Quarantine restrictions between the States Pennsylvania and New York and Ireland lifted (1806)

The proclamation read: “Whereas His Majesty’s Order in Council of the 26th day of January inst hath been laid before us, reciting, that it has been represented to His Majesty that the infectious disorder which some time since raged within the States of Pennsylvania and New York, within the United States of America, has totally ceased; and His Majesty taking the same into consideration, and being desirous to remove all restraint upon trade, so far as may be consistent with the safety of his subjects, has been pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, that, the Quarantine laid by His Majesty’s Order in Council of the seventh day of November last upon all ships, persons, goods and merchandizes [sic] which had arrived, or which should thereafter arrive from any of the ports in the States of Pennsylvania or New York, be taken off, and that all respective ships and vessels be permitted to discharge their respective ladings without unpacking, opening; and airing, and without performing quarantine, as freely as they might have done in case such order of the seventh of November last had not been made, any thing in the said order contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided such ships and vessels shall have sailed from the ports in the States of Pennsylvania or New York subsequent to the third day of November last, and that none of the crew or other persons on board shall have died or been sick of the said Fever during the course of the voyage.”

The proclamation continued: “And whereas, by our proclamation of the fifteenth day of November last, we did order and direct, that all ships, vessels, persons, goods, wares and merchandizes then arrived, or which might thereafter arrive from any of the ports within the States of Pennsylvania or New York, should be subject to and perform quarantine before such ships and vessels were permitted to proceed to other ports or places of discharge.”

It further remarked: “Now we, the Lord Lieutenant and Council, having taken the foregoing into our consideration, and being desirous to remove all restraints upon trade, so far as may be consistent with the safety of His Majesty's subjects, do hereby order and direct, that the quarantine at present subsisting upon all ships, vessels, persons, goods and merchandizes arriving, having arrived, or to arrive from any of the ports of the States of Pennsylvania or New York, be taken off, and that all such ships and vessels be permitted to discharge their respective ladings without opening, unpacking, and airing, and without performing quarantine, as freely as they might have done in case such order had not been made, any thing in the said proclamation of the fifteenth day of November contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided such ship and vessels shall have sailed from the ports in the States of Pennsylvania or New York subsequent to the third day of November last, and that none of the crew or other persons on board shall have died or been sick of the said fever during the course of the voyage.”

It concluded: “And the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs are hereby directed to give the necessary Orders herein as to them may respectively appertain. Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 31st day of January, 1806.”

Celebrations as Bangor cotton mills established

Meanwhile, the News Letter also published this interesting snippet of news pertaining the establishment of cotton mills in Bangor, Co Down.

It detailed: “We took occasion some months ago to notice the extensive Cotton Spinning Manufactory, which had been established on the estate of the Honourable Colonel Ward, at Bangor. With no less satisfaction we have to announce today, that another cotton mill has been erected there, upon a scale more extensive than any hitherto erected in Ireland.”

The News Letter continued: “The new mill having been completed on Saturday last, the Honourable Colonel Ward invited a numerous company, to partake of an elegant entertainment, for the purpose celebrating the commencement of that extensive manufactory. In the afternoon they assembled in the mill, to the number of 400, consisting of all the people connected with the works; the Corps of the Bangor Yeomanry, & c, &c, with their wives, sweethearts and children. Music and dancing occupied the hours until night, when they sat down to a sumptuous and elegant repast, where Irish hospitality was liberally exemplified.”