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By His Excellency
James Robertson, Esq;
C.ptain Gc^a! ard G^-mor >n Chief, in and opr
the Province of New York, arnt toe Territory de
pending thereon in America, Chamedor and Vice-
Admiral of the fame, 2nd Mj r Generali of his
Maiefty's Forces.
A PROCLAMATION.
THE Necefirv or a feafonabie ana am Ie Supply of
FUEL, for the U(e o& his Maj,fty's Troops,
obligesm% however reliant to call on the inhabitants
of Long-Island, to furcith a Proportion of Wood for the
Barrack-Yard in New-York, tevefai Plans have been
successively adopted; but without their Abidance a fuf
ficient Quantity to gear,, againtt the .seventies or along
Winter cannot be procured; and 1 flatter m,yf, they
will the more cheerfully comply with G^Requifitton, as
the Burthen, if any, will be equally borne, and rhe In
jury that mud unavoidably beta! Individuals, from an
un+orefeen Deficiency be prevented.
The County of King's is the^ore required to get
1500 Cords; Queen's County 4500 ; and die Veftern
Part of Suffolk (including Huntington, Isl?, Smith-
Town, and Brookhave ) 3900 Cords, ready cut and
corded by the 1 sth ot August enfumg.
And that the Distribution may be equally made and all
Wafteavoided, the Civil and Military Offers of each
County will meet, on Saturday the 25^ Irft. at Fiat-
Buffi, Jamaica, and Smith. Town, and assess on each
Diftria, a proportionate Part of the Quantity demanded.
The Officers in the Diftrid will then dir^f the Farmers
each to cut his Part, regularity it by the Wood Land he
possesses; and on Notice being given, will mutter the
Teams of the Neighbourhood, and cart the W^od to such
Landing as ffiall be-appointed, where the Wood ready
corded, is to be by them surveyed in the Presence of the
Barrack Officer, who will give a Certificate on the Spot
for the Number of Cords, to the Proprietor at the Rate
of Thirty Shillings per Cord for Walnut, and Twenty for
Oak ; and ado tor the Cartage, at the Rate of Four
Shillings a Cotd per Mile. The Teams so employed will
be fully protested, and the Certificates punctually paid.
The foregoing Regulations not being adapted to the
Situation of the eastern Part ot Suffolk ; the Inhabitants
of Southold, Sou hampton, and East Hampton, are re
quired to cut in the Wood Landslate belonging to Wil
bam Snr h, and William Floyd of said County (now
out in Rebellion) in the parts thereof nearest to the
Landing by Maftick Neck, 3000 Cords of Wood, to be
xeady by thefirft ot September. On due Information be
ing given, they will cart the fame, and attend in the
mean wh Ie to its Preservation, and when Surveyed on
the Water-fid,., they will receive at the Rate of Ten
Shillings per Cord, for cutting and carting as above men
tioned.
1 These Orders being calculated at once to provide for the
Army, and to give every Security to the Farmer against
others interfering with his Property ; he will be left
without Excuse, if by a criminal Negled he docs not
avail himfelf of the advantageous Offers held out to him,
and must expert to Suffer all the Evils confluent on his
Disobedience.
Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the
Province of New-York, in the City of New-
York, the 16th Day of June, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty, in the zoth Year
of his Majesty's Reign.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
By JAMES PATTISON, Esq;
Major-General of his Majesty's Forces, Commandant of
New-York, &c. &c. &c.
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS in confluence of informations 1 have
received, that difeoveries have been made that
various goods and mcrchanLzc, 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, veflel, pilot-boat, or other small
craft, goods or merchandize of any fort : Also all matters
or persons having charge of ships, vessels, pilot-boats, or
other Small crafts, against receiving on board any goods
or merchandize, without permission 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 ftridly forbid all persons from
shipping, or being concerned in Shipping, or receiving on
board any veffels,'any goods or merchandize which are to
be conveyed to places not comprehended in the powers
vetted in the above mentioned offices, until permission is
firft obtained from the office of police, or a Special licence
granted for the fame, by the commandant.
Any person or persons, who fhail be convicted before a
court-martial, of having aded contrary to the true intent
and meaning of this proclamation, shall be liable to Such
fines and penalties as the court may adjudge, according
to the nature of the offence, besides the forfeiture of the
goods; of which one half of the net proceeds will be
applied to the city funds, and the other half given as a
just reward to the person or persons who shall, by giving
the proper information, bring to light such unwarrantable
practices.
Given under my hand, in the city of New-York, the
Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand Seven hundred and eighty, and in the
twentieth year of his Majesty's reign.
JAMES PATTISON,
By command of the General,
John L| C. Roome, Sefry.
Monday, July 17, 178°,
N EW-YOR K
AND
WEEKLY
ASSIZE of BREAD.
Flour at 31. 10s. per Cent.
Published February 18, 1780.
a White LOAF, of the fineft FLOUR,
to weigh zlb. foi 14 Coppers.
Cuntainmg fe carded apaiu*
0 Printed by HUGH GAINE, at the BIBLE and CROWN, IN HANOVER-SQUARE.
THIS
Monday, o Min. after 10
Tuesday, 46 Min. after 10
Wednesday, 28 Min. after i>
Thursday, 8 Min. after 12
Imported in the last vessels from London, and
to be fold by
HUGH GAI NE,
In HAN OVER-SQUARE;
BIBLE S, Testaments, Spelling Books, and
Primers; Bailey's and Dyche's Dictionaries,
Salmon's Grammar, Young Man's best Companion,
Young Clerk's Vade Mecum, Chelterfield's Letters,
Rollin's ancient Hirtory, Smollet's Hittory of Eng
land, and Smollet's Hittory of all Nations, Gutbe
rie's Hiilorv of Scotland, Shakefpear's Works, Pope's
Works, Tatler, Rambler, Spectator, Tillotfon's
Sermons, Whitefield's Sermons, Leland's Hißory
of Ireland, Manual of Devotion, Whole Duty of
Man, Elaboratory laid open, Cramer on Metals,
Baren Fabricius's Letters to Cha,les the Xllth of
Sweden, Wyld's Surveying, Hervey's Meditations,
Dil north's Schorimalfer's Assistant, Rohmfon Cinto.
This Day is published.
And TO BE SOLD BY
HUGH GAIN E,
At the Bible and Crown H anover-'q,are,
MEDITATIONS
AND
CONTEMPLATIONS.
In TWO VOLUMES.
Containing.
Bonds,
Special Conditions,
Letters us Attor
ney,
Awards,
Articles of Agree
ment,
Bills of Sale, 1
Contracts,
Covenants,
Charter Parties,
Leases,
Assignments,
To which is added,
A Colledion of English Precedents,
Relating to the
Office of Justice of Peace.
By Permission of the Commandant.
Scheme of a LOTTERY,
Forthe Purpose of proenrirgan additional Number of
FIRE BUCKETS,
For the Use of the CITY.
2 Prizes of 1000 Dollars, is 2000
4 do. 500 2030
io do. 200' 2000
20 do. JOO 2000
co do. 50 2500
181 do. 20 3620
1235 do. 8 9880
1 502 Prizes,
4498 Blanks.
6000 Tickets at Four Debars are, 24,000 Dollars,
Subject to a Deduction of 15 per Cent.
Depending on the Liberality of those who wish to
promote the common Good, as well as to secure
their own private Interest, a large Number of
BUCKETS are already contra&ed for, and will
soon be compleated. As the Safety of every Indi
vidual is, in this Measure blended with public
Utility, it is not doubled but the fame laudable
Spirit which on many former Occalions has readily
exerted itfelf, will again Itep forth for the speedy
Accomplishment of io necessary a Parpofe.
, # Tickets to be had at the usual Places.
VOL. I.
Meditations among
the Tombs.
Reflections on a
Flower Garden ;
And a Descant on
Creation.
By the late Reverend
JAMES HERVEY, A. M
Rector of Wefon-Favell, in Northamptonshire.
THE .SIXTEENTH EDITION.
Just publijhed, and to be fold by
HUGH GAIN E,
At bis Book-Store in Hanover-Square,
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 almost every Tranfa&ion in Life wherein an
Attention to legal Forms is indispensably neces
sary.
Aad conffling chiefly of
HIG H-WATER at N EW-Y O R K,
VOL. 11.
Contemplations on
the Night.
Contemplations an
the Starry Hea
vens; and
A Winter Piece.
^^^f)%, ^ ^o^g^
teMUHMiuxQ .Q gV
Proceedings upon
Distress for Rent,
Deeds,
Indentures,
Mortgages.
Marriage Articles
Wills,
Fines and Recoveries
Writs,
Declarations and
Proceedings at
Law.
week.
Friday, 47 Min. after 12
Saturday, 26 Min. after 1
Sunday, 3 Min. after 2
Last Quar. the 24th.
THE
SUGAR PLUMB S,
Necessary to be kept in all Families.
SO exceedingly valued by all People who have bad
of them in Great Britain and Ireland, Jor their
transcendent Excellency in the dejiroytng Worms of all
kinds both in the Bodies of Men, Women, andChibiren,
by not only breaking the Knots in the Duodenum or Gut
next the Stomach, but they pass through the /mailed
Passages of the Body, ana purge away the ropy and
finny Humours which are the cause of thoj'epernicious
Fermin, and the Source of many other Diforaers; they
are one of the best Purges in the whole World for gross
bodied Children that are apt to breed Worms, and have
large Bellies; their Operation is mild, fafe andplea
fant ; they wonderfully cleanse the Bowels of all fltf
and clammy Humours which fop up the Paris and
prevent the 'j uice of Food being conveyed to the Liver
and made Blood, which is often the Case with Children,
and is attended iviih a bard Belly, finking Breath,
frequent Fevers, Rickets, and a Decay of Strength in
the lower parts: Likewifefettled Aches and Pains in
the Head, Swellings, old Sores, Scabs, Tetters, or
Breakings-Out, will be perfectly cur'd, andthe Blood
and Skin refiored to its original Purity, and Smooth
ness ; they purge by Urine, and bring away the Gra
vel, and effeauall, cure all Obfruflions of the Urine,
or Ulcers in the Kidneys. They at oncefrike at the
true cause of the Scurvy, and entirely defroy it, at all
[corbutick Humors and Effeastyßoot and Branch, jo
as never to return again, and what makes them more
commendable is, they are full as agreeable to both tafle
and fight, as Loaf Sugar; and in their Operation as
innocent as new Milk.
I have by theft Plumbs cured a great many Children
of the Whooping-Cough, and Agues, which Dis
tempers are very common and troublesome to Families,
and the Want of tbefe Plumbs are the Ruin oj Many
Children's Conflituticns.
The Plumb is a great Dieuretick, cleaning the Reins
of Slime; it expels Wind, and is a sovereign Medians
in the Cholick and griping of the futs. It allays and
carries off four Favours which occafon many Difordere
in the Head. It opens all Obfruaions in the Stomach,
Lungs, Liver, Reins and Bladder; causes a good Ap
petite and helps Digestion. It hath been found won
derfully fuccefsful to such Persons as are going into
Chronical Difempers, as Aflbmas, Fktbfcks, Short
ness of Breath, Dropfes and Yellow jaundice. Now
I hope all impartial Persons arefatisfed, that the Me
dicine which works upon such Humours, will almost
teach any Didemper, if not too far gone, fme Corrup
tion and Putrej afiion are the Fore-runners of all Difr
eases; therefore no better Pbjfck can be taken for all
Ages, Sexes and Conflituticns, from Infancy to an old
Age. Sold by HUGH GAINE.
W^^&'*^W.^
KEYSEIUs PIL LS.
SO well known all over Europe, for their
superior Efficacy and peculiar Mildnefs,in
,5 perfectly eradicating every Degree of a certain f
M Diskasm, without the least Trouble or Con- &
$ finement. „ x
„. The Public maybe affured,that this exl
8 cell?, t Medicineis beyond any Thing, in al^
Foulnefsand Impurities ofrhe Blood, having ^
^ performed many aftonilhing Cures (in tbirand ^
the neighbouring Colonies) in Scorbutic Erup-^
8 tions,Leprofies,WhiteSwellinfeS,Stifl Joints, W
Gout, and RheumaticDifordeiß, &e,^
A late Supply,H
)<( (Directly from PARIS)S
Of the above Pills,&
^ May now be had of*
I HUGH GAINE, J
%:In Boxesof ios.zos.and 40s. each,
*
^ Who has in his Hands a Letter from the ^
Widow Keyfef, and a Certificate from under *
^ her own Hand, of their Genuineness; which*
^ any Person may have the Perusal of by ap
)?{ plying to him at his Book Store in Hanover *
^ Square.-r-Where the Public in generalcan be^
^ supplied with most Sorteof
^ Books and Stationary Ware.^
^ A pamphlet given with each box.^
^^^^^^^X^^^X^M^^^^^^^^^
WHEREAS the Copartnership es REMSEN
and COWENHOVEN, being difolved by
mutual cenfent, they requett all these who are in
debted to said Copartnerfllip, to caii and pay off
their Accounts to John Retrfen, at his Fore No.
935, Watcr-ftreet, or to John Cowenhoven, No. 14,
Oueen-ftreet.
4-~tv+-* +-+ 4- -++-t+-• 4+-+ 4—44-44-4 a 4-ft
A Sovereign Remedy for the
[ Whooping Cough.+
Dr. R YA N's
Incomparable Worm-destroying
Wheat per Bushel, 265.
Flour, 80s.
Brown Bread, 95 s °
Welt-India Rum, ss.
New-England do. 4s.
[Nc. 1500]
GAZETT E:
THE
MERCU R Y.
PRICE CURRENT, in NEW-YORK.
od. Muscovado Sugar, 51. ros.
od. Single refin'd ditto, is. gd.
od. Molasses, as. 6d.
6d. Beef per Barrel, 81. od.
od. Pork, 81. 10s,
foreign ana Domeflick.
NEW-YO R K, July 12.
To His EXCELLENCY
JAMES ROBERTSON, Esq;
Captain General, and Governor in Chief oj the
Province of New l ord, Chancellor, and Pice-
Admiral of the Jame, and Major General of
his Majefy's Forces, ifc. ^c. &c.
The Address of the Gentlemen, Freeholders,
and Inhabitants of King's-County, Nassau-
Island.
May it please your Excellency,
IMPRESSED by Sentiments of Duty and
Gratitude to our most gracious Sovereign
for his paternal Attention to the Interest and
Happiness of his Subjects in America, it is
with cordial Satisfaction we congratulate your
Excellency on your Defignatioh to the Care
of a Province, in which, from your long Re
sidence you have such an intimate Knowledge
as must inspire a general Confidence in the
Wisdom of your Administration.
We concur with your Excellency in ascrib
ing to the Ambition and felf-interefted Views
of a Few, and r heir Concealment from the
Multitude of the repeated Offers of Great-Bri
tain, that our Countrymen once so happy, are
brought to feel the Miseries held up to their
Fears to seduce them from the Felicity they
enjoyed.
Subjected as they are to Usurpation that hrs
annihilated their Commerce, shed theii Bloc d
and walled their Property, and is now drag
ging even the iabourious Husbandman from
the Plough to the Field of Battle, to support
their unauthorifed and perilous Combinations
with designing, Popifli, and arbitrary Powers,
we cannot fufficiently applaud the Benevolence
which dictated the Proclamations lately issued
by his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton and your
Excellency, for amply affording the Means of
extricating themselves from the Distress into
which they are plunged.
In the Sympathy we feel for our fuffering
Country, nothing can be more grateful to us,
and as we conceive to the Majority of the
Continent, than the Grace which appears to
reltore to the Colonies all the Benefits of local
Legislation with their former Constitutions,
a Participation in the extensive Commerce
of Great-Britain, and a total Exemption from
all Taxations not imposed by themselves.
It is with real Pleasure we also receive the
Intimation of his Majesty's Wish for the Re
vival of the civil Authority, and we persuade
ourselves, so much Benevolence will draw
forth every Exertion to enable your Excellent
cy to restore to the People of this Colon the
Tranquility they lately enjoyed under its
faithful and honourable Direction of your im
mediate Predeceflor, Major General Tryon,
who in our Days cf Ease, was not more dL
ftinguifhed for his impartial justice and noble
Generosity, than in the Storm of Adversity
'for Zeal and Activity in supporting the Rights
of ourmoft gracious Sovereign, and the con
stitutional Law of the Realm.
Be assured, Sir, of our loyal and most ftie
nu°us Endeavours on all Occafims for his
hajefty's Service, cherishing every possible
Means of (hewing your Excellency the Since
rity of our Affection, and the Regard we owe
as Fellow Commoners to the Prosperity of his
Majesty's Subjects.
In Behalf cf the Freeholders and Inhabitants
of King's* County, and at their Requef.
Wm. Axtell, Richd, Stilwell,
Jeromus Lott, \ M. Cowenhoven,
Rem Cowenhoven, Adrian Van Brunt
Rutger Van Brunt, Less. Lefferts,
Ab. Liquere, Johannes Bergers
Major Jeromus Vanderbelt.
His Excellency's iflafwer.
To the Gentlemen Freeholders and
Inhabitants of King's-County.
I A M much obliged to you for this Ad
dress.
Having experienced that the Inhabitants cf
King's-County were a happy People, it is my
Wish to fee them restored to the State I en
joyed with them.
It is likewise my Duty to follow my Sove
reign's gracious Intentions in Favour of his
good Subjects in America ; you may therefore
be assured of all the Security, Advantages,
and good Offices my Situation may enable me
to procure you.
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Fine Salt, as. do
Coarse Salt, is. do
Indian Corn per Bu. 10s. do
Coffee, is. do
Chocolate, 265. per Do