your Church. I shall expect, with anxiety, news of your arrival, and after that, such accounts, and at such intervals, as your important avocations will allow. Whatever I can send in return which will interest you, you may depend on receiving.

"Mrs. Rose joins me in every kind of good wish, and believe me ever,

"My dear Sir,

"Your affectionate friend,

"JAMES HUGH ROSE.

"It was not till yesterday (when I received a letter from my curate, Mr. Veasey, who passed through London, a few days ago, on his way to Brighton,) that I heard of your arrival in England, although Dr. Clark had given me some hopes of seeing you before I left London. It was, I can assure you, a very great disappointment to me, when I found, from Mr. Veasey's letter, that you were likely to leave London in a few days for America; but my feelings have been somewhat relieved by your letter of this morning, as it gives me an opportunity at least of communicating with you before you leave the shores of Old England, and of expressing my sincere regret that it has not been permitted me to have the gratification of shaking hands with you before you set off. From the month of March (being VOL. I.

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the time you mentioned in your last letter when I might have had reason to expect you in London) till the middle of July, when I came down to Cambridge, I was daily looking out for you most anxiously, and I may say, that after Dr. Clark's arrival in London I was raised to the pitch of hourly expectation.

"As I am now deprived of a personal visit from you, be pleased, my dear Sir, to accept my most heartfelt congratulations on the recovery of your health and spirits, and may you long live to enjoy that inestimable blessing in the midst of your family and friends; and if it should not be in my power to accept your kind and friendly invitation to visit you in New-York, (of which I have very great fears,) be assured that I shall never forget that it was with the Bishop of New-York I ascended Vesuvius, ransacked the ruins of Pæstum and Pompeii, and assisted at the solemn mummery of the Sistine Chapel.

"But our intercourse must not end thus. There is one subject at least upon which, I trust, we feel a common interest-I mean that of the poor Vaudois. You have preached a sermon in their favour at Rome; I have been appointed treasurer to the fund which is now raising in this country for their relief; this fund is now become considerable, and in the course of a fortnight I am going to London to attend the sub-committee, when I shall have the pleasure to report a further increase. It is a subject which has very much occupied my attention since Christmas last, and I have more to say upon it than can come into the compass of an ordinary letter. I have written to the Rivingtons this evening, to request that they will send me your sermon, and I

have no doubt that in the course of a few weeks I shall have the opportunity of transmitting a copy to our worthy friend Mr. Bert. Had I no other reason -but I have many-for writing to you at New-York, but to report the proceedings of our committee here, you may be sure to hear from me again before many months. * * *

"That you may find Mrs. Hobart and all your children in the enjoyment of health and happiness, is the earnest prayer,

My dear Sir,

"Of your faithful and affectionate friend,

"R. BRIDLE."

From the Rev. E. J. Burrow to Bishop Hobart.

"The Grove, Epping, Aug. 29, 1825.

"RIGHT REV. AND DEAR SIR,

"I thank you very cordially for your letter, and for the valuable packet which has followed it. In truth I began to despair of gaining any tidings of you, so long is it since I heard even in what country you were probably to be found. I feared that sudden illness might have kept you a prisoner, or that some accident had befallen you by the way. I rejoice to learn, or rather to infer from your letter, that this is not so; though my satisfaction is much diminished by the regret that I have no opportunity of congratulating you in person, on the safe termination of your travels. That your remaining voyage may be prosperous, you have, I am sure, abundance of ardent wishes from both sides of the sea. The friends you leave behind, and among them those at

Epping, will continue to feel an interest, a deep interest, in one who has done so much in support of true religion; and those to whom you return seem to be quite aware of the value of your pastoral services and presence. Should it ever be my lot to cross the Atlantic, and there is no saying what may be in store, I shall hope to visit you in the scene of your exertions. In the mean while it will be a great gratification to me to be favoured with any communications which your other engagements will permit you to make relative especially to the progress of the Theological Seminary, and to the affairs of the Church in general. I shall rely upon your kind promise of an account of the American Episcopal Church, when you have leisure sufficient to draw it up. It will always be my object, so long as I remain editor of the Theological Review, to avail myself of every opportunity to promote the good understanding which now exists between the Episcopalians of America and England; for I am persuaded that nothing will more tend to rouse us to activity, than the emulation which friendly intercourse is calculated to excite. I am much obliged by the present of your edition of the Family Bible, and will certainly make mention of it in the Review before long. I should like to see a work of the same sort, but more compact and more practical, published at New-York. I would engage to edite it in London. Notwithstanding the great sale that D'Oyly and Mant's Bible has had, there is still a want of something more condensed, and suitable to those who have very little time to read and yet desire instruction. May I beg that you will be

good enough to direct your bookseller to forward any American publications on divinity which may come out, and which you think deserving of notice, to Rivingtons' for me. I am anxious to render our Review as generally acceptable as possible, for though frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet, I am confirmed, by the experience we have already had, in my persuasion, that no real good can be effected by such a publication, unless it be readable by all parties, and be as impartial towards all as sound principle will allow.

"Mrs. Burrow and my family desire to offer their respectful compliments with those of,

"Dear Sir,

"Your very faithful friend and servant,

"E. J. BURROW."

There are a great number of notes also from the highest dignitaries of the Church of England, from several of the nobility and gentry, and some of the most eminent literary men of the age, to Bishop Hobart, containing proffers of hospitality, or of other acts of civility and kindness, which, while they were doubtless very grateful to him, were nevertheless due to his talents, character, and station.

During his visit to England, he published two volumes of his sermons, which were also soon after re-printed in this country. They were his ordinary parochial discourses, which were designed merely for the pulpit, without the slightest view to publication. From the multitude of his avocations and cares, but little time was left for the preparation of his sermons, and even when he hap