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om the Head Qharterref Prince Fleurys army I
&/ Sohfbowitz.
^TC— — HE loth at day-break the army
@ 1 marched in two columns. The
enemy followed us on our
H . march with only an inconfi
durable patrole. But towards
ie evening the advanced guard of the regi
ment of Belling was attacked by about 100
lorfe; but a detachment from the regiment
unuing to their assistance, the enemy was rc
)ulfcd, and we took a Captain, and about 60
iragoons prisoners.
The llth the army left the environs of Neuf
:hiofs, and marched in two columns by Pleif
wedeli and Drum, and encamped near Kutten
dorff, on the heights named Haarfich.
The 12th, in the afternoon, the second line,
and all the cavalry, quitted the camp of Kut
tendorff, and palled the Elbe on a bridge
thrown over it, above that town.
The 13th, two hours before the departure of
the! army, his Royal Highness sent oft all the
baggage belonging to the regiments which
passed the Elbe on the bridge at Leitmeritz, ef
corfed by a battalion of the grenadiersof Bru
now. They were followed by the firft line and
the advanced guard, which palled the river
above the town, and the whole army encamp
ed on the other fide the Elbe near Tfchifchko
witz. The rains which continued during all
these movements had so ruined the roads, that
they were become impassable for the train which
had palled by Russia; and we were under ap
prehenhons, that the enemy might form some
enterprize againftthis convoy, which was flop
ped between Wernftadel and Mertendorff. In
order more effectually to cover the march of the
train Lieutenant General Count d'Anhalt
passed the Elbe with the Saxon regiment of La
Coq, and jolted himfelf on the height of Sau
• hornitz; a?d to assist in drawing the carriages
(jut of the miry roads, he sent some hundreds
bf horses, as well as some of the Saxon caval
ry, by which assistance some hundreds of carria
ges had been so greatly harraffed, that the fol
diets were obliged to draw them up to the
heights themselves. Notwithstanding all our
endeavours, above 80 carriages, either from
being broken, or for want of horses, were
obliged to be either burnt or broken in pieces
near Mertendorff, to prevent their falling into
the enemy's hands. All that attained the
height of Wernftadel moved the 14th, and con
tinued their route the 15th for Saubronitz,
notwithstanding the difficulties in travelling the
roads. Gen. Mollendorff again occupied the
heights of Kuttendorff with the rear-guard,
and continued there till the train had entirely
pafied the Elbe ; and Gen. Belling covered the
latter till the 17th, when all had passed the ri
ver, which he passed at Auffig, and Gen. Mol
lendorff at Leitmeritz, without the enemy
attempting any thing against pur rear-guard.
Nothing now remaining on the other fide the
Elbe, on the iSth in the morning the palli
fades, abbatis and fafeines at the head of the
bridge of Deitmeritz, were burnt or otherwise
destroyed, and all the defences of the bridge
entirely ruined.
Paris, Oslo. 2. Since the French fleet have
returned to Brest, the Mtniftry seem to be bu
sied in finding means to protest our trade, be
sides four Blips of the line, which are to go on
different cruises with feme frigates, several
ether frigates are to go to the illands to protest
dur Merchant ships from the English privateers.
Paris, O&o. 9. Tne new ships at Brest and
Rochfort are launched, and fix others ordered
to be built on the fame flocks ; one of no
guns and two of 80, at Brest; one of 100 and
two or Boguns, at Rochfort.
Vienna, Sept. 28. , The Court has received
accounts that the Archduke Maximilian, who
was vary ill, is almost entirely recovered.
The enemy has fold to the inhabitants of
Neufchloff and Leypa, at a low price, the ma
gazines they had amafLd there, or exchanged
them for other articles they wanted. It is a
general remark that the Prussians, when they
cannot use all they have taken from the pea
sants, fell what they do net want to the ori
ginal proprietors.
Theenemy have demanded a contribution of
Ifoooo Rixdollars of the Town and Lordship
of Raudnitz, besides daily forage and aquan
tity es far cattle, wine, beer, and other pro
visions. The have also demanded a contribu
tion of 10,500 Rixdollars of the Convent of
Doxan, and sent the library which was found
in the castle of Toptlitz, to Auffig.
Vienna, O&. 3. Bohemia is at present totally
evacuated. Prince Henry marched on the 23d
by favour of a thickfog; on the 24th the firft
line set out in two colums, one of which passed
b<' Auffig, and the other by Toplitz. General
Mollendorf decamped on the 24th, and was
greatly harrafled by our advanced guard. Ever
since the zzd, Prince Henry has employed men
to throw a bridge over the Elbe near Doran,
but a battalion of croats, supported by two
p ; eces of cannon, obliged the troops who co
vered these works to retire, and destroyed all
that was done.
Stockholm, Dec 29. We have accounts from
.Marftrand, that two American vessels are ar
rived there laden with rice, which fold at a
Very low rate.
From the Frontiers of Silesia, Sept. 30. The
King of Pruffla's retreat to the camp at Wild
chutz, is Jopked upon as one of the most mas
terly manoeuvres that ever was executed, and
those who are bedjudges of these matters won
der how he could effect it with so little iofs,
considering the vast train of artillery he had
to draw through almost impassable ways. His
last march is not left talked of; he quitted
Wildchutz in the night of the 14th in so secret
a manner, that the Imperialists could not hurt
his rear guard, till they had got very far,
having destroyed the roads, and filled up the
passes in such a manner, with trees, &c. that
the Aullrian infantry could scarce make their
way through them.
Smyrna, Aug. 26. In the night of the 9th
inst. three more ihocks of an earthquake were
felt here ; the one a very strong one ; we like
wifehad one on the loth, and another on the
15th : since which we have been in the most
alarming situation for above two months. The
inhabitants have recovered their spirits, and
are beginning to repair their houses.
Constantinople, Sept. 17. The 4th inst. a fire
broke out in the quarter inhabited by the
Greeks Schismatics, which destroyed 1000 of
their houses, 200 houses belonging to Catho
lics, and 1000 houses er Ihops belonging to
Turks, with four mosques. N
Hague, Oa. 15. According to letters from
Dresden, of the 4th of this month, we learn
that the King of Prussia had detached from his
army 60,000 men by Glatz to join 30,000
Ruffians who are to march by Cracovia into
Moravia. The fame letters add, that his
Majesty remains in person with 50,000 men in
Silesia, and that Prince Henry with his army
will remain in Saxony.
Hague, Oa. 25. Our last letters from Brest
advise, that all the 64 gun ships in the road
were odered to take on board two months pro
visions each, and hold themselves ready to fail
on the firft notice. The 64 gun ships are to
fail in squadrons of five each, attended with
some frigates.
RatiJbon, Oft. 13. The refcript addressed to
the Electoral Minister of Hanover, which has
been circulated here for some Days, leaves us
no room to doubt of the ientiments of his Bri
tannic Majesty, as Elector of Hanover, with
regard to the affairs of Bavaria.
This refcript fays, " That his Majesty thinks
for more than one reason that he ought to in
vite his co-estates to deliberate maturely and
seriously upon the measures to be taken in the
present conjuncture, and particularly to infill
that the 21st, sth, and Bth articles of the Impe
rial capitulations be inviolably observed, and
that the pretensions of all the parties inrerefted
in the fucceflion of Bavaria should be laid be
fore, examined, and determined by the Rates
of the empire, for which purpose it was indis
pensably necessary that the proper reprefentati
cns en that head should be laid before the Im-
perial Court. That his Majesty could not but
with great displeasure fee that in the present
contest, the parties had not immediately re
course to the above mentioned method, which
would probably have prevented the present
war, and that he is ready to concert with any
of his co-estates who may adopt his sentiments
upon the proper and moll efficacious measures
to render justice to all parties interested in the
fucceflion of Bavaria, according to their ref
pedive rights and pretensions."
A similar declaration is expelled on the part
of several other Courts, Ele&ors, and other
Members of the empire, which cannot fail of
making a great change in affairs.
Vienna, Sept. 26. The Court has publilhed
three memorials in the German language; in
the firft of which the rights of the Empress
Queen to some parts of the fucceflion of Bava
ria, and the wife measures pursued by that
Sovereign, are juftified; a refutation is added
to the double manifefto publilhed by the Court
of Berlin : the second memorial evidently proves
the pretended ad of renunciation of Duke Al
bert to be falfe ; and the third is entitled, re
presentation and requisition of his Imperial and
Royal Majesty to his co-estates of the Empire,
regarding the illegal and hostile enterprizes of
the King of Prussia, relative to the succession
of Bavaria.
Lipfadt, oa. 24. Advices from Schatzlar
import, that the King had sent several regi
ments to the frontiers of Moravia, to reinforce
the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick. That
Prince has lately engaged in a bloody fk'irmifh
with a corps of croats, and being marked to
them by a deserter, the whole body of the
enemy directed their fire to the Place were he
was, so that it was next to a miracle the
Prince came away unhurt. There remains
now no doubt but that the Prince will main
tain his ground in Upper Silesia and Moravia,
and there take up his winter -quarters.
Stuthgard, 0f1.2\. The Duke of Wurtcra
berg has been dangerouffy ill for some time,
but is now in a promising way of rocevery,
and proposes to visit England next faring.
Genoa, Sept. 16. In the present war between
France and England, the Republic of Venice
observe so total a neutrality, that the Senate has
forbid any of the privateers ofeither of the two
powers from entering their ports, and that no
Venetian Ihall go into the service of either
France or England.
Head-quarters of Cantonment, near Zittaiv,
October 5.
His Prussian Majesty's army is still polled
near Schatzlar, in environs where there is
plenty of wood. The King has ordered many
thousand planks and deal boards to be collect
ed, and brought to the camp, and since their
arrival the whole army is employed in build
ing huts.
As to the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick,
he riot only has occupied Upper Silesia be
l°nging to the Austrians, but iikewife the best
part of the circle of Perau, in Moravia, two
tracts of land where 50,000 of our troops may
with ease take up their winter-quarters; and
the enemy has retreated towards Olmutz.
The King has dispatched several experienced
engineers to the Hereditary Prince, with or
ders to fortify sundry places which his Majes
ty has put a mark to upon the map.
Lipfadt, Oct. 21. A private letter from
Dresden mentions, that advice has been receiv
ed of a considerable advantage being gained
by the Prussians upon part of the Emperor's
army.
Just imported from Newfoundland, in the Ship
Ambuscade, John Munns, Matter, and to
be fold by
H ENRY WHIT E,
Or the Master on board, the following Articles,
of the belt Quality,
DRY CO D FIS H,
Pickled COD FISH in Barrels,
Pickled Herrings in Barrels.
At his Store in Queen-Street, No. 218.
WANTED, two Rooms unfurnifoed, on the
fame Floor, for which a generous Rent will
be allowed ; near the Hospitals would be most agree
able. Please to enquire at Hu^b Gaine.
' Dryed CODF I SH,
Of the best QUALITY, to be SOLD,
By PETER CORNE,
At No. 230, Q^een-Street.
Neat Lodgings
TO BE LET
TO Gentlemen. Likewise a large CELLAR,
at a reasonable rent. Enquire of the Printer.
ANY es the inhabitants on Long-Island who can
give information of a certain JOHN PREN
TICE, from Scotland, who went an Long-Island
about twelve months ago, in order to keep an English
school, but has not been heard of since---will be
thankfully recompensed for their trouble, and for
that purpose please fond a lint to Mr. Gaine the pub
lisher of this paper.
THE Subferiber being Attorney for the Hon.
John H. Cruger, Esq; gives this publick
Notice to ail Matters and Owners of Vessels,
That on the 16th Day of this Instant January, he
was authorifed by Major General Daniel Jones,
Commandant of this City, to receive the cuttomary
and lawful Whaaffage, for the Wharff in Dock-
Ward, in 'this Place, weil known by -the Name of
Cruger's Wharff: Therefore fiom that Day I
fnall expe& to receive the usual and customary
Wharffage from the Captains or Owners of all
Vessels that la, at the said Whaiff.
ROBERT GIBB;.
The Owners of the Wrecks now lying in the
Slip adjoining the above mentioned Wharff, are
desired to remove them.
W'AN FED to hire or purchase, a Farm on
any Part of Long-Island, within 40 Miles
of the City of New-York, containing from 60 to
80 Acres, with a conv- nient Dwelling Houfe,Offices,
&c. Any person having such either to fell or Ftt,
may hear of a Pw cha er or Tennant, by applying
ro Terence Kerin. Attorney at Law, at hit Public
Notary's Office, No. 30, in Duke-street.
'T E N D'o'L'L-Airs Reward?
STOLEN, out of the pasture of Mr. Bowlers, at
Bloomingdale,
g^^^^^gi A BROWN MARE,
A heavy with foal, mark
'led°n the near buttock M. E.
labout the,middle of Decem
-1 ' a °° ^ikewife at the
fed ~ fa fame time, a remarkable fine
|lM|^fo^©3^*art£i brown CQLT, nine ntonths
old, with the fame mark. Whoever will bring the
thief, with the mare and colt, shall hav&the above
reward, or five dollars for the mare and colt. Apply
to Medcef Eden, brewer on Golden Hill, or to Mr.
Bowser at the Englift i tavern at Bloomingdale. All
reasonable charges will likewise be paid.
By his Majesty's Royal LETTERS PATENT.
The genuine ESSENCE of
PEPPERMN T,
Is SOLD only, by
RICHARD. SPEIGHT,
Chymist, No. 41, ^teen-Street,
In large or small BOTTLES.
N. B. The public is desired to beware of a spu
rious fort. The true kind is a remarkable fine green,
and the directions signed J. Juniper.
RETURNS his fincerc thanks to all his friends and
customers, and the public in general, for their past
favours, and acquaint them, that he has ready for sale,
at his brewery on Golden-hill, ale and strong beer, Ihip
and spruce beer ; where gentlemen, merchants, captains
of vessels, and the public may be supplied on the ffiorteft
notice.
N. B. The said Eden gives the best price for malt, hops,
barley, yeaftlings of spruce, and the best of black spruce.
FURR LININGS,
For Ladies Cloaks,
COMFORTABLE for this Season, and
very cheap for Cash. Enquire of the
Printer.
F Mr. EBENEZER )MFIH, who hau some
Cattle on the Jamaica Road the 19th of Decem
ber last, will be so good as to call on Mr. French in
Jamaica the firft Tirae he goes along, or make it his
Business to call on him, he shall be well rewarded
for it.
JOHN STOUGHTON,
i4t his Store, No. 512, in Hanover-Square, has
just opened for Sale, fine jrefo Fruit, landed jrohs
the Ship Pattey, Capt. Marquifs, from Cadiz,
CiOnfifting of railins in jars and calks, shell almonds,
choice lemons in boxes or by the smaller quantity,
in the purest Rate ; fine Durham mustard in bottles by
the dozen; has also for sale, wines, Jamaica spirits,
Coniac brandy, geneva, all and porter in l otties, olives
in jars, anchovies, capers, spices, Madeira, citron, fingte
and double refined fisgars, tea, coffee, chocolate, and other
groceries, &c.
EDWARD GOOLD,
Has for SALE at his STORE, in Hanover-
Square, No. 849,
Muscovado sugars, cotton, a few chests of
hyfon tea, Ravens and Russia duck, Russia sheet
ing, baizes, flannels, mens plain and ribb'd worsted
hose, bombazeens, Flanders and Bfuffels lace, blond do.
and edgings, crimson moreens, callimancoes, plain mode,
ribbons, black worsted mitts, sewing silks, plain white
gauze, coarse linen,&c.
FLOUR, Ship Bread, Beef and Pork, jull
imported in the Brig William, Captain
Jarvis, from Liverpool, and to be fold by
MEDCEF EDEN,
BREWE R,
William Pagan,
land.
=7. Bankers of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and
Clonmell.
28. A general Description of America.
29. Enumerated Goods fubje& to Duty in America.
30. General Establishment of all the Province; on
the Continent of North-America, containing
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their Judges, Cullom.Houfe Officers, &c. &c.
and dutiable Goods in each Province.
31. Tables reducing Guineas, Dollars and Half
Joes inte New-York Currency.
32 Staff of the Army under the Command of Sir
Henry Clinten; K. B.
33. General Hospital in New-York.
34. Field Officers of his Majesty's Artillery, Dra.
goons, and Infantry in North-America;
35. Staff and Field Officers of the Hedhn Corps
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37. Directions to be observed by all Masters of
Vessels on their entering the Port of New York;
and Regulations for the Cartmen in the said
CHESHIRE CHEESE, ,
Of an excellent Quality, to he fold at No. 34,
Queen- Street, rohoiefitle and retail.
Lobe let near the Offie-HouJe Bridge,
A Firft floor, confiding of tine rooms and a
light elofet, with other convenieocies. For
further particulars, enquire of the printer.
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GAlNe's
Universal Register;
6 r,'
American and British Kalendar,
For the Year 1779.
[lllultrated with an elegant and accurate Coperplate
Plan of the City es New-York.]
CONTAINING,
i. 'ff^HE Kalendar; with a Table of Coins;
& the Quaker's General Meetings, and a
better Lift of Roads than published in any
other Almanack.
2. A Genealogical Lift of the Royal Family of
Great- Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Den
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From Hcfle-Caffel,
And opened naffer SALE, Jor Cash only, at No. ir,
in King-freet.
A Great variety of gaux- handkerchiefs and aprons,
a variety of excellent fine Brabrant THREAD
LACES, millinary, and ribbons of the newest London
fafhion, hardware, hosiery, a variety of plated ware,
a few silver handle knives and forks, fine I ifli linen, a
few fur lining for ladies cloaks, trimming gimp and er
mine, ladies gold watches, with solid gold chains, men
an' .womens cott flockings, mens English and German
double and single cotton caps, very neat jipan'd bread
baskets, hairribbons, &c. &c. Where hand-bills wffl
be given, gratis.
ABOUT 500 Quintals of choice large COD
FISH, to be fold on board the Brigantine
Fame, James Crew, Matter, now lyiag at nomas
Marfton's Wharff. If any Pepfon chufe to purchase
the Whole, may have them on reasonable Terms,
by applying to Meffis. Hugh and Alexander Wal
lace, er the Mafler on board.
A few Pounds of excelleßt Gin POWDER,
to be fold by Hugh Gaine.
City, as eltablifhed by the Commandant thereof.
38. Computation of the most remarkable Railages
of the Times, from the Creation to the lalt
general Peace.
39. Ships of War on the American Station, with
the Names of their Commanders, and Number
of Guns.
40. Complement of Men and Weight of Metal
in the Royal Navy.
GAUZES very cheap,
Of all hinds, imported from London and Germany,
By ALEXANDER ZUNTZ,
tions.
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