honour had been conferred upon a person better qualified to execute a trust so important. It would give me great satisfaction if I thought myself capacitated to act with dignity, and to do honour to that Congress which has exalted me to be second in command over the American Army. I hope they will accept my sincere desire to serve them, and my most grateful acknowledgments for the honour conferred upon me, and pray they may not be wholly disappointed in their expectations. I always have been, and am still ready to devote my life in attempting to deliver my native Country from insupportable slavery.

I am, Sir, with great respect, your most obedient humble servant,

ARTEMAS WARD.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esquire, President of Congress, &c.

P. S. Colonel Gardner is wounded, I hope not mortally.

GENERAL WARD TO JOHN PIGEON.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, June 30, 1775.

SIR: There are now on Prospect Hill nearly four thousand men, who at present are obliged to come to the store in college, for all the provisions they stand in need of. If they can be supplied with provisions at the hill, it will tend much to the safety of the lines there, for a great number of the men are now obliged daily to leave the lines that they may convey provisions to others upon the hill; and the milk especially, when it is conveyed from the store in college to the hill, is unfit for any person in camp to eat; therefore, if possible, it must be altered.

I am, Sir, &c.,

ARTEMAS WARD.

To Mr. Commissary Pigeon.

GEN. THOMAS TO MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Roxbury Camp, June 30, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Major White has procured a small number of fire-arms, which I have presumed to stop in the camp at Roxbury for your order; when received I shall always comply with. We have a considerable deficiency of arms here. If it be agreeable, I should be glad there may be directions for the delivery of them here. I shall submit it to your consideration; and am your most obedient and very humble servant,

JOHN THOMAS.

GEN. HEATH TO MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Camp at Roxbury, June 30, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: A number of fire-arms were put under my care last winter, which were afterwards ordered to Worcester. The Committee of Safety, when sitting at Concord, gave me assurances that I should have a number of them for my Regiment, which I believe some of your Honours will remember. They are since disposed of, as I am informed, to other Regiments. A number of good arms are now brought to camp; a number of my Regiment, which Lieutenant-Colonel Greaton can ascertain, have no arms. I therefore earnestly request that you would be pleased to give order for their being supplied from those now brought to camp.

I am, gentlemen, with great respect, your humble servant,

W. HEATH.

Honourable Committee of Safety.

COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESS.

In Committee of Safety, Cambridge, June 30, 1775.

Whereas the honourable Provincial Congress has this day passed a Resolve, appointing this Committee to be a Committee to consider of a farther emission of Bills of Credit, as mentioned in said resolve; but this Committee, feeling themselves unable to proceed in the business without a more perfect knowledge of the emissions lately made, both in quantity and circumstances of payment, and also for want of sufficient knowledge of the demands made, or to be made upon the Colony, do resolve that Colonel Palmer attend the honourable Congress to-morrow, in order to obtain all necessary light in the premises.

J. PALMER, Chairman.

To the Honourable the Provincial Congress now sitting at Watertown.

MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

Chamber of Supplies, Watertown, June 30, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We understand that you have signified, in a letter to Mr. Langdon, the President of Harvard College, that you had some cannon mounted, and would send them if wanted. We therefore beg leave to inform you, that orders have been sent us from the camp for three twenty-four pounders more than we have now ready, and that we apprehend it very important that they should be forwarded as soon as may be.

We are respectfully, gentlemen, your most obedient servants,

DAVID CHEEVER, per order.

Honourable Committee of Safety, New-Hampshire.

An Eulogium sacred to the memory of the late Major-General WARREN, who fell JUNE 17, 1775, fighting against the Ministerial Army at BOSTON.

When an amiable man, with a promising family of children, perishes in the bloom of life, every friend to humanity must share in the distress which such a calamity occasions in the circle of his acquaintances. This distress is heightened when we hear that the virtues of the man were blended with the exalted qualities of a Patriot. We rise in our expressions of grief when we are told that he possessed not only the zeal of a patriot, but the wisdom, the integrity, and the eloquence of a Senator. But when we hear that these shining qualities were crowned with the patience, the magnanimity, and the intrepidity of a Warrior, we are led to contemplate one of the most august characters in human nature. When such a man falls, grief is dumb, and eloquence is obliged for a while to muse eulogiums which it cannot express.

Such were our feelings upon hearing of the death of the illustrious General Warren, who fell on the seventeenth of June, at the head of a detachment of the American Army, near Boston. It is impossible to do justice to his full-orb’d character. He filled each of the numerous departments in life that were assigned to him so well, that he seemed born for no others. He had displayed, in the course of three and thirty years, all the talents and virtues of the man, the patriot, the senator, and the hero. He was unlike the Spartan General only in not expiring in the arms of victory. But even in this unfortunate event he has served his Country, for he has taught the sons of freedom in America, that the laurel may be engrafted upon the cypress, and that true glory may be acquired not only in the arms of victory, but in the arms of death.

If our pleasures are exalted in proportion to the extent and degrees of our benevolence, how shall we describe those pleasures which the hero feels who performs the highest act of benevolence to mankind, by dying in defence of the liberties of his Country. He enjoys a prelibation, the most like the joys of heaven that mortals can taste upon earth; he partakes of the nature and happiness of God.

Say, illustrious shade! what new resentments kindled in thy bosom at the prospect of executing vengeance upon the foes of liberty? Say, what were the transports of thy mind when the twice repulsed enemy fled before thy powerful arms?

But when, alas, borne down with numbers, thou wast forced to retreat, and death showed his commission to the ball that pierced thy bosom, say what joy thrilled after it at the prospect of having thy brows encircled with the patriot’s crown of martyrdom? Tell me, ye brave Americans who beheld our hero fall, did he not, in his last moments, pour forth his usual expressions of loyalty to the Crown of Britain, and his wonted prayers for the welfare of his Country? Did he not, in faltering accents, call upon his fellow-soldiers to forget his death, and to revenge his Country’s wrongs alone? Ah! he breathes his, last!. Crowd not too closely on his shade, ye holy ministers of Heaven. Make room for yonder spirit! It is the illustrious Hampden who flies to embrace him, and, pointing to the wound that deprived him of life in a conflict with arbitrary power above an hundred years ago, he claims the honour of conducting him to the regions of perfect liberty and happiness.

How ineffable are the delights of Heaven to a virtuous lover of liberty. To behold the power of the Sovereign of

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