The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1778-03-09 00:00:00, page 1

i. THE 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.
mark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland,
Pruflia, Russia, Sardinia, Orange, Italy and
Turkey.
3, The Extent and Situation of Great - Britain,
Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Prussia,
Turkey, Italy. Orange, Russia and Sardinia,
with the Latitude 2nd Longitude of each King
dom, and their military Establishment in Peace
and War.
4. Lit of the Peers of the Flood ofGreat-Britain,
Dukes, M :rqoi!e% Earls, Viscounts and Birons.
5 Archbishop and Bhhops of England, with the
r Sum each See is charged with in the King's
Books.
6. Hi^Mrij ^y's most hon. Privy Council.
7. Kblt's of the mop noble Order of the Garter.
8. K if ^s Chippie & .,cf the most hon. Order of
. the B^h. # ;
9 Kb asof the m<fl ancient and most noble
& d<r of the rhohte.
10. His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
11. Lords Commissioners of the Tre^fury.
1%. Lords Commissioners of Trade and Planta
_tions.-, ••
13. Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
14. High Court of Admiralty.
15. His Majesty's Pest Matter's General.
16. A Lift of his Majesty's Land Forces, with
their Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, and Time when
rai fed, &c. &c,,
37. A compleat Lift of the House of Commons of
Great-Britain, with the Towns, &c. they re
prefept..
18. A Lift of the Royal Navy of Great- Britain,
with the Pay of the Officers in each Rate, from
\ the Admiral to a private Man.
19. Admirals of Great-Britain, and the Places
where they command.
20. Ships of War on the American Station, with
the Names of their Commanders, and Number
of Guns,
21. Tieafurer, &c. &c. of the Navy, and the Sa
laries allowed by the Crown.
22. The daily Pay of each Rank in the Horse
and Grenadier Guards, and of his Majesty's
Land Forces on the British Eftablilhment.
23. precedency among Men and Women, as fet
tled by Ads of Parliament and other authentic
Documents.
24. A Table of all the Kings and Queens ofEng
land and Scotland,with the Time they severally
began to reign.
25. Peers of the Blood, Dukes, Earls, Viscounts
and Barons of Ireland, with the Peeresses by
Creation or Descent.
26. Bishops, Archbishops and Deans of Ireland.
27. Summary of the House of Commons ot Ire
land.
28. Bankers of Dublin, Cork, Waterford and
Clonmell.
29. A general Description of America.
30. Enumerated Goods fubjed to Duty in Ame-
rica-
31. General Establishment of all the Provinces on
the Continent of North-America, containing
the Names of the Council and Aflembly of
Naya-Scotia, Canada, New-Hampshire, Maffa
chufett* Bay, Rhode-Bland, Connecticut, New-
York, New-jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, North-Carolina, S. Carolina, Geor
giafand botfi the Floridas ; with the Names of
their Judges, Custom House Officers, &c. &c.
and dutiable Goods in each Province.
3 2, Officers of the Superintendent's Office in
Ne^YorbY
33 . Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and
Children of Clergymen of the Church of Eng
land.
3 4 An Account of what Sums have been grant
ed to the different Provinces in North-America,
as far as appears from the Estimates for the
Support of ciril Government o f each Province,
< d^ uifning each Year. And also of what
Soins nave been granu for the Support ot the
Pr wincial Force: in North-America.
3% Sub of the A:my red. :the Command of Sir
William Howe, K. B.
2,6. GeiCT^Hofy a 1 in New-York.
37. Field Qfficers pf his Mafrit 's Artillery, Dra
coons, and Infantiy \N. b A a^eric^.
, >.! audFiel^ Ctii.cu 01 the Httiian Corps
in North-America.
Monday, March o, ? /;1i T HP fNo.v^ 1
NEW-YORK ^^^ GAZETTE:
WE E K L Y M ERCUR Y.
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Containing the catties aweffi &@ty|||^^ foreign ana Domeffich.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
2 lb. 6oz. for 14 Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Leaves of a lesser Weight.
JAMES ROBERTSON, M. G.
JUST PUBLISHED,
And to be had at the Bible and Crown,
in Hanover-Square,
Gaine's
Universal Register;
O R,
American and British Kalendar,
For the Year 1778.
[llluftrated with an elegant an accurate Coperplat e
Plan of the City of New-York.]
CONTAINING,
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 355. per Cent.
Published February 2, 1778.
^ Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
39° Field Officers, &c. of his Majesty's Provincial
Troops.
40. Computation of the most remarkable Passages
of the Times, from the Creation to the last
general Peace.
41. Estimate of the Counties, Parities, Baronies,
Boroughs, Houles, &c. in Ireland.
42. Amount of any Number of Guineas (from 1
to 1000) in New-York Currency.
43 Value of Dollars in Sterling Money and New-
York Currency.
44 Directions to be observed by all Masters of
Veflels on their entering the Poat of New York;
and Regulations for the Cartmen in the said
City, as eltabiithed by the Commandant thereof.
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The Dialogue between the Englishman and the
two Americans, Whig and Tory, continued.
Tory. OOD Morning to You, my Friends,
I am glad to fee You again upon a
Walk into the Fields, and have wilhed for this
Opportunity to resume our late Conversation.
Whig. Why really, Neighbour, our last
Discourse has made some Impression upon me,
though Ihort and interrupted. I shall now be
happy to talk a little further upon the fame
Subject, though we must not converse long
together, left some ofour violent People ihould
fufpeft the Drift of our Discourse, and from
that Suspicion do, as they have done before,
put the Englishman into close Confinement
infteAd of his Parole, and fend You to accom
pany him.
Tory. These are hard Times inde^, try
Friend, when, after bawling for ten Years
together about Liberty, our present Leaders
will bang e* ten:ifon 3'if reopen om Ljz.,
without their Leave, or rfte'w ,n u an OaVh;
which, if observed, will rdin us; or, if bro
ken, will fend us to the Devil.
Eng. Indeed, between one thing, and ano
ther, the People here in general can scarce
confider themselves in a Situation much better
than mine, whose hard Fate is to be a Prison
er. Things were neverat this Pass with You,
when You were under the mild and gentle Laws
and Influence of your Mother-Country. No
People upon Earth, to my Knowledge, were
half so happy ; and, under the Protection of
G. Britain or (if you please) in Conjunction
with British Power, no People were half so
secure. Your Trade, under British Colors,
was protested by the British Navy throughout
the World. You enjoyed all the Privileges
of the Subjects at Home, without the Expence
of defending them. And, as a Proof of the
immense Advantage of such a Connection,
you had nothing to mind but your Commence.
You had no Armies to pay, no Ships to fit
out for Guard, no Charges of general Go
vernment to defray, no Ambassadors and Con
suls to subsist, no Expences of Forts r military
Stores, and a thousand other important Arti
cles to incur: All these things were provided
for You at the Charge of the Subjects at
Home, and provided without grumbling too.
They rejoiced in your Prosperity, considering
You as a Part of themselves. You' had Boun
ties of great Amount granted You for your
Encouragement and the general Good. It was
a dirty, narrow Reflection to fay, that they
were granted Jolely for the Advantage of the.
Subjects at Home —they were granted upon
the Principle of universal Benefit to the Em
pire, and with a particular View of strength
ening this Part of it. You had a Monopoly
of Trade in some Articles, and particularly
in Tobacco. You enjoyed, in fliort, every
Advantage You could enjoy, and upon Terms,,
which I must fay in Justice, You ought never
to have enjoyed them; for you possessed them
all, without that dead Weight, which lays upon
the Commerce of all Kingdoms and States; I
mean, without contributing to those enormous
Charges, whicli are indifpenfibly necessary
for the Protection and Security of a Country.
—But, should You establish your present mad
Notion of Independency, you will soon enough
perceive, to your Cost and your Sorrow, that
" the little Finger" of the Congress will rest
heavier upon You, than the Preffare of " the
very Loins" of G. Britain.
forj. Yes; and I understand, that they
are preparing us for this pretty Scene already.
Indeed, they prove the Truth of what You
have been faying, for they cannot subsist any
longer without taxing us. They have emitted
Paper-Bills upon us so much beyond all Bounds
and Possibility of Redemption, that they will
very probably be confidcred even by thetn-
Monday, i 9 Min. after 6
Tuesday, 9 Min. afte, 7
Wednesday, 59 Min. after 7
Thursday, 43 Min. after 8
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
Friday, 29 Min,after 9
Saturday, 13 Min. afte i 10
Sunday, 56 Min. after 10
Full Moon, the Wb,
selves as just good for nothing; which I begin
to find to my Colt already. If I go to Market
with them, the Merchant looks upon me as
blue as Indigo. And if I offer them to my
Brother-Farmers, they immediately stipulate
for Barter, and look as cold upon the Conti
nental Bills, as a Cow upon a Bastard Calf.
Whig. Ourlaft News-paper informs us, that
in Pennsylvania they have lately ordered a
Tax of five Shillings in the Pound, to con
tinue Year after Year as a perpetual Tax,
upon all Estates both real and personal.
Eng. That is a pretty Beginning truly.
Our Land-tax in England, which is judged to
lay the hardest upon Landholders (and fuel,
are most of the People here) never rose above,
four Shillings in the Pound in the worst of
Times. But, be assured, ii.i. is only the
Beginning of Sorrows. They will tax you,
bye and bye, like their Brother-Republicans
in Holland, where a Man cannot eat an Onion
or a Pint of Milk, without paying an Excise
upon them,
Whig. I find too, that the Government of
this State of Maffachufet's Bay has ordered
Taxes to be levied upon us for the present Year
to the Tune 0f£.4§5,000 lawful ; but where
it is to come from, God knows, when the
Times are so distressing, and Labor so scare
and dear, that one can hardly maintain a
Family. And I find that all the other States
are levying Contributions in like Manner.
Tory, Yes, Yes; they pretty well under
stand the Tradeoff Taxation, when they are
to carry it on t— mfelves. They can no^v
urge Resfehs from th general Policy of
Srates4 t^at uvriy Member, wh&r^cer^^ Pro
tections ought to contribute to the Means of
raising it; but this was all Nonsense, and
Tyranny, and Blasphemy, and God knows
what, when we told them, that they ought
to do as Members of the British Empire.
There is a strange Perversion of the fame
Logic, when it is meant to answer different
Purposes by defignirig and interested Men.
Now, Congress can tax, Assemblies can tax,
and Committees can gather Taxes ; so that it
seems, one half of the People are contriving
Ways and Means to load the other. And
indeed it will requite all their Ingenuity; for
they now only impose Taxes for carrying on
the War, and cannot find a Sufficiency for
that ; but what will they do hereafter, when not
only a most outrageous Debt is to be defrayed,
but civil and military Establishments are to be
arranged and paid which alone would cost us
more in one Year, than, in Co-ordination
with Britain, would have been required of us
in Fifty ?
Whig. Upon my Word, the more I confi
der our present Situation, the more I dislike
it, and sincerely wish, that Matters had never
come to this Extremity, which I believe no
honest Man defighed at the Outset.
Eng. It may be so ; but no Man of Expe
rience or Reading could doubt it, notwith
standing the high-flown Expressions of Fide
lity, Affeaion and Loyalty, used by certain
Classes of Men among You at various Times.
Thafr was a convenient Maik to lead on the
well affected and sincere People into their
Measures, which once done, it was easy to
fee, that the Fadion got additional Strength
by the Imposition ; and when they had obtain
ed the supreme direction of Affairs, then they
pulled off the Maik by Degrees, and audaci
oully called the King, whom they once extoll
edas a gracious Prince, a brutal Tyrant, by
which Management they fought to load his
Person with Odium, in order to destroy his
Government. But, God, in his Vengeance
upon this Land, seems to have cursed it with
Blindness and Folly, and to have made a Set
of Men, who would have been hanged in most
Countries and despicable in all, the Instru
ments of its own Confufion and Ruin. I fay
this out of no Malevolence in the World
against the People at Large, who I believe are
truly sincere, though deluded to support not
really their own Cause but the Cause of aban
doned Men, whom hereafter they will have
the deeped Reason to execrate. Posterity, I
think, will scarce believe the Madness of their
Forefathers, but for the fad Experience of the
Diftradions, which must one Day arise from
the ill-formed and various Systems of Polity^
and Interest established in the different Colo
nies, should they be able to realize their pre
sent Scheme of Independency.
Wheat per Bushel, izs. od.
Flour, 355. od.
Brown Bread, 20s. od.
Weft-India Rum, 6s. 6d.
New-England do. ss. od.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufeovado Sugar, 51. 10s.1
Single refin'd ditto, zs. 2d.
Molasses, 2s. 6d.l
Beef per Barrel, 90s. od.j
Pork, 51. 10s.i
Tory. It is a melancholy Profpea truly,
and I should tremble for the Children yet
unborn, who must fuffer in that Case for the
Madness of the present Generation.—But I
fee a Party of Raggamuffins, called Soldiers
of the Continental Army, coming this Way.
We will therefore separate, to avoid Mistrust ;
but I hope we shall soon have another Oppor
tunity to talk over these Matters again ; for
though it may have no othenE,fFe&, there is
some Relief to the Mind in the Communi
cation of Sorrow. Gentlemen,
Adieu.
#^*****^
To be LET T,
From the firft of May next,
AHoufe in Little Queen-street, wi:h fix fire-places,
and a small garden with fruit-trees, confining of
nectarines, peaches and plumbs : 1 has a back kitchen
and a bigtall, and a good cistern in the jart, now occu
pied by Dodor Cir^. Likewise to be hired by the
month, a negro man thattan do all forts of house work,
is a tolerable cook, and fit to waiton a gentleman, being
ftrialy honest. Enquire of the printer.
To be LETT,
From th% firft of May next,
THE house at prefect cccapicd by Mr. Warden, No.
890, in Little Dock-frrect.. Enquire of Samuel
Schuyler, opposite the Fly Market.
—_
To BE SOLD BY
JOHN BEGG, and Co.
At the Nertb-Eaft corner of Burling's Slip, the fol
lowing assortment cf goods, on reasonable terms,
cheap for caffs,
IRISH linens and Meetings, mens leather ftroe c , wo
mens leather and cailimancoe ditto, fiik, cotton, and
wafted he ; printed linens fr caUrore, iuk and prin
ted handkerchiefs, mens and boys common and hoe hats,
womens Icarlet cardinals, lawns aid cambiickr, gauze
plain and flowered, gauze handkerchiefs, fuperfine fear
let, buff, dark blue, green, and London brown broad
cloths ; bath beaver and German serges, rose bknkrts,
corduroys and velverets, black alamode and farfanet, rib
bons, needles and pins, sewing silk a^d nuns thread,
writing paper and pewter ink /lands, pewter table and
tea spoons, hard metaldicto, table and penknives, pinch
beck, silver plated, and mourning buckles ; locking piaf
fes, playing cards, barley, an assortment of faddlery,
mace, cloves, nutmegs, cinnamon nd ginger, jar raisins,
an assortment of fashionable mounted walking flicks,
gold and silver epaulets for different regiments ;—china
ware, confining of bowls, tea cups and saucers, plates
and mugs.—Port wine in bottles, refined sugar, green
and bobea tea, London porter in 60 gallon calks, failurs
jackets, Weft-India rum, and several other articles not
mentioned.
Doc tor DASTUGE;
No. 13, Duke-street,
R 'ETURNS his sincere thanks to the gentlemen an
ladies of this city, and others who have been plea
sed to honour him with their confidence, in his practice
of physic and forgery ; be begs the continuance of their
favours, until the month of April next, when he pur
poses to pass to Europe: In consequence of which, he
would be much obliged to those indebted to him to dis
charge their accounts, which will enable him to fettle
with those to whom he is indebted. He will continue
pratUfing physic and surgery, until the hour cf his de
parture; likewise making artificial teeth, and bandages
for all kinds of ruptures, and ether pieces proper to re
pair defeasof the human 'bedy, some of which decency
will not permit him to explain, the secret on his part be
always iacred, as these who have had occasion, have ex
perienced. He has had great success in performing an
opperation on the teeth, which takes off the tarter,
cleanses and makes them white, in easy manner, no
ways painful, and without doing the least injury to the
enamel.
Just imported and to be fold, by
Miller and A(bridge,
At No. 37, Wallfreet, four Doors above the Head of
the Coffee Houfe-lnidge, an Affoitment of Goods,
among which are
SUPERFINE Scarlet, white, blue, and buff coloured
cloths and caffimrrs, Superfine ditto (fafhionable cb
l^urs) in patterns for suits, with trimmings. Horfe
men's coats, and other apparel for ladies and gentlemen ;
men's and boy's fine and co: rfe bats ; white werffed,
lamb's wool, and yarn hose ; thread do: men's and boy's
shoes, women's fluff and leather do. printed linens and
cailicoes, Iriffi linens, and fine flrirts, Dutch and German
cords, white and coloured threads, rugs, portmanteau
trunks, faddlery, fail cloth, twine, cordage, caraptftools,
cheese, tea, refined Sugar, &c.
IRISH mess and cargo BEEF,
of the best quality, in t ; erces ; FORT WINE and
LONDON PORTER, bottled, in calks of 6 and 2 doz.
loaf sugar finale refined, soap, binnacle candles, barley
in kegs, Stockholm tar, canvas and tarred cordage ;
With a general and very comfl^at
Assortment of Dry Goods,
To BE SOLD BY
JOHN CAMPBELL,
No. 218, Queen-Street.
IFine Salt/ Bs. od
i Coarse Salt, Bs. od
ilndian Corn per Bu. 7s. od
[Coffee, is. ?d
IChocolate, 265. pc T>.