Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Bermuda tohis friend in Norfolk, Virginia, dated April 2. “By Captain Gilbert, the bearer of this you will learn our distress for want of provi – sions: There has not been in the whole island one bushel of corn for sale for 16 days past. Capt. George, …

Cent is the only coinage the Americans have of their won. No less than 300 ton of them were contracted for by Congress in the year 1787, to be coined at the rate of 50 ton per annum ; the contracters were also bound down to make them all of the famous Jersey copper. They …

Extract of a letter form Philadelphia, dated 25th May, 1789. “I have travelled through several of the States and see no appearance of the poverty which you hear so much boast of in Britain–every where I meet rather with extravagance. Indeed they procure too easily to be frugal in their out-givings. All the manufactured goods …

Government are now engaging 1800 tons of transports, on contract, to carry over the felons under sentence of transportation to Botany Bay. The victualling the convicts on the voyage is included in the contract. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 28 August 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/14.

From Quebec, June 10, we are informed, Canada is at present greatly distressed; provisions extremely dear ; beef, if good for any thing, 5per pound ; mutton, 7–d. butter, 15d. The parishes in the upper country, about Niagara and Montreal, have been without bread for four months. There are orders now in town for as …

Lord M’Donald, to his great honour, adopted a most liberal plan of establishing, at his own expence, not only one, but a number of free-villages, on his extensive domains. By this plan, proposed to his Lordship by Mr. Fraser, the settlers are to have perpetual feus of the lands, subject to a very moderate quit …

Yesterday some dispatches were received from St. Kitt’s, which were brought over in the Matthew, Capt. Slegg, arrived in the Downs, which are dated the 10th of June : they contain an account of all the merchant ships which were then at that island ; that they were nearly full, and were fixed to sail …

A short DESCRIPTION of, and REMARKS upon a new State called THE WESTERN TERRITORY, being one of four settled by the Americans since 1774. T HAT no nation can serve the Americans with goods equal in quality and price to Britain, is wha the whole world knows, and from experience the most obstinate rebel American …

There are no less than 130 women going out in the transports to Botany Bay; among the female convicts destined for this settlement, there was one so beautiful, that it was thought a pity to send her abroad, and she is therefore preferred for home cultivation. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 02 October 1789, …

[ Continued from our last.] Carlisle, July 29. O N Saturday last between three and four o’clock, P. M. happened the most violent hurricane pest, or thunder storm (for we are at a lost to determine its proper name) that was ever known in this borough or its vicinity. We can conceive of nothing but …