recommence offensive operations in South Carolina. He accordingly marched directly to Camden, where, on the 25th of April, he was engaged with Lord Rawdon.

10. Victory inclined for some time for the Americans, but the retreat of two companies occasioned the retreat of the whole army. General Greene retreated in good order, and took such measures as effectually prevented Lord Rawdon from improving his success, and obliged him, in the beginning of May, to retire beyond the Santee.

11. While he was in the neighbourhood of Santee, Greene hung eight soldiers in one day, who had deserted from his army. For three months afterwards no instance of desertion took place. A number of forts and garrisons in South Carolina now fell into his hands. He commenced the siege of Seventy-six on the twenty-second of May, but he was obliged, on the approach of Lord Rawdon, in June, to raise the siege.

12. The army, which had been highly encouraged by their late success, was now reduced to the necessity of retreating to the extremity of the state. The American commander was advised to retire to Virginia; but to suggestions of this kind, he replied, "I will recover South Carolina, or die in the attempt." Waiting till the British forces were divided, he faced about, and Lord Rawdon was pursued in his turn, and was offered battle after he reached his encampment at Orangeburgh, but he declined it.

13. On the eighth of September, Greene covered himself with glory by the victory at the Eutaw springs, in which the British, who fought with the utmost bravery, lost eleven hundred men, and the Americans about half that number. For his good conduct in this action, Congress presented him with a British standard, and a golden medal. This engagement may be considered as closing the revolutionary war in South Carolina.

14. During the remainder of his command he had to struggle with the greatest difficulties from the want of supplies for his troops. Strong symptoms of mutiny appeared, but his firmness and decision completely quelled it. After the conclusion of the war, he returned to Rhode-Island, where the greatest dissensions prevailed, and his endeavours to restore harmony were attended with success.

15. In October, 1785, he sailed to Georgia, where he had a considerable estate not far from Savannah. Here he

passed his time as a private citizen, occupied by domestic concerns. While walking without an umbrella, the intense rays of the sun overpowered him, and occasioned an inflammation of the brain, of which he died, June 19th, 1786, in the 47th year of his age. In August following Congress ordered a monument to be erected to his memory at the seat of the federal government.

16. General Greene possessed a humane and benevolent disposition, and abhorring the cruelties and excesses, of which partisans of both sides were guilty, he uniformly inculcated a spirit of moderation. Yet he was resolutely severe when the preservation of discipline rendered severity necessary.

17. In the campaign of 1781, he displayed the prudence, the military skill, the unshaken firmness, and the daring courage, which are seldom combined, and which place him in the first rank of American officers. His judgment was correct, and his self-possession never once forsook him.

18. In one of his letters he says, that he was seven months in the field without taking off his clothes for a single night. It is thought that he was the most endeared to the commander in chief of all his associates in arms. Washington often lamented his death with the keenest

sorrow.

LOVELL'S FIGHT.

1. ON the margin of a little lake in the township of Fryeburg, in the state of Maine, is the spot where the pride of the once powerful tribe of the Pequawkets was broken, and the scene of the desperate conflict maintained by the gallant and unfortunate Captain Lovell and his little band, with the red warriors who formerly possessed the fertile and beautiful intervales of the Saco.

2. The place is now almost daily visited by strangers, who, with a reverence due to departed valour, perform a pilgrimage to the spot where its highest efforts have been performed. On the shore of the pond, a sandy beach spreads out, covered with aged trees, and bounded on one side by a meadow, and terminated by an inconsiderable brook, which, being swollen in the spring time by the wa

ters poured from the dissolving snows of the mountains, forms a narrow peninsula.

3. Here the small company engaged in the celebrated and rash expedition, retreated, with the savages on their front and flank, and the waters on their right and rear, and continued the work of death, till the enemy, learning too late that the desperation of the few is mightier than the courage of the many, retired, leaving the survivors of the fight to enjoy a triumph gained by the loss of more than half their number..

4. It is not by the inconsiderable forces engaged in the battle that we are to estimate its consequences. It should be remembered, that the Indians, irritated by a long series of injuries, and with a strong effort to stem the torrent of desolation which was sweeping over their hopes, had dug up the hatchet, and to the hardships of a settlement in the wilderness, were added the horrors of a ruthless warfare.

5. The pilgrim of those days listened in the still watches of the night for the footfall of the invaders; the musket was the companion of his toils and of his pillow, and too often the fierce yells of unsparing foes came on the silence, and the flames rose from his dwelling, and his children were murdered, and himself carried into captivity, to expire in the tortures inflicted in the sportiveness of cruelty.

6. The defeat of an hundred was to them even as the slaughter of the thousands on the blood-stained field of Waterloo, to the conqueror of Europe. It broke their spirit, and from that hour the star of the nation grew pale, till it went out in darkness.

7. When we stood upon the battle ground, the sun was just setting,, and the thoughts that pressed upon the mind were many and melancholy. He went down as calmly on the eve of that long day of carnage the wind sighed as mournfully through the evergreens of the forest-the waters curled as gently-the murmur that came on the departing twilight was as sad-and the woods waved with a motion as graceful as they now do.

8. But then, the last rays of fading light fell on eyes that were soon to be closed in eternal darkness-the breeze mingled its solemn wail with the groans of the dying soldier-the waters rolled along, stained with the red current of life, and the trees shaded the cold corpses of the slain.

9. All around was so calm and still, that it were an insult to nature to make so lovely a solitude the arena of contention, and to offer human sacrifices on the purpled altar of violence. The sounds of merriment, the rejoicing of mirth, the pleasant song or the sprightly dance were more in harmony with the quiet beauty of the spot, than the rude confusion of warfare and the desolation of slaughter.

10. It was well that the floods had come and washed the soil from the red stains, and the storms had spread out the white sands over the spot where they had fought. Almost an hundred years have gone by, and as yet, no monument has been raised to preserve to posterity the memory of the locality of the combat.

11. The gratitude of a century has done nothing to perpetuate the names of those who have added to the inheritance of our honours. The dead were buried long after they fell, after the eagle and the wolf had been gorged with the relics of mortality, at the foot of an aged pine.

12. The fire has since scathed its branches and blasted its verdure, and the trunk has decayed, and each traveller carries away a fragment from its stump as a memento of his visit, so that ere long no mark will remain to distinguish the graves of the fallen, and to warn us that we do not profane with our footsteps the earth which covers their lowly beds.

13. Lovell had been long distinguished among the partisan warriors of the times. His former successes had been great. On one occasion, he surprised and killed a party of ten savages, whose scalps, stretched on hoops and elevated on poles, were borne back in triumph. His reputation called to the ranks of so distinguished a commander, a band of brave men, eager to avenge the outrages committed on the infant settlements.

14. The fervour of patriotism was animated by the bounty of one hundred pounds each, offered by the government for those bloody trophies not often taken from a living enemy. In the month of May, in the year 1725, with forty-six men, he commenced the expedition which terminated his military career.

15. Two of these soldiers, becoming lame, returned, another falling sick, was left with the surgeon, and a guard and eight men in a stoccade fort, erected partly as a place of security for the sick, and partly with a wise providence

against misfortune, as a retreat. With the remaining thirty-four, he continued his march northward until the morning of the eighth day of the month.

16. It was while engaged in the devotional exercises of their morning worship, that the report of a musket echoed through the forest, and they discovered an Indian in pursuit of his game, standing alone upon a narrow point of land extending into the Pequawket lake, on the side opposite to their encampment.

17. Thus apprised of the neighbourhood of their foe, they laid aside their packs and prepared for the encounter. They advanced, encompassing the lake in their course, and arrived at the head of the peninsula. The savage had awaited them, either ignorant of their approach, as from the most authentic accounts is most probable, or with the spirit of a Curtius, devoting himself, as some have supposed, to inevitable destruction, that he might allure the English to a position where defeat would be certain.

18. He received their fire, but, before he fell, returned it with so deadly an effect, that the captain and another soldier were mortally wounded. The party having secured their victim, returned towards the spot where they had left their packs. But their course had crossed the path of the red men, who had followed, and having seized the spoil, knew the number of their foes, and when Lovell and his company approached, they rose from the earth with an exulting yell, and showered their death shot fast upon the devoted band.

19. The white men retreated, and protected by the natural defences of the situation to which necessity had driven them, and sheltered by those pines which still bear the scars of the battle, maintained themselves for a whole day with heroic resolution against an overwhelming force. Although invited to surrender by the display of long ropes, which, in the expressive language of signs, told them of the luxuries of captivity, they fought with a determination to meet a quick and honourable death, rather than to expire amid the torments of a protracted martyrdom.

20. Night at length arrived, and the savages, weary of the contest, and disheartened by the loss of their chief, and of more than three fourths of their warriors, and despairing of overcoming such obstinate resistance, retired, and left their opponents to escape with the miserable remnant who

survived.