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‘in Maffachufetts. 
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42 Deaths Abroad.—Mr. 
was, and unwilling to increafe the confufion 
below. ‘The boy san to the fireet-window, and 
was going to leap out, but- was intimidated. 
He again returned to the ftair-cafe, and efcaped 
by Mrs. Brown, who {till remained nailed, as it 
were, to the fatal {pot, where fhe met her fate. 
—He was confiderably fcorched—When Mr. 
Brown found his endeavours to extinguish the 
flames were inefleCtual, he. rufhed up ftairs to 
attempt to refcue his Esnily, When he reached 
the third ftory, he was ftrack with the dreadfu! 
fight of his wife and chiid fuffocated to death; 
almoft overpowered with the fmoke, he arrived 
atthe window. His hands were much burned, 
as were his legs, his neck, his face, and the 
parts adjacent to the abdomen —He loudly 
called for a ladder, which was inftantly applied 
to the fide of the hou‘e; his black fervant, 
Czfar, mounted, fnatched him from inftant 
deftrucdiion, and carried him down into the 
itreet —Czefar again afcended, and ple 
away one of the hired fervant-women, who wa 
on the point of peyithing —A neighbour ee 
into the bed-chamber by the fhed in the yard, 
and found another daughter, Mary, lying 
under the window. She ftill retained appear- 
ances. of jife—her pulfe beat, and her heart 
throbbed. Every endeavour was ufed to reftore 
her, but in vain.—Betfey, as was hinted.-pe- 
tifhed in company with her mother. George, 
the fon, accompanied to the window an ap- 
prentice-boy, who jumped into the yard. It is 
not afcertained whether he made any attempt 
to efcape in the fame dangerous manner ; but 
it is certain that he fell a facrifice- near to the 
window. ‘This mof unfortunate of mothers, 
_ and her three children, were on Saturday after- 
noon, the 28th. interred in one common 
grave, in St. Paul’s churéh-vard, attended by 
as great a concourfe of peorle as Philacelpha 
has witnefied at a funeral for many years! |— 
Mr. Brown, though feverely burnt, was not 
confidered to be in danger till fome fees after, 
when adelirium took place. He confiantly 
raved about ‘his lott family, calling for their 
affiftance ; and his fymptoms appeared to grow 
more dangerous, tili Saturday, when he expired. 
His remains were, about the fame hour next 
morning, depofited in the fame grave with thofe 
of his family —Mr. Brown was a native of the 
North of Ireland; he was born about the year 
1744. About the year 1770, he martied a 
Mits M‘Dowel, in the neipuietchoed of Bel- 
turbet, where he refided for fome fhort time. 
About the year 1773, he went to America, 
where he quitted the Britith fervice, and fettled 
He entered the American 
fervice, about the commencement of the war, 
and was at the battles of Lexington and Bun- 
ker’s Hill, where he difplayed a high degree of | 
courage, and good conduct. He was, likewile, 
in the northern army, under general Gates, 
where he was regarded as a brave and ufeful 
officer. Atthe boi of the war, he eftablifhed 
academy in Lancafter, on a 
plan more liberal than had before been contem- 
plated in America 3 from thence he removed, 
after a fhort time, to-Philacelphia, where he 
Brown....General Wayne. 
entered on the fame profeffion. He efablithed’ 
the Federal — about the timé that the 
“prefent conititution of the United States was 
offered for public confideration:/and his paper 
was of very confiderable fervice in froothing 
‘the rugged path which that infrument had to 
tread —During the frightful ravages of the 
yellow fever, the Federal Gazette was conti- 
nued at the imminent hazard of his life. Being 
the only paper in the city then publifhed 
daily, the fugitive citizens, diiperfed over the 
Union. were indebted to it for the information 
they had of their abandoned friends —Mr. 
Brown's exertions were by no means relaxed’ 
by this tide of profperity. ‘On the contrary, 
he. ufed the means. unexpectedly thrown into 
his power, to fecure and extend the favour he 
had ee, In every department of his 
Paper, whatever was attainable by unceafing 
induftry, or fiberal oe ; he ‘procured for 
the entertainment of his’ readers. As “one, 
among many inftances, it may be obferved, 
that Mr. Cailender had long -been engaged by 
him, as a reporter of debates, at fixteen dollars 
per week—a falary, till then, without example 
in Americe.—RBy thefe means, his Gazette was 
daily gaining ground in the public mind, and its 
profits had arifen equal to thofe of any other 
paper in the United S:ates, In a few days, 
however, his good fortune is paft and gone— 
and he, and all his family, are equally fwept off 
the face of the earth—New Yurk Mogaxine. * 
At Prefqu’ifle, in the fervi e of his country, 
on the fifteenth of December, 1796, Anthony 
Wayne, major-generai in the army of the 
United States of America, and one of the iliuf- 
trious founders of the American Republic. He 
was born in Chefter county, Pennfylvania, in 
1745. His grand-father bore a captain’s com= 
miffion, at the battle of the Boyne, under king 
William, and was diftinguifhed for his attach 
ment to the principles of libercy. The general’s 
father was a refpectable farmer, and ferved for 
many years aS a reprefentative for the county 
oF Chefter, in the general aflembly of Pennfyl- 
vania, before the revolution. His fon fuc- 
ceeded him, as reprefentative for the county, in 
1773. In this eventful year, he began ce 
career, as a patriot and friend of the rights 
man. He took an attive part in all the mea- 
fures of the affembly that year, which were 
oppofed to the claims of Creat Britain3 and, ia 
conneétion with John Dickinfon, Thomas 
Mifflin, Edward Biddle, Charles Thompfon, 
and a few other gentlemen, prepared the way 
for the decided and ufeful part which Penanfyl- 
vania afterwards took in the American reévo- 
lution—In the year 1775, he quitted the 
councils of his country, for the field) He en- 
tered the army of the United State 
colonel.. His name recruited a regiment ina 
few weeks, in his native county, In the clofe 
of this year, he accompanied general Thompfon 
into Canada: here he was foon led into action. 
In the defeat of general’ Thompfon, he behaved 

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with great bravery, and was fingdlarly ufeful in - 
faving a large body of the army, by the judi- 
cious manner in which he conducted ral 
retreat | 
