About 11 o'clock appeared the candidate of the other side William Forster, Esq., schoolmaster, appointed by the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, and lately made, by commission from his Excellency (the present Governor), Clerk of the Peace and Conmion Pleas in that county, which commission, it is said, he purchased for the valuable consideration of one hundred pistoles, given the Governor ; next him came two ensigns, borne by two of the freeholders ; then followed the Honorable James De Lancey, Esq., chief justice of the province of New York, and the Honorable Frederick

The conduct of the sheriff with reference to the Quaker vote was for some time afterward the subject of ardent denunciation on the one side and of determined defense on the other. It was also made a matter of complaint against Cosby, who had appointed Cooper. The Governor, replying to the home government, justified the action of the sheriff as

Philipse, Esq., second judge of the said province and baron of the exchequer, attended by abo\it a hundred and seventy horse of the freeholders and friends of the said Forster and the two judges. They entered the green on the east side, and, riding twice round it, their word was 'No Land Tax !' As they pivssed, the second judge very civilly saluted the late chief justice by taking oft' his hat, which the late judge returned in the same manner, some of the late judge's party crying out ' No Excise ! ' and one of them was heard to say(tliough not by the judge) ' No Pretender ! ' upon which Forster, the candidate, replied, ' I