kindness. After the peace, his remains were removed to his native shore at the desire of his brother Dr. Pitcairn of London. NOTE 8. p. 81. Thou, lorn stranger, too must shed. The wife of Lieutenant Dutton of the thirty-eighth, daughter of the Earl of Rochford, secretary to the Home Department, occupied a house adjoining the mansion of one of the most accomplished scholars and divines of Boston. She was as much admired for her intellectual accomplishments as she was beloved for the sweetness of her disposition, the elegance and gentleness of her manners, and the nostentatious piety of her heart. During the engagement on Bunker-hill, the wives of several officers who had fallen, repaired to her house for sympathy and consolation. She sent for her neighbour Dr. **** with whose family an acquaintance had been formed, imploring his assistance in composing her disconsolate friends. She had received a billet from her husband, assuring her of his safety, but while the Doctor and she were offering the consolations of religion to the mournful group, information was brought, that while her husband was resting, and taking refreshments on the skirts of the camp, a random shot from a retreating party deprived him of life. For an account of the Celebration on the 17th of June, 1825, mentioned in Note 1, the reader is referred to the Columbian Centinel, edited by B. Russell, Esq. of the succeeding day. ARGUMENT. A YOUNG lady, educated in the polished society of the capital, being about to remove into the remote region of the West, is supposed to relinquish the pleasures of the city with great reluctance. She is therefore reminded that many objects which now give her delight, will be equally charming in the country; that she who delighted to walk or stand on the rocks of Nahant or Cohasset, when the moon, rising in full splendor, slanted her beams through the clear ocean, and planted her columned rays at her feet, and the stars lay at the bottom of a glassy sea, will see the same splendid orb lighting up a scene, in the dense woods, equally magnificent and delightful, and feeding the fancy with as many sights and shows as ever she did at the ocean's side. She is then informed of the manner in which her pilgrim ancestors had before penetrated the wilderness, of the motives which induced them [to emigrate, and of the course of the spies sent out to find a tract on which they might permanently settle. The course of the spies through the western part of New York to Niagara-their arrrival at one of the most beautiful lakes—its exclusive occupation by the Indians—their return-taking a new direction -passing towards the White-hills-arrival at Connecticut river-formation of the soil-and return-are then noticed. The removal of the congregation then followstheir passage-arrival and possession succeed-the employment of the first settlers-advancement from loghuts to substantial mansions, gardens, taste and elegance -enumeration of pleasures lost-of those gained—and succeeding happiness. |