Towns, upon their parole not to leave them till released, it will meet with my concurrence.

Sir, your most obedient servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

To Governour Trumbull, Connecticut.

[Same to Governour Cooke, Rhode-Island.]

ROBERT H. HARRISON TO COL. LOAMMI BALDWIN.

Cambridge, November 12, 1775.

SIR: I am commanded by his Excellency General Washingtonto inform you that he has no objection to your letting each family have a pair of oxen and a milch cow or two; but he would have them take the utmost care that they do not fall into the enemy’s hands; for should they, the publick will make them no compensation for the loss. As to their killing and disposing of such of the cattle, &c., as may be fit for use, to the troops, that is a matter that must be referred to the Commissary-General, it coming properly under his department. If he and they can agree, his Excellency has no objection.

I am, &c.,

ROBERT H. HARRISON.

To Colonel Loammi Baldwin, Chelsea.

ADDRESS OF THE NOBLEMEN, ETC., OF THE COUNTY OF FORFAR.

Address of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the County of Forfar. transmitted to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Weymouth, 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 Noblemen, Gentltmen, and Freeholders of the County ofFORFAR.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

The Noblemen, Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the County of Forfar, filled with sentiments of duty to your Majesty, beg leave to lament the unhappy disputes which have arisen between the Parent State and those subjects whom they have always wished to consider as her friends.

Sensible of the freedom of every subject of Great Britain, and grateful for the happiness we enjoy under your Majesty’s auspicious Government, we see with indignation those insidious arts by which the American Colonieshave been deluded into an unlawful and unjust desire of independency.

But while we view with abhorrence those seditious individuals who, from a violent and restless temper, or the impulses of ambition, have seduced their brethren into rebellion, we compassionate the unhappy people who, by partial or unjust representations, have been involved in scenes of distress. We flatter ourselves they have already become sensible of their errors, and that they will gladly embrace the earliest opportunity of returning to their duty arid allegiance. Should they perversely continue in arms, however anxiously we may wish for their friendship, we must entreat your Majesty to adopt such measures as shall appear necessary to enforce a due obedience to the laws and Constitution of Great Britain.

We beg leave to assure your Majesty that we shall readily contribute, with our lives and fortunes, to suppress the rebellion in your Colonies. To bring about so desirable an event, is one of the most ardent wishes of our hearts, and is only secondary to our ambition to testify, on every occasion, our duty and attachment to your Majesty.

Signed by order and in presence of the meeting, by Sir John Ogilvy, Baronet, Pręses, at Forfar, the 13th day of November, 1775.

JOHN OGILVY.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF LOCHMABEN.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Common Council of the Town of Lochmaben, in Council assembled, presented to His Majesty by William Douglas, Esq., their Representative in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Provost; Magistrates, and Common Council of the Town ofLOCHMABEN, in Council assembled.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s loyal and dutiful subjects, warmed with a grateful sense of the many blessings we enjoy under your benign reign, humbly beg leave to assure your Majesty of the just sense which we, and the Burgesses and Inhabitants of this Town, whom we represent, have of them, and of our firm attachment to your Majesty’s person and Government.

Permit us, at the same time, to assure your Majesty that we highly disapprove of and detest the seditious and rebellious conduct of some of your Majesty’s Colonies in North-America, who, by the arts of designing men, have been seduced to resist the just authority of the BritishLegislature, and are aiming to throw off their dependance on the Mother Country.

Persuaded that the commercial interests of this Kingdom, as well as the liberty, security of propeity, and all other inestimable blessings we enjoy under the BritishConstitution, can only be preserved unto us and continued to posterity by firmly maintaining and supporting the supremacy of the BritishLegislature over every part of the BritishDominions, we highly approve both the prudent and spirited measures taken by your Majesty and your Parliament for bringing buck the deluded Colonies to their duty, and preserving unimpaired the constitutional rights of Great Britainover them; sorry that the mild measures taken with them at first failed to effectuate so desirable an event.

We therefore wish and humbly request your Majesty would still pursue such further vigorous measures as you and the wisdom of your Parliament may judge necessary to bring it about, and secure, in future, upon a permanent establishment, their dependance on the Parent State; assuring your Majesty that nothing in our power, as loyal and dutiful subjects, shall be wanting, on our part, to aid and assist your Majesty in so great a national concern.

That your Majesty may be long preserved to continue the blessings of a just and mild Government, over a free and undivided people, is our sincere and ardent wish.

Signed in name and by appointment of the Magistrates and Common Council of Lochmaben, the 13th day of November, 1775.

WILLIAM HOGGAN, Provost.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTLEMEN, ETC., OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

Address of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Traders of the Town and Borough of Southwark, presented to His Majesty by Henry Thrall, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Traders of the Town and Borough ofSOUTHWARK, whose names are hereunto subscribed.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

At a time when every art is industriously employed to diffuse false and unconstitutional principles, we, your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Traders of the Town and Borough of Southwark, beg leave to approach your royal presence, and entreat a favourable acceptance of our warmest acknowledgments for those civil and religious blessings which our feelings tell us we enjoy, in the amplest and most substantial manner, under the benignity of your Majesty’s Government.

The disaffectionate behaviour of some of your Majesty’s Colonies fills us with the deepest concern; and although we are prompted, by humanity, to pity a misguided and infatuated people, we hold in the utmost abhorrence those inflammatory spirits by whose suggestions they have been urged to commit the most daring offences.

Convinced, however, that resistance, in any part of your Majesty’s Dominions, to the legal power and pre-eminence of Great Britain, is not only a flagrant breach of duty in the offenders, but also an invasion of her indisputable rights, we humbly trust, from repeated experience of your Majesty’s watchful care, that every effort will be exerted to restore obedience in America, and to establish the supremacy of British legislation over every part of your Majesty’s wide-extended Empire. And we desire permission to affirm, that we consider it to be the duty of all real lovers of their Country, and are therefore ourselves ready to give