Leisler, the above grantee (who only survived this conveyance about eighteen months) was authorized by the Committee of Public Safety (a body appointed by the people) on the 16th of August, 16S9, "to use the power and authority of commander-in-chief, until order should come from their majesties," King William and Queen Mary; "and further, to do all such acts as are requisite for the good of the province, taking counsel with the militia and civil authority as occasion shall require."

For assuming the government on this occasion Leisler was afterwards tried on a charge of high treason and executed on the 17th of May, 169 1. " But everything proves that Leisler was condemned unlawfully and executed unjustly," but afterwards the act of attainder was reversed; this was done at the instance of young Leisler and the French Huguenots.

It has been the policy (continues Dunlap) of men of all ages to preserve the memory of the founders of the nation they claimed as their own. It serves to perpetuate nations. Rome, the eternal, bears the name of its reputed founder. The founder of the Democracy of New York was Jacob Leisler, and New York is now an empire founded on Democracy. The line that says, " an honest man is the noblest work of God," has been received as a truism. And Jacob Leisler was truly an honest man, who -- though a martyr to the cause of liberty, and sacrificed by injustice, aristocracy and party malignity-- ought to be considered as one in whom New York should take pride. In the possession of E. N. Bibby, Esq., of New York, is a gold piece, of the time of James II., said to have been in the possession of the unfortunate Leisler, the night preceding his execution. Around the edge of which is an inscription cut with his penknife.