As the Delegates from New York, in Philadelphia, were well-informed, not only concerning the Resolution but concerning the secret correspondence of the Continental Congress, which evidently formed a portion of the information which was communicated to the Governor, there is reason for believing that the correspondent of the Governor was a member of that Delegation ; and the reader need not be told, in view of the fact that Lieutenant-governor Colden exposed the names of his correspondents, one of whom was in the Delegation of 1775, which was the particular Delegate who was undoubtedly the correspondent, also, of Governor Tryon, especially since, as was well known, the Governor's

the Halifax, packet, and, subsequently, on board the Duche'8 of Gordon, the latter lying under the protecting guns of the Asia. The prisoners in the Jail, victims of arbitrary power, were less fortunate, in their intercourse with those exercising authority, among the revolutionary faction.

There is no record of the discharge of Godfrey Haines from the Jail, in the City of New York ; but, on the contrary, when the record of the proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the morning of the twenty-ninth of September, when he was taken before that body by Daniel " Winter and the guard who had brought him from the White Plains, 4 was laid before the Provincial Congress, after the latter body had reassembled, after its rece s s, those proceedings were officially approved; 5 and, subsequently, the further proceedings of the Committee of Safety, on the morning of the thirtieth of September, when Godfrey was committed to the Jail, in New York, 6 were also officially approved by the same Provincial Congress. 7 He was not officially released; but, very soon after his Petition had been filed, without receiving any other attention, his necessities nerved his arms ; 8 and, about midnight, he broke six grates out of the window of his prison, and released himself.