GEORGE HIGGINS.

Half-length, face to left. A. Newsam from life, Thos. S. Wagner, publisher, in U. S. Ecclesiastical Portrait Gallery. Title-Rev'd Geo. Higgins. Size, 4.6 x 6 ins.

HENRY HILL.

Oval; bust; face to right. P. S. Duval, Steam lith., Phila. Note made from a process plate of the original and size not known.

JAMES HOBAN.

Full bust; face to right. Daguerreotype by Wm. J. Corcoran. P. S. Duval, lith. Phila. 1846. Title.-Signature as above | James Hoban Esqr. | Late U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia | Three lines beneath. Size 10.12 x 8.12 ins.

JOSEPH HOPKINSON.

Bust, faceto left. T. Sully, pinxt., Childs & Inman, lith. Not signed by Newsam, but ascribed to him. Unlettered proof-Size 5.9 x 5.6 ins.

IBID.

Half-length, face to left. Title-Jos. Hopkinson, LL.D. | Late Judge of the U. S. Court for the Eastern District of Penna. | President of the Penna. Academy of Fine Arts, Vice President of the American Philosphical Society, etc. etc. Size 11 x 8.2 ins.

W. B. HUBBARD.

P.

Three-quarter length in Masonic regalia, face front. S. Duval & Son, lith. for "Mirror & Keystone," Philada., 1852. Title. Yours Fraternally | W. B. Hubbard | M. W. G. M. of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. Size 10 x 6.10 ins.

JOHN HUGHES.

Full bust, in robes, face to right. A. Newsam from life; published by John Kenedy, New York, 1841. Title-Sig

nature | Right Rev'd John Hughes D.D. | Coadjutor to the Bishop of New York. Size, 9 x 9.8 ins.

MR. HUIDEKOPER.

Half length, face to left. J. Neagle, pinxt. Childs & Inman, lith. From unlettered proof in Newsam Collection. Size 7.8 x 7 ins.

HUNT.

Half length, face to right. A. Newsam from life. P. S. Duval, lith. Title-M Hunt. Genl. Hunt. | First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the | Republic of Texas. (Signature obscure.) Size: 11 x 9.8 ins.

THOMAS P. HUNT.

Half-length, holding a book entitled "The Drunkard's Friend," face to right. Wm. E. Winner, pinxt., P. S. Duval, lith. Title-Thos. P. Hunt. Size, 9.10 x 8.12 (?)

GEORGE B. IDE.

Full bust, face slightly to left. A. Newsam, del., P. S. Duval, lith., for Thos. S. Wagner. Title.-Rev'd Geo. B. Ide, A.M. | Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Phila. Size, 5.4 x 4.2 ins.

J. R. INGERSOLL.

Full bust, face to right. H. Inman, pinxt. Childs & Inman, lith. Not signed by Newsam, but it is his work. Title J. R. Ingersoll | From the original picture painted for his students and presented to | the Law Library of Philadelphia. Size, 8.13 x 8.12 ins.

VOL. XXIV.-19

(To be continued.)

A LETTER OF THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.

Original in the Manuscript Collection of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.

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COLONEL ELIAS BOUDINOT'S NOTES OF TWO CONFERENCES HELD BY THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH COMMISSIONERS TO SETTLE A GENERAL CARTEL FOR THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.OF WAR, 1778.

[The exchange of civil and military prisoners of war was a matter which continued in a very unsatisfactory state until the appointment by Congress in June of 1777 of Elias Boudinot, Esq., as Commissary General of Prisoners. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania in its manuscript collection has much of the correspondence and many notes of conferences of Colonel Boudinot on the subject, and we have selected one of the latter, for the interesting account it gives of the attempt to settle on a general cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war. The American Commissioners were Colonel William Grayson, Lieutenant-Colonels Alexander Hamilton and Robert Hanson Harrison, of Washington's staff, and Colonel Elias Boudinot, and the British, Colonel Charles O'Hara, of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, Colonel Humphry Stephens, of the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, and Captain the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, of the First Regiment of Foot Guards. Their meetings took place in the Benezet mansion, on Main street near the Square, Germantown, and in the inn of Amos Strickland, at Newtown, in Bucks County.]

On Tuesday the 31st March 1778 Col. Wm Grayson, Lieut. Col. Robt H. Harrison & Alex' Hamilton and Elias Boudinot Commissioners appointed by his Exc Gen. Washington, (for meeting Commissioners of like Rank from Gen' Howe to sett & agree upon a general Cartel for the Exchange of Prisoners &c.) set out from the Camp at the Valley Forge, and proceeded to German Town, and arrived at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, where they met Col. Charles O'Hara, Col. Humphrey Stephens & Capt. Rich' Fitzpatrick, Commissioners from Sir William Howe. The Commissioners on each side were attended by an Escort of 12 light Dragoons under the command of a Cap. of light Dragoons-Americans by Capt. [Robert] Smith of Baylor's regt.

After the usual Introduction, Col. O'Hara mentioned their coming with the most upright Intentions of acting with

Candour & Openess. That they doubted not of our coming with the same resolutions, and that therefore, they hoped for a favourable Issue. Col. O'Hara presented their Commission from Sir William Howe dated the 5th Inst. for meeting on the 10th, whereupon Col. Grayson produced the Commission from Gen' Washington and Com3 were examined & exchanged. Col. O'Hara previously observed, that he understood the two Generals meant the negotiations to proceed between the military Gent" and if necessity required to call in Mess Boudinot & Loring for Information occasionally, but on seeing that Mr. Boudinot was mentioned in the Commission, waived the Matter and proceeded to introduce rough Notes of their Ideas of the principal Parts of a general Cartel, leaving them and desiring they might be considered by tomorrow. Then proposed their going to Town this Evening, & returning by Ten o'Clock tomorrow Morning.1 Col. Harrison mentioned the necessary attendants passing & repassing to the respective Camps under Passes from each other. Col. O'Hara agreed for this Day & promised to obtain proper Authority for the purpose by tomorrow. It was mentioned that German Town should be a place of neutrality & no Troops besides the mutual Escorts to enter. Col. O'Hara also proposed at the Introduction, that we should take up the matter of our Business in the first Place by settling a general Cartel, to answer the Purposes of our Commissions and afterwards to settle all other disputes as secondary Matters, to which we assented, provided nothing was considered as binding on either Party until the whole was settled.

In another communication Colonel Boudinot states: "The British Commissioners after dinner told us, that they had engaged to attend a grand Ball that was to be given that evening in the City, and earnestly solicited that we should gratify them by consenting to their going into the City, when they would mention our Objections to their powers and they would be out early in the morning. They accordingly went and I suppose reported to Gen. Howe. The next morning, they came out in good time. . . In granting this request, we were guilty of a great Blunder."