It was composed of only a series of conclaves, each of which exercised, arbitrarily, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial functions, unrestrained by either constitutional or statutory provisions, and controlled, in whatever it determined to do or not to do, only by the individual impulses of such, within this Colony, as the Livingstons and the Morrises, the Van Cortlandts and the Thomases, and as James Duane and John Jay, men, in every instance, who were distinguished for their entire disregard of and contempt for the unfranchised and lowly masses, of every class, as well as of those who were franchished, but not " well-born " -- the former being looked on, by them, as fit only for labor and for fighting ; and the latter as no better than the others, unless on electiondays -- and who represented only the uncontrolled and purely aristocratic prejudices and antipathies and the equally uncontrolled and malignant partisan animosities and jealousies of those who, during many years, had been excluded from ofiicial life, and who, by the whirligig of rebellion, were, then, first enjoying, in an extremely diluted form, what they had so long and so anxiously hankered for.'

The Congress of the Continent assembled at Philadelphia, agreeably to order, on Wednesday, the tenth of May, 177;"); and, ten Colonies being represented -- only three of the Delegates from New York having been present, that Colony was not counted -- -it was formally organized by the election of Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, as its President, aiul Charles Tiiomson, of