waited upon the Honourable Peyton Randolph, Esquire, and the rest of the Delegates of this Colony assembled at the Capitol, and presented the following Address:

To the Honourable PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esquire, Moderator, and the other DELEGATES of the People of VIRGINIA, who assembled at the Capitol, in WILLIAMSBURG, on Wednesday, the ninth of November, 1774:

The Address of the Merchants, Traders, and others, at a General Meeting in WILLIAMSBURG.

GENTLEMEN: Your generous and voluntary interposition at a time when we were under apprehensions that some measures would be adopted derogatory to the importance of the cause we wish to support with propriety, and contrary to the intention of the General Congress; and by your wisdom and prudence pointing out such methods of proceeding as have removed our fears and given universal satisfaction, demands our grateful acknowledgment.

Truly sensible of the necessity of preserving peace and harmony, not only between the different Colonies, but also among all ranks and societies in each Colony; and to show our readiness to concur in such prudent measures as are most likely to procure a redress of our grievances, we now present the Association voluntarily and generally signed; and as we, on our parts, resolve to adhere strictly thereto, we hope to be favoured with your advice and assistance on every future emergency.

To which they received the following Answer:

GENTLEMEN: It gives us great satisfaction to find that our conduct has received the approbation of your respectable Body; and you may be assured we shall, on all occasions, endeavour to move on the firm principles of Justice and the Constitution. The Delegates are very sensible of the great advantage this country will receive from your union with them; and they consider it as very meritorious, that you, disregarding the influence of your commercial interest, have generously concurred with them in the great struggle for liberty. Such unanimity, we trust, will convince an inimical Administration of the imprudence of their measures, and produce effects so salutary as to make us reflect with pleasure on the part we have taken in support of American freedom.

PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

By the Governour.—A. PROCLAMATION:

Whereas, a number of persons unlawfully assembled at Cambridge, in the month of October last, calling themselves a Provincial Congress, did, in the most open and daring terms, assume to themselves the powers and authority of Government, independent of and repugnant to his Majesty's Government, legally established within this Province, and tending utterly to subvert the same; and did, amongst other unlawful proceedings, take upon themselves to resolve and direct a new and unconstitutional regulation of the Militia, in high derogation of his Majesty's Royal Prerogative; and also to elect and appoint Henry Gardner, Esquire, of Slow, to be Receiver General, in the room of Harrison Gray, Esquire, then and still legally holding and executing that office: and also to order and direct the moneys granted to his Majesty, to be paid into the hands of the said Henry Gardner, and not to the said Harrison Gray, Esquire; and further earnestly to recommend to the inhabitants of the Province, to oblige and compel the several Constables and Collectors to comply and execute the said directions, contrary to their oaths, and against die plain and express rules and directions of the law; all which proceedings have a most dangerous tendency to ensnare his Majesty's subjects the inhabitants of this Province, and draw them into perjuries, riots, sedition, treason, and rebellion.

For the prevention of which evils, and the calamitous consequences thereof, I have thought it my duty to issue this Proclamation, hereby earnestly exhorting, and in his Majesty's name strictly prohibiting all his liege subjects within this Province from complying in any degree with the said Requisitions, Recommendations, Directions, or Resolves, of the aforesaid unlawful Assembly, as they regard his Majesty's highest displeasure, and would avoid the pains and penalties of the law. And I do hereby charge and command all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, Collectors, and other Officers in their several departments, to be vigilant and faithful in the execution and discharge of their duty in their respective offices, agreeable to the well known established laws of the land; and to the utmost of their power, by all lawful ways and means, to discountenance, discourage, and prevent, a compliance with such dangerous Resolves of the above mentioned or any other unlawful Assembly whatever.

Given at Boston, this tenth day of November, in the fifteenth year of the Reign of his Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., Annoque Domini 1774.

THOMAS GAGE.

By his Excellency's Command,

THOMAS FLUCKER, Secretary.

GOD save the King.

Charlestown, South Carolina, November 11, 1774.

The Honourable John Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, having, in consequence of an application from his Excellency the Earl of Dunmore, directed his Deputy, Mr. Cameron, to go to the Over-hill Cherokee Towns, and to make requisition of satisfaction for the murder of Mr. Russell and his party, on the Frontiers of Virginia, Mr. Cameron proceeded accordingly to Chote, where he arrived the beginning of September last, and after repeated consultations with the Chiefs, and much opposition from the young people, succeeded in having the Chief principally concerned in the said murder, named Nottawagui, put to death. The persons at first appointed to execute the sentence, wounded the Indian in several places, and thought that they had killed him; but he was recovering, and almost out of danger from his wounds, when Mr. Cameron renewed his requisition, and, with much difficulty and danger to himself, prevailed upon the principal Chiefs to go themselves and finish him, which they executed with much resolution, maugre all the threats and opposition of his numerous relations and followers; and upon the occasion made several spirited harangues to the people, warning them not to follow the example of the deceased, lest they should meet the same fate, and reprimanding them in sharp terms for their bad behaviour upon that and other occasions, which brought the young people to make their submission to their Chiefs, and, as a token thereof, they presented several strings of white beads. Another Chief concerned in several murders, was also condemned, but found means to make his escape to the Chickasaws; he is, however, proscribed, and will certainly suffer when and wherever found by his countrymen. These two were the only Cherokees concerned in the said murder; the rest were Shawanese. The talks from the Cherokees to the Superintendent, are expressive of the most pacifick disposition, and earnest desire to be esteemed friends.

On Tuesday last, Mr. Stuart arrived here from Georgia, having, with his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, Governour of the said Province, finally settled all disputes, and concluded a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Creek Indians.

Rochester, New-Hampshire, November 11, 1774,

On Tuesday, the eighth instant, the Committee of Correspondence at this place, at the desire of a number of people, wrote to Mr. Nicholas Austin, of Middletown, to attend them at the house of Mr. Stephen Wentworth, it being suspected that he was employed in procuring artificers at Wolsborough, &c., to go to Boston to build Barracks for the Soldiery there. Mr. Austin accordingly waited upon them, and the charge in some measure being proved against him, he was obliged, on his knees, as nothing less would satisfy, to make the following confession, viz:

"Before this company I confess I have been aiding and assisting in sending men to Boston to build Barracks for the Soldiers to live in, at which you have reason justly to be offended, which I am sorry for, and humbly ask your forgiveness; and I do affirm, that for the future, I never will be aiding or assisting in anywise whatever, in act or deed, contrary to the Constitution of the country, as witness my hand,

NICHOLAS AUSTIN."