Norridgewock; and that on receipt of this you should proceed with as many of the best men of your division as you can furnish with fifteen days’ provision; and that the remainder, whether sick or well, should be immediately sent back to the Commissary, to whom I wrote to take all possible care of them. I make no doubt you will join with me in this matter, as it may be the means of preserving the whole detachment, and of executing our plan without running any great hazard, as fifteen days will doubtless bring us to Canada. I make no doubt you will make all possible expedition.

I am, dear Sir, yours,

B. ARNOLD.

Colonel Enos.

COLONEL ARNOLD TO COLONEL FARNSWORTH.

Dead River, October 24, 1775.

DEAR SIR: The heavy rains which have lately fallen, and rendered the river almost impassable, with many accidents, have so far retarded our proceeding that I find it necessary for the safety of the detachment to send back the sick, and to reduce the detachment so as to have fifteen days’ provisions for the whole, which I make no doubt will enable us to reach Canada. Those who are sent back you will take all possible care of, and supply with provisions, &c., and send back to Cambridge as soon as possible.

I wrote you the 14th instant, to send forward to the great carrying place all the provisions you had. This I make no doubt you have done, to secure our retreat.

I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant,

B. ARNOLD.

To Colonel Farnsworth.

COLONEL ARNOLD TO COLONEL GREENE.

DEAR SIR: Enclosed is a letter from Colonel Enos, and also one from the Commissary, by which you will see our present situation, and the necessity of sending back all the sick and feeble of your division, and proceed on with the best men, and fifteen days’ provision for each. You will, after perusing the letter, (if Colonel Enos has not joined you,) send them down the river, with all your sick, &c. Pray hurry on as fast as possible.

I am, with esteem, dear Sir, your humble servant,

B. ARNOLD.

Colonel Greene.

ADDRESS OF THE LIVERYMEN OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

Address of the Liverymen of the City of London, presented to His Majesty by Thomas Wellings, Chairman, John Spiller, Gabriel Leekey, William Judd, Evan Pugh, Roger Griffin, and Thomas Moore, Esqrs.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

From the warmest sense of duty to your Majesty and love of our Country, we, your Majesty’s loyal subjects, Liverymen of the City of London, whose names are here unto subscribed, with the freedom we ever mean to assert as Englishmen, and with that deference which we owe, as good subjects, to your Majesty, presume to approach your royal presence, and to entreat your attention to the genuine sentiments of a loyal and dutiful people.

It is with the deepest concern we observe, that our fel low-subjects in your Majesty’s American Colonies are now in open rebellion. A malignant spirit of resistance to law and Government has gone forth amongst them, which we firmly believe has been excited and encouraged by selfish men, who hope to derive private emolument from publick calamities; from the counsels, the persuasions, the influence of such men, God protect your Majesty. The interest, the honour, the sovereignty of your Kingdom of Great Britain, are now at stake. As the guardian of these, we trust you will ever assert and preserve them. In this great work, be assured, Sire, that under your Majesty’s direction we will, with the greatest cheerfulness, exert ourselves to the utmost of our abilities in support of those laws which are our protection, and of that Government which is our blessing.

Whilst we presume to approach your Majesty with hopes that you will exert the constitutional power you possess to subdue such of your deluded people as are now acting in open defiance of the laws, permit us, gracious Sire, to implore your clemency towards those whose eyes may be opened to a full conviction of their offences; and who, hereafter, when reason and reflection shall prevail over passion and prejudice, may be restored to the allegiance which they owe to the Mother Country and their Sovereign.

That your Majesty and your posterity may long reign over a people, happy in enjoying those blessings which the accession of your ancestors to the throne of these Kingdoms has hitherto ensured to us, is the unfeigned and ardent wish of your Majesty’s most dutiful, faithful, and devoted subjects.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF BARNSTAPLE, IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON.

Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Capital Burgesses, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough and Parish of Barnstaple, in the County of Devon, presented to His Majesty by John Clevland, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

The humble Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Capital Burgesses, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough and Parish of BARNSTAPLE, in the County of DEVON.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, beg leave to approach your royal presence with professions of our zealous fidelity and attachment to your sacred person and Government. It is with gratitude we acknowledge your great care and regard for the publick welfare; and, impressed with a due sense of that prudence and tender concern for your people, which has at all times so eminently distinguished your Majesty’s reign, we cannot but view with horrour and detestation the present ungrateful and unnatural rebellion fomented in a distant part of your Empire. Of the necessity and propriety of those measures which have been already pursued to check and control the factious and misguided, to prevent their baneful influence over the minds of the weak and unwary, and support the honour and dignity of the British Crown, we are fully persuaded; and we rest assured that your Majesty will continue to take such steps as may serve most effectually to recall this infatuated and deluded people to a just sense of that duty which they owe to the best of Kings, and convince them of that submission and obedience which the supreme legislative authority of these Kingdoms may justly require from them. To show ourselves devoted to your Majesty’s person and Government, we shall at all times deem our greatest glory and honour; and we trust that we shall always strenuously endeavour to cultivate among our fellow-subjects sentiments of the greatest loyalty, fidelity, and affection.

May the crown of these Realms long flourish on your royal head, and may the blessings which we enjoy under your mild and auspicious reign be perpetuated to a grate ful and loyal people, under the government of your latest posterity.

ADDRESS OF THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD OF ANGUS AND MEARNS.

Address of the Ministers and Elders of the Provincial Synod of Angus and Mearns, transmitted to the Earl of Suffolk, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Ministers and Elders of the Provincial Synod of ANGUS and MEARNS, assembled at DUNDEE, this 25th of October, 1775.

May it please your Majesty:

Sensible of the many blessings we enjoy under your Majesty’s auspicious reign, we see, with the deepest concern, that a part of our fellow-subjects in America, having adopted principles subversive of all legal Government and sub ordination, are now in a state of actual hostility and rebellion.

At such a period, we consider ourselves as called on, with the rest of your Majesty’s faithful subjects, publickly to declare our attachment to your Majesty’s person, family, and Government, our abhorrence of every measure that