which are making such rapid progress throughout the Continent. Approving Heaven has hitherto smiled upon almost every enterprise.

Though, from a natural affection to our Mother Country, and a reluctance to the effusion of human blood, we quietly suffered the enemy to take possession of and fortify the Town of Boston, yet they can boast no advantages which they have acquired by their arms, except one dear-bought spot, which, by superiority of numbers, they with difficulty obtained.

A few more noble exertions, my brave fellow-soldiers, a few more spirited struggles, and we secure our liberties; a few more successful battles, and we are a free and happy people. We will then retire to our families, and, whilst we are regaling ourselves with social festivity, entertain our listening children with the fatigues and dangers to which they owe their freedom, and show the scars of the honourable wounds we received in the field of battle. Happy the man who can boast that he was one of those heroes that put the finishing stroke to this arduous work; in serenity may he pass his future days, and, when satisfied with life, and expiring under the smiles of an approving conscience, bequeath the inestimable patrimony to his grateful children.

A SOLDIER.

Cambridge, November 14, 1775.

ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF LYMINGTON.

Address of the Mayor, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Lymington, presented to His Majesty by Sir Harry Burrard, Bart., one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of Lymington, with all humility, approach your royal presence at this truly interesting and alarming crisis, and beg leave to express, in the warmest terms, our most affectionate and inviolable attachment to your Majesty’s person and Government.

It is with the deepest concern we behold that some disaffected, turbulent, and designing men, taking advantage of your Majesty’s lenity, have been able, by degrees, to deceive and delude so many of your Majesty’s subjects in America; and to force others, by the most cruel acts of tyranny and oppression, into an avowed and detestable rebellion.

We cannot sufficiently admire the wisdom and lenity of your Majesty’s Councils, in preparing, with firmness and resolution, the means of succouring and protecting the well affected and much distressed part of your Majesty’s subjects; and of compelling the refractory to pay a due attention to their dependance on the Parent State, and a proper obedience to the laws of our inestimable Constitution. Nor can any thing render your Majesty’s clemency more conspicuous, than the disposition you have manifested of readmitting to your gracious favour and protection such of your subjects as may voluntarily retract their errors, and return to their duty and allegiance.

Sensible of your Majesty’s paternal care and vigilance to promote the happiness of all your people, and to secure to them inviolate the full enjoyment of their liberties, and all the just rights and privileges delivered down to them from their forefathers, we most solemnly assure your Majesty, that we shall be ready to risk every thing we hold most dear, to keep the dignity and honour of the crown unsullied, and to maintain and support the supreme legislative authority of Great Britain; which we know to be the only firm basis of the true happiness of your Majesty’s subjects in every part of your extensive Dominions.

That your Majesty may reign long and prosperous, over an happy and united people, is the fervent prayer of your Majesty’s most faithful subjects.

ADDRESS OF THE ANCIENT AND ROYAL BURGH OF FORFAR.

Address of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the ancient and royal Burgh of Forfar, 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 Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of your ancient and royal Burgh of FORFAR.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

With hearts full of gratitude we beg leave to express our sincere acknowledgments for the many blessings we have experienced under your Majesty’s mild Government, ever since your happy accession to the throne.

Being sensible that these blessings have spread over all your Majesty’s extensive Dominions, we must declare our utmost abhorrence and detestation of the unnatural and unprovoked rebellion raised and carried on by our deluded fellow-subjects in America, which we doubt not hath been greatly encouraged by several wicked and turbulent persons at home.

We sincerely lament the present situation of these deluded people, but, at the same time, as the most effectual means for restoring peace and good government, we must beg leave to express our earnest wishes, that the measures adopted by your Majesty and your two Houses of Parliament may be prosecuted with vigour, until all rebellious and seditious practices are totally extirpated. And we can assure your Majesty, that not only we, but the whole of the inhabitants of this Burgh, whom we represent, are ready to risk our lives and fortunes in support of such measures.

Signed in name and by appointment of the Magistrates and Town Council of the Burgh of Forfar, and the common seal appended, this fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five years.

WILLIAM KER, Provost.

ADDRESS OF THE TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE.

Address of the Aldermen, Common Councilmen, Freemen, and Inhabitants of the Town of Cambridge, presented to His Majesty by the Hon. Charles Sloane Cadogan and Soame Jenyns, Esq., their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.