Letter from Stephen Moylan to Colonel Reed. The Vessel for Captain Adams is ready, and no appearance of him or his men: Captain Manly is off, and only waits for a fair wind to proceed to sea,

Proclamation by General Howe, prohibiting the passing of any person, not belonging to the Navy, from Boston; any person detected in the attempt, or who may be retaken, liable to military execution,

Proclamation by General Howe, prohibiting any person, having permission to leave Boston, to take with him more than five Pounds in specie, under penalty of forfeiture of the whole sum, and such other fine and imprisonment as may be adjudged for the offence,

Proclamation hy General Howe, recommending to the Inhabitants of Boston to associate them selves, to be formed into Companies; persons so associating shall be properly armed, and receive an allowance of Fuel and Provisions,

Association proposed to the loyal citizens of Boston, by General Howe, agreeable to his Proclamation of this date,

Letter from Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry. The Militia of each Colony should be under the sole direction of its own Legislature, which is, and ought to be the sovereign and uncontrollable power within its own limits or territory. The Militia should always be ready to aid the forces of the Continent, but this ought to be done upon application to the Government of the Colony,

Letter from General Washington to Richard Henry Lee. Colonel Reed, his Secretary, fears injury in his practice and future prospects, if the suits he is engaged in are brought to trial in the Courts of Pennsylvania in his absence, and desires the Chief Justice may be informed of this,

Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull, informing him of reasons for the dismission of Dr. Cheney from the Army,

Letter from General Washington to Governour Cooke. Two Vessels have sailed for the month of St. Lawrence River, commanded by Captains Broughton and Selman, on the same service on which Captain Whipple proposes to go,

Letter from Colonel Reed to Captain Coit. Wishes he would proceed to sea in the Schooner Harrison, as she is fitted out, and sails well; or, as a Brig and a Schooner, taken by Major Tupper at Martha’s Vineyard, is expected at Plymouth in a few days, he may have one of these,

Letter from Colonel Reed to Ephraim Bowen, Jun.,

Colonel Reed’s list of the Armed Vessels, and the state of them; their Commanders and the Agents,

Letter from General Sullivan to General Washington. He has made preparations for the defence of Portsmouth against the enemy’s Ships. The Tories endeavoured to prevent the fortifying the Harbour, and strove to hurt the creidt of the Continental Money; they walk the streets with impunity, and tell the people, with a sneer, that their Liberty Poles will soon be converted into Gallows,

Address of the Gentlemen, &c., of the Borough of Derby, to the King. They approach His Majesty with professions of allegiance, at this critical season, when a number of his subjects in America have risen into actual and avowed Rebellion,

Letter from Philadelphia to a Gentleman in London. Preparations are making for defence, and the people are in high spirits,

Letter from Joseph Trumbull to General Washington,

Letter from Governour Trumbull to General Washington, requesting an Engineer may be sent to direct the defences of New-London,

James Hayt, Jun., of Strafford, declared inimical to the liberties of his Country, by the Committee of Fairfield County, Connecticut,

Concussion and acknowledgment of James Hayt, Jun.,

Letter from General Gates to General Sullivan. As the Vessels that were expected at Portsmouth are returned to Boston, the General directs his return to Cambridge,

Letter from General Washington to the Assembly of Massachusetts-Bay. A Battery may be erected to the great advantage and security of Cape Anne; but the small stock of Artillery belonging to the Army prevents him from supplying materials for the purpose,

Letter from Edmund Randolph to the Committee of Arundel, Massachusetts,

Letter from Colonel Reed to Stephen Moylan. He is just about departing for Philadelphia, and requests him, in future, to direct to Mr. Randolph, the General’s Aid-de-Camp,

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress. Many of the Officers of the rank of Captain and under will retire in December; and many of those who retire discourage the continuance of the men, and, it is feared, will communicate the infection to them,

General Orders, from October 25 to October 31,

Address of the Freeholders of the County of Berwick to the King. They observe with inexpressible grief an unnatural and ungrateful Rebellion broke out in part of His Majesty’s Colonies in America,

Address of the Freeholders, &c., of the County of Haddington,

Address of the Provost, &c., of the Burgh of Aberbothock,

Address of the Justices of the Peace, &c., of the Shire of Dumfries,

Address of the Gentlemen, &c., of the Town and neighbourhood of Halifax, in the County of York,

Address of the Boroughs of Dunfermline, Inverkeithing, and Culross,

Philadelphia Committee reject the application of Captain Zebulon Baker, of the Sloop Betsey, owned by Abiel Wood, of Pownalborougb, to load with Flour for Kennebeck,

Proclamation by Governour Tryon, proroguing the meeting of the Assembly of New-York, from November 1 to December 6, 1775,

New-York Committee direct an examination into the charge against Mr. Pratt, of having spoken disrespectfully of the Congress, and threatening to set the Town on fire, in case Troops should arrive,

Letter from Ebenezer Hazard to the New-York Congress, requesting directions may be given for the Post-Riders to pass Ferries without charge,

Albany Committee direct the election of Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and of a new County Committee, on the 7th of November next,

Kinderhook Committee direct Polls to be opened on the 7th of November next, for the election of Deputies to the Provincial Congress, and Members to represent them in the General Committee for the County,

Letter from Col. Edmund Randolph to Ephraim Bowen, Jun.,

Letter from Josiah Quinsy to General Washington, submitting to him a plan for stopping up the Harbour of Boston.

Committee of Inspection for the Town of Dart mouth, Massachusetts, declare Isaac Holland inimical to his Country,

Letter from George Jeffrey to the New-Hampshire Congress,

NEW-YORK PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment on the 2d of September last,

Motion by Mr. Sears Georgia be not permitted to break bulk in the colony, and that she return with her cargo whence she came,

Petition of Godfrey Haynes and others, that they may be brought to an immediate trial,