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The following is a copy of a Letter from General Let
to General Burgoyne, upon bis arrival in
Bolton.
Philadelphia, June 7, 1775.
My dear Sir,
WE have had twenty different accounts of your
arrival at Boston, which have been regularly
contradicted the next morning ; but as I now find it
certain that you are arrived, I shall not delay a tingle
instant addrefling myfelf to you. It is a duty I owe
to the friendfllip I have long and sincerely prefeffed
for you ; a friendfhip to which you have the Wronged
claims from the firft moments of our acquaintance.
There is no man from whom I have received so many
testimonies of esteem and affeCtion ; there is no man
whose esteem and affe&ion could, in my opinion,
have done me greater honour. I intreat and conjure
you therefore, my dear Sir, to impute these lines
not to a petulant itch of scribbling, but to the most
unfeigned solicitude (or the future tranquility of your
mind, and for your reputation. I sincerely lament
the infatuation of the tinted, when men of luch a
stamp as Mr. Burgoyne and Mr. Howe can be Indu
ced into so impious and nefarious a Service by the
artifice of a wicked and insidious Court and Cabinet,
You cannot but recollect their manoeuvres in your
own fele& Committee, and the treatment yourfelt as
President received from these abandoned men. You
cannot but recollect the black business of St. Vin
cents, by an opposition to which you acquired the
highest and molt deferred honour. I Shall not trou
ble you with my opinion of the right of taxing
America without her own consent, as I am afraid,
from what I have seen of your Speeches, that you
have already formed your creed on this article ; but
I will boldly affirm, had this right been established
by a thonland Statutes, had America admitted it
from time immemorial, it would be the duty of every
good Englishman to exert his utmost to divest Parli
ament of this right, as it mult inevitably work the
subversion of the whole empire. The malady under
which the state labours is indisputably derived from
the inadequate representation of the fubje&, and the
vast pecuniary influence of the crown. To add to
this pecuniary influence and incompetency of repre
sentation, is to insure and precipitate our deftru&ion.
To wilh any addition can Scarcely enter the heart of
a citizen who has the !eaft spark pf public virtue,
and who is at the fame time capable of feeing conse
quences the most immediate. I appeal, Sir, to your
own confeience, to your experience and knowledge
of our court and parliament ; and I request you to
lay your hand upon your heart, and then answer with
your usual integrity and franknefs, whether, on the
supposition America Should be abjt& enough to
submit to the terms imposed, you think a fihgle gui
nea railed upon her would be applied to the purpose
(as it is ostentatiously held out to deceive the people
at home) of eating the Mother Country ? or whe
ther you are not convinced that the whole they could
extra& would be applied solely to heap tip (till fur
ther the enormous fund for corruption which the
crown already possesses, and of which a molt diabo
lical use is made. On these principles I fay, Sir,
every good Englishman, abstracted of all regard for
America, mult oppose her being taxed by the British
Parliament; for my own part I am convinced that
no argument (not totally abhorrent from the Spirit
of liberty and the British constitution) can be pro
duced ip Support of this right. But it would be
impertinent to trouble you upon a fubje& which has
been so amply, and in my opinion f® fully difeuffed.
I find by a Speech given as your's in the public pa
pers, that it was by the King's positive command
you embarked in this service. lam somewhat plea
sed that it is not an office of your own Seeking, tho'
at the fame time, I mult confefs that it is' very
alarming to every virtuous citizen, when he fees men
of sense and integrity (because of a certain profeflion)
lav it down as a rule implicitly to obey the mandates
of a Court be they ever so flagitious. It furnishes,
in my opinion, the belt arguments for the total re
duction of the army. But I ahi running into a
tedious eflay, whereas I ought to confine myfelf to
the main design and purpose of this letter, which is
to guard you and your colleagues from thole preju
dices which the fame mifereants, who have infatua
ted General Gage and still surround him, will labour
to inltjl into you against a brave, loyal, and most
deserving people. The avenues of truth will be
Shut up to vou. I aflerr, Sir, that even General
Gage will deceive you as he has deceived himfelf; I
do not fay he will do it designedly. T do not think
him capable ; but his mind is so totally poisoned,
and his understanding so totally blinded by the focietv
of fools and knaves, that he no longer is capable of
discerning fa&s as manifest as the noon day fun. I
assert, Sir, that he is ignorant, that he has from the
beginning been consummately ignorant of the prin
ciples, temper, disposition and force of the colonies,
I assert, Sir, that his letters to the Ministry (at least
such as the public have seen) are one continued tilfue
of mifiqu elevation, injustice, and tortured infer
ences dam mistaken fa&s. I affirm, Sir, that he
has taken no pains to inform himfelf of the truth ;
that he has never coaverfed with a man who has had
the courage or bonelty to tell him the truth.---! am
apprehensive that you and your colleagues may fall
into the fame trap, and it is the apprehension that you
may be inconsiderately hurried by the vigour and
a&ivity you possess, into measures which may be
fatal to many innocent individuals, may hereafter
wound your own feelings, and which cannot possibly
serve the cause of those who sent you, that has promp
ted me to address these lines to you. I most devoutly
with, that your industry, valour, and military ta
lents, may be referred for a more honourable and
virtuous service against the natural enemies of your
country (to whom our court are so basely compla
cent) and not be wafted in ineffectual attempts to
reduce to the wretchedest state of Servitude, the most
meritorious part of your fellow fubje&s. I fay, Sir,
that any attempts to accomplish this purpose must be
ineffectual. You cannot possibly succeed. No man
is better acquainted with the state of this continent
than myfelf. I have ran through almost the whole
colonies, from the North to the South, and from
the South to the North. I have conversed with all
orders of men, from the firft estated Gentlemen to
the lowed Planters and Farmers, and can assure you,
that the fame spirit animates the whole. Not less
than an hundred and fifty thousand Gentlemen, Yeo
men and Farmers, are now in arms, determined to
preserve their liberties or perish —As to the idea that
the Americans are deficient in courage, it is too ri
diculous and glaringly falfe to deserve a serious refu
tation.-- I never could conceiveupen what this notion
was founded. I served Several campaigns in America
the lad war, and cannot recoiled a Single in stance of
ill behaviour in the Provincials, where'the Regulars
acquitted themselves well. Indeed we well remem
ber some instances of the reverse, particularly where
the late Colonel Grant (he who lately pledged him
felf for the general cowardice of America) ran away
with a large body of his own regiment, and was Saved
from dcfhu&ion by the valour &f a few Virginians.
Such preposterous arguments are only proper for the
Rigby's and Sandwich's, from whole mouths never
issued, and to whose breads truth and decency are
utter Strangers. You will much oblige me in com
municating this letter to General Flowe, to whom I
could wish it Should be considered in some measure
addressed, as well as to yourfelf. Mr. Howe is a
man for whom I have ever had the highest love and
reverence. I have honoured him for his own cen
ne&ions, but above all for his admirable talents and
good qualities. I have courted his acquaintance and
friendship, net only as a pleasure, but an ornament ;
I flattered myfelf that I had obtained it Gracious
God ! is it possible that Mr. Howe Should be pre
vailed upon to accept of such an office! That the
brother of him, to whose memory the much injured
people of Boston ere&ed a monument, Should be
employed as one of the instruments of their destruc
tion 1---But the faShion of the times it seems is such,
as renders it impoflible that he Should avoid it. The
commands of our most gracious Sovereign, are to
cancel all moral obligations, to fan&ify every a&ion,
even those that the Satrap of an eastern Despot would
Start at.---I Shall now beg leave to fay a few words
with refpe& to myfelf and the part I a&. I was
bred up from my infancy in the highest veneration
for the liberties of mankind in general. What I
have seen of Courts and Princes convinces me, that
power cannot be lodged in worse hands than in theirs;
and of all Courts I am persuaded that ours is the
most corrupt and hostile to the rights of humanity.
I am convinced that a regular plan has been laid
(indeed every plan Since the present accession evinces
it) to aboliSh even the Shadow of Liberty amongst
us. It was not the demolition of the tea,---it was
not any other particular a& of the Bosnians, or of
the other provinces which constituted their crimes.
But it is the noble spirit of Liberty manifestly per
vading the whole continent, which has rendered them
the objects of ministerial and royal vengeance. Had
they been notorioufiv of another dilpofition, had
they been homines ad fervitudmem paratos, they
might have made as free with the property of the
Balt-India company as the felonious North himfelf
with impunity. But the Lords of St. James's and
their mercenaries of St. Stephen's will know, that as
long as the free spirit of this great Continent re
mains unsubdued, the progress they can make in
their scheme of univerfai despotism, will be but tri
fling. Hence it is that they wage inexpiable war
against America. In Short, this is the lull alylum
of persecuted Liberty.—Here fliould the machinati
ons and fibre of her enemies prevail, that bright
Goddess muA fly off from the face of the earth, and
leave not a trace behind. These, Sir, are my prin
ciples ; this is my persuasion, and consequentially I
am determined to a&. I have now, Sir, only to
entreat that whatever measures you pursue, whether
those which your real friends (myfelf amongst them)
would wish, or unfortunately those which our ac
cursed mifrulers shall dilate, you will still believe
me to be personally, with the greatest sincerity and
affe&ion,
Your's, &c.
C. LEE.
WILLIAMSBURGH, June 17.
The Governor's answer to rhe joint address of she Hon. the
Council and the House of Burgfes, in comic,vence of the
^ e ^g e vvbicb his Excellency 'left behind bim, upon his
retreat on board the Fowey man of <war. [lnferted in
this Paper June 26.]
Gentlemen of the Council, Mr, Speaker, and
Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses,
IN answer to your joint address, presented by your
deputies yesterday, I acquaint you, that it appears to
me the commotions among the people, and their menaces
and threats (an enumeration of which I forbear, out of
tenderness) have been of such public notoriety, that you
must tuppofe many of his Majesty's fubje&s in thiscolony,
whether they meditated or not, have at least manitefted
such an inveteracy as justifies my suspicion that they weuld
not hesitate to commit a crime, which, horrid and attro
cious as it is, I hadjrft ground to apprehend. And when
the disposition which the House of Burgesses have shewn
towards me, the returns they have made to the refpe&
and civility which I have been forward to offer them, the
countenance they have given to the violent and disorderly
proceedings of the peop<,his Majesty's Magazine having
been forced and rifled in the preferice of some of the*
members of the House of Burgesses, and, by the infor
mation of the committee the Houie appointed to infeed!
the Magazine, no other endeavours have been used than
to prevail on the people to return the arms taken out, but
not to commit the perlons in whose possession they were
found, in order that they might be brought to the punish
ment due to so henious an offence, no less against the
peace and good order of the country, than the dignity
and good authority of the King ; when a bodv of men
all unbled in the city of Williamfburgh, not only to the
knowledge, but with the approbation of every body, for
the avowed purpose of attacking a party of the King's
forces, which, without the least foundation it was re
ported were marching to my protection, and which, if
true, ought to have been approved and aided, not opposed
and insulted, by all good and loyal fubjefts ; when espe
cially the house of Burgesses, or a committee of the house
(which is the fame) has ventured upon a step fraught
w „ the most alarming consequences, in ordering and
appointing guards, without ever consulting me, to mount
in the city of Wiiliamfburgh, as is pretended, to pro
ted the magazine, but which may well be doubted, as
there then remained nothing therein which required
being guarded ; but if otherwise, this step nevertheless
ffiows a design to usurp the executive power, which if it
be persisted in subverts the constitution : I fay, when
these circumstances are duly considered, I may submit it
to your own judgment whether I could reasonably ex
pert any good effect from communicating the ground of
my uneasiness to you.
But as you are pleased, gentlemen, now to assure me,
that you will chearfully concur in any measure, that may
be proposed proper for the security of myfelf and family,(
'!','" J°" ° w ? confederation whether that can be|
effected any otherwise than by reinstating me in the full|
powers of my office, as his Majesty's representative, by
opening the courts of justice, and restoring the energy of
the laws, which is all the security requisite for all parties ;
by disarming all independent companies, or other bodies
of men raised and anting in defiance of lawful authority,
and by obliging those who have taken any of his Majefty's'
public store ot arms to deliver them up immediately ;
and, what is not less essential than any thing, by your
own example, and every means in your power, abolishing
that Spirit of persecution, which, to the disgrace of hu
manity, now reigns, and pursues with menaces and acts
of oppreflion, all persons who differ from the multitude
in political opinion, or are attached from principles and
t'y J 0 ™ e '"" ce °' "™ r King and government ; by
which means, the deluded people never hearing but the
disfigured fide of the story, their minds are continually
kept in that ferment which fubjefts them for ever to be
imposed upon, and leads to the commission of any de-
Iperate aft, and endangers the general fafety. For thel
" dy accomplishment of these ends, and the greatl
°,~. and necessary business of the sessions, I shall have no
objection to your adjourning to the town of York, where
Ic } ° u ' and remain with you till your business
be nnifhed.
With refpe& to your entreaty that I ffiould return to
' as " e m °" likely means of quieting the
minds of the people, I must represent to you, that unless
Gentlemen,
r KNOW of no Reprefentatroes of the People of
1 this Province, except those constitutionally convened
in General Assembly, and am incompetent to judge of
the Deputes which at present unhappily subsist be
tween Great-Britain and the American Colonies.
It is impossible, during the Jbort Interval face my
Arrival, that I fbould have acquired such a Know
ledge of the State of the Province, as to be at present
able to make any Representation thereupon to bis Ma
jefy, but you may be ajfured that no Representations
Jball be ever made by me, but wbat shall be confident
with Truth, and with an earnest Endeavour to pro
mote the real Happiness and Prosperity of the Province.
June 21st, 1775. WM. CAMPBELL.
Publifoed by Order of the Congrejs,
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
In PROVINCIAL CONGRES S,
Charleftown, Saturday, June 17, 1775.
Resolved,
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
Charlefloivn, Wednesday, June 21, 1775.
Ordered,
THAT the Hon. William-Henry Drayton, the
Hon. Capt. Bernard Elliott, Colonel Charles
Pinckney, Col. James Parsons, Col. Isaac Motte,
Col. Stephen Bull, Col. William Moultrie, Major
Owen Roberts, Capt. Thomas Savage, Capt. John
Huger, Miles Brewton, Thomas F^reufon, and
Gabriel Capres, Esquires, be a Deputation to present
to his Excellency the Governor the Address of this
Congress.
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
To bis Excellency the Right Hen. Ecdd William
Campbell, Governor and Commander in chief
in and over the Province ajorefaid.
The Humble ADDRESS and DECLARATION
of the Provincial Congress.
May it please your Excellency,
WE his Majesty's loyal Subjects, the Repre
sentatives of the People of this Colony, in
Congress aflembled, beg Leave to disclose to \'ur
Excellency the true Causes of our Proceedings ; not
only that upon your Arrival among us, you may
receive no unfavourable Impression of our Conduct,
but that we may stand jollified to the World.
When the ordinary Modes of Application for
Redress of Grievances, and the usual Means of De
fence against arbitrary Impositions have failed, Man
kind generally have had Recourse to those that are
extraordinary. Hence the Origin of the Continental
Congress, and hence the present Representation of
the People in this Colony.
It is unnecessary to enumerate the Grievances of
America ; they have been id often repretented that
lyour Excellency cannot be a Stranger to them. Let
it therefore fuffice to fay, that the Hands of his Ma
jesty's Ministers have long lain heavy, now press us
with intolerable Weight. We declare, that no Love
of Innovation, no Desire of altering the Constitution
of Government, no Lust of Independence, has had
the least Influence upon our Councils : But, alarmed
and routed by a long Succession of arbitrary Pro
ceedings by wicked Administrations, impressed with
the greatest Apprehensions of instigated Insurrections,
and deeply affected by the Commencement of Hostili
ties by the Eritifh Troops against this Continent,
solely for the Preservation and in Defence of our
Lives, Liberties, and Properties, we have been im
pelled to associate, and to take up Arms.
We sincerely deplore those Slanderous Informations,
and wicked Counsels, by which his Majelty has been
led into Measures, which, if persisted in, must inevi
tably involve America in all the Calamities of Civil
War, and rend the British Empire. We only desire
the secure Enjoyment of our invaluable Rights, and
we wish for nothing more ardently, than a Speedy
Reconciliation with our Mother Country, upon con
stitutional Principles.
Confeious of the Jullice of our Cause, and the
Integrity of our Views, we readily profefs our loyal
Attachment to our Sovereign, his Crown and Dig
nity: And tiufting the Event to Providence, we
prefer Death so Slavery.
These Things we have thought it our duty to de
clare, that your Excellency, and through you, our
auguSt Sovereign, our Fellow Subjects, and the
whole World, may clearly underhand, that our ta
king up Arms, is the Result of dire Necessity, and
in Compliance with the fidt Law of Nature.
Resolved, That each Parish or Diftri& fliall,
at the Time of choosing Deputies to attend the Pro
vincial Congress, likewise choose a convenient Num
ber to form Committees in the said Parishes and
Diftri&s refpe&ively, i n order to enforce the different
Resolves of the Continental and Provincial Congresses.
By Order of the Congress,
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.
THAT this Congress shall expire on the 6th Day
of August next: That a new Ele&ion be made
on Monday the 7th and Tuesday the Sth Days of
August, except in Charleftown : And that the new
Members then ele&ed do meet in General Congress
at Charleftown, on the firft Day of December next,
or sooner, if the General Committee shall think it
expedient to femmon them.
there be among yen a fificere and active desire to felee
this opportunity, now offered to you by parliament, of
eftablilhing the freedom of your country upon a fixed and
known foundation, and of uniting yourselves with your
fellow fubjedts of Great-Britain in one common bond of
interest, and mutual aOiftance, my return to Williamf
borgh would he fruitlefs to the people, as, possibly, it
might be dangerous to myfelf. But if your proceedings
manifeft that hhppy disposition, which is to be desired
ardently by every good friend to this as well as the mother
coir tty, I assure you, in the warth of my heart, that I
will return, with the greatest joy, and shall confider it
as the most fortunate event of my life if you give me an
oppoirunityto be an inftrumennt of promoting your hap
piness, and a mediator between you and the supreme
authority, to obtain for yoti every explanation of your
doubts, and the fullest conviction of the sincerity of their
delire to confirm you in the undisturbed enjoyment of
your rights and liberty ; and I shall be well pleased by
bringing my family back again, that you should have
such a pledge of my attachment to this country, and of
my wishes to cultivate aclole and lading intimacy with
the inhabitants.
June 10, 1775. DUNMORB.
The Deputation being returned, the Honourable
Mr. Drayton reported, that they having delivered
the Address to the Governor, his Excellency was
pleased to make the following Answer:
SOUTH-CAROLINA, June 23.
We entreat and trust, that your Excellency will
make such a Representation of the State of this Co
lony, and of our true Motives, as to assure his
Majesty, that, in the Midi tof all our complicated
Distresses, he has no Subjects in his wide Dominions,
who more sincerely desire to teftify their Loyalty and
Affe&ion, or who would be more willing to devote
their Lives and Fortune in his real Service.
By Order of the Provincial Congress, at Cbarleflown,
June zotb, 1775.
HENRY LAURENS, President.
In PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
Charlefioiun, Thursday, June 22, 1775.
RESOLVED, That all Absentees holding Estates
in this Colony, except the Sick, those above
fxty, and those under twenty-one Years of age,
ought forthwith to return to this Colony.
Refolded, That no Persons holding Estates in this ;
Colony, ought to withdraw from its Service, with
out giving good fufficient Reasons for so doing to
this Congress, or, during its Recess, to the General
Committee.
Ordered, That the two foregoing Resolutions be
printed and made publick.
PETER TIMOTHY, Secretaay.
On Saturday Evening last, his Excellency the
Right Honourable Lord William Campb'ell,
Governor in chief, fee. &c. of this Province, arrived
here in his Majesty's Sloop Scorpion. His Excel
lency was immediately saluted by a Discharge of the
Cannon in the Fort and Bastions, and the Tamar
Man of War. On Sunday at Noon the Militia were
drawn up in Broad-street, through which his excel
lency who was received at his Landing by two Mem
bers of his Majesty's Council, Walked to the State
house, preceded by the Grenadier Company, com
manded by Capt. John M'Call. At the State-house,
his Excellency was introduced into the Council
Chamber, where his Majesty's Commission appoint
ing his Lordship Captain General, &c. was read ;
and his Excellency, preeceded by the Grenadier
Company, attended by the Members of his Majesty's
Council, &c. walked to the Exchange, where his
Majesty's Commission Was again read and published.
His Excellency returned to the State-house, preceeded,
as before, by the Grenadier Company of whom his
Lordfliip exprefled his Approbation in very genteel
Terms, as also of the other Companies,
The Right Honourable Lady of William Camp
bell was brought ashore before his Lordship landed
and conduced to the House of Miles Brewton, Eiq;
where his Lordship and Family intend flaying till
their own House can be fitted up for their Reception.-
Ralph Izard, jun. Esq; and Mrs. Izard, arrived
here with his Excellency.
It is with Pleasure we can inform the Public, that
his Excellency the Governour has frequently expres
sed his Concern at the present Chappy Disputes be
tween our Mother Country and her Colonies, and
wiflies for nothing more ardently, than he might be
the happy Instrument of, in some Measure, conci
liating. them.
The Provincial Congress broke up Yesterday, after
having spent three Weeks, Sundays not excepted, in
deliberating on the present unhappy State of Public
Affairs. Some of their Proceedings are published
above ; and we are informed, more are ordered to be
published.
PHILADELPHIA, July 5.
IN ASSEMBLY, June 30, i 77 5.
The House taking into donfideration, that many
of the good people of this Province are conftfenti
oiifly scrupulous of bearing arms, do hereby ^neftly
recommend to the Aflociators for the defence of their
country, and others, that they bear a tender and
brotherly regard towards this class of their fellow
fubje^s and countrymen ; and to these confeientious
people it is also recommended, that they chearfully
assist in proportion to their abilities, such persons as
cannot spend both time and substance in the service of
their country without great injury to themselves and
families.
Refolded, That the sum of Twenty Pounds be
paid for every hundred weight of good merchantable
falt-petre, that shall be made and manufactured in
this province, and delivered to the undermentioned
Committee, within the space of three months from
this time ; and that the sum of Fifteen Pounds be
paid for every hundred weight of good merchantable
falt-petre, that shall be made and manufactured in
this province, and delivered to said Committee within
three months next following, and so in proportion
for any greater or l(Lw quantity.
COMMITTE E.
John Dickinson, Michael Swoope, William Tbompfon,
George Gray, John Montgomery, Thomas Willing,
Henry Wynkoop, Edward Biddle, Benjamin Frank
lin, Anthony Wayne, William Edmonds, Daniel Ro
berdeau, Benjamin Bartholomew, Bernard Dougb
erty> J°bn Cadwallader, George Ross, Samuel
Hunter., Andrew Alien, Owen Biddle, Francis
JobnJion, Richard Reily, Samuel Morris, jun. Ro
bert Morris, Thomas Wharton, jun. Robert White.
Extract from the Journals,
CHARLES MOORE, Clerk of Assembly.
Extrafl of a Letter from an American Gentleman at-
Paris, dated May 2, 1775, to bis Friend in Phila
delphia.
" I find the French are extreamly attentive to our
American politics, and to a man Itongly in favour
of us. Whether mostly from ill-will to Britain, or.
friendfify to the colonies, may be matter of doubt ,
but they profefs it to be upon a principle of huma
nity, and a regard to the natural rights of mankind.
They fay that the Americans will be either revered or
detected by all Europe, according to their conduct at
the approaching crilis ; they will have no middle
chara&er ; for in proportion as their virtue and per
severance will render them a glorious, their tame
submission will make tliem a despicable people."
Extras of a Letter from London, dated May 10.
“ Before you receive this, you will probably have
determined the fate of both parts of the British em
pire in that venerable Assembly the Continental Con
gress. We have no fears for you, but the infatua
tion of the Ministry here gives us as much to appre
hend as ever. It is (till the full persuasion of all the
Courtiers (and I almost think of the greatest part
of the nation) that notwithstanding all your seeming
firmnefs and hostile preparations, you will submit to
any thing rather than contend with us. A very fhoiC
time will now determine that matter ; for there is 110
appearance of any relaxation here. We wait for the
great event with the most anxious and diftreffirg
impatience."
In CONGRESS, July 4th, 1775.
RESOLVED, That the two ads passed in the firft
session of the present Parliament, the one entitled,
“ An aft to retrain the trade and commerce of the
province of Massachusetts-Bay and New-Hamplhire,
and colonies of Connecticut and Rhodc-Iftand and
Providence Plantations in North-America, to Great-
Britain, Ireland and the British Islands in the Weft-
Indies ; and to prohibit such provinces and colonits
from carrying on any fishery on the banks of New
foundland, or other places therein mentioned, under
certain conditions and limitations, the other inti
tuled, “ An aft to restrain the trade and commerce
of the colonies of New- ferfey, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Virginia, and South-Carolina, to Great-Bri
tain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the Weft-
Indies, under certain conditions and limitations ;''
are unconstitutional, oppreflive and cruel, and. that
the commercial opposition of these colonies, to certain
a&s enumerated in the association of the lad Con
gress, ought to be made against these until they are
repealed. A true copy from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Sec %