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the fortitoilb of his stied : epos seeing the prepara-
tions at the kW spot, be asked, with some emotion, ' Must
I die in this miner" ?' Hewes told it was unavoidable. 1 I
am reconciled to my fate,' said he, 'hut uot to the mode.'
boon after, however, recollecting himself, he added, ' it will
be hot • momentary pang,' and springing upon the cart,
performed the lost offices to himself, with a composure
which excited the admiration, and melted the hearts of all
theipeetainrs. Being told the fatal moment was at baud,
and asked if had any thing to say, be answered, 'Nothing
hot to re quest that you will winters to the world thorl the
like • brave man.' He died universally esteemed and re-
, . „..,....„4„,,, peened. The ',empathy he had excited its the American
iVI"- army was, perhaps, unexampled ruder any similar tirCuna-
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The elsoraeter of this brave, bat truly unfortunate officer,
is Ibits copied from an eatreet of a letter, which appeared ill
she Pmartseranin Gaulle, dated October tfit, 1180, of which
Cologne' (now (Soiree')
Hamilton, of New Yurk, is supposed
to Itere'h. en the author :
" There was sometbitig singularly interesting in the chi-
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te neer and fortune of Andre. Tu an excellent understand-
.nat lag, well improved by education and travel, be united ale`iled collar riessace of salad and manners, end the advantage of
'lllO a plemsiNg prima. It is said he pinioned a pretty taste for
the fine arts, sad had himself attained some proficienry in
poetry, music, and painting. His tunneled i• appeared
without ostentatiou, and embellished by • diffidence that
rarely secompasies so many talents and accumpliihmetits,
which left you to suppose more than appeared. [lts 'eon.
IWflis were elevated, sad inspired esteem : they bad • soft•
mess that conciliated affeetiou. His elocution was hind-
some, his address easy, polite, and insinuating. Ily his me-
rit be hod acquired the confidentre of his General, and was
making a rapid progress in military rank iiii.l reputation;
but, in the height of his career, flushed with new lidle.l from
the exectiliou of a project, the most bowfin"' to his patsy
that could be devised, be is at once precipitated trimM the
summit of proeperity, sees all the expectations of lies sunlit-
IMO blasted, and himself ruined:'
On Monday the Editor of the America* came froth, and
pronounced his entledici ion on the whole traosartion, n Inch
he conifteMni in illeGt, without bavingeven informetl himself tif
the particulars of the arrangement. He thinks that the
Briliab Camped ought to have roue tecretly in the night tune,
and removed the busses, as it were Icy stealth, and tont them
home, without saying • word about it ; acid then be says he
would have silently acquiesced.
" But now (soya he) that we bear of the ' plumed h '
awl ' the gorgeous canopy,' the ringing of bells, the solemn
procession, Sze, we must he pes milted to ask, bow and whine-
fore ate Owe, things doue ? Has the consent or the Governor
of this State been asked for the introduction in (into) the
interior of the boats of a foreign ship of war ? For we
le rat•nd it to be a part of the intended pageant, that the
stenterbuat to receive the cofliii should be irecurted op dm
slyer by a detachment of boats from a Britton frigate sent
here fur the occasion. Has his couseut been asked for the i
Negroesl of the remains at all ? Ur has the Guterour of ebbe :
State any •uthoo it, to permit such removal' Ands it was the I
Inn ..... •is of the Visited States; lie died an ignoiliti ...... I 'death;
and be lies, as it was fit be should, in a dishonoured grave." ;
Now all this pump and circumstance, and ringing of bells,,
we are assured extent only io the Editor's ow., toultiiiatiou..
'1 he prrnmaion of the Governor, and of tre proprietors of ,
the sulk has been asked and obtained to remove the bones..
A. to thee Britoil. busts of • foreign ship of war, to escort tie
steam-boat, such a thing never entered the head of any 111411
but Mr. Yerplanck. The idea that it will be ingratitude in
us towards the survivor of the three soldiers who captured
And,), 10 let hie bones go out of the country, is both novel
sod ingenious. Cooties, as it does, from ore, who, three
go, would have been proud to be a pall-bearer is the
procession, and who, three yeses hence, would probably her
read of the same office, it becomes doubly ridiculous and
affected.
Take the (Amine/ extracts from Gordon's ilistory of the
American 'Far, page 134. la girisg the account sit Major ,1
Andres death, he says—" He died universally esteemed sod
regretted. The sympathy he bad excited in the American
army was perhaps utielatupleil snider any similar circuits.
stances" General Washineitto thus expressed himself in a
pti‘l,lo. letter (Oct. hir :—'• Andre ham met his fate, mid with
that foe mink which no. to he expected front au accomplish-
ed mats and • gantlet 4/Bien."
Alter such a just and generous acknowledgment of his
personal merits, 11110 theme whore fortune made his curate"
iii war, we regret that it should be deemed expedite*, in any
quarter, to at, k our to *wettest feelings of acrinmesitioini re.
'rational krai& the memory of tine." aciumphished man
asid,salieokesfficer." •

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* *SIERRA LEONE GAZETTES.

We have received • file of Sierra Leone Papers
dow., t., the 10th of June. The folluwisig are rx-
tract►
sitsyrowsr, JUNI 9.
By lessees from Gambia, or date the 25th nu. we Mara
with much saiisfactiou that Om rr, the Prime Moister of
the Traiahar Moors, had arrived at Bathurst fur the purpose
of 'striking arrangements with the merchants fur the supply
of Rum-cubic at Purte•die. He manifested the greatest
anxiety to establish this trade with the EnSlOrh on the firmest
basis. Upwards of 20 lusts of rim had arrived, aud the
Young Frederick was taken up for *mother trip.
A alight shook of au earthquake was felt at St Mary's en
the 17th ult. shout half past sen o'clock st. us : the thersato-
wets r airs then 77 degrees. It is very remarkable that a si-
milar shock was partially felt throughout this colony tau the
same d■y, and about she same hour.
The Portuguese brigantine Comment*, taken in Old Cala-
bar river lay the boats of his Majesty's ships Tartar and
Thrash•, was on Tuesday last condemned as lawful prize to
the British soil Portuguese Crowns, and the slaves u• board
her were emancipated.
DICIOILL OCCURRINOt.—In farther •ccemulatios of
the honors incident to the Slave Trade, we base to orifice
the fate of the Spanish slaying schooner Carlota, which
suck a few dajs Mace oft the Gallioss,with a full complement
of slam aon board. Tlir Carlota sailed from the Havauush,
arid was found at the Gallinas by Sir George Collier, its big
mirage down the coast. The cargo of the Carlota was on
',lime, with every appearance that at was in the course of bar-
ter trr slate.. The Commodore took her down as far us Cape
Coast, aud after authenticasiag some papers to show the il-
legality of her voyage, allured her to depart. She IVIIMICII,
it app. ars, to the Galina., and there took is 250 slaves,
with whom she sailed from the coast ; bust, dreadful to re•
NO, before she bad proceeded far she was taken unprepared
by a tornado, iivei set and sunk, and all on build perished,
with the exception of twelve ! The intelligence of this hor-
rid crest has hero brought to the colony by three Spanish
sailors belongiug so the vessel, who iodised • few days glace
In a very small boat in • wretchedly exhausted condition.
They sere immediately placed I. the military hospital,
where, notwithstanding the greatest attention and kindest
treatment, one of them has since died ; the other two con-
tinue still in • very weak stale.

3USIE 2.
It was reported in Freetown, in the early part of the w.rk,
that the Fuolali Chiefs had been stopped at Knokoona on
their ntui..l from this settlement to their own country, and
Lad besot compelled to purchase their passage by surrender-
-tug to the Chiefs of the place a considerable portion of the
•aluuble present. received by them here, and of the trade
goods obtained in t xchange for their rattle. We trust this is
not trite in the fall extent, fur it would then throw great
dufEculties in the way of the establishment of a regular inter-
course by the new path : it is, however, quite in the line of
African usage, that passengers should pay tolls in going
'lowish the towns of powerful Chiefs is proportion to the
weatth a Inch they carry with them.

MAT 26.

Another Portuguese slave vessel bad been setz;d by his
Abjesty's ship Murgiana, Captain Fintaisun, with nearly
400 slates on board : they had sailed fur this place from
Cape-Coast.
tin Thursday, the 17th instant, about (levee a wt. a slight
shock of an earthquake was experienced thrunghuut the pe-
ninsula: it was preceded by a rumbles' noise in the
tom (rum emit to west, and was sensibly felt at Regent and
luwus; at the former place the motion of the
earth was so conbiderable a* to excite a momentary giddiness;
the doors of the personas. house opening and shutting re.