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

1 1'roceeiUngs of the Ccmference mlli the Committee of Mechanics, in the Miiiitteft of the Committee of CorrefpoiKtence, " New Yobk, November 15, "1774."

-Holt's Xeir-Yorl; Jonmul, No. 16fi4, New-York, Thursday, November 24, 1774 ; and HieimjIoH' s Sent York Gazetter, No. 84, New- York, Thursda.v, November 24, 1775.

"The first Thing done by the People of this place in consequence of "the Resolutions of the Congress, was the Pissolntion of the Committee "of 51, in order to choose a new Committee of Inspection, to carry the " Jleasnres of the Congress into elTect. \ Day wius apjiointed by Adver- " tisement fur choosing sixty Persons to form this Committee. About 30 "or 4(1 Citizens only appeared at the Election, & chose the CO wlio had "been previously named by the former Committee. I can no otherwise " my Lord account for the very small number of People who appeared on " this occasion, than by supposeing that the Measures of the Congress "are generally Disrelished." -- {Lirtileuiiiil-gnrrnior CoUten to the Earl of Ihvtmniilh, No. 9, " New York, December 7th, 1774.")