The Newport gazette (Newport [R.I.]), 1778-10-22 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1778.
MANIFESTO AND PROCLAMATION.
To the Members of the Congress, the Members of the General Assemblies or Conventions of the several Colonies, Plantations and Provinces of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three Lower Counties of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, and all others, free Inhabitants of the said Colonies, of every Rank and Denomination.
BY the EARL of CARLISLE, SIR HENRY CLINTON, & WILLIAM EDEN, Esq; Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the 18th Year of his Majesty's Reign, to enable his Majesty to appoint Commissioners to treat, consult, and agree upon the Means of quieting the Disorders now subsisting in certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces, in North-America.
HAVING amply and repeatedly made known to the Congress, and having also proclaimed to the inhabitants of North-America in general, the benevolent overtures of Great Britain towards a re-union and coalition with her Colonies, we do not think it consistent either with the duty we owe to our country, or with a just regard to the characters we bear, to persist in holding out offers which is our estimation required only to be known to be most gratefully accepted; and we have accordingly, excepting only the Commander in Chief, who will be detained by military duties, resolved to return to England a few weeks after the date of this manifesto and proclamation.
Previous however to this decisive step, we are led by a just anxiety for the great objects of our mission to enlarge on some points which may not have been sufficiently understood, to recapitulate to our fellow-subjects the blessings which we are empowered to confer, and to warn them of the continued train of evils to which they are at present blindly and obstinately exposing themselves.
To the members of the Congress then, we again declare that we are ready to concur in all satisfactory and just arrangements for securing to them and their respective constituents, the re-establishment of peace, with the exemption from any imposition of taxes by the Parliament of Great Britain, and the irrevocable enjoyment of every privilege consistent with that union of interests and forces on which our mutual prosperity and the safety of our common religion and
liberties depend. We again assert that the members of the Congress were not authorized by their constitution, either to reject our offers without the previous consideration and consent of the several Assemblies and Conventions their constituents, or to refer us to pretended foreign treaties, which they know were delusively framed, in the first instance, and which have never yet been ratified by the people of this continent. And we once more remind the members of the Congress that they are responsible to their countrymen, to the world, and to God, for the continuance of this war, and for all the miseries with which it must be attended.
To the General Assemblies and Conventions of the different Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces above mentioned, we now separately make the offers which we originally transmitted to the Congress; and we hereby call upon and urge them to meet expressly for the purpose of considering whether every motive, political as well as moral, should not decide their resolution to embrace the occasion of cementing a free and firm coalition with Great Britain. It has not been, nor is it our wish, to seek the objects which we are committed to pursue by fomenting popular divisions and partial cabals; we think such conduct would be ill-suited to the generous nature of the offers made, and unbecoming the dignity of the King and the State which make them. But it is both our wish and our duty to encourage and support any men or bodies of men in their return of loyalty to our Sovereign and of affection to our fellow-subjects.
To all others, free inhabitants of this once happy empire, we also address ourselves. Such of them as are actually in arms, of whatever rank or description, will do well to recollect that the grievances, whether real or supposed, which led them into this rebellion, has been for ever removed, and that the just occasion is arrived for their returning to the class of peaceful citizens. But if the honours of a military life are become their object, let them seek those honours under the banners of their rightful sovereign, and in fighting the battles of the United British Empire against our late mutual and natural enemy.
To those whose profession it is to exercise the functions of religion on this continent, it cannot be surely unknown, that the Foreign Power with which the Congress is endeavouring to connect them, has ever been adverse to toleration, and inveterately opposed to the interests and freedom of the places of worship which they serve; and that Great Britain, from whom they are for the present separated, must both from the principles of her constitution and of Protestantism, be at all times the best guar-
antee of religious liberty, and most disposed to promote and extend it.
To all who can estimate the blessings of peace and its influence over agriculture, arts and commerce, who can feel a due anxiety for the education and establishment of their children, or who can place a just value on domestic security, we think it sufficient to observe, that they are made by their leaders to continue involved in all the calamities of war, with the having either a just object to pursue, or a justifying grievance, which may not instantly be redressed.
But if there be any persons who, divorced of mankind resentment, and uninfluenced by selfish interests, really think that it is for the benefit of the colonies to separate themselves from Great Britain, and that so separated they will find a condition more solid, more free, and better calculated for their prosperity than that which they heretofore enjoyed and which we are empowered and disposed to renew and improve; with such persons we will not dispute a position which seems to be sufficiently contradicted by the experience they have had. But we think it right to leave them fully aware of the change which the maintaining of such a position must make in the whole nature and future conduct of this war, a more especially when to this position is added the pretended alliance with the Court of France.—The policy as well as the benevolence of Great Britain have thus far checked the extremes of war when they tended to distress a people still considered as our fellow-subjects, and to desolate a country shortly to become again a source of mutual advantage: But when that country professes the unnatural design not only of estranging herself from us but of mortgaging herself and her resources to our enemies, the whole conduct is changed; and the question is, How far Great Britain may by every means in her power destroy or render useless a connexion contrived for her ruin, and for the aggrandizement of France. Under such circumstances the laws of self-preservation must direct the conduct of Great Britain, and if the British Colonies are to become an accession to France, will direct her to render that accession of as little avail as possible to her enemy.
If however there are any who think that notwithstanding these reasonings the independence of the Colonies will in the result be acknowledged by Great Britain, to them we answer without reserve that we neither possess nor expect powers for that purpose; and that if Great Britain could ever have sunk so low as to adopt such a measure, we should not have thought ourselves compellable to be the instruments in making a concession which would in our opinion be calamitous to the colonies for whom it is

made, and disgraceful as well as calamitous to the country from which it is required. And we think proper to declare that in this spirit and sentiment we have regularly written from this Continent to Great Britain.
It will now become the colonies in general to call to mind their own solemn appeals to Heaven in the beginning of this contest, that they took arms only for the redress of grievances, and that it would be their wish as well as their interest to remain for ever connected with Great Britain. We again ask them whether all their grievances, real or supposed, have not been amply and fully redressed; and we insist that the offers we have made leave nothing to be wished in point either of immediate liberty or permanent security: if these offers are now rejected, we withdraw from the exercise of a Commission with which we have in vain been honoured; the same liberality will no longer be due from Great Britain, nor can it either in justice or policy be expected from her.
In fine, and for the fuller manifestation as well of the disposition we bear, as of the gracious and generous purposes of the commission under which we act, we hereby declare, that WHEREAS his Majesty in pursuance of an act, made and passed in the eighteenth session of Parliament, entitled "An act to enable his Majesty to appoint commissioners with sufficient powers to treat, consult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders now subsisting in certain of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces of North America" having been pleased to authorise and empower us to grant a pardon or pardons to any number or description of persons within the said Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia; And WHEREAS the good effects of the said authorities and powers towards a people at large, would have been, in a certain place, if a delay had been made of our first communication and overtures, and have thus far been frustrated, only by the precipitate election of the Members of the Congress not to treat with them, and by their declining to consult with their constituents; We now in making our appeal to those constituents and to the free inhabitants of this continent in general, have determined to give to them what in our opinion should have been the first object of their, who appeared to have taken the management of their interests; and adopt this mode of carrying the said authorities and powers into execution. We accordingly hereby grant and proclaim a pardon or pardons of all, and all manner of, treasons or misprisions of treason, by any person or persons, or by any number or description of persons within the said colonies, plantations, or provinces, committed committed, against us, on or before the date of this Manifesto and Proclamation.
And we further declare and proclaim, that if any person or persons, or any number or description of persons within the said Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces, now actually serving either in a civil or military capacity in this rebellion, shall, at any time, during the continuance of this manifesto and Proclamation, withdraw himself or themselves from such civil or military service, and shall continue thereafter peaceably as a good and faithful subject or subjects to his Majesty to demose himself or themselves, such person or persons, or such number and description of persons, shall become, and be, fully entitled to, and hereby obtain all the benefits of the pardon or pardons hereby granted; excepting only from the said pardon or pardons every person, and every
number or description of persons, who after the date of this Manifesto and Proclamation, shall, under the pretext of authority, as Judges, Jurymen, Ministers, Officers of civil Justice, be instrumental in executing and putting to Death any of his Majesty's subjects within the said Colonies, Plantations and Provinces.
And we think proper farther to declare, that nothing herein contained is meant, or shall be construed to let at liberty any person or persons, now being a prisoner or prisoners, or who during the continuance of this rebellion shall become a prisoner or prisoners.
And we offer to the colonies at large, or separately, a general or separate peace, with the revival of their antient governments secured against any future infringements, and protected for ever from taxation by Great Britain. And with respect to such farther regulations, whether civil, military or commercial, as they may wish to be framed and established, we promise all the countenance and assistance that his Majesty's commission authorises and enables us to give.
And we declare that this Manifesto and Proclamation shall continue and be in force Forty Days from the date thereof, that is to say, from the third day of October to the eleventh day of November, both inclusive.
And in order that the whole contents of this Manifesto and Proclamation may be more fully known we shall direct copies thereof both in the English and German language to be transmitted by Flags of Truce to the Congress, the General Assemblies or Conventions of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces and to leave a person both in civil and military capacity within the said Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces. And for the further security in time to come of the several persons or persons, or descriptions of persons who are or may be the objects of this Manifesto and Proclamation, we have set our hands and seals to thirteen copies thereof, and have transmitted the same to the Thirteen Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces above mentioned, and we are willing to be that the whole of this Manifesto and Proclamation will be so far and freely published and circulated for the immediate, general, and most serious consideration and benefit of all his Majesty's Subjects on this Continent. And we earnestly exhort all persons who by this instrument forthwith receive the benefit of the King's Pardon, at the same time that they obtain a becoming sense of those lenient and affectionate measures whereby they are now freed from many grievous charges which might have arisen in judgment or have been brought in question against them, to make a wise improvement of the situation in which this Manifesto and Proclamation places them, and not only to recollect that a perseverance in the present rebellion, or any adherence to the treasonable connection attempted to be framed with a foreign power, will, after the present grace extended, be considered as crimes of the most aggravated kind, but to vie with each other in eager and cordial endeavours to secure their own peace and promote and establish the prosperity of their countrymen and the general weal of the Empire.
And pursuant to his Majesty's Commission we hereby require all officers civil and military, and all others his Majesty's loving subjects whatsoever, to be aiding and assisting unto us in the execution of this our Manifesto and Proclamation, and of all the matters herein contained.
GIVEN at New York, this third day of October, 1778.
CARLISLE, (L. S.) H. CLINTON, (L. S.) WM. EDEN, (L. S.) By their Excellencies Command, ADAM FRAZER, Secretary.
BY MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD PRESCOTT, Commanding his Majesty's Forces Rhode Island, &c. &c. &c.
ALL masters of ships or vessels coming into the harbour of Newport, Rhode Island, immediately on their arrival, and before they haul their vessels to the wharf, are to enter the Port Master's Office, an account of the powder they have on board, receive instructions for storing the same, and oblige the wharf master, to haul their vessel to the wharf till such entry is made, the powder delivered and stored, agreeable to the Master of Port's orders.
No ship or vessel to be hove down at any wharf, without leave from the Captain of the Port, who will appoint what is proper for the purpose.
No fire to be kept on board any ship or vessel, along-side of any wharf, on or after sunset.
No ballast or any other dirt, which is liable to sick, to be hove overboard from any ship or vessel lying along-side of wharfs, nor to be hove off the wharfs, by any person or persons.
No ship or vessel, while in the harbour to lay with jib boom run out, nor sprit yard active.
All masters of ships and vessels, and passengers in the same, are, on their arrival to deliver all letters on board to the Port Master.
No stone, brick, earth or timber, to be taken off the wharfs, to ballast or fuel.
No ships along side the wharfs carrying their bell, unless to make an alarm in case of fire.
All Pilots are hereby ordered to expect all masters of vessels, on their arrival, the above orders and regulations.
And all persons offending against any of the above regulations, calculated solely for the public advantage, may be proceeded on being severely punished.
GIVEN under my Hand, at Head Quarters, in Newport, Oct. 1778.
RICHARD PRESCOTT By Command of the Major General, HENRY BARAY Secretary.
EXTRACT from GENERAL ORDER dated Head Quarters Newport, 11th October 1778.
AN OX having been stolen Night of the 9th instant by ELIZABETH ALLEN, a Reward of 50 Dollars will be given to whoever discovers the Person or Persons who stole the same, also a Pardon and the same Reward of the Accomplices who shall discover others concerned in the above Robbery. By Command of Maj. General PRESCOTT HENRY BARAY, Secretary.
Captain of the Port's Office, Oct. 21st. NO Vessel is to move in the Harbour from the Wharf, until Gun-firing in the Evening, till Day the next Morning. LINN MARTIN
MADEIRA WINE A FEW Pipes of choice London particular Madeira Wine, to be disposed of by JOHN ELLIS, at Mrs. May's.

NEW-YORK, Oct. 13. Thursday last the Savage Sloop of war, Capt. Graves, arrived here in five weeks from England, by whom we have the following advices, viz.
From the London Gazette Extraordinary  By AUTHORITY.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, Aug. 2, 1778.  CAPTAIN Faulkner, of his Majesty's ship the Victory , arrived at this office yesterday in the afternoon, with a letter from the Hon. Augustus Koppel, Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships employed in the West-Indies, to Mr. Stephens, of which the following is a copy:
SIR, My letters of the 23d and 24th inst. acquainted you, for the Lord's information, that I was in pursuit, with the King's fleet, under my command, of a numerous fleet of French ships of war. From that time till the 27th, the winds constantly in the S.W. and N.W. quarters, sometimes blowing strong and the French fleet always to windward, going off, I made use of every method to close in with them that was possible, keeping the King's ships at the same time connected as much as the nature of a pursuit would admit of, and which became necessary from the cautious manner the French proceeded in, and the disinclination that appeared in them, to allow of my bringing the King's ships close up to a regular engagement, this left but little other chance of getting in with them, than by seizing the opportunity that offered the morning of the 27th, by the wind's admitting of the van of the King's fleet, under my command, leading up with and closing with their center and rear. The French began firing upon the head-most of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Harland's division and the ships with him as they led up; which attended the leading ships and the Vice-Admiral soon returned, as did every ship as soon as they could close up. The chase had occasioned their being extended, nevertheless they were all soon in hand.
The ships being upon different tacks, passed each other very close. The object of the French seemed to be disabling the King's ships in their masts and sails, in which they so far succeeded as to prevent many of the ships of my fleet being able to follow me when I were to stand after the French fleet; this obliged me to wear again, to join those ships, and thereby allowed of the French forming their fleet again, and range it in a line to the leeward of the King's fleet, towards the close of the day; which I did not discover, but allowed of their doing it without firing upon them, thinking they meant handsomely to pay their force with us the next morning; but they had been so beaten in the day, that they took the advantage of the night to go off.
The wind and weather being such, that they could make their own course before there was any chance of the King's ships getting up with them, in the state the ships were in, in their masts, yards, and sails, left me no choice of what was proper and advisable to do. The spirited conduct of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Harland, Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, and the Captains of the fleet, supported by their officers and men, deserves much commendation.
A list of the killed and wounded is herewith inclosed,
I send Capt. Faulkner, Captain of the Victory , with this account to their Lordships.
And am, SIR, Your most obedient, and Very humble servant,  A. KEPPEL. Philip Stephens, Esq; Secretary of the Admiralty.
LIST of men killed and wounded, in the action with the French fleet, the 27th of July, 1778.
   Ships Names. Killed. Wounded.    Monarch 2 9  Exeter 4 6  Queen 1 2  Shrewsbury 2 6  Berwick 10 11  Stirling-Castle 2 11  Courageux 6 13  Thunderer 2 5  Vigilant 2 3  Sandwich 2 20  Valiant 6 26  V Glory 11 24  Foudroyant 15 18  Prince George 5 15  Vengeance 4 18  Worcester 3 5  Elizabeth — 7  Defiance 8 17  Robust 5 17  Formidable 16 49  Ocean 2 18  America 1 17  Terrible 9 21  Regiment 12 19  Ramillies 12 1  Total 133 373  
OFFICERS wounded. Lieutenant Nicholas Clifford, 2d of the Formidable . Lieutenant William Samwell, 3d of the Sandwich . Lieutenant John McDonald, of the marines, Prince George . Surgeon of the Elizabeth .
A. KEPPEL.
Last Wednesday six light dragoons belonging to Seldon's regiment, were taken at a place called King-street, near Byers river, by a party under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Simcoe, who at the same time burnt a store with a considerable quantity of merchandise.
The Raleigh frigate, Captain Barry, of 32 guns, 12 pounders, and 235 men, was lost in here last Friday night, by his Majesty's ship Experiment , Sir James Wallace, commander, and the Unicorn , John Ford, Esq; commander. She was discovered in Boston bay, at eight o'clock in the morning of the 26th of September, when after a chase of eight hours, Mantinuck bearing N.E. and by E. the Unicorn engaged her, and the first broadside carried away the Raleigh's fore-topmast and main-top-gallantmast. The action continued till ten o'clock, and the Experiment coming up, received a broadside, which was smartly returned, when Capt. Barry ran the frigate ashore on a small rock, called Sale Island , and with ten of his men made his escape in his boats, the remainder of the crew, consisting of 133, were made prisoners, and brought in with the ship. There were 50 of General Burgoyne's army on board as marines, and 12 of them are taken.
The Raleigh was bound to Europe, where she some time ago made a very successful cruise, and is esteemed a very fast sailing vessel.
Sir James Wallace has taken and destroyed no less than 16 armed vessels from Boston, and bound for different ports, in his last cruise.
We hear the French in the engagement off Brest with Admiral Koppel, had 1000 men killed on board their different ships, and no less than 2000 wounded; and that his Majesty's frigate the Lively fell in with the French fleet two days before the action, and was taken.
War was not declared in England against France the 31st of August; but the King of France we are told has issued a Manifesto against England, which is generally imagined to be the forerunner of a Declaration of War . This Manifesto we hear has been published in Boston.
NEWPORT, Oct. 22. Yesterday arrived a Brig from Newfoundland, laden with Fish.
By her we have a Confirmation of the taking of St. Pierre and Miquelon, and that it was done by Commodore Evans, who came from England in Admiral Byron's Fleet. A few Days after those Places were taken, a large French Ship appeared off the Harbour; upon which the Commodore ordered the Vessels in the Harbour to hoist French Colours, and to make the accustomed Signals on Shore: The Stratagem had its Effect, the Ship came into the Harbour, and was found to be a most valuable Prize, mounting 16 Carriage Guns, and very richly laden. Another valuable Prize has since been taken by the Fleet.
The Surprize , Captain Liasie, one of Commodore Evans's Squadrons, on the 29th of August took the Harlequin Privateer of 9 Carriage Guns, Hambleton Master, from Salem.
The Active armed Sloop arrived here Yesterday from New York, which she left on Sunday.
Tuesday arrived here a Brig from Boston, Williams, Master, a Prize to the King George Privateer. She was in Ballast last bound to Maryland.
Capt. Jenn, in the Schooner Lord Howe , on his passage from this place, fell in with and took the following vessels, viz. Schooner Sally , from Salem for Baltimore, with a few tons of oil; Sloop Lydia , from Charlestown, South Carolina, with salt and dry goods; Schooner Liberty , from Maryland, with tobacco; and Schooner Wasp , from St. Thomas's, with rum, sugar and dry goods, and carried them into N. York.
Those Persons who have borrowed BOOKS of the PRINTER , are requested to return them.
On FRIDAY the 23d Instant, Will be sold by Auction at Mr. Mahone's Wharf,
EIGHT or Ten Hogheads of Muscovado Sugars , of the first Quality, and a few Cases of best London Claret , containing each six Dozen . The SALE will begin at XI o'Clock. Newport, October 22, 1778.
To be SOLD by the PAINTER
   A N elegant assortment of fashionable Pass Shagreen ditto   Buckles, shoe and knee Ladies' Hovees and Naval Books   Gold Rings Gentlemen's Pocket Books, very neat   Gold and Garnet Locketts Cane Strings   Ditto Brooches Watch Strings   Ladies' Pass Hals Large Ostrich Feathers   Pins Ladies' Dressing   Very neat Tortoise-shell Toothpick-Cases Glasses of several sorts   Spy Glasses An assortment of Pen Knives   Gold Sleeve Buttons Gentlemen's Gloves   Silver ditto Beaver Hats   Silver Pen-well Cases Shoes, etc. etc.  

To their Excellencies  HIS MAJESTY'S Commissioners, &c. &c. &c.  The PETITION of his Majesty's faithful Subjects, the LOYAL RESOLVERS from the different Provinces of North-America, now residing in the City of New-York, and the Posts thereon depending.  Humbly Represent,
THAT your Petitioners actuated by sentiments of loyalty to their King, and love to their Country, are ready and willing to take up arms for the suppression of the present unnatural Rebellion, and without delay to embody themselves, under officers to be selected from amongst your petitioners, with the approbation, and subject to the direction and control of a civil Governor to be appointed by your Excellencies; and will cheerfully pledge their lives for the re-establishment of order and good government, under that constitution from which they heretofore derived every temporal blessing.
That if this proposal should meet with your Excellencies approbation, and that his Excellency the Commander in Chief will furnish them with arms and ammunition sufficient for the purpose, they will immediately go out on their lines, and, without any further expense to his Majesty than what the occasional supplies of arms and ammunition may require, do every thing in their power to bring the country under submission to legal government, being fully assured of the assistance of many other suffering and persecuted Loyalists, who are ready and anxious to join them from every quarter.
That your Petitioners in thus tendering their lives and fortunes to promote his Majesty's service, and restore the peace of this country on the firmest basis, repose the fullest confidence in the Commander in Chief, that he will protect them to the utmost of his power against the Rebels assembled under Mr. WASHINGTON, and that in every emergency, the garrison of New-York will always afford them a sure asylum. Upon receiving these assurances from your Excellencies, your Petitioners will be ready to join as one man in suppressing the Rebellion; and, as they have been able hitherto to resist all the terrors of persecution, they trust, not one of them will be found to shrink back from his duty in the hour of trial, or disgrace the cause in which they have now so solemnly engaged.
That your petitioners do not mean by this offer of their services, to confine your Excellencies attention to their own peculiar circumstances; they rather wish to be considered as representing the case of thousands, and tens of thousands of their loyal countrymen, who are now groaning under every species of tyranny and oppression, without any other possible means of making their sentiments known.
And we hope your Excellencies will not rest your judgment on the probability of our succeeding, from the present number of your Petitioners. Every project must have a beginning, and it is not within the compass of human foresight to determine the limits of an expedition, that must gain strength from every movement. This we can with confidence assert, that no scheme can be devised more flattering to the hopes and prejudices of the people in general, or more formidable to those in actual rebellion: not shall we be thought too sanguine in our opinion, when it is known by what slender threads the usurpation of Congress is supported. There are instances, within our
own knowledge, where six or eight Committee Men, armed with all the civil and military powers of usurped government, keep whole counties in awe; and by the dread of punishments alone, enforce the arbitrary edicts of the Congress; many of these persons will disappear immediately upon our quitting the place, and even those who are now dignified with the titles of Governors and Counsellors will flee to the uttermost parts of the earth, rather than fall into the hands of those whom they have plundered, banished and treated with every indignity.
That as your Excellencies must be sensible how necessary it will be to give the previous assurances requested by your Petitioners, in the plainest terms, we hope there will not be room left for a doubt with respect to the prosecution of the war on the part of Great-Britain, and the support of this garrison through every event.
And as the success of our undertaking will greatly depend on the first appointment of a Governor, whose spirit and activity are equal to the most difficult enterprizes, we trust your Excellencies will make choice of a Person who, like ourselves, has experienced the rigors of persecution, who feels what we have lost by this rebellion, and is determined to stand or fall by the true Interests of his Country.
To be SOLD by the PRINTER
  B LACK Ostrich Feathers  Men's excellent strong Shoes and Boots    Tortoise-shell Combs  Silver plated Spurs    Men and Women's Shoes and Pumps  Hair Powder.    A L S O,     Poland Starch  Coffee and Sugar, by the Hundred, &c. &c. &c.    Soap and Candles, by the Box   
LIKEWISE, KEYSER'S Famous PILLS,
So well known all over Europe, for their superior Efficacy and peculiar Mildness, in perfectly eradicating every Degree of a certain Disorder, without the least Trouble or Confinement.
The Public may be assured, that this excellent Medicine is beyond any Thing, in all Painsness and Impurities of the Blood, having performed many astonishing Cures in this and the neighbouring Colonies) in Scrofulous Eruptions, Leprosies, White Swellings, Stiff Joints, Gout, and Rheumatic Disorders, &c.
LOST LAST EVENING,
In or near the Town of NEWPORT, A Handsome Silver WATCH, Maker's Name Colloden, Number 493. with the Letters W C engraved on the outside Case.—Whoever finds the same, and will leave it at Mr. Howe's, the Printer, shall receive One GUINEA Reward, and no questions asked. Newport, Oct. 10, 1778.
TO BE SOLD, BY THOMAS POWIS,
A FEW Firkins of excellent Butter, next door to the Printing-Office, on the Parade.
Just Imported from LONDON, and to be Sold by  NATHAN HART, At his Shop in Newport.
  M ADEIRA Corks   Red port Shavings of Mar-hera   Claret Shavings of Ivory   Lisbon Coriander Seed   Sherry Anniseed   Dry and Sweet Glauber Salts   Mountain Wine Anderson's pills   Lendon Porter Hooper's pills   Bristol Beer Keyser's pills   Dorchester and Taunton Ale Stoughton's Bitter   Coniac Brandy Turlington's Balsam   Genuine Geneva Hair Powder   White wine Vinegar Pomatum   Beer Vinegar Lavender Water   Double refn'd Sugar Kings Honey Water   Single refn'd ditto Hungary Water   Best Hysan Tea Bergamotte Water   Souchong ditto Orange Flour Water   Green Coffee Jessamine Water   Chocolate Essence of Lavender   New Rice Essence of Bergamot   Nutmegs Essence of Lemon   Mace Eau De Luce   Cinnamon Spirits of Lavender   Cloves Spirits of Hawthorn   Pepper Sa Volatile   Ground Ginger Pearl Tooth Powd   Cassia Royal ditto   Sago in Grain Wash Balls   Droia Powder Ditto with Cakes   Pearl Barley Shaving Boxes   French Barley Downy Pills   Split Pease Court Plaster   Grouts in Jars Tooth Brushes   Cake Soap Lip Salve   English ditto Cora Salve   Poland Starch Sperma Ceti Can-   Coye Ble dles   Powder blue Fresh Lemons   Raisins of the Sea Shaving Powder   Cask Raisins Oenabrigs by the   Jordan Almonds Box   Hard Shell ditto Reven-Duck   Soft Shell ditto Writing Paper   Figs, Currants Ink Powder   Hardham's Rappoo Japanned Wafer   Snuff Rapers   Tillocks Scotch ditto Hones   Chambers's best Vir- Curry Combs   ginia Horse Brushes   Long and short Pipes Mattos Hoes   Red Herrings Hair Ribbons   Best Durham Must- Glass Wats   ard Earthen Ware   Capers Hard Ware   Anchovies Rose Water   French Olives Nails of all Sizes   Spanish Olives Sets of Cabs   Pickled Walnuts Bellows   Ketchup, Soy Barcelona Hand-   Green Citron chie's   English Wallnuts   Naples Nuts 
A great Variety of China, Tea & Coffee Cups and Saucers, Breakfast Books, Saucers, Mugs, Tea-pots, Sugar Dishes, &c.—Glass, by the lb. or larger quantity.
WANTED.
A FISHING SEIN either to SELL or HIRE Enquire of the Printer.
WANTED,
A STOVE, with or without PIPE, for which a generous sum will be given.—Enquire of the Printer.