must confess, that never men were chosen with more honour to themselves than the Congress were, or executed the great trust reposed in them by their constituents with more wisdom, spirit, and integrity. And it has been matter of surprise to me, as well as to others, that you, in your all sufficiency, have not issued your mandate to convene together all placemen and pensioners, the only friends of Government, (as you style yourselves,) when you might form a Monarchical Congress, in opposition to the Grand Continental Republican Congress; then you could in the plainest language, represent to your masters, the Ministry and Parliament of Great Britain, that you were a set of the cleverest, the worthiest, the loyalist, and the honestest fellows in America; that the rest of your fellow-subjects in America were a parcel of Republican Traitors; that their grievances were ideal, and had no existence but in their own clamours. Then you might form a system by which the present differences might be solved: but what sort of a system it would be, I leave your "friends and countrymen, the people of New-Jersey," to judge; for my part, I am afraid it would be a system of slavery.

In the next place, you seem to be apprehensive that the people of Great Britain will receive the appeal to them with disgust, because (as you say) the Congress have overlooked their Legislature with sovereign contempt, and ask, whether that people will not take offence at the indignity so manifestly shewn them? I answer you, they will not. They will receive it with that conscious dignity becoming freemen, appealed to by a brave and spirited people, tenacious of their just rights and liberties; and who are oppressed, by the machinations of a wicked and abandoned Ministry, aided by a corrupt and venal part of their Legislature.

I shall pass over the rest of your performance unnoticed, as every person possessed of the least discernment can see your drift, and that it is a piece of mere declamation, manifestly intended to create jealousies, and divide the people in the Colonies; who, I am sure, have more understanding Hud integrity than to be led away by the idle fears and apprehensions of any anonymous Ministerial writer, especially when opposed to the united wisdom of the Grand Continental Congress.

But before I conclude, I shall just beg leave to ask how, in the name of wonder, you came to let the following sentence drop from your pen?—"All changes in Government, my brethren, are dangerous to the people." There I agree with you; it is what the people of America are now guarding against, and the cause in which the brave Bostonians are now suffering. Those eleven words have overthrown all you have already written, or hereafter shall write on the disputes between the Colonies and the mother country; but truth, though involuntary, will come out, and I shall not hereafter look upon you to be that enemy to the liberties of your country that you have affected to seem; but rather as an opposer of the tyrannical measures of the British Ministry.

As the Congress, in all their proceedings, have done what they ought to have done; and you, in all yours, have done what yon ought not to have done, let me entreat you, as a friend, and as you regard your reputation, and the approbation of your American brethren, to reform and turn from your evil ways; for, believe me, you will not, for your doughty performances, be Closeted by your Sovereign, nor Tie made a Privy Counsellor; you will neither be made a Knight of the Garter, a Knight Banneret, nor a Knight of the Bath; neither will you be made even one of the poor Knights of Windsor; you will not receive the thanks of the House of Lords or Commons; nor, if I had my will, should you get (what you are seeking after and expect) either place or pension.

Y.

Elizabethtown, January 5, 1775.

COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE OF ALBANY, NEW-YORK, TO THE PUBLICK.

At a time when union in sentiment and conduct is essential to the salvation of this Continent, the attempts that are daily made by the tools of Administration to divide us, must give pain to every real friend to America. No sooner were the measures adopted by the Continental Congress for our relief fully known, but every Court sycophant, able to hold a pen or indite a sentence, was employed to misrepresent and censure their conduct, and deceive the publick; for this purpose Lord North's Press in this City has, for several months, groaned with productions filled with calumnies, misrepresentations and falsehoods; and the Newspapers of two of our Printers have been stuffed with pieces tending to hold up this Province as opposed to the measures recommended by the Congress. It is the duty of every man who has a regard to the honour and interest of this country, to prevent the publick from being imposed upon by those artful and interested wretches, who Rave long since devoted themselves to the service of a vena: Minister, and stand ready to surrender every Thing we hold dear as Englishmen for a post or pension. Influenced by this motive alone, 1 am led to expose the misrepresentations contained in an extract of a letter, (said to be) from Albany, and published in Mr. Gaine's Gazette of the 6th instant. Who, upon reading that extract, would not conclude that a division had arisen in the Committee of Correspondence for the County of Albany, and that the approbation of the proceedings of the Continental Congress was carried only by a majority of one voice? This would be the conclusion of every man that could read English; and yet the very reverse of this would appear had the writer related the whole truth, and this I hope clearly to evince.

The Committee of Correspondence, referred to in that extract, met on Wednesday, the 4th of January last. At a former meeting they had fully approved of the proceedings of the Congress, but the weather being extremely bad, there was not a full meeting; it was therefore proposed to resume the matter at this meeting, and to give instructions to the Representatives of the County on this important subject. Several gentlemen of the Committee opposed instructing the Representatives, as altogether unnecessary, their sentiments being well known, (though they all agreed in the propriety of adopting the proceedings of the Congress) yet, as others of the Committee differed in opinion as to the necessity of instructing the. Members, the question was put whether instructions should he given or not, which was carried in the affirmative by a majority of three or four. The proposed instructions were then read, amended, and unanimously agreed to; and so united was the whole Committee in sentiment as to the necessity of adopting the measures of the Congress, that when they were at a loss to know the principles which induced our Delegates to consent to the exportation of Rice from South Carolina, it was agreed by all present to write to them, and the following letter was immediately written, unanimously agreed to, and sent:

Albany, January 5, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: At a meeting of this Committee on the 10th ultimo, I had the pleasure to inform you by letter that the Committee approved of, and adopted, the proceedings of the Continental Congress. The Committee, at this meeting are so well aware of the necessity of unanimity in every constituent part of that Congress, that rather than give the British Ministry the satisfaction of learning that a single County in any Province had not adopted their measures, that the) readily confirm what was done at a former meeting. They think it, however, indispensably their duty to beg of you, gentlemen, to inform them on what principles you agreed to the exportation of Rice from South Carolina, as they cannot form the least probable guess why a discrimination should be allowed favour of either of the Provinces in the article of exportation.

I am, with great respect, gentlemen, your obliged humble servant. By order of the Committee.

JACOB LANSING, Jun, Chairman.

To Isaac Low, John Alsop, Philip Livingston, John, Jay, and James Duane, Esquires.

COMMITTEE OF NEWPORT, RHODE-ISLAND, TO THE PHILADELPHIA COMMITTEE.

Newport, January 5, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Being informed that it is reported at New-York and at other parts of the Continent, that the inhabitants of this Town are fitting out vessels and determined to carry on their trade in violation of the Continental As-