The Newport gazette (Newport [R.I.]), 1777-10-16 00:00:00

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1777.
L O N D O N.
From the General Evening Post, of Jan. 7 last
To the EDITOR.
SIR,  FEW Evenings ago, I was present in a promising Company, where were some strenuous Advocates, both for and against America. — One Gentleman, with great Force, exposed the Ability of D. PRICE, who advises Great Britain to sheath the Sword, as her only Preservation, and at the same time recommends to the brave Americans, by all Means, to arm with Sword in Hand. But this, and the Doctor's Half Million of fighting Men, which he assured the Public were to be found in America, could raise no Blush in the patriotic Checks. One Question, however, startled our Patriots; for I believe it was new to them, and therefore they were not hardened against it. Pray, says Gentleman, is it not the Desire of the Congress to bring Spain, France, and Holland, insensible, into a War with England? And can America expect from these Powers, England is subdued by their Arms, or to lose the Empire of the Sea? What treatment, I say from these Allies, is America to expect? This, Sir, was rather a stinging Question, a Silence ensued, when Gentleman told the following
F A B L E.
THERE was a large Forest, inhabited by a few Sheep; in the Neighbourhood was a Nation of Mastiff Dogs, another of Foxes, another of Wolves, and another of Boars, the Sheep were protected by the Dogs, till their Number increased to a great Multitude. After a bloody War, in which they were saved by the Dogs, from both the Foxes and Wolves, the Sheep imagined themselves to be a very mighty Nation, and some old raking Rams told them, it was not proper that the Dogs should rule over them. The Dogs had bit them, they said, and intended to bite them more severely. And so the Sheep proclaimed themselves a free People. But while they complained that the Dogs oppressed them, they boasted, with the same Breath, that so greatly had they profited, that in twelve Years they had become Masters for the World, though it was evident, before that Time, they could not defend themselves against the Foxes only — The Dogs, upon this, resolve to bring them back to Obedience; but the Sheep implored the Foxes, the Wolves, and the Boars, to attack the Dogs, which they gladly performed; and while the best Mastiffs were in the Country of the Sheep, these different Tribes violently attacked their old formidable Enemies the Dogs, that they utterly broke their Strength, and ruined them as a People — But the Sheep did not long boast of their profound Politics; the Foxes, the
Wolves, and the Boars, poured in upon them, and soon rendered them the most abject and miserable of all Animals.
The M O R A L.
Gentlemen, is this: — The Americans are, in Reality, as defenceless as Sheep; it is impossible they can, for several Centuries, constitute an Empire; they want many requisites. The English are generous, brave Mastiffs; the French have always been sly, ravenous Foxes; the Spaniards cruel Wolves, when they conquer; and the Dutch mere wild Boars, when they can effect a Settlement. Amboyne, and all their Settlements, witness this: But though, for the Fall's Sake, I suppose the Conquest of the Mastiffs, I trust that Event is yet very distant; and that Half a Million of determined fighting Sheep, with their Ingratitude, a Circumstance infinitely more to be feared than the Strength of their Horns, will never effect so worthy a Purpose. And let me add, Gentlemen, there is a Circumstance in the natural History of the Sheep which greatly resembles the American Courage. When you go near a Flock of Sheep, a few will at first run, then the whole Body of them will draw up in a Line like Soldiers; will watch your Motions; will seem as if they felt vastly bold; are, and will stamp their Feet on the Ground in a menacing Manner; but let a Mastiff walk up to them, and Half a Million of these determined Threateners, will instantly take to their Heels, and fly off in the greatest Fear and Confusion.
BRITANNICUS.
P H I L A D E L P H I A.
The following REMONSTRANCE was this Day presented to the President and Council, by the Hands of their Secretary.
To the President and Council of Pennsylvania
The Remonstrance of Israel Pemberton, John Hunt, and Samuel Pleasants,
Shrewsbury.
THAT LEWIS NICHOLS is about to deprive us of our Liberty, of which the following is a copy, viz.
“ In COUNCIL, Sept. 3. 1777. “ Ordered, That Colonel NICHOLS, “ Town Major, do take a proper guard, “ and seize Israel Pemberton, John Hunt, “ and Samuel Pleasants, and conduct them “ to the Free-Mason's Lodge, and there “ confine them under guard, till further “ orders.”
We are advised, and from our own knowledge of our Rights and Privileges as Free-men are assured, that your issuing this order, is arbitrary, unjust, and illegal; and we therefore believe it is our duty, in clear and express terms, to remonstrate against it. The order appears to be arbitrary, as you have assumed an Authority, not founded on Law or Reason, to deprive us, who are
peaceable men, and have never bore arms, of our Liberty, by a military force, when you might have directed a legal course of proceeding — unjust, as we have not attempted, nor are charged with, any act inconsistent with the character we have steadily maintained, of good citizens, solicitous to promote the real interest and prosperity of our country — and that it is illegal, is evident, from the perusal and consideration of the constitution of the government, from which you derive all your authority and power.
We therefore claim our undoubted right, as Free-men, having a just sense of the inestimable value of Religious and Civil Liberty, to be heard before we are confined, in the manner directed by the said order; and we have the more urgent cause for insisting on this our Right, as several of our fellow citizens have been since days, and now are confined by your order, and no opportunity is given them to be heard, and we have been informed, that it is your purpose to send them and us, into a distant part of the country, even beyond the limits of the jurisdiction you claim, and where the recourse we are justly and lawfully intitled to, of being heard, and of clearing ourselves from any charge, or suspicion, you may entertain, respecting us, will be impracticable.
We fervently desire, you may be so wise, as attend to the dictates of truth and justice, in your own minds, and observe the precepts of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, whom you profess to believe in. “ All things whatsoever ye would that Men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Mat. h. vii. 12. and then we have no Doubt you will comply with this just claim we make, which will be duly acknowledged, by your real friends and well-wishers,
ISRAEL PEMBERTON, JOHN HUNT, SAMUEL PLEASANTS.
Philadelphia, 4th 9mo. 1777.
We the said Subscribers, attended at the door of the Council Chamber, and made application by the Secretary, to be admitted, in order to deliver our Remonstrance, to which we could, after repeated applications obtain no other answer, than that “ Council had issued the arrest, in consequence of a Resolve of Congress, and cannot now admit you to be heard.”
We therefore delivered our Remonstrance to the Secretary, and waited, until he came out on another occasion, and told us, “ it had been read to the Council, and they afterwards proceeded to the other business which was before them.” Immediately after which, we were conducted by Lewis Nichols, to the Free Mason's Lodge, where we are now confined, with a number of our fellow-citizens, with whom we have joined, in a more full Remonstrance to the President and Council, and this evening, William Bradford came to us, and read to us a letter, of which the following is a Copy, viz,

SIR COUNCIL have resolved to send the prisoners, now confined at the Free-Mason's Lodge, to Staunton, in the county of Augusta, in the State of Virginia, there to be secured, and treated in such manner, as shall be consistent with their respective characters, and the security of their persons, which you are requested to communicate to them, and inform them, that carriages will be provided for their accommodation in the journey, unless they choose to provide themselves therewith,--- It is proposed that they go off Saturday morning next.
I am with great Respect, Your humble Servant, T. MATLACK, Sec.
Thursday, Sep. 4. 1777. To Col. W. BRADFORD, To the CONGRESS. The REMONSTRANCE of the Subscribers, Citizens of Philadelphia.
Sheweth. THAT we are now confined by a military guard, having been arrested and deprived of our Liberty, by order of the President and Council of Pennsylvania, in consequence of a Resolve made by you, on the 28th day of the last month, "Recommending to the Executive Powers of the several states, to apprehend and secure all persons, who have in their general conduct, and conversation, evidenced a disposition inimical to the Cause of America," and particularly naming us, the subscribers, "together with all such papers, in our possession, as may be of a political nature;" the copy of which resolve, we could not obtain till yesterday afternoon.
Conscious of our innocence, and that we have ministered no just occasion, to have our characters thus traduced, and injuriously treated; we have remonstrated to the said President and Council, against their arbitrary, unjust, and illegal proceedings against us, and demanded our undoubted right of being heard by them: Knowing we can manifest the falsehood and injustice, of any injurious charge, or suspicion, they, or you, may entertain, concerning us; but we are denied the opportunity of such a hearing; and were last evening informed, by their order, that they have resolved to send us to Staunton, in the County of Augusta, in Virginia, to be secured there---and we are now told, that place is appointed by you for our confinement.
We therefore, by our love to our country, whose true interest and prosperity we have readily pursued, through the course of our conduct and conversation, and in justice to our characters, as Freemen and Christians, with the freedom and resolution, which influences men, conscious of being void of just cause of offence, are bound to remonstrate against your arbitrary, unjust, and cruel treatment of us, our characters and families, and against the course of proceeding you have chosen and subscribed, by which the Liberty, Property, and Charters, of every Freeman in America, is, or may be endangered.---Most of you are not personally known to us, nor are we to you; and few of you have had the opportunity of conversing with any of us, or of knowing anything more of our conduct and conversation, than what you have received from others, and thus we are subjected to the unjust suspicions you have entertained, from the uncertain reports of our adversaries, and are condemned, unheard, to be deprived of our most endearing connections, and temporal enjoyments, when our personal care of them is most immediately necessary.
We are therefore engaged, in the most solemn manner, to call upon and intreat you, to reconsider the course of your proceedings respecting us; and either by yourselves, or the said President and Council, to give us the opportunity of hearing and answering to every matter suggested to, and entertained by you or them, against us; being assured we shall appear to be true Friends to, and anxious to be for, the prosperity of America, on the principles of Justice and
Liberty; and though we are clearly convinced, from the precepts of Christ, the doctrine of his Apostles, and the example of his followers, in the primitive ages of Christianity, that all outward wars and fightings are unlawful, and therefore cannot join therein, for any cause whatever:---we cannot but remind you, that we are, by the same principles, restrained from pursuing any measures, inconsistent with the Apostolic advice, "To live peaceably with all men," under whatever powers it is our lot to live; which rule of conduct, we are determined to observe; whatever you, or any others, may determine concerning us.
Your characters, in the conspicuous station you stand, and the regard due to the Liberties, and even the Lives of those, who are, and may be affected, by the course of your proceedings, so loudly proclaim the justice of our demand of a hearing, that if more time remained for it, we judge farther reasoning unnecessary, beseeching you to remember, that we are all to appear before the Tribunal of Divine Justice, there to render an account of our actions, and receive a reward according as our works have been---And we sincerely desire for you, as we do for ourselves, that we may all so direct our course, that we may at that Tribunal, receive the answer of "well done," and enjoy the reward of eternal peace and happiness.
We are your REAL Friends, Israel Pemberton, Henry Dinker, James Pemberton, Thomas Fisher, John Pemberton, Samuel Pleasants, Thomas Wharton, Samuel R. Fisher. Philadelphia, 5th mo 1777, Lodge-Alley.
To the PRESIDENT and COUNCIL of PENNSYLVANIA. The Remonstrance of the Subscribers, Freemen, and Inhabitants of the City of Philadelphia, now confined in the Free-Mason's Lodge.
Sheweth. THAT the subscribers have been, by virtue of a warrant signed in Council by George Bryan, vice-president, arrested in our houses, and on our lawful occasions, and conducted to this place, where we have been kept in close confinement, under a strong military guard, two or more days; that although divers of us demanded of the messengers who arrested us, and insisted on having copies of the said warrant, yet we were not able to procure the same, till this present time, but have remained here, unaccused and unheard. We now take the earliest opportunity of laying our Grievances before your body, from whom we apprehend they proceed, and of claiming to ourselves the liberties and privileges to which we are intitled to by the fundamental rules of justice, by our birth-right and inheritance, the laws of the land; and by the express provision of the present constitution, under which your board derive their power.
We apprehend, that no man can lawfully be deprived of his Liberty, without a warrant from some person having competent authority, specifying an offence against the laws of the land, supported by Oath or Affirmation of the Accuser, and limiting the time of his imprisonment until he is heard, or actually discharged, unless the party be found in the actual perpetration of a crime. Natural Justice, equally with Law, declares that the party accused should know what he is to answer to, and have an opportunity of shewing his innocence. These principles are strongly enforced in the ninth and tenth sections of the Declaration of Rights, which form a fundamental and inviolable part of the constitution, from which you derive your power, wherein it is declared,
IX. "That in all prosecutions for criminal offences, a man hath a right to be heard by himself and his council, to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses, to call for evidence in his favour, and a speedy public trial, by an impartial jury of the country; without the unanimous consent of which jury, he cannot be found guilty; nor can he
be compelled to give evidence against himself; nor can any man be justly deprived of his liberty, except by the laws of the land, or the judgment of his peers."
X. "That the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers and possessions, free from search or seizure, and therefore warrants, without oaths or affirmations first made, affording a sufficient foundation for them, and whereby any officer or messenger, may be commanded or required to search suspected places, or to seize any person or persons, his or their property not particularly described, are contrary to that right, and ought not to be granted."
How far these principles have been adhered to in the course of this business, we shall go on to show.
Upon the examination of the said warrant, we find it is, in all respects, inadequate to these descriptions, altogether unprecedented in this or any free country, both in its substance, and the latitude given to the messengers who were to execute it, and wholly subversive of the very constitution you profess to support.---The only charge on which it is founded, is a recommendation of Congress, to apprehend and secure all persons who, in their general conduct and conversation, have evidenced a disposition inimical to the cause of America, and particularly naming some of us; but not suggesting the least offence to have been committed by us.
It authorizes the messengers to search all papers belonging to us, upon a bare possibility that something political may be found; but without the least ground for a suspicion of the kind.
It requires papers, relative to the suffrages of the people called Quakers, to be seized, without limiting the search to any house, or number of houses; under colour of which, every house in this city might be broke open.
To the persons whom the Congress have thought proper to select, the warrant adds a number of the inhabitants of the city, of whom some of us are part; without the least insinuation, that they are within the description given by the Congress in their recommendation.
It directs all these matters to be executed, (though of the highest importance to the liberties of the people) at the discretion of a set of men, who are utterly no qualification for the due execution of the office, and are unaccustomed to the forms of executing civil process; from whence probably, have proceeded the excesses and irregularities committed by some of them, in divers instances, by refusing to give copies of the process to the persons arrested, by denying to some of us, a reasonable time to consider of answers; in the absence of others, by breaking our desks and other private repositories; and by ransacking and carrying off domestic papers, printed books, and other matter, not within the terms of the warrant.
It limits no time for the duration of our imprisonment, nor points at any hearing, which is an absolute requisite to make a legal warrant; but confounds in one warrant, the power to apprehend, and the authority to commit, without interposing a judicial officer between the parties and the messenger.
Upon the whole, we conceive this warrant and the proceedings thereupon, to be far more dangerous in its tendency, and a more flagrant violation of every right which is dear to freemen, than any that can be found in the records of the English Constitution.
But when we consider the use to which this General Warrant has been applied, and the persons upon whom it has been executed ( Who challenge the WORLD to charge them with Offence ) it becomes of too great magnitude, to be considered as the cause of a few: It is the cause of every inhabitant; and may, if permitted to pass into a Precedent, establish a system of arbitrary power, unknown but in the Inquisition, or the despotic courts of the East.

What adds further to this alarming stretch of Power is, that we are informed the Vice-President of the Council has declared to some of the Magistrates of the city, who called upon him to enquire into the cause of our confinement, that we were to be silent to Virginia, unheard.
Scarcely could we believe such a declaration could have been made by a person who fills the second place in the government, till we were this day confirmed in the melancholy truth by three of the subscribers, whom you absolutely refused to hear in person, or by Council—We would exhibit you the complaints urged by numbers of you selves against the Parliament of Great Britain, for condemning the town of Boston unheard, and we call upon you to reconcile your present conduct with your then professions, or your repeated declarations in favour of general Liberty.
In the name therefore of the whole body of the Freeman of Pennsylvania, whose liberties are radically struck at in this arbitrary imprisonment of us, their UNOFFENDING Fellow Citizens: We DEMAND an Audience; that so our innocence may appear, and persecution give place to justice.—But if, regarding every tie by which men are bound to each other in society, and of that constitution by which you profess to govern, which you have so lately magnified for the free spirit it breathes—you are still determined to proceed; be the appeal to the righteous Judge of all the earth, for the integrity of our hearts, and the unparalled tyranny of your measures.
James Pemberton, Thomas Affleck, Thomas Wharton, Charles Irvins, Thomas Coombe, Wm. Smith, (Bucks.) Edward Pennington, Wm. Drowett Smith, Henry Drinkwater, Thomas Fisher, Phineas Bond, Miers Fisher, Tobias Gilpin, Charles Eddy, John Pemberton, Israel Pemberton, Thomas Pike, John Hunt, Owen Jones, junr. Samuel Pleasants. Moses's Lodge, Philadelphia. Sept. 4. 1777.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16. Head Quarters of the King's army, upon Hudson's River, Sept. 6, 1777.
SIR. I RECEIVED your letter of the 2d inst. and in consequence of your compliance with my proposal of sending a surgeon to visit the wounded officers in your hands, and some servants to carry money and necessaries to their masters, and to remain with them, I have now to desire the favour of you to dispatch the officer you design with a drum and a flag of truce, so that he may arrive at Stillwater about noon, on the 9th, and he shall be met there by the persons he is to conduct, accompanied also by a drum and a flag of truce I trust, for that it is understood between us, that the surgeon shall have safe conduct to my outposts, when his visit shall be made, and he shall request it; and that you may be assured on my part, that your officer shall meet with security and civility.
I have hesitated, sir, upon answering the other paragraphs of your letter. I desire to justify myself against the imputations of fiction and calumny, which, from the first of this contest, it has been an invariable American policy to propagate, but which no longer impose upon the world. I am induced to deviate from this general rule, in the present instance, lest my silence should be construed an acknowledgment of the truth of your allegations, and a pretence be thereby taken for exercising future barbarities by the American troops.
By this motive, and upon this only, I condescend to inform you, that I would not be conscious of the act you presume to impute to me, for the whole continent of America, though the weight of worlds were in its bowels, and a paradise upon its surface.
It has happened that all my transactions with the Indian nations, last year and this, have been open, clearly heard, distinctly un-
derstood, accurately minuted, by very numerous, and in many parts very uneducated audiences. So immediately opposite to truth is your assertion, that I have paid a price for scalps, that one of the first regulations established by me at the great council in May, and repeated, and enforced, and invariably adhered to since, was, that the Indians should receive compensation from prisoners, because it would prevent cruelty, and that not only such compensation should be withheld, but a strict account demanded for scalps. These pledges of conquest, for such you well know they will ever esteem them, were solemnly and peremptorily prohibited to be taken from the wounded, and even the dying, and the persons of aged men, women, children, and prisoners, were pronounced sacred even in assault.
In regard to Miss M'Rea, her fall wanted not the tragic display you have laboured to give it, to make it as sincerely abhorred and lamented by me as it can be by the tenderest of her friends. The fact was no premeditated barbarity. On the contrary, two chiefs, who had brought her off for the purpose of security, not of violence, to her person, disputed which should be her guard; and in a fit of savage passion in the one from whose hands she was snatched, the unhappy woman became the victim. Upon the first intelligence of this event, I obliged the Indian to deliver the murderer into my hands; and though to have punished him by our laws or principles of justice, would have been perhaps unprecedent, he certainly should have suffered an ignominious death, had I not been convinced, by circumstances and observation beyond the possibility of a doubt, that a pardon under the terms which I prescribed, and they accepted, would be more efficacious than an execution to prevent similar mischiefs.
The above instance excepted, your intelligence respecting cruelties of the Indians is false.
You seem to threaten me with European publications, which affect me as little as any other threats you could make; but in regard to American publications, which charge you against me, which I acquit you of believing, was printed from a gazette or for a gazette, I desire, and demand of you as a man of honor, that should it appear in print at all, this answer may follow it.
I am, sir, your most humble servant, J. BURGOYNE, L. G. Major General Gage. Head Quarters of the Army of the United States, September 8, 1777.
SIR. YOUR Excellency may be satisfied that I will send an officer to Stillwater to-morrow, at the time you mention, to receive the surgeon, servants, and such comforts as your Excellency shall think proper to send to the prisoners in my hands. I am, sir, your most humble servant, H. GATE, M. G. Lieut. Gen. Burgoyne.
BOSTON, October 6 Extract of a letter, dated Philadelphia, September 24.
I have just time to advise, that we have had no important action of the armies since my last. Both armies were yesterday marching up Schuylkill, about 23 miles above the city; Washington on the left side and Howe on the right, designed, 'tis supposed, by some for Reading, where we have large stores. An action is expected daily. We have very frequent alarms, and advices that the enemy are marching to the city, but are false. A few of the enemy's Hessian and light horse, 3 or 400. crossed Schuylkill, near C. L. Bull's, about 18 miles from the city, and gave us a terrible fight, and dispersed a few militia, who brought down accounts they were in full march for the city; but all is still, and explained this morning. The last of the enemy's ships are said to have passed Patapsco River, on their passage down Chesapeake Bay, on the 18th inst. but 'tis unknown here where the body of their fleet is.
NEWPORT, October 16. 393 We last Evening received a Handbill from Providence, filled with an inconsistent and preposterous Account of an Action between an advanced Party of General Burgoyne's Army, on the 7th inst. and a Party of the Rebels, in which they pretend to have taken several Pieces of Cannon, &c. They confess, that Mr. Arnold is wounded, Mr. Lincoln has received a Wound in his Leg, and it is imagined will lose it; and they own the Loss of 30 killed, and 100 wounded. The same Handbill informs, that Sir Henry Clinton had taken Fort Montgomery, up the North River. This Fort is at the Highlands, and at once opens the Navigation to Albany.—The Express who brought them this pompous Intelligence, heard a very heavy Cannonade all the next Day, on his Way hither.
Yesterday a Prize-Sloop, from Norfolk in Virginia, was brought in here by the Lady Parker, in Company with another armed Schooner fitted out here. The Master of her informs, that Lord Howe, with the Rest of the Fleet, had sailed from Chesapeake, and it was supposed, they are destined for the Delaware.
By MAJOR-GENERAL ROBERT PIGOT, Commanding His Majesty's Forces within the Colony of Rhode Island, &c. &c. &c.
WHEREAS many of His Majesty's loyal Subjects, inhabiting the Town of NEWPORT, are willing to associate for the Purpose of preserving the internal Peace and security of the Town, and to perform such other Duties as the Commanding Officer of His Majesty's Troops within this Colony shall think necessary:—I have therefore thought fit, in Order to give all possible Encouragement to a Spirit so truly laudable and proper, to permit His Majesty's loyal Subjects, inhabiting this Town, to agree and associate, for the Purpose aforesaid; and, to that End, have directed an AGREEMENT to be lodged at the Printing Office; where, the ready and firm Friend to his KING and the LAWS, may, by subscribing thereto, have an Opportunity of distinguishing himself from the disaffected. Given under my Hand, at Head Quarters in Newport, this 15th Day of October, 1777. R. PIGOT.
By the General's Command, HENRY BARRY, Secretary.
ON MONDAY the 20th inst. will be SOLD at VENDUE, the Sloop CHARMING SALLY and Appurtenances, lying at the Wharf of Mr. Caleb Gardner; likewise, a Quantity of COD-Fish, now in Mr. Jonathan Thurston's Store; also, the Hull and Appurtenances of the Schooner LEOPARD, and her Cargo, consisting of a Quantity of Fish and New Flour, some Tobacco, &c.—The SALE will begin at X o'Clock.
LOST, (About a FORTNIGHT since) A Silver-mounted PISTOL, Maker's Name GRIFFIN—Whoever has found the same, and will bring it to the Printer, shall receive a GUINEA Reward, —If offered to be pawned or sold, it is desired it may be stopped.
FOR NEW-YORK, (To SAIL the FIRST CONVOY) THE Sloop LADY HOWE, JAMES NIXON, Master, lying at Hoeyman's Wharf, a prime Seiler, and has fine Accommodations for Passengers.—For Freight or Passage, apply to said Master on board.

From LLOYD'S EVENING-POST. TRADESMEN'S SONG for his MAJESTY'S BIRTH - DAY, 1777. TUNE, When Britain first, at Heaven's Command.
AGAIN, my social Friends, we meet To celebrate our annual Treat, And with our loyal hearts display This feat, this glorious Natal Day: 'Tis George's Natal Day we sing, Our firm, our steady Friend and King. For Britain's Parliament and Laws He waves his own Imperial Power, For us (Old England's glorious Cause) May Heaven on him its blessings shower, And Colonies, made happy, sing Great George their real Friend and King. Since Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the Azure Main, Did ever o'er this jarring Land A Monarch with more firmness reign? Then to the Nat'l Day we'll sing, Of George our sacred Friend and King. To Charlotte fair, our matchless Queen, To all his blooming heavenly Line, To all their Family and Friends, Let us in hearty chorus join, And George's Natal Day let's sing, Our gracious Father, Friend and King. And may the heavenly Powers combine, While we with loyal hearts implore That one of his most sacred Line May rule these Realms till time's no more. And we with chearful voices sing Great George our steady, Natal King.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate or Ef- fects of Captain FRANCIS BANKS, de- ceased, late Commander of his Majesty's Ship RENOWN, are desired to send in their Accounts, properly attested, to the Subscriber, at the WHITE HORSE, in Order to their being settled and paid; and all those who are any Ways indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy Pay- ment, to prevent farther Trouble. WILLIAM PEARCE, Parser of said Ship. Newport, Rhode-Island, Sept. 25.
LOST LAST WEEK, In the Road between Fogland Ferry and Newport,
TWO GLASSES, of a Dol- land's SPY GLASS — Whoever has found the same, on bringing it to the Printer, shall be handsomely rewarded.
CARPENTERS, by Applica- tion at the ENGINEER'S OFFICE in Thames-Street, may meet with EM- PLOYMENT, and will be paid the cus- tomary Wages of the Country,
To be Sold to the highest Bidder BILLS of EXCHANGE, to the Amount of FIVE or SIX HUNDRED POUNDS Sterling, to defray the Expence of His Majesty's Naval Hospi- tal. — Whoever is desirous to purchase the Whole, or any Part thereof, must send in their Proposals to the Subscriber, who will give the Preference to the Person that offers the most advantageous Terms. JOHN HALLIBURTON, Agent to the Sick and Hurt.
TO BE SOLD, by ANTHONY LECHMERE, ENGLISH GOODS, Fyal Wine by the Pipe, and Muscavado Sugar by the Hoghead.
THE CREDITORS to the Estate of MARY TURNER, deceased, are desired to bring in their Claims to the Subscriber; and all those indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy PAYMENT, as Attendance will be given by me at the House where the said Mary Turner formerly lived, until the first Day of No- vember next.
SARAH BORDEN. N. B. The GOODS and EFFECTS of the said Estate, will be for SALE, on the aforesaid first Day of November.
TO BE SOLD, By SIMON PEASE, At his STORE,
OLD Jamaica and Wind- ward-Island RUM, by the hoghead; Brown Sugar, Flour, Rice, Spermaceti Can- dles, Molasses, by the hoghead or tierce. Also, a few Firkins of Irish Rose Butter.
IMPORTED, by STEPHEN DEBLOIS, A large & compleat Assortment
IRONMONGERY Brazier's & Cut- lery Wares, English and India Goods, Starch, Soap, Candles, Raisins, Spices, Pepper, &c. &c. &c.
FLAX - SEED PURCHASED, BY MYER POLOCK.
Constant Attendance will be given at his House on the Point, or at Mr. John Nichols's, on the North Side the Parade.
Myer Polock has for SALE, COARSE SALT, Dry Cod-Fish, West-India Rum, Beef and Pork, Cherry and plain Butter, Brandy, Tallow Candles, by the box, Molasses, Nails, New Rice, White Beans, Coffee, Flour, by the barrel. Loaf Sugar,
TO BE SOLD, By ISAAC HART, At his SHOP on the North Side of the GRAND PARADE, and at his DWEL- LING HOUSE on the POINT, (As CHEAP as at any Shop in Newport)
The following GOODS, just Imported, viz YARD - WIDE Bchea Tea, and 7 - 8ths Loaf Sugar, Cotton Checks, Muscovado ditto, Yard-wide Irish Lin- Coffee, nen, Mace, Fans, Cloves, 7-4 Thread Laces, Cinnamon, Cambrik, Nutmegs, Linen Handkerchiefs Pepper, Bandanno ditto, Allspice, Threads, Starch, Pins, Hair Powder, Silk Mitts, Ivory Combs, Sweet Oil, An Assortment of Best Madeira Wine, Horn ditto, Claret, Tallow Candles, Rum, Soap, London Porter, Cut and Pigtail To- Souchong Tea, bacco, And an Assortment of Glass and Earthen Ware, &c. &c. &c.
IMPORTED, & to be SOLD, At the SHOP directly facing the QUAR- TER-MASTER-GENERAL's, in the MAIN-STREET, Newport,
RED PORT, White Soap, Old Hock, Best Mustard, Sherry, Scented Hair-Pow- Lisbon, der, Muscat, and Ditto French ditto, Florence Wines; Lavender, Brandy, Hunga y, Capillaire, Eau de Lavande au French Liqueurs, Citron, Double-distill'd An- Ditto do. au Burga- niseed, motte, White-Wine Vinegar, Essence of Burga- Best Common ditto, motte, Ditto London bottled Ditto Lemon, Florence Oil, Wash Bals, Powder'd Sugar, Hard Pomatum, Lump ditto, Bathies and Stands, Double-refin'd ditto, Tobacco, in pounds Jar Raisins, and half pounds, Cask ditto, Tallow Candles, Currants, Window-Glass, 8 by Citron, 10, Preserv'd Orange Velve Corks, Peal, An Assortment of Ditto Fruit, in Brandy Glass-Ware, Walnuts, Black Lead Pencils, Capers, Small Looking glass- Anchovies, es, Olives, Men's Thread Stock- Red Cobbags, ings, Fine West-India Ladys fine Cotton de Pickles, Fine Lawnns, Rice, Osnaburgs, Basket Salt, Lime, by the barrel Scotch Herrings, or smaller quantity India Soy, Coarse Salt, Ditto Carnack, Fine plain Rappée, Back Pepper, Playing Cards, Nutmegs, Hair Pins, Poland Starch, Small Paper Tobaccos Fig Bue, West India Rum,
A L S O, A Parcel of Tar & Turpentine
Just Imported from New-York AND TO BE
SOLD BY JOHN HOWE, AT THE Printing Office in Thames Street
The following ARTICLES of STATIONARY:
GILT, Pounce and Pounce Post, Boxes, Crown, Sand, Feol's Cap, Waters, Pott, Red and black Wax, Letter, Cake Ink, Cartridge, Red and black Pow- Bonnet, and der ditto, Marble Paper; Pewter Ink-Chests, Quills, Ink-Stands, Account Books, Ink-Holders, Orderly Books, Pencils, Red & black Pocket Slates and Pencils, Books, Pen-Knives, Small Memorandum Gunter Scales and Books, Dividers, Ivory ditto, Wax Tapers, and Playing Cards, Bandlecores.
LIKE W I S E, SPECTACLES, Ivory Combs, Jack Knives, Horn ditto, Razors, Buckle-Buffs, Razor-Straps, Walking-Sticks, Padlocks, Gun-Worms, &c. Tobacco-Boxes, &c. &c.