Edward Walker, publisher of "Dowling's Uisiory of Romanism."

Some of the Huguenot families of New Rochelle appear to

* Sketch of the Huguenots by Mr. G. P. Disosway. See Christian Intelligencer.

t There is an original medal in the possession of the Rev. S. Farmar Jarvis, D. D. L. Ij. D., of Middletown, Connecticut ; who obtained it at the mint in Rome. Elec* trotype copies of this medal are very numerous.

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have preserved the memory of that fatal day, by adopting it as a christian name for their oitspring.^

The city of La Rochelle in France, which had always stood firmly attached to the reformed interests, appears to have afforded (in 1572,) an asylum for the survivors of the bloody massacre of St. Bartholomew. It was here they issued their famous declaration stating the affair to be one of unheard of cruelty, and bidding defiance to their enemies the house of Guise. " And it was here they armed and fortified themselves, trusting in a just cause and to the favor of Heaven. For nine months they fought most gallantly in defence of La Rochelle, killing 40,0U0 of their enemies, who besieged them with the strongest and mightiest army of France witljout success. It was however in 1G27, that this city made its last and ever memorable stand for the cause of the Huguenots. •.. <• ■ ;' •

*' And it may safely be said, that this mighty city would never have fallen, (such was the undaunted heroism of the Rochellese themselves,) had it not been for the powerful minded genius of Cardinal Richelieu, who planned and executed such a mighty work against it, that in gigantic extent it has been compared by historians to the similar one executed by Alexander the Great for Tyre.