The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1777-01-20 00:00:00, page 2

&,?. i& This Day being the Anniversary [
of their Majefti^ Marriage, they received the ;
Complira .: of the Nobility at Kew, and in
the Afternoon set out for Windfar.
A P <^nt is making out, and will pass the
Seal io a few Davs, creating Lord Stormont a
Peer of Great-Britain; on which Account his
Lordihip is expected to resign his Ambassador
ship to the French Court.
On Wednesday last some Experiments were
tried upon Wimbledon Common, before the
Lord Mayor of London, the Gentlemen of the
Corporati n, and the Committee of City Lands,
upon the Method of securing Houses from Fire.
His Lordflhip and the other Gentlemen were
carried round th House, to fee the Marks of
twenty-five large Fires, which had, upon former
Days been lighted in different Parts of the
Houf. After this a Number of severe Trials,
each fufficieit to have set any common House
ten Fire, were made, upon the Floors, Stairs,
&c. in different Paris. In one of these Fires|
which was made upon the bare Boards of the I
Flo r, a Smith forged a H rfe Shoe and Nails,!
which were prelected to the Lord Mayor. The
Experiments concluded by lighting a R>om ;
which was filled with Faggtets, Pitch, and Tar,
and^thcr Combustibles. The Fury of the Fire
arising from thi^ Magazine of Combustibles was
immense, and the Volumes of Fire and Smoke
that Breamed out of the Windows and the
Chimney ware beyond Defeription. Notwith
standing which, the Fire aid not communicate i
to any o 'er Apartment; th Lord Mayor and
bis Company were in the Room immediately
over it, during the utmost Violence of the Fire
belw.
Yeflerday the Subferihers to the 1,400,000 1.
to be railed for the Service of the present Year,
made good their fourth Payment of 15 1. per
Cent. f the laid Capital at the Bank. .'
Extras of a letter fr@m Prefburgh, in Hungary. I
" There are some follies which length of
time and custom have so deeply rooted in the
minds of people, as to refill the force of ail hu
man laws, and which they hold in fach fuperfti
tyous veneration, that any attempt to ab dilh
them is deemed facrifegivus. N nwithftanding
all the pains taken by ourOovernment to put a
flop 10 the ridiculous extravagance attending fu
nerds, not only the coAim n people, but even
the higher classes Bill pe:fift in the absurd cus
tom of celebrating them in a so lifli, profufe,
end even indecent manner. A ew daysagothe
people in the county of Barchode, pretending
that the relations of a lady who had been buried
about twe m mths, had not affixed at the ebfe
quips, thought proper 0 take up the Corpse, and
insist that the ceremony ihould be renewed.—
The ft flowing is an account of the prov lions
confirmed upon this cccufion ; — Eight bul
locks, eight calves, four large hogs, ten iheep,
Icoy in abundance, c nfifting of no lets than
400 articles, (geese, ducks and chickens) zo
calks of wine, 70c loaves of brown bread, of
half a pound each, and 400 loaves of white
bread, a p end each, besides three cart-loads
of game, ^d seven or eight barrels of brandy.
We have had inftauces of this kind when doube
the like quantity of provifibns have been used."
Sept 17. The Mafftr of a Horse Repository
has u^deitaken, for a Wager of 100 Guineas, to
drive two Ponies in a Four-Wheel Chaise 70
Mi es a Day for fourteen Days successively. He
b^gar. left Friday, and went 72 Miles, and the
next D.y 73, but we have not heard how he has
acquitted himfeli since.
A Letter from Liftwithiel, in the County of
Cornwall, mentions the Death of a Woman at
the Age of 112, who could fee to do fine Work
without Spectacles, and walked two Miles every
Day to Church till within a Month of her Death.
Capt. Edward Dodwell was preferred Yester
day to his Majafly by the Rrght Hn. the Earl
of Oxford, was most graciously received, and
had the Honour to kiss his Majefty'sHand on
being appointed a Cap ain in the new raised
Corps commanded by William Dalrymple, Esq.
Extract of a Letter from Chatham, Of? 14,
" Yesterday’s P ft brought Orders for the Ar
dent Guardfllip, of 64 Guns, Capt. Middelton,
at this Port, to be fitted with the greatest Expe
dition for Channel Service.
Yelterda, both H.ufes of Parliament met at
Westminster, and were further prorogued to the
gift inst. The Lord Commissioners present, were
the Lord Chancellor, the Archbiihop of Canter
bury, and Lord Weymouth.
Yeflerday Morning a well-dressed Man was
found 'Kot through the Body on the Read ne^r
Uxbridge, supposed to have been murdered by
some Footpads who were on that Road the pre
ceding Evening.
On Saturday at Eleven o'Clock, a full Board
cf Admiralty was held, at which Lords Sand
wich Spencer, Lifoon, and Sir Hugh Pallifer,
assisted. After it broke up Lord Sandwich im
mediately set off for Windsor, where his Lord
fliip Bail in Conference with the King near an
Hour and a Half.
Sep. 19. On Saturday some Dispatches were
received at Lord George Germaine's Office
from Admiral Young, on the Leeward Elands
Station, brought by the Hercules, Capt. Hun
ter, arrived at Bristol from Antigua.
Yeilerday after breaking up of the Levee at
St. James's, Lord Amherst and I,ord Barrington
had each a Conference with his Majesty; when
the latter laid before his Majesty a Lift of some
intended Prom, tiens in the Army, the Com
millions fcr which were signed by his Majesty
before he set out for Kew.
On Monday Evening Letters were received at
Glocefter House by the Ladies Waldgrave from
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dutchefs of
Giore^er at Rome, intimating that their High
ndfes had removed to their House, about fix
Mnes from the Capital ; that his royal Highness
had been iadifpo/ed, but when these Letterscame
away was recovered ; and that her Royal High
neGaadthe}GungPrincefa were in perfe&Health.|
Tn the fame Packet came Letters fcr their Reyal
Highnesses the Dake and Dutchefs of Cumber
land and all their Highnesses Friends.
Last Friday Evening four Footpads flopped a
Gentleman and his Wife, in a one Horse-Chaise,
near Ifliagton, and robbed them of their Money
and Watches, in Sight of a Man, whom they
threatened to cutin Pieces if he did not walk an
without taking any Notice.
Of? 17. The Trade of this City is so much
increased with Roffia, and such immense Quan
tities of our Manufactures are in Demand for
the Merchants at Petersburg, who carry the
fame down the W Iga, over the Caspian Sea,
for the Supply of the immense Regions which
border upon and have C immunication with it,
that our fradifmen in the various Branches are
quite distressed for the Want of Hands. Since
these Channels have been opened by Govern
ment, our North America Merchants have
ceased to complain, many of them finding bet
ter Cuftem and better Payment, than they have
experienced in Trade with the Colonies.
Extras? of a Letter from Gibraltar,' Sept. 24.
" Letters received from Mogadore fay, that
it is believed there that the Peace between the
Emperor and the Dutch is nearly fettled, the
Emperor having given Orders that the Cargo
of the Dutch Ship the Maria Catherina, lately
taken, fhould.be laid up in his Magazines, and
that no Part thereof should be meddled with,
OR Pain of the severest Puniffiment. The Cap
tain and Sailors too, at the Intercession of
the English Consul, are treated very well, and
not fold into Slavery. The Captain is permitted
to w@lk about the Town, the Consul having
answered fer his not escaping. I believe the
Officers and Crews of the Emperor's Cruisers
wish heartily for the Peace, as they ftaod much
in Awe of the Dutt* Men ofWar, who are con
stantly cruising on the Barbary Shore "
Yesterday Afternoon feverai large Ships, lately
token into G vernment Service, fell down the
River to Deptford, and as they are most) three
Deckers, they mount from 16 to 20 Gun, a^d
are intended to proceed to America, witnout
Convoy, as fall as they take in their Lading.
The following Accouir, fays a Correfp ndent,
may be relied upon :—A noted sporting Gentle
man at Stinflead, in Hertfordshire, laid a Bett
of tool. that he, on the 2d of September killed
12 Brace of Patridges between the Hours of Five
and twelve in the Morning, and won the Wa
ger, having killed eleven B ace and a Half be
fore Breakfaft, wentout again after 11 o'Clock
and found a single Bird (it wanting but nine
Minutes of twelve TCleck) when, in order to
sh. w his Skill, he let go to the Distance of 80
or 90 Yards, and then killed it, to the AftoniK
ment of ft ur Gentlemen who attended him on
this Occasion.—A Son of his, who is but tv eve
Years of Age, killed nine Brace of Patridg s the
fame Day.
Ofl 18. A promotion of naval officers, we
are informed, will very son take Place
Yesterday the Lady of Sir William Howe was
introduced to their Majesties at St Jan es'3 and
most graciously received.
The present queen of France takes a privy
purse of 200,0001. a year, and the king's gene
rally amounts to 559,0001'.
Dublin, Sc,t. 3. This Day an Attorney was
committed to Newgate by Alderman Jmes Ha
milton, charged upon Oath with having produ
ced and received Payment cf a Draft, drawn in
Favote of Christopher Reilly, Saefmafter, on
the Bank of Thomas Fiday, Esq; a r d Co,
for 1171. 17s. gd. The Calhier bring in a hurry
the Attorney found Means to take away the Draft
and Cash, and after aberi g the Number and
Date, sent it for Repayment, f # r which the
Theft and Fraud was deeded. Great Intermit,
we are told, hath been used to admit him 10
Bail but refufed by all the City Megiftrates.
Edinburgh, fyt. 4. A Boy of 6 urteen Years
of A e, in the Parish of Midmar, and dhire f
Aberdeen, going < ut on Tuesday last with a
Ho/fe and feme Cows whefe Tethers he h;c un
f rrpnately faftned to hisßody,was thrown from
his Hoife,and the Rop^ b some Accident twin
ing aboui his Neck, as the Horfc dragged him
on the Ground, be was f und dead by f me
Pe f.ns who b held the Accident at a Distance,
but did not cone in Time to Eve his Life.
On the Coal Trade sf Great-Britain.
[From a late Engli/b Paper.]
r'HE Coal Trade cf England, that is the
carrying Coals from Newcastle, Sunder
land, Blyth, and other adjacent places in the
North, as also from the Firth of Edinburgh,
in Scotland, and other places thereabouts, to
the City of London, and to the port-towns on
the ecaft al! the way, as well on this fide of
Newcastle, North, as up the Channel as high
as Portsmouth, Weft, is a prodigious article,
and employs abundance of flipping and Sea
men, insomuch, that in a time of urgent ne
cessity, the Colliery navigation alone has been
able to supply the Government with a body of
Seamen for the Royal N&vy, able'to man a €om
fiderable fleet at a very short warning, and that
without difficulty, when no other branch of
Trade would do the like.
The Whitehaven Collieries in Cumberland,
belonging to Sir James Lowther, furnish feverai
Counties in Ireland with Coal, and constantly
employ upwards es 2000 Seamen, which also is
a noble murfery for the Royal Navy of this
kingdom. The port of Swansea, in Wales,
fuppfies the coast of Devonshire, and ether
counties in its neighbourhood.
According to a calculation of Sir William
Petty, in his Political Arithmetic, it appeared,
that, loon after the Restoration, the whipping
trade for Coals to Newcastle alone amounted
t 9 SO,OOO tons, which at a medium of 150
tons, make 533 fail. Aboat the year 1750.
(according to Poftlethwayte) the Coal Trade
alone employed 1500 fail of Ihips, from io®
to aoo tone. Another Writer calculates the
fCeal Trade cf Newcastle to employ abm 1003
I Ihips, 19,00® Seamen and Bargemen, and the
I number of men constantly digging under ground
;to be 30,000. According to this account the
' total is probably mere than 1500 fail.
Be it therefore enabled by the Governor, Coun
cil and Representatives in General Court ufi^bbd,
and by the Authority of the fame, Chat for the
future the price of labour in the farming way
in the furnmer fea'on Ihal not exceed three ffiil
li^gs per diem, and so in the usual proportion
at other seasons of the year, and other labour
to be computed, and of mechanicks and tr^def
men meeting to the usage and cuftems that
have heretofore been adapted and prachfed in°
the different parts of this iN'c, compared with
farming lab r, and the prices hereafter set and
established. That the price of the following
articles at the place of market shall not exceed
the feverd sums hereafter mentioned, viz
Wheat not to exeeJ fix fhi lings per bushel;
Rye n t exceed three fhilf gs and fix pence
per bufhd ; Indian c ^n not to exceed three
Shillings per buihei; good merchantable wo I
n-t to exceed tw> fhilliogs per pound; go d
clean w L d:eh?d flax not to exceed ten pence
per pound; Pork weighing fr^m five to seven
score n c to exceed three pence one farthing per
pound ; and from seven t# ten score not to ex
ceed three p-nee hal' penny per p and ; and
all above teo score not to exceed three pence
three-farthings per p und ; grass fed beef of
the bed quail y not to exceed twenty-four Kil
lings per hundred, and so 11 proportion aecord
ing to its quality; Raw hides, not to exceed
three pence per pound ; Sah not to exceed ten
Killings per buffi 1; goed Weft-India R^m of
merchan able proof, not to exceed fix fhifings
per gallon per hogKead ; bft Mufcovad.> fog r
not to exceed sixty Killings per r ogKead ; Mo
lasses of the belt quality no to exceed three Kil
lings per gallon per hogshead, ard f. in pfo
put >n as aforefaid ; New England Rum of the
belt quality ot to xceed three. Killings and fix
penc^ per gallon per h'gihead, and so in like
proportion; B lira Tea not to exceed four
Killings and fix pence per pound by the chest ;
Cheese of the bell kind not to exceed fix pence
per pound, an 1 so in like proporti n ; good fait
butler not to exceed ten pence per pound ; and
all other nectffary articles not enumerated, to
be in a reasonable accustomed proportion to the
above mentioned arricles.
And be it further enaaed by the Authority
aforejaid. That whoever ihail contreft or re
ceive for labour, or vend, fell, or receive for
any of the above enumerated articles more than
at the above rate or price thereto affixed, or for
others not enumerated, in an unreVionable dis
proportion thereto, t e extraordinary rifque and
otter special circumflances cc^fidered Ihah be
accounted oppieffive, and deemed guiby of a
breach of this aft ; and be liable to b, pr.ceed
ed riih, and fuffer the prins and penalties of
the laws of this tiate agai. ft oppression.
dad be it further enured by the Authority
afo^juid That ar inf rtmmg officers be, and
tn. y are hereby cirtded and especially required,
Italy retquire into, and presentment make
of i reaches of the law made agairft lech
practice in order to pievent the fatal effects of
that growing evil.
A true Copy of Record,
Examin'd by
George Wyllys, Sec'ry.
At a General Aff.mbly of the Governor and
Company of the State of Cbnne&icut, holden
at Hartford, by special Or er of the G wer
nor, on the 19th Day of N venber, 1776.
An ACI to prevent Engroffers and Monopolizers
of the Article of S AL T.
BE it ena&td by the Governor, Council and
Reprejentativer in General Court afmbled,
and by the Authority of the fame, That the civil
autht ricy and leledmen of the feverai towns in
this Bate, be, and they are hereby enabled, di
rected and empowered, upon application to them
made by any of the inhabitants of this Rate, to
cause a warrant to be issued out, signed by pro
per authority, and dir &ed to some proper of
ficer, to cause the ft res, &c. of any engrosser,
or monopolizer of Did article within their ref
peaive towns, to be opened, and to seize the
fame and diftributp it out among the inhabitants
of this Rate, who may hand in need thereof,
and ffiall apply therefor, at the price by law
affixed, according as the necessities of the peo
ple may require, and when fold and disposed of
as aforefaid, Kall render their account of the
avails thereof to the refpedive owner or owners
@f the salt.
A true Copy of Record,
Examin'd, by
George Wyllys, Sec'ry.
[Nothing can Jbevo more plainly than the above
two A&s, what the People of this Country might
ex,ell from the mean and tyrannical Authority of
the Cengrefs, and their Tools in the Jeveral Colonies
upon this Continent. By these AAs, a Man is
neither to earn, nor to keep, any Thing, but accor
ding to the arbitrary Decrees of these imposing De
magogues. The, that can relijh Jxch Liberty as
this, are ft for the merf kind of Slavery.]
Frem the Connecticut Gazette, of Dec. 13.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and
Company of the State of Connecticut, holden
at Hartford, by special order of the Gover
nor, on the 19th Day of November, 1776.
An ACT to prevent Monopolies and Oppression,
bp excefve and unrtafonable prices for many
of the necessaries and conveniencier of life.
WHEREAS the rapid and exorbitant
rife upon the necessaries and cenvenien
cies of life in this day of public calamity and
distress, is chiefly occasioned by monopolizers,
the great pest of fociaty, who prefer their own
private gains to the interest and fafety of their
country, and which if not prevented, threatens
the ruin and dellrudion of this state.
NEW-YORK, fenu^
Saturday being the Anniversary ap,
the Celebration of Her Majority's Birt
Guns, as usual, were tired at Fort-G&
Majority's Commissioners gave a grand'
ment to the Governors and Officers of
both British and Hessian ; and in the.
very Splendid Exhibition of. Fire Wort
the Direction of Col. MoatreJor, was pla
Whitehall, upon the Occasion.
In Honor of the Day, the General was inv^t^
with the molt honorable Order of the Bath
by Lord Howe, aflifted by General De HEISTER:
in the Pretence of a numerous Alterably.
Sir William Howe gave an elegant Ball and
Supper in the Evening. The Ball was opened by
Mis Clark, and His Excellency Governor
Tryon.
On Monday last Mr.CHARLES Lee was brought
to this City fr®m BrunGick, and put into the
Custody of a ftreng Guard.
We hear, that the People in the Maffachufett's
Bay, and particularly in the interior Parts, are
exceedingly ^ift/effed for Cloathing and Dry
Goods of all Sorts; that the Price of Labor is
molt exorbitantly advanced, through the Num
bers that have perished in the Rebel Army and
the great demand tor Reciuits; and that they
are at present in a State o' Variance among them
selves, without Administration of Jaftice, without
positive Law, without Constitution : Some of their
L a eis attempted to fettle a Form of Govern
ment ; but toe Meature could net be carried as
the Multitude ate resolved to have none. In &ort
the w ole C untry exhibits a most melancholy
Scene of popular Infinity and Ditraaion,
We hear likewile,that the Colony of Maffachufet's
has not contributes ond fourth Part of the Quota
in Money, which was appointed it by Older of the
Compels, and that there is not a Probability of
ratlin any more. Many, who have been hitherto
active in these Deputes, begin to draw back, from
a ilrong Pr^pofLffim, that " Independence and
" Ruin are clolely united."
We are informed by a Person lately arrived
from B riton, that rhe Rebels had five Ships fitted
out tor War in bar Harbour, carrying from 2©
to 30 Guns, but that they could nor procure fuf
ririent Hands to man them. The rest of the grand
American Navy, ©t which the World has heard
much n<if%Oo little, are now under the Pro
tedion of His M jelly's Ships in the Delaware and
at R ode Inland.
The Ships of War are daily fending in Prizes.
There is an immense Number at present in this
Harbour, and tome of contiderable Value. Se~
vein! of th*m are laden with Ammunition and
mil: ary Stores.
By au ritnurte, formed by the Rebels them
eivts, of th: Loss in their Expedition to Canada,
A li rn, that it amounted to full 9000 Men, by
bicknefs and the Sword; to ay Nothing of the
Expen^ttu/e of i^olt »f the hard Cash which they
cvu.d procure, in order to bribe the Canadians.
There has lately been, as we understand, by a
Gen^man jilt arrived from New England, a,
la ~ Dirtribution in that Country of counterfeit-'
ed Continental Bills, fb admirably executed, 3
not ealily to b diherned from those issued by Or
der ofthe Congrefi. This has contributed nob
a little to lower their Value, and will be one ef
feaud Bar to thrir Re.payment or Liquidation,
'Tis calculated, that above one half of' the per
sonal Property of the Colonies, has been a&ually
funk by tn^fe Bills of the Congress ; a great Part
of which has been remitted to Europe as a Provi
sion for certain People against '• the Stormy Day."
Polarity will fearce credit the astonishing Infatu
ation of the Times.
We hear, that “ Colonel Mawhood, and the
17th Regiment," is one of the Toasts of the Array.
A. very sharp Look out is kept by the Inhabi
tants and Soldiers, who patrole the Streets at
Night, to prevent Fires: And it is believed, if
any Perlon was caught in the F& of placing or
kindling Combustibles, it would be impossible for
bira to escape a molt instant and terrible Death.
Major French, who lately eleaped out of Prison
in Connecticut, where he has been treated with
great Severity, is fafely arrived in Town.
By a Person just arrived from the northern Parts
of this Province, we are informed, that the two
Frigates of 24. Guns each, long since ordered by
the Congress t® be built at Foughkeepfie, are
launched and rigged, but not manned ; that Ar
^W is gone into the New England Provinces, with
a View (as it was given out) of conducting an
Attack, with all the People he can mutter, upon
Kingibridge ; that rhe People in the Country, ar©
in great Anxiety for their Provision Stores in
Summer, as they cannot kill their Hogs and other
Cattle, as usual at this Seafen, for want of Salt;
and that the Inhabitants are every where in the
greatest Distress on the Scarcityof Cloathing, He
alfoadds, the Report among the Rebels was, that
the Militia of one er two of the Upper Counties
were shortly to join and to proceed upon some
secret Expedition.
On Saturday a large Body of Rebels made an
Attack upon Fort Independence, beyond Kingf
bridge, and were bravely repulsed. They sus
tained some Loss ; but we have net yet heard the
Particulars. The Fort was defended by a fmall'
Party of Heflians and of Col. Rogers's Rangers.
On Friday the 10th Infant, the House of Mr.
Brook Farmer, at Brunswick, was accidentally fete
on Fire and burnt down, with the House adjoin
ing. Scarce any of the Furniture was saved. The
Officers quartered in it loft mft of their Baggage.
A Party of about 3 or 400 Rebels, who had
quitted Mr. Washington's Service on the Expira
tion of their stipulated Time, and were returning
to New England from Morris-Town, took Capt-
Kennedy's House in their Way at Newark, and
plundered it of every Thing that was valuable.
The Ship Lord North, Capt. Ross, arrived here
Yesterday from Antigua, and brought in with
him a Brig frem St. Martin's, bound to Phila
delphia, with Salt and Dry Goods.
Yesterday an excellent Charity Sermon was
preached at St. George's Chapel, by the Rev. Mr.
ODdell, when a handsome Collection was
made for the Use of the Charity School in this
City.
t*f Mrs. M'Clean, (formerly Mrs. Glass)
is removed to this City again, and follows her
Bnfinefs as usual.— She may be found at her
House in John's- Itreet, oppofitc the Theatre.
§||§ A few Bottles of Turlington's original
Balsam, a very excellent Lip Salve, and the
genuine Keyser's Fills, t® be fold at H.Gaine's
Book-Store, in Hanover-Squire ; where the Pub
lic may be supplied with Writing Paper of
an excellent Quality, and a Variety ot other Arti
cles in the STATIONARY WAY, &c. &c.