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. The first volume contains a vast fund of information. resi)ecting the persecutions of the Piedmontese.' Evidently his sympathies were with the true leaders of the age ; not with the oppres.sors, but the oppressed.

" In connection with a fact so significant we are not suriHised to learn that while serving the government of his country at Zurich, Mr. Pell's letters to his wife, at home, indicate minute attention to the elementary education of his only son, the future ' Lord John," of Pelham, particularizing the most suitable schools, the studies and the teachers appropriate to the young scholar's situation or turn of mind, even urging spei ial care as to the style of penmanship reiniired by the boy 'eleven years old,' in danger of funning wrong habits at the outset. Four years after his many educational couuselings had been written from Zurich, while the school-life of John was still in progress, the English mission to Switzerland was terminated, the minister was couunended, called home, and informed on his arrival that the Lord Protector was dying. Very soon the whole country was convulsed ; but, despite the agitations of that disastrous period, the youthful heir of a trans- Atlantic 'Lordship,' fifteen years of age at the time of his father's return, was exceptionally favored as to his opiiortunities for receiving the best possible training under the eye of his watchful parents, who had already taken rank with the best educators of England.