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Retreat, written by Samuel Tuke, and he always appeared to be anxious to enlist my humble voice and influence in favour of his plans of public benevolence. Provisions for such an establish-ment was made by law in 1816, and it was opened in 1820, under very favourable auspices. In 1819, he read before the governors of the hospital, a Memoir of John Murray, Jr., of this city, and brother to Lindley Mur-ray. This he presented to me, with the grateful remark that it came from my affectionate friend. He delineates a character of the most distinguished benevolence, and of remarkable purity. He and Eddy were scholars in the same grammar school atPhiladelphia, in or about the year 1770, and their subsequent lives were devoted to charitable objects, with a steadiness of pur-pose, and an ardour of zeal, that were peculiar, and at the sametime tempered with reason and discretion. It would appear to me to be very difficult in the annals of mere mortals, to find a higher and brighter example of active and unobtrusive charity, goodness, and piety, than the one afforded by the life of Murray, as sketched by the faithful pencil of his fellow labourer in the cause of humanity. Mr. Eddy was an official agent in many other public institu-tions of a charitable kind, and he was engaged for a length of years in some that were more comprehensive in their operation, and related to the great commercial and political interests of the state. He took an early and active part in the cause of internal navigation and improvement. His good sense, striking probity, and public spirit, were known and highly appreciated by Gene-ral Schuyler, Governor Jay, and other eminent statesmen of their time; and he became a cherished advocate and assistant in all schemes of a liberal kind, and connected with the public wel-fare. He was early made a director in the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, which was established in the year 1792, and he continued a Director and Treasurer of that Company, down to its final termination in 1820. He explored the western country with a view to the introduction of inland navigation in 1796, and his distinguished merits as one of the original authors and promotors of the western canal navigation have been clearly stated and illustrated in your interesting "Memoir of Dewitt Clin-ton," and I forbear to dwell on the subject. It is well known that he executed the laborious and very responsible duties of one