His bones had not then been removed, as they afterwards were, to England, for no good object on the part of those who under cover of the night disinterred, boxed, and carried them away. On this farm he spent his latter days with a solitary female attendant. I have heard the physician who visited him describe the condition in which he was accustomed to find his patient, and to which his vicious habits, and especially his habitual drunkenness, had reduced him. This he represented as revolting to his sensibilities, making even his necessary calls to prescribe for his relief exceedingly unwelcome and repulsive. This physician was an esteemed elder in the church of which I was at that time pastor, highly regarded not only for skill in his profession, but as a man of sound judgment and unimpeachable veracity. He has been dead many years. But the name of Matson Smith, M.D., is still held in honored rememberance by all who knew him. His grandson, Rev. Matson Meier Smith, D.D., it is stated, is about to remove from Hartford, Ct., to Philadelphia, to be a professor in the Episcopal Divinity School. The animus of the article, which the above statement is intended to contradict, appears plainly in the article itself. While the audacity of its aspersions forbids the hope that the eulogist himself will acknowledge his error, it is proper that others, who might else be misled by it, should understand that the real motive to this perversion of the facts of history must have been iiatred of Christianity, and especially of its ministers, the clergy of all denominations.""