We learn from Portsmouth, that one day last week, the Members of their late House of Representatives meet at the State House in that place, in order to choose Delegates for the general Congress; but before they had time to proceed to business, his Excellency Governour Wentworth, attended by the Sheriff, came to them, when the former read a Proclamation, requiring them to disperse, and the latter the Riot Act; upon which they adjourned to a Tavern, and agreed that letters be sent to their respective towns, to appoint a person out of each, to meet together and join in the choice of Delegates for that Government for the Congress proposed.

NEW-KENT COUNTY (VIRGINIA) RESOLUTIONS.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of New-Kent, at the Court House of the said County, on Tuesday, the 12th day of July, 1774:

THOMAS ADAMS, Esq., chosen Moderator, and

WILLIAM CLAYTON, Esquire, Cleric.

The present state of America being seriously and duly considered, the following Resolutions were proposed and agreed to as an Instruction to our Deputies hereafter named:

Resolved, That our Sovereign Lord, King George the Third, is lawful and rightful King of Great Britain and all his Dominions in America, to whose royal person and Government we profess all due subjection, obedience, and fidelity; and that we will at all times defend and protect the just rights of his Majesty with our lives and fortunes.

Resolved, That the inhabitants of the British Colonies in America are entitled to all the rights, liberties, and privileges, of free born English subjects.

Resolved, That the right to impose taxes, or duties, to be paid by the inhabitants of this Dominion, for any purpose whatever is peculiar and essential to the General Assembly, in whom the legislative authority of the Colony is placed, and that taxation and representation are inseparable.

Resolved, That a trial by a jury of the vicinage is the glory of the English law, and the best security for the life, liberty, and property, of the subject, and is the undoubted birth-right of all his Majesty's free born American subjects.

Resolved, That the several Acts and Resolutions of the Parliament of Great Britain, made during his present Majesty's reign, imposing taxes on the inhabitants of America, for the express purpose of raising a revenue, and for altering the nature or punishment of offences committed in America, or the method of trial of such offences, are unconstitutional, arbitrary, and unjust, and destructive of the rights of America, and that we are not bound to yield obedience to any such Acts.

Resolved, That the late cruel, unjust, and sanguinary Acts of Parliament, to be executed by military force and ships of war, upon our sister Colony of the Massachusetts Bay and town of Boston, is a strong evidence of the corrupt influence obtained by the British Ministry in Parliament, and a convincing proof of their fixed intention to deprive the Colonies of their constitutional rights and liberties,

Resolved, That the cause of the town of Boston is the common cause of all the American Colonies.

Resolved, That it is the duty and interest of all the American Colonies firmly to unite in an indissoluble union and association, to oppose, by every just and proper means, the infringement of their rights and liberties.

Resolved, That we do heartly approve of the Resolutions and Proceedings of our several late Assemblies for asserting and supporting the just rights and liberties of America, from their patriotick Resolves in 1765 to this time.

Resolved, That we will most firmly unite with the other counties in this Colony in such measures as shall be approved of by a majority, as the best and most proper method of preserving our rights and liberties, and opposing the said unconstitutional Acts of Parliament.

Resolved, That the most effectual method of opposing the said, several Acts, of Parliament will be to break off all commercial intercourse with Great Britain until the said Acts shall be repealed.

Resolved, That the several counties within this Colony ought to nominate and appoint for every county, proper Deputies, to meet upon the first day of August next, in the City of Williamsburg, then and there to consult and agree upon the best and most proper means for carrying into execution these or any other Resolutions which shall be best calculated to answer the purposes aforesaid.

Resolved, That it be earnestly recommended to the Deputies of the said General Convention to nominate and appoint fit and proper persons on behalf of this Colony to meet such Deputies as shall be appointed by the other Colonies in General Congress, to consult and agree upon a firm and indissoluble union and association for preserving, by the best and most proper means, their common rights and liberties.

Resolved, That Burwell Basset, and Bartholomew Dandridge, Esquires, our late and present worthy Representatives, be and they are hereby nominated and appointed Deputies, on the part and behalf of the freeholders and inhabitants of this county, to meet such Deputies as shall be appointed by the other counties within this Colony, in the City of Williamsburg, on the first day of August next, or at any other time or place for the purpose afore-said.

Resolved, further, That our said Deputies agree to join in any proper means that shall be adopted for the immediate relief of the present necessities of the inhabitants of the town of Boston.

Resolved, That the Clerk transmit the foregoing Resolutions and Instructions to the Printer, to be published.

WILLIAM CLAYTON, Clerk of the Meeting.

EXTRACT F A LETTER FROM THE HONOURABLE GOVERNOUR WENTWORTH, TO THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, DATED NEW-HAMPSHIERE, JULY 13, 1774.

The Convention mentioned in my despatch, No. 63, immediately dispersed without attempting to enter into any measures. Those gentlemen with some others dined at a tavern, and there in private agreed to recommend to the several Parishes in the Province, that they choose persons to meet at Exeter on the 21st instant, for the purpose of appointing Delegates to attend, and be part of an American Congress, intended to assemble the 1st of September next, in Pennsylvania or New-Jersey. The towns were desired to collect voluntarily, and send by their agents to Exeter, certain sums of money in proportion to their Province tax, amounting to three hundred pounds sterling, to pay the Delegates. It was also recommended to the Parishes, that the 14th instant be observed as a day of fasting and prayer. It is yet uncertain how far these requisitions will be complied with, but I am apt to believe the spirit of enthusiasm, which generally prevails through the Colonies, will create an obedience that reason or religion would fail to procure

Williamsburg, Va., July 14, 1774.

An express which arrived last Sunday from the frontiers, brought letters to his Excellency the Governour from the County Lieutenants of Augusta, Botetourt, and Fincastle, which advise that skulking parties of Indians (supposed to be Shawanese and Delawares) had been discovered lately among the settlements, some of them venturing within twenty-five miles of Botetourt Court House. Upon receiving this intelligence, we hear that his Excellency has directed the militia of those counties to be draughted out, in order to compose a body of men sufficient to go against the Indian towns, and drive off, or extirpate the blood-thirsty and savage inhabitants. By the same express, we learn that there have been two skirmishes between our people and the Indians, one of which happened at the head of the Monongahela, wherein three Indians were killed, and Captain Wilson, who commanded the party against them, received a shot in his body, but it was hoped would not prove mortal. The other skirmish was on the head of Greenbrier, in which the Lieutenant of the party was wounded, and one man killed; none of the Indians fell.

His Excellency left this city, on the 10th instant, in order to take a view of the situation of the frontiers of this Colony. It seems his Lordship intends to settle matters