SEVERAL additions have been made to the other part, now called " An Essay," &c. since the vote for publishing. The additions are distinguished by crotchets, thus [and in these it was not thought necessary to observe the ftile of instructions. The notes have been almost entirely added since the vote.

August 1, 1774.

"OF the various instructions, on this occasion,

those which were drawn up by a convention of delegates, from every county in the province of Pennsylvania, and presented by them, in a body, to the constitutional assembly, were the most precise and determinate. By these it appears that the Pennsylvanians were disposed to submit to the acts of navigation, as they then stood, and also to settle a certain annual revenue on his majesty, his heirs and successors, subject to the controul of parliament, and to satisfy the demands of the East-India company, provided their grievances were redressed, and an amicable compact was settled, which, by establishing American rights in the manner of a new magna charta, would have precluded future disputes."

RAMSAY'S History of the American Revolution, vol. I. page 134.

RESOLUTIONS, &c.

At a provincial meeting of deputies chosen by the several counties, in Pennsylvania, held at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774, and continued by adjournments from day to day.

PRESENT,

For the city and county of Philadelphia,