"Thanks be to God that piveth us the 'victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

His brother was the Hon. William Smith. Lorenzo Sabine, E?q., i:; his ver}' valuable work on American loj'alists, says of this individual : -- " That he was Chief Justice and a member of the council of the colony, and considered to be in office in 1782. His father, the Honorab'-- William Smith, an eminent lawyer and Judge of the Supreme Court, died in 1769. William Smith, the subject of this notice, graduated in Yale College in 1745. It appears, that he was at a loss as to the side which he should espouse in the controversy which preceded the Revolution, and that he made no choice until late in the war. It seems, ako. that a number of other gentlemen of wealth and influence, who hi 1 wavered like himself, joined the royal cause about the same time, in 1778. It is beheved that, at first, he opposed the claims of the ministrv-. However this may be, his final decision excited the remark of both the Whigs and Loyalists. The former indulging their wit in verse, and calling him the 'weathercock,' that 'could hardly tell which way to turn;' and the latter noticing his adhesion in their correspondence. He settled in Canada after the war, and was Chief Justice of that colony. He publislied a history of New York, which was continued by his son William."<i .

a ♦'TtiH eloquent man," alluiUnp to Judjre Pmlth, "havin;? been an adherent to theroya; cause in the Kovol'inon, toft The city of istw York in 17^:;, with the British troops, anrt waj after-ftMrrls rowar^U 1! bv bis sovoreitra with 11 bigU judici.iry utlice at Qutbec. Ju^iit'.' f-isilth. a^thou?^. tUnri rfmnv.d' from the pUice of liis ori^riii, always couteQipiiitttl the xioiitii'sof !» iii'.tive couutrv wi;li ii-culiar solicituUL-.