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Their High Mightinesses the States General have this Day issued a Proclamation, of which the following is a Translation:
PROCLAMATION
The States General of the United Provinces, To all who shall see, or hear these Presents read. Greeting:
Be it known that We, for particular Reasons Us thereunto moving, have thought fit absolutely to prohibit, and We hereby absolutely do prohibit, all Exportation...
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
No ships are being readied for the Mediterranean at this moment in any English port. The merchants would be the first to know if there were any hostile preparations against the Dey of Algiers, and the Government gives no indications to that effect. When this African Prince refused to receive the British Consul last year, the British Ministers confessed to me that, in spite of the importance of...
Date: 20 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Spinckes [Sphynx] Sloop (formerly Tender to the Canceaux on the Survey) sailed for Piscataqua with the Admirals Order to Captain [Andrew] Barkley to send the Canceaux to Halifax to be hove down and have the damage she received by running aground repaired, and Lieut. [Henry] Mowat her Commander, had Orders, when the Ship should be compleated again to proceed on the Survey as usual under the...
Date: 21 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Publick.
We, the Committee for Norfolk Borough, find ourselves under the disagreeable necessity of publishing to the world the conduct of Captain Sampson, Master of the Snow Elizabeth, from Bristol. It is not in one instance alone that he has discovered his opposition to the measures adopted for the security of our rights and liberties, nor can he, on any account, justify his repeated...
Date: 21 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
As there appears to me a necessity for sending one of His Majesty's Ships to New York to protect the Persons and Property of His Majesty's trading Subjects, and to assist and co-operate with the Lieutenant Governor against the designs of those who are acting in open Violation of the Laws, I have appointed Captain [George] Vandeput of His Majesty's Ship Asia to this Service; but in the low state...
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Will you be so kind as put the two Letters now inclosed on board the first two Vessells that offer for the West Indies. The Craft that carries this has in a large part of the Corn for Harvey's Brig & I have taken the liberty of directing Him to apply to you a Fan to run it thro ー I will pay the Hire of one if you'll please to procure it for Him.
To save trouble & expence, we have...
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 1775
Tuesday 22nd
Cape Fear River Snow Point NWBN 1 Mile.
Arriv'd at No Carolina, & took the Command of his Majesty's Sloop Cruizer from Capt [Tyringham] Howe who was promoted: . . .2
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. . . .
A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you [Extract] recover...
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
My brother Arthur Lee, not knowing of this opportunity, I take the liberty for him to enclose an attested copy of a letter from Germany, which may be of some importance to your province. The Fishing Act, as it is called, passed the House of Lords yesterday with an Amendment, which is, to restrain New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia from the right of fishing, as well as the four New...
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, I received this Morning your Letter of Yesterday desiring that a Detachment consisting of a Captain, One Serjeant, One Corporal, and Fifty private Marines may be ordered on Board his Majesty's Ship Asia, which you propose sending to New York. ー I will beg to observe to you that by the Earl of Dartmouth's Letter to me on the Subject of the Marines sent out to reinforce his Majesty's Troops...
Date: 23 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Honoble. sr Since my Wrigting the Lines on the 21th. by Mr. Philips maney Insults and Thretts are and have ben made a gainst those Soldiers Which have Taken out arms and train and Exersize in the Kings name, and on monday next the Captns. muster at the South part of the Town, when we have Grate Reason to fear that thousends of the Rebels will attack me: and Take our Lives or the Kings arms or...
Date: 23 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Wednesday last the Schooner ----, commanded by Capt. Lee, lately arrived from Dominica, was seized at Cape-Ann, by his Majesty's Ship Lively, for Breach of the Acts of Trade.
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The two Murrays,2 Owners of the Ship Bealah, had unladen a part of the cargo secretly & landed it at Elizabeth Town. The Committees detected the fraud & Imposition, as the public tho' the ship was sent back without breakg Bulk. The public Resentment and Vengeance rose against these eminent Merchants. They found themselves in a bad state ー made a confession of the whole matter (...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Messrs. George and Thos. Hooper, reported Sundry dry goods of[f] the Peggy, Graham, Commander, from Leith, shipped to their address which they desired the committee to take into consideration and direct what should be done with the dry goods.
Ordered, That the said Goods be not landed, but sent back to Great Britain, as directed by the 10th Article of the General Association, and Mr. John Robeson...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have just now reced the enclosed Resolution from London, which Mr [Edmund] Burke made the 22d Instant in the House of Commons. He spoke for two hours & a half in the most masterly manner. A Speech which never was excelled within those Walls.2 I send this to the Road therefore cannot farther enlarge than that the resolution passed as usual in the negative by a very great majority...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Proclamation publish'd by the States General for restraining provisionally under certain Penalties, the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition for the space of Six Months, appeared this morning in Print, & will be distributed & fixed up in all the trading Towns of the Seven Provinces. I have the Honour to inclose one of the Copies of the Proclamation, with a Translation of it.2...
Date: 24 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The latter end of the week before last, 56 fireams, bayonets &c. with several casks of powder, were delivered out of a scooner, in our enemies service, to Thomas Gilbert, of Freetown, and his infamous associates, to counteract the measures adopted by the colonies for the preservation of their liberties.
Date: 25 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
March 25 [1775]. From the gathering at Richmondtown Court-House today we hear that Mr. James Clan2 and Lanier3 were elected Delegates to the [Provincial] Congress, and were given instructions not to mix in the matter of the Bostonians; but instead to bestir themselves to have wholesome laws made for the country.
Date: 25 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
On the other side is Copy of my last. I sent you also a few Lines by Cn Clark via New York enclosing Copy of the Resolutions moved for by Mr [Edmund] Burke last Wensday but with the usual Success. The Ministry carrying it against him by a great Majority. How they could put a negative upon Resolutions which are in themselves incontestible, how they could say that the Colonies did not raise...
Date: 26 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I have received, Sir, your letter No. 261 which you took the trouble to send me on the tenth of this month.
The King saw with pleasure, Sir, the suppression of the clause concerning our fishing rights on the coast of Newfoundland which was inserted in the Bill restricting fishing for the inhabitants of New England. His Majesty approved the indirect means to which you resorted in order to obtain...
Date: 26 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1