Total, by water—12 cannon, 45 swivels.

Total, by land, and on the Lake—22 cannon, 6 mortars, 45 swivels.

Brass and Iron Ordnance surrendered at ST. JOHN'S, on the 2d of NOVEMBER, 1775.

The whole number of cannon, taken at St. John's and Montreal, is fifty-two.

At St. John's, there were, when it was surrendered, probably fifty tons of shot and shells, of all kinds; a vast quantity of smoke-balls, of quick-match and cannon-cartridges, of all sizes. There were three or four large flour-barrels of cannon-cartridges, filled, and there were about forty thousand musket-cartridges.

At Montreal, there were about one ton and a half, or two tons, of cannon-balls, 12 and 9-pounders.

The whole of the Artillery, taken at the several posts, is: Total, Cannon, 183; total, Mortars, 19; total, Howitzers, 3; total, Swivel-Guns, 51.

GOVERNOUR COOKE TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Providence, January 1, 1776.

SIR: Upon receipt of your Excellency's Letter of the 23d ultimo, I employed two persons to apply to the house keepers in this town, individually, for blankets for the Army. They have collected about one hundred and eighty, which will be sent forward this day. It is full as large a number as I expected to procure, considering how we have been exhausted by supplies to various parts of the service. I shall immediately take measures for collecting more from the country towns.

I refer your Excellency to General Lee for the particulars of his expedition to Rhode Island, which I hope will be attended with beneficial consequences to the Colony.

I received yours upon the subject of reinlisting the Army, but from the distressed state of the Colony, and the multiplicity of business pressing me, was incapable of giving you a satisfactory answer; nor can I, at present, do any thing more than renew my assurances of giving every assistance in my power to the service.

I am, with truth and esteem, sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,

NICHOLAS COOKE.

To His Excellency George Washington, Esq., General of the Armies of the United Colonies,

P. S. You will receive by Mr. Coomes Hale, who carries the blankets, an account of the cost of them. I shall be obliged to your Excellency for giving orders for the payment of it to him. By the same conveyance I send you a box and basket left for your Excellency by Mr. Penet, and the other French gentleman who accompanied him.

JOHN SMITH TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Providence, January 1, 1776.

SIR: Agreeable to your desire, to his Honour the Governour, what blankets could be collected in this town, are now sent you by Mr. Hale, who will give you the cost of them. The number sent is one hundred and eighty-two. Am sorry the number is so small, though believe that a quantity might be collected in the country towns in some little time. If you think it needful, please to let me know, and I will endeavour to procure them.

I am, sir, your very humble servant,

JOHN SMITH

To His Excellency General Washington.

DOCTOR MORGAN TO THE PUBLICS.

General Hospital, at Cambridge, January 1, 1776.

Impressed with a lively sense of the spirit of patriotism which so eminently adorns the good people of this country, the subscriber, who is appointed to the chief direction of the sick and wounded, thinks it incumbent on him to make known the seasonable aid he has lately received from the towns of Concord, Bedford, first and second Parishes of Sudbury, Acton, Marlborough, Stow and Lincoln. The Hospital having, for some time past, been in great want of old linen for bandages, compresses, and lint, or fine tow for dressing; saddler's or sole leather, and web, or gartering, for tourniquets; of tape, thread, needles, pins, and other articles of a like nature; application was made to the inhabitants of the above-named places for a supply, at such prices as they, themselves, should think reasonable. No sooner were our wants thus made known to them, than with an alacrity and zeal truly characteristick of the people, the business of collecting those things was immediately undertaken by some of their Selectmen, and other proper persons. The Clergy, in particular, engaged warmly in the work. To their pious and animated exhortations, from the sacred desk, may be ascribed much of that Christian charity, and those laudable effusions of philanthropy which were manifested on this occasion, and which cannot fail to secure to them the esteem of the publick, and to reflect a lasting honour on their attachment to the cause of liberty, and the rights of human nature. What they could, they furnished with an unsparing hand; offers of pay they nobly rejected, preferring the conscious pleasure that arises from deeds of charity to every selfish, sordid gratification that interest inspires; an instance of benevolence worthy of admiration! Neither is its importance limited by the intrinsick value of the donation; it holds up a proper example of imitation to others.

Ever since the first establishment of a Military Hospital among us, there has been too great a scarcity of these essential articles; and though the present supply is truly liberal, in respect to the numbers who furnished it, yet its salutary influence cannot be lasting, unless it is still continued from other quarters. May we not, therefore, expect a spirit of emulation will be kindled in every humane breast, and an affectionate concern to yield all possible assistance to the wants and distresses of the sick soldiery? Men who cheerfully, and hourly, expose their lives for their country's welfare, and who amidst the destructive rage of battle, willingly encounter danger, in all its shapes, for its defence, may, surely, challenge the compassion of those who reap the advantage of their courage, without any of that risk which is inseparable from it. Can it be once doubted, then, whether the inhabitants of other places will be backward to contribute what need to cost them so little, towards laying in a sufficient store of those articles, to secure against all future