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tains of worldly comfort are dried up, let us then seek those living waters which flow from the throne of God. It is only from a belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be born in a manner which becomes a man.

57. "Human wisdom is here of little use; for in proportion as it bestows comfort, it represses feeling, without which we may cease to be hurt by calamity, but we shall also cease to enjoy happiness. I will not bid you be insensible my friends! I cannot.

58. "I feel too much myself, and I am not ashamed of my feelings; but therefore may I the more willingly be heard; therefore have I prayed to God to give me strength to speak to you; to direct you to him, not with empty words, but with these tears; not from speculation, but from experience; that while you see me suffer, you may know also my consolation.

59. "You behold the mourner of his only child, the last earthly stay and blessing of his declining years! Such a child too! It becomes not me to speak of her virtues; yet it is but grateful to mention them, because they were exerted towards myself. Not many days ago you saw her young, beautiful, virtuous and happy; ye who are parents will judge of my affliction now. But I look towards him who struck me; I see the hand of a father amidst the chastenings of my God.

60. "Oh! could I make you feel what it is to pour out the heart when it is pressed down with many sorrows; to pour it out with confidence to him in whose hands are life and death; on whose power awaits all that the first enjoys, and in contemplation 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 is 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 sad

ness, 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 round 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 organs 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 restore our happiness, let them not take away the solace of our affliction."

66. The philosopher's heart was smitten; and I 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 good La Roche, and wished that he had never doubted.

VII. Funeral of GENERAL FRASER, near Saratogarelated by General Burgoyne.

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BOUT sunset the corpse of Gen. Fraser was brought up the hill, attended only by the officers. who had lived in his family. To arrive at the redoubt it passed within view of the greatest part of both armies.

2. General Phillips, 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 unaltered voice of the chaplain who officiated; though 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 important historian, gallant friend, I consign thy memory,

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VIII. Story of LADY HARRIET ACKLAND, by
General 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 country, 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 offering 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 through the campaign, and at Fort Edward or the next camp, obtained a two-wheel tumbril, which had been constructed by the artificers 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 sergeant of the grenadiers, with great hazard of suffocation, dragged out the first person he caught hold of. It provedto 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 that 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 sergeant again saved him, but not without the Major's being severely. burnt in his 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; she continued her progress, a partaker 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 baronness of Reidesel, and wives of two British officers, major Harnage and lieutenant 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 Reynell was shot dead. Imagination will want no helps to figure the state of the whole groupe.

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.

13. 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 Ame rican camp, and requesting Gen. Gates' permission to attend her husband.

15. Though 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 then in his shoulder a ball received in the late action, she rowed down the river to meet the enemy. But her distresses were 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

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