it. This will give less dissatisfaction, and answer every salutary purpose. A man from each Town or County may undertake to supply the families of those that are engaged in the Army. The Colonels are the best judges of the prudence and good economy of their soldiers; those who behave well, and make a prudent use of their money, want no agent, for they will receive monthly payments, and such parts as they can spare for the support of their families can easily be conveyed home. As the troops are considered Continental, and not Colonial, there must be some systematical plan for their payment, without any reference to any particular Colonies; otherwise, they will be partly Continental and part Colonial.

His Excellency has a great desire to banish every idea of local attachments. It is next to impossible to unhinge the prejudices that people have for places and things which they have long been connected with. But the fewer of those local attachments which discover themselves in our plan for establishing the Army, the more satisfactory it must be to the Southern people. For my part, I feel the cause, and not the place. I would as soon go to Virginia as stay here. I can assure the gentlemen to the southward, that there could not be any thing more abhorrent to. . . ., than an union of these Colonies for the purpose of conquering those of the South.

The pay and provision of the troops cannot be lowered at present; they do not feel themselves under a necessity to enter the service for the support of themselves and families, and, therefore, would refuse to enlist again. This might produce a recess at the termination of their present enlistment, which would be dangerous to the liberties of America. At some future period, if the people are obliged to resort to the Army for employment, such a measure might be prudent and practical, but by no means at present.

The Committee from the Congress arrived last evening, and I had the honour to be introduced to that very great man, Doctor Franklin, whom I viewed with silent admiration during the whole evening. Attention watched his lips, and conviction closed his periods. Colonel Harris is a very facetious, good humoured, sensible, spirited gentleman; he appears to be calculated for military employment. Mr. Lynch was much fatigued, and said but little, but appeared sensible in his inquiries and observations. You may depend upon our paying the gentlemen every mark of respect and attention during their stay.

I had the pleasure to hear from your son, Samuel, the 26th of September; he was at Fort Western; just going to set off on their journey, all in health and good spirits. I had the same apprehensions with regard to Samuel’s health and strength to endure the fatigues of such a campaign, as you had. I advised him to decline it; but the heat of youth, and the thirst of glory, surmounted every obstacle, and rendered reasoning vain, and persuasion fruitless. Col. Christopher Greene is gone with him; his going made me the more readily consent to your son’s going. I gave the Colonel a particular charge to lend him a helping hand in every case of difficulty, and he promised that his aid never should be wanting.

By several letters from Quebeck, things wear a promising appearance there. If the expedition succeeds, and we get possession of Canada, we shall effectually shut the back door against them; and I make no doubt of keeping them from entering at the front. You may depend on my influence to obtain Charles a commission in the new establishment.

ADDRESS OF THE FREEHOLDERS OF THE SHIRE OF ARGYLE.

Address of the Freeholders of the Shire of Argyle, presented to His Majesty by Colonel Livingston, their Representative in Parliament.

To the King.

The humble Address of the Freeholders of the Shire of ARGYLE.

We, whose predecessors suffered early and greatly in the cause of liberty, and who are persuaded it is our greatest interest, as well as honour and duty, on every proper occasion, to exert ourselves in its defence, judge it now incumbent upon us to express our sense of the blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s mild and constitutional Government; and, at the same time, to declare our abhorrence of the unnatural rebellion of our deluded fellow-subjects in America, which, we apprehend, is encouraged and fomented by several discontented and turbulent persons at home.

Permit us, therefore, to express our earnest wishes, that the measures adopted by the wisdom of the Nation may be vigorously prosecuted by your Majesty, till faction and rebellion are brought to yield due obedience to the decrees of the Legislature, without which our invaluable Government can never be said to subsist; and we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that, in support of such measures, we are ready to risk our lives and fortunes.

Signed in name, presence, and by appointment of the meeting.

ROBERT CAMPBELL, Prases.

Inverary, October 17, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH AND TOWN OF ARUNDEL.

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Borough and Town of Arundel, in the County of Sussex, presented to His Majesty by George Lewis Newnham, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Borough and Town of ARUNDEL.

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Borough and Town of Arundel, impressed with the liveliest sense of the blessings we have enjoyed during your mild and equitable reign, and struck with horrour at the unnatural and daring rebellion into which your Majesty’s infatuated American Colonies have suffered themselves to be deluded, respectfully beg leave to approach the throne, with the warmest assurances of our fidelity and allegiance.

At a time when your Majesty’s sovereign rights, the authority of Parliament, and the natural ties which ought to bind your Majesty’s extensive Dominions in a band of union, are traitorously set at naught, it becomes the duty of all good subjects to vie with each other in supporting the dignity of the throne and the Legislature of Great Britain, with their lives and fortunes.

We therefore, with all humility, assure your Majesty, that though many corporate Towns may surpass this Borough in point of opulence, none can surpass it in steady and determined attachment to your royal person, in zeal for the Constitution, or in wishes that the Crown of these realms may be transmitted, undiminished in lustre or in power, to the latest descendants of a King who has paid so just and equal an attention to the laws of the land, to the prerogatives of the Crown, and to the liberties and happiness of his people.

Given under the common seal of Arundel, and signed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants, this 17th day of October, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE MAGISTRATES AND INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF GUERNSEY.

Address of the Lieutenant-Governour, the Bailiff and Jurats of the Royal Court, the Dean and Clergy, and other principal Inhabitants of the Island of Guernsey, presented to His Majesty by the Right Honourable Sir Jeffery Amherst, Knight of the Bath.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lieutenant-Governour, the Bailiff and Jurats of your Majesty’s Royal Court, the Dean and Clergy, and other principal Inhabitants of your Majesty’s Island of Guernsey, impressed with the deepest concern to see so great a part of our fellow-subjects in your extensive Dominions of North-America, so far deluded and lost to the sense of a just and legal dependance on your Majesty’s auspicious Government, as to forego, by an unwarrantable and criminal resistance to the constitutional legislative authority of your realms, that prosperity and happiness which they, in common with your Majesty’s subjects in Europe, so fully enjoyed, humbly beg leave to assure your sacred Majesty, that however we may be moved, by sentiments of humanity,

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