In liarmony, also, with tliat evident connection of James Duane with the Colonial Government,-- in support, also, of the suspicion that particular lines of action, in the interest of the Crown, to be taken in the Congress, were considered and determined on, in advance of the meeting of the Congress, by that particular Delegate and the venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Colony -- reference need be

xxi., 1(1, 95 ; xxii., 15 ; xxxiii., 19, 41 ; xxvii., 17 ; ami the many papers, concerning Duanesbiirg, of which he was a principal Proprietor.

' He was the Clerk of the Colonial Conrt of Chancery ; he was, often, the retained Counsel of the Colonial Government {Opinions of Counsel in the Mutter <./ t'imninghum, Ajijiellnut, aguinfl Fort'y, and in the Matter of Charijes ayainut Juilije Welh ;) he was the Counsel of the Lieutenant, governor, in the celebrated Suit, in Chancery, concerning a division of the Fees of his olTicc, with the Earl of Dunuiore, (Lettei-s, etc., in the Mailer of the Atlorney-genend pro Rege ut/'iinM CnUlen ;) and the tone and the terms of the letters which passed between them, us they have been preserved in "the Colden I'npers, ' in the Library of the New York His. torical Society, leave no room for doubt on the subject.

• " By my Letter of the 7th of September your Lordship would find I "entertained Hopes that the Peoi>lc of this Province would adopt niod- "erate Measures and avoid giving any new offence to the Parliament. I "know such were the sentiments of Farmers and Country People in "general who make a great Majority of the Inhabitants. I hafl a con- "fldcntial conference w ith one of the Delegates sent from this city to the "Congress now met at Philadelphia who I thought had us much intiu- "enccas any from this place, and ho gave me assurances of his disposition "being similar." -- I Lienlenunt-ijoremor Coldeti to the E<ui of l/arlnioulh, No. 7., " New York 5th October 1774.")