Journal of the Home, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., the 20th January, "1775."

2 "It was some Days before asufflcient number of Members got to Town " to make a House, and there are Btil] twelve of their number absent, '* which has occasioned the Ilouse to put off the farther consideration of "their Important Business to the 7th of next Month, at which Time "they have ordered all their Members to attend." -- {Lieutenant-governor Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New York, 21January, 1775.")

In the Lieutenant-governor'B Despatch to the Earl of Dartmouth, dated on the first of February, 1775, it is stated that the Call of the House referred to was made on a Motion offered by the minority of the House, for what was supposed would be beneficial to its purposes ; and when it is remembered that the majority already possessed the control of whatever was brought forward, it will be seen that that majority not only had no occasion to make Buch a Call, but also, that, when it consented that such a " Call " should be made, it had entire confidence in its continued supremacy, even when the entire strength of each of the two factions should have been brought into the House, an instance of its temerity which, very nearly, became disastrous to it.

the introduction of a Resolution, submitted by Col- , onel Abraham Ten Broeck, of the Manor of Rens- • selaerwyck, to ''take into consideration the Proceed- " ings of the Continental Congress, held in the City " of Philadelphia, in the Months of September and " October last." --