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Congress have honoured me with an employment in
France, I shall take the firft opportunity of proceeding to
that place, where, if I arrive fafe, 1 ihall be happy in be
ing favoured with your commands. I am much obliged
to you fr your tenders of service, and am with great
esteem, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM PATFREY.
MdTrs. Pitts and Call, Merchants in Bufton.
Hopewell, Nov. 29, 17S0.
Sir,
" I have only to inform you, that the ne<w
Money, intlead of 40 for One, I have Reason
to believe, will, and does go, at Philadelphia,
at 60 feu One; and they begin to change the
fame at 60 among us. The new Money I let
you have, may anfiver your End by leaving
this Hint, You may keep this a Secret, as I
am net-certain es it, nevcrthelefs you can go
vern vourfelf accordingly. Your friend and
humble servant, THOMAS STORM.
Ephraim Hall, Mercht. /
Midtord, Massachusetts. }
¥7^ folb^to are feme V ^e Letters that tvere
found in the Mail that ^ intercepted a fav
%b ago on the Road from Philadelphia to
Boston, not before pu+lifoed.
Dear Sir, Philadelphia, N0v.21, 1780.
V Must finc'erely congratulate you on your sale return,
k and hope your voyage has proved a profitable one. As
1 depended entirely upon yvur honour to account w^h
me for the profits on the bills, I kill have the fame reli
ance, and am much pleased to hear you have improved
them to our mutual advantage, .Whenever it is conve
nient to you, I ihall be glad to receive an account of wn^
isdue to me for my proportion. y° ur mention ot going
to Virginia for a load of tobacco will be fruftrated by the
enemy's being in pcth then f Chefapeak-Bay, the news
of which I hope has reached you time enough to prevent
you finding your vessel there. Congress have done me
the honour to appoint me their consul in France, and I
shall leave this place in about twenty days. I wifli I may
have the pleasure of feeing you before I go, as we may
concert a plan of buhne's that may be mutually advan
tageous. If this reaches you time enough for you to get
here on or before the 10th of December next, I should be
glad you would set off immediately. It captain Holmes
arrives I will take care of your intenft. There are no
bills (or very few) now for sale, and those only for f/ecie.
Exchange between hard and paper 75 for one. Lenuon
particular wine about 20 s. a gallon, but very , ^,.
Write me particularly by the return of this post, directed
to the care of Mr. Philip Audibert, merchant here. I
have given your refpeds as you desire, and can assure you
your friends would be very happy to fee you. and none
more than your sincere friend and humble servant,
Mr. Thomas Gates. WM.P/ITFREY.
Sir, Philadelphia, Nov. 20, 1780.
J This day received yours of the 17th and
27th of October last; am much obliged to
you for thezintelhgence you have been pleased
to give me on the several fubjefls therein men
tioned. Therp has not been any application
made to Corgiefs by the date of Connecticut
relating to their Mate money e h ch they issued
previous to the adl of Con, refs of the 18th of
March, and I trust ther^ will not very soon, if
ever. U/on receiving your V tier I mentioned
to fever,,.:gentlemen of Congr.f. the exertions
of T^&chufctM in Filing 111 the old money
Gentlemen, Philadelphia, Nov, 21, 1780.
I Received sours of the firft inftan r , and note the con
tents. I hope there will be mo difficulty in your fet
tling with Giles, and that you will be able to recover the
money I advanced him. There is now npwaidsof 30001.
'due on, the goods fold at vendue, which, in order to close
your accounts, I took upon myfelf, and when I shall get
it the Lord only knows. I shall fuffer more by the depre
ciation than three times the amount of my coinmiffions.
Gentlemen, Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 1780.
IN my last I hinted to you that 1 was about to leave this
place for Europe. You have doubdefs heard that
congress have done me the honour to appoint me their
consul and commercial agent in France, for which place
I shall soon embark. The advantage this appointment
will give me in pcint of trade will be great, and I flatter
myfelf with the profyeA^f making up for the time which
I h6ve devoted solely to the public service, much < : ainft
my private inqrrft. I have entered into a connection
wrh Mr. Wm. M'Carty, a gentleman who is not un
known to vou, and we propose to carry on business under
the firm of William M'Carty, and Co. As I shall pro
cure and forward all the eloathing and other ftpres for
the public, it will be in my power (more than others) to
assist veflbls with freight, and we are determined to exert
our belt endeavours to give fatisfaAion to our employers,
though at the fame time we should net wish to interfere
with est .billed connections, or to procure business at the
expence of others. Relying upon your friendship, I must
request you will recommend our house to such of your
acquaintance as are not already engaged. You will please
to ffiew this letter to Mr. William Foster, to whom I have
not time to write by this post. If you write me by the
return 'of it, a letter may reach me, but in case I should
be gone, direst it to the care of Mr, Philip Audibert. I
ffi.ll endeavour to dispose of your state money, and for
ward the account by next post, with a draught on Mrs.
Patfrey for the balance. lamve y refpeafully and fin
cerel, ycur humble servant, WILLIAM PATFREY.
MefTrs. Ccdman & Smith, merchants in Boston.
Dear Sir, . Fish Kill, Nov. 30, 1780.
ft ffR. Hazard informed me that he had
f cnt y ou an order to receive a sum of
money out of the Boston treasury, and that out
of which he had given you diredions to pay
forty theufand dollars to my order. 1 wrote to
Mr. Griffiths to wait on you to receive said
sum; but as I have since doubted whether he
could lay it out to advantage on articles to suit
this place, especially as the season is late and
the r. ads bad, I have thought it most fit to
draw f r the money. By last post I drew for
Boco dollars on Mr. Griffiths, I have now
drawn on you for 16,900 dollars in favour of
Thomas Storm, Enquire, or order, which I re
queri you will pay, and pay the remaining
23,100 dollars to Mr. Griffiths. I have been
lately at Philadelphia in order to receive a
large balance I have due me for monies 1 have
advanced to the several pott-riders, but 2s the
treasury there is bare of cash, all the help they
couldgive me is the above mentioned sum, or
1000 dollars of the new money, which makes
40,000 of the old. I request you will endeavour
to get the money as fcon as poflible, that the
above mentioned bills may meet with due ho
nour. l am, dear Sir, v ith much esteem, your
most obedient servant, :AMUEL LOUDON.
Jonathan Hastings, Esq; Boston.
CHATHAM, January 3.
Last Thursday fennight General Arnold
failed from Sandy-Hook with the troops un
der his command.
The 14th ult. Admiral Ternay, comman
der in chief of his most Christian Majesty's
fleet on this Nation, died at Rhode-Ifland.
The report of the enemy having landed at
New-Haven, as mentioned in our last, proves
groundless.
NEW-YORK, January 10, 1781.
Concerning the REVOLT of the PennfHania
Troops continued from our last.
By the bell accounts from Jersey, We are
informed, that their Commander in Chief
General Box, had been reported to by great
numbers , of Mr. Washington's soldiers, and
many of the New-Jersey militia with their
arms, had joined them, now advantageously
potted between Milfloae and Brunswick, aju
dicious choice of situation, being a country
abounding in wheat, and other grain, with
abundance of mills, by which they, are com
fortably subsisted. They have made four of
the Congress's Generals prisoners, viz. Mr.
Wayne, Mr. Hand, and two others, with the
Eiizabeth-Town Champion, Mr. Caldwell, a
renowned military Parjon. —On Monday morn
ing the militia ©fjerfey were ordered to march
with three days provisions, which was receiv
ed with great reludance, and only a partial
attention shewn. The inhabitants
are thrown into a consternation (throughout
New jersey, and the nothern parts of Penn
sylvania, occafiohed by this extraordinary
event) not to be described: At Philadelphia
the Congref, Aflembly, Committees, &c.
with the murderers of the loyalilts are in a
date of fafeination. Even The French Liw
tenant General Mr. Washington dates nor ha
zard a single soldier ofhis army at New Wind
for to approach the revellers, from an assu
rance that they will prove equally defectives
by taxation, the fora they had lodged in the
loan office by that means; they all allowed,
that that Rate had made vigorous exertions,
and went on to fay, if the exertions of other
dates had been equal to those of Massachusetts,
we should now have been in goodcircumflances,
one gentleman went so far, as to lay, there
would have been an end of the war. I agree
with you in sentiment refpedirig the calling
on the dates for fpecific supplies, and for the
reasons you mention, but it is not in the pow
er of Congress to procure them in any other
way, in the present date of things, and that
being the only way they had any profpedof
succeeding in, they have called for fpecific
supplies from each date, for the next cam
paign, of which I make no doubt you are in
formed before this time. We have during this
contest been carried through many and great
difficulties, even fueh things, that when we
take a retrospective view of them, we are fur
prized and filled with aftonilhment. From
these interpositions cf divine providence in
our favour, let us be excited still to exert our
selves, and at the fame time seek to God for
his bluffing on our endeavours, and I make no
doubt we Iliall obtain a complete deliverance
from all our troubles; therefore we mud not
despair, or even think it is impossible for us to
carry on the war. Exchange in this city has
been for feme days an hundred for one. This
day there was ameeting pf the merchants,faid
to be the mod refpedable one ever known
here, they unanimously voted to bring it to
feventy-five, and have chosen a committee of
Thirteen to fee that their determination is
complied with; and in case any should refufe
to comply therewith, the committee are to in
form the Executive Council of the date, that
the delinquents may be proceeded with as ene
mies to the date. I have inclofed a news
paper, to which I beg leave to refer you. I
am, Sir, with sentiments of great respect and
esteem, your humble fervt. AR TEAS WARD.
Samuel Osgood, Esq.
P. S. I find by the paper that my information
refpeding the merchants was not true, altho'
I had it from one that was present.
Last week a brig bound from the Weft-In
dies to New-York, was brought into Tora's
River. She had on board 130 hogsheads of
excellent rum and spirits. Her water and
provision having fallen short on her passage,
and mistaking the land for the coast of Long-
Island, sent her boat ashore with four hands
for a supply of those articles. Our militia
getting information, secured the tars, and
manning two boats, went off and brought in
the vessel without opposition.
WHEREAS Major-General P ATTI-
S ON' s Proclamation of the 9th of
July, 1779, having in some Instances been
disregarded, the Inhabitants in general are
hereby informed, that any Person, direftly
or indirectly, harbouring any one in their
Houses for twenty-four Hours after coming in
to this City, without having obtained a Cer
tificate from the Magistrates of Police, may
depend on being imprisoned, and paying such
Fine as may be adjudged.
By Order of the Commandant,
FRED METZNER, Major of Brigade.
N. B. Persons coming in by Permission,
are also to report themselves immediately.
New-York, 10th January, 1781.
*W*^.^fim^*e*****#^
By SAMUEL BIRCH, Esq.
Brigadier-General, and Commandant of the
City of New-York.
PROCLAMATION.
TRENT O\N, December 27.
@^ For LIMERICK,
The B "* HELENA & MARY,
A Charles M'Carty, Matter,
RUrthen 230 tons. She is a
dout well built vessel, fails
CTWii^v^^ remarkably fall, has most elegant
accommodations for gentlemen passengers, the goes
with the firtt convoy for Europe. For freight or pas
sage apply to th e matter on board at Walton's wharf,
or of
THOMAS LYNCH,
In Duke (treet, No. 32.
Said Lynch has as usual for sale, wine,fpirits, &c.
with a few pipes of high flavoured Madeira wine of
the vintage'of 1775, which he will dispose of by the
pipe or quarter e lk, at tool, per pipe.
Mr. Lynch has for feme months past, requested
the favour of any perlon that has any demands on
him to call for payment, and as. he does not recollect
any that remains unpaid, he will esteem himfelf much
obliged to any that may be, to call for payment.
As little or no notice I as been paid by those that
are indebted to him, he for the lait time requests their
difeharging their engagements by the fiit of next
m,nth, as otherwise he will be necefliated to take luch
steps as cannot be agreeable,o either party, his in
dulgence hrs been ve-y long, by which he has been
destined in this country upwards of eighteen months
more than he expected. December ~ 17^0.
and join Gen. Box's troops to fecare a better
fortune, than continuing longer in a service,
which cannot afford food, cloathing, or pay.
It is said, that Mr. Washington is gone to con
cert with the Congress the means of patching
up their affairs thus fatally deranged, to cajole
the Chevalier Luzerne, and contrive excuses
to pass upon the Comte de Rochambault, and
Mons. Daftouchcs, as they must all now per
ceive no longer any degree of confidence can
be entertained in the Rebels pretentions to
oppose the British nation—lt is positively as
serted, the number of the Separatists at this
time now amounts to Three Thousand, and
increasing: As by late accounts from the High
lands we'are told, that a similar spirit of dis
content has Shewn iifelf amoHgft the continen
tal, and other troops in those garrisons: in
Short, the defection is general, all Confidence
in superiors at an end ; and to perfeft the con
summation of rebel power, the bills drawn by
the authority of the Congress have been late
ly protefed at Paris by the French Ministry.,
A few days will determine how it has fared
with the sprightly Major Lee, whose Pompeian
cavalry, we are informed from the rebel coun
try, met by a party of the British troops in
Carolina, were totally routed.
CUPERFINE broad cloths with trimmings, fine
' twill'd and common coatings, serges, flannels,
bayfes, linceys, and embofs'd serges, carpets and
carpeting ; mens, youths and boys plain and ribb'd
worsted hose ; womens, maids and girls blue ditto;
mens patent worsted and mill'd yarn gloves; boys
ditto ; womens, maids and girls silk, worked and
leather gloves and mitts; white, buff drab, blue,
green and black hair and worked plushes; twill'd
and plain cotderoys, clouded velverets, arid krip'd
filkeens; ciimfon, blue, purple, green, drab,
olive, and black velvets and vetverets ; plain, ftrrp'd
and figur'd double folded fluffs ; ftrip'd and plain
cambles, India bandanoes, pnilicat and lungee rp
mals, black and figur'd silk handkerchiefs, check'd
and printed pocket do. fatten peelongs, modes,
farfenets, and petfians, plain and ftrip'd luteftrings,
brocades and padufoys, muslins, gauzes, cambricks
lawns, mittinets, t>ffeties, muffs and tippets, er
min, fable skins, fcarfet and dark blue snail, silk
and worsted cords, black fringes and trimmings,
Italian crape, and mourning handkerchiefs, cali
coes, chintzes, linens, sheetings ; mens, womens,
and boys shoes; gallofhoes, ribbons, bindings,
hats, tammies, durants, taberetts', callimancoes,
princes fluffs, ladings, fattinets, ruffels, womens
and girls flays, paper hangings, pins, playing
cards, &c. with a neat affortraent of hardware, and
sundry other articles.
Tuesday at five o'clock in the morning died
Dr. Peter Middleton, a native of North-
Britain, and a Physician of eminence in this
city; he was a valuable member of feciety,
and a gentleman of a very extensive acquaint
ance, by whom, as well as the numerous
poor of this country (to whom he was ever
very kind) his death is molt Sincerely lamen
ted.
NEW-YORK, January 13.
Last Wednesday was married at the Friends
Meeting House in this city, Mr. William T.
Robinfun, of Rhode-lfland, to Miss Sally
Franklin, daughter of Mr. Samuel Franklin,
of this city, Merchant.
On Tuesday last departed this life, ALICE
HAMILTON, wife of Colonel Archibald
Hamilton, commanding Queen's County
Militia ; and grand daughter of the late Lieu
tenant Governor Colden, aged 37. Of man
ners gentle, cheerful, affable, and endearing!
As a daughter, dutiful and loving! As a wife
affectionate, constant, sincere and attentive ;
as a mother, tender, careful and indulging;
and as a mistress, generous, pleasing and en
gaging-
She is gone with all these perfections, and
left a most disconsolate husband, and affeCted
family, to bewail their loss in her gain.
A FARM Situated in New Town, containing
118 acres, with about 14 acres of good wood
land, and mowing ground, fiefh and fait ; plenty
of water for cattle, with a good hone fence lound;
on the farm a dwelling house with fix rooms three
fire places, two cellars, a barn, waggon house,
cyder mill, and orchard of the best kind, with a
bove 100 pippin trees. Whoever inclines to pur
chase may apply to John Schenk, now living on the
premises, two miles from New-Town Landing, or
Thanis Schenk, at Btfhwick.
By JOHN GLOVER,
And to be fold at his store, No. 4., Fly-Market,
wholesale. and retail ;
Imported in the Vigilant, Capt. O'Brian, and
other Vessels fiom LONDON,
Io BE SOLD,
The Surgeons of the Navy and Arm
Supplied at a moderate Advance, and the
acknowledged with Thanks.
N. B. A Set of Capital and Trepanin
ments to be fold cheap,
Antimony,
Quick-Silver,
Borax, aqua-fortis,
English faffron,
Magnesia alba,
Chamomile flowers,
Oil of lavender,
Fine fal rochell,
Spermaceti,
True glauber Salts,
Flowers of fulphur, and
Iheatre.
This Evening, the 15th Inst.
Will be presented,
A TRAGEDY (never performed here) call d
The ORPHAN,
OR,
The UNHAPPY-MARRIAGE.
To which will be added a FARCE
CALLE D,
The MOCK DOCTOR,
Or, The Dumb Lady Cured.
The Characters by Gentlemen of the Army.
No Admittance behind the Scenes.
No Money will be taken at the Door.
Tickets to be purchased at the Time of regeftering
Places for the Boxes, for which Purpose the Clerk
will attend at Mrs. Petit's, next Door to the Thea
tre, from ii o'Clock till 1, every Day after the Play
is advertised.
The Doors to be opened at Five, and to begin
precisely at Seven o'Clock..
The Gentlemen who have taken Places in the
Boxes, are desired to fend their Servants at 4. o'Clock,
that they may be fixed before the Doors are opened.
Tickets to be bad of Messrs. Rivington and Gaine.
VIVANT REX & REGINA.
This Day is publijhed.
And to be fold at the Bible and Crown, Hanover-Square,
GA INE's
Universal Register;
O R,
AMERICAN and BRITISH
KALENDAR.
CONTAINING,
I. FT 'HE calendar ; with a table of sundry
the Quaker's general meetings.
2< A concise account of England, and a table Gi . 3
Kings and Queens since the conquest in 1066.
3. A table for buying or felling any commodity by the
great hundred, which is 112 pounds.
4. A table of expences or wages.
5, A table that gives you (by infpettion) the exa& num
ber of dxys from the firft of January to any day in the
year, or between any other two intermediate days.
6. A table of difeount per cent.
7. A chronological account of remarkable occurrences.
%. A scheme deemed to exhibit nearly the whole race of
mankind now on the furface of the globe.
9. An estimate of the number of inhabitants in the Ame
rican colonies, made in congress September 1774.
10. A geneological lift of the royal family of Great-
Britain, with the sovereign princes of France, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, Fruffia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany,
Poland, Holand, Sardinia, and Turkey.
11. His M jefty's most honorable privy council,
12. Lift of the peers of the blood of Great-Britain, dukes,
marquises, earls, vifeounts, and barons,
13. Peers, dukes, marquises, earls, vifeounts, and barcra
of Scotland,
14. Archbishops and bishops of England.
15. Knights of the garter, thistle, and bath.
16. Secretaries of Bate.
17. Officers of the privy seal and signet office; treafury §
exchequer; chancery; king's bench; common pleas §
trade and plantations; customs; excise ; stamp duties;
mint; post office; navy and pay office; admiralty of
fice; and war office.
18, Ministers to and from the southern and northern
provinces.
19. A new and correa lift of the royal navy of Great-
Britain, containing the names of all the thips either in
or out of commission. - 1
20. Ships of war taken by Great-Britain since the com
mencement of the war.
21. Admirals of the royal navy,with a description of their
fevers] flags.
22, Captains, matters, and commanders in the royal navy ;
number of men and weight of metal in each rate; and
pa, of the fcveral officers.
23. House of commons of Great-Britain, and the town*
they reptefent.
24, Precedency among men and women.
25. Peers of the blood, dukes, earls, vifeounts, andl
of Ireland ; peeresses by creation or defeent ; bi•
archbishops and deans.
26, A description of America.
27. General eftablifliment of all the provinces<
continent of North America.
28, Table Slewing the value of any sum from id. Ster
ling to £. 10,000 in New-York currency..
29. Hhf Johannes's reduced into Sterling money and
currency of New-York.,,
30. Amount of dollars in Sterling money and New-York
currency.
31. Value of guineas from 1 to 10,000, in dollars, Ster
ling money, and New York currency.
32. Pay of his Majefly's land forces, with a lift of all the
generals and field officers.
33. Staff officers of all the British, Hessian, Anfpach, an&
Provincial officers, under the command of General Sir
Henry Clinton, K. 3
34, Britifti regiments in America, with the dates of the
officers comm flions, and their rank in the army.
35. His Majesty's ships in America, under the command
of Mariot Arbuthnot, vice admiral of the white.
Richard Speaight,
CHYMIST and DRUGGIST,
No. 41, Queen-Street,
Has imported by the Fame, and Edward, from
London, a general assortment of DRUGS and
M EDICIN E S, amongst which are,
AHE and SHEE GOAT, to be fold. The
latter is now with kid. For particulars apply
to Hugh Gaine.
Sago,
Pill boxes, phials,
Tvory syringes,
Rose Pmk,
Drop lake, and carmine,
With sundry other arti
cles too tedious to enu
merate; all of which,
will be fold wholesale,
and retail, on very low
terms.