" 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.

Notwithstanding the important results which the appointment of that Committee of Correspondence produced, it was not even alluded to by Stedman, (History of the American War;) Mercy Warren, (History of the American Revolution ;) Morse, (Annals of the American Revolution ;) Pitkin , (History of the United States ;) Lossing, (Seventeen hundred and seventy-six ; History of the United States, edition of 1857 ; and Field-book of the Revolution ;) and many others.

Judge Jones, (History of New York, during the Revolutionary War, L, 34) supposed the "Committee was chosen," at the Caucus, at Sam. Francis's; and made no allusion to the Meeting at the Coffee-house, where it "was chosen." Doctor Gordon, ( History of American Revolution, London : 1788, i., 361, 362,) said the Caucus was called by Sears, McDougal, and others of the popularparty, so called ; that " the TorieB," or governmental party, opposed them, in the Caucus ; that Sears secured the appointment of a fifty-second member of the Committee ; and that the whole subject was disposed of by the Caucus. He made the minority of the Caucus, the victors ; and did not allude to the Meeting at the Coffee-house. Doctor Ramsay, (History of the American Revolution, London : 1791, i., 114,) said "the Whigs and Tories were so nearly balanced " in New-York, that nothing more was agreed to at the first meeting of "the inhabitants," [after the receipt of the Boston Port-bill] "than a "recommendation to call a Congress," although, in truth, the subject of a Congress was not even alluded to, at^ither the Caucus or the Coffeehouse.