St. Paul's Chapel and King's College would have shared the same fate, had not Mr. Inglis been providentially on the spot, who sent a number of people on the roof with water to protect them. Besides the buildings already mentioned, about two hundred houses which stood on the church ground were consumed, so that the clergy of this city were the greatest sufferers by the revolution of any on the whole continent. How thankful should we be to God, that in his wise providence we did not ourselves fall upon these evil times, where from different views of duty, persons equally conscientious differed so widely in what they deemed the performance of it; where the endearing ties of nature and the bonds of faith were rent asun- happened in the city of New-York on the 21st day of September last, do report-That the said corporation have lost twenty-two thousand two hundred pounds, in the four following buildings, which were consumed by the fire : Besides the loss to the corporation of £536 per annum, the annual rent of 246 lots of ground, the tenants' buildings being all consumed by the fire. In witness whereof, we have signed this report the 13th day of May, 1777. This cost £850 sterling. ELIAS DESBROSSES, |