ces. When they vote away our money, they don't, at the same time, give that of their own and their best friends with it, but, on the contrary, they ease themselves and their friends of the whole burthen they lay on us, and, therefore, will always have strong inducements to make or burdens as heavy as possible that they may lighten their own. Indeed, in every view of this Act, it appears replete with horrour, ruin, and woe, to all America; it matters not where it begins to operate, no Colony on the Continent is exempt from its dreadful principle, nor can any one that has a seaport avoid its execution. But however ghostly, grinning, and death-like this awful threatening power lowers over us, I doubt not there are means left to America to avoid its effects, and virtue enough to induce every individual to throw aside every little consideration and unite with immoveable firmness in the important business of self-preervation.

We have reason to think this is the last effort of the power that would oppress us; if, it takes place we are undone, undone with our posterity. If we oppose and avoid it, we may still continue to enjoy our liberties, and posterity will look back to this alarming period, and will admire and boast the virtue of their ancestors that saved them from slavery and ruin.

KENT COUNTY (MARYLAND) RESOLUTIONS.

A numerous and very respectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of Kent County, in Maryland, was held at the Court House in Chestertown, on Thursday, the 2d day of June, 1774, pursuant to public notice given for that purpose.

THOMAS SMITH, Esq., was unanimously chosen Chairman.

And, after reading the Act of Parliament for blocking up the harbour of Boston, and sundry letters and papers received from the Committee of Correspondence at Annapolis, the following gentlemen were chosen to correspond with the Committees of the other counties of this Province, and of the Colonies in general, viz: William Ringgold, (Eastern Neck,) Robert Buchanan, John Maxwell, Emory Sudler, Colonel Richard Lloyd, Colonel Joseph Nicholson, John Cadwallader, Joseph Nicholson, Jun., Thomas Ring-gold, Thomas B. Hands, Joseph Earle, Ezekiel Foreman, James Anderson, James Hynson, James Pearce, and Isaac Spencer, Esquires, and Messrs. William Carmichael, John Vorhees, Donaldson Yeates, William Ringgold, (Chester-town,) Eleazer McComb, Dr. John Scott, Jeremiah Nicols, Dr. William Bordley, and Captain James Nicholson.

The gentlemen present then desired the Committee to nominate a select number of their members to meet the Committees from the different counties in one Grand Provincial Committee, at the city of Annapolis, on a day thereafter to be appointed, to deliberate on proper measures to be taken in conjunction with the other Colonies, in order to bring about a repeal of the above Act of Parliament, so destructive in its consequences to the liberties of America in general, and of the town of Boston in particular.

The following gentlemen were appointed for that purpose, viz: Mr. Chairman, William Ringgold, (Eastern Neck,) Joseph Nicholson, Jun., Thomas Ringgold, and Joseph Earle, Esquires, who were directed to use every means in their power to promote unanimity of counsels, in order that a rational and well concerted plan may be laid down and prosecuted to attain the end proposed.

The gentlemen of the Committee being moved with the most tender sympathy for the distresses of their suffering brethren of Boston, particularly of the labouring poor, who are deprived of the means of supporting themselves and families by the operation of the Act for blocking up their harbour, opened a subscription for their relief, which in a little time was filled up to a considerable amount, and is left in the hands of the Chairman to be collected and shipped to them in such articles of provisions as may be most wanted, whenever it shall be necessary.

The Committee then adjourned to the house of Mr. Edward Warrell, in the said town, where their future meetings are to be held.

Signed by order of the Committee,

WILLIAM HALL, Clerk.

Extract of a Letter from one of the members of the House of Assembly of NEW-JERSEY, and one of the Committee of Correspondence, which consists of nine members. Dated JUNE 2, 1774.

"I returned yesterday from New-Brunswick, where six of our Committee met. We answered the Boston letters, informing them that we look on New-Jersey as eventually in the same predicament with Boston, and that we will do every thing which may be generally agreed on. We have signed a request to the Governour to call the General Assembly, to meet at such time as his Excellency may think proper, before the first of August next. Our Committee is well disposed in the cause of American freedom."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED IN PHILADELPHIA.

Boston, June 2, 1774.

We have been, for three weeks past, in a general hurry in business; most of our navigation is gone, and by the 13th instant I do not expect to see six vessels in our harbour. One regiment of the troops arrived yesterday, and they are marking out the lines in our Common to fix tents. How many are to be fixed here we cannot tell, and indeed we can know nothing certain till the operations take place. Our Custom House Officers all take their departure to-day, if they did not set out last night, to Plymouth, (being in this port,) to carry on business there. Governour Hutchinson sailed yesterday morning in Captain Callahan, for London, with his second son, one of our consignees, and a daughter. Governour Gage sets out from Cambridge this day, for Salem, to meet the General Court there the 7th instant. Five gentlemen, in their private capacity, waited on him three or four days since, to know what the amount of the tea was, arid to whom they might apply; but they could only obtain from him that they would know, but did not say when. He was much on the reserve: but from the conversation I have had with two of them, we shall not be able to know any thing, with certainty, till either this town, as a town, or the General Court, apply to him. He sent a written order to our Provincial Treasurer, to move the Province money down to Salem; but he refused complying, well knowing he could not answer it without the special orders of the Assembly. I hope the Southern Governments will view our case in its true light, which I take to be a besieged city, in which is a great diversity of opinions and interests, and in a very little time will be the city of a great multitude without business, and ready to break through stone walls for subsistence.

THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH TO GOVERNOUR GAGE.

Extract.

Whitehall, 3d June, 1774.

Since you left England the Parliament has made a very considerable progress in the American business, and I send you herewith, by the King's command, two Acts to which His Majesty gave the royal assent a few days ago.

These Acts close the consideration of what relates to the state of your Government, and it is hoped that they will have the good effect to give vigour and activity to civil authority; to prevent those unwarrantable assemblings of the people, for factious purposes, which have been the source of so much mischief; and to secure an impartial administration of justice in all cases where the authority of this Kingdom may be in question.

The Act for the better regulation of the Government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, provides, that from the 1st of August next, all elections of the Council under the authority of the Charter, shall be void, and that, for the future, the Council shall be appointed by the King.

In consequence of that provision, his Majesty has, with the advice of the Privy Council, nominated thirty-six persons, qualified as the Act directs, to be the Council of Massachusetts Bay, from and after the time limited for the continuance of the present Council; and enclosed herewith, I send you his Majesty's additional instruction, under the sign manual, authorizing and requiring you to assemble the said Council, and containing such further directions as are thought necessary and incident to this new establishment,