shews. ask; pausing, short of the middle of the book, and | compliances with vice or disorder, the following incident having already passed over several faults without animadversion. Let the author be entreated to get the aid of some friend who is master (if she is not mistress) of grammar and taste enough, to reform these and the other errors of her little work, and then give us a new edition, calling in all the copies of the first, that are within her reach. And now to our tale. Some of them had once resolved on some breach of the laws, which, from the sturdiness of his principles, they knew that young Warren would disapprove, and by his powerful influence probably prevent. They therefore met in an upper room of the college, to arrange their plans secretly; fastening the door against him. He found what they were about; and seeing the window of their room open, crept out, through a scuttle door, upon the roof-crawled to the eaves-and there, seizing a water-spout nearly rotten with age, he swung and slid down by it to the window, and unexpectedly sprang in amongst the conspirators. The spout, at the instant of his quitting it, fell with a crash to the ground, and was shivered to pieces. Only saying, in answer to the exclamations of astonishment that burst from his com JOSEPH WARREN was born in 1741, in the village of Roxbury, one or two miles south from Boston, Mass. His father, a rich farmer, inhabited a house, the ruins of which are still visible; and was famous for raising the best fruit in that neighborhood. He was killed by a fall from one of his own apple trees, leaving a widow and four sons, of whom Joseph, the eldest, was 16, and John, the youngest, was 4 years old. This excellent woman appears to have much resembled the mother of Washington, in the skill and care with which she in-rades, "it stayed up just long enough for my purpose," fused generous sentiments and virtuous principles into the bosoms of her children: and she reaped almost as richly as Mrs. Washington, the fruits of her labors. Her sons passed through life, all honored and loved, and more than one of them distinguished. Her nature seems to have had more of amiable softness than Mrs. Wash-usually attended its march, before the virtues of vacciington's; who, it must be confessed, blended something of the sternness with the purity and nobleness of a Spartan matron. Mrs. Warren's door was always open for deeds of hospitality and neighborly kindness. It is not easy to imagine a lovelier scene than one paragraph presents, of the evening of a well spent life, still warmed and brightened by the benign spirit, which had been the sun of that life's long day. "In her old age, when her own children had left her "fireside, it was one of her dearest pleasures to gather a group of their children, or of the children of others "around her. She did all in her power to promote "their enjoyment, and her benevolent smile was always ready to encourage them. On Thanksgiving-day,* "she depended on having all her children and grand "children with her; and until she was 80 years of age, "she herself made the pies with which the table was loaded! "Not satisfied with feasting them to their heart's content while they were with her, she always had some "nice great pies ready for them to take home with "them." Joseph's education, till his fourteenth year, was at the public school in Roxbury; one of those common schools, which, from the earliest times of New England, have been planting and nurturing in her soil the seeds and shoots of virtue and freedom. Even in boyhood, our hero was manly, fearless and generous: always taking the part of his weaker school-fellows against a strong oppressor-always the "village Hampden, that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood." At fourteen, he entered Harvard University. His talents, perseverance, gentleness and courage, here gained him unrivalled popularity. That he did not acquire or preserve the regard of his fellow students by any base he commenced an expostulation against their intended nation were known. Dr. Warren's judgment, tenderness, and skill, made him pre-eminently successful in treating the disease. And it is said, that his gentle and courteous deportment completely neutralized the usual tendency of such professional success, to enkindle the jealousy of his brethren. His mild features and winning smile, true indexes, for once, to the soul within, gained every heart; his knowledge and talents added respect to love. Thus, by the same qualities which had distinguished him at school and at college, did he acquire among his fellow townsmen an influence which no other man of his age and day possessed. When the British Parliament and Crown began, in 1764, that course of unconstitutional legislation, which was destined, after eleven years of wordy war, to end in a war of blood, Dr. Warren was among the first to stand forth for the rights of America-to assert, and to labor in demonstrating to his countrymen, that the power to tax them (claiming, as they did, all the liberties of Englishmen) could not exist in a government of which no representatives of theirs formed a part. Fostered by him, and by others like him, the spirit of resistance to tyranny grew daily more strong. The inhabitants of the whole country, and especially of Boston, gave token after token of their fixed resolve, to spurn the chain which they saw preparing for them. In 1768, Col. Dalrymple with two royal regiments, reinforced afterwards by additional troops, entered that devoted town, with more than the usual "pomp and circumstance" of military bravado; and there remained in garrison, to repress what the king and ministry were pleased to call "the seditious temper" of the people. Never was attempt at restraint more impotent; nay, more suicidal. The curb, feebly and capriciously or unskil fully plied, served but to infuriate the noble animal ✦ Thanksgiving-day is in New England, what Christmas is in it was meant to check and guide: and no wonder that the Southern States and England. It is always in November, the rider was at length unseated, and stretched in the on a day fixed by Proclamation of the Governor of each State, dust. The New Englanders-we should rather say, the in each year. Christmas, from the anti-Catholic zeal of the Pu-Americans-were too stubborn to be driven, and too ritan Pilgrims, is almost entirely neglected; being, with all its train of quips, cranks, gambols and mince-pies, thought to savor shrewd to be circumvented. Every measure of tyranny, they met with an appropriate measure of resistance. too strongly of popery. Tea had been brought from India, to be the vehicle of quent on the long festering irritations of the period. unconstitutional taxation. They threw part of it into The officer (Capt. Preston) who gave the word "fire!" the sea; another part they hindered from being landed; and six of the soldiers who had so fatally obeyed it, and the remainder they excluded from use, by mutual were in the ensuing October tried before a Boston jury: pledges to "touch not, taste not" "the unclean thing." and, defended, in spite of obloquy, popular clamor, and Judges were sent over to judge them-creatures of the the remonstrances of timid or prudent friends, by John king-the panders of ministerial oppression. The peo-Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr., were even by that jury, ple would not suffer them to mount the judgment seat-acquitted. It grieves us that we cannot pause here, to closed the court houses-referred all their differences to bestow a merited tribute on the moral courage of the arbitrators chosen by the parties-and even so far tamed illustrious counsel who dared defend, on the steady justhe spirit of litigation and disorder, as to make tribunals tice of the tribunal that could acquit, and on the virtue of any sort in a great degree needless.* Between the and good sense of the multitude who, when the first British troops and the Boston people, animosities soon paroxysm of natural excitement was over, could applaud ran high. The soldiers seized every opportunity to that defence and approve that acquittal*—horrible as exasperate the people: the people assembled in mobs, had been the deed-maddening as had been the anteto revenge themselves on the soldiers. Amidst these cedent circumstances. But though the killing happentumults, Dr. Warren repeatedly exposed his life to ed not to be murder, (because the people had been the soothe and restrain his countrymen. His eloquent per- assailants,) still, the violent destruction of five human suasions were generally successful. At first, the more lives by an armed soldiery in the streets of a free and violent would endeavor to repel him, and would clamor peaceful city, was too impressive an example of what to drown his voice. "While they did this, he would mischiefs may come of standing armies and lawless stand calmly and look at them. His intrepidity, his government, to pass unimproved. It was determined commanding and animated countenance, and above all, to solemnize each anniversary of that day, by a public their knowledge that he was on their side so far as it exposition of those mischiefs; by an oration, commemowas right to be, would soon make them as eager to hear rative of the tragedy, and of those great principles, the as he was to speak: and finally, they would disperse disregard of which had led to its perpetration. Warren to their homes with perfect confidence that they could delivered two of these orations. His first was on the not do better than to leave their cause in such hands.' 5th of March, 1772. It is not contained in the little Those who seek to restrain the excesses of contending book now before us, but we have seen it elsewhere: factions, may always expect rough usage from both and on reading it, no one need be surprised at its having sides. Warren incurred the occasional displeasure of well nigh urged the people, even at that early day, to his own party; but he did not escape insult and out- forcible measures. Its masterly argumentation is equalrage from the British. They often called him rebel, led by its burning appeals to the passions. All the four and threatened him with a rebel's doom. One day, on first of these orations had wrought so powerfully upon his way to Roxbury, to see his mother, he passed near the public mind, that the British officers declared there several British officers, standing in the Neck, which should be no more of them: and that whoever underjoins the peninsula of Boston to the main land. Not took to deliver another, should do so at the peril of life. far before him stood a gallows. One of the officers This menace daunted others, but only roused Warren. called out, "Go on, Warren, you will soon come to the Not waiting to be invited, he solicited the task of addressgallows:" and the whole party laughed aloud. Walk-ing the people; and prepared himself accordingly for ing directly up to them, he calmly asked, which of them had thus addressed him? Not one was bold enough to avow the insolence, and he left them, crest-fallen and ashamed. Distinguished for his eloquence, our young physician was repeatedly called on to address the people, upon the great and soul-stirring topics of the times. Far the most interesting of these, was the Massacre of the Fifth of March. Our authoress has passed too slightly over this incident. Let us be a little more full. the fifth anniversary of the massacre-1775. Meanwhile, the givings out of the officers, and the rumors among the populace, imported mortal hazard to him if he should persist. He persisted but the more resolutely. Early in the day, the Old South Meeting Housewhich, as the scene of these orations, deserves, better than Faneuil Hall, to be termed the cradle of liberty— was crowded to its very porch. Many a devoted friend *Mr. Adams was, at the time, 35 years old; Mr. Quincy only Insults, recrimination, and outrage, between the sol- 26. They were both threatened with loss of friends, of populardiers and citizens, were at length, on the 5th of March,ity, and of all prospect of political preferment. The "Memoirs 1770, consummated, by the former's firing upon the of Quincy" (by his son Josiah, once a prominent federal leader in Congress, now President of Harvard University,) contain a latter in the streets of Boston, and killing five men- letter from his venerable father, earnestly expostulating upon the with circumstances shocking to humanity. After one step. The young barrister's reply is also given-a triumphant of the slain (Mr. Gray,) had been shot through the vindication of the motives, and even of the prudence of his resobody, and had fallen on the ground, a bayonet waslution, to undertake the defence. In the success of that defence, pushed through his skull, and his brains fell out upon professional and political advancement of the generous advocates, the pavement. This was the first bloodshed, conse-they found ample rewards for having breasted the storm of popu lar feeling, in obedience to the call of duty. in the universal approbation which soon followed it, and in the The oration of 1771 was delivered by James Lovell; that of 1772 by Joseph Warren; of 1773, by Dr. Benjamin Church; of 1774, by John Hancock; of 1775, by Joseph Warren. These, and eight others of succeeding years, down to 1783, we have in Mr. H. Niles' inestimable collection of" Revolutionary Acts and Speeches," when they are in each other's eyes, respectively, a rebel, and an instrument of tyranny-all made it but just to fear the most disagreeable consequences. "Our fears, we have seen," continued the orator, "were but too well grounded." of Warren's was there, determined to see him safely | people, to enforce submission to unjust and unconstituthrough, or to fall in his defence. British officers and tional laws. The danger of standing armies, always, soldiers filled the aisles, the pulpit steps, and even the to liberty-the incompatibility of martial law with the pulpit. Thinking that if he pushed through them to government of a well regulated city-the certainty of his place, a pretext might be seized for some disturb-disputes between the soldier and the citizen, especially ance, which would take from him and his audience the desirable degree of calmness, he procured a ladder to be placed outside, and by it, climbed through the window into the pulpit, just as all were expecting his entrance at the door. The officers quailed and receded, at his sudden appearance and dauntless air: while he, far "The many injuries offered to the town, I pass over from sure that his first word would not be answered by "in silence. I cannot now mark out the path which a bayonet-thrust or a pistol-shot, addressed the silent, "led to that unequalled scene of horror, the sad remem"brance of which takes full possession of my soul. breathless multitude. His countenance was lighted up "The sanguinary theatre again opens itself to view. with more than its usual glow of patriotic enthusiasm: "The baleful images of terror crowd around me, and but every other face was pale; every auditor could dis"discontented ghosts, with hollow groans, appear to tinctly hear the throbbings of his own heart. The speech "solemnize the anniversary of the FIFTH OF MARCH. is given at length in the appendix to the work under «Hither let me call the gay companion; here let him "Approach we then the melancholy walk of death. examination; from the original, as we may conjecture, drop a farewell tear upon that body, which so late he which, in the orator's own hand writing, is now in the "saw vigorous and warm with social mirth; hither let possession of his nephew, Dr. John C. Warren. The "me lead the tender mother, to weep over her beloved opening was brief and simple: but in it we discern that son: come, widowed mourner, here satiate thy grief! "behold thy murdered husband gasping on the ground; curbed energy, that impassioned moderation-une force! "and, to complete the pompous show of wretchedness, contenue, une réserve animée—so characteristic of a great "bring in each hand thy infant children to bewail their mind, concentrating its powers for some gigantic effort: "father's fate: take heed, ye orphan babes, lest, while and as he passes on from the unaffected humility of his your streaming eyes are fixed upon the ghastly exordium "to the height of his great argument," we corpse, your feet slide on the stones bespattered with your have bodily before our fancy's eye, a nobler personifi-heightened by an infant weltering in the blood of him father's brains! Enough! this tragedy need not be cation of wisdom, courage, eloquence and virtue, than" that gave it birth. Nature, reluctant, shrinks already Homer has displayed in the form of Ulysses. "MY EVER HONORED FELLOW CITIZENS, "from the view; and the chilled blood rolls slowly "backward to its fountain. We wildly stare about, us? Has haughty France, or cruel Spain, sent forth "and with amazement, ask, who spread this ruin round "her myrmidons? Has the grim savage rushed again "from the distant wilderness? Or does some fiend, fierce from the depth of hell, with all the rancorous malice which the apostate damned can feel, twang "our breast? No, none of these. It is the hand of "her destructive bow, and hurl her deadly arrows at « Britain that inflicts the wound! The arms of George, blood, when justice, or the honor of his crown, had our rightful king, have been employed to shed that "called his subjects to the field! "It is not without the most humiliating conviction of "my want of ability, that I now appear before you; "but the sense I have, of the obligation I am under to "obey the calls of my country at all times, together" "with the animating recollection of your indulgence, "exhibited upon so many occasions, has induced me "once more, undeserving as I am, to throw myself "upon that candor, which looks with kindness upon the "feeblest efforts of an honest mind. "You will not now expect the elegance, the learning, "the fire, the enrapturing strains of eloquence, which "captivated you when a Lovell, a Church, or a Han"cock spake: but you will permit me to say, that with a sincerity equal to theirs, I mourn over my bleeding (6 'country: with them I weep at her distress, and with "them, deeply resent the many injuries she has received "from the hands of cruel and unreasonable men." Having laid down as axioms, the natural right of every man to personal freedom and to the control of his property, the orator sketched, with a master's hand, the history of English America: and, deducing the right of the colonists to the soil from their treaties with the Indians, and not from the grants of King James or King Charles, (whose pretended claims of right they undoubtedly despised-whose patents they probably accepted only "to silence the cavils of their enemies," and who "might with equal justice have made them a grant of the planet Jupiter,") he proved by unanswerable reasoning the rights of America, and painted in deep and living colors the usurpations and injustice of England. He traced the progress of these wrongs: he depicted the halcyon peace, the mutual benefactions, and the common happiness of the two countries, marred by successive and heightening aggressions-reaching, at length, that last aggravation short of civil war-the quartering of an insolent, hireling soldiery upon the "movements of the soul, must now give way to stronger "But pity, grief, astonishment, with all the softer "passions. Say, fellow citizens, what dreadful thought now swells your heaving bosoms? You fly to armssharp indignation flashes from each eye-revenge "gnashes her iron teeth-death grins an hideous smile, secure to drench his jaws in human gore-whilst hovering furies darken all the air! But stop, my bold, "adventurous countrymen; stain not your weapons |« with the blood of Britons! Attend to reason's voice. "Humanity puts in her claim, and sues to be again "admitted to her wonted seat, the bosom of the brave. "Revenge is far beneath the noble mind. Many, perfrom their inmost souls, detest the barbarous action. haps, compelled to rank among the vile assassins, do, "The winged death, shot from your arms, may chance to pierce some breast, that bleeds already for your injured country, "The storm subsides: a solemn pause ensues: you spare, upon condition they depart. They go; they "closes the important drama. "quit your city: they no more shall give offence. Thus "And could it have been conceived that we again "should see a British army in our land, sent to enforce "obedience to acts of Parliament destructive to our with armed men; our harbor is crowded with ships 'liberty? ✶✶✶✶ **Our streets are again filled "of war: but these cannot intimidate us: our liberty "must be preserved: it is far dearer than life-we hold 66 "it even dear as our allegiance. We must defend it | the ardor of those who spoke on the important business against the attacks of friends, as well as enemies: we 66 cannot suffer even Britons to ravish it from us. Νο longer could we reflect, with generous pride, on the "heroic actions of our American forefathers; no longer "boast our origin from that far famed island, whose "warlike sons have so often drawn their well tried "swords to save her from the ravages of tyranny;"could we, but for a moment, entertain the thought of giving up our liberty. The man who meanly will "submit to wear a shackle, contemns the noblest gift of Heaven; and impiously affronts the God that made "him free." 66 Highly wrought as these passages may appear, they accorded, perfectly, with the minds to which they were addressed. 66 they were transacting." Quincy remained but six months in England, and then embarked for his home in an advanced stage of consumption: having, as he told the seaman who attended his sick bed, but one desirethat he might live long enough to have one more interview with Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren. His prayer was not granted. He died on ship board, just entering Cape Anne Harbor, on the 26th of April, 1775,* eight days after the battle of Lexington; where, unknown to him, his countrymen had already "sealed their cause with their blood." Warren (now a brigadier general of the Massachusetts militia) was not unconcerned in that battle. Scouts It may be doubted, if any scene of the kind ever pos- of his had notified him on the 18th of April, that a desessed more of the moral sublime, than that which our tachment of troops was to march that night towards young countryman presented,-daring thus, amidst Concord: and then, remaining himself upon the watch, armed and frowning enemies, to denounce them and he saw Colonel Smith and 8 or 900 men embark for their masters, and to speak forth the startling truths of Charlestown. Knowing the stores and ammunition at justice and freedom, with the naked sword of tyranny Concord to be their object, he instantly sent messengers suspended over his head. The rising of Brutus, re- over the surrounding country, to give the alarm; and fulgent from the stroke of Cæsar's fate," shaking his himself rode all night-passing so near the enemy, as crimsoned steel, and hailing Tully aloud as the "father to be more than once in great danger of capture. His of his country"--Tully's own denunciations of Catiline, messenger to Lexington was Col. Revere; who, on Verres and Anthony- —or the more illustrious Philippics | suddenly turning a corner as he passed through Charlesof Demosthenes-all remote from personal danger--the town, found himself close to a party of the British. In a objects of their enmity and invective being absent, de-moment he put his horse at full speed, dashed through fenceless, or prostrate-cannot be compared, for moral them, and before they could well ascertain him to be sublimity, with the splendid boldness of Warren. And, a foe, was beyond the reach of the balls which they fired whatever classical anathemas await us for it, we are he-after him. It was his summons, that called forth the retical enough to venture the opinion, that for true elo-company of Lexington militia, upon whom, about sunquence, blendedly pathetic and argumentative, his ora- rise on the 19th, was begun that bloody drama, of tion outstrips any that we have read of Cicero's, and which the progress was to shake two continents, and equals aught that we have seen of Demosthenes. To the catastrophe to dissever an empire. Warren, sleepthe most effective effusions of the latter, indeed, it bears less and in motion throughout the night, hurried to the the closest resemblance-rapid, condensed, inornate, scene of action: and, when the enemy were retreating impassioned: similar, too, in its result, if we consider from Concord, he was among the foremost in hanging the difference of their auditories-the one a mercurial upon their rear, and assailing their flanks. By pressing mob, ever liable to be swayed by whim or convulsed by them too closely, he once narrowly escaped death. A passion; the other a grave, reflecting people, who sub-musket ball took off a lock of hair, which curled close jected every thing-feeling, imagination, and even the love of liberty-to REASON. The oratory of Demosthenes made the Athenians cry out, "Let us march against Philip!" When Warren ended, a glow of ad-again to risk a life so precious. "Where danger is, miration and respect pervaded even the hostile bosoms around him; but the people of Boston were ready at once to abjure allegiance to Great Britain. For this, however, affairs were not yet ripe. to his head, in the fashion of that time. When his mother first saw him after the battle, and heard of this escape, she entreated him with tears not dear mother," he answered, "there must your son be. Now is no time for any of America's children to shrink from any hazard. I will see her free, or die." An exchange of prisoners was soon afterwards agreed on, to be carried into effect at Charlestown. Generals Warren and Putnam with two select companies of Massachusetts troops, repaired thither for the purpose. Here was a touching scene. The British and American officers, on meeting once more as friends after the recent strife had so rudely sundered their long subsisting ties of hospitality and mutual kindness, melted with tenderness, and rushed into each other's arms. The soldiers The celebrated Josiah Quincy, Jr. was at this time in England, on a mission of remonstrance and observation. His interesting letters, and more interesting journal, (for parts of which we are indebted to the "Memoirs" before referred to,) shewed his conviction that the pending disputes must come to the arbitrament of arms. His countrymen, he said, "must seal their cause with their blood." This, he was assured by Warren, (one of his warmest and dearest friends) they were ready to do. "It is the united voice of America" (Warren wrote him) "to preserve their freedom, or lose their lives in its defence." Warren was President of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. He writes thus to Quincy concerning it: "Congress met at Con-nurse; in which he breathes a dying wish for his country. And cord at the time appointed. About 260 members were present. You would have thought yourself in an assembly of Spartans, or ancient Romans, had you seen sidered the ruling passion of this man's pure and splendid and too short life. He displayed it also "strong in death." His last reported words were in a letter to his family, dictated to his sailor *Love for his country and her liberties, may be safely con his Will contains the following clause: "I give to my son, when he shall arrive to the age of 15 years, Algernon Sidney's Works, John Locke's Works-Lord Bacon's Works-Gordon's Tacitus, and Cato's Letters. May the spirit of Liberty rest upon him." caught the infection: and mingled tears, and hands cordially shaken, softened for awhile the rugged front of war. Putnam and Warren entertained the British as guests, as sumptuously as the occasion allowed. service was to be most arduous. Putnam expressed his sorrow at seeing him, in a place so full of peril: "but since you have come," added he, "I will obey your orders with pleasure." Warren replied, that he A few days afterwards, Warren was appointed Major came as a volunteer--to obey and fight; not to comGeneral of the Massachusetts forces: but still retained mand. Putnam then requested him to take his stand his post as President of the Provincial Congress. He in the redoubt, where Prescott commanded, and which seems to have combined, with rare felicity, the qualities was considerably in advance of the slighter defence, of a civil and a military leader. Cool yet brave, gentle behind which Putnam and his men were stationed. yet decided and firm, he was precisely fitted to teach On his entering the redoubt, he was greeted with loud and enforce order and discipline. Mingling in the ranks, huzzas: and Prescott, like Putnam, offered him the and talking with individual soldiers as with brothers, command. He again refused it; saying, that he was he gained their love, and infused into them his own a mere volunteer, and should be happy to learn service ardor and sanguine confidence. He acted with equal from so experienced a soldier. We cannot, thrilling as talent in civil council. He spent a part of each day in they are to our recollections, undertake to narrate the sharing the deliberations of the Congress, which sat now well known particulars of that great day. But we at Watertown, ten miles northwest from Boston. His commend the story, as told by the authoress before us, labors ended there, he would gallop to the camp at to the attention of our readers. Our business is with Cambridge. When the American commanders delibe- General Warren. He was constantly active; going rated upon the seizure and fortification of Dorchester through the ranks, cheering on his comrades, sharing Heights and Bunker Hill, with a view to strike at the their perils, and plying his musket against the advancenemy's shipping, or to anticipate them in a similar ing enemy. When the British had twice been driven movement,-Warren opposed it. Our raw troops, he from the height, with a thousand slain; when the exthought, were not yet ready to cope with the trained haustion of powder and ball, leaving the Americans no veterans of England. Putnam, then commander-in-chief means of resistance but clubbed guns, against fixed at Cambridge, thought differently. Warren renewed bayonets and fourfold numbers, necessarily made the his opposition before the committee of safety and the third onset successful-Warren was the last to leave council of war: but when these bodies successively re-his station. The slowest in that slow and reluctant resolved upon the measure, he promptly gave his whole treat, he struggled for every foot of ground; disdaining heart to promote its success; repeating his determina- to quicken his steps, though bullets whizzed and blood tion, to be, himself, ever at the post of greatest danger.streamed all around him. Major Small, of the British On the 16th of June, when Col. Prescott received his army, recognized him; and eager to save his life, called orders, and marched with his thousand men to fortify upon him for God's sake to stop, and be protected from Bunker's Hill, the session at Watertown was so pro- destruction. Warren turned and looked towards him: tracted, that Warren could not leave it until late at but sickening at the sight and the thought of his slaughnight. So soon as he could, he prepared to join Pres-tered countrymen and of the lost battle, again moved cott-despite the dissuasion of his friends. To their assurances, that most of the detachment, and especially he daring and conspicuous as he was-would in all probability be cut off; and that he could not be spared so soon from the cause; he replied, "I cannot help it: His body lay on the field all the next night. When I must share the fate of my countrymen. I cannot hear one who knew his person, told General Howe the next the cannon and remain inactive." Among the most morning that Warren was among the slain, he would intimate of these friends, was the afterwards distin- not believe it; declaring it impossible that the President guished Elbridge Gerry; with whom he lodged regu- of the Congress should have been suffered to expose larly in the same room, and, on that last night, in the himself so hazardously. An English surgeon, however, same bed. To him;-when they parted after midnight, who had also known Warren, identified his corpse; Warren uttered the sentiment-so truly Roman, and and, to prove the daring of which he was capable, add in this instance so prophetic-" dulce et decorum est, ed, that but five days before, he had ventured alone pro patria mori." By day-break, he was at the camp into Boston in a small canoe, to learn the plans of the in Cambridge; where, finding that the British had British; and had urged the surgeon to enter into the not shewn themselves, and sick with an aching head, American service. General Howe declared, that the from mental and bodily toil, he lay down, to snatch | death of one such adversary balanced the loss of 500 of a little repose. But he was soon roused by tidings, his own men. Warren's body was buried with many that the enemy were in motion: and instantly rising, others, English and American, near the spot where he he exclaimed, "my headache is gone." Others doubt-fell; whence, sometime afterwards, it was removed to ed what the object of the enemy's threatened move- the Tremont burying ground, and finally to the family ment was. He at once saw it to be, the unfinish- vault under St. Paul's Church, in Boston. His broed fortification upon Bunker Hill. The committee of thers, at the first disinterment, knew his remains by an safety (which sat in the house where he was) having artificial tooth, by a nail wanting on one of his fingers, resolved immediately to despatch a reinforcement thi-and by his clothes, in which he was buried just as he ther, Warren mounted his horse, and with sword and musket, hastened to the scene of strife. He arrived just as the fight began, and seeking out General Putnam, (who was already there) desired to be posted where the slowly off as before. Major Small then ordered his men not to fire at the American General: but it was too late. Just as the order was given, a ball passed through his head; he fell, and expired. fell. His youngest brother, Dr. John Warren, at first sight of the body, fainted away, and lay for many minutes insensible on the ground. We draw a veil over the grief of his mother, when, after a torturing suspense |