^ Joimvd of the CommiUen of Safely, " Monday morning, Octor. 14tli, "177C."

These Kcsolutiona were proposed by Robert R. Livington.

20n the sixteenth of September, " tlie Convention was informed " that the Militia of Westchester-coiinty are not so properly arranged "and managed as they ought to be, at this critical juncture, which is "occasioned by the absence of General Morris;" and it "Therefore, " Resolveu, That General Morris, now at the General Congress, do im- " niediately return and lesume the command of his Brigade ; " and ordered the Resolution to be transmitted to General Morris, " with the "utmost despatch." {Journal, " Die Luna', 4 ho., P.M., Sept. 16, 1770.") The General's reply to that order of the Convention, dated " Phil-^iiei,- "I'lin, Septr. 24, 1776," is one of the most remarkable displays of evident cowardice and military imbecility on record, {t:ide ikmjc 204, «/((t;) and if the withering rejoinder, written by Robert R. Livingston, which the Committee of Safety sent to the General, with a peremptory Order to take the command of his Brigade, dated " Octol)er the 8th, 1776," did not effect its purpose, it certainly conveyed to the bashful Brigadier an evidence of what others thought of his remaikable ('onduct, as a soldier.

3 Two ships and a brig came to anchor, a little above Throgg's-neck, on the twenty-seventh of August; and made a raid on City-island' {vicie page .'i'J5, ante.)

* Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Tuesday morning, August 27, "1776."