Collo Choat spent the Evening with us, and seemed then to declare with more Certainty, concerning Your Honours Letter to M'^ Shirley, than he had done before at Sheffield.

While we were at Springfield, Abraham Yates Esq*" the Sheriff of Albany, ai-rived with Dispatches from M^ Shirley to Messrs Dwight Williams and Worthington ; and we accordingly waited upon these Gentlemen, to know the Contents of His Excellency's Letters, and were informed that they were desired, to Bail James Elliot and tlie other Prisoners, that were apprehended upon the Death of One Race, if they were not Charged with the Actual Murder. And that the Court of Sessions, which was to be opened on that day, were also desired, to Continue Abraham Yates and others on their Recognizances to the next Court. His

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Excellency having hopes, that the Provinces might come to some Agreement in the Interim. Tlie Justices of the Court, refused to continue one Rossman, Wlio had been apprehended by that Government, and was bound over to appear there, and insisted upon his entring into a new Recognizance, to appear at the next Sessions, on the last Tuesday in August next. Nothing tliat we urged, against so unreasonable a Proceeding, drawn from the Design, Operation, and Letter of the Recognizance, M^ Sliirley's Letter, which desired that the Persons might be cmitinued on their Recognizances, or their own former Practice, as declared by tlie Clerk of the Court, was sufficient to prevent the additional Trouble and Charge of giving a new Recognizance.