on this occasion has met with so full approbation from your Honour, and will most certainly induce them to exert themselves on future ones. I had yesterday an opportunity to acquaint them, as also a very respectable body of people who were assembled here in consequence of a letter from the Committee of Philadelphia, of your determination to afford them every necessary assistance and protection. I read to them that part of your Honour's letter, and they received it with great satisfaction and thankfulness.

I shall probably have occasion to write you again to-morrow, as I had, yesterday, a letter from Mr. Croghan, desiring a conference on matters of great importance to the Province, which he would not trust in writing. I believe, however, it is a proposal to open some trading place; that is, to form a town some where up the Allegheny, as the trading people must leave Pittsburgh. Henkston, with about eighteen men in arms, paid us a visit at Court last week, and I am very sorry to say got leave to go away again, though there was a force sufficient to secure two such parties, at the Sheriff's direction. I had got intelligence that they were to be there, and expected to be joined by a party of Cresap's people, for which reason the ranging party that were within reach had been drawn in, but none of the Virginians appeared. It is said a commission has been sent him from Virginia; certain it is he is enlisting men for that service.

I believe there was something else I ought to have informed you of, but I am surrounded by a crowd of people, which has put it out of my head.

I have the honour to be, sir, your Honour's most obedient and most humble servant,

ARTHUR ST. CLAIR.

ARTHUR ST. CLAIR TO GOVERNOUR PENN.

Ligonier, July 17, 1774.

SIR: The business Mr. Croghan had to communicate was this, that the Virginians are determined to put a stop to the Indian trade with this Province, and that Messrs. Simons, Campbell and Conolly, have obtained an exclusive privilege of carrying it on on the frontiers of Virginia. He recommends the laying out a town up the Alleghany at the Kittaning, to which the traders might retire, as they will certainly be obliged to abandon Pittsburgh, and from which the trade might be carried on to as much advantage as the distance from thence to Kaskaskies is much the same as from Pittsburgh, and a very good road. He further recommends the building a small stockade there to afford them protection in case of a war. The Indians will certainly quit Pittsburgh, as it is at the risk of their lives they come there, to which I was an eye-witness. Croghan further says, unless somebody is sent up by the Government to speak to the Indians very soon, that we shall see no more of them, and that the Delawares, who are still friendly, will be debauched.

I beg you to excuse this incoherent scrawl, as I am obliged to be held up whilst I write it.

I am, sir, your very humble and most obedient servant,

AR. ST. CLAIR.

P. S. Henkston has left the country.

Savannah, Georgia, July 14, 1774.

The critical situation to which the British Colonies in America are likely to be reduced, from the alarming and arbitrary impositions of the late Acts of the British Parliament, respecting the town of Boston, as well as the Acts that at present extend to the raising of a perpetual revenue, without the consent of the people or their Representatives, is considered as an object extremely important at this critical juncture, and particularly calculated to deprive the American subjects of their constitutional rights and liberties, as a part of the British Empire.

It is therefore requested, that all persons within the limits of this Province do attend at the Liberty Pole at Fondee's Tavern, in Savannah, on Wednesday, the 27th instant, in order that the said matters may be taken under consideration; and such other constitutional measures pursued as may then appear to be most eligible.

New-York, July 14, 1774.

We hear from Albany, that all the Chiefs and Head Warriors of the Six Nations are now on their way to Sir William Johnson's, to hold Congress on the alarming news they received of the murders committed by Cresap and others, his associates, in Ohio; that a considerable number are already assembled at Johnson's Hall, and it is expected the whole will amount to six or seven hundred; and that notwithstanding the disorders which the unprovoked barbarity of Cresap and others have occasioned to the Southward, there is reason to hope that, through the endeavours of Sir William, the fidelity of the Six Nations will be preserved, and the Northern frontiers secured from the dangers and distress now experienced on the frontiers of Virginia, &c. It is, however, earnestly wished by all persons concerned in new settlements or trade, that nothing may, in the interim, happen to defeat their sanguine expectations from the intended Congress.

HENRICO COUNTY (VIRGINIA) INSTRUCTIONS TO THEIR DELEGATES.

At a Meeting of the Loyal and Patriotick People of the County of Henrico, in Virginia, at the Court House, on the 15th of July, the following Address to their late worthy Representatives was agreed on, and signed by a great number of Freeholders:

To RICHARD ADAMS and SAMUEL DUVAL, Esqrs.:

We, the subscribers, freeholders of the County of Henrico, assembled for the purpose of deliberating on the present posture of publick affairs, return you our thanks for the part you acted in the late Assembly as our Burgesses.

When we reflect on the alarming and critical situation of things respecting the mother country, our minds are filled with the most anxious concern. The Acts of the British Parliament, made for punishing the inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay, are repugnant to the first principles of justice; and if they are suffered to have a full operation, will not only crush our sister Colony, and involve the guilty and innocent in one common ruin, but will stand as a fatal precedent to future times for adopting the same fatal measures towards this and every other British Colony. We have, therefore, passed this determination, and shall conduct ourselves conformably, that the cause of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in general, and of the town of Boston in particular, is the cause of this and every Colony in North America.

We hope, gentlemen, that the exceeding importance of the present crisis will plead our excuse for giving you our sentiments touching that conduct which we wish you to observe in the ensuing Congress on the first day of August next at Williamsburg, to which we depute you to act on our behalf.

With grief and astonishment we behold Great Britain adopting a mode of Government towards her Colonies totally incompatible with our safety and happiness. We cannot submit to be taxed by her Parliament. We cannot sit still and see the harbour of Boston blocked up by an armed force. We cannot behold, without indignation, the charter rights of a sister Colony violated, or the form of its Government changed by an Act of Parliament, as derogatory to the honour of the mother country, as it is repugnant to justice. And lastly, we will not suffer our fellow-subjects to be seized and transported beyond sea to be tried for supposed offences committed here. If these things are suffered to be reduced to practice, we shall account ourselves the most miserable of men, unworthy the name of freemen; we shall not wonder if, in future, we are treated as slaves.

We therefore most solemnly charge and conjure you to use your best endeavours to save us from these calamities. We earnestly entreat you for your utmost exertion to procure, by all possible ways and means, a total repeal of the late oppressive and detestable Acts of Parliament. We heartily trust you will concur in such measures as the said Congress shall judge most efficacious to preserve our ancient rights; for be assured, gentlemen, that nothing shall ever induce from us a submission to tyranny, and that we resolve, once for all, to live and die freemen.

In order to effect those desirable ends, we give it as our opinion, that the most effectual method of opposing the