' .\ paper, dated " Hoston Augu»t 20, 1774," responsive to "a report "industriously propagated in New York" -- but witliout any indication by whom written or wliere published -- wliicli was printed in Force's Anierimn Archiiet, Fourth Series, i., 743, 744.

See, also, a Letter from Willinm Cnopi-r -- the well-known Town-Clerk of Boston -- U> a Geiillenian in Kew Yurk, dated " Boston : Seiilember 12, "1774," written in response to inquiries, and with the knowledge of "some of the Committee appointed to receive donations."

-Bancroft's HiKloni nf the United Slates, original edition, vil., 48 ; llie same, centenary edition, iv., 332.

On the thirty-fii'st of May, 1774, John Scollay wrote, from Boston, to Arthur Lee, in London, " Thousands that depend on their daily labour "for support, must be reduced to the greatest degree of distress and "want. However, they will sutler in a good Cause, and that ri;;liteous " Being who takes care of the Ravens who cry unto Him. will provide " for them and theirs."

that such principles and such purposes as were thus presented to the several Colonies, found little favor, anyw'here, except among those of the assumed leaders of the unfranchised inhabitants of the City of New York, who favored revolutionary measures, and who had not been included in the recently appointed Committee of Correspondence, the Committee of Fifty-one, in that City

On Tuesday evening, the seventeenth of May, Paul Revere, bearing letters from the Committee of Correspondence, in Boston, in which were inclosed copies of the Vote of that Town, to which reference has been made, arrived in the City of New York* -- there was, also, in his saddlebags, a very interesting letter from one of the master spirits in that Town, to his correspondent in New York, reciting more of the motives of the Massacliusetts-men, in their construction of the Resolutions of the Town-meeting in Boston, than was told elsewhere ; ^ but there is no evidence that Revere brought anything whatever from the Caucus which had been convened in Faneuil Hall, on the preceding Wednesday.'"' In accordance with his instructions, Revere immediately proceeded to Philadelphia, to deliver the letters which had been addressed to the Committee of Correspondence in that City ; ' and