the work of these Revolutionary bodies.

"At a meeting of the Committee of Loudoun County, held at
Leesburg on Friday, May 26, 1775....

"The Committee, taking into consideration the conduct of the
Governour relative to the powder which was, by his express
orders, taken secretly out of the publick Magazine belonging
to this Colony, in the night of the twentieth ult., and
carried on board the Magdaline schooner.

"_Resolved, nemine contra dicente_, That his Lordship, by
this and other parts of his conduct which have lately
transpired, has not only forfeited the confidence of the
good people of this Colony, but that he may be justly
esteemed an enemy to America; and that as well his excuse
published in his Proclamation of the fourth instant, as his
verbal answer to the address presented him on that occasion
by the city of Williamsburgh, are unsatisfactory and
evasive, and reflect, in our opinion, great dishonour on the
General Assembly and inhabitants of this Colony, as from the
latter a suspicion may be easily deduced, that the
Representatives of the people are not competent judges of
the place wherein arms and ammunition, intended for the
defense of the Colony, may be safely lodged, and that the
inhabitants (unlike other subjects) can not, in prudence, be
trusted with the means necessary for their protection from
insurrection, or even evasion; so in the former a very heavy
charge is exhibited against the best men among us, of
seducing their fellow-subjects from their duty and