Excerpt from History of New-York: From the First Discovery to the Year M. DCC. XXXII, to Which Is Annexed, a Description of the Country, With a Short Account of the Inhabitants, Their Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in That Colony; With a Conti At present our affairs begin to wear a more smiling aspect. I've are under the guardianship of a sovereign who delights in the welfare of his people are respect ed by a parliament, affected with a generous sympa thy for the distresses of their fellow subjects, in all their dispersions; and by a wise improvement of the British aids, it is hoped, we shall be able to retrieve the ill consequences of our long, reproachful, and in sensible security. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.