less have intelligence, and shall be able to proceed or return, as shall be thought best. Give the officer who stays behind orders to send down the river and secure the batteaus adrift.

I am, dear Sir, your humble servant,

B. ARNOLD.

Colonel Roger Enos.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF WINCHESTER.

Address of the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the City of Winchester, in Guildhall assembled, presented to His Majesty by Henry Penton and Lovel Stanhope, Esqrs., their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s loyal subjects, the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of your City of Winchester, in Guildhall assembled Impressed with a due sense of your Majesty’s royal virtues, and of the innumerable blessings we enjoy under your mild and auspicious Government, beg leave to approach your Majesty with an humble offer of our duty, and to express our just abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion which prevails in many of your Majesty’s Colonies in America, too successfully fomented by the wicked designs of artful and ambitious persons in that part of your Majesty’s dominions, and traitorously abetted by a licentious and disappointed faction at home.

It would give your loyal citizens the most inexpressible satisfaction to find that the lenient measures adopted during the last session of Parliament had so far influenced the minds of such of our American fellow-subjects who might have been drawn aside from their duty, as to have induced them to return again to their obedience, in imitation of that conciliatory spirit, of which one part of the Legislature had set them an example.

But, Sire, should neither the moderation which your Majesty has ever made the rule of your conduct, nor the gentle though necessary interposition of the Legislature, operate to recall those deluded persons to a just sense of their allegiance, we rely on your Majesty’s known firmness and magnanimity for the prosecution of such measures as may convince all the world that we are not unworthy of the blessings we enjoy under such a Prince and such a Constitution, but that the supreme legislative authority of this Kingdom is able to enforce obedience to itself throughout your Majesty’s dominions.

That your Majesty may long reign over a people as conspicuous for their union as they are distinguished by their happiness, is the fervent prayer of your loyal citizens.

In testimony whereof, we have caused our common seal to be hereunto affixed, the 16th day of October, in the fifteenth year of your Majesty’s happy reign over us.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF DUNDEE.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Dundee, presented to His Majesty by Henry Dundas, Esq., Lord Advocate in Scotland, and Representative in Parliament for Edinburghshire.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

Filled with every grateful sentiment at the recollection of the many blessings we enjoyed under the mild and benign Government of your Majesty’s royal progenitors, happy with the continuance and even increase of these blessings under this auspicious reign, we, your Majesty’s loyal subjects, the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Dundee, beg leave to approach the throne with all humility, and, at the same time, with that freedom which becomes a people whose well founded boast is, that they are subjects of a Prince the father of his Country, and live under the most perfect of human Governments.

It is with surprise and wonder we have seen, that these high and distinguished privileges should have operated in so strange a manner on the minds of your Majesty’s subjects in North-America; that benignity, clemency, and the most sacred regard to our glorious Constitution, on the part of your Majesty, should have been returned, by the deluded people of that Country, with clamours and complaints; and that we should now see them in open rebellion, disclaiming the authority of the British Legislature, which has often so effectually exerted itself in their behalf, and saved them from the inevitable ruin that threatened them.

We cannot forbear to express, in the strongest terms, our high disapprobation of a rebellion so unnatural and unprovoked; and to profess our inviolable attachment to your Majesty’s person and Government, and our resolution of acting the part of loyal and dutiful subjects on all occasions.

We can assure your Majesty, that the measures adopted in America, evidently with a design to prejudice the commerce of Great Britain, have not in any perceptible degree injured the trade of this Town and neighbourhood.

It is our sincere and ardent wish, that the distractions amongst your American subjects may subside, and peace, good order, and just dependance upon the Mother Country, be again restored, without the further effusion of human blood; but should such pleasing expectations fail, we beg leave to express our approbation of vigorous and coercive measures, and our full conviction that further forbearance and lenity would be injurious to the honour and destructive to the interests of every part of the British Empire. And if such measures are adopted, we pray with unfeigned earnestness, that the Supreme Disposer of all may prosper them, and give your Majesty the glory of reestablishing the authority of Great Britain over all her Colonies.

Signed in name and by appointment of the Town Council, at Dundee, the 16th of October, 1775.

PAT. MAXWELL, Provost.

DOVER (KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE) COMMITTEE.

In Committee, October 16, 1775.

The Committee of Inspection and Observation, in and for Kent County, having met according to appointment, Daniel Varnum appeared before this Committee, according to special notice, to answer for his, said Varnum’s, using certain expressions deemed inimical to the welfare and true interest of America.

Whereupon it appearing by evidence, offered to this Committee, as well as by said Varnum’s own confession, that he, the said Daniel Varnum, in speaking of our present troubles, declared, “he had as lief be under a tyrannical King as a tyrannical Commonwealth, especially if the d—d Presbyterians had the rule of it.”

Resolved, therefore, That the said Daniel Varnum be censured for his said unfriendly expression, and be ordered to make publick acknowledgments for his said offence.

By order of the Committee, the following concessions were drawn up, approved of, and signed by the said Daniel Varnum:

“Being conscious that such language, by me used, (as above set forth,) is the language of the worst of enemies to America, and that it hath a direct tendency to injure the common cause, in which all should be engaged, take this publick method of declaring my sorrow for my imprudence and folly, and that in future I will pay a strict regard to the resolves of the Continental Congress, and rules and directions of the Committees of said County, carefully avoiding every thing that has the least tendency to violate or contravene the same.

“DANIEL VARNUM.”

A true copy of the proceedings: By order of the Committee to be published.

MARK McCALL

Clerk of the Committee of Inspection.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO HIS FRIEND IN VIRGINIA, DATED PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 16, 1775.

What have I read in the Virginia papers today! That an officer and thirteen men went into the Town of Norfolk at noonday, and took from thence, unopposed, an inhabitant of the place and the printer’s types. Would this have been suffered in York? Not whilst there was a single man living to defend the poor captive. O, Sir, did you but know what I feel upon this occasion, you would sympathize with me. Is it possible, says one, that they would suffer such a thing? Why, you see it is possible, says another,