gentleman, who after her death returned to England, and has been for some years consul at Havre. Another daughter married the late Alfred S. Pell Esq., and is yet living in the city of New-York, and the remaining daughter resides in Duanesburgh, and for her disposition and deeds of charity, is the worthy representative of her distinguished father. Judge Duane is interred under the church he built in Duanesburgh, and a neat mural tablet within the church is erected to his memory. His widow survived until 1821, and is buried beside her husband, and a similar monument to his, records her memory, and reminds us of her virtues. There are two original portraits of Judge Duane preserved; one by Coply, painted about the year 1773, now in the possession of his great granddaughter, Mrs. Weston, of Augusta, Maine; the other painted by C. W. Peale, about the close of the revolution, now in the possession of his grandson, James Duane, of Franklin county, and of which the one in the City Hall, of New-York, is a copy. CLERGY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK IN 1796. Protestant Episcopal. Rt. Rev. SAMUEL PROVOOST, Bishop; Revds. Benj. Moore, D.D., Abraham Beach, D.D., John Bisset and Joseph Pilmore, Rector of Christ's Ch. Reformed Dutch. Revds. J. H. Livingston, D.D. S. T. P., Wm. Linn, D.D.. Gerardus Arantz, H. Kuypers. German Calvinist. Rev. John D. Gross, D.D. United Lutheran. Rev. John C. Kunze, D.D. Presbyterian. Revds. John Rodgers, D.D., John McKnight, D.D., Samuel Miller. Scotch do. Rev. John. Mason, Assoc. Congregation. Rev. John Crea. Methodist. Revds. Daniel Smith, William Pheobus, Jacob Brush, Evak Rogers, Ezekiel Cooper, Laurence McCombs, David P. Candell. St. Peter's, Catholic. Rev. Charles O'Brien. United Brethren. Rev. Joseph G. Peter. Baptist. Revds. Benjn. Foster, D.D., Adam Hamilton Independent. Rev. Mr. Wall. Hebrew. Rev. Gershom Seixas XVII. PROCLAMATION OF THE LAST OF THE ROYAL GOVERNORS OF NEW-YORK. BY His Excellency JAMES ROBERTSON Esquire, Captain General A PROCLAMATION. The King having been graciously pleased to honor me with the care of a Province, where, in a long Residence, I have contracted an Esteem for some, and an Affection for many of its Inhabitants I proceed with great Pleasure to announce his benevolent Intentions. It is his Majesty's wish, 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 Military 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 Appointments for forming the Council, and supplying the Places of Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice. And in concurrence with the Commander-in-chief of the British Forces, who is also his Majesty's Commissioner for restoring Peace to the Colonies, I shall as speedily as the publick Exigencies will permit, give order for opening the Courts of Judicature and convening the Assembly; and in general proceed to the Execution of the Powers reposed in me, for the free Course and complete Re-Establishment, both of the Legislative and Executive Authority. I take great satisfaction in the Anticipation of that happy day when Relations, Friends and Fellow-Citizens, having dismissed their gloomy Apprehensions, shall re-embrace each other, and return to the Offices, Pleasures and Employments of Peace. Your Country with your antient Priviledges, will then participate in an extensive 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 myself to Men of all classes in every part of the Province, that it is the compassionate Desire 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 suggestions of her intention to impair their Rights and Priviledges are the Arts of Malice and Faction,—and that every Insinuation made by the domestic Enemies of Great Britain of her being disposed to abandon the Provinces to internal Anarchy; and the Mischiefs of their jarring Interests and Claims, or to the fraudulent and ambitious views of foreign popish and arbitrary Powers (of whom your Fathers had a wise and virtuous Jealousy) is equally false and malicious. Happy herself, under a Constitution which is the Envy 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 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 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 to Harmony and Peace. But it 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 Detestation of their Measures, by an increasing Majority of their own Countrymen? And having every thing to fear from their exhausted Patience, I warn them to desist from any future Attempts to restrain and seduce the Loyalty of others, and wisely to provide against their Resentment, by signalizing themselves as heretofore in exciting so now in closing, the scene of their intollerable Calamities. And I hereby give the strongest Assurances of effectual Countenance, Protection and support to all Persons who avail themselves of the Proclamation issued by his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, dated at James Island the third day of March. Less inclined to reproach than to conciliate, to aggravate 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 inforced, and affording by the complicated Miseries they have brought upon their Country, and the mighty Ruin still impending, irresistable Evidence of the Folly and Malignancy of the Councils by which its Affairs have been conducted. Towards redressing the Disorders, arising from the Loss or want of Charters I recommend it to all concerned, to apply without Delay in the ordinary Course for Charters, which shall be granted as soon as Civil Authority 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 Secretarie's Office, I understand that they were separated from the Rest by the provident Circumspection of my Predecessor, whose merits are above my Applause and have often had yours; and having been afterwards sent Home for safe Custody, you may rely upon their being carefully preserved, 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 affording his Assistance towards accomplishing the Kings most gracious Design of restor 1088 PROCLAMATION OF THE LAST ROYAL GOVERNOR OF N. Y. ing the Blessings of Peace and Good Government: And they who shall most distinguish themselves by their laudable Efforts for these good Purposes will most assuredly best recommend themselves to the Royal Approbation and Favour. Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the By his Excellency's Command, SAM BAYARD Jun' D. Sec'y. JAMES ROBERTSON. God save the King. WHERE IS THIS INDIAN GRAMMAR AND DICTIONARY?-Father Andrew White, an English Jesuit, came to Maryland as a Missionary to the Indians in 1633. Alegambe in his work (in the State Lib:) entitled, Mortes illustres et gesta eorum de Soc. Jesu, p. 32, states, that the worthy father had prepared with great pains a Grammar, Dictionary and Catechism of the tribe among whom he labored. He had in hands, when Alegambe wrote, Expeditionem et Historiam ejus gentis. It were well if enquiries were made for these MSS. by the Representatives of the United States at Rome and London. A RELIC.-An ancient mourning-ring was plowed up a few weeks since at the beautifully situated country-seat formerly occupied by the illustrious Fulton, near Oak Hill, Columbia county, N. Y. It is of gold, very thick and heavy, and on its outer circle bears an inscription, in gold letters on a back ground as follows:-" PETER SCHYLER, OB. I. SEP. 1754—E. 30 6.” Whether the gentleman whose death is recorded by the memento was the father or the brother of General Schuyler, a patriot of the Revolution, we are unable to say, and must leave to be determined by those who are better acquainted with the history of the family. In a book of genealogies, we perceive that the Schuylers intermarried with the Van Rensselaers and Livingstons, and it is probable that they were also related to the Fulton family. It is upward of twenty-five years since the latter resided at the above mentioned place, and we are informed by a friend who lately visited it, that the once elegant mansion of the successful projector of steam navigation is now rapidly falling into decay. The only part inhabited is the the basement, while the spacious dining-room and parlors, where distinguished guests were wont once to assemble, are now used for the sole purpose of storing the produce of the farm. As an instance of the mutations of time, it may be mentioned that the present owner was for a long period coachman to the family. After the death of Fulton, he commenced working the farm on shares, and, by dint of industry and economy, was eventually enabled to purchase the whole of it. He is now possessed of a very handsome competency.-N. Y. Com Advert. July, 1851. |