Diary of the American Revolution. From newspapers and original documents, etc

Preface

. The materials of these volumes are taken from "VYhis: and Toiy newspapers, published during the American Revolution, private diaries, and other cotemporaneous writings. They present to the student of this day the same view the readers of the revolutionary period en joyed — the manners and customs of the people, and the moral and religious, as well as political features of the time. As far as practicable, the language of the writers has been preserved. For every assertion presented the reader will find an authority which must be his guide in ascertaining its value in an historical point of view ; while, at the same time, he must keep in mind the truth that the errors and lampoons of a period belong as much to its history as the facts and flatteries. Among the newspapers from which the editor has drawn his material, no one requires an especial notice in this place ; a history of the periodical writers of

PREFACE.

. the last century would in itself exceed the limits of these volumes. Such a work would prove an interest ing and important addition to the literature of America. In conclusion, the editor acknowledges his obligations for the many favors and facilities extended to him by the various Historical Societies of the United States, most especially to the officers of the New York His torical Society, from whom he has received the most valuable assistance. New York, October, 1859. LIST OF AUTHORITIES USED IN THIS WORK, Newspapers and other Printed Material. Bailey's Freeman's Journal. Broadsides — New York Historical Society. Boston News Letter. Boston Independent Chronicle. Boston Weekly Advertiser. Boston Gazette and Country Journal. Constitutional Gazette. Connecticut Courant. Connecticut Gazette.

Connecticut Journal. Essex Gazette. Freeman's Journal and New Hampshire Gazette. Georgia Gazette. Gaine's New York Gazette, " Weekly Mercury. London Evening Post. London Gazette. London Morning Post. London Public Advertiser. Massachusetts Spy. Maryland Gazette. Maryland Journal. Middlesex Journal. New England Chronicle. New England Gazette. New Hampshire Gazette. New London Gazette. New Jersey Gazette. New Jersey Journal. Newport Mercury. New York Packet. New York Journal. New York Gazette. Pennsylvania Gazette. Pennsylvania Journal. Pennsyvania Ledger. Pennsylvania Packet. LIST OF AUTHORITIES. VI Pennsylvania Evening Post. Pinckney's Virginia Gazette. Providence Gazette. Rivington's Royal Gazette. South Carolina Gazette. St. James' Chronicle. The Universal Intelligencer. Upcott Collection of Newspaper Extracts — New York Historical Society.

Virginia Gazette. Manuscripts. Letters op Captain Israel Carver. " Edward Churchill. " Jonathan Churchill. " General Horatio Gates. " L. W. Elliott. Diary of Captain Smythe, of the Royal Army. " Elkanah Gould. " Solomon E. Clift. " John V. Mason. " John Parks. LIST OF MAPS AKD PLATES Portrait op William Mocltrie {Frontispiece.) . . Vol. I. Page Map op Lake Champlain and Lake George . . . V8 View of Boston .... 97 View of Quebec . . . , . 2g5 Map op Boston and Vicinity ... 212 View op New York . . . . g]i Portrait op Got Carleton ... 454 Plan of the Operations op the British and Rebel Army 1777 494 Portrait of General Burgoyne . . 5J3 Portrait op Sir Henry Clinton {Frontispiece.) . Vol. II. Portrait op Henry Lee ... 209 Plan of the Siege op Savannah ... 2°4 Plan of the Siege of Charleston ... 258 View of Charleston .... 273 Portrait of Major Andre ... ssg Portrait of James Eiyington ... 448 Map of New York . . . .„„ Portrait of Cornwallis . . *,n DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION.

Chapter I

January 1. — TnE chief troubles of our Israel1 are the Philantrops, the Hazlerods, the Sir Froths, the Tims, the Bens, and the Bobs. These are men, Avho, for lar<re„ . . ., " " & Causes of trouble shares in the American plunder, have sold themiu BostoI>- selves to do wickedly. The barbarians who have been aiding and assisting bad governors and abandoned ministers, in all their attempts to subjugate and enslave these once happy colonies : the hireling prostitutes Avho have been constantly representing to ministry that the friends of liberty were a small, insignificant, divided faction ; that the people had not A'irtue to sacrifice any parts of the profits of their trade, or the luxury of their liA'ing for the sake of their country ; or spirit to withstand the least exertion of power. These are traitors Avho Avere for none but licensed toAvn-meetings,2 and gaA*e administration the outlines of the execrable Boston Port Bill and the other detestable bills for destroying the charter,3 and those sacred compacts Avhich Americans once thought were of some A'alue, the faith of kings being the security.

These are the unblushing adArocates for pensioned governors, dependent judges, hired attorneys, and sheriff created jurors, that the people might, under color of law, be strips of their property, without their consent, and suitably punished if they should dare to complain : the odious rebels, who, for the support of these hateful measures, haAre inA'ited the troops and ships, that are now distressing the inhabitants of Boston, and alarm- 1 The town of Boston. 3 Of Massachusetts Bay. 3 See the Governor's proclamation. [1775. 8 DIARY of the revolution. ing not only a single province, but a whole continent.

And when almost every event has turned out contrary to their predictions, and AA'hen it might be reasonably expected that the union of the colonies, the resolutions of the Continental Congress, and the late associations and preparations to withstand all hostile attempts upon our persons or properties, might lead administration to suspect at least the policy or safety of pushing this people to extremities ; Ave find this infamous cabal playing OArer the old game of ministerial deception, and Timothy Ruggles ' with a gravity peculiar to himself and an owl, „. „ „ , , asserting in the public prints — ■" that though Timothy Ruggles o r Jo assertion. maiiy of the people had for some time past been arming, their numbers Avould not appear in the field so large as imagined, before it was known that independency was the object in contemplation ;"2 and further, that since that time, many associated in divers parts of the province, to support Avhat he calls " Government." — But the views and designs of these pensioned prostitutes of Massachusetts, — in all that they say or write, are perfectly kenned by the most short-sighted amongst us. fin \Tain are their scare-croAvs, raw-head and bloody bones, held up to deter us from taking the most effect ual means for our security.

The little scribbling, illiberal 1 The Chief Justice of the province of Massachusetts Bay. See statement and plan of association, published by Judge Ruggles in most of the Boston papers, Dec. 23-27, 1774, and reprinted in Games' New York Gazette, Jan. 9, 1775. 3 An assertion as false as it is impudent and injurious, first uttered by a hirelin" priest,* in the New York Freeholder, who at the same time declared that he had rather be under the government of Boman Catholics than Dissenters — a declaration truly characteristic of the doctor, and his little club of malignants. The people of Massachusetts have hitherto acted purely on the defensive ; they have only opposed those new regulations which were instantly to have been executed and would have annihilated all our rights. For this absolutely necessary and manly step they have received the approbation of the Continental Congress, one of the most respectable assemblies in the world.

They aim at no independency, nor any thing new, but barely the preservation of their old rights. They have referred their cause to the whole continent, and are determined to act only in free consultation, and close union with their brethren. This is indeed the safety of all. — Editor of the Journal. * Dr. Myles Cooper, the President of King's, now Columbia, College, a vigorous writer in favor of the crown. 1775.] ISAAC SEARS AND JOHN CASE. 9 pieces, which have disgraced the Massachusetts Gazettes, Avill not lessen the Continental Congress in our esteem ; or retard the measures they have recommended, notAvithstanding the sums paid to effect it. These writers, and their attempts to encourage or mislead, are treated Avith ineffable contempt by their countrymen. It has, hoAvever, been unhappy for both countries that the represen tations and projects of such men as these have been heeded and adopted on the other side of the Atlantic ; men whose very livings have depended upon the continuation of those measures which Americans have so long complained of, and sought to have redressed.

If these unnaturals should succeed in their present misleading attempts, to the preATenting a speedy close to our differences, Ave shall then haA^e good reason to conclude that blindness has happened to Britons, that the fulness of American Liberty might come in.1 January 3. — This morning, Mr. John Case, an old man of near sixty years of age, from Long Island, was entreated by an acquaintance of his to go to the house of Jasper Drake, tavern keeper near Beekman's Slip, where he Avaj. told Captain McD 1,2 Captain S s,3 and others wanted to comTerse with him on politics. He went, and soon entered into conversation with Captain McD 1, aa-Iio attempted to convince him that he was in an error, but not being able to effect it, politely left him. Captain S s, with several captain sea« other persons, then attacked him with the force JonnCaso. of their eloquence and noise, but Case said he Avas an un learned man, and but of feAv words, — that he could not reply to above one.

That he judged, however, the fairest Avay to come at the truth would be to recur to the origin of the present contest between Great Britain and the Colonies, and to trace from the time of the stamp act, the encroachments of ministerial power, and the increasing demands for provincial privileges. This Avas objected to by Captain S s, as it Avould require too much time and attention to discuss. He 1 Pennsylvania Journal, Jan. 25. 2 Alexander Mac Dougall. s Isaac Sears, afterwards called by the loyalists, King Sears. [1775. 10 DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION. said that he would question him a little, and asked Case whether the king had not violated his coronation oath ? Mr. Case replied, that he thought he had not, and reasoned on this and other matters in as cool a manner as possible, in order not to irritate Captain S s, who, however, soon grew warm, and branded Case with the appellation of Tory, and told him that if he was in Connecticut government he would be put to death.

S s then demanded of Case whether, if the Bostonians were to take up arms, he would fight for the king ? Case ansAvered, that if he fought on either side, he would certainly fight for no one else, as he conceived King George to be his lawful sovereign, for the minister a few days before prayed for our rightful sovereign Lord King George the Third, on which S s replied he was sorry that he had turned churchman, where such prayers were used ; Case replied, these expressions were deliA-ered the preceding Sunday by Dr. Rodgers ' at the Presbyterian meeting, for he himself was a Presbyterian. After a feAV more queries and replies of a similar nature, S s told him that he would not suffer a Tory to sit in company with gentlemen, placed a chair in the chimney corner, caught Case by the arm, and forced him into it.

He then called for a negro boy, aat1io belonged to the house, and ordered him to sit along Avith him ; for that he (Case) was only fit to sit in company with slaves ; but the negro had too much understanding to comply. Mr. Case then called for some wine, and offered it to the company, but S s refused to accept of it, pushed him down in the chair where he before had placed him, and ordered the rest not to drink with a Tory ; and further, that whoever spoke to Case, should forfeit a bowl of toddy, which was exacted by him from tAvo persons who happened to disobey his mandates. S — — s then told Case that his age protected him, for if he was a young man, he would have placed him on a red-hot gridiron ; and after he had detained this old man as lonoas he thought proper, he dismissed him.2 1 John Rodgers, D. D., pastor of the Wall street church. 3 This account was published in Rivington's Gazette, Jan. 12, in the form of a deposition, witnessed by Mr. Case. 1775.]

ADVICE TO THE MINISTRY. 11 January 5. — The professorship lately instituted by our most gracious sovereign, at King's College in New York, is to be held by a tutor of the college, at the same time a clergyman. His business, besides teaching, Avill "ss be to deliver annual lectures in defence of the Christian, and on the principles of natural religion. His title, the Regius Professor of Divinity, with a salary from the Crown. An in contestable evidence this, of his Majesty's desire of supporting the Christian religion in America, as it is in England, by annual lectures in its defence.* January 8. — A letter from London of a late date, says, Lord North behaves Avith the greatest firmness and composure, and is resolutely determined to carry his point j^ jjorth con. with the colonies, and smiles with contempt upon tmues flrm any tales of congresses and combinations in America.

The Duke of Richmond has positively declared his TheI)I1ko of Rich opinion, that the colonies have proceeded to such mond'8 opinion unjustifiable lengths, their pretensions cannot any longer be supported ; and that the constitutional authority of Parliament over them must be maintained ; and that this is the language of most people of England.2 January 9. — A avriter in England gives the following ad vice to administration with respect to America : " Let authority give way to prudence; dignity is supported Advicetothe best by justice ; the bread of at least one hundred thousand manufacturers is of more importance than a shadowy authority ; the lives of our fellow-subjects, descended from ourselves, and though born in a distant climate, are dear to us. One passionate resolve may sacrifice a million of British subjects, and subject this nation and its dependencies to ruin, and those who framed it to everlasting infamy.

More is at stake than many comprehend ; those Avho say otherwise are ignorant, or foes in disguise." 3 1 Gaines' New York Gazette, Jan. 9. 3 Tl 8 Supplement to Holt's New York Journal, Jan. 5. 3 The same. [1775. 12 DIARY OF THE REA'OLDTTON.

January 10. — This evening was married by the Reverend Doctor Auchmuty, Mr. Joseph Dillon, son of Captain Dillon, Joseph Diiion commander of His Maj esty 's packet, the Mercury, married. to jy;igs joanna yan Home, daughter of Mr. Gar ret Van Home, late an eminent merchant of this city ; a very amiable and truly deserving young lady.1 The people of Marblehead, Massachusetts, met to-day and resolved, that, as a great number of the inhabitants of that Motion in MarbletoAvn may soon be called forth, to assist in defendnead, Mass. jng chari-er an(j constitution of that proA'ince, as well as the rights and liberties of all America, in order thereto it is necessary that they should be properly disci plined and instructed in the art of war ; they also ordered that a committee of fifteen be appointed to attend to the conduct of the ministerial tools and Jacobites in that town, and to report their names to the town, that effectual measures may be taken to silence them in the future, or expel them from the community.2 January 12. — This day, his Majesty's frigate, the King fisher, Captain Montague, Avent up to Turtle Bay to lay there for the Avinter season.3 At a late meeting of exotics, styled The Sons of Liberty, in New York, the pamphlet entitled " Farmer A. "W.'s View of the controversy between Great Britain and the Colonies," &c, published last week by Mr. Rivington, was introduced by one of the mushrooms, and after a few pages being read to the company, they agreed neon. con. to commit it to the flames, without the benefit of clergy ; though many, very many in deed, could neither write nor read ; however, their common executioner immediately threw it into the fire, where it was consumed, and its spiritual part ascended in vapor, to the 1 Gaines' Mercury, Jan. 1G. 3 New York Gazette, Jan. 16. ' Upcott, iv. 295. 1775.] 13 AFFAIRS LN CONNECTICUT. upper regions ; whither not one of the company durst aspire, even in idea.1 January 17. — The Provincial Congress of South Carolina met on the 11th instant, and have continued in session, Sun days not excepted, until to-day.

They have shut up the courts of law ; no process is to issue in civil cases, and all proceedings had, since the return day, September 20, 1771, are to be staid. This is such a step as no other province has yet taken.2 A correspondent says : — " The violent party in Philadel phia are greatly crest-fallen ; they see Avith inexpressible cha grin the numbers of their former adherents which they lose every day. The Pennsylvania Farmer, a gentleman of great discernment, and possessed of a very large estate, has deserted them, greatly alarmed at the length our committee are carrying matters ; he has declared he will not meet them any more, and he does not declare alone." * Another Avriter observes, that the cause of the enemies of American liberty must needs be in a most desperate condition, since they have recourse to the most infamous acts and falsehoods to carry their point.

Of these he instances a long catalogue, among Avhich are the following : — That the people in several colonies are deserting the cause of their country and joining its enemies to enslave it. That several of the most eminent patriots had deserted the cause, particularly the Philadelphia farmer — who remains the same invariable friend he has eArer been to his country and mankind, and is now one of the delegates for the province of Pennsylvania, to meet next May in general Congress." s January 19. — The Governor of Connecticut called his counsel together on the 4th instant ; their deliberations are kept very secret ; but we are told they have ordered three 1 Rivington's Gazette, Jan. 12. 3 Gaines' Mercury, Feb. 6. 3 John Dickinson. 4 Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, in Rivington's Gazette, Jan. 19. 6 Holt's Journal, Feb. 9. [1775.

DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION. 14 hundred barrels of gunpowder, and lead in proportion, to be purchased at the public expense. The militia in the whole colony is mustered every week, and in most towns they have a deserter from his Majesty's forces, by way of drill sergeant. Nothing but a spirit of independence would suffer matters to be carried to such extremities, as make all prudent inhabitants fear that our parchment Avill soon totter.1 January 20.— A little after ten o'clock this evening, two young men passing down Milk street, near the entrance into ' . . K , Long Lane, they were accosted by an officer, not Disturbance at & " <> i • l Boston. jn tne Engiish, but as they supposed m another language, which they did not understand; they asked him AA-hat he meant ; he replied he meant to tell them to go about their business.

They had not gone far before the officer called to them to stop. They stopped till he came up to them, and angry words ensued. The young men, however, parted from him the second time, and went on their way towards their homes. The officer followed and overtook them near the head of the lane, and stopped them again, telling them he supposed they were stiff Americans ; to which one of them said he gloried in the character. Here again words ensued, and the officer drew his sword, flourished it and struck one of the young men on the arm, Avho immediately seized him. At this juncture, three or four of the town watch, who were upon the patrol, came up and separated them, adA^ising them to go home. The two young men did so, but the officer refused, saying he was prisoner of the watch and would go with them ; they told him he was not their prisoner, but might go AA'here he pleased, and if he desired it, they would see him safe home : but he insisted upon it that he was their prisoner.

The watch men went down the lane towards their head-quarters in Kino street, AA'here they had been going before, and the officer ac companied them. In the way they met with several persons, whom they took to be servants of officers, who, supposing the officer to be in custody of the watch, attempted to rescue him, 1 Extract of a letter from Hartford, Jan. 13 ; Rivington's Gazette, Jan. 19. 1775.] balfour's expedition. 15 but he insisted upon being a prisoner, and said the watchmen were his friends, and he toould go with them. They then went forward, and in Quaker Lane, Avhich leads into King street, they were met and assaulted by more than twenty officers of the army, who took several of their watch poles from them, and wounded some of them.1 January 23. — This morning a detachment of about one hundred and twenty soldiers from the army in Boston, under the command of Captain Balfour, Avere embarked Balfour vUIt in armed vessels for Marshfield, about forty miles Marshfield. from that place.

We are at a loss for the occasion of this ex traordinary manoeuvre, as all of our accounts from Marshfield 1 Edes and Gills' account, as published in Rivington's Gazette, Feb. 9. The same paper contains the following "Other Side of the Question:" — You have read in that fund of lies and sedition, Edes and Gill,* of a " high-handed riot." There have been five field officers on a court of inquiry, to inspect into the con duct of the officers concerned on that occasion. It commenced by Lieutenant Myers, 38th Regiment, being, without the smallest cause, insulted by two towns people, who not only called him a Tory, rascal, scoundrel, &c, but damned the king, governor, army, and every friend to government ; the former he put up with, the latter resented, by knocking the person down. He was immediately surrounded by the watch ; and though he immediately surrendered, and gave his sword to a Mr. Winslow, who came up at the time, (a private gentleman,) and informed them, and this gentleman, of the cause of the quarrel, they treated him with every indignity possible; not only allowed the two men to knock him down in the midst of them, but they themselves kicked and beat him all the way to the watch-house, a little short of a quarter of a mile.

The noise about the watch-house brought together a few officers, whom Mr. Myers requested not to interfere, concealed from them the cruel treatment he had met with, and insisted on remaining in custody. The insolence of the watch to those gentlemen occa sioned a fresh riot, when the interposition of a party from the main guard pre vented any bad consequences. Immediately after, Myers was released, by order from the governor. Complaints were immediately lodged against the officers, and bail is to be given to-morrow for their appearance. I cannot quit this sub ject without observing, that the high-flyers are much disappointed in the event of this riot ; not only at the little mischief done, but at the ready submission of every officer concerned, to the laws of the country. The spirit of the people here seems to subside a little ; and we have every reason to believe, that, in order to keep it up, the vagabonds of the town are employed to insult the troops, which they do daily, in hopes of bringing about another massacre. » Tho publishers of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal. [1775.

DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION. 16 aoree that the people in that vicinity were peaceable, and no injury had been offered any of the Tories. A few persons there, it is said, who have rendered themselves disagreeable and contemptible to their neighbors, have taken it into their heads to make complaint to General Gage for military protection. In this they have engaged a number of idle young fellows, and some negroes to join them. The letters from thence state that the numbers and quality of the petitioners are des picable. Some inhabitants not unfriendly to the Tory cause, signified their disapprobation of this measure. The sending soldiers alarms and irritates the country ; but what service the Tory cause is to receive from this step, time will discover.1 January 25. — A despicable pamphlet lately published in Boston, noAV commonly called the " Grey Maggot" has asserted, " That the only apology which could be made for the conduct of the Continental Congress in adopting the Suffolk resolves, was that they came into this vote immediately after drinking thirty -two bumpers of Ma deira, of which the next morning, when their heads were cool, they were ashamed, and then prudently determined not to do the business till after dinner for the future !

" If it would not offend the characters of that truly august assembly to take so much notice of this most impudent and false assertion, as seriously to contradict it, we would say, that it appears from the minutes of the Congress, that as they sat till late in the after noon, they never did any business after dinner, and that the Suffolk resolves were acted upon Saturday, in the forenoon. From this instance the public may see to what an astonishing height of unblushing falsehood and the basest calumny against the most respectable characters, the enemies of our common rights have now attained ; and how ready they are to perform any dirty drudgery for the sake of procuring or ' preserving a titled or lucrative place.2 Saturday last, after a few days' illness, died at Philadelphia, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, universally lamented, 1 Pennsylvania Journal, Feb. 8. * The same paper. 1775.]

SIMILITUDE EETAVEEN ENGLISH AND ROMANS. 17 Thomas LaAvrence, Esq., Vendue Master, one of the alder men, and for some time mayor of that city, which Thomas Lawrence offices he filled with unsullied reputation. In diei short, benevolence marked his character, and virtue in him wore her most amiable dress, being constantly exercised in love toAvards his family, uprightness in his dealings, sincerity in his friendships, cheerfulness in his conversation, and an earnest desire to promote peace and happiness around him. This day his remains were deposited in the family vault in Christ' church burying-ground, attended by a very large number of respectable citizens. The funeral was conducted agreeable to the resolves of the Continental Congress.1 " Those Avho haATe turned the least part of their attention to history," says a -writer in England, " Avill find a strong simili tude between us at the present time and the En(rlish ond Romans in their declension.

The latter at that Romans. period were more luxurious, dissipated, and fanciful in dress, equipage, arts, &c, than at any other time — -so are we. Suicide more peculiarly marked that era — so it does ours. Their emperors held the dignity of gOATernment in such open con tempt that they frequently made their horses consuls. Ours, in this last point, goes beyond them, by making asses sena tors ; yet with all this, the fonn of goA-ernment was supported. — Alas ! ours at present is nothing but a form." 2 January 27. — In the toAvn of Plymouth, Massachusetts, eleA-en persons were chosen to observe the actions of the Tories, and make report from time to time, what they can hear and observe." January 28. — Yesterday the house, barn, and barrack of Jacob Van Binschola, of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, was 1 Gaines' Mercury, Jan. 30. — On the 20th October, 17T4, the Continental Con gress, in their Articles of Association, resolved, that, " on the death of any rela tion or friend, none of us, or any of our families, will go into any further mourn ing-dress than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for gentlemen ; and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies ; and we will discontinue the giving of gloves and scarfs at funerals." — Journals of Congress. 3 Holt's Journal, Feb. 9. ' New York Journal, Feb. 16.

Vol. I.— [1775. 18 DIARY OF THE REVOLUTION. burnt to the ground, together with every thing therein contained. The villainous action was perpetrated by a negro fellow belong 'ing to the family, who some time before had been corrected by his master. Confessing his guilt, he has been tried and burnt to-day.1 February 1. — This day the Provincial Congress of Massa chusetts, met at Cambridge, and the Hon. John Hancock was chosen president.2 Fasttng and prayer, appointed by authority, throughout the colony of Connecticut, " to implore the divine mercy at this „ , ™ dark and critical time." A number of Tories be- Conneeticut Tories- longing to the town of Stamford, in that colony, met at a certain tavern to spend the day in regaling themsehTes, and, as their manner commonly is upon such occasions, testi fying theh loyalty to the king, by disobeying the proclama tion of his Governor.

They receiA^ed intelligence of some casks of powder, which a carman was entrusted with, for the use of the colony. Of this they gaATe immediate information to an under officer of the customs, aat1io seized the poAvder, and ordered it to his own house.2 February 3. — A number of men from a distant town having heard of the seizure of the powder at Stamford, went in a body to that toAvn : proceeded in an orders Affair at Stamford. i -i i manner to the house Avhere the powder was lodged, which they entered without opposition, and having found "it, rode off with the casks, without any bad conse quences, saving a plentiful discharge of Billingsgate from the mortified disappointed faction, and the no small consternation of the informers, who upon the first news of the company's approach, ran off with great trepidation, and hid themselves until all Avas over.4 1 Gaines' Mercury, Feb. 13. • Xew York Gazette, Feb. 13. !