It is our earnest desire that you would take " the most effectual steps to prevent any of the people of your Colony "from entering into this, for the like purposes, unless invited by our " Provincial Congress, a Committee of Safety, or the General Commit- " tee of one of our Counties, as we cannot but consider such intrusions " as an invasion of our essential rights, as a distinct Colony ; and com- " mon justice obliges us to request that you will give orders that all the " types be returned to the Chairman of the General Committee of the " City and County of New-York. We beg you will not consider this re- " quisition us an attempt to justify the man from whom the types were " taken : we are fully sensible of his demerits ; but we earnestly wish "that the glory of the present contest for Liberty may not be sullied by " an attempt to restrain the Freedom of the Press.

" The same body of troops, we are informed, seized the Mayor of the " Borough of Westchester, the Hector of that Parish, and one of the " Justices of the County, and carried them to your Colony. Mr. Seabury, " we are informed, is still detained. If such should be the case, we must " entreat your friendly interposition for his immediate discharge ; the " more especially as, considering his ecclesiastical character, which, per- " haps, is venerated by many friends to Liberty, the severity that has "been used towards him may be subject to misconstructions prejudicial "to the common cause, and the more effectually to restrain such iucur- " sions which, if repeated, may be productive of mischief of the most se- " rious consequence ; and, as we would be exceedingly sorry to give "room for jealousies among individuals in your ColoDy that we are "desirous to damp the spirit of Liberty or countenance any of its "enemies among us, we propose to apply to the Continental Congress, "not by way of complaint, but for such a general regulation, on this "subject, as may as well prevent such jealousies as any future incur- " sions by the inhabitants of either Colony into the other, for the appre- " hendiug or punishing any enemy or supposed enemy to the cause of "Liberty, without application to the Congress, the Committee of Safety, "or the Committee of ihe County within the jurisdiction of which such "persons shall reside, or command of the Continental Congress.