PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL HOWE.

By His Excellency the Honourable WILLIAM HOWE, Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of all His Majesty’s Forces within the Colonies lying on the ATLANTICK OCEAN, from NOVA-SCOTIA to WEST-FLORIDA, inclusive, &c., &c., &c.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the present and approaching distresses of many of the Inhabitants in the Town of Boston, from the scarcity and high prices of Provisions, Fuel, and other necessary articles of life, can only be avoided by permitting them to go where they may hope to procure easier means of subsistence:

Notice is hereby given, that all those suffering under the abovernentioned circumstances, who choose to depart the Town, may give in their names to Captain James Urquehart, Town-Major, before Thursday, twelve o’clock, on the 9th instant, specifying their names, abodes, number, and names of those in family, effects, &c., that passes may be made out, conformable to regulations already established.

Given at Head-Quarters, in Boston, this sixth day of November, 1775.

WLLIAM HOWE.

CAPTAINS BROUGHTON AND SELMAN TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

MAY IT PLEASE TOUR EXCELLENCT: We attempted for some time after our last to get to Spanish River, in order to take the brigantine loading with coal; but the wind being contrary, and blowing up a heavy storm, we were obliged to give over our design. We then stood for this place, where the storm has hardly yet ceased; we are, however, something comforted in that no vessel passes this season to Boston, Halifax, or to any part of America, from Quebeck, but must pass within gun-shot of us. We found, at the entrance of the gut, a sloop belonging to John Denny, of New-Haven, esteemed by Government an inhabitant of Quebeck, which was cleared out from Gaspee for Nantucket, freighted by himself and one Buddington, a passenger; neither of these men appear in a very favourable light, respecting their attachment to American liberties. Buddington himself dares not speak in favour of Denny’s political orthodoxy. We, at the first conference, used the words Yankees and Pumpkins, with apparent jeering, und asked after the King’s troops. They answered as men well-affected to the Ministry would. Upon being undeceived, they did not make such apologies as true sons of liberty, strongly attached to their interest, but had mistaken their company, might naturally be expected to do.

Upon the whole, we think ourselves bound to send the vessel, cargo, and her papers, to your Excellency, for your decision. The owner, Denny, and Buddington, the principal freighter, shall be sent by the first opportunity after this. Captain Hawkins, master of the sloop we sent to Beverly the 2d instant, we send in this sloop; who will be directed to wait on your Excellency upon his arrival. Immediately upon the wind suiting, we shall endeavour to conform to the spirit of your Excellency’s orders.

We remain your Excellency’s most obedient and very humble servants,

NICHOLSON BROUGHTON,
JOHN SELMAN.

To His Excellency General Washington.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTLEMEN, ETC., OF THE COUNTY OF CLACKMANAN.

Address of the Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, Clergy, Freeholders, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Clackmanan, presented to His Majesty by Colonel Ralph Abercromby, their Representative in Parliament.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Gentlemen, Justices of the Peace, Clergy, Freeholders, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Clackmanan, conscious of the many blessings we enjoy under your mild and equitable Government, and penetrated with the deepest sense of the unhappy situation into which so great a number of your subjects in America have been led, by the artful and traitorous misrepresentations of their self-interested and designing leaders, humbly beg leave to approach your royal throne, to assure your Majesty, in the most solemn and publick manner, of our abhorrence and detestation of their unconstitutional principles, and of the heartfelt concern with which we behold their present rebellion.

We are the more strongly induced to consider it as our indispensable duty most seriously to address your Majesty on this occasion, when we reflect that our deluded fellow-subjects in America have been taught to believe, that, by opposing the supreme authority of Parliament, and by disobeying our Legislature, they act agreeably to the sentiments of the greater part of your subjects in Great Britain.

We therefore embrace this opportunity of unanimously declaring, that we consider such principles and practices as repugnant to the true spirit of the British Constitution, and as destructive of that liberty which can only exist where there is a strict observance of the laws; and that we are firmly resolved to exert ourselves to the utmost, in our respective spheres, to support the great and important cause in which the rights of your Majesty’s crown, and the interest of your people, are so deeply concerned.

We flatter ourselves that the vigorous and decisive measures your Majesty seems resolved to adopt, will, by the blessing of the Almighty, speedily produce the desired effect of re-establishing peace and harmony between Great Britain and her Colonies, by convincing the latter that Great Britain, from whom they derive their origin, by whom they have been nourished and supported in their infancy, and by whom they have been protected from foreign enemies, at the expense of much blood and treasure, can still exert and vindicate the rights of a Parent State.

Upon the whole, then, great Sire, it is our fervent prayer and most ardent desire, that your Majesty may long continue to reign over a free and a happy people, and that this Empire may be transmitted to your latest posterity, entire and undivided.

Signed in our presence, and by our appointment, at Clackmanan, this 7th day of November, 1775, by

WILLIAM CATHCART, Prases.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTLEMEN, ETC., OF THE COUNTY OF NAIRN.

Address of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Nairn, presented to His Majesty by the Honourable Colonel Cosmo Gordon, their Representative in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of NAIRN.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Gentlemen, Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Nairn, think it our indispensable duty, at this juncture, humbly to address your Majesty, and to declare our abhorrence of the present unnatural rebellion carried on by many of your infatuated subjects in America. In doing this we can assure your Majesty, that we express not only our own sentiments, but those of our fellow-subjects of all ranks, in this corner of your Majesty’s Dominions.

With profound humility, we profess our unalterable attachment to your Majesty’s person and family, and our most cordial approbation of the early measures adopted for giving a check to the first dawnings of disobedience. This County, in the late war, sent out many of its sons to defend your Majesty’s ungrateful Colonies against the invasion of foreign enemies, and they will now, when called upon, be equally ready to repel all the attempts of the traitorous and disaffected, against the dignity of your crown, and the just rights of the supreme Legislature of Great Britain.

By appointment of the meeting:

HUGH ROSE, Prases.

Nairn, November 7, 1775.