WILLIAMS (Ante p. 227).Fas person insane or led away by sicas? While in Canada and and map of Marquette's hands, which I subsequently eceived a letter from the Secretary of State at Albany Rev. Eleazar Williams :the State Marquette's and map, which with found in a-box in the at Sault St. Louis, me when it was abandoned ed stating that it was St. Louis, that the any such ruinous having been built Rev. Mr. Marcou, church. The box cer a delusion. thermal and map eived the idea that --sion on that point

beat his object I could

and the docunave and wished to them, before or : or dispute have found them not have had he claimed to was simply as insane man, that his ears ongin. THEN G. SHEA.

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ish in the memorable fight.1 The Free Press adds:

"They are the property of the United States Government if any one has a claim, but if the city were to take possession of them there would probably be no question of ownership raised. The truckman will be satisfied if paid for his trouble, and the cannon can be placed in one of the parks on the Campas Martius or laid at the base of the monument. Nothing more valuable in the line of relics can be found in this neighborhood. Cleveland, having a Perry monument, would no doubt be glad to pay something for these guns. Detroit historical societies have no place to put the pieces if they should purchase them, but the city has a dozen eligible locations. Placed at the base of the monument inside the fence, the guns would attract much attention, and if the Council would take no step the different societies, by the help of a subscription paper among business men, could easily raise the small sum necessary to purchase the relics."

I send you the above for two reasons: First; In the HISTORICAL RECORD No IThere is an account of "Braddock's grave" p. 44, extracted from "the Uniontown American Standard of the 7th instant, after giving an account of the planting on the 29th ult." &c. Now, when and what year is referred to? When was 7th instant, and the 9th ult. ?-My impression is that the extract is from a paper printed over 25 or 30 years ago, if not more. See Braddock's expedition (p. 246.). by Winthrop Sargent, published by the Historical Society of Pa., 1855.

The above extract from the Detroit paper, has no date. I cut it from. the "Evening

Bulletin" of Phila. of April 5th 1872. Second; There are upon the wharves fronting on the Delaware numerous cannon, now used as hitching posts &c. Where did they come from? How did they get there? Is there any Historical interest attached to them? And if so, ought not the Historical Society of Pa. to get one for the vestibule of their new Library, to put along with the "Swamp Angel," presented by Col. Wm. W. H. Davis? And ought not some of them be put in Independence

Hall or the Park?

I think these old pieces of ordnance were used in the War of the Revolution. If so, it is a shame that they are not preserved.

THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE and CRITICAL REVIEW.-In May 1817, a periodical bearing this name was commenced in the city of New York. It was "published for H. Biglow, Esq., Editor and Proprietor, by Kirk and Mercein."

I have the first and second volumes and three numbers of the third volume (for May, June and July, 1818.)

It was distinguished for the severity of its criticisms upon the works of Byron, Coleridge and other authors of that day. What can now be learnt of the editor and the contributors to this magazine? How long was it published. Philadelphia.

W. D.

GOD SAVE THE GUILLOTINE.-I remember once seeing a parody on "God save the King" with the above title, said to

have been written by Joel Barlow. you tell anything about it? And can you tell where "God save the King" was originated, to which tune is set one of our sweet hymns,--"My Country, 'tis to thee," &c? SARAH.

Minneapolis, May, 1872.

ANSWER.-Joel Barlow was not the author It was written of the Parody referred to. by John Thelwell, a political English agitator who wrote much on the current subjects of the day during the French Revolution. His republicanism was so rampant that in 1794, he was tried for treason with John Horne Tooke and Thomas Hardy, and acquitted. The following is a copy of his parody.

"God save the Guillotine!

Till England's King and Queen
Her power shall prove;
Till each annointed knob
Affords a clipping job
Let no rude halter rob
The Guillotine.

"France, let thy trumpet sound-
Tell all the world around
How Capet fell;

And when great George's poll
Shall in the basket roll,
Let mercy then control
The Guillotine.

"When all the sceptr❜d crew
Have paid their homage due
The Guillotine,

Let Freedom's flag advance
Till all the world, like France,
O'er tyrants' graves shall dance
And peace begin."

The following fact may explain the connection of Barlow's name with the authorship of this parody: He was in France during the Revolution there, and was a fierce Jacobin. He was the bitter political enemy of Washington and Adams. When in Hamburg, in 1793, he was invited to a Jacobin festival, and he furnished for the occasion a copy of Thelwell's parody, which was sung on that occasion to the tune of "God save the King."

It is generally supposed that the words. and air of "God save the King" originated with Handel, in the time of George the First. It is also attributed to John

to be "very tite and good as yet," but there seems to have been some fear that she would not remain so long, which was fully realized before she had completed her next voyage. On her return to Newport she was fitted out for the African trade, for which she had already been registered, as follows;

66 'NEWPORT "Rhode Island.

[SEAL]

"In pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 7th and 8th years of the Reign of King William the Third, entitled, an act for preventing Fraud, and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade. "JURAT: William Johnston, of Newport, in the Colony of Rhode Island &c. Merchant.

"That the Brigantine, called the Sanderson, whereof David Landsay is at present master, being a square stern'd vessel of the burthen of about

Forty tons, was built at Portsmouth, in the Colony

aforesaid, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Forty-five, as appears by a former Register, now cancelled, and that this deponent at present is sole owner thereof, and that no Foreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any share or part or Interest therein. "WILLIAM JOHNSTON.

[SEAL] "Which oath abovesaid, was made before us, William Greene Esq. Governor of the Colony aforesaid, and Joseph Wanton Esq. collector and principle officer of His Maiestey's customs in said Colony.

"Given under our hands and seals at Newport, abovesaid, this twelfth day of March, Anno Dom. 1752, in the Twenty-fifth year of his Majestey's Reign.

"W. GREENE."

"Custom House, Newport. R. I. Rec'd, Ex'd and Del.

J. WANTON."

Her "portage bill" numbered the Captain, two mates and six men. No surgeon was then employed, though at a subsequent day it was found to be to the interest of the owners to make a liberal allowance for one, but which allowance by no means equalled that of a surgeon on board a privateer. She took on board "80 hhds. six bbs. and 3 tierce of rum, containing 8220 gals. 79 bars of iron (known as "African iron," and got up expressly for the trade) 19 bbs. flour, 4 tierces rice, 2 bbs. snuff, 28 iron pots, 20bbs. tar, 3 bbs.

1 The surgeon of a privateer was allowed two full shares of all prizes, and "all Doctors chests and instruments" that might be taken as prizes: and it was also the custom to make him a present of the ship's chest, on a return from a cruise.

loaf sugar, 4 bbs brown do. 7 quarter casks wine, 1 bb. coffee, 1 bb vinegar, 20 firkins butter, 2 do tallow, 10 bbs. pork, 15 half do. 10 bbs beef and 8 half do. 10 boxes sperm candles, 4 kegs pickles, 2 bbs. fish, 1 bb. hams, 12 casks of bread, 4 casks of tobacco, 1 trunk of shirts and cotton hollands, 3000 staves, hoops and boards, 470 ropes of onions, 4 bbs. beans," with the usual supply of water, shackles, hand

cuffs &c.

The tar, hoops, staves and boards were taken to fill up the hold, and were to be sold or exchanged for molasses when the vessel reached the West Indies. The vinegar was used for purifying the between decks. On the return voyage, when clear of the coast, the slaves were daily brought and sprinkled with vinegar, and then they on deck, their quarters cleaned, washed

were returned to the dismal hole in which they were confined; the males separated from the females by means of a bulk head. If the slaves were quiet and submissive, they were allowed to remain on deck the greater part of the day in fine weather: if not, they had a hard time of it.

The cargo on board, it was deemed advisable to effect insurance, but this was not always an easy matter, for underwriters objected to the long voyage, and cared not to take the hazard when opportunities to underwrite on vessels bound to and from the West Indies were constantly offering. A number of mutilated policies have come to my hand, but the only perfect one is on another vessel, the Anstis, also a brigantine, about the size of the Sanderson, and The insurance up for the coast of Africa. was effected in New York, through a broker, and he could get but one party to underwrite for £100, on the cargo, at 18 per. cent, other parties refusing to underwrite for less than 20 per. ct. The whole policy is to long too insert here, and I will make only one extract from it.

"And touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are content to bear, and do take upon us in this voyage, they are of the seas, men of War, Fire, Enemies, Pyrates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettizons, Letters of Mart, and Countermart. Sarprizals, Taking at Sea, Baratry of the Master and Marines, and all the Perils, Losses and Misfortunes

ELEAZAR WILLIAMS (Ante p. 227).Was not this person insane or led away by strange delusions? While in Canada and with the journal and map of Marquette's voyage in my hands, which I subsequently published, I received a letter from the office of the Secretary of State at Albany stating that the Rev. Eleazar Williams proposed to sell to the State Marquette's original journal and map, which with other papers he had found in a-box in the wall of the Church at Sault St. Louis, Canada, at a time when it was abandoned and in ruins. I replied stating that it was notorious at Sault St. Louis, that the church had not been in any such ruinous state; the present church having been built by the then incumbent Rev. Mr. Marcou, who took down the old church. The box finding was therefore clearly a delusion.

The fact that I had the journal and map in my hands, rather favored the idea that he had fallen into a delusion on that point also.

What could have been his object I could not tell, but though I printed the documents he pretended to have and wished to sell, he never produced them, before or after my publication to correct or dispute my work. He could not have found them as he pretended; he could not have had them. When at a later day he claimed to be Louis XVII, I put it down as simply as another freak of an evidently insane man, Indianologists assured me that his ears were a sure mark of his Indian origin. JOHN G. SHEA.

New York, June, 1872.

INTERESTING RELICS.-The Detroit Free Press says that a cannon captured from the British at Perry's victory is in the possession of a truckman of that city, and advertised for sale, and that another cannon, fully as large as this one, lies imbedded in the earth at the foot of Cass street, and that one was also taken from the Brit

ish in the memorable fight.1 The Free Press adds:

"They are the property of the United States Government if any one has a claim, but if the city were to take possession of them there would probably be no question of ownership raised. The truckman will be satisfied if paid for his trouble, and the cannon can be placed in one of the parks on the Campas Martius or laid at the base of the monument. Nothing more valuable in the line of relics can be found in this neighborhood. Cleveland, having a Perry monument, would no doubt be glad to pay something for these guns. Detroit historical societies have no place to put the pieces if they should purchase them, but the city has a dozen eligible locations. Placed at the base of the monument inside the fence, the guns would attract much attention, and if the Council would take no step the different societies, by the help of a subscription paper among business men, could easily raise the small sum necessary to purchase the relics."

I send you the above for two reasons: First; In the HISTORICAL RECORD NO IThere is an account of "Braddock's grave" p. 44, extracted from "the Uniontown American Standard of the 7th instant, after giving an account of the planting on the 29th ult." &c. Now, when and what year is referred to? When was 7th instant, and the 9th ult. ?-My impression is that the extract is from a paper printed over 25 or 30 years ago, if not more. See Braddock's expedition (p. 246.). by Winthrop Sargent, published by the Historical Society of Pa., 1855.

The above extract from the Detroit paper, has no date. I cut it from. the "Evening

1 On page 300 of the "Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812," by the Editor of the RECORD, may be seen a picture of one of these iron cannon that were taken from the British by the victorious Americans, under Perry. These the writer saw in 1860, at the wharves in the rear of the warehouses of Messrs. Mooney and Foote, and Sheldon. One was a long four-pounder, and the other two were thirty-two pound carronades. They were used as posts for mooring vessels.