The dissolution of the first Provincial Congress, which occurred at about the close of the first halfyear of the entire and, as far as the Colonial and HometTOvernments were con ccriuxl, of tlieundisputetl, domination of the revolutionary faction of the purely aristocratic portion of the Colonial party of the Opposition and its plebean au.xiliaries, over the vastly greater body of those who were its fellow-men and fellow -subjects of the Crown and fellow-colonists, within the Colony of New York, -- without, however, having interfered with the administration of the public aH'airs of the Colony, by the Royal Colonial Government, which was continued in all else than in the jirotection of the Colonists and in the su|)pression of the revolt, which that Colonial (ioveriuncut had not the means for doing -- atibrds a favorable opportunity for the careful stuilent of the history of that eventful period to rest, and to review the progress of events, in New York, din ing the preceding six months ; to ascertain, by comparison of its earlier professions with its later [)ractises, how much of sincerity and how much of deceit and of fraud there had been, in the apparent devotion of that controlling faction to " the Rights of man and of Englishmen,'" of which it had said so much, in it.s earlier movements toward political su|)remacy ; to learn its iiuiturcd views concerning the arrogantly assumed i)rerogatives of the well-born and the contenipluously assigned mission of the lowly, the latterto nothing else than to submission, to obedience, and to labor ; and to ascertain and to examine those systems of government and those