" Gilbert Budd, of Maniaroneck, says that the tories "are getting the upper hand of and threaten them, "daily, and have injured their private property, by " throwing down stone fences and cropping his horses' "tails and manes; that Piiilip Pinckney told him, " last Sunday, that he was in company, on the tweiity- " fifth of October last, with a man who told him tiiat " there would be bad times in Mamaroneck, before "long; and said that some of the people of "the place would be taken off; that he, Pinek- " ney, asked the man that told him, how they were to " be taken off ; he answered, that they expected a ten- "der, in tlie harbour, in a few days; and that she " would send barges on shore, in order to carry the "people off"; that he, Pinckney, further asked the " man, where they were to be carried to, and he an- "swered, ' To Ciage.' Mr. Budd told Pinckney tliat " Crage was not there; he answered, 'To Gage's " 'Army ; ' that I'inekney said he asked the man, who " the men were that were to be taken off"; that the

t-The entire prostration of the Colonial (tovernment, in New York, and its entire helplessness Ui protect the Colonists from the outniges to which they were subjected by the promoters of the Kebellion, is nowhere more clearly seen than in this appearance of one of those who were in rebellion, l>efore one of the King's Justices of the Peace, to make an olticial aindavit concerning a plot to <'arry away from his home, one of the leaders iu that Rebellion, by those who were nut in rebellion.