deavours to effect the same desirable purpose; and to this end would augment the Town Watch. And it is recommended to the Selectmen of the Town, that they increase the Watch to the number of twelve men in each watch-house, for the security and safety of the inhabitants; and that they be directed to patrole the streets of the Town for the whole night the ensuing season. And it is earnestly desired that his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and other Peace Officers, would exert their authority for the observance of the laws and preservation of peace and order; and that when they hear of any disturbance, they would not wait for a complaint, but call on the inhabitants, who will at all times be ready in assisting to disperse such persons, or in bringing offenders, of what rank and order soever, to justice. And in our present situation, it is incumbent upon us particularly to attend to the peace and good order of the Town, it is therefore earnestly recommended to the inhabitants to do all in their power to prevent or suppress any quarrels or disturbances. And it is seriously recommended to all masters of families, that they restrain their children and servants from going abroad after nine o'clock in the evening, unless on necessary business. And it is further recommended to the Selectmen of the Town, to enjoin upon all retailers and taverners of the Town, that they strictly con form to the laws of the Province relating to disorderly persons.

Attest,

W. COOPER, Town Clerk.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN NEW-YORK TO HIS CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON, DATED NOVEMBER 7, 1774.

Enclosed are the Resolves and Proceedings of the General American Congress. Several thousand copies of them are distributed over the Colonies. Many gentlemen in this and other Towns have got them elegantly printed, framed, and glazed, to perpetuate to their latest posterity the manly conduct of a people, not yet, like Britain, enervated by luxury, effeminacy, and corruption, but who claim and insist for the rights of men. The letter from the Congress to the Inhabitants of Britain is looked upon as one of the finest pieces of calm and cool reasoning which has yet appeared in America. But to these reasons, founded upon common sense, what answer do we receive from the tools of Government? They, indeed, oppose to them, in the arbitrary style of a King of France, the ultima ratio regum, the British Cannon; and tell us, like the tyrannick King of Prussia, that those things are so; why? sic volo, sic jubeo. But these arguments are not calculated to go down with a free people, descended from those brave Republicans who laid the foundation of that freedom which Britain has enjoyed since the glorious Revolution. We are branded with the titles of enthusiastick and puritanick; but had it not been for the enthusiasm and puritanism of our forefathers, the inhabitants of Britain would have been this day groaning under Popery, slavery, and arbitrary power. We were told that the people of Boston would soon yield, but, notwithstanding they have been besieged six months, they still retain that firmness and integrity which a good cause inspires: and the predictions of your Ministry, that the people of America would differ among themselves, have been falsified by that unanimity with which all ranks have united against their tyrannick measures. What would the Ministry be at? If it was only us they could ruin we would not be surprised at their conduct, but would look upon it only as that system of tyranny which they have adopted; but when we consider that every stab that America receives must also pierce the vitals of Great Britain, we are struck with amazement, and think that the depravity of the hearts of your Ministers can only be equalled by the weakness of their heads.

Boston, November 10, 1774.

The Town of Marblehead, at a full Meeting, on Monday, the 7th instant, unanimously made choice of a large Committee for executing the plans of the Continental and Provincial Congresses. It likewise appointed a day for choosing Militia Officers, and a Committee for each Company, to give personal warning to all on the Alarm List for the purpose mentioned. Directions were given by the Town to the Clerk for entering on the Records such persons as should by the Province be considered and published as "Rebels against the State," and to the Constables and Collectors to pay to Henry Gardner, Esquire, moneys which they then had, or in future might have in their hands, belonging to the Province; the advertisements of the late Treasurer Gray being treated with the contempt due to one on the Rebel list. A Company and train of Artillery, will, by private subscription, be likewise provided in said Town, for defence of American freedom.

Surely the Colonies are in earnest for preserving their liberties, and a general attention to the Art Military will in a short time render them secure, notwithstanding the designs of oppressive tyranny. May military discipline, then, immediately take place throughout America.

WESTMORELAND COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Committee for the County of Westmoreland, for seeing the Association duly executed, November 8, 1774:

Before them a certain David Wardrobe came, and being examined concerning a letter, false, scandalous, and inimical to America, published in the Glasgow Journal, August 18, 1774, said to be written by a gentleman from Westmoreland County, in Virginia, June 30, 1774, and charged to be written by the said Wardrobe; the Committee, on hearing the said Wardrobe acknowledge to have written the greatest part of said letter, and equivocating extremely concerning the rest of it, and seriouly considering the fatal consequences that will infallibly be derived to the dearest rights and just liberties of America, if such enemies are suffered to proceed in this manner, of giving false and mischievous accounts to Great Britain, tending to misrepresent this country, and to deceive Great Britain, have come to the following Resolutions, which they do most earnestly recommend to all those who regard the peace, the liberty, and the rights of their country:

1. Resolved, That the Vestry of Cople Parish be desired no longer to furnish the said Wardrobe with the use of the Vestry House for his keeping school therein.

2dly. That all persons who have sent their children to school to the said Wardrobe do immediately take them away, and that he be regarded as a wicked enemy to America, and be treated as such.

3dly. That the said Wardrobe do forthwith write and publish a letter in the Gazette, expressing to the world his remorse for having traduced the people here, and misrepresented their proceedings in manner as in the said letter is done.

4thly. That the said Wardrobe be charged to appear at Westmoreland Court House, on the 29th day of this instant, to be dealt with further as the Committee shall direct, to which time and place they do adjourn themselves.

At a Meeting of the Committee at the Court House of Westmoreland County, the 29th day of November, 1774, agreeable to adjournment, the foregoing Proceedings, and the Letter mentioned therein, being read, and it appearing to the Committee that the said David Wardrobe was summoned, agreeable to the fourth Resolve, to appear on this day, and he failing to make his appearance accordingly, but having wrote a Letter to the said Committee, excusing himself for non-attendance, rather insulting than exculpatory, it is

Resolved, That the Proceedings of the former Committee be confirmed, and that the Letter mentioned therein, together with the whole of these Proceedings, be transmitted by the Clerk to the Printer, to be published in the Gazette.

Signed by order of the Committee,

JAMES DAVENPORT, Clerk.

N. B. Since the aforesaid determination of the Committee, the said David Wardrobe came to Westmoreland Court House, and, in the presence of a considerable number of people, made and signed the following Concession and Acknowledgment:

"Deeply affected with remorse for having traduced the good people of Virginia, in a letter I wrote to Archibald Provan, of Glasgow, dated the 30th of June, 1774, which