tears burst forth again. The philofopher had now recollected himself; he ftept forward and drew the curtain close. The old man wiped off his tears, and taking his friend by the hand, "you fee my weaknefs," faid he, 'tis the weakness of humanity; but my comfort is not therefore loft." If, there are 65. "I heard you," said the other, "in the pulpit; I rejoiced that fuch confolation is yours." "It is, my friend,” faid he," and I trust I shall ever hold it fast. any who doubt our faith, let them think of what importance religion is to calamity, and forbear to weaken its force; if they cannot restore our happinefs, let them not take away the folace of our affliction." 66. The philofopher's heart was fmitten; and I heard him long after confefs, that there were moments, when the remembrance overcame him even to weakness; when amidst all the pleafures of philofophical discovery and the pride of literary fame, he called to his mind the venerable figure of the good La Roche, and wifhed that he had never doubted. FUNERAL OF GENERAL FRASER, NEAR i. SARATOGA RELATED BY GENERAL BURGOYNE. ABOUT funfet the corpfe of General Frafer was bro't up the hill, attended only by the officers who had lived in his family. To arrive at the redout, it paffed within view of the greatest part of both armies. 2. General Phillips, General Reidefe! and myfelf, who were standing together, were ftruck with the humility of the proceffion: They who were ignorant that privacy had been requested by General Frafer, might afcribe it to neglect. 3. We could neither endure that reflection, nor indeed reftrain our natural propenfity to pay our laft attention to his remains. We joined the proceffion and were witnesses of the affecting fcene that enfued. 4. The inceffant cannonade during the folemnity; the fteady attitude and unaltered voice of the chaplain who officiated, tho frequently covered with duft from the fhot which the American artillery threw around us; the mute, but expreffive mixture of fenfibility and indignation upon every countenance; thefe objects will remain to the last of life on the minds of every man who was present. 5. The growing dufkinefs of the evening added to th.. fcene ry, and the whole marked a character of that juncture, that would make one of the fineft fubjects for the pencil of a master that the field ever exhibited. 6. To the canvafs and to the faithful page of a more inportant hiftorian, gallant friend, I confign thy memory. STORY OF LADY HARRIET ACKLAND, by GEN. BURGOYNE. I. LADY Harriet Ackland had accompanied her husband to Canada in the beginning of the year 1776. In the courfe of that campaign, fhe had traverfed a vaft fpace of country, in different extremities of feafon, and with difficulties that an European traveller will not eafily conceive, to attend, in a poor hut at Chamblee, upon his fick bed. 2. In the opening of the campaign of 1777, he was reftrained, by the politive injunctions of her husband, from of fering herfelf to a fhare of the fatigue and hazard expected be fore Ticonderoga. The day after the conqueft of that place, he was badly wounded, and fhe croffed the Lake Champlain to join him. 3. As foon 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 conftructed by the artificers of the artillery, fomething fimilar to the carriage ufed for the mail upon the great roads in England. 4. Major Ackland commanded the British grenadiers, who were attached to General Frafer's body of the army, and confequently were always the most advanced poft. Their fitua tions were often fo alert, that no perfon flept out of his clothes. 5. In one of thefe fituations, a tent in which the Major and his lady were afleep, fuddenly took fire. An orderly fergeant of the grenadiers, with great hazard of fuffocation, dragged out the first perfon he caught hold of. It proved to be the Major. 6. It happened, that in the fame inftant, his lady, not knowing what he did and perhaps not perfectly awake, providentially made her efcape, by creeping under the walls of the part of the tent. back 7. The first object fhe faw, upon the recovery of her fenfes, was the Major on the other fide, and in the fame instant again in the fire in fearch of her. The fergeant again faved him, not without the Major's being feverely burnt in his face and other parts of his body. Every thing they had in the tent was confumed. 8. This accident happened a little time before the army paffed the Hudfon. It neither altered the refolution nor the cheerfulness of Lady Harriet; and the continued her progrefs, a partaker of the fatigues of the advanced body. The next call upon her fortitude was of a different nature, and more diftreffing, as of longer suspense. 9. On the march of the 19th of September, the grenadiers being liable to action at every step, fhe had been directed by the Major to follow the artillery and baggage which were not expofed. At the time the action began, the found herself near a fmall uninhabited hut, where the alighted. 10. When it was found the action was becoming general and bloody, the furgeons of the hofpital took poffeffion 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 mufquetry, for four hours together with the prefumption from the poft 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 baronnefs of Reidefel and wives of two British Officers, Major Harnage and Lieutenant Reynell; but in the event, their prefence ferved but little for comfort. Major Harnage was foon bro't to the furgeons, very badly wounded; and a little time after came intelligence that Lieutenant Reynell was fhot dead.-Imagination will want no helps to figure the ftate of the whole groop. 12. From the date of that action to the 7th of October, Lady Harriet, with her ufual ferenity, ftood prepared for new trials; and it was her lot that their feverity increafed with their numbers. She was again expofed to the hearing of the whole action, and at laft received the fhock of her individual' misfortune, mixed with the intelligence of the general calamity; the troops were defeated, and Major Ackland defperately wounded, was a prifoner. 13. The day of the 8th was paffed by this Lady and her companions in common anxiety-not a tent nor a fhed being ftanding, except what belonged to the Hofpital, 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 meffage from Lady Harriet, fubmitting 6. Surprifed but undifmayed, Putnam halted, returned the fire and paffed the word for the other divifions to advance for his fupport. D'Ell came. The action, though widely fcattered and principally fought between man and man, foon general and intenfely warm. It would be as difficult as ufelefs to defcribe this irregular and ferocious mode of fighting. grew 7. Major Putnam, preceiving it would be impracticable to crofs the Creek, determined to maintain his ground. Infpired by his example, the officers and men behaved with great brave. ry; fometimes they fought aggregately in open view, and fometimes individually under cover; taking aim from behind the bodies of trees and acting in a manner independent of each other. 8. For himself having difcharged his fuzee feveral times, at length it miffed fire, while the muzzle was preffed against the breaft of a large and well proportioned favage. This warrior, availing himself of the indefenfible attitude of his adver fary, with a tremendous war-hoop fprung forward, with his lifted hatchet, and compelled him to furrender; and having difarmed and bound him fast to a tree, returned to the battle. 9. The intrepid captains D'Ell and Harman, who now commanded, were forced to give ground for a little distance; the favages, conceiving this to be the certain harbinger of victory, rushed impetuoufly on, with dreadful and redoubled cries. But our two partizans, collecting a handful of brave man, gave the purfuers fo warm a reception as to oblige them, in turn, to retreat a little beyond the fpot at which the action had commenced. Here they made a ftand. 10. This change of ground occafioned the tree, to which Putn am was tied, to be directly between the fire of the two parties. Human imagination can hardly figure to itself a more deplorable fituation. The balls flew inceffantly from either fide, many ftruck the tree, while fome paffed through the fleeves and skirts of his coat. In this ftate of jeopardy, unable to move his body, to ftir his limbs, or even to incline his head, he remained more than an hour. So equally balanced and fo obftinate was the fight! II. At one moment, while the battle fwerved in favor of the enemy, a young favage chofe an odd way of difcovering his humor. He found Putnam bound. He might have dif patched him at a blow. But he loved better to excite the terrors of the prifoner, by hurling a tomahawk at his head or rather it should feem his object was to fee how near he could throw it without touching him-the weapon ftruck in the tree a number of times at a hair's bredth distance from the mark. 12. When the Indian had finished his amufement, a French bas-officer (a much more inveterate favage by nature, tho defcended from fo humane and polifhed a nation) perceiving Putnam, came up to him, and levelling a fuzee within a foot of his breaft, attempted to difcharge it; it miffed fire--ineffectually did the intended victim folicit the treatment due to his fituation, by repeating that he was a prifoner of war. 13. The degenerate Frenchman did not underftand the Janguage of honor or of nature: deaf to their voice and dead to fenfibility, he violently and repeated'y pushed the muzzle of gun against Putnam's ribs, and finally gave him a cruel blow on the jaw with the but of his piece. After this daftardly deed he left him. his 14. At length the active intrepidity of D'Ell and Harman, feconded by the perfevering valor of their followers, prevailed. They drove from the field the enemy, who left about ninety dead behind them. As they were retiring, Putnam was untied by the Indian who had made him prifoner, and whom he afterwards called mafter. 15. Having been conducted for fome diftance from the place of action, he was ftripped of his coat, vest, stockings and fhoes; loaded with as many of the packs of the wounded as could be piled upon him; ftrongly pinioned, and his wrifts tied as clofely together as they could be pulled with a cord. 16. After he had marched, through no pleasant paths, in this painful manner for many a tedious mile; the party (who were exceffively fatigued) halted to breathe. His hands were now immoderately fwelled from the tightnefs of the ligature; and the pain had become intolerable. His feet were fo much fcratched that the blood dropped faft from them. 17. Exhausted with bearing a burden above his ftrength, and frantic with torments exquifite beyond endurance; he entreated the Irifh interpreter to implore as the laft and only grace he defired of the favages, that they would knock him on the head and take his fcalp at once or loose his hands. 18. A French officer, inftantly interpofing, ordered his hands to be unbound, and fome of the packs to be taken off. By this time the Indian who captured him, and had been abfent with the wounded, coming up, gave him a pair of moca |