Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-10-25
General st. Clair.

The following sketch Of the militia
ny life and services. If General st.
Clair. one Of the most patriotic, brave
and ski'Ful, and at the same time the
most unfortunate of our reyolutiona-
AIRY heroes. is extracted from Wiikin-
sons Memoirs. The chilling and!
studied neglect which this gallant We
terap has experienced from the gene
raj government in his old age, cannot
have escaped the attention OF all those
who are capable OF estimating the
services OF the brave champion Of his
cohntey's rights, and who have hearts
to feel for his misfortnnes. One act
Of munificenct, and one only, has
hcen performed towards General ST.
Clair; and that was recently done by
tho Legislature Of Pennsylvania. He
now resides in a small hut, in power.
~, on a mountain in the interior OF
Pennsylvania. Let these who have
Witnessed the prodigality with which
riches and honOrs have been bestow-
ed upon the officers whu have been
fortuitously elevated during the late
war, read the following, and drop a
tear over the fate. of St. Clair.
.itb. Gas.
From WilL;inson's .Nemoirs.
&" lie had been introduced at an
early age into The Royal American or
|6oth British regiment, and during the
seven years war; had seen a great
ideal Of active service under distin.
Iguished commanders. He served at
the taxing Of Louisburgh, under Gen.
Amherst, and the next campaign cal
ried pair of colours on thu plains O.
Abraham, the day General Wolf t'aa.
tered his life for deaihlesS renora.
The native ingenuity, liberal ed1eA-
zion, literary taste, and polished ad.
dress of Ensign st. CLAIR could not
escape the observation of the con
|queror of Canada, and his able coad-
tutors MonktOD, T0wnshend, Il Muir
ray aud the circumstance OF their
attentions enlarged his sphere of in
information, aud gave scope to his
genius and dispositions. After the
peace of 1865, he sold out and enter
ed into trade, for which the generosi-
|ty Of his nature utterly disqualified
him he OF course soon became dis
susted with a prolitless pursuit, and
Having married after several yicissi-
Itudes of fortune. he located himself
lin Ligonicr valley west of the Allie
lghany mountain. and near the ancient
route from Philadelphia to Pi,tsburg.
In this situation the American Revo
luton found him, surrounded by RI
sing family, in the enjoyment Of ease
and independence, with the fairesl
prospects of atlluent fortune, the foun
dation Of which had been already es
tablished by his intelligence, industry
and enterprise. From this peace
full abode, these sweet domestic en-.
ljoyments and the catering prospects
which accompanied them, he was
drawn by the claims ofa troubled coun,
try. A man knownto have been mill.
tary officer, b distinguished for know
ledge andintegrity, could not, in those
times, be concealed even by his ia
yorite mountains, and therefore, with
out application or expectation on his
part, he received tile commission of
"a colonel ia the month of December.
|i775, together with a letter from Pre-
sident Hancock, pressing him to re-
pair Immediately 10 Philadelphia. He
obeyed the summons, and took leave
not only ofhis wife and children, but
lin effect of his fortune, 10 embark 10
the cause of Liberty and the upites!