The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1779-08-09 00:00:00, page 1

By his EXCELLENCY
Sir HENRY CLINTON, K. B.
General and Commander in Chief of all his
Majesty's Forces within the Colonies laying
on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova Scotia
to Welt-Florida, inclusive, &c &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
PROTECTION and encouragement is here
by given to the possessors of farms and
gardens, to raise plentiful supplies of grain,
provisions, vegetables, and forage. Whatever
person or persons Shall presume tb take away,
or destroy any part of thecattle, dock, or other
produce of any farm or garden, or do any
damage to the habitations, garden, orchards,
or lands? destroy or break down the fences,
shall, upon proof thereof, be most severely
punished. Complaint is to be made to the
Commandant of New-York, or to the officer
commanding the nearest post of his Majerty's
troops.
Given under my Hand at Head-Quarters,
the Eighth Day of March, in the Year
of OCT Lord One Thousand Seven Hun
dred and Seventy-nine.
H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's Command,
John Smith, Sec'ry.
By his Excellency
Sir Henry Clinton, K. B.
General and Commander in Chief of all his
Majesty's Forces, within the Colonies laying
on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova-Scotia
to Wed-Florida, inclusive, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Enemy have adopted a
practice of enrolling
NEGROES
Among their Troops ; 1 do hereby give No
tice, That all NEGROES taken in Arms, or
upon any military Duty, mail be purchased
for a Rated Price; the Money to be paid to
the Captors.
But Ido most ftrialy forbid any Person to fell
or claim Right over any NEGROE, the Pro
perty of a Rebel, who may take Refuge with
any Part of this Army: And I do promise to
every
NEGROE
Who Shall desert the Rebel Standard, full Se
carityto follow within these lines, any Occu
pation which he Shall think proper.
Given under mv Hand at Head-Quarters,
PHILIPSBURG H, the 30th Day
of JUNE, 1779.
H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's Command,
John Smith, Secretary.
By Order of the Commandant.
THE following prices and-assize of bread
are to take place from and after Friday
the 9th infant, and to continue until further
orders.
Ship Bread of the belt quality, at 31. los.
per hundred weight.
All loaf Bread to weigh two pounds each
loaf, for fourteen coppers each.
No Baker or Retailer of Bread shall ask, de
mand, or receive any greater sum, either for
ship or loaf bread than the prices above men
tioned. All bread to be marked as heretofore
directed, and to be made good; such as stall
be found either defective in quality or deficient
in weight, shall be forfeited to the Alms-
House; and any person who shall demand or
receive any more or greater sum than is above
mentioned, either for loaf or ship bread, shall
forfeit five pounds over and above the value
of the bread so fold, the one half to the in
formerand the other half to be applied to the
use of the poor ofthis city.
Andrew Elliot, Superintendant Gen.
David Mathews, Mayor,
Peter Dubois, Magistrate of Police.
Office of Police, Julv 7 1779.
'F i<a JTcTs'l^^
Has opened a Store two Doors from Captain
Laird's office, Hanover Square,
And has for S A L E,
BEEF, pork, rice, bifquet, rum, candles,
claret in bottles from Ireland. Mails,
yards, fails, Handing and running rigging,
blocks, &c. &c #
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 31. 10s. per
Cent. Publ Shed July 7, 1779.
A White Loaf of the fineft FLOUR, to weigh
2 lb. for 14 Coppers;
Monday, AuguA 9, 1,775.
NEW-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
Containing tbe catties HDUiem
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE? at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
By Sir GEORGE COLLIER, Commodore cod
Commander in Chifof ail Lis Majeftfs Ship
and iffls employed in America, from the North
Cape on the IJldnd of Cape Breton, to the Ba
bama Islands and Florida inclufwe,
IT having been represented to roe that it is
become a Practice lately for Privateers to
anchor without the Hook; at their return from
cruizing, and frequently to land their Prison
ers upon Long-liland, to the great Danger and
Annoyance of his Majesty's faithful Subjects,
and in Defiance of repeated Admonitions to
the contrary.
I think proper therefore to declare that if
Commanders of Privateers shall presume to be
guilty of such Practices, or Shall permit any
Prisoners to be landed from their Ships with
out Leave being obtained from the Commiflary
General of Prisoners; and Signified under his
Hand in Writing, such Commander of a Priva
teer shall be imprefled into his Majesty's Ser
vice, and a Reward and Protection be granted
to such of the Crew as shall make a difeovery
thereof so as to convift him upon it.
And the Owners of Privateers are to direct
their Vessels when they return from their
Cruizes, to bring to near the Guard ship, in
Order to their being properly examined, and
not shew so much Difrefped to the King's
Colours, as to make Sail away, when they fee
the Guard Boat approaching them.
And I think proper to fignify to the Pilots in
the Pay ofGovernment, that if they shall be
found guilty of going on board Merchant Ves
sels when Men of War are not Supplied with
them, whomay want to come in over the Bar,
they will not only be mulcted in pay, but like
wise dismissed as Pilots, and obliged to serve
on board the King's Ships in inferior Stations:
and as some of the Pilots have assisted with
thtir Boats and Persons, to land Rebel Prison
ers on Long-Illand from Privateers, the utmolt
Severity will be used to all such who shall Be
found anting so contrary to their Duty, and
they may depend, that no Consideration shall
prevent their receiving the Punishment due to
their Fault upon Conviction.
Given on board his Majesty's Ship the
Raifonable, off New-York, the 29th
- of June, 1779.
GEORGE COLLIER.
By Command of the Commodore.
John Marr, Sec'ry.
Office pf Police, fitly 27, 1779.
△ " Y person or persons that may in
lk cline to contract for the cleaning the
Streets of this city, under the immunity of an
exclusive right to take all the manure and rub
bish for their own ufe,are desired to give their
proposals to the Office of Police on or before
the 15th of August next, together with such
regulations and restrictions as they may think
necessary, to enable them property to execute
such an undertaking, that the fame may be
laid before the Commandant, and with his ap
probation, terms of agreement entered into.
WHEREAS it has been represented to me,
that innumerable Riots and Disturban
ces have happened in the S' eets of the City
to the great annoyance and apprehenfion.of
the Inhabitants, by Seamen belonging to his
Majesty's Ships, Transports, Victuallers, &c.
Notice is hereby Given,
To the several Captains, Commanders,
and Officers in his Majesty's service, and in
theemploy of Government, that they are not,
on any account whatever, to grant leave, or
permit Seamen belonging to their refoedive
Ships and Vefieis, to be on Shore after dark ;
and Should any so far trangrefs, as to be
found in the Street, after Gun Fire in the
Evening, they will be taken up by the Patroles,
and punished with the Severity, which a
breach of Orders merits.
GEORGE COLLIER.
Raison able, off New-York,
I 2th May, i-tq.
William Grist
Silverfroith, No. 17,, Queen-Street, opposite
Col. CLARKE's.
Has just imported a variety of PALTE and JEW
ELLERY , confining of the following articles,
CIREAM pots, table and tea spoons, faup ladles,
3 lugar tongs, boatEvain's calls with chains, a
variety of Shoe knee and stock buckles of the newest
fafhien, garnet and parte Shoe buckles and earngs,
gold nob do. gold wier, gold and garnet bu.kl s,
with sundry other articles.
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YOR K, this WelX.
Monday, 46 Min. after 6 I Friday, 41 Min. aftei jo'
Tuesday, $0 Min. after 7 Saturday 30 Min. a<& N
Wednesday,, Mm. aftet 8 Sunday." 16 Min. afto :z I
Thursday, 4* Min. after , New Mobn the ittl r
^l^ &'^^"^96 ^
The
PA RI S, May 6.
AN affair has just happened here,
in its fatal consequences Simi
lar to that of the unfortunate
Mr. Hackman: The clerk of
a Notary in this city having by
gambling, and other unjustifiable means, em
bezzled a great deal of his Maker's caih, to
make good the deficiency, repeatedly infilled
upon his wife, a young and very handsome
woman, who had not been married to him
above fix months, to fell some part of her
ellate. Her refufal occasioned him to treat her
with such indignity, that She left him, and
returned to her parents ; these; however offer
ing their mediation, the gardens of the Lux
embourg were appointed for the firft interview,
where the wife, with her uncle and aunt met
the afternoon. They converted for some time,
and every thing seemed to wear the afpe& of
a thorough reconciliation, when on a sudden,
the young man pulling out two pistols, Shot his
wife, who fell; the other instrument of death
the murderer levelled at his head, but it was
wrested from his hand by the Uncle, who, ne
vertheless, could not prevent his Slabbing him
felf in Several parts of the body, but with so
quick a motion, and so home, that he soon
dropped lifelefs by his wife, who lay bleeding
ofa wound, which has Since been discovered not
to be mortal, as the ball only grazed her neck.
Paris, May 7. The division under the com
mand of M. de la Motha Picquet failed from
Bred the ill of this month. On its arrival at
the Antilles, the French fleet will confill of
24. Ships of the line.
M. d'Orvilliers, who has been at Paris some
days,\is just set out for Brest, from whence he
will fail as soon as possible.
Conflantinople, April 3, On fr he zEth cf March
the Reis Effendi, Chancellor of the empire,
was deposed, and is replaced in that office by
Abdula-fach-Eifendi, formerly Ambassador in
Russia, who, in conjunction with the Ambas
sador of France, and the envoy of the Court
of Peterfbourg, concluded the peace between
the Porte and Russia.
The froftdill continues here ; the month of
April began with snow, and the cold is Rill
very intense.
We learn from Bagnat, where show never
fell before, that it now lies there abott a foot
deep ; and in Cyprus, where the oldest inha
bitants never saw any, it is four inches thick.
Petefbourg, April 16. We have just received
the dfiagreeable news, that on the night of
the 15 th ulc. a fire broke out ac Moscow, near
the quarter of the Merchants, which in the
space of a few minutes reduced to alhes almost
all the warehouses, with their merchandizes ;
the loss of which is estimated at between two
and three millions of roubles. Between 40
and §0 persons 101 l their lives on this occasion.
Hague, May 9. The College of Admiralty
of Amllerdam hath put in commifliob, with
the confentof the Prince Statholder, the Ships
of war the Swieten of 44 guns, the Mars, of
36, and the Alarm of 24.
Am/ierdam, May 10. Our Lift letters from
Batavia advise, that our Eaft-Incia Company
had been constrained to take up arms againrt
the rebels on the coast of Malabar, as also
againtt the Celebes and those of the Molucca
inlands, which the Company h'ad the good
fortune to drive away; The fame letters add,
that thev had had a violent tempest at the
island of Banda Neira, which had done infinite
damage to the houses and nutmeg trees; and
that the Company's (hip at Beemfter-Welfaren
had been lolt in her paffhge from Cheribon to
Batavia, but that the crew were Saved.
Genoa, April 7. A Strong report prevails
here, that the Republic of Venice hath con
cluded a treaty with England, by which She
engages to maintain a Strong Squadron.in the
Adriatic, to keep that sea free of privateers,
so long as Great Britain Shall be at war with
any other maritime power.
Hamburg, May 7. Tney write from Stock
holm, that the widow P , v.ho w 4 s
reckoned very rich, (from the great trade the
carried on) has just failed for some tons of
gold.
Confantinople, Feb. 20. We are at lad de
livered from the ravages of the plague, which
has ceased, after carrying off 160,0c0 persons.
Our annals have no records of so dreadful a
contagion as this lad has been, the occasion of
it ceafingmuft, no doubt, be in a grent mrafure
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Wheat per Bushel, %6; od. | Mufeovado Sugar, gl. ros. t Fine Salt, zu <d
Flour, 80s. 01. I Single resu'd ditto, is. gd.jCoarfe Salt, is. do.
Brown Bread, §;'• °d. Moiattes, 2s. 6d. Indian Corn perßu. 10$. d.
Wert-India Rum, ss. 6d. Beef per Barrel, fl. cd.'Coffee, is. Ito
New-England do. 4 £a od.,Pork, gj. 10s.; Chocolate, 265. per do-
L N ' c MG
GAZETTEf
tH E
MERCUR Y.
jFomgn ano Domcffi&
attributed to the intense coldness of the wea
ther; which however, has not been without
its latiritv,as 40,000 Sheep, which were coming
from Walaohia, and 160,000 others, which
were on their Way from Asia, hkve died of the
cold on their way, together with their Shep
herds, 40 in number. This has made mutton
Very Scarce, and very dear.
L ONDO N,
May if Much parade has been made
about the SpaniSh negotiation, and of the long
lift of hard terms that were proposed to our
minirtry by the Marquis d'Almavader, and
among the rest that of ceding Gibraltar to
Spain ; but in contradiction to all this absurd
speculative nenfenfe, we can affuie out readers,
that the only proposition was simply thus, viz.
—" That a cessation of arms Should take
place between the forces of. Great-Britain;
France and America, in order to enter into a
treaty cf general peace; and that during that
Cessation, America Should be deemed an in
dependent ftate."—The Answer was immedi-'
ate and laconic: " The Ministers of his Bri
tannick Majesty will willingly enter into the
proposed treaty on confident grounds ; but
the honour and interest of the British empire
demand the independence and allegiance of
all i s colonies, which cannot therefore on ^hy
terms be dispensed with."
Extras! of a letter from Liverpool, May 10.
" Since my last arrived a French schooner,
a prize taken by the Resolution privateer;
all°o arrived the St. Cypriana, a prize taken
by the Vulture privateer, both very valuable
prizes, laden wih sugar, coffee; cotton, in
digo, &c. feppofed to be worth iß,oool. each.
The great delay which the Merchant Ships
meet with in waiting for convoy, has induced
Several merchants to agree to fit out large
vessels, carrying 20 guns and upwards, with
a proper number of men, to run singly or in
company, and so get the sooner te market.
Yesterday 12 large Ships were taken up into
Government Service, and ordered to be imme
diately got ready to carry over Ordnance Stores
to Georgia.
The Gunpowder Mills, employed by Go
vernment, have not Stood Still one day since the
beginning of this year, so great has been the
demand for that article.
May iS Governor Johnftone's commission
was Signed lalt Thursday. He is to have five
Ships, and tocruixe off the coast of Portugal.
Extras of a Letter from Chatham, May 14
“ This day failed from hence for Black
flakes his Majesty's frigate Ambuscade, com
manded by the Hon. Capt. Charles Phipps,
brother to Lord Mulgrave After taking in
her powder and guns, She will proceed to Spit
head. where She is to receive her orders.
“ The Canada of 74 guns, now in com
miffiou at this port, and commanded by Hugh
Dalrymple, Esq; is nearly ready for failing.
“ The Bellona, of 74 guns, is now in dock,
in order to undergo a thorough repair, and as
soon as thisis completed will be commissioned.
'' Yesterday and this day the Welsh regiment
of volunteers marched from our barracks for
I'ortfmouth, to serve as marines on board the
different Ships fitting there for sea."
Extract of a Letter from Sheerrefs. May 13.
" Arrived at the Nore two ITrge Dutch gal
liots, with mails, Spars, and military Stores,
for Toulon, prizes to the Ceres and Harpoon
er cutters. An old 40 gun Ship is converting
into an hospital Ship for the Sick in the Con
quertadore, and will soon be ready."
The Conqueror, from St. Maloes to
Bert, with light artillery, is taken by the
King George, of Guernsey, and arrived at
Torbay. This makes the 12th vessel She has
taken in the course of four months.
The Jersey people are so exasperated at the
late attempt of the French to land oi tthat
island, that they have not only exerted every
means to put the island into the bell poftuic
of defence in case of a second attack, but are
fitting out an additional number of privateers,
bei*g determined net to let a Single Ship cither
get into or fail out of St. Maloes, without fall
ing into their hands.
The Lords of the Admiralty have put his
Majesty's Sloop Swallow, of 16 guns, now at
Deptford, into commiffiop, the command of
which is given to Capt. Bickerton.
Le Saint Felirs, a French Ship, of 300 tons,
bound from St. Domingo to Nants, is taken
by the Amiable priv ateer, and carried inu.
Lisbon.