He is in the act of snpplicalino[ his captors to let tiim escape, the discovered papers are in the hands of one of ih.em, and (he stern eyes of the others evince the determination to listen to no sngo:es!ions hut those of patiiolism. The form and features of Andre are admirably de picted, a miniature hangs in liis hosom exqui>itely finished. This was a likeness of Miss Honora to whom he was devotedly attached. a The picture had been painted by himself from the

» This lady died of consumption only a few months before Andre suffered at Tappan. She had married another gentlemen four years after her engagement to

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living features of the object of his affections. In 1775, he was taken prisoner by General Montgomery, at St. Johns, Canada; a few months afterwards, in a letter to a friend, he observes, » I have b3en taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the pictnre of Honora, which I concealed m my month. Preserving that, I think myself t^ortunate-''^. To this touching incident Anna Seward refers in her poem upon Andie.

^' Shade of my love 'Tis free ! These lips shall resolute enclose The precious souther of my ceaseless woes."

The above vignette suggested the following stanzas.

"Before their country's foe they stand, Each with a stern and searching eye ; Grasped with a firm and honest hand, The hostile records open lie ; They read, and as each- noble brow Wears the quiet shadow of resoh'e, The true and just exhibit now, The secret which they dared to solve.