the brilliancy of the reflection of a summer's sun from the burnished armour of the British columns, and the flames of a burning town, made up a scene of extraordinary grandeur.' "This eminence has become sacred ground. It contains in its bosom the ashes of the brave who died fighting to defend their altars and their homes. Strangers from all countries. visit this spot, for it is associated in their memories with Marathon and Platea, and all the mighty struggles of determined freemen. Our citizens love to wander over this fieldthey agreed to awake recollections, and the youthful to excite heroic emotions. The battle-ground is now all plainly to be seenthe spirit of modern improvement, which would stop the streams of Helicon to turn a mill, and caused to be felled the trees of Paradise to make a rafter, has yet spared this hallowed height. "If the days of chivalry be gone for ever,' and the high and enthusiastic feelings of generosity and magnanimity be not so widely diffused as in more heroic ages, yet it cannot be denied but that there have been, and still are, individuals whose bosoms are warmed with a spirit as glowing and ethereal as ever swelled the heart of mailed knight,' who, in the ecstacies of love, religion, and martial glory, joined the war-cry on the plains of Palestine, or proved his steel on the infidel foe. The history of every revolution is interspersed with brilliant episodes of individual prowess. The pages of our own history, when fully written out, will sparkle profusely with these gems of romantic valour. "The calmness and indifference of the veteran in clouds of dust, and seas of blood,' can only be acquired by long acquaintance with the trade of death; but the heights of Charlestown will bear eternal testimony how suddenly, in the cause of freedom, the peaceful citizen can become the invincible warrior -stung by oppression, he springs forward from his tranquil pursuits, undaunted by opposition, and undismayed by danger, to fight even to death for the defence of his rights. Parents, wives, children, and country, all the hallowed properties of existence, are to him the talisman that takes fear from his heart, and nerves his arm to victory. "In the requiem over those who have fallen in the cause of their country, which "Time with his own eternal lips shall sing,' the praises of WARREN shall be distinctly heard. The blood of those patriots who have fallen in the defence of republics, has often 'cried from the ground' against the ingratitude of the country for which it was shed. No monument was reared to their fame; no record of their virtues written; no fostering hand extended to their offspring-but they and their deeds were neglected and forgotten. Toward Warren there was no ingratitudeour country is free from this stain. Congress were the guardians of his honour, and remembered that his children were unprotected orphans. Within a year after his death Congress passed the following resolutions : "That a monument be erected to the memory of General Warren, in the town of Boston, with the following inscription: IN HONOUR OF JOSEPH WARREN, Major-General, of Massachusetts-Bay. Liberties of his Country, and, in bravely defending them, BATTLE OF BUNKER-HILL, The Congress of the United States, Monument to his memory. "It was resolved, likewise, that the eldest son of General Warren should be educated, from that time, at the expense of the United On the 1st of July, 1780, Congress, recognising these former resolutions, further resolved,That it should be recommended to the executive of Massachusetts-Bay to make provision for the maintenance and education of his three younger children. And that Congress would defray the expense to the amount of the half-pay of a major-general, to commence at the time of his death, and continue till the youngest of the children should be of age.' The part of the resolutions relating to the education of the children, was carried into effect accordingly. The monument is not yet erected, but it is not too late.” JOHN LAURENS, COLONEL IN THE AMERICAN ARMY, "Son of Henry Laurens, was born in Charleston, in 1755. In youth he discovered that energy of character which distinguished him through life. When a lad, though labouring under a fever, on the cry of fire, he leaped from his bed, hastened to the scene of danger, and was in a few minutes on the top of the exposed houses, risking his life to arrest the progress of the flames. This is the more worthy of notice, for precisely in the same way, and under a similar, but higher impulse of ardent patriotism, he lost his life in the year 1782. "At the age of sixteen he was taken to Europe by his father, and there put under the best means of instruction in Geneva, and afterward in London. "He was entered a student of law at the temple in 1774, and was daily improving in legal knowledge till the disputes between Great Britain and her colonies arrested his attention. He soon found that the claims of the mother country struck at the root of |