mise, that the delinquents lodged in the house of Rev. Mr. Davenport; and that Gov. Leet, whatever he might pretend to the contrary, was in the secret. They immediately returned to Gov. Leet, and demanded a warrant for their arrest. He then delayed a whole day, ostensibly that he might consult with the other magístrates, and sent an express to Mr. Davenport's to inform the judges of his guests. They immediately took refuge with William Jones, Esq. for a few days, and afterwards in a mill, near that gentleman's house. The next day, Kellond and Kirk went to New Haven with Gov. Leet, where, calling a council of the Magistrates, they peremptorily demanded a search warrant, with threats in case of noncompliance. The magistrates, being generally warm friends to the judges, at first, refused; but upon further reflection, convinced that this stand was too gross a violation of the royal edict, and fearing, lest they should draw down upon themselves the indignation of the English government for aiding and abetting in the escape of traitors to his Majesty, they put a warrant into the hands of the marshal. He, soon after, met the exiles near a bridge, a little distance from the town, and attempted to take them; but they stood on the defence with cudgels, and soon drove him off. While he was gone after assistance they hid under the bridge, and when the pursuers had passed over their heads, and gone beyond, they quietly returned to their hiding place in the mill. This meeting was probably procured by the magistrates, to show that they had endeavored to apprehend them. A general search was then commenced and prosecuted by the commissioners with great industry; but the friends of the judges succeeded in rendering it ineffectual. They once happened to be at Mrs. Eyers' when the officers came thither on their errand. Seeing them coming, she ushered her guests out at the back part of the house a few steps, and when they returned, hid them in a closet, the door of which, when shut, could not be distinguished from the ceiling. The pursuers coming up, asked if the regicides were in the house. She replied that they had been there, but had just gone in another direction. The commissioners not waiting to scan the tale, followed the false scent, leaving their game safe, and Mrs. Eyers guiltless, as she thought of prevarication.

A short time afterwards they took up their residence on West Rock,* on the summit of which, was a cave peculiarly fitted for

*A_perpendicular cliff, rising three hundred feet, a little distance from New Haven.

concealment. Here they remained for a few days perfectly se-. cure, supported by the liberality of Mr. Sperry, until a huge catamount passing their cave one night, looked in, and seemed by his prowling and growling to meditate an invasion. As soon as he had walked off, the trembling judges resolving to surrender at discretion, evacuated their cave and fled down the mountain to Mr. Sperry's. They however soon found refuge in another cave prepared for them by their friends. In this manner they finally succeeded in eluding the search of the commissioners, who returned to Boston bitterly complaining of the men with whom they had to deal: and especially reprobating the conduct of Gov. Leet, and Mr. Gilbert. These gentlemen began now to be justly alarmed, and their intrepidity in the protection of their friends to fail, lest his Majesty should revenge himself for such contempt of his authority. The Regicides generously determined to deliver themselves up to the officers of justice rather than that those, who had so long shielded them from persecution the most unrelenting and search the most scrutinizing, should be in the end endangered on their The moment therefore, they understood that Gov. Leet began to fear the issue, they repaired to him, and offered to deliver themselves into the hands of the Sheriff. He, however, had them concealed in his cellar until he could consult with his friends in the secret: who concluded that if the magistrates were to assemble, and issue a warrant to scour the town, accompanied with a flaming proclamation to the inhabitants to assist in the search, a surrender would be unnecessary. Gov. Leet and Mr. Gilbert therefore, immediately shielded themselves behind this procedure, which threw all the responsibility on Mr. Davenport. A deep politician and crafty manager, as well as a pious and excellent divine, this gentleman then resolved to put into requisition the most unwearied assiduity, together with all his characteristic firmness and subtility to preserve those, whom he looked upon as unfortunate and injured individuals.

account.

The search was then prosecuted with greater vigilance than ever, during which, they lay quietly hid in their cave and in the closet of Mrs. Eyers. It soon became very apparent that Mr. Davenport was the only man in the colony yet in the secret, since all others had withdrawn their friendship and protection. He, true to his friends and unshaken in what he considered to be a just and righteous cause, would neither suffer them to yield themselves to public authority, nor that authority to arrest them. At last by appear

ing openly in N. Haven a number of times, cautiously but designedly, they happily succeeded in freeing Mr. Davenport from the suspicion which the royalists entertained against him.-Unfortunately their new retreat was in a few weeks discovered by a party of Indians in hunting; but before the alarm could be given and an arrest attempted, they retired and hid in the woods.

At the approach of winter it became necessary for them to find a new residence, where they could enjoy concealment united with comfort. Such a one Mr. Davenport found for them in the house and family of Mr. Tomlin, of Milford. In an unfrequented apartment of that gentleman's house, they lived for two years without even going into the orchard, and so secret was every thing preserved in relation to them, that the magistrates of New Haven could never obtain the least information of their abode : and as has been remarked, Gov. Leet's apparent vigilance had effectually secured him, and their late appearance in New Haven, Mr. Davenport, from royal suspicion. While they were in this retreat, a ludicrous ballad, ridiculing the judges of Charles, came from England, which the servant girls, who were engaged over head, learned to sing. This song they frequently repeated, to the great diversion of Whaley and Goffe, the objects of the satire. In this connexion may be introduced an incident illustrative of Mr. Davenport's sagacity. A short time before Kellond and Kirk came to New Haven, he preached a sermon from this text. ISAIAH XVI, 13, 14. Take council; execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon day; hide the out casts; betray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee. Moab be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler. We must at least give the reverend gentleman the credit of consistency in action and principle.

In 1664, the king's commissioners arrived at Boston, with particular instructions to seek for the regicides; in consequence of which it became necessary for them to find a new asylum. The Rev. Mr. Russel, of Hadley, on Connecticut river, then the westernmost settlement in Massachusetts colony, consented to receive them. Accordingly we find them, after having wandered about, "destitute, afflicted, tormented," "in the mountains, dens and caves of the earth," for three years, finally living under the hospitable roof of this faithful minister. Here, and at the house of P. Tilton, Esq. unknown to every one in the village, except the respective families of these gentlemen, they lay buried in the most profound concealment for more than sixteen years.

During their residence in Hadley, Goffe under the name of Walter Goldsmith, held a correspondence with his wife in England, and their letters were so highly enigmatical as to render him perfectly safe even if intercepted. The judges, also, from time to time, received funds from their friends in England and America, through the hands of Mr. Tilton, who acted as their trusty agent.

The following is the only memorable action in which either of them was engaged during the remainder of their unhappy lives. In September, 1675, while the people of Hadley were assembled at church, they were unexpectedly surrounded and attacked by a body of Philip's Indians. The affrighted inhabitants, after having feebly repelled the attack, were on the point of yielding, when, suddenly, there appeared among them a venerable old man of singular appearance. Placing himself at their head, and animating them by his address and evidently superior knowledge in military tactics, he enabled them to make a successful resistance, and soon compelled the savages to withdraw. Immediately after the victory the stranger disappeared, and the good people of Hadley imputed this sudden and effectual interposition in their behalf, to an angel, until the fact of the judges being at that time secreted among them became known, when they ascertained that this angel, was no other than Goffe, who, seeing the inhabitants on the eve of flight, saved the village from destruction, and himself and Whaley from inevitable discovery.

In 1678, Col. Whaley, who had been for a number of years superannuated, insensibly closed his unfortunate career, and was secretly buried in, or near, Mr. Russel's cellar. Of Gen. Goffe, we hear no more, after 1679. Different traditions have disposed of the remainder of his life, each in a different manner. One tradition is, that he died in Hadley; another, in New Haven, and another still, transports him to New York, where he carries vegetables to market for a subsistence, for some time, and then goes to Virginia, and from thence to Rhode Island; and under the name of Theophilus Whale, dies in obscurity. The truth in relation to his death never has been, and probably never will be, fully ascertained.

While they were at Mr. Russel's, they were joined in their exile by John Dixwell, Esq. another of the unfortunate judges. He soon left them, went to New Haven, assumed the name of James Davids, lived in retirement, though not in secrecy, was married and had several children. Although he did not reveal his true name and character to the world until upon his death bed, yet he was

generally considered as obnoxious to the English government. Af ter more than twenty five years exile, he died in the eighty second year of his age. Over him was placed by his own direction, a plain rough stone, with merely the initials of his name inscribed; well knowing that if a conspicuous monument with his whole name was erected, his body would be liable to the same indignities committed on Cromwell's. As late as 1790, there was standing near Col. Dixwell's grave another plain stone, with E. W. upon it; and presumptive evidence is very strong, that Whaley was, by his directions, dis-interred at Hadley and buried there.

O. X.

ORIGINAL.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF JOSIAH BARTLETT.

JOSIAH BARTLETT was descended from a Norman family which emigrated and settled in the south of England about the period of the Norman conquest. The branch of the family from which he was immediately descended came to this country in the 17th Century, and was established at Beverly, in Massachusetts. Mr. Bartlett was born at Amesbury, in this State, in Nov. 1729. He was instructed in the Greek and Latin languages, and is said to have acquired a knowledge of them with great facility. At the age of sixteen he was placed under the care of Dr. Ordway, of Amesbury, to commence his professional studies. He applied himself with great assiduity, and in 1750, at the age of 21, commenced practice at Kingston, with as good a medical education as his limited preparatory means would allow. He pursued his profession with success, and was first to discover the efficacy of Peruvian Bark in cases of canker in the throat. The reputation he had established for integrity, a quick, discerning, comprehensive mind, and decision of character, designated him as a suitable person for public life. Accordingly, in 1765, he was chosen to represent the town in which he resided in the colonial assembly of New Hampshire. He then also had command of a Regiment of Militia. In the legislature he took firm republican ground, and became the strenuous and active advocate of popular rights. He opposed what he deemed to be the unjust and unlawful grants of land, and in an especial manner objected to the Governor's reserving to himself and for the use of the Episcopal church, many of the best and most valuable rights. He was, however, in a minority, and by this course incurred the displeasure of the Governor, John Wentworth. He was, however, steady and zealous in his remonstrances against these usurpations