7th, Resolved, That the following gentlemen, viz: Rev. William West,. Messrs. Aquila Hall, Richard Dallum, Thomas Bond, son of Thomas, John Love, Captain John Paca, Benedict Edw. Hall, Benjamin Rumsey, Nathaniel Giles, and Jacob Bond, be a Committee to meet the Committee of the, other counties of this Province, to consult and agree on the most effectual means to preserve our constitutional rights and liberties, and to promote the union and harmony between Great Britain and her Colonies, on which their preservation depends. And that the same gentlemen, together with the following, Captain John Matthews, Captain William Smith, Doctor John Archer, William Young, Abraham Whitaker, William Webb, Amos Garret, George Bradford, John Rumsey, Jeremiah Sheredine, William Smithson, William Bond, son of Joshua, Isaac Webster, and Alexander Cowan, be a Committee of Correspondence, and on any emergency to call a general meeting, and that any six of them have power to act.

Signed per order, of the Committee.

JOSEPH BUTLER, Clerk.

FREDERICK COUNTY (MARYLAND) RESOLUTIONS.

At a Meeting of a respectable and numerous body of the Freemen of the lower part of Frederick County, at Charles Hungerford's tavern, on Saturday, the 11th day of June, 1774.

Mr. HENRY GRIFFITH, Moderator.

1. Resolved, unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the town of Boston is now suffering in the common cause of America.

2. Resolved, unanimously, That every legal and constitutional measure ought to be used by all America for procuring a repeal of the Act of Parliament for blocking up the harbour of Boston.

3. Resolved, unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the most effectual means for the securing American freedom, will be to break off all commerce with Great Britain and the West Indies, until the said Act be repealed, and the right of taxation given up, on permanent principles.

4. Resolved, unanimously, That Mr. Henry Griffith, Doctor Thomas Sprigg Wootton, Nathan Magruder, Evan Thomas, Richard Brooke, Richard Thomas, Zadock Magruder, Doctor William Baker, Thomas Cramphin, Jan., and Allen Bowie, be a Committee to attend the General Committee at Annapolis, and of Correspondence for the lower part of Frederick County, and that any six of them shall have power to receive and communicate intelligence to, and from, the neighbouring Committees.

5. Resolved, unanimously, That a copy of these our sentiments, be immediately transmitted to Annapolis, and inserted in the Maryland Gazette.

Signed per order,

ARCHIBALD ORME, Clerk.

ESSEX COUNTY (NEW-JERSEY) RESOLUTIONS.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Essex, in the Province of New-Jersey, at Newark, in the said County, on Saturday, the 11th day of June, 1774,

This meeting taking into serious consideration some late alarming measures adopted by the British Parliament for depriving his Majesty's American subjects of their undoubted and constitutional rights and principles; and particularly the Act for blockading the port of Boston, which appears to them pregnant with the most dangerous consequences to all his Majesty's Dominions in America; do unanimously resolve and agree:

1. That under the enjoyment of our constitutional privileges and immunities we will ever cheerfully render all due obedience to the Crown of Great Britain, as well as full faith and allegiance to his most gracious Majesty King George the Third; and do esteem a firm dependence on the mother country essential to our political security and happiness.

2. That the late Act of Parliament relative to Boston, which so absolutely destroys every idea of safety and confidence, appears to us big with the most dangerous and alarming consequences; especially as subversive of that very dependence which we should earnestly wish to continue, as our best safeguard and protection: And that we conceive every well-wisher to Great Britain and her Colonies is now loudly called upon to exert his utmost abilities in promoting every legal and prudential measure towards obtaining a repeal of the said Act of Parliament; and all others subversive of the undoubted rights and liberties of his Majesty's American subjects.

3. That it is our unanimous opinion, that it would conduce to the restoration of the liberties of America should the Colonies enter into a joint agreement, not to purchase or use any articles of British manufacture; and especially any commodities imported from the East Indies, under such restrictions as may be agreed upon by a general Congress of the said Colonies hereafter to be appointed.

4. That this county will most readily and cheerfully join their brethren of the other counties in this Province, in promoting such Congress of Deputies, to be sent from each of the Colonies, in order to form a general plan of union, so that the measures to be pursued for the important ends in view may be uniform and firm; to which plan when concluded upon we do agree faithfully to adhere. And do now declare ourselves ready to send a Committee, to meet with those from the other counties, at such time and place, as by them may be agreed upon, in order to elect proper persons to represent this Province in the said general Congress.

5. That the freeholders and inhabitants of the other counties in this Province be requested speedily to convene themselves together, to consider the present distressing state of our public affairs; and to correspond and consult with such other Committees, as may be appointed, as well as with our Committee, who are hereby directed to correspond and consult with such other Committees, as also with those of any other Province; and particularly to meet with the said County Committees, in order to nominate and appoint Deputies to represent this Province in general Congress.

6. We do hereby unanimously request the following gentlemen to accept of that trust; and accordingly do appoint them our Committee for the purposes aforesaid, viz: Stephen Crane, Henry Garritse, Joseph Riggs, William Livingston, William P. Smith, John De Hart, John Chetwood, Isaac Ogden, and Elias Boudinot, Esquires.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO A GENTLEMAN IN NEW-YORK.

Norwich, (in England,) June 13, 1774.

What a scene of misery and distress are the pernicious measures of Administration disclosing in this city ! The cries of thousands of poor journeymen weavers, and the clamour of their unemployed masters, with all their numerous dependants of combers, dyers, hot-pressers, &c, will ere long reach the ears of the weak, tyrannic Lord that occasioned them, and make his name and memory as odious in Europe as in America. Every manufacturer in the home trade, who, at this time of the year used to receive prodigious orders for coarse camblets, callimancoes, and black and white crapes, from the ware-houses in London for the Colonies, are now entirely at a stand; and when business in the foreign houses decline, our work-houses will be crowded with paupers, and the poor-rates become insupportably high, and numberless families become destitute of bread. It is not many months since a petition was presented to Parliament, by our worthy members, Sir Harbord Harbord, and Edward Bacon, Esquire, setting forth the decay of trade, and the hardships we labour under. But alas how does a Prime Minister regard the misfortunes he heaps upon others. Instead of protecting and encouraging our commerce, he has taken the most direct means to diminish and destroy it; and for what? To execute his avowed and secret designs, and to gratify his pride, his folly, and his resentment. Because a licentious rabble in Boston destroyed a dutied article, which