Speaker signify the " same to the President of the Chamber of Commerce " in this City, at their next Meeting, and order a copy " of the same to be published in the public Prints." Like the other Resolutions of the series, which had preceded it, this peculiarly inappropriate Resolution, before such a deliberative body, after it had been amply discussed, was promptly rejected by a vote of ten, in the affirmative, among whom were Judge Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, against fifteen,

4 One of those letters, if not more of them, was noticed in our statement of the measures of the Committee of Correspondence in New York, relative to its proposition for the convention of a Congress of the Colonies, page 23, ante.

5 Journal of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 16th February, "1775."

6 Journal of the House, " Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., the 17th February, "1775;" Lient&uiul-govenwr Colclen to General Gage, " New York 20th " Febry, 1775."

See, also, Dunlap's History of New-York, i., 454, 455.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

in the negative, among whom were Colonel Philipse and Isaac Wilkins. 1

On the twenty third of February, Crean Brush, of Cumberland-county, from the Committee which had been appointed to prepare a State of the Grievances of this Colony, presented a Report from that Committee ; which was " referred to the consideration of a Com- " mittee of the Whole House, and be proceeded on, " by the said Committee, on Wednesday next." 2