He impeached the bona fide of the " enthusiasm " of the protestants, at the Plains ; but he " confessed," and only those who are guilty " confess," that his own companions, those who had given the much coveted place and authority to him, were also noisy, from the effects of other Spirits than that of loyalty to the King -- inasmuch as each of the two factions, at the Plains, claimed to have been noisy as well as loyal, the author of the reply had little reason for making such an objection, unless he desired to secure to his own faction the credit of making all the noise and of expressing all the loyalty which were then produced, by any one. He ob-

1 Mr. Seabury, in his Memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut, presented on the twentieth of December, 1775, in reply to one of the four accusations which had been made against him, exprossly stated that he had not, at that time, written any "pamphlets and newspapers " against the liberties of America ; " which effectually disproves much that has been written, on that subject, by modern bibliographers.

2 "This family are so remarkable for ' enlarging the truth,' that all "stories suspected of not being true are known throughout the County " of Westchester, in the City of New York, and on the westernmost part "of Long Island, by the name of 'Morrisaniae.'"-- (Jones's BUtonj of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 140.)