pulpit-cloth taken away from the pulpit; it was afterwards employed as a tavern, and the barrel of rum placed in the readingdesk. The succeeding year it was used for a stable, and now serves as a fort.""

On his arrival in Canada he immediately repaired to the Mohawk village, where he was affectionately welcomed by his Indian flock. They offered to build a house for him, that he might continue to reside amongst them; but he preferred fixing his residence at Montreal, and going over to them once a month. He was soon afterwards appointed chaplain to the 2d battalion of the Royal Yorkers; and in addition to this duty, he opened a school, which had long been wanted in the city.

Another clergyman also, the Rev. John Doty, not long before appointed to the Mission of Schenectady, after having twice been made prisoner, was happy to escape (in 1777) with his family into Canada, where he was soon afterwards appointed by Sir John Johnson to a military chaplaincy.2

The loyalty of the clergy in the northern and eastern states drew down upon them the resentment of the republican authorities, and many of them, of course, sought protection under the royal flag, while not a few of those who survived the troubles were afraid to remain in America. A large number of refugees, among whom were several clergy, sought an asylum in New York; and, as the churches did not afford sufficient accommodation, it became necessary to make suitable arrangements for the celebration of divine worship in the City Hall, where the refugee clergymen ministered to their brethren in affliction.

1 Original Letters, vol. xix. 1. 204.

2 Journal, vol. xxi. p. 344.

CHAPTER XIV.

NEW YORK.

Rev. Charles Inglis appointed to Dover Mission-Becomes Assistant to Dr. Auchmuty at New York-Urges the appointment of Bishops-Plan for conversion of the Indians-Letter recounting the progress of the Civil War and the sufferings of the Clergy-Death of Dr. AuchmutyElection of Mr. Inglis as Rector of Trinity-Treaty of 1783--Confiscation of Mr. Inglis's Property-He retires to Nova Scotia-Bishop of Oxford's Testimony to the conduct of the Missionaries-Address of the Clerical and Lay Deputies of the American Church.

ON Mr. Neill's removal, in 1758, from Dover to the less laborious Mission of Oxford, in the same province (Pennsylvania), Mr. Charles Inglis was recommended to the Society as his successor. He had, during the last three years, conducted the free-school at Lancaster to the satisfaction of all, and had thus become favourably known to the clergy of the neighbourhood, who now testified of him "as a young gentleman of unblemished character, discreet in his behaviour, and free from even the suspicion of anything unbecoming." With these high testimonials he came to England, was admitted by the Bishop of London to holy orders, and re-embarked for his humble Mission, to which a salary of 50l. a year was attached. Such was the modest commencement of a career, which was destined to be marked by various fortunes, and distinguished by services of the highest value to the Church.

Mr. Inglis, after a long and dangerous voyage, arrived at Dover on the 1st of July, 1759; and at this distance of

eighty-six years, it is impossible not to remember with thankfulness, that the son is still administering, with unimpaired vigour and energy, one division of that important diocese which, when it was first placed under the father's spiritual superintendence, comprehended the whole of the British colonies in that quarter of the world. So long a period of service (and still, let us hope, to be considerably extended) to the colonial church, deserves, surely, special notice and remembrance.

Mr. Inglis, on coming to his Mission, found the situation unhealthy from the neighbourhood of low, marshy lands. There were within it three churches, but that at Dover was in a most ruinous condition. He soon, however, contrived to restore it, and to build a fourth on the borders of Maryland. The Mission comprised the whole county of Kent, thirty-three miles in length and ten in breadth, with a population of 7000, of which a third belonged to the communion of the church.1

A method which he had adopted to abate the drunkenness, debauchery, and riots, which were the usual consequence of meetings to hear candidates for the office of representative or sheriff, was to announce a sermon at the same place and hour; and by this he drew off many.

In 1763, he informed the Society of the flourishing state of his Mission, as evidenced by the erection and restoration of churches, the crowds who attended Divine service, the return of dissenters to the Church, and the revival of a

spirit of piety in many persons. His own health he described as much affected by the dampness of the situation, as well as by the excessive fatigue of having to attend stations distant severally fourteen, seventeen, and eighteen miles from his own residence.2

1 Journal, vol. xv. p. 279

2 Ibid. vol.xvi. p. 68.

In 1765, Mr. Inglis obtained permission of the Society to accept the appointment of assistant to Dr. Auchmuty, and catechist to the negroes at New York. During the six years of his ministration at Dover he had baptized 756 children and twenty-three adults; while, within the same period, his communicants had increased from forty-nine to one hundred and fourteen.

The churchwardens and vestry of Dover, on the occasion of his departure, wrote to express their great regret at his going, and to testify that he had, "with unwearied diligence, attended four churches, discharging every duty of his functions, and conducting himself on all occasions in a manner truly laudable and exemplary."

The melancholy accident, which has been more than once alluded to already, namely, the shipwreck and death at sea of the Rev. Messrs. Giles and Wilson, who had been appointed by the Society his successors in the Mission of Dover and Mispillion, furnished him with an opportunity of renewing with increased force the argument for the appointment of bishops. The following are his observations on the subject:

"April 19, 1766.

"The expense and hazard in going to England for orders were always discouraging circumstances. This melancholy accident will increase our apprehensions of danger, and shows they are well founded. Nothing but our having Bishops here can remove these and many other grievances which the American Churches labour under.

"Our having Bishops here on the terms we want them is a thing so equitable in itself, and so essential to the interest of religion in our Church, that I am lost in astonishment at our being deprived of them so long. Why are we denied the common privileges of all other subjects? or why are we distinguished by

1 1 Journal, vol. xvii. p. 41.

grievances and persecutions to which all other denominations are perfect strangers?

"Our Church must necessarily decline while we are in this situation, and must finally sink unless the timely remedy is applied. If the Clergy of England, therefore, do not exert themselves, and with spirit second the applications hence on this head, a person without the spirit of prophecy may easily tell what the event will be. For my part, I look upon it to be the immediate cause of Christ and his Church; and therefore, every obligation we are under to serve these calls on us to promote this measure.

"As we want not to encroach on the liberties or privileges, civil or religious, of any other denomination, the most violent, unreasonable dissenter dares not openly avow his disapprobation of this measure. Some may murmur in secret, but, as their murmurs will not bear examination, proceeding entirely from a perverse, persecuting spirit, they keep them to themselves. All of them that are moderate and reasonable,—and in charity we should suppose these to be the majority,—own the necessity and equity of our having Bishops. This I know to be the case. But suppose they were violent in opposing this, yet have they any right to do so or be heard? Have we not an equal right to oppose their having ordinations, and synods, and presbyteries, and sessions? Or might we not, with equal justice, oppose any sect here in having the full exercise of their discipline and government? We have already seen what delays in this affair produce. They only weaken our cause, and add strength to our opponents; and I pray God the government may not have cause to repent, when it is too late, their omission of what would be so great a means of securing the affections and dependence of the colonies, and firmly uniting them to the mother country. Even good policy dictates this measure, were the interest of religion and our Church left out of the question." 1

At the request of several of the principal inhabitants, Mr. Inglis paid a visit to his old Mission of Dover in 1767. He remained with them three Sundays, and officiated at

1 Original Letters, vol. xix. 1. 57.