To the betrayed inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York : My dear fellow citizens and countrymen, In a day when the minions of tyranny and despotism in the mother country, and the colonies, are indefatigable in laying every snare that their malevolent and corrupt hearts can suggest, to enslave a free people .

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