2 For the purpose of providing an additional authority, concerning much that has been stated, in this work, concerning the relations which existed between the confederated " Merchants and Traders " and other high-toned citizens, and the more numerous, but unfranchised, " Inhabi- " tants of the City and County ; " concerning the desire of tho former to abridge the influence which had been secured by the latter, while they wei'e subject to the frequent appeals of the former ; and concerning the formation of the "Committee of Correspondence," since known as the "Committee of Fifty-one," for the purpose of recovering, to the confederated, conservative " Merchants and Traders " and the Gentry, the control of the political affairs of the City, we invite attention to the following very important Letter, written by a Westchestei'-county gentleman, who, when he could no longer serve the party of the Home Government,

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The Committee which was thus created by the aristocratic, anti-revolutionary portion of those who, at that time, were opposing the Colonial policy of the Home Government, was largely intended, as we have shown, to serve as a check on the rising power, in political affairs, of the unfranchised Mechanics and Workingmen of the City of New York, especially of the revolutionary faction of those Working-men, while it would tend, also, to concentrate in " the Merchants " and Traders " and Gentry of the City, thus confederated for the exercise of it, all of that political power, especially in matters of national concern, which that City and Province, at that time, could command, without the existence of a thought, among those who had promoted the scheme, if such a thought had anywas among the earliest to become its nominal opponent ; and, subsequently, to pose as a distinguished " patriot" and as a not less distinguished republican statesman :