you have among the great. I speak of the two first from my own personal knowledge, and of the others from report, their publick conduct and writings. The Rockinghams, with Burke, their political pilot, still obstinately persevere in the right of Parliament to Tax America, and therefore cannot be your friends; places, &c., being their object. They will nevertheless support you against the present Ministry, to distress and overturn them if they can. The proceedings of Congress are universally admired, and the compositions compared to those of the Patriots in the reign of Charles the First. I have mentioned my own private capital objection respecting your delay of Non-Exportation, by which I understand remittances of every kind; and I beg leave to caution against any strictures on the Roman Catholick Religion, as it will be much more advantageous for you to conciliate to you the Canadians, than to exasperate or rouse the people here; let us alone to do that. When your Assembly meets, surely your Governour will be severely reprehended for not immediately issuing writs on the last dissolution; for the iniquitous Indian War he has so wickedly kindled, which has already cost the lives of so many brave Virginians, and will cost so much money, if you are simple enough to pay for his madness; and for his contemptuous treatment in not meeting the Assembly, &c. These are grounds amply sufficient for a strong remonstrance to the Throne, for his removal.

I have just received your letter of September 20, from Philadelphia, through the London Post Office, which is the only one since that from Rousby Hall. This convinces me several of your letters must have miscarried. So very few of the Merchants here are in the least friendly to you, that it seems to me an essential political principle for every independent American to put his business only into the hands of such men whom they are certain, in times like these, will boldly stand forth and openly support your rights whenever they may be injured. 'Tis very hard, indeed, if every Colony cannot find honest and trusty natives sufficient to send here that can do their business.

EPSOM (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) RESOLVES.

At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Town of Epsom, held on Monday, the 9th day of January, 1775, Deputies were chosen to meet at Exeter, on the 25th instant, agreeable to the letter sent to said Town for that purpose.

Whereas the Grand Continental Congress has recommended a Non-Importation and a Non-Consumption of Goods to be the most effectual method to ease our deplorable situation; and as we view the Scotch Merchants and Traders, in general, to be no friends to our country, and are altogether for self-interest and lucrative gain; and to accomplish their designs have filled the country with Hawkers, Pedlars, und Petty-Chapmen, with their Lawns, Cambricks, Ribbons, &c., tempting women, girls, and boys with their unnecessary fineries, which is a moth to our country, and a damage to all honest Merchants and Traders that are true friends to our country, and that deal upon honour;—and to prevent all such diabolical proceedings for the future,

Resolved, That no Pedlars, Hawkers, or Petty-Chapmen shall be tolerated, for the future, to sell or dispose of any Goods, of whatever name or nature soever, in said Town, upon no less penalty than receiving a new suit, agreeable to the modem mode, and a forfeiture of their Goods.

A Committee of Inspection was then chosen to see that the above Resolve is carefully executed.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM EXETER, IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE, DATED JANUARY 2, 1775.

At a legal Meeting of the Inhabitants of this Town, held here last Monday, among other things it was voted unanimously to adopt the Association of the Continental Congress, and a numerous Committee was chosen to see the same was duly observed and strictly adhered to.

At the same meeting five Deputies were appointed to assist at the Convention to meet here the 25th instant, for the choice of Delegates to represent this Province at the Continental Congress proposed to be held at Philadelphia, in May next; and the said Deputies were empowered to join with the other Deputies of the Convention in choosing a Committee of their body to proportion the sum to be allowed such Delegates, among the several Towns and Parishes in this Government.

It was also voted not to suffer any Hawkers, Pedlars, or Petty-Chapmen to sell, or expose to sale, among us any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise. It is the opinion of many, that if this vote, with the law of the Province, should prove ineffectual to prevent the intrusion of such persons, an experiment ought to be made of Tar and Feathers.

MORRIS COUNTY (NEW-JERSEY) MEETING.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Morris, at Morristown, on Monday, the 9th day of January, 1775,

WILLIAM WINDS, Esquire, Chairman.

The Committee of Correspondence, for the County of Morris, having produced and read the Association of the Continental Congress, the same was deliberately considered by the whole assembly, and by them unanimously approved as a wise, prudent, and constitutional mode of opposition to the late several tyrannical and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament. Whereupon they unanimously determined strictly to abide by the same, and gratefully expressed their acknowledgments and hearty thanks to the Delegates of this Colony for their great attention to the rights and liberties of their constituents, and for the faithful discharge of the important trust reposed in them.

The assembly then unanimously agreed that the inhabitants of each several Township in the County should meet at their respective places of holding Town Meetings, on Monday, the 23d day of January instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then and there respectively to choose (by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature) a Committee of Observation, pursuant to, and for the purposes expressed in the eleventh Article of the said Association. After which the Committee of Correspondence declared to the assembly that they had thought proper to dissolve themselves, in order that their constituents might have an opportunity of a new choice, and that they were dissolved accordingly: Whereupon Jacob Ford, William Winds, and Jonathan Stiles, Esquires, Messrs. Jacob Drake, Peter Dickerson, and Ellis Cook, together with Samuel Tuthill, Doctor William Hart, and Abraham Ogden, Esquires, were elected; and at the same time authorized to instruct the Representatives of this County, when convened in General Assembly, to join in the appointment of Delegates for this Colony, to meet in General Congress, at Philadelphia; but if the said Assembly should not appoint Delegates for that purpose by the first day of April next, then the said Committee of Correspondence to meet with the several County Committees of this Colony, and appoint the said Delegates, at such time and place as shall be agreed upon by the said Committees.

The assembly afterwards taking into consideration the conduct of James Rivington, Printer in New York, in publishing two certain Pamphlets; the one entitled "A Friendly Address," &c., &c.; the other, under the signature of "A. W. Farmer," and several others; all containing many falsehoods, wickedly calculated to divide the Colonies—to deceive the ignorant, and to cause a base submission to the unconstitutional measures of the British Parliament for enslaving the Colonies, do unanimously resolve, that they esteem the said James Rivington an enemy to his country; and therefore that they will, for the future, refrain from taking his Newspapers, and from all further commerce with him; and that, by all lawful means in their power, they will discourage the circulation, of his Papers in this County.

LETTER FROM BOSTON TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED IN NEW-YORK TO RECEIVE AND TRANSMIT DONATIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS IN THAT TOWN.

Boston, January 9, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Committee appointed by the inhabitants of this Town to receive and distribute the donations of our friends, for the benefit of the sufferers by the Boston