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Coeur, the firft captain belonging to Baron's men, and, c H A P, 

 ^ not without caufe, one of the fierceft rebels in the foreft, 

 " which he has lately fliewn on the neighbouring eftate of 

 " New Rofenback, where your colonel now commands. 

 " On that eftate one Schults, a Jew, being the manager at 



that time, who formerly was the manager of Faucon- 

 " berg, the rebels fuddenly appeared, and took poffef- 

 " fion of the whole plantation. Having tied the hands of 

 " Schults, and plundered the houfe, they next began to 



feafting and dancing, before they thought proper to end; 



his miferable exiftence. In this deplorable lituation now 

 " lay the vi6tim, only waiting Baron's iignal for death, 



when his eyes chancing to catch the above captain's. Jolly 

 " Coeur, he addrelTed him nearly in the following words : 

 " — ' O Jolly Coeur, now remember Mr. Schults, who was 

 " once your deputy-mafter; remember the dainties I gave 

 " you from my own table, when you were only a child, and 



my favourite, my darling, among fo many others : re- 

 " member this, and now fpare my life by your powerful 



interceffion.' — The reply of Jolly Coeur was memorable: 



— I remember it perfectly well: * But you, O tyrant, re- 



colle6l how you ravifhed my poor mother, and flogged 

 " my father for coming to her affiftance. Recolle6l, that 



the fharaeful a£l was perpetrated in my infant prefence. 

 <c —Recollect this — then die by my hands, and next be 



damn'd.'^ — Saying this, he fevered his head from his body 



with a hatchet at one blow ; with which having played 



" at: 



