He called himself a Merchant, in the City of New York ; but he had been more conspicuous in shipping Merchandise and Provisions to the eastward, clandestinely, when such shipment.s to the eastward were interdicted, than in any more legitimate business. He had been a member of the recently dissolved Provincial Congress, during a portion of its existence ; but, in entire harmony with his earlier proclivities, when there were threatenings of danger from the Home (iovernment, he had abandoned the

'A letter from .luliii Case, from the County of Suft'olk, on Long Islanil, "to the Printer of the \rii--Ynrk 'IdzeUeer," and pulilished in Hii-'mtjImCfi Scw-York <l<i::,-ltecr, No. ill, New- York, Thursday, January 1'2, 1775, narrated the method in which those who were not inclined to favor the theories and practises of the revolutionary faction were inveigled into that Tavern, and, there, subjected to the teachings of Alexander McDougal, Isaac Seai-u, and others of that faction ; and a descrijition of the insults and outrages inflicted on those who were inclined to olijcct to the subject matters of those teachings, by those ale-house "patriots," especially by Isaac Sears, may also be seen, in the same letter.

Tlie atteinpleil reply to .lohn Case, in which Isaac Scars subsequently attenipteil to raise new issues instead of meeting old ones, served only to establish, more clearly, the truthfulness of Case's original statement ; and those who shall incline to pursue the inquiry, may find it in Holt's Xew-Yuik Juiuml, No. 1674, Nkw-York, Thursday, February 2, 1775.