The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1777-10-27 00:00:00, page 2

Last fburfday 4fernucn the Ship Catharine,
Capt. 800 G, arrived here from London,
in 46 Days, by album ave have the following
Advices, viz.i
LEGHOR N, August 11.
LETTERS from Spain advise, that there
had been a fall of snow at St. Ildefonfo
the „th and 26th of July last; and that the
weather had been as sharp as in winter.
We learn from Algiers, that a Spanish slave
yrho had enjoyed the confidence of the Dey for
many years, had found means to take out of
the Treasury of that Prince four chests filled
with gold and filter, to the amount of upwards
of three millions. Contrary winds prevented
the departure of the ship on board which he
embarked with the money; by which means
he was taken, and hacked in pieces immedi
ately.
Paris, Aug. 25. Another struggle hath been
made on the part of the Court of England,
which hath terminated more favourably than
the last. Mr. Hodge, a fine, adive, spirited
American, who returned here from Dunkirk,
at which place he had been employed in fit
ting out privateers, on his own account, has
just been committed to the Baftile.
Augfourg, July 13. A new reinforcement
of ?§,OOO men is to be raised for the service of
Great'Britain for the next year; this news
proves that there are no hopes that the trou
bles in North-America will soon subside. It
is positively asserted, that the Duke of Wer
temberg has prevailed on the States of that
Dutchy to confers to furnifh 7009 men ; but
we are not told what Princes are to find the
rest, and the 6coo Hanoverians who have or
ders to hold themselves in readiness to march,
are not included in that number.
L O N D O N,
August >6. Press-warrants are issued for
landsmen at all the principal towns in Eng
land and Wales.
Last week a cause was tried before Sir
George Hay, Judge of the Admiralty Court,
wherein Capt. Benjamin Hughes, of the Eli
zabeth letter of marque, was plaintiff ; and
William Greenwood, Esq; Executor of Ar
chibald Baird, Esq; late Collects of the
Customs at George-Town, Winyaw, South-
Carolina, defendant. The late Archibald
Baiid. Esq; when he was expelled that pro
vince for refufing to swear allegiance to the
States of South-Carolina, embarked on board
the Three Sifters, bound to some pert in
France, bringing with him nine calks of indi
go, net for trade but for his prelent fubfitt
ance. The ship was taken by the Elizabeth,
and the question was, whether the indigo fell
under the description of the late aft of par/ia
.ment. It being a new point, and what may
frequently occur, it was argued on both sides,
when the judge decreed the nine calks of in
digo to the defendant, declaring that they did
not fall within either the letter or spirit of the
late aft. At the fame time restitution was
•decreed of two calks of mdigo to the Revd.
Agnus Macaulay, late a school-master in
Charles-Town, who had been obliged to leave
the province, at the fame time, and for the
fame reasons as Mr. Baird. The ship and rest
of the cargo v, as condemned as legal prize to
the captors.
ExtraA of a letter from the Hague, August $,
" We have letters from Park, which assert,
that the disgrace of a certain Embaffador w
the Court, of Versailles, is, on account of the
Counters his Lady, Who is an English woman,
having been found out carrying on a secret
correspondence with Lord Stormont, the En
glish Embaffador, and by means of the firft
clerk of the department of foreign affairs at
Turin difeovering to him that a private treaty
had been concluded between the houses of
Bourbon and Austria, and the King of Poland,
Sweden, and Sardinia.
"Aug. 23. A letter received on Thursday
from Paris has the following paragraph : The
Pallas frigate has failed from Brett for Phila
delphia, commanded by Mons. de Duviel,
who has notice from the French King, which
is to be delivered to the French officers in the
service of the Congress, on pain of death,
immediately to return to France.
By a letter from Paris, dated August 7, we
are assured, that the King has ordered a pla
cart to be published at Brest, Rochelle, Nantz,
and other sea-ports, commanding, upon pain
of death, all the fubjeds of France in the
service of the Congress, or any other foreign
state, to return to their native country. A
proclamation which, it is asserted, was occasi
oned by the spirited remonstrances of Lord
Stormont.
A Memorial, it is said is gone over to the
Court of Madrid, on the Subject of the Ame
rican Privateers carrying their Prizes into the
S^anifh Ports.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, Aug. 14.
" We have just received advice that the
Exeter man of war, of 64 guns, has taken
and carried into Kinfale, an American priva
teer of 18 gunsand 110 men, which Hie met
with about 30 leagues from the westward of
the Old Head of Kinfale."
The Edward, Capt. Lawrence; Hannah,
Capt. Cooper; and Sally, Watson, are fafe
arrived off the llle of Wight, from New-
York.
Extras of a letterfrom Paris, Aug. 15.
" Iwo days ago an Inhabitant of America,
was arrested and conduced to the Baftile;
he was the proprietor of the privateer com
manded by Captain Cunningham, and which
took the Eng/ifh packet boat between Hol
land and England. It is said that this step is
taken,at the request of the court of London ;
and that on the complaints made by the Am
bassador of Great Britain, we could not re
fufe this fattsfaaion; especially as the said
privateer had lately failed from Dunkirk in
contempt of the promise given that it should
not put to sea. However, the American a
gents here are much diffatisfied with such
rigorous treatment.
Letters from Paris, dated August 16, men
tion that the American deputies were prepa
ring to return home, having found all their
endeavours ineffectual with refpeft to establish
ing a union between France and /America,
against Great-Britain.
The King of Denmark, out of Compliment
to our court, has ordered all British seamen,
at present in the Danilh service, to be dischar
ged and sent home by the fi:ft ships: In conse
quence thereof a number have already arri
ved, and have been put on board the men of
war at Spithead.
The great outline of the intended operati
ons is said to be this: If France does not abso
lutely relinquilh her present treacherous con
duct, which gives her all the advantages of a
war without any of the dangers and losses, to
declare )war against her; —to fend 50,000 fo
reign troops to America, which are actually
agreed for; to call home the frigates, and let
them loose upon the French commerce, and
to form a grand expedition with General
Howe's army against the French Weft India
Islands; to cede Gibraltar and a sugar island
to Russia, on condition of the Empress fending
40,000 men to North America. What seems
to confirm these circumstances, is a commission
going to Holland to engage transports.
The above paragraph appeared in the Lon
don papers, a few days before the Court of
France had ordered the rebel vessels out of
their ports, and prohibited the sale of their
prizes.
His Majesty has been pleased in a letter
from Lord George Germain to Sir William
Howe, to return his thanks to Lord Cornwal
lis, and the troops under his command, for
their good behaviour on their march after the
rebels through the Jerseys ; to Col. Harcourt
for his spirited behaviour in taking General•
Lee; to our gallant Col. Mawhood, for his
bravery and good conduct on the 3d of Janu
ary, and to all the regiments under his com
mand, but in a particular mannner to the 17th.
A letter from Dublin declares, that nothing
can exceed the spirit of resentment which the
Protestant inhabitants of Dublin (who are
computed at near 50,000) shew at the insults
they have lately experienced from the Ameri
cans. Several Bodies of volunteers have been
lately formed; the gentlemen of the Bovre
and Aughrim societies (so called from the two
memorable battles fought at the glorious Re
volution) are recruiting their corps with great
•assiduity, being determined to oppose the ene
mies of the present happy establishment, of
what kind soever.
Orders were on Wednesday sent from the
Admiralty to his Majesty's dock yards, for
laying immediately the keels of three new 74
gun men of war, and two new thirty-fix gun
frigates.
The present Situation of the unfortunate
Duke of Gloucester must be worse than Death
itfelf, as by the last Letters that came from Dr.
Jebb, he can neither iltep nor eat in the natu
ral Way: By Way of a Bed, he is placed in a
Cradle, which instead of being horizontal,
is railed a little in the Back. In this manner
he is fed by the Breast of a woman, which is
his only Nutriment; and sometimes, after
great Pain, he is wearied into a Kind of a
Doze.
August 3°. Yesterday two gentlemen set off
for France, in order to claim the three Ihips
from Jamaica, that are supposed to be taken
near Scilly by the American privateers, and
to have been sent to some of the French ports.
Yesterday arrived in the river the Pacifick,
Dunn, from New-York, also the Farmer,
Dennis, (a prize) from ditto.
A schooner, laden with rice from Newbern,
North-Carolina, to France, is taken by the
Valiant man of war, and carried in.o Gib
raltar.
The prize taken by the Pacific armed ship,
Capt. Dunn, is called the Sally, and is not
yet arrived, as has been mentioned in the
papers, and was left at sea by Capt. Dunn,
who took her near Providence, and not in
soundings.
The taefar privateer, of 12 guns, Capt.
Lufk, was taken the 30th of July, near Fayal,
and is carried into Lisbon.
Yesterday twenty fail of large fhips'were
taken up into government service, and ordered
to be immediately got ready and fail for New-
York, and from thence after the grand fleet :
they are to be mostly loaded with provisions
and ammunition, in order that his Majesty's
troops may have a good supply during the
ensuing winter.
The last advices from the Duke of Glouce
ster arrived the 7th inst. some unfavourable
symptoms had then ceased, bat his Royal
Highness still continued in a very dangerous
way.
Extrafi of a letter from Portsmouth, August 27,
" This morning failed from Spithead, the
Bedford, Capt. Varlo, for Africa; the Asia,
Vandeput, and the Courageux, Hood, on a
cruize ; and a Dutch man of war for the Me
diterranean. The Venus and Fowey men of
war, with the trade for New-York, are get
ting under way."
Capt. Gardiner, who brought the news
from Gen. Burgoyne, is promoted to the rank
of Major, by brevet.
Sept. I. A Letter from Portsmouth, dated
Anguft 29, fays, " Came into Harbour the
Endraught, a Dutch Frigate, to flop a Leak.
The Venus and Fowey Men of War, with the
Victuallers under Convoy, which failed Yes
terday for New-York, are flopped at Cowes
by the Wind coming round to the westward."
The Rosamond, Boyd, and Royal George,
Peters, from Quebec, are arrived in the
Downs.
It is now generally thought, from the late
Successes, and favourable Prospect of Ameri
can Affairs, that Great Briton will have no
further Occasion for the Service of any more
foreign Troops, her own Strength being fuffi
cient to anfwer'even her moil sanguine Pur
poses of re-eftabliffiing Peace hnd Happihefs
over all her Territories.
We are assured from undoubted Authority
that in confluence of Lord Stormont's spirit
ed Remonstrance to the Court of France, all
the Harbours of that Kingdom have been
cleared of the American Privateers, and every
Assurance given of the pacific Difpofitkm of
that Government.
By some Accounts from Belifle we are in-'
formed, that the French are very assiduously
employed in eredihg a new 30 Gun Battery
at that Place.
Sept. 2. Letters from Frankfort by yester
day's mail mention a report there, that the
King of Prussia will go incognito to pay a visit
to the Emperor of Germany at his camp at
Pest, in Hungary ; and letters from Paris
mention that the fame report was' current
there.
Extras of a letter from Portsmouth, Aug. 31.
“ Yesterday arrived at Spithead his Majes
ty's ship Ramilles, Capt. Digby, from a
cruize, and has brought in the Hoop Catha
rine, Manchester, from Bourd^aux, with bale
goods, for Boston.
The King has been pleased to appoint Na
thaniel Beckford, of Jamaica, Esq; to be one
of his Majesty's Council in that island, in the
room of Ford, Esq; deceased.
On Saturday night the Duke of Cumber
land arrived at his house in Pall-Mall from
Spa in Germany, and yesterday he went to
Windsor- Lodge.
Lord Mulgrave, in the Ardent man of war,
took the other day, on his cruize in the chan
nel, a Dutch vessel with 300 barrels of gun
powder, on board, no part of which was to
be found in her bill of lading. On board her
likewise were several French officers of dif
tin&ion, and a German Count, disguised as
common mariners, who were discovered, it
seems, by one of them being heard to speak
elegant French. Finding they could no long
er conceal themselves, they went down into
the cabin, and soon after came on deck dressed
in their French uniforms, denied that they
were bound for America, and infixed upon
being released as officers of the King of France.
Lord Mulgrave however refuted to release
them, but told them, if they expected to be
treated like gentlemen, they must honourably
confefs the errand on which they were going,
for that he was convinced their intended
voyage was to join the rebel forces of Ame
rica. This had the desired effect, for it ex
torted from them a confeffion, that they had
each of them received commissions from the
Congress, and on the landing at Boston were
to have been invested with feperate commands
of great consequence.
The King has been pleased to appoint Jphn
Dalling, Esq; to be Captain-General and
Governor in Chief of his Majesty's Island of
Jamaica, in the room of Sir Basil Keith, de
ceased.
The King has also been pleased to appoint
Edward Smith, Esq; to be Governor of Fort
Charles in Port Royal in the Island of Jamaica.
John Boddington, Esq; is appointed Secre
tary to his Majesty's Board of Ordnance.
Leeds, July 19. On Wednesday last a most
terrible inundation happened at Hoimfirth,
near Hundersfield, occasioned by what is term
ed by Sailors a Water Spout, but known in
that part of the country by the more usual
appellation of the Burding of a Cloud, upon
the hills. The torrent of water was so great,
and the storm of thunder and lightning which
preceded it so violent, that many people be
gan to terrify themselves with the thought of
another universal deluge; and it proved little
less in refpedto those who were principally
affected by it, for many of the houses which
flood not near any rivulet were presently under
water, and several, with all their furniture,
cloaths, utenffs, workshops, and stables, to
gether with large Quantities of wool, and
other goods in trade, entirely swept away;
some of those houses which resisted the Vio
lence of the flood, had their furniture washed
, out, and hurried away by it : large quantities
of corn and grass upon the ground were ut
terly spoiled; and no less than seven mills
and eight bridges were driven down by the
rapidity cf the current. The water in a lit
tle rivulet in the neighbourhood rose several
yards perpendicular in less than ten minutes.
Three men were carried away by it to a consi
derable distance and drowned, one of whom
has left 2 widow and nine children. Many
horses, &c. were drowned. The feene, in
short, was so amazingly flrocking as to ex
ceed description ; nor is it possible to form
an adequate idea of the deplorable situation
of those poor unhappy creatures, many of
whom are reduced to the utmost misery and
distress. It is impoffible'at present to ascer
tain the damage futtained, but it is supposed
to amount at least to 10,cool.
Admiralty-Office, Sept. 1. The Hon. Levefon
Gower, Capt. of his Majesty's Ship Valiant,
fell in with and took on the 22d of last Month
the Brig Mary, Joseph Todd, Master, laden
with Rice, Indigo and Tobacco, from Charles-
Town, South-Carolina.
BO
This forenoon, previous to Col. Henry
Jackson's regiment marching to the south
ward, Thomas Lake is to be hung at the
bottom of the Common for desertion.
ffe following is a return of the hilled, vmmdef
and miffing, in the battle near Stillivattr, the
, 19th September, 1777.
2 Lieutenant Colonels, 3 Captains, 2 Sub*
alterns, 2 Drummers and Fifers, 52 Rank
and File, killed. 6 Captains, 15 Subalterns,
13 Serjeants, 1 Drummer and Fifer, 182 Rank
and File, wounded. 1 Captain, 1 Subaltern,
7 Serjeants, 29 Rank and File, miffing.
NEW-LONDON, Od. io.
One day last week, a boat in which were
eight militia men belonging to the Rate of
Rhode-Bland, was overfet at Narraganfet, by
running on a rock, when all of them were
drowned.
The armed brig Cambden, belonging to the
States, bound out from Bedford, was last week
on the day of her failing, loft on the rocks
near that place : Her guns and part of her
Lores saved.
JWm^w&raemaoTC atrwMiimiimwiw <«■ff"WWiMMMIItI
TAKEN up last Friday evening the 24th inflant,
in an inclofure at Greenwich, a black stone horse :
He has a long mane and tail, a white spot upon his flank,
and a fore upon one of his fore heels, which makes him
go a little lame. He has within these few days dene a
considerable deal of damage, by breaking down fences,
getting into gardens, &c. and also by laming other horses
in the inclufures into which he forced his way: This is
therefore to give notice to the proprietor, that he is now
put up in Mr. Campbell's liable at Greenwich, where
the owner is desired to call fdr him and to pay for the
damages he has done, and the expence of keeping, &c,
otherways an application will very soon be made for aa
order to have him disposed of for that purpose."
Excellent hyfon, congo, finglo, and bohea
T E A S,
To be fold by the theft or fmallcr quantity, by
ROBERT AMBROSE,
At his store, No. 46, in Maiden-Lane,
WHO has also for sale, French brandy, Holland
geneva, Weft-India rum d : fferent qualities, loaf
and brown sugar, mould and dipt candles, English soap;
china, glass and Queen's ware; English and Russia duck,
twine, fhea:hing nails, pepper, nutmegs, cloves, mace,
cinnamon, &c.
nrtAKEN up last Week, a MARE. The owner,
g upon proof of his property and paying charges, can
have her again, by applying to John Horne, near the
three mi'e Gone in the Bowery.
r\o be fold ar the New Lots, on Thur day the 6th
4 of November next, or at private sale, by Isaac
Ogden, at Jamaica, one 2 years old FILLY, one 3
years old ditto : They are well matched, ana of a dark
bay; their fire is Wilkes, the property of Nathaniel
Herd, of Woodbridge. Also one yearling COLT, and
an excellent breeding MARE, with a foal by her fide.
The two last are from Figure, a noteri horse.
Maclean and Kelfick,
BEG leave to inform their customers and the public,
that they have removed their store from No. 14,
in Water-street, to No. 326, in Dock-street, directly op
posite Mr. Isaac Low's store, nigh Hanover-Square, where
they will continue to fell on the most reasonable terms,
for caffi, by wholesale and retail, the following goods, viz.
Superfine broad cloth in suits, with proper trimmings ;
men's fashionable made-up coats, embofed serge, caarfe
and fine Irish linen, Raven's duck, brown and white oz
naburghs; 3-4, 7-8, 4-4, and 5-4 cotton and linen Man
chester checks; 34, 7 8, and 4 4 bedticks; Raven's
duck, coarse and fine rugs, men's coarse and fine worsted
flockings, A VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
KENDAL COTTONS, printed and linen cottons, neat
patterns for morning gowns, fashionable fatten cloaks,
richly trimmed ; fatten hats and bonnets; moft,fashion
able linen for ladies, men's and boys hats; oznaburgh
thread, coloured do. fine white do. men's fine and common
shoes and boots, table knives and forks, penknives, an
affirtment cf needles and pins; 6d. Bd. icd. and zod.
rails; best twist tobacco, carrot do. flfag do. faffron cut
do. paints of different colours, best Irifn soap, Jamaica
fpi its, best Antigua rum four years old, Madeira and
port wine in bottles, best Durham maflard, earthen ware
well assorted, grinding stones of different sizes, turpen
tine. and a variety of other articles.
COLBORN BARRELL
NOTIFIES his good customers and the public, that
he has removed his store from No. 57, Maiden-
Lane, to the Southerly corner of the Fly Market, next
door adjoining to Mr. Mitchelfon, the corner of Watqr
ftreet; where he has for file, on the rabft reasonable
terms, a large assortment o c EUROPEAN GOODS,,
suitable for all seasons, by wholesale, and for cash only.-,
Bowen's Patent Sago Powder,
For making JELLY,
A Quantity of frefh imported, to be fold at
Attwood's Medicinal Store,
Eight Doors Weft of the Ceftee-Houfe.
SAGO Jelly is extremely nourishing, and makes a most
suitable Diet in the Flux, &c.
At the fame Store may be 1 ad a general Assortment of
the best of Drugs and Medicines, frefh laid in, together
with feme of the most approved Patent Medicines.
An elegant and complete Set of modern Capital Inftru
mrnts, new. A Set of the f me, with trepanning In
ftrumente, second Hand; crooked Needles, Steel Trus
ses, &c. at such Prices as the Quality of the Articles are
entitled to, and the Times will admit.
Prescriptions made up with the utmost Care and Ex L &.
nefs, arid at the fhoiteft Notice.
• Double distilled white Wine Vinegar,
Refined Salt Petre.
Coffee-Houfe Bridge.
ISAAC HERON wishes to be rid of a Imall parcel of
- GOLD WATCHES, a large one of silver ditto ; an
arfortment of silver SHOE BUCKLES, &c. which he
received from his friends on the Thames.
STRAYED from the common
near Corlear's Hock, about a fortnight ago, two
milch cows : One a very pale red, with white flanks,
some white at the end of her tail, and spreading horns,
mark'd two half-crops and an half-penny on each ear.
The other cow is short bodied and thick, somewhat of a
darker colour than the former, and hath no spots ; her
artificial marks forgot.---A half Johannes reward, and
charges, will be given to whoever will restore the said
cows to the owner. Enquire of the printer.
BAIR-0f bl^k "GELDINGS',
5 years old, that go well in a carriage, to be
fold. Enquire of the printer.
RUN-AWAY last August, an apprentice lad named
Gillis M'Gillin: He has light hair, pock marked,
with a large fear on the left fide of his neck, about 5
feet 5 inches high, slender made, and sloops when he
walks, by trade a breeches maker. Any person who will
bring the said lad to the fubferiber, shall receive the
above reward, and all reasonable charges, from
WILLIAM BELL.