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(23) know that every thing was carried on to her inclination, and that lie ſtill,  every other perſon, was dear to her.

Soon after his arrival, the troops with vhich he came along, joined the expedition of Gen. Braddock againſt Fort du Queſne, affair well known to many of your. Its melancholy event is alſo, I dare, recent in ſome of their memories. In unfortunate action Philander took the  of the battalion in which he ſerved,  its commanding officer was killed, and  having, with it, performed deeds worthy of a ſecond Leonidas, he ſhared the ſame  with the general, ſuch as did many  brave officers who alſo fell that day.—The effects of his valour, ſo exaſperated  of the Indians who ſerved along with  French in that engagement, that after  inſulted his dead body, they added  piece of cruelty peculiar to themſelves, hamely ſcalping. His corpſe was, however, diſcovered by an intimate companion of his at the general burying of the, by means of a miniature picture of Roſara ſet in gold, which he had always worn ſuſpended by a ribband round his neck, and which had accidentally eſcaped the vigilance of the ſavages. This, with ſome, was returned to his friend.

The fate of the amiable Roſara, in of theſe melancholy news, is a