' Journal of the Provincial Congress, May 22, until July 8, 1775.

'Journal of the Committee of Safety, July 11, until July 25, 1775.

» Journal of die Provincial Congress, from July 26, until September 2, 1775.

* Journal of the Committee of Safety, from September i, until October 3, 1775.

6 Journal of the Provincial Congress, from October i, until November 4, 1775,

methods of administration which, in the unrestrained exercise of its recently acquired, but undisputed, power, and of its seemingly cultured intellect, that revolutionary faction had practically regarded as fit and proper for the government of a " free people." *******

During the interval, between the dissolution of the first and the organization of the second of the series of Provincial Congresses which controlled the destinies of the Colony of New York and crowded an unwilling community into rebellion and ruin, an illustration was made, first in the County of Westchester and then in the City of New York, of the spirit of the controlling power, among the disaffected ; of the shallowness of the prevailing pretensions to patriotism and personal integrity in those who were engaged in the revolt; and of the personal character of the ruffians who were employed -- as they had been employed in the Stamp-act and other riots, earlier in the struggle of parties -- by those who were the masterspirits, in the works of lawlessness by means of which the Rebellion was promoted and established and made respectable. 6

At that time, there was no newspaper-press in the Colonies which was conducted with greater ability than Rivington's New- York Gazetteer ; or Connecticut, Hudson's River, New-Jersey, and Quebec/: Weekly Advertiser, which was published, weekly, by James Rivington, in the City of New York. It was a newspaper, in the proper sense of the word ; and it published the news of the day, from every quarter of the world, regardless of their political character, with rare industry and the most liberal impartiality.