The Members appointed to wait on the Governour with the Message of the House, reported they had delivered the same accordingly, and that his Honour was pleased to say he had no objection to the adjournment proposed by the House, and would immediately return to them the Bills before him.

The Governour having given his assent to the Bills, by enacting them into Laws, the House adjourned to Monday, the 20th day of February next, at four o'clock, P. M.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LONDON, TO A GENTLEMAN IN NEW-YORK, DATED DECEMBER 6, 1774.

Enclosed you have a paper which contains the Lords' Protests against the Address to the King's Speech, which you will no doubt receive by the Packet. It is very unusual to have any division, though there is commonly a debate on such addresses, and still more unusual for such division to be followed with a Protest. Yesterday there were strong debates, and a division in the House of Commons, on their Address, in answer to the Speech, which latter, viz: the division, is uncommon on such an occasion. The Courtiers carried their point by a considerable majority, but these steps show plainly that there is a determined resolution among the Patriots here to resist the wicked Ministerial measures against America; indeed, your cause gathers strength in this Kingdom every day, for now it is plain, beyond a doubt, that the measures taken against America are intended, finally, to subvert the liberties of this country; and I make not the least question, but the sword being once drawn against you, will produce something very like a civil war in this country in less than twelve months.

The people at present do not feel, and therefore are quiet, nor can you, (when our luxury, riches, and dissipation are considered) in reason, expect they should, while you are ministering to their pleasure by such plentiful remittances.

This day there was a report current, that the Congress of the States of America had adjourned, having fixed on stopping all imports into America from Great Britain, the first of this month, and all exports from America to Great Britain after the first of January. From curiosity I strolled upon 'Change, and for the first time saw concern and deep distress in the face of every American Merchant; they seemed to think that it was absolutely necessary to apply to Parliament and Administration to relax and settle the American business on the old footing, as it was at the end of the last war, and then things would go on as they should do; this convinced me of the truth of what many have said before, that the Merchants will never stir till they feel, and every one knows that the Manufacturers will never take the lead of the Merchants.

If this report of the exports being stopped the first of January next should prove true, and you add to it a determination of not paying any British debts till your rights are fully restored, I am sure in less than three months you will have as strong a mercantile combination in your favour as there was in the time of the Stamp Act. Artful, designing, and wicked men, who never had, in truth, an honest or virtuous feeling in their lives, will pretend to exclaim against such a conduct as dishonest, but ask any of these drivellers this question: Had any of you, in your hand, a stick belonging to another man, whom you knew, if he could get it into his own, was determined to break your head with it, would you, on the stick's being demanded by the right owner, give it up to him?

Indeed, I am convinced the Merchants here will not assist you till their remittances are stopped; but I am afraid of your Town, for it is currently said here, and with much confidence, that a good deal of publick money has been put in the hands of a Mr. * * * * *, one of the * * * * *, and some of your other great men, in order to buy their influence in favour of the Ministerial measures, in order to secure the Province of New-York on the side of our wicked rulers, and thereby cut off the communication of the other Colonies with the New England Provinces; but should these great men prove traitors to their country, I hope the yeomanry at large, in your Province, set too great a value on your inestimable rights and liberties to let any great men cheat you out of them.

ESSEX COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Essex, at the Court House, in Tappahannock, on Tuesday, the 6th of December, 1774, for the purpose of choosing a Committee to see that the Association is duly kept, agreeable to the Resolutions of the Continental Congress, John Upshaw, gentleman, was unanimously elected Chairman, and William Young, Clerk. After which the following gentlemen were elected: William Roane, James Edmondson, John Upshaw, Thomas Boulware, John Lee, Meriwether Smith, Thomas Roane, Robert Beverly, Muscoe Garnett, William Young, John Henshaw, William Smith, Augustine Moore, John Beale, Henry Garnett, Robert Rennolds, John Brockenbrough, Thos. Sthreshly, Thomas Waring, and Archibald Ritchie.

WILLIAM YOUNG, Clerk.

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

The following gentlemen are appointed the Committee for the County of Isle of Wight: John S. Wills, Josiah Parker, B. Goodwin, Richard Hardy, the Reverend Henry J. Burgess, John Day, Arthur Smith, Thomas Pierce, John Mallory, Goodrich Wilson, Tristram Norsworthy, Jun., John Lawrence, William Davis, Nathaniel Bunwell, and Timothy Tynes.

PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of Princess Anne County, convened on Tuesday, the 6th of December, 1774, at the house of Mr. Bagwell Moore, in order to elect a Committee, agreeable to the Resolve of the American Continental Congress:

The Association entered into by the Congress being publickly read, the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the County then present, with the greatest alacrity, did avow their approbation of the measures adopted by that honourable body, binding themselves, by the sacred ties of honour, virtue, and love to their country, strictly to observe and keep the same inviolable in every particular.

They then proceeded to a due election, when the following gentlemen were chosen, viz: Anthony Lawson, Esq., Mr. William Robinson, Major Christopher Wright, Captain James Kempe, Captain William Nimmo, Mr. Anthony Walke, Junior, Mr. John Hancock, Mr. Thomas Reynolds Walker, Captain Edward Cannon, Mr. William Keeling, Junior, Mr. Joel Cornick, Junior, Mr. George Jamison, Sen., Captain Erasmus Haynes, Captain Dennis Dawley, Captain James Henley, Captain John Ackiss, Captain Frederick Boush, Captain Jacob Hunter, Captain William Hancock, Mr. William Woodhouse, Mr. Thomas Brock, Mr. Cason Moore, Mr. Thomas Old, Senior, and Mr. James Tooley.

And on the 20th of said month, being the time appointed for a meeting of the above mentioned Committee, they, after balloting for a Chairman, declared Anthony Lawson, Esquire, duly elected, and chose Thomas Abbot, Clerk of the Committee.

Committee Chamber, Philadelphia, December 6, 1774.

The Committee taking into consideration the tenth Article of the Association of the General Congress, do unanimously resolve, that the said article requires the opening of all packages of Goods imported after the first day of December, and before the first day of February, but at the same time, the Committee intending that the sale of such Goods shall be conducted with as little inconvenience as is consistent with the said Association,

Resolved, That though all bales and packages delivered to the Committee for sale must be opened, yet the Goods shall be sold in lots or parcels; and that such sales shall be made by the City Vendue Master, under the direction of the Committee.

Resolved, That in disposing of Goods in lots or parcels, no lot shall be made of less value upon the sterling invoice than three pounds, nor of any greater than fifteen pounds, except in the former case, where an entire package is of less value than three pounds, and in the latter, where the value of any single piece shall exceed fifteen pounds.