plation of whom disappears all that the last can inflict! For we are not as those who die without hope; we know that our Redeemer liveth; that we shall live with him, with our friends, his servants, in that blessed land, where sorrow is unknown, and happiness as endless as it is perfect. 61. Go then, mourn not for me; I have not lost my child: but a little while and we shall meet again never to be separated. But ye are also my children. Would ye that I should not grieve without comfort? So live as she lived; that when your death shall come, it may be the death of the righteous, and your latter end like his." 62. Such was the exhortation of La Roche; his audience answered it with tears. The good old man had dried up his at the altar of the Lord; his countenance had lost its sadness, and assumed the glow of faith and hope. The philosopher followed him into his house. 63. The inspiration of the pulpit was past; the scenes they had last met in, rushed again on his mind; La Roche threw his arms around his neck, and watered it with his tears. The other was equally affected; they went together in silence into the parlour, where the evening service was wont to be performed. 64. The curtains of the organ were opened; La Roche started back at the sight-" Oh my friend," said he, and his tears burst forth again. The philosopher had now recollected himself; he stept forward and drew the curtain close. The old man wiped off his tears, and taking his friend by the hand, "You see my weakness," said he, " 'tis the weakness of humanity; but my comfort is not therefore lost." 65. I heard you," said the other, "in the pulpit; I rejoice that such consolation is yours. "It is, my friend," said he," and I trust I shall ever hold it fast. If there are any who doubt our faith, let them think of what importance religion is to calamity, and forbear to weaken its force; if they cannot re-‚· store our happiness, let them not take away the solace of our affliction." 66. The philosopher's heart was smitten; and I have heard him long after confess, that there were moments, when the remembrance overcame him even to weakness; when amidst all the pleasures of philosophical discovery, and the pride of literary fame, he called to his mind the venerable figure of the goed La Roche, and wished that he had never doubted. 1. FUNERAL OF GENERAL FRASER, NEAR SARATOGA, ABOUT sunset the corpse of General Fraser was brought up the hill, attended only by the officers who had lived in his family. To arrive at the redoubt, it passed wit..in view of the greatest part of both armies. 2. General Phillip, General Reidesel and myself, who were standing together, were struck with the humility of the procession: they who were ignorant that privacy had been requested by General Fraser, might ascribe it to neglect. 3. We could neither endure that reflection, nor indeed restrain our natural propensity to pay our last attention to his remains. We joined the procession and were witnesses of the affecting scene that ensued. 4. The incessant cannonade during the solemnity; the steady attitude and unalterable voice of the chaplain who officiated, tho' frequently covered with dust, from the shot which the American artillery threw around us; the mute, but expressive mixture of sensibility and indignation upon every countenance; these objects will remain to the last of life on the minds of every man who was present. 5. The growing duskiness of the evening added to the scenery, and the whole marked a character of that juncture, that would make one of the finest subjects for the pencil of a master that the field ever exhibited. 6. To the canvass and to the faithful page of a more impor tant historian, gallant friend, I consign thy memory. LA ** TORY OF LADY HARRIET ACKLAND, BY GEN. BURGOYNE. ADY Harriet Ackland had accompanied her husband to Canada, in the beginning of the year 1776. In the course of that campaign she had traversed a vast space of coun try, in different extremities of season, and with difficulties that an European traveller will not easily conceive, to attend, in a poor hut at Chamblee, upon his sick bed. 2. In the opening of the campaign of 1777, she was restrained, by the positive injunctions of her husband, from of fering herself to a share of the fatigue and hazard expected before Ticonderoga. The day after the conquest of that place, he was badly wounded, and she crossed the Lake Champlain to join him. 3. As soon as he recovered, Lady Harriet proceeded to follow his fortunes thro' the campaign, and at Fort Edward, or the next camp, obtained a two wheel tumbril, which had been constructed by the arti, rs of the artillery, something similar to the carriage used for the mail upon the great roads in England. 4. Major Ackland commanded the British grenadiers, who were attached to General Fraser's body of the army, and consequently were always the most advanced post. Their situations were often so alert, that no person slept out of his clothes. 5. In one of these situations, a tent in which the Major and his lady were asleep, suddenly took fire. An orderly serjeant of the grenadiers, with great hazard of suffocation, dragged out the first person he caught hold of. It proved to be the Major. 6. It happened, that in the same instant, his lady, not knowing what she did, and perhaps not perfectly awake, providentially made her escape, by creeping under the walls of the back part of the tent. 7. The first object she saw, upon the recovery of her senses, was the Major on the other side, and in the same instant again in the fire, in search of her. The serjeant again saved him, but not without the Major's being severely burnt in the face and other parts of his body. Every thing they had in the tent was consumed. 8. This accident happened a little time before the army passed the Hudson. It neither altered the resolution nor the cheerfulness of Lady Harriet; and she continued her progress, a pretaker of the fatigues of the advanced body. The next call upon her fortitude was of a different nature, and more distressing, as of longer suspense. 9. On the march of the 19th of September, the grenadiers being liable to action at every step, she had been directed by the Major to follow the artillery and baggage, which were not exposed. At the time the action began, she found herself near a small uninhabited hut, where she alighted. 10. When it was found the action was becoming general and bloody, the surgeons of the hospital took possession of the hut, as the most convenient place for the first care of the wounded. Thus was this lady in hearing of one continued fire of cannon and musquetry, for four hours together, with the presumption from the post of her husband at the head of the grenadiers, that he was in the most exposed part of the action. 11. She had three female companions, the baroness of Reidesel, and the wives of two British officers, Major Harnage and ieutenant Reynell; but in the event their presence served but little for comfort. Major Harnage was soon brought to the surgeons, very badly wounded; and a little time after came intelligence that Lieutenant Reynel was shot dead.-Imagination will want no help to figure the state of the whole group. 12. From the date of that action to the 7th of October, Lady Harriet, with her usual serenity, stood prepared for new trials; and it was her lot that their severity increased with their numbers. She was again exposed to the hearing of the whole action, and at last received the shock of her individual misfortune, mixed with the intelligence of the general calamity; the troops were defeated, and Major Ackland desperately wounded, was a prisoner. 18. The day of the 8th was passed, by this lady and her companions, in common anxiety-not a tent nor a shed being standing, except what belonged to the hospital, their refuge was among the wounded and dying. 14. During a halt of the army, in the retreat of the 8th of October, I received a message from Lady Harriet, submitting to my decision a proposal of passing to the American camp, and requesting Gen. Gates's permission to attend her husband. 15. Tho' I was ready to believe, for I had experienced, that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree, were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal. 16. After so long an agitation of the spirits, exhausted not only for want of rest, but want of food, drenched in rains for twelve hours together, that a woman should be capable of such an undertaking as delivering herself to the enemy, probably in the night, and uncertain what hands she might first fall into, appeared an effort above human nature. 17. The assistance I was enabled to give was small indeed. I had not even a cup of wine to offer her; but I was told she had found, from some kind and fortunate hand, a little rum and dirty water. All I could furnish to her was an open boat and a few lines, written on dirty wet paper, to General Gates,`` recommending her to his protection. 18. Mr. Brudenell, the chaplain, who had officiated at the funeral of General Fraser, readily undertook to accompany her, and with one female servant and the Major's valet, who had themin his shoulder a ball received in the late action, she rowed down the river to meet the enemy. But her distresses not yet at an end. 19. The night was advanced before the boat reached the enemy's out-post, and the centinels would not let it pass, nor even come on shore. In vain Mr. Brudenell offered the flag of truce, and represented the state of the extraordinary passenger. The guard, apprehensive of treachery, and punctilious to their orders threatened to fire into the boat, if it stirred before day-light. 20. Her anxiety and, sufferings were thus protracted through seven or eight dark and cold hours; and her reflections upon that first reception could not give her very encouraging ideas of the treatment she was afterwards to expect. But it is due to justice at the close of this adventure to say, that she was received and accommodated by General Gates, with all the humanity and respect that her rank, her merits and her for tunes deserved. 21. Let such as are affected by these circumstances of alarm, hardship and danger, recollect, that the subject of them was a woman; of a most tender and delicate frame; of the gentlest manners; accustomed to all the soft elegances and refined enjoyments that attend high birth and fortune, and far advanced in a state in which the tender cares always due to her sex become indispensibly necessary. Her mind alone was formed for such trials. 1. INt ADVENTURES OF GENERAL PUTNAM. N the month of August, five hundred men were employed under the orders of Majors Rogers and Putnam, to watch the motions of the enemy near Ticonderago. At South Bay they separated the party into two equal divisions, and Rogers took a position on Wood Creek, twelve miles distant from Putnam. 2. Upon being, sometime afterwards, discovered, they formed a re-union, and concerted measures for returning to Fort Edward. Their march through the woods was in three divisions by FILES, the right commanded by Rogers, the left by PutDamn, and the centre by Captain D'Ell. The first night they encamped on the banks of Clear River, about a mile from old Fort Ann, which had been formerly built by Gen. Nicholson. 3. Next morning, Major Rogers and a British officer, named Irwin, incautiously suffered themselves, from a spirit of false emulation, to be engaged in firing at a mark. Nothing could have been more repugnant to the military principles of Putnam such conduct; or reprobated by him in more pointed terms. |