for the months of November and December, of which all persons concerned are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

For the future, when a warrant is granted, and paid for any sum on account of pay of the Regiments or Corps, to any of the commanding officers thereof, there will be no allowance afterwards for any neglect or supposed mistake. It is the duty of every Colonel and Captain to be exact in their abstracts and returns, and the consequences of being otherwise must fall upon themselves.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, February 6, 1776.

The Court of Inquiry, whereof General Greene was President, appointed to inquire into the complaint of Colonel Hobart, Paymaster-General of the New-Hampshire forces, against Colonel Stark: The Court have reported the state of the evidences given in before them, by which it appears that Colonel Hobart's complaints were well-founded. All further proceedings are suspended, Colonel Stark having made such acknowledgments (o the injured parties, as will, in all probability, be accepted as satisfactory.

The Colonel, or officer commanding each Regiment, is to examine minutely into the quantity and condition of their ammunition, and make report of the average number of rounds they are possessed of, to their respective Brigadiers, without delay, and immediately thereupon the Brigadiers are to lay this, their report, before the General.

The Armourers are required to be very exact and diligent at their business. If they are known to do work for any others than those of the Army, they will be brought to the severest punishment; or, if they presume to charge a soldier for any repair done to his arms, they will also be called to a strict account.

An exact report to be made of all the cartridges in the different Magazines. Those now employed in making cartridges are to be constant and diligent at their work.

The arms which have been delivered out of the publick stores are not to be put in the hands of commissioned officers. The Colonels of the several Regiments are to be answerable that this order is duly attended to.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, February 7, 1776.

The Continental Congress having been pleased to order and direct that there shall be one Chaplain to two Regiments, and that the pay of each Chaplain shall be thirty-three dollars and one-third per calendar month, the Reverend Abiel Leonard is appointed Chaplain to the Regiment of Artillery, under the command of Colonel Knox, and to the Twentieth Regiment, at present commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Durkee.

As there can be but fourteen Chaplains, under this establishment, to the twenty-eight Regiments, (including the Artillery and Rifle Regiments,) and as preference will be given to those Chaplains who served last year, provided their conduct and attendance have been unexceptionable, the Brigadiers are to inquire into this matter, and, with the Colonels and commanding officers of the several Regiments, arrange them agreeable to the above direction, and make report thereof, that orders may issue accordingly.

The commanding officers of the Regiments upon the new establishment are, each of them, to apply to Commissary Cheever, tomorrow morning, for one barrel of powder, with a proportionable quantity of ball and cartridge-paper, which they are to order to be immediately made up in cartridges, and put up in a proper manner, according to the directions Commissary Cheever will give. This ammunition the commanding officers are to keep in a safe place, under their immediate care, to be ready to be delivered when occasion may call for its being distributed.

A General Court-Martial to sit tomorrow morning, in Cambridge, to try such prisoners as shall be brought before them. All evidences, and persons concerned, to attend the Court. The Court to assemble at Mr. Pomeroy's, at ten in the forenoon.

Head-Quarters, Cambridge, February 8, 1776.

ADDRESS OF THE MAGISTRATES, ETC., OF SANQUHAR.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Magistrates, Common Council, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town and Burgh of SANQUHAR.

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Magistrates, Common Council, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Town and Burgh of Sanquhar, beg leave, on the present critical and important conjuncture, to address the Throne, with hearts deeply sensible of the many invaluable blessings we enjoy as British subjects, and to assure your Majesty of our inviolable attachment to your sacred person and Government.

Convinced that the dignity of the Crown, and the strength and prosperity of the British Empire must depend on the firm and vigorous maintenance of the constitutional authority of Parliament over every part of your Majesty's dominions on the part of Administration, and a respectful and universal subordination on the part of the subject, we cannot behold, without the warmest indignation and regret, that spirit of independence and unjustifiable opposition to the supreme power of the British Legislature, which hath for some time prevailed amongst a considerable number of your Majesty's subjects in America, and which at last hath broke out into open acts of hostility and rebellion; a spirit which, if not timeously and effectually checked, bids fair to unhinge our excellent Constitution, and to prove fatal to the commercial interests of these Kingdoms.

We abhor the seditious principles of the authors and a betters of this unnatural rebellion. We detest their views, and the execrable measures they are pursuing to accomplish them. We are shocked at the shameful prostitution of the sacred names of religion and liberty for purposes evidently subversive of both. We commiserate the unhappy situation of the deluded multitude, whose allegiance and attachment to Government have been industriously debauched by designing and desperate men. We sympathize with our amiable Sovereign, whose paternal heart must, bleed over his forward and obstinately disobedient children. We feel for our country, and dread the consequences to our posterity. It is our ardent wish, therefore, that the melancholy breach may be speedily closed, and that publick tranquillity, union, and mutual confidence, in every part of your Majesty's dominions, may be soon established on the lasting foundations of justice and sound policy.

We cheerfully confide in your Royal wisdom, and in the wisdom, of Parliament, that every necessary and Constitutional measure will be concerted and vigorously executed for effectuating these important ends; and we are proud on this occasion to join the rest of our loyal fellow-subjects in assuring your Majesty that we are heartily disposed to stand by our Sovereign and the Constitution, with our lives and fortunes, in opposition to all the machinations and treasonable practices of rebellious subjects, as well as the attempts of foreign foes.

That Almighty God may long preserve your Majesty's sacred life for a blessing to these lands; and that the descendants of the same Royal family, which at present fills the Throne with so much dignity, may sway the British sceptre over a free, a united, a loyal and virtuous people, to latest posterity, is the ardent prayer of

Signed at Sanquhar, upon the 10th day of February, 1776, by

NORTH-CAROLINA, ss.

By His Excellency JOSIAH PARTIN, His Majesty's Captain-General, Governour, and Commander-in-chief, in and over the said Province.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a most daring, horrid, and unnatural Rebellion has been exerted in the Province against His Majesty's Government, by the base and insidious artifice of certain