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By His Exceleiicy
James Robertson, Eiq;
Captain Genera! and Governor in Chief, in and o^r
the Province of New-York, and the Teriivits de
pending thereon in America, Chancellor and Pice-
Admiral of the Jame, and Major-General of bis
Majefy's Forces.
A PROCLAMATION.
THE King having been gocionfly piraful to honour
me with the Care of a Province, wh^re, in a long
Refid nee, I have contraßed an Intern fir Wme, and
an Affection for many of its Inhabitants, 1 proceed with
great Pleafare to announce his beneV lent 1 'te Cions.
It is his Majesty's Wilh, by the Revival of the Civil
Authority, to prove to al the Colonies a*d Provinces,
that it is hot his Design to gofyn America by Mili
tary Law, but that they are to enjoy all the Benefits of a
local Legiflition and their former Constitution.
To this End I have brought out tne Royal Appoint
meats for forming the Council, and Applying the Places
of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Judice. And in
Concurrence with the Commander in Chief of the Bri
tish Forces, whois -abb hr sM^jefty's Comnifli mer for
teftoring Peace to the Colonies, J ffiall, as fourty as the
public Exigencies will permit, give order tor opening the
Courts of Judicature, and convening the Assembly; and
in general proceed to the Execution 0: the Powers reposed
in me for the free Course and complete Re eftablithment,
both of the Legislative and Executive Authority.
I take great Satisfaction in the Anticipation of that
happy Day, when Relations, Friends and Fellow Citi
t'ens, having dismissed their gloomy Apprehensions, /ball
te-embrace each other, and return to the Offices, Plea
sures, and Employments of Peace. Your Country with
your antient Privileges, will then participate in an cx
tenfive Commerce and be exempted from ail Taxations
mot imposed by yourselves.
Until Ijneet you regularly in General Affefably, for
the Restoration of mutual Confidence, and the remedying
of private as well as public Efik, I pledge myftlf to
Men of all Classes, in every Part of the Province, that
it is the compufflomrtc Desire of your Sovereign, and cf
the Parent Country, to unite in Affection as in Incereft,
with the Colonies planted by her Hand, and which have
long flourished under her Care,-- but the Suggestions of
her Intention to impair their Rights and Privileges, are
the Arts of Malice and Faction,-—and that every Insi
nuation made by the domestic Enemies of Greet-Britain,
•f her being disposed to abandon the Provinces to internal
Anarchy and the Mifehiefs of their jarring Interests and
Claims, or to the fraudulent and ambitious Views of
foreign, Popilh, and arbitrary Powers (of whom your
Fathers had a wife and virtuous Jealousy) is equally falfe
and malicious.
Happy herfclf, under a Constitution which is the En
vy and Admiration of surrounding Nations, She withes to
include in one comprebenfive System of Felicity, all the
Branches of a Stock, intimately connaedby the Tiegof
Language, Manners, Laws, Customs, Habits, Interests,
Religion, and Blood.
I lament with the ingenuous Thoufande of America,
who are irreconcilesble to the unnatural Separation, so
Inauspicious to yourselves, as well as all the rest of your
Fellow Suejea# in the other Quarters of the World, that
the Few who have found Means to acquire a Sway in the
Management of your affairs, have been averse to every
uniting System of Policy, and studiously Shunned the
Paths of Harmony and Peace.
Butit is not my Aim to call them toa ho/e^ft and
mortifying Review of their Conduce Can they Want
Evidence at this Day, of the Deteftadqn ot their Mea
sures, by an increasing Majority of their own Country
men ? And having every thing to fear tom their ex
hausted Patience, I warm them to desist, from any future
Attempts to restrain and deduce the Loyalty of others,,
and wifely to provide against their Refentmeat, by Sig
nalizing themselves, as heretofore in exciting, so now
in doling the Scene of their intolerable Calamities
And I hereby give the strongest Aflurances of efT-dual
Countenance, Protection, and Support to all P-rfons
who avail themselves of the Proclamation issued by his
Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, dated at James
Island, the 3d Day of March.
Less inclined to reproach than to conciliate, to aggra
vate than to forget, even the Guilt of those, who privy
to the repeated Calls of Great Britain to Friendship,
upon Terms adequate to the Desire and Expectation of
their Constituents, yet nevertheless forbore to reveal
them, that they might, with the greater Ease, press the
antient Enmity of foreign Foes, to the Aid of their own
Ambition and Avarice, I exhort them to feck an eatly
Refuge, in the abundant Clemency of the Crown, from
the Perils to which they have exposed themselves, by
Measures fraudulently concerted and tyrannically in
force !, and afforded by the complicated Miseries they
have brought upon their Country, and the mighty Ruin
still impending, Irrqfiftable Evidence of the Fully and
Malignancy of the Councils, by which its Affairs have
been conducted#
Monday, May 15, 1786.
N E W-Y ORk
AND
WEEK L Y
Towards redressing the Disorders, irising from the
Loss or Want of Charters, I recommend it to all con
cerned, to apply without Delay in the ordinary Course
for Charters, which shall be granted as soon as Civil Au
thority takes Place.
As to the public Books of Records, so important to
your Titles and Elates in all Parts of the Colony, and
formerly lodged in the Secretary's Office, 1 understand
that they were separated from the rest, by the provident
Circumfpeaion of my Predecessor, whose Merits are
above my Applause, and have often had yours ; and
having been afterwards sent Home for fafe Custody, you
may rely upon their being carefully preferyed, and duly
returned as soon as the common Tranquility is restored.
I now call upon every Individual in the Colony, to
ffiew his Allegiance, Fidelity and Patriotism, by afford
ing his Assistance towards accomplishing the King's most
gracious Design of restoring the Blessings of Peace and
good Goverammu And they who /hull most difling^fh
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 3). los. per
Cent. Published February 18, 1780.
A White Loaf of the fineftFLOUß, to weigh
3 lb. for 14 Coppers.
Containing the earticu SDUfces
^ Printed by HUGH GAINE; at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
By his Excellency
Lieutenant-General KNYPHAUSEN,.
Commanding his Majesty's Forces upon New-
York Island, Long-Inland, Staten-lfiand, and
Palis depending, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
Encouragement and proteaion is hereby
given to the Possessors of Farms and Gardens
for u.e Putpole of railing plentiful Supplies of Grain,
Forage, and Vegetables.
Whatever Person or Persons prefund to takeaway,
or to dertroy Cattle, Stock, or other Produce of any
Farm or Garden; to do any Damage to Houles,
Gardens, Orchards, or Lands; to break ?own
Fences, or otherwise to injure private Property, sh <ll,
upon Pfoot thereof, be punished with the Unnoft
Severity.
Any Perfans who may think themselves aggrieved,
by a Non Observance of this I)Qclamation, will,
" if Inhabitants of New-York District," make their
Complaints known to the Commandant of the City ;
if in Situations more remote, to the Offi.tr com
manding the nearest Port of his Majelb's Troops,
in Order, that if well founded, they may obtain pro
per Rechels.
Given under my Hand, at Head-Quarters,
the Eleventh Day of March, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
KNYPHAUSEN.
By his Excellency's Command,
JUSTIN HENRY MOTZ,
Chief Judge Advocate, Hefs.+
Wright Southgate,
No. gg6, Hanover-Square,
HAS imported by the lad fleet, an elegant af
fortroent of rich foks and. fattens, brocaded,
plain and flowered, the raaff fafhibn dole colours and
in excellent order ; arinozeens, ducapes, plain,
^changeable, and striped lutestrings free from foots
or stains ; modes, perfians, and furfenets of all qua
lities, black fi Ik velvet, rich flouutines and prin
cess ftuffs for gentlemens wear, silk, fattin, tuffel,
calimanco and fluff quilts of all colours , ladies
stays London made, and neatly finifhed, caliiriance
days and fulteens, silk, fattin, Morocco and fluff
shoes, with French heels, gown trimmings and
fringes, Eatt-India chintzes, light and dark grounds,
printed mullins, fpriged and book ditto, furniture
calicoes with trimmings,joining thread lace and edg
ings, Irish linen, Merfailles quilting, sewing silks,
threads, tapes, pins, needles, cap trimmings, gloves,
&c.
Diejenigen, welche von Uebertretern diefer Pro
clamation beleidigt zu feyn glauben, haben ficb,wenn
fie Einwohner des Diftrias ven New-York find, mit
ihren Klagen an den Commandanten der Stadt fu
wenden ; im Fall einer weitern Entfernung aber dem
Commandirenden Officier des nxchftert Pollens von
Seiner Majeftzt Truppen davont Anziege zu thun,
damit, wenn folche gegruendet, ihnen Gerechtigkeit
wiederfahren, und das ncethige remedied werden
mege.
Gegeben unter meiner Hand im Haupt Quartier den
eilJten Mcertz, im Jahr unfers Herrn ein taufend
Jieben hundert and aebtzig.
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf Sr. Excellent Befehl
Justin Henrich Motz,
F, HI Ober Auditear.
themiclves by their laudable Efforts for these good Pur-
P^G will most assuredly best recommend themselves to
he Royal Approbation n nd Favour.
Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the
Province < f New-York, in the City of New-
York, the Fifteenth Day of April, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty, in the
Twentieth Year of his Majesty's Reign.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
By his Excellency'* Command,
SaMuel Bayard, jun. Deputy Secretary,
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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PROC,L AMA riON,
Seiner Excellent^ des Herrn General Lieutenants von
KNITHAUSEN, Commandeer vOn Seiner Ma
je/Let Truppen auf New-York Island, Loog-lJland,
Staten Island, and denen da e don abhamgenden Poj
ten, &c. &c. ^ci
DENEN Inhabkn von Loendeiyeh und Gerten
wird hiedurch alle Aufmunterring und Schutz
ertheilet dm einen reichlichen Vorrath von Getraide,
Fourage, und Gemuefe anzuziehen.
Wer fich unrerftehet Vieh oder audere Produce,
fie mdegen Nahmen haben, wie fie wollen, vod L±n
dereyen oder Gerten wegzunehmen,oder zu ruiniren ;
an Haeufern, Gemuefe, oder Obft-G^rten,und Laen
deteyen einigen Schaden zu thun ; oder fon't, auf
was Art es fey, jemandes Eigenthum unrechtmae
figer Weife anzugreifen, foil, wenn folches,gegen
ihn bewiefen wird, mit der seuflerften Strenge beftraft
Werden.
THE fubferiber intending for England with the
firft fleet, requests ,all those who have any de
mands against him to call for the fame ; and those
that are indebted to him immediately to discharge
their accounts. WILLIAM TAYLOR,
Monday, 4.3 Min. after 6 1
Tuesday, 23 Min. after 7
Wednesday, 20 Min. after 8
Thursday, 8 Min. after 9
HIGH-WATER atNEW-YORK, this Week.
^frrf
Friday, 1 Min. after 10
Saturday, 49 Min. after 10
Sunday, 48 Min, after 11
full Moon, 18th.
Tilt
Remfen &>Cowenhoven,
At their STORE, No. 935, in Water-Street,
the Corner oppojite Mr. Yarnolps, between the
Ceffee-H^fe and Fly-Market, have for SALE on
the lowefl Terms, the following Articles :
A MADEIRA, Lisbon,
IVfo Teneriffe, Sherry,
and Red Port Wines,
by the pipe, quarter
cafkor let's quantity,.
Brandy, geneva by the
case, do; by gallon,'
Old Jamaica spirits, Old
Antigua rum, common
Welt-India do.
Molasses, Mufcovado fa
gars, by the hogshead
or less quantity, loaf
and lump sugars,
;Mould and dipped can
;dids, white and brown
;foap,'
1; frith nfefs beef in barrels,
'arid half barrels,
Nutmegs:,cloves, mace
a&l cinnamon,
Sny+fin bladders,
Hylon and green teas,
TO BE SOLD,' B Y
Jacobus L. Lefferts,
At his Store in Water-street, between Burling's-fli,
and the Fly-market, three Doors Weft of Philip
Rhinelander's China Store, and text Door to
Charles White, Brass Founder, upon the most
reasonable "Terms, the following Articles, viz.
Madeira, )
P OT&
Lisbon, and 1=
Tenerife '^
Wert-India Rum of the
firit quality and high
pro if, by, the Hog
fheui, barrel or less
quantity,
Fren h brandy in kegs
dr by the gallon,
Hall tn.lgeneva,
Belt London porter, and
Liverpool ale, in bot
tler,
Molrffes in h\glheads or
barrels,
Coarse and fine salt,
Loaf and lump sugars,
Mufeovario ditto,
Mould and dipt candles,
Sweet oil,
Calk raisins,
Yorkshire hams,
Caftile soap,
AL S 0,
A quantity of very excellent
ROSE BUTTER,
Just imported.
Juit imported,
In the (hips Polly, and Trelawney, from London,
and Rybv, fioni Glasgow, and to be fold by
EMANUEL WALKER,
At Lis Store, Fo. 1, Mill-Stieet,
On moderate T ERM Sfor C AS H,
AStOR I ED,calks of giafs ware, confining of
quart, pint, gill, and half-gill tumblers, wine
glaflfes, richly cut, decanters, &c. bohea, foufhong,
and hyfon teas, raihns and currants in calks, French
( olives and capers, Poland ftarch,hair powder, mould
and dipt candles, turpentine soap, mess beef and
pork, and fhi, bread,
Alto, a few puncheons of Barbadoes c^ne spirits,
and a parcel offreih cocoa.
MURkAY,SAN,SOM,&Cc.
Have just imported' in the Ihip Polly, Captain
Yetman, from London, a general and neat as
sortment of
European and East-India goods,
Which they have for sale at their floie in Water.
ftieet, between Burling and Beekman's Slips,
among which are tiie following articles, viz.
(\UPERF,NE fwectkilndry d Hour, belt fli'p bread,
° made of fine flour, cordage, anchors, linseed oil,
gilt and hair trunks, Yorkshire hams, iron chests,
brandy,white wine vinegar, turpentine soap, candles,
me! pork, rose butter, long and short pipes, men's
and women's shoes, porter, milk bifeuit, whitening,
starch, chalk, railing, steel, nails, fnuff, nutmegs,
cinnamon, cloves, mustard, caftor hats, and lemon
juice.-
TO be disposed of at private sale, and possession
given immediately, the dwelling-house, cur
rying /hop, and tan-yard, near Ferry-duet, mow in
the possession of William Taylor, If not disposed
of before Wednesday the „th irdtint, will then le
fold by publick auction on tlfe premises. for terms
apply to Duncan, Barclay, and Co. /Auctioneers.
Wheat per Bushel, 265. pd.
. Flour, 80s. od.
Brown Bread, §<s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. 6d.
To penrind :do.
Belt hyfon, foufhong and
bohea teas,
Best green cefre, in bar
rels or !tfs quantity,
Chocofete,
/Pipper, allspice, ginger,
nutmegs, cinnamon,
mace, cloves,
Tobacco,
Bert Scotch fnuff in blad
deis and hot Its,
Mustard in borles,
Chelhire, double and
tingle Gloucester cheese,
short and long pipe%
Split p^ie by the keg ©r
quarts ''
R^i
Fig Blue,
Indigo, copperas, and!
allum,
Writing and wrapping
paper,
Wool cards, &c.
fouffiong and bohea
ditto,
Chocolate and coffee,
Pepper and alfpice,
London porter, bottled
Taunton ale and Li
verpool beer, Playing
cards,
Roll and cut tobacco,
Poland starch,
Writing paper and deal
ing wax,
Double and tingle Glou^
cefter cheese, belt rose
butter in firkins,
New rice in tierces,
A few kentle of excel
leht codtifh,
Wool cards by the doien,
Indigo, copperas, and
powder blmwJind shot
of different ffaes.
GAZETTE:
THE
MERCUR Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Muscovado Sugar, §l. ,os.
Single rebate ditto, is.
MolafTes,, 4s. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, fl. o d.
Pork, 81. 10s,
foreign anb DomeflUfa
%/ p&b/ifoed, and to be SOLD, b
HUGH GAI N E,'
THE
WEST-INDIA ATLAS §
Or, a Compendious Description of the
WEST-IND IES:
[lluilrat d wish Forty Correct CHARTS
and MAP), taken from actual Surveys.
Together with an Historical Accovnl
Of THE SEVERAL
COUNTRIES and ISLANDS,
Which compufe that Part of the World
THIE R
DEfoVtiY, TRADE;
SI CATION, INHABITANTS,
EXIENT. STRENGTH,
boundaries, government,
PKcDUCi, RELIGION, & c .
By the tee THOMAS j^FFERY^
Geographer to the King.
An INDEX of the PLATES.
A Chart of/ihe British Channel; the Atlanth
or Welkin Ocean; the Accies or Western Ifiands
; the Maritins, and Canary IQands; the Cape di
Verd If|>h<ls; the Bermudas or Summer's Islands.
A ,en,al limex-Map of the Wert-Indies ; thi
Welkin Cc ft of Louisiana, ?nd the Ccalt of New
Leon; tle(oaffof Weft-Fiorida and Louisiana
the Ptminfula arid Gulf of Florida, and the Bahama
Inlands; the Coast of Mexico, from Laguna di
Efmotes to Punta Brava ; the Coart of Yucatan^
from ' Cnifrpeche to Bahia del Afcenfioh, With th<
Wert find of Cuba; the Island of Cuba, witt
Part o( the Bahama Banks, and the Martyrs; thi
Windward Portage, with the federal Passages from
{% 'Well'Emi of Cuba, and the North Part of St.
Pomfefinfie C,d^ft of New Spain, from Neuva
Vera C^z t.> Tiieite Island ; the Bay of Honduras;
the^and of Jamaica, and ' Cape, Gracias Dios,
wita the Banks ; the South Part of Domingo; the
Caribhee lands', the Virgin Islands, and Forte
Rico; Put of the Provinces of Costa Rico and
Nicaragua, with the Lagunes; the Isthmus of Pa
nama, With the Coarts from the great River on the
MUkgo Shore te Carthagena; the Coast of Terra
Firtha, from Carthagena to Golfo Trieffe ; the
Court of I arraccas, Cumana, Paria, and the Mouths
o' Rr Orinoco, with the Islands of Trinidad, Mar
guirt, Tobago; Granada, St. Vincent, &c. the
_lJ&ri. lof Jamaica; the Island of Ruattan, or Rat
ti t, wiih the Island of Old Providence ; the Virgin
Ulmds, with the Islands of Anguilla, Saba, St.
EuttauG St. Martin's, the Great Passage Island,
anil Crab Island, with a Part of Porto Rico; the
Island of St. Chriftopfer, and the Island of Nevis ;
the Ilbrd of Antigua; the Island of Gaudaloupe,
with the Island of Mariegaiante; the Island of Sft
Dominica ; the Ifiand of Martinico ; §he Island of
St. Luria; the Island of Barbadoes ; the Island of
St. Vincent ; the Island of Bequia, or Becouya 5
the Island of Granada; the Island of Tobago ;
Turks Islands; the Island of Curacao,
By his Excellency
JAMES ROBERTSON, Efty
Governor and Captain General of the Pro-
V) ce of New-York, Major-General of his
Meshy's Forces, &c. &c. &i 3
Proclamation.
{X/HEREAS I am informed that great
WASTE and DEVASTATION is
committing on the Island of New-York, Long.
Ihand, Morrifmia, and Staten-Island, by per
sons who without right or title are Cutting
down °
W 0 O D S.
To put an immediate flop to a practice fa
aelb active to the intereff of Individuals, and
eventually so to the King's service, all persons
are ilti&ly forbid to cut WOOD on any land
that does not belong to them, unless they have
leave from the owner so to do, and all who
have been cutting timber on effaces of persons
fuppo^ed to be in rebellion, are forbid to Cut
any more on this pretence, but to lay before
me the ti^e and authority on which they have
proceeded, that method and order may be in
troduced, and injultice and devaluation ftop'da
WANTE D,
A SHOP, with one or two back Rooms, for
. Wi.ic, by applying to the Printer, a genewei
rent ^ d? be gi ^, if commodiously situated for dry
good*, neai t c Fly-Market, in Water-firm
Queen.il rat, or Wiiliam-ftreet. Enquire of
Pimreib
Fine Salt, a,, do
Coarse Salt, as. do
Indian Corn perßu® 101. do
Coffee, is. da
Chocolate, 265. pet Do<
(No. 149^