On the fourteenth 3 and fifteenth of June, 4 those who were members of the Committee, took the oath required of them ; on the last-named day, John McKesson, who was one, the principal one, of the Secretaries of the Provincial Congress, was made the Secretary of the Committee, also ; ° and, with a full retinue of Assistant-secretaries, Messengers, Doorkeepers, and other Officers, 6 on the same day, Philip Livingston, Joseph Hallett, John Jay, Thomas Tredwell, Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, and Leonard Gansevoort-- Livingston, Jay, and Gansevoort having been meanwhile added to the Committee --

l It appears from tko words in the text, that Richmond, Kings, Queens, New York, and Westchcster-counties were all which were to be favored with the attention of that revolutionary Inquisition; and, as far ob the proceedings of that infamous body have heen permitted to be exposed to the scrutiny of honest and earnest inquirers, no evidence appears that residents of other Counties were subjected to its despotic practices.

2 Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., June "5, 1776."

There are intern il evidences, in the two papers, that the Resolutions which the Provincial Congress had adopted, on the twenty-fourth of May (page 16(1, ante) and those which are now under consideration, were written by ihe same hand ; and there is evidence which cannot be misunderstood, that that hand was not John Jay's, as some have sup posed, but Gouverneur Morris's. It is true that Doctor Sparks made no mention of the subject, in his Life of Gouverneur Morris -- it was not his purpose to expose the weaknesses and the wrong-doings of his aristocratic and pretentious subject, but to magnify the man and his doings, and to eulogize them -- and all those who have preceded us in narrating the events of that period, have, alBO, preferred to know nothing of this infamous enactment and of its consequonces ; but it was really enacted, in New York, for the promotion of the purposes of intended confiscations of individual and family properties ; and, unquestionably, Gouverneur Morris was the author of it, and one of the master-spirits in the execution of its provisions.