Mr. President, agreeable to the request of the Congress, laid before them an affidavit of Captain John Wanton, taken before Peter Bounetheau, J. P. Nov. 6, 1775.

Mr. President then laid before the Congress, a resolution, as proper to be entered into by this Congress, upon the present correspondence with Capt Thornbrough, and the affidavit of Captain Wanton.

Which being read was amended and agreed to, as follows:

Resolved, That Capt. Thornbrough's letter of the 4th instant, directed to William Henry Drayton, Esq; in answer to a letter of the 3d instant, wrote by him as President, contains expressions as unmerited as unbecoming the pen of a gentleman, and therefore unexpected from Capt. Thornbrough. ー That because Lord William Campbell has favoured Capt. Thornbrough "with an extract of his letter to Governor Tonyn," it does not thence follow, that the extract was faithfully made: and this Congress not having seen the original letter, or any other extract from it, ought to remember, we have just cause not to credit any thing from Lord William Campbell, which is not supported by absolute proof: neither does the extract prove, that Lord William Campbell did not write another letter to Governor Tonyn, to desire that troops should be sent against the good people of this Colony, and that Capt. Wanton's sloop should be condemned at St. Augustine. On the contrary, in the affidavit this day made by the said Capt. Wanton, and laid before this Congress, there is reason to conclude, that Lord William Campbell did actually write to Governor Tonyn, as well to procure troops, as to cause Capt. Wanton's sloop to be condemned: And as this important letter has never appeared to the public, it is not improbable, either that Governor Tonyn has received it, or that Walker has destroyed it, and that the extract in question, even if it is a faithful one, is from a letter written only as a mask to the other, and with intention, if necessary, to be delivered up to the public.

Ordered, That Captain Wanton's affidavit, and resolution thereupon, be printed and made public, with the other papers already ordered and relative thereto.