[Insert the Committee of Safety of New York's certificate of September 7 in behalf of Captain Isaac L. Winn]

As by the manner of expression in the above certificate, it may possibly be thought by strangers to the transaction, that the article inserted by the Printer in his paper, was the ground of the suspicion raised against Capt. Winn, and occasioned the pursuit, detention and examination of him and his vessel; the Printer therefore, who thinks his Reputation of as much importance both publick and private, as Capt. Winn's, finds it necessary to inform the public, that the information against Capt. Winn, was given by one or two sailors who had belonged to the vessel, and the circumstance of his risking a vessel, loaded with a West India cargo, to Philadelphia, New York, and Newport, when she was bound to London, and especially when it was notorious, that the men of war in America, usually detained all the vessels they met with loaded with West India goods, gave credibility to the information, and strengthened the suspicion against Capt. Winn. Measures were taken to bring him and his vessel back, and they were actually in custody long before the Printer had published the article above refered to, which was a simple short account of the affair, as it was publickly reported at the time; and surely he could not be blameable for mentioning in his paper, a report which the Committee thought sufficiently credible to authorize their proceeding upon it; and as after examination it appeared to them, that Capt. Winn's character had received no blemish by the facts that had caused him to be suspected, neither could it be injured by mentioning those facts in a public paper.¹

On Sunday last [September 10] his Majesty's ship the King-Fisher sailed for Virginia.