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N E W-Y 0 R K, O&ober 6.
We hear his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton tes
received a Letter from his Excellency General Bur
goyne, the Subhance of which is, That the Rebels
attacked him on the 19th of September, but that they
had abundant Reason to repent their Timerity, as
they were obliged precipitately to leave the Ground,
with 700 of their Number killed, many wounded
and made Prisoners, with the Loss of their Cannon
and Baggage.
Our last Accounts from his Excellency Sir Wil
liam Howe, are, That the British Troops crossed the
Schuylkill, on Thursday the 25th Instant, and the
next Day about 3000 of the Army took Poffeflion
of the City of Philadelphia, where they were joined
by Numbers of the Inhabitants ; that the Rebel
Shipping were gone as high up the Delaware as
Borden Town, and that the Royal Army and that
of the Rebels were but a few Miles apart.
Last Friday Morning, Capt. Taylor, who com
mands at the Light-House, went in search of some
Rebel Light-Horse that he heard was at Shrewfbury,
but soon fell in with the noted Capt. Dermis, with a
Party of the Militia, when a smart firing ensued,
but the Rebels giving way, their Commander, and
the following Perlons were made Prisoners, viz.---
Lieut. Cock Lefter, George Rivets, Abraham Lane,
Michael Maps, Cornelius Treat, and William Her
rell. Mr. Dennis is wounded ; and John William
son, of Captain Taylor's Party is wounded in the
Thigh, the Ball having firft gone thro' his Captain's
Jacket. The Prisoners were brought to this City
Saturday Morning last.
The Pembroke, Capt. Boyde, who arrived here
on Tuesday Evening, failed from Cork on the loth
of August in Company with the follwing armed
Victuallers, viz. The Sovereign Polly, North Star,
Richard, William and Ann, Dispatch, Britannia,
Favourite, Thetis, Wigmore, Francis, Tartar,
Amity, Experiment, Nancy, Barippa, Rialto,
Harriot, Thetis, Cook.
Capt. Boyde.having parted with the Convoy, in
Lat. 4.5, 1 ong. 19, fell in with a Rebel Privateer,
who chafed him for 12 Hours, but Night coming
on, he altered his Course, and got clear.
His Majesty's Ship Unicorn, Capt. Ford, arrived
here fiom a Cruize last WedmfJay, in which he
took and destroyed 5 Prizes, viz. One of them the
Rebl Privateer Schooner Warren, Howell, Master,
of Marblehead, cf 10 Guns and 57 Men ; lent into
Rhode-Bland, aS also two Sloops taken at Martha's
Vineyaid, and a Sloop and a Schooner brought in to
this Port.
Last Thurfd.y arrived his Majesty's Ship Appollo,
Capt. Pownal, with the Rebel Pirate Brig Freedom,
of Boston, which Port she had left only four Days
before she became a Prize to the Apollo. She carri
ed twelve Guns and one hundred Men, but threw
overboard all her Cannon except two, and the Crew
sawed down the Gunwales.
Last Friday arrived the Snow Mary; ffie was
retaken from the Rebels by his Majesty's Ship Expe
riment, Sir James Wallace Commander, off the
Island of Tercera.
The fame Day arrived the Nautilus and Roe-
Lampton Victuallers, Part of the Corke Fleet,
with the Rebel Schooner Sally, bound from St.
Thomas's to Holland. She was on the Passage
taken by the Roehampton.
Friday last came in to Port, his Majesty's Frigate
the Brune, Capt.'Fergufon, who has taken the fol
lowing Prizes in his last Cruize, and all but two are
arrived here.
May 28. The Brigantine Fame, of io Guns and
20 Men, Francis Knox, Commander, from
St. Pierre, for Philadelphia, laden with
Rum, Molasses, Salt, Cordage and Bale
Goods.
,une 20. The Schooner Sally, John Hill, Master,
from Charleftown, for Bilboa, in Spain,
laden with Rice and Turpentine.
%, 9. The Ship Nancy, John Lowrie, Master,
from Jamaica, for London, laden with Su
gar, Rum and Madeira.---Taken by the
Perseus in Company.
Aug. 9. The Sloop Le Carmine, Anthony Rollife,
Master, from the Havannah, for Charlef
town, laden with Snuff, Wine and Brandy.
Sept. 14. The Ship Pliame, Samuel Green, Mas
ter, from Charleftown, for Nantz, laden
with Rice, Legwood and Indigo.
18. The Schooner Volunteer, of 12 Guns, 16
Swivels, io Cohorns, and 62 Men, Elipha
let Smith, Commander, from Charleftown,
on a Cruize.
19. The Ship Choptank, Benjamin Gardener,
Matter, from Martinico, for Charleftown,
laden with Coals, Salt and Rum.
30c The Snow Polly, Samuel Jenkins, Mas
ter, from St. Kitts for London, laden with
Sugar and Cotton ; had been taken by the
Eagle Privateer Schooner of Boston, and
intended to be sent there.
The Volunteer Privateer, fell in with the Brune,
about 25 Leagues E. S. E. off Sullivan's Inland:
When hail'd, her Capt. answered, the Lord Howe,
from St. Augustine, bound for New-York ; on which
he was order'd to lower his Sails, and fend his Boat
on board the Brune ; on his not complying with this
Order, the Brune fired a Six Pounder at her; her
Sails itill continued up, and as she was dropping faft
a Stern, with an Intention of getting off, the Brune
filed a Broadside and some Mufquetry into her. Ihe
Captain was killed by a Mufquet Shot, and the ie
cond Lieutenant wounded by another. On their
bringing too, and calling for Quarters, the Brune's
Boats were sent on board her for the Prisoners; she
was found to be much torn by the Shot, and making
great Quantities of Water. Ihe Priloners were
hardly got fafe on board, when flu went to the Bot
tom. She had been only two Days out from Charlef
town, and was the Schooner that Manly hud at Bos
ton last Year.
From the Captain of the ship Dorothy, that
parted with the Fleet that arrived here last Week
from England, we have the following Account.
“ We had been separated from the Fleet ten
Days, when on Saturday the 23d of August, in
Lat. 35, Long 44, we saw a Sail ahead, fleering
towards us. As she came down on us very faft, we
lay to, under a Pretence of speaking to her, but in
Fad, to gain Time. Upon her near Approach, we
perceived her to be a Privateer of 14 Guns, fix of
which were under Cover, some Swivels, and about
70 Men, all uniformly dressed, and ready tor
A&ion. Our Officers and Men had been ordered
between Decks, and every Thing was removed
that we thought could give the Rebels any Sutpicion
of our being a Transport with Troops. We had
hoisted French Colours, and hailed them in that
language; so that, when they drew up to the
windward of us, they were uncertain what we were;
but, dropping under our Stern, they f w the Name
cf the Ship. This Discovery convinced them that
our Design in palling for a French Ship proceeded
fiom our not being in a Condition to make any
Defence; and being quite fare of us, they had Qe
Died in England the Beginning of August lafl,
, the Duke of Rutland, and the Duchess of Qieenf
borcugh.
Wanted, an Apprentice to a genteel Trade. For
Particulars apply to Hugh Gaine.
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To-morrow morning,
At io o'clock, will be fold at
Templeton and Stewart's
Vendue House,
A Quantity of Irish linens, poplins, fiik handker
chiefs, &c. &c.
They have for sale Irish linen,, checks, rappee and
blackguard fluff, best English fmoaking tobacco, Liibon
wine, claret, and a few barrels of flour.
On Tuesday the 14th Instant,
Will be fold at Public Auction, by
Bowman & Codner,
Between 12 and 1 o'clock, at the Coffee-Houle,
The Ship NANCY,
AS she now lyes at Brownejohn's Wharf, burthen
about 200 Tons, 6 Years old, New-England built.
Her Inventory may be seen at their office, on board the
Ship, or at the Coftee-Huufe.
To-morrow, at eleven o'Clock,
Will be fold at Public Audion,
By Bowman and Codner,
On Brownejohn's Wharf,
A Quantity of MUSCOVADO SUGARS
in hogsheads and tierces.
Public Aublion.
ON Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, near the
Coffee-Houfe, will be fold to the highest bidder,
seven horses, three riding chairs, harness, &c. compleat,
and one waggon.
John M'Adam, and Co.
Have to dispose of at private sale, on reasonable terms,
a few bolts Russia duck, and a variety of dry goods suit
able to the feafon#
PUBLIC AUCTION.
At John Taylor's Vendue Store,
Near the Fly-Marker, this dav will be fold,
A quantity of
Damaged GOODS,
Imported in, and camaged on board the fltip Ambufeade,
Captain Munns, from London,
To-morrow,
At the Merchant's Coffee-Houfe,
A quantity of excellent Coffee,
In Barrels.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
At the Coffee-House,
To-morrow,
TEN hoglheads of excellent Weft India rum, also a
likely negro boy about 15 years old, has been used
to attend in a house.
By Daniel M'Cormick,
Who has for sale at bis Fendue-Hcufe,
Irish linens, sheetings, printed linens, checks, ftript
hollands, woifted and yarn flocking?, men's shoes, linen
and fiik handkerchiefs, camblets, cambricks, Dutch lac:,
Qznaburghs, and a fcw fine ruffled firiru.
Confidence to come on our Lee, within a hundred
Yards of our Ship. About Forty of the Recruits
that had been molt used to the Firelock, and who,
during the Passage, had praHifed a mock Engage
ment, being concealed in Places molt contiguous to
their different Posts, were at the favourable Mo
ment ordered to their Quarters, and the British
Colours hoisted. In an Instant a very smart and
well directed Fire was poured in upon the Rebels
from our Mufquetry, Blunderbusses, and three
Carriage Guns loaded with Grape-Shot; and whe
ther cur Fire galled them too much, or that the
sudden u^xpeaed Sight of our Men dispirited
them, but the Rebels were soon drove away from
their Quarters, except the Officers and a few Men,
on the Quarter Deck, and molt cf these soon fell,
tn this Situation she would have made an easy Con
quest, could we have got down on her immediately ;
but the Dorothy being a heavy Sailer, the Rebels
had time to recover themselves and made Sail, by
which Means she escaped us. Their Swivels and
Musketry were loaded with chewed Balls, and very
ugly Slugs. By a Ball we found in our hold after
the A&ion, the Privateer's Guns were fix poun
der?. We had 6 three Pounders. Our Ship buffer
ed but little damage, and providentially we had only
one Man killed and one wounded. It is needless
to add, that the Officers, Volunteers and Soldiers,
though mostly young behaved well ; to the Ardour
of Youth they added the Firmness of Veterans.
The commander of the Ship, and the Sailors also,
did their Duty with Spirit.
The Maddox, Capt; Pole, that failed from hence
the 26th of June, and arrived at Liverpool the 25th
of July, on the Passage fell in with a Rebel Frigate
of 28 Guns, with whom he engaged 6 Glasses, and
obliged her to sheer off. For Capt. Maddox's gal
lant Behaviour on this Occasion, the Urder-writers
in England intend to make him a Complement of
a valuable Piece of Plate.
The Swan, the Ritchie, and some other Vessels,
arrived here from Cork Yesterday.
The following British Ships were cruizing
in the English Channel the later End of July,
viz. Foudroyant, Invincible, Ramilies, Centaur
Terrible, Royal Oak, Princess Royal, Burford
Mars, Bedford, Valiant, Belleifle, Courageux
Ardent, Trident, Prince of Wales, Bienfaifant
Boyne, Torbay, Culloden, Egmont, Hedor,
Albion, Stirling Castle, Cornwall, Raifonable,
Nonfuch, and Exeter, 28 in the whole, from
80 to 64 Guns.
Three Rebel Privateers belonging to Phila
delphia, have lately been taken, viz. One of
them a Ship of 18 Guns, Montgomery, Master
taken off the Western-Islands ; two others, one
of them named the Congress, the other the
Bilhop, taken in the Weft Indies.
Has for S ALE,
At his BOOK-STORE in Hanover-Square,
The following Articles, viz.
IMPERIAL PAPER for
draughts,
Royal and medium ditto,
Demoy and post ditto,
Gilt ditto for letters,-
Plain ditto for letters,
Ledgers,
Journals,
Day books,
Receipt ditto,
Memorandum ditto,
Orderly ditto for gentlemen
of the army,
Best office quills and pens,
Sealing wax,
Wafers,
Best English parchment,
Parchment prickers.
Fountain pens,
Pruning knives,
Penknives and feiffars,
Pocket inkholders,
To' the PUBLI C.
ANY person who may have taken up in a mistake or
otherwise, two letters that came from London in
the ship Hill, Capt. Marshall, directed for Nathan Child
(as they can be of no service to any other person, and if
loft be a very disagreeable circumflance to him) are re
quested to,fend or ieive them soon as possible, at the office
of Henry White, Esq; at Mr. Richard Saule's, near the
Fly-Market, at the bar of the Coflee-Houfe, or with
the printer hereof.
The Quarterly Meeting of
The Marine Society,
WILL be held at the House of the Widow Doran,
on Monday the ig<h Instant. The Members
arc requested to attend at 6 o'Clock in the Evening.
By Order of the President,
PETER BERTON, Sec'ry.
Wanted to purchase immediately,
AQ^ntity of good WHITE OAK pipe, hpgfhead,
and barrel ftaves ; also white oak plank and boards,
for which a good price will be paid on the delivery.—
Enquire of the printer.
Notary Public.
LAMBERT MOORE,
BEING returned to town, does the business of a notary
public, as usual, from io to i o'clock. He is to
be found at the Superintendant's Office at any other hour.
Enquire for him at his lodgings next door to Mr. Lewis
Pintard's, in Duke street.,
The Jamaica New otage Waggon,
WILL fee off from Hoop Mills's at 7 o'clock on
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, for Brooklyn
Ferry, and return on the fame days. For freight or
passage apply to the public's humble servant,
HOOP MILLS, at Jamaica,
And at the Ferry-House Brooklyn.
N. B. All Letters and News-papers, proper Care will
be taken of.
"ITuGH-TgaTn E,
PUBLICK AUCTION",
At the House of the late Richard Colden, Esq; tn Smith
Street, the Corner of King-Street,
WILL begin on Tuesday the ziftof O&ober instant,
arid continue from day to day until the whole is
disposed of, the sale of all his neat and elegant houfhold
and kitchen furniture, confining of mahogany dZiks and
book cases, buroes, chest drawers, card, dining & drefling
tables, beds and bedfieads, plate, china, an elegant Ax
minfter carpet, &c. &c. A valuable iron chest, with a
handy young negro girl, about 13 years old. Also a neat
riding Chair and Horse, which can be viewed, and will
be fold at private Sale, by enquiring at John Taylor's
Vendue Houle in Queen-Street, near the Fly-market.
PRICE and SALMON,
At their Store No. 20, in Queen-street, above the
Fly-Market, adjoining the King's Stables, have
just received, and are now opening, a prime Assort
ment of Fall and Winter Goods, confuting of the
following Articles, which they will fell at a very
moderate Advance wholefaie only, viz>
SUPERFINE cloths and caffimers, middling and coarse
broad cloths, forreft cloths and hunters, bearskins
and coatings, yard-wide napt do. German serges of all
forts, drapery bays, blankets & rugs various forts, do-Ants
and tammies, filftians and jeans, cordefoys, corderetts,
velveretts, &c. white counterpanes of all sizes, checks
a^d striped cottons, yard-wide and 7-8 Irish, Russia and
Irish Electing, filefias, dowlas, raven's duck, Ruflia drab,
ozenbrigs, &c. boys and mens felt hats, handkerchiefs of
various forts, with many other articles.
JOH N'DIVAN,'
No. 207, Queen-street, near the Fly-Market,
Has for Sale,
WITH
Bibles, testaments, spelling books, primers, common
prayer books, large and final! ; and a considerable variety
of other books. Also the very best
English fmoaking tobacco, by the pound.
And SHOT of different sizes.
si'cfATTY,
Silk Dyer and Scourer, from London,
At No. 46, Crown,ftreet, near the prison,
CARRIES on the business of dying and scouring
men and women's apparel, as usual, where store
keepers and others may have damaged silks, cloths, or
fluffs, duroys, &c. newly dyed, or colours chang'd, and
neatly pteft; or mildews taken out, &c. &c. And as
several gentlemen have lately directed their cloths to my
house, and through mistakes or neglect have been carried
to another, 'tis requested gentlemen will give ihtit sa
vants proper directions where to come#
Genuine old Madeira 1
wine by the pipe, hog
ihead, quarter call: or do- 1
zen.
Best red port by the dozen,
Claret of the best quality by 1
the dozen, I
Lisbon wine by the pipe, hog
/head, quarter calk or do
zen,
Sweet wines in bottles,
Old hock in ditto,.
Rheynlh wine in ditto,
Best Champaign in ditto,
Scotch ale in ditto, by the
hogshead,
Ditto porter in ditto, by the
hog /head,
Liverpool beer by the hog
fhead,l
Shone's best bottled London
porter, by the hogshead or
hamper,
Best French brandy,
Cherry ditto,
Shrub of the best quality, I
Holland geneva,
Old Jamaica fpitits by the 1
hoglhead or keg.
Welt-India rum by the hog
shead or barrel,
Bohea tea by the chest or less
quantity,
Best hyfon tea,
Shufhong ditto,
Coffee by the barrel,
Chocolate,
Mnftard,
Salad oil in cases,
Balket salt by the dozen,
M4ce, cloves ahd cinffamori,
Nutmegs and isinglass,
Raisins of the fun by the keg
Double refined sugar,
Single refined d'.tu by the
hogshead or loaf,
Mufeuvado sugar by the bar
rel,
Spermaceti candles by the
box,
Mould and dipt tallow ditto
by the box,
Caftile and London made
white Lap by the box,
Corks by the hogshead or
gross,
Pipes by the box.
Ivory letter folders,
Best black lead pencils with
silver cases,
Pounce an? pounce boxes,
Letter files for counting
houses,
Playing cards,
Red tape for tieing papers,
Leather fnuff boxes,
Tobacco ditto,
Best razors,
Strops and hones,
Gun screws and hammers,
Powder fl Iks,
Shot pouches,
Burning and reading glaffe?,
Dice boxes,
Men for backgammon tables
Excellent tooth powder,
Anderson's pills,
Keyfer's pills,
Ryan's sugar plumbs,
PORT WINE, of Vintage 1773.
IN Pipes, Hoglheads and Quarter Calks ; aliuakw
Boxes of Lemons, just imported in the Schooner
C ntent, T. Read, Master, due&ly from- Oporto,
and to be fold on board the Vessel laying at Cruger's
Wharff, by Robert Dale and William Pagan.
Murray, Sanfom, and Co.
HAVE for sale at their ftjre in Water-ftrect betwixt
Burling's and Beekman's-fl ps, a neat assortment
of EUROPEAN and EAST-INDIA GOODS, amongst
which are nails and window glass of mod sizes, German
and English steel. They likewise have a parcel of choice
mufeovado sugar in hoglheads, tierces and barrels, and
Lilbon wine in pipes, hogsheads and quarter calks, with a
few boxes of candle©.
N. B. They will take in payment for any of the above
goods defaced half joes, weighing 9 dwt. 3 grs. at 6xs.
and light ones with a proper allowance; they will like
wise take doubloons weighing 17 dwts. 8 grs. at £, 5 16,
and niftoles weighing 4 dwts 8 grs. at 295.
Price ONE GUINE& ~
To THE PUBLIC,
To be fold, by the Inventor's Appointment, at the Bible
and Crown, in Hanover-Square, and no where else
in America.
The Salutary CONSERVE,
BEING an approved and infallible Preventive
from a Certain Disease.
The Author of this Medicine is a Ceritleman very
well known, both in the Navy and Army, for his fuc
cefsful Practice try Physic and Surgery, he has had re
peated and inconreftiblc Proofs of the good Efc&s of his
Medicine, which he was prevailed on to give to the Pub
lic some Years ago, in Europe, at the earnest Sollicitati
ons of some of his intimate Friends.—The Applica
tion of it is simple and easy, as will appear by the printed
dlreaions giv^n with each Phial.
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I Famous Pills, |
C° we " known all over Europe, for their
0, superior Efficacy and peculiar Mildness, in
perfectly eradicating every Degree of a certain
(0 Disease, without the least Trouble or Con
(tyfinement.
(hi The Public may be assured, that this ex- hi
cellent Medicineis beyond any Thing, in all
Foulnefsand Impurities of the Blood, having W
performed many aftoni/hing Cures (in Mirand 0
(g the neighbouring Colonies) in Scorbutic Erup- (pi)
g tions,Leprofies, White Swellings, Stiffjoints, (g)
Gout, and Rheumatic Disorders, &c.
m A late Supply,^
X (Directly ,rom PARIS)X
Of the above Pills,
(gmMay now be had of
HUGH GAINE,
@ In Boxes of ios.2os. and 40s. each, @
Who has in his Hands a Letter from the
Widow Keyfer, and a Certificate from under &&
& her own Hand, of their Genuineness; which ZZ
„ any Potefon may have the Perusal of by ap
(§ plying to him at his Book Store in Hanover
0) Square.—Where the Public in generalcan be (0)
^) supplied with most Sorts of (g)
Books and Stationary Ware. @
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TEN DOLLARS Reward.
RUN-away on February last, a negro man named
Dick, born in Bermuda, of a yellnwifh co m
plexion, well made, about 5 feet 9 inches high, 35 years
of age, has loft his left eye, was seen at Now-York three
weeks ago. Whoever takes up and secures the said fel
low, or gives information where he is, so that he may be
had, shall receive the above reward from the fubferiber,
living at Newtown, on Long-Island.
ABRAHAM LENT.
F° r Freight or Charter,
"° °' e West-Indies,
(° r elsewhere)
The SHIP
<^^^^BLACKBURNE,
Richard Har die, Master ;
t<,2r\^towi—Burthen 200 tons,
MOUNTS fix carriage and ten swivel guns, with
men answerable ; is a good sailer and well found.
Apply to Joseph Allicocke next door to the Coffee-houfe.
N. B, She has goed accommodations for pxfogers.
Thomas Galbreath's Storey
At No. 219, Qieen-ftrret, near the Fly-Market, a gene
ral aflortment of GOODS now opening for sale 01
the lowest terms, by wliolefale; among which are the
following articles, viz.
IRISH linens of different
kind^,
Ditto sheetings,
Brown hollands;
O^naburghs and dowlafs,
Callicoes,
Cambricks and lawns,
Merfeilles quilting for ladies'
pectycoats.
Yard wide drawboys for do.
An assortment of ribbons.
Silk handkerchiefs,
Printed and check ditto,
Dutch lace and Holland
tapes,
Black and white silk lace,
Women's silk gloves and
mitts,
Women's leather gloves,
Colour'd threads,
White flemiffi ditto,
Ounce thread from No. 7 to
36,
Nuns thread,
Cotton checks,
Stripe and check bed furni
ture,
Callimancocs of different
colours,
Tammies and durants ditto,
Taborets and moreens ditto,
Printed velvets and jeans,
Corderoys of different kinds,
Bombazines and I'rinccs
fluff,
6 4, 7-4, 8-4 table cloths,
Fans,
Silk and cotton stay laces,
Worsted quality bindihgs,
Shoe ditto;
Gartering of different kinds,
Skaine and skeleton wire,}
Bedtycks,'
A Milch C O W,
ABOUT fix weeks calved, ---sot sale ; and ah excel
lent CHAIR. HORSE. Enquire of the printer.
Scarf twist;
Sewing iilks,
A large assortment of fa
ffiionable twiftand metdl
buttons,
A large aflhrtment of men's
plain and rib'd thread hefe,
IMen's silk ditto,
Women's cotton and thread
ditto,
Silk gauzes and catguts,
Buff caffimeis;
A few boxes tea of different
kinds,
Covering chip hits,
Sailors bound hats,
Boys arid youth's felt ditto,
Boysand youth's caftor ditto,
fantail and maccaronies,
Boys turned up ditto, with
gold bands,
Men's fantails and macta
ronie ditto,
Neat Morea gowns,
3 1-2, 4* 4 E-3 pins,
Gilt and common tiffanys
and pound pin*,
Best Whitechaple needles,
Best milliners ditto,
Buckles of different kinds,
Knives and fciffdrs,
Table knives and forks,
Stone and base links,
Broaches and ear rings,
Gold rirgs and silver links;
Snuff boxes,
Morocco pocket books,
Gimblcti,
Men's fine and coarse shoes,
Ivory ahd horn combi,
tWith sundry other articles
1 too t-diou* to mention.