From a paper printed in the city of Hartford in Connecticut, January 31st, 1824, entitled THE FREE PRESS AND INDEPENDENT REPORTER, intended to review and give an opinion of every new publication in that State.

"We have just finished reading the Memoirs of the Rev. Ammi Rogers, late an Episcopal Clergyman of this state. If we have entertained unfavourable impressions in regard to his innocence, they are now entirely obliterated. We sincerely believe him to be an unfortunate. persecuted man, and hope every one who has spoken and thought ill of his character, will do their consciences the justice to read his feeling appeal to the public. If, as he says, he had been a federal presbyterian minister, [that is a federal congregational presbyterian minister in Connecticut, who was in favor of an established sect, in favor of a union of church and state, in favor of compelling people by force of law to support that which they did not believe to be true,] "his character would have been shielded, and his person defended from all prosecutions, yea the plotters and abettors of this unparelled permpt flow for this remark is true.

TO THE READER.

WHEN a citizen, by groundless prejudice, by false representations and by palpable perjuries, has been made a victim to ecclesiastical denunciations and civil prosecutions when the privileges arising from civil liberty and religious freedom have been wrested from him, he still has one privilege left, the privilege of complaining. A statement of his case, and an appeal to the public, is the dernier resort of an injured man; such an appeal, supported by satisfactory evidence, secures a sentence in favour of the oppres ed. To disregard such a sentence would not be just, and even if it were just, it would not be possible. There has been, for years past, much animadversion on the union of Church and State. I have practically felt the operation of this two fold cord which is now happily broken in Connecticut, and which has almost prostrated me in the destruction of it. But still survive, and amidst the heavy artillery of a departed Bishop, and the artful machinations and cruel batteries of a Connecticut State's Attorney, I have been sustained by a consciousness of my innocence, and by the blessing of that merciful Being" who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." I live to make this my last effort through the press, which, Heaven be praised, is still untrammelled, to evince my innocence and y integrity.Equal justice is due to all men, and the lovers of truth are so far the lovers of God. I cannot therefore but indulge the hope, that an enlightened and compassionate public will give the following pages an attentive reading, and an impartial consideration. To render railing for railing is no part of my profession, and to expose the real faults of my fellow citizens is no pleasure to me, and I intend not to do it, any further forth, than a religious regard to duty shall compel me. human tribunals, whether civil or ecclesiastical, may and do err, and that which has been solemnly approved and sauc tioned at one time, has been no less solemnly disproved and discarded at another. But without referring to former examples, those of a recent date will serve my purpose.

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confessed it. It is not long since a Mr. Berger was arrested, tried, condemned, and underwent the most exemplary and severe punishment in Baltimore, in the state of Maryland, for stealing $1,000 from a widow woman; he was whipped, cropped and branded; but within a few weeks the money was found and recovered from a man in Virginia; and undeniably proved that Berger was entirely innocent of the crime.In the year 1819, James Lanman, Esq. brought an information against me for committing crimes with Aseneth Caroline Smith, a single woman, in Griswold in the county of NewLondon, and state of Connecticut. In October, 1820, I had my trial, (if it can be called a trial,) the particulars of which will be stated hereafter. I was declared guilty, suffered two years imprisonment in the common jail in Norwich in said. county; and within a few months after I was released, I proved beyond all contradiction, before a joint committee of both of the honourable General Assembly of Connecticut, in the Senate chamber, in the city of Hartford, that I was not, and for a long time had not been within about one hundred miles of Griswold, or of the said Aseneth, where, and when the crimes were committed, if they ever were committed by any one; nay, she herself appeared in person before the said committee in the said Senate chamber, and made solemn oath, which certainly was true, that I was absolutely innocent of the whole transaction, for which, on her account, I had unjustly suffered two year's imprisonment; that she had been overpersuaded, and hired by the said Lanman and others, to accuse me falsely, and to commit perjury, which had broken her peace of mind, and caused her more sorrow, trouble, and tears, than all the transactions of her life beside.

This her confession and testimony were supported by the testimony of others, and my innocence could not but be apparent to every unprejudiced mind. Oh, how I fear! how I tremble! how I feel for those poor, unfortunate, miserable creatures who have committed, and been accessary to the dreadful sin of perjury! have they indeed formed a plan! have they devised means! have they effected their dreadful purpose of the disgrace. imprisonment, and utter ruin. in this