• Joiiriinl «/ Ihe /Vorincii/ Cmiyrent, May 22, uiitU July 8, 1775. SJoiirti<i/<>/(Ae CinamUtee of Stifelii, July 11, uutil July 2.5, 1775.

' Joumul of Ihe ProeincuU Congrew, fiolu July 20, until Septcuilier 2, 1775.

* Jotiriml of Ihe CommilUe of >^fil;i, from Seiili'iulwr I, \iMtit OctobiT 3, 1775.

' Jounfil of Ihe PrueituUil Cvngrem, from October 4, until Noveuibor 1, 1775.

methods of administration which, in the unrestrained exercise of its recently acquired, but undisputed, power, and of its seemingly cultured intellect, that revolutionary faction had practically regarded as tit and proper for the government of a " free people."

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During the interval, between the dissolution of the first and the organization of the second of the series of Provincial Congresses which controlled the destinies of the Colony of New \'ork and crowded an unwilling community into rebellion and ruin, an illustration was made, first in the County of Westchester and then in the (.-ity of New York, of the spirit of the controlling power, among the disaH'ected ; of the shallowness of the prevailing pretensions to patriotism and personal integrity in those who were engaged in the revolt; and of the ])ers()nal character of the ruttians who were employed -- as they had been employed in the Stamp-act and other riots, earlier in the struggle of parties-- by those who were the masterspirits, in the works of lawlessness by means of which the Rebellion was promoted and established and made respectable."

At that time, there was no lu-wspaper-press in the Colonies which was conducted with greater ability than Rivingtou's ^'ew-y'ork (iazefteer ; or Coiiiin fimt, Hudson's River, New-Jerfeii, find Quehcrk WreL-lij Adrertixer, which was published, weekly, by James Rivington, in the (]!ity of New York. It was a news- ])aper, in the proper sense of the word ; and it published the news of the day, from every (juarter of the world, regardless of their political character, with rare industry and the most liberal impartiality.