The author of the "Summary" seems to have laboured to convince the People of England, that nothing but Independence will satisfy America. The "Pennsylvania Farmer" by the late instructions, which hold up a claim to an exemption from Acts of Parliament, has ruined the cause, and drawn on himself the just charge of contradicting his own principles.

I perceive by the American Papers, that no artifice has been left untried to deceive you by representations of the hostile designs of Government, and heated recommendations of violent measures on your part. These should be set in their true light. They proceed from a faction here, who labour incessantly to distress Administration, in order to succeed to the places of their defeated rivals. With what little success they have laboured, you will gather from the King's Speech and the Answers of both Houses. Never was there a more contemptible opposition.

Had the injury done to the East India Company been redressed, and dutiful petitions presented by the several Provincial Assemblies, a pacification would have ensued, and the unhappy disputes here been terminated, in a manner advantageous to both countries. But the dignity of Government will never permit it to make the first advances; especially while the Colonies discover a spirit of defiance and disaffection.

The pretences of a design in Administration to injure the Colonies, is absurd. If America suffers, Great Britain must suffer with it. A just subordination on the part of the Colonies is necessary for the common happiness. The superintending and mediatorial power of one Supreme Legislature, is necessary to direct the operations of the grand state machine to mutual advantage. Had Administration entertained tyrannical schemes, they certainly would have rather chosen to draw supplies from America by Royal requisition, in the disposal of which they would be unaccountable, than by a mode in which it will be appropriated by Parliament.

KING AND QUEEN COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of King and Queen, assembled at the Court House, on Monday, the 12th day 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, the following persons were elected, viz: Thomas Coleman, George Lyne, Gregory Baylor, Richard Tunstall, Jun., Robert Hill, Gregory Smith, Tunstall Banks, Anderson Scott, William Richards, William Todd, Henry Todd, John Bagby, George Brooke, Henry Lumpkin, Richard Tunstall, Benjamin Pendleton, John Collier, Thomas Row, Stephen Field, William Lyne, Joseph Temple, John Lyne, Richard Anderson, and Matthew Anderson, gentlemen.

And at a meeting of a majority of the said Committee, on Monday, the 9th of January, 1775, Richard Tunstall, Esquire, was unanimously elected Chairman of the Committee, and, in case of his absence, George Brooke, Esq., was appointed to act for the time, and John Tunstall appointed Clerk.

Ordered, That the Clerk of this Committee transmit to the publick Printer a list of the Committee chosen for the said County, to be advertised in the Virginia Gazette.

JOHN TUNSTALL, Clerk.

HENRICO COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Committee for Henrico County, Virginia, on Monday, the 12th day of December, 1774,

Resolved unanimously, That the Reverend Miles Selden be appointed Chairman to this Committee.

Resolved, That upon application of any three members of this Committee to the Chairman, he is authorized to call a general meeting thereof.

Resolved unanimously, That the Resolutions of the General Congress should be resorted to on every occasion, and that they ought to be considered by the Committee as the sole rule of their conduct, respecting their present political engagements.

Resolved, That Richard Adams, Samuel Du Val, Richard Randolph, Turner Southall, Joshua Storrs, James Buchanan, Isaac Younghusband, John Hales, and SamuelPrice, or any three of them, be appointed a Corresponding Committee, on behalf of this County, whose business it shall be, upon every occasion when necessary, to inform the respective Committees of the several Counties within this Colony of any breach or violation of the General Association by any person whatsoever.

Resolved unanimously, That, for the more effectual carrying into execution the Association of the General Congress, and obtaining a speedy redress of American grievances, we will, as an immediate step thereto, enter into a subscription for the encouragement of all kinds of husbandry and manufactures within this Country.

By order of the Committee,

JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.

DANBURY (CONNECTICUT) TOWN MEETING.

At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Danbury, in Connecticut, December 12, 1774,

Captain THOMAS STEVENS, Moderator:

The Town took into consideration the present alarming situation of the American Colonies, from several late unconstitutional and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament, and feeling deeply impressed with a sense of our common danger, we should have earlier manifested our sense of the natural and constitutional rights we are, or ought-to be possessed of, and of the wanton infringements made upon them by the oppressive plan of policy now prosecuting by the British Ministry, were it not that we thought there was the greatest propriety in waiting till they were stated by a General Congress; lest, by every Town's attempting particularly to state them, there might be a disagreement in their claims, which might occasion disunion among ourselves, and give cause of triumph to our enemies. But our rights, and the infringements of them, having been particularly stated by the late American Congress in their Resolutions or Bill of Rights, which, from the best knowledge and information we are able to obtain, we apprehend to be accurately and judiciously done: We do therefore,

1. Declare our full concurrence with said Resolutions, as truly stating the rights and privileges we mean to defend; and the oppressive infringements we mean to oppose to the extent of those abilities which God and nature has furnished us with.

2 We do heartily approve of the Association containing a Non-Importation, Non-Importation, and Non-Consumption Agreement, entered into by the General Congress, as the most salutary, wise, and probable measure for obtaining redress of the grievances we labour under, and will use our utmost endeavours to render the same effectual, by a full compliance therewith ourselves, and by treating with deserved neglect any one who shall dare, in opposition to the voice of America, by counteracting this Agreement, to seek his own emolument, to the endangering the liberties of his country. And that such as break through this Agreement, and refuse to be reclaimed by gentler means, may be held up to publick view as objects to be shunned and avoided by every friend to liberty and lover of his country, we have appointed the following gentlemen a Committee for the purpose specified in the eleventh Article of said Association, viz: Doctor John Wood, Thaddeus Benedict, and Daniel Taylor, Esquires, Lieutenant Noble Benedict, Colonel Joseph Platt Cook, Captain Silas Hamilton, Samuel Taylor, Esq., Messrs. Andrew Comstock, James Siely, Daniel Benedict, and Richard Shute, Captain Thomas Stevens, and Mr. Joseph Bebee.

3. We think it expedient there should be a meeting of Deputies from the several Towns in the County of Fairfield, to choose a County Committee, agreeable to the advice of the Congress, and to agree upon measures to be taken with any Town in the County (if any such there should be) who should refuse to concur with the Association agreed upon by the General Congress; and we desire the Committee of the County Town to notify the several Towns in the County of the time and place for said meeting.

4. It is with singular pleasure we notice the second Article of the Association, in which it is agreed to import no more Negro Slaves, as we cannot but think it a palpable absurdity so loudly to complain of attempts to en-