They acted as "a legal body, legally chosen, and fined, imjirisoned, robbecl, and ban- " ished His Ma.jesty's loyal subjects with .1 vengeance." As will be seen, hereafter, the Judge was in error, when he supposed and stated that the second Committee, that of '• Inspection," was not elected, and was created secretly, without notice to the Citizens. On the contrary, the two factions of the Opposition, in the City, having been consolidated in order to secure such a result, that "Committee of Inspection" was elected by "a respectable number of the Freeholders and Freemen " of this City, assembled at the City Hall, where the Election was con- " ducted under the inspection of several of the Vestrymen" of the City.

The unquestionable records of the doings of both Committees, as well as all known authorities bronglit down from that period and relating thereto, abundantly prove that there is nothing which was inaccurately stated, in any other portion of the statement, notwithstanding the learned Editor of the Judge's work, singularly enough, appears to entertain a different opinion on that subject. -- '\otes to the Uistorij, i., 438.)

THE AMERICAN REV

OLITION, 1774-1783.

sire to promote the common weal ; and which had I been invaded, if it was not, then, controlled, bj' those, of the opposite and less comely faction of the party of the Opposition, with whom the majority of its members, by a formal vote, had already declined to affiliate -- that its mission was completed, and that its original authority and power, through corrupt influences with which it was not unaccpiainted, had passed into other hands. It had, indeed, asserted and successfully maintained those conservative political principles, directly antagonistic to the more revolutionary political principles which the men of Boston had as-^erted and insisted on, which it believed to have been better adapted for the promotion of "the "common cause" and for that of the best interests of the Colonies; and, for the further promotion of" that "common cause," consciously or unconsciously, it had unselfishly prepared a way for the advancement of those, within itself, who coveted place and its prerogatives, by nominating them for seats in the Congress of which it had been the originator and the unyielding promoter.