attachment to your Majesty’s sacred person and royal authority, and with thankful hearts to acknowledge your Majesty’s paternal care and vigilance for the honour of this Nation and the general good of your subjects.

Convinced as we are that nothing has been wanting on your Majesty’s part to accelerate and promote these great and glorious ends, permit us, royal Sir, to express how deeply we are affected and concerned to find that our fellow-subjects in America still hold out an obstinate resistance to the legislative authority of this Kingdom; but, nevertheless, we hope that the time is not far off, when these unhappy and deluded people may be brought to a sense of their duty, and obedience to the laws of their parent State; and it is our most ardent wish that it may be the work of your Majesty’s justice to accomplish that great purpose.

Permit us, most gracious Sovereign, to assure you that we are steadfast in our allegiance, unalterable in our loyalty, unanimous in the defence of your Majesty’s sacred person and Government; and that we will cheerfully devote the utmost exertion of our abilities to crush all impious attempts, either foreign or domestick, to subvert our present happy Constitution.

Poole, September 20, 1775.

GOVERNOUR TONYN TO GENERAL GAGE.

St. Augustine, September 20, 1775.

SIR: We have this moment intelligence that Thomas Gray, an Indian trader, with four Indians, are gone to Latchway, the residence of the headmen of the Indians in this Province, from Jonathan Bryan, with a lease for near one-half of this Province, which Gray is to get the Indians to sign. The Superintendent informed your Excellency of Bryan’s exploits and impositions sometime ago. In consequence of those transactions, so notoriously base and wicked, I issued at that time a proclamation against Bryan. In a few hours will set out a Constable, with two soldiers, who will also be appointed Constables, to Latchway, with a talk to the Cowkeeper and headmen, and a Judge’s warrant, to apprehend Thomas Gray, wherever they can find him.

The substance of my talk will be a reward to apprehend Gray, to assist the Constables in bringing him safe to this place, and to invite the four Indians to come here. The plan now forming in Georgia is to send five hundred men, to demand Mr. Stuart, the Superintendent; if he be not delivered up, which most certainly he will not, they are to attack this place, and take him by force. As a further part of this plan, Gray’s negotiation is with a view to gain over the Indians to co-operate with it, when Bryan is to come at the same time to take possession of the land. If they gain over the Indians, it may not be impossible they may attempt something. If they do not, I should think the undertaking madness. But, indeed, one should be mad to know what madmen would do. Things being in this state, your Excellency will not in the least wonder if I make a strong remonstrance to the commanding officer of the Fourteenth Regiment, to remain here with the little division of his corps, until I hear further from your Excellency, should even the three Companies of the Sixteenth Regiment arrive. Surely, I am justified in this measure many ways. The importance of this post to Great Britain, the very great consequence of the fort, the value of the King’s ordnance, the communication and access to the Indians, and the preservation of the Province.

I have the honour to be, with very great respect, Sir, your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servant,

PATRICK TONYN.

P. S. Your Excellency will be pleased to take notice, I do not intend to remonstrate for the detention of the remainder of the Fourteenth Regiment, without the fullest conviction of the designs of the rebels against this Province being carried into execution.

GOVERNOUR LORD WILLIAM CAMPBELL TO GENERAL GAGE.

Tamar, in Rebellion Roads, September 20, 1775.

SIR: I did myself the honour to write to your Excellency, by the only two opportunities that offered since my arrival in this Province, Captain Tollemache and Mr. Logie, and was in hopes His Majesty’s service to the northward would have permitted some little attention to have been paid to the southern Provinces. I have now only to acquaint your Excellency that this Province has for some time been in a state of open rebellion; and, after undergoing many mortifications and insults, I was at last obliged, a few days ago, to take refuge on board the Tamar, and leave the officers of the Crown disarmed, and confined to Charlestown. The bearer of this, Mr. Kirkland, was a Lieutenant of Militia in the back part of this country. I know him to be a man who has great influence there; and, by his attachment to Government, he has, I fear, sacrificed his all. He has acquainted me with the particulars of the plan he means to communicate to your Excellency; and I am convinced, if the execution is not delayed too long, he may be made very useful in this and the neighbouring Provinces, Georgia and North-Carolina.

I have the honour to be, with great regard, Sir, your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servant,

WILLIAM CAMPBELL.

Norfolk, Virginia, September 20, 1775.

We are informed, from good authority, that a system of justice similar to that adopted against the devoted Town of Boston is likely to be established in this Colony, by the renowned Commodore of the Virginia fleet. He has in the course of this week, as a reprisal for the loss of his tender, seized every vessel belonging to Hampton that came within his reach, and thereby rendered himself the terrour of all the small craft and fishing boats in this river; especially the latter, having brought some of them under his stern, by a discharge of his cannon at them. He has likewise seized a vessel belonging to the Eastern Shore, and having honoured the passengers so far with his notice as to receive them on board his own vessel, took the liberty of sending one of their horses as a present to Lord Dunmore. This act of generosity, we doubt not, will gain him considerable interest with his Lordship, it being an instance of his industry in distressing a people who have of late become obnoxious to his Excellency for their spirited behaviour. We hope that those who have lived under and enjoyed the blessings of the British Constitution will not continue tame spectators of such flagrant violations of its most salutary laws in defence of our private property. The crimes daily committed by this plunderer we would not willingly brand with the odious name of piracy, but we are confident they come under those offences to which the English laws have denied the benefit of clergy.

We are just informed that he sent, some days ago, a message to the inhabitants of Hampton, with a proposal, that if they would return the stores, &c., taken on board the tender, he would molest them no longer, but retire peaceably to his old station. This proposition being taken under consideration by the principal inhabitants, an answer was returned, promising a compliance with the Captain’s request, provided he would deliver up a negro slave belonging to Mr. Henry King, who has long acted as a pilot to the Otter; but this honest Captain, as well on account of the fellow’s knowledge of the rivers as his singular attachment and loyalty to his Sovereign, refused; and, after damning the impudence of these people in demanding his Ethiopian director, swore he would make them no other reply than what his cannon could give them. Accordingly, he has taken his station between the two bars, to be more convenient for the business.

EXPLANATION OF THE DEVICES ON THE CONTINENTAL BILLS OF CREDIT.

Philadelphia, October 20, 1775.

An emblematical device, when rightly formed, is said to consist of two parts—a body and a mind—neither of which is complete or intelligible without the aid of the other. The figure is called the body; the motto the mind. These that I am about to consider appear formed on that rule, and seem to relate to the present struggle between the Colonies and the tyrant State, for liberty, property, and safety, on the one hand, for absolute power and plunder on the other.

On one denomination of the bills there is the figure of