When thou doft know that I'm prepar'd,
O feize me quick to my reward!
But if thy wisdom fees it beft,

To turn thine ear from this requeft;
If fickness be th' appointed way
To wafte this frame of human clay;
If, worn with grief and rack'd with pain,
This earth must turn to earth again;
Then let thine angels round me ftang,
Support me by thy powerful hand:
Let not my faith or patience move,
Nor ought abate my hope or love,
But brighter may my glories fhine,
Till they're abforb'd in light divine.
Bolton, Dec. 7, 1805.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

OF

COL. THOMAS BUTLER.

THE characters and actions of meritori ous men, in all ages, have been read with pleasure. It is a tribute done to virtue to record the actions of those who are worthy of emuJation. Our country is young and has long been at peace--war achievements and warJike men are almost forgotten: unless when a newspaper announces, in a few lines, the death of some revolutionary chief--and the type has not been employed in recording the death of one more lamented than the late Colonel Thomas Butler. If virtue, honour, benevolence, honesty, a sound heart and a clear head, united with bravery, constitute a good man, he was one. He was, in

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the year 1776, (the year so much boasted of-that tried men's souls) a student at law with the eminent Judge Wilson of Philadelphia; early in that year he quitted his studies and joined the army as a subaltern-soon rose to the grade of captain, and continued in it till the happy and glorious close of the revolution. There were five brothers of the Butlers that joined the American cause, and fought during the war, and left the service. with the following grades, viz. Col. Richard Butler, Col. William Butler, Capt. Thomas Butler, Lieut. Pierce Butler and Lieut. Edward Butler-none of them now living but Pierce Butler. Thomas Butler, whose memory we wish to perpetuate, was in almost every action that was fought in the middle States during the war-at the battle of Brandywine he received the thanks of the illustrious Washington, on the field of battle, through his aid de camp, Gen. Hamilton, for his intrepid conduct in rallying a detachment of retreating troops, and giving the enemy a severe fire. At the battle of Monmouth he received the thanks of Gen. Wayne, for defending a defile in the face of a heavy fire from the enemy, while Colonel Richard Butler's regiment made good their retreat-history records the unfortunate events of that day.

At the close of the war he retired into private life as a farmer, where he enjoyed rural and domestick happiness, until 1791, when he again took the field to meet a sav

age foe, that menaced our frontier; and the unfortunate 4th of November of that year is too well known! He was dangerously wounded, and with difficulty and great hazard, his brother, Capt. Ed. Butler, got him off the field, where they left Gen. Richard Butler a corpse ! In 1792, he was continued on the establishment as a Major, and was promoted in 1794 to Lieut. Col. Commandant of the fourth sublegion. He commanded fort Fayette at Pittsburgh that year, when his name alone (for he had but few troops) prevented the deluded insurgents from taking the fort.

In 1797 he was named by President Washington, as the officer best calculated to command in the State of Tennessee, when it was necessary to dispossess some citizens that had imprudently settled on the Indian lands; accordingly in May of that year he marched with his regiment from the Miami on the Ohio, and by that prudence and good sense that has ever marked his character through life, he in a very short time removed all difficulties, to the satisfaction of those concerned-as a firm and lasting proof of it, he holds the respect and esteem of all the virtuous men in the State. He made several treaties with the Indians while in the state of Tennessee. In the year 1802, at the reduction of the army, he was continued as Col. of the 2nd regiment of Infantry on the peace establishment.

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nounce to the world, that Col. Butler was arrested by the commanding General, in 1803, at Fort Adams, on the Missisippi, sent to Fredericktown, Maryland, where he was tried by a general Court Martial, and acquitted honourably of all the charges, except that of wearing his hair, which he held as a gift of nature, and was of opinion, that no power on earth had a legal right to take it from him-which opinion he held till his death. After his trial he was ordered to New-Orleans, there to take command of the troops, which he did on the 20th of October, 1804, and on the 20th of November following, was again arrested for not cropping off his hair!!! and not until the 1st of July did a court convene for his second trial-the result of their decision is not yet known. Since his last arrest he lost his wife, who, like himself, was universally lamented by the good and virtuous. She died near Nashville, Tennessee. In consequence of her death and the deranged situation of his affairs, he solicited leave from the Hon. Secretary of War and the commanding General to return to Tennessee as soon as the court martial was over-alas! this application was pass ed over in silence, no answer ever given him! He was advised to move out of the city, which he did in the latter part of July, and on the 7th of September, paid the great debt of nature, aged 51 years. He has left three sons and one amiable daughter to lament his loss yes, and he has left the virtuous world

of his acquaintance to lament his loss; and none will feel it more severely than the valuable part of the army of all grades.

The writer of this short biography does not wish to wound the feelings of the prosecutor of the deceased; he himself is old, and will soon have to pay the debt, that Col. B. has already paid-Comparison can then be made by the friends to virtue-which of their walks in life were most worthy of imi tation.

[Louifiana Gazette.]

ON THE ADVANTAGES OF
PERIODICAL PERFORMANCES.

MAN is the only animal we know, that possesses the power of aggregate existence. All other animals may be said to exist individually; that is to say, each indivual, after it comes into the world, is directed only by its own instincts, observation, and experience, to pursue the mode of conduct that is suited to its nature, and the circumstances in which it finds itself placed. Hence it happens, that. the aggregate powers of any one class of animals remain without any change. Their numbers may increase or diminish; but their faculties are, upon the whole, for ever the same. The distinctive properties of the horse, the ass, the elephant, the bee, and all other classes of animals we know, are precisely the