Head-Quarters, Cambridge, October 8, 1775.

For the future, the Adjutant-General will send the Parole and Countersign, under a sealed cover, by the Orderly Adjutant at Head-Quarters, to the Majors of Brigade, Scammell, Box, Cary, and Henley. They at gun firing in the evening, and not before, are to deliver the Parole and Countersign to the Adjutants of their respective Brigades. The Adjutants are first to deliver the Parole and Countersign to the Officers of the advanced guard, then to the Officer of every guard in and about the camp, and then to their Commanding Officers and Corps. The Roxbury Adjutant will receive every day, at orderly time, the Parole and Countersign, in a sealed cover, directed to the Commanding General at Roxbury, who will observe the same order and time of delivering them to Officers in his encampment, as is directed to be done here.

A General Court-Martial to sit to-morrow, to try such prisoners as shall be brought before them; Colonel Bridge, President.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, October 9, 1775.

If any negro is found straggling, after tattoo beating, about the camp, or about any of the roads or villages near the encampments at Roxbury or Cambridge, they are to be seized or confined until sunrise, in the guard nearest to the place where said negro is taken up.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, October 11, 1775.

Captain Samuel Gridley, of Colonel Gridley’s Regiment of Artillery, tried at a late General Court-Martial, whereof Colonel Bridge was President, for “backwardness in the execution of his duty, and for negligence in the care and discipline of his camp.” The Court, upon mature consideration of the evidence examined in support of the charge, are unanimously of opinion, that no part of the charge is supported against Captain Gridley, and dismiss the complaint, as malicious, vexatious and groundless. The General approves the proceedings of the Court-Martial, and orders Captain Gridley to be immediately released.

COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE DELEGATES IN CONGRESS.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, October 12, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: On the 2d of this instant, the Ship Prince George, Richard Emmes master, from Bristol, bound to Boston, with one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two barrels of flour, for the use of General Gage’s Army, came into our harbour, and was boarded by a number of men, under the command of Lieutenant Pickering, of the Matross Company, and brought up to Portsmouth, where she is detained. General Washington has been consulted concerning her, and has desired that the cargo may be sent to the Army, and has promised to write to the Congress for their directions in what manner the cargo should be disposed of, and what should be allowed the captors, &c.

Our batteries are almost completed; the work done on them will surpass your imagination; several hundreds of men from the country round about having voluntarily laboured thereon a considerable time since they were begun.

We have nothing to communicate to you now, our publick affairs continuing as they were when you left home; but must desire your diligent endeavours to procure something to be done relative to our civil Government. As there is not a barrel of flour to be sold in this Colony, we were under the necessity of taking a hundred barrels of the flour for the support of our soldiers and workmen at the batteries erecting on Scovy’s and Pierce’s Islands, there being upwards of a hundred soldiers, besides workmen, employed thereon, which we have since represented to General Washington, with a proposal to sell five hundred barrels to the inhabitants of Portsmouth, and deposite the money safely until directions from the Congress should be obtained.

We have lately had a requisition from General Washington to pay our Troops' wages up to the 4th of August, which was quite unexpected, and will occasion our emitting more money, and of course hinder our accounts from being forwarded for some time. The numbering the inhabitants in this Colony is on hand, and when completed we shall transmit you an account thereof.

P. S. If, through the multiplicity of his affairs, General Washington should omit to write fully concerning the said ship and cargo, we desire you to lay the matter before the Congress, and procure their directions concerning it, to be transmitted to us as soon as possible.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Address of the Mayor, Bailiff’s, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town of Southampton, presented to His Majesty by the Right Honourable Hans Stanley, and John Fleming, Esquire, their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town of Southampton, humbly approach your throne, expressing our acknowledgments of the many blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s auspicious reign.

Zealous for the honour of our Sovereign, the prosperity of our Country, and the support of the laws of this Kingdom, we ardently wish your Majesty may very long rule in the hearts of all your people, wherever dispersed through your extensive Dominions, and cannot but lament that our fellow-subjects in America, forgetful of the succour and protection so constantly afforded them by this their Parent State, have suffered themselves to be deluded by the arts of wicked and licentious men, and proceeded to acts of rebellion against your royal person and Government. In testimony, therefore, of our abhorrence of those pernicious maxims by which they pretend to justify their conduct, we presume to entreat your Majesty to use the most effectual means to assert your royal authority, vindicate the injured supremacy of the British Legislature, and recall the infatuated Colonists to their allegiance. And because we fear the milder influence of reason and persuasion will still be found inadequate to those truly desirable ends, while those unhappy men continue wilfully ignorant of your Majesty’s gracious intentions towards them, and blind to the pleasing prospect of accommodation, we beg leave to assure your Majesty that we will, at the hazard of all that is valuable to us, support the dignity of your Crown, and exert all our power to preserve the utmost limits of your Empire undiminished, and in due obedience to your Majesty and your illustrious family.

May the God of wisdom and of power direct your Majesty’s counsels for the restoration of harmony and peace, or go forth with your fleets and armies in the prosecution of your undoubted rights over every part of the Dominions which He, by whom Kings reign, has committed to your care.

In testimony whereof, we, the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses, have affixed our common corporate seal and names, and we, the said inhabitants, have subscribed our names, the 13th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

NEW-JERSEY CONGRESS TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read October 16, 1775.]

Trenton, October 13, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Congress of New-Jersey, animated with equal affection to the common cause of America, and equally with the other Colonies desirous to promote its general interests as far as in their power, are sorry to find their good intentions likely to be restrained by one of the resolutions of the honourable Continental Congress of the 12th inst., obligingly communicated to us by their President.

We cannot but observe, that if the nomination of the field-officers in the Battalions proposed to be raised in this Province be not first ascertained to be in this Congress, it will much impede the expeditious raising of the men; and we are clearly of opinion that it will tend much to expedite this service, if field-officers are first of all appointed; for if they are such as are generally respected in the Province, not only Captains and subalterns of reputation will offer their service, but the privates will enlist more cheerfully; indeed, the other commissions cannot perhaps be properly