enemies •would be his judges, but to bear all with patience and to represent it to the Society. If the chief of the ministers of the French Congregational Churches could be persuaded to write to Monsieur Molinar to forbear intruding where he has no lawful call, as his colleague has hitherto done, I believe that would answer all the ends Monsieur Bondet has in view, and keep things quiet there. I am with respect, Sir Your most obedient humble servant,

Robert Hunter."0

Monsieur Roux, in a memorial to the Governor, dated New York, Feb. 18, 1724-25, says: -- "In opposition to this National Church, they (Moulinars and friends) have entertained and fomented for several years a scandalous schism at New Rochelle, where the incapacity of providing for a minister, obliged the inhabitants to establish an Episcopal Church; through the bounty and protection of the Society in England, and they

■would still support this schism if their M was not taken up in the

custody of our Church, of which he keeps the keys, in order to keep me put unjustly." Wonderful to say, throughout this dispute, Moulinars and his party not only undertook to defend their independency from the discipline of the French Church, but labored to prove their attachment to the Church of England. In answer to the first, Mr. Roux very justly observes, (in the above mentioned memorial) " that if he is not mistaken, the true principles of the Independent are expressly condemned in our discipline," As to the second, he says : -- " They have always been enemies of the Church of England as by law established ; they have always railed at her liturgy, her service, her Church government, and her ceremonies." This strife continued for some time, until at length, the New York seceders " being fearful of a decree, that might expose their own estates to the payment of Mr.