That has been our whole busi- " nesss ever since we have been formed as a Commit- " tee ; it has cost me, in particular, not less than six " luuuired milcn riding, and I bc^lieve, at a moderate "guess, twenty or thirty dollars in cash, and I never " yet expected pay ; but I find 1 cant live so, and if " the tories make all the trouble, why ought they not " to pay all the cost, ttcutlemen, we only want or- " ders from you to take it. We have sent Mr. Ben. " Chapman to you, praying of you to send us some di- " rections on this important affair, one of the mem- " bers of this Committee.

"By order of the Committee,

" EZEKIEL Hawley,' Cluiifntan. " June 5th, 177(i."

That letter was laid before the Provincial Congress, on Saturday evening, the eighth of June; and the Journal of that body states that it was " read and " liled," - the Congress itself, as will be seen in its s-ubsequent proceedings in the matter, hesitating, in view of its atrocious propositions, to give the authority which its writer had so unblusliingly solicited.

With the fact before him, that the " large number ■' of the inhabitants" of the Town of Salem which was referred to, in that letter, was composed ol farmers, neighbors of the writer of it, and peacefully and industriously pursuing their usual vocations; and, with the additional fact before him, that none oi these were even pretended to have committed any other olfense, against either the King or the ('ongress, than the entertainment of political opinions which wore ditl'crciit from those entertained by Kzekiel llawley and his handful of " patriotic" confederates, thereader will be enabled to judge, with some degree of accuracy, concerning the really diabolical character of the letter and that of him who had written it.