nominations, for an allowance of rations of Provisions, which are not only absolutely necessary, but usual and customarily allowed to them, the General has thought proper to order and direct that from the first day of July last, there be issued, by the Commissary-General, the following proportion of rations, viz:

To each Major-General, fifteen rations; Brigadier-General, twelve; Colonel, six; Lieutenant-Colonel, five; Major, four; Captain, three; Subaltern, two; and to each Staff Officer, two.

JEDEDIAH HUNTINGTON TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Roxbury Camp, September 21, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I have your favour, per post, enclosing the commissions for Brewster and Perkins. We were called upon, in yesterday’s orders from head-quarters, to apply for our Continental commissions. Some officers are suspicious they shall be holden in service during pleasure of Congress, and they accept them. However, I believe they will not be so cautious as the soldiers are, who in general decline signing the Continental Articles of War, lest they should be retained thereby longer than the term of their first engagements.

It will be agreeable to me to see the other part of my Regiment, but am sorry it must be with the necessity of farther exertions of our Colony for its own and the common safety. How free has she been with men and money, for the publick cause! Surely there is a reward for her.

I am astonished that any thing in the General’s letter should bear a construction injurious or dishonourable to Connecticut, as it seems by brother D.’s letter to brother Major is the case.

I remain your dutiful and affectionate

JEDEDIAH UNTINGTON.

To Governour Trumbull.

GOVERNOUR WENTWORTH TO THEODORE ATKINSON.

Gosport, September 21, 1775.

SIR: Being just arrived at the Shoals, and pressed for time, I can only desire that the enclosed Proclamation, for proroguing the General Court to the 24th of April next, may be forthwith published and made effectual to its intent. Mr. King will transmit me the copy of Captain Gamble’s Patent, properly countersigned.

I am, in haste, dear Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

J. WENTWORTH.

Honourable Theodore Atkinson, Esq.

PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.—BY THE GOVERNOUR.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the General Assembly is now under adjournment to Thursday, the 28th instant, and it appearing to me no way conducive to His Majesty’s service, or the welfare of the Province, that the Assembly should meet on that day, but that it is expedient to prorogue them to a farther time, I have therefore thought fit to issue this Proclamation, proroguing the meeting of the General Assembly, appointed to be held at Portsmouth on the 28th of September instant, to the 24th day of April next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon; and the General Assembly is hereby prorogued, accordingly, to that time, then to meet at the Court-House in Portsmouth aforesaid; and hereof all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

Given at Gosport, the 21st day of September, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord Christ 1715.

J. WENTWORTH.

By his Excellency’s command;

THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.

ADDRESS OF THE PROVOST, ETC., OF THE BURGH OF IRVINE.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Council, of the ancient Burgh of Irvine, in Council assembled, presented to His Majesty by the Right Honourable Sir George Macartney, Knight of the Bath, their Representative in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Provost, Magistrates, and Council, of your ancient Burgh of Irvine, in Council assembled, reflecting with abhorrence upon the rebellious disposition of some of your Majesty’s American subjects, and their unjustifiable attempts to oppose the laws of this Realm, and to disturb the tranquillity of your Majesty’s mild and merciful reign, which even the unthankful as well as we have experienced, humbly beg leave to assure your Majesty, that as in last war a number of brave sailors from this port distinguished themselves in the glorious cause of your Majesty and their country, against natural and foreign enemies, so we have still numbers equally brave and willing to assist your Majesty and the laws in reducing unnatural and unprovoked rebellion, in whatever part of your extended Empire it shall rear its head.

Deeply sensible of the blessings of the peace and liberty which we enjoy under your Majesty’s auspicious reign, fully convinced of the uprightness of your Majesty’s Government, and most firmly attached to your Majesty’s person and family, we also assure your Majesty we are ready on all occasions to support and defend your royal person and the Constitution of our country, with our lives and fortunes, against all foreign and domestick enemies.

Signed in our name, and by our appointment, at Irvine, the 22d of September, 1775.

ALEX. MONTGOMERIE, Provost.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTLEMEN, ETC., OF LIVERPOOL.

Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and Traders, of the Town of Liverpool,* in the County Palatine of Lancaster, transmitted to the Earl of Dartmouth, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants; and Traders, of the Town of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, humbly beg leave to lay before your Majesty the address of a faithful and loyal people, to testify our firm and warm attachment to your Majesty’s illustrious family, the honour of your Crown, and the dignity of your Empire. We esteem it particularly our duty at this time to declare to the world our affection to your royal person, and our detestation of the open and daring contempt shown to the legal authority and constitutional powers of these Realms, by some of your Majesty’s deluded and rebellious subjects in America.

Firmly persuaded that every part of your wide extended Colonies is and ought to be subject to the legislative power of Great Britain, it is with the most affecting concern that we reflect on civil discord, and the effusion of blood, shed by the hands of British subjects against each other; and we do most sincerely hope, for the glory of your reign and the welfare of all your people, that when the present phrensy of your Colonists shall subside, a happy reconciliation may take place; yet we cannot without the utmost abhorrence look upon the hand of parricide lifted up against the Parent Country, its most kind and generous protector. As your Majesty’s faithful and loyal subjects of Liverpool have always been ready, on every the most trying occasion, to testify their sincere and unalterable allegiance to your royal House, so are we also equally ready now to exert our best abilities towards the crushing every rebellion, and silencing all disaffection that may be harboured

*The general sense of the people can by no means be inferred from the number of addresses obtained by Ministerial influence. Every Magistrate in a place can ensure the interest of his butcher and baker; the butcher can prevail in the same manner on the grazier, and the baker on the meal-man. Thus, though many hundreds may sign an address, it is always to be considered as the real work of two or three Ministerial hirelings.

In the Liverpool Advertiser is the following short address to the Liverpool addressers: “Our once extensive trade to Africa is at a stand; all the commerce with America at an end. Peace, harmony, and mutual confidence, must constitute the balm that can restore to health the body politick. Survey our dock; count there the gallant ships laid up, and useless. When will they be again refitted? What will become of the sailor, the tradesman, the poor labourer, during theapproaching winter? Answer me this, and then again address.“—Remembrancer.