Frederic Philipse continued to be a member of the Colonial party of the Opposition, in New York, until, by the advice of the Committee of which John Jay was one of the master spirits and the Chairman, he was seized by the military power and sent into exile ; and the scheme and trick by means of which those exiles who had been allowed to go into New York, did not receive the notices which Governor Trumbull sent for their return, affording a pretext for the sequestration of their large estates, was not a secret to those who were, then, in the ring of " patriotic " money-seekers, nor is it a secret to us, now.

Common respect for the truth should have led John Jay to have told the whole of the story concerning Frederic Philipse's visit to New York and his stay there, or to have said nothing concerning it.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

" happy to me only by the real and permanent pros- " perity of America, I should have hoped that suspi- " cions of this harsh nature would not be easily " harboured. However, as they have been thought of " weight sufficient to attract the notice of the Congress, " I can only observe that, conscious of the upright- "ness of my intentions and the integrity of my con- " duct, I would most readily comply with your Sum- " mons, but the situation of my health is such as " would render it very unadvisable for me to take a "journey to New York, at this time. I have had the " misfortune, Gentlemen, of being deprived, totally, " of the sight of my left eye ; and the other is so '• much attected and inflamed as to make me very " cautious how I expose it, for fear of a total loss of "sight.