Samuel Francis;" in none of the contemporary descriptions of the Caucus which we have seen, was it said or intimated that the assemblage left the Tavern, for any purpose, before the formal adjournment of the Caucus ; and in the second " ^<(- " lerdneiiifiif," published on the day after the Caucus, by its officers and under its authority, inviting the body of the inhabitants of the City to meet at the roffee-house, to confirm or amend the otlicial acts of that Caucus, it was said, in its descrijition of that preliminary meeting, after a recital of the fact that it was called " to meet <tt the Home of Mr. Sam- "uel Fiaiicit," that "a very respectable and large number of the Mer- "chantsand other Inh.abitants did accordingly appear at the time and "pJoceappointed, and then and (/lere nominated for the approbation of '■ the public, a Committee of fifty j)ersous," etc. With these as our authorities, we prefer to differ from those who have preceded us; and to insist, as we do insist, that the Caucus was held, without interruption or removal, in Sam. Francis's Long-room.

For the reasons stated, we prefer to differ, also, from our friend, Edward F. de Lancey, who lia-s stated, in his carefully prepared S'olet to Jones's Hislonj of .Vfic York during the lierolutiounnj Il'ur (i., 438, J3!l) that the Caucus was liclil in " the Exchansre, to which place it aiijourned "from Fi-aunces's Tavern, where it was called, on account of the great '• attendance."