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may be preferred, as my intimate knowledge with
them, leaves no doubt of their affeilion to the ser
vice. I have the pleasure, however, of affirming
t) your Lordship, that a considerable number of
tie most principle people here, are well affefted to
his Majesty, and have very much diftinguiftied
themselves, in opposition to the most extravagant
schemes of the party, which is indeed, a most vio
lent and large majority. I have, my Lord, to the
utmost extent of my power, executed those private
matters given to me in charge by your Lordship,
and by their success am still moic confirmed in your
“ My LORD,
iT is with the most poignant regret that I find my
felf greatly necessitated to demand a total ex
emption from all those reftriftions which are laid
upon me, by the private orders; and a fuller
scope to exert more immediate powers, as the only
means left me to form any hopes of effecting the
great and arduous talk I have undertaken. I have
my Lord, long known the people I have now to
deal with; and am well assured they are in the ex
tent bitter enemies to all conciliatory measures,
where they think the entrance upon them, may
throw an odium on their unanimity, or put their
public spirit to the least doubt. I had the honour
to deliver my sentiments and opinion to your Lord
ship, before my embarkation, on these people and
their prejudices, which to my great astonishment I
now find most obstinately rooted; and every day
brings me new fears, that I shall be reduced to the
cruel necessity of doing my duty to my country and
my Royal Master, in a way that I am certain, will
be as painful to your Lordship, as to myfelf, and
which I have most studiously endeavoured to avoid—
According to the express- commands of my most
gracious Master, which I had the honour to receive
from him before my departure, I entered on the
most lenient measures at firft, and ailed with cir
cumfpeftion and fecrefy, as my arrival added fuel
to the flame of the party, as it was universally pro
pagated and believed that I came to aft more in my
military capacity than my civil. I found the means
my Lord, to gain the fecretsof the party; and en
deavoured, by every means, to convince some of
the leaders, that I came more as a mediator, than
to enforce. I gave them to know, that the most
soothing measures would be used, if they would de
serve them ; that the King desired nothig more ar
dently than the affection of his American fubj-efts,
and a good understanding with his colonies, but
-that it was firmly resolved to gain an honourable
and just reparation for the insults offered, and the
great disobedience to his Majesty’s government and
authority ; and this reparation must be gained, this
return to obedience must be eftabliffied by means
the most coerfiveand severe; but such is their fatal
obstinacy, that every effort for conciliation was re
fufed. As the military force was indeed feared,
the cunning and policy of these people immediately
suggested the meqns of debauching the soldiers from
their duty, in which they had too great success, be
fore I could have the power of exerting my autho
iity in flopping a defection which a fliort time would
have rendered very general. I have, my Lord, of
fered fjeh terms to these deluded men, as are infi
nitely more lenie: t than they deserve, and which,
ihould they refufe accepting, I am determined to
make some very severe examples, which I am very
certain will prove the ultimate refourfe I ffiall reap
my benefit from, refpefting the intent I am to ac
complish. I must assure your Lqrdfhip, thatllhall
have occasion for a considerable reinforcement of
troops, on whose duty and obedience dependance
may be placed; and the more immediate the sup
ply, the more effectual service it will render me.
Your Lordlhip’s judgment will point out the most
proper, but I could wish that ------
to New-York, to be employed in the woolen manu
faftories. in that province.
A fchenie is in agitation for eflablifliing a compa
ny of artillery in North-Zxmerica, who are to be in
dependantor the detachments fentfrom England.
It was on Thurday strongly reported that a disa
greement had happened among some officers of state,
relating to the affairs of America, and that several
resignations were expected to be the confequcncc.
Some of the members are said to be advocates for
lenitive measures, while others as strongly insist on
the necessity of enforceing obedience.
Sept.\\. A letter from Amsterdam fays, “ Your
diiputes with America have so alarmed this country,
that it is with difficulty we can get some bills dis
counted, even at large premiums.”
We hear, that a very refpeftable meeting of the
merchants of this city will soon be held, to confider
ton an address refpefting the affairs of America, to
his Majesty.
September 13.The following is said to be an au
thentic copy of a letter very recently received from
a general officer some time since sent to America, in
a very important and critical situation, by a noble
Lord in a very high office.
(C O P Y,)
By sundry accounts from the westward, we are
informed, taat on the 12th ult. an eng'geni nt hap
pend at the mouth of the K.maawah, between about
600 Virginian^, commanded by Col. Andrew Lev>is,
and about 900 Indians of different nations. The
engagement begun about an hour after sunrise, and
lasted including the Indians firing on their retreat,
until an hour before sunset.—-The Virginias took
18 scalps, with the lofsof4o killed, and 100wound
ed.-—The Indians only got one scalp, and left 4jo
muskets, supposed to be about the number of their
slain ; the track which they made in hauling their
dead to the river, being in many places ancle deep
in blood. Col. Lewis’s brother,fon, and majorFeild,
are said to be among the dead. We daily expect
.arther particulars.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.
We are informed that a few days ago Jesse Hand,
Esq; of Cape May, came to thk city with a genteel
sum of money, generously fubferibed by the people
of that place, to be laid out for the use of the fuffer
ing poor ofßofton.
Agreeable to public notice given in the Pennsyl
vania Journal and Gazette, the within Gentlemen
were duly elected onSaturday the 12th of November,
1774, to beacommitte for the city of Philadelphia,
the northern Liberties and Southwark, and they are
hereby requested to meet at the State-House in the
said city, on Thurday the 17th instant, at three o’-
clock in the afternoon, and proceed on the duty for
which they are elefted.
JOHN HAYA RD, 3 Judges appointed
ISAAC HOWELL, > to iuperintend the
BLATHWAITE JONES. J eleftiun.
COMMI T T E,
John Dickinfon,Thomas Mifflin,Charles Thomp
fon,and 61 other Persons.
We hear that his excellency General Gage, com
mander in chief of his majesty’s forces in North-A
merica, and governor of Boston, has received inflruc
tions from the ministry, in case of necessity, to with
draw any number of his majesty’s troops he ffiall
think necessary from the regiments stationed in the
Weft-India iffands, to his affiflance ; and notice cf
the fame has been received by the different gover
nors in the said iffands.
'Nov. 15. Oh the lothult. there was ah engage
ment between the Virginians and Indians at the
Great Kanawa---Col. Abraham Lewis had the com
mand of 1400 Viginians, was attacked by about 900
Indians, on his way to the Shawanefe town ; the en
gagement begun an hour after sunrise, and lasted
till late in the afternoon, when the Indians fled
The Virginians found and scalped 20 Indians, and
they supposed many more were killed.
Lift of killed and wounded Virginians.
KILLED. Colonels ; Charles Lewis and John
Field.---Captains ; John Mui ray,Robert M’Clanag
han, Samuel Wilson, and James Ward.---Lieut.
Hugh Allen.—-Candiffand Baker, and 44 privates.
WOUNDED. Captains ; William Fleming,
(since dead) John Dickenfon, Thomas Blewford,
arid John Stodman. Lieutenants ; Goodman,
Robeson, Laid, and Vance ; and 79 privates.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in
Alexandria, in Virginia, to his friend
in this City, dated Nov. 7.
“ I have no news excepting, that the Vir
“ ginians and the Indians have had a battle
“ the 1 Gth of loft month, on the Great Kan
“ hawa, in which the Virginians had 150
“ killed and wounded. There were found on
“ the field, ooly nineteen Indians, among which
“ were five different nations .—This news come
“ to town the night before loft.”
Immediately after the allion, an express
was sent to Lord Dunmore, who we are in
formed, with 1000 men is gone to attack the
principal Shawanefe town.
N E W - Y O R K, Nov. 17.
Tuesday afternoon a poor woman formerly of
this city, and a reputable family, but late the wife
of one Whitney of Connecticut,from whence flie had
just arrived, in her way to Carolina, where we hear
her husband now resides, was seized with a fit and
fell down in the street, before the door of Mr. Wal
laccs’s house, where Ihe was taken in, and proper
means being used for her relief, ihe recover’d, but
was soon seized with another fit in which ftieexpired.
All the colonies we have yet heard from, were
taking the most effectual msafu-es. to fectir? a ftrift
Lordships profound political researches, and exten
sive knowledge of mankind in general. I need not
use argument to assure your Lordship, that I am
most firmly attached to an honourable difeharge of
my commission, or that I have the honour to be,
Mv Lord,
• Your Lordfu’p’s, in all finuerity.
ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 10.
A letter of theist of Sept, from England, fays
that two thirds of the nation, now, are on the fide
of the Americans.
His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Col. Guy
Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the
Northern Diftrltt of North-America, in the Room
of Sir William Johnson, deceased.
Flis Excellency General Gage has ordered the
Victualling Office to be immediately removed from
this City to Boftcn.
ExtraCt of a Letter dated at Quebec, October 30.
“ A Committee is arrived here from the English
Inhabitants in Montreal, who have met a Commit
tee of the Inhabitants of this Place, and are/lrawing
up a Petition to his Majesty, against the A<ft of Par
liament for regulating the Government cf this Pw
vince, and hope they will meet with Succefs.’*
PORTSMOUTH, (N>vj-HampJbire) O^lcbir 17.
Whereas there has been a report prevailin'^ in this
tO^sn, for some days past, that a number cf art ifee rs have
been procured, at the tovon ftVolfJbcrough, and the tovns
there-abouts, by some peryons under the croivn, to afid the
troops now at Boson, in building barracks, UPc. contrary
to the opinion of our brethren there The committee of
ways and means for this town, having met to confider of
the fame, aud having great reafen to believe the said re
port, and thinking it our duty to bear testimony against such
proceedings do resolve as follows, viz.
I. That it is our opinion, the persons (whether under
the crown or not)=who have been so cruel and unmanly as
to engage artificers, in this province, to give the least as
sistance to the troops now at Bast on ; when the inhabitants
there have nobly refufed ; difeovers a disposition, not only
to ingratiate him or themselves, with General Gage,
(which is mean andbw) but also to give e^ery ajfiftance
to the pref ent despotic measures ; and thereforekhould be con
sidered as enemies to the community.
2. That it is our opinion, those men who have been so
base, to undertake as artificers (and thereby rcflc&ing not
only on their refpeaive towns, but the province in general)
Jhould be considered as enemies to our liberties, andJhould net
be received at their return, as members worthy of society.
3. That it is our opinion, Jhould these artificers (on re
flection) find themselves to have been impofedupon, by their
employers, to undertake a matter whifi is so disagreeable,
and determine to leave juch scandalous employment, and re
turn to their refpedtive habitations immediately, may be
received to the friendjhip of their townfinen ; but if not,
jhould be eonfidered as in the feentd resolve.
By order of the committee,
Honking Wentworth, Chairman.
HARTFORD, Nov. 21.
The Funeral Solemnity of a late very ref
peltable Person in this Town was attended by
the Family in the frugal Manner recommend'
ed by the General Congress.
At the drawing of Hartford Lottery la fl
IFeek, No. 835, came up the highest Prize
(600 Dollars) and is the Property of Capt.
tPilliam Tiley, of this Place.
At a general meeting of the Englilh inhabitants
of the town of Montreal, to consult on the most pro
per and best method to represent to his Majesty and
the Parliament, a true state of this province, by ac
quainting them of the Ihare we have of the trade, the
landed property we possess, the miserable state we
found this province in, and the flourilhing state we
have brought it to; the recompence we are to re
ceive by a late a<ft of parliament is, to be deprived
cf those valuable parts of our constitution, the trial
by jury, and the habeas corpus aft, and fubjetted to
laws made by a legiffative council, composed of
people entirely indepen lent on the governor, and a
greeable to the despotic laws of France.—And that,
if such an aft takes place, as we ffiall have no securi
ty for our property nor religion (the Roman Catho
lic religion being by said aft, the eftabliffied religi
on as the country) vse must be reduced to the unhap
py necessity of living as slaves, or abandoning the
country and a great part of our property ; and the
province must return to its former miserable situati
on.--There was the greatefl unanimity among!! the
English, when the following gentlemen, viz.
Thomas Walker, Esq; Isaac Todd, Esq; Mr.
James Price, Mr. John Blake, Mr. Alex. Paterfon’
Mr. John Porteus, were chosen a committee, to re
pair to Quebec, to aft in conjunftion with the Eng
lish there,on this alarming occasion. They likewilc
entered into a very generous fubfeription for the ex
pences that might attend their obtaining relief.
'pO be let, and entered upon immediately, aeon
veuient ROOM, under the Printing-Office in-
Hartford, fuitabk for a merchant or tradesman.- —
Enquti'e vs Enos’Dcolittce.
compliance with all tile meafutes propoieu :mu re
commended by tile grand congress.
It is reported Lord M. has had an interview with
his friend, the Pretender, in France; and that 4
Danish ships with troops, were coming to subdue
the Americans, as British and Irish troops could not
be depended upon, to cut the throats of their Bre
thren.