the smallest offence to Government, that they will avoid taking any part in the matter. The Noblesse enter very sanguinely into the scheme of raising Troops, but the Priests, we are well assured, disapprove of it. The greatest part of the Noblesse reside in this District, and upwards of fifty of them are now gone down to Quebec, to pay their respects to the Governour, and attend a Ball, usually given by Government on the Queen's birth-night. They expect to come back with commissions in their pockets, but our Governour has not yet received his instructions. Wheat, owing to the great orders last year, is extravagantly high, nothing less than three Shillings, nine Pence, (equal to five Shillings, and three Pence, Pennsylvania currency, for our bushel.) We would be glad to know whether the Resolve of the Congress will be adhered to, in dropping connection with us, unless we come into their measures. In this case we must order shipping from England. We have never exported more than ten thousand bushels of Flaxseed in a year; the small quantity exported is owing to the low price, being often at two Shillings, and two Shillings and six Pence. This year it has been as high as five Shillings and six Pence, and if, before Spring, the people are assured of a good price, there will be one hundred thousand bushels raised in the Province, or even more.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO A GENTLEMAN IN NEW-YORK, DATED SHREWSBURY, NEW-JERSEY, JANUARY 18, 1775.

In consequence of an anonymous advertisement fixed up at this place, giving notice to the Freeholders and others, to meet on Tuesday, the 17th instant, in order to choose a Committee of Inspection, &c., &c., between thirty and forty of the most respectable Freeholders accordingly met; and after a few debates on the business of the day, which were carried on with great decency and moderation, it was generally agreed (there being not above four or five dissentient voices,) that an appointment of a Committee was not only useless, but they were apprehensive would prove a means of disturbing that peace and quietness which had hitherto subsisted in the Township, and which they were extremely desirous, and would continue to use their utmost endeavours to preserve, and to guard themselves against running upon that rock, on which, with much concern, they behold others, through an inattentive rashness, daily splitting.

FINCASTLE COUNTY (VIRGINIA) MEETING.

In obedience to the Resolves of the Continental Congress, a Meeting of the Freeholders of Fincastle County, in Virginia, was held on the 20th day of January, 1775, who, after approving of the Association framed by that august body in behalf of all the Colonies, and subscribing thereto, proceeded to the election of a Committee, to see the same carried punctually into execution, when the following gentlemen were nominated: the Reverend Charles Cummings, Colonel William Preston, Colonel William Christian, Captain Stephen Trigg, Major Arthur Campbell, Major William Inglis, Captain Walter Crockett, Captain John Montgomery, Captain James M' Gavock, Captain William Campbell, Captain Thomas Madison, Captain Daniel Smith, Captain William Russell, Captain Evan Shelby, and Lieutenant William Edmondson. After the election the Committee made choice of Colonel William Christian for their Chairman, and appointed Mr. David Campbell to be Clerk.

The following Address was then unanimously agreed to by the people of the County, and is as follows:

To the Honourable PEYTON RANDOLPH, Esquire, RICHARD HENRY LEE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PATRICK HENRY, Junior, RICHARD BLAND, BENJAMIN HARRISON, and EDMUND PENDLETON, Esquires, the Delegates from this Colony who attended the Continental Congress held at PHILADELPHIA:

GENTLEMEN: Had it not been for our remote situation, and the Indian War which we were lately engaged in, to chastise those cruel and savage people for the many murders and depredations they have committed amongst us, now happily terminated under the auspices of our present worthy Governour, his Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore, we should before this time have made known to you our thankfulness for the very important services you have rendered to your country, in conjunction with the worthy Delegates from the other Provinces. Your noble efforts for reconciling the mother country and the Colonies, on rational and constitutional principles, and your pacifick, steady, and uniform conduct in that arduous work, entitle you to the esteem of all British America, and will immortalize you in the annals of your country. We heartily concur in your Resolutions, and shall, in every instance, strictly and invariably adhere thereto.

We assure you, gentlemen, and all our countrymen, that we are a people whose hearts overflow with love and duty to our lawful Sovereign George the Third, whose illustrious House for several successive reigns have been the guardians of the civil and religious rights and liberties of British subjects, as settled at the glorious Revolution; that we are willing to risk our lives in the service of his Majesty, for the support of the Protestant Religion, and the rights and liberties of his subjects, as they have been established by Compact, Law, and Ancient Charters. We are heartily grieved at the differences which now subsist between the parent state and the Colonies, and most ardently wish to see harmony restored on an equitable basis, and by the most lenient measures that can be devised by the heart of man. Many of us and our forefathers left our native land, considering it as a Kingdom subjected to inordinate power, and greatly abridged of its liberties; we crossed the Atlantic, and explored this then uncultivated wilderness, bordering on many nations of Savages, and surrounded by Mountains almost inaccessible to any but those very Savages, who have incessantly been committing barbarities and depredations on us since our first seating the country. These fatigues and dangers we patiently encountered, supported by the pleasing hope of enjoying those rights and liberties which had been granted to Virginians, and were denied us in our native country, and of transmitting them inviolate to our posterity; but even to these remote regions the hand of unlimited and unconstitutional power hath pursued us, to strip us of that liberty and property with which God, nature, and the rights of humanity have vested us. We are ready and willing to contribute all in our power for the support of his Majesty's Government, if applied to constitutionally, and when the grants are made by our own Representatives, but cannot think of submitting our liberty or property to the power of a venal British Parliament, or to the will of a corrupt Ministry.

We by no means desire to shake off our duly or allegiance to our lawful Sovereign, but on the contrary, shall ever glory in being the loyal subjects of a Protestant Prince, descended from such illustrious progenitors, so long as we can enjoy the free exercise of our Religion as Protestants, and our Liberties and Properties as British subjects.

But if no pacifick measures shall be proposed or adopted by Great Britain, and our enemies will attempt to dragoon us out of those inestimable privileges, which we are entitled to as subjects, and to reduce us to a state of slavery, we declare that we are deliberately and resolutely determined never to surrender them to any power upon earth, but at the expense of our lives.

These are our real, though unpolished sentiments, of liberty and loyalty, and in them we are resolved to live and die.

We are, gentlemen, with the most perfect esteem and regard, your most obedient servants.

New-York, January 19, 1775.

ADDRESS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF JAMAICA, IN QUEEN'S COUNTY, LONG-ISLAND, PRESENTED TO THE DELEGATES WHO REPRESENTED THIS PROVINCE IN THE LATE GENERAL CONGRESS:

GENTLEMEN: We cheerfully embrace this opportunity of publickly acknowledging in behalf of ourselves, and our constituents, our most grateful sense of the arduous, faithful, and important services you have rendered your country, in the present most alarming conjunction of affairs.

Permit us to declare our hearty acquiescence in the prudent, just, and well concerted measures adopted by you at the last General Congress, held at Philadelphia, and to assure you, that we will exert our utmost endeavours to carry those measures into execution