be given up to the agents appointed for negotiating that business, immediately after condemnation, will answer every purpose of this application to you.

I have the honour to enclose you a resolve of Congress, empowering the Paymaster-General of this Army to draw bills on the President, with an extract from his letter to his Excellency on the same subject.

I am, sir, your most humble servant,

To the Honourable James Warren, Esq., Speaker, &c.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO MAJOR BELLOWS.

Exeter, January 31, 1776.

SIR: We have just received a packet from the Continental Congress, informing us nine regiments are to be sent forthwith to Canada, all which are raising, and some on their march by this time, desiring our regiment may be forwarded with all speed, and that when any one or two companies are ready, to march forward. They likewise direct forty shillings, lawful money, to be given each soldier well accoutred, as a bounty, and one month's pay advance; therefore, you may assure all the men you muster that forty shillings of the money you pay them is a bounty, and the other one month's pay advance. Pray do every thing to forward the men, and hurry Colonel Waite as much as possible. The necessaries are gone and going from Exeter to Cohass, Colonel Bedel will set off from here, we expect, to-morrow. Three or four companies at Plymouth and Cohass are inlisted.

In behalf of the Committee of Safety, I am, sir, your most humble servant,

MESHECH WEARE.

P. S. Pay the commission officers two months' wages.

INSTRUCTIONS TO COLONEL MOREY AND MAJOR BELLOWS.

In Committee of Safety, Exeter, January 31, 1776.

To ISRAEL MORET and JOHN BELLOWS, Esquires:

As you, by vote of the Council and Assembly of this Colony, are appointed Mustermasters and Paymasters to the regiment raising for Canada, you are hereby directed, out of the money you have received from the Treasury, to pay each soldier you shall muster, being an able-bodied, effective man, and well accoutred, forty shillings, lawful money, as a bounty, and two months' wages to each commissioned officer, also one month's pay to each non-commissioned officer and soldier, at the rates established by the Continental Congress, and assist in providing for and forwarding the regiment with all speed, and make return of your doings as soon as may be to the General Court of this Colony, or Committee of Safety. You are likewise to observe that the soldiers that receive the Colony guns are to be informed that they are to allow one dollar for the use of the same; and should they not be returned at the end of the campaign, they are to pay therefore forty-five shillings, lawful money, each; and the officers are to take care that the above stoppages are to be made upon making up the muster-rolls.

By order of the Committee:

MESHECH WEARE.

COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO SELECTMEN OF THE TOWNS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

In Committee of Safety, January 31, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: We have received intelligence from our Delegates at Philadelphia, that if the numbers of all the people in each town are not speedily sent, we run the hazard of being doomed much beyond our proportion of the Continental expenses. As yours has not come to hand, we pray you to despatch it with speed, according to the request made last Fall. If you have sent, and it hath miscarried, we must entreat your sending again.

By order of the Committee:

MESHECH WEARE.

P. S. Pray let the return be made on oath.

ADDRESS OF THE GENTRY, CLERGY, ETC., OF THE BOROUGH OF SUDBURY.

Address of the Gentry, Clergy, Principal Inhabitants, Manufacturers, and Freemen, of the Borough of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolk, presented to His Majesty by Sir Walden Hanmer, Bart., one of their Representatives in Parliament, introduced by the Lord of His Majesty's Bedchamber in waiting; which Address His Majesty was pleased to receive very graciously.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Gentry, Clergy, Principal Inhabitants, Manufacturers, and Freemen, of the Borough of Sudbury, in the County of Suffolk.

Most Gracious Sovereign:

We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, beg leave to express our detestation and abhorrence of the most unnatural rebellion now subsisting in your Majesty's Colonies in America, encouraged, we fear, by disaffected persons as well on this, as the other side of the Atlantick, who at the same time boast of the liberty and laws of the most excellent Constitution in the world; yet, misled by faction and supposed injured rights, forget their natural duty and allegiance, and disown their subjection to the Legislative authority of this Kingdom, in defiance of all order and government. These unprecedented measures, subversive of every civil establishment, must excite the indignation of every friend to his country, and, we are sorry to say it, call aloud for the decisive exertions of your Majesty's arms. In times so critical, we think it our indispensable duty to profess our hearty zeal and attachment to your Majesty's person, family, and Government. Confiding in the wisdom of your Majesty's Council and the spirit of Parliament, we presume to hope that a period will soon be put to these calamities. Amongst many of your faithful subjects, we, deeply sensible of the many inestimable blessings we enjoy under your Majesty's mild and happy reign, most heartily and cheerfully offer our best services, assuring you, sir, that in this, and every part of this Kingdom, where we have any connection, we shall, at the peril of our lives and fortunes, maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of our power, your Majesty's Crown and Government, against all the secret or avowed disturbers of the publick peace. And we further hope and trust that your fleets and armies, with the assistance of Divine Providence, will soon chastise and bring back to their duty and obedience those deluded persons who may have dared to violate the peace and good order of your Majesty's dominions in America.

LORD GEORGE GERMAINE TO MAJOR GENERAL HOWE.

Whitehall, February 1, 1776.

SIR: Since my letter to you of the 5th of January, every effort has been exerted in the different Departments to bring forward the preparations for the ensuing campaign in North America; and, though the severity of the weather, almost beyond what has ever been known in this country, very much obstructs the service in the Naval Department, yet I am encouraged to hope that the reinforcement for the army under your command will be embarked before the end of March, and that the armament intended for Quebeck will be ready much sooner.

The unfortunate events which have happened in Canada make it necessary that we should not only exert every endeavour for the relief of Quebeck as early as possible, but also for having a force there ready to commence its operations as soon as the season will admit.

The great attention which the King shows, upon all occasions, to the rank and merit of his officers, would have led His Majesty to have appointed Major-General Clinton to command upon this service, under Major-General Carleton; but as His Majesty's pleasure has been already signified that he should command the body of forces to be employed upon an expedition to the southward, and be is by this time probably sailed for Cape-Fear, in order to, wait their arrival, His Majesty has thought fit that Major-General Burgoyne should act as second in command to, General Carleton in Canada, and that be should proceed thither with the eight regiments from Ireland, which I hope will be ready to sail by the 20th of next month.

If Quebeck should fall before any relief can be got thither, and Major-General Carleton should unhappily not survive the loss of it, the King's intentions are, that in; such, an event, the command of the whole of His Majesty's forces in North America should devolve upon you. It is also His Majesty's intentions immediately to appoint