The Newport gazette (Newport [R.I.]), 1778-06-25 00:00:00

THURSDAY, JUNE 25.
The Printer lays the following Speech of General BURGOYNE before the Public, convinced the Spirit it breaths will fully dissipate every suspicion of cruelty being practiced by his Order, or even intended in his transactions with the Indians, must confound his calumniators, and cover the abettors of rebellion with infamy.
SUBSTANCE of the SPEECH of LIEUTENANT GENERAL BURGOYNE, to the INDIANS, in Congress, at the Camp, upon the River Bouquet, June 21, 1777, and their ANSWER.
CHIEFS and WARRIORS,
THE Great King, our common father, and the patron of all who seek and deserve his protection, has considered with satisfaction, the general conduct of the Indian tribes from the beginning of the troubles in America. Too sagacious and too faithful to be deluded or corrupted, they have observed the violated rights of the parental power they love, and barned to vindicate them. A few individuals alone, the refuse of a small tribe, at the first were led astray, and the misrepresentations, the specious allurements, the insidious promises and diversified plots, in which the rebels are exercised, and all of which they employed for that effect, have served only in the end to enhance the honour of the tribes in general, by demonstrating to the world, how few and how contemptible are the apostates. It is a truth known to you all, that these pitiful examples excepted, and they probably have before this day hid their faces in shame, the collective voices and hands of the Indian tribes over this vast continent, are on the side of justice, law, and of the King.
The restraint you have put upon your regiment in waiting the King your father's call to arms, the hardest proof, I am persuaded, to which your affection could have been put, is another manifest and affected mark of your adherence to that principal of connection to which you were always fond to allude, and which it is mutually the joy and the duty of the parent to cherish.
The clemency of your father has been tried, the offers of his mercy have been made, and his farther patience would, in a yes, become culpable, in as much as it would withhold redress from the most grievous oppressions in the provinces that ever disgraced the history of mankind. It therefore remains for me, the General of one of his Majesty's armies, and in this council, his representative, to release you from those bonds which your obedience imposed. Warriors, you are free. Go forth in might of your valor and your strength, at the common enemies of
Great Britain and America—disturbers of public order, peace and happiness,—destroyers of commerce, parasites of the state.
The circle round you, the chiefs of his Majesty's European forces, and of the Princes his allies, esteem you as brothers in the war; emulous in glory and in friendship, we will endeavour reciprocally to give and to receive examples; we know how to value, and we will strive to imitate your perseverance in enterprizes, and your constancy to resist hunger, weariness, and pain. Be it our task, from the dictates of our religion, the laws of our warfare, and the principles and interest of our policy, to regulate your passions, when they overbear, to point out where it is nobler to spare than to revenge, to discriminate degrees of guilt, to suspend the uplifted stroke, to chastise, and not to destroy.
This war to you, my friends, is new upon all former occasions; in taking the field, you held yourselves authorized to destroy wherever you came, because every where you found an enemy. The case now is very different.
The King has many faithful subjects dispersed in the provinces, consequently you have many brothers there; and these people are the more to be pitied, that they are persecuted or imprisoned, wherever they are discovered, or suspected, and to dissemble, is to a generous mind, a yet more grievous punishment.
Persuaded that your magnanimity of character, joined to your principles of affection to the King, will give me fuller controul over your minds than the military rank with which I am invested, I enjoin your most serious attention to the rules which I hereby proclaim for your invariable observation during the campaign.
I positively forbid bloodshed, when you are not opposed in arms.
Aged men, women, children, and prisoners, must be held sacred from the knife or hatchet, even in the time of actual conflict.
You shall receive compensation for the prisoners you take, but you shall be called to an account for scalps.
In conformity and indulgence to your customs, which have affixed an idea of honour to such badges of victory, you shall be allowed to take the scalps of the dead, when killed by your fire, and in fair opposition; but on no account, or pretence, or subtlety, or prevarication, are they to be taken from the wounded, or even dying; and still less pardonable, if possible, will be held, to kill men in that condition, on purpose, and upon a supposition, that this protection, to the wounded, would be thereby evaded.
But lurking assasins, incendiaris, rava-
gers, and plunderers of the country, to whatever army they may belong, shall be treated with less reserve; but the latitude must be given you by order, and I must be the judge of the occasion.
Should the enemy, on their part, dare to countenance acts of barbarity towards those who may fall into their hands, it shall be yours also to retaliate; but till severity shall be thus compelled, bear immovable in your hearts this solid maxim, it cannot be too deeply impressed, that the great essential reward, worthy service of your alliance, the sincerity of your zeal to the King your father, and neverfailing protector, will be examined, and judged upon the test only of your steady and uniform adherence to the orders and counsels of these to whom his Majesty has intrusted the direction and the honour of his arms.
Answer from an old Chief of the Iroquois. The name of all the nations present, to assure our father, that we have attentively listened to his discourse. We receive you as our father, because when you speak, we hear the voice of our great father beyond the great lake.
We rejoice in the approbation you have expressed of our behaviour.
We have been tried, and attempted by the Bostonians; but we have loved our father, and our hatchets have been sharpened upon our affections.
In proof of the sincerity of our professions, our whole villages able to go to war; are come forth. The old and infirm, our infants and our wives, alone remain at home.
With one common effort we promise a constant obedience to all you have ordered, and all you shall order; and may the father of days give you many and success.
N O R W I C H, June 15. Extract of a letter from a General Officer, belonging to this State, dated Valley-Forge, June 7, 1778.
Mr. Loring, Commissary of prisoners, officially informed us the day before yesterday, that the army were about to leave Philadelphia; that General Clinton did not wish to carry off the prisoners of war, but would send them out to us, or leave them in the city, provided we would promise to let them have as many in exchange at some other time.—The Commissioners are arrived in Philadelphia.—Governor Johnson, Earl of Carlisle, and Mr. Eden, a brother to the late Governor Eden; Lord Howe and General Clinton are the two others. Lord Cornwallis is returned. Whether their arrival will delay the army's leaving Philadelphia or not, a few days will discover. Great numbers of recruits have come in from Maryland and the Jerseys; their regiments will outnumber ours; those from Maryland are enlisted during the war.

(Copy) New York, 21st May, 1778.
SIR,
The inclosed Acts of Parliament arrived here Yesterday, which came to Philadelphia in his Majesty's Ship the Porcupine: I am to request you will forward them to Boston, and the Eastern Provinces; trusting they will be receiv'd with more Confidence and Liberality than the Drafts of Bills I sent you the 27th of last Month.
I am, Sir,
Your very humble Servant, WM. TRYON, Governor.
Governor TRUMBULL,
(Copy) Hartford, 25th May, 1778.
SIR,
Your Letter of the 21st instant is received with its inclosures—The innocent do not want a Pardon: The injured do not place Confidence in any who have done them an Injury, while Force is continued in the same pursuit:—To ask it in this Situation, Does it not add Insult to Injury? Ought not Propositions and Negotiations of a public Nature, between two contending Powers to be addressed from one to the other, and not to Individuals, or to particular Person or Persons? When made in this Manner and honorably conducted, Liberality may justly be expected from both.
I am,
Sir, your very humble Servant, JONATHAN TRUMBULL.
Gov. TRYON.
FISH-KILL, June 11.
Extract of a letter from Albany, June 8, 1778.
"The enemy have destroyed nine dwelling houses, besides barns, &c. and those unhappy Americans who fell into their hands have been most inhumanly butchered. We have not heard from that quarter these two days past, and the common reason to suppose they have gone off, hearing that our people are gathering fast."
"Another party of Indians and Tories, have attacked some settlements at Saco-dago, a place about ten miles from Johnstown, where they have taken two or three prisoners."
Extract of a letter from Greenock, dated April 9.
"The only thing worth mentioning to you, is, our port is full of transport ships, and numbers of troops are coming here to be shipped off for America, viz. part of the 42d, the whole of the 70th, part of the 71st, the Glasgow Volunteers, Duke of Hamilton's, Lord M'Leod's, and Duke of Argyle's, new-raised troops, of 1000 men each; their destinations are part to New-York, Philadelphia, St. Augustine, Halifax, St. John's, Newfoundland, in order to fortify and protect all the sea places. It is also said the first operations of our troops this campaign will be to bombard and lay Boston in ashes. May all the rebellious set be therein consumed, with the city, where it first began. It seems we must have a French war: May the God of armies go out with our troops, that the perfidious wretches may be severely punished."
Extract of a letter from a General Officer in the American Army, to Major General Sullivan, dated Camp, Valley Forge, June 7, 1778.
"The Enemy have every Thing in Readiness to take their Departure from Philadelphia. It is reduced to a moral Certainty that they mean to march through Jersey. They were under Orders to proceed this Morning, but were prevented by the Commissioners arriving last Evening from England. They are the Earl of Carlisle, Governor Johnstone, and Mr. Eden, Brother to the late Governor of Maryland."
Lord Cornwallis is with them, but in what Capacity I am not able say.—I do not imagine this will prevent them from leaving the City: It may possibly delay them a few Days.
Thursday last Brigadier-General Varnum arrived here from the Grand Army in Pennsylvania.
We learn from Authority, that the British Commissioners are arrived at Philadelphia from England; and that some Dispatches, relative to the Negotiation proposed by them, have been forwarded by Express to Congress.
We hear that a Cartel is settled, and that a general Exchange of Prisoners will speedily take Place.
BOSTON, June 3.
Wednesday the proof Mill at Andover, with three men and two tons of powder, by some accident blew up.
Tis reported the Commissioners, with fifteen Hundred Troops, are arrived.
Friday last a Wood-Sloop and a Schooner were taken off Cape Ann, by the L'Blond Frigate; the Captain gave the Schooner to the Crews, and she arrived here on Saturday Afternoon.
A Correspondent informs, That an American Privateer, and several other Vessels have been taken within a few Days past by a British Pirate Frigate, now in our Bay; and wou'd propose that the present Navy Court Martial be adjourned—And that the Continental Frigates Now in Port, be sent out on a short Cruise to bring in the British Pirate.—Volunteers for such a Cruise may doubtless be got in a few Days.
PROVIDENCE June 20.
Copy of a Letter from the Honourable Major-General Sullivan, to General Pigot, Commander of the Enemy's Troops on Rhode Island.
Providence, June 4, 1778.
SIR,
THE repeated Applications of the distressed Families of those Persons who were captured by your Troops on the 25th ult. induce me to write you upon the subject. As those men were not in actual Service, or found in Arms, I cannot conceive what were the Motives for taking them, or guess the Terms upon which their Release may be obtained. Had the War, on the Part of Britain, been founded in Justice; and had your Troops, in their Execution, complied the Destruction of the Boars, and anti-military Preparations in that Quarter, without wantonly destroying defenceless Towns, burning Houses consecrated to the Divinity, plundering and abusing innocent Inhabitants, and dragging from their peaceful Habitations unarmed and unoffending Men; such an Expedition might have shown with Splendour.—It is now darkened with savage Cruelty, and stained with incredible Disgrace.
"In your last Letter to me, you gave it as your Opinion, that the Inhabitants of America, at large, would entertain more favourable Sentiments of the Views and Intentions of Great Britain, than I seemed inclined to have. If, Sir, the unprecedented Cruelty of your Troops, displayed upon every petty Advantage, since the Commencement of this Contest; the inhuman and unexampled Treatment of Prisoners, who, by the Fortune of War, have fallen into your Power, had not sufficiently convinced the Inhabitants of the United States, that they had nothing to expect from that Nation, but a Continuance of those tyrannical and cruel Measures which drove them to a Separation; the Conduct of your Party, in their late Execution, must have stamped it with infallible Certainty."
"The Law of Retaliation has not as yet been exercised by the Americans. Humanity
has marked the Line of their Conduct thus far, even though they knew that their Tenderness was attributed to base Timidity; but if a Departure from the Laws of Humanity can in any Instance be justified, it must be, when such relentless Destruction are entrapped by the Vigilance, of the Party invaded. Perhaps, at some such Period, the Americans, fired with Presentment of accumulated Injuries; wearied with the long Exercise of a humane Conduct, which has only been rewarded with Barbarity and Insult; and despairing to mitigate the Horrors of War, by persisting in the Practice of a Virtue, which their Enemies seem to have banished from their Minds; may, by suddenly executing the Law of Retaliation, convince Britain, that they have mistaken the Motives of American Clemency, and trusted too long with undeserved Lenity. Should such an Event take Place, the unhappy Sufferers may charge their Misfortunes to the Commanding Officers of the British Army in this Country, whose mistaken Conduct has weaned the Affection of Americans from your Nation, driven them to disavow Allegiance to your Sovereign, and at length forced them to Abolition."
"I should not have wrote you so particularly upon this Subject, had I not obtained in the Newport Gazette, that the Conduct of your Troops, employed on the last Expedition, had received your Approbation, and warrant'd Thanks."
"Your favouring me with a Line, informing upon what Terms a Release of these unfortunate Persons may be obtained, will much oblige, Sir,
Your most obedient,
and very humble Servant,
JOHN SULLIVAN.
M. Genl at Pigot.
General Pigot's Answer.
Newport, June 10, 1778.
SIR,
I Received your very extraordinary Letter, and as you request nothing more than the Favour of a Line, to inform you upon what Terms the Prisoners taken on the 25th of last Month, can be obtained, it is unnecessary to trouble you with Reply to any other Part of your Letter.
"You are pleased to say, you cannot conjecture upon what Terms their Release may be obtained. You certainly do not know, that by the Laws of this Country every Man above sixteen, and under sixty, is obliged to serve as a Soldier, under very severe Penalties, and have General or Field Officers appointed to lead them whenever called to it; and I have no Doubt but many of those very Persons, whom you call peaceable Inhabitants, have been marched on the late intended Invasion of this Island, by General Spencer. 'Tis looking the Case, I wou'd see there can be no Objection made to their being exchanged for Soldiers or Seamen. Any one who does not come under the above Description of being between sixteen and sixty, has upon your pointing him out, be immediately set at Liberty without any Exchange. Should this Proposal be agreeable to you, I am ready to make the Exchange as soon as you please; but in case it does not meet with your Approbation, I am sorry to acquaint you, that not having it in my Power to accommodate the Prisoners so conveniently and well as I could wish to do, must be under the Necessity, when an Opportunity offers, of sending them to New-York, where they will be better attended to, and be more at large, and I wish I could by their Exchange more easily effected."
I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
ROBERT Pigot.
M. General Sullivan.

NEWPORT: June 25. General SULLIVAN's Reply to General PIGOT's Letter of the 10th Instant. Providence June 20th, 1778.
SIR, As it was not in my Power to comply with the Terms proposed by you, in your Letter of the 10th Instant, respecting an Exchange of the Persons taken by your Troops on the 25th of last month; I could not give you an Answer without consulting the Council of War, who request me to send a Flag in which Governor Bradford goes with some Proposals which he will communicate.
We have some Seamen here taken by our Vessels of War, others we expect will in a few Days be brought in from Boston. The Council wishes to know whether you will Exchange the Prisoners whose Names are contained in the List sent by Governor Bradford, for an equal Number of the Troops of this State now in your Hands and out of the Ranks on Parole.
Should this Proposal be agreed to, the Persons mentioned in the List shall be sent you immediately after Return of the Flag, and those sent out on Parole shall be exchanged as soon as Prisoners can be collected for the Purpose.
You may depend on a Speedy performance if possible on the Part of the State, and that I shall do every Thing in my Power to forward to Rhode Island Persons in Exchange for such as you may send out.
I have the Honour to be, Sir, your most Obedient humble Servant. JOHN SULLIVAN. M. Gen. Pigot.
ANSWER. Newport, June 22d, 1778.
SIR, I HAD the favour of your Letter last Night by Gov. Bradford, but before its Arrival every Thing relative to the Release of the Soldiers and Inhabitants taken the 25th May, was settled with Mr. Mescheau, the Commissary of Prisoners.
In doing by Gov. Bradford, that it would be agreeable to you to give Sailors in Exchange for the Inhabitants, I have given my Consent thereto. Mr. Mescheau, the Commissary will wait upon you with the Agreement, which I doubt not will be complied with as soon as possible.
I have the Honour to be, Sir, your most Obedient humble Servant. ROBERT PIGOT.
P.S. Some of the Inhabitants being Old and Lirm, I have discharged them, without looking for others in Exchange.
Yesterday being St. JOHN's Day, the same was celebrated here by a respectable Number of FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS. They assembled in the Morning at the Point, from whence they walked in Procession to Church, where a Sermon adapted to the Occasion was delivered by the Rev. Mr. BISSETT. After Service the Procession moved through the Main Street, and proceeded to a Field near the Library, where an elegant Dinner was provided, under Cover of several Marquee. The Day was concluded with the utmost Harmony and Mirth.
Since our last several Flags have passed between this Place and Providence, with Prisoners of War, which have been exchanged. By some Persons who have arrived from amongst the Rebels, we learn, that Governor Johnston, one of the Commissioners which lately arrived at Philadelphia, has had a Conference with a Number of the Officers of Washington's Army, the Result of which was not known.
The Rebel officers about Boston, have taken every villainous Method in their power to induce the British prisoners to join them; and we are credibly informed, that out of 70 which marched off to Washington, only 7 reached the rebel Camp, the rest having found means to join their faithful Comrades.
The Congress on the 22d May passed a Resolve recommending to the Legislatures of the different Provinces, to disqualify by Law Prisoners and Defectors from the British Navy and Army from acting as Substitutes in the Militia, during the present War, to render all such Contracts void, and to authorize any Prisoners or Defectors, who may be engaged as a Substitute to appropriate to his Use all Monies by him received on such Agreement.
The Brune frigate, with several vessels under convoy, sailed last Tuesday for New-York.
Soon after the Unicorn left this Port on the 7th inst. she fell in with a rebel Schooner loaded from the West-Indies, which she captured, and took with her to Halifax.
Several small fishing Boats, were taken last Thursday evening, near the Light-House, the poor fishermen made prisoners and taken off amongst the Rebels, who came in several armed Boats for that purpose - Perhaps by order of the vigilant and magnanimous General Sullivan, who during the Rebellion, has never distinguished himself more than by such exploits of attacking poor defenceless unarmed men.
LOST SUPPOSED TO BE STOLEN,
FROM a Field near the Library about a Month or Five Weeks since; a long Room coloured Horse, upwards of 14 Hands high, built Face, mixed very much with white Hairs along the Back, dark Mane and Tail. Whoever brings the same to the 43d Encampment, on Tuckey Hill, shall receive a GUINEA Reward. Newport, June 23, 1778.
On Tuesday next, 30th Instant
Will be sold by AUCTION,
THE Schooner Rebecca and Appurtenances, Prize to His Majesty's Ships Mermaid and Apollo; the armed Brigantine Repulse, Prize to the Unicorn, and the armed Sloop Greenwich, Prize to the Maidstone. The above Vessels will be sold at Mr. JONATHAN THURSTON's Wharf. The SALE will begin at XI o'Clock, after which will be sold a Quantity of Dry Goods, Wine, Rum, &c. &c. &c.
On Monday next at 11 o'Clock
Will be sold by AUCTION,
A QUANTITY of Damaged Bread, Beef, Pork, Pease, Oatmeal, Flour, Raisin and Butter, belonging to His Majesty's Victualling Stores at Rhode-Island. The whole to be viewed any Day (Sunday excepted) by applying to Mr. RICHARD CARNER, at the Victualling Office, who will shew them at Mr. JOHN MALEANE's lower Wharf, the Place of Sale. CHARLES WALLER. Affidavit Agent Victualler.
Just imported from New-York
AND TO BE SOLD By JOHN HOWE,
At the Printing Office, Corner of the Parade.
   An elegant Affortment of Silver mounted Swords, Steel Hilted ditto, Gilt Hangers, Silvered ditto, An Affortment of large fashionable Beaver Hats, Excellent Mahogany Telescopes, convenient for Gentlemen of the Army, Sword Belts, Men's shoes, very neat, Mahogany shaving Boxes, Horn Tumblers, Tooth Brushes, Gilt Pocket Brushes, Ivory Handle Knives and Forks, Brass Bag Locks, An Affortment of Penknives, Cork Screws, Fifes, Metal Spoons large and small, Cans, an elegant Variety, Rattans, Ladies and Gentlemen's catting Whips, Chaise Whips, Wedgwood and Bentley's Seals, Cypher, ditto, Looking Glasses, Boxes of Toys for Children, Fish Counters for Quadrille, Tooth Pick Cases, Artificial Snakes, Shot Bags, Powder Flasks,    Shaving Powder, Teeth Powder, Hair Powder, Pomatum, Chocolate, best Kind, Cake Blacking, Black Balls, Salt Spoons, A Variety of Morocco Pocket Books Ladies Etwees, Ditto, Needle Books, Ditto for Misses, Very neat Morocco Cases of Shaving Instruments, Als-kia Memorandum Books, Court Plaister, Jappan'd Sugar Chests, Tin Tea Kettles, Coffee Potts, Tea Potts, Jappan'd Tumblers, Rappee and Scotch Snuff, Tin Kettles, Dripping Pans, Tin Funnel, Basters with Handles, Jappan'd Canteens, Pocket Lanthorns. Large Polished Camp dishes, Soop and common ditto plates, Salvatory's for Medicines, Tin Pudding Pans, Jappan'd Spitting Bases, Quart and Pint Jacks, Purser's Measures, a few sets, Flat Candlesticks and Tinder Boxes.   
LADIES Gown's of the newest Taste, a few remain at the Printer's for Sale, very Cheap.
Deputy-Commissary-General's Office, Newport, June 24th 1778.
THOSE Persons who have furnished either Forage or Live Stock, for the Use of His Majesty's Troops to the 14th Instant, inclusive, are requested to call for their Money.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THERE is to be sold by private SALE on MONDAY next, at XI o'Clock, Forenoon, on the Point, a Number of Draught Horses, Mares and Foals, Oxen and Horse Carts, and two four Wheel Waggons.
A GOOD HORSE to be sold. Enquire of the Printer.

SAMUEL GOLDSBURY,
Opposite the MAIN-GUARD , has for SALE.
H YSON and Bohemian Tea, Coffee, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Madeira and Port Wine, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Mace and Cloves, Sweet Oil, Raisins, Currants, English Hams, French Cordials, Rose Water, Lavender ditto, Essence of Bergamotte, Hungary Water, Soft and hard Potatum, Hair Powder and Pins, Irish Linens, Marseilles Quilting for Gentlemen's Waistcoats, Ditto or Ladies Quilts, Dutch Cards, Corded Dimity, Irish Sheetings, Coarse and fine Thread, Pounded Pins, Men's fine and Coarse Shoes, Ladies Morocco Shoes and Slippers of the newest Fashion, Ditto Callimanco with Stick heels, Common ditto, Worsted and Thread Hose, English Solts, &c.
TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS POWIS,
At his STORE N o 3, North Side of the Parade , the following Articles, which he will sell on the most reasonable Terms, SHOE LEATHER. Gentlemen's Hats, Men's and Women's fine Hose per Dozen or single Pair, Yard-wide Linens, Cambricks, Black Silk Handkerchiefs, Ditto Callimancoes, Durants, Hylson and Bohemian Tea, Single refined Loaf Sugar, Ladies black Callimanco Shoes, Men's Shoes, Watch Chains, Silk Twill, Hard Ware, Pickles, Raisins, Rice, Tar, &c.
On FRIDAY 26th Instant , At IX o'Clock in the Morning , Will be sold at Public Vendue , At the House of JOSEPH JACOB , late of Newport, deceased, his HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, &c. &c.
LOST ON FRIDAY LAST, THE Brass TUBE of a TELESCOPE. —Whoever brings it to the Printer shall receive TWO DOLLARS Reward.—It is supposed to have been lost on the East Road, and within a mile of the Lines or between the Lines and the Sign of the White Horse.
LOST. A WHITE HORSE. Whoever has found him, or can give any Notice of him to the Printer shall have HALF a GUINEA Reward. The above HORSE, belongs to the Artillery of General De HUYNE's Regiment, and should he be found in the Possession of any Person four Days from the Date of this Advertisement he may depend on being treated as a Felon.
TO BE SOLD, (WHOLESALE and RETAIL)
By JOHN GROZART,
At his SHOP in Thames Street near the GRANARY.
PLAIN and corded Dimity, Coloured and plain Corderett, Black and white Denim, Spotted Jean, Waistcoat Shapes, Marseilles Quilting, White Drawboy, Nankeen, Prince's Stuff, Men's white and brown Thread Stockings, Men's worsted Stockings, Womens worsted & Camblets and Cambleteens, Cotton Hose, Breches Patterns, Black Satinett, Poplins and Crapes, Black and coloured Tammies, Pink and Black Callimancoes, Porter and Port Wine bottled, Green and Bohemian Tea per Chest, &c. Nutmegs, Loaf Sugar, Diaper, Plain and spotted Gauze, Bombazeen, Chuck Hankerchiefs, Shallons, Morrens, Mersea Gowns, Changeable Muslin Silks, Satin and Mode, Pink and Green Persian, Superfine and coarse blue Cloth, Buff Callimere, Calicoes and Chints Ribbons, Sewing Silk, White Chappel Net-dler, Pack and Pound Pins Cambricks, Plain and flowered Lawn, Lawn Apron Patterns, Soldiers Shirts, Ozeabrigs, Bedtick, Furniture Check, Womens Callimancoes Shoes, Mens Thread and Leather Gloves, Dowlas, Bleach'd Dab, Checks, Linens, German Serge, White and whited brown Thread, Striped Holland.
MOSES PITCHER, GLAZIER and PLUMBER from BOSTON Has taken a SHOP on the Long Wharf where he proposes to carry on his Business. He would be much obliged to any Gentlemen who may chuse to employ him, assuring them they may depend on the utmost punctuality and dispatch.
THE Subscriber, intending soon to leave this Place, any Persons wanting the undermentioned Articles may be supplied on the most moderate Terms for Cash, Bills on London or New-York. CLARET and Port Wine, London Porter and Strong Ale, Cheshire and Gloucester Cheese, Loaf Sugar, Rose Butter, Ship Barley, Pearl ditto, Strong Military and fine Shoes, Beaver and Felt Hats, Paints and Oil for Shipping. ALEX. JOHNSTON SPIERS.
ALL Persons who have any Demands against the Estate of JAMES HONEYMAN, Esq; late of Newport, deceased, or that are any Way indebted to said Estate, are desired to leave their Accounts with the Subscriber for Settlement. JOHN HONEYMAN. Newport, May 13. 1778.
ALEXANDER BRYSON, SUTLER to the ROYAL ARTILLERY
Has for SALE , at half Price on the POINT
BEST CONIAC BRANDY, Enamelled Wine Glasses, Plain ditto, LIKEWISE An Assortment of Gentlemen's Summer SHOES and PUMPS. BEST MADEIRA, PORT & SHERRY WINE. per Dozen or smaller Quantity, Best Jamaica Spirits per Gallon, Green and Bohemian Tea per Pound, Cheshire, Gloucester and Irish Cheese, Best flavor'd Yorkshire Hams and Bacon, Split Pease, sundry other Articles. N. B. Also some of the choicest London bottled PORT and SHERRY. Best Durham Mustard by the dozen or single Bottle.
A BUNCH of KEYS, consisting of 5, was left on Monday last between Bristol Ferry and the Point — TWO DOLLARS will be given to the Person who shall leave them at the Printing Office.
TO BE SOLD, A SMART, likely NEGRO MAN who understands farming very well, and can be well recommended.—Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD, A SECOND Hand Chaise, and a NEGRO BOY 15 Years old. Enquire of CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN. Newport, May 20th, 1778.
A SECOND Hand Riding CHAIR, and a few half Barrels of NEATS TONGUES, to be sold by CHRISTOPHER CHAMPLIN.
A Quantity of Cable Junk to be Sold, Enquire of the Printer.
WILLIAM T. ROBINSON, HAS for Sale, a Quantity of excellent English wax, and grain CALF-SKINS and SOLE LEATHER.
WANTED. A NEGRO Girl, that understands Household Work and can be well recommended.—Enquire of the Printer.
Just imported from Liverpool In the SHIP FANNY, JAMES WIGNELL, Master, And to be sold by said Master, by the Package, the following Articles, at a Store on GIBBS's Wharf, and on board the Ship, viz.
A GOOD ASSORTMENT of Glass Ware, Tin Ware, Hard ware, Earthen Ware, Queen's Ware, and Delph Ware—