It is positively and authoritatively stated, that, with the exception, the only exception, of one, who, when " he was at some "distance" -- out of harm's way -- turned and "gave them the guts "of his gun," not a single gun was fired by the Colonists. Those curious to learn more on that subject -- that " Battle " in which one of the parties did all the firing, and the other all the running -- may find the testimony in Dawson's Battles of the United States by Sea and Land, Article "Lexington and Concord;" Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, ii., 489-SOl ; etc.

6 The most graphic account of the proceedings, in the City of New- York, on that memorable Sunday, as far as we have knowledge of the subject, iB that presented by Judge Jones, in his History of Xew York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 39-41.)

6 The Committee of Inspection had recommended the dissolution of that Committee, because it was invested with powers respecting only the " Association " of the Continental Congress; and it had also recommended the election of a new Committee of one hundred persons, thirtythree of whom should be a quorum, all of whom should retire and the Committee be "dissolved within a fortnight next after the end of the "next Session of the Continental Congress."

The "Committee of One hundred," which was thus called, subsequently became the local Committee of the Revolutionary element, in the City of New York, and well known to every student of the history of that period.