Mid breath of spring! fan lighty his rave. Fe thered sons of the air! perch on the weeping willows, and, in plaintive st ains. sing his many virtues. Foot of the passing stranger! rest a while

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For the Lady's Miscellany.

VALLEY FORGE.

In laying before our readers, the situation of the American Army, encamped a Valley Forge, dur

at his tomb. Children of the finering the Winter of 1777-8. We

fetings! vive a tributary tear;
le it fall on Edwin's urn. Hush!
an is silence; the songster of the
vare is mute; the lambkin sports
no. on the mead; all are hush d
to repose. Though silence, uni-
ve sai pervades, and so emn still
ness rules around-yet, me thinks,
it is the language of eloquence,
the praise of my Edwin. No long-
er can we warble the soft notes of
love; no more can we frolic on
the green,
for Edwin steeps in the
dust, and his Emma is sad. Stop
So shrinks from the embrace of
day, and hides his face behind the
western hills. I will hasten and
seek some sequestered spot, near
Edwin's last mansion. At morn,
noon, and eve, will I visit the s
cred abode; bathe the tomb with
my ears; and of kiss the gur-
ment that shields his remains;-
then pensively retite, and hide my
inward grief from the world, un-
knowing the cause of my woes.'

Ten solar revolutions have since passed away: the village swains press Emato lo e,as she is soved; tears forbid macrance; she answers them not: but waving he snow. ware and, ueas the needie to the role, it polis to Edwin's us.

LAVINIA.

shall not only pourtray what the brave heroes of our revolution have suffered for the attainment of

at Liberty, which we now enjoy bu snew also, an example worthy the imitation of those, who now stand forth to protect the hallowed alter of the Genius of Freedom. No dangers sould deter, no dangers should appal the man who is nov enga edin defence of those rights, for the acquirement of which our Fathers bled. And it will also be a pleasing though melancholy satisfaction, to revert o past trials and pay a passing tribute to those places, which have been rendered memorable, during the revolutionary war, by the toils. sufferings and conflicts of our countrymen, consecra.ed by the blood of our heroes:'

The Gods the saviours of their native jand. BARLOW

However inatten ive the present gene, atiom may be to this subj ct those places which witnessed me infant struggles of our nation will be classic ground to posterity. Every thing that has any connexion with heroic achievments, virtuous sufferings, or persevering tortilde, becomes dear to humanity

în general, but in a particular || sufferings of that winter would not
be easily delineated.

manner is hallowed in the memory
of those who owe every national
blessing to any of those successful
Mountains
exertions of virtue.
valleys plains forests rivers cities
and villages which saw our fathers
fight for our independance, and
submit to the deprivation of every
good to secure freedom for their
posterity, have taken out their
charter of nobility.

T'hair names

are inscribed, in golden capitals, in
the court calendar of Fame, and
will become harmonious in the
song of the muses; their honors
shall be recorded by historians, and
their beauties delineated by paint-
ers, while those ignoble mountains
valleys plains forests rivers cities
and villages, which have never
witnessed the feats of our heroes,
will remain neglected & unknown.

ge

A view of Valley Forge must necessarily awaken in our minds. the recollection of the gloomy seaWe find sons of the evolution ourselves safely landed on the terra firma of Independance; why should we not look back on the angry and tempos uous ocean we have navigated? Why should we not remember with gratitude the pilots who weathered the storm,' and the sai ors who breasted the tempest, and contended with the dangers of the ocean? How the dak clouds of despair gathered over us in some parts of our voyage! The sun of confidence was hidden from our eyes and scarce a glimmering star of hope was 'o be seen. in the firmament! How often was. the national vessel almost shattered on the shoals of Danger! and how narrowly did we escape the whirlpools of Destruction!

In the winter of 1777 8. Gener-
al Washington fixed his head
quarters at Valley Forge. Histo-
ry gives some account of the dif-
ficulties surmounted at this time by
the ius of the commander in
Chief, and of the unparalleled suf-
ferings of the troops at this station
buongue cannot elate, nor pen
describe, the hundredth part of the
miseries that were endured. What
poet can exhibit the whole com-
plicated series of evils? What
historian can commemmorate the
agonies of the hungry and the na-
ked exposed to the clemencies of
the weather, or enumerate the
groans of the diseased? Many
are sull alive who knows that the

But this subject is degraded by poeuc similitudes: the facts themselves are sufficiently impressive without the assistance of rhetorical embellishments: and we are confident that no man can read the history of this period of the war without sympathising with the suf feing troops, and admiring the prudence. firmness, and courage, of the commander of our armies.

At no period of the American war, says Judge Marshall in his Life of Washington, had the American army been reduced to a

quently had the enemy moved out in force, the American army could not have continued in camp. The want of provisions would have forced them out of it; and their deplorable condition, with respect to clothes, disabled them from keeping the field in the winter. The returns of the 1st of February exhibit the astonishing number of 3000.989 men in camp uni for duty, for want of clothes. Of this number scarcely one man had a pair of shoes. Even among those returned capable of doing duy, very many were so badly clad that exposure to the colds of the se. son must have destroyed them. though the total of the army exceeded 17,000 men, the present effective rank and file amounted to only five thousand and twelve. The returns throughout the winte do not essentially vary from that which has just been particularly stated.'

General Washington certainly could not have been placed in a situation of greater difficulty than he was at this time: The army under bis command destitute of

provisions and clothing, and conse quency discontented having at the same time no means of procuring necessaries, but by exercis in the invidious power vested i his hands by congress-of seizing provissions wherever they could be found. The exercis of this pow

e: raised against him the clamors of the vulgar; while a party in congress were conspiring to deprive him of his command, and endeavoring to, in pue to his mismanagement he co sequence of their own errois and tuits in the mean time, sir William H ve with his army, had possession of Philadelphia. and was plentifu ly supplied with provisions and every thing necessary for e comfortable subsistence of his roops: and, a winter campaign would have. been productive of the most disastrous consequences to the American army.

But the mind of Washington was equal to the difficulties of his situation: the public rood was, his polar star: he pursued his. course boldly and calmly, disregarding the clamors of ignorance, the petulance of passion, and the enious intrigues of disappointed ambition. Nothing displays more clearly the resources of his genius than his being able, white surrounded byso many unfavorable circumstances, to secure the af

fection of his officers and the adoration of his soldiers.

(To be Continued.)