Account of General Sir Guy Carleton, Commander in Chief of his Majefty's Forces in America. With a friking Likeness. SIR Guy is the third fon of Chriftopher Carleton, Efq; and was born at Strabane, in the county of Tyrone, about the year 1725. The family was originally from England; Sir Guy's father being defcended from Launcelot Carleton, fecond fon of Thomas Carleton, Efq; of Carleton Hall, in the county of Cumberland. This Launcelot was uncle to Sir Thomas Carleton. Sir Guy entered into the fervice in 1742, and ferved in Flanders in the war before lat, having been wounded at the fiege of Bergen op Zoom. In June 1757, he got the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was feveral years in the 72nd regiment, commanded by the duke of Richmood. In 1759, when the flower of our officers were picked out for the Quebec expediti on, lieutenant colonel Carleton was bonoured with the most confidential pot in General Wolfe's army, that of quarter mafter general. Care is always taken that the officer in that poft is of the firft abili ties. He was greatly trusted by General Wolfe. Immediately after our army landed upon the isle of Orleans. Colonel Carleton was fent with a detachment to poffefs the westermoft point of the island, because, as General Wolfe himself faid, our operations were likely to begin there. He was afterwards fent up the river with a detachment to Point de Trempe, to draw the attention of the enemy that way. He was oppofed by the Indians at his landing, but they were foon driven into the woods. In the glorious battle of Quebec, where the great Wolfe fell, Colonel Carleton was wounded. In 1761 Hib. Mag. Auguft, 178. he was a brigadier general on the expedition again Belle Inle; and in that ill conduded attempt to land at St. Andro, where he exerted himself greatly, he was wounded in the thigh; we loft 500 men that day. On Feb. 19, 1762, he had the rank of Colonel; he ferved as a brigadier general at the fiége of the Havannah, and was wounded in the fally made by the Spaniards on the 22nd of July, but they were repulfed, after having lett 400 men Juft at the clofe of the war he got the 93₫ regiment, but it was foon difbanded. After this he was appointed lieutenant governor of Quebec, which he held many years. In 1772 he had the 47th regiment. The events of the ficge Sir Guy fustained in Quebec, against the rebels under Montgomery and Arnold, are too long to be given on this occafion. His great fervices at the head of the commiflioners of accounts are fo recent and fo well known, that it would be fuperfluous to repeat them. Sir Guy was peculiarly qualified for that ftation. During his long fervices, he had always been moft fedulously atten tive to the care of the public money. General Robertfon when barrack master general in America, having fome official demands on Sir Guy as governor of Quebec, fent one of his deputies to Canada to prevail on him to discharge them. But the deputy after his long voyage and some months attendance, could not obtain a fingle fhilling. In thort, Sir Guy is reckoned to have the cleanest hands of any perfon, ever entrusted with public money. On this head he is fpoke of with wonder. He will have a Herculean task to perform Dd d 1 394 Account of Lady Augufia Campbell.—Rebel Cruelties in South Carolina. Auguft, at New York. Our inactive officers as Some Account of Lady Augufta Campheil. had the prefent duke, born in 1755, and lady Derby. The duke of Hamilton died on the 19th of January 1758, and the dowager was married to colonel John Campbell on the 3d of February 1759. who by the death of his father, John, the late duke of Argyll, in the month of November, 1770, fucceeded to the title and cftate. Lady Augufta Campbell is his elde daughter, and was born in 1760. This lady is diftinguished from that herd of gay, diffipated women of fashion, whofe whole time is devoted to a round of intoxicating public amufements. She is not to be found at the midnight revels of mafquerades, at card parties, nor in the Amazonian babit, foilowing the chafe. A defire to improve her mind leads her to the ftudy of useful learning; a with to attain every polite accomplishment com. mands her attention to mufic and draw. ing, in which she excels; and a steady, The ames of Yoccount of our illuftri- even temper being the guide of her ac ous fovereign George III. A celebrated artift has undertaken to give a complete fet of them, in the manner of the beauties of the court of Charles II. but we are informed fome years will elapfe before they make their appearance. In the mean time we judge it might be acceptable to give all the account we could obtain of a lady, who is univerfally admired for her fine accomplishments. Owing to the numerous family, of which the is the brightest ornament, the public are frequently mistaken concerning this lady, it is therefore neceflary to take a retrospective view of the different fituations of her ladyship's mother, the prefent duchefs of Argyll. The veteran beaux of this metropolis will recollect with rapture," the joys of their dancing days," and count a mongst them, the hours they spent in paying their tribute of admiration to the matchlefs fifters, the celebrated Mifs Gun. nmgs, who, in all public places, received that univerfal homage voluntarily paid by mankind to beauty and innocence. They were natives of Ireland, and the daughters of a respectable gentleman of the long robe in that kingdom. The eldeft was married to the prefent earl of Coventry, by whom the bad a fon, the prefent lord Deerhurst, and we believe a daughter; ber ladyship died on the first of Oober, 1760, and upon that melanholy event Mr. Gray wrote a most affecting elegy. The prefent duchefs of Argyll, lady Augufta Campbell's mother, was the younger fifter, the was firft married to The late duse of Hamilton, by whom the tions, the frems to be formed, like her amiable mother, to adorn the marriage ftate, and render it a feene of permanent dometic bli's, when Providence hall think proper to fix her lot in that station of life. It is a model for imitation in thefe degenerate times, that we have prefumed to fketch an imperfect outline of this young lady, of whom little more has been known by the world, than that great attention is paid to her at court by their mjefties; that he has opened the ball on birth-nights with the prince of Wales; and in the fummer featon is generally upon the terrafs at Windfor, when the royal family walk there in public. The duke of Argyll is likewife an Eng lith peer, by the style and title of baros Sundridge of Kent. His only fon, John, is marquis of Lorn; and he has another daughter lady Charlotta Maria, born in 1775. For the Hibernian Magazine. E have fent you an authentic Account of fome of the barrid Cruelties committed by Rebels on the King's loyal Subjects of South Carolina, as contained in a Paper writtes by Mr. Levi Smith, a Justice of Peac in that Province, and printed in the South Carolina Gazette of April the 17th this prefent Year. By inferting it in your next Magazine you will oblige A Number of American Legalifts. To the Printers of the Royal Gazette of South Carolina. \ Gentlemen, By one of your late papers, I perceive colonel Haynes's unhappy cafe has made" fome fome noife in England. This confirms the truth of an affertion I have often heard made, that nothing is lefs underftood there than the true state of affairs in this country; which is certainly not at all surprising, when we confider that our enemies are indefatigable in propagating and fpreading accounts of every circunftance, by which they think themfelves aggrieved, or improperly treated by our government, whilt an uniform filence prevails on our fide, under the harfheft ufige, and although we have had by far the greateft reafon to complain. The gentle and humane treatment which the rebel prifoners in our hands receive from us is well known; but it is by no means equally well known, that our militia, when prifoners to them, are, in general, treated in the mott cruel manner. I beg leave, through the channel of your paper, to make known to the world the ufage which I, and many other prifoners, received from general Greene's army laft fummer. As the narrative in fome places, will appear fhocking to every man of humanity, I beg leave to premife, that moft of the particulars are well known to many refugees now in this place; and that captain M'Pherfon of Delancey corps, captain Neil Campbell of the 84th, lieut. Amiel of the 17th, lieut. Partridge of the 23d, Hildebrand, and Lory of the Heffian troops, most of them at prefent within the British lines, were eye witneffes to fome of the moft ma. terial parts of it. I WAS born in Bedford County in Virginia, and fettled as a merchant in this province in 1774, near col. Thompson's in Amelia Township. After the reduction of this country by the British arms in 1780, I took an active part in favour of government, and on the 14th of October, I received a commission to act as a Juftice of the Peace, from col. Balfour, the prefent commandant of this place. In February 1781, after lord Cornwallis had marchéd into North Carolina, lord Rawdon, who commanded on the frontiers of this province applied to me to procure him intelligence of the movements of Sumpter and the other rebel partizans on the Western Frontier. From this time I gave his lordship, whofe head quarters were at Camden, all the information I could procure; and to prevent accidents, from my letters being loft or miscarried, I kept co pics of thofe 1 fent to Camden, and alfo preferved fuch as I received from thence. About this time a plundering party of the enemy having robbed my ftore, which was on the north fide of the Congaree River, near M'Cords ferry, and finding nei, ther my life nor property fecure in that fituation, I removed my effects to a house within two hundred yards of Fort Motte, on the oppofite fide of the river. The fort was commanded by captain M'Pherson of Delancey's corps, and had a garrifon of British troops and militia. That gentle man appointed me to take the command of the militia in the fort, until a commiffion, in proper form, could be procured from lord Rawdon. Shortly after, gen. Greene, having marched to Camden, detached col. Lee, with his legion, to join gen. Marion with his brigade of rebel militia, from the country betwixt Santee and Peedee, with orders to general Marion to inveft Fort Watson on Wright's Bluff, on the north side of Santee. Having reduced that poft, Marion croffed Santee on the night of the 8th of May, and invefted Fort Motte next morning about to o'clock. Having no fufpicion of any enemy being then near me, I had walked down from the fort to my own houfe to breakfast, when a party of Lee's cavalry, under the command of captain Rodolph rode up fuddenly and made me a prifoner. I told him I hoped to be treated as an officer and a gentleman; he aflured me I had nothing to fear on that fcore, and then rode off, leaving me in charge with a cadet called Lee, generally known among them by the name of Little Lee. This gentleman immediately ordered the dragoons to ftrip me of my cloaths, which they foon did, leaving me nothing but my fhirt. They then fet out for col. Thompson's, where gen. Marion lay, which was about a mile diftant, and rode at a hard trot, making me run before them. As my breath and feet began to fail, they wounded me with their fwords, in three places in the head, to make me keep up. It was in vain to beg for mercy, and intreat them to moderate their fpced. It only ferved to encrease their rage, and redou ble their blows. As I grew weaker, I fell feveral times; but they continued to beat me until I got up again. When I reached general Marion's camp I fainted, being quite spent with fatigue. I was then given in charge to the Quarter Guard, and had a fupply of decent cloaths from Mrs. Thompfon. Next morning I was accofted by one William Cooper from Peeder, a lieutenant of Marion's militia, who was afterwards wounded in the arm, and takes prifoner at the affair of Quinby House. le propofed an exchange betwixt me and one Samuel Cooper, his brother or cousin, who was at that time a prifoner with lord Dad Rawde Rawdon, having been taken fome weeks before by a detachment of the garrifon of Camden under col. Doyle, in an excurfion to Snow's Inland, near the mouth of Lynch's Creek. I readily agreed to the propofal, and general Marion having alfo affented, he gave a pass to a woman, called Clark, to carry a letter from me to lord Rawdon propofing the exchange. The woman delivered the letter to his lordship, who at that time lay at Nellon's Ferry, on his march from Camden to Charlestown; but as he had no flag, and behaved, in other refpects in a fufpicious and imprudent manner, his lordship looked upon the letter as a forgery, and confidered the whole matter as a fineffe to get Samuel Cooper released, and to procure intelligence of his pofition: he therefore gave no answer, but detained the woman as a fpy. During the fiege of the fort, I was treated with humanity and indulgence, being fuffered to walk about during the day, with only lieut. Cooper as a guard. Sometimes we went a fishing in a canoe upon the Congaree river, and every day I' dined in my own house. At night I was confined in the Quarter Guard, and was releafed in the morning, after the roll was called. In fhort, except that my houfe was plundered, and my property deftroy. ed, I was treated in all other refpects as a gentleman, and had no fufpicion of the dreadful doom that was allotted for me. On the 14th in the afternoon, the houfe in the fort being fet on fire by the enemy, the garrifon was compelled to furrender at difcretion. The regulars and militia were inftantly plundered of their cloaths, and fome of the latter were even stripped of their fhirts. They were all, except the regular officers, confined in colonel Thompfon's mill houfe, at the foot of the hill on which the fort food. Thefe last remained with colonel Lee and the other Continental officers. A little after fun fet colonel Lee fent Little Lee to the mill-house, for lieut. Falker, of the militia, with orders to carry him to the fort, and hang him on the gate of Mrs. Motte's fence. This unfortunate young man, who did not exceed nineteen years of age, was accufed of the death of being the caufe of the death of Mrs. Tate, on Poplar Creek, who was turned out of her house when in the fmall pox, by which he catched cold and died. Her husband, after having taken protection from us, joined general Marion, along with feveral others from that neighbour hood; and as they often croffed Santee in mall parties, and committed depredations and murders, for which purpose they rescived intelligence from their families, who often concealed them, capt. McPher fon had fent lieut. Fulker to their wives, ordering them to remove twenty miles from the river before a certain day fixed for that purpose. Fulker utterly denied his being the caufe of her death, and begged he might be brought to trial to make his innocence appear, but this was refufed him; and Little Lee told him it was in vain to expect mercy, for he might reft affured he fhould be put to death. He was accordingly carried to the gate, where he was ftripped naked, and hanged without a trial, or even a bearing, in his own defence. When he was dead and cut down, col. Lee fent the fame meffenger for-John Jackson, a private militia man, and ordered him to prepare for death, acculing him of having carried expreffes for the King's troops, and having killed in action, one of generai Sumpter's men, when he made an unsuccessful attempt the 24th of the preceding February on colonel Thompion's houfe, where the polt had been kept before it was removed to Mrs. Motte's houfe, which had been previously furrounded with a redoubt for that purpose. The poor man begged to be brought to trial before he was put to death; but to no purpose. He was hur ried off, ftripped, and tied up about dark, and left banging all night on the gate, while lieut. Fulker's body, which had been cut down to make room for him, was left naked under the gallows until the morning, when it was dragged along the ground by the end of the halter that remained about his neck, and buried to gether with Jackson's body, in the ditch i of the redoubt which they were then le velling. As foon as Jackfon was cut down, Hugh Maskelly, another private militia man, was fent for, and ordered to pres pare for death. He asked for what rea fon; he was answered for thewing to one of Mr. Cruden's deputies, the fequesterd effects of John MaWilliams in that neighbourhood, and for acting as a guide to heutenant colonel Doyle. That officer had left Camden in the beginning of April, and carried his lady, who was far advanc ed in pregnancy, to Charlestown; and up. on his return to Camdeń to join his regi. ment, the Volunteers of Ireland, hearing that gen. Greene had invested that gami fon, he left the high road after he passed M'Cord's Ferry, and got Makelly to carry him and capt. M'Lean of the New York Volunteers, with a few dragoons through the woods to Camden, where they arrived in fafety. Maskelly was im mediately stripped of his cloaths, and had an old dirty shirt tied round him, and was then turned off, as the others bad been, been, without the flightest trial or hear ing. All this while I had no fufpicion that I was doomed to the fame fate. As I had been treated with fo much indulgence, I expected to be fent to Charlestown along with the regular officers, on parole, there to remain until exchanged; and as thefe gentlemen were to fet off for town that morning, I waited patiently in the Quarter Guard, expecting every minute to be releafed upon figning my parole. Thefe agreeable ideas did not last long. A ferjeant and two privates of the Continentals came to the Quarter Guard, and asked if one Levi Smith was among the prifoners. I immediately came forward, and avowed myfelf; but 1 leave your readers to guefs the horror and aftonishment with which I was feized, when they told me they had orders from colonel Lee to carry me to Mrs. Motte's gate and hang me. I replied, it was impoffible, it could not be; but the ferjeant anfwered, he would flew me his authority, and produced a written order in these words, which I read, him if it was lawful to hang a man without a trial, and received for answer, that I had get all the trial I need expect to get; that I had acted as a juftice of peace and militia officer under the crown; that I was an enemy to the United States, and that I had been the caufe of Mrs. M'Cord's houfe at the ferry being burnt. This woman, who lived on the road from Camden to Charleftown, and kept a tavern and ferry, was a person of notorious difaffection to the British caufe. Her fon, who had broke his parole, and was then a captain in the State troops under Sumpter, came frequently down through the woods from the weftern frontier, with fmall parties, and destroyed the public boats that carried ftores from Nelfon's ferry to Camden. His mother ufually harboured him on these expeditions, and almost every British officer, when travelling, who ftopped at her houfe a night, had his horfes ftolen before morning. In short, her ill behaviour was fo glaring, that, her fon having about the middle of the preceding March, burnt a boat loaded with corn and fait pork for Camden, lord Rawdon, on the 25th of that month, fent "Bring Levi Smith from the Quarter captain Monro of the volunteers of Ire Guard, and bang him. "FRANCIS LEE." I now found that I had not a moment to spare; therefore begged one of the quarter guard to run to my houfe, and defire my wife and children to meet me at the gallows, and take their last farewell. The fellow inftantly went off, and I was delivered to the ferjeant. When we began to afcend the hill on which the fort food, my new guard defired me to trip, declaring they would have my cloaths. I very readily pulled off the coat and waistcoat I had received from Mrs. Thompson, but this did not fatisfy them; they declared they would have my thirt alfo. I begged them not to treat me with fo much indignity, but wait till I was dead; but they fwore they would have it then, and wounded me flightly in two places with a bayonet, upon which I pulled it off, and delivered it to them. I now walked to the gallows, having no other cloaths on but a pair of trowfers Mrs. Thompson had alfo given me after being ftripped when I was made a prifoner. Being arrived, I found Maskelly had been just turned off, and my wife and children coming up; they were inftantly ordered away by captain Smith of the Continentals, who defired them not to come with in a hundred yards of the spot. An officer now rode up, whom I took to be col. Lee, though I am not certain, as the agitation of my mind was fo great. I asked I land, with a small party of that regiment, and capt. Hughie's company of militia, mounted, with orders to burn her house, and order her never to be found within twenty miles of the river again; a transaction of which I knew nothing until two hours after the house was burned. found all proteftations of my innocence were vain, and that no appeal could be made to the laws of nations, notwithflanding captain M'Pherfon, and the regular officers who were prefent, did every thing in their power to fave me, and infifted that the British militia and regulars ought to be looked upon in the fame light; that the commiffions of the officers of each were equally good, and that any injury done to me would be looked upon as done to one of themselves. At this time I heard one of the Continental officers fay to another who was ftanding by him, in the crowd round the gallows, "It is a fhame to take the life of any man without a trial. This man, let him be the devil, or what he will, ought to have had a trial." I was now made ready for execution. The old dirty hunting fhirt was taken from Mafkelly's body, and wrapped round mine, and my arms were pinioned. A number of indecent jokes were paffed on Mafkelly's naked body, and as he did not appear to be quite dead, fome of the foldiers pulled down his feet to dispatch him quickly; the reason of which was, that |