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mill. During the continuance of the war car- ried on by Great Britain, in this country, he was tried with the loss of all his property, and a long confinement in prison; but his integrity and perseverance rose above all his difficulties; and he is now placed in a situation of life far above most of his persecutors. 2d Month, 7th. I left E. W's hospitable roof, and, in the evening, came to Bladensburg, where I had the company of a young surgeon to supper, of the name of John Bell, who had accompanied the American squadron in the late expedition against the Dey of Tripoly, and was at the storm-ing of the fort and town of Deane, on the coast of Africa. In hearing narratives of this kind, the mind is often lost in astonishment in the consi-deration that a man, endowed with reason, can bring himself to believe there is any thing meri- torious in thus exposing his life and limbs to de- struction, and oftentimes when he is a total stranger to the causes of the quarrel which he has espoused. How lamentable is it that the noblest faculties of man should be debased, and the funda- mental principles of the christian religion trodden underfoot, through the indulgence of ferocious and warlike dispositions. 2d Month, 8th. In travelling this day, I passed by a company of black slaves, chained together,