Beach, of Connecticut, only is to be excepted, if my information be right, who officiated as usual after independency was declared, and, upon being warned of his danger, declared, with the firmness and spirit of a primitive confessor, " That he would do his duty, preach and pray for the king, till the rebels cut out liis tongue."' All the churches in Connecticut, (Mr. Beach's excepted, if the above account be true, and I had it from pretty good authority,) as well as those in this province, except in this city. Long Island, and Staten Island, where his Majesty's arms have penetrated, are now shut up. This is also the case with every church in New Jersey ; and I am informed by a gentleman lately returned from Pennsylvania, who had been a prisoner there for some time,

1 John Beach, for several years a Congregational minister at Newtown, Conn., was born in the year I7U0, and graduated at Yale Coll. in 1721. Having been subsequently induced, thro' the influence of the Rev, Dr. Johnson, to conform to the English church, he was deposed from his church and proceeded to England for orders, and on being ordained, was appointed to the mission of Newtown, where he arrived in Sept., 1732. Heading was annexed to this mission. He continued the pastor of these Churches until his death, which occurred on the I9th March, 1782. He was a strong and decided opponent of American Independence, and his influence over his flock was such " that scarcely a single person of his congregations at Newtown and Reading but persevered stedfastly in his duty and loyalty." He continued to pray for the King to the last, though it is said he was handled roughly by the Whigs. His writings are mostly polemical, and his doctrines are representee' as decidedly Arminian.