knows nor believes that any more or other Goods, or things were taken out of the said Ship Beulah, since her arrival here, than what are specified in the foregoing Deposition; and that he believes no other person to have been concerned in the said business, except those mentioned in this Deposition.

ROBERT MURRAY.

Affirmed the 15th March, 1775, before me,

ANDREW GAUTIER.

The said Sub-Committee further report, that the said Messrs. Robert and John Murray did write a Letter to this Committee, accompanying the said state of the case; which Letter is in the words following:

To the General Committee for the City and County of NEW-YORK:

GENTLEMEN: The annexed Depositions contain as full and candid an account of the transaction relative to the landing the Goods from the Ship Beulah, as we are able to give; in the doing of which we have studied to give the Committee, and our fellow-citizens, the utmost satisfaction we are capable of.

John Murray being obliged to go to Elizabethtown to take an inventory of the Goods, found the Committee then sitting, and conceived it to be his duty, as the Goods were within their jurisdiction, to give them notice thereof, and to make a full acknowledgment to them: upon doing which, they took, with his consent, possession of the Goods as mentioned in the affidavit.

We still declare our readiness to reship the said Goods as nearly as is now in our power, agreeable to the tenour of the Association, or to do otherwise with them, as the Committee of Elizabethtown shall think proper to intimate or direct; and that we are also ready to give this Committee any further satisfaction respecting the said Goods, that they may recommend. Being desirous further to testify the sense we have of the imprudent measure we have taken, as well as our concern for the trouble and uneasiness it has given our fellow-citizens, we would wish to make such further satisfaction to the publick as might be most agreeable to them; and therefore do hereby cheerfully engage to give the sum of Two Hundred Pounds towards repairing the hospital in this City, lately destroyed by fire.

We are, gentlemen, very respectfully, your assured friends,

New-York, March 15, 1775.

The said Sub-Committee further report another Letter from the Committee of Elizabethtown, enclosing an Affidavit of Samuel Lee; which Letter and Affidavit are in the words following, viz:

Elizabethtown, March 14, 1775.

SIR: Enclosed I send you the Affidavit of Samuel Lee, boatman, relative to the unlading part of the Cargo of the Ship Beulah, which needs no comment.

I am, however, particularly desired by our Committee, earnestly to request of your Committee to protect Mr. Lee, as far as lies in their power, from any insult on account of this affair. He is a person well known here to be of good character, and who, by his honesty and industry, has justly acquired the esteem of all the inhabitants of this Town; and it is the opinion of our Committee he was unwarily led to act the part he did, as will, in part, appear by his Affidavit. I will only add, that we should be glad that whenever the Affidavit shall be read, this Letter may be read also.

By order of the Committee:

JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.

NEW-JERSEY, Borough of ELIZABETH, ss.

Samuel Lee, of Elizabethtown, boatman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, That on Sunday the 5th instant, he (at the request of Ichabod B, Barnet, Esquire) sailed from Elizabethtown aforesaid, to New-York, in the Boat or. Sloop he usually goes in, the said Barnet going as a hand with him; that he arrived there the same evening; that while they were on their passage, said Barnet informed this deponent that he must make haste to unlade his Boat as soon as he should arrive at New-York, for that a Vessal was arrived at the Hook from the West-Indies, and that he wanted this deponent to go with him with his Boat, and take some Goods out of her; that said Boat was unloaded at New-York on Monday morning, and immediately thereafter this deponent, and the said Barnet, sailed with the said Boat for Sandy-Hook; that at the dusk of the evening of the same day they came along-side of a Ship, which this deponent believes was the Beulah, and about eight o’clock he was told he might go to bed, which he accordingly did, and went to sleep. About twelve, was awakened, and desired to put off from said Ship, and make sail, which accordingly was done; that he saw the said Barnet, with Mr. John Murray, and one Graham, his clerk, were then on board his Boat; that on Tuesday morning they touched on Staten-Island, Where Mr. Graham landed, but no Goods were landed there; that on Wednesday morning, about one o’clock, they came along-side the store of said Barnet, at Elizabehtown, where the said. John Murray, Ichabod B. Barnet, and this deponent, landed and stored in the said Barnet’s store, as near as he can remember, the following Goods, to wit: a small bale, a box about three feet long, one box about a foot square, the contents of which are unknown to this deponent; also a quantity of Sail Duck, a number of bolts of Oznaburghs, about half a dozen pieces of Linen, an some pieces of Linen Cloth, which this deponent supposed to be Drilling; which Goods, in the whole, this deponent thinks were in quantity about one ton and a half, or not exceeding two tons. And this deponent saith, that said Goods must have been taken out of said Ship, and put on board said Boat, while he was below as aforesaid, as there were no Goods on board his Boat when he left New-York to go to said Ship; and further the deponent saith, that he did not sleep so sound but that he heard the noise of people working upon the deck, and that when he was called up as aforesaid, and had come upon deck, he perceived the hatches of his Boat open, and the said Goods then lying in the hatchway. And further the deponent saith not.

SAMUEL LEE.

Sworn at Elizabethtown, this 13th day of March, 1775, before me,

JOHN BLANCHARD, Alderman.

Which Report being read,

Resolved, That this Committee do approve thereof: and Ordered, That the same be published agreeable to the directions of the Eleventh Article of the Association.

By order of the Committee:

ISAAC LOW, Chairman.

TO THE INHABITANTS OF NEW-YORK.

New-York, March 16, 1775.

BELOVED COUNTRYMEN: Let us read, hear, and endeavour rightly to understand the subsequent passages and injunctions of the most Holy Bible, that divinely perfect, infallible, and eternal rule of all our voluntary acts and moral behaviour. Read, heard rightly, fully understood, and with exact punctuality obeyed, they may, for aught any mortal knows to the reverse, by a divine benediction operate powerfully, and contribute much to the restoration of that union and harmony between Great Britain and her American Colonies, so essentially requisite to promote the prosperity, welfare, and felicity of the whole English Empire; and, therefore, so very ardently wished and longed for by all good Protestant, loyal subjects of our very gracious Sovereign, and most august Monarch, King George the Third.

The texts referred to, and recommended to a candid perusal, and attentive, exact deliberation, are these:

Exodus xxii. 28: Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. See also Math xxii. from the 17th to the 21st, inclusive. The words run thus, verbatim: Tell us, therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not? But Jesus perceived their weakness, and said, why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money. And they brought into him a penny; and he saith unto them, whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Cæsar’s. Then saith he unto them, render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s. Also, Rom.xiii.l—8: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God.