The Town of Providence, in Town-meeting, May IT, 1774, was, probably, the first organized body which recommended a ' ongress of the several Colonies, for general purposes: but it only requested the Deputies of the Town, in the approaching General Assembly, to " use their influ- "ence," in that body, nni ijet iissi-uiUhil, "for promoting a Congi ess, as soon "as may be, of the Representatives of the General Assemblies of the "several Colonies and Provinces in North .\merica,'" for the general purposes of the whole number, {I'rncee<liiirj« o f the Toirn-Mn liinj, reprinted in Force's Aniericaii Aixliivex, Fourth Series, i., 33:i ; I and the Committee of Correspondence of Philadelphia, in its reply to the Committee of Correspondence of Boston, dated " PHir.AnELPHi.i, .Vi/;/ 21. 1774," compared the jiroposition of Boston, to enter into an .Association of Non- E.\portation and Non-Intercourse, with the pri>i)osition of New-York, to convene a Congress of the Colonies, w ithout determining which of the two it would approve, (Letter, dated us alioee stuleft,) leaving the subject undecided, until the eighteenth of June, when the Congress was determined on, by a Meeting of the Citizens, without the intervention of the Committee, (Proceedinqs of the Meeting, reprinted in Force's Americaii Archifes, Fourth Series, i., 420, 427.)

Because the General Assemblies of the greater number of the Colonies, at that time, could not have elected Deputies to the proposed Congress, even if they had been willing to have done so -- the Governor having, in each case, the power of jiroroguiug or dissolving the Assembly, which, in the greater number of instances, he would have certainly done-- the action of the Town of Providence, although w ell intended, could not result in the convention of a Congress ; and what was done by the Committee of Correspondence in Philadelphia, was not entitled to the honorable mention of it, which Frothingham and othei-s have made, since it amounted to nothing, either of approval or disapproval of the Newand judicious action, the Committee of Correspondence, in New York, offended those of the revolutionary clique, in that City, who had not been invited to places and seats in that Committee, and how much the revolutionary leaders and the revolutionary popu-