iHieatlied to him in this new world as the protector of an oppressed people, the fonndcr of a coiiniiunitv truly unicjiie as to condition and character.

"At this point of our retrospect let us take np the exiled Huguenot s (piestion. What were this young lord's antecedents ? His father, wliose name figured largely in the st;ite papers of the protectorate as the right Honourable John Pell, was eminent among English educators. Horn on the first <lay of March, Kill), at Sonthwycke, Sussex County, England, of wliicli parish bis father, the Rev. John Pell, was then rector, he entered Trinitj' (College, Cambridge, in the year li'rii, and, before the end of another decade, had won European fame as an author in the higher range of philosojducal and mathematical studies. Having accepted tin; offer of a professoi'shi]) in Anjsterdam, he then attracted the regard of the Prince of Orange, by whom he Wiis appointed to the professtjrship of mathematics at Breda, in Holland, where a ^Ulitary and Naval Academy had been established. Thus, having achieved a brilliant career in the prime of life, he was chosen by Oliver Cromwell, in April, 1(154, English resident ambassador to the Swiss cantons. This confideutial relation to the loi'tl jirotector at the time when he stood forth at the height of his power, the recognized protei tor of Protestant Switzerland against the i)ersecutiug powers of the continent, gives amj)le proof of an enlarged statesiuan-like style of mind in harmony with the liberal ideas and i)ri>gressive sjiirit that have throughout our own century thus far ruled the course both of English and American history. A single fact recorded by Mr. Bolton in his ' History of Westchester County'' puts this inference beyond all cinestiouing : ' In the liandsdowne MSS. are eleven volumes of Dr. Pell's, written in excellent style.