" This my Humble Petition to Beg of your Honnours to send for me " that I may have my tryal for the County Commete and the Commete " of Safety siiys that they have no Right to try me and I have desird " them to send me to the Honnourable Provenshall Congress and they '•tell me they Dare Not send me without ordi/i-s from your Honnours " Gentfcmen so I shall be very Glad if your Honnours w ill be Good " Knouf to send for me as soon as Possible, for I have bin in Prison "Going on Eight weeks and I cant support myself any Longer,* So " Gentlemen I Shall be very Glad if your Honnours would take my "case into Consideration If your Honnours Pleases so that I may bo "clearJ or condeniJ So Gentlemen I leave my case to your Honnours " wise consideration not Douting but your Honnours will have compas- " siou on a Poor Prisoner.

" IIenby Cihse."

{HisbiHcal Miinnscripts, etc. : Petithim, x.xxiii., 90.)

To this second ajipeal, there does not aiii)ear to have been made the slightest answer, although it Wiis received by the Convention, and -'read," (Jiinninl of Oil- Oiin-entiim, Tuesday morning, Septr. 17, 1770 ;) and His tory is silent concerning the remainder of the victim's career.

Those who shall desire to know who and what kind of ^ man it was who had thus pos-sessed and exercised power enough to point his dirty finger at a mao and cause him to be thus outrag d, without any remedy, may be gratified by turning to a PetUwu addressed to the Provincial Congress, on the fourth of May, 177G, by William Duer, subsequently well known, (JiisOtrical Mnnmcript.'i, etc. ; Pvtiti/ntH, xxxii., 85 ;) and to the Afc<t^ of Monies, p'^ by Oie Treasurer for which no Acco^ h'ts been rendered by the persons io nhtm they were paid, reported by the Treasurer to the Convention, on the eighteenth of September, 1770.