On Sunday morning, one of Washington's generals called on Dr. Inglis, and requested him to omit the violent prayer for the king and royal family. He paid no regard to it. He afterwards said to that officer, "It is in your power to shut up the churches, but you cannot make the clergy depart from their duty." Tlie prisoners alluded to in the inscription on the monument, were those who died in the old Sugar-houses of the city, which were used for hospitals. Many of them were buried in the north part of Trinity Chui-chyard.

THE HUDSON.

unlock all the gates, and give the key to the commander of the fort. Such was New York two hundred years ago."'

According to early accounts, New Amsterdam must have been a quaint old town in Stuyvesant's time, at about the middle of the seventeenth century. It was, in style, a reproduction of a Dutch village of that period, when modest brick mansions, with terraced gables fronting the street, were mingled with steep-roofed cottages with dormer windows in sides and gables. It was then compactly built. The area within the palisades was not large ; settlers in abundance came ; and for several years few ventured to dwell remote from the town, because of the hostile Indians, who swarmed in the surrounding forests. The toleration that, had made Holland an asylum for the oppressed, was practised here to its fullest extent. " Do you wish to buy a lot, build a house, and become a citizen?" was the usual question put to a stranger. His affirmative answer, with proofs of its sincerity, was a sufficient passport. They pryed not into private opinion or belief ; and bigotry could not take root and flourish in a soil so inimical to its growth. The inhabitants were industrious, thi'ifty, simple in manners and living, hospitable, neighbourly, and honest ; and all enjoyed as full a share of human happiness as a mild despotism would allow, until the interloping "Yankees " from the Puritan settlements, and the conquering, overbearing English,