It being represented to this Committee that Mr. William Becker, a citizen of this city, is confined in irons on board the Asia ship of war;

Ordered, That Messrs. [Isaac] Roosevelt and [James] Beekman wait on His Worship the Mayor, and request him to demand the immediate discharge of the said William Becker, and to assure Capt. Vandeput, that unless such discharge be immediately made, this Committee will take proper measures for, resenting the indignity offered to this city, and the injury done to one of its inhabitants.