Clinton (afterward Governor George Clinton), the Assembly having before it for approval the words, " AV^e, in many instances, disapprove of the conduct of that province (Massachusetts)," moved to substitute in place of them the following strong assertion: "The ill-policied schenie of colonial administration pursued by your Majesty's ministers since the close of the late war has been productive of great warmth in every part of your empire, nor can we avoid declaring that we view those acts with that jealousy which is the necessary result of a just sense of the blessings of freedom, and abhor the })rinciples they contain as establishing precedents subversive of the rights, privileges and proi)erty, and dangerous to the lives of your Majesty's American subjects." Mr. Van Cortlandt and Mr. Thomas voted aye on this amendment, and Mr. Philipse and i\Ir. Wilkins voted nay.'' And yet although this was the last Colonial Assembly of New York, this session lasting but a few days after the adoption of this address to the King, yet how little its

mucli bloodsUeil, because a great part of the mob consists ot men who liave been privateers and disbandeil soldiei-s, whose view is to plunder the town."

1 .Juurual of Captain John Jlontressor, N.Y. Hist. Soc. Col., 1881, p. 3G3.

' " this House doth Concur witli and adopt tlie resolutions of the House of Burgesses of the Dominion of Virginia.'" -- K. Y. Assembly Journal, May 16, 17G9.

3 Of course in not suggesting before this, the able political pamphlets under the name of A. Tl'. Furmet; written by Mr. Wilkins, the member of the General Assembly from the Borough of M'sstchester, we have no