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cution to an Indian constable, for debts under tendollars, &;c. This act you may find in the revisedlaws of New-York, passed 1813. (See 2d vol. page 160.)You may, likely, meet with it at the Mayor's office,or with some lawyer in your city. We are your affectionate friends, THOMAS EDDY.And for SAMUEL PARSONS, by his request,R. R. LAWRENCE. New York, 4th mo. 9th, 1817. MY DEAR FRIEND, I return thee my most sincere and warmest thanksfor thy kind letter and valuable pamphlets, sent meby Dr. Francis, and should, before this time, havemade my acknowledgments for these favours, had Imet with a suitable opportunity of a person by whomI could have sent some tracts. I have the pleasure to state, that at Hartford, inConnecticut, they have formed a valuable and exten-sive establishment for instructing the deaf and dumb,which has been aided by their legislature, and con-siderable subscriptions of private individuals of thatState, and citizens of this and other adjoining States. The Institution is to be under the superin-tendance and management of my friend, Gallaudet,who will have, as an assistant, a Frenchman who isdeaf and dumb, and who was a professor, severalyears, in the institution at Paris. Nothing of thekind exists in any other part of the United States;and, in my opinion, the Hartford establishment willbe sufficient to serve all the states north of Pennsyl-vania. Among the many philanthropic institutions withwhich your country abounds, there is none that ap-pears to me more likely to be useful than savingbanks. They are certainly most admirably calculated to be beneficial to the poor, by promoting amongst