dependance of those Colonies on the Mother Country, and vigorously asserting the authority of the Legislature when resisted or contemned by the Colonists, nothing that is in our power to contribute shall be wanting, to aid and assist your Majesty in following out such measures as may be most effectual for asserting the honour and dignity of your crown, and the supremacy of the British Legislature, over every part of the British Empire.

Attached, as we have ever been, to the principles of the glorious revolution, and the succession of your Majesty’s illustrious House, we cannot, without the utmost concern, perceive any of your Majesty’s subjects acting upon principles subversive of that Constitution which has, since the succession of your Majesty’s family, secured to us the most inestimable of all blessings—liberty and pure religion. And as it becomes every British subject to set life and fortune at nought, when these, or the Constitution by which they are secured, are attacked, should it be necessary for us to hazard both on the present occasion, we trust that we shall not be found backward to sacrifice them, to maintain the Constitution in the same state it has been handed down to us by our ancestors.

That your Majesty may be long preserved to reign over a free and united people, and that the British Empire may be transmitted undivided to your Majesty’s royal issue, to latest posterity, is the sincere and ardent wish of, may it please your Majesty, your Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful subjects.

Dumfries, October 28, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF HELLESTON.

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, Freemen, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Helleston, in the County of Cornwall, transmitted to the Earl of Rochford, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Aldermen, Freemen, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough of Helleston, in the County of Cornwall, most humbly beg leave to approach the throne, and, uninfluenced by any other motives than those of duty and loyalty to our Sovereign, to declare our utmost abhorrence and detestation of the unnatural rebellion which some of your Majesty’s Provinces in North-America have lately entered into, fomented by the arts of evil and designing men, and to testify to your Majesty our entire approbation of and confidence in those measures which are pursuing for bringing these deluded people to a return of their duty; for which purpose, we, amidst the rest of our loyal fellow-subjects, do hereby make a tender of our faithful services to your Majesty.

Given under our hands and the common seal of the said Borough, this twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF BRECHINE.

Address of the Magistrates and Town Council of the City of Brechine, 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 Magistrates and Town Council of the City of BRECHINE, in Common Council assembled.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Magistrates and Town Council of the City of Brechine, beg leave to approach your royal throne, as well from duty as from a sincere attachment to your Majesty’s person and Government, at a time when rebellion, among some of your Majesty’s subjects in America, rears its head, and bids defiance to the laws; to express our loyalty and attachment to your Majesty’s person, family, and Government; and to assure your Majesty, that, from the bottom of our hearts, we abhor and detest the rebellious acts of your Colonists; and that we utterly disapprove of every method whatever, tending to inflame the minds of your Majesty’s peaceful subjects against your Majesty, and those of your most honourable Council, while prosecuting measures so highly necessary for bringing to reason and submission to the laws those of your rebellious and deluded subjects who have endeavoured to throw off their dependance on the Parent State.

We beg leave to assure your Majesty, with the most unfeigned truth, that we look upon those attempts with the utmost indignation; and most earnestly wish that the measures adopted by the Legislature may, by the aid of the Almighty, be the speedy means of restoring tranquillity, and putting an end to civil discord: for obtaining of which happy end, we will support your Majesty, and the authority of the Legislature, with our lives and fortunes.

That your Majesty and your royal heirs may reign to latest posterity, over an united and happy people, is our most ardent wish.

May it please your Majesty, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Magistrates and Town Council of your City of Brechine.

Signed in our name and by our appointment, and the seal of the City is affixed.

JOHN MOLISON, Provost.

Brechine, October 28, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS.

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Leeds, in the County of York, presented to His Majesty by Edwin Lascelles, Esq., one of the Representatives in Parliament for the County of York.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of LEEDS, in the County of YORK.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful subjects, beg leave (as we think it our indispensable duty at this time) to approach the throne, and with the utmost zeal and sincerity to declare our grateful and affectionate attachment to your royal person and family.

Convinced of your Majesty’s great regard for the glorious Constitution of this Country, and the real happiness of all your subjects, permit us to assure your Majesty, that we shall at all times be ready to join in supporting the rights and authorities of the British Legislature and the just prerogatives of the Crown.

It is with very great concern we observe that our fellow-subjects in America disclaim all obedience to the laws of their Mother Country; but whatever sorrow or compassion we may feel for those misguided people, we think it not only our duty, but our interest, to afford every assistance in our power towards reducing them to due subjection, however disagreeable the means necessary to be used for that purpose may be; and your Majesty may rest assured that we shall at all times persevere in supporting such measures as may be thought necessary for ascertaining and maintaining the legislative authority of this Kingdom, and reducing your Majesty’s rebellious subjects to proper obedience.

Given under our common seal, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

By the Court:

THOMAS BARSTOW, JUN., Common Clerk.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTLEMEN, ETC., OF THE BOROUGH OF LEEDS.

Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough and neighbourhood of Leeds, in the County of York, presented to His Majesty by Edwin Lascelles, Esquire, one of the Representatives in Parliament for the County of York.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, Freeholders, and principal Inhabitants of the Borough and neighbourhood of LEEDS, in the County of YORK.