Indians, Scotchmen, and some few Canadians, with Colonel Johnson, at La Chene. Of this parry the Indians that are at St. John’s are a part. Whether any ships of war are at Quebeck I cannot say, as none have been mentioned to me. I am rather inclined to believe there are none. Should the detachment of your body penetrate into Canada, and we meet with success, Quebeck must inevitably fall into our hands. Should we meet with a repulse, which can only happen from foul play in the Canadians, I shall have an opportunity to inform your party of it, that they may carry into execution any orders you may give, in case such an unfortunate event should arrive.

Your Excellency will be pleased to be particular in your orders to the officer that may command the detachments, that there may be no clashing, should we join.

I shall leave orders at Ticonderoga to forward all the lead that can be spared.

Excuse these scraps of paper; necessity obliges me to use them, having no other fit to write on.

Be pleased to make my compliments to the gentlemen of your suite. Colonel Reed will be so good as to excuse my not answering his letter, as I really cannot find time.

I am, dear Sir, with most respectful sentiments, your Excellency’s obedient humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

His Excellency General Washington.

GENTRAL SCHUYLER TO SAMUEL STRINGER.

Albany, August 27, 1775.

SIR: The Continental Congress having adjourned before my letter recommending the establishment of a hospital for this department had reached Philadelphia, since which I have applied to the Province Congress of this Colony, who judge that, in the present state of things, such an establishment is in my power, and necessity impelling me to it, I do entreat you to take upon yourself the charge of it, and to provide such necessaries as the shortness of the time will admit of; and I do hereby engage that the Continental Congress will make you the same allowance for your service that is or may be made to the Director of the Hospital with the Grand Continental Army, and the same to the mates as those in that quarter get; and that for your medicines and instruments you shall be allowed the value of; and if any money is immediately wanted, I will give you a warrant for the same; and that I will take the earliest opportunity to get the decision of Congress on this establishment. I am, Sir, your humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER,

Major General commanding the Forces of the United Colonies in the New-York Department.

To Samuel Stringer, Esq.

Officers and Attendants necessary for a Regular General Hospital.

A Director, Surgeons and Apothecaries and their Mates, Clerks, Stewards, Surgery-Men, Apothecaries’ Labourers, a Matron, and Nurses.

Mr. Stringer, whom I have appointed Director of the Hospital, has delivered me this. The number of Surgeons, Clerks, and Stewards, must depend on the numbers in the Hospital

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

NEWBERN (NORTH-CAROLINA) COMMITTEE.

Committee Chamber, August 28, 1775.

On motion, Ordered, That a Proclamation signed by Governour Martin, dated on board His Majesty’s Sloop Cruiser, the 8th instant, be produced and read; which was done accordingly.

Resolved, That the said Proclamation is a compound of falsehood and illiberal abuse, artfully and insidiously dressed for publick exhibition, and evidently calculated to dissuade and intimidate the unwary and credulous from the duty they owe themselves and posterity; aiming to reflect dishonour, by the most personal invectives, on gentlemen whose zeal for their Country’s happiness has not only impressed us with a lively and lasting sense of their virtue, integrity, and abilities, but has happily hitherto rendered abortive the diabolical projects of a tyrannical Minister, and the numberless petty tyrants under him.

That the said Proclamation tends to stimulate and encourage the Crown officers and Court dependants in this Province to a vigorous exertion of their feeble powers in support of those infernal schemes of which the said Governour is the avowed patron.

That by admitting a name that might have been respectable to so foul and disgraceful a composition, the Governour has degraded himself from the elevated rank of our most gracious Sovereign’s representative, to the level and degree of a contemptible scribbler; with this only difference—that as the latter would view his venal production from a garret in Grub-Street, the Governour is reduced to the necessity of smuggling his from the equally narrow limits to which unnecessary fears, the concomitants of guilt, have precipitately driven him.

That by the said Proclamation, as well as by sundry Letters heretofore published, the Governour has given the fullest evidence of his unfriendly disposition towards this Province, and manifested a determined resolution, as far as in his power, to subvert a Constitution which, at the expense of life and fortune, every honest man ought to support.

That therefore the aforesaid enormous Proclamation, in length no less than six feet, in breadth three, ought to be detested and despised by every real friend to the rights of mankind, and in our opinion deserves the infamy of being consigned to the flames by the hands of the common hangman, as the just reward of treason and rebellion against our happy Constitution, and as a false, scandalous, and malicious libel against the first and fairest characters in this country.

By order of the Committee:

JOHN GREEN, Chairman.
J. SITGREAVES, Secretary.

NORFOLK BOROUGH (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

Norfolk Borough Committee Chamber, August 28, 1775.

Whereas it appears, from undoubted testimony, that a certain John Schaw, of the Borough, did, in the presence of Lord Dunmore, officiously point out to the Soldiery at Gosport one Alexander Main, fifer to one of the Volunteer Companies of this place, as a person who ought to be apprehended for his impudence (as the said Schaw expressed himself) in wearing a hunting shirt in their presence; in consequence of which the unhappy man was apprehended, and is now by his Lordship’s orders confined on board the Otter Sloop-of-War: We therefore think it our duty to declare, that the said Schaw has herein showed himself a busy tool, and an enemy to American liberty; and, as such, we advise every friend to his country to have no further dealing or connection with him.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE.

Urbanna, August 28, 1775.

At a meeting of a Committee of the County, present eighteen Members: The Committee being informed that Charles Neilson, Esq., had made use of expressions, in course of a conversation between himself and Tobias Allen, an inhabitant of this County, which were by the Committee deemed inimical to the glorious cause of liberty in which America is engaged, Mr. Neilson, on hearing a Committee would be held to inquire into the charges against him, came voluntarily before us, and made the following concession: “In a conversation with Mr. Tobias Allen, soon after the engagement at Bunker’s Hill, I said I heard the Provincials were defeated, or had got a flogging, and that I was glad of it, as I hoped it would put an end to the unhappy disputes; and as this Committee think these expressions inimical to the liberties of America, I do hereby declare I never meant to injure the cause of freedom or constitutional principles, and should be extremely sorry to be looked on in any other light than as a friend to America.

“CHARLES NEILSON.”

Ordered, That the same be transmitted to the Printer of the Virginia Gazette, and that he be requested to print the same. By order of the Committee:

LODOWICK JONES, Clerk.