suspicion of intending to go to the enemy,” is acquitted by the General Court-Martial.

Ensign Trafton, accused by Colonel Scammons of “abusive language to the said Colonel Scammons while under arrest,” tried by a General Court-Martial, of which Colonel Nixon was President. The Court are unanimously of opinion that the prisoner is not guilty, and do therefore acquit him with honour.

Lieutenant Trafton to be forthwith released from his arrest.

Michael Bury, of Captain Parker’s Company, and Col. Prescott’s Regiment, tried by the same General Court-Martial for “refusing his duty and enlisting in another Company.” The Court condemn the prisoner, and order him to receive thirty-nine lashes. The General orders the sentence to be put in execution at the head of the Regiment the delinquent belongs to.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, July 24, 1775.

It being thought proper to distinguish the Majors from the Brigadiers-General by some particular mark, for the future the Majors-General will wear a broad purple ribband.

Notwithstanding the General Orders marking the distinctions of General Officers, Aids-de-Camp, &c., the Generals are frequently stopped by the sentinels, which can only happen from the Captains having neglected to read the orders to their respective Companies. If any General Officer, Aid-de-Camp, or Major of Brigade, is again stopped through the ignorance of the sentinels, the Captains will be responsible.

As any attempt the enemy, from their late disappointments, may have the rashness or the hardiness to make, will be violent and sudden, the General expects the officers and soldiers will be not only resolute but alert to defeat; and in a particular manner he enforces his orders to every field-officer, upon no account (duty excepted) to lay out of camp, but upon every occasion to shew by their example that activity and steady courage so necessary to defeat an enterprising enemy.

Notwithstanding the orders of the eleventh instant, expressly forbidding all officers and soldiers from quitting their guard before they are regularly relieved and dismissed, the General is informed such unsoldierlike practices are still committed; he therefore admonishes all officers and non-commissioned officers, not to suffer any person to quit their guard upon any pretence, care to be taken the men are properly supplied with provisions before they mount guard.

Report being this morning made to the General, that the main guard room is kept abominably filthy and dirty; for the future, one commanding officer is not to relieve another upon that guard, until he is assured that the officers and men’s apartments are clean and in decent order.

The Surgeon of every Regiment in the lines, redoubts, or in or near Cambridge, to deliver to-morrow, at twelve at noon, to the Adjutant-General at Head-Quarters, an exact return of the sick in the Regiments they respectively belong to; the names, rank, and disorder of each officer, non-commissioned officer, and soldier, to be mentioned in the return. The returns of the Surgeons of the corps statoned in and near Roxbury, to be made to the commanding General at Roxbury, Tuesday noon, in the manner and form directed by the above order, and the General commanding at Roxbury will transmit them to Head-Quarters at orderly time, Wednesday.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, July 25, 1775.

Continual complaints being made that soldiers of regiments and companies, after enlisting in one company and regiment, have gone and enlisted in another, insomuch that it would engross the General’s whole time to hear the disputes upon this subject; for the future, any officers who have any dispute in regard to the men re-enlisted, are to apply to the Brigadier commanding their Brigade, who will order a Court-Martial of the Brigade to hear and determine the matter.

The General Court-Martial, of which Colonel Nixon was President, to be dissolved this evening, and another General Court-Martial of the line to sit to-morrow morning at the usual time and place, to try such prisoners as shall be brought before them. All evidences and persons concerned to attend the Court.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge July 26, 1775.,

It is recommended to the commanding officers of corps, that all coverings made of boards be built in the form of barracks, and in the most advantageous manner, at the same time so contrived as to be warm and comfortable in cold weather.

All passes to be discontinued for the future, and no person to be admitted into the lines unless introduced by an officer who can vouch for him, or by order of the officer commanding in the lines.

It being represented that the present hospital is not large enough to contain the sick, Lieutenant-Governour Oliver’s house is to be cleared for that purpose, and care to be taken that no injury is done to it.

Notwithstanding the strict and repeated orders that have been given against firing small-arms, it is hourly practised. All officers commanding guards, posts, and detachments, to be alert in apprehending all future transgressors.

Captain Clarke, of General Putnam’s Regiment, confined in arrest for “neglect of duty when upon guard,” tried by a late General Court-Martial, is acquitted, and is immediately to be released from his arrest.

Levi Woods, soldier in Captain Nutting’s Company, in Colonel Prescott’s Regiment, confined for “absenting himself without leave, and refusing to take the oath, and threatening to leave the Army.” The Court-Martial, upon the prisoner’s pleading guilty, and promising to behave obediently for the future, recommended him to the General’s mercy; who is pleased to pardon the prisoner.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, July 27, 1775.

John Trumbull, Esq., being appointed Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, he is to be obeyed as such.

A Court of Inquiry to sit to-morrow morning at eight o’clock in the tutor’s chamber, (Mr. Hall,) to examine into a complaint, exhibited upon oath in the publick newspapers, against Mr. Benjamin Whiting, now a prisoner in the college. All evidences, and persons concerned, to attend the Court.

For the future, when any deserters come to any of the out guards, they are, with the least delay, to be sent by a corporal’s guard to the next guard in the lines, who is immediately to escort them in the same manner to the Major-General commanding that division of the Army, who, as soon as he has examined them, will forthwith send them under a proper escort from his guard to the Head-Quarters. Some deserters being made drunk, who came last night from the enemy, before they reached Head-Quarters, it will be considered as a breach of orders in any person who gives rum to deserters, before they are examined by the General.

A subaltern officer’s guard to be mounted to-morrow morning at eight o’clock, at a certain distance from the Small-Pox Hospital; the officer to come this evening at six o’clock to the Adjutant-General for orders.

COLONEL HURD TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE CONGRESS.

Haverhill, Cohoos, July, 27, 1775.

SIR: Though I am not of any Committee of Correspondence, yet, as a member of the Provincial Congress, I take this opportunity to acquaint you that the bearer, Colonel Bayley, goes down to Exeter and Cambridge (and will call on you in his way) expressly on purpose to accompany an Indian, by name Louis, of the Caughnawaga Tribe, who is just come in here from Montreal by way of the Lake Memphremagog and Upper Cohoos; the same who sent us these advices in the letter which I carried down and communicated to the Congress at the last session. He has all along appeared friendly to the New-England people, is very intelligent, and has the character among the Indian traders of an honest fellow, who has always stood by and made good his word.

Though no very remarkable occurrence has taken place in Canada that he informs of, yet the account he gives of the present disposition of the Indians and Canadians, and the situation of the Regular Troops there, seems so