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destroy much better and nobler beings than themselves. The landgrave of Hesse has his prototype in Sancho Panza, who said that if he were a prince, he should wish all his subjects to be blackamoors, so that he could turn them into ready money by selling them. A Chap. LVII.} warning voice was raised by Hartley: You now set the American congress the example of applying to foreign powers; when they intervene, the possibility of reconciliation is totally cut off. The third son of the earl of Bute spoke for sanguinary measures, and contrasted the unrivalled credit of England with the weak, uncurrent paper of America. The measures of ministers, said James Luttrell, who had served in America, are death-warrants to thousands of British subjects, not steps towards regaining the colonies. George Grenville, afterwards Marquis of Buckingham, proposed the alternative: Shall we abandon America, or shall we recover our sovereignty over that country? We had better make one effort more. Lord G
red to be insufficient. The parliamentary change in the charter of Massachusetts was to be enforced; and secret instructions required that Connecticut and Rhode Island should be compelled, if possible, to accept analogous changes; so that not only was uncon ditional submission required, but in the moment of Chap. LXIII.} 1776. May. victory other colonial charters were still further to be violated, in order to carry out the system which the king had pursued from the time of the ministry of Bute. Lord Howe wished well to the Americans, kept up his friendly relations with Chatham, and escaped the suspicion of a subservient complicity with the administration. It was said by his authority, that he would not go to America unless he had powers to treat on terms of conciliation; he refused to accept a civilian as his colleague, and though his brother was named with him in the commission, he insisted on the power of acting alone; but if his sincerity is left unimpeached, it is at the expe
ommon feeling. Liberal English statesmen commanded his good-will; but he detested the policy of Bute and of North: so that for him and the United Chap. III.} 1774. States there were in England the the form of government that will be established there, or the degree of influence of the party of Bute in the mother country. But every patriotic Englishman must deplore the turn which the affairs of Sept., 1776. If, under such circumstances, he continued, the nation should suffer the faction of Bute and the tories to infringe with impunity the form of their government, they certainly merit no lot push matters with rigor. And to his minister in London the king wrote: Oh, the worthy pupil of Bute! In truth, the English ought to blush for shame at sending such ministers to foreign courts. e fame of Chap. III.} 1777. the Prussian king as in some measure their own; not aware how basely Bute had betrayed him, they unanimously desired the renewal of his alliance; and the ministry sought t
Something to fight for. --The Marquis of Bute is thirteen years old, and has an income amounting to as much as four hundred thousand dollars a year. As he is an orphan, his relations are fighting about their respective claims to the guardianship of the young heir.
Nice Pickings for a Guardian. --The Marquis of Bute is 13 years old, and has an income of $400,000 per annum. Being an orphan, his disinterested relatives are fighting for the guardianship of the young heir.
Negroes Mobbed. -- Dwelling Burnt and citizen Shot.--There was a mob at Circleville, Ohio, on Monday, the 12th instant, which created an intense excitement all over the town. The dwelling of a Mr. Bute, in the outskirts, was on Sunday night previous surrounded by a sang of negroes, one of whom entered it through a window and made a bold attempt to violate the person of Mrs. Bute, who was sleeping by the side of her husband. She was not slow in a waking her husband, who grappled the negroMrs. Bute, who was sleeping by the side of her husband. She was not slow in a waking her husband, who grappled the negro and had a violent struggle, but did not secure him. In the morning the circumstance became generally known, and all day the indignation of the people increased. Some dozen negroes were lodged in jail, and, when night came, four or five hundred men, frenzied with passion, repaired to the house of a colored barber named Randolph. While about his house a shot was fired in to the crowd, severely wounding Mr. Baners, which brought the affair to a climax. The house was gutted and fired, and, with
l. A later dispatch received from Gen. McNeil says the rebels are retreating. Our loss is less than twenty killed and wounded. Gen. Banks defeated the rebels on the night of the 17th at Vermiltion bayou, about 60 miles west by south of Baton Rouge, driving them after a hard fight, taking over 1,000 prisoners--whole companies at a time. The rebels destroyed ten steamboats and two gunboats to prevent their falling into our hands. The steamer Corwin was captured. The rebel masteries at Bute is Rose had been reduced by our fleet. On the 14th the rebel works at Bethel Place were entered by Gen. Weitsal, and a large amount of stores, ammunition and arms left in them were captured. Gen. Grover had defected Gen. Dick Taylor, with two Texas regiments and three batteries, at Irick Bend, capturing same prisoners and over 1,000 head of beef horses, and mules. One hundred and seventy-nine wounded had arrived at New Orleans. One thousand six hundred rebels have been captured, and
Night police Assaulted by negroes. --On Sunday night, officers John Murphy, Baker Ward and Thomas Smith were called up by T. L. Page, colored man, who keeps a grocery on the corner of Upper-Union and Bute streets, to take a negro out of his store for disturbing the peace. Officer Smith entered the store and took the man out, and just at the corner of Union street he broke loose from officer Smith and took leg bail out Upper-Union street, the officer after him. The negro jumped a fence, but the officer kept on his trail. Officers Ward and Murphy followed out Union street and cut through an alley to cut the man off from Hawk street. When the officers got into the alley, they found they were flanked on both sides by a gang of negroes, armed with clubs and brickbats, and in attempting to fight their way out the narrow alley, were knocked down and both beat senseless. The alarm soon spread that the niggers had "riz," whereupon the old United, under Captain Lakin, turned out abo