The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1779-01-11 00:00:00, page 1

Order of the CQMMANDAN f.
'HE following rates are established for carting,
to take place from and after the Tenth day of
ibis instant December, viz.
For loading, carting and unloading Firewood and
? r ery other common lord to any place within this ci
ty, not exceeding one mile, Three S rillings.
For carting Firewood or any other common load to
anv further distance after the fame rate.
For every lord of Hay, Eight Shillings.
For every hogshead of Rum or Molasses, Six fhil
tings.
And in the fame proportion for tierces or barrels.
For every hogfh.-ad of Sugar, Six (hillings.
For tierces or barrels, in the fame proportions
For every hogshead of Tobacco, Four Shillings.
For every load of coals, confiding of one third of
a chaldten. Three Shillings.
For every cable, whol (hot, of five inches cir
cumf^ence to seven inches, Ten Shillings.
For every Cable, half shot of like dimensions,
Six Shillings.
For every Cable, whole shot, upwards of (even in
thes circumference to ten inches. Twelve Shillings.
For every Cable, half shot, of like dimensions
Eight Shillings..
For every Cable, whole shot, upwards of ten inch
ees cicumference, Twenty Shillings, 1
For every Cable, half shot, of like dimensions,
Twelve Shillings.
Anv Cartman, demanding, or receiving, on or af
ter the Tenth dav of this Month, a greater price for
carting a load, than th ~ices fettled by the ab^ve
rates, shill, up m proof 'ring made before the Police,
forfeit FORTY SHILLINGS for every office,
one half to the informer, the other half to the City
Alms-House.
All persons, that in future intend anting as City
Cartmen, are defi r ed, before the Twentieth day of
this Month, to give in then names at the Police Of
fice, wh-re they will receive Licences gratis. Any
person after that day, who fhdl be difeovered anting
as City Cartmen, without having obtained fitch a
licence, and the number of his licence marked with
red paint upon each fide T his ( art, will be taken
^ to Custody. ANDREW ELLIOT,
Superintendent-General.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor.
PETER DUBOIS Affiant
Magistrate of the Polic &
Superintendent-General's-Office,
7th December, 1775.
Forage office, New-York, Dec. 9, T 778.
The Commander in Chief having taken into con
sideration the price of Forage, does rot think it ade
quate to other articles, and is pleased to order, that
from end after the above date, the following prices
mould be paid until further orders.
Currency.
For good Upland Hay, Bs, per cwt.
Salt Hay, 4a. per ditto.
Straw, 3s. per ditto.
Indian Corn, 10s. per bushel,
Oats, ys. per ditto.
And Two Shilings and Six pence a Ton for every
miles carting or water-carriage; he has allowed these
ample prices, that no further delay may be m^de by
the farmers in bringin all the hay, both frelh and
fait to the most contiguous Magazines, where they
will receive certificates f^r the quantity delivered,
which will b m oa'd at the Forage-Office, New-York,
and has direSed me to acquaint them, that any per
son 'hat is found delinquent after this notice, will
have their foragetaken, anl no receipts givm,
GEORGE BRINLEY
Commiffarv Forage.
NOTICE is hereby given, that John
Roome is appointed to examine the
Stoves put up in this City, and the Places al
lotted by the inhabitants to keep their Albee
in.
The injudicious Method of firing Stoves,
and keeping Ashes, having often endangered
this Citv, it is expected that the Ci r zens will
punluaHv attend to such Directions as Mr.
Roome may judge necessary, in order to pre
vent the Calamity of fire, which is equally to
be dreaded by everv Inhabitant.
ANDREW ELLIOT,
Superintendent-General.
D. MATHEWS, Mayor.
Superintendent-General's Office,
AS IZE of BREAD. Flour at „s. per Cent.
Published February 2, 1778.
White Loaf of the fineftFLOUß, to weigh
f^ 2 lb. 6oz. for 14 Coppers, and in the fame
">rtion fur Loaves of a Jeffei Weight.
JAMES ROBERTSON, M. G.
;.da7, January if, 17791TH^[No. 1421)
NEW-YORK GAZETTE:
M? ^e^ft
WEEKLY MERCUR Y.
"&TOTICE is hereby given to tbe Citizens,
That JOHN NORRIS, at the Corner
House, near the Main-Guard, and DAVID
HENRY MALLOWS, near the Tea Water
Pump, have the Care of the Chimney-Sweeps,
-nd that on a Note in Writing being left at
ither of their Houses, a SWEEP will be sent
0 the Place required. The Fine of FINE
POUNDS heretofore established, will be punc
ually exacted from every Inhabitant whose
Chimnev iball take Fire through Negleft.
Each Chimney to be fivept once in every
four Weeks.
ANDREW ELLIOTT. Sep. Genera!.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor.
Containing tbe earlictt Amices
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SOUARE.
From the Pennsylvania Packet, Dec. 15.
To SILAS DEANE, ijfo
AFTER reading a few lines of your aq
dr-fs to the public in tbe Pennfyivania
Packet of December 6th, I can truly
Ty, that cone? n got the better of cu
iofity, and I felt an tmwiliinrnffs to
go through t. Mr. Deane mull very well know that
as I have no inte elt in, so likewise am 1 1 0 Granger
to his ,egQci,tions and centrals in Lance, his
difference with his colleagues, the reason of his
return to A merica, and the makers -which have
occurred since. All these are to nefamiiiAr things;
ind while I can but he fiirpr'iled at the conduct 01
Mr; Dekbe, I lament the unneceff? y to 'tttre he has
imprudently occasioned. That Jilhgreeroerits will
arise between individuals, even to the perplexity cf a
State is nothing new, but rhat they should be obtra
geoufly' brought forward, by .one, ^note Nation
abroad dhaaM have taught him a delicacy of man
ners and ever; an excels of prudence, is Something
strange. fife mine) of a livi,g public Is quickly
alarmed and easily tormented. It hot drily fuffert
by the ft:eke,'hut is frequently fretted by the cure,
and ought therefore to he tenderly dpalt with, and
never to be trifled with. It feT fi u; and reasons
afterwards. Is jealduf, keeps vibrant g between the
accufid and theaccufer. and on fvltire of a proof
always fixes on the latter. Had Mr. Doane's ad
dress produced no uncafinefs in the body h^a^eals
to, it would, have been .a sign, not.of ty^neftuhity,
but death ; and though it igainful to .fee it urineceffn
rdy tortured, it is pleafint to contemplate th^ living
catife.°
Mr. D^ane is particularly cncumOanced. He has
advantages which fehlom happen, and wren they do
happen, ought to be used with the nicest cine and
the ttriaett honor. He has the opportunity dftelling
his owl tale and theieis noneto reply tohim; Two
of the gentlemen he so freely cenfur°s are three thou
sand milts off, and the other two he f>feely affront
are Members of Congress, one of them likewise, CoL
R. H. Lee is absent in Virginia; #.nd however painful
may be their feelings, they mult atterid & progres
sive cond^a of^the noufe. No Member in Congress
can individually take up the matter withourbeirg in
confiitent, and none of the public understands it
fuffieuntly. With these aduaixages M. Deane ought
to be nicely and ftriaiy the gentleman, in his lan
guage, his affections, his intimations a,nd his fads.
He prefehrs himfeif, as his Own evidence, upon his
honor, and any mifreprefentatiori or disingenuous
trifling in him will be fatal.
Mr. Dearie begins his address with a general dis
play of his services in France, and strong insinuations
against the Hon. Arthur and William Lee, he brings
his complaint; down to the time of figmng the treaty,
and from thence to the fourth of March, when he
received tbe following Qid§r cf Congress which he
inserts at Lrge.
In CONGRESS, December 3, 177,.
“ WHEREAS it is of the gieaiett importance
" that CongreG should at this critical conjuncture be
“ well inform'd of the date of affhs in Europe.
" And where is Congress have refoived that the Hen.
“ Silas Deane, Esq. be recalled from the Court of
“ France, and have appointed another Commissioner
"to fupplv his place there. Ordered, that the Com
<' mittee for foreign correfpor&nce, write to the
" Hon. Silas Deane, anddiiea him to embrace the
“ fi ft opportunity of returning to America, and
ft upon his arrival to repair with all possible diQatcb
“ to Congtefs."
Mr. Deane then fays,“ and having placed'fy,^
" pers and yours in fafety, I left Paris the 30th to
<c embark tor my dative country, on board that fleet
" which your great and generous ally sent out for
« yeur abidance, in fall confidence that I mould not
6< be detained on the bujinefs I was fentfor."
I am obliged to tell Mr. Deane that this arrange
ment is fome^hat uncanilid; for on the reading it,
it creates ah opinion and likewise carries an appear
nncethat Mr. Deane was only Jent for, as the neces
sary and proper person from whom Congress might
obtain a history of their affairs, and learn the cha
racters of their foreign Agents, Commissioners and
Ambaffidors, after which Mr. Deane was to return.
Is Mr. Deane so little matter of address as not to
know that censure may be politely conveyed by an
apology ; For however Mr. Deane may chufe to re
present or misrepresent tbe matter, the truth is, that
his oontra&s and engagements in France, had so in
volved and emharraffed Congress that they found
it necessary and refolyed to recall \rim, that is ordered
him home, to give an account of his own coniine,
and likewise to save him from a train of disagreeable
consequences, which must have arisen to him had he
continued in France. I would not be supposed to
infinuMte, that he might be thought unfajebut unfit.
There is a certain and necessary affuciation of dignity
between the person and the employment which per
haps did not appear when Mt. Deane was confiJered
the Amb rfidor. His Address to the publiccorifc ms
the jufthefs of this remark. The spirit and language
of irdiffers exceedingly from that cool penetrating
judgement andrefinement of manners and expression
which fits, and is absolutely necessary in the Pleni
potentiary. Ills eenfures are coarse and vehement,
and when he freaks of himfelf, he begs, nay almost
weeps to be believed.---It was the intricacy of Mr.
Deane's rar. official affairs, his multiplied oontraCh in
Monday, ±5 Min. after 41
Tuesday, 13 Min; after 5|
Wedhefday, 5 Min. after 61
Thursday, 2 Min. after 7I
HIGH-WATER atNEW-YORK, thrs, Week.
Friday, 58 Min.afte r 7
Saturday, 3 Mill, after 9
Sunday. 5 Min. after 10
Full Moon next Saturday.
France before the arrival ofD. Franklin oranv.lt the
other, Coromiflioneis : His ff ruling zuthftrities, and
enierihg.into engagements, ih the time ^f his Com
mercial Agency, for which he had neither comariffivA
tier y '.l:ua,ion, and the general unsettled Rare of iris
accounts that Wre hmri> g the reasons that produced
the motion f,r recalhrg fri fiT-eifeding bim.^-Why
^ken ; dee§ Mr. Deane endeavour toload the httenti
^nof the public to a wrong <bjr&, and to bury the
X.e?J uealons, under a tumultrot new and perhaps
unnecoiary lufpiciins./ ~ ~
Mi. Deane in the beginning of his address to .the
.public f^ys, “ What I -write to you I would have
" fail to ur Reprefnita lives, their ears have been
" /but againfl me, by an attention to roarers', which
Nidify refea f% them induces me to believe were of
"More importance.''
In this paragraph M .Deane's excuse becomes Iris
accofr, and his justification is bis . ffcncel for if
,§e greater itnportAnc€ '6f%iher matters is fup,bfed
and /given by bintfelf as ar^afun, wh, he was not
bear'd, i is likewise a fufficieht rerfon why he ought
foot to have complained that " their ears nverc/but"
ard.a good reafcn:why he ought to have w*t ed a
more convert test time; But bfide, the incohfiilency
of ,his cha t ge; theieis something in it that will fuffer
Dy„appiqqirv, and I am furry that M.Heine's im
pru^enc^ has # bbged me to mention a circumstance
which ^ffi^s his honour'as a gentleman, his reputa
rion'^A hiah. lit order th he clearly undeftood or.
this h. d, I am obliged to go back with Mr. Deane
to the time of his q, rising France on account of his
being retailed. " I left Paris, lays Mr. Deane, on
“the 33th of March, 1777, to embark for my na
" live rouptry, having placed „ papers and yours
" in fa'ety, would any b,dy have supposed that a
gentleman in the character of a public Commercial
Agert; and afterwards to that ofa public Minifies,
would return home after feeing nimf If both recalled
and foperfeded, and not bring with him bis papeis
arid vouchers; and why be has done so muff appear
to evefy one rxceediirglf unaccountable? After Mr.
Dearie's arrival he had t^wo audiences with Congress
in August lad, in neither of which did he offer the
ledt charge ag^inft the gentlemen he has so loudly
upbraided in hil addrefi |to the public, neither has
he yet accounted for his expenditure of public mo
ney, which as it might hrive been done by a written
date df accounts, might for that ieafon have drteen
done at any time, arid was a part of the bufintls
which*eqriired no audience.
There is something curiously intricate arid evasive
in Mr. Deane's frying in his address, that he left
France "in full corfider.ee that he fhoufd not be de
“ twined m the bufinejs be dual fer.tjor." And the
only end it cah aufwer to him is to furniffi out a pre
sent excuse for not producing his papers. Mr. Deane;
hal no right, either from the lieral or implied ferife
of the resolution itfeif to foppofe that he Giculd re
turn t# France in his former public chara&er, orthat
he ^as " fert for, as heflites it, on any other per,
serial business than that which related to himtelf.
Mr. Deane null be sensible, if he will but candidly
reflect, that as an Agent only, he greatly exceeded
bis line, and embarrafil the Congtefs, tbe conti
nent, the army and himfelf.
Mr. Deane's adlrefs to the public is dated Nov.--
but without any day of the month, and here a new
feence of ungenteel evafi on opens. On the last day
of that month, viz. the 30th, he ndd r effed a letter
to Congress fignifiyipg his indentions of returning to
France ,and pressing to have his affairs brought to
some conclusion, which I piefumo, on account of
the absence of his papers could not well be done,,
therefore Mr. Deane's address to the public must be
written before the 3.oth, and consequently before his
letter to Corgrefs, which carries an appeaiance of
its being only a feint in order to make a censused
diversion in his favor at the time his affaiis should
come under consideration.
On the appearance of Mr. Deane's address of the
fifth, tbe public became jealously uneasy, and well
they might. They were unacquainted with the train
of circumstances that preceded ard attended it, and
were naturally led to suppose that Mr. Deane, on
account of the ftatien he had filled, must be tea
What favours this opinion is, that on the next day,
that is, December iff, and partly in consequence of
Mr. Deane's letter to them on the 30th, the Con
gress entered the following refolution.'
In CONGRESS, December 1, 1778.
“ Refolded, That after to-morrow Congress will
'' meet two hours at least each evening, beginning
“ at fix o'clock, Saturday evenings excepted, until
<c the nrefent date of their foreign affairs be fully
" considered."
As an enquiry into the state of foreign affairs na
turally and tffaually included all and every part of
Mr. Deant's, he was thereupon regularly notified
by letter to attend ; and on & fourth he wrote again
to Congress, acquainting them with his having re.
ceived that not fiction and expreffd his thanks;
yet on the day following, viz. the jf/fb, he published
his extraordinary address in the news-papers, which
on account of its nfupported matter, the fury of
its language and temper, and its inc nfiftency with
other parts of his conduß, is incompatible with that
chara&r (which on account of the Nation he had
been honoured with, and the sense that should have
im,effed him in consequence thereof,) he ought to
have maintained.
Wheat per sublet, 12s. od.
Flour, 355. od.1
Browr ,Bread, 60s. od.
Welt-India Rufo. ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.|
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
IMufeovado1 Mufeovado Sugar, 51. jos.
I Single refin'd ditto; is. 2d.
IMolaßes, is . 6d.
Beef per Barrel, fl. od.
Pork; 8!. ios.,
foreign ano DomeftUL
* much a gentleman to deceive them. It was Mr.
Deane's particular fortune to grow into cenfeauence
from accident. Sfnl to. France as a Commercial
. Agent under the appointment of a Committee, he
rate as a matter of tonvenfence to the Nation of a
Commifnonet of Congress ; and with what dignity
he might fill out that chariot r, the public will judge
froth his conduct lince; and perhaps be led to sub
stitute convenience as ah excule for the appointment.
A delicacy <.f difficulties likewise arose in Congreft
oir the appearance of the said add efs; for fitting
abide the matter, the irregular manner of it, as a pro
ceeding, was a breach of decency ; and as Mr.
Deane, afte/ being notified to attend an etquiry
into foreign affairs, had cucumftantiallv withdrawn
fr>m that .mode; by appealing to the public, and at
the fame time said 1 their ears icerejbut againf him,
it was therefore given as a reason by tome, that to
take any notice ofM. Deane in the interim would
Imkl.ke sup neffiur hi^ public information, if he
had any to , ive, nd conftquertly would im; ly.if
horfoui on the House ; and that as he haltran feued
his case to the public, before it had-been lej fled by
tire Congress, he ought therefore to be left ^ith the
public, till he had done wfh them and they with
fom; and that whedier his information was true or
ipc*, it wis an infalt on the people, because it was
ip ^.ing thim the ladder, on w^ich he insulted their
Representatives, by an unjust complaint of negka.
Others who might anticipate the anxiety of th- pub
lic, a^d apprehend discontents would arise from a
duppafed inattention, were for ad pring m-afmes to
pievent them, and of contequence inclined to a dif
serept,ine of conduct, and this division of sentiment
on what might be supposed, the honour of the House,
occafioaed the then Prefdent, Henry Laurens, Esq;
who adhered to the former opinion, to lefign tne
chair ; the majority on the fentimehtb was a tingle
Vote. In this place I take the liberty of remarking,
for the benefit of succeeding generations, that the
Honorable Prcfident before-mentioned hvvingaiej
the Nation for one year in Oaoßer last, made hTre
fenation of the Prefilency at the expiration of the
year, left any example t.ken from his continuance
might hereafter become inconvenient. I have an
ad litionalifatisfiaion in mentioning this us ful hitlo
ricsl anecdote, because it is done wholly unknown to
the gentleman to whom it relates, or t, ar j y other
gentleman in or out cf Congress. He was r placed
by a unanimous vote. But to return to my narration.
In the Pennsylvania Packet of Dec. Sth; Francia
Lightfoot Lee, Esquire, brother to the gentleman f>
rudely treated in Mr. Deane's publication, and the
only one now present, put in a short address to the
public, reqtefting a fufperfion of their judgment
till the matter could be fully investigated by these
whose immediate huGnefs it became; meaning Con
greis. And Mr. Deane in the paper of the loth, pub
lished another note, in which he informs, “ that the
“ Honorable Congress did, on Saturday morning the
" §tn inftrnt, assign Monday evening to hear him."
But why does Mr. Deane conceal the lefolution of
Cengrefs of December ill, in consequence of which
he was notified to aterd ifyulatly an enquiry into
the State of foreign affrirs ? By so doing, he endea
vours to lead the public into a belief that I is being
heard on M nday was extor.ed purely in c nSequenc;
of his address of the ,h, and that otherwise he
Should not have been heard at all. I piefume Con
gress are anxious to hear him, and to have his 'ac
counts arranged arid fettled; and if this Should be
the case, wliy did Mr. Deane leave his papers in
France, and now complain that his :.fF.ms are not
concluded ? In the fme note Mr. Deane likewise
fays, " thst Congress did on that evening, Monday
“ resolve, That Mr. Dcane do report in writing, as
“ soon as may be, his agency of their affairs in Eu
“ rope, together with any intelligence rcfpeQing
“ their foreign affairs whicb+e may judge proper."
But why does Mr. Deane omit to give tire remaining
part of the resolution, which sys “ That Mi. Deane
“ be informed, that if he has any thing to cominu
“ nicate to Congress in the interim of immediate in
“ fortance, that he Should be heard to-morrow cven
“ ing." I can fee no-propriety in omitting this part,
unless Mr, Deane concluded that by publishing it he
might put a quick expiration to his credit; by his
not being able to give the wondrous information he
had threatened in his address. In the conclusion of
this note, Mr. Deane likewise fays, " 1 therefore
“ conceive that I cannot, with propriety, Continue
"my narrative at present. In the mean time I sub
" mit it to the good fnfe ofc the public, whether I
“ ought to take any notice of a publication signed
“ Francis Lightfoot Lee, eppofed to flubborn and
" undeniable fadls.''
Thus far I have compared Mr. Deane with him
felf, and whether he has been candid or uncandiJ,
enn fiftent or inconsistent, I leave to the judgment of
those who read it. Mr. Deane cannot have the lead
right to think that I am moved by any party differ
fence or peilonal antipathy. He is a gentlemen with
whom;l never had a fylhble of dilute, nor with any
other person upon his account. Who are his f lends,
his connections, or his foes, is wholly indifferent ;v
me, and what I have written will he a secret to every
body till it comes from the prefc. The convulsion
which the public were thrown into by his address,
will, I hope, juftify my taking up a mater in which
I Should otherwise have been perfe&ly silent; and
whatever may be its fate, my intention is 3 good oaej
-Fine Salt, 2 s. 6d
Coarse Salt; is. o a
Indian Corn per Bu. 7s. ,d
Coffee, is . 6d
Chocolate, 265. per Dd