fore bound by all the ties of honour, and the duty they owe to their posterity religiously to maintain the engagements entered into by the Delegates in their behalf. These Delegates received deputations from the Counties of Ulster, Albany, Dutchess, and West Chester; and, I am well informed, Colonel Philips was the Chairman of the respective Committees of his County, who authorized our Delegates to act for them, and that he was zealous for their appointment. The Counties of Orange, Suffolk, and Kings, sent other Delegates to the Congress. These eight Counties which were thus represented in the General Congress, are a great majority of the Colony, whether this is determined by Counties, inhabitants, wealth or the number of members they send to the General Assembly; it being evident their Representatives are twenty-three of thirty-one that constitute that body. Hence it appears how void of truth that assertion is of the shameless "Westchester Farmer," that "not a hundredth part of the people of this Province had any vote in sending the Delegates." This is a sample of his Pamphlets, which abound with barefaced falsehoods. It is a sure evidence of a bad cause when its advocates are drove to these vile arts to advance it. Of the six Counties unrepresented in the General Congress, four of them are new, thinly inhabited, and very remote from the capital; and the Farmers live so distant from each other that it would be difficult to convene them for the purpose of choosing Delegates; especially as the time when they were chosen in the other Counties, was the most valuable season for husbandry. The two old Counties may be ranked among the smallest of our Counties, the number of Freeholders in Richmond being under four hundred. From all this it appears the majority of Counties, inhabitants, and property, were represented in the Grand Continental Congress; and, therefore, there is no reason to doubt but the present Assembly will (after the laudable example of a former House, on a similar occasion) approve the acts of the late General Congress; especially if it be considered that the very Assembly now convened have given their thanks to our Merchants for a former restriction of our trade, intended to effect a repeal of the Tea Act, which still exists, besides many others since past which threaten destruction to this Continent.

Extract of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of NEW-YORK, JANUARY 26, 1775.

A motion made by Colonel TEN BROECK, in the words following, to wit:

"MR. SPEAKER: I move that this House take into consideration the Proceedings of the Continental Congress, held in the City of Philadelphia, in the months of September and October last." Then Colonel PHILIPS moved, "That the previous question be first put, whether the question upon Colonel TEN BROECK'S motion should be now put;" and debates arising upon the said motion, and the previous question being accordingly put, it was carried in the negative, in the manner following, to wit:

For the question being put on Colonel TEN BROECK'S motion:

Colonel WOODHULL, Colonel SCHUYLER, Colonel P LIVINGSTON, Mr. CLINTON, Mr. VAN CORTLANDT, Mr. DE WITT, Captain SEAMAN, Colonel TEN BROECK, Mr. NICOLL, Mr. BOERUM.

Against the question being put on Colonel TEN BROECK'S motion:

Mr. Walton, Mr. De Lancey, Mr. Jauncey; members for the City of New-York, which first proposed a Congress, and was represented there.

Colonel Philips, Mr. Wilkins.; members for the County and Borough of West Chester, which were represented try in Congress.

Mr. Rapalje; member for Kings County, represented in Congress.

Mr. VAN KLEECK; member for Duchess County, whose District was represented in Congress.

Colonel Seaman, Mr. BILLOP; members for Richmond County, containing less than four hundred freeholders, not represented in Congress.

Mr. Kissam; member for Queens County, not represented in Congress.

Mr. BRUSH; member for Cumberland County, not represented in Congress.

N. B. The Members' names in Italick were of the Assembly's Committee of Correspondence, who approved, in their Letters to the other Colonies, of a Congress. Mr. JAUNCEY was also a Member of the Committee of fiftyone, for the City of New-York; and was present when their Letter of the 23d of May last, to the Committee of Boston was reported, and unanimously approved. And Colonel PHILIPS was Chairman of the Convention of the Committees of his County, who authorized the Delegates of New-York to act for them; and was zealous for their appointment: so that they must have had but little regard to their publick reputations, to vote against an inquiry into the Proceedings of the Congress. As to the vote, it can y have no important influence on the cause of the Continent, if it be considered, that but two members, Representatives of one County, and one for each of two others unrepresented in Congress, were all the members of unrepresented Counties, against the inquiry. The Counties of the other seven members, on that side of the question, were represented in Congress, as above mentioned. And the inhabitants of such of them as are of any importance to the publick cause are determined to maintain the Association.

The Counties and Districts of the Members who voted for the inquiry, are warmly attached to the American cause: so that in this, as well as in every other point of view in which the sense of the Colony is considered, there are a great majority of it disposed to maintain the measures of the Congress.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BALTIMORE TO A GENTLEMAN IN NEW-YORK, DATED JANUARY 27, 1775.

The friends here to true liberty, are charmed with the late conduct of your respectable Council and Assembly. From their true patriotism, discernment, and moderation, we do presage the happiest consequences to our convulsed country. Unlike the Assembly of Philadelphia, (who have been really bullied into the most abject measures by the furious sons of the murderer of Servetus,) we hope they will nobly disdain to sacrifice, to prostitute their judgment, their honour, their country, at the furious shrine of popular errour. With unfeigned pleasure have we also seen the Testimony of the people called Quakers; through every line it breathes the true spirit of Christianity, and from every sentence, pours the blessed balm of peace on the wounds of our mangled country. In the Philadelphia Papers, you will perceive that some persons in this Town have had the imbecility to approve of the frantick proceedings of certain men, who lately styled themselves Delegates to a Provincial Congress, (with the same truth and propriety, indeed, they might have called themselves Electors of the Holy Roman Empire,) and abandoned to every sense of decency, propriety, and loyalty, have also in their turn, haberdashed certain Resolves extremely curious. This Town is chiefly settled by Scotch-Irish, (in liberality of sentiment at least three centuries behind even the other British subjects in America,) and it is a melancholy truth, that such are, to a man, violently bent on supporting the good old cause, (that is the cause of fanaticism and sedition,) by taking Arms against the best Government (with all its imperfections,) on earth. You see, sir, they have ordered three thousand pounds of Powder, and twelve thousand pounds of Lead, to be immediately purchased. While I compassionate their delusion, I cannot forbear smiling at their insanity, and at their gasconades. They have assessed the immense sum of ten thousand Pounds currency, (by-the-bye, it is not yet raised, though they accept the humble sums of two Shillings and six Pence from subscribers) to oppose an Empire, who, last war, for years, expended only the trifling sums of fifteen or twenty millions Sterling annually. I shall shortly transmit a state of the Army now forming in this Province, to be commanded by Orlando Furioso, and of that other forming in the lower Counties on Delaware, to be commanded by Midas M'Kinley, Esq., Priest and Prophet of that County. Meantime, I do most