*"We take the liberty of suggesting to your consideration, also, the "propriety of taking some measures for expunging from the Boitk of "Common Prayer, such parts, and discontinuing in the Congregations "of all other denominations, all such prayers, as interfere with the in- "terest of the .\nierican c^use. It is a subject we are afraid to meddle "with, the enemies of .\merica having taken great pains to insinuate " into the minds of the Episcopalians that the Church was in danger.

While the Convention was thus busily employed -- and justice reiuires that its industry and determination, in preparing for a successful opposition to the Royal Armies, on the northern frontiers as well as in the vicinity of New York, should be fully and properly recognized -- other events of the utmost importance to New York and to her sister States, were of everyday occurrence.

As we have already stated, the Royal troops which had been withdrawn from Boston and carried to Halifax, during the preceding March, "having suffi- " ciently recovered from the fatigues and sickness "occasioned by their confined situation in that town" [7?os<on,°] left the later place, [JJa/ifa.rl on the eleventh of ■Tune,'' under convoy of Admiral Shuldham ;" reached Sandy-hook on the twenty-ninth of the same month ; * landed on the northeastern shore of Staten-Island, between the second and fourth of July ; ' and were welcomed by the persecuted inhabitants of that beautiful island, as their deliverers from the terrible oppression of the revolutionary powers, both that of New York and that of New Jersey.'"