accomplished. They reached the Jake opposite Ticonderoga, on the evening of the 9th of May, 1775. With the utmost difficulty boats were procured, and eighty-three men were landed near the garrison. Arnold now wished to assume the command, to lead on the men, and swore that he would go in himself the first. Allen swore that he should not. The dispute beginning to run high, some of the gentlemen present interposed, and it was agreed that both should go in together, Allen on the right hand, and Arnold on the left. The following is Allen's own account of the affair : "The first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington, to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take a part with my country. And while I was wishing for an opportunity to signalize myself in its behalf, directions were privately sent to me from the then colony, now state of Connecticut, to raise the Green Mountain Boys, and if possible with them to surprise and take the fortress of Ticonderoga. This enterprise I cheerfully undertook; and after first guarding all the several passes that lead thither, to cut off all intelligence between the garrison and the country, made a forced march from Bennington, and arrived at the lake opposite Ticonderoga, on the evening of the 9th day of May, 1775, with two hundred and thirty valiant Green Mountain Boys; and it was with the utmost difficulty that I procured boats to cross the lake. However I landed eighty-three men near the garrison, and sent the boats back for the rear guard, commanded by Col. Seth Warner; but the day began to dawn, and I found myself necessitated to attack the fort, before the rear could cross the lake; and as it was viewed hazardous, I harangued the officers and soldiers in the manner following ;-"Friends and fellow-soldiers. You have, for a number of years past, been a Scourge and terror to arbitrary powers. Your valour has be famed abroad, and acknowledge as appears by the advice and orde to me from the general assembly Connecticut, to surprise and tal the garrison now before us. I no propose to advance before you, a in person conduct you through t wicket gate; for we must this mor ing either quit our pretensions valour, or possess ourselves of th fortress in a few minutes; and ina much as it is a desperate attemp which none but the bravest of me dare undertake, I do not urge it o any contrary to his will. You th will undertake voluntarily, pois your firelock." "The men being at this tim drawn up in three ranks, each poise his firelock. I ordered them to fad to the right; and at the head of th centre file, marched them imme diately to the wicket gate aforesaid where I found a sentry posted, wh instantly snapped his fusee at me I ran immediately towards him, an he retreated through the covere way into the parade within th garrison, gave a halloo, and ra under a bomb proof. My part who followed me into the fort, formed on the parade in such manner, as to face the barracks whic faced each other. The garrison be ing asleep, except the sentries, w gave three huzzas, which greatl surprised them. One of the sentrie made a pass at one of my officer with a charged bayonet, and slightly wounded him. My first though was to kill him with my sword, bu in an instant I altered the design and fury of the blow to a slight cut or the side of the head; upon which he dropped his gun and asked quarters, which I readily granted him; and demanded the place where the commanding officer kept. He showed me a pair of stairs in the front of the garrison, which led up to a second story in said barracks to which I immediately repaired, and ordered the commander, Captain Delaplace to come forth instantly, I would sacrifice the whole garri- | n: At which time the captain me immediately to the door, with bs breeches in his hand, when I ordered him to deliver to me the fort astantly; he asked me by what uthority I demanded it. I answered him, "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Conress."-The authority of congress seing very little known at that time, le began to speak again, but I nterrupted him, and with my drawn word near his head again demanded immediate surrender of the garrson; with which he then complied, and ordered his men to be forthwith paraded without arms, as he had given up the garrison. In the mean he, some of my officers had given erders, and in consequence thereof, andry of the barrack doors were beat down, and about one-third of the garrison imprisoned, which consisted of said commander, a LieuTenant Feltham, a conductor of artillery, a gunner, two sergeants, and forty-four rank and file; about one hundred pieces of cannon, one thirteen inch mortar, and a number of swivels. This surprise was carried into execution in the gray of the morning of the 10th of May, 1775. The sun seemed to rise that morning with a superior lustre ; and Ticonderoga and its dependencies smiled on its conquerors, who tossed about the flowing bowl, and wished suctess to Congress, and the liberty and freedom of America. Happy it was for me, at that time, that the future pages of the book of fate, which afterward unfolded a miserable scene of two years and eight months imprisonment, were hid from my riew." This brilliant exploit secured to Allen a high reputation for intrepid valour throughout the country. In the fall of 1775, he was sent twice to Canada to observe the dispositions of the people, and attach them possible to the American cause. During one of these excursions he made a rash and romantic attempt upon Montreal. He had been sent by General Montgomery with a guard of eighty men on a tour into the villages in the neighbourhood. On his return he was met by a Major Brown, who had been on the same business. It was agreed between them to make a descent upon the island of Montreal. Allen was to cross the river, and land with his party a little north of the city; while Brown was to pass over a little to the south, with near 200 men. Allen crossed the river in the night as had been proposed, but by some means Brown and his party failed. Instead of returning, Allen, with great rashness concluded to maintain his ground. General Carlton soon re ceived intelligence of Allen's situa tion and the smallness of his numbers, and marched out against him with about 40 regulars and a considerable number of English, Canadians, and Indians, amounting, in the whole, to some hundreds. Allen attempted to defend himself, but it was to no purpose. Being deserted by several of his men, and having fifteen killed, he, with thirty-eight of his men, were taken prisoners. He was now kept for some time in irons, and was treated with the most rigorous and unsparing cruelty. From his narrative it appears that the irons placed on him were un commonly heavy, and so fastened, that he could not lie down, otherwise than on his back. A chest was his seat by day and his bed by night. Soon after his capture, still loaded with irons, he was sent to England, being assured that the halter would be the reward of his rebellion when he arrived there. Finding that threats and menaces had no effect upon him, high command and a large tract of the conquered country was afterward offered him, on condition he would join the British. To the last he replied, "that he viewed their offer of conquered U. States land to be similar to that which the devil offered to Jesus Christ; to give him all the kingdoms of the world, if he would fall down and worship him, when, at the same time, the poor devil had not one foot of land upon earth." Col. Allen was exchanged for col. Campbell, May 6th, 1778, and after having repaired to head-quarters, and offered his services to General Washington, in case his health should be restored, he returned to Vermont. His arrival on the evening of the last day of May, gave his friends great joy, and it was announced by the discharge of cannon. As an expression of confidence in his patriotism and military talents, he was very soon appointed to the command of the state militia. His intrepidity, however, was never again brought to the test, though his patriotism was tried by an unsuccessful attempt of the British to bribe him to attempt a union of Vermont with Canada. He died suddenly on his estate, February 13th, 1789. After his arrival, about the middle of December, he was lodged, for a short time, in Pendennis Castle, near Falmouth. On the 8th of January, 1776, he was put on board a frigate, and by a circuitous route again carried to Halifax. Here he remained closely confined in the jail from June to October, when he was removed to New-York. During the passage to this place, captain Burke, a daring prisoner, proposed to kill the British captain, and seize the frigate; but Allen refused to engage in the plot, and was probably the means of saving the life of captain Smith, who had treated him with kindness. He was kept at NewYork about a year and a half, sometimes imprisoned, and sometimes permitted to be on parole. While here he had an opportunity to observe the inhuman manner in which the American prisoners were treated. In one of the churches in which they were crowded, he saw seven lying dead at one time, and others biting pieces of chips from hunger. He calculated, that of the prisoners taken on Long-Island and at Fort Washington, near 2000 perished by hunger and cold, or in consequence of diseases occasioned by the impu-white horse. rity of their prisons. Gen. Allen was brave, humane, and generous; yet his conduct does not seen to have been much influenced by considerations respecting that holy and merciful Being, whose character and whose commands are disclosed to us in the Scriptures. His notions with regard to religion were loose and absurd. He believed with Pythagoras, the heathen philosopher, that man, after death, would transmigrate into beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, &c. and often informed his friends that he himself expected to live again in the form of a large WILLIAM ALEXANDER, yet, among his friends and acquaintances, he received, by courtesy, the title of Lord Stirling. In his youth his labours were arduous in the pursuit of science, and he discovered an early fondness for the study of mathematics and astronomy, in which he attained great eminence. GENERAL ALEXANDER, commonly called Lord Stirling, was a native of the city of New-York. He was considered, by many, as the rightful heir to the title and estate of an earldom in Scotland, of which country his father was a native; and although when he went to North Britain in pursuit of this inheritance, At the commencement of the rehe failed of obtaining an acknow-volutionary war, he attached himself ledgment of his claim by government, to the cause of America, and enter This bold and well-judged attempt, though unsuccessful, was productive of great advantages. It gave an opportunity to a large part of the detachment, to save themselves by crossing the creek. Immediately after his exchange, Lord Stirling joined the army under the immediate command of General Washington. In the battle of Germantown, his division, and the brigade of Generals Nash and Maxwell, formed the corps of reserve. At the battle of Monmouth, he commanded the left wing of the American army. At an important period of the engagement, he brought up a detachment of artillery, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Carrington, with some field-pieces, which played with great effect on the enemy, who were pressing on to the charge. These pieces, with the aid of several parties of infantry, detached for the purpose, effectually put a stop to their advance. The American artillery maintained their ground with admirable firmness, under a heavy fire from the British field artillery. ed the field against her enemies. He | of war. His attachment to Washington was proved in the latter part of 1777, by transmitting to him an account of the disaffection of General Conway to the Commander-in-Chief. In the letter he said, "such wicked duplicity of conduct I shall always think it my duty to detect." He died at Albany, January 15th, 1783, aged 57 years. DANIEL BOONE, The first Settler of Kentucky. THE merit of opposing the hostile | the unenclosed and unfrequented attacks of men regardless of every plains of nature, evidently deserve law of honour and humanity; coun- commemoration. The general interacting the treacherous machina- trusted with the chief command of tions of barbarians, who conceive an army, who earns his fame by the an advantage can never be unjustly capture of a troop, reduction of a gained; and bearing up against con- town, province, or country, is stimufinual party skirmishes, and uninter-lated by the fame, the natural con rupted harassments, in a contest for sequence of his actions; and sees the speedy end to the contest: but the former expects no epic muse to sung has worthy actions; though his vour is equally tried, or rather wased, by the continual and petty insults of the disorganized and detached foe. To his courage he must have furnished, there may be seen the stamp of unexaggerated authenticity, and lively feelings of the patriot, citizen, parcnt, and friend. "It was on the first of May, 1769, that I resigned my domestic happiness, and left my family and peaceful habitation on the Yadkin River, in North-Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in quest of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stuart, Joseph Holden, James Money, and William Cool. On the seventh of June, after travelling through a mountainous wilderness, that persevering integrity which years of uninterrupted assaults can mat subdue. If personal bravery, waited with disinterested zeal for the good of that community of which he was a member, merit our notice, Daniel Boone should not be passed over in silence. Though not designed by fortune to display those talents which in an important cam-in a western direction, we found paign between the civilized powers of Europe, would have enrolled his name in the list of worthies; yet fortunately for the cause of virtue, and the just success of his fame, his labours are not consigned to oblivion; but unlike some of those beauteous productions of nature in the lonely theatre of his actions, "born to waste their sweetness on the desert air," were by their author plucked from their native soil, and presented to his friends. ourselves on Red River, where John DANIEL BOONE was born, as we are informed, near Bridgenorth, in Somersetshire, (England) about the year 1730. While he was young, his parents emigrated to America and settled in North-Carolina, where he was bred to the profession of arms, and was very early retained in the service of that country on the part of the English government. He passed through all the inferior gradations to the post of colonel, in which capacity he distinguished himself as the most active, zealous, and useful of the original settlers of Kentucky. It was his frequent combats with the Indians on that occasion, during a period of thirteen years, which render him the object of this memoir. The particulars of his campaigns, if they deserve that name, will be read with more plea-gantly shaped, and charmingly flasure as left us by himself, where, though, devoid of art, and the ornaments a qualified biographer might voured; and we were diverted with numberless animals presenting themselves perpetually to our view. In |