The old ones kept themselves least in "sight ; and a want of confidence in each other was not the least evil " which followed. The Port of Boston has been shut up. These Sheep, " simple as they are, cannot be gulled, as heretofore. In short, there is " no ruling them ; and, now, to leave the metaphor, the heads of the " Mobility grow dangerous to the Gentry ; and how to keep them down " is the question.

"While they correspond with the other Colonies, call and dismiss "popular Assemblies, make Resolves to bind the Consciences of the rest " of Mankind, bully poor Printers, and exert with full force all their "other tribunitial powers, it is impossible to curb them. But Art some- "times goes farther than Force; and, therefore, to trick thom hand- "somely, a Committee of Patricians was to be nominated ; and into their " hands was to bo committed tho Majesty of the People ; and the highest "trust was to bo reposed in thein by a mandate that they should take " care, quod respublica non capiat iujuriam. The Tribunes, through the " want of good legerdemain in the senatorial order, perceived the finesse • "and, .yesterday, I was present at a grand division of the City; and, "there, I beheld my fellow -citizens very accurately counting all their

a people, at such a time, and under such circumstances as then existed, and which would probably continue to exist, might, also, sensibly or insensibly, weaken if where existed, that such an organization, among such it should not destroy all those bonds of recognized dependence, and loyalty, and love, which, hitherto, had so firmly bound the Colony to the Mother Country. But, notwithstanding the evident intentions of those among whom the thought of creating such a Committee had originated ; notwithstanding the purposes for which it had been created included no such purpose ; and notwithstanding a separation of the Colonies from the Mother Country had not yet become one of the questions of the day, that Committee of Correspondence in the City of New York, created and