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N E W-Y ORK
AND
WEEKLY
By His Excel'ency
James Robertson, Esq;
Captain General and Governor in Chief in and oeer
the Province of Neva-York, and ibe Territories de
pen&ng thereon in America, Chancellor and Pice-
Admiral of the fame, and Major-General of bid
Majesty's Forces.
A PROCLAMATION.
THE King having been graciously pfegfed to honour
me with the Care of a Province, where, in a long
Residence, I have contrasted an Esteem for tome, ana
an Affection for many of its Inhabitants, I proceed wi h
great Pleasure to announce his benev dent Intentions.
It is hjs Majesty's With, by the Revival of the Civil
Authority, to prove to all the Colonies and Provinces,
that it is not his Design 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 I have brought out the Royal Appoint
ments for forming the Council, and supplying the Places
of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice. And in
Concurrence with the Commander in Chief of the Bri
tish Forces, whois also his Majesty's Comniffioner for
zeftoring Peace to the Colonies, I shall, as fpeedil, as the
public Exigencies will permit, give order for opening the
Courts of Judicature, and convening the Assembly; and
in geheral proceed to the Execution of the Powers reposed
in me for tire free Covrfe and complete Re eftabiifhment,
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, and return to the Offices, Plea
fares, and Employments of Peace. Your Country with
your antient Privileges, will then participate ih. an ex
tensive Commerce and be exempted from all Taxations
not imposed by yourselves.
Until I meet you regularly in General Assembly, for
the Restoration of mutual Confidence, and the remedying
of private as well as public Evils, I pledge myfclf to
Men of all Classes, in every Part of the Province, that
it it the rornpagiortete Defife of your Sovereign, and of
the Parent Country, to unite in Affection as in Interest,
with the Colonies planted by her Hand, and which have
long flourished under her Care,---that the Su^eftions of
her Intention to impair their Rights and Privileges, are
the Arts of Malice and Faction,---and that every Infi
nuatiod made by the domestic Enemies of Great-Britain,
of her being disposed 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, Popifh, and arbitrary Powers (of whom your
Fathers had a wife and virtuous Jealousy) is equally falfe
and malicious.
Happy herfelf, under a Constitution which is the En
vy and Admiration of surrounding Nations, the wishes to
include in one comprehensive System of Felicity, all the
Branches of a Stock, intimately conneded by the Ties'of
Language, Manners, Laws, Customs, Habits, Interests,
Religion, and Blood.
I lament with the ingenuous Thousands of America,
who are irreconcileable to the unnatural Separation, so
inaufpiciows to yourselves, as well as all the rest of your
Fellow Subjeds in the other Quarters of the World, that
the Fro 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 theDeteftation of their Mea
sures, by an increasing Majority of their own Country
men ? And having every thing to fear from their ex
haufted Patience, I warn them to desist, from any future
Attempts to restrain and feddee the Loyalty of others,
and wifely to provide against their Resentment, by fi
nalizing themselves, as heretofore in exciting, so now
in doling 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 Foes, 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
still impending, Irrefiftable Evidence of the Folly and
Malignancy of the Councils, by which its Affairs have
been conducted.
Towards redrawing the Disorders, arising from the
Loss or Want of Charters, I recommend it to all con
cerned, to apply without Delay in the ordinary Couric
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 were separated from the rest, by the provident
Circumfpedion of my Predecessor, whose Merits are
above my Applause, and have often had yours ; and
having been afterwards sent Home fc: fafe Custody, you
may rely upon their being carefully preserved, and duly
returned as soon as the common Tranquility is reftorel.
I now call upon every Individual in the Colony, to
shew his Allegiance, Fidelity and Patiiotifm, by afford
ing his Assistance towards accomplishing the King's most
gracious Design of restoring the Blessings of Peace and
good Government: And they who shall most difting^fh
Monday, June 5, 1780.
ASSIZE of BREAD. Fleur nt qk lot. per :
Cent. Published February 18, 1780.|
A White Loaf of the fineftFLOUß, to weighj
2 lb. for 14. Coppers.
Cuntaimng tee EatUeft Onice^
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, in HANOVER-SQUARE.
themselves by their laudable Efforts for these good Pur
poses, will most afluredly best 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 Fifteenth bay of April, One Thou
sand 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.
By JAMES PATTI.ON, Esquire, Major-General of
his Majesty's Forces, Commandant 0! New-York,
&c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is highly heceffary and expedient for
the salubrity of the air and the health of the
inhabitant, as well as for the fake of that decency and
good order which ought to ks observed in every Wwl
governed city, that the public fireets should be kept clean
and free from nuisances of every kind.
I have therefore thought fit to issue this Proclamition,
ftri&ly forbidding all persons to throw out or lay down
in any of the streets, lanes, alley's, docks, flips, open
lots of ground of ruins, (to the southward of Frefh-Wate)
from their dwelling,houfes, ftcres, ftabbs, yards, or cellars,
any dirt, filth,garbage, broken ware, or otberrubbiffi ; but
do hereby order that thy regularly cause the fame to be
carried away once in every week, at their own exnence, and
thrown into the open lots in the swamp, (near the Jews
burning-ground) which are under water.
And it is further directed, that
rOf the South W.rd on every Monday,
lOf1 Of the Dock Ward on eve-v Tuesday,
I Of theEaft Ward oh every Wednesday,
The Inhabitants{ °Tfyfay," Ward °" ""'
j Of the North Ward on every Friday,
I And,
Lot the Weft Ward on every Saturday,
Do cause to be rak ^ together and Iwept up in heaps on
the Greets before their refpeaive dwelling houses, fibres
or stables, all the dirt, dust and filth, which the common
intercourse of this city may etcafion, in order that the
lame may be taken away by the public carts employ d
for that purpose.
Any person or perons, who shall be convicted before
the Police of neglect, or retufal to comply with these
orders and directions, shall, for every such offence, be
fined at the diferetion of the Magistrates of Police, in a
sum not exceeding Forty Shillings currency, to be paid
into the hands of the Treasurer of the City Funds, for
the use of the poor.
The inhabitants are also ftri&ly enjoined arid required
not to encumber any of the streets, lanes, alleys, wharfs,
Or piers of the city, with any kind of lumber that may
impede the free passage thereof, on penalty of having the
fame removed at the expence of the Proprietor, and being
fined, at the defcretion of the Police, in a sum not exceed
ing Ten Pounds currency for each offence.
And to the end that the salutary intentions of these
a egulations may be fully answered, I do hereby nominate
and appoint, William Hill, anting officer under th 3
Proclamation, with instructions to report all Delinqucnt,
of the Police.
Given under my hand, in the City of New-york,
the sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in
the Twentieth vear of his Majesty's reign. *'
JAMES PATTISON.
By Command of the General,
John L. C, Roome, Secretary.
New-York, May 15, 1780
By order of the COMMANDANT.
WHEREAS the Superintendent General of the
hospitals, has represented that the patients in
the General Hospitals, as well as the convalefcehts be
longing to the fame, do daily purchase, spirituous liquors
fom the licenced public houses, to the great detriment
of their health, and the subversion of good order and regu
larity: Notice is therefore given, that any person or
persons, who for the future shall be detected in felling
spirituous liquors to foldicrs, coming under the above
description, or of fending any into the hospitals, will be
immediately deprived of his, her, or their licence, arid be
liable to such puniihmsnt as a court-martial shall adjudge.
And in order that no one shall be deceived, or plead
the not knowing convalescents from other soldiers, all
those who may be allowed to walk abroad as such, in
future, will wear the distinguishing mark of an H, made
of blue cloth, and sewed upon a conspicuous part of each
arm.
And whereas also, feme patients have been encouraged
by inhabitant), to fell arid dispose of not only their own
eloathing, but likewise the bedding and utensils of the
hofpjtal ; all persons are hereby cautioned against pur
chasing from foidiers any of the above mentioned articles,
as they will be amenable to a court-martial, for tranf
greflions of this kind.
And whoever shall give information to Mr. Mallett,
purveyor of the hospitals, of any person offending herein,
shall, upon his or her conviction, receive a guinea reward.
STEPHEN P. ADYE, Aide de Camp.
JUST IMPORTED,
By John and Francis Atkinson,
And are now opening at their fore No. 17, cor
ner of the Fly-Market and Qpeen-freet,
A neat and general Affortmeat of
SPRING GOODS,
Mens fine hats, fuperfine and second broad cloths,
with trimmings, fine bohea and hyfon TEAS, nails
and German steel. t.f.
Monday, 37 Min. after it
Tuesday, 37 Min. after 12
Wednesday, 31 Min. after 1
Thurf'day, 23 Min. after 2
HIGH-WATER rtNEW-YORK, this Week.
.&f#w^^^
I Friday, to Min. after 3
Saturday, 57 Min. after 3
Sunday, 43 Min. after 4
Moon's firft Quarter the 9th.
THE
By JAMES PATTISON, Esq;
Major-General of his Majesty's Forces, Commandant of
New-York, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
^^ WHEREAS in consequence of informations I have
VV received, that difeoveries have been made that
various goods and merchandize, to a considerable amount,
have of late, in violation of the established regulations,
been conveyed from this city in a clandestine manner: I
have therefore thought fit to issue this PROCLAMA
TION, hereby warning all persons whatever against put
ting on board any ship, vessel, pilot-boat, or other small
craft, goods or merchandize of any fort : Also all matters
or persons having charge of ships, vcffels, pilot-boats, or
other small crafts, against receiving on board any goods
or merchandize, without permiffijn from- the offices ap
pointed by Sir William Howe's proclamation of the 17th
July, 1777, and agreeable to the powers and regulations
therein contained.
And I do now hereby ftri&ly forbid all persons from
(hipping, or being concerned in (hipping, or receiving on
board an, vessels, any goods or merchandize which are to
be conveyed to places not comprehended in the powers
veiled in the above mentioned offices, until pcrml^on is
firft obtained from the office of police, or a fpeclal licence
granted for the fame, by the commandant.
Any person or persons, who (hall be conviaed before a
court-martial, of having a&ed contrary to the true intent
and meaning of this proclamation, (hall be liable to such
fines and penalties as the court may adjudge, according
o toe nature of the offence, betides the forfeiture of the
toads; of which one half of the net proceeds will be
igppiied to the city funds, and the other half given as a
auft reward to the person or persons who (hall, by giving
the proper information, bring to l ; ght such unwarrantable
pra?ticM.
C^n under my hand, in the city of New-York, the
fix ee^th day of Miy', in the year cf our Lord, one
Ithoufond seven hundred and eighty, and in the
twentieth year of his M jifty's reign.
JAMES 'PATTISON.
Rv c<ramand of the General,
[nhn 1,, C. Rohme, Sec'ry.
PROCLAMATION,
Seiner ExceUentz des Herrn General Lieutenants von
KNYPHAUSEN, Commandeur won Seiner Ma
jefat Truffen auf Neou-York Island, Long- Island,
Staten Island, und denen da^uon abbangenden Pof
ten, ^c. ^c. ^c.
DENEN Inhabern von Lsenderyen und Gerten
wird hieJurch alle Aufmunterung und Schutz
euheilet urn einen reichlicben Vorrath von Ggtraide,
Fourage, und Gemuefe anzuziehen.
Wer fich unterftehet Vieh oder andere Produce,
fie nicegen Nslimen haben, wie fie wollen, von L^n
dereyen oder Gaerten wegzunehmen,oder zu rumiren ;,
an Haeufern, G^muefe, oder Obft-Geerten, und L^n
dereyen einigen Schaden zu thun ; oder fonft, auf
was Art es fey, jemandes Eigenthum unrechtmse
figer Weife anzugreifen, foll, wenn folches gegen
ihn bewiefen wird, mit der aeufferften Strenge beftraft
werden.
[ Diejenigen, welche von Uebertretern diefer P^o
g clamation beleidigt zu feyn glauben, haben licb,wenn
fie Einwohner des Dittri&s von New-Yoik find, mit
ibren Klagen an d^n CommanJanren der Stadt zu
wenden ; im Fall einer weitern Entfernung after dim
tbmmandirenden Officierdes n^echlten Pollens von
Seiner Majtft^t Truppen dovont Anziege zu thun,
damit, wenn foiche gegruendet, ihnen Gerechtjgkeit
wiedeifahren, und das nasthige remedirt werden
mcege.
Gegeben unter meiner Hand im Haupt-Quartier den
eilJten Mcertz, im Jabr unfers Herrn ein taufend
feben bundert and aebtzig.
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-Island, Staten-lfland, and
Polls depending, &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 dettroy Cattle, Stock, or other Produce of any
Faim or Garden ; to do any Damage to Hotifes,
Gardens, Orchards, or Lands; to break down
Fences, or otherwise to injure private Property, shall,
upon Proof thereof, be punished with the Utmost
Severity.
Any Persons who may think themselves aggrieved,
by a Non-Observance of this Proclamation, will,
" if Inhabitants of New-York Diftri&," make their
Complaints known to the Commandant of the City;
if in Situations more renv te, to the Officer com
manding the nearest Poll $f his Majesty's Troops,
in Order, that if well sot nded, they may obtain pro
per Redreis.
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, Hess.
Wheat per Bushel, 265. od.
Flour, 80s. od.,
Brown Bread, 955. od.
Weft-India Rum, ss. 6d.
New-England do. 4s. od.|
GAZETTE:
THE
MERCU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
Mufcovado Sugar, 51. ros.
Single refin'd'ditto, is. ,d.
Molasses, 2s. 6d.
Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
Pork, SI. ios.
foreign ano Don^fU^.
BY his Excellency
JAMES ROBERTSON, Esq;
Governor and Captain General of the Pro
vince of New-York, Major-General cf his
Majesty's Forces, &c. &c. &i,
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS I am informed that great
WASTE and DEVASTATION is
committing on the Island of New-York, Long-
Eland, Morrifania, and Staten-lfland, by per
sons who without right or title are cutting down
WOO D S.
To put an immediate flop to a practice f>
deft unlive to the interest of Individuals, and
eventually fi> to the King's service, all persons
are liridly forbid to cut WOOD on any land
that does not belong to them, ur.lefs they have
leave from the owner so to do, and all who
have been cutting timber on estates of persons
supposed to be ifa rebellion, are 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
troduced, and injuflice and devaluation ftop'd.
Wright Southgate,
No. g§6, Hanouer-Square,
HAS imported by the lad fleer, tin elegant a°-
fortment of rich silks and fattens, brocaded,
plain and. flowered, the miff felhionrble colours and
in excellent order ; armozeens, ducapes^ plain,
changeable, and striped lutestrings free from fpoiS
° r ."' ns 1 modes, perfians, and farfenets of all qua
lities, black silk velvet, rich flountines and prin
cess fluffs fcr gentlemens wear, silk, fattin, ruffel,
caiimanco and fluff quilts of all colours ; ladies
flays London made, and neatly finished, calimanco
days and fulteens, silk, fattin, Morocco and fluff
shoes, with French heels, gown trimmings and
fringes, EalUlndia chintzes, light and dark grounds,
printed muslins, fpriged and book ditto, furniture
calicoes with trimmings,joining thread lace and edg
"'gs > Irish linep, Merfailles quilting, sewing silks,
threads, tapes, pins, needles, cap trimmings, gloves,
&c.
JOHN PEL L,
At Number 181,
Queen-street, nearly opposite Beekman's flip, has for
sale, belt new Rotebutter, of the firft quality, by
the last vessels from Cotk : Also,
fpiiits, &c.
TO BE SOLD, B Y
Jacobus L. Lefferts,
At bis Store in Hater street, between Burling'sfip
and the Fly-market, three Doors Weft of Philip
Rhinelander's Chi, a Store, and next Door to
Charles kPhite, B> ass Founder, upon the mq/l
reasonable Terms, tae following Articles, nsiz.
MOuld and dipt can
dles,
Cattile, and brown fuap,
Mess beef and pork, in
tierces, barrels, and,
half barrels,
HAMS,
Coffee, tea, and chocolate
Loaf fugai,
Oil M deira, and Port
wines,
M^™
Lisbon, and I—l
Teneufa
Wed-India Rum of the
firft quality and high
proof, by the Hog
shead, barrel or less
quantity,
French brandy in kegs
or by the gallon,
Holland geneva,
Best London porter, and
Liverpool ale, in bot
tles,
Molaifes in hotheads or
barrels,
Coarle and fine salt,
Loaf and lump sugars,
Mufcovado ditto,
Mould and dipt candles,
Sweet oi4,
Calk raisins,
Yoikfhire hams,
Caftile soap,
ALS O,
A quantity of very excellent
ROSE BUTTER,
Just imported.
Fine Salt, 2 s, do
Cbarfe Salt, is . do
Indian Corn per Bu. 10s. do
Coffee, is. do
Chocolate, 26s.pet.D0-
Turpentine do.
Bell hyfon, foufhong and
bohea teas,
Best green coffee, in bar
: rels or less quantity,
Chocolate,
Pepper, allspice, ginger,
nutmegs, cinnamon,
mace, cloves,
; Tobacco,
Best Scotch fnuff in blad
ders and bottles,
I Mustard in bottles,
- Cheshire, double and
single Gloucester cheese,
• Short and long pipes
Split peafe by the keg or
quart,
Rice,
Fig Blue,
, Indigo, copperas, and
allum,
Writing and wrapping
paper,
Wool cards, &c.
Pepper, mustard, will
nuts, and anchovies,
Old fpiritsand rum,
IHollands geneva,
^London porter,
Super fine flour,
Smoaked and pickled
tongues,
Lamp, and train oil,
RICE,
A few hogsheads of eld
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