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conference was the adoption, by the aforenamed judicatories, of a plan of mutual and friendly intercourse.

A plan was projected the ensuing winter, by some friends of literature in the Northern part of the State, for founding a College in Schenectady, for the prosperity of which the Doctor evinced a benevolent concern, and probably made some exertions, at the meetings of the regents of the university, being a member of that board.

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[far as watchfulness, care, and fidelity, on the part of man can prevail, forever hereafter, a firm, explicit, and unconditional attachment to the known formula of our respective Churches, respecting doctrine and worship, shall be insisted on, and, at all hazards, without the fear of man, be practised in each and every one of our Churches." The third and fourth respected the cognizance of deviations from purity of doctrines, and the maintenance of discipline. Two articles were then added, in reference to the accommodation of disputes, and the mode of keeping up some visible correspondence.

The writer is unable to say what were the answers returned to these questions, or what, precisely, was the plan of correspondence, which was then agreed upon: but the abstract he has presented of the Declaration of the Dutch Committee, shows how tenacious our fathers were of the genuine doctrines of the Gospel, and how anxiously they sought to bar the introduction of error into the Church; as if premonished of the way which the adversary would use at a future time, but too successfully, to disseminate error.]

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In a letter to his worthy friend and brother, the Rev. Dr. T. Romeyn, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in that town — one, it is believed, of the original framers of the plan, and its indefatigable patron — he says, "If I can be serviceable to you in any thing relating thereto, I shall be glad to receive your directions;" and, in another dated the 25th of February, "I shall be happy to hear from you, and wish to know what prospects remain of our sanguine expectations respecting your intended College. I have understood some little misunderstanding has taken place in consequence of different claims to the same lands, which were intended to be appropriated for a fund. I hope it may be amicably settled, and that your influence may prevail to engage both sides to unite in the same object. It would, doubtless, prove a great advantage to the town to have a College placed there, and its importance to literature and religion, in that quarter of our State, need not to be mentioned."

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[* The College was incorporated in 1794, by the name of Union College, a name given it in consequence of the union of different denominations of Christians in its establishment. "The prosperous state of an Academy there," said the Regents, "the early and repeated application of a number of citizens for the erection of a College, and the liberal contributions made for that purpose, together with the conveniency to the Northern and Western parts]