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T>all others, free inhabitants of this once happy
empire, we also adlrefs ourselves. Such of them as
are actually in arms, of whitfoever rank or defcripti
cn, will do well to recollect, that the grievances, whe
ther real or supposed, which led them into this rebel
lion, have been for ever removed, and that the just
cccafion is arrived for their returning to the class of
peaceful citizens. But if the honours of a military
Ffe are become their object, let them fcek those ho
nours under the banners of their rightful Sovereign,
and in fighting the battlesof the United British Em
pire against our late mutual and natural enemies.
To° those whose profeflion it is to exercise the
functions of religion on this continent, it cannot sure
-1, be unknown, that the foreign power with which
the Congress is endeavouring to conne& them, has
ever been averse tot deration and inve'erately opposed
to the interests and freedom of the places of worihip
which they serve; and that Great Britain from
whom they are for the present separated, muff both
fom the principles of her Confti.ution and of pro-
A White Loaf of the fineftFLOUß, to weigh
alb. 6oz. for 14 Coppers, and in the fame
Proportion for Loaves of a lesser Weight.
JAMES ROBERTSON, M. G.
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 chara&ers we
bear, to peifift in holding out offers which in our
estimation required only to be known to be most
gratefully accepted : and we have accordingly, ex.
cepting only the Commander in Chief, who will be
detained by military duties,refolved to return to Eng
land a few weeks after the date of this Manifefto and
Proclamation.
Previous however to this decisive step, we are led
by a just anxiety for the great obje&s of our mission
to enlarge on some points which may not have been
Efficiently understood, to recapitulate to our fellow
fubje&s 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 obsti
nately exposing themftlves.
To the members of the Congress th^n, we again
declare that we are ready to concur in all fatisfa&ory
3nd just arrangements for securing to them and their
refpeaive constituents, the re-eftabbfhment of peace,
with the exemption from any imposition of taxes by
the Parliament of Great- Britain, and the irrevocable
cnjoyme u of every privilege confident with that
union of interests and force on which our mutual
prosperity, and the fafety of our common religion and
liberties depend. We again assert that the members
of the Congress were not authorized by their consti
tution, either to reje& our oft >rs without the previous
^onfideration and consent of die several assemblies
and Conventions, their constituents, or to refer us to
pretended foreign treaties which they know were de
lusively framed in the firft instance, and which have
never yet been ratified by the people of this conti
nent. And we once more remind the members of
the Congress that they are responsible to their coun
trymen, to the world, and to God, for the continu
ance of this war, and for all the miseries with which
it must be attended.
To the General Assemblies and Conventions of the
Monday, October 26, 1778.
N E W-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flour at 355. per Cent.
Published February a, 1778.
MANIFESTO
AND
PROCLAMATION.
% the Members of the Congress, the Members of
the General Afemblies or Conventions of the
several Colonies, Plantations and Provinces of
Nets- Hampshire, Maffachujetts-Bay, Rhode-
IJland, Conneßicut, New-York, New-jersey,
Pennsylvania, the three lower Counties on De
laware, 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, and WILLIAM EDEN, Es,,
Commissioners appointed by bis Majefly, in Pur
suance of an ha of Parliament, made and
sassed in the 18th Year of his Maje,,s Reign,
to* enable his Majesty to appoint Commissioners to
treat, consult and agree upon the Means of
quieting the Disorders now jub,fling in certain
of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces in
different colonies, plantations, and provinces, above
mentioned, we now separately make the offers which
re originally transmitted to the Congress ; and we
hereby call upon and urge them to meet expressly for
the purpose of considering whether every motive, po
litical as well as moral, Ihould not decide their resolu
tion to embrace the occasion of cementing a free and
firm coalition with Great-Britain. It has not been,
mor is it, our wish, to seek the obje&s which we are
commifiioned to pursue by fomenting popular di
visions and partial cabals; we think such conduft
would be ill-foited 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 So
vereign, and of affection to our fellow-fubje&s.
Containing toe eatlicß aDUices
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teftanitfm be at all times the best guardian of religious
liberty, and most disposed to promote and extend it.
To all those 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 fufficient
to observe that they are made by their leaders to
Continue involved in all the calamities of war without
having either a just obje& to pursue, or a subsisting
grievance which may not instantly be redressed.
But if there be any persons, who, divested of mil
taken resentments, and uninfluenced by felfifh inte-<
rests, 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 constitution
more mild, more free, and better calculated for their
prosperity than that which they heretofore enjoyed,
and which we are impowered and disposed to renew
and improve; with such persons we will not dispute
a position which seems to be fufficiently 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; more
especially when to this position is added the pretended
alliance with the court of France.---The Policy as
well as the benovolence of Great-Britain have thus
far checked the extremes of war when they tended to
distress a people still considered as our fellow-fubje&s,
and to desolate a country Ihortly to become again a
source of mutual advantage : But when that country
profeffes the unnatural delign not only of estranging
herfelf from us but of mortgaging herfelf and her re
sources to opr enemies, the whole contest is changed ;
and the question ij, How far Great-Britain may by
every means in her power destroy or render useless a
connexion contrived for her ruin, and for the aggran
dizement of France. Under such circumstances the
laws of felf-prefervation muff dire& the conduct of
Great-Britain, and if the British colonies are to be
come 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 notwith
standing these reasonings the indpendence of the co
lonies will in the result be acknowledged by Great-
Britain, to them we answer without reserve that we
neither pofftfs nor expert powers for that purpose ;
and that if Great-Britain could ever have funk so low
as to adopt such a measure, we Ihould 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 was made,
and difgraceful 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 regu
larly 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 rubefied; and we insist
that the offers we have made leave nothing to be wish
ed in point either of immediate liberty or permanent
security : If those offers are now rejected, we with
draw from the exercise of a commission with which
we have in vain been honoured ; the fame liberality
will no longer be due from Great-Britain, nor can it
either in justice or policy be expelled from her.
In fine, and for the fuller manifeftation as well of
the disposition we bear, as of the gracious and gene
rous purposes of the commission under which we a&,
we hereby declare, that WHEREAS his Majesty in
pufuance of an aft, made and passed in the eighteenth
session of Parliament, entitled " An a& to enable
his Majesty to appoint commiffioneis with fufficient
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 authorife and im
power us to grant a pardon or pardons to any num
ber or description of persons within the Colonies,
Plantations, apd Provinces cf New-Hampshire,
Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Ifland, Conneaicut,
New-Yoik, New-Jersey, Penr fylvania, the tln ee
lower counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia; And
WHEREAS the good erft&sof the laid authorities and
powers towards the people at hrge, would have long
since tak^n place, if a due use had been made of our
fiift communications and overtures, and have thus
far been fruftrated only by the precipitate resolution
of the Members of the Congress not to treat with us,
and by their decling to consult with their constitu
ents ; We now in making onr appeal to those consti
tuents and to the fiee inhabitants of this continent
in general, have ('etermined to give them what in
our opinion should have been the firit objt& of those
who appeared to have taken the management of their
interests ; and adopt this mode of carrying the said
authorities and powers into execution. We AC
CORDINGLY HEREBY GRANT AND PROCLAIM
A PARDON OR PARDONS OF ALL, AND ALL
MANNER OF, TREASONS OR MISPRISIONS OF
TREASONS, BY ANY PERSON OR PERSONS,
OR BY ANY NUMBER OR DESCRIPTION OF
PERSONS WITHIN THE SAID COLONIES
PLANTATIONS, OR PROVINCES, COUNCELL
Monday, §4 Mih. after I
Tuesday, 42 Min. aftei 2
Wednesday, 3° Min. aftei 3
Thursday, 18 Min. after 4
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
sw^l^ffi!
Friday, $ Min.aftei 5
Saturday, 50 Min. aftei 5
Sunday- 34 Min. aftei 6
Fir, Qgar.tpe z^tb.
THE
ED, COMMANDED, ACTED, OR DONE, ON OR
BEFORE THE DATE OF THIS MANIFESTO
and Proclamation..
And we farther declare and proclaim, that if any
person or persons, or any number or description of
persons within the said Colonies, Plantations and
Provinces, now a&ually serving either in a civil or
military capacity in this rebellion, shall, at any
time, during the continuance of this,lanifefto arid
Proclamation, withdraw himfelf or themselves from
such civil or military fer+ice, and shall continue
thenceforth peaceably as a good and faithful fubje&
or fubjeas to his Majesty to demean himfelf 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, Ind
every number or description of persons, who, after
the date of this Manifefto and Proclamation, shall,
under the pretext of authority, as Judges, Jurymen,
Ministers, or Officers of civil Justice, be instrumental
in executing and putting to death any of his Majesty's
fubje&s within the said Colonies, Plantations and
Provinces.
And we think proper farther to declare, that no
thing herein contained is meant, or shall be construed
to set 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 feparate
ly> a general or separate peace, with the revival of
their antient governments secured against any fu
ture infringements, and prote&ed forever from tax
ation by Great-Britain. And witli refpe& to such
farther regulations, whether civil, military, or com
mercial, as they may wifli to be framed and eftablfh
ed, we promise all the concurrence and assistance that
his Majesty's commission authorifes and enables us
to give.
And we declare that this Manifefto and Proclama
tion shall continue, and be in force Forty Days
from the date thereof, that is to fay from the third
day of October, to the Eleventh Day of November,
both inclusive.
And in order that the whole contentscf this Mani
fefto and Proclamation may be more fully known we
shall dire& copies thereof both in theEnglifh and Ge
rman language to be transmitted by Flags of Truce to
the Congress, the General Assemblies or Conventions
of the Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces, and to
several persons both in civil and military capacities
withinthe said Colonies, Plantations, and Provinces.
And for the further security in times to come of the
several persons or numbers or descriptions of persons
who are or may be the objects of this Manifefto and
Proclamation, we have set our hands and seals to
thirteen copies thereof, and have transmitted the fame
to the Thirteen Colonies, Plantations, and Provin
ces abovementioned, and we a:e willing to hope that
the whole of this Manifefto and Proclamation will be
fairly and freely published and circulated for the im
mediate, general, and most feriou^ consideration and
benefit of all his Majesty s Subje&s on this Conti
nent. And we earnestly exhort all persons who by
this instrument forthwith teceive the benefit of tile
King's Pardon, at the fame time that they entertain
a becoming sense of those lenient and affectionate
measures whereby they are now freed fiom many
grievous charges which might have risen in judge
ment or have been brought in question against them,
to make a wife improvement of thefituation in which
this Manifesto and Proclamation places them, and
net only to recollect that a perseverance in the present
rebellion, or any adherence to the treasonable con
nection attempted to be framed with a foreign power,
will, after the present giace extended, be considered
as crimes of the molt aggravated kind, but to vie
with each other in eager and cordial endeavours to
secure their own peace and promote and eftabbfh 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 fubje&s wh,tfoever to be
aiding and affixing unto us in the execution of this
our Manifefto and Proclamation and of all the mat
ters herein contained.
GIVEN at New-York, this Third Da, of
October, 1778,
CARLISLE Q.S.)
H. CLINTON (L.S.)
Wm. EDEN (L.S.)
By their Excellency's Command,
Adam Ferguson, Secretary.
rt^©^- ——-
By the Swallow Packet, Capt. Roberts,
in 8 Weeks and 3 Days from Falmouth,
we have the following Advices, viz.
Constantinople, Ma, 22.
HERE „ no longer any hope of an
'' Accommodation with Rufia; we
have Accounts that the grand Ad-
W miral who was to have gone into
the Black Sea to exercise his Fleet
is employed about Matters of higher Importance ;
his Fleet, which has been detained hitherto by con
trary Winds, only waits a favourable one to fail
to Crimea, and to make a Descent there, being Jure
of finding a Part, which will frond hit Dtfr,
Wheat per Bushel, 12s. od.
Flour, 355. °d.
Brown Bread, 60s. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.
GAZETTE:
THE
mercury.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
foreign ana ©omeflefc
Mufebvado Sugar, 51. tos.
Single refin'd ditto, is. §d.
Mrilaffes, t^. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
Pork, 8k los.
Confarttinople, fune 17. Contrary winds
have hitherto prevented the Captain Pacha
from failing with his fleet; which will consist
of 32 ships, when those are failed which are
fitting out to join him. The Black Sea has
never been covered with so numerous a fleet;
and the expeditious restoration of the navy to
so good a footing is entirely owing to the in
defatigable care of Haffan Pacha.
Leyden, July 9. Letters this moment received
from Berlin, dated the 4th in,, advise, that every
hope refpe&ing peace had vanished, and declarati
ons of war were daily expected. Prince Henry set
out from Berlin for the arm, the firfl, with all the
regiments of borfe and foot, and was followed a
da, or two after b, Cen. Marwiz. .
Berlin, July 7. Madame de Cobenzel, the
Lad, of the Imperial Mini,er, is sent from hence;
and her hufoand expels orders ever, moment to
leave the Court without taking leave.
Yeferda, morning the Department of foreign
Afairs sent to all the foreign Ministers a printed
explanation of the motives which have determined
the King to oppose the diJmembering of Bavaria,
in which his Majesty floeWs how much he has en
deavoured to preserve the peace and liberty of^the
empire ; but that all the trouble be has taken was
of no effihl, as ever, means be has used to preserve
tranquility bad been rejected by the court of Vienna.
Berlin, July 11. B, the la, accounts from
the King of Prussia, which are dated the 7th in
fant, bis Majesty has entered Bohemia, and was
then at Nacbod, between Glatz and Konigfgratz;
at the latter rs which places ths Au,rians are
frongly entrenched.
Berlin, July 20. Late yesterday evening an
express arrived here from his Majesty the king
of Prussia's camp in Bohemia, by whom we
received the following agreeable tidings: That
on the, 6th instant, his Majesty's army being
encamped in the environs of Nachod, at which
place the king had eftablilhed his head quar
ters, a party of Austrian buffars were seen to
reconnoitre our army ; upon which a detach
ment of Prussian dragoons immediately ad
vanced and drove them back; but the Austri
ans soon after being reinforced, made a second
appearance, and being superior in number,
forced our dragoons to retreat, whereupon 3
squadrons of buffars, of the regiment of Zie
then, were sent to their afliftance, when the
Austrians were driven back, with the less cf
about 40 men killed and wounded, and one.
captain, two lieutenants and §4 men taken
prisoners ; our loss consisted in one lieutenant
and 13 men killed, 18 wounded, and two
miffing.
On the 17th the king's army advanced as for
as Jarowitz, about four leagues from Konigf
gratz, where theemperor's army lies strongly
intrenched; and in the afternoon the right
wing of our army was extended farther to
wards Clometz, and Head quarters taken
between jarowitz and Kukufhad. Our out
polls were within light and hearing of the
enemy's.
On the 18th in the morning the king, ac
companied by the Prince of Brunswick, recon
noitered the emperor's camp, and soon after,
orders were given for the eredingof batteries ;
the artillery was drawn up, and all possible
preparations made for an immediate attack,
which his Majesty had resolved Should take
place the next morning; but to the great
astonishment of our monarch and his whole
army, he received on the fame evening a flag
of truce from the emperor, with the following
mefiage: “ That his imperial majesty having
“ duly considered the objeft of the present
“ contest between him and his Prussian majef
" cy, was from a sense of humanity led to
'' spare the lives and blood of his innocent
“ fubjefls, and was ready to fettle the Bava
“ rian affairs upon the principles proposed by
“ bis Pruflian Majesty, in the courte of the
“ late negociation. And th^t if his Prussian
“ Majesty would appoint a proper person for
“ a frefh negociation, his imperial majesty
“ would also call near him his minister, and
“ that all contentions and differences Ihould
“ be finally fettled and determined."
so consequence of this message, the king
has sent orders to count Finkenftein and baron
de Hertzberg, his two privy cabinet ministers,
to come to him, and these two ministers accor
dingly set out this afternoon, to join his ma
jedy at his camp near Jarowitz in Bohemia.—
Thus, thanks to gracious Heaven! peace is
reltored. May divine Providence grant us the
enjoyment thereof manyyears to come.
./Fine Balt, 2s. 6J
. Coarse Salt, is. od
/Indian Corn per Bu. 7s. od
.|Coftee, V is. gd
./Chocolate, 16s. per Do
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