formed. The general was brought off in a small tumbril by colonel Washington, captain Stewart of his guards, and his servant. Colonel Washington was immediately dispatched to Dunbar's camp, to have some comfortable provisions prepared for the defeated army; which place he reached the next evening, and was soon followed by the remnant of the troops. On their arrival, all the stores, except those necessary for immediate use, were destroyed, General Braddock died at this place; and colonel Dunbar, a short time afterwards, marched the remaining regular troops to Philadelphia, to go into what he called winter quarters.

"Colonel Washington was greatly disappointed and disgusted with the conduct of the regular troops on this occasion. In his letter to lieutenant governor Dinwiddie, giving an account of the action, he says, 'They were struck with such inconceivable panic, that nothing but confusion and disobedience of orders prevailed among them. The officers in general behaved with incomparable bravery; for which they greatly suffered, there being upwards of sixty killed and wounded"-a large proportion out of what we had.

"The Virginia companies behaved like men, and died like soldiers: for I believe, out of three companies on the ground that day, scarcely thirty men were left alive. Captain Peronny and all his officers, down to a corporal, were killed. Captain Poulson had almost as hard a fate, for only one of his escaped.

"In short, the dastardly behaviour of the regular troops, so called, exposed those who were inclined to do their duty to almost certain death; and at length, in spite of every effort to the contrary, they broke, and ran as sheep before hounds, leaving the artillery, ammunition, provisions, baggage, and, in short, every thing, a prey to the enemy; and when we endeavoured to rally them, in hopes of regaining the ground, and what we had left upon it, it was with as little success as if we had attempted to have stopped the wild bears of the mountains, or the rivulets with our feet; for they would break by in spite of every effort to pre

xent it."

The conduct of colonel Washington reflected high honour on his military talents, upon the present occasion, for it was the settled opinion of the Americans, that if his advice had been pursued, the misfortunes of that day would have been avoided. As a proof of this, the assembly of Virginia invested him with the command of a regiment consisting of sixteen companies, with the privilege of naming his own field officers, and also with the rank of commander in chief of all the forces raised, or to be raised, in that colony.

After the removal of the French from the Ohio, and the cessation of Indian hostility, colonel Washington once more determined to withdraw from the service. Soon after this

event, he married the widow of Mr. Curtis, "a lady to whom he had been for some time strongly attached, and who," it is added, "to a fine fortune and a fine person, added those amiable accomplishments, which ensure domestic happiness, and fill with silent but unceasing felicity the quiet scenes of private life."

We have now arrived at that eventful and melancholy period of our history, when a war between the mother country and her colonies became inevitable. We shall not here enter into a detail of the arguments on either side, nor shall we dwell on the stamp act, the fruitful source of so many evils, or the destruction of the tea at Boston, which first gave occasion to measures of severity, and produced the battle of Breed's, improperly stiled "Bunker's hill." This was followed by the evacuation of Boston, the invasion of Canada, and the battle of Brooklyn and Trenton, with the latter of which, the second volume terminates.

(To be continued.)

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, &c. written by his Widow Lucy, now first published from the original Manuscript, by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson. 4to. Price 1. 11s. 6d.

THE editor, who is a descendant of colonel Hutchinson, and his representative, introduces these memoirs of his ancestor with a judicious preface, in which the authenticity of the work is shewn to be unquestionable. The reasons for its being kept so long in obscurity are too obvious to require explanation. Mr. H. is justly of opinion, that no evil can now arise from its publication. For his arguments we refer to the preface; fully convinced that every lover of history, and every reader of taste, will feel obliged to him for rescuing from unmerited oblivion a work recommended by so many interesting circumstances. He observes with truth, "that a history of a period the most remarkable in the British annals, written one hundred and fifty years ago, by a lady, of elevated birth, of a most comprehensive and highly cultivated mind, herself a witness of many of the scenes which she describes, and active in several of them, is a literary curiosity of no mean sort."

The work begins with some account of the parents of colonel Hutchinson. They are described as persons truly amiable and of singular merit. Both the character of Sir Thomas and the engaging picture of his wife would afford an interesting specimen of the superior taste with which these memoirs are written. Lady Hutchinson died young, leaving

besides the subject of these memoirs, another son, named George.

When they were old enough, the two brothers were sent to school, first at Nottingham, under the care of Mr. Theobalds, "who was an excellent scholar, but having no children, some wealth, and a little living that kept his house, first grew lazy, and after left off his school." Upon this occa sion, they were removed to Lincoln, where the master, though famous for learning and piety, was "such a superci lious pedant, and so conceited of his own pedantic forms, that he gave Mr. H. a disgust of him, and he profited very little there." In one sort of knowledge, however, the colonel met with opportunities of instruction.

"The advantage he had at this schoole, there being very many gentlemen's sons there, an old low-country souldier was entertain❜d to traine them in arms, and they all bought themselves weapons, and instead of childish sports, when they were not at their bookes, were exercis'd in all their military postures, and in assaults and defences; which instruction was not uselesse in a few yeares after to some of them: colonel Thornhaugh, who was now train'd in this sportive millitia with colonel Hutchinson, afterwards was his fellow-souldier in earnest, when the greate cause of God's and England's rights came to be disputed with swords against encroaching princes." p. 32.

He was afterwards removed to the free-school at Nottingham, where instead of a supercilious pedant, he had a very honest man for his instructor, "who using him with respect, advanced him more in one month than the other did in a year."

"The familliar kindnesse of his master made him now begin to love that which the other's austerity made him loath; and in a yeare's time he advanc'd exceedingly in learning, and was sent to Cambridge. He was made a fellow-commoner of Peter House, under the tuition of one Mr. Norwich, an admirable schollar, who by his civill demeanor to him wonne so much upon his good nature, that he lov'd and reverenc'd him as a father, and betooke himselfe with such delight to his studies that he attain'd to a greate height of learning, perform'd publick exercises in his colledge with much applause, and upon their importunity took a degree in the university, whereof he was at that time the grace, there not being any gentleman in the towne that lived with such regularity in himselfe, and such generall love and good esteeme of all persons as he did. He kept not companie with any of the vaine young persons, but with the graver men, and those by whose conversation he might gaine improvement. He was constant at their chapell, where he began to take notice of their stretching superstition

to idolatry, and was courted much into a more solemne practises of it than he could admit, though yet he considered not the emptinesse and carnallitie, to say no more, of that publick service which was then in use. For his exercise he practis'd tennis, and play'a admirable well att it; for his diversion he chose music, and gott a very good hand, which afterwards he improov'd to a greate mas tery on the violl; there were masters that taught to dance and valt, whom he practis'd with, being very agile and apt for all such becoming exercises: his father stinted not his expence, which the bounty of his mind made pretty large, for he was very liberall to his tutors and servitors, and to the meaner officers of the house. He was entic'd to bow to their greate idoll learning, and had a higher veneration for it a long time than can strictly be allow'd, yet he then look'd upon it as a handmaid to devotion, and as the greate improover of natural reason. His tutor and the masters that govern'd the colledge while he was there, were of Arminian principles, and that colledge was noted above all for popish superstitious practises, yet through the grace of God, notwithstanding the mutuall kindnesse the whole houshold had for him, and he for them, he came away, after five yeare's study there, untainted with those principles or practises, though not yet enlightened to discerne the spring of them in the rites and usages of the English church." p. 33.

About the age of twenty, he left the university, and re turned to his father's house at Nottingham, who had been some time married to a second wife; but he there enjoyed no greate delight, another brood of children springing up in the house, and the servants endeavouring with tales and flatteries to sow dissention on both sides." Mrs. H. delineates with great spirit the persons with whom he associated during his stay in that town, and records with pleasure his firmness in resisting the dangerous temptations with which he was there assailed. A mind less stedfast than his might have fallen a prey to the seductive arts of his debauched companions. He was also able to withstand enticements of a more innocent nature. Two ladies were ambitious of gaining his affections, and one of them, according to Mrs. Hutchinson,

-Was a young gentlewoman of such admirable tempting beauty, and such excellent good-nature, as would have thawed a rock of ice, yett even she could never gett an acquaintance with him: wealth and beauty thus in vaine tempted him, for it was not yett his time of love; but it was not farre off." p. 36.

Mr. H. now went to London, and was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, but he found no pleasure in the company of the gentlemen of that society.

"He found them so frothy and so vaine, and could so ill centre with them in their delights, that the towne began to be tedious

to him, who was neither taken with wine, nor game, nor the con verse of wicked or vaine weomen, to all which he wanted not pow erfull tempters, had not the power of God's grace in him bene above them." p. 36.

He soon found the study of the law unsuitable to his disposition; and, the plague then prevailing, he began to think of leaving the town. Not that his time was spent unprofitably there; for the liberal allowance of his father enabled him to improve himself in many elegant and useful accomplishments, such as dancing, fencing, and music, "wherein he had greete aptnesse and addresse."

On quitting London, he did not return to his father's house, on account of his partiality to his second family, and was almost persuaded by a French merchant to accompany him to France. In the mean while, he was prevailed on by his music-master to go and board with him at Richmond, at that time the residence of the prince and his court. Here he soon became acquainted with many distinguished persons of both sexes; and Mrs. H. relates with entertaining complacency the firmness with which he resisted the attacks of beauty, sometimes seconded by wit and wealth. The affections of this amiable man were reserved for herself. The origin of his passion is curious and even romantic.

"In the same house with him there was a younger daughter of Sr. Allan Apesley, late lieftenant of the tower, tabled for the practise of her lute, till the returne of her mother, who was gone into Wiltshire for the accomplishment of a treaty that had bene made some progresse in, about the marriage of her élder daughter with a gentleman of that country. This gentleweoman, that was left in the house with Mr. Hutchinson was a very child, her elder sister being at that time scarcely past it, but a child of such pleasantnesse, and vivacity of spiritt, and ingenuity in the quality she practis'd, that Mr. Hutchinson tooke pleasure in hearing her practise, and would fall in discourse with her. She having the keyes of her mother's house, some halfe a mile distant, would 'sometimes aske Mr. Hutchinson, when she went over, to walk along with her one day when he was there, looking upon an odde by-shelf in her sister's closett, he found a few Latine bookes, asking whose they were, he was told they were her elder sister's, whereupon enquiring more after her, he began first to be sorrie she was gone before he had seene her, and gone upon such an account that he was not likely to see her; then he grew to love to heare mention of her, and the other gentleweomen, who had bene her companions, used to talke much to him of her, telling hir how reserv'd and studious she was, and other things which they esteem'd no advantage; but it so much inflam'd Mr. Hutchinson's .desire of seeing her, that he began to wonder at himselfe, that his