In a letter of theirs to the Board of Trade they join with Lieutenant-Governor Nicholson and Mr. W. Bayard in saying " how fatall it hath been to this city and the Province of New York for to be annexed to that of Boston, which, if it had continued, would have occasioned the totall ruin of the Inhabitants of .?aid Province." ' It must easily appear that these changes, with the consi'ijuent thwarting of their j)olitical hopes, produced much dissatisfaction among the people of this county. Ruled by a King who difi'ered with them in religion, with no voice in the legislation by which to protect themselves, and now even their colonial existence destroyed, they were loud in their denunciations and threats. But the effect of this act of union the people had but a short time, in murmuring mood, to consider, as the great Revolution at the close of the year 1688 compelled James to abdicate his power, and placed upon the throne his daughter Mary and her husband, the Prince of Orange. This event brought out the glad symi)athies of the English as well as the Dutch-descended inhabitants of the whole colony of New York. But, strange to s:iy, instead of a united congratulation, the anxiety on the part of the populace for the change, and dread lest it should miscarry, combining with the untoward situation of things, the absence of any accredited representative of the higher power and of any otficial information of the accession of William (which would have been followed by a public proclamation of it), caused in New York one of the saddest and most absurd