Continuing the commendable work in which it had thus commenced the proceedings of the day, and apparently without any dissent from any one, the House then ordered that James De Laiicey, and Benjamin ; Kissani, of the City of Now York, Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county, George Clinton, of Ulster-county, Dirk Brinkerhoof, of Duchess-county, Samuel Gale, of Orange-county, Isaac Wilkins, of the Borough of Westchester, Crean Brush, of Cumberland-county [now a part of Temow/], Christopher Billop, of Richmond-county, John Kapelje, of Kings-county, and William Nicoll, of Queenscounty, or the major part of them -- all, except Philip Schuyler and George Clinton being of the majority of the House -- be " a Committee to prepare a State' of the

Grievances of this Colony, and report same to this " House, with all convenient speed, after the Call

thereof, to be had on the seventh of February " next." ' Having thus indicated what the House proposed to do, in the common cause in which the body of the Colonists was so earnestly engaged, the House was then adjourned.

Time, very often, produces marvellous changes in the tempers and purposes of politicians, especially in those of politicians who are not of the controlling majority, in their own party or in the State; and, very often, the actions of those politicians, when the latter are engaged in a personal, or factional, or partisan struggle, cannot be brought within the provisions of any known rule of action, of any class. No reasonable reason which would be honorable to the minority of the Assembly, therefore, can be given for the eagerness which it displayed, on the sixteenth of February, to disturb the harmony of that body, in j which all of both factions appeared to have been i united in both purpose and action ; but, on that day, | Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county, in behalf j of that minority, renewed the conflict of factions | which had been opened, unsuccessfully, by Colonel I Abraham Ten Broeck, of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, on the preceding twenty-sixth of January.