great success here, as also in Virginia, and without doubt, in two or three months, will be able to furnish large quantities. We hear from South-Carolina that a considerable quantity of powder was arrived there, some of which will immediately be forwarded to Boston; this may be depended on. There has been, within a few days, a considerable quantity sent from this place to our Armies before Boston and Ticonderoga. Every method has been taken, and will continue to be taken, for the importation of large supplies of that necessary article, powder; some of which hope will arrive soon. It is not likely that I shall be able to get powder to send to our Province, as the whole will be in the hands of the Committee, to be sent from time to time to our Army; therefore, if any should be wanting for the common cause, no doubt it may be had from them. I would here beg leave to suggest, that we should not, by any means, at present make use of cannon, if it is possible to avoid it, until we are better supplied. The Assembly of this Province have voted to raise four thousand five hundred Minutemen. Every measure seems to be taking to defend our just rights to the last extremity. The general voice of the people here is, that our cause is just and righteous, and that God is on our side, as has most evidently appeared. The low, base, and wanton cruelty of the ministerial sons of tyranny, in burning the once pleasant and populous Town of Charlesloun, beggars all description. This does not look like the fight of those who have so long been friends, and would hope to be friends again, but rather of a most cruel enemy. But we shall not wonder, when we reflect, that it is the infernal hand of tyranny, which always has and ever will deluge that part of the world which it lays hold of in blood.

I am in some hopes that the Congress will rise in about a fortnight, but this is mere conjecture, as it will depend on what news we receive from our Army, and some other matters. I am very sorry to be alone in so great and important a business as that of representing a whole Colony, which no one man is equal to; but how to avoid it, I know not. Whether it will be thought worth while, at this uncertainty, to send me any assistance, our honourable Convention will be judges. I shall endeavour, as far as my poor abilities will admit of, to render every service to my Country in my power. I am, with great respect, your most obedient servant,

JOHN LANGDON.

To Matthew Thornton, Esquire.

PHILADELPHIA COMMITTEE.

Committee Chamber, July 3, 1775.

The Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia having undertaken to erect a Saltpetre Manufactory, and having appointed Messrs. Owen Biddle, George Clymer, John Allen, James Mease, Lambert Cadwalader, and Doctor Benjamin Rush, to superintend the same, they do earnestly request the inhabitants of this Province in generaj, and of this City and Liberties in particular, to furnish them with all such materials and assistance as they may require, to enable them to carry the said important and necessary Manufactory into execution with as much expedition is possible.             By order of the Committee:

JOHN BENEZET, Assistant Secretary.

By His Excellency WILLIAM TRTON, Esquire, Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief in and over the Province of NEW-YORK, and the Territories depending thereon, in AMERICA, Chancellor and Vice-Admiral of the same:

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, the General Assembly of this Province stands prorogued to the fifth day of July, instant, I have thought fit, for His ^Majesty’s service, to prorogue, and I do by and with the advice of His Majesty’s Council, further prorogue the said General Assembly to the ninth day of August next; of which all His Majesty’s subjects concerned there in are required to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

Given under my band and seal at arms at Fort George, in the City of New-York, the third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

WILLIAM TRYON.

By his Honour’s command:

SAML. BAYARD, JUN., Sec’y.
GOD save the King.

ADDRESS OF THE CORPORATION OF NEW-YORK TO GOVERNOUR TRYON.

Address left with his Excellency Governour Tryon, the third day of July, 1775, by the Worshipful Whitehead Hicks, Esquire, Mayor of the City of New-York:

To His Excellency WILLIAM TRYON, Esquire, Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief of the Province of NEW-YORK, and the. Territories thereon depending, in AMERICA, and Vice-Admiral and Chancellor of the same:

The humble Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of NEW-YORK

May it please your Excellency:

We wait upon you, Sir, to congratulate you on the better establishment of your health, and to bid you welcome to a people who, from the rectitude of your administration, could not part with you without the deepest regret, and who must therefore receive you again with all the confidence of safety and protection which the experience of your virtues and abilities can inspire.

Would to Heaven that an event so honourable to you as this fresh mark of the King’s approbation really is, and which is so acceptable to us, had found us in a condition more propitious to your felicity; for even amidst the complicated distresses of this melancholy hour, we feel an addition to our grief, from the aspect of the times upon the happiness we sincerely wish you to enjoy.

To whatever causes the suspension of the harmony once subsisting between the Parent State and her Colonies may be imputed, be assured, Sir, that we sigh with the utmost ardour for the re-establishment of the common tranquillity, upon that ancient system of Government and intercourse which has been such a fruitful source o.f general prosperity and opulence.

It is with affliction we behold a Nation, as renowned for wisdom as for valour, involved in a civil war, in which disloyalty in His Majesty’s American subjects to their Prince, or want of affection to their Mother Country, constitute no part of the unnatural controversy. And we trust, under a merciful God, in the aid of your intercession with His Majesty, for a speedy termination of these hostile animosities of his contending subjects, which undermine the power and threaten the destruction of the Empire.

The Governour’s Answer to the Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of NEW-YORK, delivered to the Mayor to be laid before the Corporation.

GENTLEMEN: I receive with satisfaction your congratulations on my return to this Country, and obliging assurances of your affectionate regard from my former residence amongst you, and of your continued" confidence in me at this melancholy crisis of publick affairs, already carried to an extreme much to be lamented by every good man and well-wisher of his King and Country.

I confess my disappointment at the change of circumstances in this Government, and feel the weightiest distress at the present unfriendly aspect of the times. Long residence in the Colonies, and a happy experience of repeated friendships, have, as it were, naturalized me to America,. and bound me, while I remained in England,. faithfully to represent the loyalty, sentiments, and situation of the. inhabitants of this Province, and to support their interest with my best endeavours. At the.same time, my breast glowing with an ardent zeal for the honour of my Sovereign, and affection for my native Country, I was induced to embark again for this Government, cherishing the pleasing hope of being able to contribute, in some small degree, the hastening the general wish of the Nation for a speedy and happy reconciliation between Great Britain and her Colonies. If there can be a time when it would be wisdom and humanity to listen to the calm and dispassionate