It is true that Ductor Siuirks made no mention of the auhject, in his Life nf Onnvunimr Mt>rri< -- it was not his puriMMeto ex|K>se th.i wejikne»*es an<l the wrong-iloin^ of his aristtn-ratic anil pretentious suhject. hut to magnify the man and Win iloings, and to eulogi/e them -- and all those who have preceded us in narrating the events nf tliat iiericsl, have, also, preferred to knnw nothing of this in famous enactment and of its const.ipiences ; but it was re:dly en.icted, in New York, ft>r tlie promotion of the purposes ofintt'Uded confiscations of individual and family properties ; and, nn<)nestionaMy, riouverneur Morris was the author of it, and one of the m:ister-spirits in the execution of its proviijioiia.

>J>'Hrii/i/ nf llie PrvFiiiciiU Onigrfxi, "Friday Afti-rnoon, June 14, " 177fi."

^Jimrmtl nf Ihf Prurincial O'ligrfss, "Vie Sahhati, A.M., June l.";,

" I77r.."

> Ihid. • Ibid.

being present, the Committee proceeded to the discharge of the duties which had been laid on it.'

This secretly acting, inquisitorial body, of which John Jay was made the Chairman, held secret sessions(m the fifteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twentyfirst, twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-ninth of June,"* beyond which period we do not i>ropose, at this time, to follow it; and on the following day, when the Provincial Congress itself was disbanded and fled, every member of this mighty Committee, with the single exception of Gouverneur Morris, had, also, left the City." Besides receiving an anonymous information that Williiim Sutton, of Mamaroneck, had been heard to say " that, in ca.se "Independency was declared by the Continental Con- "gre.'ss, there were three Colonels in the Service who ■' would join the Alinisterial Party ; " and the issueof Summonses to Frederic Philipse, of Yonkers, Richard i\[orris, of Scarsdale, and Samuel Merritt, of the ISTanor of Cortlandt, to appear and answer before the Committee, on the third of July ; the issue of similar Summonses to Solomon Fowler, of Eastchester, Nathaniel Underbill, of Westchester, and James Horton, Junior, and William Sutton, both of Mamaroneck, to appear and answer, on the fourth of July ; the issue of similar Summonses to Peter Come and Doctor Peter Ilnggeford, both of Westchester county, to appear and answer, on the fifth of July ; and the issue of similar Summonses to William Barker, Joshua Purdy, and Absalom Gedney, all of Westchestercounty, to appear and answer, on the sixth of July," the Committee appears to have done nothing which particularly concerne<l We.stchester-county, during the period now under consideration ; and, for the present, its doings are dismissed.'^ It may not be