The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-05-19

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Dearborn's" Battle Of Bankers HH -
A very extraordinary attemps has been late'
ly made to tarnish the fame of deceased
hero OF the revolution. One whose patriot,
ism was never distrusted, and his valour
never mpreached--whose reputation was
acquired at the lannon's mouth, and sus-
tanned under circumstances the most try
ing and perilous--ls now stigmatlzcd BY
one of his companions in arms as a cow
ARD. e
General Dearborn has lately written and
published in the Port Folio an account Of
the Battle Of Buaker's Hill, wherein he
charges Gen PUTNAM with remaining
idle near the. battle ground, during the
whole hghi, with as large number OF
troops under his command as were eDgag-
ed in the action and that he took no meas
urcs to protect the retreat OF the American
troops, but rode Of, after the battle, " NTH
a ngmber Of SHADES and Eaekares IN his
hands" This account, we regret 10 per
ceiye, has been copied into several newspa-
pers, either from inadyertancy, or from
very reprebensible disregard for the fame
of Cen. Putnam and the honour OF our
country.
Can It be that Gen. Dear5orn's represeR-
tation is true Have all oar historians com.
bined TO deceive US Has fame always
spoken falsely on this subject, Are the
numerous anecdotes of Gen. Putnam, re
lated by the survivors of that memorable
battle, ell fabulous! These men are TO bs
found in almost every town in this part Of
the coun,ry--will they admit that Gen. Put,
nam was mere spectator OF the battle 8
that The battle was sustained altogether, or
principally, by the New Hampshire troops
lin which Dearborn was captain) under
Stark and Reid while the Connecticut troops
under Putnam were quietly watching The
event!
$. So contrary are Gen Dearborn's repre-
sensations to what history and tradition has
taught, that one feels constrained TO reie CT
them as incorrect, until supported by better
evidence than he assertion OF single indi-
yidual ltthey are correct, they can be
supported By the testimony of many who
participated in the glory OF the battle, and
are still living. Let them come forward,
and assist Gen Dearborn in correcting The
Misrepresentation of history, or refute the
statement he has made - Worcester Shy.
The Quarterly Review Of February, 1919,
contains an interesting article on the subject
Of" The Polar Ice, and Northern Passage
anto.he Pacific This subject is introduced
under notice Of Lieut. Chappeli's : Nara
'i0e ofa Voyage TO Hudson's Bay IN his Nd
'estys ship. Rosamond''; and The writer has
collected body of important evidence 10
show, that the immense masses of ice, which,
tor seveEas centuries past, have been accumu-
lating on The coast of Old Greenland, have,
by some unexplained cause, been parted from
that bleak and inhospitable shore, and have
disappeared. II is stated that that shore has
been, TOR nearly four hundred years, shut up,
and rendered inaccessible, by vast frozen
barrier, and that some colonies of Danes and |
Norwegians, who had settled in Greenland,
had, tor that1ong period, been cut off from all |
communication with the rest otthe world, and |
their fate has been, Of course, entirely IN
known.
The disappearance the Polar Ice is sup
posed to rest on no ordinary foundation. Its
appearance in more southern latitude, in the
years l0l5-18l6,-and 1917, has been wit
messed by many nayigators, on their voyages
from the West Indies and this country, to Eu-
rope, as well as from Great Britain to Hall /
lax and Newfoundland. Multitudes OF i'm
mense islands of ice have been discovered
as tar as the fortieth parallel OF latitude Some
OF them were what are called Ice Bergs."
rising to the height of more than 100 feet
above the water-others were flat islands oil
great extent. Indeed, in one instance,
packet from Halifax passed, in April, 1878. |
near TO mountain Of ice nearly 200 feet in
height, and about two miles in circumfer-
ence.
10 the effect which these prodigious DO.
dies OF ice have produced upon the atmos
phere, IS the uncommon GOODNESS Of the few
seasons past supposed by many persons TO he