" Sundry other amendments " having been made therein," an attempt to commit the mutilated paper to its parent Committee, to re-model it, was rejected. It is evident, from the final entry on the subject, that other important changes had been made during a Bession of the Congress, on Thursday evening ; but the Journal of that Session makes no mention of any action on that subject ; and on Friday morning, the nmended Report, from which many peculiarly obnoxious features had been removed, was adopted.

2 The connection of the Mobs, in the City of New-York, already referred to, with the purposes of the authors of this enactment, is distinctly seen, in these words.

" Your Committee do propose that, for these pur- " poses, the following persons be apprehended by the " assistance of the Continental troops, now stationed " in and near this City, to wit,

[The names were not entered on the Journah.']

" That a Committee be appointed to confer with the " Commander-in-chief, now here, upon the subject of "apprehending the persons above-named, and to su- " perintend the taking of them. That upon and after " the apprehension of the said persons, such of them as " shall give good and sufficient security, on oath, and " otherwise, as the said Committee shall think proper, " that they will not be concerned in any measures " taken or to be taken against the United American " Colonies, or any or either of them, and that they " will discover all measures taken or to be taken " against the said Colonies, or any or either of them, " as far as the same shall come to their knowledge, re- " spectively be permitted to go at large ; and that as " to such persons as shall refuse such security, it shall " be in the discretion of the said Committee to admit " on their parol of honour, to be given to the said " Committee or to the Continental Congress, as many " of the said persons as may, in the judgment of the "said Committee, safely be trusted on their said " parol, to reside in some part of one of the neigh- " bouring Colonies, such as shall be chosen by the " said respective persons, and approved by the said "Committee; and that all such persons as, in the "opinion of the said Committee, cannot safely be "trusted on their said parol, or if to be trusted shall " refuse to give such parol, shall be reported to this " Congress, to be severally dealt with, as this Congress " shall think proper.