and remonstrances one after another. They have taken up the affair in such good earnest as will very probably excite a civil war in England. The ferment in the City is certainly prodigious. The land-holders also begin to be moved and aid the merchants, and the common people are all entering into associations, and consulting what is best to be done.

RECEPTION OF GENERAL SCHUYLER AT ALBANY.

Albany, Sunday, July 9, 1775.

About one o’clock, P. M., Major-General Schuyler arrived here from New-York. He was received, upon his landing, by the members of the General Committee for the City and County, and by the City Troops of Horse, under the command of Captain Ten Broeck, and the Association Company, commanded by Captain Bleecker, and by the principal inhabitants of the City. After paying the General the honours due to his rank, they escorted him and the gentlemen of the Committee to the City-Hall, where the Committee presented an Address, and received a polite answer from the General. They afterwards proceeded to the King’s-Arms Tavern, where an elegant entertainment was provided.

“The Address of the Committee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection, of the City and County of ALBANY, to PHILIP SCHUYLER, Esq., Major-General and Commander of the Forces in the Colony of NEW-YORK:

“Permit us, Sir, to express our fullest approbation upon the appointment by which your Country has raised you to the chief military command in this Colony. While we deplore, as the greatest misfortune, the necessity of such an appointment, we have the utmost confidence that you have accepted of power for the glorious purpose of exercising it for the re-establishment of the liberties of America, at present unnaturally invaded by a deluded and despotick Ministry.

“Born and educated amongst us, in a Country which freedom has raised to a state of opulence and envy, you, whose principles are known, whose sentiments have been invariably opposed to power, afford us the pleasing prospect of the unremitted exertion of your knowledge, prudence, and experience, for the restoration of harmony and peace upon constitutional principles. When the sword shall be rendered useless, except against our natural enemies; when we shall see you restored to the peaceful state of a private citizen; when this happy period shall arrive, then, and not till then, will Americans enjoy the glorious blessings of freedom.

“By order of the Committee.

“SAMUEL STRINGER, Chairman pro tempore.”

The General’s Answer.

“GENTLEMEN: I feel myself so sensibly affected by this publick and friendly address, that whilst my heart overflows with sentiments of gratitude, I want words properly to convey my thanks.

“The honour you do me in the approbation which you are pleased to express of my appointment to a military command, confirms me in the pleasing reflection, that I shall experience your assistance in a continuance of those generous exertions, by which you have already so conspicuously manifested your love for your Country, and your zeal for its cause.

“I most sincerely and unfeigniedly deplore with you the unhappy occasion which has forced America to have recourse to arms for her safety and defence. Ambitious only to aid in restoring her violated rights, I shall most cheerfully return my sword to the scabbard, and, with alacrity, resume the employment of civil life, whenever my constituents shall direct, or whenever a happy reconciliation with the Parent State shall take place.

“That indulgent Heaven may guide us through this tempestuous scene, and speedily restore peace, harmony, and mutual confidence to every part of the British Empire, is the warmest wish of my heart.

“PHILIP SCHUYLER.

“Albany, July 9, 1775.”

CONGRESS OF MASSACHUSETTS TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read July 20, 1775]

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, July 9, 1775.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS: With hearts deeply affected by the sufferings of our friends in the Town and harbour of Boston under the cruel hand of tyrannick power, we think it incumbent on us to take every measure which may tend to their release. To that end we now beg leave humbly to suggest to your Honours, whether it would not be expedient immediately to seize every Crown Officer within the united Colonies, and them in safe custody retain, until this purpose be effected, and full compensation made them for the insult and perfidious treatment they have received from General Gage.

We have only once more to express our wishes, that if the general service will permit, you might adjourn to some convenient place nearer the seat of action, that we might more speedily obtain the aid and advice of the Grand Council of the Continent in those important matters which, though of general concern, do more immediately affect us.

We are, with great respect, your Honours’ most obedient humble servant. In behalf and by order of Congress.

JAMES WARREN, President.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esquire.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER TO A GENTLEMAN IN PHILADELPHIA, FROM THE CAMP AT CAMBRIDGE, DATED JULY 9, 1775.

Yesterday morning, at half past two o’clock, we were called up, and were informed the enemy had attacked our lines at Roxbury Neck, and soon discovered a great fire in that quarter; but two hours elapsed before we knew the cause, which was as follows:

Two hundred volunteers, from the Rhode-Island and Massachusetts forces, undertook to burn a guard-house of the Regulars, on the neck, within three hundred yards of the enemy’s principal works. They detached six men, about ten o’clock in the evening, with orders to cross on a marsh up to the rear of the guard-house, and there to watch an opportunity to fire it. The remainder of the volunteers secreted themselves in the marsh, on each side of the neck, about two hundred yards from the house. Two pieces of brass artillery were drawn softly on the marsh, within three hundred yards, and, upon a signal from the advanced party of six men, two rounds of cannon shot were fired through the guard-house; immediately the Regulars, who formed a guard of forty-five or fifty men, quitted the house, and were then fired upon by the musketry, who drove them with precipitation into their lines; the six men posted near the house set fire to it, and burnt it to the ground; after this they burnt another house nearer the enemy, without losing a man. They took two muskets and accoutrements, a halbert, &c., all of which were bloody, and shewed evident marks of loss on the part of the Regulars as an advanced post, and gave them an opportunity of discovering our operations at Roxbury.

Yesterday afternoon some barges were sounding the river of Cambridge, near its mouth, but were soon obliged to row off by our Indians, (fifty in number,) who are encamped near that place.

The enemy lost a great number of officers and soldiers in the affair of the 19th of June. From several persons who are to be credited, it exceeds nine hundred killed and mortally wounded, besides a great number disabled from future service. It is said almost, all the officers of the Army, as well as sergeants and corporals, were in the engagement, leading and forcing the soldiers to mount the hill. This may account for so many officers being killed as ninety-two. Some accounts mention a general destruction of sergeants and corporals. We have frequent interviews with the regulars officers in a valley between the two fortified hills.

Our sentries are not more than one hundred yards off each other. Both sides are still busy in securing themselves. There is scarcely a house in the lower part of Roxbury that is not much injured by shot and bombs; our people have lost only one man by them, which is very remarkable, as one hundred at least were fired into Roxbury last week.