Generals Putnam and MitHin, who had evidently witnes.sed the outrages to which Elting alluded, "complained to the Provincial Congress of the riotous and disorderly " conduct of numbers of the inhabitants of this City, which hadledthis " day to acts of violence to\\'ards some disafie cted persons;" but what had shocked Isniel Putnam, by reason of its b arbarism, even while the "complaint" of those two Officers urged the Congress to condemn the offenders, one of whom wa.s then occupying a seat in the Congress, that body winked at, and, at the same time, it screened the offenders, and qualified the offense-- its words were these : " RE.'iOI.VEn ; That this Con- " gress by no means approve of the riots that Iiave happened this day ; " they flatter themselves, however, that they have proceeded from a real "regard to Lib-rty and a detestation of those jiersons wlio, by their " language and conduct, have discovered themselves to be inimical to "the cause of America. To urge the warm friends of Liberty to de- " cency and good order, this Congress assures the public that effectual " measures shall be taken to secure the enemies of American Liberty in " this Colony, and do require the good people of this City and Colony to " desist from all Riots, and leave the offenders against so good a cauf-e to be " dealt with by the constitutional representatives i f the Colony "--the subsequently infamous " Committee to detect Conspiracies," then in em bryo, having been, undoubtedly, the "constitutional" agency referred to, {Journal of the I'rovincial Congress, "Wednesday afternoon, .lune 12, "1776.")