M., June 5, 177G ; " the same, " Die .Tovis, 9 ho., A M., " June 6, 1776 ; " the same, " Die Luna;, 9 ho., A.M., June 10, 1776."
5 In the Api)pal of Thomas Harriot from the decision of the General Committee of the City and County of New York, the latler of whom n-ns, also, verii ei-idmlhi the Complainant in the original Case, on the sixth of June, the Provincial Congress, without any application from either party, voluntjirily offered to give its aid to the Respondent, " for the attendance of " their witnesses," leaving the Appellant without any such favor. As might have been foreseen, in such an instance of pre-entertained partiality in the Appellate body, the decision which the General Committee had maile in its own Case, was sustained by the Provincial Congress ; and the .\ppeal therefrom, of Thomas Harriot, was promptly dismissed.
efforts to '' work off" some portions of their stocks of the article ; but, of course, in such instances as Isaac Sears and John Alsop, the offenders sustained no evil consequences from the exposure of their commercial peccadillos.*
There were other subjects, of greater general interest than these, which received the hurried attention of that very busy body of men ; and to some of these, places in this narrative may properly be given.
The first of these is that " Committee to detect "Conspiracies," already alluded to, which originated in that much talked-of " Hickey Plot," -- the latter, a partisan bugbear which, before long, will descend to the low level of " the Negro Plot," in the same City of New York, in which the conspiracy against the helpless victims was greater than any which had possibly existed among them, against others ; or to the lower level of that "Witchcraft" excitement, in Salem, led by clerical narrowness and bigotry, which had brought so much shame on the Mathers and on Colonial Massachusetts.