A Delegation of twelve had been elected, by a Convention which had been convened for that purpose, to represent the Colony in a second Congress of the Colonies ; and of that Delegation, two were Livingstons, two were of those who had married Livingstons, and two others were a.ssured and well-tried supporters of the Livingston interest. The excitement which was occasioned by "the news from Lexington" had added strength to the friends of the Continental Congress and its revolutionary policy, to the Livingston interests, and to the revolutionary faction, generally ; and, in the same interests and with the same revolutionary ends in view, a Provincial Congress had been called and elected, although, as was subsetpiently seen, the Deputies thus elected were not always pliant tools, to be handled by a skilful politician, for purely jiartisan jmrposes. The control of the political all'airs of the Colony, it will be seen, as far as tliosc affairs could be controlled by the revolutionary faction, was, by the election of the mend)ers of the Provincial Congress, firmly secured to the Livingstons and to their friends; and the government of the Colonists, thenceforth, was revolutionary, without warrant of Law, and oligarchic.

In England, at the time of which we write, the Ministry, revelling in the strength of its party and haughtily disregarding everything of prudence and conciliation, had recently led the Parliament tocnact, first, the Hill for restraining the Trade and Commerce

I of the Provinces of Ma.ssachusetts-Bay and New I Hanii)shire and the Colonies of Connecticut and ' Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in North America, with Great Britain, Ireland, and the Mritish Islands in the West Indies; and to prohibit such Provinces and Colonies from carrying on any Fishery on the Banks of Newfoundland or other places therein mentioned, under certain specified conditions and limitations; and, second, the Bill lor restraitung the Trade and (-ommerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, I'ennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Houth Carolina, with Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, under certain conditions and limitations -- the Commerce and Fishing Rights of the Colony of New York, in each instance, having been left, undisturbed -- and the First Session of the Fourteenth Parliament was drawing near to its close.