Extract of a Letter to a Gentleman in New-York

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In consequence of an anonymous advertisement fixed up at this place, giving notice to the Freeholders and others, to meet on Tuesday, the 17th instant, in order to choose a Committee of Inspection, &c˙, &c˙, between thirty and forty of the most respectable Freeholders accordingly met; and after a few debates on the business of the day, which were carried on with great decency and moderation, it was generally agreed (there being not above four or five dissentient voices,) that an appointment of a Committee was not only useless, but they were apprehensive would prove a means of disturbing that peace and quietness which had hitherto subsisted in the Township, and which they were extremely desirous, and would continue to use their utmost endeavours to preserve, and to guard themselves against running upon that rock, on which, with much concern, they behold others, through an inattentive rashness, daily splitting.