This season has been uncommonly rainy and we have had frost in July and could sit very comfortably at a good fire early in August or even some times in June. This you will think pretty cold ;--But aa people of our description are supposed to have some warm particles in our composition we must let the heat and the cold combat and balance each other. How; ever the climate and the soil are extremely fertile affording the necessaries of life in great abundance."

Mr Stuart now set about establishing himself permanently in Canada. He selected the antient Settlement of Cataraqui distant 60 leagues from Montreal, whither many of the refugees had already preceded him, and which possessed a garrison the chaplainey of which he expected with a salary of one thousand dollarsa year. "I can preserve the Indian Mission in its neighbourhood (he continues) which with other advantages will afford a comfortable subsistance--altho' I wish it laid in Maryland."?

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'Bishop by whom Holy orders could be conferred, and the succession of the clergy kept up, had now for some time engaged the attention of the leading members of that denomination. To obviate the difficulty under which they labored, the Revd Mz White came out with a pamphlet entitled, "The Case of the Episcopal Churches considered," in which he proposed among other things, a temporary organization eonferriag on a Convention composed. of representatives, to be elected from the Vestry or congregation of the several churches within a given district, the power to choose a permanent president, with other clergymen to be appointed by the body who might confer Holy orders and enforce discipline inthe church.? A copy of this pamphlet was sent by the author to M® Stuart, who admitted that it opened a new field of thought, and added--" Notwithstanding I am still clogged with all my old prejudices in regard to the Divine right and uninterrupted succession of Episcopacy ; yet I must confess that youhave said more and with greater plausibility than the subject, at first view seemed to promise.