^ Reference is liere made to tho case of Timothy Doughty, of DuclieaacoYinty, in which the victim, heoause ho declined to sign the General Assortati/m -- tliere was no evidence whicli tlie Congress considered refij)ectftble, showing any other offence -- was sei/ed by Kghert Benson, whose niethodet at an Election have been noticed ; and sent to New York, without anij evidence of wrong-doing; and thrown into a jail, without any jtrovision for his Kui)port. At the request of Benson, he WHS kept in jail, fur several weeks, without knowing for wliat he had been arrested ; and that, tinly to enable his umaen and maligmtnt accuser to manufacture evidence against him. Fifteen Mw77;//wt affidavits were subsequently sent to the f-ongress, and hkai>//j the rirtim^ when he wan {jiven a hearing; but their worthlessness was so evident that the Congress discharged Poughty, although, as stated, it would not permit him to have copies of the papers, nor even to rea*! them, {Junruals of thf <'oiiiniiU^-f »f Sa/Hfi, September 4th ; snnu-, Sei)tendier iiStb, 1775; Jonrnah uj the Provincial Congress, " Die .lovis, 9 ho., A.M., Oirtober " 19, 1775 ; " the same, " Die Martis, 9 lio., A.M., October 24, 1775 ; " /V titioNH of Timothy bought ij and others^ Sejitember 22, 25, October 4, 11, mfy, {UiHtoriral Mannsrripbi,eU\: PetUions, xxxi., 90,88, 70,30.)

'» Among other instiinres, those of Angus McDonald, Molancton Law - rence, and Captain Drewit/,, may be referred to.

*» The local autliorities arrested and confined, without any trustworthy evidence, Jolm Morrell, Adam Patrick, and Isaiah Purdy, in Orangecounty ; the Berghs, Timothy Poughty, and Mordecai Lester, in Duchess county ; John Connor, in Tryon-county ; Abraham Lawrence, in Queens county ; etc.