* This remarkable suggestion, that those, in Westchester-county, who were in rebellion, and who were threatened with arrest by those of their neighbors who were not in rebsllion, should go before the King's Justices of the Peace, and ask that those loyal inhabitants who were inclined to support the Home and Colonial Governments and the Laws and to arrest those who were in rebellion, should be p«t under bonds to preserve the peace toward tlie latter, will be duly appreciated by the reader. Whatever the County Committee of Westchester-county may have thought of it, it will be evident to the reader that the Provincial Congress, when it wrote to that Committee and made that suggestion, was not inclined to regard the men of Westchester-county who we're in rebellion as entitled to very much of its respect and sympathy.

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solicited change, only the four gentlemen already mentioned having arisen in favor of it. The letter was transmitted to the Westchester-county Committee; and nothing more was heard on the subjects referred to ; and the Committee itself, thenceforth, gradually disappeared from the notice of the world.

The Provincial Congress had continued in session, closely withdrawn from the sight of its constituents, until the eighth of July, 1 when it had taken a fortnight's rest, during which period a "Committee of "Safety " was left on duty, with large authority, to administer the affairs of the new organization. 2 On the twenty-sixth of July, it had resumed its work, continuing it without interruption, until the second of September, when it had adjourned fora month, 3 during which period, a " Committee of Safety " had again administered the affairs of the new organization. 4 On the fourth of October, it had re-assembled, and resumed its work, continuing it until the fourth of November, when it adjourned, or was dissolved, without day. 6