has been since printed in the Glasgow Journal of the 18th August, in the same year, said to be written by a gentleman in Westmoreland County to his friend in Glasgow, containing falsehoods and misrepresentations, which may be of fatal consequence to the rights and liberty of America, in order to make every recompense to the community in my power for so gross an offence, I do, most heartily and willingly, on my knees, implore the forgiveness of this country for so ungrateful a return made for the advantages I have received from it, and the bread I have earned in it, and hope, from this contrition for my offence, I shall be at least admitted to subsist amongst the people I greatly esteem, and desire that this may be printed in the Virginia Gazette.

DAVID WARDROBE."

The following is a copy of the Letter referred to in the foregoing Proceedings:

Extract of a Letter from a gentleman in WESTMORELAND County, VIRGINIA, to his friend in GLASGOW, dated JUNE 30: from the GLASGOW JOURNAL of August 18, 1774.

As the present situation of affairs in this country is alarming, I make no doubt some account of them will be agreeable to you.

The Virginians (and indeed most of the Colonies) look upon the late Act of Parliament for blocking up the Harbour of Boston, and new modelling their Charter, as a thing that may one day or other happen to themselves; they, therefore, resolved to stand the friends and espouse the interest of the Bostonians, as far as lies in their power, and for that purpose they are forming Associations not to import any commodities from Great Britain, nor to export any of their own, until such time as the said Act is repealed. There is great clamour here against the Ministry at home. In the County of Richmond, about ten days ago, I saw an elegant effigy of Lord North hanged and burned in the midst of a vast concourse of people. I was particularly attentive to the countenances of the spectators, and was really pleased to see so very few express any outward signs of approbation on the occasion; there were, indeed, a few gentlemen who seemed to enjoy an ill-natured satisfaction at it, which they expressed by a loud huzza, and plenty of d—s. Then Parker, who is the King's Attorney for the County of Westmoreland, mounted on an eminence, and harangued the people, acquainting them of the efforts Parliament had made to abridge them of their liberties, and many more that would be made if they were not now unanimous and steady in their Resolves of breaking off all commercial connections with Great Britain until the said Act of Parliament be repealed, and the right they have assumed for taxing America be given up, and American freedom ascertained and settled upon a permanent and constitutional foundation. Yesterday we had a meeting of the Freeholders of this County at our Court House, where there were some of the greatest men in the Colony encouraging the common people to a like steady adherence to the aforesaid plan. These late meetings have been only to feel how the pulse of the common people beat; the Grand Meetings for signing the Association will not be until August, and then it will be four or five months more before the commencement of a discontinuation of exportation and importation.

If every Merchant in the Colony would fall upon the same scheme that four eminent Merchants of this County this day resolved upon, I do not know whether there would need to be such a bustle about importing and exporting. Their resolves are, that, as the Courts of Justice are discontinued, they think it prudent and necessary not to sell any thing but for ready money, or the ready produce of the country; they have, therefore, publickly advertised that no person need apply to them for any thing without they come furnished with one or the other of these materials. Credit is a thing so very common here that there is not one person in a hundred who pays the ready money, for the goods he takes up, to a store, and consequently they will be beginning to feel the ill effects before the day of signing. I forgot to tell you they have put a stop to the Courts of Justice, in order that none need be under any apprehension of distress by the Merchants during their Non-Importation.

It is true they always had the good fortune as yet to have a repeal of any thing that has been against them, even upon the very first mention of their Resolves; but you may believe me, if the present Act should be continued, their Resolutions will soon fail them, for I am convinced that the disadvantage they must labour under by adopting such a plan will be so great that had it been imposed upon them they would think it the greatest evil that ever befell them since they were a Colony.

By his Excellency ROBERT EDEN, Esquire, Governour and Commander-in-chief in and over the Province of MARYLAND:

A PROCLAMATION.

ROBERT EDEN.

Whereas, by my return into this Province, I have resumed the administration of the Government thereof; by and with the advice and consent, therefore, of the Lord Proprietary's Council of State, I have thought fit to issue this my Proclamation, notifying the same to all Sheriffs, Magistrates, and others, the Lord Proprietary's Officers in this Province. And I do further will and direct, that all Officers, both Civil and Military, execute and discharge the several trusts and duties in them reposed and enjoined by their present respective commissions, until such time as they shall receive directions to the contrary. And to the end that all persons concerned may have due notice thereof, I do strictly charge and require the several Sheriffs of this Province to make this my Proclamation publick in their respective Counties, in the usual manner, as they will answer the contrary at their peril.

Given at the City of Annapolis, this eighth day of November, in the fourth year of the dominion of the Right Honourable Henry Harford, Esq., Anno Domini 1774.

Signed by order,

JAMES BROOKS, Cl. Con.

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis, qualified to vote for Representatives, on Wednesday, the ninth day of November, 1774:

Resolved, That Thomas Dorsey, John Hood, Junior, John Dorsey, Philip Dorsey, John Burgess, Thomas Sappington. Ephraim Howard, Caleb Dorsey, Richard Stringer, Reuben Merriweather, Charles Warfield, Edward Gaither, Junior, Greenberry Ridgely, Elijah Roboson, Thomas Mayo, James Kelso, Benjamin Howard, Ely Dorsey, Senior, Mark Brown Sappington, Brice T. B. Worthington, Charles Carroll, Barrister, John Hall, William Paca, Thomas Johnson, Junior, Matthias Hammond, Samuel Chase, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Rezin Hammond, Charles Wallace, Richard Tootell, Thomas Harwood, Junior, John Davidson, John Brice, John Weems, Samuel Chew, Thomas Sprigg, Gerard Hopkins, Junior, Thomas Hall, Thomas Harwood, West River. Stephen Stewart, Thomas Watkins, Thomas Belt, the Third, Richard Green, and Stephen Watkins, be a Committee to represent and act for this County and City, to carry into execution the Association agreed on by the American Continental Congress; and that any seven have power to act.

Resolved, That Thomas Johnson, Junior, John Hall, William Paca, Charles Carroll, Barrister, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Matthias Hammond, Samuel Chase, and Richard Tootell, be a Committee of Correspondence for this County and City; and that any three have power to act.

Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting, that the gentlemen appointed to represent this County and City in the late Provincial Convention, together with Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, ought to attend the next Provincial Meeting on the 21st instant, and have full power to represent and act for this County and City.

Williamsburg, November 10, 1774.

This afternoon the whole body of Merchants at present in this City, supposed to be between four and five hundred,