A British officer was sent from the garrison at George Town, to negociate a business interesting to both armies. When this was concluded, and the officer was about to return, General Marion said, 'If it suits your convenience, sir, to remain for a short period, I shall be glad of your company to dinner.' The mild and dignified simplicity of Marion's manners had already produced their effect; and, to prolong so interesting an interview, the invitation was accepted. The entertainment was served up on dishes of bark, and consisted entirely of roasted potatoes, of which the general eat heartily, requesting his guest to profit by his example;-repeating the old adage, that hunger was an excellent sauce.' Surely, general, said the officer, this cannot be your ordinary fare. Indeed it is, sir, he replied, and we are fortunate on this occasion, entertaining company, to have more than our usual allowance. It is said, that on the return of this officer to George Town, he immediately declared his conviction that men who could, without a murmur, endure the difficulties and dangers of the field, and contentedly relish such simple and scanty fare, were not to be subdued: and, resigning his commission, immedi ately retired from the service.-MAJOR GARDEN.

GENERAL MARION, with his brigade, not only galled the phalanx, and dealt death through the ranks of the British, but not a little wounded their pride. To drive the Americans, like sheep, from one end of the States to the other, was the favourite taunt and boast of

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the court of England, and the loyal response of the army appointed to carry it into execution; whose regular chess-board movements were believed to be irresistible. So, indeed, they were, in the earlier period of the contest, and therefore Marion confined himself to defensive operations, affairs of posts, momentary attacks by day, and nightly alarms, which soon made his enterprising and martial spirit respected, if not feared, by his late disdainful enemy.

Base-minded, time-serving Tory Americans were now employed to meet, and, if possible, repel this irregular, sleepless warrior: and most legitimately atrocious were all their acts and deeds against him and their countrymen, armed and unarmed. Marion, for some politic reasons, entered into a truce, or armistice, with one of these of the name of Garney. His principal officers remonstrated, being impressed with the opinion that he had committed his dignity in personally treating with one whom they regarded in no better light than a leader of banditti. He silenced their scruples by asserting - that the only dignity he aspired to was that of essentially serving his country.'

Nothing is less surprising than that the dignified demeanour of General Marion should have dispelled the prejudices with which the British officer walked into his presence,—and whether he resigned his commission in consequence of what he had witnessed, is here indifferent; the gist lies in his remark. The fact adduced was but an earnest of what such brave and zealous men were prepared to endure in a cause so good as that of Resistance to Taxation without Representation. To be sure, the privation was not very distressing, when a good meal of roasted potatoes was comeatible. It might be a finesse for the occasion, a ruse, and pardonable stratagem of war, or it might not. It served to impress upon the mind of the British officer, that General Marion and his men would not easily be beaten. His suffering in this case, was but as a fleabite to the sacrifices which some gallant fellows have made, and to the miseries they have endured, in the genuine spirit of honour and duty. Hundreds of instances, throughout all history, sacred and profane, might be given, but I will content myself with only two.

Josephus relates, that when Jehoram was besieged in the city of Samaria, by Adad, King of Syria, his garrison was so reduced for want of provisions, that the head of an ass was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and five pieces was the price of a pint of pigeons' dung, as the sauce for it.'

In such extremity, perhaps worse things have been eaten than an ass's head; but, surely, before or since, such sauce was never resorted to. Marion's old English proverb of hunger being the best sauce, did not, it appears, obtain with these hapless Israelites, by the same token that it was not one of the proverbs of Solomon; or of a certainty they would not have gone to a further expense to procure so pungent an excitement to appetite. From the Jews of Samaria, I will turn for my second instance of generous suffering and devoted loyalty to the cavaliers of England, in the time of Charles the First. So little was required to excite their gallant