Murk." Col. S. adds, that Dr. S. was prevented piiblishinj^ these books t)y the breaking out of the war; and that he tlicn look the M.SS. to Canada, and afterward delivered them to Col Daniel Claus. by whom they were taken to England. It appears (.'■tone ii 260) that they were printed in London subsequently in 17S6, in alternate pao;es of Mohawk and English, luider the imnvediaU patronage ct the King, iu large 8vo., liighly ftinbellished.

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crush this unnatural rebelhon. In that case, if the steps are taken which reason, prudence, and common sense dictate, the Church will indubitably increase, and these confusions will terminate in a large accession to its members. Then will be the time to make that provision for the American Church, which is necessary, and place it on at least an equal footing with other denominations by granting it an episcopate, and thereby allowing it a full toleration. If this opportunity is let slip, I think there is a moral certainty that such another never will again offer ; and I must conclude, in that case, that Government is equally infatuated with the Americans at present. If fifty years elapse without any episcopate here, there will be no occasion for one afterwards ; and to fix one then will be as impracticable as it would be useless. And I may appeal to all judicious persons, whether it is not as contrary to sound pohcy, as it certainly is to right reason and justice, that the King's loyal subjects here members of the national Church, should be denied a privilege the want of which will discourage and diminish their numbers, and that merely to gratify the clamours of dissenters, who have now discovered such enmity to the constitution, and who will ever clamour against anytliing that will tend to benefit or increase the Church here.