Letter from a Gentleman in Quebeck to his father in Ayrshire, Scotland. Mentions several slight engagements with the Rebels, since last May, in which they were always defeated, with little or no loss to His Majesty's Troops,

Message from the Charlestown (South-Carolina) Committee to the Governour, Lord William Campbell, expressing their regret at his retiring on board a King's Ship, and requesting his return to the City,

Reply of the Governour, He will not return to Charlestown till he can support the King's authority. The presumption of their address can only be equalled by the outrages which obliged him to take refuge on board the King's Ship,

Letter from the Committee of Charlestown to Captain Thornborough,

Advertisement, by Rich’d Henderson and others, of the Lands in Transylvania, lately purchased from the Cherokees,

Mr. Holt’s Printing-Office taken from Norfolk, on board one of the British Ships, by order of Lord Dunmore,

Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington. Congress has appointed a Committee to repair to the Camp and confer with him,

Letter from the President of Congress to Governour Trumbull, informing him of the appointment of a Committee to confer with General Washington, and requesting him to meet with the Committee,

Instructions to the Committee appointed by the Congress to repair immediately to Cambridge, to confer with General Washington,

Memorial from the Committee for the County of Cumberland, in New-Jersey, to the Continental Congress; requesting they may be supplied with some Powder for their defence, as they are without ammunition, defenceless, and exposed to the depredations of Ministerial robbers,

Letter from Hendrick Fisher to the New-York Committee of Safety,

Letter from John McDonald to the New-York Congress, with an account of his examination of a Lead Mine in Newburgh,

Letter from Thomas Palmer to the New-York Congress; offering them permission to work his Lead Mine for a small profit,

Returns of Officers for Goshen, Orange County, New-York,

Officers for Northeast Precinct of Marlborough, Ulster County, New-York,

The Tories in Fairfield, Connecticut, disarmed,

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress, recommending to their attention the Rev. Mr. Kirkland, who has rendered the country great service,

General Return of the Army of the United Colonies, at Cambridge, September 23,

Return of the Regiment of Artillery in the service of the United Colonies, commanded by Richard Gridley, September 23,

Return of Major John Crane’s Company, of the Train of Artillery, of the Rhode-Island Forces, October 1,

Proposals by Richard Gridley, to General Washington, for casting Ordnance,

Orders by General Washington, from September 22 to September 30,

List of the Colonels of the several Regiments raised by the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, and where stationed,

Return of the Field and Staff Officers belonging to the Twenty-Seventh Regiment of Foot, in the services of the United Colonies,

Not less than thirty nor more than fifty Men to man each Armed Boat,

Monthly Pay to the Officers and Men employed in the Provincial Armed Boats,

Weekly allowance of Provisions and Rum, or Malt Beer, to every man, Officers and Privates, employed in the Armed Boats,

On application from General Washington, dated at Camp, August 24, for a supply of Gunpowder, ordered that two tons be immediately sent,

Parole of Rowley Godfrey, Lieutenant of the Forty-Eighth Regiment, now quartered in the Island of Grenada, a prisoner,

Permission given to Colonel George Slaughter to purchase one hundred pounds of Powder, for the use of the new settlement in Virginia, on Kentucky,

Parole of George Etherington, Major of the Second Battalion of His Majesty’s Royal American Regiment,

Certificate furnished to Major Etherington, with a copy of his Parole,

Committee appointed to sink a Chevaux-de-Frise in the river, opposite the Fort,

James Montgomery appointed to command theArmed Boat Ranger,

John Rice to command the Dickinson,

John Hamilton to command the Congress,

Benjamin Thompson appointed Lieutenant of the Experiment,

Dates of the Commissions of the Commanders of seven of the Armed Boats,

Pilots of the Bay and River Delaware to avoid going on board British Men of War, during the present struggle for liberty,

Pilots requested to lay up their Boats on or before the 20th day of September, and cautiously avoid going on any navigable water,

Pilots who shall conduct or bring any British Man-of-War up the Bay of Delaware, required, on his release, to repair to the Committee, and prove that he was compelled to that service,

Any Pilot who puts himself in the way of being taken onboard a King’s Ship shall be deemed an enemy to America, and a traitor to his country,

Instructions to Mr. Henry Fisher at Lewistown,

Committee to draw up a Memorial to the Assembly for a further grant of money,

John Moulder, James Blair, and Robert Eyres, each appointed to command an Armed Boat,

Jeremiah Simmons, John Chatham, James Allen, and George Garland, appointed Lieutenants,

Richard Wells and Daniel Murphy, Pilots, permitted to go to the Capes of Delaware, but cautioned against being taken on board any Man-of-War,

Account of Powder received from and delivered on account of the Continental Congress,

Major Rogers, a British officer on half-pay, arrested and brought before the Committee,

Charles Slade, lately from England, brought before the Committee, suspected of being a Spy,

Parole given by Major Robert Rogers,

Further account with the Continental Congress for Powder,

Five hundred weight of Gunpowder, and twelve hundred and fifty pounds of Lead, ordered to be delivered to Captain Samuel Moorhead, to be placed in the hands of the Committee of Westmoreland,

Memorial to the Assembly for a farther grant of Money,

Estimate of Moneys already expended and to be expended for the defence of the Province of Pennsylvania,

Samuel Slade permitted to go to New-York,

Associators having Provincial Arms requested to return them, as there is a probability the boats of war lately built may be called into actual service, and arms for them can neither be bought nor made,

House met pursuant to adjournment,

Committee to wait on the Governour, and inform him a quorum is present,

Remonstrance from the Overseers of the Poor of Philadelphia. The grant heretofore made for the support of such infirm, sick and aged Neutrals as still remain is nearly expended, and a further grant is necessary,