going. It is his desire that as the brigantine is so well fitted, that at all events she must be sent out to cruise. She is on the publick service, and ceremony must be waived, so that if Captain Martindale cannot get hands to go with him, you must put in Captain Coit, or any one else that can, as her being detained in port now may be of the utmost prejudice to the American cause. Fourteen transports, with military stores, sailed in company with one now taken by Captain Manly, of immense value. His crew, will make their fortunes by Manly's activity. I am sorry to think that this is a qualification that Martindale is deficient in; at least he has given reason for the General to think so.

Could not a crew for the brigantine be procured out of both vessels? In fine, get her out, let the expense be what it will, and put what captain and crew you think best for the good of the service on board of her.

I am, &c.,

S. MOYLAN.

William Watson, Esq., Plymouth.

DR. JACKSON TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

GENTLEMEN: It having been insinuated that I have been absent from the army a considerable part of my time since my first entering, I beg leave humbly to inform Congress, that I arrived at the army 19th of June, I tarried until the 29th, when, not having a shift of clothing, I informed Gen. Folsom that I purposed going home. He positively refused it, and insisted on my tarrying, as the small-pox was in the array, and not one of the surgeons had had the disease. However, on my promise to return in a few days, he consented, having first stopped my whole chirurgical apparatus for his son Adams, who (as well as every other surgeon in the New-Hampshire regiments) was at that time even destitute of a needle to ligate a bleeding vessel.

The Congress desired me, when at Exeter, to procure some proper person to mount some field-pieces, which I endeavoured to do, but could not; I therefore took a drawing of every member of a field-carriage. When I arrived at Portsmouth I employed myself every day, from sunrising to sun-setting, in mounting the brass field-pieces, which are as well executed as any on the continent. On the 13th of July I returned to the army, and have never been absent but eight days, on command to recruit the medicine chest, which I did at Salem and Portsmouth. I have now been home fifteen days; my whole time has been taken up in laying out fortifications at Kittery and New-Castle, in making cartridges, and cannisters, and port-fires, for the field pieces, in raising and exercising the artillery company, in hearing and administering to the innumerable complaints of the soldiers in regard to their health.

The honourable Congress will please to observe, that I first perform my business, and then ask for such a reward as they shall judge reasonable, while others, conscious of their own inabilities, would not venture their performances upon the same issue, but insist on large and remarkable stipends before they enter the service.

If there is the least objection in Congress to grant me the commission asked for, I am so little anxious to continue in the service, that I beg leave to retract the request.

I solemnly declare that I have never received but one shilling and four pence, and have not charged more than twenty shillings since the 17th day of June, though my accounts for seven years past have never been less than three, hundred and thirty pounds lawful money.

H. JACKSON.

To the Honourable President and Members of the New-Hampshire Congress.

ADDRESS OF THE MAGISTRATES, ETC., OF THE BOROUGH OF JEDBURGH.

Address of the Magistrates and Town Council of the ancient Borough of Jedburgh, 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 Magistrates and Town Council of Jedburgh.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Magistrates and Town Council of your ancient borough of Jedburgh, beg leave, in the present important conjuncture, to express the grateful sense we have of your Majesty's mild and equitable reign; of your constant and tender attention to the happiness and honour of the nation, and the religious and civil liberties of your people.

Inspired with love and admiration of our Constitution, we cannot without alarm hear doctrines maintained subversive of the principles upon which it is established; the supreme power of Parliament, the basis and security of British liberty, denied and opposed by a great number of your American subjects, who, grown insolent from prosperity, and lost to all sense of justice and gratitude, proceeding from tumult to rebellion, obstinately persevere in the rash and desperate purpose of shaking off their constitutional dependence on the mother country.

We feel most sensibly for those of our American brethren whose attachment to order and government continually subjects them to violence and outrage; we feel even, for those, who, misled from duty by the insidious protestations of loyalty and patriotism under which ambitious men have been carrying on their interested schemes, are likely to fall victims to their unhappy delusion. Permit us to assure your Majesty, that we view with the highest indignation and abhorrence both their principles and designs; and that we are ready, to the utmost of our power, to vindicate and support the interests of this Kingdom, and the constitutional dependence of all its Colonies.

We confide in the justice and wisdom of your Majesty and your Parliament, for the measures proper to be pursued, and trust that, from a suitable exertion of the powers of Government, and the wisdom of your councils, their daring attempts shall not only be frustrated, but the unnatural intention extinguished, unity restored, and a more permanent tranquillity secured.

That this desirable event may be speedily and happily accomplished, and that your Majesty may long reign in peace and prosperity over a happy and grateful people, is our ardent wish and prayer.

Sealed and signed, for and in our name, and by our order and authority, in Council assembled, this second day of December, 1775, by

ANDREW LOOKUP.

PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS TO COMMANDER OF PENNSYLVANIA BATTALION.

Congress Chamber, December 2, 1775.

SIR: I am directed by Congress to order you immediately to send, keep, and continue, until further orders, such and so large a guard of the battalion under your command, as you shall think proper for guarding and secure keeping the vessels and stores on the wharves of Messrs. Willing & Morris, and Mr. Cuthbert, in the city of Philadelphia.

I am, &c.,

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

To the Officer Commanding the Battalion raised in Pennsylvania.

PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Philadelphia, December 2, 1775.

SIR: Your several letters from the time the Committee left the camp to the 19th of November, inclusive, being duly received, were laid before Congress, on which, as well as on the report of their Committee, they have come to sundry further resolutions, which I have the honour to enclose you. The money ordered is getting ready, and will be forwarded with all possible expedition. The Congress have resolved to make a further emission of three millions of dollars, which I hope will be finished, and such supplies forwarded as will answer your exigencies, and enable you for the future to pay the army monthly, and fulfil your other engagements.

I forward you several commissions for the officers of the armed vessels, also a number of printed articles for the regulation of the army as altered.

For the recommendation of Captain Crafts and Mr. Trott, to be appointed officers in the regiment of artillery, and the steps to be pursued with respect to the release of Colonel Ethan Allen, I beg leave to refer you to the resolutions enclosed.