See, also, the same Advertisement and an editorial note thereon, in Holt's New-York Journal, No 1637, New-York, Thursday, May 19, 1774 ; and Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 57, New-York, ThurBday, May 19, 1774 ; Gaine's New York Gazette and Merrury, No. 1178, Xew- York, Monday, May 23, 1774; Lieutenant-governor Golden to Governor Tryon, " Sprinq-Hill, 31st May, 1774 ; " the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, "New-York 1st June 1774;" Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, 87 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 33 ; etc.

2 " The Coffee-house," that place which was so frequently mentioned in the commercial as well as in the political affairs of the City, stood on the southeastern corner of Wall and Water-streets, opposite the "Slip" which bore its name.

Mr. de Lancey, in his Notes on Jones's History (i , 439) says it was on the "southeast corner of Wall and Pearl Streets ;" but he was certainly in error. Stevens, in his Progress of New York in a Century, 1776-1876, 25, correctly described the site of the old " Merchants' Coffee-house."

number of that Committee to fifty-one ; and that, the unfranchised masses having been placated by the addition of another of their leaders to the proposed Committee of Correspondence, the entire list of nominees was confirmed, without farther opposition. 3

8 Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence ; Holt's New- York Journal, No. 1638, New- York, Thursday, May 26, 1774; Gaine's New -York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1178, New-York, Monday, May 23, 1774 ; Lieutenant governor Colden to Governor Tryon, " Spring-Hill, 31st May ■ ■ 1774 . " air same to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New-York, 1st Junel774 ;" Eiitory of the War in America, (Dublin : 1779) i., 22 ; Dunlap's Sew York, i., 453 ; Hildreth's United States, First Series, iii., 35 ; Bancroft's United Stotes, original edition, vii., 42, 43 ; Frothingham's Rise of Hit Republic, 327 ; Bancroft's United States, centenary edition, iv., 327, 328 ; Sparks's Life of Gouvemeur Morris, 22-26 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 33.