that, among the New-Hampshire as well as the other Forces, vacancies are frequently occurring; to fill up which we are obliged to take the method of applying to the Province for an appointment before we can have those vacancies filled up, which not only gives great trouble, and creates expense, but sometimes leaves the Companies in some measure unofficered. To prevent which, as we have a Brigadier-General who we persuade ourselves will endeavour to put in such persons, to fill up those vacancies, as will be most agreeable to the Troops in general, we entreat that he may be supplied with a number of blank commissions for all officers under the degree of a Field-Officer, having particular regard to the sentiments of the officers in the Regiment where such an appointment is to be made; and your petitioners will ever pray, &c.

September 29, 1775.

COLONEL ARNOLD TO CAPTAIN FARNSWORTH.

Fort Western, September 29, 1775.

SIR: You will forward on all the provisions here, as fast as possible, to Fort Halifax, and such as the batteaus carry on order stored there. You will have two or three people left to assist you. The sick you will order on board the Broad-Bay, Captain Clarkson, to be returned to Newbury.
The. . . . . . .at Colburn’s secure, and leave until the event of this expedition is known. Forward on all the new batteaus, poles, oars, pitch, nails, &c, that are or shall be procured, and, as soon as you can, join the detachment. Leave particular directions with Mr. Howard to take care of the goods left. I am, Sir, your humble servant,

B. ARNOLD.

To Captain Farnsworth.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF STIRLING.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City of Stirling, transmitted to the Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City of STIRLING.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

At a time when a great part of your Majesty’s deluded subjects in America have presumed openly to take up arms against your Majesty’s Government, we, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of your ancient City of Stirling, humbly beg leave to repeat our attachment to your Majesty’s sacred person, family, and Government, and to express our abhorrence and detestation of such illegal, unconstitutional, and rebellious proceedings.

We reflect with the highest sentiments of gratitude on your Majesty’s paternal care for the welfare of your subjects, in establishing a peace, equally conducive to the glory and to the commerce of all your Majesty’s Dominions, and we sincerely regret that such a peace should ever have been disturbed by a part of our infatuated fellow-subjects; at the same time we beg leave to assure your Majesty that we will cheerfully contribute our utmost efforts in defence of your Majesty’s sacred person and Government.

Confiding in your Majesty’s prudence and clemency, and in the conduct and abilities of your Majesty’s Ministers and officers, we trust that a speedy and honourable issue will be put to these disturbances, upon a solid foundation, and that your Majesty’s Colonies will return to their duty and allegiance, and to that happiness which they have forfeited by their rebellion against the best of Princes.

We fervently implore Heaven to bless your Majesty’s arms and councils with success, and that you may transmit the imperial Crown of these realms, and the dominions thereto belonging, in the most flourishing condition, to your Majesty’s remotest posterity.

Signed by our Pręses, in our name and by our appointment, in the Council Chamber of the said City of Stirling, the thirtieth day of September, 1775.

JAMES GIBB, Pręses.

ADDRESS OF THE FIRST REGIMENT OF THE DEVONSHIRE MILITIA.

Address of the Officers of the First Regiment of the Devonshire Militia, presented to His Majesty by Colonel Acland, Lieutenant-Colonel Orchard, and Major Basiett.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Officers of the First Regiment of the DEVONSHIREMilitia.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the officers of the First Regiment of the Militia of your County of Devon, now assembled at Exeter, hope we shall not be esteemed presumptuous, if, in the name of the Regiment, we venture to approach your royal person with our unanimous assurances of that fidelity and attachment which a mild, just, and equal Government must ever produce in the minds of Britons.

Conscious that, under your Majesty’s benign Government, and the influence of this happy Constitution, we enjoy every species of liberty compatible with the existence of society, we should think ourselves inexcusable if we did not take this opportunity of joining our uninfluenced voice to that of our countrymen, publickly to express the just abhorrence in which we hold every attempt to alienate the minds of your Majesty’s subjects.

Fully persuaded that that constitutional body, of which we form a part, will be always found a firm support to your Majesty’s Government, we should not have intruded on your royal presence, but that, in times like these, we think it as much the duty as we know it is the interest of every man of property, to show a more than negative allegiance to the best of Sovereigns.

None can hold in greater detestation than we do, the unnatural behaviour of your American subjects. The Constitution has prescribed to us our sphere of action; but we must beg leave to assure your Majesty that we shall at all times be as ready to exert our utmost efforts to suppress any internal enemies of your Majesty’s Government and this Constitution, as our gallant countrymen have been in asserting the just right’s of the British Empire in America.

May your Majesty’s reign continue glorious. May the united efforts of a great, free, and loyal people, render your Majesty’s endeavours to re-establish the violated supremacy of the British Legislature, over every part of your Majesty’s Dominions, as effectual as they are just.

ADDRESS OF THE CENTLEMEN, ETC., OF GREAT YARMOUTH.

Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of the Burgh of Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk, presented to His Majesty by Charles Townhend, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of the Burgh of GREAT YARMOUTH, in the County of NORFOLK.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We beg leave to approach your Majesty in the most loyal manner, to express the sentiments of our hearts in an undissembled duty and affection to your Majesty and our happy Constitution.

We cannot but lament the misery and abhor the conduct of many of our deluded fellow-subjects in parts of your American Colonies, who have plunged themselves into an open rebellion, by preferring the influence of seditious