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 the Atlantic. It was largely due to the energy of General Smith that, in the second war with Great Britain, Baltimore escaped the fate of the national Capital. And with these officers went hundreds of lesser rank, to join New Englanders and fellow-Southerners in the common cause of Independence.

COL. JOHN EAGER HOWARD.

FROM THE PAINTING BY REMBRANDT PEALE.

When the cry "Cornwallis is taken!" announced the final success of Washington and Lafayette, Baltimore's exultation was unbounded. In the evening, we are told, there was a "Feau d' Joy": "the Town and Fell's Point were elegantly illuminated; what few houses that were not, had their windows broke." Upon the Point, Mr. Fell, "a gentleman of princely