THE NEW-YORK GAZETTE: AND WEEKLY MERCURY, Oct. 8, 1781 Edited and published by Hugh Gaine who supported the Crown and espoused the Royalist cause. A pg. 2 report from Philadelphia says that "By a person who left Williamsburgh about the 20th instant we are informed that Lord Cornwallis had evacuated Gloucester & only occupied at present the post of York--that he had fortified the place in the best manner. We expect the most interesting advices from that quarter as his excellency general Washington with the land forces was within 3 miles of York ten days ago." This is a great report from less than a month before Cornwallis would surrender to Washington there at Yorktown. Reports continue with: " ...the English army, said to consist of between 5 and 6,000 men, were encamped on Staten Island...indicating some sudden movement, not improbably towards this city." A letter from Cape Henry begins: "Nothing gave me greater pleasure than the appearance of the Army under general Washington..." with further on their movements which preceded the surrender of Cornwallis. Under South Carolina is a Proclamation addressing the rigorous confinement and subsequent execution of an American officer in the ...provost of Charlestown... along with the intention "...to make British Regular Officers, and not the deluded inhabitants who have joined their army, subject to retaliation..." Signed in type: Nath. Greene from Camden, South Carolina. Pg. 3 has a Two Dollars Reward for a runaway negro boy named Bristol who escaped from Major James Grant of the Kings American regiment. Uncommon to find such Tory issues. Masthead has a nice woodcut of a majestic seal topped by a crown and held by a lion and a unicorn, although it shows wear (see photos). A small ink library stamp in the lower margin, wear at folds causes a few small holes on the first leaf, some areas of foxing, otherwise generally good.