After the business of the day was thus concluded, the people gave three huzzas for our gracious Sovereign, and dispersed quietly without the least disorder.

LEWIS MORRIS, Chairman.

MEETING OF COMMITTEES FOR THE NEW-HAMPSH1RE GRANTS.

At a meeting of Committees appointed by a large body of Inhabitants on the east side of the range of Green Mountains, held at Westminster, on the 11th day of April 1, 1775;

1. Voted, That Major Abijah Lovejoy be the Moderator of this meeting.

2. Voted, That Doctor Reuben Jones be the Clerk.

3. Voted, as our opinion, That our inhabitants are in great danger of having their property unjustly, cruelly, and unconstitutionally taken from them by the arbitrary and designing administration of the Government of New-York, sundry instances having already taken place.

4. Voted, as our opinion, That the lives of those inhabitants are in the utmost hazzard and imminent danger, under the present administration—witness the malicious and horrid massacre of the night of the 13th ultimo.

5. Voted, as our opinion, That it is the duty of said inhabitants, as predicated on the eternal and immutable law of self-preservation, to wholly renounce and resist the administration of the Government of New-York, till such time as the lives and property of those inhabitants may be secured by it; or till such time as they can have opportunity to lay their grievances before his most gracious Majesty in Council, together with a proper remonstrance against the unjustifiable conduct of that Government, with an humble petition to be taken out of so oppressive a jurisdiction, and either annexed to some other Government, or erected and incorporated into a new one, as may appear best to the said inhabitants, to the royal wisdom and clemency, and till such time as His Majesty shal1 settle this controversy.

6. Voted, That Colonel John Hazeltine, Charles Phelps, Esq., and Colonel Ethan Allen, be a Committee to prepare such remonstrance and petition for the purpose aforesaid.

Speech delivered by Captain SOLOMON UHHAUNAUWAUNMUT, the Chief Sachem of the MOHEAKUMNUK Tribe of INDIANS residing in STOCKBRIDGE, on the 11th day of APRIL, 1775, after sitting near two days in Council, it being an Answer to a Message sent to them by the CONGRESS.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq., President of the Provincial Congress, now sitting at Concord—To be communicated.

BROTHERS: We have heard you speak by your Letter; we thank you for it; we now make answer.

Brothers: You remember when you first came over the great waters, I was great and you was little—very small. I then took you in for a friend, and kept you under my arms, so that no one might injure you; since that time we have ever been true friends; there never has been any quarrel between us. But now our conditions are changed; yon are become great and tall; you reach up to the clouds; you are seen all round the world; and I am become small, very little; I am not so high as your heel. Now you take care of me, and I look to you for protection.

Brothers: I am sorry to hear of this great quarrel between you and Old England. It appears that blood must soon be shed to end this quarrel. We never till this day understood the foundation of this quarrel between you and the Country you came from.

Brothers: Whenever I see your blood running, you will soon find me about you to revenge my brothers’ blood. Although I am low and very small, I will gripe hold of your enemy’s heel, that he cannot run so fast and so light, as if he had nothing at his heels.

Brothers: You know I am not so wise as you are, therefore I ask your advice in what I am now agoing to say. I am thinking before you come to action, to take a run to the Westward, and feel the minds of my Indian brothers, the Six Nations, and know how they stand, whether they are on your side, or for your enemies. If I find they are against you, I will try to Turn their minds. I think they will listen to me; for they have always looked this way for advice concerning all important news that comes from the rising of the sun. If they hearken to me you will not be afraid of any danger from behind you. However their minds are affected, you shall soon know by me. Now I think I can do you more service in this way, than by marching off immediately to Boston, and stay there (it may be) a great while before blood runs. Now, as I said you are wiser than I, I leave this for your consideration, whether I come down immediately, or wait till I hear some blood is spilled.

Brothers: I would not have you think by this that we are falling back from our engagements; we are ready to do any thing for your relief, and shall be guided by your counsel.

Brothers: One thing I ask of you if you send for me to fight, that you will let me fight in my own Indian way. I am not used to fight English fashion, therefore you must not expect I can train like your men. Only to point out to me where your enemies keep, and that is all I shall want to know.

TO THE KING.

London, April 12, 1775.

SIRE: When the complaints and petitions of injured subjects are treated with insolence by a profligate Parliament, and with mockery by an imperious Minister, it is high time for them to assume a different tone. Your Majesty must be a great proficient in Courtly accomplishments to profess astonishment at what you could not but know full well, from the protesting majority of the independent Peers, from a hundred loud and honest voices (marvellous as that may seem) among your own faithful Commons, besides the many other Petitions from the commercial and manufacturing parts of the Kingdom, who had long before avowed their approbation of American resistance, and their utter abhorrence of the arbitrary and violent measures of Administration, against what your Majesty calls a rebellious disposition only, which barely exists in a part of your Colonies. Had an actual rebellion not only existed, but raged all over America, your Ministers could hardly have spared more forces from the National defence than are now embarked to correct a bad disposition. If your Majesty is thus severe on ill humours and dispositions, which so much pains have been taken to excite and inflame, what thunderbolts of your royal vengeance will be hurled upon actual traitors, when you shall discover them—nearer home?

Your Majesty’s “entire confidence in the wisdom of your Parliament” cannot but be well founded, considering from whom they have learned and adopted their principles and resolutions, and thus qualified themselves for the “great Council of the Nation.”

Surely your Majesty does not suppose your good subjects so dull of apprehension, as to believe that your American measures were originally planned and recommended to your Ministers by Parliament. They are convinced that the majority of Parliament are too modest, and know themselves too well, to give advice to Government. They know that these measures were dictated to Parliament by the Minister, (who is also dictated to by some body else,) and for no other purpose but to gain a Parliamentary sanction to indemnify the Crown and its servants from the consequences of such violent and unconstitutional proceedings. Therefore, the compliment paid to Parliament on this occasion is but little better founded, or more sincere, than that made to Great Britain in the next sentence, when your Majesty declare, that “you will steadily pursue these measures for the support of her constitutional rights and commercial interests.” Your Majesty, in your great wisdom, or rather in the wisdom of your Parliament, is pleased to take measures a little extraordinary on this great occasion; which, although very expressive of the violence of your attachment to our rights and interests, it is feared, like the fostering of too fond a parent, may overlay them both. The mode graciously adopted to protect our Commerce, by starving or cutting the throats of our Colonists,