Massachusett's Bay, by the easiest, most expeditious, and convenient route; and to be quartered in, near, or as convenient as possible to Boston, that the march of the troops may not be delayed when transports arrive to receive them.

V. The troops to be supplied on their march, and during their being in quarters, with provisions, by Major-General Gates's orders, at the same rate of rations as the troops of his own army; and, if possible, the officers' horses and cattle are to be supplied with forage at the usual

rates.

VI. All officers to retain their carriages, bat-horses, and other cattle; and no baggage to be molested or searched, Lieutenant-General Burgoyne giving his honour that there are no public stores secreted therein. Major-General Gates will of course take the necessary measures for a due performance of this article. Should any carriages be wanted during the march, for the transportation of officers' baggage, they are, if possible, to be supplied by the country at the usual rates.

VII. Upon the march, and during the time the army shall remain in quarters in the Massachusett's Bay, the officers are not, as far as circumstances will admit, to be separated from their men.

The officers are to be quartered according to their rank, and are not to be hindered from assembling their men for roll-callings, and other necessary purposes of regularity.

VIII. All corps whatever of General Burgoyne's army, whether composed of sailors, batteau-men, artificers, drivers, independent companies, and followers of the army, of whatever country, shall

be included in the fullest sense and utmost extent of the above articles, and comprehended in every respect as British subjects.

IX. All Canadians, and persons belonging to the Canadian establishment, consisting of sailors, batteau-men, artificers, drivers, independent companies, and many other followers of the army, who come under no particular description, are to be permitted to return there; they are to be conducted immediately, by the shortest route, to the first British post on Lake George, are to be supplied with provisions in the same manner as the other troops, and are to be bound by the same condition of not serving during the present contest in North America.

X. Passports to be immediately granted for three officers, not exceeding the rank of captains, who shall be appointed by LieutenantGeneral Burgoyne to carry dispatches to Sir William Howe, Sir Guy Carleton, and to Great Britain by the way of New-York; and Major-General Gates engages the public faith that these dispatches shall not be opened. These officers are to set out immediately after receiving their dispatches, and are to travel the shortest route, and in the most expeditious manner.

XI. During the stay of the troops in the Massachusett's Bay, the officers are to be admitted on parole, and are to be permitted to wear their side-arms.

XII. Should the army under Lieutenant-General Burgoyne find it necessary to send for their cloathing and other baggage from Canada, they are to be permitted to do it in the most

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manner, and

and the necessary passports granted for that purpose.

XIII. These articles are to be mutually signed and exchanged to morrow morning at nine o'clock; and the troops under LieutenantGeneral Burgoyne are to march out of their intrenchments at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Horatio Gates, Maj. Gen.

Camp at Saratoga,
Oct. 16, 1777.

(True Copy.)

To prevent any doubts that might arise from Lieutenant-General Burgoyne's name not being mentioned in the above treaty, Major- General Gates hereby declares that he is understood to be comprehended in it as fully as if his name had been specifically mentioned. Horatio Gates.

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Estract from the Life of the late Lord Bishop of Rochester, written by himself.

DR. Pearce was the son of a solborn. distiller in High Holborn. He married Miss Adams, the daughter of a distiller in the same neighbourhood, with a considerable for tune, who lived with him fifty-two years in the highest degree of connubial happiness. He had had his education in Westminster school, where he was distinguished by his merit, and elected one of the King's scholars. In 1710, when he was twenty years old, he was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge. During the first years of his residence at the university, he sometimes amused himself with lighter compositions, some of which are inserted in the Guardian and Spectator. In 1716 he published his edition of Cicero de Oratore, and, at the desire of a friend, luckily dedicated it to Lord Chief Justice Parker, (afterwards Earl of Macclesfield) to whom he was a stranger. This incident laid the foundation of his future fortune: for Lord Parker soon recommended him to Dr. Bentley, mas

ter of Trinity, to be made one of the fellows; and the doctor consented to it on this condition, that his lordship would promise to unmake him again as soon as it lay in his power to give him a living. In 1717, Mr. Pearce was ordained at the age of twenty-seven 3 having taken time enough, as he thought, to attain a sufficient knowledge of the sacred office. In 1718, Lord Parker was appointed chancellor, and invited Mr. Pearce / to live with him in his house, as chaplain. In 1719 he was instituted into the rectory of Stapleford Abbots, in Essex; and in 1720 into that of St. Bartholomew, behind the Royal Exchange, worth 4001. per ann. In 1723 the lord chancellor presented him to St. Martin's in the Fields. His majesty, who was then at Hanover, was applied to in favour of Dr. Claget, who was there along with him; and the doctor actually kissed hands upon the occasion; but the chancellor, upon the king's return, disputed the point, and was permitted to present Mr. Pearce.Mr. Pearce soon attracted the notice and esteem of persons in the highest stations, and of the greatest

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abilities. Beside Lord Parker, he could reckon amongst his patrons or friends, Lord Macclesfield, Mr. Pulteney (afterwards Earl of Bath), Archbishop Potter, Lord Hardwicke, Sir Isaac Newton,,-and o ther illustrious personages. Queen Caroline (to whom he had been strongly recommended by Lady Sundon) frequently honoured him with her conversation at her drawing-room. One day at that place, she asked him, if he had read the pamphlets published by Dr. Stebbing and Mr. Foster, upon the sort of heretics meant by St. Paul, whom in Titus iii. 10, 11. he represents as self-condemned. Yes, madam, replied the doctor, I have read all the pamphlets written by them on both sides of the question. Well, said the queen, Which of the two do you think to be in the right?" The doctor replied, "I cannot say, madam, which of the two is in the right, but I think that both of them are in the wrong." She smiled, and said, “Then what is your opinion of that text ?"-" Madam," said the doctor," it would take up more time than your ma jesty can spare at this drawing room, for me to give my opinion, and the reasons of it; but if your majesty should be pleased to lay your commands upon me, you shall know my sentiments of the matter in the next sermon which I shall have the honour to preach before his majesty." Pray do then, said the queen; and Dr. Pearce accordingly made a sermon on that text; but the queen died a month before his term of preaching came about:--In 1724 the degree of doctor in divinity was conferred on him by Archbishop Wake. The same year he dedicated to his

patron, the Earl of Macclesfield, his edition of Longinus on the Sublime, with a new Latin version and notes. Longinus, whose name had been long known only to men of abstruse erudition, till he was introduced by his translator, Boileau, among the witty and the elegant, had now, for about half a century, enjoyed great popularity, quoted by every poet and every critic, and deciding upon faults and beauties of style with authority contested only by Huetius and Le Clerc. But it was the opinion of Dr. Pearce, that something was wanting, which general admiration had not yet supplied.

The work was originally publishes by Robertellus and Manutius, who each used his own MSS. without the knowledge of the other's undertaking. The texts of the two editions did not always agree, and to which the preference was due had not yet been decided. It had been four times translated into Latin; of the three former editions, that of Gabriel de Petra was considered as the best, and had accordingly been adopted by Tanaquillus Faber, and, I think, by our Langbane, in their editions. After Boileau's translation, it was again translated into Latin by Tollius, but with such paraphrastical luxuriance as seemed intended rather to display his own copiousness of diction, than to explain the original. Dr. Pearce undertook to adjust the readings, and, what was of far greater dithculty, to write a new Latin version, which should approach as near as is possible to the Greek, without violating its purity. To play round the text of an author, and to recede and appreach as convenience may dictate,