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him, grew the magnificent Lunatic Asylum at Bloomingdale, He was chairman of the committee of Governors of the Hospi-tal under whose superintendence the buildings were erected, and who had the management of the concern till the patients were removed to it; and till long after a system was arranged for the government of the house and the treatment of the subjects. In all this, no one had so large a part as Mr. Eddy, and no one devoted so much time and attention to the establishment. As any thing I may write, can only serve as memoranda, which will direct the attention of Mr. Eddy's biographer to the history or records of the institutions with which he was connected, I may mention that I was a long time associated with him as a member of the Humane Society. This was an association, which had its origin long before I knew any thing of it. The objects of this association, were to provide food for the destitute, and, particularly, to supply the debtors in prison with some of the necessaries of life. At that time these objects of charity made an irresistible appeal to the attention of the benevolent. For it is strange that the laws which shut a person up within the walls of a prison, because he did not, and in most cases could not, pay his debt, made no provision for supplying him either with fire, food, or raiment. As you well know, the first soup house that was ever opened in New York, was established by this society, and it should not be forgotten, that the fears of the members that their funds were not equal to this enterprise, were overcome by your liberal engagement to defray from out your own purse all that might be required, beyond the means the friends of the society could afford. The views which were presented to many members of this society, of the condition of the poor in the city of New York, led to the formation, in the year 1816, of a society for the preventionof pauperism; in the establishment of which, and in its action, Mr. Eddy took a more active part than any other man. This society was merged in the Society for the Reformation of Juve-nile Delinquents, or House of Refuge, which was incorporated in the year 1824. This institution, after it had been in operation two years, Mr. Clinton described in his annual message to the legislature of 1826, as perhaps the best penitentiary institution which has ever been devised by the wit, and established by thebeneficence of man. I had a more intimate association with