The New-York gazette, and the weekly Mercury — New-York [N.Y.], 1780-05-22 00:00:00, page 1

By His Excellency
James Robertson, Esq;
Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and ouer
the Province of New-York, and the Territories de
pending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice-
Admiral of tbefame, and Major-General oj bis
Majesty's Forces.
A PROCLAMATION.
THE King having been gr.iciouflj pitted to honour
me with the Care of a Province, where, in a long
IKehdence, I have contufted an Eiteem for tome, and
an Affection for many of ita Inhabitants, I proceed with
great Pleasure to announce his benev lent Intentions.
It is his Majefy's Wi&, by the Revival of the Civil
Authority, to prove to all the Colonies and Provinces,
that it is not hi. Delign to govern America by Mili
tary Law, but that they are to enjoy all the Benefits of a
local Legislation and their former Constitution.
To this End 1 have brought out the Royal Appoint
ments for forming the Council, and (applying the Places
of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice. And in
Concurrence with the Commander in Chief of the Bri
tish Forces, who is also his Myefty's Com nitiioner for
reftoriog Peace to the Colonies, I mall, as speedily as the
public Exigencies will permit, give order for opening the
Courts of Judicature, and convening the Aifemoly; and
in general proceed to the Execution of the Powers reposed
in me for the free Course and complete Re cßabli Ihment,
both of the Legislative and Executive Authority.
I take great Satisfaction in the Anticipation of that
happy Day, when Relations, Friends and Fellow Citi
zens, having dismissed their gloomy Apprehensions, Shall
re-embrace each other, ad return to the Offices, Plea
sures, and Employments of Peace. Your Country with
your antient Privileges, will then participate in an ex
tensive Commerce and be exempted from a|l Taxations
not imposed by yourfeives.
Until I meet you regularly in General Assembly, for
the Reparation of mutual Confidence, and the remedying
of private as well as public Evils, I pledge myfslf to
Men of all Claims, in every Part of the Province, that
it it the compafr. mate Defi ~ of your Sovereign, and of
the Parent Country, to unite in Affection as in Interest,
with the Colonies planted by her Hand, and whichhave
long flourished under her Care,-- that 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 difpolcd to abandon the Provinces to internal
Anarchy and the Mifchiefs 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 Salfe
and malicious.
Happy herfelf, under a Constitution which is the En
vy and Admiration of surrounding Nations, She wishes to
include in one comprehensive System of Felicity, all the
Branches of a Stock, intimately connected by the Tiesfof
Language, Manners, Laws, Cuftoras, Habits, Interests,
Religion, and Blood,
I lament with the ingenuous Thousands of America,
who are irreconcilable to the unnatural Separation, so
inauspicious to yourselves,, as well as all the rest of your
Fellow Subjects 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 to a hopeless and
mortifying Review of their Conduct. Can they want
Evidence at this Day, of the Deteftadon of their Mea
sures, by an increasing Majority of their own Country
men ? And having every thing to fear from their ex
hausted Patience, I warn them to desist, from any future
Attempts to restrain and seduce the Loyalty of others,
and wifely to provide against their Resentment, by Sig
nalizing themselves, as heretofore in exciting, so now
in closing the Scene of their intolerable Calamities.
And I hereby give the strongest Assurances of effectual
Countenance, ProteAion, and Support to all Persons
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 Fogs, to the Aid of their own
Ambition and Avarice, I exhort them to seek an early
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 affording by the complicated Miseries they
have brought upon their Country, and the mighty Ruin
ftHl impending, Irrefiftable Evidence of the Folly and
Malignancy of the Councils, by which its Affairs have
been conduced#
Towards redressing the Disorders, arising 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 Estates in all Parts of the Colony, and
formerly lodged in the Secretary's Office, I understand
that they ,ere separated from the rest, by the provident
Circumfpeaien of my Predeeeffor, 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 preferveQ, and duly
returned as soon as the common Tranquility is restored.
I now call upon every Individual in the Colony, to
Shew 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 GaTcrnmmti And they who fyall ^eft di&nguilh
Monday, May 22, 1780.
N E W-YORK
AND
W E EKLY
A White Loaf of the finclt F LOUR, to weigh
2 lb. for 14 Coppers,
ASSIZE of BREAD. Flc^r at gl. lot per
Cent; Published February 18, 1780.
Contummg the earrteti ^DEices
O' Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
IMonday, 38 Min. after 12
Tuesday, 29 Min. after 1
Wednesday, 13 Min. after 2
I Thursday, 56 Min. after 2
1 '
HIGH-WATER at NEW-YORK, this Week.
themselves by their laudable Efforts for these good Pur
poles, will most assuredly belt recommend themselves to
the Royal Approbation and Favour.
Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the
Province of New-York, in the City of New-
York, the°Fiftrenth Day of April, On; Thou
farid Seven Hundred and Eighty, in the
Twentieth Year of his Majesty's Reign.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
By his Excellency's Command,
Samuel Bayard, jun. Deputy Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE KING.
PROCLAMATION,
Seiner Excellent des Herrn General Lieutenant's von
KNYPHAUSEN, Commandeur von Seiner Ma,
jefat Truppen auf New-York l/land, Long-Inland,
Staten Ifand, und fenen davon abhangenden Pof
ten, &c. i^c. &c.
DENEN Inhabern von Lxnderyen und Gaerten
wird hiedurch alle Aufmunterung und Schutz
ertheilet urn einen reichlichen Voirath von Getraide,
Fourage. und Gemuefe anzuziehen.
Wer fich unterftehet Vieh oder andere Produce,
file mcegen Nahmen haben, wie fie wollen, von Lfen
dereyen oder Gerten wegzunehmen,oder zuruiniren ;
an Haeufern, Gemuefe, oder Obll-G.erten, und Lten
dereyen einigen Schadeo zu than ; oder fond, auf
was Art es fey, jemandes Eigenthum unreentmae
figer Weife anzugreifen, full, wenn folches gegen
ihn bewiefen wird, mit dec aetfflerlten Strenge beltraft
werden.
Diejenigen, welche von Uebertretern diefer Pio
clamatien beleidigt zu feyn glluben, haben fich,wenn
fie Einwohner des Diftrias von New-Yoik find, mit
ihren Klagen an den Commandanten der 'Sradt zu
wenden ; im Fall einer weirern Entfernung aber dem
Commandirenden Officier des naechlten Portens von
Seiner Majeftaet Truppen davont Anziege zu thun,
damit, wenn folche gegruendet, ihnen Gerechtigkeit
wiederfahren, und das ncethige remedirt werden
moege. 1
Gegeben unter meiner Hand im Haupt Quartier den
eiljten M<ert%, im Jahr ushers Herrn rin taujend
fieben bundert und aebtaig.
KNYPHAUSEN.
Auf Sr. Excellentz Befehl
Justin Henrich Motz,
F. H. Ober Auditeur.
By his Excellency
Lieutenant-General KNYPHAUSEN,
Commanding his Majesty's Forces upon New-
York Island, Long-liland, Staten-Bland, and
Ports dependi ig, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
ENCOURAGEMENT and proteaion is hereby
given to the Possessors of Farms and Gardens
for the Purpose of railing plentiful Supplies of Grain,
Forage, and Vegetables.
Whatever Person or Persons presume to take away,
or to destroy Cattle, Stock, or other Produce of any
Farm or Garden ; to do any Damage to Houles,
Gardens, Orchards, or Lands; to break down
Fences, or otherwise to injure private Property, fnall,
upon Proof thereof, be punished with the Utmott
Severity.
Any Persons who n<y hink themselves aggrieved,
by a Non-Observance of this Proclamation, will,
" if Inhabitants of New-York Diltri&," make their
Complaints known to :he Commandant of the City;
if in Situations more remote, to the Officer com
manding the nearest Poll of his Majed; 's Troops,
in Order, that if well founded, they may obtain pro
per Redrels.
Given under my Hand, at Hehd-Quarters,
the Eleventh Dav of March, One Thou
sand Seven Hundred and Eighty.
KNYPHAUSEN..
"By his Excellency's Command,
JUSTIN HENRY MOTZ, r
Chief Judge Advocate, Hess.
By his Excellency
JAMES ROBERTSON, Esq;
Governor and Captain General of the Pro
vince of Nevv-York, Major-General of his
Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &e,
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS I am informed that great
WASTE and DEVASTATION is
committing on the Island of New-York, Long-
Illand, Morrifania, and Staten-lfland, by per
sons who without right or titleare cutting down
WOO D S.
To put an immediate stop to a practice so
deftruttive to the interell, of Individuals, and
eventually so to the King's service, all perlons
are itriaiy 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 estates of persons
supposed to be in rebellion, arc forbid to cut
any more on this pretence, but to lay before
me the title and authority on which they have
proceeded, that method and order may be in
ugduced, and injustice and devaluation Rop'd.
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I Friday, 36 Min. after 3
Saturday, 15 Min. after 4
Sunday, 56 Min. after 4
Moon's Lail Quarter, 26th.
THE
Public Notary's Office,
BY
TERENCE KERIN,
Attorney at Law,
No. 49, Wall-Street, nearly opposite to Pitt's Statue,
WHERE constant attendance will be given for
the execution of the general business thereof
with the utmost punctuality and dispatch.
Charter Parties, Memorials, Petitions,Articles of
Agreement and Co-painerfhip, Arbitration and other
Bonds, Letters of Attorney, Deeds, Wills, Mort
gages, Assignments, and all other Writings drawn
effectually to answer the refpeftire Purposes far
which they (hall be intended, &c.
Striking Likenesses, in
MINIATURE PROFILE, taken
By John Colles,
Almost opposite the Coftee-Houfe, up-stairs at
Mr. Lucas's,
HAVING had the honour of taking off the Pro
files of many of the Nobility in England and
Ireland, begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gen
tlemen in Kew-York, that at a moment's fitting he
assures a linking likeness; a fpejmen only can
furnilh an idea of the execution, the price of the
likeness framed and glazed is Two Dollars.
N B. He has a few instruments made on an en
tire ne-v plan, for reducing of likenesses, &c.
which he will fell at Two Guineas each, with which
lie will inftrua the purchaser the use of them, and
the whole art of reducing figures of any tize ; he
will have in a few days a neat alfortment of pattern
patent Hoboes, and handkerchiefs, whicli will be
word )the attention of the L,dies.
John Amory
A /TAnutadures and fells all forts of the best and
ill newest faftioned H OKSE-WHIP S, at
No. 316, opposite the New Bridewell, in Great-
George's Sti eet; and for the greater convenience
of Ids customers, keeps an assortment at Mr. Valen
tine Nutter's Stationary Stoie, opposite the Coffee-
House
Cornelius Duane,
HAS removed his Office to the corner house,
No. 1084, dire&ly opposite to the Lower Fly-
Market, next door to Mr. Anthony Van Dam's ;
where Proteffs for vessels, 2nd every other part of a
NOTARY PUBLIC'S BUSINESS is tranfafted,
with the utmost care and dispatch, ,
William Backhoufe, &; Co.
ARE removed to No. 1068, Water-Street; be
tween Burling and Beekman's flips ; and have
for file, fine hyfon, Touching, and bohea teas, by
the chelt or smaller quantity. Also to let, a Atop
on Golden-Hill, facing Queen-ftraet, the corner of
Elbow Street, with a commodious Cellar. Anda
large upper ffore room in Catharine Street, at a
(hart distance from the flip, about 65 by 2i feet,
fuitabie for 1 Grlm'kei, &c,
s-H~A~ R W I N,
S A D L E R,
REmov,ed from the Ceffee-Houfe' Bridge, to
No. 58, WALL-STREET, near the Main-
Guard. im
TO BE LET,
A CELLAR, and Part of a
h WARE-HOUSE. Enquire
of the Printer.
JUS r imported from London, and to be fold cheap
for cash ONLY,
By JOSEPH ALLICOCKE,
At the old Place, adjoining the
COFFEE-HOUS E,
SILKS upon silks, chintzes upon chintzes, ele
gant muffins,chain gauzes,tuflels,Prineefs fluff,
modes, bmhazeens, Barcelona Handkerchiefs,
ribbons, sewing silks, lacas, beautiful cotton hose
for the Ladies, a small affortmant of wine glaffea
and tumblers.
And as usual, MADEIRA, old and genuine, by
the pipe, quarter calk, or dozen, and other wines,
belt old Antigua rum, brandy, Geneva, shrub,
airack, fine teas, loaf sugar, spices, chocolate,
coffee, pepper, basket fd fr . &c. &c. &c.
✓ft For LONDO N,
,c^^A, The remaikable fine SHIP
TOT BLENHEIM,
River built, not four years old,
A Not'd fall tailer, has good
i&w^i^i accommodate ns for pas
sengers, and to fail with the fiilt arr ed fliips. For
f tight or pafGge apply to Murray. Sar fom, and Co.
or Captain Gordon, on board the Blip at, Murray's
wharf.
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.
Flour, 80s. od..
Brown Bread, 955. od.
Welt-India Rum, ss. 6d.1
New-England do. 4s. od.l
GAZETTE:
T HE,
MERCU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar,
Single refin'd'ditto,
Molasses,
Beef per Barrel,
Pork,
foreign anu Domeflick.
At THOMAS STAGG's
Ship Bread BAKER Y,
In Ferry-Street, above Peck's Slip,
MAY be had at any time, freffi baked BREAD,
equal in quality, and for keeping in long
voyages to any baked in England. Gentlemen
passengers, or matters of yeflels, may also be supplied
with fine white bifeuit, by the hundred weight, fit
for cabin use.
N. B. Those gentlemen who want to supply
themselves, or contra& for a large quantity, will
please to give a few days notice, to
Their humble servant,
i. m. THOMAS STAGG.
WHEREAS, I the Subferiber having ferv'd an
apprenticeship to Philip Kyfick, doth here
by inform the refpe&able public, that I have iak p n
the store formerly kept by laid Mr. Kyfick, and ttill
continues the wholesale and retail business, requeuing
the favour of the former Customers, assuring them
that every thing (hall be managed in said store, id as
to give univeifal Satisfaaion if possible.
PETER HEGEMAN.I
AN ÜbHEK warned, to aliill
1 in teaching Reading, Writing,
and Arithmetic, to whom good
Encouragement will be given. En
quire of the Printer.
^ i^ yTerT p i'll si"
CO well known all ovxr Europe, for their fj
3 fuperor Efficacy and peculiar Mildness, in ^1
V perfectly eradicating every Degree of a certain r
Disease, ,without the lea ft Trouble or Con
finement. ¥
The Public me, be offeree,that this ex- /$
if eellent Medicine is beyond any Thing, in all -^
Foulnefsand Impurities of the Blood, having
'% performed many altonilhing Cures (in ebhand \r,
g/ the neighbouring Colonies) in Scorbutic Erup
tioas,Leprofies, White Swellings, Stiff Joints,
Gout, and Rheumatic Diforders,&c. ••$
A late Supply,
(Directly from PARIS)
Of the above Pills,@
May now be had of
& HUGH GAINE,
In Boxes of i0b.203. and 40s. each, ,^
1^ Who has in his Hands a Letter from the Tp
&% Widow Keyfer, and a Certificate from under
her own Hand, of their Genuirtenefs; which
any Person may have the Perusal of by ap
plying to him at his Book Store in Hanover z^l
Square.—Where the Public in generalcan be "^^
W supplied with most Sorts of ^ty
$ Books and Stationary Ware.
'IF A pamphlet given with each box. fig
Just pub/ifoed, and lo be fold by
HUGH GAINE.
At bis Book-Store in Hanovcr-Sqnare,
The Young Clerk's
VADE MECUM:
O R,
Compleat LAW-TUTOR.
Being a ufeful Collection of a great Variety of the
molt approved Precedents in the Law, and adapt
ed to aimoil every Tranfaftion in Life wherein an
Attention to legal Forms is indispensably neces
sary.
And comfy?Ng chiefly of
Bonds, Proceedings upon
Special Conditions, Distress for Rent,
Letters of Attor- Deeds,
ney, Indentures,
Awards, Mortgages.
Articles of Agree- Marriage Article,
ment, Wills,
Bills of Sale, Fines and RECOVERiEs
Contracts, Writs,
Covenants, Declarations and
Charter Parties, Proceedings at
Leases, Law.
Assignments,
To which is added,
A Collection of English Precedents,
Relating to the
Office of Justice of Peace.
*, A few Chests of the belt
SUSHONG, CCNGO, & BCHEA
TEAS, to be fold. Enquire of H.
Gaine.
Ryan's Worm-deltroying Sugar
Plumbs, by the Box, fold by
H.Gaine.
51. lOS. Fine Salt, is. de
is. gd. Coarse Salt, is. do
as. 6d. Indian Corn perßu. ros. do
81. od. Coffee, is. do
81. 10s. Chocolate, 265. per Do*
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