The result of the interview which the Committee of Correspondence had thus invited -- one of the high contracting parties rapidly approaching its own dissolution, with only twenty-three of its fifty-one members present, and with eight of the twenty-three predestinated by their associates to an early retirement: the other of the two parties to the conference flushed with that most recent and most important of its victories over the aristocracy of the City -- was a determination to nominate sixty persons who should be agreeable to both the Committee of Correspondence and the Committee of the ^lechanics, all of whose names should be submitted to the Freeholders and Freemen of the City, at a Meeting to be called for that purpose, at the City Hall, for their approval and election ; ' all of which was evidently done and completed, on the twenty-second ot November, exactly in conformity with the j)rogramnie which the two political "rings" of that period, consolidated for the purpose of promoting their mutual political interests, had already prepared and promulgated. '
There is abundant evidence concerning the peculiar zeal of that new-formed Committee of Inspection -- sometimes styled " The CoiniiTTEE of Sixty," and at others, " The Committee of Observation " -- in the discharge of its self-imposed duties f but, generally, the purposes to which this work is specially devoted do not require a more extended notice of them, in this place. Those purposes recjuire, however, that mention shall be made of the fact, in this connection, that whatever the Circular Letlei-s which were sent to Westchester-county, by the Committee of Correspondence or by any other body, for the purpose of