The New Hampshire Gazette

NEW-YORK, MAY 7.
GENERAL BLOCKADE.

The following official Proclamation of Ad. Cochrane, has been communicated from the Squadron off New-London, by a flag of truce :—

BY THE HONORABLE Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE, Knight of the Bath, &c. &c. &c.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, Admiral the Right Honorable Sir John Borlase Warren, did, by virtue of the Power and Authority to him given, by his Proclamation bearing date at Halifax the sixteenth day of November, 1813, declare that not only the Ports and Harbors of the Chesapeake, Delaware, New-York, Charleston, Port Royal, Savannah, and the River Mississippi, in the U. States of America, were and still continued in a state of Blockade, but also that part of Long Island Sound, being the Sea Coast lying within Montauk Point and the Point of Land opposite thereto, commonly called Black Point ; together with all the Ports, Harbors, Creeks, and Entrances of the North and East Rivers of New York, as well as all the other Ports, Creeks and Bays along the Sea Coast of Long Island and the State of New-York, and all the Ports, Harbors, Rivers and Creeks lying, and being on the Sea Coast of the States of East and West Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Lower Countries on the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and all the Entrances from the Sea into the said River Mississippi were blockaded :—And, whereas since the institution of the said Blockade, the Enemy availing himself of the supplies which have been furnished by means of Neutral Communication to those Ports and Places of the said United States which were left open & unrestricted, hath already fitted out numerous vessels of war, and is now engaged in constructing and setting forth several ships of the Line, as well as frigates and other armed vessels, for the purpose of prosecuting the War with Great Britain, and frustrating the object of the said Blockade :—

I do, therefore, by virtue of the power and Authority in me vested, declare, in addition to the said Ports and Places blockaded as aforesaid, all the remaining, Ports, Harbors, Bays, Creeks, Rivers, Inlets, Outlets, Islands and Sea Coasts of the said U. States of America from the Point of Land commonly called Black Point to the North-ern and Eastern Boundaries between the said United States and the British Province of New-Brunswick in America, to be in state of strict and rigorous blockade.

And I do further declare that I have stationed of the said Ports and Places herein before mentioned a Naval Force adequate to maintain the said Blockade in the most rigorous and effective manner. And I do hereby require the respective Flag Officers, Captains, Commanders and Commanding Officers of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed and to be employed on the North American Station, and all others whom it may concern, to pay the strictest regard & attention to the execution of this Proclamation.

And I do caution and forbid the Ships and Vessels of all and every Nation in Peace and amity with the Crown of Great Britain, from entering or attempting to enter, or from coming out or attempting to come out of any of the said Ports, Harbors, Bays, Creeks, Inlets, Outlets, Islands, and Sea Coasts, after due notification of the said Blockade, under any pretence whatever: And that no person may plead ignorance of this Proclamation, I have caused the same to be published.

Given under my hand at Bermuda, the 25th day of April, 1814.
ALEXANDER COCHRANE

To the Respective Flag Officers, Captains; &c. &c. &c.

By command of the Vice Admiral.
WM. BALDWIN, Secretary