all such other measures as the Congress shall in their wisdom judge advancive of these great objects, and a general security of the rights and privilege of America.

6th. Resolved, nem. con., That this meeting will abide by, obey, and observe all such resolutions, determinations and measures, which the Congress aforesaid shall come into, and direct or recommend to be done, for obtaining and securing the important ends mentioned in the foregoing resolutions. And that an engagement to this effect be immediately entered into and sent to the Congress, to evince to them our readiness and determination to co-operate with our sister Colonies for the relief of our distressed brethren at Boston, as well as for the security of our common rights and privileges.

7th. Resolved, nem. con., That it is the opinion of this meeting that it would be proper for every county in the Colony, without delay, to send two Deputies, chosen by the people, or from the Committees chosen by them in each county, to hold, in conjunction with Deputies for this city and county, a Convention for the Colony, (on a day to be appointed,) in order to elect a proper number of Deputies to represent the Colony in the general Congress. But that, if the counties shall conceive this mode impracticable or inexpedient, they be requested to give their approbation to the Deputies who shall be chosen for this city and county to represent the Colony in Congress.

8th. Resolved, nem. con., That a subscription should immediately be set on foot for the relief of such poor inhabitants of Boston as are, or may be deprived of the means of subsistence, by the operation of the Act of Parliament for stopping up the port of Boston. The money which shall arise from such subscription to he laid out as the city Committee of Correspondence shall think will best answer the end proposed.

9th. Resolved, nem. con., That the city Committee of Correspondence be, and they are hereby instructed, to use their utmost endeavours to carry these resolutions into execution.

Ordered, That these Resolutions be printed in the public newspapers of this city, and transmitted to the different counties in this Colony, and to the Committees of Correspondence for the neighbouring Colonies.

To the Inhabitants of the City and County of NEW-YORK.

GENTLEMEN: The trust you were pleased to repose in us, in appointing us members of the Committee of Correspondence, renders it necessary to inform you of the above proceedings, as well as to justify our conduct upon the points on which we divided. We voted against Mr. Thurman's motion, because the people have an undoubted right to convene themselves, and come into whatever resolutions they shall think proper, if they be not contrary to law; and although the manner of calling them might not be deemed so regular as might be wished, though practised heretofore in the debates on the Stamp Act, yet considering that a respectable number of our fellow-citizens did meet, and did no acts but what were conformable to the general spirit of all the Colonies in this alarming state of our public affairs, we therefore conceived that our disavowing their conduct would naturally tend to hold up the idea of a division, if not a disapprobation of the resolutions; and as the resolutions do not so much as insinuate that they came from the Committee, no charge could lie against them for any matter contained in them. For these reasons, also, we voted against Mr. McEvers's motion to publish the proceedings, and because he declared, before the question was put, that these proceedings should be published, in order that they might be sent home by the packet. This declaration from a member of the Committee, has, in our opinion, such a tendency to hold up a disunion amongst us, which must impede the public business, and retard a redress of our grievances, especially as the gentlemen who voted for his motion heard the reasons offered against their being published, that we conceive we cannot, with such a majority, answer the end of our appointment; and, therefore, in justice to ourselves, and from a regard to the public interest, we desire that our names may be erased out of the list of the Committee. And we are humbly of opinion, that the temper manifested by the majority for publishing Mr. McEvers's motion, is destructive to, and subversive of, the end for which the Committee of Correspondence was appointed. All of which is, nevertheless, humbly submitted to you.

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, though not present at the debates, do likewise request our names may be struck out of the list of the Committee.

N. B. It may be proper to inform the reader, that printing the proceedings of the Committee has been agitated several times, and judged inexpedient, because every citizen, by the rules of the Board, may have access to them in the presence of one of the members; that Mr. McEvers's motion was made after the Committee adjourned to Monday next, and some of the members were gone, and one going down stairs.

New-York, July 8th, 1774.

To the worthy Inhabitants of the City and County of NEW-YORK.

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN: Your Committee of fifty-one having laid before you their proceedings on Thursday evening, I should not have troubled you at this time, had not eleven of the Committee made a formal resignation, and published an appeal to you in justification of their conduct.

You are told, that "the people have an undoubted right to convene themselves, and come into whatever resolutions they shall think proper, if they be not contrary to law." This is granted by every one; but you would think me a very impudent fellow, and deserving of the severest reprehension, if I, as a member of that Committee, was to call you together this evening by an anonymous advertisement, and propose a set of resolves to you of the last importance, without either giving you the least previous notice of their contents, or consulting your Committee upon the occasion. Would you not be all of opinion that I deserved the highest censure, both from you and the Committee? This was the ground of your Committee's conduct; and their disapprobation, as you have seen, was conceived in the mildest terms the nature of the case could admit of. And let those who quitted the chamber in a rage, ordering their names struck off, and afterwards bawling along the streets, "the Committee is dissolved—the Committee is dissolved"—let them, I say, be answerable for the consequences of a division, if a division must take place. Your Committee, notwithstanding the evident designs of a faction to dissolve them, are determined to persevere in promoting, to the utmost of their ability, the important ends of their appointment, so long as you, their constituents, shall signify your approbation of their conduct.

The remainder of the appeal is taken up with a declaration of Mr. McEvers's, artfully selected to throw an oblique slur upon that gentleman's character. You are told, "that he declared, before the question was put, that these proceedings should be published, in order to be sent home by the packet." But they forgot to tell you, that Mr. McEvers previously declared that the resolves were printed in Mr. Holt's paper on purpose to be sent home by the packet, and that he wished our proceedings might accompany that paper wherever it went. This is all that your Committee had in view in publishing their proceedings. They conceived that the resolves were printed and held up to the world, not only as the act of this Committee, but of the city at large, and that they would evidently pass under such a construction, unless the mode of obtaining them was publicly disavowed. But you will readily discover how artfully this has been represented, with a view of tarnishing one of the most amiable characters among us; a character that is strongly marked in the breast of every