3 Compare the correspondence of Joseph Galloway and James Duane with the venerable Lieutenant governor of New York, and the knowledge of the latter, concerning the secret doings of the Congress of 1774, which the former, members of the Congress and pledged to secrecy, had communicated to hint, (pages 27, 33, 34, ante,) with this later instance of secret information and copies of secret correspondence, "received from the "Fountain-Head," by Governor Tryon, enabling him to secure his personal safety by taking refuge, first, on the Halifax, a packet-ship, and, finally, on the Duchess of Gordon, the latter lying under the protecting guns of the Asia.

Judge Jones, in his History of New York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 61,) said that information was conveyed to the Governor by Egbert Dumond, a member of the delegation from Ulster-county, in the Provincial Congress ; and de Laucey, in his Notes on that work, (i., 559,560,) acquiesced in that statement. We cannot bring ourself to an agreement with those excellent authorities.

The Resolution was adopted by the Continental Congress, on Friday, the sixth of October ; transmitted to the Provincial Congress, by the President of the Continental Congress, on the ninth of October; and was not laid before the Provincial Congress, until the twelfth of October, until which day Dumond could not have had any knowledge of it. But, on the tenth of October, two days before the Provincial Congress received it, Governor Tryon had received the information, "from undoubted authority from the City of Philadelphia," (Governor Tryon to the Mayor of the City of New York, " New York, 10 th Oct. 1775 ; ") and his subsequent statement, that he was in correspondence with "the Fountain-head" (Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, " On board the Dutchess of " Gordon New York 11 th Nov 1775,") confirmed his former statement, that the information came " from the City of Philadelphia." Having failed to secure that guaranty of protection from the Corporation of the City of New York which the circumstances led him to ask for, he went on board the Halifax, on the eighteenth or nineteenth of October, (Governor Tryon to Mayor Hicks, * On board the Halifax Packet, 190j "October, 1775.':)