I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice of his Majesty's Council to issue this Proclamation ; hereby in his Majesty's Name offering a Reward of Fifty pounds to any Person or Persons who shall discover the Author or Authors of the above mentioned Paper, so that he or they be thereof convicted : And over and above the said Reward I do hereby promise his Majesty's most gracious Pardon to any accomplice or accomplices who^ shall discover the Author or Authors of the Seditious Paper aforesaid.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Fort George in the City of New York the Twentieth Day of December one thousand seven hundred and sixty Nine, in the Tenth year of the Reign of oiu- Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of

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%• On the 20th Dec. John La.hb, afterwards a Captain in Montgomery's expedition against Canada, and since Irnown as General Lamb, was brought before the Assembly on the Speaker's warrant and examined, on the following day, touching his conduct regarding the two preceding " Libels." As it did not appear that he had acted at the Meeting of the Citizens on the 18th in consequence of those obnoxious papers, though it is stated that he was the proposer of the Resolutions there, he was discharged. Gen'l Lamb, after seeing considerable service through the Revolutionary War, died in New York "in poverty and distress " on the 31 May, 1800, in the 66th year of his age. The Life and Times of Gen.