The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1778-01-26 00:00:00, page 1

This Day is publifad.
By H. G A I N E,
And to be fold at his Book-Store in HanovM-Square,
L ET TERS
WRITTEN BY
THE LATE RIGHT HONORABLE
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE,
Earl of Cbefterfield,
TO
HIS SO N,
PHILIP STANHOPE, Esq;
Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden.
TOGETHER WITH
SEVERAL OTHER PIECES
ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. ,
Rules and Articles
Br the better Government of his Majesty's
Horse and Foot Guards,
And all other his
FORCES
In Great-Britain and Ireland,
Dominions beyond the Seas and Foreign Parts,
From the 24th of March, 1777.
Published by his Majesty's Command.
MANUAL EXERCISE,
As ordered by his Majefiy, in 1764,
Together with
PLANS and EXPLANATIONS
Of the Method genially practis'd at
Reviews and Field Days.
The wonderful LIFE, and furprizing
ADVENTURES
Of that renowned Hero
ROBINSON CRUSOE,
Who lived 28 Y ear# on an uninhabited Island, which he
afterwards colonifed.
A Little
LOTTERY BOOK
^FOR
CHILDREN:
CONTAINING
A neiv Method of playing them into a Know
ledge of the
Letters, Figures, &c.
Embellished with above 50 Cuts,and published
with the Approbation of the Court of Com
mon Sense.
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Violet powder,
Sans pareil ditto,
French ditto,
Poland ditto,
Grey ditto,
Brown ditto,
Royal tooth powder,
Shaving ditto,
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Fashionable crooked tortoife
fh:ll combs,
Dressing ditto of all forts,
Large racking horn ditto,
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Box ditto,
Tooth brushes ofvarious forts
Shoe ditto,
Buckle ditto.
Hair ditto, comb bruffies,
Camel's hair do. for (having.
Common ditto for ditto,
Bell double distilled lavender
^atcr,
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
3 lb. 40Z. for 14 Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Loaves of a lefler Weight.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flours 3^ ,T Cent.
Published January 10, 1777. '
Ev< ORK
A' D •
EEK L Y
Containing the earlieff ^DUices
the colour of red or grey hair
French curling irons,
Crapeing ditto,
Pinching ditto,
Tupee ditto.
Powder boxes,
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Powder bags,
Swandown puffs,
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Pomatum cases,
Razors,
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Marble walh balls,
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Single and double black pins,
A composition to takeoff
furerfluous hair,
Black ribbon for the hair,
Slacking ball,
Patent ditto with directions,
Windsor soap for /having,
Crud ditto,
With many other articles#
On Monday last arrived the Capts. M'Kindly
Cochran, and Dean, from Glasgow; by
whom v.e have the following Intelligence, viz.
PARI S, November 3.
N NOTWITHSTANDING the rela-
JL\ tion which the Court of Madrid hath
published, relating to their conquests in South-
America, we are assured here, that a peace is
concluded between the two contending powers.?
Lifan, OR. 7. Peace is concluded between
Spain and Portugal, on condition that the
Spaniards ihall return the Island of St. Catha
rine to the Portuguese ; but the former are to
keep St. Sacrament.
LONDO N,
Copy of a letter from the Right Hon. Lord
George Germaine, to the worshipful Tho
mas Birch, Esq; Mayor of Liverpool.
"S IR, Whitehall, Nov. 3, 1777.
'' TWAS yesterday morning favoured with
I your letter of the 31st ult. inclofing
two New-York news-papers, containing an
account of Sir William Howe's success against
the Rebels, and return you ffi^ny thanks for
your obliging attention, in fending it by ex
press, as it relieved us from much anxiety and
gave us the highest fatisfadion, for we are still
without any dispatches from either the Gene
ral or Admiral, since the army moved from
the Elk head.
l am, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
Geo. Germaine."
Nov. 10. General Faucett, who is gone to
Germany, has received orders, it is said, to
contract with the different German States for
7000 men, who are to be in readihefs to em
bark for America on the firft notice.
Nov. 14. In the House of Commons of
Ireland on Monday Nov. 3, it being told to
the Speaker, that the Hon. Mr. Butler had
challenged the Right Hon. Henry Flood, Mr.
Speaker irfifted on Mr. Flood's fatisfying him
that the affair should go no farther; and Mr.
Butler not being in the House, Mr. Recorder
answered for him, that he fnould give the like
fatisfadion.
Mr. Secretary Heron presented his Majesty's
answer to the address of the House, thanking
the House for their expressions of their loyal
ty and affedion, and assuring them of his
constant desire and endeavours for the happi
ness and welfare of his faithful fubjeds in
Ireland.
Eight fail of the line are now fitting for
commissioning, to which the senior captains
of the navy are appointed without their im
mediate solicitation.
A promotion of flags will foori take place,
and the admirals will be made down to Sir
E. Vernon.
Nov. if. Yesterday orders were sent off ex
press to Cork, for getting ready provisions to
load thirty fail of ships, which are taken up
into government service, and bound to New-
York. #
Yesterday after the breaking up of the Board
of Admiralty, orders were sent to Portsmouth
for two 74 gun ships to be immediately put
into commission in order to go as convoys
with the transports to America, with provisi
ons, &c. for the use of the army.
Advice has been received from France of
the death of Lord Clifford, on his way to
Nice, for the recovery of his health.
Nov. 17. Yesterday some dispatches were
brought to Lord Weymouth's office from Sir
George M'Cartney, Governor of Grenada, &c.
The fame day some dispatches were receiv
ed ft the said office from Sir Guy Carleton,
Governor of Quebec, brought by the ship
Henry, Captain Yeoman, arrived in the Downs
from that province.
The Bienfaifant man of war, of 64 guns,
is arrived at-Plymouth in twenty-three days
from Halifax, and mentions, that the Grey
hound frigate was arrived there from Chefa
peak Bay, and had brought a letter to Com
modore Sir George Collier, acquainting that
General Wafnington's army had been totally
defeated on the nineteenth of September, and
that General Howe had possession of Phi
ladelphia.
The Bienfaifant man of war, of 64 guns,
Captain M'Bride commander, left Halifax the
18th of October, and is arrived at Plymouth,
after a passage of 23 days. She brings advice
Monday, 17 Min.after 7
Tuesday, 12 Mim after 8
Wednesday, 4 Min. after 9
Tharfday, 3 Min. after 10
HIGH-WATER ^ N^W-YORK, th" Wzr
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Friday, 55 h^t^a 10
Saturday, 36 AY :ft r 11
Sunday, 18 ? , 12
Nev)Moon tie.
In the Public Advertiser of this day is a
letter to the printer, signed Truth, in which
the writer mentions the following fa&s rela
tive to the northern army, which he averts to
be founded on the most authentic information,
viz. That the affair at Bennington is much
the fame as has been represented, with these
additional circumstances : That about two
hundred loyal inhabitants, with a half-pay
lieutenant (by name Phifter) had, previous to
the engagement, joined Lieutenant-Colonel
Baum's detachment, the greatest part of whom
fell in the adion, and the remainder were in
humanly'murdered afterwards in cold blood
by the rebels. That Captain M'Alpin, late
of the 60th regiment (fettled upon a farm
near Albany) had afterwards joined Gen. Bur
goyne's army with nine hundred inhabitants,
fully accoutred and armed. That eight hun
dred more men had collected together, and
were upon their route through the woods, and
expelled to join every hour. That Arnold
Attacked General Burgoyne at a pass called
Anthony's Kill (or Brook) near Still Water,
where Only three British regiments were en
gaged, with a loss of 150 men, and 350
wounded. That fix hundred of the enemy
were killed besides a vast number wounded.
The rest Red to their camp upon an island si
tuated at the junction of the Mohawk and
Hudson's Rivers, where Gen. Burgoyne meant
to attack them the next day, having kept the
field of battle the preceding evening, and had
five weeks provision with him for his army.
That it was well known in Canada the begin
ning of September that the rebels meant to
attack Ticonderoga, and cut off General Bur
goyne's communication so soon as he advanced
from Saratoga, That Brigadier General Pow
ell, commanding at Ticonderoga, confirmed
this intelligence by repeated exprefles to (Go
vernor Carleton, as well as after the rebels
made their appearance on the 16th of the fame
month,when having surprised some incomplete
companies of the 53d regiment on the carry
ing place leading to Lake George, they open
ed a two gun battery, confining of one twelve
and a fix pounder, upon Sugar-Loaf Hill, and
summoned the Fort to surrender. Neverthe
less the detachment under Colonel Maclean
did not move from Canada for above a week
afterwards ; and, before he could arrive, the
Fort must have fallen from the weakness of
the garrison, occasioned by the expectation
that it would be reinforced the moment Gene
ral Burgoyne moved forward with his army;
but,happily the rebels, tired with the attack,
determined on an expedition upon Lake George
(on board a gun boat, and the batteaux they
had taken at the landing place) against Dia
mond Island, which General Burgoyne had
judiciously chosen for an entrefeet for his stores,
&c. under the protection of some gun boats,
and a proper force upon the island, all under
the command of a prudent officer, who re
ceived intelligence of what had happened,
and of the intended expedition against him ;
he was therefore thoroughly prepared, and on
the appearance of the enemy gave them such,
a reception, that twelve batteaux, full of men,'
were funk, and a great number killed, wound
ed and taken. The >remainder rowed off as
faft as possible to the south-side of the lake ; and.
some hours afterwards a Colonel Brown (the
rebel commander sent a flag of truce to the
officer commanding at Diamond Island, pray
ing him to receive 200 wounded, which must
otherwise die for want of care and provision,
and they were received accordingly.
A letter from a gentleman in St. Vincent
to his brother in Wakefield, dated St. Vincent,
July 23, fays, " I cannot omit informing you
of the heroism of a woman, which may be
depended upon as a real f^Ct : Some few days
since, a vessel from Europe, bound to some of
these islands, was taken by an American pri-
VAtcer, who put a prize-mailer arid sailors on
:. the arrival of the Greyhound frigate, from
Chefapeak Bay, at Hallifax, the Ift of Oc
tober. The accounts the received from her
were only a confirmation of what has been
already inserted in this paper, namely, the
taking of Philadelphia ; the defeat of the
rebels under Wafliington ; and their being
hemmed in at Trenton, in the East Jerseys,
so as to render a retreat almoll impracticable.
A Privy Council was ordered this morning
to meet at St. James's, in consequence of the
accounts brought by the Bienfaifant man of
war.
,E and CROWN, TN HANOVER-SQUARF.
Wheat per Buffiel, 12s. od.
Flour, 355. o<k
Brown Bread; 20s. od.
Weft-India Rum, 6c. 6d7
New-England do. ss. od.
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GAZETTE:
T H E
MERCUR Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufeovado Sugar, 51. 10s.|
Single refin'd ditto, zs. id.
Mola'ffes, is. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 90s. od.
Pork, 51. 10s.I
foreign anti Domenics.
By letters from Naples we received the fol
lowing tragical account: —A Sicilian gentle
man, turned of 50, kept a young lady as a
mistress, and buffered her sister to live with her
in his house. The Duke of Solazzo, nephew
to the Princess of Villafranca, fell deeply in
love with the latter: he was young, hot
headed, ignorant of the art of subduing his
passions, full of love, but could not gve very
great pecuniary proofs of it, as his grandfa
ther was not profufe in his allowances, his
young Grace being very little versed in the
rules of ceconomy; he therefore could give
the lady nothing but a promise of marriage,
with which she was fatisfied, since she could
not obtain any more fubgantial. The Duke
was constant in his visits, which gave the old
Sicilian umbrage, and made him request that
his Grace would discontinue them; but the
latter paying no great attention to the desire
of the Sicilian, went on as usual. The old
gentleman met him a few days after on the
great square, repeated his request, and with
some warmth threatened his pretended rival
with resentment if he refufed to comply. The
Duke replied, that in a public place it was
unnecessary to threaten, as neither of them
'would be permitted to resent an effront there.
Well then, said the Sicilian, we shall medt in
private. This did not, however, prevent the
Duke from going on; ,the night of that very
day to feehis mistress. About midnight, the
Sicilian, fired with jcaloufy, accompanied by
two soldiers and a ferjeant, went to the apart
ment where his imaginary rival was, and burst
in the door. The .Duke immediately few to
his sword ; but before he could make any use
of it, he received a musket diet from one of
the soldiers, and dropped on the floor ;'the
old gentleman then fell on him, and having
satiated his revenge by several stabs which he
gave the young noblemen with a poignarck he
helped to throw him out of the window. The
patrole found him in the morning, as they
were returning to the fortrefs, took him up,
and carried him, almost expiring, to the hos
pital, where he lived only 24 hours, but re
tained sense and voice fufficient to inform the
officers of justice of all the particulars of the
assassination. The old villain seemed to think,
that the whole affair was to terminate with
the Duke's life ; for he had the inference to
appear in public the next day : however, he
was feizad, and it is expected, with the ut
most impatience, that he will soon undergo
the punishment due to so horrid a crime.
board to carry her to St. Pierre, a port in
Martinique. Amongst the number on board
was the captain's wife, who, on feeing the
privateer board them, took her Hand at the
entrance of the cabin-dcor, and, with a knife
in one hand and a pistol in the other, kept
her ground, and would not fufßr them to go
into the cabin. In the evening, being chafed
by a frigate, they came again to the woman,
and demanded entrance into the cabin, pro
testing they would offer no violence to her,
but only begged she would let them put out
the lights as they were chafed ; she would nei
ther corifent tothis or let them in upon any
pretence. Then they threw a fail' over the
stern of the ship to prevent light from being
seen from the windows. This she immediately
hauled in, and cut through; so as that (he
light might be seen, which had the defined
effe&, and the vessel was retaken by the Grass
hopper sloop of war."
The Lords of the Admiralty have put his
Majesty's ship Fame, of 74 guns, nqw at Ply
mouth, into commission, the command of
which is given to Captain Cowell, and she is
fitting out for sea.
Tuesday night's Gazette contains his Ma
jesty's order in Council, for prohibiting the
exportation of gun-powder, &c for three
months from the 23d instant, the t^e the last
order expires, unless in' cases therein excepted.
Monday, the Ariel "frigate failed express
from Portsmouth to Gen. Howe.
Seven fail cf the line are now laying in
Hammoaze, all manned and ready for sea.
Letters frefy Carlifle mention, that. .there is
now living near Bonus, on the banks of the
river Efke, a fifherman, named John Boj d,
who is ninety-fix years of age, ha{ a son of
the fame profefiion who is feventy^ eight, and
a daughter near eighty-odd It is further re
markable, the latter is now married to her
seventh hulband, who is two years older than
hcrfelf.
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Coarse Salt, Bs. M
Indian Corn per Bu. 73. oJ
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