Reference has been made to the action of the Committee of Inspection, in the City of New York, on the twenty-sixth of April, providing for its own dissolution ; for the election of a new Committee of one hundred, to occupy its place, in that City; and for the organization of a Provincial Congress, with general authority for the government of the entire Colony. 2 For the accomplishment of the last-named of those purposes, a Circular Letter was addressed, by the Chairman of that Committee, to the Committees of those Counties in which Committees had been chosen, and to prominent residents of those Counties in which Committees had not been chosen, inviting their co-operation, and recommending them to choose Deputies to the proposed Congress, the following being a copy of that Circular Letter :

"CIRCULAR. " Committee Chamber, New : York, April 28, 1775. " Gentlemen,

"The distressed and alarming situation of our "Country, occasioned by the sanguinary measures " adopted by the British Ministry, (to enforce which, " the Sword has been actually drawn against our "brethren in the Massachusetts), threatening to " involve this Continent in all the horrors of a civil " War, obliges us to call for the united aid and council "of the Colony, at this dangerous crisis.

"Most of the Deputies who composed the late " Provincial Congress, held in this City, were only " vested with powers to chose Delegates to represent "the Province at the next Continental Congress, "and the Convention having executed that trust " dissolved themselves : It is therefore thought "adviseable by this Committee, that a Provincial "Congress be immediately summoned to deliberate " upon, and from time to time to direct such measures " as may be expedient for our common safety.