...tish man-of-war Rainbow renamed the Iris, and attached to the British fleet. Mr. Brooks was exchanged for Parson Lewis, a British chaplain, and left Halifax on the Favorite, Jan. 29, 1778. While in Nova Scotia he had the small-pox. He was not strong when commissioned; he returned with health hopelessly shattered. It is said that a large proportion of the graduates of Harvard became Tories. David Os...