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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
This Day His Majesty came to the House of Peers, and being in His Royal Robes seated on the Throne with the usual Solemnity, Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was sent with a Message from His Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their Attendance in the House of Peers: The Commons being come thither accordingly, His Majesty was pleased to give the Royal Assent to
An...
Date: 30 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Sir, As it may be of use that His Majesty's Subjects in America should be informed of the Proclamation issued by the Order of the States General prohibiting the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition from their Dominion in British Ships, or in their own Ships without leave of their College of Admiralty; I am directed by Lord Dartmouth to transmit to you the inclosed Gazette, containing the said...
Date: 5 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
PRESENT,
The KING's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
WHEREAS the Time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council of the 19th of October last, for prohibiting the Exporting out of this Kingdom, or carrying Coastwise, Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, will expire the 19th Day of this Instant April ー And whereas it is judged expedient that the said Prohibition should be continued for...
Date: 8 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
This Day His Majesty came to the House of Peers, and being in His Royal Robes seated on the Throne with the usual Solemnity, Sir Francis Molyneux, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was sent with a Message from His Majesty to the House of Commons, commanding their Attendance in the House of Peers: The Commons being come thither accordingly, His Majesty was pleased to give the Royal Assent to
An...
Date: 13 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A report having been spread, and an Account having been printed and published, of a Skirmish between some of the People in the Province of Massachusets Bay and a Detachment of his Majesty's Troops; it is proper to inform the Publick, that no Advices have as yet been received in the American Department of any such Event.
There is reason to believe that there are Dispatches from General [Thomas]...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Lieutenant [Joseph] Nunn, of the Navy, arrived this Morning at Lord Dartmouth's Office, and has brought Letters from General [Thomas] Gage, Lord [Hugh] Percy, and Lieutenant Colonel [Francis] Smith, containing the following Particulars of what passed on the 19th of April last between a Detachment of the King's Troops in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and several Parties of Rebel Provincials,...
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
By Letters from Captain [Charles] Douglas, of His Majesty's Ship the Isis, dated Quebec the 8th and 15th of May, received Yesterday by Captain [John] Hamilton, late of the Lizard, who arrived from thence in his Majesty's Sloop the Hunter, it appears that the Isis, which sailed from Portland on the 11th of March, having Succours on Board for the Relief of the Place, made the Island of St. Peter's...
Date: 11 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Whereas His Majesty was graciously pleased, by His Royal Proclamation, bearing Date the 22d Day of March last, to promise and declare, That the Bounties of Three Pounds for every Able Seaman, and of Two Pounds for every Ordinary Seaman fit for His Majesty's Service, should be paid, in the Manner thereby directed, to every such Able and Ordinary Seaman not above the Age of Fifty, nor under the Age...
Date: 21 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Vice-Admiral Shuldham, in his Letter dated the 20th of May last, gives an Account, that the Cruizers of his Squadron had intercepted and taken Twenty-four Ships and Vessels belonging to or trading with His Majesty's rebellious Subjects in North America, in Addition to those mentioned in his Letter of the 25th of April, among which was The Lyon Schooner, bound from Cape Francois to Rhode Island,...
Date: 29 June 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By Letters received from Captain Douglas, of His Majesty's Ship Isis, dated at Quebec the 26th and 27th of last Month, it appears, That immediately after raising the Siege of Quebec, of which he gave an Account ー in his Letters of the 8th and 15th of May, every proper Measure was taken to facilitate the farther Operations against the Rebels, by sending down the River all the Pilots which could be...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 6
The Rebel Fleet upon Lake Champlain has been intirely defeated in two Actions; the first on the 11th Instant, between the Island of Valcourt and the Main; and the second on the 13th, within a few Leagues of Crown Point.
We have taken Mr. Waterbury, the Second in Command, One of their Brigadier Generals, with Two of their Vessels, and Ten others have been burnt and destroyed; only Three of Fifteen...
Date: 14 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Copy of a Letter from Captain Thomas Pringle, on Board the Maria, off Crown Point, the 15th of October, 1776.
It is with the greatest Pleasure that I embrace this opportunity of congratulating their Lordships upon the Victory compleated the 13th of this Month, by His Majesty's Fleet under my Command, upon Lake Champlain.
Upon the 11th I came up with the Rebel Fleet commanded by Benedict Arnold:...
Date: 15 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
By Letters received from Vice Admiral Young, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at the Leeward Islands, dated the 30th of September, and from Vice Admiral Gayton, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships at Jamaica, dated the 4th of November last, it appears, that the Cruizers of the former had taken 12 Vessels belonging to His Majesty's Rebellious Colonies since the 24th of July, and...
Date: 30 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
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, as the Reasons, which induced Us heretofore to prohibit the Exportation of Ammunition to the English Colonies, still subsist, We have again...
Date: 19 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Advices have been received from North Carolina, that the Disorders in that Province having continued to increase, Governor Martin had judged it necessary to abandon Fort Johnson on Cape Fear River, where he had lately fixed his Residence; and to remove the Cannon and Stores under the Protection of his Majesty's Sloop Cruizer, on Board of which he had retired; and that on the Night of the 18th of...
Date: 19 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Whereas, His Majesty was pleased, by His Orders in Council of the 23d of August and the 27th of September last, to direct that no Person or Persons whatsoever should, at any Time, during the respective Terms therein mentioned, presume to transport out of this Kingdom, or carry Coastwise any Saltpetre, Gunpowder, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, (except the Master-General, Lieutenant-General, or...
Date: 27 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
At the Court of St. James's, the 22d Day of November, 1775, Present, The King's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas the Time limited by His Majesty's Orders in Council of the 23d of August and 27th of September last, for prohibiting the exporting out of this Kingdom, or carrying Coastwise, Gunpowder, Saltpetre, or any Sort of Arms or Ammunition, will expire on the 23d of this Instant...
Date: 25 November 1775
Volume: Volume 3
By the King,
A Proclamation,
Appointing the Distribution of Prizes taken during the Continuance of the Rebellion now subsisting in divers Parts of the Continent of North America.
George R.
WHEREAS by an Act, made in this present Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Qolonies of New Hampshire, Massachuset's-Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York...
Date: 22 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The Peggy Schooner, Jacob Evans Master, from North Carolina to St. Eustatia, with Flour, Corn and Staves — by the Hind.
The Nancy Sloop, Samuel Dunwall Master, from St. Kitt's to America, with Salt and Iron mongery — by the Otter. .
The Juno Brig, Isaac Coleman Master, from Surinam to Boston, with Molasses — by the Otter.
The Oliver Cromwell privateer, Herman Courter Master, 24 Guns, 150...
Date: 12 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9