Committee Correspondence &c

The Committee would inform the Honorable Board that the foregoing List ² was forwarded, immediately after it was taken; but the Committee having made enquiry last Evening, of the Honorable Mr [Daniel] Hopkins, what had been done upon the matter, he informed them that he had never heard any mention made of it at the Board, and therefore concluded that it must have been mislayd. The Committee would beg leave further to inform the Honorable Board, that the minds of the People in this Town are in general very uneasy, that these Prisoners should be suffered to remain here, on account of its being a Sea port, as the danger arising from them, must from a variety of circumstances be greater than if they were distributed about, in the interior parts of the Country, and as there are a great number of our best Men, going from this Town in a few days to join the Army, and the number of Prisoners still increasing, our danger must, in proportion be greater. At the time of taking the foregoing List there were a considerable number of Prisoners, who had entered on board our Privateers. and who were not included in the list, many of whom are not yet gone to Sea, and as there is a general Embargo now laid upon all Shiping they must remain here, which must still increase our danger,

By order of the Committee