Gov. De Lancey, nor any of the other gentlemen whom it attacked, ever considered it worthy of notice. Mr. Alexander superintended its printing as he acknowledged himself, being at the time in England, engaged in his vain attempt to prove title to the earldom of Stirling ; but its author is now believed to have been William Smith, the younger, the writer of the colony's history, notwithstanding it has been ascribed' to Mr. Livingston. ?

The Assembly adjourned in the summer of 1760, and shortly after the colony was startled by the very sudden and unexpected death of Lieut. Governor De Lancey, which happened on the morning of Wednesday, the 30' of July, in that year. He was discovered by one of his children in a dying condition in his library, too far gone for niedical aid to be of the least service : his dissolution having been caused by an affection of the heart.

1 Smith's Hist. N.Y.,11., 255. 2 ''This pamphlet was written in New York, and it is believed, from circumstances, that William Smith, afterwards Chief Justice of Canada, was the author; that he copied it himself, never permitting either of his clerks to see a word of it; that the manuscript was carefully nailed up ina box prepared for the purpose, and sent to London to be printed. The pamphlets, when received from London, were not publicly distributed, and only a few of them were given to particular individuals. But it soon became knownin the city that -- such a pamphlet existed. I was thena clerk in Smith's office, and wished to procure one of the pamphlets, but all my endeavors were fruitless; and I never got one until some time during the revolutionary war, when I met with one at an auction in New York and purchased it." Hon.