anotlier kinsman were leading members/ was made the "Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of this "State," only thirty-four days after he had been thus summoned to answer a charge of having been "sus- " pected," and before he had answered to that Summons ; ^ and a ttiird instance, when a leading member of the Convention itself, because of his known inclinations and because of his continued and frequent correspondence with his friends, in the City of New York as well as with those in Philadelphia, after both those Cities had been occupied by the Royal Army ; and because of his expressed desire to go into the City of New York, for the purpose of visiting those friends ; and because of his application for a flag, for the purpose of carrying those desires into effect; became generally and very seriously " suspected," ' without having been officially disturbed, by any one -- he was not one of those " poor vipers " of whom he had told, only a few months previously ; * nor did he come within the circle of those whom the dominant, aristocratic clique of that period was inclined to degrade to the level of the common people. There have been some, from that time until this, who have seen that, in the hands of such as then controlled the affairs of New York, the scalesof justice were sadly tilted; that there was one kind of justice for one class of the inhabitants and another kind of justice for anotlier class; that, in practice, the vaunted equality of all men was a fiction.