bers of the Continental Congress held at Philadelphia in September last, for the faithful discharge of the important trust reposed in them:

TO THE DELEGATES FOR NEW-JERSEY, IN THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

GENTLEMEN: While we feel an inviolable attachment to the person of the King, and the present reigning family, it is with the highest esteem of, and gratitude to you, the particular Delegates for this Province (in conjunction with the whole of that venerable body) that we view the many wise and prudent measures by you adopted to support, and hand down to posterity inviolate, those valuable and important privileges, both civil and sacred, so highly prized by our ancestors.

And tis with the greatest resentment that we so often behold your virtuous and patriotick endeavours wickedly traduced and made the subject of ridicule and slander by those Sons of Belial, whose attachedness to their master, will prompt them to commit violence to their own judgments, and even feed their wickedness with the very blood of their country. But you sirs, may be assured, that such authors (when known as their criminal production) shall ever be treated by us with the utmost contempt, as they merit.

And as a further mark of acquiescence in the Association, and demonstration of our sincerity, we think it our duty for ourselves, and we will with the utmost of our influence, recommend to our constituents, as the only probable means of securing our liberties, that the said Association be punctually adhered to, and strictly put in execution.

That the blessings of Heaven, may succeed all our endeavours to vanquish our enemies, and effectually secure the liberties of British America, and finally establish a happy, constitutional, and lasting union between Great Britain and her Colonies, is the sincere wish of, gentlemen, your much obliged and very humble servants.

By order of the Committee,

CALEB CAMP, Chairman.

As the present critical situation of our Nation, and especially of British America, make it highly necessary, that every publick exhibition from the press should be stripped of all false disguises, and fairly hold up to view the only alternative, viz: a tame submission to a tyrannical Ministry, and its consequence, abject slavery; or, a brave, manly and constitutional resistance, as the only likely means of obtaining and enjoying liberty; Therefore the Committee of Observation, for the Township of Newark, beg leave to publish the following Queries and Resolves:

Query 1. Whether a Press, which weekly throws out pamphlets and other publick pieces, replete with the most bitter invectives, scandalous and criminal reflections upon that reputable body, the Continental Congress, and their constituents; and all, with a manifest design to blind the eyes of the less judicious; sow the seeds of faction and discord, and thus gratify the perfidious authors by prejudicing the honest, unthinking, against their real interest; whether such a press is not inimical to the country, where it is, and does not forfeit its support?

Query 2. Whether such a Printer, and the authors of such pieces, when known, are not, according to the strict sense of the Grand Congress, those very persons who by them are considered such enemies to their country that every true friend of liberty ought to avoid them.

Query 3. Whether a Printer in New-York in the space of three or four years, by the profits of his press, and a moderate per cent, on Keyser's Pills, with a few other insignificant perquisites, can from a low ebb of fortune, if not bankruptcy, acquire such independence, that he dare publickly, with an air of supercilious haughtiness, proclaim himself independent of the country, and that he could live without their custom.

Query 4. Whether such a man is not a Ministerial hireling, who is endeavouring to sacrifice his country to his own private interest.

And whereas, it is too evident to this Committee, that the above character is exactly fitted to J. Rivington: therefore, Resolved,

That this Committee will henceforth take no more of his papers, pamphlets, or any other publick performance of his press; neither will we deal with him in any other way: And we would heartily recommend, that our constituents may take this matter into serious consideration; and as far as it shall carry conviction to them, treat him with a correspondent conduct.

By order of the Committee,

CALEB CAMP, Chairman.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LIEUTENANT GOVERNOUR COLDEN TO THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, DATED NEW-YORK, DECEMBER 7, 1774.

Notwithstanding the business which at this time agitates America, is such, that we continually expect some event of great importance, what has occurred in this Province since my letter to your Lordship of the 2d of November, has not been very material.

The first thing done here in consequence of the Resolutions of the Congress, was the dissolution of the Committee of fifty one, in order to choose a new Committee to carry the measures of the Congress into effect; a day was appointed by advertisement, for choosing sixty persons to form this new Committee.

About thirty or forty citizens appeared at the election, and chose the sixty persons who had been previously named by the former Committee. I can no otherwise, my Lord, account for the very small number of people who appeared on this occasion, than by supposing that the measures of the Congress are generally disrelished.

The Non-Importation Association affects the smugglers as well as the fair traders. No Tea is to be imported from any part of the world after the first day of this month.

The smugglers expect large quantities of Dutch Tea, and insist that it shall be exempted from the effect of the Association; others declare, that the fair traders shall not be the only sufferers. It is a dispute which I think may very probably defeat the Association. Several vessels are daily expected here with Goods from England, and I am told ten or twelve at Philadelphia. It is however shocking to reflect, my Lord, that smuggling is such a business among us, as to be publickly espoused by numbers, and more strenuously advocated than the legal trade.

In the present Committee of this place there are several gentlemen of property, and who are esteemed to favour moderate and conciliatory measures. I was surprized to find such men joining with the Committee, whose design is to execute the plan of the Congress. I have at length discovered that they act with a view to protect the city from the ravages of the mob. For this purpose, they say, they are obliged at present to support the measures of the Congress; that if they did not, the most dangerous men among us would take the lead; and, under pretence of executing the dictates of the Congress, would immediately throw the city into the most perilous situation; that however considerable the numbers may be who disapprove of violent riotous measures, yet the spirit of mobbing is so much abroad, it is in the power of a few people at any time to raise a mob; and that the gentlemen and men of property will not turn out to suppress them.

I fear, my Lord, there is too much truth in this representation. It is a dreadful situation; if we are not rescued from it by the wisdom and firmness of Parliament, the Colonies must soon fall into distraction, and every calamity annexed to a total annihilation of Government.

The Assembly of this Province stand prorogued to the tenth day of January, and, by the advice of the Council, summonses are issued for them to meet on that day.

Many people think there is a probability that they will go upon conciliatory measures, and propose something that may be countenanced by Administration. The event is uncertain, but on such occasions I think every thing is to be tried that may possibly avert the calamity which hangs over this country. I do not apprehend there is any danger that the Assembly will make matters worse than they are.

Several pieces have been published here exposing the extravagant and dangerous proceedings of Congress, and advising the people to rely on the Assembly, that they will take the most reasonable and constitutional means of restoring peace and harmony between Great Britain and this Province.