change at Amsterdam, and a brilliant triumph, illuminated by the smiles of the fair sex, shortly after in Paris. In October, 1780, he left for America in the Ariel, bearing with him a gift from the king, a gold-mounted sword, with the inscription on the blade: Vindicati Maris Ludovicus XVI. Remunerator Strenuo Vindici-"Louis XVI. the Rewarder to the strong protector of the vindicated sea." The voyage was interrupted, at its outset, by a severe storm off the harbor, in which Jones displayed his usual heroism. The vessel was refitted, and after a partial action on the high seas with a mysterious stranger, reached Philadelphia in February, 1781.

Congress ordered a gold medal to be struck in honor of his exploits, and gave him a commendatory letter to Louis XVI., in whose service he was now desirous to engage. He left America, never to return to it, in November of the same year. When he reached Paris, he was met by a proposition to enter the service of Catherine of Russia, in which he was induced to engage by prospects of rank and glory. On his journey to St. Petersburg, he had a characteristic adventure in his passage from Stockholm to Revel, which he made while the navigation was interrupted by ice, traversing the sea, with great hardihood, in an open boat, extorting the labors of the boatmen by Jones was warmly greeted in Ame- his threats of violence. He was well rica by the Board of Admiralty, by received by the Empress, who forCongress, which gave him permission warded him to Potemkin, then in comto accept the Cross of the order of mand on the Black Sea, in a war with Military Merit, which the French the Turks. It is not necessary to remonarch had tendered him, and with count the movements of a small squadwhich he was now invested at a splendid ron, with a divided command and entertainment by the French minister; jealous counsels, presided over by a but, above all, by a congratulatory whimsical, despotic court favorite. letter from Washington, compliment- Many as were the vexations encouning the chevalier the more efficiently tered by Jones in the inefficient rein its apparently simple terms. After sources, the shifts and expedients of this, Jones, disappointed of the com- foreign allies, and the straits of the mand of the America and the South American Commissioners, they were Carolina, joined the French squadron light compared with the stifling reon a West India cruise. He was in straints of Russian tyranny. Jones did Philadelphia when peace was made, much fighting, in his command of the and, before the close of the year, re- Wolodomer, on the Black Sea against turned again to France, seeking com- the Pasha, but retired with little glory. pensation for the prizes which he had Persecution followed at St. Petersburg captured. The negotiation was slow, there was an assault upon his moral but finally put Jones in possession of a character, which was triumphantly dishandsome sum. proved-various projects flitted through On his return to America, in 1787, his teeming mind, and his connection

defend the freedom or scourge the folly of nations, many a youthful hero in her cause a statue and a tomb.

The person of Paul Jones is well known by the numerous prints devoted to his brilliant exploits. You will see him, a little active man of medium height, not robust, but vigorous, a keen, black eye, lighting a dark, weatherbeaten visage, compact and determined, with a certain melancholy grace.1

He was one of nature's self-made men; that is, nature gave the genius, and he supplied the industry, for he knew how to labor, and must have often exerted himself to secure the

with the country closed after a residence of fifteen months. It is sad to watch the last years of Paul Jones, not, indeed, of age, but of growing weari ness and disease, as he renews his broken Russian hopes, and revives the old faded pecuniary claims on the French Court. A gleam of sunshine appears in his aspirations to serve his country-for he still looked across the Atlantic-in the removal of the chains from the American sailors imprisoned at Algiers. His country listened to his cry he was charged to treat with the Regency for their ransom, but before the commission reached him, he had passed to that land where the attainments which he possessed. He Weary cease from sighing, and the prisoners are at rest. Here, with Mercy bending over the scene, let the curtain fall. Paul Jones died at Paris, at the age of forty-five, of a dropsical affection, July 18, 1792. On the even ing of his decease, Gouverneur Morris, the American minister, was with him, assisted in drawing up his will, and departed. A few minutes later, his physician called, when he was found alone, lying on his bed, life extinct. He was buried in Paris; the National Assembly honored his funeral; M. Marron, a Protestant clergyman, sounded the pean of liberated Revolutionary France over his grave. Surely his ashes are worthy to rest in American soil, and the country might worthily bestow on Paul Jones, whose spirit will yet nerve, while war remains to

was a good seaman, as well as a most gallant officer; sagacious in the application of means; vain, indeed, and expensive, but natural and generous; something of a poet in verse, much more in the quickness and vivacity of his imagination, which led him to plan nobly; an accomplished writer; and for our esteem, as he was found worthy of the long friendship of Franklin, who knew him well, the sage who sought for excellence while he looked with a kindly eye upon human infirmity; we, too, may peruse the virtues of the man and smile upon his frailties.

Some of these old representations approach the verge of caricature, as with plumed cap, Jones, enveloped in the

smoke of war, more lurid in the smokier mezzotint, his belt girt with pistols, like the mainmast with belayingpins, brandishing his cutlass, rages amid the prostrate foe on "the dying deck," everywhere the plur ma mortis imago.

JOHN STARK.

JOHN STARK was of Scottish parent- | to his companions, he put the Indians age, his father, Archibald Stark, being upon a false track, by pointing to a dif a native of Glasgow, though he came ferent direction from the one which they to America with a company of emi- had taken, thus cutting off any hope grants from the north of Ireland, where of protection for himself. The savages he had been settled from his youth. were, however, recalled from their bootThey were of that vigorous race of less errand, by hearing a gun fired as a Scottish Presbyterians, who established signal to Stark, and took their position themselves on the Merrimac, then an in consequence on the river where they outpost of the wilderness, and gave would intercept the hunters. The party the name Londonderry, in honor of came on, one of them on foot, Stark's the Irish city they had left behind elder brother with the third in a canoe. them, to their settlement. At this spot The first was readily captured, when in New Hampshire John Stark was John was directed to hail the others. born, August 28, 1728. In his eighth He did so, advising them to escape. year, his father removed to the site of Four of the Indians were about firing the present Manchester, whence, in his into the boat, when Stark arrested two sixteenth year, we find his son, already of their muskets. One shot took effect, developed to a strength and hardihood leaving the elder Stark in the boat to capable of coping with the savage ten- escape alone. John was at first severely ants of the forest, making his way in a beaten by the disappointed savages, but hunting expedition to one of the dis- finding the youth serviceable in hunttant streams in the northern portion of ing, they treated him with some degree the State. His adventure on this occa- of confidence. He was taken to St. sion is well worth narrating. The party Francis, on the St. Lawrence, where consisted of himself, his elder brother, he derived, in a six weeks' residence, and two others. They were proceeding much valuable knowledge of the Indian with their hunting, when they became mode of warfare, when he was ranaware of the presence of a band of St. somed for one hundred and three dolFrancis Indians, and prepared to retire. lars. His captors put a good price John, while engaged apart from the upon his superior worth, according to rest in collecting the traps, was made their estimation, for they released his prisoner. Upon being interrogated as companion at some forty per cent. less.