The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1781-05-14 00:00:00, page 1

Fohcc Office, N^w-York, Mommbcr 20, 17S0,
Quality, Weight, & Price
OF
BREAD,
By Order of the Commandant.
THAT on and ?fter Thursday the 23d instant, all
bread made of sweet flour of the fi:ft quality, must
be baked into long loaves of two pounds weight each,
and damped with the initials of the baker's name, and
fold for Sixteen Coppers each loaf
And all bread made of merchantable ftsur of an infe
rior quality, must be baked into round loaves, weighing
two pounds and one half each, flamped with the initials
of the baker's name, and fold for Sixteen Coppers each
loaf.
Any baker or retailer of bread, who Ihall be convicted
cf demanding or deceiving )ny mere or greater sum than
Sixteen Coppers for each loaf of bread as above men
tioned, shall be fined TEN FOUNDS for every such
ofence.
In order that the above regulations may be duly en
forced, Baithafar Creamer, is appointed Infpe&or of
Bread, with direaions and powers constantly to visit the
feverd bake houses in this city, and to make leisure ot
all such bread, as he ma, find deficient, either in the
abovementioned qualities, weight, or flamp.*- The
bread seized, to be immediately hat to the city alms
house, for the use of the poor, and. report made to the
Police of the cause of seizure, the quantity and (he
baker's name from whom it was seized, that the fame
, may be published ; and upon conviction of a second of
fence.jthat the offender may moreover be fi -ed Fifty
Pounds, and an entire flop fut to his taking, if found
guilty of a third < ffence.
ANDREW ELLIOT, Superintendent General.
DAVID MATHEWS, Mayor.
PETER purer, M^#-^ of Police
Monday, May 14, 1781.
NEW-YORK
AND
WEEKLY
Y, 7HEREAS there are several Deserters from the
\V British and Foreign Troops under my Command,
who are serving with the Enemy, or are concealed in the
Rebel Country : I have thought fit to issue this my Pro
clamation, offering a free and unlimited Pardon to all
such Deserters, who shall surrender themselves to any of
his Mjetty's Troops before the firft Day of June next.
And whereas there are many of his Majesty's European
Subie&s at this Time serving in the Rebel Army against
their King and Country, who, stung with Remorse, and
sensible of the Heinousness of such an unnatural Pro
ceeding, would be anxious to return to their^ Allegiance,
did not their Demerits, before their Arrival in America,
make them doubtful of meeting with Pfoteaion and
Support within these Lines. Ido the efire hereby pro
wife to all such who mail come in before the above men
tioned firft Day of June 1781, in addition to the Benefits,
Protection and Support, to which they would be entituhd
under any other Proclamations, to procure for them his
Mafefty's meft gracious Pardon, for all Felonies and Trea
sons (Murder excepted) which they have heretofore been
guilty of provided they will take up Amis in his Service,
and give (heir Afli<l?nce to the quelling this unnatural
Rebellion tinft his Government.
Given under my Hand at Head Quarters, in New-York,
the tenth Day of April, 17^.
H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's Command,
JOHN MIT F.
General Pardon.
Sr. Excellentz Hetrn Wilhelm Von Knyphau
sen, General Lieutenants und Commandeurs en
Chef des in Kneniglich Grofs-Britannifchen
Die; den flehenden Auxiliair Corps Fuerftlich,
Htffifcher TroUppen, Ritters derer Fuerftlich
Heffifchen Oidens, etc. etc. etc.
ALLEN und Jeden von denen Fuerftlich Heffi
fchen Trouppen in Nord America defertinen
Voter oofficiers und Gemeinen so entweder bey denen
Frindet^noch dienen, oder fich in devon vom Feind
betfetzten Landen noch verborgen halter, wild hier
durch bekannt gemacht, dal's fie einen freyen und
voelligen Pardon erhalten fallen, wenn fie fich vor
dem \ften Tag des naechlt Kuenitigen Monaths
juny, 1781, bey denen Koeniglichen trouppen ein
finden, und bey Ihren Regimentern darauf Stellen
weider.
Gegeben tinter meiner Hand New-York den
,iten April, 1781.
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf. Befehl, Sr. Excellentz,
piftin Henrich Mtz.
Jo be SOLD,
A Valuable LOT cf GROUND in Dock-ftreer,
Adjoining Mr. Isaac Low. Breadth of the
lot, front and rear, 27 feet; length on the westerly
fide adjoining Mr. Low, 66 1.2 feet, ditto on the
easterly frk adjoining Mr. Bayard, 67 feet 7 inthes,
ah English measure. A good a^d indisputable title
will be given. Enquire of the Pointer. •
ASSIZE qf BREAD.
Flour at 41. per Cent.
Published September 29, 1780.
1 White LOAF, of the fineft FLOUR,
to weigh xlb. for 16 Coppers.
Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the BATH,
General and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty s
Forces within the Colonies lying on the Atlantic Ocean
from Nova-Scotia to Weft-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
Bv His EXCELLENCY
Sir HENRY CLINTON,
Centawing tfc-e eartieft aunt^
„ Printed BY HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQ^ AR E.
^lm^
The beautiful bright Bay Horse
Young Forrester,
TY7 ILL cover to the firft of May, at Mr. John
VY Hutchinson's tavern, near the 4 mile stone,
Yoik-IflanJ, and the lemainder of the season at
Benson's M'll, near Harlem, on said Inland, at Two
Guineas and a Dollar the season, or c,e Guinea and
a Dollar the single leap. Young Forrester was got
by Bold Forrester, out of a very capital Mare; he
is rising 5 years old, 15 hands three inches high,
remarkably strong, bony and a&ive, free from ble
niifh; he is thought by very good judges to be the
surest foal-getter on the Continent, and the most
likely to get good hunters, road and carriage horses.
Bold Forrester was got by Bold Tom, his Dame by
Crofts's Foriefter, and imported from England by
Mr. Hutchinson, at a very ,e?.t expence. A true
pedigree, as witness my band,
JOHN HUTCHINSON.
N B, The money to be paid at the liable door,
or before the Mares are taken awq.
Monday, 8 Min. after 3,
Tuesday, 49 Min. after 3
Wednesday, 31 Min. after 4
Thursday, 7 Min. after 5
INtends embarking for Europe wiih the firft con
voy, he therefore leq^lls thole that are in his
debt to make speedy payment, and all persons who
have any demands against him are defiled to fend in
their accounts for payment.
The remainder of his goods now on hind will be
disposed of for cash on very reasonable terms.
They consist of
TRISH linens,from 35.6JI
' to Bs. per yard,
Scarlet, blue, white, Lon
don brown, and garne
fuperfine broad-cloths,
with rattinets and trim- 1
mings,
3-4 luteftrings, armozeens,'
Ducapes, fattins,modes,
and prongs,
Black and coloured Barce
lona handkerchiefs, I
Spotted bandanoes and ro
mali handkerchiefs, 1
Sewing fi:k, cainbrick andt
lawns,
Scarlet, red, yellow, and'
'white flannels,
Princes fluffs and fattinets,|
His DWELLING-HOUSE, N 0.35,
Hanover-Square,
And STORE-HOUSE, No. ib, Water-Street,
Are to be difpoed of at private sale; the latter
may be made into a commodious Dwelling-House
at a final! expence; it has hearths for fix fire places.
By Order of his Excellency
General ROBERTSON,
I Am directed and authorifed to demand and
receive all GROUND RENT) due, or 7
that may hereafter become due, for Grants
heretofore made by the Corporation of this
City: In consequence thereof, Ido hereby
give Notice, that due attendance will be given
at my Office in Pearl Street, every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday Mornings, between
the Hours of nine and one, in order to receive
the fame; of which all concern'd are requir'd
to take Notice.
JOHN SMYTH, City Treasurer.
New-York, March 1, 1781.
JOSEPH BREWER,
A: his floe in Burling's Slip,
IS now opening for sale on reasonable terms, a good
assortment of European and East India goods suit
able for the present and approaching season, which
he has imported in t' e Defiance, Quebec, and other
late vessels from England.
HIGH-WATER nt NEW-Y OR K,
THIS WEEK.
Smith Ramadge
THE
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ts ^v^o^ V
3#^^^M?^
Superfine black ruffels,
durants and moreens,
Vlen and womens silk,
cotton and worsted hose,
Callicoe and chintzes,
Ribbons and laces,
Jean tuitions,
Womenscallimarco shoes
Mens, youths and boys
London made leather
shoes,
Su,c fine hyfon and fu
fhung teas, fiom London
OIJ coniac brand,
iMuftaid, turpentine soap,
• Hair powder and starch,
With a few barrels of belt
mess poik,
Friday, 43 Min. after 5
Saturday, 23 Min. after 6 j
Sunday, 3 Min. after 7
First Quarter To-morrow.
Head- Quarters, Nezu Windsor,
27th March, 1781.
Dear Sir,
ON my return from Newport I found
your favour of the 16th of February,
with its inclofures, at Head Quarters.
I exceedingly regret that I could not have
the pleasure of feeing y^u, not only from per
sonal motives, but because I could have enter
ed upon the fubjeft of your million, in a much
more free and full manner than is proper to be
committed to paper.
I very early saw the difficulties and dangers
to which the southern states would be exposed
for referees of eloathing, arms and ammuni
tion, and recommended magazines to be esta
blished, as ample as their circumstances would
admit. It is true they are not so full of men
as the Northern states, but they ought for that
reason to have been more arduous in railing a
permanent force, to have been always ready,
because they cannot draw a head of men to
gether as suddenly as their exigencies may re
quire. That policy has unhappily not been
pursued either here or there, and we are new
Offering from the remnant of a British army
what they could not in the beginning accom
plish with their force at the highest.
As your requisitions go to men, arms, am
munition and eloathing, I (hall give you a fh^rt
detail of our situation and profpeds, as to the
firft, and of our supplies and expectations as
to the three last.
MEN. By the expiration of the times of
service of the old troops —by the difeharge of
the levies engaged for the campaign only—and
by the unfortunate dissolution of the Pennsyl
vania line, I was left, previous to the march
of the detachment under the command of the
Marquis de la Fayette, with a garrifin barely
fufficrent for the security of Weft Poirt—and
two regiments in Jersey to support the com
munication between the Delaware and North-
River. The York troops I had been obliged
to fend up for the security of the frontier of
that Rate. Weak however as we were, I de
termined to attempt the diflodgment of Ar
nold in conjunction with the French fleet and
army, and made the detachment to which I
have alluded.
In my late tour to the eastward I found the
accounts I had received of the progress of
recruiting in those dates had been much ex
aggerated, and l fear, we shall in the end, be
obliged again to take a great proportion of
their quotas in levies for the campaign instead
of soldier s for three years or for the war. The
regiments of New-York having been reduced
to two, they have but few men to raise. Jersey
depends upon voluntary inliftments upon a con
traded bourty, and I cannot therefore promise
myfelf much success from the mode. The
Pennsylvania line you know is ordered to com
pose part of the southern army. Gen. Wayne
is so sanguine as to suppose he will soon be
able to move on with icoo or 1200 men, but
I fancy he rather over-rates the matter.
You will readily perceive from the forego
ing date, that there is little probability of add
ing to the force already ordered to the south
ward ; for should the battalions from New-
Hampshire to New-Jersey inclusive be com
pleted (a thing not to be expected) we shall,
after the necessary detachments for the fron
tiers and other purposes are made, have an ar
my barely fu fficient to keep the enemy in check
in New-York, Except this is done they will
have nothing to hinder them from throwing
further reinforcements to the southward ; and
to be obliged to follow by land every detach
ment of their army which they always make
by sea, will only end in a fruitlefs dissipation
of what may now be called the northern army.
You may be assured that the most powerful di
version that can be made in favour of the south
ern states, will be a respectable force in the
neighbourhood of New-York. I have hitherto
NEW-YORK, May 8.
Continuation of Letters taken in the Rebel
Mail on the 29th of March.
GENERAL WASHINGTON,
On Public Service,
To the Honourable
Benjamin Harrison, Enquire,
Speaker of the House of Delegates,
Richmond, Hi^nia.
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od
Flour, 7° s . odi
Brown Bread, 70s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.
PRICE C U R R E N T, in N EW - Y O R K.
[No. 1543]
GAZ ETTE;
THE
MERCUR Y.
I.lMufcovado Sugar, 51. 10s.
. Single refin'd ditto, is. ,d.
.I Molasses, zs. 6d.
./Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
.I Pork, 81. 10s.
foreign anti DomeftKb
NEW-YORK, May 9.
Yefterdav was sent in here b^ the privateer
Whale B at Mar:% Revenge, tn RAel pri
vateer il op Chatham. which 'he cap! bed on
Thy,fday lalO ft Martha's Vine ard. The
sloop was bound for Rhode Island, is deeply
'loaded, but the only pa t of he! cargo yet vi
sible, configs of fcant.ing and fire wood. The
prize left the Mary's Revenge in chace of three
loaded vessels. The pr'z? mafler fays, that
to avoid being putfued by any French or rebel
ships of war, he fleered for Newport harbour,
and was so near its entrance latt Thursday
about sun-set, that he counted diflindly eight
fail of French men of war then at anchor with
in it. In the night he altered bis course, and
shaped it for this port. On the 29th ult. the
Mary's Revenge chafed a sloop and a fehooner
ashore on the main, rear Hog Island. The
flcop was from the Weil Indies with a cargo of
rum, sugar, &c.
Lall Saturday arrived the privateer Whale-
Boat Trimmer, Captain Turner; during her
cruize she has destroyed a number of Imall
rebel vessels on the coast of the Jerfies, and the
south shore of the River Delaware: She has
also taken several prizes, five of which have ar
rived here. While the Trimmer lay in New
castle-Cove, seven of her men attacked a house,
in which were thirty-two armed rebels, twelve
of whom, with their officer, they obliged to
surrender and deliver up their arms, the rest
escaped through the windows.
Abut three weeks ago the Trimmer,in com
pany with one of her prizes, fell in with the
rebel privateer fcheoner Cock, of four carriage
guns and four fwivek; moss of the '1 rimmtr's
crew got on board the prize, made a barrocado
round her gunwales of the lumber with which
flie was loaded, engaged the priuateer about
an hour, killed a number of her men, and ob
liged her to freer off.
On Sunday las twas sent in here by some of
his Majesty's flips, the Rebel frigate Protest m,
Ihe was bound from ort-au-Prince to Bollen,
carries 12 twelves. 8 nines, and 6 fix pounders,
and had many valuable articles, with 10,00
dollars an board.
Cloathing. Of eloathing we are in a manner
exhaulled. We have not enough for the few
recruits that may be expert d, and except that
which has been so long looked for and talked
of from France Should arrive, the troops must,
next winter go naked, uniefs their dates can
supply them.
From the f regoing representation, you will
perceive that the proportion of the continental
army already allotted to southern service, is as
as much as, from present appearances, can
be spared for that pufpofe, and that a supply
of arms, ammunition, or eloathing of any con
frquence mud depend, in great measure, upon
future purchases or importations.
Nothing which is within the compass of my
power Ihall be wanting t® give support to the
southern states, but you may readil conceive
how iikf me a thing it mud be to me to be
called upon for affidance, when I have not the
means of affording it.
I am, with the greatest regard,
Dear Sir,
Your most obedient and humble servant,
G. WASHINGTON.
Hon. Berj. Harrison, Esq;
been speaking of our own resources. Should a
reinforcement arrive to the French fleet and
army, the face of matters may be entirely
changed.
Arms. Ido not find that we can, at any rate,
have more than 2000 Hand of arms to spare,
perhaps not so many : Fur fbould the batta
lions which are to compose this army be com
plete or nearly so, they will take all that are
in repair or repairable. The two thousand
Hand ame in the Alliance from France, and
I have kept them apart for an exigency.
Ammunition. Our stock of ammunition, tho'
competent to the defensive, is, by a late efli
mate of the commanding . fficer of artillery,
vattly fh^rt of an ofFe^fr/e operationof any con
sequence. Should circumstances put it in our
power to attempt such an one, we must depend
upon the private magazines of the dates, and
upon our allies.—On the contrary, Should the
defenfive plan be determined upon, what am
munition can be spared, will be undoubtedly
fenc to the fouthward.'
Fine Salt, 2s. do.
Coarse Salt, is. do.
Indian Corn per Bu. 10s. do.
Coffee, is. do.
Chocolate, ±6s. per Do.