It is our earnest desire that you would take " the most effectual steps to prevent any of the people of your Colony " from entering into this, for the like purposes, unless invited by our " Provincial Congress, a Couunittee of Safety, or the General Conimit- " tee of one of our Counties, as we cannot but consider such intrusions "as an invasion of our essential rights, as a distinct Colony ; and com- " nion justice obliges us to request that you will give orders that all the " types be returned to the Chairman of the General Committee of the " City and County of New-York. We beg you will not consider this re- "quisitiou as an attempt to justify the num from whom the types were

taken : we are fully sensible of his demerits ; but w« earnestly wish "that the glory of the present contest for Liberty may not bo sullied by "an attempt to restrain the Freedom of the Press.

" The same body of troops, we are informed, seized the Mayor of tiie " Borough of Westchester, the Hector of that Parish, and one of the "Justices of the County, and carried them to your Colony. Mr. Seabury, " we are informed, is still detained. If such should be the case, we must " entreat your friendly interposition for his immediate discharge; the " more especially as, considering his ecclesiastical character, which, per- " haps, is venerated by many friends to Liberty, the severity that has "been used towards him may be subject to misconstructions prejudicial "to the common cause, and the more effectually to restrain such incur- "sions which, if repeated, may be productive of mischief of the most se- " rious consequence ; and, as wo would be exceedingly sorry to give " room for jealousies among individuals in your Colony that we are "desirous to damp the spirit of Liberty or countenance any of its "enemies among us, we propose to apply to the Continental Congress, " not by way of complaint, but for such a general regulation, on this "subject, as may as well prevent such jealousies as any future incur- "sious by the inhabitants of either Colony into the other, for the appre- " bending or punishing any enemy or sujiposed enemy to the cause of "Liberty, without application to the Congress, the Committee of Safety, "or the Committee of the County within the jurisdiction of which such "persons shall reside, or command of the Continent<il Congress.