The Committee on the State of the Province, reported a Resolve relative to the Removal of the inhabitants of the Town of Boston. After the same was read and some debate had thereon, the question (upon a motion made) was put, whether the matter now subside, and it passed in the affirmative.

Resolved, As the opinion of this Congress, that Cambridge is the most eligible place for the Committee of Safety, at present, to sit in.

Resolved, That two gentlemen be added to the Committee of Safety.

Ordered, That Colonel Prescott Doctor Holten and Mr. Gill, be a Committee to count and sort the votes for two gentlemen to be added to the Committee of Safety.

The Congress then proceeded to bring in their votes. After counting and sorting the same, the Committee reported that Mr. Pigeon and Captain Heath were chosen.

Resolved, That the extracts of the Resolves, relative to the Militia, which passed this day be printed, and a copy thereof sent to all the Towns and Districts in this Province.

The Congress adjourned till the 23d day of November next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, then to meet in this place.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN MONTREAL, TO HIS FRIEND IN NEW-YORK, DATED OCTOBER 9, 1774.

I must beg leave to trouble you to get the enclosed printed in Mr. Holt's Paper as soon as possible. The paper contains the Resolves of all the English inhabitants of Montreal, at a full meeting, where they showed their abhorrence of the Quebec Act, which establishes the French laws in this Province, and puts the lives and properties of every person in it in the power of the Governour, who, when the Act takes place, will have a much greater power than a Spanish Viceroy.

The Canadians, in general, are greatly alarmed at being put under their former laws, of which they had long severely felt the bad effects; though the French Noblesse and gentry, indeed, are very well pleased with the new Act, which restores the old, as they expect to lord it over the industrious farmer and trader, and live upon their spoils, as they did before the conquest. These latter, though greatly dissatisfied and alarmed at this Act, dare not complain, for fear of the displeasure of their Priests, who rule and govern this whole country as they please; however, all the English in the Province (except a few tools and dependants of the Governour) are unanimous, and determine to struggle hard to obtain a repeal of this abominable Act; which, if continued, would greatly hurt the trade of New-York and the other Colonies joining on us. It has been said that some Canadian regiments would be raised and sent against you; but depend on it none will go willingly, except their officers; and for the others, it will require a regiment of soldiers to a regiment of Canadians, to oblige them to go; besides, they cannot; without ruining the country, spare two thousand men out of it.

"At a General Meeting of the English Inhabitants of the Town of Montreal, to consult on the most proper and best method to represent to his Majesty and the Parliament a true state of this Province, by acquainting them of the share we have of the trade; the landed property we possess; the miserable state we found this Province in, and the flourishing state we have brought it to;—the recompense we are to receive by a late Act of Parliament, is, to be deprived of those valuable parts of our Constitution—the trial by jury and the Habeas Corpus Act, and subjected to laws made by a Legislative Council, composed of people entirely dependent on the Governour, and agreeable to the despotick laws of France. And that if such an Act takes place, as we shall have no security for our property nor religion, (the Roman Catholick religion being by said Act the established religion of the country,) we must be reduced to the unhappy necessity of living as slaves, or abandoning the country and a great part of our property; and the Province must return to its former miserable situation. There was the greatest unanimity amongst the English, when the following gentlemen, viz: Thomas Walker, Esq., Isaac Todd, Esq., Mr. James Price, Mr. John Blake, Mr. Alexander Paterson, and Mr. John Porteus, were chosen a Committee to repair to Quebec, to act in conjunction with the English there on this alarming occasion. They likewise entered into a very generous subscription for the expense that might attend their obtaining relief."

ELIPHALET DYER, ROGER SHERMAN, AND SILAS DEANE, TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Philadelphia, October 10, 1774.

SIR: We arrived in this city the 1st of September last, and the Delegates from Virginia, North Carolina, and New-York, not being come, the Congress was not formed until the fifth, when the Honourable Peyton Randolph, Esquire, was unanimously chosen President, and Charles Thomson, Esquire, Secretary. A list of the Members we enclose.

The mode of voting in this Congress was first resolved upon; which was, that each Colony should have one voice; but as this was objected to as unequal, an entry was made on the Journals to prevent its being drawn into precedent in future.

Committees were then appointed to state American rights and grievances, and the various Acts of the British Parliament which affect the trade and manufactures of these Colonies. On these subjects the Committees spent several days, when the Congress judged it necessary, previous to completing and resolving on these subjects, to take under consideration that of ways and means for redress.

On the 16th arrived an express from Boston, with letters to the Delegates, and the Suffolk Resolves. These were laid before the Congress, and were highly approved of and applauded, as you will see by the enclosed paper of the 19th, in which the proceedings of the Congress thereon is published at large by their order. A general non-importation of British goods and manufactures, or of any goods from thence, appearing to the Congress one of the means of redress in our power, and which might probably be adopted to prevent future difficulties and altercations on this subject, among those who might now, or for some time past had been sending orders for goods, the Congress unanimously came into the enclosed Resolution on the 22d, and the same was ordered to be published immediately. Since this a non-importation and non-consumption of goods, &c., from Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the first of December next, has been unanimously resolved on; but to carry so important a Resolution into effect, it is necessary that every possible precaution should now be taken, on the one hand to prevent wicked and desperate men from breaking through and defeating it, either by fraud or force, and on the other, to remove as far as possible every temptation to or necessity for the violation thereof. For this a Committee is appointed, who, not having as yet completed their report, nothing is published particularly on this subject, more than what we now are at liberty in general to relate.

We have the pleasure of finding the whole Congress, and through them the whole Continent, of the same sentiment and opinion of the late Proceedings and Acts of the British Parliament; but, at the same time, confess our anxiety for greater despatch of the business before us than it is in our power, or perhaps in the nature of the subject, to effect.

An assembly like this, though it consists of less than sixty members, yet, coming from remote Colonies, each of which has some modes of transacting publick business peculiar to itself—some particular Provincial rights and interests to guard and secure, must take some time to become so acquainted with each one's situations and connections, as to be able to give an united assent to the ways and means proposed for effecting what all are ardently desirous of. In this view, our President, though a gentleman of great worth, and one who fills and supports the dignity of his station to universal acceptance, yet cannot urge forward matters to an issue with that despatch which he might in a different assembly. Nor, considering the great importance of something more than a majority, an unanimity, would it be safe and prudent—unanimity being, in our view, of the last importance. Every one must be heard even on those points or subjects which in themselves are not of the last import-