to deliberate on the steps necessary to be taken by us jointly on the present important crisis.

To Beeston Long, Esquire, Chairman of the Society of West India Merchants, at the London Tavern.

In consequence of which it was Resolved, That this Society do very cheerfully concur in opinion with the gentlemen Planters, that we ought not to come to any resolution, as a separate body, at this meeting; and do also readily join in calling a General Meeting of the whole body of Planters and West India Merchants.

And having been informed that the 18th of the present month is a day recommended by the subscribers to the above letter as proper for such meeting, it is further Resolved, That immediate notice be given in the publick papers, that such General Meeting be called and held on the day aforesaid, at the hour of twelve, at the London Tavern, in Bishopsgate Street, then and there to deliberate on the measures necessary to be taken for the preservation of the general interest of the West India Islands in the present important crisis.

JAMES ALLEN, Secretary.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM LONDON, TO A MERCHANT IN NEW-YORK, DATED JANUARY 3, 1775.

We shall not give you or any other person with whom we have formerly had connection in New-York, or other parts of North America, cause to censure us, by sending over books, or other things, until you have again a general and free authority to import Goods as heretofore.

We hope your just ground of complaint will speedily be removed. Lord North, who is at the head of Administration, is in great tribulation, owing, in a great measure, to the well-timed, sensible, and spirited pamphlet of extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress. These proceedings, we hope, will have the desired effect; they are reprinted in this place, and are circulating in every part of the Kingdom. The two Houses of Parliament have adjourned for the holidays, and will not assemble again till the 21st instant. The principal business the House of Commons will proceed upon will be the North American Grievances; and by the next Packet, you will certainly know whether the Acts passed last sessions, and others made some years back, with all or a part of them, be repealed. The Merchants, particularly trading to North America, meet together this week, with a view to petition his Majesty that lie would recommend it to his Ministers to be early on the affairs of America, and grant the prayer of the petition, by rescinding the. Acts. The Petition from the General Congress to the King was presented to him by Lord Dartmouth, last week; his Majesty has ordered, it to be laid before his Parliament.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY (NEW-JERSEY) RESOLUTIONS.

According to a notice of the 20th of December, sundry of the Freeholders of Middlesex County assembled at the Court House in New-Brunswick, on the 3d day of January, 1775, but finding their number insufficient to pursue the business recommended by the Continental Congress:

It was agreed, that every City, Township, and District should have a meeting by themselves, and choose Committees of Observation and Inspection; and when chosen, meet at New-Brunswick, the 16th day of this instant, and, by majority to votes, choose a Committee of Correspondence for the County, to have existence for a limited time.

Accordingly the several Districts in the County have had meetings, and have chosen Committees of Observation, as follows, to wit:

For WOODBRIDGE.—Ebenezer Foster, Henry Freeman, Nathaniel Heard, Reuben Potter, William Smith, Jeremiah Manning, Matthias Baker, Charles Jackson, Samuel Force, John Pain, James Manning, John Heard, Daniel Moores, John Ross, Ellis Barron, William Cutter, Reuben Evans, James Randolph, Timothy Bloomfield, John Noe, and John Conway.

For PISCATAWAY.—John Gilman, Henry Sutton, John Langstaff, William Manning, Benjamin Manning, Jacob Martin, Charles Suydam, Jeremiah, Field, Daniel Bray, Jacob Fitsworth, Micajah Dunn, Melancthon Freeman, and John Dunn.

For SOUTH AMBOY.—Stephen Pangburn, John Layd, Luke Schenck, Matthew Rice, William Vance, and Joseph Potter.

For NEW-BRUNSWICK.—Azariah Dunham, J. Schureman, John Dennis, John Lyle, Jun., Abraham Schuyler, George Hame, Jacobus Van Huys, John Slight, John Voorhees, Barent Stryker, William Williamson, Peter Farmer, Ferdinand Schureman, Abrahank Bucklew, and Jonathan Roeff.

For SOUTH BRUNSWICK.—David Williamson, William Sender, Isaac Van Dyck, John Wetherill, Jun., Abraham Terheune, Jacob Van Dyck, and Charles Barclay.

For WINDSOR.—James Hebron, Samuel Minor, Jonathan Combs, Andrew Davison, Isaac Rogers, Ezekiel Smith, and Jonathan Baldwin.

By a Meeting of the General Committee of Observation and Inspection for the County of Middlesex, in the Province of New-Jersey, chosen in pursuance of the eleventh Article of the Association of the late Continental Congress, and assembled at New-Brunswick, in the said County, on Monday, the 16th day of January, 1775:

AZARIAH DUNHAM, Esquire, in the Chair.

1. Resolved, That this Committee have been duly empowered and authorized by the Freeholders and Freemen of the County of Middlesex, to meet this day at New-Brunswick, and, in their names, to transact all such publick business as the Committee, or a majority of them, think of importance to the general interest of the County.

2. Resolved, That we heartily and entirely approve of the Proceedings of the late Continental Congress, as published in their Journal, entitled "Journal of the Proceed of the Congress, held at Philadelphia, September fifth, 1774;" and that we esteem ourselves bound by the ties of virtue, honour, and the love of our country, to contribute all in our power towards carrying into practice the measures which they have recommended.

3. Resolved, That we look upon ourselves as under particular obligations of gratitude to the worthy and publick spirited gentlemen who composed the late. Congress, for the knowledge with which they have pointed out and defined our rights, the firmness with which they have asserted them, and the wisdom with which they have devised the most likely and peaceable means of recovering, establishing, and perpetuating them.

4. Resolved, That James Neilson, William Oak, Azariah Dunham, John Wetherill, Jonathan Combs, Stephen Pangburn, and Ebenezer Foster, Esquires, Messrs. Wm. Smith, Matthias Baker, Jacob Fitsworth, John Dunn, David Williamson, Jonathan Baldwin, and Jacob Schenck, be and they are by this Committee appointed a Committee of Correspondence for the County of Middlesex, and that they do, as soon as possible, by their humble petition, address the General Assembly now sitting at Perth Amboy, to nominate Deputies from this Province lo the General Congress, to be held at Philadelphia in May next; and provided the Assembly do not undertake such nomination, that they then meet and join with the other Committees of Correspondence appointed by the several Counties in the Province, at a proper time and place, and elect Deputies for the service aforesaid; and that this Committee be and continue the Committee of Correspondence for the County of Middlesex, till the rising of the next General Congress, and no longer.

5. Resolved, That we think it our duty publicly to declare our contempt and detestation of those insidious scribblers, who, with the vilest views, enlist themselves in the cause of the Ministry, and by the vilest means endeavour to effect a disunion among the good people of the Colonies, that they may become a prey to the oppression against which they are so laudably and unanimously struggling; who skulk behind prostituted printing presses, and with the assistance of the prostituted conductors of them,