1 See, in tho Journals and Correspondence of the Congress and in the Historical Manuscripts relating to tlie War of the Revolution, preserved in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany, the records and papers in the several cases, among others, of Angus McDonald, Captain Patrick Sinclair, Captain Johan Christian Drewidz, John Mon-ell, Adam Patrick, Isaiah Purdy, 'Captain Melancton Lawrence, Joseph Allicock, Captain Charles De Kay, and John Candell. A simple reference to the several papers, in detail, would require more room than can bo given to it, in this place.

2 The instances of Angus McDonald, Captain Drewidz, John Morrell, Adam Patrick, and Isaiah Purdy, already referred to, among others.

3 Angus McDonald was sent to General Wooster, then in command of a body of Connecticut troops ; and, by him, he was sent to Fairfield, and imprisoned, with aggravated severity, of which even his jailer complained.

and unfounded persecution of an innocent man, to the contempt of the country' and of the world. 4 It sat in secret judgment over those whom it had arrested, in instances wherein it was, also, the only accuser ; 5 - and it recognized the existence, in merely local selfconstituted " Committees," in the several Counties, of th,e same authority to arrest and to imprison those who were obnoxious to them, either with or without accusers or accusations, which it claimed for itself and exercised. 6 In short, it very promptly set aside the government of the written Law, and established, in its stead,. that of the unrestrained will of an oligarchy, seated within every Town, against which there was no other security, for either persons or properties, than the "personal favor of the stronger local power, no matter how obtained -- all that, too, was done in the name of Freedom and the Rights of Man, by those who assumed to be honorable men, and, most of all, by those who insisted that their allegiance to their Prince and their attachment to " the illustrious House " of Hanover " were ranked, by themselves, as among their most singular blessings ; ' by those, indeed, who, nearly at the same time, declared they were " deeply "impressed. with the importance, the utility, and the "necessity of an accommodation with their Parent " State ; " and who were, also, they said, " conscious "that the best service we can render to the present " and all future generations must consist in promoting " it." 8