"Whereas I.Jonathan Fowler, Esq., one of His Majesty's Judges of " the Inferior Court for the County of WestcheBter, in the Province of " New- York, did, some time ago, sign a Protest against the Honourable " Continental Congress, which inconsiderate conduct I am heartily sorry "for, and do hereby promise for the future not to transgress in the view " of the people of this Continent, nor in any sense to oppose the meas- " ures taken by the Continental Congress.

"I do also certify that, some time past, being at Court at the Whire- " Plains, ' heard a person say, whom several people present believed to " be a Lieutenant or Midshipman of the Asia, man-of-war, that the Cap- "tain of the Asia intended to take Captain Sears up, and that there " would soon be delivered, gratis, from on board the man-of-war. great "quantities of Paper Money, in imitation of Continental Currency,

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and he was "prevented from enjoying a free inter- " course with his friends ; forbidden the visits of "some of them, though in company with his guard ; " prohibited from reading prayers in the Church, and "in performing any part of Divine Service, though "invited so to do;, interdicted the use of pen, ink, " and paper, except for the purpose of writing to his "family, and then it was required that his letters " should be examined and licensed " [by the leaders of the banditti,'} "before they were sent off; though "Captain Sears condescended that he should be indulged in writing a Memorial to the Honourable "Assembly. He received only one. letter from his "family, and that was delivered to him open, though "brought by the post." Indeed, with characteristic bravado, and entirely conscious of his influence among those, in Connecticut, who were Ihen controlling the Rebellion, Sears told his only remaining victim -- the others having ransomed themselves from the hands of their captors with cowardly-made recantations -- "that they did not intend to release him, nor to "make such a compromise with him as had been " made with Judge Fowler and Mr.