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As to the public Books of Records, s o important to
rut Titles and Edatrs in all Parts of the Colony, and
formerly lodged In the Secretary's Office, I unde stand
that they were separated from the rest, by the provident
Circumfoeeton of my Predecerfor, whose Merits are
,ben my Applause, and have often had yours ; and
having been as erwa,ds sent Home for fafe Guftody, you
toay rely upon their being carefully preferred, and duly
Returned at Toon as the common Tranquility is restored,
^ Tenw ral l upon every Individual in the Colony, to
iflitw his, fiance, Fidelity and Patriotism b= aftord
, <cg his Affi a^e towards accomplishing the King's most
fttons Design of restoring the Blessings of Peace and
<% Governments And they who Shall most di^nguifh
themselves by their laudable Efforts for these good Pur
,o!es, will most aWuredly best recommend themfelvu to
/the Royal Approbation mid Favour.
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in and over
the Territories de
g Chancellor and Vice
ind Major General oj ^
JLAMATION.
g been graciously 'pl^frd to h<taer
gfeofa Province, where, in a long
vcr te ~r.atd an Efterm for terne, and
ffimy of in Inhabitants, 1 proceed wih
enounce hit benevolent Inte. ions,
fry'' Wi^i b y th ' Revival of the Civil
D prove to 3:1 the C^onic^ ai Prorrc ,
• / h ot bio Design to govern America HM;E
1, but that they a;e to erjoy all the T defies of a
^ejfl.atwn a d their fotmer ConftEuO^n. , #
&othis End I have brought out the Ro,al Appoints
'marts for formhgtht Council, and supplying the Places
of Lieutenant Governor and ' hies Justice- And in
C n<urrerr> with the Commander in Chief of the Bri-
L<h Forcer, who is alfb hit M fifty's Cum^ifl^ner for
relW ir.r r^bcefo :he Colonies, 1 shall, de Y^edy4s the
public Exif^ctes will permit, give order for opening the
Court ol foditattue, and convening the Afombly ; and
in rcncal proceed t o the Execution otthe Po ctstepefed
in rat £ rVhe h<e Course a? d complete Re # tfiablifhment,
betl of the Legifirive and Executive Author).
IT?V-g<eat SaCbfadion in the Anticipation of tho*
ha „ Day, when Relations, Friends and Fellow Citi
zoos, having diforked their gloomy Ap,retentions, fhail
re embrace &a<h other, and return to the Offices, Plea
rats, and Emf cements of Peace. Four Country with
four ancient Privileges, will then participate in an ex
tefoe Comma ce and be exempted from all Taxations
not : rape fid by yuv-ietres,
Lentil 1 meet you regularly in General Alterably, for
the Restoration of mutual Confidence, and the remedying
of private as well as public Evils, I pledge myftlf to
Medof al) Claffet, in every Part of the 'Province, that
it it the cctopaflionate Desire of your Sovereign, and of
the Parent Country, to unite in Attention as in Inteieft,
with theColonies planted by her Hand, arid 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 Great-Britain,
of her being disposed to abandon the Provinces to internal
Anarchy and the Mifehiefs of their jarring Internes and
CHms, or to the fraudulent and ambitious Views of
foreign, Popifh, and arbitrary Powers (of w-om your
Fahers had a wife and virtuous Jealousy) is equally falfe
and malicious.
Happy ferfelf, tinder a Constitution which is the En
vy.and Admiration of surrounding Nations, she wishes to
include in one comprehensive byftem of Felicity, all the
Branches of a Stock, intimately connected by the Ties of
Language. Manners, Laws, Customs, Habits, Interefta,
Religion, and Blood.
1 lament with the ingenuous Thoufand# of America,
who are irreconcilerble to the unnatural Separation, so
inauspicious to yourlelves, as well as all the rest of your
fellow Sutras in the other Quarters of the World, that
the Few who have found Means to acqure a Sway in the
Maoagemo: of your iftbirs, have been averse to every
Uniting System of Policv, and studiously shunned the
Paths of Harmony and Perce.
Butit is not my Aim to call them to a hopeless 2nd
mortifying Review of (her Conduct, Can they want
Evidence at this Day, of the Deflation of their Mea-
Towards redressing th- Disorders, arising from the
loss or Want of Charters, I recommend it to all con
yerfa, to apply without Delay in the ordinary Course
Yor Charters, which fall be granted as soon as Cml Au #
charity takes Place.
me, > And h ving every thing to fear from their ex
dimled Patiente, I warn ihetfi to desist, from any future
Attempts to r drain and fdure the Loyalty of others,
2nd wifely to provide against their Refitment, by fig
iwitog rhenfetvey, as heretofore in exciting, so now
ip citing the Scene of their intolerable Calamities.
And I hereby give the strongest Aflurancet of effectual
Countenance, Proteaion, ana Support to all Perlons
who a.ail thcmfelves of th: Proclamation iiTuca by his
EreUency sir Henry Clinton, dated at James
Efland, the 3d Day of March.
Left inclined to reproach than to conciliate, to aggra
vat: than to forget, even the Guilt of those, who privy
to the repeated Calls of Great Britain to Friendship,
upon fewadequate to the D-sue and Expectation of
their Conffltwrt, yet nevertheless forbore to reveal
chiin, that they might, with the greater Bale, press the
^ancient Enmity ^ foreign Foes, to the Aid of their own
Ambition and Avarice, I exhort them to feck an early
R fuge, in the abundant Clemency of the Crown, from
the Perils to whkh they have exposed themselves, by
Mafuree fraudulently concerted and tyrannically in
"force !, and afforded by the complicated Mrferies they
have brought upon their Country, and the might, Ruin
Vlill impending, Irrefiftable Evidence of the Folly and
Malignancy of the Councils, by which its Affair# have
beer, coude&cd.
Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the
Province of New York, in the City of New-
York, the Fifteenth Day of A,HI, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty, i n &
Twentieth Year of his Majefty', Reign.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
By h 3 Excellency's Command,
Samvel Bayard, juh. Deputy Secretary
GOD SAVE THE KING.
furti, by an inc casing Majority of their own Country-
3pm Saturday last the T S th inst. a cavalry detach
meit of about 130 men, umoofed of the 17th dragoons,
Queen's Ranger Hussars, Demat'# Hussars, and Lieut,
Smart's Volunteers, drawn from Staten Island, with a
body of 312 infantry, composed of 12 Jagers, 750 men of
; )e regiment u; Bote, 100 men of the regiment of Mir
'?' h, aad 50 of the Loyal American Regiment, drawn
fi ™ "°^ the whole Under, the command of
S, or PuhM, of the regiment of Bose, were landed in
Jetfict, the cavalry near the extremity of Bergen
to, the infantry near Fort Lee, forming a junction
in he Enghfi Neighbourhood the whole detachment
proceeded to the New Bridge upon Hackinflick, which
: ey reached between 2 and 3 o'clock in the monring of
tne ,6th, having fallen in with a rebel patrote at that
place, under the command of an officer who was taken
ptifener with three of his men, the others making their
escape, continuing their march to Paramus, Major Du
came in fight of the church a little after day-break
CTI finding the rebels had fallen back toHoppers-town•
A neutrality for five years, founded upon
the uti poffidetis.
b' kept on his fai'cWtill d'tfebvsred by a picket posted it
te bridge upon SaudVCieck, who giving their fire,
wire instantly charg'd by the advance guard of cavalry,
and the greatest part of them either killed or taken pri
frners.
The cavalry were immediately directed to puffi for
va+ds to Hopper's, which they loop reached, and fpi-
Yitedly attacking a faperior oody of infantry in connected
tantooments, carried several hcufes, before the infantry,
who made every pofti^le exertion, could reach tb^ pl-ce
of action, at which however they arrived in time to
com letcIetc the objea of the incursion.
5a retiring, final! parties of the militia, with a few of
their tenons, who had been upon out duties, kept ho
vering round the detachment in different , dirt&ons, a d
•altho' unable to make tn, intyreffion, they incommoded
the mirch of the troops by a constant fee 'e e foe from
di^r^htq^arte , but with little effect, al no' uiey con
t nurd th& attempts to the place of embarkation, vhh
Fo{ Lee, at which tie .ilamr, aeri .w 3 nd 4
o'clock in the afternoon, tue cavalry " kin, elame
ro'u.e by which th y advanced 3 eight a?'.:es +h their
arms joined the derich nent early ip t..: mu^ '&
Ertmium< upon the behaviour of the troops aewot
necessary, ahho' merited; it is fcr?icicnt to observe,
&tthe incuifion was wel coniiu&rd, and executed as
may ever be expected from good troops, led by officers of
knowledge and experience.
Return pf the, killed, wounded and miffing of the
troops at the a&ir at Hpppe's town th&l6th inst.
17th li^ht dragoons, 1 horse hilled, $ rank and file
wounded, 1 h>rfe wounded.
Queen's Raugrt HuiLrs, 3 rank and file killed, 3
horses killed, one rank and file wounded, 2 hortes
wounded.
Bernat's Hussars, 2 rank and file wounded, one horse
wounded.'.''.
Staten itiand Volunteers, % rank and file wounded,
Jagers, 1 wounded. Mirbach 1 killed, 11 rank and
file wounded. Bose, % killed, 1 ferjeant Wounded, five
rank and file wounded,
Ldyal Americans, 1 killed, 5 wounded,
Total 7 rank and file killed, 4 horfe# killed, 2 sere
jeants wounded, 29 rank and file wounded, 4 horses
wonnded.
Two wounded men left behind are included in the
above return, many of the wounded are doing their du-
Return of the killed, wounded and prisoners of the rebel
detachment at Hopper’g town upon the 16th inst.
Killed 4°, wounded leh behind, believed about 10,
taken prifone s. of whom m<ny arc wounded 51. Ex
clusive of officers, of whom one was killed upon the
spot ; the mJ>r Who commanded ahd another officer left
badiy wounded ; two captains, two lieutenants and two
ensigns taken prisoners.
Yeflerday arrived the fchobher Lovely B«, Captain
Charles M'Donald. in ten days, from, Bermuda, by whom
we learn, that the Crown Galley, from London for
Georgia, a very valuable vessel loded with stores, accou
trements for g>o Cavalry, 50 pieces of cannon, &c. after
having been taken by rhe Ringer privateer of Baltimore,
was happily retaken by Meffis Goodrich and Sheddun's
Brig the Hammond,
Capt. Kidd has taken a fine brigantine laden with to
bacco, the above are both carried into Bermuda.
The Lilly of France, a privateer of twenty
guns, lately built at Harve, commanded by
Mons. La Poi&on, was loft in the late high
winds on the coast ' of Ireland, near Carrick
fergus, and all the crew were drowned except
four men and a boy, who got on shore by the
help of a piece cf the wreck.
Extract of a letter from Portsmouth, dated
December 13
'' On Friday evening arrived at Spithead,
the Triumphante, a French ship, from St.
Domingo, laden with indigo, coffee, &c.
prize to the Portland man of war.
Dec. 27. The propofitiras from America,
which are said to have been in town for these
r/ a "' are '' ven ° ut " '° me " ° e """'ly
L kewife a schooner laden with tobicco,frrmJamerßiver
wa. sent in^the erne port by the Whalebone privateer.
Charles M'Donald, of t e schooner Lovely Bet, sensi
ble of the great attention to the trade of this port, given
by Jhn Inglis. Esq; Commander of his Majsftv's ship
Delight, takes hie opportunity 'o return him hearty
thanks far theeffcaual protection afforded him in the most
critic I situations, when he was three times in the most
eminent danger of being carried off by the enemy.
CHARLES MCDONALD.
A commercial treaty, with advantages,
and an indilcrimmate freedom of commerce
to every part of the world :
And an ele&ion of governors, and all the
civil officers and military appointments of
each refpedive date ; hat is to fay, a recom
mendation of each of the branches of the
legislature ofhis members, in the firft in
stance, and to vacancies, as they may happen
to the governors, who will be obliged to ad
merely ministerially, by reporting them to
the General Congress, whose choice, by a
plurality of voices, by ballot, is to be final.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Dec. 16.
“ Mr. Adams, from the Congress in Ame
rica, arrived here two days since, by a vessel
to Bieft, in 21 days. He put up at the Hotel
D'Efpagne, and in less th@n an hour after his
arrival waited on Dr. Franklin It is said he
is going in a minillerial capacity to one of
the northern powers. Mr. Laurens is shortly
expelled here, who is also, after receiving
his inftrudions from the Do&or, to be em
ployed in the fame business as Mr. Adams.
Sir Jefeph Yorke has written from the
Hague, that there is a large fleet of ffiips fit
ting outin the different ports of Holland, la
den with stores and necessaries for ship build
ing, &c. intended for the use of the French
fleet at Brest, without which it is impossible
for them to equip, the ensuing Spring ; and
that the Dutch are determined to convoy them
with a strong force thro' the channel, expe&-
ing to be attacked by the English. It is said
to be in consequence of this information that
Captain Fielding, with fix ships of the line,
and three frigates, is ordered to fail immedi
aely from Portfmoth,
LONDON, Dec. 23.
By a private letter from Brest we have ad
vice, that when the Spanish fleet failed from
thence, above half of the crews of the several
Clips were so lickly, that they were unable to
do duty, and with what they had loft by sick
ness, and otherwise, they had scarce hands to
navigate their ships home.
Iht^rs fem France mention the arrival of
Mon/ Gerrard (who has been succeeded in
its embassy by the Chev. La Lucerne) and of
Mr. Jay, and his Secretary Mr. Carmichael,
appointed to the Caurt of Spain. They fail
ed from Philadelphia in the Confederacy
American frigate, theist of O&dber; and a
day or two after their failing, Mr. John
Adams was appointed, by Congress, a foie
Comihiffiondr to Europe, 'to treat for, or re
ceive terms of peace. Mr. Francis Danna is (
his Secretary, and they are to reside at Paris,
in order to be neared the place of any negd
ciations for peace among the belligerent pow
ers. They failed from Button in a French
frigatebf 40 guns, and are said to be arrived
at L'OrienC.
Alderman Lee hath wrote to several of his
friends in town, that he is in great expedition
of being in London some time in Marcher
the beginning of April, as he is in hopes,
that a reconciliation between England and
America will be brought about by that time.
Dec. 9. Yesterday the hon Capt. Ravdon,
nephew to the Earl of Huntingd'A, who loft
his leg in America, was at court, presented
to his Majelty by his uncle, and most gracious
ly received.
Yelkrday Chpt. Wreden, a Haitian chaf
feur, from America, was presented to his
Majesty by the Hessian Minifcr.
Jan. 18. This morning an express arrived
from Admiral Ross at Gibraltar, informing
that all was quiet there. An exprefsis arrived
from Peterlburgh informing of the death of
Captain Cooke at Kamfkatika. An alliance is
said to be entered into between the Court of
Berlin and the States General.
Feb. 7. A French ship of 64,guns, and ano
ther of 54, lately foundered off the Canary-
Islands.
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MONTEGO BA Y, (Jamaica)
March 4.
Thursday afternoon arrived the Northampton
Stupart, St. James's Planter, Paxton, Rebec
ca, M'Fadaean. and Green River, Addis,
part of the London fleet ; —paffed by the Green
island, Watt, Orange Bay, Somerville. Bla
grove, , and Buchanan, • arrived
at Martha Brae, the Friendship, Dunn. They
were convoyed, and all seen save into their
tefpe&ive ports by the Hedor of 74 guns, Sir
John Hamilton, Bart commander.
Capt. Jonas of the Balahoe, engaged an
American brigt. privateer of 8 carriage guns,
off Curocoa, and would have made a prize of
her had she not fled for protection under the
guns of the fort ; he afterwards was in compa
ny with the captain on shore, who told him
a number of his,men were killed and wounded
in the action.
His Majefty'sfhip Pomona, returned to
Port Royal on Thursday fe'night from con
voying the Speedy Patqu6t as far as the Navef
fa; Captain Nugent left her the Saturday be
fore with a fine leading wind, so that it is pro
bable by this time, she is clear of the Wind
ward passage.
On Friday the 18th u[t. arrived at Port-
Royal, the schooner Escape, Capt. John
Bartlett, in seven weeks from London.—•
This vessel had a number of letters, &c. for
this island, but being chafed by hie Majesty's
frigate Pomona, and brought within the reach
of her guns, at the fame time the frigate man
ned her boat with a number of Frenchmen or
Foreigners, in order to board the schooner,
Capt. Bartlett concluded she was an enemy,
and finding no polfibility of escaping, reduced
him to the difagreeablc necessity of finking his
letters, &c.
His Majesty's brig Endeavour was spoke
with on Tnurfday the 24th ult. a little to the
southward of the harbour.---She difeovered a
pickaroon Hoop close under Point Pedro, and
chafed her up to Portland Point, but the wind
dying away, she made her escape. Before the
Endeavour encountered her, they had landed
some people at Hppe estate, about fix miles to
the westward of Savannah la Mar, and carried
off five negroes.
The Lady Parker letter of marque, Capt.
Beaver of 10 guns and 40 men, belonging to
Kington, has taken in her last cruize eleven
prizes. She had several smart engagements,
two with a Spanish guardacofta, of 16 guns
and 60 men, who, being much shattered was
forced to feck shelter from the guns of Porto
Cavallo: The Lady Parker had 2 or 3 woun
ded —She had another adion with a sloop of
12 guns, which she difabkd very much, but
having expended all her Ihot, and 101 l 10 men
killed and wounded, was forced to quit it ha
ving procured a supply of shot at Curfacoa,
she continued her cruise ; and, on the 14th,
fell in with and engaged two french Qoops, of
14 and 12 guns, for halfan hour; but being
unequal in force, was obliged to sheer off.
Extrad of a letter from Morant Bay, dated
Feb. 24.
ner, mounting about 8 guns, and rowing 20
oars, took two schooners off Salt Pond Bar,
" The 2eth, was chaced into Morant-Bay,
the Hawke privateer of Kingston, by a large
schooner, supposed to be the above Spaniard.
The Hawke has loft one ofher mails and had
only ii hands on board. The Captain of the
Hawke fays,the schooner has a large white bet
tomedfloop in company, which he supposes
to be a prize.
" The 22d, failed out of port Morant the
fehoomer Amity Hall; and just as she had got
clear of the harbour, the Captain saw two
schooners and a sloop standing up; the latter
he did not like, and presently she came edging
and run a drogger ashore. The Captain (one
Fraser) they carried with them, and what else
they could take out of the vessels.
" On the 18th inftant,a large Spanish fchoo-
down hpo'h the Iraity Ha!!, Capt. Mills 'et be
come so nigh, that he could eaiily perceive cne
men lying flat upon deck ; upon which he
'made the belt of his way into the harbour a
gaa. She catties 9 guns, and is a clean vessel.
March 11. Last Tue^ ay afternnon, about
% o'clock, ^ privaree sloop flood close in
shore off Point Pedro a Hanover, and shewed
an island jack as colours, but afterwards hoist
ed Spanim colours, and fired at the ship
General Dally, which was coming from King
ston to Lucea ; the General Dating chafed
her .all the afterneon till sun-set, when she
was obliged to give over the chace, on ac
count of the privateer out failing her.
March 18. Yetlerday arrived the ship Walter?
Capt. Hastie, in twenty-one days from New-
Yovk, one of a fleet of ten fail, bound to thib
island, under convoy of the" Greenock, Capt.
M'Larty, belonging to Glasgow : they failed
on the 25th ult. and at that time were 14 fail,
4 of which were bound to the Windward
islands. On the 2d of Maich, Capt,'Hattie
parted with the fleet in a gale of wind, lat. 36.
30. N. 67. 00. W.
The Swift, Capt. Cox, one of the London
fleet is arrived at Kingston.
The House of Assembly of this island, are
to meet on toe 11 th of April next, and pro
ceed to business.
Asa mark of his Royal munificence and
attention to the wants of his people, his Ma,
jelly has likewise been graciously pleased to
order to be paid forout of his privy purse,
5000 pair offhoes, which are arrived in the
fleet for the poorer fort of the Militia.
On Wednesday died Thomas Dunbar, Esq;
Captain of the 79th regiment of foot.
From Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, of April
18, 1780.
Williarafbarg, in Virginia, April 8.
On the sth ult. was hanged at Charleftown,
South-Carolina, Col. Hamilton Ballendine,
for drawing Draughts of the Town and Forti
fications. He was taken by a Piquet Guard
which Gen. Lincoln had sent out that Night
to Stone, as he was making his Way to the
Enemy, and when he was hailed by the
Guard his Answer was " Col. Hamilton Bal
lendine." The Guard told him that would
not do, and carried him to the Commander
of the Piquit ; upon which he pulled out of
his Pocket the Draughts. The Officer told
him he was mistaken, and had him carried'to*
General Lincoln, who ordered him for Exe
cution.
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To Major-General M ATHE W.
The Addrcls of the Loyal Refugees, commanded
by Col. James Delancey.
SIR,
WE the Loyal Refugees in the Borough Town
of West-Chester, beg leave to express our
concern, that your ill state ofhealth has obliged you
to retire from the command at Fort Knyphaufen ;
and to acknowledge, that it has been entirely owing
to your assistance and wife management, that we
have been able to subsist here during the winter, to
protef lthis part of the country from the ravages of
the rebels ; so repel their attacks, and make them
severely fuffer for their predatory attempts.
We do sincerely thank you f;r your patronage
and support, and for that impartial dilhibution of
ju^ice which has distinguished your command
Wish you fyeedy return of health and many happy
days.
Signed at the requefl of the Refugees,
JAMES DE LANCEY, Col. to
the Weft-Chetter Refugees.
Archer's House, Borough-town
of West-Chester, April 10, 1780.
To Col. JAMES DE LANCEY, and the C&rps
of Loyal Welt-Cheder Refugees.
GEN FLEMEN,
PERMIT me to return you my thanks for the
honour yon have dons me iq your address ; and
to assure you that I can in no degree, rate my Ser
vices with the merits of your corps,fo fully displayed
diking this winter, in protecting the persons and
properties of the defencelefs, by repelling the pre
datory incursions of the rebels, and in your readi
ness at alt times, to join his Majesty's troops in at
tacking the enemy.
It is, Sir, with great concern, my health did not
permit me to continue, in a command so honour
able, to the close of this winter ; but I have the lef's
to regret, when I find myfelf focceeded by so wor
thy and refpe&able a character, as Major-General
de Bose; who has been witness to the good behavi
our and cheerful, necessary exertions of all the
corps, employed at the polls of the' line, during
this most severe season. I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
With the greatest regard,
Your most obedient,
Humble Servant,
EDW. MATHEW.
New-York, April 10, 17804
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John and Francis Atkinson,
Have for file at their store, No. 17, the corner of
the Fly-Market, Queen-Street,
A GOOD and frefn Assortment of European and
O India Goods, imported in the Surprize; Capt.
Duncan, from London. 4.W.
Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Parker, -has been
pleased to appoint Robert Deans, Esq; of the
Jamaica, to be Captain of the Mentor of 24
guns, (late the Who's Afraid) a copper bot
tom, lately purchased for his Majesty's fervice+
Thursday arrived the ship Jane, Montgo
merie, from St. Mary's. Sailed the fame
day, the Jamaica, Fletcher ; and Lord North,
Webb, for Martha Brue.
We hear that hfs Majesty has been graCiouG
ly pleased to express, in the moll flattering
terms, his fatisfadion at the loyal and spirited
conduct of the militia of Jamaica, when un
der the apprehension of an expe&ed invasion
by the armament under the Count d'Eflaing;
and that he has been pleased to confirm the
rank of the Militia officers as ordered by his
Excellency the Commander in chief, at the
commencement of the late martial law.