Lords Day Augst. 15 M Norton Preached M. I preached P. M. from Is. 8. 19 Munday, Augst. 16. sent Letter to my Father & Thos Truesdell of Danbury. Col. Fitch, and Col. N Payson went off for south Bay,' With 450 men and the Regular Ingeneir to Survey that Country, and the Bay, for purposes not known in Gen' but Supposed in Order to Build a Fort there if need Require This Evening about after 9 Gen' Winslow and attendents arrived from Albany-Nothing yet Devulged, but kept Secret Tuesday Augst. 17. 1756 Breakfasted this morning with ye Gen -But a graceless meal-Nev" a Blessing Asked, nor Thanks given-At the Evening Sacrifice, a more open Scene of wickedness. the Gen1 and Head officers with Some of the Regular officers-in Gen Lyman Tent, within 4 Rods of the place of Publik prayers; None came to prayers; but fixing a Table without the Door of the Tent. where a Head Col, was posted to make punch in ye Sight of all they within Drinking, talking and Laughing During the whole of the Service to the distrubance and disaffection of most present This was not only a bare neglect but an Open Contempt of the Worship of God, by the Heads of this Army Twas but last Sabbath that Gen' L- n spent the Time of Divine Service in the Afternoon, in his Tent Drinking in Company with Mr Gourden a Regular officer-I have oft heard Cursing and Swearing in his presence, by some past field officers, but never heard a reproof, Nor so much 1 The southern extension of Lake Champlain. as a Checck to them for taking the Name of God in Vain, Come from his Mouth nor in the least to intimate his dislike of Such Language in the Time of it-tho he never Uses Such Language himself, but in private Conversation, when I have Spoken of it to him he disapproves of it to me-Lord what is man,-truly the May Game of Fortune-Lord make me Know my Duty What I ought to do Wednesday Augst. 18. 1756, Last night Col. Glazer geting into Anger with the Capt of the Fort Guard, Close by my Window where there was nothing to be heard from Glazer but Damn and G―d. D-n, You 18 2 -- 3 9 8 96 8 Washington, D. C., who has copied several 8 letters for our use, among them being the following, addressed to Elizabeth Washington. In this connection it may be stated that we have been informed recently by a connection of the Washingtons, that there has always been in the 5-6 family a tradition to the effect that, on one occasion, during the anti-tea times, Elizabeth Washington was caught, to her overwhelming confusion, in a private tea-drinking, thereby greatly scandalizing her own fair fame and the patriots' cause. What connection there may have been between this sad breach of public faith and the following letter, the reader must himself decide: 8 6 I 9 18 4 102 ΙΟ 5 2 - I IO I STRATFORD BY LONDON 2nd Nov. 1749 Couz. Betty I have sent you by your brother Major Washington a Tea Chest, and in it Six Silver Spoons and Strainer, and Tongs, of the same, and in one Canister L. of Green Tea, and in the other as much Bohee and the Sugar box is full of Sugar ready broke: So that as Soon as you get your Chest you may sit down, and drink a Dish of Tea. I recd your Mothers Letters; give my Love to her, and all your brothers and Sisters, and to Rawleigh Travers, and Mrs Cook, and Peter Daniel and his Wife. We are all well I thank God; and wish you all so. My Wife and Daughter join with me in Compliments REPRINT THE STATUE TO WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM, IN CHARLESTON, S. C. The history of this statue illustrates the uncertainty attached to personal popularity, for the counterfeit presentment of the illustrious Pitt has proved a subject of alternate admiration and contempt. The wise and the unwise have illustrated the changes in public opinion, though we owe it, finally, to the intelligence of the City of Charleston, that the monument is once more decently placed in an appropriate position. The documentary account, reprinted from the Literary Jourual, gives the story of the statue, procured at the expense of the public, which afterward paid the workmen for taking it down, while the crowd shouted for joy when "old Pitt," in the hurried descent, "lost his head." It appears now, however, that it was the mob that lost its head, though, as the accompanying engraving shows, a cannon-ball in 1780 came into town from the "Water-melon Battery," and carried away the eloquent statesman's arm. Otherwise the work is in a tolerable state of preservation, and its restoration gives much satisfaction. From the Charleston News and Courier, of May 30, 1881, we learn that- "After the monument had been thrown down by the workmen, the fragments of the statue were gathered up and stowed away in some of the public buildings, where they remained with less dignified rubbish until the year 1808, when the commissioners of the Orphan House had them collected and erected the statue within the area fronting that institution, where it remained standing until it was taken down at the request of the South Carolina Historical Society and by order of the City Council, and removed to the City Park, near the spot where it first stood. Mayor Courtenay has directed the work of re-erecting the statue. The base of the new monument is made of Fairfield county granite, and is five feet and six inches square by one foot and three inches thick. Upon this is built of pressed red and buff brick work the pedestal, into the die of which the panels containing the inscriptions are fitted. There are two panels of fine Italian marble (one of which is the panel that belonged to the original monument) three feet and six inches high by two feet and six inches in width. The pedestal is capped with a fine cornice of native granite five feet and six inches square, and one foot thick. Upon this cornice is placed the statue. The original panel of the monument faces Meeting street. It is somewhat stained by the lapse of time, but contains the following well preserved inscription: THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION In grateful memory The Right Honorable William Pitt, Esqr., how Gloriously exerted himself In defending the freedom of Americans. The true sons of England, |