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of this Kingdom, or carry coastwise, any Gunpowder, Saltpetre, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, on board any ship or vessel, in order to transporting the same into any parts beyond the seas, or carrying the same coastwise, except in the cases comprised within the aforementioned Orders in Council of the 13th and 27th of October last, and 6th of this instant, November, without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from His Majesty, or his Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an act passed in the 29th year of his late Majesty’s reign, intituled, “An Act to empower His Majesty to prohibit the exportation of Saltpetre, and to enforce the law for empowering His Majesty to prohibit the exportation of Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms and Ammunition.” and also to empower His Majesty to restrain the carrying coastwise of Saltpetre, Gunpowder, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition.” And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General of the Ordnance, and His Majesty’s Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. W. BLAIR. ADDRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMB1UDGE. Address of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, presented to His Majesty by the Rev. Richard Farmer, D. D., the Vice Chancellor. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. The humble Address of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of CAMBRIDGE. Most Gracious Sovereign: We, your Majesty’s most loyal and faithful subjects, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, in full Senate assembled, think it our duty, at this alarming crisis, to approach your throne with the deepest and most grateful sense of the many blessings which, through the dispensation of the Divine Providence, we have participated with our fellow-subjects, under your Majesty’s auspicious reign. Anxious for the continuance of those blessings in every part of your Majesty’s Dominions, and animated with the warmest loyalty and affection for your royal person and Government, we cannot remain silent spectators of the unnatural rebellion into which many of our brethren in your Majesty’s American Colonies have been unhappily seduced. We see their delusion with equal indignation and concern; we disclaim the opinions on which they proceed, as destructive of the happiest Constitution that hath ever existed in the history of mankind, and subversive of all order and good Government; yet we pity their infatuation, and lament the miseries which it is necessarily bringing upon them. Relying with full confidence on your Majesty’s wisdom and paternal tenderness, and convinced that you will pursue every method, consistent with the dignity of Government and the preservation of the Constitution, to prevent, as much as possible, the effusion of blood, and to restore due obedience and peace, we fervently implore Heaven to bless your Majesty’s Councils with success; so that the crown and dominions of this realm may be transmitted with undiminished lustre to your Majesty’s remotest posterity. ADDRESS OF THE BOROUGH OF HUNTINGDON. Address of the Mayor, Recorder, , Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Huntingdon, presented to His Majesty by George Wombwell, Esq., one of their Representatives in Parliament, accompanied by the Earl of Sandwich, Recorder of the said Borough, and Lord Viscount Hinchingbrook, one of the Aldermen. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. The humble Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of HUNTINGDON. Most Gracious Sovereign: We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Huntingdon, beg leave most humbly to approach your royal person, to offer to your Majesty our most grateful acknowledgments for the wise measures you have taken to enforce the legislative authority of the Parliament of Great Britain over all your extensive Dominions. To beseech your Majesty to use every constitutional effort to bring your rebellious subjects in America to acknowledge their past errors, and to submit to that legal authority which they have dared to resist, with the most unprovoked and violent outrages. Our offer of contributing aid towards reducing the Colonies to obedience, by desiring your Majesty to dispose of our lives and fortunes, is, we are sensible, but of very little importance to the completion of so great a work; but we can only offer our all; and we flatter ourselves that we may say with truth, that none of your Majesty’s subjects exceed us in loyalty to your sacred person, or in abhorrence of the vile machinations of those disturbers of the publick tranquillity, who, by various means, have given encouragement to the deluded Colonists to hope for success in what we are convinced is their principal object, the establishing themselves in an independency of the Mother Country. ADDRESS OF THE FREEHOLDERS, ETC., OF THE COUNTY OF SUTHERLAND. Address of the Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Sutherland, 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 Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of SUTHERLAND. Most Gracious Sovereign: We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Freeholders, Justices of the Peace, and Commissioners of Supply of the County of Sutherland, sensible that under your mild and equitable Administration we, among other blessings, enjoy every species of liberty compatible with the existence of society, beg leave to assure your Majesty, that none can hold in greater detestation and abhorrence than we do, the unnatural behaviour of your subjects in America, who have raised the unprovoked standard of rebellion against your gracious Government and the legal authority of Parliament. With the deepest concern we see, that their obstinacy and contempt of the lenity exercised towards them by your Majesty’s humanity and aversion to bloodshed, render the most vigorous measures absolutely necessary for reducing their rebellious spirit; and we assure your Majesty that we, and the other inhabitants of this most loyal County, are all ready, with our lives and fortunes, to support your Majesty in all such measures as the wisdom of your Parliament may find necessary for quelling this rebellion, and for securing and preserving the just and constitutional rights of Greuat Britain over all her Colonies. By order and in presence of the meeting: JAMES SUTHERLAND, Prases. Dornock, November, 22, 1775. NANSEMOND COUNTY (VIRGINIA) COMMITTEE . At a Committee held for Nansemond County, at the house of John Aspray, in Suffolk Town, on Wednesday, the 22d of November, 1775, present: Willis Riddick, Chairman, and eleven Members. Betsy Hunter being summoned to appear before this Committee, for writing certain Letters to her mother and brother, (John Hunter, of Norfolk,) informing them of the situation of our guards in this County, that the people were in arms at Suffolk and Smith-field, and that our Troops were crossing the river on their march down here, and many other matters of importance, the said Betsy Hunter appeared, and said, that she did not intend them as letters of intelligence, but wrote them for her amusement. The Committee having heard the Letters read, are of opinion, that they were intended as letters of intelligence, and inimical to the American cause.
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