of the goods so collected; the said Cemmiffi
oners to be allowed for every day which they
Jhall employ in this business, the sum of
twenty Killings per day each.„
By Order of the Council of Safety,
THOMAS WHARTON, Jun. President.
In COUNCIL o f S AFET Y.
Lancafler, December 4, 1777.
Ordered, That the Commissioners appointed
by an ordinance of ^he Council of Safety of
the eighth day of November sass to collect
'arms, blankets and eloathing, be impowered
to appoint assistants, and to use force where it
may be necefiary : And all officers civil.and
military, and others, are required and com
manded to aid and assist them in the execution
of the premises: And the said Commissioners
are impowered to allow reasonable wages to
their assistants during the time they (hall be so
vein ployed.
By order of the Council of Safety,
THOMAS WHARTON, Jun. President.
In, GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the
Com?uon-Wealtb of Pennfflvania.
FRID Br, November 21, 1777.
AGREEABLE to the order of yesterday,
the Honorable the upreme Executive
Council cameinto the Assembly Chamber;
and then they, together with the House, pro
ceeded by ballot to the election of a Prefi-„
debt and Vice- President, when his Excellency
THOMAS WHARTON, Junior,
Esquire, was elected President, and the Ho
norable GEORGE BRYAN, Esquire,
Vice-President.
A Declaration of the said ele&ion was
made and finned by the said President, Coun
c:l, and General Assembly, and is as follows,
viz.
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of the General Aiiembly.
In GENERAL ASSEMBLY^
Saturday, November 29, 1777. . #
THE bill intitled, “ A further .supple
" "ment to the aft intitled, An aft for emit
“ ting the sum of Two Hundred Thousand
" Pounds, in bills of credit, for the defence
"\of this State, and providing a fund for fink
" ing the fame by a tax on all estates, real
“ and personal, and on all taxables within
“ the fame," —was read a second time, and
being then again read and debated by para
graphs, was ordered to be tranferibed for a
third reading, and in the mean time printed
for public consideration.
Extras from the Minutes,
JOHN MORRIS, Junior,
Clerk of General Assembly.
Afarther Supplement to thb all intitled, '' An a&
for emmitting the sum of Two Hundred Thou
sand Pounds, in bills -of credit for the defence
of this State, and providing a fund for finking
the fame by a tax on all efates, real and perso
nal, and on all taxables within the fame.
WH EREAS by an ad of General
Assembly of this Common Wealth,
intitled, " An aft for emitting the sum of two
Hund red Thousand Pounds, in bills of credit,
for the defence of this State, and providing a
fund for finking the fame by a tax on all
estates, real and personal, and on all taxables
within the fame," it isenadled, that bills of
credit to the said value of Two Hundred
Thousand Pounds (hall be prepared and print
ed, within three months next after the publi
cation of the said ad, under the care and
direction of John Bayard, Robert Knox, Jo
seph Parker and Michael Shubart, Esquires,
in the fame manner by the fame directed.
And whereas by the hostile invasion of the
State, the business aforefaid has been so hin
dered that the fame could not be completed in
the time aforementioned, and the aforefaid
Joseph Parker is deceased, and the said John
Bayard and Robert Knox cannot constantly
^attend the business aforefaid.
Be it therefore enabled, and it is hereby enabled
by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Com
mon Wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met, and by the Authority of the fame, That
re ALL PEOPLE.
To whom these prefeat^ , ... ma J con <% %
The General Assembly and Supreme
Executive Council of the Common Wealth
cf Pennffoania, fend greeting :
KNOW YE, That we the Representatives
of the Freemen of the Common Wealth of
P^nnfylvania, in General Aifembly met, at
the Court house at, Lancaster, together with
the Members elected by the said Freemen to
serve in the Supreme Executive Council of
the said Common Wealth, have, agreeable to
the direction of the Nineteenth fe&ion of the
Constitution of the said Common Wealth,
duly and fairly elected and chosen by ballot
his Excellency THOMAS WHARTON,
the younger, Esquire, President of the said
Supreme Executive Council, and the Honor
able GEORGE BRYAN, Esquire, Vice-
President. And to the end that due regard
and obedience may be paid to them in the
execution of their refpe&ive offices on all oc
casions. We do hereby make known and de
clare that the said THOMAS WHARTON,
Esquire, is President, and GEORGE
BRYA N, Esquire, is the Vice-President of
the fail Supreme Executive Council.
In Testimony whereof, We have hereunto
set our hands and seals, the twepty-firil day
of November, in the second year of the Com
mon Wealth of Pennsylvania, and in the year
of cur Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy Seven.
Extracts from the Minutes,
be, and they are hereby nominated and ap
pointed to superintend the press, and to do
and perform all and every the ads and things
in and by the ad of General Assembly afore
faid directed to be done by them the said John
Bayard, Robert Knox, Joseph Parker and
Michael Shubart, or any of them, as if the
said
had been appointed in and by the fame ad.
find be it further enabled by the Authority
aforefaid, That the bills of credit which have
been or ffiall be printed, numbered, signed
and perfected, agreeable to this ad and to the
ad to which this is a supplement, shall pass
current within this State, and shall be as good
and valid as if the fame had been prepared,
printed, numbered, signed and perfected with
in three months next after the publication of
the ad to which this ad is a supplement. And
all persons who shall counterfeit, alter, or
knowingly utter any counterfeited or altered
bills in the similitude of the true bills issued
by virtue of this ad, (hall be liable to the
fame punishments and penalties refpedivelv
as by the said recited aft is directed to be in-
Aided.
LONDON, Odo. 28.
They write from Rome, that Mr. Cimadi
de Cingoli, who was taken up there a few
years ago at the request of the Court of Na
ples, for having about 30 years ago murdered
his brother, who was both a priest and a pre
bendary, had at firft taken out a pardon.
After a judicial enquiry into, the validity of
the pardon by the Congregation of Immuni
ties, it was determined that he was unworthy
of it; he was therefore condemned to be
drawn to pieces by horses : But his Highness
has mercifully condescended to change his
sentence to beheading, which he will undergo
at Macerata, where he is now confined.
A certain Officer of the guards, whose taste
Extract of a letter from Chatham, O&o. 26.
" The Shipwrights and caulkers of this
dock-yard' continue to work ons tide a day
textra, to expedite the building of the follow
ing Ships, besides those fitting for fed, viz.
building the Atlas, of 90 guns ; Montagu, of
74; Alfred, of 64 ; Leander, of 50; Dolphin,
of'2o, and ' Nymph (loop, of 14 guns. Re
pairing Namur, of 90 guns; Robust, of 74,
and Montreal, of 3,2 guns.
' Anecdote of Mr, Foote.—The day Mr.
Foote set out for Dover, about an hour before
he went into his chaise, he walked into every
room in his house, examined with an accuracy
not usual to him every article of furniture he
had, but more particularly his pi&ures, of
which he had a large and elegant assortment.
When he came to the portrait of Weston, he
made a full stop, as if by some secret impulse,
and riveted his eyes upon the countenance of
his old acquaintance for above ten minutes,
without uttering a syllable, Then turning off
with a tear in his eye; he exclaimed, poor
Weston ! But the words had scarce dropped
from his ,'lips, when with a tone, as it were
cf reproach for his seeming Security, he re
peated again, poor Weston ! It will be very
Shortly poor Foote ! or the intelligence of my
spirits ceceiyes me.
Letters from Amsterdam mention, that the
affairs of the Dutch East India Company were
in a very flourishing condition, and that two
companies of Engineers were ordered to em
bark for the Cape of Good Hope. The States
General last year renewed the charter of this
Company upon very liberal terms; for, find
ing that the Company had of late fullered
greatly, as well by a decline of commerce as
other losses, they accepted the sum of two mil
lions of florins for a new charter of 30 years,
instead of three millions, which they had paid
for the former under the fame conditions, and
for a like term.
Nov. I. By the death of Mr. Foote, after
that of Messrs. Barry, Woodward, Shutter,
&c. almost every man, • (Garrick, Macklin,
and Yates excepted) who was deemed capital
on the stage only ten years ago, is now gone
to his long home, to that " country from
whose Bourne no traveller returns."
Extract of a letter from Lijbon, Sept. 24.
" The day before yesterday, the Queen
Dowager, Conford,j his late Majesty, after
taking leave of the King, Queen, and Royal
Family, set off with a large retinue in a calafh
drawn by fix horses, for Madrid. She is only
going on a visit to her brother the King of
Spain, and not to retire into that kingdom, 4
as has been reported. Don Nettlet goes with
her, who is charged with the lag ratification
of the treaties between the two Courts, rela
tive to their American settlements. Pombal
begins to appear again, but not at Court, or
any of the public meetings. The affairs of
that Minister are fettled ; the Court have
taken possession of his treasures, and he has
only a pension to subsist on ; thus is the public
clamour at length suppressed."
Nov. 4. Yesterday advice was received of
the arrival of his Majefly's sloop Egmont at
Portsmouth, from the Newfoundland Ration, ;
die has brought dispatches for government,
which were carried to the Admiralty-office.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, Nov. 2.
" Arrived the Lucky Adventure, Tonke,
from Dantzick for Bristol, file had her malls
.blown away in a gale of wind; the Egmont
(loop of war, from the Banks of Newfound
land ; the Centaur, Captain Hughes, and
the Adive, Captain Williams, from Spit
head to dock ; arrived at Spithead the Au
rora man of war from the Downs."
Extras of a letter from Ramfgate, Olio. 31.
" Yesterday, in a violent gale of wind, the
following vessels were driven on shore near to
the North Pier, and others were brought into
the harbour without anchors and cables, viz.
the brig Mair, Richardson, bound to Antigua,
bulged ; the Mayflower, Kilfon, bound to the
Miffifippi ; the St. Michael, Neal, to Corke;
the La Bella Chante, Oliver, to Oftend, full
of water, and is unloading; the Edward,
Whitney, from London to Falkland-island ;
the Tyger, St. Barbe, bound to Falmouth ;
the Charlotte, Johnson, the Experience, Sallo,
the Bourdeaux packet, Howell, the London
packet, Winter, the Elizabeth, Kickley, the
Hornet, Griffiths, the Pollem, Spearfhot, funk
at Broad-stairs ; the brig Henwell, Capt. Hol
land, from Hamburgh to Briyol, loft all her
anchors and,cables ; the Two Sifters, a (loop,
Arnot, with damage, and two other foreign
(hips."
Extrafl of a Letter from Captain Wilson, of
the Mary Letter of Marque, dated Madeira,
Sept. 29.
r In our passage hither we fell in with a
for intrigue.^.renowned, war ; a few
obliged to I& hiinfelfdown into the Rrct 2
.a$ .neip ot t (beets: in the neighbourhood
of Grosvenor-square, when • wr.tchc
ming up to his affiftanc'e received him i : d^i^
arms, and brought him to the round-houle ;
when the Night Constable, by means" cf a few
guineas, dismissed him without bringing him
further than his own tribunal.
The Irilh national debt and charge of the
several eftablifliments, which for two years,
ending Lady Day 1775, amounted to 2, 598,
7741. at the two years ending Lady-day Q 77,
amounted to 2,561^651. and the hereditary
revenue, which at the former period amounted
to 853,0561. in the latter amounts to 926,9041.
1 he firft regiment of guards is to be review
ed by his Majeftyjn Hyde park, the begin
ning of next week ; as well as the second and
third very soon after; when further draughts
will be made fiom each regiment to reinforce
the army in America.
Extrafl of a letter from Nantz, Oslo. 24.
" The Admiralty of this place, in the case
of the two Weft Indiamen, in which Mr.
Long is concerned, have not determined the
business in favour of either party, Englilh or
American. The goods remain under the
King's care. The determination of this suit
in favour of the English, will entirely bar the
Americans from bringing any more prizes
into the ports of France; and Spain, we
hear, has determined they (hall not come in
there ; for so we hear by letters received from
Madrid and Cadiz. Several prizes are lying
at L'Orient, the fate of which will be deter
mined by the sentence of Nantz."
THE state lottery commenced drawing at London the
17th November last, allows time for Uriah Hen
dricks to dispose of a few state lottery tickets just received
per packet. The Gentlemen who engaged said tickets
will pleafeto call for them this day, at his office in Han
over- Square, or they must be fold to the firft who comee,
the time not permitting to keep them.
The S CHEME.
No. of Prizes. Value of each, Total value
2 Prizes of £.20,000 is £.40,000
3 10,000 30,000
4, s°oo 20,000
8 2000 16,000
io loco 10,060
30 500 15,000
200 100 20,000
500 50 25,000
15,900 20 318,00®
16,6 57 Prizes. £.494,000
First drawn for the firft ten days,7
£.500 each, 5 00 °
33,343 Blanks. Last drawn, 1000
50,000 Tickets., £, 500,000
The prizes are payable at the bank cf,England, also
in New-York, at Mr. Hendricks's office (for the tickets
he fails) who expe&s to receive advices from time to
time of the success cf his tickets, also a coramiffioner't
book of the whole lottery, when finished.
fa
guns as we^ <?
that we Hf it th> r, >^
gan pepp-' i ^ withoufeo^ us
any hurt. Our < :n irere ail in high spirits
a ! tue fmalinels cf .f: enemy'^ vefd ft?
beQ ^.l) . a flip with as
many guns, did uyt a little help to aa^ -
their courage. The engagement continued till
about dusk, when the privateer bawled off tc
repair her main brace, and we flood on our
course, and thus saw no more of her. Thant
heaven we had not a man hurt. Mess. Williams
and Grant, our two passengers, were upon
deck all the time."
TWENTY GUINEAS
As an apprentice fee will be given with a healthy
sprightly girl, about eleven years eld, to learn ei
ther the trade of a milliner or mantua-maker, &c. and
take preper care of her till she is eighteen years old ; the
will be well fitted in deaths, and Ten Guineas given
towards a supply of that article for the time.
Any person whom this may fait will leave a line with
Mr. Gaine for Z. mentioning the particulars, &c. which
will be answered, but none need trouble themselves who
cannot give approved security for the performance of the
above.
*||* A decent middle-aged woman, of good charafter,
that understands somewhat of cooking, &c. can have a
comfortable place in a small family, and leave a line
where to be found under the above direction.
To be SOLD-
A Few quarter calks of best old Cherry wine, and also
a few jars of Spanish olives, and kegs of anchovies.
Enquire on board the ship Phillipa, at Bache's wharf.
A LONG BOAT,
WA S taken from the ship Choptank, lying at
Cruger's wharf, on Friday night the isth inst :
The boat's bottom is new paid with pitch, and all black
upperworks, the rollock in her stern is broke away, with
about a foot an and half of the board. Whoever will give
any intelligence that Ihe can be found, Ihall receive half
a guinea from ALEXANDER M'LARTY.
ill
Charles Oliver Bruff,
GOLDSMITH and JEWELLER,'
At the sign of the Teapot and Tankard, No. 1,6,
Queen-street, At the Corner of Golden-Hill,
THOSE gentlemen of the navy and army, and
others, in want of swords, may be suited with all
forts^ lilver mounted; cut and thrust and cutteaux de
chafe, mounted with beautiful green grips, ar whatever
other forms gentlemen may choose; and light-horse
swords with death's head and cross bones. All fort of
silversmith and jewellery work made and mended. Has
for file, ladies paste buckles, stock and knee buckles,
stone b'roaches, seals, stone rings, ear-ings, an excellent
Ikeleton watch, a variety of stone sleeve buttons, black
ebony, red wood, and buck handle table and desert
knives, penknives and feiffars; plated shoe, stock and
knee buckles. He has employed a cutler, who makes,
grinds and polishes all forts of work in his way, and
makes scabbards of vellum, parchment, and calf-fkin,
at the ihorteft notice. Has for file, screw drivers and
double worms, fit for our army's use.
N. B, He wants to employ, a Lapidary, Jeweller and
Cutler. Razors, lancets, Swords, Bayonets and dirks
made and mounted; fleams, /hears and feiffars ground;
guns and pistols flocked and mounted in the neatest man
ner, and locks polished with the greatest dispatch;
watches repaired and glasses fitted in, Most money
given for gold, fiber, diamonds, ivory-black, ebony
and tortoise-shell.
Loft or mislaid,
A Silver watch, No. 650, maker I. Crawford, New-
Castle. Whoever will bring the said watch to
the printer Ihall have three dollars reward.