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fect safety. The Governor, John Penn, imme-diately issued a proclamation, enjoining all officers both civil and Military, to assist in bringing to justice the perpetrators of this horrid outrage. The remaining 14 Indians continued in the house provided for them in Lancaster, in the centre of the town, unconscious of danger, till the 27th of the 12th Month, being 13 days from the time their village had been destroyed. On that day a com- pany of men, 50 in number, well mounted and armed, rode hastily into Lancaster, made the best of their way to the house where the poor Indians were lodged; with violence broke open the door; and with fury in their countenances rushed in upon these unarmed and defenceless creatures. The In-dians seeing no protection nigh, nor and possibility of escape, immediately divided into their little families; the affrighted children clinging to their distressed parents. In unutterable anguish they fell upon their knees, protesting their love to the English people, and that in their whole lives, they had never done them any injury. While thus im- ploring mercy of these hard-hearted men, they were without distinction, hewn down with hatchets, and, in a few moments, were laid lifeless on the floor; a deplorable instance amongst many others, of what a pitch of wickedness the mind of man