EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN PHILADELPHIA, TO HIS CORRESPONDENT IN NEW-YORK, DATED FEBRUARY 6, 1775.

It is much to be lamented that your Province has not yet adopted the Proceedings of the Congress; but a faithful adherence to the. Association will go far to remove the infamy which must certainly fall upon that Province, whose defection may tend to defeat the virtuous struggles in which we are engaged. We observe a number of publications in Rivington's Paper from your City, to which there is not the least spark of credit due. They dare not offer them to our Printers, because their notorious falsehood would ruin the credit of the Paper.

Newtown, Connecticut, February 6, 1775.

At a Meeting of the Freemen and Inhabitants of this Town, convened at the Town House, for the purpose of declaring their sentiments with regard to the great political controversy now in vogue, on the day and date above:

HENRY GLOVER, Esquire, being chosen Moderator, and Mr. WILLIAM BURWELL, Clerk.

The meeting then proceeded to give their opinions upon the following queries:

Query 1st. Whether we will adopt and conform to the Resolves contained in the Association of the Continental Congress?

Voted in the negative, except one single vote.

Query 2d. Whether we do acknowledge his most sacred Majesty King George the Third to be our rightful Sovereign, and do hereby publickly avow our allegiance to him and his legal successors; and whether we will, to the utmost of our power, support his throne and dignity against every combination in the universe?

Voted in the affirmative, nem. con,

Query 3d. Whether we do acknowledge that the three branches of Legislation, to wit: the King, Lords, and Com mons, concurring and acting together, have a constitutional right of government over the whole and every part of the British Empire?

Voted in the affirmative, new. Con,

Query 4th. Whether the Governour and Council and General Assembly of this Colony, have and ought to have a subordinate Legislative power and authority in and over this Colony?

Voted in the affirmative, nem. con,

Query 5th. Whether it would not be dangerous and hurtful to the inhabitants pf this Town, to adopt the said Congress's measures'; and whether we do not hereby publickly disapprove of and protest against said Congress and the measures by them directed, as unconstitutional, subversive of our real liberties, and as tending to licentiousness?

Voted in the affirmative, nem. con.

WILLIAM BURWELL, Clerk.

The meeting was the fullest that ever was known in this Town House, there being one hundred and sixty-two free-men, qualified according to law, and seventy other inhabitants, which were numbered some time after voting, besides several who had departed before the numbering.

Danbury, Connecticut, February 6, 1775.

On the 29th day of November last, was held in Danbury, a Town Meeting, to know the minds of the Town, respecting the doings of the late Continental Congress, when the Town adopted said, doings, appointed a Committee of Inspection, &c., which I have seen published in Mr. Holt's Paper. I could not then believe that if it had been a full meeting, the Town would have voted in the form as they then did; for there was but a thin meeting, and those who were friends to Government were fearful of discovering their sentiments, as the honour and credit of the Congress appeared to be great, in the adjoining Towns, and no one dared open his mouth against what they had done; but since then many have not been afraid of disputing the doings of that sacred body; which has emboldened many to shew their firm attachment to their gracious King and their present happy Constitution; so that, in a very full Town Meeting, held in this Town, this day, the following votes were passed.

At a Town Meeting, legally held in Danbury, February 6th, 1775.

Captain THOMAS STEPHENS, Moderator:

At the said meeting, the question was put, whether the Town of Danbury would do any thing respecting appointing a Committee to meet at a County Congress, to be held at Fairfield, on Tuesday, the 14th Say of this instant, February; which question passed in the negative, one hundred and six, to eighty-six, to which sixty persons entered their protest in open meeting.

Also, the question, whether this meeting would disannul the vote passed in Danbury, the 29th day of November,1774, appointing a Committee of Inspection; which passed in the affirmative.

JOHN WOOD, Town Clerk.

HANDBILL DISTRIBUTED THROUGH BOSTON ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1775.

Friends, Countrymen, and Citizens:

Have you read and weighed his Majesty's Speech? the Address of the Lords and Commons of Great Britain? I fear we have got into the wrong box! therefore let us not any longer be led by phrenzy, but seize upon and deliver up to justice (at once) those who have seduced us from our duty and happiness! or, depend upon it, they will leave us in the lurch! nay, I am assured, some of them (who had property) have already mortgaged all their substance for fear of confiscation, but that shall not save their necks, for I am one (of forty misled people) who will watch their motion, and not suffer them to escape the punishment due to the disturbers of our repose. Remember the fate of What Tyler; and think how vain it is for Jack, Sam, or Will, to war against Great Britain, now she is in earnest! It is greatly inferiour to the Giants waging war against Olympus? These had strength, but what have we? Our leaders are desperate bankrupts! Our country is without money, stores or necessaries of war! without one place of refuge or defence! If we were called together, we should be a confused herd, without any disposition to obedience; without a General of ability to direct and guide us, and our numbers would be our destruction! Never did a people rebel with so little reason, there fore our conduct cannot be justified before God! Never did so weak a people dare to contend with so powerful a state; therefore it cannot be justified by prudence. It is all the consequence of the arts of crafty knaves, over weak minds and wild enthusiasts, who, if we continue to follow, will lead us to inevitable ruin.

Rouse, rouse, ye Massachusetians, while it he yet time! ask pardon of God, submit to our King and Parliament, whom we have wickedly and grievously offended. Eyes had we but saw not; neither have we heard with our ears. Let not our posterity curse us for having wantonly lost the estates that should have been theirs; or for entailing misery upon them, by implicitly adhering to the promises of a few desperadoes. Let us seize our seducers, make peace with our mother country, and save ourselves and children. Amen!

A YEOMAN OF SUFFOLK COUNTY.

Boston, Sabbath Eve, February 5, 1775.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BOSTON, TO A GENTLEMAN IN PHILADELPHIA, DATED FEBRUARY 6, 1775.

In my last I gave you some account of the state of politicks here. The Tories in this Town, and indeed every where, sensible what effects a Continental Union must produce towards the subversion of their infernal system of oppression, tyranny, and rapine, are mustering their whole force, and straining every nerve to contravene the salutary measures the people are prosecuting for their deliverance. Incapable of reasoning us out of our sentiments, they are now aiming, by intimidating, to divert us from the execution of the only plan that can rescue the Colonies from the jaws of political perdition. They are perpetually holding up to view all the terrifick consequences of treason and rebellion, wilfully mistaking, or stupidly imagining the inhabitants of this Province deeply involved in both; not considering that a state, the fundamentals of