The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1778-04-13 00:00:00, page 1

From a late English Paper.
SIR,
IN. the seditious publications issuing daily
from the Americans among u$ we hear
of nothing but the heroism, gen^rofity,
and fentimcnt of the New-England men,
in their treatment of Burgbyne's army,
as if it were so very noble a thing to fulfil a
rtptuhtion } the breach of which might be
prevent the Juice of Food being conveyed to the, fiver
i and made Blood, which is often the Case with. Children,
and is attended with a bard Belly, slinking Breath,
frequent Fevers, Rickets, and a Decay of Strength in
the lower parts: Likewise fettled Aches'and Pains in
the Head, Swellings, old Sores, Scabs, Tetters, or
Breakings-Out, will be perfectly cur'd, andthe*Blood
and Skin rejiored to its original Purity, and Smootb
nefs -, they purge by Urine, and bring away the Gra
vel, and effectually cure all Obfiructions of the Urine,
or Ulcers in the Kidneys. They at once firike at the
true cause of the Scurvy, and entirely defray it, at all
feorbuttek Humors and EffeSks, Root and Branch, so
As never to return a^ain, and what makes them more
commendable is, they are fall as agreeable to both tafe
and fight, as Loaf Sugar; and in their Operation as
innocent as new Milk. ° "
I have by theft Plumbs cured a great many Children
of Whooping or Chin-Coughs, and Agues, c whicb Dis
tempers are very common and t/odblefame to Families,,
and the Want of these Plumbs are the Ruin of Many.
Children's Conflitutions.
These Plumbs enrich and sweeten the whole Mass of
Blood, carry off all gross, corrupt andputrid Humours,
and create afrejb and healthy Completion in fuel)as
are affixed by any putrid Matters.
The Plumb is agreat Dieuretick, cleaning the Reins
of Slime; it expels Wind, and is a sovereign Medicine
in the Cholick and griping of the Guts. It allays and
carries off four Vapours which occafon many Disorders
in the Head. It opens all Obfruaions in the Stomach,;
Lungs, Liver, Reins and Bladder; caffes a good Ap
petite and helps Digestion. It hath been found won
derfully fuccefsful to Juch Persons as are going into
Chronical Difempers, as Afbmas, Pbtbifcb, Short
weft of Breath, Dropfes and Yellow Jaundice. Now
I hope all impartial Persons are fatisfied, that the Me
dicine which works upon fuels Humours, will almofl
teach any Diflemper, if not too far gone, face Corrup
tion aid Putrefaction are the Fore-runnernof all Dif
eafa; therefore no better Pbyfck can be taken for all
Ages, Sexes and Conflitutions, from Infancy to an old
Age. Price Bs. Sold by Hugh Gaine.
By MAJOR GENERAL
JAMES ROBERTSON,
COMMANDANT of New-York.
WHEREAS the Streets of this City, are con-,
trary to former Usage, much neglected, to the
great Inconvenience and Annoyance of the Inhabitants :
And it being abfolately nec&fary that they fould be
cleanjed as Joon as possible ; I do hereby direct and
order all occupiers of Houses and Lots in this City, and
- all Sextons of Churches, immediately to cause the Dirt
and Filth in 'the Streets and Cellars, oppofte to such
Mbufes and Lots, and Churches, to be faeeped and
raked into Heaps in the Middle of the Streets, ready to
be removed by Carts which Jhall be appointed for that
Purpose. And, I do further direfl and order the
Barrack-Me,er of this City, and all Superintendants
of Hospitals 7 immediately to cause the Dirt and Filth in
the Streets oppofte to such Barracks and Hospitals, and
the Dirt and Filth in the Yards and Cellars thereto
refteaively belonging, to be fweeped, raked and mo
-rved into Heaps in the middle of 'the Streets, ready to be
taken away by Carts, as before mentioned.
And whereas nothing conduces more to procure Health
tha@ Cleanliness ;I do further direst and order, that all
Occupiers of Houses and Lots, Sextons of Churches,
Superintendents of Hospitals, and the Barrack-Ma,er
of this City, to cause the Dirt and Filth in Cellars and
the Streets, opposite to those reft>e&ive Lots and Build
ings, to be fweeped and gathered into Heaps in the
Middle,of the Street, on Saturday in every Week,
when Carts Jhall attend to remove the fame: And
upon Complaint being made to me, of an, neglect in
keeping clean the Yards, Cellars and Streets of an, 0J
the abo^e described Lots and Building, the Person or
Persons conviHed thereof, Jhall be severely punifoed,
prevent fueb Delinquency for the future.
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Dr. R YA N's
Incomparable Worm-destroying
SUGAR PLUMB S,
Necessary to be kept in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by all People wb& have bad
of them in Creat-Britain and Ireland, Jor their
transcendent Excellency in the defraying ^ Worms of all
kinds both in the Bodies of Men, Women, and Children,
by not only breaking the Knots in the Duodenum or Gut
next the Stomach, but the, pass through the smallest
Faffages of the Body, and purge away the ropy and
Jitmy Humours which are tkeYakfe df thofepernicious
Permin,,apdtl^ Source of manyother Disorders; the,
are one of^he be, Purges in tb^whole kferldforgrofs
bodied'Chudren that are apt to breed Worms, and have
large Bellies ; their Operation is mild, fafe and plea
sant ; the, wonderfully clean, the Bowels of all fliff
and clammy Humours which flop up the Parts and
Monday, April 13, 1778.
N E W-YORK
AND
WE E KLY
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.
Publilhed February 2, 1778.
Containing tbe earheft lattices
O Printed by HUGH GAINE, AT THE BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
retaliated two-fold on their own heads. That
the New-England men are capable of genero
sity and sentiment, I flhall believe, when I
believe them capable of loyalty, and love to
their mother country. That the Congress, or
even the celebrated Washington, are capable
of candour in their translations with our peo
ple, I may believe when I forget the deceit of
the firft in the affair of their men taken by
Foster at the Cedars, and the quibbling used
by Washington in his correspondence with
Walcot. 'But, if the Americans be so gene
rous.and sentimental a people, and we be so
blood- thirsty, cruel, and felfifh, how comes it
that we permit among us a committee for en
couraging acts of piracy against our own trade
in every villain of Europe and America, (for
such a consequence, I maintain, mud follow
a subscription for American pirates,) and that
we hear of no subscription among them, nei
ther for soldiers taken prisoners, nor even for
sailors, taken by pirates, and left abandoned
in places where they have no acquaintance,
protestor, or friend? Aik any of our Officers
and men, who have been prisoners in the rebel
countries, and they will tell you, that sober
men durst not shew them even common civili
ty, for fear of persecution ;•and that such was
the enthusiastic hatred raised against them in
their mobs, by their demagogues, that they
have been often obliged to stand in their own
defence to protest themselves from insult. It is
true we often hear, in letters from America, of
the good treatment which individuals receive
among them: but we know that every pri
soner's letters are opened ; and if there were
the least reflexion on their upfartfoifs, it
might cost them their lives. But lam yet to
hear of a man returned from among them,
who speaks favourably of them. It is well
known, that boys and mobs are set on to in-,
fult and abuse every English prisoner ; that
sailors, under pretence of having run in debt,
have the alternative given them of a goal, or a
pirate vessel. When the garrison at St. John's
capitulated, because they had no provisions,
and no place to retire to, the rebels were so
much afraid of them, even when unarmed,
that Schuyler addressed the officers, telling*
them, he was in their power and depended upon
§ their honour. It would have been no wonder if
§ such people had been well treated ; yet so scan
; dalbufly ill were they afterwards used, that
ifome of the young officers resolved rather to
run the hazard of perilling )in the woods, in
attempting to efeape into Canada, than con
tinue to submit to it. If Burgoyne's people
have been well treated,! should much sooner
ascribe it to fear of exasperating brave men,'
or to a view of trepanning themrinto rebellion,,
than to a generosity of which these enemies
jhave not y'et shewn themselves capable.
But why such exultation at this untoward'
;difafter, as if nothing in.hiftory equalled the
' brilliancy of i6@'oo mep, obliging 4000 to ca
pitulate, who had neither prbvifioris, nor
place to retreat to. Wonld ' Burgoyne have
'been celebrated if the circumftartce had been
ireverfed ? or would he have entered into treaty
: wfth so final! a body ? And with what view is
'alkthis bombast uttered? with a view to wea
ken the hands of government, that a few
rebels ' may triumph ' over their country.
But supposing all this bravery and worth on
the fide of America, who' ate the individuals„
among them that purchase the laurels for the
;brows of rebellion ? Renegade Britons, and
.French soldiers of fortune, with Germans and
others intermixed. In oneofHowe's skirmishes
out of eight hundred rebel's killed and taken
prisoners, not ope third were native Ameri
cans. Their active Generals are Europeans.
Walhington has never shewn activity, but
when, in a night of carelessness and security,
he dole away the Hessians. Those who have
served under him, declare, that he keeps at
more than a fafe distance in the rear. Again,
at sea, the Americans make excellent fmug
glefrs; but it is the British, and other Euro
pean feanien, that fighj their battles. In
ihort, such is the cunning and intrigue of
Americans, that they are using the strength of
Europe to get the better of Europe, while
they themselves hope to reap all the profits of
the contest ; for that the leading men of Ame
rica are bouyed up with the hopes of the new
world's rising superior to the old, and com
manding it in turn, is evident from the whole
of their conduct. And did Europe, in par
ticular, uhderftandits real interest, the several
Monday, 25 Min. after 10
Tuesday, 7 Min. after 11
Wednesday, 51 Min. after ir
Thursday, 39 Min. after 12
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
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Friday, 27 Min. after 1
Saturday, 15 Min. after 2
Sunday, 4 Min. after 3
La, Quarter the 19th;
THE
From the Royal Pennsylvania Gazette,
K,/;• of, Math 27.
Observation of General Burgoyne, upon his let
ter of complaint to General Heath, and the
order for the Court Martial consequent there
. upon being read by the fudge Advocate.
Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Court, ..
I PRESENT myfelf ^ p/ofecutor before
you, in charges of heinous nature against
Col. Henley, and befotel begin to adduce the
evidence iri Support of them, I think it a duty
to my Ration, and a-part of propriety towards
the court, to declare the principles upon
which I aft.
If the reports in my hand, and which will
presently be brought to test upon oath, do not
deceive me, public faith* has been Ihaken,
wanton barbarities ha've been committed, and
a general- massacre of the troops under my
care, apparently threatened' .In objects of
this magnitude, where not. only the rights of
a single nation, but the intefefts of human
nature are concerned, the effort of vindica
tion falls indifpenfibly, however disagreeable
states in it would join as one man to crush the
present rebellion, which aims at its present
grandeur and importance among the +ther
quarters. How far, indeed, the expedition
be plausible is another point; but the inten
tion is so hostile, as should cut off the rebels
from finding any sympathy ih an, state. While-
America continues dependent on any European
state, it may be considered as a part of Eu
rope: but as soon as it sets up for itfelf, it
will be opposed, as well by ambition, as
interest, to every state in Europe. Refpeding
Britain, her fisheries muff be refighed with
her dominion over the rebel colonies. Indeed
too much of that nursery of seamen has, for
these thirty years, been facrificed to that
unthankful people, as may be easily proved
by the decay of our filhing towns on the south
and weft coasts of the kingdom: with them
will fall our sugar colonies, and our naval
importance will dwindle to nothing with the
trade, which Should fup,ort it. In (hort, it
inatteH little how the dispute began (though
posterity will fay it was . Britain's lenity encou
raged the opposition) but on the issue of it
depends our importance as a maritime power;
nor can it be honourably or profitably ended,
unless Britain be able to perfcribe the terms
of accommodation.
: , t Detector Americanus.
General Burgoyne having stated thifobfer-'
vation, as a security against cenfUYe bf incon
sistency on his part, for not going dt large,
and in matters of inferior moment, into the
general tenor of language and conduct of
Col. Henley, declared, he fliould confine his
evidence to the tranfaftions of the 19th of
December, and the Bth of January, except id
cases where the behaviour of Col. Henley, at
other times, served to elucidate the princi^
ples and designs upon which he a&ed on those
particular days ; and General Burgoyne ad-•
mitted the words fliould stand in tire Prefer,
without remonstrance or trouble to the court,
upon the persuasion, that even as he has now
limited ,the time, a Efficiency - of evidehce
would appear to make good the whole. b l '
Subflance of General Burgoyne's speech upon open
<ing the Prosecution.
CT"<HE letter of complaint from General
Burgoyne to General Heath, and the
order of General Heath subsequent thereto
for holding the Court Martial, being read by
the.Judge Advocate, General Burgoyne took
occafioh to observe a diftindion between the
charge as dated in his letter; and in 'General-
Heath's order. In the latter the general te
nor of Col. Henley's language an,d .condua,
encouraging his inferiors, and feemihg cal
culated to excite tfhem to, bloody purposes,
was mattcr,of suspicion, belief, and reafon^>
iQ upon the plain ' principle, that it was
more candid to fuppdfedme indicator of such
evils, than a general voluntary bad dilpofitibn
among the American troops.—=That the hired
matter of charge; which General Burgoyne
pledged himfelf formally and officially ' to faf^ r
port, was contained in "the words, ," Beha
viour hyinpufly," criminal as an officer; and'
unbecoming a mhn of the most '' inde&ht, j
" violent, vindictive severity, against Un- 1
"armed men, and of intentional murder??,
Wheat per Bulhel, 12s. od.
Flour, 355. od.
Brown Bread, 20s. od.
Weft-India Rum, 6s. 6d.
New-England do. ss. od.
GAZETTE:
The
MERCU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 51. 10s.
Single refin'd ditto, is. 2d.
Molasses, 2s. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, go's. od.
Pork, 5 1. los.
foreign ano Domeffick.
I acknowledge a third impulsion upon my
mind, equally ifrefiftable—gratitude, esteem—•
naffe&ion to that meritorious, refpe&able part
of my cduntry, the brave and honest Britiili
soldier. A private man, defcilcelefs because
unarmed, ignofah^of your laws, unqualified
to make good his cause in a cotift of justice,
has no where to look for redress of injury but
to his own officers. I confefs lam too felfifh
to resign, to any brother officer, the pride and
gratification of handing in the front for the
defence of men —faithful comrades of honour
and misfortune —who have fought under my
orders—who have bled in my presence, and
who are fuffering oppression and persecution,
by the abuse of a treaty signed by my hand.
Thus much I thought proper to premise, least
any man flibuld ftip'pbfe me actuated by so
meah'affd paltry a moti+d, as that of vin
dia^e perfdiial refen'tment, agairiff a gentle
"man too of whom before these franfa&ions I
could know no harm ; and towards whom, if
I had any prejudice, I seriously declare, it was
from his general deportment, a favourable
one.—Personal refentment —No, gentlemen,
I stand upon broader and upon firmer ground,
the ground of natural rights, personal pro
teftion, and public honour ; and I appeal to
the great principles and land marks by which
human societies hold and are directed, and
which whether in times of amity or hostility,
are held equally sacred by the universal con
currence of civilized man.
As this leads me to a momentary reflection
"upon the order which you fit, originating from
the report of the Court of Enquiry: It Rates,
" After mature confidefation, that; from rhe b
" evidence ; offered pn. the fide of General
". Burgoyne agaiaß Colonel Henley, it will be
" moll for the honour, of Col, Henley, as well
" as for the fatisfa&ion of- all interested,-
". that the judgement, of la Court <Ma'rtiaL
"- fhould.be taken on hit sconduct; during his
<'command at Cambridge.t-The General .
" -approving of the^opinion of the court, or
“ ders, &C.-&C. &c."? --
I confefs I expected General Heath would
have joinedTflue with the prosecutor in this
inßance, and placed the Court Martial upon
a more enlarged balls than the honour of In
individual, however refpedable he may be,
or the Satisfaction of the mere complainant—
but, be it as it may, my purpose is anfWered--
A Court Martial is obtained, the members are
sworn, and you are bound to decide.---! know
you will feel:with me the difference between
this and common- courts ; Rich 1 a Rate of the
minutes as would fuffice for your internal con
viction after hearing the evidence, or as would
be merely explanatory rfo the person who is
totconfirm the fehtence will not be thought
fufficient here. You well know that the whole
of this matter will be published, translated,
considered, commented upon by every nation
in the world; not only reality but perfpicu ; ty
of juftite mtfft-appear upon the face of these
proceedings.-=You are trustees for the honour
of an infant Rate, therefore evasion, fubter
fuge and la^craft, Were any men hardy
enough to offer such to your tribunal, would
be of no avail; nay, were it possible any'
member could be warped unintentionally by
person's favour, or the prejudices of civil
contest. Good minds are sometimes prone to
such illusions, yet here a moment's reflection
upbh the reputation' of his country would
retrieve his reason, and what his prejudice
inclined him to adopt, his policy would
prompt him to reject.
Upon the full confidence therefore of the ne
cessary, as well as : willing justice of the court,
I sh all proceed to call the evidence---! have;
neither inclination nor power to heighten
the fads by a previous narrative, let them
ftiike the view as truth Rial! Blew them in all
the simplicity of their horrors, a monstrous
fpeCtacle from which the eye and mW will turn
aside with detestation. 1
the office, and unequal the talents of the per
son, to him who has the fuprefhe trust of his
country upon the foot.
A second inducement to appear here, is
that of private honour. I have undertaken
to accuse Col. Henley, in a degree that ought
to affed the feelings of a soldier nearer than
life. It is fit that I Hand forth in person, to
maintain my accafation, and if it fails in
-point of proof, to make him the fulled atone
ment in my power.
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Coarse Salt, Bs. od
Indian Corn per Bu. 7s. od
Coffee, is. gd
Chocolate, 265. per Do.
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