or may foresee to be unavoidable, should have drawn upon them the displeasure of the Commander-in-Chief.

That they are at a loss to comprehend upon what principles an Address to the King, couched (as they conceive) in the most respectful terms, and breathing but those real sentiments, of loyalty with which this House is impressed, should be construed as encouraging a spirit of disaffection, or rebellion, in any part of His Majesty’s dominions.

That the peremptory requisition to rescind the Minutes, and a very loyal and dutiful Address to their Sovereign, before the House proceeded on any other business, is a very extraordinary and unheard-of exertion of power, destructive of the right of making the most decent representations of the state of the Colony to the Sovereign, and of every idea of freedom of conduct and debate, which are not only the incontrovertible right of the House of Representatives, but essential to the welfare and good Government of the Colony.

That this House cannot but in a particular manner lament that there should be any interruption to their proceedings, at a time when, with the greatest appearance of harmony among themselves, and a hearty concurrence on the part of the other branches of the Legislature, they were actually preparing so many useful laws and regulations, which were become materially requisite for the re-establishment of publick credit, and for the preservation of the Colony from the numerous calamities with which it has been long afflicted, and which, without an immediate remedy, must speedily tend to its total ruin; but this House can never resolve to attain even these desirable ends (were the means of doing so still in their power) by the sacrifice of so essential and inherent a right as that of petitioning their Sovereign for the redress of grievances, or prevention of evils, either felt or foreseen.

The same day his Honour dissolved the Assembly.

PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE the Third, by the grace of GOD of GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, and IRELAND, King, Defender of the Faith:

Whereas, it is expedient and necessary that the present House of Assembly, called for our said Island of Grenada and the Grenadines, should be dissolved: We do therefore think fit to issue this our Royal Proclamation, to publish and declare to our loving subjects, that the said Assembly is dissolved, and be it, and it is hereby dissolved accordingly.

Witness our trusty and well beloved William Young, Esq., our Commander-in-Chief in and over our Islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent and Tobago, Chancellor, Ordinary, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at Grenada, this 26th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1775, and the fifteenth of our reign.

WILLIAM YOUNG.

Grenada, duly published this 26th June, 1775.

JOHN PORTEUS, Deputy Provost Marshal.

GOD save the King.

MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

At a meeting of sundry gentlemen at Savannah, on Monday, June 26, 1775, it was unanimously

Resolved, That the present Acts of Parliament tending to raise a revenue in America, are grievances:

Resolved, therefore, That we will do all that we legally may to obtain redress of those grievances.

Resolved, That Friday, the 30th instant, June, at nine o’clock, A. M., at the house of Mrs. Cuyler, be a day appointed for a meeting, in order to consult the most expedient method to obtain redress.

TALBOT COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

June 26, 1775.

The Committee of Observation for Talbot County desire you to publish the following piece of intelligence :

On Monday, the 26th of June, the Ship Johnston, Captain Jones, from and belonging to Mr. James Gildart of Liverpool, was spoke within the Chesapeake Bay by Captain Harding, of the Schooner Endeavour; when Captain Jones informed Captain Harding that he was from Liverpool, and had on board a quantity of Salt. Captain Jones being asked whether he had any thing more than Salt on board, answered, yes, he had a few Dry-Goods. On being asked further, how Mr. Gildart (who was well apprized of the Association) would venture to send such articles to America, Captain Jones replied, that three Generals and twenty thousand soldiers had been ordered to America some time before the above goods were shipped, and that it was not doubted but all would be quiet by the time he should arrive.

Captain Jones inquired of Captain Harding whether he could land his Goods and Salt in Georgia; but the next day came with his Ship into the Eastern Bay, landed some Servants he had on board, and soon after started down the Bay.

The publick are cautioned to be under the watch, and look out for the Ship Johnston; as there is reason to suspect she is still hovering in some part of the bay, and will attempt to land her Goods if she can find a convenient opportunity, notwithstanding the Captain’s inquiring whether it were practicable to land them in Georgia.

At a meeting of the Committee of Observation for Talbot County, on Friday, the 7th of July, 1775:

JAMES LLOYD CHAMBERLAINE, in the Chair.

Messrs. Thomas Harrison, William Hamilton, Richard Skinner, and Hugh Rice, four of the gentlemen deputed to go on board the Ship Johnston, and examine her papers and log-book, appear and report: That on notice from Mr. James Braddock, agent and factor for Messrs. James Gildart and John Gawith and Co., of Liverpool, merchants, in the night of the 27th of June last, they did, in the morning of the 28th, get on board the said Ship Johnston, then lying in the Western Bay, waiting the return of her boat sent for the said deputation, and did examine her manifest, cocket and log-book, by which they found that she had on board Salt, fourteen Convicts, two indented Servants, and Dry-Goods, as in the annexed schedule;* said by Mr. Braddock to be shipped by Mr. James Gildart, on account of the above-mentioned Gildart and Gawith, and did give orders for her immediate return, permitting her, however, to lay at Hampton Roads, in Virginia, to take in a recruit of bread and water.

They further report, that Mr. Braddock applied to them for leave to land the convicts and servants; to which they replied, that they could see nothing in the proceedings of the Congress relative to convicts or servants, and therefore could give no directions with regard to their being landed; but told him, if he chose to do it, it must be at his own risk; on which Mr. Braddock did land the said convicts and servants, when they (the deputation) came on shore, alleging in his justification, that servants had been a few days before landed at Annapolis and Baltimore Town, and were then advertised for sale.

They further say, that they charged Captain Jones of the said Ship Johnston, to return immediately to the Port of Liverpool, without breaking bulk, which he, the said

* A Schedule of the Goods on board the Ship JOHNSTON, Captain JONES, taken JUNE 28th, 1775.

No. 1. Bale, 10 pieces of Kendal cottons.

No. 2. Do. Do.

No. 3. Cask of nails, forty thousand 8d; ten thousand 6d.

No. 4. Do. twenty thousand 10d; ten thousand pump.

No. 5. Do. twenty thousand 20d.

No. 6. Do. ten thousand 30d.; ten thousand scupper.

No. 7. Cask of hats, 4 ¾ dozen.

No. 8. Chest containing sixteen pieces of check linen; half a dozen bed bunts, and fourteen dozen check handkerchiefs.

No. 9. Cask four pieces of sheeting.

No. 10. Bale, six pieces of oznabrigs.

No. 11. Do. six Do.

No. 12. Do. six Do.

No. 13. Chest, quantity thirty two pieces of Irish linen.

No. 14. Do. of Haberdashery; quantity, thirty-six pounds of pins, three dozen ivory combs, five dozen horn combs, four pounds of thread.

Fifty crates of Virginia ware.

Four crates of stone bottles.

No. 15. Slops, quantity; jackets, shirts, and trowsers.

Twelve thousand four hundred bushels salt.

Fourteen men and women convicts.

Two indented servants.

JOHN BRACCO, Clerk pro tem.