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Monday, October 27, 1777;
N E W-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
By His EXCELLENCY
Sir WILLIAM HOWE,
General and Commander in Chief, &c. &c. &c.
Declaration.
SIR WILLIAM HOWE, regretting the calami
ties to which many of his Majesty's fubje&s are
still exposed by the continuance of the rebellion, and
no less desirous of protesting the innocent, than de
termined to pursue with the rigours of war, all those
whom his Majesty's forces, in the course of their
progress, may find in arms against the King, doth
hereby assure the peaceable inhabitants of the province
of Pennsylvania, the Lower Counties on Delaware,
and the Counties cf Maryland, on the eattern shore
of Chefaperk Bay, that in order to remove any
groundless apprehensions which may have been rai
led of their buffering by depredations of the army
under his command, he hath issued the ftri&eft or
ders to the troops for the preservation of regularity
and good discipline) and has fignified, that the most
exemplary punishment shall be inflicted on those who
dull dare to plunder the property, or molest the per
lons of any of his Majesty's well disposed fubje&s.
Security and protection are likewise extended to all
persons, inhabitants of the province, and counties
aforefaid, who, not guilty cf having affirmed le
gislative or judicial authority, my have a&ed illegally
in subordinate Rations, and confeious of their mif
condu&, been induced to leave their dwellings;
provided such persons do forthwith return, and re
main peaceably at their usual places of abode.
Considering moreover that many officers and pri
vate men, now actually in arms against his Majesty,
may be willing to relinquish the part they have ta
ken in this rebellion, and return to their due allegi
ance : Sir WILLIAM HOWE, doth therefore pro
mise a free and general pardon to all such officers and
private men, as Shall voluntarily come and surrender
themselves to any detachment of his Majesty's
forces, before the day on which it Shall be notified
that the said indulgence is to be discontinued.
Given under my band, at Head-quarters of the
army, the 27th day of August, 1777.
W. HOWE.
By His Excellency's command,
Robert Mackenzie, Secr'y.
PA R I S, July 11.
T'HE Emperor, after visiting Bay
1 onne near the Pyrenees, entered
the kingdom of Spain, and went
to Fontarabia and St. Sebastian.
The Count de Viry, Ambassador here from
the King of Sardinia, and who formerly resi
ded in that character in Spain, has received
his recall, find is going to retire to his estate
in Savoy.
Yesterday were executed, at the Place de
Sceaux, a Baker and his wife, who assassina
ted and robbed, in the night, a dealer in
Cattle, whom they invited to deep at their
house. The Baker was broken alive on the
wheel, and his wife hanged.
Rome, June 25. The Pope held a Consist
ory the 23d inst. in which he created ten Car
dinals ; fourof whom he declared, and kept
the rest in petto: The former are Bernardine
Onorath, Archbishop of Sida, and Secretary
to the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars ;
Marc Anthony Marcolini, Archbishop of Thef
falonica, and President of Urbino; Gregory
Salvati, of the family of the Dukes of that
name ; and William Palotta, Treasurer Ge
neral. On the 26th another Consistory will
be held, in which the Pope proposes to present
the new Cardinals with their caps, &c.
The ipth inst. at half after one o'clock, a
fire broke out in the laboratory in the castle
of St. Angelo, and there being a great quan
tity of gunpowder near, all that quarter of
the edifice blew up, but happily the rest of
the edifice was saved.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
3 lb. 40Z. for 14. Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Loaves of a lesser Weight.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 30s. per Cent.
Genoa, June 30. Our letters from Sicily
mention, that a shock of an earthquake was
felt on the 6th of this month throughout the
whole island ; several houses were thrown
down, but happily no lives were loft.
Lifoon, July 1. The two brothers of the
house of Tavora, Don Reno and Don Manuel
de Lorena, who received their liberty at the
fame time with the Marquis of Alorna, have
been declared innocent by a decree from her
Majesty, who has thought proper to raise those
two noblemen to the degree of Marshals of
the Camp.
Leghorn, July 13. The famous Zampaglino,
Corffcan, and chief of a troop of banditti,
who were well known for the mifehief they
Published "January 10, 1777.
Containing tbe eatlicfl Eunices
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
" In digging the foundation of some hou
ses, in this city, about two days ago, they
found the largest antique Alabaster Vase yet
known, and almost entire, with its cover.
This, we presume will go to the Vatican Mu
seum. And in the Excavation carrying on at
the Pope's Expence, near Civita Vecchia,
they found lately the bodies of two confimi
lar military figures, the sculpture of both ad
mirable; one much more preserved than the
other. Every day now, indeed, brings some
thing to light that has been buried to the world
for ages."'
Yellerday one Mr. Palmer, living near the
Seven-Dials, made a complaint to Sir John
Fielding of his having been flopped, in a one
horse chaise, on Wednesday afternoon, in
which was his wife and another person, with
in one hundred yards of the Bull and Bufh-lnn,
near Hackney, on his return to town, by four
fellows, who, with dreadful imprecations,
threats cf infant death, and holding bayo
nets over their heads, robbed them cf all
. their money, watches, rings, &c. Mrs. Pal
mer was likewise examined, and confirmed her
husbands account, adding, that another chaise
was behind them when the robbery was com
mitted, in which were some more of their
friends; that three fellows armed robbed them
also, and that when the firft four had taken
what they could find' from Mr. and Mrs. Pal
mer, they joined the second chaise, being
seven in number, and robbed that also.—What
is remarkable, though Mr. Palmer was , lit
tle disguised in Liquor, yet he recollected the
man who received the money of him, and told
his wife he would Shew him to her the next
morning. Accordingly he went to a public
houfe yefterddy morning with his wife and
another person, recognifed the man, and di
reaiy applied to Sir John Fielding, who sent
feme ofhis men to Covent Garden, where the
fufpeded perforf was found, took into custody,
and brought to bow-street. After examination,
it appeared the Prisoner had been on that road,
that it was possible for him to be the person,
and as Mr. Palmer still positively infilled he
was the person, he was committed for further
examination, till the other parties could be
got, in order to fee if any other person could
indentify him.
By letters arrived in town by the Providence
and Nancy, Capt. Banks, from Davis's Straits,
we learn that his Majesty's armed brig, the
Lyon, who failed in April last to difeover, a
North Weft passage to Japan and China, after
failing into Baffin's Bay, has been repulsed
by impediments from thence, and is daily
expected home.
Wednesday last a battle was fought at Fox
heath, in Essex, between one Samuel Brown
and John Blackmore, when the former was
killed the firft blow his antagonist gave him.
The Vihory of 100 guns, was this day
navigated to her moorings in Gillingham
reach ; foe has been frefli painted and looks
very elegant.
The Albion, of 74 guns; Exeter ^; and
Ceres Sloop cf 18, are arrived on their Nations
on the coast of Ireland; and the Arethufa, of
32, appointed also for the lame Service, is
now going round thither from the Nore.
A very extraordinary phenomenon happened
lately near Limerick, in Ireland : The wife
Venice, July 5. The rains and cold weather
which have alternately succeeded, prevent the
corn from ripening in the neighbourhood of
Trieste; the case is the fame in Romania and
Lombardy. On this occasion there is a great
demand for grain; the Genoefe in particular
are buying up great quantities.
L^O N D O N,
August 5. Yesterday a messenger was dis
patched from the Admiralty-office to all the
Sea-ports, with frefh orders to all the Lieute
nants, to be diligent in their duty, and to
impress every able man that is fit to serve his
Majesty ; and not to stand on their having
been at sea, or protedions.
Extract of a letter from Rome, sane 14.
did during the war between the French and
the Corsicans, as he always concealed himfelf
in rocks and caverns, it was thought he was
dead, but finding means to make his escape,
with four of his companions, to the continent,
he continued his old way of living, by rob
bing, and has been at last taken. It is laid
that France reclaims him.
Monday, 17 Min. after 6 Friday, 22 Min. after 9
Tuesday, 5 Min. aftei 7 Saturday, 15 Min. after 10
Wednesday, 1 Min. after 8 Sunday, 54 Min. after 10
Thursday, 14 Min. after, 8 Ne^w Moon tbe yfl.
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
THE
:of one Cornelius Dugan, a labouring man,
who had ,lain in about three weeks, and inch
led her child, having a great abundance of
milk, was formed to get her breads drawn by
her hufnand. The man being very robuk,
and having strong lungs, drew her bread with
some violence, and presently perceived some
thing besides milk in his mouth. Taking
away his head, he observed a living animal
that hung half out from her nipple, and ha
ving drawn it out gently with his hand, he
found that it was shaped like a serpent, above
four inches long, and of the thickness of a
final! worm. A neighbouring Surgeon was
called, who examined this little animal more
minutely, and he describes it as being of a red
colour, with a double row of feet under its
belly, the body from the head to the tail was
composed of sundry rings, the tail was forked
at the end, and the points a little elevated ; on
its head it had two forked antennae, shaped like
th^ two fore claws of a craw-fifh; when it
was touched it seemed greatly agitated, and
although it had a great number of feet, it did
not move in a straight line, but with a serpen
tine motion. The mother fays, that before
this creature was drawn forth, ihe frequently
felt great pricking in her break, which she at
tributed solely to the over-abundance of her
milk. This animal lived eighteen hours af
ter its extraction, and is now preserved in
spirits for the examination of the curious.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, June 10.
“ The St. Jago, of 36 guns, and the Bo
vadilla, a large ship, of 700 tons burthen,
have arrived at this port from the South Seas,
after a very bad voyage. They bring advice
of very great disturbances having; happened
in several parts of the Empire of Peru, par
ticularly on the coast towards the sea, where
several places have been destroyed, and num
bers of the native Indians have joined them
selves to the insurgents, who are chiefly Mef
tize and Negroes, and if a flop is not very
soon put to their proceedings, they will be
attended with the most dangerous consequen
ces. The people of Chili still continue to
harrafs the Spaniards, and give them great
trouble, having twice in the year 1775, set
the town of Baldivia on fire, and done other
considerable damage. The Bovadilla has on
board a cargo estimated at four millions three
hundred thousand dollars."
From Lloyd's Evening Post of July rB, 1777.
To tbe Editor of Lloyd's Evening Post.
SIR,
Having found the two following relations
among the papers of a deceased friend,
which were wrote upon as real fads, your
inserting them may not be unentertaining
to some of your readers.•
I am, yours, &c. S. N.
q-'WO Gentlemen of Genoa alighted at
I an Inn, and observing a young woman
fitting very pensive at the kitchen fire, one of
the Gentlemen asked her, was she married?
to which she made no reply, but went away
in a seeming pct. She was remarkably beau
tiful, and they asked the Host about her, who
said file was his niece, and that she had been
lately very much, diltreffed by the continued
visits of an apparition, who entered every
room in the house though the doors were lock
ed. One of the Gentlemen laughed, and the
Eloft told him it was too serious for ridicule,
and desired he might that very night be an
ear and eye-witness of the truth of it; to
which he consenting, begged it might be kept
a secret to all except his friend and the young
woman. Matters being thus fettled, the
young woman was called, and the young
Gentleman enquired of her in what manner
the apparition addressed her, whether it spoke,
how many times it had appeared, and in what
dress? To which she made answer, that its
address was firft very courteous, but of late
menacing; that its chief request was to lie
with her, in order to beget a child, which
fiiould convert the whole world to the Roman
persuasion ; that she had fhifted.from room to
room, but in vain, for that it opened every
door in the house; that it had appeared eight
nights successively in the fame dress, which
was like a flame of fire in an angel's form,
and that she could plainly distinguish the
wings; that she had one night persuaded a
' young woman to Jie with her, who wa^ so ter-
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Flour, 30s. od.
Brown Bread, 255. od.
Weft-India Rum, 6s. 6d.
New-England do. ss. od.
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GAZETTE:
THE
MERCU R Y.
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Mufcovado Sugar,
Single refin'd ditto,
Molasses,
Beef per Barrel,
Pork,
foreign ana ©omeoiefo
ritied at the appearance, that she never could
since obtain that favour from her or any other:
She declared, th^t her life was miserable, and
her case the most singular and perplexed that
ever happened. She had, in her confeffion to
the Priert, told it him in a very circumstantial
detail of every the minuted particular; that
he said, it was nothing but an over-heated
imagination, a whim, a fancy, and what not,
but that on her having lately reported it to
him, and made her case public, he had
thought more seriously of the affair, and ad
vised her to comply, let the event be what it
would ; that she dreaded the thoughts of com
pliance, as she did not know but it might be
the devil, who had assumed that angelic form.
To this declaration the Gentlemen very at
tentively likened, and offered to fit up, in or
near her room that night, if foe would permit
them. She thanked them and accepted of
their service.
There was a elofet inside the room she was
to lie in that night, whither they conveyed
themselves with a case of pistols. Tl\e young
woman went into her bed, and the apparition,
at the hour of twelve, unlocked the chamber
door, though fhehad taken the key in. There
was no light in the chamber, and the room,
seemed in flames at the entrance of the appa
rition, who opened the curtain at the bed's
foot, and said, " Oh, Elizabeth, daughter of
grace, how long wilt thou be obflinate? Com
ply with the divine command, and thou shalt
be the happiest of women. Thou art a cho.-
fen vessel, and from thee fliall issue a son, who
shall convert the heretic world to the Roman,
religion." The Gentlemen were at firft sus
pended how to adt, and one of them hastily
took up a pistol, and would have shot the
ghost, had not the other flopped him, at the
fame time seizing the apparition, and threat
ening itAvith immediate death if it did not con
fefs the whole contrivance. The Gentleman
found in his hands a creature compleatly armed
in pasteboard coat of mail, the wings were
pasteboard, and they difeovered the dress to
be rubbed all over with phosphorus. The
family came in, and deteded in this angelic
form a Priest, who had taken this fantlified
method to fatisfy his carnal desires. They
promulged his shame the next morning, and he
abfeonded, transporting himfelf and his vil
lainy to some other kingdom.
The Earl of S travelling incog, through
France, came to an inn on the road, where
the Landlord, among other cor.verfation, told
him of an old Castle, near his house, that was
hauntc l, and that several who had rashly ven
tured to go'thither, had never since been
heard of.—" Then, fays the Earl, you will
never more hear of me, for I intend to go to
the Castle, and spend the night there. Whe
ther I return or not, let me have a bottle of
wine with me, and a boy to ffiew me the way."
The Host shewed him to the Castle, at the
fame time delivered him the bottle of wine,
and bid him a good night. It was not long
before an apparition in black, refembiing that
form in which we represent a Devil, appeared.
The Earl offered him a glass of wine, which
the other declined, waving him to follow him.
The Earl complied, and laying down the
bottle and glass, accompanied Master Lucifer
through a winding gallery. The Devil had a
lanthern, and when the Earl had arrived at
the end of the gallery, the Devil rung a bell
and flopped, when both he and the Earl were
suddenly let down by a trap door to the bot
tom of the Castle. The Devil walked off with
tbe light, and left the Earl disconsolate, not
beingable to difeover which way to get out ;
at length, groping, he touched an iron rail,
which "conduced him up a flight of flene fleps,
which he afeended, and heard men disputing
very warmly concerning himfelf. Let him go
the way of all Hefti, lays one.—Aye, aye,
fays another, dead men tell no tales.—By
Heaven, fays the third, I'll break your nob
if you but think of it; I know him, and ser
ved under him ; he's a brave worthy General,
and is no less than the Earl of S . The
Earl then knocked at the door, and being ad
mitted, gave them his purse, and promised to
keep the matter secret till he returned to Eng
land. He was difmilred', and returned to the
inn, where the Landlord was more luiprifed
at his return, than lie himfelf was joyful at
his escape, referring to himfelf the myhery of
it, and leaving the Landlord to unravel iu
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2S. 6d.'lndian Corn per Bu. 6s. 6d
90s. od. I Coffee, ~ is. gd
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