At a meeting of delegates, from the different counties in _Virginia_ at _Williamsburgh_, beside the warmest professions of allegiance and loyalty, and several resolutions in common with the other colonies, they passed others, which considering the circumstances of the colony, with its immediate dependence on the mother country for the disposal of its only staple commodity, must be considered as very deserving of attention, because strongly indicating the true spirit of that people. They resolved not to purchase any more slaves from Africa, the West-Indies, or any other place; that their non-importation agreement should take place on the first of the following November, and that if the American grievances were not redressed by the tenth of August 1775, they would export after that time, no tobacco, nor any other goods whatever to Great-Britain. They recommended the cultivation of such articles of husbandry, instead of tobacco, as might form a proper basis for manufactures of all sorts; and particularly, the improvement of the breed of sheep, the multiplying of them, and the killing as few as possible. [Aug. 5.] They chose as delegates to a general congress, _Peyton Randolph_, _Richard Henry Lee_, _George Washington_, _Patrick Henry_, _Richard Bland_, _Benj. Harrison_ and _Edmund Pendleton_, esqrs. At Newport, in Rhode-Island, an animated paper was circulated, with the motto JOIN or DIE. The state of Boston was represented as a siege, and as a direct hostile invasion of all the colonies. “The generals of despotism (it says) are now drawing the lines of circumvallation around our bulwarks of liberty, and nothing but unity, resolution and perseverance, can save ourselves and posterity from what is worse than death—Slavery.” The general assembly of the colony chose two deputies to represent the colony in a general congress; who were legally authorised for that service, [Aug. 10.] under the hand and seal of the governor. All the other colonies, from New-Hampshire to South-Carolina inclusively, adopted the measure of electing representatives to meet in general congress.