measure, Dr. Franklin wrote a letter for the purpose of removing his scruples, of which the following extract has been preserved, viz. “Your tenderness of the church's peace is truly laudable; but, methinks, to build a new church in a growing place, is not properly dividing, but multiplying, and will really be a means of increasing the number of those who worship God in that way. Many who cannot now be accommodated in the church, go to other places, or stay at home; and if we had another church, many who go to other places, or stay at home, would go to church. I had for several years nailed against the wall of my house a pigeonbox that would hold six pair; and though they bred as fast as my neighbor's pigeons, I never had more than six pair, the old and strong driving out the young and weak, and obliging them to seek new habitations. At length I put up an additional box, with apartments for entertaining twelve pair more, and it was soon filled with inhabitants, by the overflowing of my first box, and of others in the neighborhood. This I take to be a parallel case with the building a new church here." Dr. Franklin was so immoderately fond of chess, that one evening at Passy, he sat at that amusement from six in the afternoon till sun-rise. On the point of losing one of his games, his king being attacked, by what is called a check, but an opportunity offering at the same time of giving a fatal blow to his adversary, provided he might neglect the defence of his king, he chose to do so, though contrary to the rules, and made his move. "Sir," said the French gentleman, his antagonist, "you cannot do that, and leave your king in check." "I see he is in check," said the Doctor, "but I shall not defend him. If he was a good king like yours, he would deserve the protection of his subjects; but he is a tyrant, and has cost them already more than he is worth: -Take him, if you please; I can do without him, and will fight out the rest of the battle, en Républicain-as a Commonwealth's man." END OF SUPPLEMENT TO MEMOIRS. APPENDIX ΤΟ MEMOIRS. No. I. Journal of Occurrences in a Foyage to Philadelphia, &c. . [Referred to in Memoirs, Part I. p. 77.3. JOURNAL of occurrences in my voyage to Philadelphia on board the Berkshire, Henry Clark, master, from London. Friday, July 22d, 1726.' : Yesterday in the afternoon we left London, and came to an anchor off Gravesend about eleven at night. I lay ashore all night, and this morning took a walk up to the Windmill Hill, whence I had an agreeable prospect of the country for about twenty miles round, and two or three reaches of the river with ships and boats sailing both up and down, and Tilbury Fort on the other side, which commands the river and passage to London. This Gravesend is a cursed biting place; the chief dependence of the people being the advantage they make of imposing upon strangers. If you buy any thing of them, and give half what they ask, you pay twice as much as the thing is worth, Thank God, we shall leave it to-morrow. Saturday, July 23. This day we weighed anchor and fell down with the tide, there being little or no wind. In the afternoon we had a |