admire the decent, loyal, yet manly and spirited language contained in all their petitions and supplications to the Throne, and cannot enough detest the indecent treatment and scornful reception they have met with from those haughty men who guide all the movements of the Nation.

But we assure you that the unison cord has not been hit upon by your Congress, or all would, long ere this, have been well with America, and few would have known the true cause of the Army and Fleet returning to England. Two or three hundred thousand Pounds, judiciously applied, would have wrought this miracle and saved millions, which, for want of this knowledge, you are now expending in warlike preparations. France, Spain, Holland, and Germany, have long been acquainted with this prudent secret, and have frequently administered this specifick with the wished-for success. Money has removed mountains; it has turned the course of rapid rivers; it has built a barrier wall, to divide China from Tartary, of fifteen hundred miles in length; and surely it will influence the pliable yielding hearts of men. I hope this method will be adopted yet; it will never be unseasonable, for the English are as greedy and ravenous after money, as a hungry wolf is after a fat sheep. Their Kings are not proof against its fascinating charms, and we know that they have been bribed to the prejudice of England. Touch but Bate’s palm and all will be right; he is the arch fiend, and has all the imps at his command. We believe him to be a Jesuit, and we know he is a blood relation of the banished Stuart King; and we believe he has been long working schemes to bring in one of that family to be again King of England. May his schemes all fail, and may he be transformed, not into a pillar of salt, but into a man of stone, as a lasting infamous monument for posterity to gaze upon,

NEWBERN (NORTH-CAROLINA) COMMITTEE

Committee Chamber, Newborn, August 10, 1775.

The following Letters have fallen into the hands of this Committee. Their alarming tendency sufficiently apologizes for their publication. As Governour Martin stands singly as a Provincial Governour. in his unremitting ardour to commence hostilities against this Province, are ministerial orders to him different, or his officious zeal to injure the people of his Government prompted by any malevolent principles?

“North-Carolina, Caps Fear, June 13, 1775.

“MY DEAR SIR: I take the liberty to enclose herewith a letter to Mrs. Martin, whose safe arrival I am anxious to hear, the wind having been easterly almost ever since her departure.

“I shall be extremely obliged to you if you can send me, with the royal standard I mentioned to you some time ago, or without it if that is not to be had, a good tent and markee, of the size of a Colonel’s tent in the Army, with a tent-bed to fit the boot of it; and further, viz. mattress, bolsters, and pillows, to be sent by any vessel bound to Cape-Fear River, or in default thereof to Newborn, directed to the care of Mr. Cornell.

“I should rejoice to see a prospect of a happy termination of the deplorable times, that more or less threaten the happiness of every man throughout the British dominions.

“My compliments and warmest good wishes attend you and Mrs. White, and all your family; and I am, dear Sir, ever yours,

Jo. MARTIN.

“The Honourable; Henry White, Esquire.

“I forbear to give you your due additions on the outside of my letter to obviate prying curiosity.”

“Cruiser Sloop-of-War, Cape-Fear River, July 21, 1775.

“SIR: I have received your letter of the fifteenth in stant by Mr. Cunningham, and highly approve your proper and spirited conduct, while I cannot sufficiently express my indignation and contempt of the proceedings of Captain-General Spencer and his unworthy confederates.

“You, and the other friends of Government, have only to stand your ground firmly, and unite against the seditious as they do against you, in firm assurance that you will be soon and effectually supported. I wait here to forward the purposes of the friends of Government, or I would have been among you. At a proper season you may depend I shall render myself among you, and in the mean time let nothing discourage you.

“The spirit of rebellion has lately received a most severe check in New-England, and I have not the least doubt that all that country is, by this time, entirely reduced by His Majesty’s Army, which, by my latest advices, was carrying on its operations with the utmost vigour.

“Major Snead may be assured of my attention to all his wishes at a proper time.

“I beg my compliments may be presented to Colonel McDonald; and am, Sir, your most humble servant,

“Jo. MARTIN.

“Lieutenant-Colonel James Cotton, Anson County.”

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN FINCASTLE, VIRGINIA, DATED AUGUST 10, 1775.

It appears that the Cherokees, after several iniquitous expedients, have been prevailed on to take up arms against this Colony. At first they were much averse to the business, but of late it appears otherwise; and a few days since they were to have a grand council, in which the business of going to war is to be ultimately determined. In a few days I shall have an account of the result. of this council, which, if interesting, I will endeavour to transmit to you.

Winchester, Virgina August 16, 1775.

By Capt. James Wood, who was deputed by our Assembly to invite the several Tribes of Ohio Indians to a treaty, to be held at Fort Pitt on the tenth of next month, and who returned last night, we learn that he had visited the Delawares, Shawanese, Senecas, Wyandots, and Tawas. That the commanding officer at Detroit, and deputy agent for Indian affairs, and Monsieur Baubee, a Frenchman, had sent belts and strings of wampum to seventeen Nations, including those above mentioned, informing them, unless they all united, the Virginians would take their country from them. That they purposed to attack them two different ways—one by the Ohio, the other by the Lakes. That the Virginians would invite them to a, treaty, but that they ought by no means to go, as they (the Virginians) were a people not to be depended on. That many other diabolical artifices had been used by those tools of Government, to instigate these savages to attack our frontiers, particularly the Virginians, who were represented to them as a distinct people, and that their attacking them would not be resented by the other Colonies,

Captain Wood had this account first from the Delawares, who appeared friendly, and gave him the belt and string which had been sent them. All the other tribes confirmed this account, and promised to attend the treaty. The Shawanese. assured him whatever they had received from Fort Detroit they had buried in the ground, never more to rise, but that the foolish Twightwees and Picts had accepted the belts. Chenusaw, one of the hostages who escaped from Williamsburgh some time ago, arrived at the Shawanese Town the day before Captain Wood. He had informed the Indians that all the people of Virginia were preparing for war, and determined to attack the Indians, except the Governour, whom the people had obliged to go on board of a man of-war; that the hostage had discovered they were to be made slaves and sent to some other country, which he assigned as the reason for his escape. But on Captain Wood’s explaining the matter to the Indians, they appeared entirely satisfied.

Captain JAMES WOOD’S information to the Committee of PITTSBURGH, AUGUST 10, 1775.

Mr. Wood informs the Committee that at Cushocton, a Delaware Town, on the 22d of July, he delivered a speech to the Chiefs of that place, inviting them to a treaty to be held at Pittsburgh the 10th of September; likewise he informed them that he understood that the Wyandots and French had lately been in Council with them, that they made a speech, and delivered a belt to them, and that he expected from the friendship that has for a long time subsisted between them and their elder brothers, the Virginians, that they would inform him what had passed between them. On the 23d of July, Newcomer and some other