Gent.

This accompanies our Letter to Congress, complaining of Capt Nicholson's Conduct, we have inclosed you Copies of that as well as of a Letter we wrote to and Answer we received from him. ー We had, as we stated to Capt Nicholson, received Information of his having pressed a Number of Men, which he avows, and that many People bound to Baltimore by Water hearing of it, turned back, and that even some of the back People had declined going there with their Waggons for fear of being pressed. ー Capt Nicholson seems to expect an Approbation from Congress, we shall very reluctantly believe any Countenance will be given by that Body to such tyranical Proceedings, if there should, we have every Business in our present Stations, nor do we care how soon it is generally known, if the Fact is that the Power of the Continental Officers is universal, and in no wise controulable by any internal Civii Authority in the separate States. Capt Nicholson's Reasoning wiil as well prove his Right to press every Man in the State, if he thinks it necessary, as any Man ih it ー If he saw the Necessity of this Measure, he might have applied to the Assembly, sitting at the Time he began this extraordinary Business. It is much our Wish to have the Resolutions of Congress as soon as possible, as it is likely, if there's any Delay, the Frigate will sail before the Result is known here. ー We are Gent with great Esteem [&c.]

The Honble Delegates from
Maryland, in Congress