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IMIIXOAM iIKO€RiTs llie most perfect Government would be that which, emanating directly from the People, Governs least —Costs least —Dispenses Justice to all, and confers Privileges on None.—BENTHAM. VOL. I.| DR. WM. GREEN —EDITOR. AM3F.1C.&.27 DEMOCRAT. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY W. A. & C. THOMPSON, MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GEO. AT TWO DOZ«Z*AR3 PER ANNUJXE, D3- IN ADVANCE. -03 Rates of Advertising, &c* One pquai#, of 100 words, or less, in small type, 75 cents for the first mieruoi., ami 50 cents for each subsequent inser tion. All Advertisements containing more than 100 and less than £OO words, will be charged as two squares. To Yearly Advertisers, a liberal deduction will be made. D3~ N. B. Sales of LAND, by Administrators. Executors, r>r Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 m the fore noon, and 3 in the ailenioon, at the Court-llouse in the Coun ty in which the property is situ&'ed. Notice of these must be given in a public Gazette, SIXTY DAYS, previous to the day of sale. Sales of NEGROES, must be made at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the legal hours of wile, at the place of public rales in the county where the let ters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, shall have been grained, SIXTY DAYS notice being previously given in one of the public gazetts of this State, and at the door of the Court-House, where such sales are to be held. Sales of PERSONAL PROPERTY, must be advertised in <he same manner, FORTY DAYS previous to the ilay of sale. Notice to Debtors and Cieditors of an Estate, must be pub lished FORTY Days. Notice that application will lie made to the Court of Ordi nary, for leave to sell LAND, must be published FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be published for FOER MONTES, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. A 1 business of this nature, will receive prompt attention, at the Office of the AMERICAN DEMOCRAT. REMITTANCES BY MAIL. —“A Postmaster may en close money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third person, and fianlt the letter, if written by himself.” Amos Kendal/, P. G. COMMUNICATIONS addressed to the Publishers—Past Paid. P 0 K T R Y. THE DYIN6 MACHINIST. John Fitch, a native of Connecticut, was probably the earliest inventor of the steamboat. In the year 1786. on the Delaware River, was made his first successful ox[ieriiiient; hut from lack of sufficient pat ronage, he was unable to carry out the discovery. His life was one of hardship and penary, and ended in grief and disappointment. He was confident however, to the last, in the ultimate success of his invention, ami predicted all its future vastness and advantages. His dying request was, “that he might lie buried on the banks of the Ohio, xthcre the so ' g of the i oat men might enliven the stillness of his resting jilacc, and the mnsic of the steam-engine soothe his spirit," the ruling passion strong in death, and it was gratified. Where broad Olio’s stream goes sweeping Gloriously toward the setting sun, He prayed might lie his last, long sleeping, His last wish his only one. Meet prayer from one whose years were given To work the thought his genius gave, Who first beheld his steam-bark driven Fire-winged o’er the foaming wave. lie lived one scene of want and sorrow, A feverish strife —a troubled dream ; Each scant to-day fed by to-morrow, Yet toiled he still his glorious scheme. ’Twas his to meet the world's derision, Cold doubt of friends, foes’ taunt unkind, The mockery of “madman’s vision,” For truth to which their own was blind. He lived not to the great fulfilling His genius sought and saw so long, And for the future, oft and willing. Endured privation, pain, and wrong. He heard their mighty voices sounding By his own blue Atlantic strand ; And watched them o’er its wide-wave bounding, Heralds to every furthest land. He saw them climb each olden river, Europe, fair Asia’s fabled streams, Saw Afric’s hidden floods deliver The secrets of their time-long dreams. He saw what ye shall be earth’s wonder, Nor long the stern design may si ep, Stcarn-navics launch their iron thunder In battle o’er the trembling deep. lie saw, foretold, and. heart-elated, Lived on this dream of brighter days, And caught afar the fame that waited, His lowly toil, in world-wide praise. Then turned and thought, with saddened spirit, Time’s judgments how unjust, and vain! How happier hands would seize his merit, And wield the palm and reap the gain. He knew the thoughtless world ungrateful,— So have its noblest spirits known, Still of the life-debt all forgetful, Or pays when he who earned is gone! He mused, and toiled, and died ; they made him A bed beside that fair broad wave, There to his lonely rest they laid him, Where few now mark his humble grave. At noon, at noon, when eve is steeping With shadowy red the river’s breast, As star-light on the charmed wave sleeping, So peaceful may his spirit rest! J. S. B. Tuscaloosa, Ala. THE LAND OF LOVE. The land of love, where is that happy land, 01 tell me where J The swiftest bark her sails shall wide expand, And waft me there. Tho’ ocean's veins in madness throb between, And tempests wail, Tho’ thunders roar, and lightning’s vivid sheen Athwart th r gale, Still shall my bark the boisterous way explore, Swift as the wind, Nor deem the storm that drives to that bright shore, Tho’ fierce, unkind. The land of love, where is that beauteous land, Oh! tell me where! O'er earth’s wide chart I pass my trembling band, it is not there. The wand’ringlines that mark the weary way To fadeless horns. DEMOCRATIC BANNER FREE TRADE; LOW SIXTIES; NO BEST; SEPARATION FROM BANKS; ECONOMY; RETRENCHMENT; AND A STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE C. C.ILMMOUJT. Lawyers The Morality of Legal Practice. Mr. Babcock has an excellent little work for sale, at twenty-five cents, enti tled “ The Lawyer his character and rale of Holy Life” which wc have read with much pleasure, and propose to make the occasion of some remarks, from time to time, intended to draw consideration to its principles. Lawyers are confessed ly the most cultivated and influential class of men in this country, and will al ways exercise a controlling power over its political destinies, so that it becomes every body’s concern that their standard of professional conduct should approxi mate, as nigh as possible, to the strict rules of morality and honor. We wish this little book could find its way into the hand and heart of every young man preparing himself lor entrance on the Profession of Law. There would then be none of that popular distrust and odi um, which, it is not to he denied, exists now so extensively against this noblest of all secular professions, in consequence of the low and narrow-minded practices of a few of its members. The Lawyer, who is a scoundrel, is an arch scoundrel, and there is no extremity of public scorn and personal degradation society has not a right to put upon him in punishment of his villainy; but let it be remembered at the same time, that some of the noblest examples of every virtue and every ex cellence that can adorn our nature, have been furnished by this profession, and that it must be allowed to comprise alto gether as large, if not a larger proportion of upright, honorable men, as any other civil occupation whatever. We believe no other oath'is adminis tered in this State, to applicants for ad mission to the Bar, than that prescribed to all functionaries on investiture with office. If it were necessary to have one for ihe purpose, we do’nt think a better could be devised than the following, which is tho form of the Advocates oath adopted in Geneva, viz : “ I swear, before God, to he faithful to tire Republic and Canton of Geneva:" never to swerve from the respect due to the tribunals and to the authorities ; not to advise or maintain any cause which does not appear to me just and equitable, unless in defence of an accused; not to employ, knowingly, in order to maintain the causes which shall lie confided to me, any means contrary to the truth; and not to attempt to deceive the Judges by any artifice or by any false expositions of fact or of Law ; to abstain from all of fensive personality, and not to advance any fact against the honor and the repu tation of the parties, unless it shall be in dispensable to Ihe cause with w hich I shall Ik: charged; not to encourage the commencement or the carrying on of any process from any motive of passion or of interest; and not to refuse, from any per sonal considerations, the cause of the fee ble, the stranger, or the oppressed.” This simple sentence comprises the whole and the true morality of Legal practice ; such as, if conformed to. would effectually rescue the profession from the witty taunts of such satirists as Congreve, who says, in one of his Plays “ Law yer ! I believe there’s many a cranny and leak unstopped in your conscience. If so be that one had a pump to your bo som, I believe wc should discover a foul hold. They say a witch will sail in a seive, but I believe the devil himself would not venture aboard your eon science !” But it is not among lawyers only this sort of conscience is to be found, of which the devil may be afraid; nor, we imagine, will the world be convinced that Lawyers are at all more given to selling the use of their faculties for gain, without respect to truth or right, than other men, because such a malignant sputterer of venom as Dean Swift has chosen to descrilie them, as “ A Society of men bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words, multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid .” There was a time, when civilization was less advanced than now, that the moral ity of legal practice was unquestionably very low, and there was something more than ill-natured sneerin theapotheghm— “ If you go to law for a nut, the Lawyers will crack it, give each of you half the shell, and eat the kernel themselves.” The days are passed, though, when such a sarcasm can be applied, with any jus tice, to the great body of Lawyers. Jus tice is now, ill the main, as cheaply and honestly administered, as it is for any good of litigants themselves it should he, and if a suitor fall into the hands of some plundering McGregor of the Law, it is his own folly, in seeking the services of a rogue, when he might command the abilities of an honorable man. It is perhaps true that unprincipled men contrive oftener to keep up their re spectability in the Profession of Law, than any other. This is owing entirely to the fact that clients, honorable men themselves, when involved in litigation, are too apt to have more reference in the choice of Counsel, to the skill, than in tegrity of the advocate. The excitement of contest making them first think more of victory than justice, is it surprising the Lawyer who has the lighting to do, falls into the same error, and, in pursuit of tri umph, forgets Law and sometimes prin- MACON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1843. ciple? Let the public give their patron age to none but honest, upright Lawyers, and let such themselves discountenance and stigmatize the bad and mean of their number, and tho profession will soon be come as distinguished for its elevated moral standard, as it has immemorially been for its intellectual characteristics. Enough for the present.— Charleston Mercury. Strapped l’antatoons—ln all Over! To laugh at the mishaps of others, is not generally accounted generous; yet there are occasions of this character, when to look grave exceeds “ ail powers of face.” Such was the case in this city a few mornings since. It was early in the day, when the wharf at the packet basin was lined with travellers about to take the packets, and lookers on, that a young man issued from one of the offices and approached the final for tl e purpose of giving an ink-si.ii'd ablution. His pantaloons were strapped down to the extreme of the fashion, making the act of stooping one cf no little effort and risk. The first essay to plunge the ink-stand into the water was a failure, while the strain, consequent on it, caused a succes sion of snaps and cracks, indicating a giving way of some part of the strapped pantaloons. Gaining his perpendicular again, the young man threw a little more force into his genuflective effort, hut just as the object sought was on the point of being gained, the straps, unable longer to endure the strain to which they were subjected, gave way, simultaneously caus ing a nadir dip of the head and a zemth pitch of the heels, and by consequence, as neat a plunge into the basin, of the body owning these head and heels, as the most fastidious diver could desire to see. It vvas done scientifically and to the delight of a large circle of spectators, who testified their approbation by no chary use of lungs and gestures. Soon, however, the submerged one emerged to the light of day, and with his first recov ered breath, exclaimed —“D —n the straps; d—n the basin and all those around it.” Let this be a caution to those who are well strap|>ed down, to beware how they venture on experiments involv ing the possibility of an involuntary “ bath.” Roeh. Daily Adv. A Novel Entcrprize. We find the following in the Lancas ter Intelligencer, from which it will be seen that Mr. Wise, of balloon celebrity, proposes to outstrip all his competitors in that line, by an elfbrt to cross the At lantic. Mr. Wise must be careful where lie descends. Should it be ou Morocco, the natives will keep him and sell him, an I, what is worse, they will sell him cheap —a couple of dollars, in that quar ter, being thought as much as a white man is worth. Pennsylvanian. To all Publishers of Newspapers on the (•lobe. As it is my intention to make a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in a Balloon, in the summer of 1814, and as the de scent or landing of Balloons, in my ex perience, has almost invariably created unnecessary alarm to the inhabitants, I therefore give this general notice to the sea-faring community of all climes, that should they, during anytime henceforth, chance to be in the vicinity of a Balloon, either on the Ocean, or in the Atmos phere, they will not lie under any fearful apprehensions, but endeavor to give aid to the adventurers. It must not be inferred from this, that the success is considered improbable, but merely to be prepared for all emergencies. Having, from a long experience in aerostatics, been convinced, that a regu lar current of air is blowing at all times, from \V. to E., with a velocity of from 20 to 40 miles per hour, according to its height from the earth ; and having dis covered a composition which will render silk or muslin impervious to hydrogen gas, so that a Balloon may be kept afloat for many weeks, I feci confident, with these advantages, that a trip across the Atlanticwillnot be attended with as much real danger as by the common mode of transition. The Balloon is to be one hundred feet in diameter, which will give a net as cending power of twenty-five thousand pounds being amply sufficient to make evrery thing safe and comfortable. A sca-vvorthy boat is to be depended on, in case the Balloon should happen to fail in accomplishing the voyage. The boat would also be calculated upon in case the regular current of wind should be di verte 1 from the course by the influence of the Ocean, or through other cruses. The crew to consist of three persons, viz : an Aeronaut, a Navigator, and a Scien- tific Landsman. Therefore, the People of Europe, Af rica, Asia, and all other parts on the O cean, or elsewhere, who have never seen a Balloon, will bear in mind, that it is a large Globe made of cloth, ensconced iu a lint-work, with a sloop hanging under neath it, containing the “latest news from the United States,” with a crew of the world’s obedient servant, JOHN WISE. Lancaster, Pa., June Bth, 1843. We cannot but think the Troy Whig mistaken in attributing to the Charleston Mercury the paragraph copied into the Whig of Monday, expressing a preference for Mr. Clay, in the event of Mr. Calhoun not receiving the nomination of the Dem ocratic National Convention. W hatever i differences 6f opinion and preference may exist between the Mercury and the Ar -1 gus, its course, we are free to say, has i been high minded, honorable, and utterly i inconsistent with the support of Mr. Clay ; and his principles under any circum j stances. Albany Argus. We have seen the paltry fraud referred ! to by the Argus, circulating through the : Whig press and considered it too bold a j trick to merit exposure. The expres sion of opinion alluded to, appeared in the Mercury about seven years ago. From the Ch irleston Mercury. Assassination of an Editor. Among our extracts will be found an account of the death of Dr. James Ha gan, editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel Expositor —a man whose talents, whose extreme opinions and violent fashion of maintaining them, have given to him a notoriety not often gained by newspaper writers. Dr. Hagan, if not the origina tor, was at least the ablest, most vehe ment and persevering defender of the right of Repudiation by a State, of debts contracted by her established authorities. For he made no distinction between debts contracted in accordance with, or against the Constitution. He laid the axe (and his was a brond-axo of the most remorseless sort) at the root of the evil and his doctrine of the honesty and pro priety of repudiation seems to have been founded upon the assumption that there was a radical immorality and a necessary invasion of the original principles on which a free State is founded, when one generation claim the power of taxing their successors —or when one legisla ture undertakes to fix irrevocably upon future legislatures the necessity of levy ing a given amount of taxes, and without leaving to them the power of directing in what manner or for what objects the proceeds shall be expended. The explosion of the Banks in Missis sippi afforded him another immense field, which he cultivated with merciless rig our, ploughing it over from time to time with red hot plough-shares, and the smoke and noise of his operations was like a continual battle of the Colchian Bulls, who snorted devouring fire from their nostrils. He had a strange com mand of the language of invective. His will was as potent as the harp of Or pheus, to gather to his use all the wild beasts, the grilfms, hydras, and scaly dragons of newspaper warfare, with which he hunted down, thrashed and eat up fill Bank Directors, Speculators, Bond payers, and whoever else came across his path. A scries of papers exposing what was considered an enormity in the manner of selling cotton at New Orleans, was some time since published in the Sentinel. They were charged upon'Mr. Wright of New Orleans, who was called out and shot in a duel, with rifles. Dr. Hagan himself has had more than one encoun ter. A sort of extempore duel took place between him and a brother editor of Vicksburg, in which double-barrel led guns loaded with buck-shot were the arms. He bagged his antagonist, we believe, though no death resulted. At last he is himself laid hold of in the street and shot through the brain. We are not surprised that such should have been his end it is only wonderful that he has lived so long, in a region where personal violence is not uncom mon, and where the bad and some even of the good, carry in their bosoms deadly weapons temptations to strife and means of rendering every trivial quarrel a scene of blood. And yet Dr. Hagan was said to be a mild, amiable man. His abhorrence of the multiplied rascalities of the paper system as it showed itself in Mississippi, his warmth of temper, and probably the ambition of leading a popu lar movement, his courage and the pecul iar manners of his region, led him to that style of writing bordering on ruffianism, which after provoking every degree of personal hostility, has ended in his own assassination. We are not informed what was the character and standing of his enemy, or what was the nature of the grievance thus atrociously revenged. Dr. Hagan’s system was essentially wrong, and the journalist who takes up on himself to be the administrator of the criminal law, will find that his otiice is one of nearly unmitigated mischief. Writing in the haste and confusion of each day’s pressing business, under the impulse of party feeling, prejudice and one-sided statements, he is of all men least qualified lor a criminal judge —and yet of all tribunals, his is the most terri ble, and of all sentences his is the most blasting. Published without warning, on secret information, in a single day it is scattered over a State —and tiie victim hears it echoed like the thunder among the circling mountains, and the whole earth with one voice repeating his dis grace. It is a thing to make a man mad and act madly. And if such liberty lie allowed at all, is it not certain that malice and revenge will use it far oftener for calumny, than virtue for honest denun ciation ? The proper material for the journalist is what concerns the public and these things he ought to treat as far as possible in their general character. Personalities not only debase the press, but they necessarily involve a narrow mindedness, a contraction of scope, an egotism of the editors, which leaves them no claim upon the public, other than what might be asserted by the brutes and bullies who fight in the streets it is ihe claim of a public nuisance. From the Boston Press and Post. Bunker IlilU-Remmiocetices. The celebration of the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument renders it appropriate to indulge in revolutionary reminiscences. The event this majestic pile commemorates was one of the most important of our revolutionary battles. Its influence was felt throughout the war. Its thrilling details have been often told, and yet, as seasons like the present oc cur, they are reviewed with unabated in terest. In 1707 British troops landed in Bos ton, avowedly to enforce ihe unconstitu tional acts of the British Parliament. More troops continued to arrive, until their number, at the time of the battle, amounted to ten thousand. The patri ots resolved on taking measures lor de fence, and accordingly the Provincial Congress, on the 20tii Oct., 1774, resolv ed upon decisive action. They recom mended that one quarter of the militia of the country form themselves into compa nies of fifty men each, place themselves under proper field officers, and prepare to march, fully armed and cquiped, at the shortest notice. These bodies were the celebrated minute men. They were di rected to form themselves into battalions of nine companies each. At the same time the Committee of Safety was insti tuted, with full jiower to order out these minute men, and direct their operations. Previous to the buttle of Lexington, the following general officers were chosen : Preble, Ward, Pomeroy, Thomas, and Heath. April 13, it was further resolved to raise a train of artillery, composed of six companies, “ to enter immediately ou discipline,” and to be ready to enter the service of the colony “ when an army should be raised.” Along with this note of preparation, the Provincial Congress and the Committee of Safety set m mo tion various measures admirably calcula ted to increase the discipline and rouse the military ardor of the colonists. The clergy were exhorted to make the times a theme for the pulpit. Did a town pre sent an uncommon array of martial spir it, details of the fine appearance, the creditable discipline of its troops were circulated through the colonies. In such a manner enthusiasm was enkindled in a remarkable degree. The country was alive with military excitement—stores were collected. All the cannon that could he seized were dragged to a place of safety—sometimes from under the very noses of British officers, and from the Vims of British frigates. The great magazine of stores, collect ed by order of the Provincial Congress, was at Concord. Gage determined to destroy these stores. Accordingly on the night of the 18th April he despatched Lt. Col. Smith, with what ho considered a sufficient force, to acccomplish this work. Hence, on the day following, the momentous battle of Lexington occurred, the fit prelude to the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is not proposed here to detail the events of this battle. The new r s of it spread like wild-fire. It was like a call to arms. The same frenzy, as Jef ferson terms the glorious movement, was as rife in Virginia as it was in South Carolina, and in these colonies as it was in Massachusetts. An army, as if at the command of nil enchanter, sprung into existence, and occupied the commanding eminences about the metropolis. Three days after the battle, troops from the va rious adjoining colonies were here, and the British were as closely confined to Boston as they ever were afterwards. And where troops did not march directly to the scene of action, they were in the field. “All ranks of men among us are in arms,” says a Philadelphia letter — “ nothing is heard in our streets but the trumpet and drum; and the universal cry is ‘America to arms !’” But though there was an abundance of military en thusiasm and “ minute meu” about Bos ton, there was as yet no regular army. On Sunday, April 23d, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts resolved to raise one of 30,000. Os this number, 13,000 were to be enlisted by Massachu setts—the femainder by other New Eng land provinces. On the 21st of May, 1775, General Ward was placed in com mand of this army. By the middle of June, 15,000 troops beseiged Boston, which were encamped in the neighbor ing towns from Chelsea to Roxbury. But this body “of country people” was an army in name only, it hardly con tained within itself “ the elements of uni fortuity and discipline. There was in reality no other bond of union than a volunteer acquiescence, and i.o controll ing head vested with any adequate pow er to maintain authority.” In supplies, W. A. *C. THOMPSON-PUBLISHERS. I NO. 7. also, it was lamentably deficient; even tents, bayonets, and powder were want ing. The strength of the army lay in its enthusiasm, its indomitable patriotism; and its terribie efficiency, when called to meet the British, consisted in the skill of each man that composed it in the use of the rifle. It was a lx)dy of freemen ea ger to contest their title to freedom with their swords. The officers who com manded this army had, most of them, seen hard service. Putnam, Pomeroy, Prescott, Gridley, and others, had been out in the old French war—that provi dential school of arms for the colonists, that trained up men to direct their strength against the most formidable pow er of Europe. These officers were whole-souled patriots. The names of some of them appear as conspicuously in the paper war of resolutions, protection agreements, and addresses, as they after wards did in the fields of blood. None of these stand out more conspicuously in this respect than Prescott, the vol unteer commander of the Bunker Hill redoubt, or Waiiiien, the volunteer mar tyr in the first great battle that American principles waged against absolutism. All this was widely known ; the troops lov ed them for their boldness in this respect, as well as for their military courage. In these early days the moral heroes, like Samuel Adams, who were known as the thinkers and prime movers of patri otic opposition, were often received with processions as imposing as those of our own day. This leeling of confidence in the officers of the army was shared fully by the men who composed it. Far different was the construction of the British army, which, after the 19th of April, was cooped up in Boston. It was admirably disciplined, abounding in everything necessary to carry on military operations. It was finely officered. Gen. Gage, its commander, had seen much service ; so had Burgoyne, Howe, Clin ton, and Pigot. But they labored under the strange and fatal mistake of under valuing the brave men they had to con tend against. In their eyes, the Ameri can patriots were a cowardly set, who would not fight. Stranger still as it may seem, the bitter pill of Concord and Lex ington experience—so letters written at the time by individuals of the army show—did not awaken them from this de lusion. Most of the army were filled with the same spirit that actuated the of ficers. And they were indignant that an impudent set of “ragamuffins 74 had dared to brave the authority of king and parliament, and to insult them with a siege. If the American troops were ani mated by patriotism, the British grena diers were filled with resentment. The latter were burning for an opportunity of chastising these “insolent rebels,” this “ rabble,” “ led on by demagogues to cer tain ruin ;” such demagogues as that “ rascally patriot and apothecary,” Joseph Warren, or that violent “madcap,” “who swore he would see the province in a flame, because his father was not made chief justice,” James Otis; or that “no torious defaulter,” “full of artful Aviles and smooth demeanor, who talked the people out of their understandings,” Samuel Adams ; or that “ dujie” of Sam uel Adams, John Hancock —“a man whose brains were shallow and pockets deep.” A rabble goaded on also by “ the black regiment,” (ministers of the gospel) which “ the oily tongues” of those who undertook “to mouth self interest for patriotism,” had the “ adroitness to enlist in their service,” and the members of which continually “sounded the trumpet of sedition and rebellion.” A rabble stimulated by the press, which “ roared out its libels” until “ libertinism, riot, and robbery liecame the order of the day,” and a complete “ torrent of savage barbarity” was let loose. By such means “Han cock and his crew” at length raised “as Avnnton and wicked a rebellion as ever raged in any government on the face of the earth,” which it was the duty of eve ry true royalist to quell. The British army by nursing such thoughts as these which may be seen in the contemporane ous tory documents of the time—became indignant in their Boston prison ; and thus it was that both sides were eager for a meeting. The British commanders were grow ing more dissatisfied with their quarters, as Boston became every day more un comfortable. They therefore determined to enlarge them. The necessity of this was urged upon Gen. Gage with much earnestness by Ins officers, and his delay in executing it has been severely censur ed by British writers. He was repeated ly advised to occupy and fortify Charles town heights. These facts were care fully noted. There were many patriots who watched w ith eagle eyes e\ r ery move ment, and who employed ev r ery means to get information of the purposes of the British General. They found ways to send this information to the American camp. Some of the letters conveying this arc yet to be seen ; some are anony mous—some under signature. Tradition ascribes valuable communications to a patriot lady, and a distinguished clergy man. Whoever furnished the intelli gence, certain it is, that the committee of safety, invested by the Provincial Con gress with enlarged powers, were vvejl