That the said Robert Livingston by virtue of the said Letters Patent was dui-ing his life time and at the time of his death
and representative in England, "contrary (as the Assembly declared) to the duty and allegiance he owes to his Majesty and to the peace of this government."* He was suspended from the Council on the 20:h of April of the following year. Misfortune was not yet tired of him. The vessel in which he was a passenger was captured off Bristol by a French Privateer, and Mr. L. was put ashore, after having been "used very barbarously." After considerable delay he obtained (in J705) the Queen's warrant restoring him to all his offices, but notwithstanding this authority, the Council not only refused to vote him any salary, but declared his Indian office useless and demanded that it be abolished. Mr. L. however,very prudently continued to perform its duties and on the arrival of Lord Lovelace, remonstrated against the Council's proceedings.
The act of 1701, still remaining on the Statute book, he now turned his attention to secure its repeal. He succeeded in getting himself elected representative for Albany, and took his seat for the first time in the Assembly, in 1709. In November of that year, the law was repealed. He continued to represent that city until Sept. 1714. Having now amassed considerable wealth through his various contracts with the government and his connection with the Palatines, he set about secuting for his * Aesemb. Journ. i. l'J7.