To whom therefore can your Petitioner so properly apply for Redress in so unprecedented a grievance as to your Excellency in Council 1

Your Petitioner therefore begs that Your Excellency and the Honorable Board will be pleased to take his case under your wise Consideration • And then he is well Assured that he shall

1 Rev. Jean Carle succeeded Mr Rou in 1754. Smith.

PAPERS E.ELATING TO THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.

obtain the most ample Justice ; For whicli, as in duty bound, Your Petitioner will Ever pray

J. P. Tetard. 17 Oct. 1767. Read in Council & Referred for further Consideration.

PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE SONS OF LIBERTY.

By his Excellency Sir Henry Moore Earonet Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas sundry seditious Papers have lately been wrote printed and Secretly dispersed in this City in the Words or to the purport and Effect following.

WHEREAS a glorious stand for Liberty did appear in the Resentment shewn to a Set of Miscreants under the Name of Stamp Masters in the year 1765 ; and it is now feared that a set of Gentry called Comissioners (I do not mean those lately arrived at Boston) whose odious Business is of a similar Nature, may soon make their Appearance amongst us in order to execute their detestable Office. It is therefore hoped tliat every Votary of that celestial Goddess Liberty, will hold tliemselves in Readiness to give them a proper Welcome ; Rouse, my Countrymen, Rouse ! PRO PATRIA.