ball, Esq., Sheriff of Charlestown District; and also a Letter from Edward Martin, Esq., Sheriff of Georgetown District: which he had received, in consequence of the circular Letter by him written to all the Sheriffs, on the 25th ult., by order of the General Committee.

Mr. Kershaw from the Committee to state to this Congress a proper recompense to be given to Capt. Tutt, &c., reported. Whereupon, it was

Resolved, That the sum of eight hundred and twenty-five Pounds currency be paid to the said Captain Tutt, to be distributed, as follows, viz: three hundred Pounds to himself (out of which all expenses incurred to be defrayed,) one hundred and fifty Pounds to Lieutenant Robert Bryant; and seventy-five Pounds to each of the following Privates, viz: James Coursey, Joseph Reed, Ezekiel Williams, Richard Tutt, and Richard Duggett; and that a handsome scymitar be also purchased and presented to Captain Tutt.

An order was accordingly drawn upon the Treasury for the payment of the said sum of eight hundred and twenty-five Pounds to Captain Tutt; and he was at the same time presented with a scymitar.

Upon an application in behalf of Mr. Cunningham, that he might be permitted to write a Letter, and that he might obtain certain necessaries, the following Order was drawn, viz:

To the Sheriff of Charlestown District, or his Deputy, or to the Keeper of the Common Jail in Charlestown.

You are hereby commanded to admit Captain Tutt and Mr. Gervais to converse with the prisoner Robert Cunningham; in order that the said Cunningham may write a letter, to brought to me by Mr. Tutt and Mr. Gervais. You are also required to permit Mr. Gervais to furnish Mr. Robert Cunningham, with such linen and cash as Mr. Gervais shall think proper.

By order of the Congress:

WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, President.

In Congress, South-Carolina,

Charlestown, November 2, 1775.

Ordered, That Mr. President be desired to prepare an answer to Captain Thornbrovgh's Letter, and lay the same before the Congress to-morrow morning.

Adjourned to ten o'clock, to-morrow morning.

In Congress, Friday, November 3, 1775.

The Congress met according to adjournment.

And the Journals of yesterday were read.

Mr. George Douglas, who had been elected a Provisional Representative for the District eastward of Wateree, in case Captain Robert Patton should not serve for that District, attended the Congress; and Captain Patton being sick, Mr. Douglas was ordered to take his seat in the room of said Patton.

On motion, Resolved, That during the present sitting of this Congress the doors be kept shut.

A new Return of Delegates for the New-Acquisition was this day made, whereby Captain William Byers, Mr. William McCulloch, Lieutenant Samuel Watson, Mr. James Carson, Mr. John Howe, Captain Francis Ross, Captain Robert McAfee, Francis Adams, Esq., Mr. Thomas Janes, and Captain Ezekiel Polk, were declared duly elected; and it appearing, upon inquiry, that the gentlemen formerly returned for that District had been chosen by an inferior number of inhabitants, and not by a general ballot, the Congress, to prevent any complaints which might arise from a different determination, in the present instance,

Resolved, That all the Members named in both Returns for the New-Acquisition, may take their seats in the present Congress.

But, in order to prevent future irregularities of this sort, they, at the same time,

Ordered, That Mr. Arthur Middleton, the Reverend Mr. Tennent, Captain William Cattell, Mr. Bee, and Captain Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, be a Committee to prepare a Resolution to be laid before this Congress, for regulating all future elections of Members of Congress, and Parochial and District Committees.

Mr. Neufville, one of the Commissioners of the Colony Treasury, laid before the Congress the following account of Moneys which they had paid, viz:

"Nov. 3, 1775."

Ordered, That the Rev. William Tennent, Capt. William Cattell, and Mr. Salvador, be a Committee to inquire into the conduct of John Dunn, Esq., since his enlargement on his parole.

Mr. President reported the draught of an answer, which he had been desired to prepare, to Captain Thornbrough's Letter of the 1st instant.

And the said draught being taken into immediate consideration, was amended, and agreed to, as follows:

In Congress, Charlestown, South-Carolina, November 3, 1775.

SIR: Colonel Laurens, the late President, yesterday laid before us your letter of the 1st instant. Before we make any answer to it, we must intimate to you, that as, by your verbal answer to a publick messenger, who carried you a letter, dated 28th ultimo, from Colonel Laurens, as President, you promised a written answer to that letter, relative to an information received, that a runaway negro, the property of John Allen Walter, Esq., was harboured on board the sloop-of-war under your command; so your unexpected silence on this head, at once is a breach of the rules of propriety, and a negative confession, that the negro, if not on board the Tamer, is actually harbored on board the Cherokee, the residence of Lord William Campbell, or some other vessel under your command.

The publick, sir, are too well acquainted with the arbitrary and irritating style peculiar to Lord William Campbell's secretary, for us to have the least room to imagine, that you are the framer of the letter you sent to Colonel Laurens, dated 1st instant. However, we cannot but declare, that we know of no "unprovoked insults" the King's servants have received from any assembly by authority of the people; and we wish we could say that the conduct of the King's principal servant hath not made him an object of the just resentment of the publick. Having declared these things, it may not be improper that we just hint to you, that we are not destitute of means enabling us to take vengeance for any violence you may think proper to perpetrate against the shipping bound to, or out from this port.

You ought, sir, for very obvious reasons, to have been well assured, that Walker, the late gunner, is a prisoner at the barracks, before you in absolute terms declared that he is "now a prisoner" there, and threatened to detain a coasting vessel until he should be thence discharged and sent on board the Tamer. We declare that Walker is not in confinement at the barracks, and has not been in confinement there since his discharge from thence on his parole several weeks ago. We do not know where he is; but from the strictest inquiry we have been able to make, we have no reason to think he is within this Colony. On the contrary, we learn that Lord William Campbell despatched him (and that you are privy to his departure) to St. Augustine, with a letter, as Walker himself has declared, to desire that a military force might be sent against the good people of this Colony. Walker was landed at Savannah, and we have not heard of him since.

By the last sentence in your letter we find you have been deceived into a belief that Lord William Campbell showed great humanity to Captain Wanton, of Rhode-Is-land, who unfortunately fell into his hands, and that it was bona fide Captain Wanton's interest to employ Walker on board his vessel. We have strictly inquired of Captain Wanton touching these points, and from this examination we are able to say, that if Lord William Campbell's declaration to Captain Wanton, that his vessel was seized under a late act of Parliament, and his sending the Cap-