There is abundant evidence concerning the peculiar zeal of that new-formed Committee of Inspection -- sometimes styled " The Committee of Sixty," and at others, " The Committee of Observation " -- in the discharge of its self-imposed duties ; 3 but, generally, the purposes to which this work is specially devoted do not require a more extended notice of them, in this place. Those purposes require, however, that mention shall be made of the fact, in this connection, that whatever the Circular Letters which were sent to Westchester-county, by the Committee of Correspondence or by any other body, for the purpose of

1 Proceedings of the Conference with the Committee of Mechanics, in the Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence, " New Yokk, November 15, "1774."

2 Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1664, New- York, Thursday. November 24, 1774; and Rivington's New-York Gazetter,T8o. 84, New-York, Thursday, November 24, 1775.

" The first Thing done by the People of this place in consequence of "the Resolutions of the Congress, was the Dissolution of the Committee " of 51, in order to choose a new Committee of Inspection, to carry the " Measures of the Congress into effect. A Day was appointed by Adver- " tisement for choosing sixty Persons to form thisCommittee. About 30 "or 40 Citizens only appeared at the Election, & chose the 60 who had "been previously named by the former Committee. I can no otherwise " my Lord account for the very small number of People who' appeared on " this occasion, than by supposeing that the Measures of the Congress "are generally Disrelished." -- {Lieutenant-governor Coldento the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 9, " New York, December 7th, 1774.")