that becoming indignation which must actuate the mind of every man, jealous of holding his property, not by uncertain tenure of anarchy and confusion, but by the whole some regulation of those just and wise laws, under which this free Country has so long and so pre-eminently flourished.

We are happy thus publickly to acknowledge the moderation and justice of your Majesty’s Government, thoroughly satisfied that a grateful posterity will do that justice to a reign, which the envy of the factious, and the ambition of the disappointed, may at present refuse.

And here we must lament the infatuation, whilst we abhor the conduct of your American subjects, whose daring and unwarranted attacks on the legislative rights of Parliament, will, if unsubdued, perpetuate dishonour on this Country; and as we cannot but esteem national dishonour the sure presage of national calamity, we trust in the justice, wisdom, and vigour of your Majesty’s counsels, that it will be speedily and effectually done away.

May your Majesty’s throne be established for ever; may this Constitution, which enables your Majesty, and we trust will enable your latest posterity, to diffuse blessings over a happy land, remain sacred and inviolate, cherished and supported by the wisdom of our descendants, as it was formed by the virtue and sagacity of our ancestors.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF PEEBLES.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the Borough of Peebles, presented to His Majesty by Sir James Cockburn, Bart., Representative in Parliament for Peebles, Lanark, Linlithgow, and Selkirk.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the Borough of Peebles, in Council assembled, beg leave to approach your royal throne, and, with hearts full of gratitude, ex press the many and great blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s wise, mild, and auspicious Government.

It is with the utmost abhorrence and detestation we see a rebellion carried on in some of your Majesty’s Colonies, instigated and promoted by a seditious and evil-minded faction at home.

With the greatest respect and fidelity we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that we will be ready at all times, with our lives and fortunes, to defend your Majesty’s per son and family; support your Government, and the legislative authority of these realms, against all deluded and seditious subjects, at home or abroad.

That a continuance of the wise and prudent measures hitherto adopted, with respect to America, may soon re duce these infatuated people to their duty; that sedition may be extirpated these realms; and that your Majesty may long reign over a free and united people, are the sincere prayers of,

Signed in presence, and by appointment, and the Town’s seal affixed, at Peebles, the twenty-fourth day of October, 1775.

WILLIAM Kclass="smalltext">ER, Provost.

ADDRESS OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF CHRIST CHURCH.

Address of the Mayor and Burgesses of the ancient Borough of Christ Church, in the County of Southampton, presented to His Majesty by the Honourable Thomas Villiers Hyde and James Harris, Esq., their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Mayor and Burgesses of the ancient Borough of CHRIST CHURCH, in the County of SOUTHAMPTON.

SIRE: We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor and Burgesses of your ancient Borough of Christ Church, beg leave to approach your royal throne, with every sentiment of affection, zeal, and gratitude.

It is with the deepest concern that we see a desperate attempt made to reject the sovereignty of this Country, by those who owe the very power of resisting it to its long, its expensive, and its parental protection.

We are daily taught the difference between freedom and despotism, and we are taught it in the surest way, not by words, but by deeds.

Under the mild and constitutional Government of your Majesty, we in this island feel both our persons and properties secured; nay, even those among us who affect to entertain a different opinion, and who sometimes perhaps differ, not in a manner the most respectful, are permitted to do it with impunity, and show by that impunity their charge of despotism to be groundless.

But when we look to the real regions of despotism (be they in the east or elsewhere) we find no such equity, no such tolerance; the minutest difference in sentiment is sure to expose the unhappy dissentient, however innocent, however conscientious, to infamous injustice and insolent cruelty.

When we reflect on these events, we cannot but be sensible that we have no other protection to shield us from anarchy and oppression, and to preserve our excellent Constitution unbroken, whole, and entire; than the wisdom and firmness of your Majesty’s counsels, supported and enforced by the efforts of your Parliament.

We humbly beg your Majesty’s permission to lay these our sentiments at your feel; and, while we assure your Majesty of our firm and unfeigned attachment, to add our fervent prayers for our deluded fellow-subjects, that they may become sensible of their errour; that they may depart from their hostilities, and return to a sense of that duty which they one to the British Legislature, and to the best of Princes.

Given under our common seal, at a full Assembly, in our Town-hall, this twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE TO THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

White Plains, October 24, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Committee of Westchester County, thinking it highly necessary, from the complexion of the times, that a Minute Regiment should be completed in this County as soon as possible, take the liberty, with all submission, to recommend Samuel Drake, to be Colonel; Lewis Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel; Abraham Storm, First. Major; Samuel Lyon, of Northcastle, Second Major; Elijah Mills, Adjutant; and Josiah Mills, to be Quartermaster.

We hope that if the persons we have taken the freedom to recommend should be looked upon as the most proper, or others should be thought more fit, that the honourable Congress will be pleased to direct commissions to be made out, and sent with expedition.

We are, Gentlemen, your most humble servants.

By order of the Committee:

GILBERT DRAKE, Chairman.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress at New-York.

MINUTE OFFICERS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

Officers of the Minute Company of Poundridge, and Lower Salem: Ebenezer Slason, Captain; Henry Slason, First Lieutenant; Ebenezer Scofield, Jun., Second Lieutenant; Daniel Waterbury, Third Lieutenant or Ensign.

Officers of the Minute Company in Bedford; Eli Seely, Captain; Zephaniah Mills, First Lieutenant; Cornelius Clark, Second Lieutenant; Philip Leek, Third Lieutenant or Ensign.

The above Officers have been duly elected by the Minute Companies, and the Committee are desirous to have their commissions forwarded with the utmost expedition.