The State, Sir, is Highly Indebted to you in your Military Capacity-a Sense of your real merit will secure to you that Reputation which a brave man Exposing himself in Defence of his Country will ever deserve. We most sincerely congratulate you on your Happy arrival at the capital of the state. Your Excellency hath borne a part with us in the General Distress, and was ever Ready to Alleviate the Calamities you could not Effectually remove. Your Example taught us to suffer with Dignity. We beg leave to assure your Excellency that as prudent Citizens and faithfull subjects to the People of the State of New York we will do every thing in our Power to Enable you to support order and good Government in the Community over which you have by the Suffrages of a Free & Discerning People been Elected to preside.

Gentlemen, Accept my most sincere Thanks for your very affec tionate and respectful address. Citizens who, like you, to indicate the sacred Cause of Freedom, have quitted their native City, their Fortunes and possessions: & sustained with manly Fortitude the Rigors of a long and painful exile, supeseded to the grevious Calamities of a vengeful war, merit, in an eminent degree, the title of Patriots and the Esteem of mankind; and your Confidence and approbation are Honors which cannot be received without the utmost sensibility, contemplated without gratitude and satisfaction.

To your sufferings and to the invincible spirit with which they were surmounted, I have been witness; and while I sympathized in your Distresses I have deeply lamented that I had not means to alleviate them equal to my Inclination:

The assurances of your firm support in the administration of Government give me similar Pleasure. A Reverence for the Law is peculiarly essential to publick safety & Prosperity under our

free Constitution; and should we suffer the Authority of the Magistrate to be violated, for the sake of private Vengeance, we should be unworthy of the numberless Blessings which an indulgent Providence hath placed within our Reach. I shall endeavour steadily to discharge my Duty, and I flatter myself that this state will become no less distinguished for Justice & publick Tranquility in Peace than it has hitherto been marked in War for Vigor, Fortitude and Perseverance. Gentlemen, Your kind Congratulations on my arrival at this metropolis, after so long an absence, are highly acceptable, and I most cordially felicitate with you on the Joyful Event which have restored us to the free & uncontrollable Enjoyment of our Right. While we regard with inviolable gratitude and assertion all who have aided us by their Council or their arms let us not be unmindful of that Almighty Being whose gracious Providence has been manifestly Interposed for Deliverance and Protection: and let us prove by our Virtues that we desire to partake of the Freedom soverignty & Independence which are so happily established throughout these United States.

[No. 5263.]

Address of the Marine Society of New York to Governor Clinton on His Entry into That City.

To his Excellency George Clinton, Esquire, Governor, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia and Admiral of the Navy of the State of New-York.

The humble Address of the Marine Society of the City of NewYork.

May it please your Excellency, At a Time when every Heart

attached to the Liberties of this County expands with Joy, for the happy Restoration of publick Tranquility, we should be wanting in Duty, not to take the earliest Opportunity of congratulating your Excellency upon so desirable an Event.

The Independence of America, so happily acheived by the Wisdom and Bravery of her virtuous Sons, assisted in their Exertions by a most illustrious & generous Ally will ever be a Theme we shall dwell on with Pleasure; and in reviewing the Variety of Characters who have contributed their Aid, both in Council and in the Field, to the Salvation of their Country, we should be really inexcusable, were we not to remember with the deepest Affection & Gratitude, the important Part you have acted on the Side of Liberty.

Impressed with the truest Sense of your Virtues and Abilities, the Citizens of this State, have continued in your Hands, the Reins of Government; and however arduous may be the Duties of your office, we hope your Labours will be softened by this Reflection, that with a free and uncorrupted People, it is a just and prevailing opinion, that merit like your only deserves exalted stations.

Much might be said in Commendation of your Excellency, which we are forced to omit, lest in the Abundance of our Applause, you might mistake for Adulation the genuine Sentiments of our Hearts; but you will permit us for once to declare, that those who are unacquainted with your Excellency may know, that you are not more distinguished amongst us, for your steady Zeal and Attachment to your Country, than for a refined Humanity which adds lustre to all your other Virtues.

To be "Feet to the lame and Eyes to the blind, and to make the Widow's Heart sing for Joy" has long been your Employment

and Delight; a Disposition so happily moulded to promote some of the first objects of our Institution, could not but call our Attention to your Excellency; and Institution which we flatter ourselves has long since met with your Approbation, because founded on the Principles of Benevolence & publick Utility.

This Corporation, from a new ardent Desire, to have the Honour of your Name on the Rolls of the Society, and to exhibit this publick Testimony of their Regard for your Person, have unanimously voted you one of their Members, and most humbly beg your Acceptance of these Testimonials of their Esteem; not doubting, but under the Influence of your Excellency's benign Administration, this Institution will derive new Life & Vigour, and become as extensively useful, as the Design of it is generous & laudable.

By Order of the Society

New York, Novem 22d, 1783.

Anth'y. Griffiths, Secry.

[No. 5264.]

Governor Clinton from Harlem Makes Final Disposition with Sir Guy Carleton for the Evacuation of New York.

Harlem, Novr. 22d, 1783.

Sir, I have had the honor to lay your Excellency's Letter of the 19th Inst. before the Council appointed for the Temporary Gov't. of the Southern District of the State and by their Resolu tion of yesterday a Copy of which is enclosed you will perceive that they have fully acceded on the Terms proposed for the accommodation of the british Navy & the Troops under your command. I have, therefore, only to assure your Excellency of the uninter

The Certificate & Copy of the Charter.

rupted enjoyment of the several Places & accommodations mentioned in your Letters in confidence, however, that they will be given up on your part as soon as it may become practicable, even 'tho this should be before the Legal Evacuation. At the same time observe that it may become neecessary to define with greater Precision what is meant by "New Utrecht & the circumjacent District," to prevent an equivocal Jurisdiction which may other wise take place in that part of the Country.

I am obliged for the Information communicated by your Excellency of a Design to disturb the Peace of the City, though from the Character & want of importance of the Person whom it is alledged is to conduct this Business, I cannot entertain a belief that any

thing serious will happen.*

I am &c

Sir Guy Carleton, K. B.

G. C.

Under the same date and from the same place Washington wrote to Sir Guy Carleton as follows:

Sir, I have been honored with your Excellency's letter of the 19th instant; and for a reply to the proposition contained in it, I must beg leave to refer you to his Excellency Governor Clinton, who will inform you by this conveyance, that the council instituted for the temporary government of the State So. District have acceded to your reservations, in full confidence that the embarkation will be expedited as much as the circumstances will admit.

With regard to the information, that a deliberate combination had been formed to plunder the city of New York, I have to observe, that the intelligence appears to me not to be well-founded; at least, no intimations of the kind had ever before come to my knowledge; and I can assure your Excellency, that such arrangements have been made, as will, in my opinion, not only utterly discountenance, but effectually prevent, any outrage or disorder, unless the evacuation should be delayed until a much larger number of people shall be collected from the country, than have been assembled as yet for the purpose of going into town on its being relinquished by your troops; in which case the difficulty of establishing civil gov ernment and maintaining good order may be greatly increased.

Lieutenant-Colonel Walker will have the honor to deliver this letter to your Excellency, and to assure you of the respectful consideration with which

I am, Sir, &c.