I have said, I am one amongst you, my situation has given me opportunity to form ideas of your behaviour and sentiments, I believe you, in a general sense, firmly attached to loyalty and our admirable constitution; that you wish to live and die subjects only to the British empire ; but how is this to be manifested, and that it should be declared, there is an absolute necessity, without delay, for the following reasons: That the colonists of New- York are under the same dilemma with the other provinces and the continent throughout, considered as combinants in a general plan, which gives so much offence to the supreme authority, whose dignity cannot, nor will not, be insulted. Let us of Cortlandt's manor, clear ourselves of the general imputation ; we do not deserve it, then, why should we suffer it ? We never consented to congresses nor committees, we detest the destruction of private property, we abhor the proceedings of riotous and disorderly people, and finally, we wish to live and die the same loyal subjects we have ever been, to his most sacred Majesty George the Third. Let us my friends, declare, and acknowledge this, our indispensible duty, by signing our names to the paper now circulating in this manor, wrote and adapted f«r the subscription of none but Koyausts.-- It is not enough for a man to say, that I am a lr.yal subject, no more than to say I am a pious and true christian; it must be his work, his dependauce on, his energy, his indefatigable effort; to promote honor and glory to the true system of his preservation. As charity, my friends, is a characteristic of a good man and a christian, I wish by no means it should be impaired, in this our manor of Cortlandt ; permit me, my neighbours, to instance one point in particular to which I hope you will pay strict adherence, viz.