Have without mercy scalp'd and tomahawk'd 360 indeed the American history abounds with the sad relation; but for the authority of the abovementioned names the reader may consult Ramsay, i. 228-9; ii. 26-8; 144-6. Life of W. iv. 23—8; 30 note, 505-6; 565 note. Belsham, ii. 376-7. See Extract of a letter from col. Butler to sir Guy Carleton, Aug. 15, 1777, in Almon's Deb. viii. 226. 287. Mr. Wilkes, in his speech, Nov. 18, 1777, exclaims; "Are the scalping-knife and tomahawk necessary calamities of war? Are they inseparable from it? God forbid! I have read, sir, a late proclamation of that great general and preacher Mr. Burgoyne, which is shocking to a civilized and generous nation.-He boasts that he will give stretch to the Indian forces under his direction, and they amount to thousands. Merciful Heaven! thousands of Indian savages let loose by the command of a British general against our brethren in America! Human nature shrinks back from such a scene. At his heels leasht in, like hounds, should famine, sword and fire crouch for employment.What, sir, has been, and continues, the conduct of the Indian savages in war? Is it not to exercise the most shocking cruelties on their enemies, without distinction of age or sex? The conduct of this war goes on a par with its principle. Has the feeble old man, the helpless infant, the defenceless female, ever experienced the tender mercies of an Indian savage? He drinks the blood of his enemy, and his favourite repast is on human flesh," &c.-Almon's Deb. viii, p. 10-11. 362. the pitying Louis,-His most Christian Majesty Louis XVI. conformably to the preliminaries proposed by his secretary Mr. Gerard, entered, Feb. 6, 1778, "into treaties of amity, commerce, and alliance with the United States on the footing of the most perfect equality and reciprocity." The commissioners on the part of the Americans were Dr. Franklin, Mr. Silas Deane, and Mr. Arthur Lee; and the count de Vergennes, minister for foreign affairs, was the person whe By Deane and Vergennes, sends them timely aid Them of their ancient armour we despoil'd. And be ye not dismay'd; for 'tis decreed That on that fatal day some potent chief 375 380 principally conducted the conferences on the part of H. M. C. Majesty. See Ramsay, ii. 60—8; compare Life of W. iii, 434. 446, &c. "The joy of the Americans produced by this event was unbounded." See Life of W. iv. 20. 366. motley troops,-There was such a deficiency of clothing among the American troops, that upon their junction with their French allies they felt considerable degradation. “Some whole lines, officers as well as men, were shabby, and a great proportion of the privates were without shirts." Ramsay, ii. 193. 4 390 Then shall our kingdom stand, and hell again 385 And rulers didst instil oppression rank, 396 400 401. Do but augment, &c.-Upon this subject the reader will possibly be gratified with perusing the opinion of the celebrated sir John Barnard, who, speaking of the rebellion of 1745,observes; "Can any one suppose that such a calamity could be brought upon us, without some neglect or misconduct in those whose duty it was to guard against every possible calamity? I shall not say that this was a wilful neglect, or that any minister thereby designed to furnish the disaffected with an opportunity to rebel; but this I will say, that an unsuccessful rebellion is always of great use to a minister; because it serves to increase and establish his power, and furnishes him with an opportunity to gratify many of his friends, as well as to be revenged of some of his enemies. No rebellion can therefore break out in this country, but what must afford matter of suspicion against those, who happen to be our ministers at the time. If the rebellion proceeds from disaffection, it is to be suspected that the minister, for his own private ends, furnished them with an opportunity to rebel; if from discontent, it is to be suspected that the minister, by his oppression, de 405 That hell admir'd thy wisdom; and thy valour, 410 Thus spake the prince of darkness, while his eyes Flash'd thick Gorgonic flames. He spake, nor sat; His ponderous limbs resting on that fam'd spear Whose glittering top illum'd the vaulted dome, 420 And now, obedient to his prince's will, Azazel had unfurl'd the mighty ensign, When Mammon with complacent looks uprose, signedly provoked them to rebel; and as a reasonable suspicion is always good ground for a parliamentary inquiry, I think it ought upon every occasion to be the certain consequence of a rebellion." Debrett's Deb. ii. p. 59, Oct. 28, 1745. Our firmest hopes; but well, O prince! you know, That Mammon has not spar'd or toil or pains, My altars smoke with unextinguish'd incense, 435 In heaven, or earth, or hell, is so rever'd: 1 And inbred patriot worth have, ere too late, 455 |