In the mean time, they depend upon the justice of your honorable house, in adopting every wise and salutary expedient to suppress ' the mischiefs that must ensue to this state and the general confederacy, from the unjust and pernicious project of such. of the inhabitants of New York as, merely, from selfish and interested motives, have fomented this dangerous insurrection The Congress may be assured, that the spirit of defection, notwithstanding all the arts and violence of the seducers, is, by no means, general. The county of Gloucester, and a very great part of Cumberland and Charlotte counties, continue steadfast in their allegiance to this government. Brigadier Gen. Bayley's

letter, a copy of which is inclosed, will be a sufficient proof of .

the temper of the people of Gloucester county. Charlotte and Cumberland continue to be represented in convention; and, from very late information, we learn, that out of eighty members which. were expected to have attended the mock convention of the deluded subjects of this state, twenty only attended.

We are informed by good authority, that Col. Warner was directed by the general, to send forward his men, as he should enlist them, to Tyconderoga ; notwithstanding which, it appeared, by a return from thence, not long since, that only twenty four privates had reached that post ; nor is there the least prospect of his raising a number of men which can be an object of:

public concern--though instead of confining himself to the Green Mountain, as we understand was the intention of the