It appears to have been a part of the plan of those who had called and controlled the Caucus, to submit the result of its deliberations to the body of the inhabitants of the City, for its consideration and approval ; and nothing had occurred, within the Caucus, to make any change in that plan necessary. Accordingly, on the day after the meeting of the Caucus [Tuesda;/, May 17] they published a Card, addressed "To the Public," in which "the Inhabitants " of this City and County " were " requested to attend "at the Coflee-house, on Thursday, the 19tli instant, "at 1 o'clock, to approve of the Committee nominated "as aforesaid, or to appoino such other persons a«, in "their discretion and wisdom, they may seem meet."'

Notwithstanding the meeting at the Coffee-house was called at one o'clock, an hour when every Mechanic and Laborer would probably be employed in his daily labor, it is said that " a great concourse of " the Inhabitants" assembled at that place,'' at the appointed time, [Thyrsdaij, Alay 19, 1774, at one o'clock;^ and we are also told that the assemblage was addressed by Isaac Low, who was in the Chair ; that some discussion arose, which resulted in the addition of Francis Lewis to the proposed Committee, increasing the

1 Advertisement " To the Public," calliug the Meeting at the Coffeehouse, liated " New- York, Tuesday, May 17, 1774," copied into the Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence.

See, also, the same Advertisement and an editorial note thereon, in Holt's Setc-York Journal, No. Ifi37, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774 ; and HiiiiniloHs New-York Gazetteer, Xo. 57, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774; Gaine's Sew York Gazette and i1J«rr«ry, No. 1178, New- York, Monday, May 23, 1774 ; Lieulenaul-gorernor Cohten to Governor Tryon, " Si'RiX(i-HiLi., 31st May, 1774 ; " llie same to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New-York 1st June 1774;" Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 87 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicifiity, 33 ; etc.