The Council was called on the 1 Decr but except myself only [Hugh] Wallace, [John Harris] Cruger, and [James] Jauncey attended ー Agreed that the Govrs. Permission to go home be made public ー I urged his communicating it to the Public in Writing ー Wallace joined me ー The Rest said they saw no use in it Suppose, says I, it procures a constitutional Application to Parliament upon the controverted Subjects in a more modern Tone ー Jauncey then fell in. The Govr. said, as we do [not] make a Council I can't write now. I observed that we had nothing as a Council to do in this Business, and that he might act his Pleasure without us.