deposited about one hundred and thirty dead bodies of my fellow christians in the silent grave, looking for the general resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ. I am not conscious that have, in any respect, departed from the doctrine or worship of the Episcopal church, nor from its discipline.

My nearest neighbours and parishioners, the wardens, and vestries, and congregations which have been under my partícular care, have uniformly and very unanimously declared that I have always been to them a very faithful minister, and a very exemplary man; and that although they have been constantly conversant and well acquainted with me for days, and weeks, and mouths, and years, yet from their own personal knowledge they had not known, or had reason to believe that I had or would depart from the rules of morality and propriety. This has been the amount of their uniform and very unanimous testimony. I now have about two thousand souls in my ministerial care, and I know no one of them who I think would not give this testimony if called upon. But when I bring my own conscience to the bar of God; when I consider the awful responsibility of my profession; when I compare the inward disposition of my heart, and my outward words and actions with the purity of God and the perfect rule of his word, I feel my own imperfection, I blush at my own unworthiness, I see the want of an atonement, and feel the want of forgiveness. And on a review of the unhappy opposition which Bishop Jarvis and others have raised against me, conscious of my own frailty, and sensible that I like other men, have been liable to err, I now confess that I have often said and done that which, on reflection, I am sorry for; and now declare, that whereinsoever I have gone astray from my duty, whereinsoever I have done any wrong to any person by word or deed, I do now truly and carnestly repent, I am heartily sorry for it, and am ready and willing to make restitution to the utmost of my power; and 1 humbly pray them, for God's sake, to forgive me all that is past. And whereinsoeyer any person has done me any wrong, by word or deed, and I have been greatly abused, greatly misrepresented, greatly injured, and things laid to my charge

which I never knew; I am ready and willing to forgive them from the bottom of my heart, and never more to mention it and I hereby offer my hand in charity and friendship to all with whom I have had any controversy. I do not ask to be restored to the ministry, for I have never been canonically censured, suspended, silenced or degraded; nor am I absolved from my ordination vows; but I ask for peace and reconciliation, that the beginning of the bishop's government of the church in this state may be like the first day of a new world, where every one is a friend to every one, where all is harmony, all is friendship, and all are pleased, and all are delight. ed with all. I know that where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work, and I am heartily tired with it. I religiously believe the Episcopal church to be a divine appointment; that it is the general assembly and church of the first born on earth, the medium through which we must become members of the church triumphant in Heaven. In union and communion with this church, I wish and intend, by God's grace, to live and die; and in it I pray God to give me the confidence of a sure and certain faith, the comfort of a reasonable, religious and holy hope; and that I may be in favour with God, and in perfect charity with all the world. In a COURT OF LAW expect impartial justice, in an ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL I expect mercy, peace and reconciliation. You will please to lay this before the clergy this evening or on the first opportunity, and let me know your determination in the case, at Bishop's tavern, in State-street, in New-Haven; and I am, Right Rev'd. Sir, with sentiments of due consideration, your most obedient and very humbe servant,

AMMI ROGERS.

I was not informed whether the foregoing letter and that of the Rev. Messrs. Tyler and Blakeslee were laid before the convention by the bishop or not; but a motion was made by the Rev. Mr. Rayner, of Huntington, to drop all matters in regard to me, and that I should be received as a member of that convention. This was advocated by most of the clergy and laity from the eastern part of the state--and opposed by the Rev. Mr. Burhans, Burrage Beach, and Asa Chapman, now Judge Chapman. This last had been employed as coun

sel in some, if not all, the suits against me, for seven years, in Fairfield county. Though educated at the same college and at the same time, he had now become my personal, political, and religious enemy; at this time he volunteered his services, and I was informed discovered great zeal and animation against me; and by his influence, and that of other federals, the motion was lost by a very small majority. Could any thing be more arbitrary, tyrannical and oppressive, than to deprive a clergyman of his rights and privileges, without hearing or trial, according to the canons of the church, in any state, in the face and eyes of the pastoral letter of the House of Bishops, and the solemn decisions of our courts of law and to refuse all overtures of mercy, peace, and reconciliation? Is not this persecution? But this was only the beginning of that dreadful plot, by which I have since suffered two years imprisonment, and the loss of all worldly comforts.

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In the year 1817, the Rev. Mr. Blakeslee, by the direction of Bishop Hobart, visited all my parishes, performed divine service with them, preached to them, and gave them public notice that the said bishop would himself, within a few days, visit them in person; that he would perform divine service, preach, confirm, and administer the holy communion to them, and desired them to prepare themselves accordingly. Soon after his return he wrote, and sent the following letter, viz. From the Rev. Mr. Blakeslee of New-London, to the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, in New-York.

New-London, July 14th, 1817.

RIGHT REV. AND DEAR SIR,

Agreeable to your request, I have made a tour through the north eastern section of this state, and have visited nine parishes, preached and performed service in each of them.Seven of them are purely the result of Mr. Rogers' labours; the other two were but the ruins of what they once had been. The church in Poquatanic, where I commenced my mission, was collected some fifty or sixty years since, by the Rev. Mr. Punderson, but ruined by untoward events during the revolutionary war, and has never been able, (though occasionally visited by the Rev. Mr. Tyler.) to assume an aspect of respectability. The building was almost demolished, when Mr.

Rogers, about three years since, first visited them. From four to six families were the number of Episcopalians then in the parish, as stated to me by the wardens and vestry. The church has since been rebuilt and finished, with a bell to it, and the number of families now belonging to it are from fifty to sixty ;-from three to four hundred usually attend. They speak in the highest terms of the piety, zeal and talents of their minister, and of the perfect harmony and friendship which subsist among them. Here I met Mr. Tyler and Mr. Rogers, who attended me in the services of the day.

From this place I, attended with Mr. Rogers, went to Jewitt City, about nine miles, where the service had never been attended to but by him. Here I found a handsome stone chapel, finished outside, where I met a numerous con⚫ gregation, who joined devoutly in the service, and performed the responses in an audible and decent manner. The hearts

of the good people were warm, and a spontaneous glow of affection told us how ardently they felt the force of that obligation, which, by your permission, had been conferred upon them. I called upon a number of genteel families, who received me with marked respect, and expressed a warmth of attachment highly honourable to the zeal and faithfulness of Mr. Rogers. The prospect of the growth of the church, although affected by the failure of the manufacturing interest in this place, is, however, very flattering; and the pleasure they felt in being thus noticed, led them to say the village had not seen so happy a day for five years. We left the village that evening and proceeded about three miles, where we were entertained with hospitality and kindness.

Early on Tuesday morning we drove about ten miles, to Mr. Cleaveland's, in Canterbury, where I performed service to an attentive and respectable audience, ardent in the cause of the church, and dispassionate in their inquiries.

From thence we drove to Hampton, about six miles, and were received with equal civility. I performed service at the house of Mr. Litchfield, convenient for a private house; the congregation from two to three hundred, the responses. audible, and the attention warm and animated.

From this we proceeded to Stafford, about twenty-five miles, where I performed service in the afternoon, having but one service on that day. The politeness with which we were received by all the respectable inhabitants, together with their devout attendance on the service of the day, declared plainly how ardent their feelings were in favour of the church; their gratitude was loud, their acknowledgements were fer

vent.

Ou Thursday morning, after discharging our obligation of politeness to Mr. Johnsen, owner of the establishment at the springs in Stafford, for a particular invitation to stop and breakfast with him, we proceeded to Andover about twenty miles, where I performed service in the meeting-house, (they baving lately dismissed their clergyman,) to an audience of several hundreds, devout in their appearance, and orderly in their devotions. Expressions of approbation in favour of the Episcopal worship were almost universal; a handsome repast was provided by Esquire House.

In the afternoon we rode about six miles to Columbia, where I performed service in the meeting house to an attentive and respectful audience, they having likewise lately dismissed their minister.

On Friday forenoon I performed service in Bolton, about eight miles, in a house purchased by Episcopalians, and fitted up for a place of stated worship. In this place there has been a warm opposition to the church. Few attended beside their own members. They appeared like a little band, girt with armour, supporting the cross, and bearing the standard of their blessed Master. They performed the service with a devotion and ardor that would warm the coldest heart, and inspire the dumbest tongue. We dined at Doct. White's. From thence we passed to Hebron, about six miles, where at four o'clock I performed my last service. Here a numerous congregation collected from the scattered ruins of a church founded some sixty or seventy years ago by the Rev. Mr. Peters, but miserably scattered during the revolutionary war, and but barely kept alive until Mr. Rogers took charge of them about four years since; from which it has wonderfully increased in numbers, and many have joined the communion.