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, …
THE following extract from a late publication, entitled, ” A State of the present Government of the Province of Quebec,” will give the public some idea of the Canada Bill, which has been so much talked of an procrastinated so long, and at present pending in Parliament. The work we understand to be the production …
Curious Anecdote.–A few days ago a stranger waited on Mr. Sibbly, Treasurer of the East India Company, and desired to speak to him in private ; when the were retired, the stranger said to Mr. Sibbly, ” I am lately returned from India, I have smuggled goods to the amount of about 120l. What duty …
Extract of a letter from India, by the Dublin East Indiaman, to Mr. William Jones We left Patia Dec. 15, 1789, and went to Decca, and arrived there after a passage of 16 days. Just as we arrived there was a famine, and it was really a shocking sight to behold; you could not move …
The old system of sending men of rank to govern Jamaica, seems to be revived, and laudably too. This island is the most important possession we hold in the West Indies, and is well entitled to any mark of distinction which the parent country can bestow upon it. The salary and emoluments annexed to the …
A letter from the Bay of Honduras, dated May 26, says, “The Spaniards, who pay an annual visit to this settlement, to prevent en croachments, are destroying all the cultivated spots on shore, alleging that the settlers are prohibited by the convention from cultivation of any kind. This will prove a temporary misfortune to the …
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 …