respect, as was that of Colonel Lewis Morris or that of any other member of that unpopular family ; and his practises, in private and in public life, against which not even a Morris, in his bitterest mood, could say a word of open disrespect, merited no such fling from the office-seeking head of the small, new-born revolutionary faction, then in Westchester-county -- from one whose only antiigonism to the Colonial and Home Governments originated in and was sustained by the continued ill-success of the family of which he was the head, in it« unceasing hankering for that official station from which, except in a single notorious instance, the controlling power within the Colony, for many years, had rigidly excluded it.

At the same time, and through the same public press in which Lewis Morris published his reply to the Declaration and Protest, to which reference has been made, he also published the following Cards,' evidently the only trophies of the kind, which he had secured, during the political campaign in which he had been engaged, since the publication of the Declaration and Protest had aroused his indignation, and the withdrawal of his brother-in-law had left him without an opponent :

" rphat our names were not subscribed to the 1 " protest of West-Chester, either by our- " selves, or our orders or permission, directly or indi- " rectly, is certified by us, each for himself

" Peter Bussing. "Peter Bussing, jun.

" May 4, 1775."

"Mr. Rivington,

" I Did sign a protest, which was printed in your " paper ; but I did so, because I was told that the in- " tent of signing it was to shew, that I was for the " liberties of the country.