About three o’clock a signal was made by the Lively, that they were ready to deliver up our prisoners; upon which, General Putnam and Major Moncrief went to the ferry, where they received Messrs. John Peck, James Hewes, James Brewer, and Daniel Preston, of Boston, Messrs. Samuel Frost and Seth Russell, of Cambridge, Mr. Joseph Bell, of Danvers, Mr. Elijah Seaver, of Roxbury, and Cæsar Augustus, a negro servant to Mr. Tileston, of Dorchester, who were conducted to the house of Captain Foster, and there refreshed; after which the General and Major returned to their company, and spent an hour or two in a very agreeable manner. Between five and six o’clock, Major Moncrief, with the officers that had been delivered to him, were conducted to the ferry, where the Lively’s barge received them. After which, General Putnam, with the prisoners that had been delivered to him, &c., returned to Cambridge, escorted in the same manner as before. The whole was conducted with the utmost decency and good humour, and the Weathersfield Company did honour to themselves, their officers, and their Country. The regular officers expressed themselves as highly pleased. Those who had been prisoners acknowledged the genteel, kind treatment they had received from their captors. The privates, who were all wounded men, expressed, in the strongest terms, their grateful sense of the tenderness which had been shewn them in their miserable situation; some of them could do it only by their tears. It would have been to the honour of the British arms, if the prisoners taken from us could, with justice, have made the same acknowledgment. It cannot be supposed that any officers of rank, or common humanity, were knowing to the repeated cruel insults that were offered to them; but it may not be amiss to hint to the upstarts concerned, two truths, of which they seem to be totally ignorant, viz: that compassion is as essential a part of the character of a truly brave man as daring; and that insult offered to a person entirely in the power of the insulter, smells as strongly of cowardice as it does of cruelty.

DECLARATION OF JOHN PRENTICE.

Londonderry, N. H., June 6, 1775.

Whereas I, the subscriber, was so unfortunate some time since as to sign an address to the late Governour Hutchinson, so universally and so justly deemed an enemy to American liberty and freedom, I hereby, in this publick manner declare, that at the time I signed the said address, I intended the good of my Country and that only; but finding, to my sorrow, it had not that but quite a contrary effect, I hereby renounce the same address in every part, and hope my injured and affronted fellow-countrymen will overlook my past misconduct, as I am ready to assist them in their struggles for liberty and freedom, in whatever way I shall be called upon by them.

JOHN PRENTICE.

King’s Arms Tavern, Cornhill, London, June 7, 1775.

At a special meeting this day of several members of the Constitutional Society, during an adjournment, a gentleman proposed that a subscription should be immediately entered into by such of the members present who might approve the purpose, for raising the sum of one hundred Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King’s Troops at or near Lexington, and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, on the nineteenth of last April.

Which sum being immediately collected, it was there-upon

Resolved, That Mr. Horne do pay tomorrow, into the hands of Messrs. Brownes and Collison, on the account of Doctor Franklin, the said sum of one hundred Pounds, and that Doctor Franklin be requested to apply the same to the above mentioned purpose.

London, June 7, 1775.

A commercial correspondent has obliged us with the several quantities of wheat and flour imported at Bristol from the following Provinces, from the first of January, 1775, to the twenty-seventh of April last.

Suppose five bushels of wheat goes to a barrel of flour, which being added to the sum total of the wheat, makes 353,882 bushels, which is the produce of 17,694 acres, at twenty bushels per acre; and the value of the same, at five shillings per bushel, amounts to £88, 470 10s. The bread, rye, rice, and Indian corn, are omitted, and likewise wheat, barley, and oats, imported from Holland, Germany, and Ireland, at Bristol.

During the abovesaid period, twenty ships were cleared out from Bristol for North America, with nothing but ballast, viz:

N. B. The quantity of American provisions imported at Bristol, is scarce a fourth of what is imported at London, Liverpool, Lancaster, and throughout the other parts of England; and therefore when the Non-Exportation Agreement from America takes place, with the present scarcity and almost dearth of our own corn this year, a famine may be dreaded before next spring, if the present American disputes are not previously settled.

Charlestown, South-Carolina, June 8, 1775.

The Association signed by the Provincial Congress, and recommended by them as a proper instrument to be subscribed to at this juncture by persons of all persuasions, was, in a few days, with the greatest avidity and cheerfulness, signed also by almost every man in this Town; in short, such is here the spirit for liberty and freedom, that of the very few who objected, there were only two who were hardy enough to ridicule, or treat it with contempt, viz: Laughlin Martin and John Dealey, on which account they drew on themselves the resentment of the populace. Yesterday they were carted through the principal streets of this Town, in complete suits of tar and feathers. The very indecent and daring behaviour of the two culprits in several instances, occasioned their being made publick spectacles of. After having been exhibited for about half an hour, and having made many acknowledgments of their crime, they were conducted home, cleaned, and quietly put on board of Captain Lasley’s ship, lying wind-bound for Bristol. We hear that, upon the intercession of Martin’s friends, and his repeated promises of future good behaviour, he is allowed to come on shore and follow his business as usual.

To the Honourable Members of the Committee of Correspondence at CHARLESTOWN, the humble Petition of MICHAEL HUBART showeth:

That upon the second day of June, your petitioner being in the house of Thomas Nicoll, in King-street, a certain James Dealey came in, and said there was good news come to Town. Being asked what it was, he answered that a number of arms was sent over to be distributed amongst the Negroes, Roman Catholicks, and Indians. Upon which your petitioner replied, he thought it was very bad news that Roman Catholicks and savages should be permitted to join and massacre christians. Upon which Dealey struck his breast, and swore “he was a Roman Catholick, and that he had arms, and would get arms, and use them as he pleased.” Your petitioner went home to his house, and shortly after came in said Dealey and a certain Laughlin Martin, and A. Reed.

After sitting down a little, Laughlin Martin arose and said, “So, Mr. Hubart, you’ll not allow Roman Catholicks to carry guns.” Your petitioner answered that his circumstances were too small to forbid any party or sect to carry