The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1775-10-30 00:00:00, page 1

g^^^Wl pR Tt SHILLINGS reward,
r ^b al! reefonatfe. charges will be
^^ , given to any perfan who wifi bring to
A 'JOHN DE LANCET, in the B wey,
I =}''§ or faure in the city of New-Tori or
\ county of Weftchefler, a Negro man,
.g^%^ Tube has left bis mijhpfs. He is a good
tf:'- ^ ^^T^taa looking fellow, about foe feet eight
or nine inches high, civil spoken, a great corfcomb, and one
if tbebeft waiters at a table in this country ; plays upon the
French born, is a tolerable good cook, coachman and groom,
but bis vanity proving more powerful than bis benefy, he
fraudulently obtained a fiver avatch, which being difeovered
it is imagined occajioned bis going °ff b " e has Jveral fui:s
of good eloatbs, was generally called Casar, but names
Bimfelf Jofepb Low.
NOTICE is hereby given, to all the creditors of Andrew
Bofwick, that be intends to petition the General
✓tyembly of the colony of New-York, at tbe:r next Jeffers,
that be" may be difebarged from confinement, on bis delivering
up ail bis effeßs for the benefit of bis (aid creditors.
ANDREW BOSTWICK.
To be SOLD at public vendue,
On Thursday the 23d day of November next, on
the premises:
AGRIST-MILL, with two pair of stones and |
three bolting reals, and a wheat fan, all in
good order, a large well built mill-house, two dwel
ling houses, a barn and out-houses, and about 15
acres of land : also sundry houfkold goods, lately
the property of Jacob G. Bergen, lituate at Penn's-
Neck, and about 4 miles from Princeton, 12 miles
land carriage to Philadelphia market, and 15 miles
land carriage to New-York market ; at which time
and place the conditions will be made know# by
JOSEPH SKELTON, ]
JOHN IMLEY, ! Affiances
ARCHIBALD MERCER, ( $
JOHN SCHENCK. J
N° ° The premises under a good title.
A and general Assortment of
D R Y GOO D S,
- M^y be had at
p. M'D Ay I T T>s Store,
In QU EE STREET
Among which are . , „
T OWand freedef^^
Tammies and durants, r
Turkey stripes, fhalloons and fluffs, checks,
Red and blue furniture calhcoes, 2 purple %
Chintzes and muslins, humhums, -
Cambricks and lawns, white flowered f^ooys,
Rich lutestrings and mantuas, fewiQ
Scarf and hairtwift, rich fattensand prongs, black.
Black, blue, crimson and purple Munched velvets,
Rose blankets and flannels, pennittons and Bath
^x^r^ ^^^
To Mr. Norton, Surgeon, Golden-Square, London.
SIR,
AS I efleem myfelf indebted to you (as a means in
the bands of God)Jor health, I desire you mould
accept my thanks. It is 30 years face I bad the
measles, and have ever face bada scorbutic disorder,
attended with bad digefion, an oppression at myfomacb,
a pain in my bowels, with Jicknefs and fainting §
violent Eruption, a continual fever, great weakness
of body and rheumatick pains : Repeated colds had
so increased my disorder, that my constitution grew too
weak to bear any kind of Medicine, and I bad nearly
given up all hopes : four drops (which I bad been
defrous of trying some time before) was now my lafl
resource ; when I had taken about a bottle and a half,
it threw out the humour as big as a half crown on
both sides my neck, and was so fbarp that it flea'd
the Jkin off; I immediately perceived the fever and
cough to abate, and the humour continued difebarging
itfelf federal months in great quantities : I now
could digefl my food better, and was freed from the
pains in my flomach and bowels, and my cough which
bad been fettled above a year, was entirely removed ;
I defered writing, as 1 expefled my old complaint
would have returned with the winter, which bas not
been the case.
You are welcome to make what use of this you
pieafe for the benefit of tbofe who labour under the
like complaint. I am, Sir,
Your mo, obliged humble Servant,
ELIZABETH HADEN.
School House, Hanover-Street, Long-acre,
March gift, 1775.
*, Any Person, fill doubtful of the Efficacy of this
Medicine, may (by applying to Mr. Norton, Surgeon,
the Weft fide of Golden-square, near Piccadilly, Lon
don, the only Author and Proprietor, where tbefe
Drops are fold in Bottles, 6s. each) be fully convinced
of their good Effects, by being referred to many People
of Credit, who have been cured of the Leprosy, feurvy,
Ulcers, the Evil, Fifulas, Piles, long-continued In
flammations of the Eyes, and every other Disorder
arising from a Foulness in the Blood. They may be
taken in any Season, without the leaf Inconvenience or
Hindrance of Bufnefs. They also perfect Digefion, and
amazingly create art appetite. None are genuine
but what are signed by ,obh Norton, in bis own
Hand-Writing.
Beware of Counterfeits. —
Tbefe Drops are Sold by Mr. Norton's Appointment, 1
by Mr. Hugh Gaine, and Mr. Rivington, at New-
York ; Mr. Henry Knox, Bookseller, at Boson ; Messrs.
Bradfords, at Philadelphia-, and by Messrs. Purdie
and Dixon, at WilUamfburgb, Virginia, at 7s. per Bot- I
tie Sterling.
^!^LL!!EE!L™^ Printer ' Bookseller, and Stationer, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 17L per Cent.
A White Loaf of Ihe fineft FLOUR, to weigh
ilb. II 1-2 oz. for 4 Coppers.
Published September 29, 1775.
Monday, Odobet go, i„fc THE [Notify]
NE w-ro R KtoefeaiG AZ ET t L
AND.THE
WE E K L Y ft '4^7 M E RCU R Y.
Containing the freffiefl aDOUcs4^^&^t#&. foreign ani Domeffick.
&^^ s°°°°$ °°°° °@° °°°°^ °°°°*//$ °°°° $ co 0 * , ™ x/> <,@v
^ - is
X ^K^E^Y^S^E^ R's
Famous Pills,
^ C° " e " known all over Europe, for their ^
M Of uperior Efficacy and peculiar Mihinefs, in ?h
Wperfectly eradicatingevery Degree of a certain 0
Disease, withoutthe leafi Trouble or C°n- so
tyfinement. ' ,
The Public maybe affnred,that this ex
,* cellent Medicihe is beyond any Tiling, in all T
;$ Foulnefsand Impurities of the Blood, having &
^ performed many aftonifliingCures (in ibis and *0
Q the neighbouring Colonies) in Scorbutic Erup-
CT tions, Leprosies, WhiteSWellings,Stifi foints, if
j^t Gout, and Rheumatic Disorders, &c.^
^ A new Importation g
* (Directly FROM PARIS)
Of the above Fills,
. May now be had of j%
I HUGH GAINE, |
¥ In Boxesof 10s.2cs.and 40s. each, ^
W "'b° " s ' n " s Hands a Letter from the ;f.
w Widow Keyfer,'and a Certificate from ander ,*'
her own Hand, of their Genuihenefs ; which ^
any Person may have the Perusal of by ap- ''{{
9 plying to him athis Book Store in Hanover
W Square.—Where the Public in generalcan be ^
(5 supplied with most Sorts of .„
Books and Stationary Ware.^
&@,™ & ^^ •, ••"• ,;; $ 9000 <§ ^ s'°°°•;, $Q
SIR, Paris, Augufl 1,1774.
YN Consequence of the Letter with which you have
l honoured me, tire T4th of Jun/laft, I have, sent
you a small Box containing the Ante-Venereal Fills
you wrote for, and have been paid for the lame. In
the Box you will find a Certificate which proves that
the Pills I now fend are of my Composition : And
have the honour to be sincerely, Sir,
Your humble Servant,
W. KEYSER.
Mr. Gaine, Printer and
Bookseller, at New-York.
5 The Widow of Jffe,b Adrian de Keyfer, Efql
one of hK Majesty's Pensioners and Provider for
the Military and other Hospitals of this Kingdom,
Do hereby Certify, to all whom it may con
pn, That the Boxes of ANTI-VENEREAL
• T,S now sent, are verily of my C^npofition,;
", -of which, and to fatisfy ail thofeVho may
have given this Certificate. Seated with
tne Seal of n^ Arms, at Paris, theist of Awed,
'77Q W. KEYSEX.
NOTICE is hereby given to all
persons indebted to the ehate of Philip Kearney,
Esq; deceased, late of Perth-Amboy, by bond, bill, or
otherwise, to pay off the interest due on the fame; and all
persons who have any demands against the f&id estate, are
requested to bring in their accounts, that the fame m.y
be settled and paid.
To be fold for want of employ, two likely negro men,
one of them about 26 years of age, a compleat groom
coachman, and used also to houf -work : The other about
30 yearsof age, a valuable house servant, whound^ftands
gardening, and all other country work.
ISABELLA KEARNEY, Executrix.
For character and price of the negroes, apply to
Andrew Elliot, Esq; New-York,
FIVE DOLLARS Reward.
^^^^^^^^^^^^BOTRAVED or Stolen from
the fubicriber, between the
filth and eleventh inftarit, a
bright bay horse, about thirteen
Ihandsand an inch high, eight
'T^ years old, has a white sot in
hi- forehead, enC for .'he
bind font; heis marked on the
back with the saddle, and is a well bodied horse, a natural
trotter, and has a blacli mane and tail. Whoever takes
up and secures said horse, so that the owner may have
him again, shall have the above reward.
Albany, Sept. 16, (775. WALTER NORRtS.
DRUGS and MEDICINES. .
A large and general Assortment
Tobe SOLD by
EDWARD AGA R,
Living near the COFFEE-HOUSE,
WHO flatters himfelf he has it in his pwer to
furnish medicine chests of any size either for
land or sea feryice, in as compleat a manner, and upon
as reasonable terms as any one in the city of New-York,
having received from London in the last-vessel thu arrived
agreeable to the resolves of the Continental Con
gress, a very general assortment of capital medicines,
such as, Jefluits bark, rhubarb, jallap, ipecacobana,
camphor, gums of all forts, mercurial preparations in
general, chymical oils, sago, faloop, glauber and epfom
salts, fait petre, borax, fal armoniac, crrm. tartar, senna,
camomile flowers, liquoris, gentian, flower of brimstone,
with a great variety of preparations both chymical \and
galenical. Likewise plenty of hospital lint and tow for
surgeons use, with cases of pocket instruments and lancets ;
a great variety of patent medicines, and other articles in
his utual way too tedious to mention. Any person <T
persons standing in need of a supply of the above, by
giving a general order, Shall be furnifhed therewith on
reasonable terms.
Monday, 27 Min. after 2
Tuesday, 22 %n. after 3
Wednesday, o Min. after 4
Thursday, 7 Min. after 5
——wafiw tm WB*^w«auw~g.CT^ •xr.-areratA&ro xait.au
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 55 M-in. after $
Saturday, 45 Min. after 6
Sunday, 36 Min. after 7
Firs Cfdrter To-morrows).
ANNAPOLIS, October 19.
[ Ata meeting of the Committee for Chailes county,
[ on vVkdnelday, the 27th of September, Wilham
[ Smallwood, Esq; in tire Chair, and John Gwinn,
ICerk, Meflieurs William Smallwood, Francis Ware,
I Jefias Hiwkhrb George Dent, Samuel Hanson, jim,
I jblm Dent and Warren Dent, were chosen by ballot
Ito licence suits in this county, agreeable to an ord^r
!of the late convention; and Mefliems Robeit T.
feHnoc, J/miel Jenifer, Walter H. Jenifer, Jpiin H.
F-StGoe, rod Zephaniah Turner, were chosen a Com
( of CetTejponuence.
jAt the lame time, the Committee appointed Mes-
ILuurs Robert T. Hooe, Samuel Love, and Samuel
|Hanfon, to receive gifts and contributions, agreeable
I to a resolve of the Provincial Convention.
I Revived, That this Committee unanimously accede
;to the tefolutions of the late Provincial Convention,
I'l at Annapolis the 2 6th of July latt, and will so
I fai forth as lies in their power cany the fame into
lexecution.I execution.
f Whereas vast numbers of the executions have
'iffued, add may continue to issue, on judgments ob
|tailed againit many of the inhabitants of this county,
! to the great vexation of some and ruin of others,
I who have it not in their power to pay their just debts,
lat this time of general tioppage to our trade, when
: tbeireff tts wo'thlnqt command,money at half value,
I were they offered at public or private file ; and as
I much dittrel's, dferder,nd ruin, may happen before
Ithe provincial convention can have the particular
(filiation of this' q?unty under their confidcration;
I and grant relict ; Wethink it our duty, in the mean
I time, to apply^rch remedies, for theeafe and quiet
I Of the people,^sfeem to us mod just and reasonable;
j therefore RESOLVED, That where executions are
already served, and the debtors cannot pay the debt,
jor supersede, of which the Committee for licencing
1 (bits shall judge, the debtor then omght to offer the
;creditor the belt feunty in his power, before the'
' C° mU: i ttee $ which if the creditor unreason
:aUPFfufe, they are then to dire& the Sheriff of the
Icounty to enlarge the debtor at the rifque of the
.creditor.
That the Committee for licensing ftiits immediately
;give notice to the fhei iff, to leturn all inch executions
I as he has not already served, te the creditors, or per
sons who put them into this hands, and define them to
order a return of countermand thereon, unlel' sthey
can ffiew cause to the said Committee why, without
oppression, they may be served.
That it be recommended to the clerk of this coun
ty, to deliver no execution on any judgement already
obtained, without le ve of the Committee aforefaid.
That if any execution, on judgment obtained in the
provincial court fhoukl hereafter come to the hands of
I the flieriff, he is hereby desired not to terve jhe fame,
but give notice to the creditor or creditors, 01 perfdn
or persons who put the fame Into bis hands, to coun
termand, or appear as aforefaid, and (hew cause why,
without oppression, such execution may be served.
, Signed by order,
JOHN GWINN, Clerk.
PHILADELPHIA, Odo. 25.
Last week the General Affemlly of this province
I chose the Hon. Jolin Morion, Big, for their Speaker,
I and Charles Moore, Elq; Cia^ of rhe House.
! Owep Jor^s, Esq; is coiiDrued Provincial Treasurer,
joteph F< x, Esq; Barrack-Matter, and William
Crifpin, Elq; Cofe&or of Excites
, Last Sunday died of an ap gde&ic stroke, in the
fifty-third yeai cf his age, the Honour,^ PeytoN
Randolph, Esq; of Virginia, late Pielkhnt of the
TO BE LE T,
(To be entered immediately)
% tL the large and convenient store-houses at the
'{ North-River, which have bden for many years
ccupied by the crown as provision stores; two of
% man cowards'of ro feet long and three fifties high ;
v are in excellent good repair, and calculated to anf
w r any purpose of Lores for . <merchant, tiaxf^ed or
b Thtg business, and will he let together or separate ; —
also the house wherein the Commissary Generals office
was kept, which is large and convenient, and io a good
find for a (hop-keeper ; likewise the house next door to
where Mrs. Leake lives, in Naffau-ftteet, to be let and
entered the Ift of November. Enquire of Mrs. Leake.
Just PUBLISHE D, and
To BE SOLD BY H. GAIN E,
At his Book-Store in Hanover-Square;
L E TT E 'R S
Written by the late Right Honourable
Philip Dormer Stanhope;
EARL of CHESTERFIELD,
To his SON
PHILIP STANHOPE,
• Late Ereb:, Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden.
Continental Con,els, a Genth man who softened
the virtues of humanity in an eminent degree and
joining with them the founded judgment, was the
delight of his friends in priv,c life, and, a mod va
luhl>k member of foc^y, having long filled, and
with great ability and in^grity difeharged th% molE
public trusts.—To the truth of this,- his family, bis
friends, and his country bear mournful testimony.
On Monday morning, the 16th infant, before day,
a tianfpart Tup, C^t,' # HafritH. was Branded on
Biipamine Beach, on the New-je.fey coast. She
had on board Capr. Duncan Campbell, Litut.'Sims,
two Serjeants, and twenty-ore privates, bound from
Buffon for New-Ymk, as a recruiting party. The
Captain and Lieutenant got off the Beach the next
Wheatper Bushel, 6s. od.
Flour, iSs. od.
Brown Bread, 15s. od.
Welt-India Rum, 3s. 6d.
New-England, do. xs. 6d.
PRICE-CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 645. od.
Single refin'd ditto, is. id.
Molasses, 2s. cd.
Beef perßarrel, 60s. od.
Pork, 100 s. od.
L O N D O N,
Aitgvfl 4. After fhe'Trial of a certain Culprit, the
Opinion of two of the most eminent Sages of the
Law will be alked, whole Answer will determine the
Fire of all. All Peritim s, however, Wrongly re
commended and fu ported, will be of no Avail, for
they will not be attended id, if they fliduld be re-•
ceived.'
Th& following Article of Intelligence, however
extraordinary, is not mote so than true :- —A Wo
man, who lodges at the Weft End of the Town,
discovered, about a Fortnight since, as (lie lay in, Bed,
the entire Head of;aWoT forced through the Wain
scot of her Bed-chamber : She was much alarmed ;
but how did her Afttyiffiment increase, when, on the
Object suddenly difaQpea ing, it was instantaneously
succeeded by the Head of a large Baboon I The
Woman jumped cut of Bed, ran down Stairs greatly
Last week Larnpartus Sheelen was committed to
Reading goal, (or uttering counterfeit Fifty Shilling
bills, in imitation of those of this province.---H^
lately arrived heie from Germany, where lie got them
printed. On Searching his chest, which had a falfe
bottom, near 1700 pounds were Sound of the fam©
fort.'
day in a small boat, and went towards New-York,
in order 'to get on boord the Asia Man of War, but
were prevented by the zeal and activity of Lieutenant
Loveland, of Egg Harbour, who, after a pursuit of
36 hours, tock them on board a final! vessel at Cran
berry Inlet, assisted by Lieutenant Cook, with fix
men, from an adjacent county. Capt, Hastings, and
three of the soldiers, were brought to this city last
Saturday evening, under a guard ; the rest of the
foldier^, with the Captain and Lieutenant, were
brought here yesterday; Before they quitted the
ship they thr^r overboard fevpral pieces of cannon
belonging to the vessel, 60 muskets and two and a
half barrels of powder. The veflV left Bolton the
sth of October, in company with a twenygun (hip;
and one transport with fomelroops bou s .d to Halifax.
No other flips of war or troops had failed. General
Gage was to fail in a day or two, in a merchant ship
of 16 guns. The 48th and 59th regiments being
greatly reduced, the privates are incorporated into
other regiments, and their officers going home. The
object ot Col. Arnold's expedition was not known
at Bolton, but supposed to be destined againlt Halifax.
Beef at Bolton was nine-pence sterling per lb. mutton
a quarter of a dollar, and bills of exchange fold at
20 per cent, discount.
As some of the privates brought here yefterda,
are known to have been formerly in this city, one of
them a fervent, and another a foklier, it is thought
they were lele&ed as fit persons to inveigle servants
and others into the ministerial Service.
Extrafl of a letter from Quebec, dated tltb Sept.
" J.4ie 17th intt. at the request of the Lieutenant
Governor, \he British and Canadian inhabitants
afiembled on the parade, the latter were formed into
eleven companies, the former into fix. The British
and Canadian Militia for this place, will cenfift of
about itoo men, many of whom neglect, and others
think the duty hard, and the greater part are diffatif
fied with the conduct of Government, as every day
convinces therri that they are deceived. The foow
Fed, of WJ kbay, is ?,to''to Government Service,
to be commanded by Capt. Napier, it is laid fie is to
Carry eighteen, fix and nine pounders ; the flip Char
lotte, belonging to Mr. Roach, of Rhode-11l nd ;
likewise a Sloop and schooner of this place ; can't in
form you what force they will carry ; they have also
a fmaJl vessel that is lent expiefs to Button. Cur
militia mount guard from nine to nine in the morn
ing ; as yet they have not received any ammunition,
except four rounds in the evening, which gives rea
son to believe that Government is afraid to trutt them
with a larger quantity. The public in general are
diffitisfied with Government, for not letting them'
know the true Hate of the province, which may be
luppofed much worse than it is represented, froth th#
Governor's ordering his Lady to England; She has
taken her passage in the Ship Lydia, Cript. Dearie,
who is fail QU Friday next ; 'there aie many other
Ladies who are preparing to leave the province ;like
wife some men, who are conscious that their conduct
does not de© ve civil treatment from the Provincials,
Should they coroe into the province. It is currently
reported here, that Mr. Livingston and Jerry Dugan,
had railed 190 Canadians, the former with the title
of L. Colonel, the latter with that of Major, who
were near taking Lord Pitt and General Carleton, on
the river Chamble. Government - reports that on
General Carleton's publishing a pardon for those that
fiould come in at a certain time, that a greater part
of them had abandoned their officers."
Extras of letterfrom the Camp at Cambridge, OH. Ir.
" We have had Several defeiters this week, but
nothing particular from them, except that one of
them who was a corporal gave us the amount of their
sick and unfit for duty from their last general return,
amounting to 2532. Should the Scurvy b>eak out
(as it soon mutt) the number will greatly increase."
Extraa of a letter from Manckefler, Jul, 29.
CC General Burgoyne has an uncle thaf lives near
this place, and he received a letter from him last Sun
day. He writes that 'tire Americans are exceeding
oblfinate and their numbers incredible, and that lie
thinks them invincil.dc---Says.Howe used many atgu
riienfs Wilh General G*geto prevail on him to per
mit him to go out to fight the Provincials, but be
gave him such Ribftanfidl reasons against it that it
dropped. He allo writes that a great mistake had
been made at the War-Office; having sent the cannon
without carriages, ---This was communicated to me
by a peifon who heard the letter read."
Fine Salt, ft. 3d
Coarse Salt, 33. od
Indian Cornper 8u.33. 4d