And so ends all that my informant knew of the love-lost girl. Her
accomplice in guilt, who did not desert her till he saw there was hope
in her uncle's face, was hurried away as a missionary to South-America;
and, as the waves of the sea rolled between him and his only object of
affection, he must have 'rejoiced with trembling' that the crimson waves
of death had not mingled her and him in a common doom. He wanted the
independence to detect the injustice of a system which made a pure
attachment guilt, and its discovery condemnation; so he raised no
protesting voice against it. Truly, the day of strange stories in Italy
is not yet over.

HUGUENOTS OF NEW-YORK CITY.

Governor Stuyvesant was among the earliest to encourage the emigration
of the Huguenots to New-York, and whose descendants for generations have
ranked with our best and most honorable citizens. On the twenty-fourth
of January, 1664, N. Van Beck, a merchant in New-Amsterdam, received
letters from Rochelle, stating the wish of some French Protestants to
settle in New-Netherland, as their religious rights had been invaded and
their churches burned. The Governor and Council resolved to receive them
kindly, and grant them lands gratuitously. In a letter of M. de
Denonville to the French government, dated sixteenth November, 1686, he
reports that fifty or sixty 'men, Huguenots,' arrived at New-Amsterdam,
'who are establishing themselves at Manat, (New-Amsterdam,) and its
environs. I know that some have arrived at Boston, from France.'
Although the waves of the Atlantic divided the two countries, the French
King does not seem to have forgiven his banished subjects in America. In
his instructions to Count De Frontenac, respecting the expedition from
Canada against New-York, and dated seventh June, 1689, he directs him to
'send to France the French refugees, whom he will find there,
_particularly those of the pretended Reformed Religion_,' or Huguenots.
His royal but remorseless spirit was not gratified, however, as the
French did not venture to attack New-York, and instead of their
Protestant brethren being sent back to France, a few years afterward
they erected a church for their own religious services. This was _Du
Saint-Esprit_, and built on Pine street, directly opposite to the
present Custom-House, by the Huguenots and Walloon settlers, the last of
whom were a part of the French Protestants, although they emigrated to
America from the river 'Wael.' An