all the said inhabitants, who live south of the line fixed by the Massachusetts Charter, are within, and have a right to the privileges of this government, the aforesaid agreement notwithstanding." The same grant was extended by the assembly two or three years afterwards, to the ecclesiastical societies of said towns, according to the constitution, and laws of the colony. Massachusetts met this resolve of Connecticut by a petition to the crown. Connecticut.

met this petition with a fair statement of facts, and the resolve of the assembly was confirmed by the crown, 1755.

As soon as this controversy was settled, the colony was thrown into a high state of agitation, upon a new and interesting scene. A Spanish ship had put into New-London in distress, and it became necessary to unlade her, to repair damages done to the hull, and the cargo was delivered into the custody of the collector of the port of NewLondon. When the ship had been condemned as unfit for sea, and another obtained, and had got ready to take in her cargo, it was found that the most valuable part of the cargo, had been embezzled and lost, which induced the supercargo, Don Joseph Miguel, to reland what he had taken on board, and petition to the general assembly, at their October session, for redress and satisfaction, and also to receive the residue of the cargo into their custody, and discharge the crew. The assembly met this petition with a resolve-"That whatever losses he might have sustained, it was by means either to them unknown, or which they were by no means able to prevent, &c. and declared that the prayer of the petition was unreasonable, and therefore could not be granted." The assembly next impowered the governor to enquire into the affair, and graut due search to be made, if requested; and afford the said Don Miguel all due protection and relief, according to the laws of trade, nature, and nations.

The state felt their honor wounded, and were alarmed, lest they should be called upon to repair the loss, or provoke a war; and such was the blame attached to Governor Wolcott, for not doing his duty in this affair, that it surmounted his popularity, and the next election fell on Governor Fitch, who succeeded to the chair May, 1753. Whatever efforts might have been made to recover the lost goods, they were never found, and here the affair ended.

YALE COLLEGE CONTINUED.

After the contested claims to the unlocated lands in the north western section of the colony were settled, and the townships located; the trustees came into possession of a donation of 628 acres of land, in the town of Salisbury, deeded by Messrs. Fisk and Leavins, 1730, and in the year 1732, the general assembly, made a grant of 1500 acres in several townships of the same section of lands; and in 1741, they confirmed their grant by patent. The same year, Dean Berkeley made sundry valuable donations to the college; the first consisted of his private library, which he had brought out with him to America, (where he resided two years upon his estate at Newport,) together with the rent of that estate, after his return to England. This donation was the basis of that premium, known by the name of the Dean's Bounty, which has since been conferred upon the three best classical scholars, who should reside three years at the college after they became graduates. The next donation of this illustrious benefactor, consisted of about 1000 volumes of valuable books, to the amount of 400l. sterling.

These valuable donations were made in the time of the rectorship of Mr. Williams, with whom Dean Berkley became acquainted, and held correspondence when in America, and for whom he entertained the highest esteem and regard. Soon after this the health of Rector Williams be

gan to decline, and in 1739 he obtained permission to retire from office to his seat at Wethersfield, where his health was restored, and where new honors awaited him. He was first called to a seat in the house of assembly, and speaker of the house; next to a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, and to the command of a regiment destined against Canada. When the regiment was disbanded, he went to England to receive their pay, where he was honored with the first, and most pious literary acquaintance, and where he married a lady of fortune, as well as of eminent piety, and literary worth; and with her retired to Wethersfield, where he lived much respected, and died 1755, greatly lamented. The sum of the character of Rector Williams, is expressed in the following extract of a letter from the Rev. Doctor Doddrige.

"I look upon Col. Williams, to be one of the most valuable men upon earth: he has joined to an ardent sense of religion, solid learning, consummate prudence, great candor, and sweetness of temper, and a certain nobleness of soul, capable of contriving and acting the greatest things, without seeming to be conscious that he has done them."

The Rev. Thomas Clap was called by the trustees from the pastoral charge of the first society in Windham, to succeed Rector Williams, and was installed, April, 1740. Rector Clap, amongst the first duties of his office, compiled a body of laws for the college, which was accepted by the trustees, and which continue in force to this day, and the orders of the college were reduced to system. In the year 1744, the General Assembly provided for the support of three tutors, by enlarging their annual grant, which greatly relieved the burthens and promoted the interest of the college.

In 1743, a sum of twenty-seven pounds sterling was bequeathed to the college, by Anthony Nougier, of Fairfield, the interest of which was to be applied to the support of the faculty of the college.

The college at this time flourished and became numerous; the classes averaged, generally, about twenty, and in May, 1745, the General Assembly granted a new charter to the college, in which the faculty were stiled, "The President and Fellows of Yale College, in New-Haven."-A copy of this charter may be seen in Dr. Trumbull's History of Connecticut, Vol. II. page 306.—In 1746, a donation was made to the college by the Hon. Philip Livingston, Esq. of the colony of New-York, to the amount of twenty-eight pounds ten shillings sterling, the interest of which was to be applied towards the support of a Professor of Divinity, or otherwise, as the faculty might direct. In 1747, the number of students amounted to one hundred and twenty, which rendered it necessary to erect a new college-house, and President Clap obtained a Lottery, to raise 500l. sterling, 1749, with which he entered upon the work of the new brick college, and in 1752, the General Assembly made a further grant of 8631. more to carry on the work, and in 1754, they made a further grant of 280/. with which the president was enabled to complete the work. During this period of erecting the new college, died Dean, then Bishop Berkeley, aged 73, and in one of his last letters to President Clap, he thus expressed himself" The daily increase of religion and learning, in the seminary under your auspicious care and government, gives me a very sensible pleasure, and an ample recompence for all my donations."

The want of a regular Professor of Divinity had been long sensibly felt in the college, and now became an object of particular attention. In 1753, the legislature granted to the college a general contribution throughout the churches of the colony, to raise a support for a professor;

but the approaching French war, led them to change the plan, and substitute a general subscription, which answered the purpose. In 1753, the president, at the request of the corporation, entered upon the duties of Professor of Divinity, and the religious exercises on Lord's day, (which had hitherto been held by the students, in the first society in New-Haven, under the preaching of the Rev. Mr. Noyes,) now began to be held in college-hall, under the ministry of President Clap. In November, of the same year, the president and fellows of the college met, and established a complete system of orthodox faith, for the college, in order to promote the great object for which the institution was founded. This opened a field of controversy that continued many years, with some warmth, and even bitterness.

In 1755, the Rev. Naphtali Dagget was invited by the president and fellows, to the important office of Professor of Divinity; he accepted the invitation, and in September, 1756, he was regularly installed as Professor of Divinity in Yale College. In 1757, a subscription was opened amongst the first characters in the colony, for the purpose

of building a house for the professor; the money was raised, and the house built in the year 1757, and the professor entered into possession under a public and formal delivery by the president-The same year the corporation examined the president's accounts for monies which he had expended upon the new college, and passed them with the following vote.

"Whereas the Rev. President Clap hath had the care, and oversight of building the new College, called Connecticut Hall, and laying out the sum of 1660l. sterling, which appears to have been done with great prudence and frugality; and the College built in a very elegant and hand- some manner, by means of his extraordinary care, diligence, and labour, through a course of several years; all