* This remarkable suggestion, that those, in Westchester-county, who were in rebellion, and who were threatened with arrest by those of their neighboi-8 who were not in rebsllioii, should go before the King's Justices of the Peace, and ask that those loyal inhabitants who were inclined to support the Home and Colonial Governments and the Laws and to arrest those who Vicre n\ raheWiun^ tihimld he put under b(ymls tn pmen-e the pence tumird the lulter, will be didy appreciated by the reader. Whatever the County Committee of Westchester-county may have thought of it, it will be evident to the reader that the Provincial Congress, when it wrote to that Committee and mailc that suggestion, was not inclined to regard the men of Westchester-county who were in rebellion as entitled to very much of its respect and sympathy.

'■' Juuriial uf the Pioi inciul Cviigrets, " Die Veneris, 5 ho., P.M., Novem- " ber3, 1775."

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solicited change, only the four gentlemen already mentioned having arisen in favor of it. The letter was tiansiuitted to the Westchoster-eoiinty Committee; and iiotliiiig more was heard on the subjects referred to; and the Connnittee itself, thenceforth, gradually disappeared from the notice of tlie world.

The Provincial Congress had continued in session, closely witiulrawn from the sight of its constituents, until the eighth of July,' when it ha<l taken a fortnight's rest, during which period a "Committee of "Safety " was left on duty, with large authority, loadminister tiu' affairs of the ne\\; organization.- On the twenty-sixth of July, it ha<l resumed its work, continuing it without interruption, until the second of i?e()tcndtcr. when it had adjourned I'or a month,'^ during which pi riod, a " C^ommittee of Safety " had again administered the aH'airs of the new organization.' On the fourth of October, it had re-a.ssend)lcd, and resumed its work, continuing it until the tburth of November, when it adjourned, or was dissolved, without day.*