He filled the latter office until his death, which occurred on the llth September, 1769. He left two children, a son and a daughter. The former. Sir Jno. H. Moore, succeeded to t le title, but dying without issue in 1780 the Baronetcy became extinct. The Arms are, Ermine, three greyhounds courant sa. Crest, a Moorcock holding in the beak a branch of heath ppr. The family, it is supposed, w^ere originally from Leicestershire.

628 PAPERS RELATING TO THE CITV OF NEW- YORK.

TO THE BETKAYKD INTIABITANTS OF TilE CITY AND I'OLOaY of M.W YUllK.

My dciir ftHuw-ciliima and ccunfiymm,

Jii a (Ijiy wiieii t!ie iniiii(;ns oi' tyriiiiny and despotism in the motliercoiiiitry and t!ie colonies, air indclatigabU; iu ]ii\ hr^ cvt jy snare t'.Jit t!u-ir jualevolent and C(;riiipt luarts can suggtst, to ens!a^ e «'i fire ])e(i})le, Avhen this unlbilnncite country has been striving uiid<r nuniy disadvanUigcs for three )e;irs i)ast, to preserve fieir iVeedoin ; wliich to an Englis'.niiiin is as dear as his lilv', -- when the merc'iants of t is city and t!ie cajjital towjis on the coiitinenr, ha\e Jiol)ly and clieerfuUy sacriiiced their private intejest to t!ie ]iu!)]ic good, rather than to promote tlie designs of the enemies of our liappy coiisfi;n{i( n : It might justly beexficctcd, fiat iJi this day of constiiulit nal llglit, the reprcst n!atives of this colony would not be so hardy, nor be so lost to all sense t>j' dniy lo t':eir c< nstituenls, (es})e< iaily ai'ter the laudable example of the colonies of Massachusetts L'ay and South Carolina Ijefure t'lenj) as to belray the trust committed to tlieni. This they have i^jne in i>assing the vote to give tlie troops a thousand jiounds out of any monies that may be in the treasury, and another thousand out of the money that may be issu(d, to be put out on loan, whic'i t!ie colony will be obliged to make good, whetiier the bill (br t'mt purpose does or dots m.t obtain the royal assent ; ami tjjat tliey ha\e betrayed the liberties of the pc<')ple, will ai>[)ear from t!ie following consideration, to wit : That tlie ministry are wailing to see wiiether tie colonies, under their dis'rt ssed circumstances, \' ill divide on any of t'le grand points wliicli they are tuiited in, and contending f d-, with the mot' ler co.unti-y ; liy wldcli tliey may carry their dtsigns against the colonies, and ke^o in administration. -- For Lf this s'lould not take ])]ace, t'le acts must be repealed ; whicli will be a rellec ion on their coiuhict, antl will bri-ig the reproach and clamourof t' e nation on t'lem, i'or the loss of trade to tlie empire, wliicIi their malconduct has occasioned.