By JONATHAN BLODGET & COMPANY, viz:

JOHN G. FRAZER.

Boston, May 10, 1776.

JOSHUA WENTWORTH TO STEPHEN MOYLAN.

Portsmouth, June 1, 1776.

SIR: I addressed you last of 22d April, (and previously of 15th,) on the capture of the brig Elizabeth, brought into this port by Commodore Manly, &c.; since which I have not been favoured with your answer. I can easily conceive of your engagements on matters of much greater concern­ment; yet I shall be much obliged (if a leisure moment) by a reply to the letters quoted above, with the Continen­tal resolves respecting my department, they not appearing this way. The sufferers of Boston have sent forward a me­morial to the Congress, desiring their particular attention to this capture. The captors expect their full quota of the net proceeds of vessel and cargo, which no doubt will be the resolution of Congress; but a difficulty arises how I shall come at that, unless the whole is sold at auction. If each claimant is to receive the two-thirds of the proceeds, the dif­ficulty will be obviated; but if the two-thirds of the goods that may be proved, the difficulty will still remain. Those goods that are not fully proved will be sold for the Conti-nental account. Your advice and direction will be exceed­ingly useful to the mode necessary for me to pursue.

Remaining very assuredly, sir, your most obliged, humble servant,

JOSHUA WENTWORTH.

To Stephen Moylan, Esq.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN IN SALEM.

Captain Chapman (formerly of Boston) is just arrived here from St. Croix, who informs, that on the 10th of May, in latitude 34°, 15’, longitude 67°, 64’, he fell in with a brig, the Captain of which informed him that he sailed in com­pany with a fleet of twenty sail of transports, under con­voy of two sixty-four and one forty-gun ship, six frigates and two bomb-ketches, from whom he was parted the 5th May in a hard gale. The fleet had on board a large number of Hessians, Brunswickers, and English troops, in order to disperse (as the Captain termed it) that hornet’s nest the Congress, after which they expected the continent would be an easy prey to them.

CHARLES CARROLL (BARRISTER) TO MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY.

Mount Clare, June 2, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: I have, as Mr. Tilghman desired in his to me of Thursday, made inquiry for small vessels, but can­not find that any are to be got here on freight. I fancy if they are to be procured, it will be down the bay. The sooner they are got the better, as I fear the flour now begins to spoil. I was yesterday down at the fort; they are pretty forward, and the resistance they can now make if the enemy should come up, will not be very inconsiderable. We are not in much apprehension of the Otter, or even double her force; but in the Connecticut dialect of old Roger Sherman, “Where is the powder.”

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

CHARLES CARROLL.

To the Honourable the Council of Safety of Maryland.

MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO BALTIMORE COUNTY COMMITTEE.

GENTLEMEN: We received a letter this morning from Virginia by express; and as there is no telling the particular destination of the fleet, and as your town may possibly be an object with them, we have thought it proper to enclose you a copy, that, in case it should be necessary, you may be prepared to receive them. We are, &c.

To the Committee of Baltimore County.

MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO VIRGINIA COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

GENTLEMEN: We are very much obliged to you for your favour of the 26th. Our boats for four days past have brought us information from Captain Nicholson, of the De­fence, on a cruise down the bay, that several men-of-war were at anchor off Wind-Point, above the mouth of the Rappahannock; and we are glad that you have given us certain advice what vessels they are. If Lord Dunmore ex­pects to meet with more favour in Maryland than he has experienced in Virginia, he will, we trust, be greatly disap­pointed.

On behalf of the Council I have the honour to be, sir, yours, &c.

To the Committee of Safety of Virginia.

MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO CAPT. JAMES NICHOLSON.

SIR: We received yours dated this morning off the har­bour, and are pleased to hear that you were gone past to Baltimore. We would have you make the best preparation you can to repel any attack that may be made by our ene­mies on either the fortifications or town of Baltimore. We received this morning an express from Virginia, informing us that Lord Dunmore had sailed from Norfolk up the bay with his fleet, joined by the Roebuck; and we apprehend the ships you saw off the Wind-Mill Point are part of that fleet. We are, &c.

To Captain James Nicholson.

MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO DEPUTIES IN CONGRESS.

GENTLEMEN: We send Mr. Stewart to Philadelphia, to take a view of the gondolas built at that city. We expect to contract with him for building most of those that are or­dered to be built for our Province. The difference of tide in our bay from that in Delaware will, we apprehend, ne­cessarily occasion some alteration in the manner of building and rigging our gondolas from those of Pennsylvania. We wish to have your sentiments on this subject, after confer­ring with Mr. Stewart.

All is quiet at Annapolis; the Governour’s boat is just returned from Virginia with Secretary Smith, and brings a letter from Commodore Hammond, of the Roebuck, to the Governour, which we have seen. He is to be sent for short­ly. The letter is dated at Gwinn’s Island, which we take to be near Pianketank, between the mouth of the Potomack and Rappahannock. The letter informs, they came there to complete their wood and water. Private intelligence says the island is of some miles extent, and has stock of cattle, sheep, &c., thereon, and that they are casting up in-trenchments to defend themselves against the Militia. How long they will remain there is uncertain. Our islands will probably be plundered next, and they will move, we conjecture