Samuel Francis ; " in none of the contemporary descriptions of the Caucus which we have seen, was it said or intimated that the assemblage left the Tavern, for any purpose, before the formal adjournment of the Caucus ; and in the second " Ad- " vevtisemenl," published on the day after tbe Caucus, by its officers and under its authority, inviting the body of the inhabitants of the City to meet at the Coffee-house, to confirm or amend the official acts of that Caucus, it was said, in its description of that preliminary meeting, after a recital of the fact that it was called " to meet at the Hou*e of Mr. Sam- "uel Francis," that " a very respectable and large number of the Merchants and other Inhabitants did accordingly appear at the time and "^jfoce appointed, and then and there nominated for the approbation of " the public, a Committee of fifty persons," etc. With these as pur authorities, we prefer to differ from those who have preceded us ; and to insist, as we do insist, that the Caucus was held, without interruption or removal, in Sam. Francis's Lang-room.

For the reasons stated, we prefer to differ, also, from our friend, Edward F. de Lancey, who has stated, in his carefullj prepared Notes to Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War (i. f 438, 439) that the Caucus was held in "the Exchange, to which place it adjourned " from Fraunces's Tavern, where it was called, on account of the great 11 attendance."