The honest quaker, whose heart was set upon a suppression of this traffic in human beings, speaks, in his diary, with great bitterness of Tarleton's opposition to the motion. "This man," he says, "I hear, boasts that he has killed more men with his own hand, than any man in England. The words of Blair seem peculiarly applicable to him." " 'Behold the sturdy man-destroying villain.' " General Sir Banastre Tarleton died in Shropshire, on the 23d of January 1833, at the age of seventy eight. His career in desultory warfare, may be said to have commenced in our county of Westchester, where, for two successive summers, he exhibited remarkable courage and activity. His egotism may be excused, when in reporting the Poundridge affair to Sir Henry Clinton, he boasts of having fought an action, and passed over sixty four miles, in twenty three consecutive hours. Some of his marches at the South were, perhaps, still more extraordinary. The disastrous overthrow he under- went at the Cowpens, deprived him of the prestige he had gained, of being always accompanied by victory. Notwith-standing this defeat, he was again, in a few days after, at the head of his cavalry and in the midst of enterprise. During his campaigns at the North, Tarleton does not appear to have been ever charged with cruelty. The incendi-ary barbarities which characterized the Poundridge excursion, were known to have been dictated by his superiors. When, however, he was transferred to the Southern department, his exactions, and severities were such, as drew upon him, from the people of Virginia and the Carolinas, the most unmitigated hatred. During the siege of Yorktown he commanded the neighboring post of Gloucester, where he was blockaded by Brigadier-general de Choisy at the head of a strong detach-ment of the combined forces.