A Committee has been chosen in every "County, whose business it is to carry the Associolion of the Congress " into execution : which Committee assumes an authority to inspect the " books, invoices, and all other secrets of the trade and correspondence " of Merchants; to watch the conduct of every Inhabitant, without dis- " tinction ; and to send for all such as come under their suspicion, into "their presonce, to interrogate them respecting all matters which, at "their pleasure, they think fit objects of their inquiry, and to 'stig- " 'unitize,' as they term it, such as they find transgressing what they " are now hardy enough to call ' the Laws of the Congress,' which 'stig- "' maturing' is no other than iuviting the vongeanco of an outrageous "and lawless mob, to be exercised upon the unhappy victims."-- (The Earl of Dimmore to fte Eorl of Dartmouth, " Williamsburg," \Virgmia,~] "December 24, 1774," laid before the House of Commons. February 15, 1776.-- Almon's Pm-KnmcMcmj Register, riouse of Commons, First Session Fourteenth Parliament, i., 185, 186.)

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

being disturbed, by any one ; and James De Lancey, who had been the Sheriff of the County, since June, 177(1, and David Dayton, who had been the Surrogate, since June, 1766, and John Bartow, who had been the Clerk of the County, since April, 1760, each in his appointed official place, continued to discharge the official duties which were incumbent on them, and to receive and to enjoy the emoluments which those several offices secured to them -- the Courts of the County continued their several Sessions, at the appointed times; and, as we have said, with occasional individual or neighborhood exceptions, a general quiet prevailed, a quiet which preceded a terrible convulsion, as the reader will shortly see.