two Second Lieutenants, each, three Pounds twelve Shillings; Sergeants, each, two Pounds ten Shillings; Corporals, each, two Pounds six Shillings; six Bombardiers, each, two Pounds four Shillings and six Pence; six Gunners, each, two Pounds four Shillings; thirty-two Matrosses, each, two Pounds three Shillings.

For Chief Engineer, four Sub-Engineers, Commissary of Ordnance, Clerks, four Conductors, and Laboratory Men, no pay established.

[No. 2.]

To his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., Commander-in-Ckief of the Continental Army,humbly sheweth:

That your petitioners, Delegates from the several Regiments and Brigades mentioned, viz: Colonel Brewer’s, Colonel Fellows’s, Colonel Cotton’s, Colonel Larnard’s, in General Thomas’s Brigade; Colonel Walker’s, from General Spencer’s; two Regiments in General Sullivan’s; five Regiments in General Green’s; and six Regiments in General Heath’s; one from Colonel Frye’s. That soon after the unhappy commencement of hostilities between Great Britain and the Colonies, we entered into the service of said Colonies, in the rank of Second Lieutenants; this we did from a firm persuasion of the justice of our cause, and from a determination to risk our lives in its defence. We need not mention to your Excellency how disagreeable our circumstances must be, when our pay, as established by the Continental Congress, is so small that it renders us wholly incapable of appearing in a manner suitable to our station, with barely three Pounds per month; although many of our Colonies aforetime voted to officers of our rank the sum of three Pounds ten Shillings or four Pounds per month. We are under a necessity of conducting very much beneath the rank we sustain; besides, many of us have families, who, deprived of our assistance at home, can receive no advantage from our present pay. Your Excellency is also sensible that our task of duty is in all respects equal to that of the First Lieutenants; therefore, we cannot conceive the reason of the disproportion in our pay. These, may it please your Excellency, are our grievances. We would entreat your Excellency’s advice and assistance. We doubt not but your Excellency will do every thing in your power to remove this difficulty. We love the service; we glory in the cause, and are willing to spend our blood and treasure in its defence. We pray your Excellency’s direction in what manner we shall proceed; and your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

Signed for and by order of said Committee:

JOHN SMITH, Clerk.

[No. 3.]

Route to QUEBECK, from KENNEBECK. River.

From the mouth of Kennebeck River to Quebeck, on a straight line, is two hundred and ten miles. The river is navigable for sloops about thirty-eight miles, and for flat-bottomed boats about twenty-two miles; then you meet JaconickFalls, and from Jaconick Falls to Norridgewock, as the river runs, thirty-one miles; from thence to the first carrying place, about thirty miles; carrying place four miles, then a pond to cross, and another carrying place, about two miles to another pond; then a carrying place about three or four miles to another pond; then a carrying place to the western branch of Kennebeck River, called the Dead River; then up that river, as it runs, thirty miles, some small falls and short carrying places around them intervening; then you come to the height of the land, and about six miles carrying place, into a branch which leads into Ammeguntick Pond, the head of Chaudiere River, which falls into the St. Lawrence River about four miles above Quebeck.

Camp at Cambridge, September 20, 1775.

To Colonel BENEDICT ARNOLD:

SIR: The bearer, Lieutenant Gray, will deliver you the manifestoes, which have been much longer delayed than we expected. You will, by him, send a particular account of your situation and prospects, and every other circumstance material. If this should not find you at Newbury, where we learn you have been much delayed, you will direct Mr. Oswald to inform the bearer where he left the publick horse which he rode from hence when he went express to General Schuyler, and take the proper steps to procure him.

Nothing new has occurred in the camp, nor have we any important intelligence from the Southward, or Europe, since you left us.

Most heartily wishing you all expedition and success, I remain your most obedient and very humble servant,

J. REED.

[No. 4.]

By his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esquire, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United Colonies of NORTH-AMERICA.

To the Inhabitants of CANADA:

FRIENDS AND BRETHREN: The unnatural contest between the English Colonies and Great Britain has; now risen to such a height, that arms alone must decide it. The Colonies, confiding in the justice of their cause and the purity of their intentions, have reluctantly appealed to that Being in whose hands are all human events. He has hitherto smiled upon their virtuous efforts. The hand of tyranny has been arrested in its ravages, and the British arms, which have shone with so much splendour in every part of the globe, are now tarnished with disgrace and disappointment. Generals of approved experience, who boasted of subduing this great Continent, find themselves circumscribed within the limits of a single City and its suburbs, suffering all the shame and distress of a siege, while the freeborn sons of America, animated by the genuine principles of liberty and love of their Country, with increasing union, firmness, and discipline, repel every attack, and despise every danger. Above all, we rejoice that our enemies have been deceived with regard to you; they have persuaded themselves, they have even dared to say, that the Canadians were not capable of distinguishing between the blessings of liberty and the wretchedness of slavery; that gratifying the vanity of a little circle of nobility would blind the eyes of the people of Canada; by such artifices they hoped to bend you to their views, but they have been deceived; instead of finding in you that poverty of soul and baseness of spirit, they see, with a chagrin equal to our joy, that you are enlightened, generous, and virtuous; that you will not renounce your own rights, or serve as instruments to deprive your fellow-subjects of theirs.

Come, then, my brethren, unite with us in an indissoluble union; let us run together to the same goal. We have taken up arms in defence of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them or die. We look forward with pleasure to that day, not far remote, we hope, when the inhabitants of America shall have one sentiment, and the full enjoyment of the blessings of a free Government. Incited by these motives, and encouraged by the advice of many friends of liberty among you, the grand American Congress have sent an Army into your Province, under the command of General Schuyler, not to plunder, but to protect you; to animate and bring forth into action those sentiments of freedom you have disclosed, and which the tools of despotism would extinguish through the whole creation. To co-operate with this design, and to frustrate those cruel and perfidious schemes which would deluge our frontiers with the blood of women and children, I have detached Colonel Arnold into your Country, with a part of the Army under my command. I have enjoined upon him, and I am certain that he will consider himself, and act as in the Country of his patrons and best friends. Necessaries and accommodations of every kind which you may furnish he will thankfully receive, and render the full value. I invite you, therefore, as friends and brethren, to provide him with such supplies as your Country affords; and I pledge myself not only for your safety and security, but for ample compensation. Let no man desert his habitation. Let no one flee as before an enemy. The cause of America and of liberty is the cause of every virtuous American, citizen, whatever may be his religion or his descent. The United Colonies know no distinction but such as slavery, corruption, and arbitrary domination, may create. Come, then, ye generous citizens, range yourselves under the standard of general liberty, against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail.

GEORGE WASHINGTON,