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A GENERAL PEACE. 



NEfP-rORK, March 25, 1783. 



LsfTE laft Night, an EXPRESS from New-Jerfey t 

 brought the following Account. 



'J' H A T on Sunday latt, the Twenty- Third Inftant, a Veffel arrived at 

 Philadelphia, in Thirty-five Days from Cadiz, with Dijpatcbes to 

 the Continental Congrefs, informing them, that on Monday the Twentieth 

 Day of January, the Preliminaries to 



A GENERAL PEACE, 



Between Great-Britain, France, Spain, Holland, and the United States of 

 America, were sicned at Paris, by all the Commiflioners from thofc Powers j 

 in conlequence of which, Hoftiliries, by Sea and Land, were to ceafe in 

 Europe, on Wednefday the Twentieth Day of February j and in America, oa 

 Tburfday the Twentieth Day of March, in the prefent Year One Thoufand 

 Seven Hundred and Eighty-Three. 



THIS very important Intelligence was laft Night announced by the 

 Firing of Cannon, and great Rejoicings at Elizabeth-Town. — Reflecting 

 the Particulars of this truly interefting Event no more are yet received, but 

 they are hourly expected. 



Publifbedby James Rivington, Printer {0 the King's Mofi Excellent Majejlf. 



The foregoing "Broadside " Aa* been i&mpurtd with the original, in the Senate House, 

 Kingston, H. V., and found comet, 



JULIUS SCHOOHMAKER, Custodian. 

 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this Jjtn doy of October, t8$$. 



C. HUME, Motary Public. 

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Staten Island and New Jersey shores. An object of interest for all will 

 be the historic Roosevelt, used by Commander Peary in his successful 

 trip to the North Pole. Staten Island has contributed a reproduction 

 of Commodore Vanderbilt's periagua, the forerunner of the Vander- 

 bilt ferryboats between Staten Island and Manhattan. The warships 

 will also rendezvous in the harbor, and at 1 :30 p.m. the parade 

 will begin, the warships in the lead. The whole array of vessels, at 

 least seven miles in length, will advance, slowly and majestically, up 



