6th. Resolved, nem. con., That the Town Clerk be desired to make out a true copy of the aforesaid Resolves, and transmit them to one or more of the Printers in New-York, that they may be published to the world.

STEPHEN SMITH, Town Clerk.

P. S. There were present in said meeting about two hundred voters; and the said Resolutions are entered on the Town Records.

Committee Chamber, New-York, January 30, 1775.

Whereas, by the first article of the Association of the late Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, the fifth day of September, 1774, it is agreed that from and after the first day of December next, we will not import into British America from Great Britain or Ireland, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise whatsoever, or from any other place any such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, as shall have been exported from Great Britain or Ireland: and whereas, by the last clause of the tenth article of the said Association, it is further agreed, that if any Goods, Wares, or Merchandise shall be imported after the first day of February, 1775, the same ought forthwith to be sent back again, without breaking the packages thereof; and the sense of this Committee being taken, whether all Goods imported from Great Britain or Ireland, into this City and County, after the said first day of February, should not, according to the true intent and meaning of the clauses of the said first and tenth articles of the Association, be sent back in the same Vessel in which such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, shall be imported,

Resolved unanimously in the affirmative.

By order of the Committee,

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Sub-Committee be appointed, to observe the conduct of all Vessels which may arrive after the first day of February next, having on board any Goods. Wares, or Merchandise, not allowed to be imported by the Association.

Resolved unanimously, That a Sub-Committee be appointed for the purpose above mentioned.

By order of the Committee,

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM NEW-YORK, TO A GENTLEMAN IN BOSTON, DATED JANUARY 30, 1775.

The enclosed will unriddle the joy that fills the breasts of all the friends to Government, decency, and good order. Since the glorious eleven, with Colonel Philips at their head, have carried the day, two more Members are come, both of which are of the right side, so that there is now no chance of the Assembly's aiding or abetting the Congress. The friends to Government plume themselves on this victory, and are now open-mouthed against the proceedings of Congress, and no one dares, among gentlemen, to support them. Worthy old Silver Locks, (Lieutenant Governour Colden) when he heard that the Assembly had acted right, cried out," Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,"

WESTMORELAND COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the Freeholders, after due notice, at Westmoreland Court House, on Tuesday, the 3lst day of January, 1775, Richard Henry Lee and Richard Lee, Esquires, were unanimously chosen Delegates to represent this County in Colony Convention, at the Town of Richmond, in Henrico County, on the 20th day of March next.

After they were chosen, the following Instructions were publickly read to them by the desire of the people.:

To Richard Henry Lee and Richard Lee, Esquires:

The Freeholders of Westmoreland County having often experienced your fidelity, abilities, and firm attachment to the cause of liberty, have now appointed you to represent them in a Colony Convention, proposed to be held at the Town of Richmond, on the 20th of March next: and as we aye convinced, from the maturest deliberation, that the safety and happiness of North America depend on the united wisdom of its Councils, we have no doubt you will comply, on your parts, with the recommendation of the late Continental Congress, to appoint Deputies from this Colony to meet in Philadelphia on the 10th day of May next, unless the redress of American Grievances be obtained before that time; and as it is our firm determination to stand or fall with the liberties of our country, we desire that you may consider the people of Westmoreland as ready and willing to join with their countrymen in the execution of such measures as may appear to the majority of their Deputies assembled at Richmond, wise and necessary to secure and perpetuate the ancient, just, and legal rights of this Colony and of British America.

At the same time and place the following gentlemen were chosen a Committee to see the Association faithfully observed in this County, according to the direction of the Continental Congress: the Reverend Mr. Thomas Smith, Philip Smith, Richard Henry Lee, John Augustin Washington, John Turberville, Daniel M Carty, William Pierce, Joseph Pierce, Thomas Chilton, William Bernard, Richard Parker, Beckwith Butler, Fleet Cox, Daniel Tebbs, George Steptoe, John Ashton, William Nelson, Richard Bucknor, Burdett Ashton, Benedict Middleton, George Turberville, John Middleton, William Bankhead, John Martin, Joseph Fox, John Ashton, Jun., Samuel Rust, William Berryman, James Davenport, Woffendel Kendel, Daniel Fitzhugh, Benjamin Weeks, Richard Lee, Thomas Fisher, and Edward Sanford.

JAMES DAVENPORT, Clerk.

FROM THE (LONDON) PUBLICK LEDGER.

TO LORD NORTH.

The Minister whose mind can remain in a quiescent state whilst surrounding calamities threaten ruin to his country, is beyond redemption lost to those virtuous feelings which should characterize our species.

There is a period when the people should resist, because the laws of nature and of God would justify resistance. There is also a crisis when a state of neutrality would be downright meanness; and not to be active would be the very worst of crimes. At a crisis of this kind, my Lord, we are now arrived. Without hyperbole, it may be pronounced that, on the measures pursued with respect to America, the welfare of Great Britain ultimately depends. All men, therefore, being interested in the event of those measures, every man should take a decided part by delivering an opinion on their rectitude or impropriety. Our political Sun seems setting in the West, and unless some leader of the people, aided by Providence, should, like another Joshua, arrest it in its swift declension, the cheering ray of national prosperity will be forever vanished from our Island.

Various have been the Parliamentary arguments; as various have been the opinions of Parliamentary leaders on American affairs; the question of Right hath agitated one, the question of Propriety another, class of disputants. But remarkable it is, my Lord, that, amidst the dissimilar exercitations of judgment, nothing like a plan for adjusting the affairs of the Colonies hath been struck out. The present measures have deservedly undergone the severity of reprehension, though a system less exceptionable hath not hitherto been offered in their stead. It is to supply this defect that I have ventured to suggest a mode which, if adopted, will mutually reconcile Great Britain and the Colonies, reinvigorate American Commerce, and establish a lasting harmony on so permanent a basis that the authority of Parliament and the rights of the Colonists shall henceforth coalesce without conflicting struggles, and ever after, like righteousness and peace, shall salute each other with a kiss of perfect amity.

It is a concomitant inseparable from a projector, to doat even on the foulest excrescence of his brain. Not quite so partial, though by no means indifferent to my mental offspring, I give it to your Lordship with all the fond solicitude of a parent, and only request you to cherish it for the benefit of my country. Many a worse favoured fœtus has been nurtured at St. James's; and if common fame speaks true, some of the bantlings of which your Lordship