Judge Jay read to me part of a very interesting and important manuscript, which he had prepared on the preservation of international peace.  He suggests that any two nations, entering into an alliance, should embody in their treaty a clause mutually binding them to refer any dispute or difficulty that may arise, to the arbitration of one or more friendly powers.  As he has concluded to publish his pamphlet, I trust it will shortly be in the hands of the friends of peace in this country, as well as in America.  This idea is beautifully simple, and of easy application.  Through the kindness of the author, I have been furnished with a long and important extract from his manuscript, which I am permitted to lay before the British public by anticipation, in the Appendix to the present work.[A] On returning from his hospitable mansion, he obligingly sent his carriage with me to Sing Sing, but the steamboat had started earlier than we expected, and I hired a carriage and a pair of horses, with the driver, who was also the proprietor, to convey me the remainder of the way to New York.  The distance for which I engaged it, was thirty-six miles, for the moderate sum of five dollars.  On the road, the man pointed out the place where Major Andre was taken, whose tragical end excites sympathy even to this day, in the breast of the Americans.  On entering the city, we passed a man in livery, and my driver remarked, “There, that is English; I would not wear that for a hundred dollars a day.”  Long may the American, who lives by his daily labor, preserve this feeling of honorable independence.

[Footnote A:  See Appendix F.]

During my stay at New York this time, I was the guest of my friend William Shotwell, Jr., at whose hospitable dwelling, I afterwards took up my abode, whenever I lodged in the city.  From the 24th to the 28th, I was chiefly occupied in attending the sittings of the Friends’ Yearly Meeting of this State; and, during the intervals, in seeing many Friends in private company.  I was much encouraged to find among them, a considerable number thoroughly imbued with anti-slavery sentiments; especially, from the western parts of the State.  The subject of slavery was introduced, in the Yearly Meeting, by reading the Epistle from the Society in England, which is elsewhere quoted.[A] This was followed on the part of many, by expressions of deep feeling; and the question was referred to a committee, for practical consideration.  In consequence of the report of this committee, at a subsequent sitting, five hundred copies of the English address were directed to be printed, and circulated among Friends, within the compass of the Yearly Meeting; and the whole subject was referred to its “meeting for sufferings,” with an earnest recommendation, that they should embrace every right opening for furthering the great object.  The clerk of the Yearly Meeting expressed his firm conviction, that the work was on the wheel, and that nothing would be permitted to stop its progress, until,