To give the appearance of dignity to these curious and very orderly protestors, the author has been very mindful to annex every man's addition to his name, upon a. presumption perhaps that it would derive weight from the title of Mayor, Esquire, Captain, Lieutenant, Judge, etc. But it is not easy to conceive why the publisher should be less civil to the clergy than to Samuel Seabury ami Luke Babcock certhe gentry or commonalty. tainly ought not to have been sent into the world floating on a newsThe one is the Rev. Mr. Samuel Seabury, paper in that plain way. rector of the united parishes of East and West Chester, and one of the missionaries for propagating the Gospel, and not politicks, in foreign parts, etc., etc.; the other is the Rev. Mr. Luke Babcock, who preaches and prays for Colonel Philipse and his tenants at Philipseburgh." Tn his analysis of the signers of the protest he showed that no fewer than one hundred and seventy of the three hundred and twelve were persons not possessing the least pretensions to a vote, many of them being lads under age; while of the one hundred and forty-two who were freeholders many held lands at the will of Colonel Philipse, " so that," he concluded, " very few independent freeholders objected to the appointment of deputies." Theaccuracy of this analysis was never challenged; and it thus appears that with all the advantages of prestige enjoyed by the conservative leaders they were able to muster scarcely a hundred disinterested voters in opposition to a po litical programme which they had announced to be " replete with ruin and misery." Moreover, several formal recantations of the protest by persons who had signed it followed, showing that, as in the case of the Rye protestants of the year before, various individuals who had been drawn into support of Tory principles were speedily brought to a realizing sense of the odiousness of their behavior.