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That after the lothday of September next,
all exportation from America, to Great-Britan, Ire
land and the Weft-Indics, shall cease entirely, ex
cept rice to Europe.
AH possible encouragement to be given to the in
crease and improvement of sheep, (none of which to
be exported) and to the improvement of manufac
tures of all kinds.
No goods, on account of the scarcity to be raised
to a higher than ordinary price for a 12 months last
p.a ft.
Committees to be chosen for every county, city,
and town, by those qualified to vote for representa
tives in the legislature.
• The business of these committees, to be watchful
against the leaf! breach of the general agreement.
And if anyperfon be found guilty, their names and
offence to bs publilhed,and they to be noted as pub
lic enemies-—no dealings, nor intercourse to be held
with them-—nor with any colony that does not
ftridly conform, and adhere to the general agree
ment, till all theoppreffive ads be repealed—cecono
my, frugality, andinduftry to be encouraged, every
kind of gaming, horse racing and cock fighting, to
be difeouraged, with every species of extravagance
and dissipation, shews, plays and expensive diversi
ons; fcarfs,gloves and mourning at funeral to cease,
except a black crape or ribbond for gentlemen’s
'vernment of the Maffachufett’s-Bay.--And that
which is entitled, •* An Aft for the better adminis
tration of justice, &c.—And that “ Forextending
the limits of Quebec, &c.” are repealed. And we
recommend it to the provincial conventions, and to
the committees in the refpedive Colonies, to estab
lish. such farther regulations as they may think pro
per, for carrying into execution this Association.
PEYTON RANDOLPH, President.
Signed by the Delegates of the several Provinces.
NEW-YORK., (Thurjday ) November 3.
Last week, at Philadelphia, ended the Grand
Continential Congress, of Delegates from all the
Britifti American Colonies from New-Hampshire, to
South Carolina, incnlfively---they having,in a man
ner highly honourable to themselves and their Con
stituents, and serviceable to their Country, finifhed
the important Business on which they were appoint
ed, and met to deliberate and determine fora great
and increasing Nation.
The World has hardly ever seen any Assembly
that had matters of greater Consequence before
Xhem ; that were chosen in a more honourable
manner ; were better qualified for the high Trust
reposed in them ; executed it in a more faithful,
judicious and effedual manner, or were more free
and unanimous in their Conclusions, than this.
We hear thejournal of their whole proceedings, is
in the press at Philadelphia, and in a few Days may
be expelled ; meanwhile the following particulars,
publilhed by their order, are reprinted in a pamph
iets (and to be had of the printer hereof,) viz.
A Bill or Declaration of natural and confiituti
©nal Rights ; A Lift of American Grievances ; Oc
casional Refolvcs thereon. A Letter to General
Gage. An Afibciation or voluntary Contrail not
to import, nor purchase or use, and not to export to
or from Great-Britain, Ireland, the Weft-Indies or
Dominica, after the Times mention’d in the agree
ment, any goods, wares or mcrchandife, till all the
oppreflive unconliitutional Aids oftheßritilh Parlia
ment against the American Colonies are repealed ;
A Letter to the People of Great-Britain ; a Letter
to the Inhabitants of the Britilh Colonies in Ameri
ca ; and a Letter to the Inhabitants of Quebec.
These Particulars are all drawn with a masterly
Hand ; the expediency of every adopted Measure,
is clearly pointed out ; the whole plan is so well
calculated, so tempered with goodness and wisdom,
with mildness and resolution ; so guarded by pru
dence and supported by reason, that in all human
probability it can hardly fail of the desired effed.
The non-importation is to take place the firft of
December next, after which nothing is to be im
ported from Great-Britain nor Ireland ; nor from
any other place, any goods, wares, or merchandise
from those places ; nor any East-India tea from any
part of the world, nor any molasses firups, paneles,
toffee or pimento from the Britifti plantations or
Dominico ; nor wine from Maderia, or the western
Illes nor any foreign indigo---Nor import nor pur
chase any ilave, nor be any way concerned in the
Have trade, nor hire any vessel nor fell any com
modities or manufactures, to those concerned in it.
But that if any goods arrive between the firft of
December and the firft of February next, the owner
shall be at liberty either tore-ship, deliver them at
his rilk, beftored by the committee, or fold under
their direction. The profits on the sale (after re
imbursing the firft cost and charges) to be applied to
the relief of the poor of Boston.
That no tea imported on account of the East-In
dia company, or any on which a duty has been or
shall be paid, shall be either purchased or used from
this day forward ; and after the firft day March no
Eaft-Inftia tea whatever, to be either purchased or
used.
hats or arms, and black ribbond or necklace for
ladies, &c.
It is also recommended that delegates be chosen
as soon as possible for another general congress to be
held at Philadelphia the 10th of May next.
BOSTON, {Monday} Odober 3 1.
It was currently said, and generally believed at
Bristol, the Day before Capt. Tyler failed from
thence, that a War would very Ihortly commence
between Spain and Portugal.
A late Letter, from Leghorn, fays, “ all the Ves
sel s which have arrived there within three months
from the coasts of Spain agree that the Spanards
are uncommonly busy in fitting out (hips of" war at
their different sea ports ; and that within this Ihort
time 12,000 men have failed from Seville for Ame
rica on board the ships of war that have been fitted
out there ; and that 8000 men went on board the
Efcuril, Angelo, &c. which failed thefirft of August
for America.---The reasons of all these preparati
ons, they fay, may be easily guessed at. France and
Spain certainly intend to attack the Britilh Colonies
in America, and to take advantage of the present
disputes between them and the mother country,
while they are so iritated against th« Britifti Go
nernment.”
A Letter from Lisbon, as late as Sept. 6th,makes
no mention of a War between them and the Spani
ards.
BOSTON, (Tharfday) 08. 3.
In Provincial Congress, OBober 29, 1774.
Ordered, That Captain Heath, Captain White,
Captain (Gardner, Mr. Cheever, and Mr. Devens,
be a Committee, to wait upon his Excellency with
the following Message.
John Hancock, President.
May it pleafeyour Excellency,
r *Y“ v HE province having been repeatedly alarmed
A at your Excellency’s unusual and warlike
preparations since your arrival into it, and having
by this Congress expressed a reasonable expedation,
that you would desist from, and demoliih your for
tifications on Boston-neck ; it must afford matter of
dftonilhment, not only to the Province, but te the
whole continent, that you Ihould treat our impor
tunate applications with manifeft insensibility and
disregard. The Congress are possessed of a write -
ing with your signature, which purports icfelf to be
a message to this body, although to sundry gentle
men by name, who officiating as our committee
presented an address to your Excellency. We are
surprised at your faying that “ what we call a for
trefs, unless annoyed, will annoy nobody,” when
from your acquaintance with the constitution of Bri
tain, and of the province, over which you have
been commissioned by his Majesty to preside, you
must know that barely keeping a standing army in
the province, in time of peace, without consent of
the Reprcfentatives, is against law, and must be
considered as a great grievance to the fubjeds ? a
grievance which this people could not with due re
gard to their liberty endure, was there not reason
to hope that his Majesty, upon being undeceived,
would order redress I Is it not aftonilhing then Sir,
that you Ihould have ventured to assert that a for
trefs, by whatever name your Excellency is pleased
to call it, which puts it in the power of the standing
army which you command, to cut off all commu
nication between the country and the capital of this
province, to imprison the many thousand inhabi
tants of the town of Boston, to insult and destroy
them upon the least, or even without any provo
cation, and which is evidently a continual annoy
ance to that oppressed community, “ unless annoy
ed will annoy nobody ?”
A retrofped of your Excellency’s conduct since
your residence in this province, we conclude will
convince you of that truth, the meer hinting of
which you tell ui is highly exasperating as well as
ungenerous. We presume that your Excellency
will not deny that you have exerted yourfelf to ex
ecute the ads made to subvert the constitution of the
province. Although your Excellency’s connecti
ons with a ministry inimical to the province, and
your being surrounded with men of the worst poli
tical principles, preclude a profped of your fully
exercising toward this province, your wonted bene
volence and humanity, yet, Sir, we pray you to
indulge your social virtues fofar as to confider the
necessary feelings of this people under the hand of
oppression. Have not invasions of private property
by your Excellency been repeatedly made at Boston ?
Have not the inhabitants of Salem, whilst peace
ably assembled, for concerting mcafures to preserve
their freedom, and unprepared to defend them
ielves, been in iminent danger from your troops ?
Have you not by removing the ammunition of the
province, and by all other means in your power,
endeavoured to put it in a state utterly defencelefs ?
Have you not expressly declared, that resentment
might be justly expeded “ from your troops” mere
ly in consequence of a refufal of some inhabitants
of the province to supply them with property unde
niably their own ? Surely these are questions found
ed oninconteftible fads, which we think must prove
that while the avowed enemies of Great-Britain and
the colonies, are protected by your excellency, the
lives, liberties and properties of the inhabitants of
the province, who are real friends to'the Britilh con
stitution, are greatly endangered, whilst under the
centroul of vour ftandino' army.
It must be matter of grief to every true Briton that
the honour of Britifti troops is fulbed by the infa-.
mous errand on which they are sent to America;
and whilst in the unjust caufein which you are en
gaged, menaces will never produce submission from
the people of this province. Your Excellency as
well as the arrhy, can only preserve your honour
by refufing to submit to the most difgraceful proff
titution of fubferving plans so injurious to this peo
ple, so notoriously iniquitous and cruel.-—Yottr
Excellency profeffes to be felicitous for preserving
union and harmony between Great-Britan and the
colonies, and we sincerely hope that you will dif
tinguifti yourfelf, by exertions for this purpose ’
for Ihould you be an instrument of involving in a
civil war this oppressed and injured land, it must
forever deprive you of that tranquility, which fi
nally bids adieu to those, whose hands have been
polluted with innocent blood. Your Excellency
reminds us of the spirit of the Britilh nation ; we
partake, we rejoice in her honours, and efpeciall v
revere her for her great national virtues : We hope
fire will never veil her glory, or hazard fucccfs by
exerting that Ipirit in support of tyrannys
Your excellency’s strange misconception of fads,
is not less conspicuous in the close of your meffap-e/
than in many other parts of it. You have suggest
ed that the condud of the province for supporting
the constitution, is an instance of its violation—.
to declare the truth relative to this matter, must he
a full vindication of our conduft therein : Thcpow
er placed in your Excellency for the good of the
province to convene, adjourn, prorogue and dissolve
the General Court, have been perverted to ruin
and enslave the province, while our constituents,
the loyal fubjeds of his Majesty have been compell
ed for the laudable purposes of preserving the cOn- x
ftitution, and therein their freedom, to obtain the
wisdom of the province, in a way which is not on
ly juftifiable by reason, but under the present exi
gencies of the state, direded by the principles of
the constitution itfelf; warranted by the most ap
proved precedent and example, and fandified by
the Britilh nation at the revolution, upon the
strength and validity of which precedent, fhq whole
Britifti constitution now Hand; "his present Majesty
wears his crown, and all subordinate officers hold
their places; and although we are willing to put
the most favourable cosiftrudion on the warning you
have been pleased to give us of the “ rock on which
we are,” we beg leave to inform you, that our con
stituents do not exped that in the execution of that
important trust, which they have reposed in us, we
Ihould be wholly guided by your advice, and we
trust, Sir, that we ihall not fail in our duty to our
country, and loyalty to our King, or in a proper
refped to your Excellency.
NEWPORT, Odober 31.
We have certain intelligence byCapt.Tomlinfon,
that ths city of London had fubferibed ^.5000 ller
ling, for the town of Boston, and it was expeded
they would make up ^.7000.
Bets often toone were laid in this town,laft night,
that war between France and Spain, Great-Britain
and Portugal, will be declared within 4 months.
NEW - HAVEN, Nov. 4.
The honorable, and refpedable Continential
Congress, having finilhed their important Business
last Fueiday fe’nnight diffols^d their Meeting,
The Delegates from this colony are return’d ; and
those belonging to the other New-England colonies
have passed through this town, on their way home.
This day, our General Assembly, ended their
Fall Sessions.
We hear the re-\ r e-rend famuel peters of Hebron,
nvbofe Intentions vsere publijbed in his jargon Epiflles
in the Connecticut Courant, No. 12, not being able te
procure a passage to London on board any Ves
sel bound to that Place from Boston, vent to Salem for
that Purpose, vjhere, meeting voith a like Disappoint a
ment, he immediately return’d by Way of Dartmouth
College, te Hebron, inhere it is said he keeps himfelf con
cealed, to avoid the Tokens of Resentment which he has
justly merited from the good People of this Colony ; But
it is hoped his infignificance willproteß him from any
Injury eitheir in Perf on or Est ate.
Last Wtek the notorious Richard Steel was ccndußed
through this town and fafely lodged in New-Gate Pri
son in Simfiury, where he is sentenced to ten Years Con
finement for Burglary.
We hear, that several Field Officers, belong to
our Militia, have on Account of their advanced’
Age, resigned their Commissions.
HARTFORD, OBober 7.
Yhe General Assembly of this Colony, in their last
Sessions in New-Haven, appointed the Hen. Eliphaict
Dyer, the Hon. Roger Sherman, and Silas Deane, Li
tus Hofmer and Jonathan Sturgis, Ejquires, Members of
the General Congress to be held at Philadelphia, on the
loth of May next agreeable to the Recommendation and
Rejolve of the late General Congress, any three of whom,
to attend.