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neither remorfe nor compundtion in having deftroyed three of 
his fellow-creatures, but was apprehenfive only of what might 
have been the confequences to himfelf. 
The General immediately rode back to his houfe. He found 
the dead bodies lying on the ground, juft where they had fallen, 
one at the diftance of ten or twelve yards from the door, the 
other two at forty or fifty. The firft had evidently been fhot 
through the breaft, but both the others through the back. From 
thefe circumftances it was ftrongly conjedured that Van Roy 
and his fons had waited at the door, with their loaded mufquets, 
the approach of thefe unfortunate men j that, on the firft being 
fhot, the other two had attempted to make their efcape ; in 
doing which they afforded the Dutchmen an opportunity of 
taking a cool and fure aim. The family, of courfe, told the 
fame ftory as the mafter : What then remained to be done ? De* 
fertion had already begun, and threatened to become very ge- 
neral. It was, therefore, deemed advifeable to let the matter 
reft ; and to fummon the troops in the neighbourhood to attend 
the funeral of the unfortunate men, whofe fate might operate as 
a check to its further progrefs. 
It would feem, by the end which this fame Van Roy was 
doomed to make^ that, as our immortal poet has finely ex- 
prefled it, 
Even-handed juftice 
" Returns th' ingredients of our poifon'd chalice 
5« To our own h'pa.'* 
He, 
