of Canadians in arms at Chambly; is very active, and they have great confidence in him, I believe. I wish to have him taken notice of by the Congress, in a manner suitable to his services and the risk he runs.

I am, my dear Sir, &c., &c.,

RICHARD MONTGOMERY.

To General Schuyler.

P. S. I send ten boats, manned with the naked and lazy. The enemy have launched a row-galley.

[No. 7.]

Return of Men sent northward since the one hundred and forty of EASTON’S, mentioned in my Letter of 19th inst.

Colonel McDougall’s New-Yorkers, 123, officers included; Col. Warner’s, 132; Col. Clinton’s, 402; total, 657.

About 350 of the men took twenty days’ provision, the others eight days’.

Provisions: 341 barrels of pork; 29 do. beef; 416 do. flour; 48 do. rum; 4 tierces rice; 7 firkins butter; 5 barrels of sugar; 1 do. vinegar; 2 boxes chocolate.

Ammunition: 3,650 pounds of powder; 4 boxes of musket ball; 200 ball, twelve-pounders; 200 ball, six-pounders; 90 shells, five inch diameter; 30 shells, seven inch diameter; 1 mortar and bed, thirteen inch diameter; 120 fusees; 43 bunches grape-shot; 4 bushels grape-shot; 4 oil cloths.

STAMFORD (CONNECTICUT) COMMITTEE.

At a meeting of the Committee of Inspection and Observation, held in Stamford, on Thursday, the 5th day of October, 1775:

Personally appeared Obadiah Seely, Jun., and Gideon Lownsberry; they having been cited to appear before said Committee, for speaking disrespectfully of the honourable Continental Congress, and in many other instances acting inimically to the liberties of America; and after hearing the evidence brought against them, the Committee aforesaid proceeded to pass sentence, and, agreeable to the directions of said Congress, resolved to hold up said Seely and Lownsberry to publick view, as enemies to the liberties of their Country; hereby recommending it to all, to break off all commerce, dealings, and connection with them.

Ordered, That the Clerk send a copy of the above Resolve, to be inserted in the New-York Journal.

A true copy from the Minutes:

JOHN HAIT, JUN., Com. Clerk.

I acknowledge I have at several times spoken in favour of the laws of taxation, and against the measures pursued by America to procure redress, and have thereby justly merited the displeasure of my Country, and for which I beg forgiveness, and do solemnly promise to submit to the rules of the Continental and Provincial Congresses, and that I never will speak or act in opposition to their order, but will conduct according to their directions, to the utmost of my power; and this I desire should be published in the publick prints.

LEMUEL BOWER.

GENERAL HOWE TO THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH.

Boston, October 5, 1775.

By the arrival of the Cerberus, on the 26th ultimo, I am honoured with your Lordship’s despatch of the 2d day of August, enclosing a commission, whereby I am appointed, in the absence of Lieutenant-General Gage, to command in chief all His Majesty’s Forces employed or to be employed within the Colonies lying on the Atlantick Ocean.

Your Lordship may rely upon my utmost endeavours to forward His Majesty’s service in the important department with which I am honoured; and I enter upon it with greater cheerfulness, from the knowledge I have of the superior abilities of Major-Generals Clinton and Burgoyne, upon whose support and assistance I can place the best grounded confidence in every difficulty that may arise.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO ROBERT C. NICHOLAS.

Camp at Cambridge, October 5, 1775.

DEAR SIR: Your favour of the 8th ultimo came to my hands on the 2d instant, by Mr. Byrd. I return you sincere thanks for your kind congratulation on my appointment to the honourable and important post I now hold, by the suffrages of this great Continent. My heart will ever bear testimony of my gratitude for the distinguished mark of honour which has been conferred on me by this appointment, as it also will of my wishes that so important a trust had been placed in the hands of a person of greater experience and abilities than mine. I feel the weight of my charge too sensibly not to make this declaration; at the same time I must add, that I do not want to withdraw my services, within the compass of my power, from the cause we are nobly engaged in.

Mr. Byrd shall not want for his pay whilst he is in this camp; although, as I have no cash of my own here, and charge the publick with my expenses only, I shall be a little at a loss to know in what manner to advance it with propriety. Bills of exchange would answer no end here, as we have not the means of negotiating them; but if you would place the money in the hands of Messieurs Willing & Morris, of Philadelphia, (either in specie, Continental, Maryland, or Pennsylvania paper,) they could easily remit or draw for it. But, at any rate, make yourself easy, as Mr. Byrd shall not want to the amount of his pay.

By an intelligent person out of Boston, the day before yesterday, we are informed that a small fleet consisting of a sixty-four gun ship, a twenty gun, two sloops of eighteen guns, and two transports, with about six hundred men, were to sail on yesterday from that harbour. They took on board two mortars, four howitzers, and other artillery; from which we suspect they intend to bombard some Town on the coast. He also informs us that General Gage is recalled; that General Howe commands in his place; that the account of the action on Bunker’s Hill, as transmitted by the former, is returned, and corresponds pretty much with ours, as to killed and wounded; and that the last accounts from England, by a ship just arrived, leave no room to believe there will be an accommodation soon.

The enemy in Boston and on the heights of Charles-town (two peninsulas, surrounded in a manner by ships of war and floating batteries) are so strongly fortified as to render it almost impossible to force their lines, which are thrown up at the head of each neck; without great slaughter on our side, or cowardice on theirs, it is absolutely so. We, therefore, can do no more than keep them besieged, which they are, to all intents and purposes, as close as any Troops upon earth can be, that have an opening to the sea. Our advanced works and theirs are within musket shot. We daily undergo a cannonade, which has done no injury to our works, and very little hurt to our men. Those insults we are obliged to submit to, for want of powder, being obliged (except now and then giving them a shot) to reserve what we have for closer work than cannon distance.

My respectful compliments to Mrs. Nicholas and the rest of your fireside, and to any inquiring friends. Conclude me, with grateful thanks for the prayers and good wishes you have been pleased to offer on my account,

Dear Sir, your most affectionate and obedient servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To Robert C. Nicholas, Virginia.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
[Read October 13, 1775.]

Camp at Cambridge, October 5, 1775.

SIR: I was honoured with your favour of the 26th ult. late the night before last, and a meeting of the General Officers having been called, upon a business which will make a considerable part of this letter, I took the opportunity of laying before them those parts of yours which respect the continuance and new modelling the Army, the fuel, clothing, and other preparations for the ensuing winter. They have taken two or three days to consider, and as soon as I am possessed of their opinions I shall lose no time in transmitting the result, not only on the above subjects, but the number of Troops necessary to be kept up. I have also directed the Commissary-General and the Quartermaster-General to prepare estimates of the expense of their departments, for a certain given number of men, from which a judgment may be made, when the number of men to be kept in pay is determined. All which I shall do