These violences have been gradually increasing ever since ; and this with tlie delay of sending over succours, and the King's troops totally abandoning this province, reduced the friends of government here to a most disagreeable and dangerous situation, particularly the Clergy, who were viewed with peculiar envy and malignity by the disaffected; for, althougli civil liberty was the ostensible object the bait that was flung out to catch the p(»pulace at large and engage them in the rebellion, yet it is now past all doubt tliat an abolition of the Church of England was one of the principal springs of the dissenting leaders' conduct; and hence the unanimity of dissenters in this business. Their universal defection from government, emancipating themselves from the jurisdiction of Great Britain, and becoming independent, was a necessary step towards this grand object. I have it from good autliority that the Presbyterian ministers, at a synod where most of them in the middle colonics were collected, passed

which was followed by another under the title of " What think ye of Congress noii/" The only effect of these writings was to turn the principal of his congregation against him &. " partly starved into a surrender and partly under the jipivrchonsion of s:imc violent proceeding against him," he withdrew to Eng- Jand in 1775. In 1787, he was selected to fill the proposed Episcopal see of iNuva tcoti.i., bat a fatal malady from wliich he was suffering compelled him to decline tlie elevation. He died June 17th 1790, aged 6-1. He left behind him a life of the Rev. Dr. Johnson, 1st president of King's Coll. N. Y., Avhich was printed in IH'Jd.-- Condensed from Haivkins^ Missions.