my three little brothers and myself recieved the ed was my poor drummer, who was killed not five welcome summons to prepare to attend our parent paces from me; but the next, not at all deterred by on his morning excursion.-."Whither shall we walk?" the fate of his comrade, commenced the race, and said he, as we sallied forth with all the eagerness of got over in safety. In like manner most of our he childhood-"To Bunker-hill" was the spontaneous roic band succeeded, and one honest fellow, as he reply of every little voice, and to Bunker-hill my father led the way.

Days of artless innocence, alas! ye are fled forever. Never can I recal the sportive hilarity with which we lightly bounded over the adjacent fields, never regain the innocent gaity and improvident lightness of heart, that, under present enjoyments, shut the future from my view. Yet memory, busy memory, oft retards the flowery way, and, in the visions of the past, loses the sense of the present, and the anticipations

of the future.

bowed to the word of command, thus addressed me, 'captain I see it is close dodging, but let me once get safely over, and I'll spend my heart's last drop for you, and bring you off again dead or alive, that

I will."

"This honest fellow was a native of Ireland, and about six months previous was confined for debt in the prison of Salem, whence I released him on codition that he would enlist; and never man was bles sed with a more devoted friend than Murphy M'Culloch proved to me.

"I was the last to make the adventurous attempt, and though the balls showered about my head, none were permitted to touch me, and we gained the entrenchment, and passed into the line of battle.

With that buoyancy of spirit which refuses to yield to weariness, we climbed the ascent, and found ourselves on the summit, from whence we were presented with a view of the whole peninsula, with the bay and harbor of Boston. My father pointed out "On this spot as near as I could recollect, I stood, the relative position of the armies, and entered into and endeavored to do my duty as a soldier of liber. a minute detail of events, which abler historians have ty. I received a ball through the calf of my leg, recorded: they will not therefore occupy a place in and another through my left shoulder, but these this narration. were mere trifles, and stood my ground in spite of them.

His own personal adventure, and narrow escape from a living grave, are all that filial piety will justify this feeble attempt to perpetuate.

"Pray papa," said my oldest brother, "was it here that you received that ugly wound that bad nearly cost you your life?"

"The gallant and generous Warren was on horseback, pressing from one end of the line to the other, animating the troops to a vigorous defence, and every heart hailed him with love and gratitude.

"He had ever distinguished me with peculiar "It was on this very spot, my son, behind this marks of friendship, and as he passed the spot breast-work-but the story is long-you must have where I sood, he condescended to address me with

patience, and let me commence at the beginning." Each little heart beat high with expectation, and mutually promising profound attention, we listened to the following tale.

"You see that narrow speck of land yonder that unites the peninsula of Charlestown to the adjacent country. Over that isthmus, it became my duty to lead the little band under my command, to join the main army, in the intrenchment, where we now stand. You see how it is exposed to water-well there lay the Glasgow frigate, which kept up a continual fire of shot and bombs across that pass, while several floating batteries, and the fortification on Copps' hill, endeavored to annoy the troops on the hill, and drive them from the entrenchment.

"My little band had each the spirit of a Leonidas, and not a murmur was heard when I ordered them

words of cordial recognition. I know not whether any historian, bas recorded the last words of that hero, but believed they were addressed to myself. "My young friend, (said he, as he turned to leave me), do your duty, for the salvation of our country depends on this day's action."

"He had not moved ten paces before I saw him fal'. At that moment a shell burst by my side, and was thrown several feet into the air, and then precipitated violently to the ground.

"A fragment of the broken shell struck me in the breast, and caused a contusion of the sternum, and the violent shock my whole system sustained, took from me the power of motion.

"Blood gushed from my mouth, nose and ears, and I lay covered with dust unable to speak or move, but for some time perfectly conscious.

"I remember to have heard col, B-, who was my

to attempt gaining the bill, by running singly father's friend, exclaim 'William is dead then! well,

across the dangerous pass. The first who attempt- he died like a soldier.'

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"I felt the pressure of his hand upon my forehead, the whole family appeared at church the next sab as he leaned over me; "he's gone, poor fellow! but bath, clothed in habiliments of sorrow, and in the I'll take his sword—the regulars shall never get note which the minister read for the deceased, was that." an expression of triumph that he had fallen for li berty.

"This sword was a present from Warren, and, though in that awful moment my soul seemed fluttering on the verge of eternity, it gave me inexpressible pleasure, to find that the gift of friendship was likely to be preserved.

"A faintness now came over me, and I heard no more, and for what succeeded am indebted to the observation of col. B--.

"The next morning as my mother sat by her win. dow, intently watching some little shrubbery which the hand of her departed child had planted, she discovered, through the vista of the trees that em bowered our peaceful dwelling, a litter, slowly wind> ing along the road.

"The hope of being able to afford relief or re.

"The Americans fought with determination and freshment to a wounded soldier, drew my mother to bravery until their last round of ammunition was the little gate that separated her own cultivated expended, and they were reluctantly compelled to lawn from the highway.

retreat.

"Will you stop and rest?" said she to the man "My poor Irish soldier, actuated by a sentiment who conducted the litter-"We go no farther," was that should immortalize his name, now declared that the reply. She heard no more-the truth flashed the British should never have his captain, alive or dead. across her mind and she fainted. He sought among the slain for the breathless form of "Long and tenderly was I nursed by that heroic one he loved, and at last recognized the object of woman, and though she sympathised in every pain his search, among a heap of human bodies, which I felt, she never breathed a regret for the part I had some resolute soldiers, where the breastwork hap. acted, and when I was again able to join my regipened to be too high, had piled up to stand on. ment, she mingled with her parting blessing a fer

"He bore the inanimate body on his shoulder vent prayer that all her children might prefer death from the scene of carnage; but unable, thus loaded, to slavery." Such was my father's tale-could I to keep up with his companions, a shot from the hear it and ever forget that I am a soldier's daugh pursuers terminated his life, when the main body ter? Never, never. Recollections of patriotism are of the retreating army was out of danger. impressed on every page of my existence, and sen "Some friends who knew us, passing immediately timents of freedom twined with every fibre of my after, thought they discovered in me signs of return-heart. ing life, and by their means I was conveyed to the hospital."

By this time the little auditors were in tears, and even Warren was awhile forgotten in admiration of the fidelity of the Irish soldier.

My father, though a brave man and a soldier, wept--and though the lapse of twenty years has presented new and varied objects to my mind, I am not ashamed that a kindred tear has blotted the page that records his story.

Sadly as the tenor of my days have passed, and sorely as the storms of sorrow have beaten on my head, there are hours when the tide of impetuous feeling rushes back to the scenes of my infancy, and finds, in tracing the lessons of paternal love, a kind of half oblivion to my cares. Then it is that the spirit of my father glows with undiminished ardour, and it is my pride and my boast that I am a

SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER.

Extract from an Election Sermon, delivered by preșident Stiles, before the Connecticut legislature, in May, 1783.

Recovering his usual composure, and addressing bimself particularly to me, my father thus continued: "What follows is an example of female heroism and tenderness, if recorded on the page of history, "While we render our supreme honors to the might form a counterpart to the story of the Roman Most High, the God of armies, let us recollect, with mother, who died from the effect of joyful surprise, affectionate honor, the bold and brave sons of freewhen her son, whom she thought dead, was restored dom, who willingly offered themselves, and bled in the to her arms. defence of their country. Our fellow citizens, the "My mother received the news that her darling officers and soldiers of the patriot army, who, with had fallen in battle, but shed no tears. the Manlys, the Joneses, and other gallant comman

"Her son had done his duty, and what more inders and brave seamen of the American navy, bave these times of peril could a virtuous mother desire? heroically fought the war by sea and by land, merit, Agreeably to the primitive custom of our fathers of their once bleeding, but now triumphant country,

laurels, crowns, rewards, and the highest honors., baron de Steuben shall waf its fragrance to the Never was the profession of arms used with more monarch of Prussia: a marquis de la Fayette shall glory, or in a better cause, since the days of Joshua waft it to a far greater monarch, and diffuse thy the son of Nun. O WASHINGTON! how do I love thy renown throughout Europe. Listening angels shall name! how often have I adored and blessed thy God, catch the odour, waft it to heaven, and perfume the for creating and forming thee the great ornament of universe." buman kind. Upheld and protected by the omnipotent, by the Lord of Hosts, thou hast been sustained and carried through one of the most arduous and

KOSCIUSCO.

important wars in all history. The world and pos-The following is not a revolutionary paper, but it

relates to a noble volunteer in the cause of liberty in the new world, and a fearless advocate for the freedom of his native land in the old; and a preservation of the eulogium upon him is due to bis services. It was delivered at Warsaw on the 14th Nov. 1817, by M. Von Neimcewise, who was his bosom friend. The translation here used was made for the "Republican Citizen," published at Fredericktown, Maryland.

terity will, with admiration, contemplate thy deli berate, cool, and stable judgment, thy virtues, thy valor and heroic achievements, as far surpassing those of Cyrus, whom the world loved and adored. The sound of thy fame shall go out into all the earth, and extend to distant ages. Thou hast convinced the world of the BEAUTY OF VIRTUE-for, in thee this beauty shines with distinguished lustre. Those who would not recognize any beauty in virtue in the world beside, will yet reverence it in thee. There is a glory This mournful solemnity, these funeral rites; in thy disinterested benevolence, which the greatest these blazing tapers, this assemblage of dejected characters would purchase, if possible, at the ex- knights and people, the doleful voice of the venerpense of worlds, and which may excite indeed their able divine, all, all conspire to impress upon us a emulation, but cannot be felt by the venal great-strong perception of our great, our irreparable losɛ. who think every thing, even virtue and true glory, What can I add to the accuteness of your feelings, may be bought and sold, and trace our every action to motives terminating in self;

or how dilate upon the ardent expressions of the reverend ministers of religion? Alas! it does not appertain to these grey hairs, to this enfeebled voice, to a mind blunted with years, and weakened by infirmities, to eulogize the man, who was courageous and generous in war, and amiable in peace. But such was your desire: unmindful of the restraints and difficulties under which I labor, I will endeavor. to comply, and, although myself overwhelmed with grief, will become the interpreter of this universal mourning.

"Find virtue local, all relation scorn, "See all in self, and but for self be born." But thou, O Washington, forgottest thyself, when thou lovedst thy bleeding country Not all the gold of Ophir, nor a world filled with rubies and dia. monds, could affect or purchase the sublime and noble feelings of thine heart, in that single self moved act, when thou renouncedst the rewards of generalship, and heroically tookest upon thyself the dangerous as well as arduous office of generalissimo Great and destructive have been the losses sus. --and this at a solemn moment, when thou didst de- tained by our country in the lapse of a few years; liberately cast the die, for the dubious, the very du- but we have felt none with such keen anguish, as bious alternative of a gibbet or a triumphal arch!—that which we now bewail in the decease of our beBut, beloved, enshielded and blessed by the great loved Kosciusco. To mention the name of KosciusMelchisedec, the king of righteousness as well as co, that pattern of virtuous citizenship; to depict peace, thou hast triumphed gloriously. Such has his love of country, which continued to blaze out been thy military wisdom in the struggles of this whilst there was a breath of life remaining; his feararduous conflict, such the noble rectitude, amiable- less intrepidity in battle; his manly fortitude in adness and mansuetude of thy character: something versity; his patient endurance of suffering; his Rois there so singularly glorious and venerable thrown man uprightness of deportment; his delicate modesby Heaven about thee, that not only does thy county, that inseparable accompaniment of real worthtry love thee, but our very enemies stop the mad- is to awaken a thousand pleasing, but alas! also ness of their fire in full volley, stop the illiberality numberless painful emotions in the breast of every of their slander, at thy name, as if rebuked from native of Poland. Ileaven with a "touch not mine anointed, and do my RERO on harm." Thy fame is of sweeter perfume than Arabian spices in the gardens of Persia. A great man, be it permitted to us, his contempora

Ere History shall record our misfortunes, and exhibit, in their true light, the merits of this truly

ries, to notice, in condensed brevity, his noble ac-[should enlarge upon the occurrences of the memo. tions, and the principal incidents of his life. rable war which followed. The army of Kosciusco THADDEUS KOSCIUsco, descended from an ancient was not composed of warriors, arrayed in 'the pride family in the palatinate of Brescia, in Lithuania of military pomp:' N›! he led troops of irritated peaproper, received the rudiments of his education in santry to the field of glory; peasantry, armed with the the military academy founded by Stanislaus Augus implements of husbandry, against experienced and tus. The commandant of that academy, prince veteran soldiers!—How many battles, sieges, dreadAdam Czartorski, soon remarked the uncommon ful nocturnal sallies and skirmishes did they sustain? military genius of the youth, together with his pre- The earth was ensanguined with the blood of the dilection for the science of war, and in consequence, commandants ere it furnished them with graves. sent him into France to complete his studies. To The result of all these sacrifices, sufferings and the latest moments of his life, Kosciusco gratefully exertions, were inhuman fetters. The captivity conremembered the obligations which he owed to the tinued two years, and would have lasted yet longer; bounty of his benefactor. The abject, impotent and nor wouldst thou, Kosciusco, have ended thy days submissive situation of Poland, at that period, en-in Solothurn's free walls-nor would you, ye weepgendered dejection and despair in his useful breast.ing sons of Poland, have again enjoyed the sweet He left his country and repaired to a foreign land, smiles of liberty, but would have dragged out the there to fight the battles of independence, when he miserable remnant of your lives in dark and moul. found that her standard would not be raised in the dering dungeons, had it not been for the magnaniland of his birth. A the companion of the immor. mous interference of PAUL 1. The first act of his tai WASHINGTON, he fought bravely from the Hud-reign was to burst the fetters of twenty thousand son to the Potomac, from the shores of the Atlan- Poles. Thanks to thee, venerable shade! The name tic to the lakes of Canada. He patiently endured of Paul cannot be mentioned by a native of Poland, incredible fatigue; he acquired renown; and, what without feelings of genuine gratitude! w.s infinitely more valuable in his estimation, he When Kosciusco was liberated, he did not turn acquired the love and gratitude of a disenthraled his steps to that depressed and mourning country, nation. The flag of the United States waved in triwhich had already become as a strange land to him. umph over the American forts, and the great work No: he turned his eyes to that distant shore, where of liberation was finished ere Kosciusco returned to in his youth, he had mingled in the combat for li his native country. berty and independence; to that land which he knew Just at that period Poland awoke; but alas! awoke would receive him as one of her own children. Altoo late from her deplorable lethargy. She had pro- though covered with scars and crippled, he did not claimed the memorable constitution of the third of permit the fatigues and dangers of the voyage to May, and determined to acknowledge no laws but dishearten him. He embarked for America; and, duher own. Hence the inimical attack, hence the de-ring this voyage, the ocean had nearly become the solating wars which ensued. Say, ye few remain-grave of our hero. A vessel, belonging to a fleet of ing witnesses-say ye fields of Zielenice and Du- merchantmen, returning from Jamaica, was separatbinki, did not Kosciusco, did not the Poles con-ed from her company in a dark night, and whilst tend with a valor worthy the sons of Poland? sailing with the greatest rapidity, struck the Ame-It was not that our feeble force was over-rican ship. Mass, rigging and sails were instantly powered: No-it was by the stratagems and wiles Two large vessels lay beating forcibly of our enemies that our arms were wrested from against each other. Great was the tumult, noise our hands, and the burning desire for the combat and disorder upon deck-death stared us in the smothered; aye, smothered! for in a short time the face. Kosciusco viewed the scene, at this dismaydismemberment of our territory, and the contemp-ing and terrifying momen, with his usual serenity tuous, the scornful treatment which we received, ex- and composure: but his last hour had not yet arriv asperated the feelings of our people. The excess of their misfortunes and sufferings roused them to an effort of noble and almost frenzied desperation. His enraged countrymen grasped the sword and placed it in the hands of Kosciusco!

entangled.

ed. Providence had ordained that he should survive to see that day on which the generous Alexander proclaimed the restoration of the kingdom of Poland. We escaped this imminent danger with the loss of the main-mast and torn sails, but the voyage The fraternal bonds which unite us to another was, in consequence of the disaster, protracted to nation, the protection of one common sovereign, seventy days. At length we espied the happy shores and the gratitude due to Alexander, forbid that I of the land of freedom. Pennsylvania! the country

of PENN and FRANKLIN, received Kosciusco into her, may thy memory be immortal amongst us. May bosom. After suffering such accumulated miseries, thy statue be placed in the sanctuary of the Lord, this was the first happy and joyful moment. The in order to perpetuate the lineaments of thy face, members of congress, then in session-his old com-the benevolence of thy heart, and the purity of thy patriots in arms-his friends and acquaintances, and soul. May thy cenotaph be like thy life, plain and the citizens generally, hailed his arrival with unaf-unostentatious, with no inscription but thy name, fected pleasure. The people surrounded the car- that will be all-sufficient! Whenever a native or riage of him, who had been one of their favorite stranger shall with tearful eyes behold it, he will be chiefs, who had suffered so much in their cause, and compelled to exclaim, "That was the man who did accompanied him to his lodgings. Not only in Ame- not permit bis countrymen to die ingloriously, and rica, but also in every European city through which whose virtues, magnanimity, intrepidity and patriothe passed after his liberation, in Stockholm, in Lon-ism immortalized himself and his beloved country." don, and in Bristol, all those who cherished in their

hearts a love of liberty, and a regard for her defenders, thronged about him and gave him the most

FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT.

It is good for us all to look back on “olden times”

lively demonstrations of their esteem. Oh! it was-It is both good and proper for the young men and greatful to the heart of a Polander to perceive, in the youth of the present day to see and read some the honor and respect with which his chief was received, esteem and commisseration for the fate of an unjustly destroyed nation.

By the congress of the United States of America—

A MANIFESTO.

"These United States having been driven to hos

of the official acts of their fathers and grandfathers; and thereby to trace out and mark down the eminent exertions, the privations, dangers and sufferWas it the delusion of hope or the wish to have ings to which they were exposed in struggling the advantage of the best medical advice, that in- through the arduous contest to establish the liberduced Kosciusco to visit the shores of Europe once ty and independence of their country, and to promore? If it was hope, soon, alas! did he preceive its vide for their posterity a NAȚIONAL NAME—a home, fallaciousness and vanity, and the inutility of human a shelter and a fireside. Read this and treasure it exertions. He rejected the bustle and applause of for the time to come. the world, and, if I may so express myself, enclosed himself in the mantle of his own virtues and retired to the rural solitude of a farm. Here agriculture was his employment, his solace, and his delight.—tilities by the oppressive and tyrannous measures of He left his peaceful retirement, for the first time, Great Britain; having been compelled to commit the to thank the illustrious Alexander for the restora- essential rights of man to the decision of arms; and tion of the Polish name. His aversion to public having been, at length, forced to shake off a yoke employment, which had increased with age, his love which had grown too burdensome to bear, they deof solitude and quiet, led him into Switzerland.clared themselves free and independent. There in the city of Solothurn, it pleased the Al- Confiding in the justice of their cause; confiding mighty to call his virtuous soul, from the scene of in him who disposes of human events, although its sufferings and trials, to the abode of the blessed. weak and unprovided, they set the power of their He died as it became a christian and a soldier, with enemies at defiance. a firm reliance on his God, with complacency and manly fortitude. Poor as his prototypes, Phocion and Cincinnatus, he forbade all pomp and show at his funeral; and that man, who in the field of battle had commanded thousands of armed warriors, was carried to the last repository of frail mortality, upon the shoulders of six poor old men!

In this confidence they have continued through the various fortune of three bloody campaigns, unawed by the power, unsubdued by the barbarity of their foes. Their virtuous citizens have borne, without repining, the loss of many things which makes life desirable. Their brave troops have patiently endured the hardships and dangers of a situation, fruitful in both beyond former example.

Peace to thy ashes, thou virtuous man! receive the last and parting laments of thy sorrowing counThe congress, considering themselves bound to trymen; receive the parting address of him, in whose love their enemies, as children of that being who is arms thou hast so often reposed thine aching head. equally the father of all; and desirous, since they If thy native country do not receive thy mortal re- could not prevent, at least to alleviate, the calamimains into her lap, while thy liberated spirit dwells ties of war, have studied to spare those who were in in the same abode with THE LAST ROMAN, then arms against them, and to lighten the chains of * Ultimus Romanorum, Marcus Junius Brutus has been so called. captivity.