The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-07-18 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES TUESDAY JULY 18, 1775.
Vol. XIX. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. No. 978 } Weeks since this Paper was first published.
From the Massachusetts Essex Gazette, June 17, 1775.
TO GENERAL GAGE. THOU profane, wicked--Monster of Falsehood and Perversity, whose Day is come, when Iniquity shall have an End.--It will shortly be out of thy Power to put in Execution the tyrannical, oppressive and iniquitous Plans of British Ministers; for Destruction, as a Punishment of thine Iniquity, will soon come upon thee.--Instead of humbling thyself before God for thy Blood-guiltiness, Pharaoh like, thou art hardening thy Heart and fitting thyself for a signal Destruction by rebelling against the Light.--Thy late infamous Proclamation is as full of notorious Lies as the Royal Charter is of sacred Truth.--Thou hast usurped the Authority of a sacred Regard for Law--constitutional Government--the Royal Charter--RELIGION and the sacred NAME OF GOD! What was SAUL among the Prophets, a Hater of GOD and good Men still! and what is SATAN when transformed into an Angel of Light, but a Devil still; and when known to be a Devil still, will not his pretended Regard for Holiness, Justice, Truth, Humanity, Religion, Jesus or the like, serve to render him the greater Object of Abhorrence and Contempt in the Eyes of all wise and Holy Beings?--Your Profaneness--your Perfidy--your notorious Falsehood--your avowed Robbery, and the Murders committed by Men whom you sent forth armed with Fire and Sword--testify against you--that you are an abandoned Wretch,--that you have no Fear of God before your Eyes--that you have no real Regard for Law--constitutional Government, &c. &c.--that you will not die the common Death of all Men--and that, without speedy Repentance, you will have an aggravated DAMNATION IN HELL!
You know that an offensive War levied against any Nation or State, without a just Cause or a Call of divine Providence, is unrighteous and injurious. You know, that in such a Case, a defensive War is warranted by a first Principle of Nature, self-preservation, hence by the God of Nature. You also know that those Acts of the British Parliament, which you have avowedly undertaken to carry into Execution against us by Fire and Sword, are in their own Nature and Operation, offensive Acts of Hostility against Law, English Liberty and constitutional Government of the Nation in general, and against the Charter, Laws, Liberty, Property and Lives of this Colony in particular. Therefore when you declared your Design in coming was to carry into Execution those acts by Force of Arms, and (were you would do it) you formally proclaimed WAR against this Colony in particular; and when you sent forth the King's Troops armed with Fire & Sword to destroy our public Stores, Magazines & Artillery, Mangle all Opposition; & actually drew the Sword of an offensive War; & hence all the bloodshed on either Side, in Consequence of that hostile Act of your's doth and will cry to Heaven for Vengeance against you as the atrocious MURDERER! and by attempting to carry into Execution by Force of Arms these tyrannical and bloody Acts of Parliament in the King's Name and by his Troops, you have reduced this Colony to a State of Nature, you have totally dissolved our Allegiance to the King of England as our King, which was founded in a solemn Compact; we swore Allegiance to him as King, not as a Tyrant, as Protector, not as a Destroyer--as Father, not as a Murderer--as Protestant, not as a Popist!--You are now no more our Governor--you have no Authority to command us in the King's Name, and your Proclamation, declaring us in a State of REBELLION, and promising his MAJESTY'S PARDON to such as should immediately lay down their ARMS is barefaced Effrontery!--Taking up Arms in Defence of Liberty and Property, against Usurpation, and Tyranny, is not Rebellion, it is a Duty we owe to the God of Nature and munificent Governor of Providence. It is no Rebellion to take up Arms in Defence of our Lives, and all that is dear to us in Life against armed Robbers, Murderers, & Usurpers. But you are not only a Robber, a Murderer and usurper, but a wicked Rebel: A Rebel against the Authority of Truth, Law, Equity, the English Constitution of Government, these Colony States, and Humanity itself,--and Heaven is armed with Vengeance against you, and all the American Colonies are firmly united and armed to cut you off as a common Enemy, together with all those Parricides, those Monsters in human Bodies, who have fled to your Wing for Protection. Your and their Crimes are so heinous that they must not be pardoned by Man. But as to the British Troops in general under your command, if they will come and lay down their Arms, & appear on the Side of American Liberty, they shall be protected in the Enjoyment of all the Rights of Americans so long as they shall by their Conduct be worthy of the same.
Our Cause is just and glorious, never had a People a better Cause and a clearer Call in Providence to take up Arms in Defence of it. And the God of Glory is on our Side and will fight for us, and this makes us as bold as Lions. God has wonderfully covered our Heads in the Time of Battle, and even when a Number of our People whom the Ships of War had impressed, were cruelly forced to take the most dangerous and exposed Situation to our Fire, not a Man of them fell, while our Enemy fell down slain all about them! This is of the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our Eyes! A great Warrior once said, 'it is better to trust in the LORD than to put Confidence in Men, it is better to trust in the Lord than to put Confidence in Princes. Some trust in Horses and some in Chariots; but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God. For thou hast girded me with strength unto Battle; thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.' He cried to God and he heard him and pleaded his Cause for him, And God has promised to maintain the righteous Cause of his People, when they go out to War against their Enemies--praying to God the effectual fervent Prayer of the righteous Man, which availth much. From a conscientiousness of the Justice and Goodness of our Cause, we have great Boldness and Confidence to plead with the almighty Ruler of the World and righteous Governor of all the Earth, that he would keep our Army from every wicked Thing--teach their Hands to war and Fingers to fight,--cover their Heads in the Day of Battle--give them to tread down and subdue an unnatural Enemy--confound and intimidate you and all the Sons of Slavery under your Command, establish the Colonies in the Enjoyment of true English Liberty and Property, destroy Tyranny and Popery in the British Dominions and elsewhere--and make all Men free, wise and holy, and then they will be happy. You may be sure that there are Thousands daily praying thus in this Land to him, who heareth Prayer, and to whom all Flesh may come with their Petitions!
We Americans desire not either to slaughter or to captivate the Soldiers and Subjects of the King of England; only to enjoy the Rights and Privileges of Englishmen, -- and therefore our benevolent and humane Advice to you is, to return immediately to your Master with all his Sea and Land Forces under your Command, and tell him you have done wrong in waging War against his loyal Subjects in America, for the Purpose of making them the Slaves of his Subjects in Great Britain,--tell him, that in doing this you have shed innocent blood (and it cries for Vengeance against you) and have dissolved the Allegiance of the Americans
to him, &c. &c. For if you don't depart soon, as now advised, we will attempt to destroy you, in our Defence; we have now drawn the Sword of Defence and appealed to the God of Justice and Power; and are determined not to return it into its Scabbard until our Enemies are subdued and our Liberty and Property secured so as to sit under our Vines and Fig-trees, and there be no Son of Tyranny and Slavery to make us afraid.
JOHANNES IN EREMO. Lord Effingham's Resignation.
A Letter from the Right Hon. Thos. Howard Earl of Effingham and Captain in General Gage's Army, just returned from Boston.
My LORD, BEG the Favour of your Lordship to lay before his Majesty the peculiar Embarrassment of my present Situation. Your Lordship is no Stranger to the Conduct which I have observed in the unhappy Disputes with our American Colonies. The King is too just and too generous not to believe that the Votes I have given in Parliament have been given according to the Duties of my Conscience. Whether I have erred or not, the Course of future Events must determine. In the mean Time, if I were capable of such Duplicity, as to be any Way concerned in enforcing those Measures which I have so publickly and solemnly expressed my Disprobation, I should ill deserve what I am most ambitious of obtaining, the Esteem and favourable Opinion of my Sovereign. My Request therefore to your Lordship is this, that after having laid these Circumstances before the King, you will assure his Majesty that he has not a Subject who is more ready than I am, with the utmost Chearfulness, to sacrifice his Life and Fortune, in support of the Safety, Honour, and Dignity of his Majesty's Crown and Person. But the very same Principles which have inspired me with these unalterable Sentiments of Duty and Affection to his Majesty, will not suffer me to be instrumental in depriving any part of his People of those Liberties, which form the best Security for their Fidelity and Obedience to his Government. As I cannot without reproach from my own Conscience, consent to bear Arms against my Fellow-Subjects in America, in what to my weak Discernment is not a clear Cause; and as it seems now to be finally resolved, that the 22d Regiment is to go upon the American Service, I desire your Lordship to lay me in the most dutiful Manner at his Majesty's Feet, and humbly beg that I may be permitted to retire.
Your Lordship will also be so obliging to entreat, that as I wave what the Custom of the Service would entitle me to, the Right of selling what I bought, I may be allowed to retain my Rank in the Army, that whenever the Envy or Ambition of foreign Powers should require it, I may be enabled to serve his Majesty & my Country in that Way, in which alone, I am expected to serve them with any Degree of Effect.
Your Lordship will easily conceive the Regret and Mitigation I feel at being necessitated to quit my Country's Service, in which has been that of my Ancestors for many Generations, to which I have been bred almost from my Infancy, to which I have devoted the Study of my Life, and to perfect myself in which, I have sought Instruction and Service in whatever Part of the World they were to be found.
I have delayed this to the last Moment, lest any wrong Construction should be given to a Conduct which is influenced only by the purest Motives: I complain of nothing, I love my Profession, and should think it highly blamable to quit any Course of Life, in which I might be useful to the Public, so long as my constitutional Principles, and my Notions of Honour permitted me to continue in it. I have the Honour to be, with great Respect, Your Lordship's most obedient, and most humble Servant, EFFINGHAM.
ADELPHI BUILDINGS, April 12th, 1775. Lord BARRINGTON, Secretary at War. EFFINGHAM, thy Name shall be remembered in America--thou shalt be remembered in the fervent Prayers of every honest & good Man--the social Glass shall not go round but for thy prosperity--and the Festive Board shall bear Testimony to thy Merits.
CAMBRIDGE, July 13. LAST Sabbath a Trumpeter came from the Enemy's Army with a Letter from General Burgoyne to General Lee, and was conducted blindfolded, by our Guards to Head Quarters in this Town. After delivering the Letter he was permitted to return. The Contents of this Letter has occasioned much Speculation, and variously reported; but we hear the Substance of it is nothing more than this:--That General Burgoyne laments his being obliged to act in Opposition to a Gentleman, for whom he formerly entertained a great Veneration; but that his Conduct proceeds from Principle, and doubts not General Lee is actuated by the same Motive; that he wishes Affairs might be accommodated, and desires to have a Conference with General Lee. We are informed General Lee has returned an Answer, in which he declines complying with General Burgoyne's Desire of holding the proposed Conference.
On Tuesday Night a Party of Men was sent from Roxbury Camp to Long-Island, in Boston-Harbour, from whence they brought off 25 of the Enemy Prisoners, between 20 & 30 horned Cattle, and about 100 Sheep. The Prisoners were brought to Head Quarters Yesterday, and soon after sent to Concord.
Since our last arrived here from Philadelphia John Sullivan, Esq; appointed, by the Hon. Continental Congress, a Brigadier-General of the American Army.
We hear from Manchester, in the County of Essex, that on Sabbath Morning, the 2d ult. the Wife of Capt. Thomas Colony was safely delivered of three fine Daughters, who were baptized, the same Day, by the Names of Hannah, Lydia and Nancy. The Mother and Children are in a likely Way to do well.
Last Saturday Morning, before Day-Light, a Party of our Men marched towards the Enemy's advanced Guard on Boston Neck, drove them within their Lines, burnt their Guard-House (formerly the Dwelling-House of Mr. Brown) with several contiguous Buildings, took two Guns, a Halberd, and a Drum. Not one of our Men was either killed or wounded, notwithstanding a heavy Fire from the Enemy's Lines, which were within a Quarter of a Mile of the Buildings we set on Fire. It is thought several of the Enemy were killed or wounded.
We have Intelligence from Boston, that the Enemy are much pleased with the Thoughts of having killed many of our Men when we drove them within their Lines, and burnt their Guard-House.
We have undoubted Intelligence that General Gage's Troops are much dispirited; that they are very sickly, and are heartily disposed to leave off disputing any more to the Tune of Yankee Doodle.
List of the Enemy's Officers killed and wounded at the Battle of Charlestown.
W O U N D E D. 4th Regiment. Captains Balfour and West. Lieutenants Barron and Brown. 5th Reg. Major Mitchell, Captains Jackson and Mansfield. Lieuts. Croker and M'Clintock. Ensigns Charlton & Balaquire. 10th Reg. Capt. Fitzgerald and Paulus. Lieuts. Pettigrew, Hamilton and Vernon. 14th Reg. Ensign Hesketh. 18th Reg. Lieut. Richardson. 23d Reg. Capt. Blackney. Lieutenants Cochran, Beckwith and Leuthill. 25th Reg. Capt. Drew. Lieuts. Campbell and Malley. 38th Reg. Major Brude. Capt. Boyd and Coker. Lieuts. Christie, Houley, Myers and Swiney. Quarter-Master Mitchell, Ensign Sergeant. 43d Reg. Major Spendlove. Lieuts. Robertson & Dalrymple. 47th Reg. Major Smelt. Capt. England, Craig & Alcock; Lieut. England. 52d Reg. Capt. Nelson, Thompson and Crawford. Ensigns Chetwynd and Grame. 59th Reg. Lieut. Haynes. 63d Reg. Capt. Horsford and Foiller. 65th Reg. Capt. Sinclair. Lieuts. Paxton, Smith & Hales. MARINES: Capt. Lemoine, Huddleston, Logan, Chudleigh and Johnson. Lieuts. Pitcairn, Shutworth, Campbell, Balfour, Avenne, Rag and Dyer. Engineer Page. Lieut. Jardin, Secretary to General Howe.
K I L L E D.
5th Reg. Capt. Downes. 14th Reg. Lieut. Bruere. 22d Reg. Lieut. Col. Abercrombie. 35th Reg. Capt. Lyon. Lieut. Baird. 38th Reg. Lieut. Dutton. 43d Reg. Capt. McKenzie. 47th Reg. Lieuts. Gold, Williard and Hillier. 52d Reg. Major Williams. Capt. Eddison, Davison, Smith and Higgins. 63d Reg. Lieut. Dalrymple. 65th Reg. Capt. Hudson. 67th Reg. Capt. Sharwin, Aid de Camp to General Howe. MARINES: Major Pitcairn. Capt. Campbell and Ellis; Lieuts. Finney, Gardner, and Shea. Major Spendlove, Lieut. Vernon and Lieut. Jardin, Secretary to General Howe, with many others, we hear, have already died of their Wounds; and that a great Part of those who are yet alive, are mortally wounded.
Last Friday died at Boston, of the Wounds he received at the Battle of Charlestown, the brave Col. Parker of Chelmsford.
By the Captains Holland, Watson and Loring from London; and Captain Scott from Belfast, all arrived at New-York, see before the following Advertisements.
LONDON, April 25, 1775.
WHEN Lord Grantham pressed for certain Explanations lately at Madrid, he was answered peremptorily, that the Spanish Nation would never tie up its Hands from succouring the distressed, or relieving their Fellow-Creatures, suffering under wanton, unprovoked Oppression. His Lordship was at the same Time reminded of our Conduct, respecting the Hollanders, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, with whom we not only carried on a commercial Intercourse, but actually assisted with Ships, large Armies, and vast Sums of Money. Through the same Channel we are informed, that when the French Minister gave the Assurances to Lord Stormont, so much relied on by the despicable Junta who unhappily direct the Councils of this miserable, fallen Country, and so loudly trumpeted forth by the venal Swarms whom they daily employ for that and several other Purposes equally infamous & weak. Maurepas added, "Your Lordship is to understand, that this Concession on the part of the King my Master, is to be received as a Proof of the Magnanimity of his Councils, his own Moderation, and the Desire he has to cultivate a good Understanding with the King of Great-Britain and the whole English Nation; for were his Majesty to regulate his Conduct from Transactions of a similar Nature between both Countries, the Affair of Rochelle in the Reign of his illustrious Predecessor, Louis XIII. and the fomenting a civil War in the Heart of his patrimonial Dominions, in that of his Son and Successor, his Majesty's Royal Progenitor, Louis XIV. in the beginning of the present Century, would excite Sentiments and dictate a System of Policy respecting the Disputes subsisting between Britain and her Colonies, very different from those your Lordship, on the present Occasion, endeavours so earnestly to press."
The King has given to Governor Hutchinson, late Governor of Massachusetts Bay, a Pension of 2000l. per Annum.
And to Sir Francis Bernard, also late Governor of the same Province, 800l. per Annum Pension.
May 11. Every Friend to the true Interests of his Country, and whose Humanity is confined to particular Objects, must dread the expected News of a Battle in America. In a Victory over a natural Enemy, if a Thousand of the Vanquished drop by the Sword, we feel for them with only a common Christian Compassion; but to read a formal "List of the Killed and Wounded" of our Fellow Subjects, effected by the Caprice of a wicked Ministry, must be piercing to such who have liberal and humane Sentiments.
Though the American Soldier perhaps may not be so regularly disciplined as the King's Troops, yet it must be considered that there is a very material Difference between a Man who fights for his natural Liberty, & the Man who only fights because he is paid for it: The former defends himself in a just Cause; the latter is the mere Dupe of Power: The former is animated by the Zeal of his Attachment to the public Weal; the latter has no Attachments at all, except to his PAY for Slaughter and Bloodshed.
May 12. Certain Advice is received of the Spanish Fleet being sailed from Ferrol to the Number of 20 Ships strong, with two Regiments, a Draught from the Royal Corps of Artillery and a large Number of Marines on board. The Destination of this Fleet as pretended, is only for Cadiz, to join there however a much larger Force. At all Events it behoves Government to look about them.
They write from Guernsey, that 3 French Men of War, with 30 Sail of Vessels under Convoy, pass'd by that Island the 4th Inst. about 3 o'Clock in the Evening, and that they were not at out of Sight the next Morning at Day break.
By the Mail from Flanders, the Sailing of the Spanish Fleet from Ferrol is confirmed.
Intelligence is arrived from Paris, that the King dispatched Orders to all his Seaports to be put in a State of Defence immediately. Similar Orders have been given by the Court of Spain, which puzzles our most experienced politicians greatly, they not being able even to guess at the Design of those Powers.

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May 25. It is now believed that Spain will take the Lead in breaking Peace with Great-Britain, from which France will derive two Advantages; first, by shewing the Necessity of fulfilling her Engagements with Spain; 2dly, by uniting the several discordant Interests in the Court & Cabinet in one great Principle, that of settling Limits to the dangerous growing Power of Great-Britain, and interrupting and chaffing her for the insolent Claim of Dominion they pretend she at present exercises over the whole commercial World.
The Portuguese Minister, it is said, affects to be greatly alarmed on Account of the naval Armaments going on in the several Ports and Dock Yards of Spain; but this is looked upon by those who are well acquainted with the insidious Temper of the Court of Lisbon, designed merely as a Fineness to mislead Great Britain, and to betray its Ministers into a fatal Security.
Nothing now prevents a Rupture between this Country & every Branch of the House of Bourbon, but the Disagreements subsisting in the French Royal Family, and the unsettled, divided State of the French Cabinet.
May 23. It is said that on Thursday his Majesty will go to the House of Peers, and close the present Session with a Speech from the Throne.
By Letters from Capt. Bond, of the Charming Betty, who was obliged to put into Guernsey by Stress of Weather on the 12th inst. we learn that when he left Lisbon a few Days before, a War with Spain was deemed inevitable, and that the Portuguese were making Preparations to stand on their Defence. He says their Navy consists at present of only thirteen Men of War and three Frigates.
It is now generally believed that the Parliament will continue Sitting a Week longer than was at first expected; that is, till Thursday the first of June.
WATERTOWN, (Massachusetts Bay.) July 14.
In Provincial CONGRESS, Watertown, July 7, 1775.
WHEREAS Complaint has been made to this Congress, of the Inhabitants of some of the Sea Port Towns, frequently supplying our Enemies with Butter and Cheese, fresh Provisions, &c.---Also, suspected that Intelligence has been given them.---Therefore RESOLVED,
That it be, and it is hereby recommended to the Committees of Safety, Correspondence, and Inspection, and where there are no such Committees, to the Select Men of the Sea Port Towns and Districts in this Colony, that they forthwith exert themselves, to prevent any Person or Persons from supplying our Enemies with any Kind of Provisions whatsoever, or Intelligence.--- And it is further recommended to the Committees or Selectmen as aforesaid, of each Town, not to suffer any Vessel or Boat of any Kind, to go from the Shore on board any Vessel, or Vessels, of any Size whatsoever, in the Service of our Enemies, without first obtaining a Permit in Writing of the Committees or Select Men aforesaid, for that Purpose; and that no Boats be, suffered to land from Men of War, Tenders, or any other Vessels, employed to distress the Sea Coasts and Trade of this Country, without permit obtained as aforesaid. By Order of the Congress,
Attest. JAMES WARREN, President.
A true Copy. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Sec'y.
PHILADELPHIA, June 24.
Last Tuesday Evening Thomas Jefferson, Esq; arrived here from Virginia, to attend the Congress, agreeable to his Election, in the Room of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq; He was attended by Dr. M'Clurg.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1, 1775.
Under the London head in a late Paper is the following Paragraph, "When the three General Officers kissed his Majesty's Hand, previous to their Departure for America, he enjoined them, in Expressions the most affecting, to let HUMANITY influence them more than Courage, and to avoid an Engagement with those devoted People, if it could be done with Safety to his Person and Crown."---Gage, Howe, Clinton, and Burgoyne, what will Answer to this in the Day of impartial Trial?
A spurious Speech, said to be delivered by General Burgoyne in the House of Commons, is printed by Administration and sent over to America to be attributed in order to deceive the Americans with respect to the Intentions and Principles of this wicked Man. The best reply to this Speech is one of Junius's Letters where he gives the true Character of Colonel (now General) Burgoyne."
NEW-YORK, June 26, 1775.
Saturday Evening last an Express arrived here from Albany, with Advice, that the Caghnawaga Indians of Canada, had actually taken up the Hatchet; & 'tis supposed they intended to act against the Colonies.
The Ship Juliana, Capt. Montgomery, arrived at Sandy Hook last Saturday Night, from London, in which Vessel his Excellency our worthy Governor came Passenger. He landed at 8 o'Clock yesterday Evening, and was conducted to the House of the Hon. Hugh Wallace, Esq; by an immense Number of the principal People of this City.
NEW-YORK, July 6.
From Savannah, in Georgia, we hear, that an Account of the Battle of Lexington was received there on the 10th of May, and had given Business a great Shock: The Tories were much chagrined at our Success, and the Friends of Liberty were associating for the Preservation of their Rights; they had seized about 1200 Weight of Powder that was deposited in the Magazine, and secured it for the common Defence. A great Majority of the Inhabitants of that Province are Friends to the Liberties of America. Large Quantities of English Goods are arrived there in the last Ships.
The Transports with Troops of the second Embarkation from Cork, which have arrived at Sandy Hook, agreeable to Orders there received, sailed last Friday for Boston, under Convoy of his Majesty's Ship of War, the Nautilus, Capt.-----
The Regiments on board the Transports are the 22d, 40th, 44th and 45th.
Yesterday our Provincial Congress being informed by a Number of Freeholders of this City, that our Corporation had prepared, & intended to present an Address to Governor Tryon congratulating him on his Return to his Government, the Congress unanimously voted, that they disapproved of the same, and ordered that the Secretary serve a Copy of the above Vote, on the Mayor; which was done accordingly.
NEW-P-ORT, (Rhode-Island) July 3.
Last Friday Evening the Rev'd. Mr. JOHN MARTIN, who fought gallantly at Bunker-Hill, and since appointed to a Post in the Rhode-Island Regiment, preached an animating Sermon in this Town, from this Text, Neh. iv. and Part of the 14th Ver. "Be not afraid of them; Remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for your Brethren, your Sons and your Daughters, your Wives and your Houses." The next Morning he preached another Sermon, at 5 o'clock, and then set out for the Camp.
 An exact Account of the Troops under GAGE, & of the Provincials.   Regulars now at Boston, 5,000   1 Regiment of Tories and Negroes, 500   Light Horse, about 200   4 Regiments expected, said to amount to 3,000   Marines unknown, perhaps 800   Total of Ministerialists, 9,500   Massachusetts-Forces at Cambridge,   Roxbury, and out Posts, 13,600   Connecticut Forces at ditto, 3,000   New-Hampshire ditto, at ditto, 1,500   Rhode-Island ditto at ditto, 1,390   Total of Provincials, 19,790 
Besides several Companies, from Connecticut on their Way. Last Friday arrived here the Sloop Black Prince, Capt. Hyer, from Dominica, with whom came Passenger Capt. Richard Grinnel, by whom we are informed, that on the Report that the Ports of New-England, and the other Colonies were to be shut up, FISH rose from 16s. to 25s. per Quintal in one Day, and that all Kind of Provisions were enhanced in Proportion.
From the London Evening Post of a late Date. To the KING.
SIRE, PERMIT one of your most humble Subjects to Address you on an Affair of the utmost Consequence to you and your Family.
It is but Sixty Years since your Family were first called to govern these Kingdoms on the Principles of Liberty, in the place of certain Princes who were excluded for Arbitrary Principles.
You have, in your great Wisdom, thought proper to discard all the old Whig Families of Rank and Fortune who established your Family; and you have promoted those who always held contrary Tenets. Consider your Title is not of great Antiquity, and those whom you esteem your best Friends, often arraign it in private. Beware that the Friends of the excluded Family don't send you back to your Electorate. I. B.
HARTFORD, July 10.
Friday last the General Assembly of this Colony ended the Business of the special Session at this Place. They have ordered two more Regiments to be immediately raised in the Colony to consist of 700 Men each, exclusive of Officers, who are to join the Forces of the UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH-AMERICA, in Defence of our common and vital Rights.
PORTSMOUTH.
ON Wednesday last arrived here from Philadelphia, Brigadier General JOHN SULLIVAN, Esq; one of the Delegates from this Colony to the Hon. Continental Congress, he was escorted into Town by seventy Gentlemen on Horseback and thirty more in Carriages; at his Entrance all the Bells rang a joyful Peal, and he was attended to his Lodgings by a great Concurrence of People; after which a great Number of Gentlemen who could not go out conveniently to meet him, waited on him with their Compliments of Congratulation on his safe Return and Honorable Appointment. He was invited by a Select Number of the Sons of Freedom to dine with them at Mr. Nathaniel Folsom's where a genteel Entertainment was prepared at their Expence, at which there were at least seventy Gentlemen present, after Dinner the following Toasts were drank. GOD bless King George, and his most amiable Queen Charlotte. The Colony of New-Hampshire. The Hon. Continental Congress at Philadelphia. General Washington. General Ward. General Lee. Brigadier General Sullivan, and all the other worthy Generals and Officers of the united American Army. The grand Army of the united American Colonies. Lord Chatham. Lord Camden. The Marquis of Rockingham, and all the protecting Lords of Parliament.
The Lord Mayor and Common Council of the City of London. Henry Cruger, Esq; and all the worthy Advocates of America in the House of Commons and elsewhere in England. That Hon. and truly American Patriot, John Hancock, Esq; The most respectable Mr. Samuel Adams. Our worthy Delegate Mr. John Langdon, now at the Continental Congress. All the suffering Sons of Liberty throughout America. May America never want her Sons Bravery to defend her just Rights and Privileges. May the Friends of America flourish in Prosperity, while her Enemies perish in Adversity. May the People of England discern their Destiny before it is hid from their Eyes.
Many other Sentimental Toasts were drank, and every One seemed to emulate with each other, to shew his Attachment to his Country; and a general Satisfaction appeared in the Countenance of the whole Company, consistent with the gloomy Aspect of the Times. The Brigadier took Leave at six, and last Saturday went from his seat in Durham Head Quarters, where we pray that the GOD of Armies may cover his Head and the Heads of all the Army, from Danger in the Day of Battle, and all the People likewise say AMEN.
Last Friday the Hon. GEORGE BOYD, Esq; was sworn in one of His Majesty's Council for this Province.
PHILADELPHIA, July 3.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Stockbridge, (Massachusetts Bay) to a Gentleman of the Congress. dated June 22, 1775.
A Firm Foundation now turns up to View; the Six Nations, and Masters hands well with the Canadian Indians. If I had Time, I would relate to you every Particular of what befall the Messengers of our Indians to the Six Nations, and the Canadian Indians. To be short, they were taken and bound by the Regulars, and carried into Montreal, where, by a Court Martial they were condemned to be hanged, for a slight Suspicion that they were sent to engage the Indians to fall upon the Regulars. This has fully fixed the Minds of the Indians there against the Regulars. High threatening Words passed between the General and the Indian Sachems, who were raised far & near upon the Occasion, and a wonderful Spirit of benevolence appeared towards the young Men that were taken by the Indians there. They told them in the strongest Terms, That they would take their Place, that they would die for them. The whole Story is very affecting. The Indian Sachems told the General, You have offered us Money to fight for you, but we would not take it, as we would have nothing to do with your Quarrel, but now we shall know who are our Enemies. If you think it best to hang those our Brothers, that came a great Way to see us, do it, but remember we shall not forget it. Upon these Threatenings, they thought it best to let the Prisoners go, who got away with some Difficulty. The Canadian Indians further told our Indians, That if they did fight at all, they would fight against the Regulars for they did not like them."
WATERTOWN, July 10, 1775.
One Day last Week a Transport with two Companies on board, brought too a Fishing Boat in the Bay, and took a Man out, of whom they inquired very particularly, concerning the Situation of Things here, after being informed, told him they came from Ireland, with a large Number of Transports, having on Board Eight Regiments; and that Four Regiments more were soon to follow, that they had met at Sea a Vessel sent Express by General Gage, with an Account of the Action at Charlestown; from which they had learned, that they had lost in that Action 300 Men, and had Killed 1500 of the Rebels—that the Rebels had Burned Charlestown, and poisoned the
Balls they Fired.—And that they expected on their Arrival, immediately to make an Ingression into the Country, and to Harrass the Sea Coasts in order to effect an universal Distress.
We hear that Capt. Montagu arrived at Rhode Island in one of the Pirate Boats from New York, reports that one of the above Captains told him that the Account of the Concord Expedition arrived in England two Days before he sailed; and that in Consequence thereof, the Parliament was summoned to meet forthwith.
The Queen of Denmark, [Carolina Matilda, youngest Sister to his present Majesty] died at Zell, on the 11th of May, of a Fever, aged twenty three Years & ten months.
By private Letters lately intercepted, we learn, that the Arch Traitor Hutchinson, was so consummately ignorant of the Genius of his own Countrymen, as to request Leave of his Majesty to retire to his native Country, in the Character of a private Gentleman, and had actually bypassed a Passage for that Purpose in Capt. Jenkins, on his Return to England. [No Doubt many would be glad to see my Lord Tsm once more!]
The following Extract of a Letter is received from a Gentleman who has the best Means of Information, and may be depended upon as authentic: "You may depend upon it, that the Glasgow Packet, Capt. Peterfield, sailed from Greenock, in April last bound for Salem, with many Thousand Pounds Value of Goods on board." It is said, the above Goods are marked for the Army. It is hoped that the Committee at Salem have paid proper Attention to the Vessel, as it is more than probable that she is already arrived.
By a Resolve of the House of Commons on the 12th of May, 21 per Gallon is to be laid on all Rum, or other Spirits, imported into Newfoundland from America.
Last Friday Night a Party of the Troops stationed at Roxbury, set Fire to the House of Mr. Enock Brown, in Boston Neck, which entirely consumed the same.
  The Return of the Americans Killed and Wounded at the Battle in Charlestown on the 17th ult. is as follows   138 Killed and Missing.   292 Wounded.   430 In all. 
N. B. 28 of the Missing were in Boston Goal, and above 30 are now returned Home after the Retreat.
Whereas Priscilla Butler;
my WIFE, has Elop'd from my Business for some Time past, and having carried away from me a Note of Hand, and some Orders in Writing, &c. I do hereby forbid any Person to accept of the aforesaid Papers, or any Payments made in Reference of them by my Creditors. Likewise I forbid any Person crediting my Wife on my Account as I will not pay any Debts by her contracted. James Butler.
Barrington, July 17th, 1775.
ISAAC WILLIAMS,
BEGS Leave to acquaint the Publick, that he has removed with his Family from Portsmouth to Exeter, where he intends his future Residence, and to carry on his Business of Peruque making in all its Branches:
He returns his grateful Acknowledgments to his former Friends and Customers for all their Favour to him, and begs the Continuance of them, together with their Recommendation to others, which he will do his utmost to merit by a constant Attendance at his Shop in Exeter, near the Town House. He further begs Leave to recommend the Continuance of the Publick's Favour to his late Partner, Mr. William Stanwood. Exeter, July 10th, 1775.
Williams and Stanwood,
HEREBY acquaint their Friends and Customers, that their Partnership is dissolved by mutual Consent; and all Accounts open with them, are desired to be settled up to the 5th of July inst. with Mr. William Stanwood, at their late Shop in Portsmouth, where constant Attendance will be given for that Purpose, as well as to oblige such Gentlemen as will be pleased to favour the said Stanwood with their Custom in Peruque making in all its Branches.
Portsmouth, July 7th, 1775.
Neal M'Intyer,
HAS removed from the Store he formerly kept on Spring Hill, Portsmouth, to the House opposite;—where he has for Sale, a Quantity of choice TOBACCO of every Sort, by wholesale or retail; likewise a large Assortment of Earthen and China WARE, among which is a complete Set of CHINA, which will be sold for sterling Cost and Charges; also Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Indigo, Pepper, Spices, Snuff, & all Kinds of Groceries;—Orange, Clove, Annised, Snake Root, and Dr. Stevens's WATER, by the Cask, cheap for Cash or short Credit.
Committee-Hall
Portsmouth, July 8th, 1775.
VOTED, that no Inhabitant of this Town shall be permitted to go to Head-Quarters, except he first obtain a Pass from this Committee for that Purpose, and that this Vote be published in the New-Hampshire Paper.
Attest, H. WENTWORTH, Chairman.