Sub-committee for writing the Letter are Peter V. B Livingston, John Moore, John Broome, John Thurman Isaac Low.

Ordered, That the Committee of Boston be requested to give this Committee the names of the persons who constitute the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; that they have made a mistake in answering this Committee's Letter, which mentioned not a word of a suspension of trade, which They say we have so wisely defined, as we leave that measure entirely to the Congress, and we shall readily agree to any measure they shall adopt—to request that their letters for the future be sealed and directed to the Chairman.

The Committee adjourned, to meet at the Exchange, on Monday, the 20th of this instant, June, at 6 o'clock, in the evening.

Copy of the Letter sent to the Committee of Correspondence in Boston.

New-York, June 7, 1774.*

GENTLEMEN: We have received your favour of the 30th May, and you may rest assured, we shall eagerly embrace all proper opportunities of contributing our mite towards bringing to a favourable issue the unhappy disputes which at present subsist between the parent State and her Colonies.

You say, that "a speedy, united, and vigorous effort is certainly all that can be depended upon, to yield us any effectual relief, and that this effort is on all hands acknowledged to be the suspension of trade, so wisely defined, by you." To the first, we entirely concur with you in. sentiments,; but in the last, we apprehend you have made a mistake—for on revising our letter to you, so far from finding a word mentioned of a suspension of trade, the idea is not even conceived. That, and every other resolution, we have thought it most prudent to leave for the discussion of the proposed general Congress.

Adhering therefore to that measure, as most conducive to promote the grand system of politics we all have in view, we have the pleasure to acquaint you, that we shall be ready on our part, to meet at any time; and place that you shall, think fit appoint; either of Deputies from the General Assemblies or such other Deputies as shall be chosen, not only to speak the sentiments, but also to pledge themselves for the conduct of the people of the respective Colonies they represent.

We can undertake to assure yon, in behalf of the people in this Colony, that they will readily agree to any measure that shall be adopted by the general Congress. It will be necessary that you give a sufficient time for the Deputies of the Colonies, as far southward as the Carolinas, to assemble, and acquaint them as soon as possible with the proposed measure of a Congress. Your letters to the southward of us we will forward with great pleasure.

You may have seen all the names of our Committee in the public prints; and as we never heard the names of those which constitute your Committee, we request the favour of you to give us that satisfaction in your next. We beg that your letters for the future may be sealed and directed to our Chairman.

We are, gentlemen, your friends and most humble servants, by order of the Committee,

I. Low, Chairman.

New-York, June 10th, 1774.

At a special meeting held at the Exchange, at 7 o'clock, this evening: Present,

A Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut was received and read, and is as follows:

Hartford, June 4, 1774.

GENTLEMEN: Mr. Revere, on his return, acquainted us with the purport of yours by him, to the Committee at Boston, which being agreeable to our sentiments, and similar to what we had previously wrote them on the subject, we take the liberty to enclose you a copy of ours to them of this date, and ask your consideration of the proposal, and your sentiments of the measure, as soon as conveniently they may hi had. We have wrote to the same purport to the Committees of the Colonies of Rhode Island and New-Hampshire. And are, with great truth and esteem, gentlemen, yours, &c.

By order and in behalf of the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut,

SILAS DEANE.

To the Committeee of Correspondence for New-York.

P. S. The Resolves of our lower House of. Assembly are enclosed; in addition to which they gave us in command to recommend a Congress, and to join therein.

Copy of a Letter from the Committee of Correspondence for Connecticut to the Committee of Correspondence at Boston, enclosed in the preceding Letter to the New-York Committee:

Hartford, June 3, 1774.

GENTLEMEN: The lower House of Assembly, at their session at this place, which closes this day, came into sundry resolutions relative to their rights and privileges, a copy of which you have enclosed; and on the important subject take liberty to add, as our opinion, that a Congress is absolutely necessary previous to almost every other measure, since, as the injury is general, the mode taken for redress ought to be commensurate, which is not probable, to be obtained short of a general conference and union. The resolves of merchants of any Individual town or Province, however generously designed, must be partial when considered in respect to the whole Colonies in one general view; while, on the. other hand, every measure recommended, every resolve come into by the whole united Colonies, must carry weight and influence; with it on the mind of the people, and tend effectually to silence those base insinuations which our enemies are ever ready to throw out, of interested motives sinister views, unfair practices, and the like, for the vile purposes of sowing the seeds of jealousy between the Colonies, to divide and render abortive all our designs in favour of the liberties of America; We conceive little or nothing need be added on the subject, the propriety and utility of which seems to he universally acknowledged. The time and place must be fixed. For the first, the earlier, consistent with having the principal Provinces notified and present, the better; say the last week of July, or first in August, by which time all, as far as Virginia, may be informed of, and invited to attend it; for the place, New-York, is near the centre, but the season of the year make us prefer some

* Saturday last, the 4th instant, being the anniversary of his Majesty's birth day, when he entered the thirty-seventh year of his age, at 19 o'clock his Excellency General Haldimand, attended by a number of gentlemen, wafted to the Commons, where they were received by a Royal salute from the train of artillery, and the Royal Welsh Fusileers then under arms, after which his Excellency returned to Ms. residence, where his Majesty's and other loyal healths, were drank, under the discharged a royal salute from fort George, his Majesty's ship Swan, Jamas Ayscough, Esquire, commander, and sundry other vessels in the harbour.

In the evening some very curious fire-works were exhibited, and a small number of houses were illuminated; but the generality of the inhabitants (though perfectly well affected to his Majesty's person and family, and preferring the English Constitution to every other form of Government) were too deeply impressed with the melancholy situation of all the British Colonies, to assume the least appearance of public rejoicing, while it remains in suspense, whether we shall remain freemen by maintaining our rights, or submit to be slaves.

Every town in every Colony of America from which we have yet heard, consider the case of Boston as their own, and agree in sentiment, to unite their strength, and exert every faculty in the most determined persevering endeavours to preserve, their rights and liberties against the tyrannical encroachments of Great Britain, To this end a Congress is soon expected, and a total suspension of all commercial intercourse between the Colonies, and Great Britain, and Ireland, at least, it is generally believed will very soon take place.