Israel Putnam was too highly appraised for the Royal shambles, and so remained in the market, until, on the demand of the Livingstons, he was placed where he could do no further harm. The greater success of Benjamiu Pratt, of Boston, and, subsequently, that of Daniel Ilorsmauden, in the race for the place of Chief Justice of the Colony of New York, when James De Lancey died, added fresh bitterness to the Morrises, in the disappointment of Robert Uunter Morris ; and the disappointment of William Smith, on the same occasion, threw the Smiths into the front rank of the malcontents, in New York. Egbert Dumoud, of Ulster county, is 8;iid to have become informer of Congre-sional secrets to Governor Tryon, provisionally, with a hankering after the Shrievalty of Ulster-county, as James Duane had communicated the secrets of the Congress of 1774, to Lieutenant-governor Colden, undoubtedly for an equivalent, present or prospective. Who supjioses that Captain Gilbert Livingston, of Arnold's American Legion, and Robert G. Livingston, Junior, that Philip John Livingston, the Royal Sheriff of Duchess-couuty, and his brother, John

the heroic treatment of the troubles was preferred, why those leaders were not arrested and punished, as other and less distinguished violators of the peace were wont to be punished, in America and elsewhere.

On the first of December, competent Delegations appeared from the five Counties of New York, Albany, Westchester, Ulster, and Suffolk, with insuOicient Delegations from Kings and Duchess, and no portions of such Delegations from Richmond, Queens, Orange, Tryon, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Charlotte-counties ; and, consistently with usage and the Rules of the preceding Congress, "the Representa- " fives of a majority of the Counties not being pres- " ent," those who were present " could not proceed to " business, as a Congress."* On the sixth of that month, competent Delegations appeared from the five Counties of New York, Albany, Westchester, Duchess, and Suffolk, with insufficient Delegations from Kings, Ulster, and Orange-counties, and no portions, of such Delegations from the Counties of Richmond, Queens, Tryon, Cumberland, Gloucester, or Charlotte ; at which time, directly in violation of the rulings, on the first of that month, they declared that " the " Deputies from a majority of the Counties appeared," -- a falsehood, which, to have established its true character, needed only a reference to the Crfdeittluh which were filed, as their several authorizations, by the respective Delegations, -- organized a Congress, and proceeded to the discharge of those duties to which they had respectively as.signed themselves.* There were five Delegations present, on the first of December, when it was declare.d that " the Represen- " tatives of a majority of the Counties not being pres- "ent," those who were present " could not proceed to "business, as a Congress:" five days afterwards, when no more than five such Delegations aj)peared, with an elasticity of conscience and of action which was worthy of those who were present, what had been declared, utidcr similar circjumstauces, at their former meeting, was entirely disregarded ; and what, at that former meeting, was said to have been insuflieicnt to have allowed the five Delegations who were then present, to proceed to business, as a Congress," was declared, in this later meeting, to be sufficient to permit five Delegations -- four of the five having been of the former five -- to do what the former five "could not" do: with the authorized Delegations of