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SUPPLEMENT.{No. 38. FRIDAY,
October 20, 1775.}

AS saltpetre is an article much wanted in America,
the Committee of Safety earnestly recommend it
to the planters of tobacco in this coloy, to cut down
and preserve all their tobacco sucker, and also to
preserve the trash, stalks, and sweepings of their
tobacco-houses, which are found to be exceedingly
useful in the production of that necessary aticle.
By order of the committee.
JOHN PENDLETON, jun. clerk.

AS the circumstances of the present times make it
prudent to guard against the conveyance of intel-
ligence to the enemies of America, by means of certain
evil-disposed persons, who may travel through the
country for that purpose: The Committee of Safety
do therefore earnestly recommend it to all magistrates
and other officers, civil and military, the members of
the several committees, and all others within this
colony, to be vigilant in examining all strangers, and
suspected persons, whom they may find passing, and to
stop such as do not give a proper account of their jour-
ney and employment.
By order of the committee.
JOHN PENDLETON, jun. clerk.

WATERTOWN, September 25.
SATURDAY last the ministerial troops fired 108
cannon shot at our people from their lines at
Boston, without doing any execution, except
wounding one man. How many they lost on their side we cannot say.

The following address will be published in Cana-
da, on the arrival there of col. Arnold, with the
troops under his command:
By his excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, esquire,
commander in chief of the army of the united colo-
nies in North America:
To the INHABITANTS OF CANADA.
Friends and Brethren,
THE unnatural contest between the English co-
lonies and Great Britain has now risen to such
a height that arms alone must decide it. The co-
lonies, confiding in the justice of their cause, and
the purity of their intentions, have reluctantly ap-
pealed to that being in whose hands are all human
events. He has hitherto smiled upon their virtuous
efforts: The hand of tyranny has been arrested in
its ravages, and the British arms, which have shone
with so much splendour in every part of the globe,
are now tarnished with disgrace and disappointment.
Generals of approved experience, who boasted of
subduing this great continent, find themselves cir-
cumscribed within the limits of a single city and its
suburbs, suffering all the shame and distress of a
siege; while the freeborn sons of America, animated
by the genuine principles of liberty and love of their
country,with increasing union, firmness, and dis-
cipline, repel every attack, and despise every danger.

Above all, we rejoice that our enemies have
been deceived with regard to you. They have
persuaded themselves, they have even dared to say,
that the Canadians were not capable of distinguish-
ing between the blessings of liberty and the wretch-
edness of slavery; that gratifying the vanity of a
little circle of nobility, would blind the eyes of the
people of Canada. By such artifices they hope to
bend you to their views, but they have been deceiv-
ed. Instead of finding in you that poverty of soul,
and baseness of spirit, they see, with a chagrin
equal to our joy, that you are enlightened, gene-
rous, and virtuous; that you will not renounce your

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own righns [rights], or serve as instruments to deprive your
fellow-subjects of theirs. Come then, my brethren,
unite with us in an indissoluble union, let us run to-
gether to the same goal. We have taken up arms
in defence of our liberty, our property, our wives,
and our children; we are determined to preserve
them, or die. We look forward with pleasure to
that day, nor fare remote (we hope) when the in-
habitants of America shall have one sentiment, and
the full enjoyment of the blessings of a free govern-
ment.

Incited by these motives, and encouraged by the
advice of many friends of liberty among you, the
Grand American Congress have sent an army into
your province, under the command of general
Schuyler; not to plunder, but to protect you; to
animate, and bring forth into action, those senti-
ments of freedom you have disclosed, and which
the tools of despotism woudld extinguish through the
whole creation. To co-operated with this design,
and to frustrate those cruel and perfidious schemes
which would deluge our frontiers with the blood of
women and children, I have detached col. Arnold
into your country with a part of the army under
my command. I have enjoined upon him, and I
am certain that he will consider himself, and act
as in the country of his patrons and best friends.
Necessaries and accomodations of every kind
which you may furnish he will thankfully receive,
and render the full value. I invite you, therefore,
as friends and brethern, to provide him with such
supplies as your country affords; and I pledge my-
self not only for your safety and security, but for
ample compensation. Let no man desert his habi-
tation; let no one flee as before an enemy. The
cause of America, and of liberty, is the cause of
every virtuous American citizen; whatever may be
his religion or descent, the united colonies know no
distinction but such as slavery, corruption, and ar-
bitrary domination, may create. Come then, ye
generous citizens, range yourselves under the stan-
dard of general liberty, against which all the force
and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail.
G. WASHINGTON.

NEW YORK, October 5.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Roxbury,
dated September 20, 1775.
GENERAL Gage, they say, has taken down
some houses near the hay market in Boston,
and designs to erect a fortification thereabouts from
shore to shore, and build a fort in that square. I
think it not unlikely. I hear the regulars have cut
down all, or almost all the trees in town, and that
they went to cut down some at dr. Elliot's; upon
which he came out, and entreated that they would
not, but they damned him and bade him begone, or
they would do so by him, or words of that import.

"Last saturday I saw a gentleman who got out
of Boston the thursday before. I could only ask
him two or three questions; he says the insults and
abuses offered the inhabitants are intolerable, but
that the regulars appear to be now rather dejected,
and that in general they wish the dispute was at an
end.

"Meat 12 d. sterling per pound. Mr. M-----
writes, that eggs were sold at 6s. sterling per
dozen, and potatoes at Il. sterling per bushel. A
number of gentlemen yet in town would be glad to
be delivered out of that dreadful prison, but cannot
obtain a pass."

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A gentleman arrived here yesterday morning from
the camp at the Isle aux Noix, which place he de-
parted from the 19th ult. where he left general
Montgomery with about 3000 men, who intendec
the next day to make an attack on St. John's,
which was defended by col. Templer and about
600 regulars, with some Indians. He says a large
schooner of 16 guns lay within half a mile of the
fort, but that she could not get into the lake so as
to annoy our troops, by reason of a large boom
being laid from the Isle aux Noix to the opposite
shore; that colonels Allan and Brown had got into
Canada, where they were joined by 500 men at La
Praire and Chambli, and had cut off an escort of
13 waggonloads of provision intended for St. John's,
and were determined to prevent any supplies being
sent to that post; that in the first skirmish our people
were up to their waists in water, but being anima-
ted by their brave general, and other worthy offi-
cers, who exposed themselves much on the occasion,
they soon made the enemy retreat, with the loss of
their commander, Matthias Johnson; that in the
boat which was sunk by the gondola there were a
number of gentlemen from Quebeck and Montreal,
who all perished.

On Tuesday arrived here capt. Hamilton, in 8
weeks from Liverpool, by whom we are informed
that several transports had sailed from England for
the port of Embden in Germany, to take in the
Hanoverian troops destined for America; that seve-
ral other transports destined for America; that seve-
ral other transports were fitting out at Spithead
and other ports of the kingdom, for the same ex-
pedition. A large convoy of men of war are get-
ting in readiness to escort them hither, among
which are several ships of the line. They may be
expected this month, on some parts of our coasts.

By capt. Little, in 11 days from Charlestown,
South Carolina, we are informed, that on the 15th
of September the commander of his majesty's ship
Tamar, and another armed vessel, pressed two of
capt. Little's men, and two passengers, likewise
hands out of all the vessels they could come at, on
purpose to assist them in taking the cannon from
fort Johnston, but could not effect their design.
The Tamar's barge, with a number of armed men,
went on shore, spiked up some of the cannon, and
threw the carriages over the walls. Next morning,
before day, about 500 of the militia took possession
of the fort, and in a few hours had several of the
guns mounted again. The fort is in good repair.
The Tamar and the armed vessel very prudently
withdrew from the reach of the cannon, and fell
farther down the harbour, where they now lie.
The governour is on board of one of them.

WILLIAMSBURG, October 20.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, October 6.
FROM letters received yesterday, which may be
depended on, they seem determined to carry
the American attack to the greatest extremity.
Two thousand men are coming over immediately
to New York; four companies of artillery, with a
train, to Boston; and commodore Shuldham, with
a fleet of frigates, cutters, and tenders, to Virginia,
to destroy the towns and carry devestation to all
the plantations upon the rivers. This last move-
ment is to extend its influence to Maryland and
North Carolina. Some of this fleet also are to be
sent to this place, for the same infernal purposes."

Last sunday a captain of the regiment with lord
Dunmore waa buried at Portsmouth, his funeral
being attended by his lordship, the gentlemen of
the navy, and 91 men rank and file, besides officers,
which it seems composed the whole corps under
lord Dunmore's command at that time. Four of
the soldiers were so feeble, occasioned by sickness,
that they could not carry their arms.

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Yesterday the Committee of Safety received ad-
vice, by express, that two vessels had arrived in
Hampton road with a reinforcement of soldiers for
lord Dunmore, said to amount to about 200 men.
They are troops which his lordship sent for to
St. Augustine, and which, in our last, were said
then to have arrived, some vessels having been seen
coming in which were supposed to be those expected
by lord Dunmore.

Since our last two companies of regulars have ar-
rived, commanded by capt. Ballard of Mecklen-
burg, and capt. Fleming of Goochland.

Last wednesday lord Dunmore, with 140 men,
went upon an expedition to Kemp's landing, in
Princess Anne county, about ten miles from Nor-
folk, in a number of boats, and one of the men of
war's tenders. They landed at a place called New-
town, two miles below, about dusk, and immedi-
ately marched up to Kemp's, where they broke
open a blacksmith's shop, and destroyed about 50
muskets, which he had to repair, then fell to pil-
laging a number of other houses, and, by some
means or other, got into their possession two offi-
cers in the minute service, and four private men.
The chief object ot this notable expedition was to in-
tercept a quantity of gunpowder lately imported,
which luckily had been carried off some time before,
and is now safely lodged, out of the reach of lord
Dunmore, and all his gang.

SATURDAY morning, 9 o'clock. The Culpeper
battalion of minute-men, all fine fellows, and well
armed (near one half of them with rifles) are now
within a few hours march of this city; and about
200 men, supposed to be regulars, are at a little
distance behind. It is now apparent (to use the
words of our noble WASHINGTON, in his address
to the people of Canada) that ARMS ALONE
must decide the contest between the colonies and
mother country; for our gracious king, and his
wise and virtuous ministers, seem determined to
persevere in their favourite scheme to subjugate the
colonies, for which purpose more men of war and
troops are daily expected. To arms then, friends
and fellow-subjects, and never lay them down till
confirmed in all the rights and privileges of free-
men, that you may transmit those invaluable bles-
sings to our latest posterity. GOD send you good
luck.

LEWIS MACKS, a volunteer in capt. Hicks's
company, now on duty at Hampton, died last
friday of a violent flux.

The publick is advised to beware of a certain
floating SALT STORE in the neighbourhood of Norfolk.
That man must be blind indeed who suffers himself
to be cajoled, and would sell his BIRTHRIGHT for
a mess of pottage, or rather a little seasoning for it.

Mr. HOLT presents his compliments to lord
DUNMORE, and begs leave to inform him that he
has, as a partial retaliation for the loss he has sustained
by his lordship's seizure of his types, and other effects,
taken possession of several of his lordship's horses,
which have been appraised by creditable and impartial
men, sworn to do justice to both parties, the certificates
of whose oaths shall be produced whenever called for;
and that their appraised value shall be paid to his lordship
whenever he shall think proper to restore his effects,
and satisfy him for the damage he has sustained from
his lordship's late illegal invasion of his property.

IT appears, from the examination of a gentle-
man, on oath, that the account published in Hunter
and Dixon's paper, of mr. Matthews's being taken
by lord Dunmore at the head of a company of minute-
men, is much misrepresented, the said Matthews
having been surprised by the enemy in the night,
alone, and unarmed.