collected forces of the Shawnele, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia militia. The Indians were defeated and fued for peace

5. Logan, however, difdained to be feen among the fuppliants; but, lest the fincerity of a treaty fhould be diftubed, from which fo distinguished a chief abfented himself, he fest by a meffenger, the following fpeech, to be delivered to Lord Dunmore.

6. "I appeal to any white man to fay if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him no meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace."

7. "Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they paffed by, and faid, Logan is the friend of white men. I had even thought to have lived' with you, had it not been for the injuries of one man Colonel Crefap, last fpring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even fparing my women and children."

8. "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have fought it, I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace'; but do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to fave his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not

one."

Speech of a Scythian Ambassador to Alexander. "W HEN the Scythian ambassadors waited on Alex

ander the great, they gazed on him a long time. without fpeaking a word, being very probably furprifed, as they formed a judgment of men from their air and stature, to find that his did not answer the high idea they Entertained of him from his fame..

2. At last the oldest of the ambaffadors addreffed him thus: "Had the gods given thee a body proportiona ble to thy ambition, the whole univerfe would have been too little for thee. With one hand thou wouldst touch the East, and with the other the West; and, not fatisfi

ed with this, thou wouldst follow the fun and know where he hides himself.

3. But what have we to do with thee? We never fet foot in thy country. May not those who inhabit woods be allowed to live, without knowing who thou art, and whence thou comeft? We will neither command over, nor fubmit to any man.

4. And that thou mayest be fenfible what kind of people r the Scythians are, know, that we received from Heaven, as a rich prefent, a yoke of oxen, a ploughshare, a dart, a javelin, and a cup. Thefe we make ufe of, both with our friends, and against our enemies.

5.00 To our friends we give corn, which we procure by the labor of our oxen; with them we offer wine to the gods in our cup; and with regard to our enemies, we combat them at a distance with our arrows, and near at hand with our Javelins.

6. But thou, who boafted thy coming to extirpate robbers, art thyself the greatest robber upon earth. Thou haft plundered all nations thou overcameft; thou haft pofkffed thyfelf of Libia, invaded Syria, Perfia, and Bactriana; thou art forming- a defign to march as far as India and now thou comeft hither to feize upon our herds of cattle. 7. The great poffeffions thou haft, only make thee covet · the more eagerly what thou haft not. If thou art a god, thou oughteft to do good to mortals, and not deprive them i of their poffeffions.

8. If thou art a mere man, reflect always on what thou art. They whom thou shalt not moleft will be thy true friends; the ftrongest friendships being contracted between equals, and they are efteemed equals who have not tried their ftrength againft each other. But do not fuppofe that thofe whom thou conquereft can love thee."

Singular adventure of General Putnam.

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HEN General Putnam first moved to Pomfret, in Connecticut, in the year 1739, the country was new and much infefted with wolves. Great havoc was made among the fheep by a fhe-wolf, which, with her annual whelps had for feveral years continued in that viinity. The young ones were commonly deftroyed by the.

vigilance of the hunters; but the old one was too fagacious to be enfnared by them.

2. This wolf, at length, became fuch an intolerable nuifauce, that Mr. Putnam entered into a combination with five of his neighbours to hunt alternately unti, they could destroy her. Two by rotation, were to be constantly in purfuit. It was known, that having loft the toes from one foot, by a steel trap, fhe made one track fhorter than the other.

3. By this veftige, the purfuers recognized, in a light fnow, the route of this pernicious animal. Having followed her to Connecticut river, and found fhe had turned back in a direct course towards Pomfret, they immediately returned, and by ten o'clock the next morning the bloodhounds had driven her into a den, about three miles diftant from the houfe of Mr. Putnam.

4. The people foon collected with dogs, guns, straw, fire, and fulphur, to attack the common enemy. With this apparatus, feveral unfuccefsful efforts were made to force her from the den. The hounds came back badly wounded and refused to return. The fmoke of blazing straw, had no effect. Nor did the fumes of burnt brimstone, with which the cavern was filled, compel her to quic the retirement.

5. Wearied with fuch fruitless attempts (which had brought the time to ten o'clock at night) Mr. Putnam tried once more to make his dog enter, but in vain: he propofed to his negro man to go down into the cavern and fhoot the wolf. The negro declined the hazardous fervice.

6. Then it was that their master, angry at the difappointment, and declared that he was afhamed of having a coward in his family, refolved himself to destroy the ferecious beast, lest the fhould efcape through fome unknown fffure of the rock.

7. His neighbours strongly remonstrated against the perilous enterprife; but he, knowing that wild animals were intimidated by fire, and having provided feveral strips of birch bark, the only combustible material which he could obtain, which would afford light in this deep and darkfome cave, prepared for his defcent.

8. Having accordingly, divested himself of his coat

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and waistcoat, and having a long rope fastened round his legs, by which he might be pulled back at a concerted signal, he entered, head foremost, with a bla zing torch in his hand.

9. Having groped his passage till he came to the horizontal part of the den, the most terryfying darkness appeared in front of the dim circle the light afforded by his torch. It was silent as the house of death. None but monsters of the desert had ever before explored this solitary mansion of horror.

10. He cautiously proceeded onward, came to an ascent, which he slowly mounted on his hands and knees, until he discovered the glaring eye balls of the wolf, who was sitting at the extremity of the cavern. Standled at the sight of fire, she gnashed her teeth and gave a sullen growl.

11. As soon as he had made the necessary discovery, he kicked the rope as a signal for pulling him out. The people at the mouth of the den, who had listened with painful anxiety, hearing the growl of the wolf, and supposing their friend to be in the most imminent danger, drew him forth with such celerity, that he was stripped of his clothes and severely bruised.

12. After he had adjusted his clothes, and loaded his gun with nine buckshot, holding a torch in one hand, and the musquet in the other, he descended a second time. When he drew nearer than before, the wolf, assuming a still more fierce and terrible appearance, howling, rolling her eyes, snapping her teeth, and dropping her head between her legs, was evidently in the attitude, and on the point of springing at him.

13. At this critical instant, he levelled and fired at her head. Stunned with the shock, and suffocated with the smoke, he immediately found himself drawn out of the cave. But having refreshed himself, and permitted the smoke to dissipate, he went down the third time.

14. Once more he came within sight of the wolf, who appearing very passive, he applied the torch to her nose; and perceiving her dead, he took hold of her ears, and then kicking the rope, (still tied round his legs) the people above, with no small exultation, dragged them both out together.

The aged Prisoner, released from the Bastile.

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O WHERE else on earth, perhaps, has human misery, by human means, been rendered so lasting, so complete, or so remediless, as in that despotic prison the Bastile. This the following case may suffice to evince; the particulars of which are translated from that elegant and energetic writer, Mr. Mercier.

2. The heinous offence which merited an imprisonment surpassing torture and rendered deatha blessing, was no more than some unguarded expressions, implying disrespect towards the late Gallic monarch, Louis fifteenth.

3. Upon the accession of Louis sixteenth to the throne, the ministers then in office, moved by humanity, began their administration with an act of clemency and justice. They inspected the registers of the Bastile, and set many prisoners at liberty.

4. Among those, there was an old man who had groaned in confinement for forty-seven years, between four thick and cold stone walls. Hardened by adversity, which strengthens both the mind and constitution, when they are not overpowered by it, he had resisted the horrors of his long imprisonment with an invincible and manly spirit.

5. His locks, white, thin, and scattered, had almost acquired the rigidity of iron; whilst his body, environed for so longa ime by a coffin of stone, had borrowed from it a firm and compact habit. The narrow door of his tomb, turning upon its grating hinges, opened not as usual by halves, and an unknown voice announced his liberty, and bade him depart.

6. Believing this to be a dream, he hesitated; but at length rose up and walked forth with trembling steps, amazed at the space he traversed. The stairs of the prison, the halls, the court seemed to him vast, immense, and almost without bounds.

7. He stopped from time to time and gazed around like a bewildered traveller. His vision was with difficulty reconciled to the clear light of day. He contemplated the heavens as a new object. His eyes remained fixed, and he could not even weep.

8. Stupified with the newly acquired power of changing his position, his limbs, like his tongue, refused, in