On the sixteenth of March, 1775, in conformity with the Resolution adopted by the Committee, and under its authority, Isaac Low, the permanent Chairman of the Committee of Inspection, prepared the following Circular Letter ; and, very soon afterwards, copies of it were sent to the several County Committees, where such Committees could be found, throughout the Colony :

" New- York, 16th March, 1775. " Gentlemen :

"The late Congress having deemed it expedient, "that, in the present critical State of American " Affairs, another should be held at Philadelphia, the

1 The motives of those who, respectively, originated and opposed the call for that Meeting may be best seen and understood in the placard and newspaper literature of that notable event ; and in that connection, the original Advertisement, requesting the Meeting, which was published in Holt's Ne,v-Yorl- Journal, No. 1678, New-York, Thursday, March 2, 1775, waB the Brat of the series. The opponents of the Meeting who assembled at the Widow Be La Montagnie's, on the third of March, issued a handbill, in which reasons for a postponement of the question were stated ; on the morning of the day on which the Meeting, was held, [March 6] a calm appeal, signed " A Freeman," and addressed " To the Inhabitants or New York," very forcibly urging a postponement of the questions, was published in # Gaine's New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1221, Monday, March 6, 1775; a more elaborate appeal and argument, to the same effect, addressed " To the respectable " Inhabitants of the City or New York," signed "A Citizen op New " York," and published in the same issue of that newspaper ; an elaborate reply to the last, signed " Another Citizen," and published in Holt's New-York Journal, Xo. 1670, New- York, Thursday, March 9, 1775- etc