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Commissary General's Office,
2ytb May, 1782.
ALL Persons owning Vcffels now employed
in his Majesty's service, and which have been
hired and paid in this diftria, tinder the dire&ion of
1 the Agent for final Craft, are informed, that the
whole <f evety denomination will be difeharged
from the service on the 30th da of June next, except
such as (hall then be an a sent service, they also will
be discharged a week after tl eir arrival at New-
Yofk; that the Agent will have a general muster
and survey of all such v<ffds on Saturday the 29th
of June next.
Note.-—Ear'y notice will be given to the public
of the number and size of vessels which will be
wanted for the service, to the end, that all perf ns
w willing to contrast for such vessels may give in their
proposals to the Commissary General.
Commiflary General's Office,
29th May, 1782.
ALL Persons owning Wiggo s, Carts, and
Hoifes, now hued into his Majesty’s Service,
are to take notice, that the whole of ever, denomina
tion are to be difeharged from the service on the 30th
day of lune next, and that a general muster and
survey of them will be on the preceding day.
Note.---As a number of Waggons, Carts and
Hotfes will be wanted for tht King's service, early
notice will be given the public, to the end, that all
persons willing to contrast ^r Supplying them, may
frrrt in their p< p<,fls to tin Commiffoy Ge er t.
Commissary General's-Office,
30th May, 1782.
THE Public arc informed that Cord Wood
will be receivedji[!the;pth d4LC£!up.%,q
Irom tiTipeftins willing to deliver 11 at any ofj
the King's Magazines at the nfual prices to bel
paid for on receipt.
Thar all persons whomsoever, willing tocon-f
trad for Cord Wood to be delivered into the|
King's Magazines between the 30th of June,
and 30th of November next, may give in their
proposals sealed up to the Commissary General,
on or before the 20th of June, and attend in
person at his Office on Monday the 24th of the
fame month, to aufwer such queftiuns as may
be neceffaryto effing a contract.
Note The conditions of the contrast may
be had at the Commissary General's Office.
N E,W YORK, June 6.
L^ft Tuesday (being the Anniversary of his
Mjetty's Bu^ Day) wa celebrated with every
Dmonftra^n of'joy. His Excellency the|
Commander in Chief, attended by a Number ;
of principal Ogi ers, waited on his Royal
Highness Prince William Henry, with their
Compliments of Congratulation. At Noon,
a Royal Salute was fired from Fort-George,
and anfvered by the ~hips of War in the Har
bour. Very elegant Entertainments weie g°-
ven by his Excellency Sir Guy Carleton, K.B.
Admiral Digby, and Lieutenant General Ro
bertfen. A feu de Joie was fired in the Even
ing and the Night conduced with Harmony
and Decorum.
From the Independent Gazetteer, dated
'the lßtb cj Maj, printed at Philadelphia.
Last Saturday, the reverend synod of New-
York, and Philadelphia, appointed a com
mittee of their body, to wait upon his Ex
cellency the Minister of France, with the
following Address, which was accordingly
presented :
To his Excellency the Minifter-of France.
" Sir,
, —r<HE synod of New York and Phila
-1 dclphia, beg leave to congratulate
1 your Excellency on the auspicious
birth of a'Dauphin of France; and by your
means to communicate to your Sovereign the
interest which they take in every event, with
which his honour or happiness is connected.
They have the rather chosen to address the
opportunity which their being met at this par
ticnlar season offered them, that they might
counteract the insidious designs of the common
enemy, and defeat the attempt now making
to divide in order to destroy us.
It is their wish, therefore, that this address
may be considered as a public testimony of
their approbation of the alliance with France,
entered in o by the United States, and their
sense of the advantages which America has al
ready derived, and #ill hopes to receive from
N E W-Y ORK ^& GAZETTE
and THE
W E EK L Y «a&tffy M ERCU R Y.
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Containing tbe eatlicil awices ' foreign ana Domefficfc'
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Monday, June 10, 17824
Monday, 36 Min. after 8
Tuesday, 35 Min. after 9
Wednesday, 20 Min. after 10
Thursday, 15 Min. after 11
HIGH-WATER, at NEW.rO R K, this Weak.
§, Printed by HUGH GAINE, at his Book-^tore and Printing-Office, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in Hanger-Square
Friday, 9 Min. after ix
Saturday, x Min. after 1
Sunday, 50 Min. after 1
New Moon this J>y.
They will not cease to pray to the God of
all Grace that the illustrious ally of these
States, and his posterity to the latest ages,
may be diftinguilhed at home and abroad, as
the supporters of liberty and justice, as the
friends of mankind and deliverers of the op
pressed.
“ Signed, in the name, presence, and by
appointment of Synod, by
JAMES LATTA, Moderator."
His Excellency was pleased to return the fol
lowing Ar.fwer :—(Translation)
" Gentlemen,
" It is with the greatest fatisfaflion that I
undertake to tranfir.it to the K ng my Matter,
the congratulations of the Synod of New - York
and Philadelphia, on the birth of Monseig
neur the Dauphin,
"I can give you the Arongeft assurance
that his Majesty will receive with the grt ateft
pleasure, this teflimony of the interest which
that refpe&able body takes in his happintfs.
'• The advantage which I have enjoyed of
living among you several years, hath perfect
ly fatisfied me of the attachment of all orders
of citizens of their independence, and to the
alliance which is me fopport of it. Noone could
have the lead doubt on this fubjed without
believing the people of the United dates were
deiliiute of virtue patriotism, and of the
knowledge of their true interests. But it is ne
ccffiry to undeceive ever . o;?r enemies them
selves; and the fehtiments of that enlightened
body in whose name you present this addrrfs,
are gentlemen, extremely proper to convince
them ort^e imF.,, & ,'fy Trending among,
you the feed of disunion.
The Divine Providence will bring to perfec
tion this work, which it hath hitherto so hap
pily protected; and as the alliance is eftablim
ed upon justice and the good of mankind, it
will be as permanent, as the foundation upon
which it is built."
We leave our Readers to make their owk
Reflections upon the foregoing extra
ordinary Address; but in order the
better to elucidate the political Charac
ters of these Reverend Pa/lors, vie here
Jubjoin the following
PaHoral Letter, from the Revd. Synod of New-
York and,Philadelphia, co§ vened at New-
York, in 1766, to the Churches fubjeft to
their Care.
Dearly Beloved,
WE think it our indjfpenfible Duty, not*
only in our particular Charges, but in
this united and more publick Capacity, to di
rect you to some suitable Reflections, upon the
late remarkable and merciful Steps of divine
Providence; and to inculcate a becoming Im
provement of an Event, the most interesting
and important to the People of this Continent.
For not only in the Word of God should we
attend to his divine Will, but also mark his
Hand in that Providence by which he directs
the Course of human Affairs with invariable
Wisdom and paternal Goodnefi.
Thefaitblef French andjbeirfavageAllies, were
lately the Rod of divine Difplrfure for our man.
Provocations. Under the Calamities of^ ar, and
the waning Ravages oflndian Cruelty, we were
repeatedly brought to approach the I hrone of Grace,
with solemn sassing and prayer; and thereby openly
profrffed our Refolutron to jorfake the Ways of Sin
andturn unto the Lord. But alas! We rendered
not to God, according to the Multitude of his ten
der Mercies. For no footer was the Rod removed,
and the Bleffngs of Peace reflored, but we became
mo r e vain and dissolute than before.
The Almighty thus provoked, permitted
Councils of the most pernicious Tendency,
both to Great-Britain and her Colonies. The
Imposition of unusual Taxes, a severe Restric
tion of our Trade, and an almost total Hag
nation of Business, threatened us with inevi
table Ruin. A long Sufpence, whether we
should be deprived of, or restored to, the
peaceable Enjoyment of the inestimable Pri
vilege of English Liberty, filled every Breast
with the molt painful Anxiety. A gloomy
Cloud thickened over our Heads, ready to
burst upon us in a desolating Storm. Had
our gracious Sovereign, the present Mihiftry,
and thie British Parliament, been less wife,
Very best Penknives, Razors
and Temple Spectacles,— fold by H. Gaine.
THE
I juft, and Good, —Had they, instead of yield
ing to a Spirit of Moderation, unhappily re
£ curred to Force; we shudder at the very
IThoughts of the Consequences! We cannot
I lo'k down the Precipice, on the Bri r k of
jwhich we Rood, without Horror! We were,
I net without Reason, apprehensive, that the
I tumultuous Outrages, which in some Places
I attended a determined Opposition to the dis
Ireifh'd Statue, might pr voke the Refent
!ment of the Bri?ijh Legislature.
[ And when we reflect on the publick Of
fences of our Land against Heaven —When
Iw? think of the open Disregard and Viola
4 Ron of the holy Sabbath—The 1 egledt of
the Ordinances of divine Worffiip, the Abuse
of Golpel Light and Privileges, the profane
;Swearing and Cubing, Intemperance and
Luxury, the various Scenes of Uncleanness
i and baciviouinefs, the Pride and Vanity, and
, every other Evil so fhamefully prevalent,
. what less could we expert .han that an offend
ed G^d would have made the gathering Tem
, pell to break upon us? And plunged us and 1
our Mother Country into all the rueful Calal
tribes of a civil War? But, how attoniihing'
is the long fuffering Patience of Jehovah !
He has inclined the Hearts of many powerful
Friends to espouse our Cause, He has given
us to experience the paternal Tenderness of
the best cf Kings, and the Moderation of the
Parliament of Great- Britain Our gracious
God is our Deliverer. He is making a farther
Fryal of us. May his unmerited Goodness
lea.! us to Repentance! .— ——
r ^We therefore call upon you :n particular, |
^ho are ine ermr? -r-euple of our Charge, not !
only to acknowledge with Joy and Gratitude I
the general P_r< u^^nre of G / • but rhznkf^-|
Iy to adore that particular Providence, where
in, upon f/ecial Occasions, he directs andl
controuls the Course of Events by his imme-1
diite Influence, and whereby he hath on thej
late interelling Occasion, so fignady appeared|
for our Protection. We call upon yen con-|
fiantly to reverence that all wile and onnipo
tent Director and Disposer of Events, on
whom we depend for every Mercy we enjoy ;
to be thankful to him for every Inftadee of
Prosperity; patient under every Affl ftion;
fubm^ffive to his wife Dilpofals; and obedient
to all his holy Precepts To awake to re-|
pentance; to confider your Ways, and turn|
unto the Lord, through hi Son %/^r Christ.|
Let every one beware of adding to t^e common
Stock of Guilt and Iniquity. We beseech
and cb est you, to be ftriflin observing the
Laws and Ordinances of Jejas Chrifi; to pay
' a Sacred Regard to his Sabbath; to reverence
' his holy Name; and adorn the Do^rne of
God our Saviour by good Works. We pray
'you to seek earnestly the saving Knowledge of
Christ; and the internal Power and Spirit of
. Religion. Thus may you hope for the conti
nued Kindrefs of a gracious Providence; and
this is the Way, to express your Gratitude to
the Father of Mercies, for your late glorious
Deliverance. But perfifling to grieve the holy
Spirit, by a Neglect of vital Religion, and a
t Continuance in Sin; you will have Reason to
: dread, that a holy God will punish you yet
; seven Times more for your Iniquities
l labile ire thus call uftonyou to fear God; you
uoiH not f vr g et to honour your King, and pay a
^ due Submission to bis august Parliament. Let this
- j"'^ Inflance of Royal Clemency increase the Ar
§ dour of your Affection to the Person, Family and
' Government of our rightful and gracious Sovereign.
~ This you will manifeft by a chearful and ready
^ Obedience to civil Authority, A Spirit of Libert,
is highly laudable when under proper Regulations ;
I but we hope you will carefully diftinguij'b between
§Libert, aud Licentiousness.
I IF'e most earneffl, recommend it to you, to encour
; age and flrengthen the Hands of Government, to
^ demonstrate on every proper Occasion your undif
ifembled Love for your Mother Country, and,our
Attachment to her true Interef so infeparabl, con
nested with our own.
That thus you may become wife and good, as
well as free and happy; and that while you enjoy
§ Libert) civil and religious, you may not be the
1 Servants of Sin and Satan, is the fervent Prayer
I of thoft who watchfor,our Souls as Men who must
I give an Account.
Signed by Order,
Elibu Spencer, Moderator.
Prefoyterian Church, at New Yorb,
loth May, 1766,
Vellum for Drum Heads,
Horsewhips and Canes, —fold by H. Gaine.
NEW-YORK, June 7.
Farther Particulars refecting Admiral
Rodney's late Fiflory over the French
Fleet, received by bis Majeftfs Sloop
of War the Fury, W. Sidney Smkh,
kj^ in a Jhort Pajage from Jamaica.
Lift of b rench feips taken and defrayed by the
^itifo feet tn the Welt Indies, urrttr the
command of r.dmn al Sir George Brydges
Rodney.
Ships. Guns. Men.
Ville de Paris 104 1 neo
Glory 74 ^ o
Heder 74 , 900
Caton 64 Sao
Jason 64 f;2O
Ardent 64 90^
Amiable 32 geo
Ceres 18 160
Diadem (funk) 74 9^o
C^Gr (lou.n qp) 74 900
Sir G o ge Rodney is at Pert Royal, and
Sir Samuel Hoed cruizing to windward for
the French fleet, which is collecting at the
Cape.
Extract of a letter from an officer of high rank,
dated on board the Bafeur. at fa, May 14,
1782, to a Gentleman tn this City.
" I have but a moment to tel you, that
we have given such a beating to the French
fleet, as no g r eat flee, ever deceived before,
and totally pul it to flight
" I am now cruifiiq. Sir George is at Ja
maica ; the %.dih urine Furv be able
to give you the particulars or the aftion, bag
you will doubtless hear them from others,"
tie have been favoured with the following Ex
t,aA of a Letter from a GentLman on b^ard }
Formidable dwed April u, 1,82, then near
the end of Hy/aniola. —-
“ We were ly ng at St. Lucia on the 8&h,
watching the enemy in Fort Royal, in mo
mentary # eadineG, when the fi£nal was made
bv our frigates on the look out, a little after
8 in the morning, that the enemy were out;
upon which our fi,et, cor,lifting of 36 fail o f
the line, all in high order, having been com
leitly victualled and stored from a convoy,
jurt arrived from England; got under way,
flood after the French fleet, and'next morning
at day light, were close in with them, at the
north end of Dominici. They baa secured to
themfclves the weather gage, but as the
whole hopes cf the campaign depended on
our attacking and defeating this fleet before
it got to leeward, to join their own ffiips,
and ihofe of the Spaniards at St. Domingo,
We were in high spirits at this opportunity,
and the Admiral determining immediately to
engage them, formed t^e line, and our van
brought them to action at 40 minu es pad
nine. We in the centre, and all a dem of
us, were so becalmed under Dominica, that
we could not get up fr in hour after; at
which time the Formidable got within (hot of
the enemy, but was not engaged above 20
minutes, and only one ship a Hern of us be
ing able to get into action, the weight of ft*
day fell upon our van; which futlained a
cannonade from the whole enemy's fleet, with
little intermission, till past one o'clock. Capt.
Bayne, cf the Alfred, was killed, and we loft
Lieut. Hele, (a molt amiable yourg man,
well known for the great hardships he under
went in North-America, in attempting to
disperse the Commissioners Manifefto) and
three other men in the Formidable This
was a sea fight like all the rest in this war ;
for, the enemy being at a great diftai ce, and
to windward, it was indecisive.
" Wemanceuvred between Guadaloupe and
Dominica to gain the wind, and by carrying
fail, and threatning their crippled ffi ps
thereby bringing them down, we had the
good fortune at day break on the izth, to
find ourselves to windward of a great part of
theenemy's fleet. The line was formed on
both sides, and Admiral Drake, who com
manded the rear division, being ordered to
lead, as the van had fuffered so much before,
they were again brought to action, at half
past seven ; the signal being made for close
action ; and it was the keeping up to the spi
rit of this signal that brought on the success of
the day. Our headmoft ship fell in about the
enemy's centre, and the two lines run along
each other on different tacks, the French Hill
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